I agree completely. People who want to be all polite and beat around the bush instead of coming forth and communicating what they feel/think, are the reason every day millions of work hours are wasted and millions of mediocrities keep on living in their fantasy world thinking they are awesome at what they do.
Additionally, people whose opinion on this is that "he should be polite regardless of who he is and who he thinks he is", will never understand the argument "Cultural Differences, Bitch" [Pinkman TM] either.
The bottom line: Linus it not the average person. His work speaks for itself. The people who have a problem with his attitude, are those who demand of a genius that he also be modest/low-key/polite/gentle/subtle. But hey, guess what! If i'm a mediocrity, I don't get to demand things from superior people. And yes, sorry to break it to you. We're not all equal. I wouldn't mind it one bit if Feynman was a d*ck and if Einstein was a pr*ck.
Personally, I wish I had someone like Linus around my work place. I'd take his abuse any day of the week as long as I could benefit, even by mere osmosis, from his experience and ideas. Also don't forget: for every 1 person that bitches about his attitude, there are hundreds that benefit, enjoy, grow and flourish around him. And not just due to Stockholm syndrome.
I remember when "they" decided to replace modems for win-modems. Linux users probably remember the frustration and dead ends of trying to make a software modem work under Linux.
Hardware is very good at doing its job; at least a lot better than software. Whenever the latter tries to replace the former...we'll probably see a new IT specialty in the horizon soon.
I'm not quite that sure that nowadays Postgres has that many fewer job opportunities than Mysql. I'd say that this is more of a belief from the earlier half of the past decade. And by job opportunity I don't mean "oh! we have a project (i.e. website) that uses MySQL as a backend". Job opportunity should translate to "we have someone to run the thing". And given that Mysql behaves as a DBMS for very loose use of the term (i mean so loose, you wouldn't believe it was a DBMS not even on Xmas eve), you are probably closer to getting it done "quick and dirty" with Postgres exactly because it does it "the right way".
Now with respect to the OP's question: Pg is an easy pick over Mysql contribution-wise. If you do indeed have a DB theory background, then barely using each one of the two for a couple of weeks should be more than enough for you understand the difference in quality (features and implementation).
I agree with that. Speaking 4 foreign languages, I have the utmost appreciation for people who gladly assume the role of correcting me in real-time and in real-life conditions. Unfortunately, as the OP states, usually it's just the girlfriend that assumes this role consistently and that only after I make it clear multiple times that "I am not offended by it. If you really want to help me improve, please correct me all the time".
And yes, the girlfriend is real and doesn't get paid for it or other services rendered.
Could be right, but then again McD's doesn't gain anything clogging a junkeater's arteries. It doesn't increase their chances of more revenues; on the contrary it kills a good customer. Whereas the parasite makes the rat go where it shouldn't want to, because in the long run it increases the parasite's chances of reproduction. If only McD's could find a way to make a small commission our of each one they send to the hospital/morgue, it would all make so much more sense.
Your way of thinking probably explains as well why the US is #1 in prisoners-per-capita.
Imprisonment removes your freedom. This should be punishment enough. Once you are in there, the idea is not to get you even more agitated or depressed. Rehabilitation comes with providing perhaps even things to which you didn't have access in the first place and led you to crime.
Of course in theory it's easy to generalize and philosofize. But still, trying to make a troubled individual's environment troubling, really has poor chances of solving the trouble.
What really bedazzles me is how one could possibly write such a long and imaginative post on/. and still be the first poster!
Been preparing for years for this to happen, haven't you? Admit it...
You are joking, right? Just because you don't see marching tanks in the streets, doesn't mean it's not a form of war. Let alone Germany that would under no circumstances allow it's name be blemished with YAW. But don't kid yourself; that's the new form of warfare: absolute and transparent financial control.
