Seriously. The integration with gdb, gcc, etc is where Emacs really shines. Yes, the Control-Meta-cokebottle commands are a bit annoying, but there's worthwhile tradeoffs there.
The first post was also quite useful. And to be fair, I like vim too.
Been there, done that, emacs, x-emacs, emacs with the GTK stuff. Am sticking with vim. I've been using vim since 1992-1993, back on my Amiga.
As long as you've got CEOs making 200-400 times the pay of the average worker in the same corporation, it is impossible to have any pay which is "proportional".
This sort of analysis of the business is pretty shallow and based more on emotion and prejudice more than reality and facts. I don't think it's utterly beyond belief that a good CEO can make deals with other bigwigs and boost the company's bottom line at least 200x as much as an average worker can. Furthermore, I think you seem to be conflating the portion of value which is created by the corporate structure (and its access to capital, and its ability to shoulder risk, and its stability in being there for its clients, and its economies of scale) with "exploitation of the worker" (which still may be present, but is probably less than what you're making it out to be).
But then, I suppose I'm wasting my breath: who would ever want to sully political rhetoric with a modicum of rational thought when dealing with a nuanced issue?
This is part of the CEO myth. The fact that the CEO get's paid that much more is part of the myth that CEO talent is rare and hard to find. I have yet to meet a CEO or VP who actually lives up to that claim of talent and ability. There are of course, some CEOs who do live up to this, but for the most part their claim to success is much more due to being semi-competent at managing, and masters of selling their own worth. That 200x multiplier, its due to dumb luck and them taking credit for the sweat of the people below them.
This very problem was written about (at great length) by some guy named Karl Marx. Basically, his point was that the capital owners will always pay their employees less than they're worth to the capitalist, because that creates profits.
Except Marx is completely wrong. Your labor is worth exactly what you negotiate for it. I know many developers who are pretty worthless and give my capitalist managers a negative ROI because of their perceived worth. That's why a companies are willing to pay Accenture $250/hr for a consultant who, if he's really lucky, is making $50/hr.
Another more valid model than the Marx mythology is Game Theory which better models what happens with developers looking for jobs and negotiating salaries.
Companies should audit the code for these apps the same way they audit Linux, Bash, JBOSS and the various other OS applications they deploy. Why should this code be any different.
Which news source would you prefer then? Just because you do not like Fox News does not mean that they do not report legitimate news. Sure, the article was a bit sensationalist but all news services are about sensationalism and all are biased. We just don't like when news services are biased differently than we are.
What news do they actually report?
It looks to me like they stage rallies rather than just report on them, and then embellish them with footage taken from previous rallies.
They have people like Glenn Beck report that the economy is in the toilet and that we should buy gold. This while taking money from the gold brokers.
This kind of behavior doesn't sound like journalism to me.
As for me I'm going to stick with my own highly biased liberal rag, The Economist.
Childish approach? He's just mimicking the Republican Standard Operating Procedure. Yeah I can see how that's childish.
I'm not sure if you're trying to say that the Democrats are no less or more childish than the Republicans (if you are, I agree with you) but you do know that he's a Democrat with, of course, a history of controversies, right?
You seem to be confused in thinking it's "Republican Standard Operating Procedure" when in reality it's "Politician Standard Operating Procedure."
He told On December 9, 2009, whilst on the MSNBC show Hardball, Grayson told former vice president Dick Cheney to "STFU."
That's not a controversy, that's good step in the right direction.
KDE was flying high with its well regarded 3.x version, and then its developers disappeared with lustery promises of how great KDE 4 would be, and emerged to ship a completely unfinished product. Things are better with KDE 4.later, but, KDE 4.0, wow, you are rough. Meanwhile KDevelop 4 still doesn't work, and has been eclipsed by, well, Eclipse.
I like to call the KDE 4 interface a Gnomification of KDE.
So the country is 1.8 trillion (US) in the hole this year, yet someone, somewhere, is funding research half a mile underground, with superconductors, to find particles that might not exist, and if they do, don't mean anything?
