I don't know why you're that cool about it... Me, I'm typing this with a HP keyboard, you know, that common model shared with Dell and others, made in China. To me it's kind of painful to realize that we actually take off so many products that are apparently made in such bad conditions. But apparently, we have a part in this.
Apparently the guy who wanted the proof never got a nervous cold himself. I have.
Coming back from getting my motorcycle driver's license, I sneezed all the way from the instructor's to the town house (where I got my license), which is a good ride through the city.
I was already suffering from nervous colds back then. My fellow employees expected the daily sneeze around 3 pm.
It's a dumb thing, really. But it's there. Sneezing to break the nervous tension. And it feels lame:-)
I started reading this book (or at least, the Dutch translation).
Already it has learned me a lot about my complaints, ranging from severe tension problems and psychological problems (which could be categorized as depression, I'm afraid).
It is really written very well and it's worth reading just about every page, but what it boils down to is that people today (and both me and computer programmers in general not in the least) try to rationalize too much of what they feel, or channel it in accepted ways.
For instance, when I was totally angry at a collegue once, but couldn't deal with it appropiately, all I did was go to my boss and say 'I would like to go home now, I cannot concentrate on work any longer'. It went downhill from there because I couldn't cope with being unhappy with the situation (I like to be positive about things, but I couldn't find too much to be positive about). I thought I was going crazy (I was) and my muscles ground my bones to dust every day. On top of that I started to worry about my (mental) health, of course.
For a large part I already learned to accept that I would be so much better off simply finding a more normal place to work (it can be crazy here), but the book gives me insights beyond my current problem. I have not finished it yet, but for the first time I enjoy reading a book that tries to teach me exactly how I am 'crazy'.
To answer your theory; yes, you can set out objective measures for "vivid imagination" and see how well you respond to them. (That would be the autistic way, I guess.) But I have enough people to confirm that I have a vivid imagination, believe me.
The problem I am having with the way things are going, is that Autism is suggested to be a lifetime handicap, while the different kinds of people that are labeled "autistic" these days may well have a simple development delay -- which can be treated.
I, myself, am known to panic under stress, resulting in somewhat manic-depressive behaviour (I get intensely absorbed in whatever it is I am doing, or I show signs of depression) combined with tension problems. People are trying to see if the label fits me as we speak.
But whenever I go to the library to get information on Autism, I recognize so little about myself there. For instance, I am not rigid at all; I dislike talking about exact topics; I have a vivid imagination.
There may well be an interesting theoretical causality, but it doesn't help me much. I haven't had any advice or help whatsoever from the shrinks -- only tests, tests, tests, and more to come (it takes a very long time to check for autism) -- and the books on the subject don't help me manage myself.
Instead, I have learned a lot from reading about bipolar II, and managed, with much effort, to stabilize my mood so that I can think clearly again.
I insisted on intake that I learned about the underlying cause of my problems, so that I could learn to manage them, so you may say that I have caused my own problem. What frustrates me more, however, is that I have also had to solve it myself with so little help from the experts.
If you want to have an idea of the problem encountered with programing for these systems, one can look at the history of the AmigaOS, which have a design very close to a micro-kernel one.
The old 68000 had no memory manager and so you jumped right from your user program into fixed kernel address space (or you jumped wrongly and messed up the whole system). I would call this "macrokernel" if anything (there is no clear separation between user and kernel memory). The idea of a microkernel is that you use the memory manager even to secure parts of the kernel.
Why should I be concerned with his answers to general questions about the web? Certainly, it might be interesting to know where he sees his invention going and the impact it's having, but that doesn't mean his answers are particularly insightful or relevant.
Yeah, but we could try, couldn't we?
At least it sells better than interviewing mr. Random Bum on the issue, and even then it might be that his ideas aren't particularly great just as well.
Why, o why do they always make changing the C++ ABI such an effort? It takes some credibility out of C++ as a stable lower-level programming target if such a relatively frequently occuring change in the core obsoletes so much essential packages.
(Oh and please, don't make any sharp remarks about the quality of C++ as a language that I have already swallowed;-)
I thought this meant that Star Trek: Voyager would continue in spite of the producers holding back new productions. Could also excite some scientists, I guess:-)
It's a little bit hard funking HTML up if people all around you make those little inventions called "font" and "blink" tags and start fighting about what's the real standard.
Now that people have finally figured out that HTML is this structured, manipulable thing, then maybe, just maybye, Javascript can start to do what it was supposed to do.
Too bad we've at least two versions of the JS object model already.
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Just think of the reduction in CO2 emission coming from cargo ships!
Does that mean that musical perception is largely unchanged in the last 35 millenia?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Zappa
And that's exactly why there are so many standard APIs...
What if someone points a gun at you and tells you to say "no matter what" or he will shoot you? :-)
Such an idiot will probably shoot you no matter what.
First hint in understanding this:
IP here means "Intellectual Property", not "Internet Protocol address".
I don't know why you're that cool about it... Me, I'm typing this with a HP keyboard, you know, that common model shared with Dell and others, made in China. To me it's kind of painful to realize that we actually take off so many products that are apparently made in such bad conditions. But apparently, we have a part in this.
