We should all just STFU and let Trump and his cadre of profiteering cronies rape America back to the 1950's.
That's cute that you think Trump was the start of it all. The real beginning goes all the way back to the Reagan administration and it was a bi-partisan effort. Read the works of Chris Hedges for more information. Globalization was the ultimate slap in the face pushed forth by folks like the US Chamber of Commerce under the guise of progressivism. You bought it hook, line and sinker. We were promised cheaper goods AND better jobs. We got the cheaper goods but better jobs? Precisely the opposite. Bi-partisan economists agree about this, they just disagree about what to do about it.
So... don't contact your congressional representatives now when your voice might stand out and be heard? Wait until the last minute flood so that your comments can be drowned out more easily by the anti-neutrality bot spam?
I'm sure that'll work well for everyone.
You must be new here. Whining on slashdot is the most effective way to usher positive change into our government, duh! Because government officials are avid readers of slashdot.
Like we waited for the tax cut bill to see what was in it? No, my friend, that will no longer work for us.
Doesn't matter what you or anyone else thinks. Status quo for legislation is to make last minute revisions to major bills substantially changing them. Trump's doing it. Obama did. Dubya did it. They all do it. It happens regardless of what party is in control of Congress. Business as usual. Get over it.
When you cheap out, you lose. Performance, security, integrity, reliability - everything.
Unfortunately, this is the status quo in the computer technology industry and has been for quite some time. The executives don't understand the relationship between cost and quality or just outright reject it because they don't care for reality too much, only profit. Many companies have failed due to executives projecting what they want reality to be onto reality. You can twist perception but reality won't budge.
...just learn how to do your job adequately? The Linux Administrator team at my work are largely a bunch of bullshit artists hacking through the forest.
Are you aware that there are 2.2 billion Christians in the world?
Maturity has nothing to do with faith. But it may have something to do with disrespectful speech.
Here are some facts for you to find disrespectful. For whatever reason, Christianity, especially Evangelical Protestant membership, is declining and religious none's are increasing. I suppose it's because we live in a fallen world and the rapture is upon us? You know Christianity wasn't the first group of nuts to have prophecies about the end of the world right? None of those prophecies have come true yet... the Mayan calendar even ran out!
Dinosaurs didn't actually go extinct. Over hundreds of millions of years they evolved and became humans.
Black people have a gene from a "ghost" species, so they could have once been human, but mated with monkeys or God knows what and became what they are today.
TypeScript was not the only JavaScript alternative making waves this year
Straight from the wikipedia page:
TypeScript is a free and open-source programming language developed and maintained by Microsoft. It is a strict syntactical superset of JavaScript
I stopped reading after that because the author is not qualified to discuss the subject matter domain accurately. TypeScript has also been around at least since 2014 because I was using it back then.
Ticket sales are down 4%, but video streaming is up 60%. Does that mean it's a bad year for the "movie industry", or is it a bad year for the movie theater industry?
We already know the movie theater industry is on the decline due to competition from streaming services offering original content, shows AND movies. Network television viewership is on the decline too. In other news, water is wet.
Apparently. I lost count of how many articles have been posted about the same thing. It's not even news for nerds. We've already enumerate through the various reasons that movie ticket sales are down. Can't you post something new instead of some version of the same thing over and over again? WTH
I wonder why they would have been put there 6,000 years ago to be discovered later by a Chinese construction worker randomly... on Christmas?! It's a sign!
Oooookay I got it. You're really into drugs. I will not spend more time answering you, go bother somebody else.
Classic narcissist response. *yawn* What you just did is called gaslighting. I suppose you learned that from your parents eh? Very common. Anyhow, I sincerely wish you the very best in your travels, friend. Good luck!
Tell me... Were you smoking drugs when you wrote your answer? It's the only explanation I see for the headless nonsense you wrote.
The Dunning Kruger effect is wonderful isn't it? There is no way to explain it to you unfortunately. You will reject the idea immediately without any consideration. From your perspective, you don't see things as clearly as I do and there is nothing I can do about that. You are living in your own mind and you are experiencing a reality that is different from actual reality or at the very least you have a filter over it that makes it appear differently to you. You're probably not aware of it at all judging by your response. All I can do is sincerely wish you the best of luck!
The only thing I can suggest to you is to place objective truth very high in your list of values and seek out ways to discern truth from fiction effectively. In my experience it's a lifelong process that you keep getting better at. The first thing you have to admit to yourself is how little you really do know so that you can allow yourself to learn. If you start out thinking you know everything, you will never learn anything. Also, watch out for confirmation bias, it can get the best of us sometimes. Best of luck to you!
No, and that's irrelevant. I am not speaking in personal terms, I am speaking in terms of human species, what matters is the idea.
Oh I see what you mean. I am very concerned about the very real dangers of an evil unicorn army attacking our country therefore we must increase defense spending. It's clear you're irrational now and as such, no point in talking with you further.:) Best of luck to you. Enjoy that paranoid delusion.
