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Why I Hate All Programming Languages
Why I Hate All Programming Languages
All computer languages are flawed because our current computing model (the Turing Machine) is flawed.
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Re:long true, but more public/pervasive now
Some examples from my intellectual neck of the woods-- the comments sections were particularly interesting during the whole OPERA snafu, though with Lubos' blog in particular you have to deal with some pretty half-baked political ideologies.
http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/blog/
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Re:Oh Great
What mis-information, what conspiracy theory?
From the GP of my original post: "Fukushima 4 may be "offline" but can't be "shutdown"..."
Your statements are a prime example of how Nuclear fanbois cannot accept the facts about the Nuclear Industry even when confronted with the smouldering toxic remains of 3 commercial power reactors.
No, my statements were a direct response to demonstrably false info.
As to the rest of your diatribe, you've assumed many facts about me and my intent, none of which are in evidence. Nor do you have any idea where I stand on NP. So, I won't bother to respond to it. But before you attack me again, you might want to find out some info about who you're dealing with and where I stand on NP.
You can start from my blog. From there, I suggest a google search for my name and "nuclear".
Then, we might have something to discuss.
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Re:The stupid criminal theory
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lol niggers
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Re:Sad Day
The idea of "free markets" as espoused by most people is flawed. They don't exist, because they can never persist. They don't account for human nature. Greed, corruption, and the pursuit of power will destroy any free market. "Market forces" are not always sufficient to keep those in check. Therefore, there must be some level of regulation.
Rather than post lengthy explanation, I'll refer you to my blog post on the topic.
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Re:The Name
That's only one definition of the word. And the "offensive" definition is like a 1/10 on the scale of "get thee behind me, thine is a potty mouth." It's low enough that most people need to be told that it's offensive. "Damn" is probably more offensive. I know hard core bible thumping weenies that aren't offended by the word.
It's probably only "offensive" because for some any slang is offensive.
Also, the meaning and offensiveness of words can and often does change over time. Only English teachers, Christians, and relics give a shit.
http://www.gimponthego.com/ <--- not offensive enough for these crips
http://thegimpparade.blogspot.com/ <--- or theseI think the word is only offensive because you want to troll something.
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Re:Comic books for 3 year old?
There's also Goodnight Keith Moon:
In the great green room
There was a telephone
And a dead Keith Moon
And a picture of
Townshend jumping over the MoonProbably better to wait on this one.
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Their targets are getting bigger...
They are getting more govt. agencies on their systems.
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Re:Shortsighted
Just wait...PIVOT CHARTS! The thing we hate to use, must use, that G docs doesn't use. THAT should make life interesting LMFAO
Google Docs added the important thing, pivot tables, last year. The lack of this was a show stopper for many users earlier.
PivotChart is a trademark of Microsoft, and is just making a graph of a pivot table. That's easily done anyway.
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Hope there is a movement for change
Spot on; I had a rant / post about this back in 2009 (that I had drafted years earlier)... hoping Apple would take over this market:
http://tronsterhartley.blogspot.com/2009/01/starting-to-clean-out-my-many-drafts-of.htmlWhile it doesn't specifically have to be Apple, it seems that none of the established brands really understand what consumers need in a great car stereo. The Alpine model I mention in the above post included: a remote? Required holding a button for a few seconds to active a feature... in a car Has no way to fast scroll mp3 artists or songs, etc....
The only reason I settled on it was because it could connect to my iPod and play MP3s without a skip between the track. This was after calling up another manufacturer about their models of MP3 playing stereos and being told that gapless playback was "impossible". Thank you business man; you know jack about tech, but it doesn't matter because your company doesn't make a car stereo with a killer feature I need. (Although I could change the color of buttons; which was fun for about 1 day and I haven't touched since.)
I hate Apple's lock-in but vote for their products with my money because they really do care about design beyond what is in a device. It makes all the difference in the world when you have a product that "feels" right. Check out the Nest Thermostat, or Dyson Vacuums to see other companies who also match form and functionality.
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Re:Cybernetics/AI/Transhumanism
The problem is that if you look closely at the average human they are far more interested in a genetic makeup that would allow for drunkenness without hangovers or an endless orgasmic orgy than eliminating cancer that might - might - affect them in 50 years.
What if those sorts of genetic modifications were able to be inherited? Are we ready for a sub-species of human that can more accurately described as "party animal"? How about not just grafted-on wings or a third arm (as some have already done), but real, grown wings - not enabling flight (humans are too heavy and changes to allow flight would be severe) but for decoration?
No, I do not see the widespread use of genetics for amateur productions to be a good thing. Nor do I see today's body modification proponents being the sort of people that I think should be the leading edge of humanity. I see humans having far more trivial interests short term and it is going to take a really long time for us to escape from short term thinking.
