I'll never understand the people that confuse "premier" and "premiere", they are completely different worlds and aren't even pronounced the same. I've seen it in a slashdot summary a couple of days back too, that's pretty horrible.
I'm sorry if you felt hurt by my comment, it wasn't my attention. I never said that I detest anyone. I am a software engineer in a specific field, and I have specific needs, different than yours.
Like I said, I don't expect people working in different fields to understand, because they don't really know what I need to do, just like I don't really know what they need to do.
My point was that for a segment of the population, Linux is already the best desktop and workstation operating system.
What really is the difference? If you want your slaves/servants/employees to generate value for you continuously, you have to give them the illusion of giving selflessly.
Different demographics use different things. I'm a software engineer, with a focus on low-level programming and performance, and as far as I'm concerned, all competent people in my field use Linux daily, be it for work or leisure.
I've tried using Windows or Mac OS X, and even with the various extras you need to install to make those on par, they are still light years behind in terms of usability and productivity. I don't expect Windows or Mac OS X users to understand. From my experience, when I'm forced to use OS X for example and that I ask an OS X user how to do any simple basic thing, he just answers "I don't know. I just don't do that. Maybe you can purchase a third-party app for it.". People that are satisfied with those operating systems are people with simple needs that follow standard one-size-fits-all workflows, they don't even realize you can do so much more with a real operating system you're in control of, where huge capabilities are just at the touch of your fingertips.
War has been obsolete for half a century already. It seems the only ones that didn't get the memo are the US, who still went to war with Iraq, ruining their economy and political standing.
From your comment, I expected the link to point to something related to Space Battleship Yamato. Good to know old 'Murrica is making japanese sci-fi real.
There is a reason why people recommend having technical tests in interviews. Most interviewees fail the basic FizzBuzz test. A lot of software engineers are bad, and this is much worse in everything related to web development.
I am a software engineer focused on low-level C and C++, and my company once needed to do some web development, a front-end for a web service we developed. We contracted someone with 8 years of experience in web development to do that, since it wasn't the kind of thing my company did. I was in charge of working with the guy to ensure that his work met our specifications and that he called our web service correctly. The person struggled with such basic concepts as doing a HTTP request, serializing/deserializing data, and testing whether an RPC request went well. He couldn't understand our formal specifications and I had to basically write the code for him to show him what he did wrong and what he needed to do to comply.
Long story short: the level of skill an average web developer has does not meet the expectation we have of software engineering outside of the web development world.
A competent software engineer with that much experience should have no problem learning any new technology quickly. I've been successful in selling myself for jobs requiring technologies I didn't know; the client was convinced that if I could master the advanced techniques that I have, I should have no problem with other simpler ones, even if I'm inexperienced with them.
Truly smart people know that there is so much they don't know and tend to be humble as a result.
I've seen so many Google engineers from Mountain View who took themselves big experts in a field and that didn't even realize that what they were saying on the topic was ridiculous to any researcher who worked on that topic.
That should have been obvious from the summary, it said it was based on ftrace. ftrace allows to intercept function calls for the purpose of tracing or benchmarking.
4chan moves so fast that it would require a disproportionately large team to track what happens on it. There is also a lot of specific vocabulary and way of communicating on 4chan to be able to understand what's going on, but I suppose that after enough time reading everything you'd grasp it.
I myself find 4chan to be one of the few communities where people are not afraid of their tastes and fetishes; it's refreshing to visit something where people have opinions other than the society-sanctioned politically correct ones.
Sure, there is racism, probably some hate speech too, unusual graphic content, and plenty of offensive things, some of which might be illegal. But it's all ephemeral as boards quickly move around to new topics.
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I'll never understand the people that confuse "premier" and "premiere", they are completely different worlds and aren't even pronounced the same. I've seen it in a slashdot summary a couple of days back too, that's pretty horrible.
I'm sorry if you felt hurt by my comment, it wasn't my attention. I never said that I detest anyone.
I am a software engineer in a specific field, and I have specific needs, different than yours.
Like I said, I don't expect people working in different fields to understand, because they don't really know what I need to do, just like I don't really know what they need to do.