Why expect from an exceptional person to be modest? If a big ego is the price to pay for enjoying the works of a genius, so be it. The point is that J is maintaining a balance. And that's priceless regardless of which of the two sides you support. If your subjectivity gets in the way of understanding that balance in more important than right&wrong per se (which only exist in your mind anyway) then it's understandable that J's ego is a problem and not an insignificant side-effect.
We're leaving a lot more up to the Iraqis than we did with, say, Japan after WWII. Japan is actually a very respectable part of the world community today, despite the kind of atrocities they were committing during WWII. We used a heavy hand in the aftermath. We're using a much lighter hand in post-war Iraq.
We'll have to see if that pays off.
It's convenient to rationalise the destruction caused by the iraq war on the basis of we-are-leaving-so-many-things-behind, when in reality:
you are leaving more than you left to Japan because you didn't invade Japan for profit but to experiment with a new WMD
you are not leaving anything behind in Iraq, because you simply invaded with the intention to colonise
the term "free elections" can only be used loosely in a country under foreign occupation; i'm guessing you feel fine using it because you compare to what they had under Saddam
Not all of it is high school calc. IIRC the integral of 4sin(x)/x has to be solved with Taylor series, and I only got those in the second semester of university calculus.
It's 2nd semester univ.calculus if you are from the US. In some countries it's indeed high school math.
There is a lot of talk about "luck" to cover up the parts of success that cannot be explained.
One of the best definitions of "luck" i've come across is: "when planning meets opportunity".
And since we cannot control the occurrence of opportunities, the best that can be done is keep on planning. This is the "persistence" part that successful people are talking about. They don't really mean "be persistent in failing".
Even right here in the US we see much of the early Nazi behavior being repeated, but most people cannot see it because they have a cartoon view of the Nazi Party.
You can easily spot 2 differences though: the Nazi's had a designated ministry, the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (must have had some marketing team to come up with that name) and more importantly Germany (and all prior to them) was out in the open about building an empire (which still today can't be openly admitted about the US as they're the first in human History to do it so covertly on such a great scale).
What a weird coincidence. At my part of the world (.gr) as I write these lines national TV is broadcasting (sadly at 1am) Michael Moore's documentary "Fahrenheit 911". Seeing in 2 hours the things that managed to take place in such a short period of time following 9/11, the civil liberties the americans kissed goodbye (Patriot Act anyone?), the censorship capabilities gained by all sorts of nearsighted "agencies" and the media-assisted propaganda (weapons of mass destruction I hear you say?), I can't but feel history is repeating itself and the saddest repetitive pattern is how little we learned last time these things came around.
Just yesterday (yet another coincidence) I watched "People vs. Larry Flynt" (yet another time). I loved Edward Norton's speech in front of the Supreme Court which culminates in "...really what you are talking about is a matter of taste and not a matter of Law...it's useless to argue about taste and even more useless to litigate it".
I'm not suggesting child porn is just a matter of taste, but then again Larry Flynt's prosecution was not really about the smut (plenty other dirty magz were out already) but about how openly he did it. Familienministerin(!) Frau Ursula von der Leyen is not out to blacklist child porn (those who want it will always find ways to get it), she's out to eventually be able to selectively blacklist things now available in the open for anyone interested to read.
Allowing such baby steps towards taking away things on the premise of "what's good for the community", will eventually lead to us being the last of our kind to see the Net in its original & meant-to-be form. It feels like the Net is already being "televisionized" (term coined yet?)I learned pretty well the base of censorship through the epitome of censorship satire: "This Film Is Not Yet Rated".
Being historically illiterate I don't know how bad communists where considered at the time, but supposedly Churchill had said: "We have slaughtered the wrong pig!"
That was WRT to Germany's surrender and realizing how he actually contributed to Russia arising on the European continent as a single hegemonic power, the one thing he was trying to prevent.
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Brutal. Even on the slashdotometer scale.
...and maybe they'll hatch.
I agree completely. People who want to be all polite and beat around the bush instead of coming forth and communicating what they feel/think, are the reason every day millions of work hours are wasted and millions of mediocrities keep on living in their fantasy world thinking they are awesome at what they do.
