Speaking as a computer programmer (J2EE) who is currently working on a PhD thesis in Social Psychology, the best cognitive approach to good mental health is without a doubt general semantics. In addition it also has the happy side effect of curing all sorts of schizophrenic and psychotic disorders through its approach to language.
The best book on the subject for the average reader is "Drive Yourself Sane" although purists with math skills will probably enjoy the seminal and founding text of G.S. "Science and Sanity"
Intelligence is after all, the ability to recognize exceptions, which once recognized, result in resolution through a higher-order abstraction or an alternative but parallel model, biologically altering neural associations in the CNS:
"If Bush is a mass murderer then so was Wilson, FDR, Truman, Kennedy, LBJ, Nixon, Reagan, Bush Sr., and Clinton. "
Now you're starting to get the point! But don't forget Jackson and Lincoln, Carter and Ford, Hoover and Teddy Roosevelt as well.
"Each called the military against another country and groups of people died."
Right! So as long as mass homicides are committed by the state that makes it all fine and dandy. By that logic, murder becomes legal when you kill enough people since only government is capable of engaging in such widespread slaughter. So one instance of murder is wrong, but 1 million isn't.
Mutual Aid is distinguished from socialism by the fact that it is VOLUNTARY; no one is forcing you to contribute to it by the use of violence.
Anarchism is just a term for "political freedom" : the abolition of FORCED cooperation through acts of violence (i.e. government, socialism).
Capitalism is the right to engage in your own economic freedom.
Since anarchists are advocates of freedom, it is natural that they should be advocates of economic freedom as well (unless they are really jackbooted communists just masquerading as anarchists to dupe the public e.g. Noam Chomsky, Robert Nozick, et al).
Thus when the individual has achieved ABSOLUTE FREEDOM in both the political sense (no one is using violence against him) and the economic sense (no one is interfering with trade), we can say that he exists in a state of "Nature free from violence" or Anarcho-Capitalism.
MUTUAL AID AND COOPERATION ARE FUNDAMENTALLY CAPITALIST CONCEPTS. In order for mutual aid to exist, the individual must first be free to form economic associations. Open source is mutual aid. Free software would not be possible if every software developer were forced to spend their time building the machinery of the state. Which is why open source (and all other inventions of the 20th century for that matter) evolved in the United States as opposed to Canada, the EU, or China. Cooperation is impossible under communism.
Perhaps you should spend more time reading and less time repeating what you were told in the "higher education" centers of the communist state.
Your statement:
"it is the same scheme that leads to monopolization of free markets, unchecked democracies rapidly evolving into dictatorships etc)."
Is an argument for anarcho-capitalism, not one against it. Monopoly cannot exist unless it is enforced by the state through the use of violence, as it is with the telecoms and oil companies here in the U.S.. No monopoly has ever evolved without the active agent of the state to prevent competition through violence. It is self-evident that competition that prevents monopoly (monopoly is zero competition). The state creates monopolies.
"If the more-expensive tool saves time worth more than its cost, then the appropriate free-market choice is to invest."
The appropriate "free market" choice is for them to do whatever they please, not have their actions dictated to them by a Socialist Central Planner on Slashdot.
"Capitalism and all its fictional scarcity have been destroying productivity in the name of control for a long time. The liberty that lies beneath free software and open publishing is increasing productivity, not damaging it."
Please don't blame Capitalism for what is going on in the U.S. The term you are looking for is Corporate Socialism. Capitalism is simply the economic freedom to engage in self-determination. The United States is not now, nor has it ever been a capitalist country.
Open source software is a form of Capitalism. The highest form of capitalism: Anarcho-Capitalism based on mutual aid.
You mean the planet is getting colder not warmer? You mean it turns out that increased levels of CO2 are actually good for the planet and global warming is an international communist conspiracy carried out by the U.N. and designed to reduce the population of the world to abject misery and slavery?
Wait you mean to tell me that increased CO2 levels will lead to world prosperity the likes of which has never been seen? You mean we can actually start farming areas that were previously considered desert? You mean contrary to popular opinion we should not only not be trying to reduce carbon dioxide creation, but INCREASE it as much as is possible? Who could have predicted that? Only someone who took biology in fifth grade and actually paid attention:
Wrong. If companies use a metered scheme there is no reason for them to upgrade their infrastructure until they hit maximum capacity. Bandwidth for everyone will likely slow to a crawl.
There will be no QoS guarantee either. All customers will be pretty much screwed, since most cable companies still have a government enforced monopoly in their respective local areas. The only way to do something "good for our own freedom" is to get the state out of the picture and allow the marketplace to open up to competition.
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Of course people in the U.S. have been taught to believe that by the public school system which furthers a communist agenda.
