You don't have to explain, I know, how you think your mind works. You are confusing subconsciousness and hyper-focus. Your subconsciousness is at work when focus is not on the subject. You are also confusing awareness and attention. It is a common mistake, because most of us are only aware of what we pay attention to. Being in the zone, the hyper focus, it is all about attention poured into a singular task. But your mind can still remain aware of itself, even if you don't pay any attention to it.
State of mind: You are happy. Attention: You catch yourself being happy. Awareness: You know your mind is happy (without focusing on it).
Your memory piggybacks on the awareness subsystem. You don't have to pay attention to something in order to remember it. It is not too hard to train yourself. Start reading a book and split attention between the book and your state of mind, the basic emotions. Keep reading through several changes, it will be hard and you'll stop paying attention to it. But if you keep at it, eventually you will remove the attention requirement, you will be aware of your state of mind at any given moment. You will know what your state of mind was during a certain passage of the book. Not just recall the passage and estimate how it would make you feel and assume you felt that way, but actually know what you felt, even if the emotion won't be a logical or natural one for that passage of book. If you keep at it, eventually you might get to complete awareness of who you are.
Yes, exactly. I just code with Red Hot Chili Peppers album Californication and that can get pretty wild. The important part is that it has to be familiar. After a while the brain will go into hyperfocus mode and remove the sound inputs. And so when I stop hearing the music, I know I am in the zone.
If you think in terms of as much stuff done in as little characters as possible, there is no competition for PERL.
I think this particular competition though is counting bytes of machine code. I thought I was pretty good myself with reducing a printer driver into 136 bytes, but Chess in 500 that is really something.
Readability always depends on the programmer. Indentation does not give you readability by itself. You need modularity, comments, compactness, good symbol selection, etc. There is so much more to readability. Maybe you just saw a python written by very good programmers, but I saw python scripts written by mediocre programmers and they are not any more or less readable than any other program in any other language that I run through indent.
A lot of sysadmins, devops and product integration people using perl for quick filters so they don't have to learn awk or sed with:
cmd | perl -e 'stmt;stmt;stmt;stmt;stmt' | cmd
You cannot do the same thing in python easily and that is an issue as you mentioned. Another issue is that the whitespace is creating havoc in bigger team and multi-platform projects where people work with many different environments and editors and small whitespace changes are sometimes not so easy to catch and can have code changing impact.
PERL has the write hundred ways quality, but in enterprise you can agree on standard way to write and then a larger team can be more productive in PERL than Python. PERL is also so much better at language embedding if you need to implement core routines in C.
On the other hand Python excels in the new to scripting, small (5) cohesive team market. They got that pretty much cornered now.
Yes, for C the effect is especially strong. It's not like it would not be easier to use other languages, like Swift or Java, but somehow C is up there all this time. There is a reason.
PERL has a staying power. Other scripting languages come and go in popularity. Ruby for example. But eventually the large base of PERL programmers turns out new generation of PERL programmers by mentoring and language selection from being in position of senior / principal engineers and architects. Python is still surprisingly staying up there, being propped by Google and few other corps., but if not for Google, Python would go the way of Ruby. There is a slight chance that Python will manage to stay long enough to build a large base of libraries and examples, so that it will stay and maybe even replace PERL eventually, who knows. But you gotta understand that every 10 years or so, all the old languages get a push from the above mentioned change of guard in the development positions.
... and that is why I go with Apple products. At least I know that Apple goes 100% behind the devices they release and they will be around in 5 years and supported. Otherwise you end up with Zune or Google Glass or some other of the plethora of wanna be products from wanna be device companies.
95% of cases are handled like this. Prosecutor will charge everything under the moon to scare the victim into accepting a plea. It does not matter, what is the size of the sentence, your life is ruined forever. So they don't care how much they actually give you first time, just that you do some jail time and have a record. That's the goal. Tough on crime, so many evil people behind bars. Need to start the governor campaign early on.
Look, the constitution guarantees you right to petition government for redress of grievances. There is no guarantee for the government to address those grievances. They made a website, you can petition them, so the constitution is served. Move on citizen. If you like your congress representative, you can keep your congress representative. If you don't like your congress representative, tough luck, you are stuck with him anyway. Demagogracy 101.
