No, that's initiative. Reaction time implied something specific to react to, and a trained response to that signal. Reactions don't involve conscious decision-making. Initiative is picking a strategy from many that might work given an opportunity.
in America due to a Supreme Court ruling (Citizens United) political corruption is explicitly legal. Money is speech here
You should actually read the decision, rather than repeating falsehoods. Citizens United said nothing like that. I don't know how that sad meme got started, but it just makes you look foolish to repeat it.
The Citizens United ruling said that closely held corporations have the same rights as partnerships - if a small group of people want to pool their money to engage in political advocacy, it doesn't matter whether they incorporate or not. The First Amendment is pretty clear about the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government.
Nothing at all to do with public corporations.
And have you really thought through your "money is speech" rant? Jeff Bezos can buy the Washington Post if he wants his voice to be heard. You can buy an ad in the Post. Do you really want it to be legal for Bezos, but illegal for you? You think that will help?
Why use a horrible, fiddly, USB-C connector when you could use a barrel connector? USB-C connectors are the worst little flimsy things, and you have to plug them in a certain way. Barrel connectors are easy to get right in the dark, and about as robust as a connector can be made.
Holding up the mirror didn't work - it reads like a madlib that didn't turn out funny. We all know who the outrage brigade on the right is: the fire-and-brimstone religious nutters. They still exist, to be sure, but don't show up much on social media. Meanwhile, 90% of Twitter is progressive outrage.
The Brits have an advantage: they can just think of a long, brutal march as standing in a particularly long queue, and let their genetic predisposition take over.
In the 90s it was all about how you were going to launch some great career with the skills you learned in the Military. I'm sure that's true for a few, but for the grunts? I've known people in the military, and believe me, they didn't get some great job out of it.
If you have talent, but no money and no family support, service can bootstrap that - if nothing else, by paying for college. Even if you don't, there's a lot of room below "some great career". Working as, say, and auto mechanic is a big step up from any sort of unskilled labor.
It's been the military's peacetime mission for at least a century to move recruits up one step on the socioeconomic ladder, and the lower you start, the more that "one step" matters.
Exactly my binary friend. This blurb reads like a hit piece on a product that some people feel would be better put out of the market, like cigarettes or Coke.
Begun, the meme war has.
Well, ok, the 3rd meme war, but this is the first one with actual troops.
Sounds like the author is completely unaware that software engineering and systems engineering are fields, and people get degrees in each. He thinks computer science is the degree for programming
CS is the degree for programming in most places. Most universities don't have "useless wankery" degrees at the undergrad level in CS.
TFS doesn't make clear what the complaint is. Most grads in the field know Java and JS, which is what most programming in business is sadly done in, so his complaint is confusing. It's not like you get a grad who only knows Scheme or Lisp these days.
Is he really upset that it's hard to hire a CS major to maintain his VBA macros in Excel? I thought everyone knows you hire business and finance majors for that.
In Cuba no one died... is that evidence? East Germany, no one died. Italy, Spain, Greece: no one died. Is that evidence?
Interesting fantasy.
The people who died in Russia and especially China died due to a thing we call: revolution
In your fantasy, Stalin totally didn't kill 25 million after he came to power. In your fantasy, there weren't millions of deaths from starvation after the pruge of the Kulaks (plas the deaths of all the Kulaks).
You really need to educate yourself on Communism. I recomment The_Gulag_Archipelago. It's a hard read, and a long one, but it's full of truth. And don't forget the deaths of anyone in the USSR caught reading it .
Have you ever worked on an old-school make file? Tabs mean one thing, spaces mean something else. It's a nightmare.
Get better tools. There are editors that make tab characters and spaces visible.
Ah, so you agree that significant whitespace is a problem you need a tool to solve. Good to know.
> Think of the fun with a python file that mixes tabs and spaces for indention,
Get better tools, or configure them appropriately. eg editors that convert tab key to appropriate spacing.
