I am wrong to call it tragic for an entire parallel world of code, ideas, and art to exist which is inaccessible to me due to a language barrier? What a monumental redundancy of labour in the case of code, and what a terrible waste of creative force in the case of art, for us not all to be able to experience the same things. As a consequence the peoples of the earth will remain more separate than they could be, and more bizarre and alien to each other. And that is to everyone's detriment.
I view code and documentation and ideas (and research and literature) written in languages other than english as 'closed source': for whatever reason, you have deliberately chosen to exclude others from understanding you and using or enjoying your work. So, I am opposed to it.
The real problem here, I think, is the customer service. A company is too big for its britches when it is no longer possible to get ahold of someone there to take action on a technical issue. I realize that they have to ignore people without hotlines to their technical department or else spend enormous time filtering out feedback from morons.. but when they do this, they lose the asset of feedback from experts like us.
I wish there was a way to get certified as a Smart Guy so that you got a secret login to a hotline website where subscriber companies could get in contact with you in order to receive your feedback about their systems.
Well, we are supposed to assume, as a starting point for these kinds of discussions, that voting is good and that more accurate elections are more good. If this goodness is overwhelmed by the tragedy of the votes being cast by imbeciles for malicious people, then that is a problem to solve another day.
But quite apart from all that, it is also generally assumed that support for an election is more important than which particular candidate is elected. A more accurate election facilitates belief in the democratic process which keeps countries from dissolving into chaos or autocracy.
I don't buy it. When someone blames teacher unions, perhaps they are blaming our particular set of teacher unions and not the general concept. Ours can suck while the finns are great.
I've been using visualstudio since the very beginning, and c# since the very beginning, and 2008 is the first upgrade so far that I have declined. I'm sure its time will come, but not for a while longer.
It is going to be rough for a while, but I hope that we can watch a new norm get created as a generation who puts their frontstage and backstage personalities waaay too close together online grows up and becomes dominant.
Pop quiz: you are at a co-worker's desk looking at the monitor and working on something. An IM pops up. Do you avert your eyes? It is dreadfully hard, but we have to try. Folks conduct personal business at work. The internet makes that easy. We need to respect that and avert our eyes when they do it.
Myspace profiles are a microcosm of the internet: the good and the terrible are side by side in the same place. You have to learn the skill of knowing when not to look, because the only thing stopping you is you. Just because you CAN look at EVERYTHING doesn't mean you should. Just because it is information on the 'public' internet doesn't mean you should look at it. You should treat it as private just as soon as you realize it is something that the individual in question thinks is private.
Even if you don't follow these rules yourself, I bet you still implicitly follow them a little better than the college admissions boards who really have no clue and no experience with trying to keep public and private personas online. Things will change, if we give it time.
Perhaps we are as lucky in this not happening as we were to get the evolution of life to begin with. Perhaps it could happen at any time, just like a self-replicating molecule could have at day minus one.
Suppose youre a fan of the EFF. Youre a fan of mathematical number crunching. You want to give some of your money to both. Why not let the EFF run the contest to get some publicity and have the chance to be the friend of the mathematician? For this unknown donor, it is a win-win-win.
Perhaps the pirates feel that information should be free, no matter what and no matter who is hurt by it because nobody has the right to control it. Game publishers don't have the right to control the information that is their game by doling out demos and making you pay for full versions. The decision on whether to _tip_ the publisher is up to the player. Each individual act of piracy does not necessarily hurt the publisher. Whether your individual act does is between you and your conscience--and thats where it should remain.
Or was "climate change" a phrase which was popularized by global warming paranoids who decided that they could lay claim to a larger variety of disasters and apoclaypses, permiting them to wail about any single aspect of the climate that might change, instead of just the temperature changing in one direction?
I rather believe the opposite. I prefer everyone to use their own style, as long as it is pretty in its own way, so that each piece of code has its own personality. I can tell at a glance who was working on the code and how careful they were being. I simply don't see why there is any value to all the code being consistent.
When I fix someone else's code, I preserve their formatting style. It isnt pretty to switch styles in the middle of a bunch of code. But when I take 'ownership' of it, the first thing I do is reformat it to be my own pretty style. That clearly marks my turf.
I assume that it was. It uses layman's terms ("graphics card", "cam") and is so aesthetic and devoid of cruft that it must be at least primarily the work of human hands.
