This is essentially the Quranic view of reality. The world is a game. Your goal is to collect as many points as possible by doing good. God has created it as a way to sort the souls, in a kind of ultimate natural selection. Look carefully out the window and you will notice it looks eerily like a really well-crafted Virtual Reality engine.
This world is an extremely well-done virtual reality engine. True happiness lies in seeing the game for what it is and then working to maximize your score in the game, through good actions.
The Prophet said, "Who among you considers the wealth of his heirs dearer to him than his own wealth?" They replied, "O Allah's Apostle! There is none among us but loves his own wealth more." The Prophet said, "So his wealth is whatever he spends during his life (on good deeds) while the wealth of his heirs is whatever he leaves after his death."
So focus on good deeds and on earning a reward for the next life, and you will achieve true happiness in this life.
Another remarkable study found that just 4 percent of consumers would be willing to stick with a brand if its competitors offered better value for the same price.
Also there is a difference between people saying they will switch brands, and people actually doing it. Market research is right up there with astrology and tarot cards in predictive accuracy. ---- Write Code That Writes Code
Instead of "The Continued Advance of VoIP", the title should have been "The Continued Decline of Slashdot". VoIP is old news now. I don't know anyone who doesn't have it. Even my grandmother got it last month. ---- C Unit Testing Framework
The other problem with hashcash is that it requires that I force my senders to use this algorithm. I don't want to tell people they can't write to me just because they don't want to use hashcash. I want to get e-mail from everyone.
Or why don't you design a meta-language using which other languages can be designed -- a language that remains completely extensible -- something like MDef.
They could either inject ads into your messages, or send you additional messages containing ads. To make people read the ads, they could make their search even smarter. Then they could send you ads of things you really really wanted, and never realized you did, until you saw the ads. People will eagerly look forward to the ads every day. ---- CuTest
I've installed UseMod which is a nice stable and clean Perl-based wiki. Of the ones that I tried this had the most intuitive defaults. Installation took about 10 minutes. -- CuTest
Well, when the Republicans are in power the Old Economy flourishes (oil, manufacturing, defense) and when the Democrats are in power the New Economy seems to do better. So there is some logic to this craziness. ---- The Procrastinating Monkey
Here's my question: How can you hide a message in an executable containing a single NOOP, or in the Perl program "" (without the quotes). You can't hide much in there. ---- The Procrastinating Monkey
Human brains do many things computers do, require complex software and have always been networked (by definition). How long before someone writes a destructive human brain virus? ---- Turn Work Into A Game
Interesting that software is being used to steal software. How long before people start stealing this software stealing software? --- How to Create a Killer App
Slashdot Mirror
This is essentially the Quranic view of reality. The world is a game. Your goal is to collect as many points as possible by doing good. God has created it as a way to sort the souls, in a kind of ultimate natural selection. Look carefully out the window and you will notice it looks eerily like a really well-crafted Virtual Reality engine.
This world is an extremely well-done virtual reality engine. True happiness lies in seeing the game for what it is and then working to maximize your score in the game, through good actions.
The Prophet said, "Who among you considers the wealth of his heirs dearer to him than his own wealth?" They replied, "O Allah's Apostle! There is none among us but loves his own wealth more." The Prophet said, "So his wealth is whatever he spends during his life (on good deeds) while the wealth of his heirs is whatever he leaves after his death."
So focus on good deeds and on earning a reward for the next life, and you will achieve true happiness in this life.
Instead of getting things done, read this to understand the pointlessness of work and the nobility of idleness.
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Is Your Boss A Muppet?
Maybe they're trying to test ways of making flying more stressful.
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C Language Unit Testing
Another remarkable study found that just 4 percent of consumers would be willing to stick with a brand if its competitors offered better value for the same price.
Also there is a difference between people saying they will switch brands, and people actually doing it. Market research is right up there with astrology and tarot cards in predictive accuracy.
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Write Code That Writes Code
Also if brand names don't matter, why are you posting on slashdot instead of mycoolblog.blogspot.com?
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Write Code That Writes Code
Instead of "The Continued Advance of VoIP", the title should have been "The Continued Decline of Slashdot". VoIP is old news now. I don't know anyone who doesn't have it. Even my grandmother got it last month.
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C Unit Testing Framework
The other problem with hashcash is that it requires that I force my senders to use this algorithm. I don't want to tell people they can't write to me just because they don't want to use hashcash. I want to get e-mail from everyone.
I have been using SpamAssassin and it is working fairly well.
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Automatic Code Generation
Or why don't you design a meta-language using which other languages can be designed -- a language that remains completely extensible -- something like MDef.
They could either inject ads into your messages, or send you additional messages containing ads. To make people read the ads, they could make their search even smarter. Then they could send you ads of things you really really wanted, and never realized you did, until you saw the ads. People will eagerly look forward to the ads every day.
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CuTest
I've installed UseMod which is a nice stable and clean Perl-based wiki. Of the ones that I tried this had the most intuitive defaults. Installation took about 10 minutes.
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CuTest
NASA has a similar application. It's not as sleek as keyhole; on the other hand it's free.
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CuTest
Last paragraph in this article: collecting this data has been an interesting exersize
I assume he means "exersize" of his fingers.
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The Secrets of Innovation
I am curious what the candidates positions are on the Perl versus Python debate?
The Republicans strike me as more likely to be Perl hackers, while the Democrats Pythonistas.
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How To Love Your Job
Well, when the Republicans are in power the Old Economy flourishes (oil, manufacturing, defense) and when the Democrats are in power the New Economy seems to do better. So there is some logic to this craziness.
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The Procrastinating Monkey
Instead of loafing what if you work hyper-productively? How does it hurt you?
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Stop the Procrastinating Monkey
I am curious how many of these are outside the US?
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Procrastinating Monkey
Here's my question: How can you hide a message in an executable containing a single NOOP, or in the Perl program "" (without the quotes). You can't hide much in there.
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The Procrastinating Monkey
Human brains do many things computers do, require complex software and have always been networked (by definition). How long before someone writes a destructive human brain virus?
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Turn Work Into A Game
Actually this was hilarious. It's clearly meant to be humorous. Please mod parent up for humor.
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How to Make Work Enjoyable
What we really need is IM-enabled cars. "Hey you, yellow car, wake up, the lights green."
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How to Make Programming Fun
Great. Now I'll need an anti-virus patch for my brain.
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Pair Programming with a Teddy Bear
$300k per employee makes a really great place to work.
In case you are planning to join here are some software interview questions.
Interesting that software is being used to steal software. How long before people start stealing this software stealing software?
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How to Create a Killer App
This is an idealistic solution that assumes that people are not lazy. That they will work hard every day to create and maintain their whitelists.
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Your Boss Might Be a Muppet