Literal LOL. Best rant against the new design I've seen so far. Comments like that are why I read the old Slashdot. On the new Slashdot guys like us who have generated so much content over the years will just get disgusted and do something else.
Current Slashdot flows to my display and still looks good. New Slashdot is yet another "cramped canyon".
It'll be sad if Slashdot succumbs to the "looks good on our iPad so it's done" mentality. If nothing else, sniff the screen size and give us the option of flowing to the screen like it does now.
It's probably too much to ask for you to just... you know... fire everybody except the maintainers. If you want to task a bunch of web developers, how about tasking them with something that would be truly innovative--such as a UI that has reasonable defaults (wide on my wide screen, narrow on somebody else's phone) and that lets us hackers out in the peanut gallery configure it a bit ourselves.
That should be your real, new, innovative design principle: Let the user configure it as much as possible.
In fact, that's what HTML and browsers were supposed to do in the first place. HTML was never intended to be a layout language. The view was supposed to be configurable by the end user in a lot of ways. The web strayed from that, so now we get designers fucking over users, forcing them into a one size fits $foo design, where $foo is usually the set of users that are thought to be the most easily monetized.
I read about another study where they found financial ability peaked, on average, at 53. Before that you don't have enough experience. Then cognitive decline sets in. YMMV of course.
Wow. That's all kind of fail. It would be better for Yahoo to state as a matter of policy that they don't pay bounties. You might disagree with that; but at least you'd respect it. What they did instead is the equivalent of leaving a nickel tip at a restaurant. Giving nothing makes you look cheap, careless or unaware of tipping customs. Giving the nickel says, "yes, I know I should tip, here's what I think you're worth".
Has anyone made a "Breaking Bad in 5 seconds" video? I'd like to see that. I've never seen the show, since I don't pay for TV; but I've been around someone who was enthusiastic about it. So far, just from the incredible bleed over into popular culture I've surmisd that the 5 second video would go something like this: WW: OMG, I've got cancer. I've got to provide for my family. (cut to scene of meth lab) (cut to various scenes of people getting shot and stuff) (cut to scene where WW dies) (cut to scene where family members see a stack of money on a table). Am I really missing anything?
Says the single guy who can't even comprehend life-changing events like having a child.
You don't have to be a pilot to know that 6 vodka shots before pre-flight isn't a good idea. This whole thing isn't even that far removed from our own experience. We were all kids once. We were supervised by adults at that age. If we really needed Mommy or Daddy, the person supervising us would get us in touch. We didn't actually need them that often. We were in the process of, you know, learning to socialize without them present in any form. That's a valuable skill that I use a lot now since both of my parents have passed away. Sheesh!
We've reached that awkward stage in technology, where the things you routinely disable on a machine are approaching parity with the things you enable. Gestures are one of the first things I disabled on my laptop. Finger print scanner? Don't use, which is essentially disable. Most scripts on web pages? There are plug-ins to disable them. Windows 8 UI? Third party apps were made to roll it back. And so on and so forth. It's all core wars now.
Of course bugs are also strictly non-kosher (as is lobster, etc...)
Unless it's a kosher locust. John the Baptist eating honey and wild locusts is recorded in the New Testament. Of course if I wanted to be pedantic I could point out that most "bugs" aren't true bugs. I bet even entomologists have given up on that though.
3-letter agencies, military-industrial complex, prison-industrial complex (ties in with war on drugs), corporate cronies, Monsanto and friends, corrupt politicians. They're all making money from their current gigs. Privacy violation is just one dimension of their insanity.
On the other side: regular Americans losing a lot of money in a number of ways. Supporting massive government systems that harm the people is costly. A hyperinflation scenario would cause people to lose a lot of money. A long simmering Japanese style malaise or 1937-style recession would cause regular people to lose money too--via deflation, return of the housing bust, etc. Either way it looks like the 99% are losing a lot of money already. It's just that it's bearable so far.
