Well, I'm certainly no hipster, but I can see the advantages of their software. The combination of a unix environment with the "just works" design principle and a standardized user interface is compelling. Of course I would never actually purchase their 400% marked up hardware, but I don't mind buying a copy of OSX and using it to build a hackintosh. If you like unixy OSes and aren't ideologically motivated to use only FOSS, Apple is the place to go.
the AK-47 is, by definition, an assault rifle. It is designed for attack. It has a long range, and will shoot through your house and all the houses within a straight line of your shot for 1/4 mile. A sawed off shotgun is much better for dealing with an intruder in at your door when you've just been woken up by them shooting the dog. Also, a nice pack of dobermans will probably protect your home better than any gun.
Pragmatists are just ungrateful. Without rms and his insistence on freedom, and the years of work on GNU, there would be no fame for Linux nor Linus (whom, to this day, is ungrateful and rude to the very provider of the tools and freedom that led to his project success).
Once they have benefited from the purist efforts, why must pragmatists be so ungrateful and rude? Why must they bite the hand that fed? Why must they whine like a free-market-Republican when the adults counter their bullshit?
I don't hear the pragmatists whining that often.. They're too busy getting shit done.
Read the constitution! It says right there: Life, Liberty, and access to the source code of all software products so that you can modify them and create derivative works!
Okay, now I get that you're saying a coin flip gives no accuracy at all. I should have been more explicit with my original wish: If, at the time of any prediction I make, I could flip a coin and call the side, and be correct in my prediction every time the coin comes up on the side I called, I would be very happy.
Also, just for the record, if I could predict things in general with a coin-flip level of accuracy, I would be fucking ecstatic.
If you honestly can't do this in your head, then get an actual physical coin and carry it with you. On all decision problems you encounter, perform a coin flip. You will get coin flip accuracy for the problem at hand everytime!
Um, you don't seem to understand "in general". I even pointed out the thing with the lottery tickets, which you removed from the quote. If I could predict winning lottery numbers with 50% accuracy, I would be a very happy person. The point here is that you shouldn't assume a 50% prediction rate is bad if you're significantly more likely to be wrong through random chance. Weather prediction comes to mind..
Is Nick Carr just some academician who spins crazy theories just to get attention, and maybe make some money?
He seem almost like a professional troll, with sensationalist, often inflammatory, subject lines like "is google making us stupid."
Is there any reason to assume that Nick Carr knows any more about the future of IT than the average bum on the street? Okay, he's educated, since when have whack-job college educated predictors ever proven to be more accurate than flipping a coin?
Don't know anything about Nick Carr, but...
Google (and the net in general) is affecting our long-term memory retention. Why bother to remember something when you can google it? Technology always affects our way of life, so this is nothing special, but it is worth mentioning.
Also, just for the record, if I could predict things in general with a coin-flip level of accuracy, I would be fucking ecstatic. All it would take is a few lottery tickets...
Cloud computing is inefficient, expensive, sensitive to outages, and is vulnerable to all sorts of new types of security issues. Why do we need this again?
LINQ to SQL has its uses. It saves a lot of developer time by writing all of the classes for you. I've got a nice little class derived from the DataContext class that writes to a table all the changes made and who made them (accountability is shit at my workplace). If I wanted to do that in SQL, it would require either a trigger on every column of every table, or require me to write the code to record everything manually on every update/insert/delete transaction. Instead I get it done in about 100 lines of C# code. There'sa a lot of things its not good for, but I just use SQL when its easier/better to accomplish the goal in SQL. Sure, it's not a consistent code design scheme, but it lets me get things done quickly, which leaves me more time to troll/. But yeah, they do need to get their heads out of their ass and learn what "Distinct" means in a query context though.
I'd say LINQ is significantly harder to use than SQL most of the time. The only real exception is when you need to convert the value of a subquery into a comma-delimited list
Well, its an issue of balancing "i want a challenge" with "fuck this, i quit". Back when I was 8 years old I had more patience for games like Final Fantasy, where I could enter a dungeon, spend 2 hours getting to the end, killing the boss, then get killed on my way out. I probably spent 15 hours on the marsh cave when I was a kid. But I'lll be damned if I'm going to go through that at age 26. If I can't have a save point in the dungeon, I'm not going to waste my time.
