Oh boohoo. Why am I supposed to be sad over her having to pay back her legal fees after she wasted countless hours and millions of dollars of the US legal system when she just wouldn't admit that she was guilty?
Heh. Yeah, well, there's been predictions of doom for several millenia, and so far so good.
I'm not talking about any doom or armageddon. I'm talking about the very real future situation where we won't be able to feed more and more people and we will have tapped out our natural resources. The difference versus the vast majority of the last several millenia is that the human population is a couple of magnitudes larger.
The latest ecodisaster ones don't seem that much different than Revelations, so I'm not too concerned.
I'm not talking about global warming or any such thing. I'm talking about huge swathes of our population starving because we don't have the resources to sustain this out of control growth. Anyone who thinks we will be able to just grow more food or keep finding more oil/other natural resources to sustain a population that could end up topping 10 billion in a century or so is delusional.
It is disturbing how comfortable some people wanting to control the lives of others, though.
Where did I ever say I wanted to control anyone's life? My speaking out against people who selfishly have kids has nothing to do with wanting to control them at all. I find it more disturbing the very real scenario that billions of people may end up starving to death because we can't feed everyone or dying in wars over the small amount of resources we might have left because no one had any thoughts of sustainability in mind. I find it more disturbing that thinking about responsible growth is considered "disturbing".
No, by further stressing our already severely limited resources and food supplies.
Do you upbraid the inhabitants of Africa, India, or China for their children?
Yes, I do. And as grotesque as China's one child policy is it was truly a step that needed to be taken as compared to the more horrible outcome of them continuing to grow at such rapid pace.
If not, why not, and if so, how's it any of your business?
Because I'd rather not see our species die out due to uncontrolled growth that is not sustainable in the long term?
For every fax that needs IT intervention to be sent, the IT department loses one point.
What if the intervention was needed due to no fault of anyone in the IT department? Why should they be penalized cause some asshat was incorrectly using a piece of equipment?
Hold on while I write my own version of the slashcode and put up a new web site so you can see what I have to say.
Or, I can send you a fax.
I'm sorry, but learning to use html or a fax machine "creates skill lock-in" so you will have to invent your own protocols for sending electronic messages if you want to live up to Giga's standard.
Yes, CMSes are not the right fit for every job and that was never my intent to imply. But my issue is that you constantly get people trolling threads about Drupal, Django, etc etc always decrying that no one should be using these frameworks because they think it's improper and that everyone should be writing custom code for every situation even if that is total overkill and unnecessary.
Yes, but learning how to use a framework means you aren't as 1337 as people like GigaHurtsMyRobot so you will automatically lose in the e-peen wagging contests. Clearly only stupid people don't reinvent the wheel over and over again when they can just use a preexisting solution that does what they need already.
I'd understand if this were an Idle article but Technology?
sampenzus knows that most people articles posted to the idle section so he's started posting his idle stories to other sections in order to still get people to read and post in them thus polluting otherwise perfectly fine sections of the site with his idle garbage.
I cannot express to you just how tired I am of these overcomplicated frameworks that require almost as much learning curve as it would to build a custom solution from scratch to suit your needs.
And I cannot express to you just how tired I am of hearing people talk about how you should never use a framework and instead should reinvent the wheel for every project just because they see no use for a particular framework.
Using something like this also creates skill lock-in, where you only know how to do it using this instead of truly understanding the underlying logic.
For someone who just wants a simple and fast website, why exactly do they need to care about the underlying logic? Not everyone cares to tinker with every little thing for every little project and as such these frameworks are very nice to use.
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The most positive description I could give a C# "application" is quick and dirty.
Then you don't use it much. This is what most people say that have nothing but a cursory glance at the language or have never actually used it.
I put application in quotes because calling something written in a scripting language anything other than a script, IMHO, is annoying.
C# isn't a scripting language. You clearly don't know what a scripting language is to make such a laughable statement.
The fact that the script needs to be accompanied by so much extra baggage, mono, it can not be considered small or lean.
Because no C/C++ application is accompanied by extra baggage? I guess I must be dreaming every time I download one of them and have to download 5-10+ megs of dependencies when I apt-get one.
So if the yonly have a 4KB/sec download speed the size of a 6 meg package considering the entire time it will take to get the 700 meg debian ISO is going to be trivial.
