How much I love the language is decided by how much ooh yeah moments I have working with it and how much it feels like fuck this shit. For that reason I stand with your comment -- Javascript for me had a number of this is nifty! moments and a good number of this is just ridiculous moments. Java has far fewer moments of delight while it's often frustrating even if not as much. C feels like a well thought out minimalistic tool, like a sharp knife that you get used to working with, it's satisfying and gets the job done. C++ has for me the most moments of pure ecstasy, often in the place where the closing brace is, even if the template compile errors are dreadful -- but they are compile errors.
That said love for the language is different from appreciation for a robust system, where Java shines.
I'm in the same boat, played it all in the 90s and hadn't played anything since Half Life, until Portal 1 a couple years back. It was everything I wanted in a game, I played it for about two weeks an hour or so after work, between plays I couldn't wait going back to it. That's not terribly modern but there you go. Someday I will play Portal 2 too.
Not sure if you're joking but I'll bite and say nerd though I am, I use the scientific method for calculating the eclipse or building/tweaking my hobby electronic device that if fails no lives are lost. When it comes to supercomplexity such as diet, exercise, trans fats or self driving cars, I'll give that evidence, as often produced by people with vested interests, maybe a 0.3 weight factor, depending on what the risk and reward is. The rest will go to gut feeling, logic, and observation of historical heuristics for doing the same thing.
I use the high value of 0.3 because I'm nerd, non-nerds typically give it less.
I would trust autonomous driving in a setting if most if not all other cars are autonomous, there are no stray animals or people or weather conditions on the road. In other words the domain is much more constrained.
And in fact I do, think of those trains in airport concourses or the Las Vegas strip.
Yesterday I saw an article about a yoga guy (or girl) urging students and teachers to embrace "gender justice". So either you are a gender justice warrior or your are a white supremacist, there is no middle ground.
In this madness we miss things like this DOJ request, which can and should be fought against. It's simply too unimportant compared to white supremacy. And gender justice.
I don't remember Apple having to pay developers to make apps for the App Store. Actually I don't remember a single cash incentive program for developers that worked. People like a platform or they don't, forcing engagement with prizes buys you very little.
If you accept a tiny majority as a technical definition of the expression of the nation's will, why would that be better than using the electoral college as the technical definition of that expression, especially since it's already in the Constitution. We're not talking a majority like 60:40, in which case the electoral college wouldn't make a difference anyway.
And if you think it's unfair that the Electoral Collage swung the Presidency Trump's way, why do you think would be fair to have Clinton elected after the relentless assault on Trump by the media. Mind you even the NYT admitted post-election they'd been bad and promised they would change. (We've seen how it turned out.)
"Clinton would have been far better..." is just, like, your opinion. The problem with this generation of the left is they take their opinion as Truth, failing to notice that their mental model of the world is just that -- the map is not the territory.
I wish the left would come to their senses and act constructively rather than from what seems to me like a place of deep neurosis. Many people support Trump because they see his opponents as much worse. As an example how I see it amond Democrats -- Biden is sensible, Obama largely is too, Chuck Schummer is completely neurotic (though still a decent guy), Pelosi, Clinton and the lot plus most of the left media are conceited, arrogant, smug, neurotic, and/or corrupt. You can look among left celebrities too: Tom Hanks is sensible, Madonna, Katie Griphin, Amy Schumer and so on are unhinged. Hope you get the picture. None of them are necessarily bad people, but their increasing madness (people call Trump presidency a "nightmare" yet most live exactly as before if not a little better) makes them completely untrustable.
That is, as I said in another comment, unbelievable self-righteousness. That implies that you (and Google) not only know what it is good for this nation better than the nation knows, but that if you had the means you would force your choice on others. Because no one who *could* right the wrong would fail to do it, right?
I loathed Hillary to no end and could not stomach the idea of seeing her on TV day by day gleefully telling us how things are going to go her way but would never have called her victory that of a "wrong" candidate. The part of me who believed the media's harping was resigned that such were the times for her to be the most powerful person on the planet but was also optimistic that the country and the world would eventually recover. The people on the left apparently lack such coping mechanisms.
