But arguments like that simply don't work. "I want to be free to not be screwed over" - "I want to be free to screw you over" - "I want to be free of all this argumentative nonsense, you two just go and figure out who's going to screw who, and get it over with".
You get the idea. The trouble is that the word "Freedom" simply isn't defined well enough to have arguments about its merits with any nuance at all. Personally, I think that the 'freedom' to live in a safely built property, and use a safely designed toaster, far outweigh the 'freedom' to build and construct shoddy houses and incendiary toasters. But I don't think that the two uses of the word 'freedom' there had interchangeable meanings.
Pretty outrageously sexist and ageist comment there. Especially not 45 year old wives? Because ladies can't be Engineers, and if they were, they'd certainly not be married, and presumably even if they were both of these, they'd evaporate on their 44th birthday because God abhors an old, married, female engineer.
Considering that it's entirely impossible to read that poem without weeping, it would make entering my passwords an unacceptably emotional process that I don't think I could go through every day.
You're sitting in the car for many, many minutes a day. Can that be part of your new office, can it be your new desk, a place where you actually get work done?
Or, how about our employers stop finding new and increasingly intrusive ways to gain from us our endeavours, and we just read a book in the car instead?
Advertisements are supposed to make the product cheaper,
Interesting perspective. Someone pays for the ads to be made, which is paid for through the retail price of whatever was being advertised, which means you end up paying for the content one way or another. Unless you refuse to purchase anything that's advertised, in which case you'll probably have to live in the mountains and eat only what you can kill.
I know, but you do have to dig pretty deep in the documentation to find this particular gem. However, if you want to *get* a long path back from a Windows API call, then this trick doesn't work.
You're seriously arguing that because so many people are here illegally, we shouldn't do anything for fear that they'll burn our cities to the ground?
Well, I'm even more extreme than that. I have this crazy idea that we're all citizens of Earth, and all policies that suggest which patch of dirt you're allowed to stand on, and for how long, are fundamentally evil and racist. However, I'm not going to bother arguing that with you. I'm aware that it's a minority view, and not very practical in today's world. Nevertheless; Many of the people you're talking about deporting so easily, are working people with families living in homes. So what's going to happen? They're just going to leave because you said so? And then, when they get back 'home', they're going to build a wall? Let me know how that works out, should Trump the insane get in. Except, of course, you'll not have to let anyone know, because we'll be watching the violence, carnage, bloodshed and misery unfold from across the world. And that's just one - ok, two - policies. What about the other ones? What about his crazy 'university'? His rampant anti-intellectualism? His hatred of women? Reproductive rights? It's madness, and it's sad, and it's frightening.
Trump will destroy your country. There will be riots. If he deports eleven million people, there will be very big riots. Cities will burn. If he tries to get Mexico to build a wall, the international community will turn their backs, Mexico won't do it (of course), and more cities will burn. America couldn't last forever of course, nowhere does, so this is a perfectly normal turn of events.
But mark my words. If he wins, he will destroy you.
The 2012 macbook pro has upgradable RAM and disc. I put 8 Gig in there, and a 1Tb SSD, no problems. Ten screws to remove, the bottom comes off, and the RAM and storage are right there. There is no other laptop that I've ever seen that has such easily accessible components. That's so long as you buy the non-retina version. As soon as you move away from that model, it's all glued and soldered and so-on. A shame. I sincerely hope they go back to those earlier design decisions, but it doesn't seem likely.
Wrong, but brave. His argument is bulletproof. You'd have to counter his argument, starting with "There is a smallest natural number", and going from there.
The reason we have zero as the first element is deeper than just C believing that arrays and pointers are the same thing (which it doesn't, as a matter of fact, but that's not important). I will not attempt to put it any more rigorously than Dijkstra.
or run a greasemonkey script to automate a webpage.
I kind of know what this means, but I've been working with my computers my entire adult life, and a good portion of my childhood too, and I've still literally never come across a situation when I've wanted to 'automate a webpage'. Writing brittle scripts, that depend on the internal implementation details of web pages, seems to me of extremely limited value.
Design of a really good API is a far from easy task - though I'm certainly not going to argue that Java's libraries constitute a "good API". Designing really quality and useful APIs involves organising some fairly abstract ideas into very concrete representations, and designing as few simple operations on those representation as possible, while still managing to get whatever the job is done. Doing so without restricting what can be done, and as the same time without making the effort of getting what you want done, done, is hard. Having written Java for Android in the past, I can claim with a little authority that Java's API fails everywhere, and is dreadful to use - but nevertheless, it does seem to me that API design, and perhaps also the intellectual property therein, might not quite be the trivial thing many people seem to belive it to be.
Whether or not API is code (it isn't, obviously) is beside the point. The question surely is, can API constitute an invention, or a work, or whatever the language might be? And it seems to me that it can.
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But arguments like that simply don't work. "I want to be free to not be screwed over" - "I want to be free to screw you over" - "I want to be free of all this argumentative nonsense, you two just go and figure out who's going to screw who, and get it over with".
You get the idea. The trouble is that the word "Freedom" simply isn't defined well enough to have arguments about its merits with any nuance at all. Personally, I think that the 'freedom' to live in a safely built property, and use a safely designed toaster, far outweigh the 'freedom' to build and construct shoddy houses and incendiary toasters. But I don't think that the two uses of the word 'freedom' there had interchangeable meanings.
especially not 45 year old wives.