Economic tension is there. There's also a lot of social tension: Coasts vs. Flyover, and yep; the Old South, which still votes as a block. Then you've got the Reconquista show across the Southern tier. The South is doubly-plus ungood with good ol' boys and Hispanics both threatening to pull the social fabric in one way or another. The pot growing regions of California are another interesting sideshow. Creeping legalization threatens their economy.
There you have some classic states rights issues, that have nothing to do with slavery this time. Will Colorado shoot DEA agents? Will Arizona go rogue and shoot to kill Mexicans at the border? Probably not. We'd need a catalyst. An economic catastrophe that throws a lot of armed men off their payrolls could be that catalyst. Some of these guys aren't cut out for anything more than fighting, and masses of unemployed people might be willing to join them. Guns are plentiful. Some state legislatures have already snubbed the Fed by endorsing a gold and/or silver standard.
If anything, the fragmentary nature of economic and social tension in the US is more un-nerving since it threatens to fracture into several fiefdoms this time, rather than one clear line. A modern US civil war might be just like the ugly messes we see in the Middle East. No real lines of skirmish. Just a bunch of toxic raisins in a shit pudding.
Thus, my previous assertion that all memes are ideas is incorrect. FWIW, the hyphen in my subject line was unnecessary. Such are the pairels of posting extemporaneous rough drafts to the Internet.
"Meme" carries the connotation of an idea that has a life of its own and spreads, possibly becoming established or (usually) dying out. A synonym would be "fad". All memes are ideas, but not all ideas are memes. Inquiring as to the origin of the idea of eating insects would be an entirely different question. The idea is ancient. The meme is novel.
Trying to change cultural taboos in order to use the most efficient protein source isn't a sign of sustainability. It's a sign of desperation. If that doesn't fix the problem, then where do you go? It'd be better to fix the problems that are making them think that way; rather than think that way.
Hey, googling around insects are the most efficient, with fish, chicken, pigs, and then beef finally being least efficient. How about encouraging Indonesians to take a baby step towards the most efficient source, and trade beef for pork. Do you see why that might be a bit of a problem?
Aside from that, the truly desperate never needed a study from some institute to become efficient. Rats and bugs get eaten by POWs and refugees all the time. The Bible even records that bird droppings became a coveted source of sustenance during a seige. It almost sounds like they're putting the cart before the horse. "You're going to be living in dire poverty because of what we're doing to you; here's how you can cope with it".
There's been a lot of this going around lately. From whence came the insect-eating meme? There's a woman I see in a coffee shop sometimes. She's an environmental activist, best known to me for manning the anti-GMO petition campaign in California, which failed. She mentioned eating insects that last time I saw her. I was like, OK... there's a meme going around, since environmental activists often rub shoulders with the same elite circles in which Clinton is involved.
The $64 trillion question is, "Can anybody trace the origin of the meme?". Yeah, people have been eating insects for thousands of years, and there have probably been much earlier suggestions that Westerners try it. I'm talking about a dramatic recent upswing though. What catalyzed it?
Because some keyboards don't have the Windows key. Also some people like myself intentionally get keyboards without it. Why? Because it's located right next to the other meta keys and it's too easy to fat-finger it. Plugging in a keyboard without a Windows key is right up there with disabling mouse gestures when I set up a box. Those are also too easy to inadvertently trigger.
The most interesting thing about these alternative transistors might be environmental impact. I'm under the impression that traditional wafer fab is water intensive and heats and/or pollutes water. There are dangerous things such as arsenic and bromine involved. If the carbon nano-tube process is clean that'd be awesome. It would be great to think that we could dispose of obsolete technology by incinerating it, and not release anything other than CO2 into the air, leaving behind slag that's full of recyclable silver and copper.
I think the best way to evaluate this would be WTFs per node in a parse tree, or some other structure that accounts for the actual complexity of the code as opposed to the verbosity of the language. Otherwise, begin... end languages would appear less WTFy then {... } languages.
The question is really moot though. Just grepping for WTF won't tell you if it's directed at a problem related to the language (WTF doesn't this template generate what I want, Lisp macros were so much better) or the code (WTF were they thinking when they created this mother-of-all classes?).
