...and there will be another revolution, another new old political idea, another new old social structure, another new old government, another new old slavery, and all that new old gold-plated shit will get polished until it shines in the rays of the sun like reflections dancing in the ripples of a wild mountain stream, and yes I suck at writing poetry. In the process, hopefully more people will realize that we're stuck running in circles, and will try to break out and just live their lives.
Words help people exchange ideas and communicate, but sometimes a word can only spoil the picture of the thing it is trying to describe. To describe something we experience, using words, we have to define it, create an abstract model, and when we do - the thing suddenly stops being anything beyond that model.
You go on a walk, you see a tree, and you think, "it's a tree", and then just keep walking. You see another tree, and because "it's just another tree", it gets the same amount of your attention as all the other trees do. But what would happen if you'd stop calling these trees "trees", and try to experience them as they *really* are?
My name is a label, my nickname is a label, my gender is a label, my profession is a label, the name of my school is a label, my hobbies, interests and skills are all labels. They all might have some informative or functional value, but people get too attached to them and often fail to perceive beyond what the words could describe.
No, that wouldn't make you a god. That would make you the creator. I'm certainly sure that the ability to create an universe doesn't imply the creator's ability to have full and unrestricted control over its every aspect.
I mean, you can grab a few spare computer parts and assemble a box, but that doesn't make you an uber-programmer. You can build a guitar but it doesn't automatically make you a Santana.
> "parts of my code look like a dog might have made it while > drunk, and I am embarrassed to show this to the world":D
Nice, I've recently found the old sources for a simple C++ roguelike I wrote years ago. Your words would perfectly describe the state of the codebase:) It had a similar concept - you could move around the 2D surface wherever you wanted (literally - you could even "step out" of the memory area where the world data was held and take a tour around the process' executable code. Yay segfaults!:P).
It's all a matter of what you're exposed to. In the absence of good music, many people won't find that overly simplistic and repetitious music can get tiresome, or that better alternatives are out there.
I was 14 when my mom showed me some hard rock & heavy metal. I hadn't had any contact with such music before, but I remember I've *never* liked almost anything they've played on the radio.
Others don't have the patience or interest in acquiring the taste. (e.g., I sometimes didn't like many of my favorites the first time I heard them).
So true:) Look at this. I literally hated Tool when I've first heard them, thought Dream Theater is just another shitty cover band playing Metallica, regarded Nine Inch Nails as noise, Pink Floyd was mostly boring, The Prodigy was "that techno crap" and Nirvana was for emotionally unstable 13 year old girls.
My sister and I share a very similar music taste nowadays. But I still remember how she used to hide my CDs under a wardrobe, because, she just hated every music that even remotely resembled metal. Especially System of a Down. A few years later, she bought their album.
> Their Euros would be better spent on improving Linux > (which BTW is already IMO pretty secure and reliable)
I think that it's not the kind of security that satisfies a more "mathematical" mind... Linux is pretty damn stable as a server OS, but... Like, you'd want to prove that the sum of 1..n natural numbers is (n*(n-1))/2. You don't write a piece of Python code to show that
all([(reduce(int.__add__, range(n), 0) == (lambda k: (k*(k-1))/2)(n)) for n in range(X)])
returns True for any natural X. You use a pen, a piece of paper and mathematical induction.
Personally... I'd be more interested in an operating system written in a managed language, much like MS's Singularity. Given an efficient and secure JIT compiler, and a "safe" language, one could write an OS that is both (more) easily provable to be secure, and probably efficient enough for the "real world". Not to mention researching an interesting area of OS design that we still don't know very much of.
"Some researcher"!? The guy (prof. Tanenbaum) wrote the original Minix, which was the OS that inspired Linux and hosted the early stage of its development. Also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum-Torvalds_debate
Coding as a form of meditation... Programming is a "thought-bound" task. And meditation means letting off of reasoning mind. This could be very interesting.
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> As a commercial software developer who works very hard and doesn't want to > see my work made available for free, why would I approve of what TPB are doing?
I release everything I create under a very liberal license, most often CC-BY, BSD, sometimes I don't even claim authorship. I create because it's fun, and sometimes because there are people who are willing to pay me for what I create for them. I've started to work half-time as a programmer a few months ago. I don't really care what happens to the code I write. If it's used, good. If it's used by hunderds of people who didn't pay for it, that's good for those people. If I get paid for my work. that's good for me. I'm selling my skills, not bits of information.
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> as most people are completely innocent
> of whatever games their silly leaders play
True... I wonder how would we do without governments.
6 hours? More like 6 days.
...and there will be another revolution, another new old political idea, another new old social structure, another new old government, another new old slavery, and all that new old gold-plated shit will get polished until it shines in the rays of the sun like reflections dancing in the ripples of a wild mountain stream, and yes I suck at writing poetry. In the process, hopefully more people will realize that we're stuck running in circles, and will try to break out and just live their lives.
> Anyone that has spent an hour digging a hole
> and an hour writing code will tell you that.