Apple had the choice between limiting current draw, allowing the phone to crash, or changing the laws of physics.
Well now we have an answer to an age old mystery. Apple controls the laws of physics therefore Apple created the universe. I'm glad that's all settled. Phew I can rest easy at night now. Thank you.
How about "stop assaulting others to get their stuff"
I don't know what you mean by that, you'll have to explain. Has someone assaulted you and taken your stuff? The only experience I've had in life where something possibly like that has occurred is due to common thieves but that's been a rare occurrence. Other than that, I'm not aware of anything that has happened to me like that.
Just better, not "perfect". I did not say at any point that I wanted perfection.
First of all, better is not well defined. Undefined "better" means you want to converge on perfect because you have no definition of "good enough". That's why I think "good enough" is a better concept than "better". It allows us to define concrete goals to achieve or conditions of satisfaction if you prefer in a software development context. We can always set the bar higher but we can't achieve anything if better is a carrot which we never get to. I don't want to live a life like Sisyphus. I don't see why anyone would honestly.
Using a computer analogy, you are believing that the problem is in the applications when the root of the problem is actually in the BIOS. We as a computer (species) have updated a lot of things in applications (public behavior, society) and even some in the operating system (law system), but our BIOS (instincts) remains defective and affecting everything else. That's what bothers me, these days we should have a bit better BIOS at least. (Is still difficult to explain to a CEO that he should treat his employees as human beings rather than machines, this is a "BIOS" issue)
Let's take your computer analogy a little further. Have you ever seen a perfectly sanitized computer system that doesn't ever encounter error conditions? Neither have I. It's only in the simplest of computer programs that you might see this. If we were to create a computer program to model the enormous complexity that 7+ billion people create in a social system with all the contracts, agreements, policies, etc. could you imagine the unit test suite required to check all the possible outcomes? Mind blown.
Complexity theory is fun. In order to think you can get such a system into a perfect state, you would have to demonstrate that it is indeed possible. But that has never been demonstrated. Is it possible? We don't know. But if we insist the software must be "perfect" in order to not be bad, we are going to be very disappointed...
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We should all just STFU and let Trump and his cadre of profiteering cronies rape America back to the 1950's.
That's cute that you think Trump was the start of it all. The real beginning goes all the way back to the Reagan administration and it was a bi-partisan effort. Read the works of Chris Hedges for more information. Globalization was the ultimate slap in the face pushed forth by folks like the US Chamber of Commerce under the guise of progressivism. You bought it hook, line and sinker. We were promised cheaper goods AND better jobs. We got the cheaper goods but better jobs? Precisely the opposite. Bi-partisan economists agree about this, they just disagree about what to do about it.
So... don't contact your congressional representatives now when your voice might stand out and be heard? Wait until the last minute flood so that your comments can be drowned out more easily by the anti-neutrality bot spam?
I'm sure that'll work well for everyone.
You must be new here. Whining on slashdot is the most effective way to usher positive change into our government, duh! Because government officials are avid readers of slashdot.
Like we waited for the tax cut bill to see what was in it? No, my friend, that will no longer work for us.
Doesn't matter what you or anyone else thinks. Status quo for legislation is to make last minute revisions to major bills substantially changing them. Trump's doing it. Obama did. Dubya did it. They all do it. It happens regardless of what party is in control of Congress. Business as usual. Get over it.
When you cheap out, you lose. Performance, security, integrity, reliability - everything.
Unfortunately, this is the status quo in the computer technology industry and has been for quite some time. The executives don't understand the relationship between cost and quality or just outright reject it because they don't care for reality too much, only profit. Many companies have failed due to executives projecting what they want reality to be onto reality. You can twist perception but reality won't budge.
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity
I knew it, I JUST knew it!
Honestly, I'm all for it. The women who want to get pregnant in this way, go right ahead. No child support that way.
...every sperm is great!
When a sperm is created
God gets quite irate
In this country there is something called sovereign immunity - you can't sue the government except in very limited cases.
It's also stupid because you're basically suing yourself because think...how is the government funded?
We should always let the inmates run the asylum. What could possibly go wrong?
Python is from 1989, Ruby 1995.
if someone wants to learn a new language there are others like Rust, Go....though those might just be fads
bash scripting + curl only gets you so far with REST...
...just learn how to do your job adequately? The Linux Administrator team at my work are largely a bunch of bullshit artists hacking through the forest.
Why would you publicly defame current or former employers? Not only is it rude, it's not graceful nor professional in any way to burn bridges on exit.
If a former employee knows something that could benefit consumer choice, it is a valid reason to post a review of your former employer.
Grow up?
Are you aware that there are 2.2 billion Christians in the world?
Maturity has nothing to do with faith. But it may have something to do with disrespectful speech.
Here are some facts for you to find disrespectful. For whatever reason, Christianity, especially Evangelical Protestant membership, is declining and religious none's are increasing. I suppose it's because we live in a fallen world and the rapture is upon us? You know Christianity wasn't the first group of nuts to have prophecies about the end of the world right? None of those prophecies have come true yet... the Mayan calendar even ran out!