Which has nothing to do with the problem I highlighted. When you inherit crappy legacy code, it's too late to apply a convention, and you're left guessing how much indention the author had in mind for a tab character.
One more problem you need a tool to solve. But only with terrible legacy code, and that almost never happens, right?
> It's not about how code should be indented, it's that python forces you to care how it is indented.
Yes, it forces you to care so that 'the next programmer' can understand more easily the crap that you wrote.
No, and that's the entire point: it doesn't force you to care when you write it, it only forces you to care when you maintain it. Big mistake. It always should have been illegal in Python to mix tabs and spaces in the same file, or to use a different number of spaces for one indention in different places in the same file (almost always a copypaste error).
The old-school Windows build system (the one that came with the SDK and DDK, not the one that came with Visual Studio) was better. It was just an enhancement to make, of course, but it fixed some of the problems with make and added a bunch of good default behaviors.
Naturally, MS dropped it years ago in favor of some xml-based trash.
SQL is Turing complete. Which is somewhat terrifying, but far less so than C++ template meta-programming (talk about an emergent property best thought of as a bug!).
And likely creating all the security holes that make the internet the wild, wild west that it is. Thanks bud.
The security holes that matter on the internet are XSS and SQL injection. C is entirely innocent of the former, and rarely in the latter It's been many years since buffer overruns and the like were real security issues on the internet.
Have you ever worked on an old-school make file? Tabs mean one thing, spaces mean something else. It's a nightmare.
Think of the fun with a python file that mixes tabs and spaces for indention, and had a bug with a block not indented by the amount it looked like it was on your screen. How would you ever find the bug?
It's not about how code should be indented, it's that python forces you to care how it is indented.
Just so you know, agricultural productivity has risen throughout human history. It was one of the areas with real progress in the medieval years, before the enlightenment kicked of progress in other areas.
And he was fundamentally mistaken, because people are a resource, not a problem. As we're tool-creating apes, we keep increasing efficiency. There's no basic need we can't scale to meet at any population level - it's just a question of priorities.
"There's not enough resources and we're all going to die!!!eleventy!!" has been wrong for 120 years and counting. Oddly enough, it's never overpopulation in predominately White nations that people seems to fret about. Just a coincidence, I'm sure.
The only real challenge for 10B on Earth (as first-world nations) is power generation, as only solar and fusion can scale to that level, and fusion will always be "just 20 years away". Still, if there's too much NIMBYism, we can just build the solar plants in orbit (and then use their power to fry the NIMBYs with death rays).
Totalitarian dictatorshps that murder tens of millions are what "communism" looks like in the real world. There's no evidence that any other kind of communism can exist in the real world, only evidence of the genocide kind.
You do realize that "not real communism" has become a meme, right? It's that level of silly these days?
Just like they'll never make Office free? Just like they'll never open source.NET?
MS has money and needs footprint. They'll do whatever works o get there (assuming any such thing exists). They've prioritized "cloud and mobile" and everything else is secondary. If they think for a minute that giving Windows away (at least, in the consumer space) will help them get market share in "cloud and mobile", they won't even blink. Gates and Balmer were both kicked to the curb to make sure this happens.
As for whether consumers will accept it - of course they will. Renting rather than buying, and paying by Direct Debit, are in fashion, so once MS have your bank details most consumers will hardly notice the MS take amongst the other noise in their bank statement
Even in their wildest dreams, MS won't be half as expensive or annoying as cable TV, and people put up with that shit for decades.
Slashdot Mirror
Sorry that's what "AI" means. Just like "hacker" means someone who attacks computer systems. Some linguistic battles aren't winnable.
No, that's initiative. Reaction time implied something specific to react to, and a trained response to that signal. Reactions don't involve conscious decision-making. Initiative is picking a strategy from many that might work given an opportunity.
Educational use, not for profit, does not affect the market for the original - sounds like fair use. The school's copy of the project, not so much..
in America due to a Supreme Court ruling (Citizens United) political corruption is explicitly legal. Money is speech here
You should actually read the decision, rather than repeating falsehoods. Citizens United said nothing like that. I don't know how that sad meme got started, but it just makes you look foolish to repeat it.