WTFs could also relate to the environment in which the code is being written. Start-ups using JavaScript might not mind if you swear in the code. They might let you do that until the company gets big, then the boss tells you to do a global search and replace on all the swears. I've seen that happen. Perl is more likely being used for mature projects where that happened a long time ago, and you really should have got the memo or read in the company handbook that any hint of unprofessional language isn't allowed in the code.
Defund the DEA. We would literally save $billions on the actual DEA budget, and there would be knock-on effects in not having to turn cities into war zones combating something that's a public health problem. Take half the money we spend on DEA, and earmark it for addiction treatment under Obamacare. Drug problem solved (to the extent that it can be solved). DEA Agents? Don't worry. There are food stamps and Obamacare for you. We'll treat you well, and help you to find a new productive career; but if you throw a tantrum and hurt somebody we'll put you in the same corporate prison you put other people in.
As a long-time user who sometimes choses to post AC and is always logged in, I start at 2. It's my understanding that the 2 comes from having good Karma. I've been around long enough to remember when numeric Karma was visible to users. This resulted in contests to see who could rack up the most points, which became a problem. Sometimes people like myself would get bored and commit "Karma Suicide" to re-start the game. They hid numeric Karma to stop that. I haven't read SlashCode; but I understand the number is still lurking in there so that the system can decide where to start our posts.
Anyway, I digress. I don't want money factoring into the equation. The Slashdot moderation system went through several changes early on and has stabilized quite nicely AFAIK. Would any actual Slashdot employees care to comment on the last time a major change was made to the algorithm? It isn't broken. Don't fix it.
I don't think it's patented either. I too wonder why more sites don't adopt it.
How about just punishing wrong-doing? When I was a kid, some guys threw a football at a hornet's nest on school grounds. There was the predictable result of everybody running. I got 3 in my jacket, and one of them stung me before I could shake it out. These guys got in trouble eventually.
A station wagon is what moms wanted to drive. Whenever somebody says "Americans want SUVs". They're wrong. The SUV is a legal hack to get around fuel economy standards. See? If we build a station wagon with a center of gravity so high that it tips over in the parking lot, it's legally defined as a truck and we don't have to meet the same standards.
Sorry to get into this, but it's one of my pet peeves. Whenever I hear, "Americans want SUVs" it just grates on my nerves. No we didn't. We wanted station wagons. Mom didn't want to tip the kids over and throw them, her, and the groceries into a ditch. Shortsighted regulators left a loophole in CAFE, and they literally drove a truck through it.
Now all these kids don't even know what a station wagon is. Sounds about right. It's the vehicle that the mom down the block had. I distinctly remember us piling in there with the neighbor kids on more than one occasion, and she smoked like a chimney. Shotgun! I get to ride up front with Mrs. Potter and yeah, it smells up here but we didn't know nothin'. We didn't wear seatbelts and... well... I know this is survivorship bias talking but... we survived!
Also a 5 pound bag of fuji apples is 7 bucks or 3.5 cans of monster.
A 5 lb. bag of Fujiis would keep well in my fridge for a while. In Florida, in a sack that I am lugging from shelter-to-bench-to-shelter... not so much. He's essentially camping and back-packing all the time. Five extra pounds of fully hydrated perishable, bruisable fruit in your pack is not a good plan. Trail mix is dry for a reason.
I'm not sure where Monster stands on the dollars/calorie ratio. It's not considered healthy. If he can find a way to boil water, he should consider bananas+tea as the absolute best way to get bang for your buck in an energy boost. It'd also be better for his long-term health. BTW, if you google around for dollars per calorie, fast food comes up as cheap. The homeless don't eat at McDonalds because they love it. They eat there because it's one of the cheapest ways to fuel a body. The pizza he mentioned is also a good way to do that. Bananas are actually at or near the very top of the list. Very cheap calories.
You've got to have some movement to stay healthy though. Just powering cheaply is OK for a month or two; but in the long run it's probably not such a hot idea.
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Literal LOL. Best rant against the new design I've seen so far. Comments like that are why I read the old Slashdot. On the new Slashdot guys like us who have generated so much content over the years will just get disgusted and do something else.
