Exactly. It doesn't surprise me at all that I'd get a response like that from some narcissistic asshole on Slashdot (of course, from an AC).
In my case, the big problem was all the narcissistic assholes who left their dogs outside in their treeless, grass-less back yards, in Phoenix, in 110-degree heat, all day long. Sounds like animal abuse to me. In my case, after the asshole was convicted in court, he kept his dog inside a lot more (where I could still hear it barking, but I had to be in my back yard and it wasn't that easy to hear it).
I worked in an environment with QA once, and it was a good experience. Really good QA people are rather weird, but that's what makes them good at QA: they have a very different mindset which is needed for that work. And, as with anything, it's always good to have someone else cross-checking your work for errors. Thinking you can find all your own errors is just arrogant and stupid.
It's entirely possible to make very high-performing and reliable code that looks like total shit like that, and I can certainly see a long-time highly-competent assembly programmer doing just that in the days before modern programming languages and styles. Go look at all those old arcade and NES games; the binaries are absolutely tiny, and I can only imagine what the code looks like (probably all assembly), but you never saw those things "crash".
The problem, of course, with that kind of code is that only that one guy knows how it works and can work with it. It's not maintainable at all.
WTF? Why makes you think they have some sort of obligation to be PHP compatible, and not make their own, slightly-incompatible version of PHP? That's exactly what Microsoft did with J++ after all. If it suits them to make their own version of PHP, there's nothing to stop them.
WTF is that thing? Is that a bullpup shotgun with two barrels? How'd they even get the barrels long enough (I think the minimum shotgun barrel length is 16" for it not to be a "sawed off" shotgun which is highly illegal without some special license)? And does it fire both barrels or alternate? Wacky. I've never heard of the manufacturer either, which seems worrisome.
In my experience, it was mostly right-wingers who had the barking dogs. Not necessarily the gun-nut kind though. The gun-nut kind (like the ones who have arsenals) actually seem to care a lot more about getting along with neighbors.
And the thing is, no matter where you are, you have to deal with leaf blowers and other lawn equipment, motorcycles, people who insist on having car stereos that can be heard a mile away, people who have those loud pickup trucks and of course the dogs that were mentioned.
We live in a narcissistic obnoxious society that has no consideration for others.
Do you live in Phoenix by chance? This sounds exactly like my experience in Phoenix. What really fixed things was moving the hell out of the southwest, and to the northeast (north New Jersey to be precise). The local culture just doesn't have most of that crap (motorcycles, car stereos, loud pickup trucks, barking dogs) which was so prevalent all over the entire Phoenix metro area. They did occasionally have leaf blowers though, which is annoying, but not like all the other stuff because lawns only need to be tended so often. Also, many of the cities in NJ have strict noise ordinances. I'm living a little farther south now, but still don't have those problems here. Thanks for reminding me one big reason I left that city; I had kinda blocked all that out of my mind...
If the next person has a bigger dog and the city laws prohibit barking dogs, then you call the police and let the city deal with it again.
How would you "land in trouble" for using the legal system the way it's meant to be?
Moving into a house doesn't work: all my dog-barking experiences have been in houses, not apartments. Why should I move out of the city? In my experience, people in the country are even worse. You'd have to move somewhere where you can afford tens of acres around you, which is unrealistic. Why shouldn't I expect people to obey the laws of the city they're in? Why do you dumbass dog owners all think that laws shouldn't apply to you?
Exactly, this has happened to me too, twice. Once my wife and I ended up going to court over it (same thing as you: if a dog barks for at least 10 minutes, it's disturbing the peace and a criminal citation by city code, so the owners were prosecuted and a cop testified the dog barked for more than 10 minutes), and another time it was a renter who had a vicious pit-bull which bit several neighbors (!), so we contacted the landlord and he was evicted. Of course, the pit-bull owner insisted it was everyone else's fault for his dog biting them.
My conclusion is that dog owners are generally narcissistic assholes and the sound of a dog barking its head off for hours on end is music to their ears.
That kinda happened to us. Another typical story about the stupid neighbor with incessantly-barking dog; we called the police over and over (after trying to deal with them personally), a cop came out one day, found the dog barking, waited around 10 minutes, dog was still barking, so he issued a criminal citation. The key here is that dog-barking was a crime in the city I lived in, according to local statute. So he had to go to court and tried to defend himself; he even brought in his next-door neighbors to support him. He drew up a diagram showing how all our neighbors have dogs and we're the weirdos, but of course the prosecuting attorney simple stated the law, showed he was in violation, and he was found guilty.
"We all don't like you" doesn't mean squat when you're in violation of the law and the police are willing to testify against you and the city is willing to prosecute you. He ended up getting slapped with a fine and having to use a bark collar. The fine was a few hundred dollars I think, not huge, but if he got caught again leaving his dog outside for hours on end barking its head off, the penalty of course would have been much worse. This really shut up the neighbors for a while (both him, and his next-door buddy who also had a noisy dog).