My point was that for a segment of the population, Linux is already the best desktop and workstation operating system.
This is both stupid and cool.
Just put them in the cloud and let another company take care of it.
Aren't the nanoscale structures of carbon more interesting?
Carbon seems to be stronger and lighter than iron. Why do we even mix the two together?
What really is the difference?
If you want your slaves/servants/employees to generate value for you continuously, you have to give them the illusion of giving selflessly.
Different demographics use different things.
I'm a software engineer, with a focus on low-level programming and performance, and as far as I'm concerned, all competent people in my field use Linux daily, be it for work or leisure.
I've tried using Windows or Mac OS X, and even with the various extras you need to install to make those on par, they are still light years behind in terms of usability and productivity.
I don't expect Windows or Mac OS X users to understand. From my experience, when I'm forced to use OS X for example and that I ask an OS X user how to do any simple basic thing, he just answers "I don't know. I just don't do that. Maybe you can purchase a third-party app for it.". People that are satisfied with those operating systems are people with simple needs that follow standard one-size-fits-all workflows, they don't even realize you can do so much more with a real operating system you're in control of, where huge capabilities are just at the touch of your fingertips.
My bad, I wasn't explicit enough.
Civil war is still a thing, what has become obsolete is war between nation-states.
It means you don't know that in French, nouns in the plural form usually take an 's' at the end, same as in English?
War has been obsolete for half a century already.
It seems the only ones that didn't get the memo are the US, who still went to war with Iraq, ruining their economy and political standing.
From your comment, I expected the link to point to something related to Space Battleship Yamato.
Good to know old 'Murrica is making japanese sci-fi real.
There is a reason why people recommend having technical tests in interviews. Most interviewees fail the basic FizzBuzz test.
A lot of software engineers are bad, and this is much worse in everything related to web development.
I am a software engineer focused on low-level C and C++, and my company once needed to do some web development, a front-end for a web service we developed. We contracted someone with 8 years of experience in web development to do that, since it wasn't the kind of thing my company did.
I was in charge of working with the guy to ensure that his work met our specifications and that he called our web service correctly. The person struggled with such basic concepts as doing a HTTP request, serializing/deserializing data, and testing whether an RPC request went well. He couldn't understand our formal specifications and I had to basically write the code for him to show him what he did wrong and what he needed to do to comply.
Long story short: the level of skill an average web developer has does not meet the expectation we have of software engineering outside of the web development world.
A competent software engineer with that much experience should have no problem learning any new technology quickly.
I've been successful in selling myself for jobs requiring technologies I didn't know; the client was convinced that if I could master the advanced techniques that I have, I should have no problem with other simpler ones, even if I'm inexperienced with them.
What's wrong with getting vaccinated against an illness that's very unlikely to ever hit you? Better safe than sorry.
Truly smart people know that there is so much they don't know and tend to be humble as a result.
I've seen so many Google engineers from Mountain View who took themselves big experts in a field and that didn't even realize that what they were saying on the topic was ridiculous to any researcher who worked on that topic.
That should have been obvious from the summary, it said it was based on ftrace.
ftrace allows to intercept function calls for the purpose of tracing or benchmarking.
With all this censorship, I haven't even been able to find the damn video everyone is talking about.
Disband and move on with your life.
Mozilla has been a mess for a couple of years already. Just let it die.
8chan doesn't discuss anime, video games, or japanese culture, which are arguably the most interesting boards of 4chan.
4chan moves so fast that it would require a disproportionately large team to track what happens on it.
There is also a lot of specific vocabulary and way of communicating on 4chan to be able to understand what's going on, but I suppose that after enough time reading everything you'd grasp it.
I myself find 4chan to be one of the few communities where people are not afraid of their tastes and fetishes; it's refreshing to visit something where people have opinions other than the society-sanctioned politically correct ones.
Sure, there is racism, probably some hate speech too, unusual graphic content, and plenty of offensive things, some of which might be illegal. But it's all ephemeral as boards quickly move around to new topics.
In civilized countries, medication is free.
What makes you think Sweden is any different?
People working a booth do work.
People just strolling in the alleys, not so much.
It would have been more severe if he did the experiment in the evening, where porn might have been involved.