You take away the generally amazingly thorough backwards compatibility for hundreds of thousands of apps and you take away the very core of the reason I use windows. I couldnt care less about the OS--but you will pry the apps out of my cold, dead hands.
Modding down absolutely worthless posts is not censoring. It is sanitation.
I would like to guess that your typical slashdotter is more lenient of disparate viewpoints than your average person, and that is reflected in the good health of the debate on any particular thread.
Yeah, and keep this in mind: writing GC code that never has to GC is every bit as entertaining and black an art as coding that stuff in maximally efficient C. It can be done.
I use a lot of editors in a lot of apps, all of them in windows, and they all use more or less the same rich set of cursor control commands. I appreciate the uniformity.
Sometimes I write text other than code in my chosen editor, which you can no doubt guess. Say, for example, entering text in the slashdot comment box. Or in the browser URL bar. Or sending an instant message. Or replying to that email that just came into my outlook.
Granted, they mostly use the same control libraries. But even when they don't, there is a significant interest in the windows coding community to keep that stuff uniform. As opposed to what you might find in other communities more driven by, say, enthusiast tinkering or the latest design fads du jour.
While we're on the topic, if we must have widescreen laptops, then why cant they use the extra horizontal keyboard real estate for a regular cursor control block (inverted T and pgup/pgdn etc in their normal correctly spaced and gapped positions)? I am sure some people swear by their regular numpad which has recently shown up on some widescreen laptops, but arent there at least as many people out there that spend all day editing text (and code) as there are folks that spend all day entering numbers?
He who does it first will have my laptop kilobucks.
Because the tracking costs me practically zero and helps bolster the house of cards which is the ad-supported internet. I assure you whatever wisps of promise of hypothetical costs to me of tracking are overwhelmed by the benefits.
Because some of us dont view it as an usurpation, but rather as the greatest fulfillment of our code's potential. You dont deserve to profit from your child's success. You just want to see it succeed.
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I am wrong to call it tragic for an entire parallel world of code, ideas, and art to exist which is inaccessible to me due to a language barrier? What a monumental redundancy of labour in the case of code, and what a terrible waste of creative force in the case of art, for us not all to be able to experience the same things. As a consequence the peoples of the earth will remain more separate than they could be, and more bizarre and alien to each other. And that is to everyone's detriment.
I view code and documentation and ideas (and research and literature) written in languages other than english as 'closed source': for whatever reason, you have deliberately chosen to exclude others from understanding you and using or enjoying your work. So, I am opposed to it.
The real problem here, I think, is the customer service. A company is too big for its britches when it is no longer possible to get ahold of someone there to take action on a technical issue. I realize that they have to ignore people without hotlines to their technical department or else spend enormous time filtering out feedback from morons.. but when they do this, they lose the asset of feedback from experts like us.
I wish there was a way to get certified as a Smart Guy so that you got a secret login to a hotline website where subscriber companies could get in contact with you in order to receive your feedback about their systems.
Well, we are supposed to assume, as a starting point for these kinds of discussions, that voting is good and that more accurate elections are more good. If this goodness is overwhelmed by the tragedy of the votes being cast by imbeciles for malicious people, then that is a problem to solve another day.
But quite apart from all that, it is also generally assumed that support for an election is more important than which particular candidate is elected. A more accurate election facilitates belief in the democratic process which keeps countries from dissolving into chaos or autocracy.
The technology exists, but the competence and willingness and sheer HONOUR required to correctly implement that technology does not exist.
I don't buy it. When someone blames teacher unions, perhaps they are blaming our particular set of teacher unions and not the general concept. Ours can suck while the finns are great.
I've been using visualstudio since the very beginning, and c# since the very beginning, and 2008 is the first upgrade so far that I have declined. I'm sure its time will come, but not for a while longer.
Freeway driving was part of both my formal and informal driver's education. It is just part of life in some places.
It is going to be rough for a while, but I hope that we can watch a new norm get created as a generation who puts their frontstage and backstage personalities waaay too close together online grows up and becomes dominant.
Pop quiz: you are at a co-worker's desk looking at the monitor and working on something. An IM pops up. Do you avert your eyes? It is dreadfully hard, but we have to try. Folks conduct personal business at work. The internet makes that easy. We need to respect that and avert our eyes when they do it.