This guy is not Russian. First of all, he is using the propaganda points that US is spreading in Russia, the fear that China will take part of their territory. It is one of the talking points. Second, he is making homophone mistakes (doubt -> dough) that only native speakers make or sometimes people who use english for 10-20 years or so and he is not making any of the grammar and preposition mistakes common for foreign speakers. It is sad to see our discussion here on slashdot tainted by spooks.
If we only provide value through synergies resulting from M&A activity, we will eventually end up with one large company spanning the entire state and will have the perfect example of communism:)
It's a third comment picking on the missing word "compiler" in my comment... "C compiler won't optimize"... geese. That seemed like a pretty clear thing... no comment edits on slashdot though:(
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The thing is, if you use structures with bit fields, C will not optimize the manipulations with them correctly. So you end up doing a lot of hand-holding in driver development in C. You have to be very much aware of the code being produced. It is not uncommon that you check specific inner loop sections to see exactly how they are being compiled and then based on the result and number of instructions might need to rewrite the C part or even just insert the assembly code directly.
A lot of HW related companies use mostly just C. Any sort of small device development or most appliances (switches, storage, etc.) have software written in C. Any driver development, etc. It is still the language anyone can pretty much agree on.
Since US does not exist even those 500 years, let's look at what happened during the 250 that it exists: Continent wide Genocide of Native Americans, Slavery, Apartheid, Kukkluxklan, One major Civil War, Close to 100 covert CIA operations to change regime of other countries, Only country in history that used Nuclear Weapons on civilians. Want something more recent? Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, What about NSA having surveillance system that KGB openly envies? FBI collecting dossier on politicians for blackmail since its inception? Now this gets even better: 25% of world's prisoners or 2.2 million people in prison, that is 0.5 million more than China, which is considered a totalitarian state with repressive regime and has 4 times the population of US. Not just that, but 750,000 of those are usually for low level drug offenses like marihuana, which is safer than alcohol. Prohibition is a matter of policy, not public safety, so you can easily say that those are political prisoners. Still sitting on your high horse?
Well, there is hiring on merit for sure, but you can look at any major tech company chart and see that asian managers hire asians almost exclusively. We had one Indian VP, who made 20 consecutive hiring decisions and all hires were Indian, even if there would be 50% Indian engineers in the valley, the chance of this happening randomly is 1:1,000,000. The Chinese managers often hire Chinese not based on racism though, but the language difficulty. A lot of the brilliant Chinese engineers I worked with had english difficulties, if interviewed in english you'd think they cannot count to 5, but when later interviewed in Mandarin, they looked like genius. So you can see some amount of racism, but its mixed bag.
And yes, we only had one black guy out of about 100, which is very low. But he was hired definitely on merit. One of the two best engineers we ever hired.
France indeed has its hay day in the past, although they made up for it in 16th to 19th century. England... you should talk to the Irish and Scottish and Welsh citizens. If someone cleans up their act for 50 years, after centuries of horrible repression, I'd say they are not quite reformed yet. US, I think you might check with the immigrants for current situation, check with gays for anything up to 5 years ago and with women and blacks for anything up to 50 years ago. People tend to forget some horrible abuses quite quickly it seems. I should have added Germany, Austria, Japan and China to the mix, but they are sort of obvious.
The point is that you have places like Iceland, Danemark, some countries in Central Europe, like Switzerland and to some extent Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, maybe even Hungary, if you ascribe the communists to Russian influence and many others where things like slavery, oppression, wars of conquest, are simply not on the menu for 500 years or so. There are places where people are kinder and peaceful by nature.
Exactly this. So now that you have been critical of US, I would advise against traveling anywhere in middle east, Russia or China or to visit any mosque. If you avoid those things, you should be still fine. Otherwise, welcome to the watchlist. It is a select group of fine individuals. Maybe we should make badges for ourselves.
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I was trying to explain it like to a 14 year old. It is hard to give someone a first lesson on a message board.
