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A man in Russia has been convicted of murder and sentenced to nine and a half years in prison for repeatedly stabbing his friend to death after a heated argument over AMD and Nvidia graphics card coolers.
[...] two Russian friends started arguing over which Graphics processor is better, nVida[sic] or AMD, and one of them ended up being killed in the most gruesome manner.
Aleksander Trofimov, 37, hacked his friend to death [in Russian] with a knife, after hitting him twice in the head. His friend, Evgeny Lylin, died instantly as a result. The murderer was so offended at the victim, he stabbed his dead body 11 times after a while.
The incident took place in the quite[sic] town of Saransk, Russia. The friends used to work together as colleagues a few years ago, and kept in touch ever since. Aleksander invited his friend for a few drinks, and both of them got drunk.
This led to the discussion about which cooler of a GPU is better [sic], nVidia or AMD. The discussion soon took a turn for the worst and Aleksander ended up murdering his friend for claiming that AMD was better.
Although the incident took place over an[sic] year ago, Aleksander got convicted and sentenced only recently. He was handed a nine and a half year prison sentence for the crime.
Additional coverage, in Russian, at http://by24.org/2017/02/17/russian_programmer_killed_and_burned_collegue_because_of_nvidia_features/.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday February 23 2017, @05:02PM
I would be more concerned about tabs vs spaces.
Whether or not lines should end with semicolons.
KDE or GNOME. (Let's not worry about the newer pipsqueak desktops that might actually be better)
Scheme or Common Lisp. (Or Clojure, etc)
Python 3 or 2
Pretty soon we could have a major riot. And without even mentioning US politics. It could be the ninth circle of systemd.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 24 2017, @03:17AM
Regarding indentation of course tabs are better. Tabs are a good fit for indentation ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_stop [wikipedia.org] ).
If you use tabs different other people aren't forced to accept 1 indentation = X spaces and can pick whatever they prefer. If they want narrower/wider indentation than other people it doesn't affect the code - there are no whitespace changes.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday February 24 2017, @03:33PM
I happen to agree. Obviously some people do not.
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(Score: 2) by Marand on Friday February 24 2017, @07:59AM
Time to enrage some people...
I would be more concerned about tabs vs spaces.
Tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment. Or "fuck it, whatever emacs just did when I hit tab"
Whether or not lines should end with semicolons.
Only if required for clear parsing. It's just visual noise otherwise.
In the same vein, I also prefer words (such as do/end) to braces for scoping, and prefer when they can be determined implicitly. Similar stance on typing: type inference should be preferred over explicit type definitions unless the compiler is unable to determine the correct type.
KDE or GNOME. (Let's not worry about the newer pipsqueak desktops that might actually be better)
KDE, because I prefer their design philosophy to GNOME's "we know better than you, fuck off" attitude and tendency to remove things and tell you how you were wrong for using it. (Refer to just about anything Lennart Poettering has said or written for an example of this attitude.)
Scheme or Common Lisp. (Or Clojure, etc)
Scheme or something in its general family, like Clojure or Racket. I think Lisp-1 (same namespace for functions and variables) is cleaner to read and write, and the Scheme family generally leans more toward functional programming, which suits me.
Python 3 or 2
Neither, I dislike Python and how Guido van Rossum has steered the language. He's openly hostile to functional programming and thinks the primary use for reduce is to implement sum. His view of programming styles is "If I don't like it, it's wrong and dumb!" and he basically said in a Slashdot interview [slashdot.org] that the functools library is his dumping ground for things people want that he thinks is dumb and useless. He even tried to use Python 3 to remove lambda, filter, and map [artima.com] until people revolted.
I'd rather use almost anything else high-level than Python; a Scheme, an ML-based language, Ruby, Perl, or even Lua would be better. I rather like how Smalltalk does OOP (which is probably why I don't mind Ruby) but I'm not familiar enough with it to say if I'd want to use it for anything serious.
Speaking of OOP, here's a flamewar you left out:
"Functional or object-oriented programming?"