Some programs are better written by software than by humans. In particular, if the program can evolve against a fitness test, it can be optimized far faster than the time in which it would take a human to identify and optimize by hand. For example, a compiler could be subjected to genetic evolution. The fitness test would always include correctness, but could also include the size of generated output, speed of generated-output execution, or speed of compiler execution.
It's not 100% (what is), but overall, it's proven much more successful than the egalitarian version.
Humans will eventually evolve to realize that taking the dollar out of the equation (and avoiding the mistakes of the USSR, Cuba, etc...there are mistakes on the other side too, the Shah of Iran, Nazi Germany, etc.) will allow us to get significantly closer to 100%.
I went to jail >10 times for possesion of marij., paraphanalia and pimping/pandering. I smoked crack, stole cars, broke into houses, have been shot, and have shot back.
awesome, man. I just became a suicidal pathologically shy introverted junkie.
Please forgive my bitterness. we're on the same side.
What also isn't XP is people at their own terminals coding on the same project in different parts of the world. Taco's obviously not bothered to read anything about XP yet. Pair programming is programming in pairs at the same keyboard; that's the whole point.
How about using a chat program to pair program? Is that illegal?
care...or else! yeah, give me some guns to enforce it, that would be fun!
guess I'm just skeptical of the old "education" approach. My solution would be to expand our efforts in space so misfits like me could run off and hide in an unexplored frontier.
I use a w2k box at my desk. I use w2k because I have to view the Internet world through the eyes of IE like our clients.
I hear you. I have w2k and linux boxes at my desk, because there's just something about using vi on a physical *nix machine:) I use ie to surf; but for programming I love having multiple consoles organized by desktop on my linux box.
Most people are so quick to make jokes about other people they don't realize some of us are tortured and feel great pain when they do this.
Even if they realized it, they might not care. Have you never seen a bum collapsed in the street, perhaps asking for help, being ignored by everyone who passes? People can be callous.
it's like the microsoft support guy at my last job said: "microsoft employees aren't allowed to look at open source because of the severe licensing restrictions."
So, automate what the programmer does. Have the programmer-bot ask questions when something isn't clear. Have the software take context into account when interpreting natural language. That's how we do it after all.
Programmers haven't solved natural language parsing yet because they haven't thought about it enough.
That which a man produces is his own. Since when did it become greed to only enter trades that are fair? No man should be expected to sacrifice his values and thereby his life to the likes of you.
Drug companies that expect a "return on their efforts" from third-world countries that can't afford their prices are just wrong though.
From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
"I think the big appeal of Napster was that people could get music easily and that it was free. I think we need the "easily," but I don't see how people's work can get taken without compensation."
Personally, I'd rather pay the musician directly. Let the musicians set their own prices. They could even hire someone to do it for them if they wished.
I'd make it an honor system where people without enough money to pay could still download it. But I'm an anarcho-syndicalist at heart.
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Humans will eventually evolve to realize that taking the dollar out of the equation (and avoiding the mistakes of the USSR, Cuba, etc...there are mistakes on the other side too, the Shah of Iran, Nazi Germany, etc.) will allow us to get significantly closer to 100%.
amazon has made a lot of people rich, I would bet.
Or until we take economics out of the picture completely.
awesome, man. I just became a suicidal pathologically shy introverted junkie.
Please forgive my bitterness. we're on the same side.
How about using a chat program to pair program? Is that illegal?
birds of a feather gotta flock together
guess I'm just skeptical of the old "education" approach. My solution would be to expand our efforts in space so misfits like me could run off and hide in an unexplored frontier.
or in chinese, you might just leave out a subject altogether
can we take all the people whose first resort is violence and put them in space somewhere where they can kill each other off?
Not quite as idiomatic as the French "on".
I hear you. I have w2k and linux boxes at my desk, because there's just something about using vi on a physical *nix machine :) I use ie to surf; but for programming I love having multiple consoles organized by desktop on my linux box.
Not even one person has said they don't mind spam? Without it, I would never get any email.
Even if they realized it, they might not care. Have you never seen a bum collapsed in the street, perhaps asking for help, being ignored by everyone who passes? People can be callous.
...and your point is? Who cares about the unborn. I don't even care about the countless already-born who die cruelly every day.
uh, the japanese have many commercial applications of fuzzy logic, as the link describes.
How about a list of columbine bullies that didn't get killed?
there is of course post-boolean logic: fuzzy logic.
it's like the microsoft support guy at my last job said: "microsoft employees aren't allowed to look at open source because of the severe licensing restrictions."
but...a lawyer? for chrissakes man, turn back before it's too late!
So, automate what the programmer does. Have the programmer-bot ask questions when something isn't clear. Have the software take context into account when interpreting natural language. That's how we do it after all. Programmers haven't solved natural language parsing yet because they haven't thought about it enough.
They're automated on Star Trek. oh ye who have so little faith in the ability of programmers!
Drug companies that expect a "return on their efforts" from third-world countries that can't afford their prices are just wrong though.
From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
This sounds like one of those "old wives tales", like the one about blacks' natural place being slaves and such.
Personally, I'd rather pay the musician directly. Let the musicians set their own prices. They could even hire someone to do it for them if they wished.
I'd make it an honor system where people without enough money to pay could still download it. But I'm an anarcho-syndicalist at heart.