As someone who can die from ingesting even a tiny amount of ibuprofen, you canl take my tylenol when you pry it from my cold, dead hands! Which I guess wouldn't be hard to do if i had to take an ibuprofen...
Why are you trying to pass on a blind curve? Would you try and pass a slow farm vehicle on a blind curve? So why do you try and pass a bike?
Just wait. Most decent cyclists will move to the side when they think it's safe (e.g. when they see the road ahead is straight and clear) to let you pass.
Wow, can it be that there are no decent cyclists in Portland? I've seen a bike let people pass maybe twice in my 3 years in this city. I greatly appreciated it both times.
Why does he/she get to slow us all down to the bikes speed?
Oh dear! Do you slow down for old women crossing the road? That probably delays you more than a bicycle.
Well, yes, but my reaction "OMG WTF is this old woman doing walking in the middle of a winding mountain road?!". Now why should my reaction to a bik going 5mphe when I'm coming around a blind curve be any different?
I definitely don't want to hurt you, and I am offended that you think you can put me at risk any time you please.
You are the one with the dangerous vehicle, so you carry the responsibility. It's *you* that puts everyone around you at risk whenever you drive somewhere. You should do everything you can to keep that risk to a minimum, which includes giving vulnerable road users space when you pass them, or being patient when you can't.
Yes, but you see thats' why we drive our dangerous vehicles only on the places specifically allotted for them to drive on. Don't be a dick: stick to the bike path.
Why are you trying to pass on a blind curve? Would you try and pass a slow farm vehicle on a blind curve? So why do you try and pass a bike?
Just wait. Most decent cyclists will move to the side when they think it's safe (e.g. when they see the road ahead is straight and clear) to let you pass.
Wow, can it be that there are no decent cyclists in Portland? I've seen a bike let people pass maybe twice in my 3 years in this city. I greatly appreciated it both times.
Why does he/she get to slow us all down to the bikes speed?
Oh dear! Do you slow down for old women crossing the road? That probably delays you more than a bicycle.
Well, yes, but my reaction "OMG WTF is this old woman doing walking in the middle of a winding mountain road?!". Now why should my reaction to a bik going 5mphe when I'm coming around a blind curve be any different?
I definitely don't want to hurt you, and I am offended that you think you can put me at risk any time you please.
You are the one with the dangerous vehicle, so you carry the responsibility. It's *you* that puts everyone around you at risk whenever you drive somewhere. You should do everything you can to keep that risk to a minimum, which includes giving vulnerable road users space when you pass them, or being patient when you can't.
Yes, but you see thats' why we drive our dangerous vehicles only on the places specifically allotted for them to drive on. Don't be a dick: stick to the bike path.
You seem to misunderstand the concept of a blind curb. It means you cannot see what is ahead. This is inherently dangerous, so why do you think its okay to add to that danger by biking along that road rather than taking an alternate route?
That's because you live in a densely populated area, where nobody could go more than 5 mph even if they wanted to. Spend an hour on the freeway at 20 mph because there's cyclist blocking the entire road and you'll understand where the bike haters are coming from.
It's a difference in scale. A 10-20% slowdown from a car in front of me going slow is annoying, and 80% slowdown because of some douchebag on a bike who won't get over to the side is fucking unacceptable, especially when I've got somewhere I need to be, like work.
I've been fighting for 3 years now to get them to move to 2005.. Basically the DBA doesn't want to learn how to use the new admin tools, and he makes up excuses for why 2000 is "better". I point out the flaws in that logic, but since the only audience is corporate execs and salesmen, they prefer a simple answer (from the DBA) to a correct answer from me.