Maybe not in Debian because it excludes them but a whole host of other default gnome apps do share it. The fact of the matter is you never see anyone include the sizes of glibc, alsa libs, or any other dependencies (many of which can amount to quite a few megs themselves) when someone talks about any C/C++ application. But whenever a C# app is talked about all of it's dependencies are included on top of the size of the app to create a wildly misleading picture.
They originated because of the way mono is conceived to lure Linux developers into using software whose api is completely controlled by Microsoft but without its blessing.
Yeah, so much of a lack of a blessing that it's provided the Mono developers with specifications for.NET/C#/Silverlight and its engineers have directly collaborated with the Mono developers. I'm pretty sure if you weren't giving your blessing that you wouldn't allow your engineers to collaborate with the project.
Once too many Linux packages depend on mono, I'm sure we'll get some patent/copyright saber-rattling from Microsoft.
So you claim, but we've been hearing that for 5 years now and the sky hasn't fallen yet Chicken Little.
Then there's the technical aspect that mono will always be running behing the microsoft C#/CLI version, and so your Linux mono application will generally not even run on Windows or if it's running will be unappealing because it feels old to the MS user.
This is bullshit. Every app I've written against Mono that doesn't use any of their extensions has run perfectly on.NET on Windows. Just so you know, Mono supports pretty much all of the important parts of.NET 3.5 so I don't know where you are pulling this shit from.
20 minutes? I downloaded the source tarball in 10 seconds.
Used by other programs, true, but not necessarily those included as a dependency for the "typical" Debian desktop install.
Yes, but you never see anyone include the glibc, alsa, etc dependencies when they give you the size of a C/C++ program. In this case it was just used to create a hugely overinflated figure.
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Oh boohoo. Why am I supposed to be sad over her having to pay back her legal fees after she wasted countless hours and millions of dollars of the US legal system when she just wouldn't admit that she was guilty?
why shouldn't they try to innovate in order to remain profitable?
What is innovative about this? Netscape did this almost a decade ago.
Something being beta doesn't necessarily imply that it's not stable. Beta just means it's a pre-release version.
That's the old preview build. This is the RC link.
Heh. Yeah, well, there's been predictions of doom for several millenia, and so far so good.
I'm not talking about any doom or armageddon. I'm talking about the very real future situation where we won't be able to feed more and more people and we will have tapped out our natural resources. The difference versus the vast majority of the last several millenia is that the human population is a couple of magnitudes larger.
The latest ecodisaster ones don't seem that much different than Revelations, so I'm not too concerned.
I'm not talking about global warming or any such thing. I'm talking about huge swathes of our population starving because we don't have the resources to sustain this out of control growth. Anyone who thinks we will be able to just grow more food or keep finding more oil/other natural resources to sustain a population that could end up topping 10 billion in a century or so is delusional.
It is disturbing how comfortable some people wanting to control the lives of others, though.
Where did I ever say I wanted to control anyone's life? My speaking out against people who selfishly have kids has nothing to do with wanting to control them at all. I find it more disturbing the very real scenario that billions of people may end up starving to death because we can't feed everyone or dying in wars over the small amount of resources we might have left because no one had any thoughts of sustainability in mind. I find it more disturbing that thinking about responsible growth is considered "disturbing".
There was censorship on both sides of the wall. This is just more of the same.
I would have expected something like this "DNS blacklist" in Iran or China. But Germany??
This sounds like censorship for the sake of censorship
You must not know much about Germany to be surprised by this. Have a good read on this article.
By having a child they can afford?
No, by further stressing our already severely limited resources and food supplies.
Do you upbraid the inhabitants of Africa, India, or China for their children?
Yes, I do. And as grotesque as China's one child policy is it was truly a step that needed to be taken as compared to the more horrible outcome of them continuing to grow at such rapid pace.
If not, why not, and if so, how's it any of your business?
Because I'd rather not see our species die out due to uncontrolled growth that is not sustainable in the long term?
An IT-department, IMHO, should be working on making itself obsolete.
So in the absence of the IT department, are the software/hardware updates, amongst everything else they maintain, going to be just done by magic?
For every fax that needs IT intervention to be sent, the IT department loses one point.
What if the intervention was needed due to no fault of anyone in the IT department? Why should they be penalized cause some asshat was incorrectly using a piece of equipment?
Meanwhile, some people do care about being genetically related to people they call family, and they would go the IVF route.
And those are the idiots who are making our planet ever more overcrowded and further hampering the long-term survival of our species.
Hold on while I write my own version of the slashcode and put up a new web site so you can see what I have to say.