Dunno. I've seen people on the 1st year of a CS course who'd be better off digging holes than being let to touch a computer.
> There is no collective consciousness, no collective ideas.
I'd disagree with you, but we'd start discussing religion rather than politics if I'd do.
Words help people exchange ideas and communicate, but sometimes a word can only spoil the picture of the thing it is trying to describe. To describe something we experience, using words, we have to define it, create an abstract model, and when we do - the thing suddenly stops being anything beyond that model.
You go on a walk, you see a tree, and you think, "it's a tree", and then just keep walking. You see another tree, and because "it's just another tree", it gets the same amount of your attention as all the other trees do. But what would happen if you'd stop calling these trees "trees", and try to experience them as they *really* are?
My name is a label, my nickname is a label, my gender is a label, my profession is a label, the name of my school is a label, my hobbies, interests and skills are all labels. They all might have some informative or functional value, but people get too attached to them and often fail to perceive beyond what the words could describe.
Hmmm... Would libertarianism mean "being forced to do whatever you want to"?
GP's point was about resource consumption vs portability.
[citation needed] was my first thought when I read GP's post.
Actually, I think that an average person just doesn't have a clue what's going on, or maybe doesn't even care.
> if (sizetocopy = sizeofdstbuffer)
ouch.
The cost is $0.
No, that wouldn't make you a god. That would make you the creator. I'm certainly sure that the ability to create an universe doesn't imply the creator's ability to have full and unrestricted control over its every aspect.
I mean, you can grab a few spare computer parts and assemble a box, but that doesn't make you an uber-programmer. You can build a guitar but it doesn't automatically make you a Santana.
> "parts of my code look like a dog might have made it while :D
:) It had a similar concept - you could move around the 2D surface wherever you wanted (literally - you could even "step out" of the memory area where the world data was held and take a tour around the process' executable code. Yay segfaults! :P).
> drunk, and I am embarrassed to show this to the world"
Nice, I've recently found the old sources for a simple C++ roguelike I wrote years ago. Your words would perfectly describe the state of the codebase
Is your game free software? Do you have some kind of project website set up?
> The arts have flourished. But can this be attributed solely or
:)
> even mostly to copyright? Others that should not be discounted:
>
> [snip]
You forgot to mention drugs
Right. My "test suite" worked, because both reduce(+, range(n)) and n*(n-1)/2 do not include the end point.
Why did I read "LDS" as "LSD"?
I was 14 when my mom showed me some hard rock & heavy metal. I hadn't had any contact with such music before, but I remember I've *never* liked almost anything they've played on the radio.
So true :) Look at this. I literally hated Tool when I've first heard them, thought Dream Theater is just another shitty cover band playing Metallica, regarded Nine Inch Nails as noise, Pink Floyd was mostly boring, The Prodigy was "that techno crap" and Nirvana was for emotionally unstable 13 year old girls.
My sister and I share a very similar music taste nowadays. But I still remember how she used to hide my CDs under a wardrobe, because, she just hated every music that even remotely resembled metal. Especially System of a Down. A few years later, she bought their album.
> Their Euros would be better spent on improving Linux
> (which BTW is already IMO pretty secure and reliable)
I think that it's not the kind of security that satisfies a more "mathematical" mind... Linux is pretty damn stable as a server OS, but... Like, you'd want to prove that the sum of 1..n natural numbers is (n*(n-1))/2. You don't write a piece of Python code to show that
all([(reduce(int.__add__, range(n), 0) == (lambda k: (k*(k-1))/2)(n)) for n in range(X)])
returns True for any natural X. You use a pen, a piece of paper and mathematical induction.
Personally... I'd be more interested in an operating system written in a managed language, much like MS's Singularity. Given an efficient and secure JIT compiler, and a "safe" language, one could write an OS that is both (more) easily provable to be secure, and probably efficient enough for the "real world". Not to mention researching an interesting area of OS design that we still don't know very much of.
"Some researcher"!? The guy (prof. Tanenbaum) wrote the original Minix, which was the OS that inspired Linux and hosted the early stage of its development. Also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum-Torvalds_debate
Coding as a form of meditation... Programming is a "thought-bound" task. And meditation means letting off of reasoning mind. This could be very interesting.
> What the fuck is "netbeans"?
http://www.google.com/search?q=netbeans
> Who uses this java nonsense anyway?
http://www.google.com/search?q=programming%20language%20popularity
http://www.tiobe.com/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
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> As a commercial software developer who works very hard and doesn't want to
> see my work made available for free, why would I approve of what TPB are doing?
I release everything I create under a very liberal license, most often CC-BY, BSD, sometimes I don't even claim authorship. I create because it's fun, and sometimes because there are people who are willing to pay me for what I create for them. I've started to work half-time as a programmer a few months ago. I don't really care what happens to the code I write. If it's used, good. If it's used by hunderds of people who didn't pay for it, that's good for those people. If I get paid for my work. that's good for me. I'm selling my skills, not bits of information.
Try "You shouldn't do that" by Hawkwind :)