Yeah, I also read breast test... ...and bootable quickly became boobable.
...who needs health insurances when you *know* you're gonna die?
Apparently the guy who wanted the proof never got a nervous cold himself. I have.
:-)
Coming back from getting my motorcycle driver's license, I sneezed all the way from the instructor's to the town house (where I got my license), which is a good ride through the city.
I was already suffering from nervous colds back then. My fellow employees expected the daily sneeze around 3 pm.
It's a dumb thing, really. But it's there. Sneezing to break the nervous tension. And it feels lame
Your wife you say? Hm... Let's elaborate on that...
I started reading this book (or at least, the Dutch translation).
Already it has learned me a lot about my complaints, ranging from severe tension problems and psychological problems (which could be categorized as depression, I'm afraid).
It is really written very well and it's worth reading just about every page, but what it boils down to is that people today (and both me and computer programmers in general not in the least) try to rationalize too much of what they feel, or channel it in accepted ways.
For instance, when I was totally angry at a collegue once, but couldn't deal with it appropiately, all I did was go to my boss and say 'I would like to go home now, I cannot concentrate on work any longer'. It went downhill from there because I couldn't cope with being unhappy with the situation (I like to be positive about things, but I couldn't find too much to be positive about). I thought I was going crazy (I was) and my muscles ground my bones to dust every day. On top of that I started to worry about my (mental) health, of course.
For a large part I already learned to accept that I would be so much better off simply finding a more normal place to work (it can be crazy here), but the book gives me insights beyond my current problem. I have not finished it yet, but for the first time I enjoy reading a book that tries to teach me exactly how I am 'crazy'.
To answer your theory; yes, you can set out objective measures for "vivid imagination" and see how well you respond to them. (That would be the autistic way, I guess.) But I have enough people to confirm that I have a vivid imagination, believe me.
The problem I am having with the way things are going, is that Autism is suggested to be a lifetime handicap, while the different kinds of people that are labeled "autistic" these days may well have a simple development delay -- which can be treated.
I, myself, am known to panic under stress, resulting in somewhat manic-depressive behaviour (I get intensely absorbed in whatever it is I am doing, or I show signs of depression) combined with tension problems. People are trying to see if the label fits me as we speak.
But whenever I go to the library to get information on Autism, I recognize so little about myself there. For instance, I am not rigid at all; I dislike talking about exact topics; I have a vivid imagination.
There may well be an interesting theoretical causality, but it doesn't help me much. I haven't had any advice or help whatsoever from the shrinks -- only tests, tests, tests, and more to come (it takes a very long time to check for autism) -- and the books on the subject don't help me manage myself.
Instead, I have learned a lot from reading about bipolar II, and managed, with much effort, to stabilize my mood so that I can think clearly again.
I insisted on intake that I learned about the underlying cause of my problems, so that I could learn to manage them, so you may say that I have caused my own problem. What frustrates me more, however, is that I have also had to solve it myself with so little help from the experts.
wow, you must be fat!!
Only goes to show that "economy" as an indicator of public benefit has had its best years...
If you want to have an idea of the problem encountered with programing for these systems, one can look at the history of the AmigaOS, which have a design very close to a micro-kernel one.
The old 68000 had no memory manager and so you jumped right from your user program into fixed kernel address space (or you jumped wrongly and messed up the whole system). I would call this "macrokernel" if anything (there is no clear separation between user and kernel memory). The idea of a microkernel is that you use the memory manager even to secure parts of the kernel.
Pubic domain??
Well, there goes Debian GNU/ Linux...
Wah, why not make RMS' day and just call it GNU.
Why should I be concerned with his answers to general questions about the web? Certainly, it might be interesting to know where he sees his invention going and the impact it's having, but that doesn't mean his answers are particularly insightful or relevant.
Yeah, but we could try, couldn't we?
At least it sells better than interviewing mr. Random Bum on the issue, and even then it might be that his ideas aren't particularly great just as well.
A hot air ballon.
Either way, I'm still waiting for the killer app that makes me want 2 browsers on my machine.
Yeah, who would want that. That's why I don't do much with Opera on my Debian machine...
Why, o why do they always make changing the C++ ABI such an effort? It takes some credibility out of C++ as a stable lower-level programming target if such a relatively frequently occuring change in the core obsoletes so much essential packages.
;-)
(Oh and please, don't make any sharp remarks about the quality of C++ as a language that I have already swallowed
Totally agree. Especially since they were apparently planning it for this release, so I was kind of looking forward to it.
I thought this meant that Star Trek: Voyager would continue in spite of the producers holding back new productions. Could also excite some scientists, I guess :-)
It's a little bit hard funking HTML up if people all around you make those little inventions called "font" and "blink" tags and start fighting about what's the real standard.
Now that people have finally figured out that HTML is this structured, manipulable thing, then maybe, just maybye, Javascript can start to do what it was supposed to do.
Too bad we've at least two versions of the JS object model already.