Or, I can send you a fax.
I'm sorry, but learning to use html or a fax machine "creates skill lock-in" so you will have to invent your own protocols for sending electronic messages if you want to live up to Giga's standard.
Yes, CMSes are not the right fit for every job and that was never my intent to imply. But my issue is that you constantly get people trolling threads about Drupal, Django, etc etc always decrying that no one should be using these frameworks because they think it's improper and that everyone should be writing custom code for every situation even if that is total overkill and unnecessary.
Yes, but learning how to use a framework means you aren't as 1337 as people like GigaHurtsMyRobot so you will automatically lose in the e-peen wagging contests. Clearly only stupid people don't reinvent the wheel over and over again when they can just use a preexisting solution that does what they need already.
Good for you. What you would or wouldn't use is probably a topic of least concern for most people.
I'd understand if this were an Idle article but Technology?
sampenzus knows that most people articles posted to the idle section so he's started posting his idle stories to other sections in order to still get people to read and post in them thus polluting otherwise perfectly fine sections of the site with his idle garbage.
I cannot express to you just how tired I am of these overcomplicated frameworks that require almost as much learning curve as it would to build a custom solution from scratch to suit your needs.
And I cannot express to you just how tired I am of hearing people talk about how you should never use a framework and instead should reinvent the wheel for every project just because they see no use for a particular framework.
Using something like this also creates skill lock-in, where you only know how to do it using this instead of truly understanding the underlying logic.
For someone who just wants a simple and fast website, why exactly do they need to care about the underlying logic? Not everyone cares to tinker with every little thing for every little project and as such these frameworks are very nice to use.
Name one truly successful site built with this.
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Why doesn't flash do it already?
It's already been planned. From here:
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When Microsoft offer an unlimited patent covenant for all distributors of Linux software, people will stop complaining about it overnight.
Then maybe those other distros need to go talk to Microsoft and secure themselves a covenant like Novell did.
The most positive description I could give a C# "application" is quick and dirty.
Then you don't use it much. This is what most people say that have nothing but a cursory glance at the language or have never actually used it.
I put application in quotes because calling something written in a scripting language anything other than a script, IMHO, is annoying.
C# isn't a scripting language. You clearly don't know what a scripting language is to make such a laughable statement.
The fact that the script needs to be accompanied by so much extra baggage, mono, it can not be considered small or lean.
Because no C/C++ application is accompanied by extra baggage? I guess I must be dreaming every time I download one of them and have to download 5-10+ megs of dependencies when I apt-get one.
So if the yonly have a 4KB/sec download speed the size of a 6 meg package considering the entire time it will take to get the 700 meg debian ISO is going to be trivial.
Maybe not in Debian because it excludes them but a whole host of other default gnome apps do share it. The fact of the matter is you never see anyone include the sizes of glibc, alsa libs, or any other dependencies (many of which can amount to quite a few megs themselves) when someone talks about any C/C++ application. But whenever a C# app is talked about all of it's dependencies are included on top of the size of the app to create a wildly misleading picture.
They originated because of the way mono is conceived to lure Linux developers into using software whose api is completely controlled by Microsoft but without its blessing.
Yeah, so much of a lack of a blessing that it's provided the Mono developers with specifications for .NET/C#/Silverlight and its engineers have directly collaborated with the Mono developers. I'm pretty sure if you weren't giving your blessing that you wouldn't allow your engineers to collaborate with the project.
Once too many Linux packages depend on mono, I'm sure we'll get some patent/copyright saber-rattling from Microsoft.
So you claim, but we've been hearing that for 5 years now and the sky hasn't fallen yet Chicken Little.
Then there's the technical aspect that mono will always be running behing the microsoft C#/CLI version, and so your Linux mono application will generally not even run on Windows or if it's running will be unappealing because it feels old to the MS user.
This is bullshit. Every app I've written against Mono that doesn't use any of their extensions has run perfectly on .NET on Windows. Just so you know, Mono supports pretty much all of the important parts of .NET 3.5 so I don't know where you are pulling this shit from.
A 20 minute download for a note-taking app?
20 minutes? I downloaded the source tarball in 10 seconds.
Used by other programs, true, but not necessarily those included as a dependency for the "typical" Debian desktop install.
Yes, but you never see anyone include the glibc, alsa, etc dependencies when they give you the size of a C/C++ program. In this case it was just used to create a hugely overinflated figure.