The Citizens United ruling said that closely held corporations have the same rights as partnerships - if a small group of people want to pool their money to engage in political advocacy, it doesn't matter whether they incorporate or not. The First Amendment is pretty clear about the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government.
Nothing at all to do with public corporations.
And have you really thought through your "money is speech" rant? Jeff Bezos can buy the Washington Post if he wants his voice to be heard. You can buy an ad in the Post. Do you really want it to be legal for Bezos, but illegal for you? You think that will help?
Why use a horrible, fiddly, USB-C connector when you could use a barrel connector? USB-C connectors are the worst little flimsy things, and you have to plug them in a certain way. Barrel connectors are easy to get right in the dark, and about as robust as a connector can be made.
Like the "basic need" to not have the earth turn into a furnace over the next century?
Do you recognize that's hyperbole? Hard to tell these days. And, yes, it's just a question of priorities.
water is already getting scarce in many of the world's major food-growing regions.
The surface of the Earth is mostly water, you know. The rest is just a question of cost, which is to say, priorities.
Holding up the mirror didn't work - it reads like a madlib that didn't turn out funny. We all know who the outrage brigade on the right is: the fire-and-brimstone religious nutters. They still exist, to be sure, but don't show up much on social media. Meanwhile, 90% of Twitter is progressive outrage.
The Brits have an advantage: they can just think of a long, brutal march as standing in a particularly long queue, and let their genetic predisposition take over.
In the 90s it was all about how you were going to launch some great career with the skills you learned in the Military. I'm sure that's true for a few, but for the grunts? I've known people in the military, and believe me, they didn't get some great job out of it.
If you have talent, but no money and no family support, service can bootstrap that - if nothing else, by paying for college. Even if you don't, there's a lot of room below "some great career". Working as, say, and auto mechanic is a big step up from any sort of unskilled labor.
It's been the military's peacetime mission for at least a century to move recruits up one step on the socioeconomic ladder, and the lower you start, the more that "one step" matters.
Don't forget the snakes on the planes.
Exactly my binary friend. This blurb reads like a hit piece on a product that some people feel would be better put out of the market, like cigarettes or Coke.
Begun, the meme war has.
Well, ok, the 3rd meme war, but this is the first one with actual troops.
Sounds like the author is completely unaware that software engineering and systems engineering are fields, and people get degrees in each. He thinks computer science is the degree for programming
CS is the degree for programming in most places. Most universities don't have "useless wankery" degrees at the undergrad level in CS.
TFS doesn't make clear what the complaint is. Most grads in the field know Java and JS, which is what most programming in business is sadly done in, so his complaint is confusing. It's not like you get a grad who only knows Scheme or Lisp these days.
Is he really upset that it's hard to hire a CS major to maintain his VBA macros in Excel? I thought everyone knows you hire business and finance majors for that.
In Cuba no one died ... is that evidence? East Germany, no one died. Italy, Spain, Greece: no one died. Is that evidence?
Interesting fantasy.
The people who died in Russia and especially China died due to a thing we call: revolution
In your fantasy, Stalin totally didn't kill 25 million after he came to power. In your fantasy, there weren't millions of deaths from starvation after the pruge of the Kulaks (plas the deaths of all the Kulaks).
You really need to educate yourself on Communism. I recomment The_Gulag_Archipelago. It's a hard read, and a long one, but it's full of truth. And don't forget the deaths of anyone in the USSR caught reading it .
Have you ever worked on an old-school make file? Tabs mean one thing, spaces mean something else. It's a nightmare.
Get better tools. There are editors that make tab characters and spaces visible.
Ah, so you agree that significant whitespace is a problem you need a tool to solve. Good to know.
> Think of the fun with a python file that mixes tabs and spaces for indention,
Get better tools, or configure them appropriately. eg editors that convert tab key to appropriate spacing.