Corporatism is a form of communism (i.e. the violent robbery and suppression of one group of people for the benefit of an other group) not capitalism. The fact is that the United States is not now, nor has it ever been a capitalist country. The very term "capitalist country" is itself an oxymoron. Capitalism (i.e. the individuals right to engage in economic self-determination) is fundamentally incompatible with the concept of government.
America is and always has been a communist country:
You are correct that Java byte code is inherently class based, but there are many good APIs for modifying byte code even while it is running. I think you could probably add traversal simply by inserting custom methods into each class at compile or runtime. Of course, Java code will always be object oriented. Does that cause a problem?
Primitive types in java really don't bother me since I rarely use or think about them (except for boolean of course). The one exception is JDBC code, which uses primitive types.
resultSet.getLong() returns primitive type long instead of object type java.lang.Long.
I don't know why they didn't use the wrapper classes instead, especially since you are dealing with database columns that can contain null values.
Have you ever thought about just creating your own? It would be an interesting project, and you could always compile to java byte code. Have you ever used Groovy?
Point taken. Would you prefer something that was more like C++?
Personally, I love Python, but in my opinion, it's lack of strong typing makes it unsuitable for enterprise apps. One nice thing you can definitely say about Java as a language is that code that is poorly written in Java is easier to read than code that is poorly written in Python or PERL. That's what matters to me, but my career consists entirely of cleaning up other people's messes.
This is such a joke that sometimes I feel like I shouldn't even bother to respond.
FACT:
Java is far and away the best platform for developing almost all serious applications today, for anyone who doesn't want to sell their soul to Microsoft. Here is why (* Indicates a feature not available in any other programming language.):
1. Platform independence 2. Strongly typed 3. Good interface implementation separation 4. Application server independence* 5. Database independence without changing an API*. 6. High-performance 7. Security 8. Distributed Transaction Bindings across multiple resources*. 9. Still the standard for messaging. 10. Can run on all kinds of devices (phone, pda, smartcard, etc.) 11. Runs on more devices than any other programming language in the world. 12. World's best memory management. 13. Cross-Platform native interface (i.e. JNI) 14. More open source applications written in Java than in any other language.
The script kiddies can babble all they want. None of them have ever had to maintain an application in the real world. If they had, they would know that writing large applications in a scripting language is a bad idea. I've yet to meet a Ruby, PERL, or PHP advocate who I would consider to be a good software developer.
Scripting languages have their place and there are definitely some cool apps written in Python (e.g. portage), but there isn't any valid reason to use Ruby, even if you are the most dogmatic fan of the ActiveRecord anti-pattern.
Most people have no concept of what it would take to replace Java and all of the features that Java has. Scripting languages are (at best) still several decades away from getting to where Java is now. In fifty years from now Java will still be the language of choice. You could make a better argument for replacing C, but then why bother? Why not stop being a loser and build something useful instead of tearing down the leader all of the time? The answer of course is that advocates of using scripting languages for serious software development are sexual impotents who can't create anything and they view real creators with hatred and jealousy. If you want to understand why they keep bringing this point up in spite of the obvious superiority of the Java platform, you should read the Mass Psychology of Fascism.
The problem with current AJAX APIs is that they all suck ass. Dojo is several megabytes, but even paying for all of that bandwidth has got to be better than dealing with Google. Still, the real solution is to write your own AJAX API that:
1. Is not bloated 2. Does not arbitrarily modify the DOM making it impossible work with. 3. Actually works.
Then make it open source so that the human race can have an AJAX API that doesn't blow goats.
Well that's news to me. I thought that the term kill was related to the subject dying; i.e. (A) kills (B) then (B) is dead. Whereas a thread that is in an infinite loop or is dead-locked waiting on a lock to be released, lives forever. So basically, in your view of the English language, the word kill does not mean "to cause the death of" but the exact opposite, "to make immortal."
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Once I had to install some Veritas client back up software on an executive's laptop. This individual had an MBA. Do you know what he asked me?
"What are Veritases?"
The majority of the American population can't even speak english let alone latin.
I'm surprised that we aren't using it today. With a name like Mundaneum, people are sure to come running in droves.
Speaking as a computer programmer (J2EE) who is currently working on a PhD thesis in Social Psychology, the best cognitive approach to good mental health is without a doubt general semantics. In addition it also has the happy side effect of curing all sorts of schizophrenic and psychotic disorders through its approach to language.
The best book on the subject for the average reader is "Drive Yourself Sane" although purists with math skills will probably enjoy the seminal and founding text of G.S. "Science and Sanity"
Intelligence is after all, the ability to recognize exceptions, which once recognized, result in resolution through a higher-order abstraction or an alternative but parallel model, biologically altering neural associations in the CNS:
http://www.google.com/search?q=neuronal+group+selection
You can download Firefox for free, but you have to fight for your right to party.
