I agree with this, you need to write code which is not a impenetrable mess, I don't mind lack of comments, what I mind is lack of structure, that hurts much much more, because sometimes I want to understand the algorithm and the comments are fine, but doesnt help me understand the actual code in the file, line by line.
the deeper I get into this topic the more I see the universe as an energy field, clumped together in places to form atoms, but they are not separate entities, but merely an observation or easy to facilitate way to see how the field is distributed.
well, I don't remember any stories about the netherlands being on the brink of bankruptcy though, so I suppose it's doing a great job at all that tax collection which the southern countries have so many problems with.
sometimes people are employed autonomo (freelance) and it's apparently a law that if you bill one client 80+% of your total income they have to contract you, to stop the company from cheaping out on the taxes, etc.
then if they fire you, you can get a nice little deal under the table where they agree to pay you X thousand euros because they broke the law and they are gonna get screwed if they get found out, they would need to pay a fine for the tax avoidance, your holiday pay, etc, etc.
although it's not well known, it's useful to know a friend who tells you this so you know when it's your time under the axe, you have a nice ace in the hole to play with, that X thousand euro payment will help a lot when you're looking for a new job sipping mojitos on the beach in barcelona:D
well it's actually a good point, our ability to detect something would depend on how much energy it expended, therefore crossed the galaxy in a way we could detect it.
small scale example, a computer in the 50's took a whole building, generated a ton of heat and noise, people walking past easily could detect something was there, even if they didnt know what it was, standing inside the main room was hot and the air dry, all easy to detect.
nowadays, computers use a tiny fraction of the power they used to and are thousands of times more capable, you'd have a hard time detecting a cellphone on standby in somebodies shirt pocket even if you were humping their leg, the power signature is practically non-existent apart from specialist technology that even then might not pin down exactly where or what it was.
applying this idea to aliens and their possible futuristic technology, surely it's quite easy to suppose that their power signatures are not strong enough to reach us, or are absorbed/converted to other forms which don't appear identifiable from other normal or natural sources that at the end, they become invisible, yet they could be warping space time in some way and yet using the same power as it costs to turn on a television on our planet.
you get the idea, but I think it's an interesting idea/point of view.
yes I agree with you, a simple PHP or LESS system will do away with the problems, in fact, I'm planning to start using LESS and server side compilation/caching soon on our website, however it's a problem that the language doesnt support it _BY_DEFAULT_
sure, I agree it's not the fault of CSS that browsers don't support everything in the spec, but I think we need to start taking responsibility and not delegating so much, you can't say to almost all features that in order to be compliant you only need to support x% of the spec, no, I think we need to start making specifications that work, such as those which say if you don't implement everything in the way that the document explains, you are not compliant.
when reading through w3c specs, sometimes I'm amazing at how much of the spec is optional.....that needs to stop....I understand the reasons in a way, compromises made by people etc, but I think we need to start saying, YES, you NEED to support THAT option and NO you are not allowed to skip it.
then we might start to get more specs which actually work in our advantage.
yes, but as he commented, local farmers ARE in business and people are STILL starving.
giving those starving people food, who cannot afford food, therefore are starving, giving them free food won't affect the sales of the local farmers, because you're giving to the starving people and not to the people who are not starving and can afford to buy.
it might affect the sales of the local farmers if they people who are NOT starving start to benefit from the free food, but the idea would be to NOT support that and only give to people who are genuinely starving and it's pretty easy to know who is who and monitor the situation to make sure the food doesnt go into the marketplace and destroy the local farmers.
you're logic is cross-wired, you should rethink it.
not true, there are clear defects in the tools that almost everybody agrees on (variables), plus the browsers don't support everything even though the specs are years old.
how could it drive african farmers out of business to give grain set to be destroyed to people who are starving and not buying the grain from the african farmers in the first place?
of course, if you give the grain to the people who normally would buy the grain, then that would be different, but packaging it up and dropping it on villages with no food supply is not going to affect african farmers at all, it might even make villages richer economically because they can redistribute their limited resources into other areas allowing them at some point in the future to become future customers of those african farmers as opposed to just dying in the streets from starvation.
