Yeah, tell that to my dumb colleague who reads NOTHING (including the code he needs to work on) and then starts deiscussion with "I know how it works!"
I am on holiday in Switzerland right now, even as we speak. Yesterday my missus bought a frozen Pizza (long trip, hungry kids....). In Germany, where we live, it costs 2 Euros. Here it costs 5 Euros, 2.5 times more. Exactly, identically the same product. And we live close to the Swiss border (my wife works in Switzerland), so it is pretty much the most expensive city in Germany.
If my wife did not work in Switzerland, with Swiss wages, there is NO way this three day trip would be possible. The town in Germany are making a killing with Swiss peple crossing the border to buy el cheapo stuff there, and the bastards even have the right to get back their VAT.
You don't want to become like the Swiss. Everything is horrifyingly expensive here (and I hear Norway is worse). A house? Our house cost about 250K in Germany. Same one here would go for 500-600 and in Zurich for maybe 2 million. If you get one.
Mandela? He was certainly the head of a terrorist organization. Another fine example of someone who thinks vandalism is a way to solve his problems is Osama bin Laden.
"Basically all these modern script kiddie hacker activist-wannabes understand is "us and them"."
Let me correct that for you:
'Basically all frustrated youths who want to take a shortcut to what they perceive as an unfair world understand is "us and them"'
Anarchists in the late 19th century? Same story French Revolutionaries? Same story Bolsheviks? Same story Maoists in the 60s (both in China and Europe)? Same story Hippies in the 60s? Same story French Students going bonkers in 68? Same story (but at least The Searchers made a very sweet film...) Baader Meinhof Gang? Red Army Faction? Same story Idealistic Greens/Ökos today? Same story Young muslims joining ISIS? Same story
Like Churchill said "If you are 20 and you are not a communist, you don't have a heart. If you are 40 and still a communist you don't have a brain."
a) Lazy, bigoted, racist, got up at 10 or later, drank heavily and smoked cigars like the end of the world was about to come b) Ascetic vegetarian, no women, did not drink, did not smoke, lived pretty much like a saint c) Womanizer, had several charges of sexual harassment, got government troopers to get him blowjobs, screwed his aides in the office
a) Adolf Hitler* b) Winston Churchill c) Bill Clinton**
See the connection?
*Ok, admittedly, in the 2000s it became clear that Hitler was bit addicted to painkillers... ** To his defense, Monica Lewinsky saw an ad that said "Come to the White House, get a taste of the presidency". She came in the White House and tasted the President. So she needed reading glasses, not her fault!
When Anonymous decided to seriously target ISIS was the first time the Jihadis were going to be f*cked over by a bunch of virgins. Their dreams did not come true though.
Gravillo Princip, who started the First, and indirectly the Second World War was an Anarchist. 100 Million dead people later, Europe is still ruled by a government
Oh FFS, don't blame Jimmy Carter. He was a nuclear engineer in the navy, and actually did some work INSIDE a running nuclear reactor undergoing a meltdown. When Three Mile Island popped he was one of the experts on site.
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I still have an old IBM Laptop with BeOS on it. Boot it once in a while to make me happy. I love the game trinket with the flying balls.
Yeah, tell that to my dumb colleague who reads NOTHING (including the code he needs to work on) and then starts deiscussion with "I know how it works!"
I am on holiday in Switzerland right now, even as we speak. Yesterday my missus bought a frozen Pizza (long trip, hungry kids....). In Germany, where we live, it costs 2 Euros. Here it costs 5 Euros, 2.5 times more. Exactly, identically the same product. And we live close to the Swiss border (my wife works in Switzerland), so it is pretty much the most expensive city in Germany.
If my wife did not work in Switzerland, with Swiss wages, there is NO way this three day trip would be possible. The town in Germany are making a killing with Swiss peple crossing the border to buy el cheapo stuff there, and the bastards even have the right to get back their VAT.