We eventually did move out, but for other reasons. My advice here: before you buy a house, check out the neighborhood thoroughly and make sure there's no noise issues like that around. Also check out the local ordinances to see what legal power you have in case it becomes a problem. Personally, I've gotten to the point where I think it's pointless to buy a house at all unless you're ready to retire and/or are going to have a lot of land around you. Renting is better: you can move out pretty quickly, and given the way the job market is for engineering, I end up moving every couple of years anyway.
I'm not saying they should; I'm saying there's no economic pressure on them not to. There isn't a noose around their necks; if they have 1000 kids, it's some minimum-wage worker who starves. What stops them?
Um, didn't I already go over this earlier? It's pretty simple: why should they want to? You seem to be assuming that everyone has some kind of biological drive to produce as many children as they possibly can, subject to physical restraints (how much resources you have to devote to them). Obviously, that's a faulty assumption. There's more to life than having kids. Most people, when not under any kind of economic pressure, might have one or two, or even 3 or 4, but once they've got it out of their system they don't want any more. Go talk to some 40-something parents and ask them if they'd have more kids if money wasn't a factor. Most of them don't want any more; they already raised one or two and they're done. And most people who haven't had any by that age never really wanted any to being with.
If I put a gun to some starving Etheopean's head without telling you, will you still post stupid shit, even though he'll get his head blown off? Or will that stop you from posting idiocy, not knowing that some anonymous African will die when you hit submit?
WTF is that supposed to mean? Now you're just being insane.
But *are* the yields that good? They keep pushing the process technology every generation, so I'd think they'd never get to 99% perfect chips. If they just stuck with 2010-era chips, then sure.
This isn't really like Uber or anything like that, because I don't see how Gigster would be violating the law. You're probably thinking of employment law, but your mistake is thinking that US employment law applies in India. It doesn't.
Yeah, it sounds like it's basically competition for rentacoder or something like that, but Gigster just has more involvement in the process and probably coordinates putting together a team a little better. In the end, it's really just about getting a bunch of Indian coders to work dirt-cheap on projects for westerners.
Um, I thought "binning" hadn't really changed, and that lower-clocked processors were usually sold that way because they didn't pass the higher-clock tests. Of course, you could get lucky because they probably also bin a lot of them at lower clocks just because there's more demand for cheaper CPUs, and to keep the prices of the high-clock versions high, but you're betting that you're getting a CPU binned for a lower clockspeed only for sales purposes rather than test purposes, and there's no way to know which yours is.
By that definition, Amazon isn't really a tech company either, since they just have a website that connects supply with demand, though they also do their own warehousing (which isn't tech).
Yeah, same here on SMT. It's a lot easier than thru-hole crap, unless of course you get to BGAs. With a good fine-tip soldering station and a hot-air rework station, you can work on all kinds of things, and a lot faster and easier than with PTH components.
The old fart-ism does seem to only afflict some people, and frequently at rather young ages. I think a lot of it does correlate with extreme political conservatism though.
PowerPoint slides are generally useless on their own; when done "properly", they don't actually contain all the information conveyed in the lecture, just some high-level bullet-points which the presenter then orally expands upon, plus maybe some diagrams here and there which are easier shown than talked about.
If you want to convey information properly on the web, the proper way is in text, the way the web was originally designed before everyone jumped on the stupid video-for-everything bandwagon. There's a reason humans invented written language: it's more accurate and more efficient than oral language.
This is exactly right. This "let's make a video" trend is simply idiotic and enables illiteracy. Videos are great for some things: if I want to see how someone installs a part on a car, for instance, a video is great for this. But a lecture? Completely useless, idiotic, and time-wasting, not to mention a massive waste of bandwidth.
You should take your own advice. You're the one who's saying that rich people should have tons of kids like the Duggars and then wondering why they aren't.
It's not just the wacky-libertarianism and complete lack of empathy (and worship of Objectivism) that gets me here on Slashdot, it's the old-fart-ism. You'd think that a place that's supposed to be full of self-professed "nerds" ("News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters") / technologists would be full of people who like technology, but no, it's really full of people who hate change and want to stick with old shit, whether it's some shitty old 70s car that they refuse to give up and claim is far better than any modern car, or the insane belief that they're a race-car-skill-level driver and can outperform ABS systems; I'm sure I could find a bunch more examples if I looked. I'm pretty sure I've seen posts bitching about surface-mount electronics at some point. And I'm someone who sticks with tried-and-true a lot, but the people here take it to a ridiculous extreme. It's not just here; I've seen it with a lot of other engineers too, it's a weird trait for people who are supposed to be creating new technologies.
The touchpad isn't too bad until a flair-up and then it's probably worse as the natural position is elevated above. To solve that, I use (when I'm smart enough) a wrist-rest.