right now, not so many people are using it as opposed to paper money, so there is not so much scope for theft or fraud, but I guess for the people doing the losing it's more serious.
however, with each attack comes a stronger topology and methology to securing the system, the hacking attacks should in theory make the system stronger and more realible.
perhaps if you read the comment I wrote in the context of the thread it was started from, you'd understand that what you said was incorrect and you're jumping on the wrong person:)
all that needs to happen is enough of us to care less about your precious remote X functionality and you'll be forced to ditch it, support it yourself or program it yourself.
so people mindlessly fleeing from X, might not even care about a feature they never used......ever
ok, so basically we could have edge nodes all paid for by city taxes and available to everybody in the wifi "mesh" in the center.
that would bridge the darknet and internet together, but I still think that the darknet idea is a good one, we all control the hardware and depend on nobody to give those services, but as an addition you can gain access to other locations outside that network through the edge nodes.
I suppose there are ways to know that and route around it if required, but all the equipment belongs to the assholes, so lets hope there are less assholes than we imagine in real life.
I suppose herd mentality would take over though, yes somebody might be an asshole, but being an asshole to a technology they themselves also rely on might make them think twice about being an asshole in that way and instead direct his rage at IRC channels instead, since it causes him less self-harm.
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I agree with this, you need to write code which is not a impenetrable mess, I don't mind lack of comments, what I mind is lack of structure, that hurts much much more, because sometimes I want to understand the algorithm and the comments are fine, but doesnt help me understand the actual code in the file, line by line.
which sometimes, is important.
he should have added h) readability, I need to read it back to myself in 6 months time and understand it.
the deeper I get into this topic the more I see the universe as an energy field, clumped together in places to form atoms, but they are not separate entities, but merely an observation or easy to facilitate way to see how the field is distributed.
as languages go, you might want to practice english a bit more first :) /troll hahahahah
well that escalated quickly......
but thats socialist, european model just doesnt fit with the american dream!!!
well, I don't remember any stories about the netherlands being on the brink of bankruptcy though, so I suppose it's doing a great job at all that tax collection which the southern countries have so many problems with.
yes, this is rife in spain.
sometimes people are employed autonomo (freelance) and it's apparently a law that if you bill one client 80+% of your total income they have to contract you, to stop the company from cheaping out on the taxes, etc.
then if they fire you, you can get a nice little deal under the table where they agree to pay you X thousand euros because they broke the law and they are gonna get screwed if they get found out, they would need to pay a fine for the tax avoidance, your holiday pay, etc, etc.
although it's not well known, it's useful to know a friend who tells you this so you know when it's your time under the axe, you have a nice ace in the hole to play with, that X thousand euro payment will help a lot when you're looking for a new job sipping mojitos on the beach in barcelona :D
I can imagine in your scenario it'd be a bit more complex cause it's a firmware product and not some desktop or server someplace.
but in general, with run of the mill software...
well it's actually a good point, our ability to detect something would depend on how much energy it expended, therefore crossed the galaxy in a way we could detect it.
small scale example, a computer in the 50's took a whole building, generated a ton of heat and noise, people walking past easily could detect something was there, even if they didnt know what it was, standing inside the main room was hot and the air dry, all easy to detect.
nowadays, computers use a tiny fraction of the power they used to and are thousands of times more capable, you'd have a hard time detecting a cellphone on standby in somebodies shirt pocket even if you were humping their leg, the power signature is practically non-existent apart from specialist technology that even then might not pin down exactly where or what it was.
applying this idea to aliens and their possible futuristic technology, surely it's quite easy to suppose that their power signatures are not strong enough to reach us, or are absorbed/converted to other forms which don't appear identifiable from other normal or natural sources that at the end, they become invisible, yet they could be warping space time in some way and yet using the same power as it costs to turn on a television on our planet.
you get the idea, but I think it's an interesting idea/point of view.
I'm confused, on my debian vps, another debian dedicated server and a further centos server, I could just apt-get the new software.
since it's 100% compatible and most small websites are not even going to touch the potential problem areas, how would this cost a "lot of money" ?