How do I get out of this chicken-shit outfit?
- In the US government and the media maintain an ostensible distance, but for all intents and purposes, are one and the same.
Only if your a Republican and the media is Fox.
Just ask Clinton about his experience with the so called liberal media; he gets a standing ovation at the UN, while the alleged Clinton News Network aka CNN, decides the Ken Starr hearings are more news worthy and what he's actually doing gets barely a blurb.
I actually wanted on the Jury Duty (big software corp was not exciting enough), but was disqualified with this question: "Is a police officer exactly as believable as a citizen?" (although it was worded slightly differently), and my answer was "slightly higher, perhaps 55%", didn't even have time to give my rationale (they have training in situational awareness and in mentally recording a scene for later documentation).
I would have to say "I don't trust somebody just because they have a badge, a gun, or even a bible".
I would turn down an applicant if they HADN'T drunk at least one beer at college. Seriously - would you really want someone on your team that was obviously so self righteous and prissy as to never have cut loose a bit at one time or another?
There are six legitimate installments of Star Wars canon. A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Caravan of Courage, The Battle for Endor, and The Star Wars Christmas Special.
The $8/hr intern position is BS, it sounds like a semi-skilled desktop support role.
Ditch both the A+ and Network+ items from your resume. You really don't want to be giving people the impression that you're a desktop support guy, as opposed to a software engineer guy.
A Java or Microsoft Developer certs will be a lot more useful.
A friend of mine has a little micro-webserver application he drops on his computer that changes the routing table for these sites to point at itself, and then serves up a 1x1 transparent png. Works pretty well from what he says.
Then he should GPL and release it on source forge.:-)
Audiophiles have known for decades that most listeners cannot discern excellent from mediocre music.
Forty years ago people used to sit down and listen to albums. Albums! The reason why we don't do it anymore is NOT because of a lack of time or high quality new music-- we have both those things. It's because the music doesn't engage us anymore. It simply doesn't contain the data to make us forget that we're listening to a recording.
More BS, singles sold quite well 40 years ago.
I would have thought a vinyl fan such as yourself would have been familiar with the popularity of the 45 rpm single. Especially since it has better fidelity than a 33 rpm albums you seem to love to much. Yes I know they came in higher speeds, 45 and 78; but the 33 was still the most common.
Let me spend half a minute on vinyl vs CD vs MP3. CD and MP3 contain data that your ears can hear and they both contain that data very accurately. I certainly can't tell the difference between a CD and an MP3 recorded at 192 KBPS. Vinyl is the only format of the three that contains very high and very low frequency data that you cannot hear. You can't hear this data, but you can feel it, physically with your body. This sensation enhances the realness of the recording and makes it feel more engaging and more alive. Anyone can hear and feel this, but usually they can't describe it or perhaps even notice it. They show the difference by not wanting to get up and do dishes, or homework, or play a game, but by wanting to sit and close their eyes and just listen to the music.
That nice warm sound/feeling you're getting from you tube amp and albums, its called distortion. It just so happens that its a form of distortion you like.
Let's say the current theories predict a gradually growing black hole, but what if in reality it's going to grow exponentially?
Lets assume that 2 virtual particles come into existence and those particles are in reality miniature black holes which merge together to form a larger black hole. These two particles don't evaporate immediately because Special Relativity slows down time for them so as they never actually collide. This hungry black hole then begins to feed on the protons around it, growing exponentially as it falls into the center of of the earth, eventually consuming the entire planet.
And in case some twit doesn't get it, this is sarcasm.
Glenn makes personal attacks of this very nature, so it is entirely appropriate that this was done to Beck. After all, if he didn't rape and murder a young girl, why doesn't he just prove it? Should be as easy as proving you were born in this country.
They have certificates proving you didn't rape and murder someone in 1990? I seem to have misplaced mine... Uh oh.
