A journalist has no idea about the subject matter of his article, news at eleven. Actually, don't watch the news, they are also written by journalists.

But seriously, I will never understand how people don't see difference between “x = 2+2, solve for x” and “putting *asterisks* around a word means emphasis”.

Edit: not really relevant, but reminded me about a story how a guy was evaluating an optimizing compiler. He wrote a complex program that calculated this or that constant. The compiler labored for an hour an produced an executable that amounted to “print 2.71828...”

A journalist has no idea about the subject matter of his article, news at eleven. Actually, don't watch the news, they are also written by journalists.

But seriously, I will never understand how people don't see difference between “x = 2+2, solve for x” and “putting *asterisks* around a word means emphasis”.

Edit: reminds me about a story how a guy was evaluating an optimizing compiler. He wrote a complex program that calculated this or that constant. The compiler labored for an hour an produced an executable that amounted to “print 2.71828...”

A journalist has no idea about the subject matter of his article, news at eleven. Actually, don't watch the news, they are also written by journalists.

But seriously, I will never understand how people don't see difference between “x = 2+2, solve for x” and “putting *asterisks* around a word means emphasis”.