Pretty outrageously sexist and ageist comment there. Especially not 45 year old wives? Because ladies can't be Engineers, and if they were, they'd certainly not be married, and presumably even if they were both of these, they'd evaporate on their 44th birthday because God abhors an old, married, female engineer.
And what password do you use for the password manager.
A very strong one, which isn't a problem, since it's the only one you have to remember.
Considering that it's entirely impossible to read that poem without weeping, it would make entering my passwords an unacceptably emotional process that I don't think I could go through every day.
You're sitting in the car for many, many minutes a day. Can that be part of your new office, can it be your new desk, a place where you actually get work done?
Or, how about our employers stop finding new and increasingly intrusive ways to gain from us our endeavours, and we just read a book in the car instead?
Plus it works bloody terribly over the internet. TeamViewer entirely blows it out of the water.
that even the poorest people in the developed world today live like kings in the past.
It's not true though. Not even close.
Advertisements are supposed to make the product cheaper,
Interesting perspective. Someone pays for the ads to be made, which is paid for through the retail price of whatever was being advertised, which means you end up paying for the content one way or another. Unless you refuse to purchase anything that's advertised, in which case you'll probably have to live in the mountains and eat only what you can kill.
Is that the best you've got? What's that got to do with anything?
It would be great if he turned out to be a hardcore socialist when he gets into power :)
No.
Yeah, whereas with other OSs, deleting random configuration data has no effect.
Perhaps in a weird situation you might want to protect a badly coded application from the longer path length?
Due to the design of the Windows API, almost all applications are 'badly coded' in this respect.
True. Node is literally the only time that I've run into this problem in my entire career. Maybe I've led a sheltered life, but still....
Yeah, I was wondering if they only bought Minecraft so they could use their codename.
I know, but you do have to dig pretty deep in the documentation to find this particular gem. However, if you want to *get* a long path back from a Windows API call, then this trick doesn't work.
You're seriously arguing that because so many people are here illegally, we shouldn't do anything for fear that they'll burn our cities to the ground?
Well, I'm even more extreme than that. I have this crazy idea that we're all citizens of Earth, and all policies that suggest which patch of dirt you're allowed to stand on, and for how long, are fundamentally evil and racist. However, I'm not going to bother arguing that with you. I'm aware that it's a minority view, and not very practical in today's world. Nevertheless; Many of the people you're talking about deporting so easily, are working people with families living in homes. So what's going to happen? They're just going to leave because you said so? And then, when they get back 'home', they're going to build a wall? Let me know how that works out, should Trump the insane get in. Except, of course, you'll not have to let anyone know, because we'll be watching the violence, carnage, bloodshed and misery unfold from across the world. And that's just one - ok, two - policies. What about the other ones? What about his crazy 'university'? His rampant anti-intellectualism? His hatred of women? Reproductive rights? It's madness, and it's sad, and it's frightening.
He describes things as they are
Well, not quite. He describes things as they aren't, but everyone believes him anyway. Fun time to be alive. You know, unless you live in the US.
Trump will destroy your country. There will be riots. If he deports eleven million people, there will be very big riots. Cities will burn. If he tries to get Mexico to build a wall, the international community will turn their backs, Mexico won't do it (of course), and more cities will burn. America couldn't last forever of course, nowhere does, so this is a perfectly normal turn of events.
But mark my words. If he wins, he will destroy you.
The 2012 macbook pro has upgradable RAM and disc. I put 8 Gig in there, and a 1Tb SSD, no problems. Ten screws to remove, the bottom comes off, and the RAM and storage are right there. There is no other laptop that I've ever seen that has such easily accessible components. That's so long as you buy the non-retina version. As soon as you move away from that model, it's all glued and soldered and so-on. A shame. I sincerely hope they go back to those earlier design decisions, but it doesn't seem likely.
Interesting read but I disagree with Djikstra.
Brave. I like that :)
Wrong, but brave. His argument is bulletproof. You'd have to counter his argument, starting with "There is a smallest natural number", and going from there.
Amen.
The reason we have zero as the first element is deeper than just C believing that arrays and pointers are the same thing (which it doesn't, as a matter of fact, but that's not important). I will not attempt to put it any more rigorously than Dijkstra.
or run a greasemonkey script to automate a webpage.
I kind of know what this means, but I've been working with my computers my entire adult life, and a good portion of my childhood too, and I've still literally never come across a situation when I've wanted to 'automate a webpage'. Writing brittle scripts, that depend on the internal implementation details of web pages, seems to me of extremely limited value.
Design of a really good API is a far from easy task - though I'm certainly not going to argue that Java's libraries constitute a "good API". Designing really quality and useful APIs involves organising some fairly abstract ideas into very concrete representations, and designing as few simple operations on those representation as possible, while still managing to get whatever the job is done. Doing so without restricting what can be done, and as the same time without making the effort of getting what you want done, done, is hard. Having written Java for Android in the past, I can claim with a little authority that Java's API fails everywhere, and is dreadful to use - but nevertheless, it does seem to me that API design, and perhaps also the intellectual property therein, might not quite be the trivial thing many people seem to belive it to be.
Whether or not API is code (it isn't, obviously) is beside the point. The question surely is, can API constitute an invention, or a work, or whatever the language might be? And it seems to me that it can.