Additionally, people whose opinion on this is that "he should be polite regardless of who he is and who he thinks he is", will never understand the argument "Cultural Differences, Bitch" [Pinkman TM] either.
The bottom line: Linus it not the average person. His work speaks for itself. The people who have a problem with his attitude, are those who demand of a genius that he also be modest/low-key/polite/gentle/subtle. But hey, guess what! If i'm a mediocrity, I don't get to demand things from superior people. And yes, sorry to break it to you. We're not all equal. I wouldn't mind it one bit if Feynman was a d*ck and if Einstein was a pr*ck.
Personally, I wish I had someone like Linus around my work place. I'd take his abuse any day of the week as long as I could benefit, even by mere osmosis, from his experience and ideas. Also don't forget: for every 1 person that bitches about his attitude, there are hundreds that benefit, enjoy, grow and flourish around him. And not just due to Stockholm syndrome.
I remember when "they" decided to replace modems for win-modems. Linux users probably remember the frustration and dead ends of trying to make a software modem work under Linux. Hardware is very good at doing its job; at least a lot better than software. Whenever the latter tries to replace the former...we'll probably see a new IT specialty in the horizon soon.
I'm not quite that sure that nowadays Postgres has that many fewer job opportunities than Mysql. I'd say that this is more of a belief from the earlier half of the past decade. And by job opportunity I don't mean "oh! we have a project (i.e. website) that uses MySQL as a backend". Job opportunity should translate to "we have someone to run the thing". And given that Mysql behaves as a DBMS for very loose use of the term (i mean so loose, you wouldn't believe it was a DBMS not even on Xmas eve), you are probably closer to getting it done "quick and dirty" with Postgres exactly because it does it "the right way". Now with respect to the OP's question: Pg is an easy pick over Mysql contribution-wise. If you do indeed have a DB theory background, then barely using each one of the two for a couple of weeks should be more than enough for you understand the difference in quality (features and implementation).
I agree with that. Speaking 4 foreign languages, I have the utmost appreciation for people who gladly assume the role of correcting me in real-time and in real-life conditions. Unfortunately, as the OP states, usually it's just the girlfriend that assumes this role consistently and that only after I make it clear multiple times that "I am not offended by it. If you really want to help me improve, please correct me all the time". And yes, the girlfriend is real and doesn't get paid for it or other services rendered.
Could be right, but then again McD's doesn't gain anything clogging a junkeater's arteries. It doesn't increase their chances of more revenues; on the contrary it kills a good customer. Whereas the parasite makes the rat go where it shouldn't want to, because in the long run it increases the parasite's chances of reproduction. If only McD's could find a way to make a small commission our of each one they send to the hospital/morgue, it would all make so much more sense.
Your way of thinking probably explains as well why the US is #1 in prisoners-per-capita.
Imprisonment removes your freedom. This should be punishment enough. Once you are in there, the idea is not to get you even more agitated or depressed. Rehabilitation comes with providing perhaps even things to which you didn't have access in the first place and led you to crime.
Of course in theory it's easy to generalize and philosofize. But still, trying to make a troubled individual's environment troubling, really has poor chances of solving the trouble.
What really bedazzles me is how one could possibly write such a long and imaginative post on /. and still be the first poster!
Been preparing for years for this to happen, haven't you? Admit it...
You are joking, right? Just because you don't see marching tanks in the streets, doesn't mean it's not a form of war. Let alone Germany that would under no circumstances allow it's name be blemished with YAW. But don't kid yourself; that's the new form of warfare: absolute and transparent financial control.
No. What was really crazy was him having to speak for 9h+ non-stop to say the obvious.
Location: Munich Olympic games
Act: terrorist attack with Israeli hostages
"...the Germans organized Operation Sunshine, which was a plan to storm the apartment building. The terrorists discovered the plan by watching television."
Or maybe the quality of his pr0n differs radically from yours.