You don't have to explain, I know, how you think your mind works. You are confusing subconsciousness and hyper-focus. Your subconsciousness is at work when focus is not on the subject. You are also confusing awareness and attention. It is a common mistake, because most of us are only aware of what we pay attention to. Being in the zone, the hyper focus, it is all about attention poured into a singular task. But your mind can still remain aware of itself, even if you don't pay any attention to it.
State of mind: You are happy.
Attention: You catch yourself being happy.
Awareness: You know your mind is happy (without focusing on it).
Your memory piggybacks on the awareness subsystem. You don't have to pay attention to something in order to remember it. It is not too hard to train yourself. Start reading a book and split attention between the book and your state of mind, the basic emotions. Keep reading through several changes, it will be hard and you'll stop paying attention to it. But if you keep at it, eventually you will remove the attention requirement, you will be aware of your state of mind at any given moment. You will know what your state of mind was during a certain passage of the book. Not just recall the passage and estimate how it would make you feel and assume you felt that way, but actually know what you felt, even if the emotion won't be a logical or natural one for that passage of book. If you keep at it, eventually you might get to complete awareness of who you are.
Grasshopper, your mind controls you, because you are not aware of it, you don't control your mind yet.
Yes, exactly. I just code with Red Hot Chili Peppers album Californication and that can get pretty wild. The important part is that it has to be familiar. After a while the brain will go into hyperfocus mode and remove the sound inputs. And so when I stop hearing the music, I know I am in the zone.
If you think in terms of as much stuff done in as little characters as possible, there is no competition for PERL.
I think this particular competition though is counting bytes of machine code. I thought I was pretty good myself with reducing a printer driver into 136 bytes, but Chess in 500 that is really something.
Occam's razor says not.
Readability always depends on the programmer. Indentation does not give you readability by itself. You need modularity, comments, compactness, good symbol selection, etc. There is so much more to readability. Maybe you just saw a python written by very good programmers, but I saw python scripts written by mediocre programmers and they are not any more or less readable than any other program in any other language that I run through indent.
A lot of sysadmins, devops and product integration people using perl for quick filters so they don't have to learn awk or sed with:
cmd | perl -e 'stmt;stmt;stmt;stmt;stmt' | cmd
You cannot do the same thing in python easily and that is an issue as you mentioned. Another issue is that the whitespace is creating havoc in bigger team and multi-platform projects where people work with many different environments and editors and small whitespace changes are sometimes not so easy to catch and can have code changing impact.
PERL has the write hundred ways quality, but in enterprise you can agree on standard way to write and then a larger team can be more productive in PERL than Python. PERL is also so much better at language embedding if you need to implement core routines in C.
On the other hand Python excels in the new to scripting, small (5) cohesive team market. They got that pretty much cornered now.
Yes, for C the effect is especially strong. It's not like it would not be easier to use other languages, like Swift or Java, but somehow C is up there all this time. There is a reason.
PERL has a staying power. Other scripting languages come and go in popularity. Ruby for example. But eventually the large base of PERL programmers turns out new generation of PERL programmers by mentoring and language selection from being in position of senior / principal engineers and architects. Python is still surprisingly staying up there, being propped by Google and few other corps., but if not for Google, Python would go the way of Ruby. There is a slight chance that Python will manage to stay long enough to build a large base of libraries and examples, so that it will stay and maybe even replace PERL eventually, who knows. But you gotta understand that every 10 years or so, all the old languages get a push from the above mentioned change of guard in the development positions.
All your counter examples are from before 1998, also known as the "Second Coming of Steve Jobs". It was a different company back then.
... and that is why I go with Apple products. At least I know that Apple goes 100% behind the devices they release and they will be around in 5 years and supported. Otherwise you end up with Zune or Google Glass or some other of the plethora of wanna be products from wanna be device companies.
95% of cases are handled like this. Prosecutor will charge everything under the moon to scare the victim into accepting a plea. It does not matter, what is the size of the sentence, your life is ruined forever. So they don't care how much they actually give you first time, just that you do some jail time and have a record. That's the goal. Tough on crime, so many evil people behind bars. Need to start the governor campaign early on.