I suppose he wrote it because he didn't feel like he could be productive, even with the fine $$ Google is paying, in what he perceived as an oppressive environment. If your company issues a "call for employees to give each other hugs at an all hands meeting because the wrong candidate won a presidential election in the country" and you don't accept that unbelievably self-righteous assessment, going to work every day becomes difficult.
I also suppose if it had been only him he would have just quit, but he must have felt that a number of other people feel the same and that it's a problem for Google. Turned out he was right.
You're quite possibly right. In which case the announcement, for what it's worth, is still a business decision, which was my point.
Btw I usually don't reply to ACs but the fact that you chose to post that way is another sign of how we as the society have burdened ourselves with fear, all in the name of "progress".
It is not unthinkable that having more women and ethnic minorities even if they are not necessarily better programmers than the rest would lead to a company culture where products with greater sales potential get created. That said, we've seen how well forced diversity worked for Google.
It is also possible Blizzard concluded their customers would boycott the products unless there are more women and ethnic minorities among the employees and the company is getting on with the times. I don't quite think that's the case but who knows.
Imagine how unchecked they'd be if the elections had gone the other way. From a Wired article, Google had a "call for employees to give each other hugs at an all hands meeting because the wrong candidate won a presidential election in the country."
Being scalped leaves a bitter taste about the concert and long term harms the bands and the music. Recently went to a concert for which all decent seats were sold a couple of days after they went on sale and were only available through 3rd parties at ~100% markup. Yet at the concert itself some of those good seats were empty. Wouldn't buy again.
Don't regulate scalping, let organizers and band and competition find a way to fight it.
The 3rd party I bought from was SeatGeek. Their 3D model of the venue made the seats look much better than they were, it was clearly designed with deception in mind. Plus I waited for 6 months to get the tickets. Never buy from SeatGeek.
... can't be far behind. Eg. maybe they'll discover you can put clear tape on your car with a fake scratch printed on it, to be changed every day. Looks like technology will again help make life more complicated by a notch.
And how can we know that what Washington Post reported is true. What they reported is unverifiable unless NK actually fires those nuclear missiles, which seems unlikely given what would happen to NK after. WaPo are more or less in their own words Trump's enemy so this could be just another attempt to give him trouble.
Margin of Error is a term in geopolitics measuring how much room a country has for making mistakes. It consists of two parts: how much danger the nation faces and how much power it has. US probably enjoys the largest margin of error of all developed nations. (Israel for example has a small margin of error.) So we're going to come out fine. Like Jeff Bridges, I'm rooting for Trump to do well by the country. Stranger things have happened.
If it's premeditated, and/or if they brought weapons and/or hit people then by all means yes, prison. If we think the riot was spontaneous and the destruction was due to uncontrolled emotion but no one was hurt then community service until they repay all the damages and legal and law enforcement expenses.
Assuming proper procedure, I think it would be more productive for the actual rioters to be sentenced to community service rather than prison time. That is, if evidence shows the decision to riot was impulsive and not carefully planned.
I don't mind truly important non-tech news being here so I can keep away from regular news outlets and still learn everything I need to know about the world events from fellow nerds but this doesn't cross the threshold of importance for me either.
then I have to treat it like it will and will force quit it. Unless I have a way to know that the app is definitely for sure not actively using resources, which currently I don't.
I don't think Trump would make a decision on involvement with NK that would go against what Mattis and a few others at the top who are knowledgeable enough advise.
Personally I don't think anything will happen other than the US having to pay for nuclear submarines being stationed nearby indefinitely so NK knows what happen if they attack first.