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"If Bush is a mass murderer then so was Wilson, FDR, Truman, Kennedy, LBJ, Nixon, Reagan, Bush Sr., and Clinton. "
Now you're starting to get the point! But don't forget Jackson and Lincoln, Carter and Ford, Hoover and Teddy Roosevelt as well.
"Each called the military against another country and groups of people died."
Right! So as long as mass homicides are committed by the state that makes it all fine and dandy. By that logic, murder becomes legal when you kill enough people since only government is capable of engaging in such widespread slaughter. So one instance of murder is wrong, but 1 million isn't.
Mutual Aid is an anarchist concept:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_Aid:_A_Factor_of_Evolution
Mutual Aid is distinguished from socialism by the fact that it is VOLUNTARY; no one is forcing you to contribute to it by the use of violence.
Anarchism is just a term for "political freedom" : the abolition of FORCED cooperation through acts of violence (i.e. government, socialism).
Capitalism is the right to engage in your own economic freedom.
Since anarchists are advocates of freedom, it is natural that they should be advocates of economic freedom as well (unless they are really jackbooted communists just masquerading as anarchists to dupe the public e.g. Noam Chomsky, Robert Nozick, et al).
Thus when the individual has achieved ABSOLUTE FREEDOM in both the political sense (no one is using violence against him) and the economic sense (no one is interfering with trade), we can say that he exists in a state of "Nature free from violence" or Anarcho-Capitalism.
MUTUAL AID AND COOPERATION ARE FUNDAMENTALLY CAPITALIST CONCEPTS. In order for mutual aid to exist, the individual must first be free to form economic associations. Open source is mutual aid. Free software would not be possible if every software developer were forced to spend their time building the machinery of the state. Which is why open source (and all other inventions of the 20th century for that matter) evolved in the United States as opposed to Canada, the EU, or China. Cooperation is impossible under communism.
Perhaps you should spend more time reading and less time repeating what you were told in the "higher education" centers of the communist state.
Your statement:
"it is the same scheme that leads to monopolization of free markets, unchecked democracies rapidly evolving into dictatorships etc)."
Is an argument for anarcho-capitalism, not one against it. Monopoly cannot exist unless it is enforced by the state through the use of violence, as it is with the telecoms and oil companies here in the U.S.. No monopoly has ever evolved without the active agent of the state to prevent competition through violence. It is self-evident that competition that prevents monopoly (monopoly is zero competition). The state creates monopolies.
"If the more-expensive tool saves time worth more than its cost, then the appropriate free-market choice is to invest."
The appropriate "free market" choice is for them to do whatever they please, not have their actions dictated to them by a Socialist Central Planner on Slashdot.
"Capitalism and all its fictional scarcity have been destroying productivity in the name of control for a long time. The liberty that lies beneath free software and open publishing is increasing productivity, not damaging it."
Please don't blame Capitalism for what is going on in the U.S. The term you are looking for is Corporate Socialism. Capitalism is simply the economic freedom to engage in self-determination. The United States is not now, nor has it ever been a capitalist country.
Open source software is a form of Capitalism. The highest form of capitalism: Anarcho-Capitalism based on mutual aid.
You mean the planet is getting colder not warmer? You mean it turns out that increased levels of CO2 are actually good for the planet and global warming is an international communist conspiracy carried out by the U.N. and designed to reduce the population of the world to abject misery and slavery?
Wait you mean to tell me that increased CO2 levels will lead to world prosperity the likes of which has never been seen? You mean we can actually start farming areas that were previously considered desert? You mean contrary to popular opinion we should not only not be trying to reduce carbon dioxide creation, but INCREASE it as much as is possible? Who could have predicted that? Only someone who took biology in fifth grade and actually paid attention:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=4&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freerepublic.com%2Ffocus%2Ff-news%2F2007402%2Fposts&ei=YDhNSKf7FKT2gQLcy_mnDA&usg=AFQjCNE-9gxV6myERRvOyldNNNP1CxjuUA&sig2=fWJgH4DKm7wd0E2mwyr0rw
OVERRULED.
>> One is that they don't seem to have any plan that can make money on their service
Who cares when you've still got venture capital to burn through?
Wrong. If companies use a metered scheme there is no reason for them to upgrade their infrastructure until they hit maximum capacity. Bandwidth for everyone will likely slow to a crawl.
There will be no QoS guarantee either. All customers will be pretty much screwed, since most cable companies still have a government enforced monopoly in their respective local areas. The only way to do something "good for our own freedom" is to get the state out of the picture and allow the marketplace to open up to competition.