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Well, I'm certainly no hipster, but I can see the advantages of their software. The combination of a unix environment with the "just works" design principle and a standardized user interface is compelling. Of course I would never actually purchase their 400% marked up hardware, but I don't mind buying a copy of OSX and using it to build a hackintosh. If you like unixy OSes and aren't ideologically motivated to use only FOSS, Apple is the place to go.
the AK-47 is, by definition, an assault rifle. It is designed for attack. It has a long range, and will shoot through your house and all the houses within a straight line of your shot for 1/4 mile. A sawed off shotgun is much better for dealing with an intruder in at your door when you've just been woken up by them shooting the dog. Also, a nice pack of dobermans will probably protect your home better than any gun.
Wow.. That's the first time I've ever seen that meme applied to the original meaning of the phrase!
Pragmatists are just ungrateful. Without rms and his insistence on freedom, and the years of work on GNU, there would be no fame for Linux nor Linus (whom, to this day, is ungrateful and rude to the very provider of the tools and freedom that led to his project success).
Once they have benefited from the purist efforts, why must pragmatists be so ungrateful and rude? Why must they bite the hand that fed? Why must they whine like a free-market-Republican when the adults counter their bullshit?
I don't hear the pragmatists whining that often.. They're too busy getting shit done.
Read the constitution! It says right there: Life, Liberty, and access to the source code of all software products so that you can modify them and create derivative works!
Really? I thought it was on revision 5 or something.
This is why I use languages that don't change every few years.
What language would that be? I can't think of a single major programming language that hasn't been updated at least twice.
Good plan for keeping the kids off of it!
Where is this? I have a hard time finding a place where they want a programmer for a lower level language than java.
Okay, now I get that you're saying a coin flip gives no accuracy at all. I should have been more explicit with my original wish: If, at the time of any prediction I make, I could flip a coin and call the side, and be correct in my prediction every time the coin comes up on the side I called, I would be very happy.
Also, just for the record, if I could predict things in general with a coin-flip level of accuracy, I would be fucking ecstatic.
If you honestly can't do this in your head, then get an actual physical coin and carry it with you. On all decision problems you encounter, perform a coin flip. You will get coin flip accuracy for the problem at hand everytime!
Um, you don't seem to understand "in general". I even pointed out the thing with the lottery tickets, which you removed from the quote. If I could predict winning lottery numbers with 50% accuracy, I would be a very happy person. The point here is that you shouldn't assume a 50% prediction rate is bad if you're significantly more likely to be wrong through random chance. Weather prediction comes to mind..
Is Nick Carr just some academician who spins crazy theories just to get attention, and maybe make some money?
He seem almost like a professional troll, with sensationalist, often inflammatory, subject lines like "is google making us stupid."
Is there any reason to assume that Nick Carr knows any more about the future of IT than the average bum on the street? Okay, he's educated, since when have whack-job college educated predictors ever proven to be more accurate than flipping a coin?
Don't know anything about Nick Carr, but...
Google (and the net in general) is affecting our long-term memory retention. Why bother to remember something when you can google it? Technology always affects our way of life, so this is nothing special, but it is worth mentioning.
Also, just for the record, if I could predict things in general with a coin-flip level of accuracy, I would be fucking ecstatic. All it would take is a few lottery tickets...
Cloud computing is inefficient, expensive, sensitive to outages, and is vulnerable to all sorts of new types of security issues. Why do we need this again?
you're right. when that happens, its usually because of a group of cyclists. I fail to see how that's an important difference though.
LINQ to SQL has its uses. It saves a lot of developer time by writing all of the classes for you. I've got a nice little class derived from the DataContext class that writes to a table all the changes made and who made them (accountability is shit at my workplace). If I wanted to do that in SQL, it would require either a trigger on every column of every table, or require me to write the code to record everything manually on every update/insert/delete transaction. Instead I get it done in about 100 lines of C# code. There'sa a lot of things its not good for, but I just use SQL when its easier/better to accomplish the goal in SQL. Sure, it's not a consistent code design scheme, but it lets me get things done quickly, which leaves me more time to troll /. But yeah, they do need to get their heads out of their ass and learn what "Distinct" means in a query context though.