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How much I love the language is decided by how much ooh yeah moments I have working with it and how much it feels like fuck this shit. For that reason I stand with your comment -- Javascript for me had a number of this is nifty! moments and a good number of this is just ridiculous moments. Java has far fewer moments of delight while it's often frustrating even if not as much. C feels like a well thought out minimalistic tool, like a sharp knife that you get used to working with, it's satisfying and gets the job done. C++ has for me the most moments of pure ecstasy, often in the place where the closing brace is, even if the template compile errors are dreadful -- but they are compile errors.
That said love for the language is different from appreciation for a robust system, where Java shines.
I'm in the same boat, played it all in the 90s and hadn't played anything since Half Life, until Portal 1 a couple years back. It was everything I wanted in a game, I played it for about two weeks an hour or so after work, between plays I couldn't wait going back to it. That's not terribly modern but there you go. Someday I will play Portal 2 too.
Not sure if you're joking but I'll bite and say nerd though I am, I use the scientific method for calculating the eclipse or building/tweaking my hobby electronic device that if fails no lives are lost. When it comes to supercomplexity such as diet, exercise, trans fats or self driving cars, I'll give that evidence, as often produced by people with vested interests, maybe a 0.3 weight factor, depending on what the risk and reward is. The rest will go to gut feeling, logic, and observation of historical heuristics for doing the same thing.
I use the high value of 0.3 because I'm nerd, non-nerds typically give it less.
I would trust autonomous driving in a setting if most if not all other cars are autonomous, there are no stray animals or people or weather conditions on the road. In other words the domain is much more constrained.
And in fact I do, think of those trains in airport concourses or the Las Vegas strip.
Yesterday I saw an article about a yoga guy (or girl) urging students and teachers to embrace "gender justice". So either you are a gender justice warrior or your are a white supremacist, there is no middle ground.
In this madness we miss things like this DOJ request, which can and should be fought against. It's simply too unimportant compared to white supremacy. And gender justice.
I don't remember Apple having to pay developers to make apps for the App Store. Actually I don't remember a single cash incentive program for developers that worked. People like a platform or they don't, forcing engagement with prizes buys you very little.
If you accept a tiny majority as a technical definition of the expression of the nation's will, why would that be better than using the electoral college as the technical definition of that expression, especially since it's already in the Constitution. We're not talking a majority like 60:40, in which case the electoral college wouldn't make a difference anyway.
And if you think it's unfair that the Electoral Collage swung the Presidency Trump's way, why do you think would be fair to have Clinton elected after the relentless assault on Trump by the media. Mind you even the NYT admitted post-election they'd been bad and promised they would change. (We've seen how it turned out.)
"Clinton would have been far better..." is just, like, your opinion. The problem with this generation of the left is they take their opinion as Truth, failing to notice that their mental model of the world is just that -- the map is not the territory.
I wish the left would come to their senses and act constructively rather than from what seems to me like a place of deep neurosis. Many people support Trump because they see his opponents as much worse. As an example how I see it amond Democrats -- Biden is sensible, Obama largely is too, Chuck Schummer is completely neurotic (though still a decent guy), Pelosi, Clinton and the lot plus most of the left media are conceited, arrogant, smug, neurotic, and/or corrupt. You can look among left celebrities too: Tom Hanks is sensible, Madonna, Katie Griphin, Amy Schumer and so on are unhinged. Hope you get the picture. None of them are necessarily bad people, but their increasing madness (people call Trump presidency a "nightmare" yet most live exactly as before if not a little better) makes them completely untrustable.
He publicly backed Hillary Clinton so he must be rather on the progressive side.
That is, as I said in another comment, unbelievable self-righteousness. That implies that you (and Google) not only know what it is good for this nation better than the nation knows, but that if you had the means you would force your choice on others. Because no one who *could* right the wrong would fail to do it, right?
I loathed Hillary to no end and could not stomach the idea of seeing her on TV day by day gleefully telling us how things are going to go her way but would never have called her victory that of a "wrong" candidate. The part of me who believed the media's harping was resigned that such were the times for her to be the most powerful person on the planet but was also optimistic that the country and the world would eventually recover. The people on the left apparently lack such coping mechanisms.
