So much better to believe in a universe that created itself, that all of our ethics should be learned by watching the Nature Channel, and that none of us actually exist.
>>if you can only handle programming 10-15 hours a week - why are you doing software programming?
I can *do* more, but what I found was that about 20 hours a week yielded optimal results. This is backed up by various findings in education and cogsci as well.
>>Then 40 hours is never enough time to get everything you want done.... now back to the code
I run my own business now. I get quality work done in short amounts of time, and enjoy life with all my free time. If my business went under, I think I'd have a really hard time going back to an office job. I'm spoiled rotten.
>>Also, I find that when you're in the "zone" it's not painful at all. Sounds like you may be working on something you don't enjoy so much?:D
When I'm in the zone writing code, I can easily code for 10 hours straight. However, doing this on a day in, day out basis tends to be wearing from all the focus. When I worked for other people, I found that working about four hours a day when my brain was freshest yielded the best results. Since I was being paid hourly, I wasn't even forced to sit around waiting for five o'clock to roll around. I'd bill four hours and bail out. Got a project that had been budgeted for three years and half a million dollars finished in a summer for (unfortunately) much less money.
>>The flipside of the registration requirement is that tourists will be turned away by clerks who don't know how to enter information from a foreign passport and that selling SIM cards entails a huge overhead.
I visited France last year, and had no trouble getting a prepaid cell phone, but they did need to see my passport. Took maybe 20 minutes or so. If I'd cared, I'm sure I could have found a grey market retailer of SIM cards.
I know what mirror neurons are. And it's exactly what I said - why people pretend to think they know what dogs and trees feel like when they actually have no fucking idea.
All the research shows that spending more money on schools, contrary to the talking points you parroted, doesn't improve educational outcomes, unless the money is actually spent on removing a barrier that money can fix. For example, not having a late bus for kids in the afterschool program actually meets a need. Paying starting teachers 65000 dollars? Not so much.
Naturally, Unions, which are part of the problem, say the opposite. And why wouldn't they?
How droll. Silly man, we can throw money down a hole, refund Cash for Clunkers and mortgage subsidies (or do I repeat myself?) AND pay for Iraq and Afghanistan all at the same time. Oh, and free health care for everyone, too. Congress has a magic wand that can pay for everything.
Actually, at the education workshop I'm at right now, the consensus is that Boot Camps are the only thing that worked for a certain category of students. However, they were all closed in the recent round of budget cuts.
>>Given this serious flaw in the poll's questions, I wouldn't be surprised if there were other flaws in the poll that resulted in hidden biases.
Yeah, I do evaluation as one of the various hats I wear, and there's enormous "swing" on a topic depending on how you phrase it.
Q1: "Do you think the universe began exactly as described by the Big Bang theory?" Q2: "Do you think the Big Bang theory is correct?" (Or "True" or "Comprehensive"...) Q3: "Do you think that what we consider our universe began roughly 13.75 billion years ago?"
Ask this to a bunch of scientifically literate folks (hell, physicists), and you'll get a massive swing on the answers. Very few people think that we know everything about the early universe, and so will answer False to Q1. Most people that aren't YECs, will answer true to Q3.
But the damned media will label any such poll as: "Only 11% of American physicists believe in the Big Bang! Look at how stupid and backwards our/their country is!!!"
Hence the guy in the article was kind of justified in pulling a question out that lacked the fine grained detail needed to capture the various nuances of belief. These things are actually very tricky to get right.
>>Isn't there one of you out there who can actually FEEL the suffering of others?
"Actually"?
I highly doubt it. We can only feel our only pain.
Sorry if this sounds over-literal, but a healthy dose of reality is often useful against people who pretend they know what eels, or trees, or the planet, is "feeling".
>>Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine
Hmm, I'm not familiar with iPhone development (I've only explored the development environment for Android). How does Javascript development work on the iPhone for local apps?
There's actually a javascript tool called FightCard (http://d20.heardworld.com/?page_id=589) which you download and run locally on your computer. Is it possible to run such a thing on an iPad? Doing initiative tracking for Shadowrun and D&D is really the killer app I've been looking for for an iPad, but I don't know if such a thing is even possible in the iPad's closed environment.
I know that for my company, I'd get a lot less spam if they couldn't trawl my email address out of the registry. Fortunately, a quick filter set up gets rid of most of it.
I'm actually somewhat worried about the trend of taking root access away from a user on their own computers. iPhones and Droids both don't give root unless you unlock them, but as you say, they're quite open when compared with most phones over the last decade or two.
But DRM attempts to close the analog hole, not being able to record off audio-in lines... that is sort of stuff that actually bothers me. When they put all users into a giant sandbox, the computing world will suffer as a result of it.
