Hot Air is a pretty well known anti intellectual fact free zone that actively promotes the idea that climate change is an illusion perpetuated by the devil.
"Hot Air is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Obama administration, the gun control debate, politics, media, culture"
if you can't trust the leading conservative blog for unbiased insightful reporting on matters of science, then who can you trust? the vastly wealthy and powerful climatologist cartel?
You need to modify her Jeep's throttle so it's less aggressive. This can be done with a microcontroller, modifying the outputs of the throttle pedal. Do it very slowly, so she doesn't notice.
hmm. just sleeve down part of the air inlet tract, smaller and smaller. again, do it gradually.
Click bait, EPA and even the manufacturers say "your results may vary".
"I'm a victim" crap is really getting old. Epa mandates are reactionary because essentially for years, GM in particular, the big three gets whatever they want. I should know I gave 38 years of my life to them. Still remember my dad installing seatbelts in 1957 Bel Air because he was an extremely intelligent Chemical Engineer who ignored politics for his family's well-being. My millennials friends, remember why these regulations exisit in the first place.
followed by years of detroit providing us with those nonretracting clips-above-the-door for storage shoulder belts, just as a fuck-you, while the europeans were giving us retracting shoulder belts.
followed by mandating air bags originally marketed as for people who don't have their seat belts fastened, which now will kill you if you don't have your seat belt fastened.
yet the rightwingers persist in their belief that companies wouldn't market product that cause their customers to die off because it would be unbusinesslike. as with cigarettes.
you mean that huge 5000+ lb super duty truck with the huge engine rated at 9 mpg might actually have higher mpg than the 2500 lb commuter car with the 1.8 liter 100 horsepower rated at 35 mpg? wow.
I had the same problem as this guy at some point-- my homepage hosted on google pages was disabled because of some unspecified terms of service violation. I couldn't even fix the issue because they wouldn't tell me what the violation was about. And no luck contacting a real person.
After that I moved my homepage to a machine I control (danielpovey.com)
Actually, it once was the prevailing belief. But you need to go back to before around 350 BC (I think that's the right era, I could be off by a century either way).
no nation that lives where they can see a good chunk of horizon, for instance the seashore, ends up believing the earth is flat, because they can see an object, the masts of a ship for instance, going down over the horizon as it leaves, and rising back up as it returns, rather than just getting smaller and smaller. Only cultures whose long range view is restricted by mountains or forests or whatever are fooled into generalizing flatness from local approximation.
"The myth of the flat Earth is the modern misconception that the prevailing cosmological view during the Middle Ages in Europe saw the Earth as flat, instead of spherical."
At one point in time it was a fact that at one point in time it was a fact that the earth was flat.
It is a fact that today is hotter than yesterday. This does not mean that global warming is true.
It is a fact that today, here is hotter than yesterday, here, at the same time. It is not true that today's average (or median) temperature is hotter than yesterday.
At one point in time it was a fact that the earth was flat. That fact changed.
The earth is flat, if you permit quite a large margin of error, much as the flatness of a floor or precision gage block is also a function of what level of error you permit.
Less than the whole truth does not mean less than the true. A fact, in absence of other relevant facts, is still "the truth" (inasmuch as that just means "true"). It may not be the whole truth (inasmuch as that means "all the facts"), but it's still the truth.
A fact is not all the facts, duh. It takes all the facts to have the whole truth, but a single fact is still the truth, else it wouldn't be a fact.
eventually you get to shaky ground. Is it true that vampires drink blood? Yes. Is it true that vampires don't exist? Yes, There is a certain dissonance between those two statements.
About 10% seem to really know their shit, the rest are faking it, spending most of the time copying and pasting non-working code and then letting other people fix it. Some of them ask embarrassingly ignorant questions that expose them as completely unqualified, but because of the bargain-basement rates they work for, no one seems to give a shit.
This is exactly my experience with Indian developers. A small percentage are really good (just like Indian doctors were two decades ago before the degree mills killed the brand), and the rest are as you describe. Reactions like "how could this guy even pass the job interview, he doesn't know how to use a linker" aren't uncommon. I once spent two days essentially writing some guy's code for him via RDS until I convinced his boss that he shouldn't be let anywhere near anything that involved coding.