Dinosaurs didn't actually go extinct. Over hundreds of millions of years they evolved and became humans.
Black people have a gene from a "ghost" species, so they could have once been human, but mated with monkeys or God knows what and became what they are today.
Nay, but thanks for playing... here's your sign.
TypeScript was not the only JavaScript alternative making waves this year
Straight from the wikipedia page:
TypeScript is a free and open-source programming language developed and maintained by Microsoft. It is a strict syntactical superset of JavaScript
I stopped reading after that because the author is not qualified to discuss the subject matter domain accurately. TypeScript has also been around at least since 2014 because I was using it back then.
Ticket sales are down 4%, but video streaming is up 60%. Does that mean it's a bad year for the "movie industry", or is it a bad year for the movie theater industry?
We already know the movie theater industry is on the decline due to competition from streaming services offering original content, shows AND movies. Network television viewership is on the decline too. In other news, water is wet.
Apparently. I lost count of how many articles have been posted about the same thing. It's not even news for nerds. We've already enumerate through the various reasons that movie ticket sales are down. Can't you post something new instead of some version of the same thing over and over again? WTH
I wonder why they would have been put there 6,000 years ago to be discovered later by a Chinese construction worker randomly... on Christmas?! It's a sign!
Oooookay I got it. You're really into drugs. I will not spend more time answering you, go bother somebody else.
Classic narcissist response. *yawn* What you just did is called gaslighting. I suppose you learned that from your parents eh? Very common. Anyhow, I sincerely wish you the very best in your travels, friend. Good luck!
Tell me... Were you smoking drugs when you wrote your answer? It's the only explanation I see for the headless nonsense you wrote.
The Dunning Kruger effect is wonderful isn't it? There is no way to explain it to you unfortunately. You will reject the idea immediately without any consideration. From your perspective, you don't see things as clearly as I do and there is nothing I can do about that. You are living in your own mind and you are experiencing a reality that is different from actual reality or at the very least you have a filter over it that makes it appear differently to you. You're probably not aware of it at all judging by your response. All I can do is sincerely wish you the best of luck!
The only thing I can suggest to you is to place objective truth very high in your list of values and seek out ways to discern truth from fiction effectively. In my experience it's a lifelong process that you keep getting better at. The first thing you have to admit to yourself is how little you really do know so that you can allow yourself to learn. If you start out thinking you know everything, you will never learn anything. Also, watch out for confirmation bias, it can get the best of us sometimes. Best of luck to you!
No, and that's irrelevant. I am not speaking in personal terms, I am speaking in terms of human species, what matters is the idea.
Oh I see what you mean. I am very concerned about the very real dangers of an evil unicorn army attacking our country therefore we must increase defense spending. It's clear you're irrational now and as such, no point in talking with you further. :) Best of luck to you. Enjoy that paranoid delusion.
Apple had the choice between limiting current draw, allowing the phone to crash, or changing the laws of physics.
Well now we have an answer to an age old mystery. Apple controls the laws of physics therefore Apple created the universe. I'm glad that's all settled. Phew I can rest easy at night now. Thank you.
How about "stop assaulting others to get their stuff"
I don't know what you mean by that, you'll have to explain. Has someone assaulted you and taken your stuff? The only experience I've had in life where something possibly like that has occurred is due to common thieves but that's been a rare occurrence. Other than that, I'm not aware of anything that has happened to me like that.
Just better, not "perfect". I did not say at any point that I wanted perfection.
First of all, better is not well defined. Undefined "better" means you want to converge on perfect because you have no definition of "good enough". That's why I think "good enough" is a better concept than "better". It allows us to define concrete goals to achieve or conditions of satisfaction if you prefer in a software development context. We can always set the bar higher but we can't achieve anything if better is a carrot which we never get to. I don't want to live a life like Sisyphus. I don't see why anyone would honestly.
Using a computer analogy, you are believing that the problem is in the applications when the root of the problem is actually in the BIOS. We as a computer (species) have updated a lot of things in applications (public behavior, society) and even some in the operating system (law system), but our BIOS (instincts) remains defective and affecting everything else. That's what bothers me, these days we should have a bit better BIOS at least. (Is still difficult to explain to a CEO that he should treat his employees as human beings rather than machines, this is a "BIOS" issue)
Let's take your computer analogy a little further. Have you ever seen a perfectly sanitized computer system that doesn't ever encounter error conditions? Neither have I. It's only in the simplest of computer programs that you might see this. If we were to create a computer program to model the enormous complexity that 7+ billion people create in a social system with all the contracts, agreements, policies, etc. could you imagine the unit test suite required to check all the possible outcomes? Mind blown.
Complexity theory is fun. In order to think you can get such a system into a perfect state, you would have to demonstrate that it is indeed possible. But that has never been demonstrated. Is it possible? We don't know. But if we insist the software must be "perfect" in order to not be bad, we are going to be very disappointed...