Myspace profiles are a microcosm of the internet: the good and the terrible are side by side in the same place. You have to learn the skill of knowing when not to look, because the only thing stopping you is you. Just because you CAN look at EVERYTHING doesn't mean you should. Just because it is information on the 'public' internet doesn't mean you should look at it. You should treat it as private just as soon as you realize it is something that the individual in question thinks is private.
Even if you don't follow these rules yourself, I bet you still implicitly follow them a little better than the college admissions boards who really have no clue and no experience with trying to keep public and private personas online. Things will change, if we give it time.
Perhaps we are as lucky in this not happening as we were to get the evolution of life to begin with. Perhaps it could happen at any time, just like a self-replicating molecule could have at day minus one.
Suppose youre a fan of the EFF. Youre a fan of mathematical number crunching. You want to give some of your money to both. Why not let the EFF run the contest to get some publicity and have the chance to be the friend of the mathematician? For this unknown donor, it is a win-win-win.
Perhaps the pirates feel that information should be free, no matter what and no matter who is hurt by it because nobody has the right to control it. Game publishers don't have the right to control the information that is their game by doling out demos and making you pay for full versions. The decision on whether to _tip_ the publisher is up to the player. Each individual act of piracy does not necessarily hurt the publisher. Whether your individual act does is between you and your conscience--and thats where it should remain.
Or was "climate change" a phrase which was popularized by global warming paranoids who decided that they could lay claim to a larger variety of disasters and apoclaypses, permiting them to wail about any single aspect of the climate that might change, instead of just the temperature changing in one direction?
I rather believe the opposite. I prefer everyone to use their own style, as long as it is pretty in its own way, so that each piece of code has its own personality. I can tell at a glance who was working on the code and how careful they were being. I simply don't see why there is any value to all the code being consistent.
When I fix someone else's code, I preserve their formatting style. It isnt pretty to switch styles in the middle of a bunch of code. But when I take 'ownership' of it, the first thing I do is reformat it to be my own pretty style. That clearly marks my turf.
I assume that it was. It uses layman's terms ("graphics card", "cam") and is so aesthetic and devoid of cruft that it must be at least primarily the work of human hands.
You take away the generally amazingly thorough backwards compatibility for hundreds of thousands of apps and you take away the very core of the reason I use windows. I couldnt care less about the OS--but you will pry the apps out of my cold, dead hands.
Modding down absolutely worthless posts is not censoring. It is sanitation.
I would like to guess that your typical slashdotter is more lenient of disparate viewpoints than your average person, and that is reflected in the good health of the debate on any particular thread.
Yeah, and keep this in mind: writing GC code that never has to GC is every bit as entertaining and black an art as coding that stuff in maximally efficient C. It can be done.
I use a lot of editors in a lot of apps, all of them in windows, and they all use more or less the same rich set of cursor control commands. I appreciate the uniformity.
Sometimes I write text other than code in my chosen editor, which you can no doubt guess.
Say, for example, entering text in the slashdot comment box.
Or in the browser URL bar.
Or sending an instant message.
Or replying to that email that just came into my outlook.
Granted, they mostly use the same control libraries. But even when they don't, there is a significant interest in the windows coding community to keep that stuff uniform. As opposed to what you might find in other communities more driven by, say, enthusiast tinkering or the latest design fads du jour.
I'm not accustomed to them.
While we're on the topic, if we must have widescreen laptops, then why cant they use the extra horizontal keyboard real estate for a regular cursor control block (inverted T and pgup/pgdn etc in their normal correctly spaced and gapped positions)? I am sure some people swear by their regular numpad which has recently shown up on some widescreen laptops, but arent there at least as many people out there that spend all day editing text (and code) as there are folks that spend all day entering numbers?
He who does it first will have my laptop kilobucks.
Because the tracking costs me practically zero and helps bolster the house of cards which is the ad-supported internet.
I assure you whatever wisps of promise of hypothetical costs to me of tracking are overwhelmed by the benefits.
three words: not in america!
I want this man piloting my interstellar spaceship. Thats one trip I dont want to run out of fuel on.
Because some of us dont view it as an usurpation, but rather as the greatest fulfillment of our code's potential. You dont deserve to profit from your child's success. You just want to see it succeed.