Alternative mathematics

I worry about the "alternative facts" in this new administration. Either they live in their own reality or simply deny truth.

I especially worry when even mathematics can have alternative version.

Look at this Kellyanne Conway comment about the immigration ban executive order http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kellyanne-conway-trump-executive-order_us_588e07bfe4b0b065cbbc90f0.

“325,000 people from overseas came into this country just yesterday through our airports,” she said on Fox News Sunday. “You’re talking about 300-and-some who have been detained or are prevented from gaining access to an aircraft in their home countries and must stay for now. That’s 1 percent, and I think in terms of the upside being greater protection of our borders of our people, it’s a small price to pay.”

I am not so sure about 325,000 part. But if you multiply that by 1% how much do you get? Is that 300-and-some? or is it 3000 and some. Ok that makes it even smaller price to pay, only 0.1% got affected for the greater protection of our borders. God bless America! Hail Trump?!

Waita minute, now, this ban is not indefinite, just 90 days, just causing inconvenience. And this really give ISIS a reason to strike. This is such useless measure and just cause chaos. And this is just week 1. More chaos ahead as foolish people make more foolish decisions.

Alternate facts or outrageous lies on crowd size

As soon as Trump become president comes a scary controversy: "alternate facts" on the crowd size. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/inauguration-crowd-size/514058/

Did the (bad?!) media photoshopped pictures to deliberately lie about crowd size? I don't think so. Now talking about "alternate facts" is just shameful. Look, facts are facts there are no alternate facts. This is just day 1 after the inauguration.

Wow, hundreds and thousands of women (and men) marched and protested on the same day: http://time.com/4642399/womens-march-united-states-cities/. Now that crowd size is definitely more than those who cheers for the new president. But waita minute... just what are they protesting about?

Other than frustrated at Trump... but I don't see specific demands like "resign now!" or "save obama care" and the march is yes very remarkable but achieving... nothing. Sorry.

How come this march does not take place EARLIER, like before December 19. When the outcome can ACTUALLY count... if enough electors will switch the vote to Clinton... then Trump will NOT be the president on January 20.

Now... ladies count at least close to half the population right? if enough ladies vote for Clinton (in those swing states), she would win... unfortunately there are really Trump women voters who don't mind at all voting him... Yes, a million of you came out, but still not enough.

Now, to ensure this won't happen again... perhaps a good first step is to throw away the electoral college system. (Anyone even saying that now?)

So you want to keep the electoral college system? Then we must respect the voting results. Sorry ladies, Trump is in. Too late. Should have acted earlier.

This administration is not looking good. Starting with outrageous lies.

Syntax highlighting

When I was programming in high school in college... you get a text editor. That's it. NO syntax highlighting. Forgot to close a comment block? It will be a while before you find out. Now editors even shows you error as you type like a word processor. Great stuff.

The first IDE I saw that has syntax highlighting was Visual C++ 1.0. Wow that's great. Then everyone is spoiled and just about every tool has it.

Ok, how do you do that in your own little html page. Yes you can insert <font color="green"> for your comments... and <b> every keyword but that's time consuming right? Sure you can write your own little lexical processor and figure out your syntax and write your own little syntax formatting.

Or you can tap onto somebody else's library. This one is awesome: http://alexgorbatchev.com/SyntaxHighlighter/manual/installation.html

Boring:

// Simple java code highlighted!
public class HelloWorld {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("Hello, World");
    }

}

A lot better:

// Simple java code highlighted!
public class HelloWorld {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("Hello, World");
    }

}

Goodbye yahoo

Yahoo is really dying. It will be sold to Alibaba and get renamed to "Altaba"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/01/09/how-yahoo-came-up-with-its-new-name-altaba/
. Now are the emails @yahoo.com will be changed to @altaba.com?

I have no interest in getting an altaba email. Even if I can keep @yahoo.com... not so interested in continuing. I will just abandon yahoo forever. Thank you for the journey.

Rush'n Attack

This is a fun game I played in the 80s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush'n_Attack

It is... a game. How naive it is to think you can be a 1-man army to kill enemy and rescuing POW with just 1 knife and the enemy shoot you slowly and give you time to duck the bullets.

This game is based on the cold war during the time. USSR and US fear each other with nuke build-ups, fortunately no World War III took place and the Soviet Union collapsed. So the cold war is over right?

I hope so. But I am afraid it is a "no".

So there are some evidence of Russian hacking... to help Trump win. So Trump's presidency is illegitimate? Will the election be nullified? But he did get all those electoral votes and even Hillary is not even crying foul here.

Now all that "hacking"... does that mean they are able to go mess the automatic counting machines to give Trump more votes? Not really... It is... digging up Hillary things to ruin her reputation? Well, Trump's reputation is not so good either with all that grab them by the p*ssy talk and refusing to release his tax forms.

That Russian hacks didn't go too far as able to mess up counting.

And... Trump already won, what can you do about it?

If you can find something he done wrong to impeach him that's the only thing in the Constitution that can kick him out. But with a Republican majority that isn't likely going to ever happen.

Now, why does Russia want Trump to win? So they can easily manipulate this political newbie?

I am sure turbulence and yuuuge disasters are going to happen in his term. What can you do about it?

For those Trump fans, that Mexican wall isn't going to be built and paid for by Mexicans ok? This isn't even a reasonable proposal. And you still voted for him.

Unfortunately little people can't do much about this, we are already fortunately enough to be given a chance to vote. But popular vote does not count (directly).

And waita minute, Obama kicking the Russian diplomats out... is that a wise thing to do? What other options are on the table? Trump can get them back in after 1/20 anyway. Oh well, this will be an interesting chapter in US history. Hoping America still survives this chapter.