You don't want to become like the Swiss. Everything is horrifyingly expensive here (and I hear Norway is worse). A house? Our house cost about 250K in Germany. Same one here would go for 500-600 and in Zurich for maybe 2 million. If you get one.
Just invent a lubricating secret burger sauce and ..... profit!
And you only have to program the robots once, not retrain them all the time.
Yeah, then shift the central call centre to India. I can just hear the voice on the other side already.
Christ. The Lidls in Germany have low-level slow lazy checkout morons. I NEVER go to a Lidl.
I doubt that any person. let alone politician, could have predicted the rate and direction of technology in the 1970s
If someone is capable of servicing, let alone programming, a robot s/he would not be working at McDonalds in the first place.
I still have a few 8 inch disks lying around, some with data on that I programmed in 1980/81 or so. Maybe the DOD is in the market?
Mandela? He was certainly the head of a terrorist organization.
Another fine example of someone who thinks vandalism is a way to solve his problems is Osama bin Laden.
Noam Chomsky has the brain capacity of a tadpole as far as politics is concerned
He was addicted to something, that I know. If it was painkillers I don't
"Basically all these modern script kiddie hacker activist-wannabes understand is "us and them"."
Let me correct that for you:
'Basically all frustrated youths who want to take a shortcut to what they perceive as an unfair world understand is "us and them"'
Anarchists in the late 19th century? Same story
French Revolutionaries? Same story
Bolsheviks? Same story
Maoists in the 60s (both in China and Europe)? Same story
Hippies in the 60s? Same story
French Students going bonkers in 68? Same story (but at least The Searchers made a very sweet film...)
Baader Meinhof Gang? Red Army Faction? Same story
Idealistic Greens/Ökos today? Same story
Young muslims joining ISIS? Same story
Like Churchill said "If you are 20 and you are not a communist, you don't have a heart. If you are 40 and still a communist you don't have a brain."
"Oppressor of the younger classes"
My children call me that every day :)
Match the following two lists:
a) Lazy, bigoted, racist, got up at 10 or later, drank heavily and smoked cigars like the end of the world was about to come
b) Ascetic vegetarian, no women, did not drink, did not smoke, lived pretty much like a saint
c) Womanizer, had several charges of sexual harassment, got government troopers to get him blowjobs, screwed his aides in the office
a) Adolf Hitler*
b) Winston Churchill
c) Bill Clinton**
See the connection?
*Ok, admittedly, in the 2000s it became clear that Hitler was bit addicted to painkillers...
** To his defense, Monica Lewinsky saw an ad that said "Come to the White House, get a taste of the presidency". She came in the White House and tasted the President. So she needed reading glasses, not her fault!
Hillary has DD's I would suspect, certainly not KK's
When Anonymous decided to seriously target ISIS was the first time the Jihadis were going to be f*cked over by a bunch of virgins. Their dreams did not come true though.
Gravillo Princip, who started the First, and indirectly the Second World War was an Anarchist. 100 Million dead people later, Europe is still ruled by a government
You are an old-timer and would never understand the fine subtle mind of a modern-day Millennial Hipster
Oh FFS, don't blame Jimmy Carter. He was a nuclear engineer in the navy, and actually did some work INSIDE a running nuclear reactor undergoing a meltdown. When Three Mile Island popped he was one of the experts on site.
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Agreed. Working through the Phoenix book right now.
And add "real composability" to that list.
Ruby is not based on Algol/Pascal/C/Java thing. It is based on Smalltalk with a lot of LISP thrown in. That is why
a) It is so cool
b) Codemonkeys regard it with distaste.
And curly brackets suck donkeyballs.
Agreed. a PHP Programmer calling Ruby a mess is just deluded or plain stupid.
I have never used LAMP in my life either, and I am not using Tomat. Switched from Java/EE to Rails and have always used Postgres, not MySQL.
So I went from LAJP to LNRP. No LAMP.
Also did some Clojure and now some Elixir. PHP? Programmed one little job in 2 days, and will never do so again, FFS.