Look, the constitution guarantees you right to petition government for redress of grievances. There is no guarantee for the government to address those grievances. They made a website, you can petition them, so the constitution is served. Move on citizen. If you like your congress representative, you can keep your congress representative. If you don't like your congress representative, tough luck, you are stuck with him anyway. Demagogracy 101.
There is no need to invent words like Cronycapitalism. It is called Oligarchy.
This guy is not Russian. First of all, he is using the propaganda points that US is spreading in Russia, the fear that China will take part of their territory. It is one of the talking points. Second, he is making homophone mistakes (doubt -> dough) that only native speakers make or sometimes people who use english for 10-20 years or so and he is not making any of the grammar and preposition mistakes common for foreign speakers. It is sad to see our discussion here on slashdot tainted by spooks.
If we only provide value through synergies resulting from M&A activity, we will eventually end up with one large company spanning the entire state and will have the perfect example of communism :)
It's a third comment picking on the missing word "compiler" in my comment... "C compiler won't optimize"... geese. That seemed like a pretty clear thing... no comment edits on slashdot though :(
The thing is, if you use structures with bit fields, C will not optimize the manipulations with them correctly. So you end up doing a lot of hand-holding in driver development in C. You have to be very much aware of the code being produced. It is not uncommon that you check specific inner loop sections to see exactly how they are being compiled and then based on the result and number of instructions might need to rewrite the C part or even just insert the assembly code directly.
A lot of HW related companies use mostly just C. Any sort of small device development or most appliances (switches, storage, etc.) have software written in C. Any driver development, etc. It is still the language anyone can pretty much agree on.
She will oversee our merger with Canada.
Since US does not exist even those 500 years, let's look at what happened during the 250 that it exists: Continent wide Genocide of Native Americans, Slavery, Apartheid, Kukkluxklan, One major Civil War, Close to 100 covert CIA operations to change regime of other countries, Only country in history that used Nuclear Weapons on civilians. Want something more recent? Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, What about NSA having surveillance system that KGB openly envies? FBI collecting dossier on politicians for blackmail since its inception? Now this gets even better: 25% of world's prisoners or 2.2 million people in prison, that is 0.5 million more than China, which is considered a totalitarian state with repressive regime and has 4 times the population of US. Not just that, but 750,000 of those are usually for low level drug offenses like marihuana, which is safer than alcohol. Prohibition is a matter of policy, not public safety, so you can easily say that those are political prisoners. Still sitting on your high horse?
Well, there is hiring on merit for sure, but you can look at any major tech company chart and see that asian managers hire asians almost exclusively. We had one Indian VP, who made 20 consecutive hiring decisions and all hires were Indian, even if there would be 50% Indian engineers in the valley, the chance of this happening randomly is 1:1,000,000. The Chinese managers often hire Chinese not based on racism though, but the language difficulty. A lot of the brilliant Chinese engineers I worked with had english difficulties, if interviewed in english you'd think they cannot count to 5, but when later interviewed in Mandarin, they looked like genius. So you can see some amount of racism, but its mixed bag.
And yes, we only had one black guy out of about 100, which is very low. But he was hired definitely on merit. One of the two best engineers we ever hired.
France indeed has its hay day in the past, although they made up for it in 16th to 19th century. England ... you should talk to the Irish and Scottish and Welsh citizens. If someone cleans up their act for 50 years, after centuries of horrible repression, I'd say they are not quite reformed yet. US, I think you might check with the immigrants for current situation, check with gays for anything up to 5 years ago and with women and blacks for anything up to 50 years ago. People tend to forget some horrible abuses quite quickly it seems. I should have added Germany, Austria, Japan and China to the mix, but they are sort of obvious.
The point is that you have places like Iceland, Danemark, some countries in Central Europe, like Switzerland and to some extent Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, maybe even Hungary, if you ascribe the communists to Russian influence and many others where things like slavery, oppression, wars of conquest, are simply not on the menu for 500 years or so. There are places where people are kinder and peaceful by nature.
Exactly this. So now that you have been critical of US, I would advise against traveling anywhere in middle east, Russia or China or to visit any mosque. If you avoid those things, you should be still fine. Otherwise, welcome to the watchlist. It is a select group of fine individuals. Maybe we should make badges for ourselves.