Which has nothing to do with the problem I highlighted. When you inherit crappy legacy code, it's too late to apply a convention, and you're left guessing how much indention the author had in mind for a tab character.
One more problem you need a tool to solve. But only with terrible legacy code, and that almost never happens, right?
> It's not about how code should be indented, it's that python forces you to care how it is indented.
Yes, it forces you to care so that 'the next programmer' can understand more easily the crap that you wrote.
No, and that's the entire point: it doesn't force you to care when you write it, it only forces you to care when you maintain it. Big mistake. It always should have been illegal in Python to mix tabs and spaces in the same file, or to use a different number of spaces for one indention in different places in the same file (almost always a copypaste error).
The old-school Windows build system (the one that came with the SDK and DDK, not the one that came with Visual Studio) was better. It was just an enhancement to make, of course, but it fixed some of the problems with make and added a bunch of good default behaviors.
Naturally, MS dropped it years ago in favor of some xml-based trash.
Are you really claiming that fluency in English has no statistical effect on educational outcome?
Are you really claiming that 1 vs 2 parents in the home has no statistical effect on educational outcome?
Are you really claiming that attitude of parents towards the value of education has no statistical effect on educational outcome?
You certainly have me questioning your own educational outcome.
Education (and largely healthcare) reflect demographics, not anything about the state per se.
It's better here in Texas (like everything) - neighborhood name is on the deed, and used on local government web sites (like days for trash pickup).
SQL is Turing complete. Which is somewhat terrifying, but far less so than C++ template meta-programming (talk about an emergent property best thought of as a bug!).
And likely creating all the security holes that make the internet the wild, wild west that it is. Thanks bud.
The security holes that matter on the internet are XSS and SQL injection. C is entirely innocent of the former, and rarely in the latter It's been many years since buffer overruns and the like were real security issues on the internet.
Have you ever worked on an old-school make file? Tabs mean one thing, spaces mean something else. It's a nightmare.
Think of the fun with a python file that mixes tabs and spaces for indention, and had a bug with a block not indented by the amount it looked like it was on your screen. How would you ever find the bug?
It's not about how code should be indented, it's that python forces you to care how it is indented.
Just so you know, agricultural productivity has risen throughout human history. It was one of the areas with real progress in the medieval years, before the enlightenment kicked of progress in other areas.
And he was fundamentally mistaken, because people are a resource, not a problem. As we're tool-creating apes, we keep increasing efficiency. There's no basic need we can't scale to meet at any population level - it's just a question of priorities.
But Malthus!
"There's not enough resources and we're all going to die!!!eleventy!!" has been wrong for 120 years and counting. Oddly enough, it's never overpopulation in predominately White nations that people seems to fret about. Just a coincidence, I'm sure.
The only real challenge for 10B on Earth (as first-world nations) is power generation, as only solar and fusion can scale to that level, and fusion will always be "just 20 years away". Still, if there's too much NIMBYism, we can just build the solar plants in orbit (and then use their power to fry the NIMBYs with death rays).
Totalitarian dictatorshps that murder tens of millions are what "communism" looks like in the real world. There's no evidence that any other kind of communism can exist in the real world, only evidence of the genocide kind.
You do realize that "not real communism" has become a meme, right? It's that level of silly these days?
Microsoft will never make Windows free.
Just like they'll never make Office free? Just like they'll never open source .NET?
MS has money and needs footprint. They'll do whatever works o get there (assuming any such thing exists). They've prioritized "cloud and mobile" and everything else is secondary. If they think for a minute that giving Windows away (at least, in the consumer space) will help them get market share in "cloud and mobile", they won't even blink. Gates and Balmer were both kicked to the curb to make sure this happens.
As for whether consumers will accept it - of course they will. Renting rather than buying, and paying by Direct Debit, are in fashion, so once MS have your bank details most consumers will hardly notice the MS take amongst the other noise in their bank statement
Even in their wildest dreams, MS won't be half as expensive or annoying as cable TV, and people put up with that shit for decades.