They also have government documents proving that people were born in the country
The Debeers and the diamond cartel have managed to keep the price of diamonds through the roof for most of the 20th century, and now that their monopoly is gone, they have a cartel in place that is even more profitable for all the members. Which also shows that its better business to form a cartel; especially when you can't eliminate the competition.
To give you some of the flavor: One chapter in The Big Questions contains an elegant argument against protectionist tariffs: Suppose that an American sells cameras for $80 but a foreigner wants to sell cameras in America for $60 apiece. An American who would have bought the $80 camera will now buy the $60 camera and hence is better off by $20. The seller now has to sell their own cameras for $60 to stay competitive, so they are worse off by at most $20 -- however, if they voluntarily switch to some other business, then they'll be better off than they were when they were selling cameras for $60, and therefore worse off by some amount less than $20 from their original position. So on balance, abolishing protectionist tariffs would be good for Americans. "Therefore," writes Landsburg, "it seems to me that the protectionist's position is even less respectable than the creationist's. If you're convinced that most scientists are liars -- that everything they say about fossils, for example, is false -- then you can be a logically consistent creationist. But you can't be a logically consistent protectionist."
Why would I sell a camera for $60 when I can sell is for $80?
The only reason is so that I can put the guy who has to sell his camera for $80 out of business then I can sell my camera for $100. Then when someone else wants to get into the camera industry, and can issue them an ultimatum, you can sell your camera at $100 and we can both make outragous profits, or I can sell my camera at $60 or even less because I'm already making a profit at $60 and perhaps put you out of business. People who are interested in maximizing their profit are usually going to take the offer to sell their widget at the higher price. And maybe they will both agree to sell their cameras at $120 unit and make even more money. So in the end the consumer loses.
Libertarianism leads to the formation of Trusts and an unfree market.
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Try Emacs.
Seriously. The integration with gdb, gcc, etc is where Emacs really shines. Yes, the Control-Meta-cokebottle commands are a bit annoying, but there's worthwhile tradeoffs there.
The first post was also quite useful. And to be fair, I like vim too.
Been there, done that, emacs, x-emacs, emacs with the GTK stuff. Am sticking with vim. I've been using vim since 1992-1993, back on my Amiga.
This sort of analysis of the business is pretty shallow and based more on emotion and prejudice more than reality and facts. I don't think it's utterly beyond belief that a good CEO can make deals with other bigwigs and boost the company's bottom line at least 200x as much as an average worker can. Furthermore, I think you seem to be conflating the portion of value which is created by the corporate structure (and its access to capital, and its ability to shoulder risk, and its stability in being there for its clients, and its economies of scale) with "exploitation of the worker" (which still may be present, but is probably less than what you're making it out to be).
But then, I suppose I'm wasting my breath: who would ever want to sully political rhetoric with a modicum of rational thought when dealing with a nuanced issue?
This is part of the CEO myth. The fact that the CEO get's paid that much more is part of the myth that CEO talent is rare and hard to find. I have yet to meet a CEO or VP who actually lives up to that claim of talent and ability. There are of course, some CEOs who do live up to this, but for the most part their claim to success is much more due to being semi-competent at managing, and masters of selling their own worth. That 200x multiplier, its due to dumb luck and them taking credit for the sweat of the people below them.
This very problem was written about (at great length) by some guy named Karl Marx. Basically, his point was that the capital owners will always pay their employees less than they're worth to the capitalist, because that creates profits.
Except Marx is completely wrong. Your labor is worth exactly what you negotiate for it. I know many developers who are pretty worthless and give my capitalist managers a negative ROI because of their perceived worth. That's why a companies are willing to pay Accenture $250/hr for a consultant who, if he's really lucky, is making $50/hr.
Another more valid model than the Marx mythology is Game Theory which better models what happens with developers looking for jobs and negotiating salaries.
Companies should audit the code for these apps the same way they audit Linux, Bash, JBOSS and the various other OS applications they deploy. Why should this code be any different.
Which news source would you prefer then? Just because you do not like Fox News does not mean that they do not report legitimate news. Sure, the article was a bit sensationalist but all news services are about sensationalism and all are biased. We just don't like when news services are biased differently than we are.