Instead of just complaining on/. about how Google/etc. are destroying your careers vote Trump, campaign for Trump, go out and so something to get the only candidate who not only has even expressed an interest in saving American jobs, but who is running with that as his main issue.
and has a made in China clothing line to prove it.
HAHAHA it's always funny to see american losers complain. Full disclosure: I am one of the guys that is stealing your jobs and I am enjoying every minute of it. You know why? Because if I make 1500$ a month in my country I am called rich since the average salary is 250$ around here. For you 1500$ is shit. You all want big houses and brand new cars but guess what? You've priced yourselves out of your market. I can do what you can do at least as well if not better for a much lower salary. The corporations win, I win, the Indians win, everybody wins. Everybody except little whiners like you! We operate under extreme pressure and DON'T COMPLAIN! You, on the other hand, are little bitches compared to us. It's all evolution after all. Survival of the fittest. I can live in conditions that you wouldn't even have bad dreams about, I adapt. You die. I and others like me win. Plus, let's not forget that we outbreed you. The end of the western bitches. Bye bye!
How can you outbreed us when you spend all your time working?
I read it more as "Google to train 2M programmers in India to program Android", not "Google to train 2M people in India who don't know how to program at all, to program Android."
Very important difference - and training a programmer in another language / library / toolkit should be pretty trivial.
The question I have is - why 2M? What's special about that number? Is there a task (or set of tasks) that really needs 2M people to achieve, or is this just "let's pick a big number"?
Have you not read "The Mythical Million Man Month"?
Hmm... Doesn't seem right. Could it be that education doesn't guarantee everyone who has it is a grand master in that subject, but that some percentage do go on to excel and a larger number go on to produce useful, perfectly adequate work?
"Indians Copulating to Produce 2 Million Mathematicians"
Hmm... Doesn't seem right. Could it be that education doesn't guarantee everyone who has it is a grand master in that subject, but that some percentage do go on to excel and a larger number go on to produce useful, perfectly adequate work?
"I took math in school and now I understand that correlation does not imply causation." "So they taught you statistics" "Not necessarily"
However the "new economy" makes it possible that everyone on the planet can invest his most valuable "currency" and write an App, sell it via an "app store" and probably can live from it.
The most valuable currency is: time
An indian developer is in no way cheaper than an american one.
In the same way an Indian developer can get a "high payed" job in the USA (for example), everyone can get a high pay (by developing Apps) and live cheap in India... oooops... never occurred to you?
Like the Dilbert strip where Wally gets fired, then shows up the next day wandering around with his coffee mug, in his bathrobe, and tells everyone "My job got outsourced to India, so I applied for the same job at the outsourcing firm and got it because my experience fit the job, and they are all telecommuters, and I got a pay differential to cover differences in living expenses", So Dilbert asks him a question, and Wally says "Not now, these are our night hours"
Good comments say in natural language what the code is intended to do, and what non-obvious reasons make it the way it is. The code in the programming language should be as readable as possible, but that does not negate the value of the comment. Both are needed for efficient bug hunting and validation.
who here hasn't seen commenting of the form: /*adding a to b*/ c=a+b;
it's often more useful to tell you what you're not doing and why./*you can't just use c from the database because it's often incorrect, so calculate it from scratch*/
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What does hydrogen found under tectonic plates have to do with milk pasteurization? Is this some kind of reading proficiency test?
that was just his sig.
Hot Air is a pretty well known anti intellectual fact free zone that actively promotes the idea that climate change is an illusion perpetuated by the devil.
"Hot Air is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Obama administration, the gun control debate, politics, media, culture" if you can't trust the leading conservative blog for unbiased insightful reporting on matters of science, then who can you trust? the vastly wealthy and powerful climatologist cartel?
You need to modify her Jeep's throttle so it's less aggressive. This can be done with a microcontroller, modifying the outputs of the throttle pedal. Do it very slowly, so she doesn't notice.
hmm. just sleeve down part of the air inlet tract, smaller and smaller. again, do it gradually.
