There was a nice article in the spectator as to how you people from continental europe list the UK as a favorite destination. This is despite of the food, weather, shitty attitude. It's because we have large numbers of drunken sluts who will fuck just about anything.
Re:Failure is not a bloody option, blokes!
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I'll bet your reputation against mine, or money if you prefer, that nothing actually useful will ever come of that COSA project you keep peddling whenever you get the chance.
When engineers make a new airline/bridge/circuit, they model the entire thing on a computer first. The CAD model is an unambiguous model of the plane. Important subsystems in it are modelled and analysed independently and in conjunction with the components around it.
So, if writing software was similar, we would first model the software on a computer. Oh, er, wait a moment. In an important sense, software is the specification. The only unambiguous specification is the actual software [otherwise we could make whatever was used for the specification be the programming language].
When someone designs a bad aircraft, the design is modelled, flaws are found and the design is improved. Nobody builds the thing until they feel pretty sure the design is right. However, software is often bad for the same reason that an initial design of anything else is bad. If it was equivalent to an airplane, windows 95 for instance, once designed, would never have been built. However, once the design for a piece of software is complete, one has created the software. With software there is no meaningful way to separate the specification and the implementation.
So, the question boils down to: how much time/money do you want to spend ? The answer from the client is generally 'as little as we can get away with'
Amen.. make a multilevel pure css combination drop down/fly-out menu that works in IE5.5 up. Its less intuitive than programming in brainfuck. Other people's perl will give it a run for its money though.
You're partially right, but the pain will be alleviated a lot by the fact that IP addresses will no longer be so precious that people cannot have fixed ones for lots of purposes... the main motivation for Dynamic DNS type services is for situations where people don't have fixed addresses which can be tied into DNS.
>The fact that some people blew it out of proportion should not diminish the hard work that people had to do to keep everything working.
Sorry, no, most of that hard work *was* a waste of time. We can tell because some countries [Italy for instance] pretty much completely ignored the y2k problem while others spent billions on it. Nothing particuarly bad happened in places where they ignored it.. a couple of things stopped working properly briefly and had to be patched, but the vast majority of effort that went into preemptively preventing y2k bugs was a waste of time and money.
> And I'm pretty sure that someone in Congress tried to propose that voting for the public option in the health care plan should be equivalent to signing up for it. Didn't work out, but boy was that a good idea.
A good political shot, but a retarded idea. Suppose the main problem with the public option is that it will cost too much. Saying that people who vote for it should have to use it means that the more expensive and generous the plan was, the less of a disincentive this would be in voting for it. Its a rhetorical trick designed to sound like common sense to idiots.
Sure you can be a great programmer (in most areas) without knowing calculus, but still.. there is the fact that you just couldnt figure out something that a lot of people can cope with. As an employer I would have to wonder what else you couldnt figure out. Unless there was something pretty damn significant in your favour to counterbalance this, I would hire the person capable of jumping over the (somewhat arbitrary) hoops necessary to get the degree
Hey, the author is a guy, so being abusive to him isn't sexist, and in this case I think its justified, after all he is being abusive too, he's just being subtle about it. He's heavy on hyperbole and light [or positively weightless] on examples. Just like you come to think of it.. what is this ignorance , what higher knowledge are we not privy to ? Please enlighten us with something vaguely concrete. Lastly, just because one denies something doesn't mean one is guilty.
> They seem unaware that institutions and customs can be sexist simply by what they value or how they operate, that even something like a discourse developed by men talking to men can institutionalize sexism. Nor do they understand that, by simply accepting such institutions or ways of acting, they become supporters of sexism.
Maybe they understand what you are trying to say perfectly well, but think its a pile of steaming of crap. A bunch of the arguments boil down to saying people could only be disagreeing with because they are too ignorant or stupid to know better.
> Similarly, I assumed that, in the FOSS community, if you were a free software supporter, you were concerned about social justice and would therefore be against sexism as well.
Social justice... ffs.. maybe there is a correlation between caring about free software issues and issues that matter, such as.. I don't know, actual social justice, meaning issues of people being murdered, enslaved, raped or denied education, healthcare, opportunity, whatever. Maybe your interpretation of people not falling over themselves to appease your particular interpretation of how they ought to behave does not entirely correlate with not caring about social justice.
In summary, fuck off and take your smug, self righteous, time-wasting bullshit elsewhere please.
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Your last two sentences are true but do not refute what he was saying. Compilers do a better job of translating C [say] into machine code on today's architectures than a typical programmer would. Of course the programmer is responsible for using the right algorithm but that is easier in C/C++ than assembly.
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> Or non-existant chicks, Mr ./'er.
Actually, by your own logic those are the only chicks you do date.
sed s/you people/young people/
There was a nice article in the spectator as to how you people from continental europe list the UK as a favorite destination. This is despite of the food, weather, shitty attitude. It's because we have large numbers of drunken sluts who will fuck just about anything.
I dunno.. have a look at this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppXlVjRD5lY
818 - As if, like, wow, man, totally
I'll bet your reputation against mine, or money if you prefer, that nothing actually useful will ever come of that COSA project you keep peddling whenever you get the chance.