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Re:Heil
His love of children, extraordinary. http://adolfhitlerbestpictures.blogspot.com/2009/12/adolf-hitler-pictures-with-children.html
oh yeah he LOVED children... especially his niece Geli Rauba who was officially said to have killed herself but rumours persist of murder.... it was also said they had a sexual relationship with fun such as corprophilia
hitler was a complete cock and it makes me laugh watching you say "oh but he loved children".. never mind he was a hateful,spiteful mass murdering fuckhead -
Re:Heil
erste Antwort, keine Erstegepostungmittlestoff.
Oh to read "Mein Kampf" in the original Deutsch.
Although I do not agree with all his philosophies and methods, I recognize the brilliance of Corporal Schicklgruber in attaining Germanys highest post.
I wonder at his further being able to bend an unsuspecting country and then a continent to his will.
But, the advent of the Volkswagon is proof that even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
His relationship with Henry Ford, noteworthy.
His love of children, extraordinary. http://adolfhitlerbestpictures.blogspot.com/2009/12/adolf-hitler-pictures-with-children.html
We all know Hitler hated Jews. Germany blamed Jews for the losses of WW1, as they cut the flow of money from their banks. It wasn't hard to demonize them, but probably should've been done from the perspective that they were Bankers, not Jews. That's like hating ICEEs because Muslims seem to own 7-11 corp.
They are right, it could happen anywhere and people should see the truth. I don't think that a bunch of annotations from zealous anti-Nazis will help any more than zealous anti-drug messages have worked in America. So we should just print , as is. -
Re:Of course.
It depends on your definition of "child". Caucasus Islamists mainly use widowed women who were married to "shahids", but some of those can be 16-17 years old.
That said, I haven't ever heard of them using real kids specifically as suicide bombers. There were reports of kids coming close to soldiers in a checkpoint (knowing they wouldn't be shot) and then lobbing a grenade at them and running away, but that was on the ground in Chechnya itself, and during active warfare.
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numbers are not innate
This is nothing new. http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/2006/12/verizon-doesnt-know-dollars-from-cents.html
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Re:Er, Your Statement and His Don't Quite Mix
Small wind-powered NH2 plants allow using wind in rural areas without transmission lines or electrical energy storage. They also mean the fertilizer does not need to be trucked in, and excess can be burned in IC engines, displacing some diesel in agriculture.
http://windnh3.blogspot.com/search/label/02)%20The%20Process%20of%20turning%20Wind%20to%20Nh3 -
Stop Whining!
Universities have been whining about this for years, but not done anything substantive. Publishers do what every commercial entity does: maximize profits. If you do not like the product, do not buy it. Here's how to start changing the scholarly communication business: http://scitechsociety.blogspot.com/2012/04/annealing-library.html
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Re:The libraries should become the publishers
Agreed. Here's how it can be done: http://scitechsociety.blogspot.com/2012/04/annealing-library.html
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Re:"increased goodwill from users"?
The Kindle DRM removal tools I looked at required running on Windows (or OSX, or depending on what version Kindle, a key might be able to be extracted from the Kindle). First, I don't normally run Windows and I'm not willing to reboot into Windows just to remove DRM so I can use the files I purchased, and second, even if I wanted to run Windows, most of the tools include binaries ( executables and/or DLL's), and I'm unwilling to run a binary cracking tool that I downloaded from some random site on the internet on my computer.
Instead, I downloaded 2 python scripts, one to generate a key, one to decrypt the book. Simple and easy.
http://vivaebooks.blogspot.com/2010/07/ibooks-b-lets-all-get-ignoble.html
Why should I reward Amazon for making harder to crack DRM by buying books from them?
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Re:Er, Your Statement and His Don't Quite Mix
Nuclear is great for keeping my computer running and keeping my house cool. Unfortunately, nuclear does nothing that will get me to work.
What about stuff that runs on electricity: trams, railway, subway, electric cars?
Also, given enough energy, we can make synthetic gasoline.
http://newpapyrusmagazine.blogspot.com/2008/01/nuclear-synfuel-economy.htmlHow many new nuclear power plants have been licensed and built in the past 20 years?
88 new grid connections in the last 20 years, 73.3 GW total.
It is obvious that this build rate could very easily be at least 10 times higher.
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Re:Ash and Mexico City
Actually, it's worse: apparently, US taxpayers are paying to have these trucks fitted with catalytic converters:
http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2011/04/us-pays-to-put-catalytic-converters-on.html
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Re:Ash and Mexico City
More than you, apparently:
http://azstarnet.com/news/blogs/senor-reporter/emissions-tests-required-in-mexico-but-not-catalytic-converters/article_330c6e04-1f92-11e1-a900-001871e3ce6c.html
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/04/11/20110411arizona-mexico-truck-pollution-regulation.html
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Re:Another could say
Any attacks aiming purely for civilian targets are terrorists in my book.
Civilians living on land that was stolen from you. Civilians who, thanks to Israel's laws on compulsory military service, are either 1) active duty soldiers defending the occupation 2) future active duty soldiers defending the occupation 3) reservists who can be called back into service to defend the occupation.