Click bait, EPA and even the manufacturers say "your results may vary".
"I'm a victim" crap is really getting old. Epa mandates are reactionary because essentially for years, GM in particular, the big three gets whatever they want. I should know I gave 38 years of my life to them. Still remember my dad installing seatbelts in 1957 Bel Air because he was an extremely intelligent Chemical Engineer who ignored politics for his family's well-being. My millennials friends, remember why these regulations exisit in the first place.
followed by years of detroit providing us with those nonretracting clips-above-the-door for storage shoulder belts, just as a fuck-you, while the europeans were giving us retracting shoulder belts.
followed by mandating air bags originally marketed as for people who don't have their seat belts fastened, which now will kill you if you don't have your seat belt fastened.
yet the rightwingers persist in their belief that companies wouldn't market product that cause their customers to die off because it would be unbusinesslike. as with cigarettes.
you mean that huge 5000+ lb super duty truck with the huge engine rated at 9 mpg might actually have higher mpg than the 2500 lb commuter car with the 1.8 liter 100 horsepower rated at 35 mpg? wow.
Actually, scientists are well aware of the multiple hypotheses problem and correct for it statistically.
indeed i've been through many courses and seminars that go over that issue, and i'm not even a statistician. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
debugging your tesla
I had the same problem as this guy at some point-- my homepage hosted on google pages was disabled because of some unspecified terms of service violation. I couldn't even fix the issue because they wouldn't tell me what the violation was about. And no luck contacting a real person.
After that I moved my homepage to a machine I control (danielpovey.com)
mrs. clinton, the investigation has ended.
Wait, WHERE is cloud?!! shit.
Don't be dense now... it's in the sky! How can they take the sky away? The sky belongs to everyone!
Take my love, take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care, I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me
Actually, it once was the prevailing belief. But you need to go back to before around 350 BC (I think that's the right era, I could be off by a century either way).
no nation that lives where they can see a good chunk of horizon, for instance the seashore, ends up believing the earth is flat, because they can see an object, the masts of a ship for instance, going down over the horizon as it leaves, and rising back up as it returns, rather than just getting smaller and smaller. Only cultures whose long range view is restricted by mountains or forests or whatever are fooled into generalizing flatness from local approximation.
> At one point in time it was a fact that the earth was flat.
Not sure if you are referring to this...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"The myth of the flat Earth is the modern misconception that the prevailing cosmological view during the Middle Ages in Europe saw the Earth as flat, instead of spherical."
At one point in time it was a fact that at one point in time it was a fact that the earth was flat.
It is a fact that today is hotter than yesterday. This does not mean that global warming is true.
It is a fact that today, here is hotter than yesterday, here, at the same time. It is not true that today's average (or median) temperature is hotter than yesterday.
At one point in time it was a fact that the earth was flat. That fact changed.
The earth is flat, if you permit quite a large margin of error, much as the flatness of a floor or precision gage block is also a function of what level of error you permit.
Less than the whole truth does not mean less than the true. A fact, in absence of other relevant facts, is still "the truth" (inasmuch as that just means "true"). It may not be the whole truth (inasmuch as that means "all the facts"), but it's still the truth.
A fact is not all the facts, duh. It takes all the facts to have the whole truth, but a single fact is still the truth, else it wouldn't be a fact.
eventually you get to shaky ground. Is it true that vampires drink blood? Yes. Is it true that vampires don't exist? Yes, There is a certain dissonance between those two statements.
About 10% seem to really know their shit, the rest are faking it, spending most of the time copying and pasting non-working code and then letting other people fix it. Some of them ask embarrassingly ignorant questions that expose them as completely unqualified, but because of the bargain-basement rates they work for, no one seems to give a shit.