Of course people in the U.S. have been taught to believe that by the public school system which furthers a communist agenda.
Corporatism is a form of communism (i.e. the violent robbery and suppression of one group of people for the benefit of an other group) not capitalism. The fact is that the United States is not now, nor has it ever been a capitalist country. The very term "capitalist country" is itself an oxymoron. Capitalism (i.e. the individuals right to engage in economic self-determination) is fundamentally incompatible with the concept of government.
America is and always has been a communist country:
http://www.criminalgovernment.com/docs/planks.html
>> "the most efficient delivery system for capitalism is actually a communist-style police state"
Someone is in serious need of medication. Communism is the polar opposite of capitalism.
>> And even before that it was far more complicated than simply being descendants of William I I think you mean William the bastard.
>> Since when is being a "company" required to legally run a BitTorrent tracker?
You're simply not wearing your Hitlerian headgear. Put it on, and you'll realize that rights belong to institutions and not to individuals.
You are correct that Java byte code is inherently class based, but there are many good APIs for modifying byte code even while it is running. I think you could probably add traversal simply by inserting custom methods into each class at compile or runtime. Of course, Java code will always be object oriented. Does that cause a problem?
Primitive types in java really don't bother me since I rarely use or think about them (except for boolean of course). The one exception is JDBC code, which uses primitive types.
resultSet.getLong() returns primitive type long instead of object type java.lang.Long.
I don't know why they didn't use the wrapper classes instead, especially since you are dealing with database columns that can contain null values.
Have you ever thought about just creating your own? It would be an interesting project, and you could always compile to java byte code. Have you ever used Groovy?
Point taken. Would you prefer something that was more like C++?
Personally, I love Python, but in my opinion, it's lack of strong typing makes it unsuitable for enterprise apps. One nice thing you can definitely say about Java as a language is that code that is poorly written in Java is easier to read than code that is poorly written in Python or PERL. That's what matters to me, but my career consists entirely of cleaning up other people's messes.
This is such a joke that sometimes I feel like I shouldn't even bother to respond.
FACT:
Java is far and away the best platform for developing almost all serious applications today, for anyone who doesn't want to sell their soul to Microsoft. Here is why (* Indicates a feature not available in any other programming language.):
1. Platform independence
2. Strongly typed
3. Good interface implementation separation
4. Application server independence*
5. Database independence without changing an API*.
6. High-performance
7. Security
8. Distributed Transaction Bindings across multiple resources*.
9. Still the standard for messaging.
10. Can run on all kinds of devices (phone, pda, smartcard, etc.)
11. Runs on more devices than any other programming language in the world.
12. World's best memory management.
13. Cross-Platform native interface (i.e. JNI)
14. More open source applications written in Java than in any other language.
The script kiddies can babble all they want. None of them have ever had to maintain an application in the real world. If they had, they would know that writing large applications in a scripting language is a bad idea. I've yet to meet a Ruby, PERL, or PHP advocate who I would consider to be a good software developer.
Scripting languages have their place and there are definitely some cool apps written in Python (e.g. portage), but there isn't any valid reason to use Ruby, even if you are the most dogmatic fan of the ActiveRecord anti-pattern.
Most people have no concept of what it would take to replace Java and all of the features that Java has. Scripting languages are (at best) still several decades away from getting to where Java is now. In fifty years from now Java will still be the language of choice. You could make a better argument for replacing C, but then why bother? Why not stop being a loser and build something useful instead of tearing down the leader all of the time? The answer of course is that advocates of using scripting languages for serious software development are sexual impotents who can't create anything and they view real creators with hatred and jealousy. If you want to understand why they keep bringing this point up in spite of the obvious superiority of the Java platform, you should read the Mass Psychology of Fascism.
Now you are changing the context of the original conversation. Thanks for the compliment tho
The problem with current AJAX APIs is that they all suck ass. Dojo is several megabytes, but even paying for all of that bandwidth has got to be better than dealing with Google. Still, the real solution is to write your own AJAX API that:
1. Is not bloated
2. Does not arbitrarily modify the DOM making it impossible work with.
3. Actually works.
Then make it open source so that the human race can have an AJAX API that doesn't blow goats.
Well that's news to me. I thought that the term kill was related to the subject dying; i.e. (A) kills (B) then (B) is dead. Whereas a thread that is in an infinite loop or is dead-locked waiting on a lock to be released, lives forever. So basically, in your view of the English language, the word kill does not mean "to cause the death of" but the exact opposite, "to make immortal."
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/schizophrenia
K. Thanks. I missed that in the article. I jumped over it to look at the performance metrics.