And even, then, there is no comparison in the levels of civilian-killing even if you want to call it terrorism. Israelis stand a higher chance of being murdered by another Israeli than dying in a "terrorist attack". You have a higher chance of being killed by a bus colliding with your car in an accident (not car accidents overall, but accidents involving buses) than in being killed by a Quassam rocket.
Whether the Judean desert is stolen and occupied is IMHO a big grey area which I don't want to discuss
Any particular reason why? The U.N. partition plan that the Palestinians (rightfully) rejected would have given the majority of the land to a minority of the population. The vast majority of whom were not people to the area, but immigrants. Furthermore, blockades are an act of war according to Israel. Meaning that according to Israeli logic, attacks on Israel in response to the far more draconian blockade of Gaza are perfectly justified.
As for your accusation of the IDF terrorism, I'll have to go for a [Citation needed].
Sure thing. This isn't the most ironclad example as both the attacks (did shelling hit the building directly or indirectly?) and the death tolls are heavily disputed. So I'll talk more about things that are not in dispute:
What could the IDF even gain from just massacring a school with no military target as you suggest?
What would the IDF have to gain from full scale bombardment and invasion when even the IDF admits that Hamas had stopped firing rockets and that Quassam rockets are more of a psycological than military threat?
And furthermore, if terrorism is the bane of Israel's existence, then why has the current prime minister celebrated the 60th anniversary of an Irgun (Zionist terrorist group) attack on a hotel used by the British as a headquarters before Israel's "independence"? How about the nuclear scientists assassinated in Iran, undoubtedly carried out or funded by Mossad?
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Re:Giant Mistake?
Maybe in your neck of the woods, but around these parts most people didn't believe that any one particular nation was behind the attacks and that a large-scale mobilization of an invasion force was pointless, especially in Afghanistan, the USSR's Vietnam. Later, when Bush went into Iraq, there was a significant number of people here that were against the invasion from day one (I was one of them). I admit, though, that this is a very liberal area (Madison, WI), so it may not necessarily be the norm, but it was a far cry from the historical response to Pearl Harbor and WWII. In my opinion, if they'd even tried to introduce something like the rationing they did for WWII there would have been an uproar, which leads me to believe that support was not nearly as widespread as that at all.
From what my brother tells me, where he was stationed (Camp LeJeune, NC), the civilians were decidedly more gung-ho for the war, which isn't surprising in a town that pretty much exists solely due to the USMC base and depends on it completely for it's economy. However, the Marines themselves were (privately) much more reserved about things. There were people champing at the bit to get over to Iraq and start shooting people, as there is in any war, I'm sure, but they were the exception, not the rule. Most people just wanted to get their fucking job done and get home alive. There were few that truly believe they were "saving the world" or "fighting terrorists" or "making the world safe for democracy"...most of them didn't feel they belonged in Iraq at all, and this was in the beginning, while being fed a steady diet of propaganda, before body-bags started piling up and opposition to the war back home reached fever pitch. My brother jokingly refers to it as "the effect of the Generation-Y Marine", and apparently, it's something that our military has actually been examining. As he says, "How can you tell a Gen-Y marine? Because they always ask 'Why?' when given an order." Not something that the higher-ups were used to, especially in the USMC...or so he tells me.
I suppose the propaganda was much more effective in those days when there were only a handful of avenues of information available to people, and the opposition groups to WWII have probably become footnotes of history, but I've yet to hear any vets of any wars since WWII tell me how proud they were of their service like my grandparents did. Half a century later and there was still none of the cynicism in their attitudes regarding it that you hear from our service members coming back from overseas today. They honestly felt they made a positive difference in the world and that the lives laid down towards achieving that goal were worth it. I doubt there are many that would say the same thing about anything they've done in the Middle East over the last 10+ years.
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Funny, here's a post from 7 years ago
http://tkyte.blogspot.com/2005/10/young-persons-game.html
I note that almost all the people commenting there are still working in the field, many are now respected Oracle Aces and Bloggers.
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Here's a hint
Go Google the location of the plates and fault lines, then look at earthquakes for the last 10 years and you will see a pattern.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ypalM7eSBEQ/SdzT_ajylVI/AAAAAAAAAbM/XNB1-z6lvKg/s1600-h/tectonic_map.jpg
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/year/byyear.php
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Statistics Don't Support That BS
As a study that was linked to right here on Slashdot not long ago shows, ageism in software development is nothing more than arrogant bullshit.
And Zuckerberg is nothing more than a PHP script kiddie who both got lucky and cheated others to achieve his success. His word is hardly to be taken seriously. -
Re:I like this
Illinois is going to need all the help it can get:
Blue State Dems Turn on State, Local Workers
Why Isn’t Illinois A Bigger Story Than Greece?
The Chicago way
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