Interesting. For me it was just the opposite. Pot made it easier for me to visual data flows and analyze my designs, but incredibly hard to focus on the minute details involved with the actual coding.
Programming has creative elements. When I was younger, I found pot to be helpful during the design phase, but absolutely counterproductive during the debugging phase.
Right. That damn Screen Actors Guild forcing the top stars to work for a pittance. That bloody NFL Players Union forcing teams to hire second-rate scrubs.
Your notion of how unions work is ignorant and malformed. There's a huge difference between unions for grunt labor and unions for skilled professionals.
A) You can read it just like you can read normal webpages on the main web, most of which also don't allow you to copy them. B) The Archive is more than just the Wayback machine. They also have what is almost certainly the worlds largest digital collection of public domain and CC-licensed media files in their media collections.
Probably. I found a copy of my first-ever homepage, which actually predated Geocities, and was probably even more useless than your average Geocities page.:)
I think you must be looking at the wrong part of the Archive. Everything in the Live Music section and the Netlabels section is public domain or licensed under a CC license or equivalent. The media collections are separate from the Wayback Machine.
They have over 1.5 million unique audio files in the Live Music Archive alone. I know because I helped them count. (That's unique files, not counting the duplicates in different formats.) If the RIAA has anything to say about it, they're serious slacking.
Disagree mildly. Each project should have a consistent style, but unless these are your private little home-projects, finding a consistent style for a project that all the team members can live with is more important than sticking to one overall style for all projects. Especially if the projects are in different languages (I use Sun guidelines for Java, but dislike them for C/C++).
Other things being equal, consistency between projects is better than inconsistency, but people being people, other things are rarely equal.:)
Broadcom broke down and released open-source drivers for Linux back in Sept. of 2010. See LWN. They then joined the Linux Foundation in early 2011 (reference).
Their reputation for being open-source-hostile is well-deserved, but not entirely up-to-date. I can understand why people continue to avoid them, but it may not be strictly necessary any more. I haven't researched how well their open-source drivers work, because I haven't needed to in the brief period of time that it's been an option, so that may or may not be a factor as well.
Then let's get photographic evidence and blueprints and stuff so that new accurate recreations can be made. I'm not seeing anything particularly interesting about this recreation except in how it serves to document these details. Which can be recorded independently of the fake set.
There's a difference between "programmed to deceive this test" and "programmed to deceive all tests". This is a test for a particular type of simulation, and will verify or falsify whether we're in that type, but other types, which may or may not have occurred to us, may or may not have other tests that can be performed. So failure to detect a simulation here will not only not prove we're not in a simulation, but will not prove that the hypothesis is unscientific.
On the other hand, success at proving we're in a simulation would certainly be a fascinating result!:)
Um, the picture is fairly clear. Granted, if you want to know the exact number of millimeters away it is, that might be tricky to estimate, but you can tell at a glance that the distance is "within reach", almost bordering on "underneath", which should be good enough.
Yes, I know, nobody ever bothers to RTFA. The flip side of that is that nobody should ever expect to actually be informed of anything.:p;)
It's sitting in a field of dust--but it doesn't appear to be dusty. If it were in one of Curiousity's tire tracks looking like that, I might believe the dust had been wiped off, but as it is, I think that the only plausible explanation is that it fell there very recently. Like, within the last day. Which strongly argues that it is indeed, a piece of Curiousity.
Er, that last sentence was a misstatement. I meant to say "since Steve Wozniak left." Sorry for the confusion.
As you may guess, in light of that correction, I don't quite agree with you about Jobs' contributions. I think the original Mac had serious design flaws, which can be laid directly at Jobs' door, and most of his other designs have been sadly flawed as well. The iPhone may be his best design, and I think it's seriously overrated. I wouldn't take one as a gift.
No, I don't. I remember when it was rare, but not when it was unthinkable. Even if you mean copyleft as opposed to merely open-source (there was and is a lot more reluctance about copyleft), commercial hardware companies were contributing to the GNU project even before the Linux kernel sprang into existence. GCC has always had the backing of hardware companies. The GCC Ada backend was fully funded by commercial companies several years before Linus went public with his experimental kernel.
Heck, some companies even recognized that the GPL protected their own code, even before Linux appeared. The GPL'd versions of Ghostscript existed because Aladdin recognized that the GPL prevented others from taking unfair advantage of their code, while still allowing the community to contribute.
I know you're kidding, but I should point out that Linux is not a requirement for building bad interfaces (though one might claim that it helps). TV engineers in general seem to have some impressive skills at building bad interfaces. My last three TVs all had terrible interfaces, and none of them were Linux-based.:)
Considering that a Platinum membership in the Linux Foundation requires plopping down at least half a million bucks, I suspect you're probably right.:)
Heck, Google only has a Gold membership, and we know they like Linux. Samsung is in elite territory with corporations like IBM and Intel.