What news do they actually report?
It looks to me like they stage rallies rather than just report on them, and then embellish them with footage taken from previous rallies.
They have people like Glenn Beck report that the economy is in the toilet and that we should buy gold. This while taking money from the gold brokers.
This kind of behavior doesn't sound like journalism to me.
As for me I'm going to stick with my own highly biased liberal rag, The Economist.
Childish approach? He's just mimicking the Republican Standard Operating Procedure. Yeah I can see how that's childish.
I'm not sure if you're trying to say that the Democrats are no less or more childish than the Republicans (if you are, I agree with you) but you do know that he's a Democrat with, of course, a history of controversies, right? You seem to be confused in thinking it's "Republican Standard Operating Procedure" when in reality it's "Politician Standard Operating Procedure."
He told On December 9, 2009, whilst on the MSNBC show Hardball, Grayson told former vice president Dick Cheney to "STFU."
That's not a controversy, that's good step in the right direction.
KDE was flying high with its well regarded 3.x version, and then its developers disappeared with lustery promises of how great KDE 4 would be, and emerged to ship a completely unfinished product. Things are better with KDE 4.later, but, KDE 4.0, wow, you are rough. Meanwhile KDevelop 4 still doesn't work, and has been eclipsed by, well, Eclipse.
I like to call the KDE 4 interface a Gnomification of KDE.
So the country is 1.8 trillion (US) in the hole this year, yet someone, somewhere, is funding research half a mile underground, with superconductors, to find particles that might not exist, and if they do, don't mean anything? How do I get out of this chicken-shit outfit?
Just pack up and move elsewhere.
So they were able to intercept the unencrypted, a more important question is why weren't these communications encrypted?
- In the US government and the media maintain an ostensible distance, but for all intents and purposes, are one and the same.
Only if your a Republican and the media is Fox.
Just ask Clinton about his experience with the so called liberal media; he gets a standing ovation at the UN, while the alleged Clinton News Network aka CNN, decides the Ken Starr hearings are more news worthy and what he's actually doing gets barely a blurb.
All of them of course.
What do you mean, "contradicting each other"? Didn't bother anyone with the bible, did it?
It bothered a lot of people, just not anybody called a Christian.
I actually wanted on the Jury Duty (big software corp was not exciting enough), but was disqualified with this question: "Is a police officer exactly as believable as a citizen?" (although it was worded slightly differently), and my answer was "slightly higher, perhaps 55%", didn't even have time to give my rationale (they have training in situational awareness and in mentally recording a scene for later documentation).
I would have to say "I don't trust somebody just because they have a badge, a gun, or even a bible".
I would turn down an applicant if they HADN'T drunk at least one beer at college. Seriously - would you really want someone on your team that was obviously so self righteous and prissy as to never have cut loose a bit at one time or another?
My thoughts exactly!
There are six legitimate installments of Star Wars canon. A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Caravan of Courage, The Battle for Endor, and The Star Wars Christmas Special.
Which version of "A New Hope " is canon?
The $8/hr intern position is BS, it sounds like a semi-skilled desktop support role.
Ditch both the A+ and Network+ items from your resume. You really don't want to be giving people the impression that you're a desktop support guy, as opposed to a software engineer guy.
A Java or Microsoft Developer certs will be a lot more useful.
Yeah, seriously... you guys see ads?
A friend of mine has a little micro-webserver application he drops on his computer that changes the routing table for these sites to point at itself, and then serves up a 1x1 transparent png. Works pretty well from what he says.
Then he should GPL and release it on source forge. :-)
They are perfectly black: Their radiation has an exact black body radiation spectrum.
IIRC the black body radiation curve assumes steady-state, which is not necessarily true in the case of a black hole.
There are not any Nobel Prizes for the categories of astrology, professional wrestling and economics. Get over it.
However the Nobel Comitee does award a prize for Economics.
Audiophiles have known for decades that most listeners cannot discern excellent from mediocre music.