Current Slashdot flows to my display and still looks good. New Slashdot is yet another "cramped canyon".
It'll be sad if Slashdot succumbs to the "looks good on our iPad so it's done" mentality. If nothing else, sniff the screen size and give us the option of flowing to the screen like it does now.
It's probably too much to ask for you to just... you know... fire everybody except the maintainers. If you want to task a bunch of web developers, how about tasking them with something that would be truly innovative--such as a UI that has reasonable defaults (wide on my wide screen, narrow on somebody else's phone) and that lets us hackers out in the peanut gallery configure it a bit ourselves.
That should be your real, new, innovative design principle: Let the user configure it as much as possible.
In fact, that's what HTML and browsers were supposed to do in the first place. HTML was never intended to be a layout language. The view was supposed to be configurable by the end user in a lot of ways. The web strayed from that, so now we get designers fucking over users, forcing them into a one size fits $foo design, where $foo is usually the set of users that are thought to be the most easily monetized.
I read about another study where they found financial ability peaked, on average, at 53. Before that you don't have enough experience. Then cognitive decline sets in. YMMV of course.
Wow. That's all kind of fail. It would be better for Yahoo to state as a matter of policy that they don't pay bounties. You might disagree with that; but at least you'd respect it. What they did instead is the equivalent of leaving a nickel tip at a restaurant. Giving nothing makes you look cheap, careless or unaware of tipping customs. Giving the nickel says, "yes, I know I should tip, here's what I think you're worth".
Has anyone made a "Breaking Bad in 5 seconds" video? I'd like to see that. I've never seen the show, since I don't pay for TV; but I've been around someone who was enthusiastic about it. So far, just from the incredible bleed over into popular culture I've surmisd that the 5 second video would go something like this: WW: OMG, I've got cancer. I've got to provide for my family. (cut to scene of meth lab) (cut to various scenes of people getting shot and stuff) (cut to scene where WW dies) (cut to scene where family members see a stack of money on a table). Am I really missing anything?
Says the single guy who can't even comprehend life-changing events like having a child.
You don't have to be a pilot to know that 6 vodka shots before pre-flight isn't a good idea. This whole thing isn't even that far removed from our own experience. We were all kids once. We were supervised by adults at that age. If we really needed Mommy or Daddy, the person supervising us would get us in touch. We didn't actually need them that often. We were in the process of, you know, learning to socialize without them present in any form. That's a valuable skill that I use a lot now since both of my parents have passed away. Sheesh!
We've reached that awkward stage in technology, where the things you routinely disable on a machine are approaching parity with the things you enable. Gestures are one of the first things I disabled on my laptop. Finger print scanner? Don't use, which is essentially disable. Most scripts on web pages? There are plug-ins to disable them. Windows 8 UI? Third party apps were made to roll it back. And so on and so forth. It's all core wars now.
Of course bugs are also strictly non-kosher (as is lobster, etc...)
Unless it's a kosher locust. John the Baptist eating honey and wild locusts is recorded in the New Testament. Of course if I wanted to be pedantic I could point out that most "bugs" aren't true bugs. I bet even entomologists have given up on that though.
OK, I'll bite. On one side:
3-letter agencies, military-industrial complex, prison-industrial complex (ties in with war on drugs), corporate cronies, Monsanto and friends, corrupt politicians. They're all making money from their current gigs. Privacy violation is just one dimension of their insanity.
On the other side: regular Americans losing a lot of money in a number of ways. Supporting massive government systems that harm the people is costly. A hyperinflation scenario would cause people to lose a lot of money. A long simmering Japanese style malaise or 1937-style recession would cause regular people to lose money too--via deflation, return of the housing bust, etc. Either way it looks like the 99% are losing a lot of money already. It's just that it's bearable so far.
Economic tension is there. There's also a lot of social tension: Coasts vs. Flyover, and yep; the Old South, which still votes as a block. Then you've got the Reconquista show across the Southern tier. The South is doubly-plus ungood with good ol' boys and Hispanics both threatening to pull the social fabric in one way or another. The pot growing regions of California are another interesting sideshow. Creeping legalization threatens their economy.