It's not the re-invention of the smartphone that was Jobs' greatest contribution to the market
That's correct.
it was creating a phone that was designed the way he wanted
I suspect lots of people did that.
(and the way consumers wanted)
The way some consumers wanted. Which can probably be said about anything that doesn't physically gouge your eyes out. No, strike that--some people probably want their eyes gouged out!:)
and then forcing the telecom industry to use his phone, and not dictate terms back to him.
Aha! Now we're getting somewhere! So why did you post all those other irrelevancies before getting to an actual valid argument?:)
As you may guess, I'm sick of both the hagiographers and the detractors. Jobs was a surprisingly good businessman considering his background, and had some good ideas, but he was never a techie, and shouldn't be viewed as one. He made strong positive contibutions to the industry by having his company overemphasize concepts that other companies were underemphasizing--concepts that users care about--but he was still overemphasizing them. He didn't seem to understand the difference between ease-of-learning and ease-of-use, and often tauted the former as if it were the latter. He wasn't perfect, and in some ways, he was an asshole, but I still admire him. As a businessman who had ideas that helped the industry, but not as some sort of techie whiz.
Still, his company hasn't made a product I wanted since Steve Jobs left.:)
Sure, and they might not have released it to the public if it weren't for the GPL. On the other hand, they've developed something that looks like it may be very useful, and have released it without batting an eye. They're one of only seven Platinum members of the Linux Foundation. I think it's clear they understand how the ecosystem works, and they're happy to participate. Hard to fault them for that.
And actually, as I understand it, they use Linux for a lot more than just Android devices. They also have embedded Linux in other systems, like TVs.
You do realize that Patrick didn't write all that software, yes? So you're trusting a whole community in any case. And trusting one man's ability to integrate a bunch of different pieces that aren't necessarily designed to work together smoothly, created by people who may or may not be in communication with each other. Of course, the actuality is that Slack isn't really a one-man show even if you ignore the fact that he didn't write the code. Slackware has a community, and members of that community contribute, just as they do with other distros.
Like it or not, you're trusting communities all the time.
Still, if you like the fact that Patrick puts his stamp on the whole thing, and blesses it, that's cool. I completely understand. Just don't assume it means more than it does.
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Don't be coy. What are these passwords? :)
Bah! Ed is the standard text editor!
Interesting. For me it was just the opposite. Pot made it easier for me to visual data flows and analyze my designs, but incredibly hard to focus on the minute details involved with the actual coding.
Programming has creative elements. When I was younger, I found pot to be helpful during the design phase, but absolutely counterproductive during the debugging phase.
Right. That damn Screen Actors Guild forcing the top stars to work for a pittance. That bloody NFL Players Union forcing teams to hire second-rate scrubs.
Your notion of how unions work is ignorant and malformed. There's a huge difference between unions for grunt labor and unions for skilled professionals.
Massachusetts: where your doc can give you a final friend, but not weed.
Well, maybe now they'll be able to give you some as long as it's really "killer weed". :)
A) You can read it just like you can read normal webpages on the main web, most of which also don't allow you to copy them.
B) The Archive is more than just the Wayback machine. They also have what is almost certainly the worlds largest digital collection of public domain and CC-licensed media files in their media collections.
Probably. I found a copy of my first-ever homepage, which actually predated Geocities, and was probably even more useless than your average Geocities page. :)
I think you must be looking at the wrong part of the Archive. Everything in the Live Music section and the Netlabels section is public domain or licensed under a CC license or equivalent. The media collections are separate from the Wayback Machine.
They have over 1.5 million unique audio files in the Live Music Archive alone. I know because I helped them count. (That's unique files, not counting the duplicates in different formats.) If the RIAA has anything to say about it, they're serious slacking.
Be consistent from one piece of code to the next
Agree.
from one project to the next.
Disagree mildly. Each project should have a consistent style, but unless these are your private little home-projects, finding a consistent style for a project that all the team members can live with is more important than sticking to one overall style for all projects. Especially if the projects are in different languages (I use Sun guidelines for Java, but dislike them for C/C++).
Other things being equal, consistency between projects is better than inconsistency, but people being people, other things are rarely equal. :)
Actually, for MS, Dell is the customer. Except for their advertising department (aka Bing) where you are the product.
Broadcom broke down and released open-source drivers for Linux back in Sept. of 2010. See LWN. They then joined the Linux Foundation in early 2011 (reference).
Their reputation for being open-source-hostile is well-deserved, but not entirely up-to-date. I can understand why people continue to avoid them, but it may not be strictly necessary any more. I haven't researched how well their open-source drivers work, because I haven't needed to in the brief period of time that it's been an option, so that may or may not be a factor as well.
Then let's get photographic evidence and blueprints and stuff so that new accurate recreations can be made. I'm not seeing anything particularly interesting about this recreation except in how it serves to document these details. Which can be recorded independently of the fake set.