Forty years ago people used to sit down and listen to albums. Albums! The reason why we don't do it anymore is NOT because of a lack of time or high quality new music-- we have both those things. It's because the music doesn't engage us anymore. It simply doesn't contain the data to make us forget that we're listening to a recording.
More BS, singles sold quite well 40 years ago.
I would have thought a vinyl fan such as yourself would have been familiar with the popularity of the 45 rpm single. Especially since it has better fidelity than a 33 rpm albums you seem to love to much. Yes I know they came in higher speeds, 45 and 78; but the 33 was still the most common.
Let me spend half a minute on vinyl vs CD vs MP3. CD and MP3 contain data that your ears can hear and they both contain that data very accurately. I certainly can't tell the difference between a CD and an MP3 recorded at 192 KBPS. Vinyl is the only format of the three that contains very high and very low frequency data that you cannot hear. You can't hear this data, but you can feel it, physically with your body. This sensation enhances the realness of the recording and makes it feel more engaging and more alive. Anyone can hear and feel this, but usually they can't describe it or perhaps even notice it. They show the difference by not wanting to get up and do dishes, or homework, or play a game, but by wanting to sit and close their eyes and just listen to the music.
That nice warm sound/feeling you're getting from you tube amp and albums, its called distortion. It just so happens that its a form of distortion you like.
Let's say the current theories predict a gradually growing black hole, but what if in reality it's going to grow exponentially?
Lets assume that 2 virtual particles come into existence and those particles are in reality miniature black holes which merge together to form a larger black hole. These two particles don't evaporate immediately because Special Relativity slows down time for them so as they never actually collide. This hungry black hole then begins to feed on the protons around it, growing exponentially as it falls into the center of of the earth, eventually consuming the entire planet.
And in case some twit doesn't get it, this is sarcasm.
Back holes aren't black -- after Hawking they shine!
Glenn makes personal attacks of this very nature, so it is entirely appropriate that this was done to Beck. After all, if he didn't rape and murder a young girl, why doesn't he just prove it? Should be as easy as proving you were born in this country.
They have certificates proving you didn't rape and murder someone in 1990? I seem to have misplaced mine... Uh oh.
They also have government documents proving that people were born in the country
.
Standard Oil.
The Debeers and the diamond cartel have managed to keep the price of diamonds through the roof for most of the 20th century, and now that their monopoly is gone, they have a cartel in place that is even more profitable for all the members. Which also shows that its better business to form a cartel; especially when you can't eliminate the competition.
To give you some of the flavor: One chapter in The Big Questions contains an elegant argument against protectionist tariffs: Suppose that an American sells cameras for $80 but a foreigner wants to sell cameras in America for $60 apiece. An American who would have bought the $80 camera will now buy the $60 camera and hence is better off by $20. The seller now has to sell their own cameras for $60 to stay competitive, so they are worse off by at most $20 -- however, if they voluntarily switch to some other business, then they'll be better off than they were when they were selling cameras for $60, and therefore worse off by some amount less than $20 from their original position. So on balance, abolishing protectionist tariffs would be good for Americans. "Therefore," writes Landsburg, "it seems to me that the protectionist's position is even less respectable than the creationist's. If you're convinced that most scientists are liars -- that everything they say about fossils, for example, is false -- then you can be a logically consistent creationist. But you can't be a logically consistent protectionist."
Why would I sell a camera for $60 when I can sell is for $80?
The only reason is so that I can put the guy who has to sell his camera for $80 out of business then I can sell my camera for $100. Then when someone else wants to get into the camera industry, and can issue them an ultimatum, you can sell your camera at $100 and we can both make outragous profits, or I can sell my camera at $60 or even less because I'm already making a profit at $60 and perhaps put you out of business. People who are interested in maximizing their profit are usually going to take the offer to sell their widget at the higher price. And maybe they will both agree to sell their cameras at $120 unit and make even more money. So in the end the consumer loses.
Libertarianism leads to the formation of Trusts and an unfree market.