There you have some classic states rights issues, that have nothing to do with slavery this time. Will Colorado shoot DEA agents? Will Arizona go rogue and shoot to kill Mexicans at the border? Probably not. We'd need a catalyst. An economic catastrophe that throws a lot of armed men off their payrolls could be that catalyst. Some of these guys aren't cut out for anything more than fighting, and masses of unemployed people might be willing to join them. Guns are plentiful. Some state legislatures have already snubbed the Fed by endorsing a gold and/or silver standard.
If anything, the fragmentary nature of economic and social tension in the US is more un-nerving since it threatens to fracture into several fiefdoms this time, rather than one clear line. A modern US civil war might be just like the ugly messes we see in the Middle East. No real lines of skirmish. Just a bunch of toxic raisins in a shit pudding.
Yeah. There's no precedent for that.
Actually, Wikipedia has meme pegged as "an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture."
Thus, my previous assertion that all memes are ideas is incorrect. FWIW, the hyphen in my subject line was unnecessary. Such are the pairels of posting extemporaneous rough drafts to the Internet.
You can just say "Idea" not "meme".
"Meme" carries the connotation of an idea that has a life of its own and spreads, possibly becoming established or (usually) dying out. A synonym would be "fad". All memes are ideas, but not all ideas are memes. Inquiring as to the origin of the idea of eating insects would be an entirely different question. The idea is ancient. The meme is novel.
Trying to change cultural taboos in order to use the most efficient protein source isn't a sign of sustainability. It's a sign of desperation. If that doesn't fix the problem, then where do you go? It'd be better to fix the problems that are making them think that way; rather than think that way.
Hey, googling around insects are the most efficient, with fish, chicken, pigs, and then beef finally being least efficient. How about encouraging Indonesians to take a baby step towards the most efficient source, and trade beef for pork. Do you see why that might be a bit of a problem?
Aside from that, the truly desperate never needed a study from some institute to become efficient. Rats and bugs get eaten by POWs and refugees all the time. The Bible even records that bird droppings became a coveted source of sustenance during a seige. It almost sounds like they're putting the cart before the horse. "You're going to be living in dire poverty because of what we're doing to you; here's how you can cope with it".
Marie Antoinette is looking pretty good now, isn't she?
There's been a lot of this going around lately. From whence came the insect-eating meme? There's a woman I see in a coffee shop sometimes. She's an environmental activist, best known to me for manning the anti-GMO petition campaign in California, which failed. She mentioned eating insects that last time I saw her. I was like, OK... there's a meme going around, since environmental activists often rub shoulders with the same elite circles in which Clinton is involved.
The $64 trillion question is, "Can anybody trace the origin of the meme?". Yeah, people have been eating insects for thousands of years, and there have probably been much earlier suggestions that Westerners try it. I'm talking about a dramatic recent upswing though. What catalyzed it?
Because some keyboards don't have the Windows key. Also some people like myself intentionally get keyboards without it. Why? Because it's located right next to the other meta keys and it's too easy to fat-finger it. Plugging in a keyboard without a Windows key is right up there with disabling mouse gestures when I set up a box. Those are also too easy to inadvertently trigger.
The most interesting thing about these alternative transistors might be environmental impact. I'm under the impression that traditional wafer fab is water intensive and heats and/or pollutes water. There are dangerous things such as arsenic and bromine involved. If the carbon nano-tube process is clean that'd be awesome. It would be great to think that we could dispose of obsolete technology by incinerating it, and not release anything other than CO2 into the air, leaving behind slag that's full of recyclable silver and copper.
I think the best way to evaluate this would be WTFs per node in a parse tree, or some other structure that accounts for the actual complexity of the code as opposed to the verbosity of the language. Otherwise, begin... end languages would appear less WTFy then {... } languages.
The question is really moot though. Just grepping for WTF won't tell you if it's directed at a problem related to the language (WTF doesn't this template generate what I want, Lisp macros were so much better) or the code (WTF were they thinking when they created this mother-of-all classes?).