There's a difference between "programmed to deceive this test" and "programmed to deceive all tests". This is a test for a particular type of simulation, and will verify or falsify whether we're in that type, but other types, which may or may not have occurred to us, may or may not have other tests that can be performed. So failure to detect a simulation here will not only not prove we're not in a simulation, but will not prove that the hypothesis is unscientific.
On the other hand, success at proving we're in a simulation would certainly be a fascinating result! :)
Or the Martian Screwrush.
"Oh my god, they found a screw! Just driving by! The planet must be covered with screws!" :)
Um, the picture is fairly clear. Granted, if you want to know the exact number of millimeters away it is, that might be tricky to estimate, but you can tell at a glance that the distance is "within reach", almost bordering on "underneath", which should be good enough.
Yes, I know, nobody ever bothers to RTFA. The flip side of that is that nobody should ever expect to actually be informed of anything. :p ;)
It's sitting in a field of dust--but it doesn't appear to be dusty. If it were in one of Curiousity's tire tracks looking like that, I might believe the dust had been wiped off, but as it is, I think that the only plausible explanation is that it fell there very recently. Like, within the last day. Which strongly argues that it is indeed, a piece of Curiousity.
Er, that last sentence was a misstatement. I meant to say "since Steve Wozniak left." Sorry for the confusion.
As you may guess, in light of that correction, I don't quite agree with you about Jobs' contributions. I think the original Mac had serious design flaws, which can be laid directly at Jobs' door, and most of his other designs have been sadly flawed as well. The iPhone may be his best design, and I think it's seriously overrated. I wouldn't take one as a gift.
No, I don't. I remember when it was rare, but not when it was unthinkable. Even if you mean copyleft as opposed to merely open-source (there was and is a lot more reluctance about copyleft), commercial hardware companies were contributing to the GNU project even before the Linux kernel sprang into existence. GCC has always had the backing of hardware companies. The GCC Ada backend was fully funded by commercial companies several years before Linus went public with his experimental kernel.
Heck, some companies even recognized that the GPL protected their own code, even before Linux appeared. The GPL'd versions of Ghostscript existed because Aladdin recognized that the GPL prevented others from taking unfair advantage of their code, while still allowing the community to contribute.
I know you're kidding, but I should point out that Linux is not a requirement for building bad interfaces (though one might claim that it helps). TV engineers in general seem to have some impressive skills at building bad interfaces. My last three TVs all had terrible interfaces, and none of them were Linux-based. :)
I think Samsung likes Linux a lot
Considering that a Platinum membership in the Linux Foundation requires plopping down at least half a million bucks, I suspect you're probably right. :)
Heck, Google only has a Gold membership, and we know they like Linux. Samsung is in elite territory with corporations like IBM and Intel.
It's not the re-invention of the smartphone that was Jobs' greatest contribution to the market
That's correct.
it was creating a phone that was designed the way he wanted
I suspect lots of people did that.
(and the way consumers wanted)
The way some consumers wanted. Which can probably be said about anything that doesn't physically gouge your eyes out. No, strike that--some people probably want their eyes gouged out! :)
and then forcing the telecom industry to use his phone, and not dictate terms back to him.
Aha! Now we're getting somewhere! So why did you post all those other irrelevancies before getting to an actual valid argument? :)
As you may guess, I'm sick of both the hagiographers and the detractors. Jobs was a surprisingly good businessman considering his background, and had some good ideas, but he was never a techie, and shouldn't be viewed as one. He made strong positive contibutions to the industry by having his company overemphasize concepts that other companies were underemphasizing--concepts that users care about--but he was still overemphasizing them. He didn't seem to understand the difference between ease-of-learning and ease-of-use, and often tauted the former as if it were the latter. He wasn't perfect, and in some ways, he was an asshole, but I still admire him. As a businessman who had ideas that helped the industry, but not as some sort of techie whiz.
Still, his company hasn't made a product I wanted since Steve Jobs left. :)
Sure, and they might not have released it to the public if it weren't for the GPL. On the other hand, they've developed something that looks like it may be very useful, and have released it without batting an eye. They're one of only seven Platinum members of the Linux Foundation. I think it's clear they understand how the ecosystem works, and they're happy to participate. Hard to fault them for that.
And actually, as I understand it, they use Linux for a lot more than just Android devices. They also have embedded Linux in other systems, like TVs.
You do realize that Patrick didn't write all that software, yes? So you're trusting a whole community in any case. And trusting one man's ability to integrate a bunch of different pieces that aren't necessarily designed to work together smoothly, created by people who may or may not be in communication with each other. Of course, the actuality is that Slack isn't really a one-man show even if you ignore the fact that he didn't write the code. Slackware has a community, and members of that community contribute, just as they do with other distros.
Like it or not, you're trusting communities all the time.
Still, if you like the fact that Patrick puts his stamp on the whole thing, and blesses it, that's cool. I completely understand. Just don't assume it means more than it does.