Why expect from an exceptional person to be modest? If a big ego is the price to pay for enjoying the works of a genius, so be it. The point is that J is maintaining a balance. And that's priceless regardless of which of the two sides you support. If your subjectivity gets in the way of understanding that balance in more important than right&wrong per se (which only exist in your mind anyway) then it's understandable that J's ego is a problem and not an insignificant side-effect.
We're leaving a lot more up to the Iraqis than we did with, say, Japan after WWII. Japan is actually a very respectable part of the world community today, despite the kind of atrocities they were committing during WWII. We used a heavy hand in the aftermath. We're using a much lighter hand in post-war Iraq.
We'll have to see if that pays off.
It's convenient to rationalise the destruction caused by the iraq war on the basis of we-are-leaving-so-many-things-behind, when in reality:
Not all of it is high school calc. IIRC the integral of 4sin(x)/x has to be solved with Taylor series, and I only got those in the second semester of university calculus.
It's 2nd semester univ.calculus if you are from the US. In some countries it's indeed high school math.
Who are these guys anyway? You expect better from NIST.
They are the same guys who came up with this piece of scientific work
There is a lot of talk about "luck" to cover up the parts of success that cannot be explained. One of the best definitions of "luck" i've come across is: "when planning meets opportunity". And since we cannot control the occurrence of opportunities, the best that can be done is keep on planning. This is the "persistence" part that successful people are talking about. They don't really mean "be persistent in failing".
What an opportune time to be a BOFH at an ISP in Britain!
/away packing bags to London
History has taught us, the truth always comes out.
How can you tell since you can't count the times it actually didn't come out?
Corporations aren't innocent, but their guilt exists due in big part to lack of consumer pressure.
According to The Corporation, corporations lack the ability to feel guilt. And history has taught us that as well.
Even right here in the US we see much of the early Nazi behavior being repeated, but most people cannot see it because they have a cartoon view of the Nazi Party.
You can easily spot 2 differences though: the Nazi's had a designated ministry, the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (must have had some marketing team to come up with that name) and more importantly Germany (and all prior to them) was out in the open about building an empire (which still today can't be openly admitted about the US as they're the first in human History to do it so covertly on such a great scale).
What a weird coincidence. At my part of the world (.gr) as I write these lines national TV is broadcasting (sadly at 1am) Michael Moore's documentary "Fahrenheit 911". Seeing in 2 hours the things that managed to take place in such a short period of time following 9/11, the civil liberties the americans kissed goodbye (Patriot Act anyone?), the censorship capabilities gained by all sorts of nearsighted "agencies" and the media-assisted propaganda (weapons of mass destruction I hear you say?), I can't but feel history is repeating itself and the saddest repetitive pattern is how little we learned last time these things came around.
Just yesterday (yet another coincidence) I watched "People vs. Larry Flynt" (yet another time). I loved Edward Norton's speech in front of the Supreme Court which culminates in "...really what you are talking about is a matter of taste and not a matter of Law...it's useless to argue about taste and even more useless to litigate it".
I'm not suggesting child porn is just a matter of taste, but then again Larry Flynt's prosecution was not really about the smut (plenty other dirty magz were out already) but about how openly he did it. Familienministerin(!) Frau Ursula von der Leyen is not out to blacklist child porn (those who want it will always find ways to get it), she's out to eventually be able to selectively blacklist things now available in the open for anyone interested to read.
Allowing such baby steps towards taking away things on the premise of "what's good for the community", will eventually lead to us being the last of our kind to see the Net in its original & meant-to-be form. It feels like the Net is already being "televisionized" (term coined yet?)I learned pretty well the base of censorship through the epitome of censorship satire: "This Film Is Not Yet Rated" .
Being historically illiterate I don't know how bad communists where considered at the time, but supposedly Churchill had said: "We have slaughtered the wrong pig!" That was WRT to Germany's surrender and realizing how he actually contributed to Russia arising on the European continent as a single hegemonic power, the one thing he was trying to prevent.