I can think of two times: I was driving home from a ski trip, behind two other cars and one SUV. Car number one goes around a turn, slides on a patch of black ice, and plows into the mountainside. Car #2 brakes, takes it slowly, and slides out into the mountainside. SUV brakes, slides out, hits the mountainside. I hit the patch of black ice and controlled the slide using skills learned (no shit) in Gran Turismo and came out cleanly. Felt pretty bad ass - my friend was cheering.
Likewise I once hydroplaned and used my Mario Kart skills to control through it. Not as epic, I guess.
>>Literature professors and Philosophy of Science majors should be fun too.
I get really annoyed when I play Scrabble because I use words like 'qualia', which is a perfectly legal word, but isn't in the official Scrabble dictionary when it got challenged by my non-philosophy-loving friends. I note that it's in the online dictionary now, though.
Losing qualia on a double/triple is one of the reasons why I nerdrage whenever I think about playing the stupid game.
>>What it means is that there's likely zero problem with Toyota's cars and there never was.
As I always say on these threads on Slashdot when they come up - runaway acceleration is actually a real problem. I know, since it happened to me on a model that was famous for going out of control (80s Caprice Classics). I can personally attest to putting both feet on the brakes and pushing down as hard as I could when my car flew out of control, and it was like pushing on bricks - nothing happened. I had to kill the gas and ride the very non-power braking brakes until it stopped.
>>Can we all agree that those are nothing more than tacky hazards and should be paying quite a bit in taxes?
Well, I don't know about being "tacky" (and if anti-tacky should be mandated by law, per se), but as far as taxes on SUVs go, here in California we're already there.
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So much better to believe in a universe that created itself, that all of our ethics should be learned by watching the Nature Channel, and that none of us actually exist.
>>if you can only handle programming 10-15 hours a week - why are you doing software programming?
I can *do* more, but what I found was that about 20 hours a week yielded optimal results. This is backed up by various findings in education and cogsci as well.
>>Then 40 hours is never enough time to get everything you want done. ... now back to the code
I run my own business now. I get quality work done in short amounts of time, and enjoy life with all my free time. If my business went under, I think I'd have a really hard time going back to an office job. I'm spoiled rotten.
>>Also, I find that when you're in the "zone" it's not painful at all. Sounds like you may be working on something you don't enjoy so much? :D
When I'm in the zone writing code, I can easily code for 10 hours straight. However, doing this on a day in, day out basis tends to be wearing from all the focus. When I worked for other people, I found that working about four hours a day when my brain was freshest yielded the best results. Since I was being paid hourly, I wasn't even forced to sit around waiting for five o'clock to roll around. I'd bill four hours and bail out. Got a project that had been budgeted for three years and half a million dollars finished in a summer for (unfortunately) much less money.
>>The flipside of the registration requirement is that tourists will be turned away by clerks who don't know how to enter information from a foreign passport and that selling SIM cards entails a huge overhead.
I visited France last year, and had no trouble getting a prepaid cell phone, but they did need to see my passport. Took maybe 20 minutes or so. If I'd cared, I'm sure I could have found a grey market retailer of SIM cards.
I know what mirror neurons are. And it's exactly what I said - why people pretend to think they know what dogs and trees feel like when they actually have no fucking idea.
"Sap is the trees crying!"
Yeah, yeah, go cry yourself to sleep, hippie.
You do know they're harvesting The Fifth Element to make these things, right??
All the research shows that spending more money on schools, contrary to the talking points you parroted, doesn't improve educational outcomes, unless the money is actually spent on removing a barrier that money can fix. For example, not having a late bus for kids in the afterschool program actually meets a need. Paying starting teachers 65000 dollars? Not so much.
Naturally, Unions, which are part of the problem, say the opposite. And why wouldn't they?
Tossing money in a pit rather than a war?
How droll. Silly man, we can throw money down a hole, refund Cash for Clunkers and mortgage subsidies (or do I repeat myself?) AND pay for Iraq and Afghanistan all at the same time. Oh, and free health care for everyone, too. Congress has a magic wand that can pay for everything.
Actually, at the education workshop I'm at right now, the consensus is that Boot Camps are the only thing that worked for a certain category of students. However, they were all closed in the recent round of budget cuts.
Did it encourage you to become an autodidact, though?
That's really the only skill that matters. I'd be worried that kids paid to learn would consider it work, not fun.
>>Given this serious flaw in the poll's questions, I wouldn't be surprised if there were other flaws in the poll that resulted in hidden biases.
Yeah, I do evaluation as one of the various hats I wear, and there's enormous "swing" on a topic depending on how you phrase it.
Q1: "Do you think the universe began exactly as described by the Big Bang theory?"