This is exactly my experience with Indian developers. A small percentage are really good (just like Indian doctors were two decades ago before the degree mills killed the brand), and the rest are as you describe. Reactions like "how could this guy even pass the job interview, he doesn't know how to use a linker" aren't uncommon. I once spent two days essentially writing some guy's code for him via RDS until I convinced his boss that he shouldn't be let anywhere near anything that involved coding.
in other words, like any other profession
Instead of just complaining on /. about how Google/etc. are destroying your careers vote Trump, campaign for Trump, go out and so something to get the only candidate who not only has even expressed an interest in saving American jobs, but who is running with that as his main issue.
and has a made in China clothing line to prove it.
HAHAHA it's always funny to see american losers complain. Full disclosure: I am one of the guys that is stealing your jobs and I am enjoying every minute of it. You know why? Because if I make 1500$ a month in my country I am called rich since the average salary is 250$ around here. For you 1500$ is shit. You all want big houses and brand new cars but guess what? You've priced yourselves out of your market. I can do what you can do at least as well if not better for a much lower salary. The corporations win, I win, the Indians win, everybody wins. Everybody except little whiners like you! We operate under extreme pressure and DON'T COMPLAIN! You, on the other hand, are little bitches compared to us. It's all evolution after all. Survival of the fittest. I can live in conditions that you wouldn't even have bad dreams about, I adapt. You die. I and others like me win. Plus, let's not forget that we outbreed you. The end of the western bitches. Bye bye!
How can you outbreed us when you spend all your time working?
I read it more as "Google to train 2M programmers in India to program Android", not "Google to train 2M people in India who don't know how to program at all, to program Android."
Very important difference - and training a programmer in another language / library / toolkit should be pretty trivial.
The question I have is - why 2M? What's special about that number? Is there a task (or set of tasks) that really needs 2M people to achieve, or is this just "let's pick a big number"?
Have you not read "The Mythical Million Man Month"?
"Schools To Train 2 Million In Mathematics"
TRANSLATION:
"Schools To Produce 2 Million Mathematicians"
Hmm... Doesn't seem right. Could it be that education doesn't guarantee everyone who has it is a grand master in that subject, but that some percentage do go on to excel and a larger number go on to produce useful, perfectly adequate work?
"Indians Copulating to Produce 2 Million Mathematicians"
"Schools To Train 2 Million In Mathematics"
TRANSLATION:
"Schools To Produce 2 Million Mathematicians"
Hmm... Doesn't seem right. Could it be that education doesn't guarantee everyone who has it is a grand master in that subject, but that some percentage do go on to excel and a larger number go on to produce useful, perfectly adequate work?
"I took math in school and now I understand that correlation does not imply causation."
"So they taught you statistics"
"Not necessarily"
Have you guys Binged Ariel Winter on Google recently?
Wait.... was that a typo?
No but you should Go ogle her on Bing.
No one is expecting anything.
However the "new economy" makes it possible that everyone on the planet can invest his most valuable "currency" and write an App, sell it via an "app store" and probably can live from it.
The most valuable currency is: time
An indian developer is in no way cheaper than an american one.
In the same way an Indian developer can get a "high payed" job in the USA (for example), everyone can get a high pay (by developing Apps) and live cheap in India ... oooops ... never occurred to you?
Like the Dilbert strip where Wally gets fired, then shows up the next day wandering around with his coffee mug, in his bathrobe, and tells everyone "My job got outsourced to India, so I applied for the same job at the outsourcing firm and got it because my experience fit the job, and they are all telecommuters, and I got a pay differential to cover differences in living expenses", So Dilbert asks him a question, and Wally says "Not now, these are our night hours"
you mean, robots who look like indian people, and develop stuff?
No, that's wrong.
Good comments say in natural language what the code is intended to do, and what non-obvious reasons make it the way it is. The code in the programming language should be as readable as possible, but that does not negate the value of the comment. Both are needed for efficient bug hunting and validation.
who here hasn't seen commenting of the form: /*you can't just use c from the database because it's often incorrect, so calculate it from scratch*/
/*adding a to b*/
c=a+b;
it's often more useful to tell you what you're not doing and why.
My code has tons of comments. I use them to deactivate big chunks of code I don't want to run right now.
And if you didn't agree, would you have changed your stance or argued that he's a crackpot?
last time I changed my stance, a Republican Senator smiled at me over the toilet stall partition.