Specification -- what specification ?
When engineers make a new airline/bridge/circuit, they model the entire thing on a computer first. The CAD model is an unambiguous model of the plane. Important subsystems in it are modelled and analysed independently and in conjunction with the components around it.
So, if writing software was similar, we would first model the software on a computer. Oh, er, wait a moment. In an important sense, software is the specification. The only unambiguous specification is the actual software [otherwise we could make whatever was used for the specification be the programming language].
When someone designs a bad aircraft, the design is modelled, flaws are found and the design is improved. Nobody builds the thing until they feel pretty sure the design is right. However, software is often bad for the same reason that an initial design of anything else is bad. If it was equivalent to an airplane, windows 95 for instance, once designed, would never have been built. However, once the design for a piece of software is complete, one has created the software. With software there is no meaningful way to separate the specification and the implementation.
So, the question boils down to: how much time/money do you want to spend ? The answer from the client is generally 'as little as we can get away with'
Amen.. make a multilevel pure css combination drop down/fly-out menu that works in IE5.5 up. Its less intuitive than programming in brainfuck. Other people's perl will give it a run for its money though.
to the grave
Masterful. You definitely deserve feeding.
You hate python's syntax ?
What syntax *do* you like ?
> She wouldn't wait 3 days to make a public statement after a bombing attempt on an airplane.
Is the president supposed to drop everything and cuddle you to sleep every time some asshole tries to set fire to their underpants ?
I very much doubt you really know that. Maybe she would have been more careful and not had the accident without the helmet.
Your shit is all retarded and you talk like a fag.
You're partially right, but the pain will be alleviated a lot by the fact that IP addresses will no longer be so precious that people cannot have fixed ones for lots of purposes... the main motivation for Dynamic DNS type services is for situations where people don't have fixed addresses which can be tied into DNS.
>The fact that some people blew it out of proportion should not diminish the hard work that people had to do to keep everything working.
Sorry, no, most of that hard work *was* a waste of time. We can tell because some countries [Italy for instance] pretty much completely ignored the y2k problem while others spent billions on it. Nothing particuarly bad happened in places where they ignored it.. a couple of things stopped working properly briefly and had to be patched, but the vast majority of effort that went into preemptively preventing y2k bugs was a waste of time and money.
> Greenland, one that was once green enough to earn this name
It was named that as a deliberate ploy in order to try and tempt the gullible to move there. Look it up.
> And I'm pretty sure that someone in Congress tried to propose that voting for the public option in the health care plan should be equivalent to signing up for it. Didn't work out, but boy was that a good idea.
A good political shot, but a retarded idea. Suppose the main problem with the public option is that it will cost too much. Saying that people who vote for it should have to use it means that the more expensive and generous the plan was, the less of a disincentive this would be in voting for it. Its a rhetorical trick designed to sound like common sense to idiots.
> I can't hack calculus...
Sure you can be a great programmer (in most areas) without knowing calculus, but still.. there is the fact that you just couldnt figure out something that a lot of people can cope with. As an employer I would have to wonder what else you couldnt figure out. Unless there was something pretty damn significant in your favour to counterbalance this, I would hire the person capable of jumping over the (somewhat arbitrary) hoops necessary to get the degree
> Didn't Google's first plan to make money, selling search engines, fail rather badly?
No, it was about advertising almost from the beginning.
Hey, the author is a guy, so being abusive to him isn't sexist, and in this case I think its justified, after all he is being abusive too, he's just being subtle about it. He's heavy on hyperbole and light [or positively weightless] on examples. Just like you come to think of it.. what is this ignorance , what higher knowledge are we not privy to ? Please enlighten us with something vaguely concrete. Lastly, just because one denies something doesn't mean one is guilty.
> They seem unaware that institutions and customs can be sexist simply by what they value or how they operate, that even something like a discourse developed by men talking to men can institutionalize sexism. Nor do they understand that, by simply accepting such institutions or ways of acting, they become supporters of sexism.
Maybe they understand what you are trying to say perfectly well, but think its a pile of steaming of crap. A bunch of the arguments boil down to saying people could only be disagreeing with because they are too ignorant or stupid to know better.
> Similarly, I assumed that, in the FOSS community, if you were a free software supporter, you were concerned about social justice and would therefore be against sexism as well.
Social justice... ffs.. maybe there is a correlation between caring about free software issues and issues that matter, such as.. I don't know, actual social justice, meaning issues of people being murdered, enslaved, raped or denied education, healthcare, opportunity, whatever. Maybe your interpretation of people not falling over themselves to appease your particular interpretation of how they ought to behave does not entirely correlate with not caring about social justice.
In summary, fuck off and take your smug, self righteous, time-wasting bullshit elsewhere please.
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Your last two sentences are true but do not refute what he was saying. Compilers do a better job of translating C [say] into machine code on today's architectures than a typical programmer would. Of course the programmer is responsible for using the right algorithm but that is easier in C/C++ than assembly.
You need earthsim2 .. it's in alpha right now though, but it's sweeeeeeeeet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xwGucH-e_o