I could upgrade my database in the time it takes to download the packages, hardly a lot of money and even less of time.
yes I agree with you, a simple PHP or LESS system will do away with the problems, in fact, I'm planning to start using LESS and server side compilation/caching soon on our website, however it's a problem that the language doesnt support it _BY_DEFAULT_
sure, I agree it's not the fault of CSS that browsers don't support everything in the spec, but I think we need to start taking responsibility and not delegating so much, you can't say to almost all features that in order to be compliant you only need to support x% of the spec, no, I think we need to start making specifications that work, such as those which say if you don't implement everything in the way that the document explains, you are not compliant.
when reading through w3c specs, sometimes I'm amazing at how much of the spec is optional.....that needs to stop....I understand the reasons in a way, compromises made by people etc, but I think we need to start saying, YES, you NEED to support THAT option and NO you are not allowed to skip it.
then we might start to get more specs which actually work in our advantage.
yes, but as he commented, local farmers ARE in business and people are STILL starving.
giving those starving people food, who cannot afford food, therefore are starving, giving them free food won't affect the sales of the local farmers, because you're giving to the starving people and not to the people who are not starving and can afford to buy.
it might affect the sales of the local farmers if they people who are NOT starving start to benefit from the free food, but the idea would be to NOT support that and only give to people who are genuinely starving and it's pretty easy to know who is who and monitor the situation to make sure the food doesnt go into the marketplace and destroy the local farmers.
you're logic is cross-wired, you should rethink it.
I wish everybody had the same logic circuitry that you have, the world might be a better place....
are you a republican, because they sounds awfully similar to their logic if you ever try to listen to faux news.....
I prefer the daily show, where the news is more factually accurate, a comedy show AND hilariously funny.
how is it that a comedy show is more truthful and honest that an apparently "independent news channel" ?
not true, there are clear defects in the tools that almost everybody agrees on (variables), plus the browsers don't support everything even though the specs are years old.
sometimes the tools really are bad....
how could it drive african farmers out of business to give grain set to be destroyed to people who are starving and not buying the grain from the african farmers in the first place?
of course, if you give the grain to the people who normally would buy the grain, then that would be different, but packaging it up and dropping it on villages with no food supply is not going to affect african farmers at all, it might even make villages richer economically because they can redistribute their limited resources into other areas allowing them at some point in the future to become future customers of those african farmers as opposed to just dying in the streets from starvation.
in a way this could be a positive thing.
right now, not so many people are using it as opposed to paper money, so there is not so much scope for theft or fraud, but I guess for the people doing the losing it's more serious.
however, with each attack comes a stronger topology and methology to securing the system, the hacking attacks should in theory make the system stronger and more realible.
in theory anyway....
perhaps if you read the comment I wrote in the context of the thread it was started from, you'd understand that what you said was incorrect and you're jumping on the wrong person :)
nobody has put up barriers to anybody, but I will hack on what I want to hack and if it's not remote X functionality, then it's something else.
what you seem to be expecting, is that I support technologies that you want, at my expense, using my time.
I guess that isnt the answer you were looking for, but it's the reality.
wrong.
all that needs to happen is enough of us to care less about your precious remote X functionality and you'll be forced to ditch it, support it yourself or program it yourself.
so people mindlessly fleeing from X, might not even care about a feature they never used......ever
what do you mean everyone will use it?
when writing my html, I'm going to be forced to use it, who is gonna do that?
want to keep the web open, don't use closed technologies, but it won't stop companies from trying to create closed technologies in the first place.
you just have to know how to implement your things without it.
ok, so basically we could have edge nodes all paid for by city taxes and available to everybody in the wifi "mesh" in the center.
that would bridge the darknet and internet together, but I still think that the darknet idea is a good one, we all control the hardware and depend on nobody to give those services, but as an addition you can gain access to other locations outside that network through the edge nodes.
I suppose there are ways to know that and route around it if required, but all the equipment belongs to the assholes, so lets hope there are less assholes than we imagine in real life.
I suppose herd mentality would take over though, yes somebody might be an asshole, but being an asshole to a technology they themselves also rely on might make them think twice about being an asshole in that way and instead direct his rage at IRC channels instead, since it causes him less self-harm.
but again, just thinking aloud....
THANKYOU! somebody finally understood what I was trying to get at.....wish I had mod points :(