I suppose he wrote it because he didn't feel like he could be productive, even with the fine $$ Google is paying, in what he perceived as an oppressive environment. If your company issues a "call for employees to give each other hugs at an all hands meeting because the wrong candidate won a presidential election in the country" and you don't accept that unbelievably self-righteous assessment, going to work every day becomes difficult.
I also suppose if it had been only him he would have just quit, but he must have felt that a number of other people feel the same and that it's a problem for Google. Turned out he was right.
You're quite possibly right. In which case the announcement, for what it's worth, is still a business decision, which was my point.
Btw I usually don't reply to ACs but the fact that you chose to post that way is another sign of how we as the society have burdened ourselves with fear, all in the name of "progress".
It is not unthinkable that having more women and ethnic minorities even if they are not necessarily better programmers than the rest would lead to a company culture where products with greater sales potential get created. That said, we've seen how well forced diversity worked for Google.
It is also possible Blizzard concluded their customers would boycott the products unless there are more women and ethnic minorities among the employees and the company is getting on with the times. I don't quite think that's the case but who knows.
Imagine how unchecked they'd be if the elections had gone the other way. From a Wired article, Google had a "call for employees to give each other hugs at an all hands meeting because the wrong candidate won a presidential election in the country."
The WRONG candidate, says the mighty Google.
I wonder if this "manifesto" will do for Google what that sexual harassment post did for Uber.
Being scalped leaves a bitter taste about the concert and long term harms the bands and the music. Recently went to a concert for which all decent seats were sold a couple of days after they went on sale and were only available through 3rd parties at ~100% markup. Yet at the concert itself some of those good seats were empty. Wouldn't buy again.
Don't regulate scalping, let organizers and band and competition find a way to fight it.
The 3rd party I bought from was SeatGeek. Their 3D model of the venue made the seats look much better than they were, it was clearly designed with deception in mind. Plus I waited for 6 months to get the tickets. Never buy from SeatGeek.
... can't be far behind. Eg. maybe they'll discover you can put clear tape on your car with a fake scratch printed on it, to be changed every day. Looks like technology will again help make life more complicated by a notch.
And how can we know that what Washington Post reported is true. What they reported is unverifiable unless NK actually fires those nuclear missiles, which seems unlikely given what would happen to NK after. WaPo are more or less in their own words Trump's enemy so this could be just another attempt to give him trouble.
I hear Trump is getting a second head and a third arm attached
Margin of Error is a term in geopolitics measuring how much room a country has for making mistakes. It consists of two parts: how much danger the nation faces and how much power it has. US probably enjoys the largest margin of error of all developed nations. (Israel for example has a small margin of error.) So we're going to come out fine. Like Jeff Bridges, I'm rooting for Trump to do well by the country. Stranger things have happened.
If it's premeditated, and/or if they brought weapons and/or hit people then by all means yes, prison. If we think the riot was spontaneous and the destruction was due to uncontrolled emotion but no one was hurt then community service until they repay all the damages and legal and law enforcement expenses.
Assuming proper procedure, I think it would be more productive for the actual rioters to be sentenced to community service rather than prison time. That is, if evidence shows the decision to riot was impulsive and not carefully planned.
I don't mind truly important non-tech news being here so I can keep away from regular news outlets and still learn everything I need to know about the world events from fellow nerds but this doesn't cross the threshold of importance for me either.
then I have to treat it like it will and will force quit it. Unless I have a way to know that the app is definitely for sure not actively using resources, which currently I don't.
And soon Amazon, embedded deeply in the American economy, will be too big too fail. I think we've seen how that worked out with the banks.
Anything very big, superstructured, superdominant, is in my opinion not good for the society.
I don't think Trump would make a decision on involvement with NK that would go against what Mattis and a few others at the top who are knowledgeable enough advise.
Personally I don't think anything will happen other than the US having to pay for nuclear submarines being stationed nearby indefinitely so NK knows what happen if they attack first.