I'd say LINQ is significantly harder to use than SQL most of the time. The only real exception is when you need to convert the value of a subquery into a comma-delimited list
Well, its an issue of balancing "i want a challenge" with "fuck this, i quit". Back when I was 8 years old I had more patience for games like Final Fantasy, where I could enter a dungeon, spend 2 hours getting to the end, killing the boss, then get killed on my way out. I probably spent 15 hours on the marsh cave when I was a kid. But I'lll be damned if I'm going to go through that at age 26. If I can't have a save point in the dungeon, I'm not going to waste my time.
As someone who can die from ingesting even a tiny amount of ibuprofen, you canl take my tylenol when you pry it from my cold, dead hands! Which I guess wouldn't be hard to do if i had to take an ibuprofen...
Why are you trying to pass on a blind curve? Would you try and pass a slow farm vehicle on a blind curve? So why do you try and pass a bike?
Just wait. Most decent cyclists will move to the side when they think it's safe (e.g. when they see the road ahead is straight and clear) to let you pass.
Wow, can it be that there are no decent cyclists in Portland? I've seen a bike let people pass maybe twice in my 3 years in this city. I greatly appreciated it both times.
Why does he/she get to slow us all down to the bikes speed?
Oh dear! Do you slow down for old women crossing the road? That probably delays you more than a bicycle.
Well, yes, but my reaction "OMG WTF is this old woman doing walking in the middle of a winding mountain road?!". Now why should my reaction to a bik going 5mphe when I'm coming around a blind curve be any different?
I definitely don't want to hurt you, and I am offended that you think you can put me at risk any time you please.
You are the one with the dangerous vehicle, so you carry the responsibility. It's *you* that puts everyone around you at risk whenever you drive somewhere. You should do everything you can to keep that risk to a minimum, which includes giving vulnerable road users space when you pass them, or being patient when you can't.
Yes, but you see thats' why we drive our dangerous vehicles only on the places specifically allotted for them to drive on. Don't be a dick: stick to the bike path.
Why are you trying to pass on a blind curve? Would you try and pass a slow farm vehicle on a blind curve? So why do you try and pass a bike?
Just wait. Most decent cyclists will move to the side when they think it's safe (e.g. when they see the road ahead is straight and clear) to let you pass.
Wow, can it be that there are no decent cyclists in Portland? I've seen a bike let people pass maybe twice in my 3 years in this city. I greatly appreciated it both times.
Why does he/she get to slow us all down to the bikes speed?
Oh dear! Do you slow down for old women crossing the road? That probably delays you more than a bicycle.
Well, yes, but my reaction "OMG WTF is this old woman doing walking in the middle of a winding mountain road?!". Now why should my reaction to a bik going 5mphe when I'm coming around a blind curve be any different?
I definitely don't want to hurt you, and I am offended that you think you can put me at risk any time you please.
You are the one with the dangerous vehicle, so you carry the responsibility. It's *you* that puts everyone around you at risk whenever you drive somewhere. You should do everything you can to keep that risk to a minimum, which includes giving vulnerable road users space when you pass them, or being patient when you can't.
Yes, but you see thats' why we drive our dangerous vehicles only on the places specifically allotted for them to drive on. Don't be a dick: stick to the bike path.
You seem to misunderstand the concept of a blind curb. It means you cannot see what is ahead. This is inherently dangerous, so why do you think its okay to add to that danger by biking along that road rather than taking an alternate route?
That's because you live in a densely populated area, where nobody could go more than 5 mph even if they wanted to. Spend an hour on the freeway at 20 mph because there's cyclist blocking the entire road and you'll understand where the bike haters are coming from.
It's a difference in scale. A 10-20% slowdown from a car in front of me going slow is annoying, and 80% slowdown because of some douchebag on a bike who won't get over to the side is fucking unacceptable, especially when I've got somewhere I need to be, like work.
I've been fighting for 3 years now to get them to move to 2005.. Basically the DBA doesn't want to learn how to use the new admin tools, and he makes up excuses for why 2000 is "better". I point out the flaws in that logic, but since the only audience is corporate execs and salesmen, they prefer a simple answer (from the DBA) to a correct answer from me.
Yeah, what a lazy asshole, wanting to do things like sleep after a 14 hour work session!