Q2: "Do you think the Big Bang theory is correct?" (Or "True" or "Comprehensive"...)
Q3: "Do you think that what we consider our universe began roughly 13.75 billion years ago?"
Ask this to a bunch of scientifically literate folks (hell, physicists), and you'll get a massive swing on the answers. Very few people think that we know everything about the early universe, and so will answer False to Q1. Most people that aren't YECs, will answer true to Q3.
But the damned media will label any such poll as: "Only 11% of American physicists believe in the Big Bang! Look at how stupid and backwards our/their country is!!!"
Hence the guy in the article was kind of justified in pulling a question out that lacked the fine grained detail needed to capture the various nuances of belief. These things are actually very tricky to get right.
>>Isn't there one of you out there who can actually FEEL the suffering of others?
"Actually"?
I highly doubt it. We can only feel our only pain.
Sorry if this sounds over-literal, but a healthy dose of reality is often useful against people who pretend they know what eels, or trees, or the planet, is "feeling".
>>there's nothing close to universal agreement about address range registration systems or how to validate BGP information.
Given this same problem happened before back in the 90s, you'd think that they'd at least not allow negative route lengths to be propagated.
>>Apparently they excrete slime.
Hell, they're still slimy when you eat them. It doesn't make them any less delicious. =)
Seriously, if you've never had an Unagi-Don, shop around at your local sushi restaurants till you get a good one. They're amazing.
What is the process for doing that? Does it load through iTunes or do you mount the device as a drive and just copy the files over?
Sorry for sounding like a newb, but I don't use closed devices very much.
>>Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine
Hmm, I'm not familiar with iPhone development (I've only explored the development environment for Android). How does Javascript development work on the iPhone for local apps?
There's actually a javascript tool called FightCard (http://d20.heardworld.com/?page_id=589) which you download and run locally on your computer. Is it possible to run such a thing on an iPad? Doing initiative tracking for Shadowrun and D&D is really the killer app I've been looking for for an iPad, but I don't know if such a thing is even possible in the iPad's closed environment.
I know that for my company, I'd get a lot less spam if they couldn't trawl my email address out of the registry. Fortunately, a quick filter set up gets rid of most of it.
I'm actually somewhat worried about the trend of taking root access away from a user on their own computers. iPhones and Droids both don't give root unless you unlock them, but as you say, they're quite open when compared with most phones over the last decade or two.
But DRM attempts to close the analog hole, not being able to record off audio-in lines... that is sort of stuff that actually bothers me. When they put all users into a giant sandbox, the computing world will suffer as a result of it.
I think video game car skills do apply.
I can think of two times:
I was driving home from a ski trip, behind two other cars and one SUV. Car number one goes around a turn, slides on a patch of black ice, and plows into the mountainside. Car #2 brakes, takes it slowly, and slides out into the mountainside. SUV brakes, slides out, hits the mountainside. I hit the patch of black ice and controlled the slide using skills learned (no shit) in Gran Turismo and came out cleanly. Felt pretty bad ass - my friend was cheering.
Likewise I once hydroplaned and used my Mario Kart skills to control through it. Not as epic, I guess.
>>Literature professors and Philosophy of Science majors should be fun too.
I get really annoyed when I play Scrabble because I use words like 'qualia', which is a perfectly legal word, but isn't in the official Scrabble dictionary when it got challenged by my non-philosophy-loving friends. I note that it's in the online dictionary now, though.
Losing qualia on a double/triple is one of the reasons why I nerdrage whenever I think about playing the stupid game.
>>That is usually a correct assumption, and we require actual evidence of fault with the car in order to be able to correct a problem.
The funny thing about sporadic bugs is that they're very hard to reproduce.
>>That says absolutely nothing about whether it's a real problem in more modern cars or in these cases with Toyota in particular.
It absolutely says that people are more than willing to always assume the problem is with the human, when it could be with the car.
>>What it means is that there's likely zero problem with Toyota's cars and there never was.
As I always say on these threads on Slashdot when they come up - runaway acceleration is actually a real problem. I know, since it happened to me on a model that was famous for going out of control (80s Caprice Classics). I can personally attest to putting both feet on the brakes and pushing down as hard as I could when my car flew out of control, and it was like pushing on bricks - nothing happened. I had to kill the gas and ride the very non-power braking brakes until it stopped.
>>Can we all agree that those are nothing more than tacky hazards and should be paying quite a bit in taxes?
Well, I don't know about being "tacky" (and if anti-tacky should be mandated by law, per se), but as far as taxes on SUVs go, here in California we're already there.
>>Out of curiosity, what was the charge, and was he convicted?
It had something to do with breaking into the white house. :)