WTFs could also relate to the environment in which the code is being written. Start-ups using JavaScript might not mind if you swear in the code. They might let you do that until the company gets big, then the boss tells you to do a global search and replace on all the swears. I've seen that happen. Perl is more likely being used for mature projects where that happened a long time ago, and you really should have got the memo or read in the company handbook that any hint of unprofessional language isn't allowed in the code.
Defund the DEA. We would literally save $billions on the actual DEA budget, and there would be knock-on effects in not having to turn cities into war zones combating something that's a public health problem. Take half the money we spend on DEA, and earmark it for addiction treatment under Obamacare. Drug problem solved (to the extent that it can be solved). DEA Agents? Don't worry. There are food stamps and Obamacare for you. We'll treat you well, and help you to find a new productive career; but if you throw a tantrum and hurt somebody we'll put you in the same corporate prison you put other people in.
As a long-time user who sometimes choses to post AC and is always logged in, I start at 2. It's my understanding that the 2 comes from having good Karma. I've been around long enough to remember when numeric Karma was visible to users. This resulted in contests to see who could rack up the most points, which became a problem. Sometimes people like myself would get bored and commit "Karma Suicide" to re-start the game. They hid numeric Karma to stop that. I haven't read SlashCode; but I understand the number is still lurking in there so that the system can decide where to start our posts.
Anyway, I digress. I don't want money factoring into the equation. The Slashdot moderation system went through several changes early on and has stabilized quite nicely AFAIK. Would any actual Slashdot employees care to comment on the last time a major change was made to the algorithm? It isn't broken. Don't fix it.
I don't think it's patented either. I too wonder why more sites don't adopt it.
How about just punishing wrong-doing? When I was a kid, some guys threw a football at a hornet's nest on school grounds. There was the predictable result of everybody running. I got 3 in my jacket, and one of them stung me before I could shake it out. These guys got in trouble eventually.
There was no call for "hornet's nest education".
A station wagon is what moms wanted to drive. Whenever somebody says "Americans want SUVs". They're wrong. The SUV is a legal hack to get around fuel economy standards. See? If we build a station wagon with a center of gravity so high that it tips over in the parking lot, it's legally defined as a truck and we don't have to meet the same standards.
Sorry to get into this, but it's one of my pet peeves. Whenever I hear, "Americans want SUVs" it just grates on my nerves. No we didn't. We wanted station wagons. Mom didn't want to tip the kids over and throw them, her, and the groceries into a ditch. Shortsighted regulators left a loophole in CAFE, and they literally drove a truck through it.
Now all these kids don't even know what a station wagon is. Sounds about right. It's the vehicle that the mom down the block had. I distinctly remember us piling in there with the neighbor kids on more than one occasion, and she smoked like a chimney. Shotgun! I get to ride up front with Mrs. Potter and yeah, it smells up here but we didn't know nothin'. We didn't wear seatbelts and... well... I know this is survivorship bias talking but... we survived!
In other words, get your damned SUV off my lawn.
I first heard it as "truckload of CD-ROMs".
Also a 5 pound bag of fuji apples is 7 bucks or 3.5 cans of monster.
A 5 lb. bag of Fujiis would keep well in my fridge for a while. In Florida, in a sack that I am lugging from shelter-to-bench-to-shelter... not so much. He's essentially camping and back-packing all the time. Five extra pounds of fully hydrated perishable, bruisable fruit in your pack is not a good plan. Trail mix is dry for a reason.
I'm not sure where Monster stands on the dollars/calorie ratio. It's not considered healthy. If he can find a way to boil water, he should consider bananas+tea as the absolute best way to get bang for your buck in an energy boost. It'd also be better for his long-term health. BTW, if you google around for dollars per calorie, fast food comes up as cheap. The homeless don't eat at McDonalds because they love it. They eat there because it's one of the cheapest ways to fuel a body. The pizza he mentioned is also a good way to do that. Bananas are actually at or near the very top of the list. Very cheap calories.
You've got to have some movement to stay healthy though. Just powering cheaply is OK for a month or two; but in the long run it's probably not such a hot idea.