Aren't there touchpads which are stand-alone USB-connected devices? You could get one of those and just keep it in your lap or some other orientation that works better, instead of being stuck with where the laptop maker decided to put it.
Sounds like noise in the data or something else. Considering how long people are keeping their cars now (someone else here posted the average age of a car in the US is 11 years), how strong the used-car market is now, and how soft the economy is now (esp. regarding new-car purchases), I think the idea that at least 8% of drivers have suddenly bought brand-new cars, within 6 months or so, with these safety devices is pretty silly.
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Exactly. It doesn't surprise me at all that I'd get a response like that from some narcissistic asshole on Slashdot (of course, from an AC).
In my case, the big problem was all the narcissistic assholes who left their dogs outside in their treeless, grass-less back yards, in Phoenix, in 110-degree heat, all day long. Sounds like animal abuse to me. In my case, after the asshole was convicted in court, he kept his dog inside a lot more (where I could still hear it barking, but I had to be in my back yard and it wasn't that easy to hear it).
I worked in an environment with QA once, and it was a good experience. Really good QA people are rather weird, but that's what makes them good at QA: they have a very different mindset which is needed for that work. And, as with anything, it's always good to have someone else cross-checking your work for errors. Thinking you can find all your own errors is just arrogant and stupid.
Yeah, but how well did his C code work?
It's entirely possible to make very high-performing and reliable code that looks like total shit like that, and I can certainly see a long-time highly-competent assembly programmer doing just that in the days before modern programming languages and styles. Go look at all those old arcade and NES games; the binaries are absolutely tiny, and I can only imagine what the code looks like (probably all assembly), but you never saw those things "crash".
The problem, of course, with that kind of code is that only that one guy knows how it works and can work with it. It's not maintainable at all.
WTF? Why makes you think they have some sort of obligation to be PHP compatible, and not make their own, slightly-incompatible version of PHP? That's exactly what Microsoft did with J++ after all. If it suits them to make their own version of PHP, there's nothing to stop them.
WTF is that thing? Is that a bullpup shotgun with two barrels? How'd they even get the barrels long enough (I think the minimum shotgun barrel length is 16" for it not to be a "sawed off" shotgun which is highly illegal without some special license)? And does it fire both barrels or alternate? Wacky. I've never heard of the manufacturer either, which seems worrisome.
In my experience, it was mostly right-wingers who had the barking dogs. Not necessarily the gun-nut kind though. The gun-nut kind (like the ones who have arsenals) actually seem to care a lot more about getting along with neighbors.
And the thing is, no matter where you are, you have to deal with leaf blowers and other lawn equipment, motorcycles, people who insist on having car stereos that can be heard a mile away, people who have those loud pickup trucks and of course the dogs that were mentioned.
We live in a narcissistic obnoxious society that has no consideration for others.
Do you live in Phoenix by chance? This sounds exactly like my experience in Phoenix. What really fixed things was moving the hell out of the southwest, and to the northeast (north New Jersey to be precise). The local culture just doesn't have most of that crap (motorcycles, car stereos, loud pickup trucks, barking dogs) which was so prevalent all over the entire Phoenix metro area. They did occasionally have leaf blowers though, which is annoying, but not like all the other stuff because lawns only need to be tended so often. Also, many of the cities in NJ have strict noise ordinances. I'm living a little farther south now, but still don't have those problems here. Thanks for reminding me one big reason I left that city; I had kinda blocked all that out of my mind...
If the next person has a bigger dog and the city laws prohibit barking dogs, then you call the police and let the city deal with it again.
How would you "land in trouble" for using the legal system the way it's meant to be?
Moving into a house doesn't work: all my dog-barking experiences have been in houses, not apartments. Why should I move out of the city? In my experience, people in the country are even worse. You'd have to move somewhere where you can afford tens of acres around you, which is unrealistic. Why shouldn't I expect people to obey the laws of the city they're in? Why do you dumbass dog owners all think that laws shouldn't apply to you?
Exactly, this has happened to me too, twice. Once my wife and I ended up going to court over it (same thing as you: if a dog barks for at least 10 minutes, it's disturbing the peace and a criminal citation by city code, so the owners were prosecuted and a cop testified the dog barked for more than 10 minutes), and another time it was a renter who had a vicious pit-bull which bit several neighbors (!), so we contacted the landlord and he was evicted. Of course, the pit-bull owner insisted it was everyone else's fault for his dog biting them.
My conclusion is that dog owners are generally narcissistic assholes and the sound of a dog barking its head off for hours on end is music to their ears.
That kinda happened to us. Another typical story about the stupid neighbor with incessantly-barking dog; we called the police over and over (after trying to deal with them personally), a cop came out one day, found the dog barking, waited around 10 minutes, dog was still barking, so he issued a criminal citation. The key here is that dog-barking was a crime in the city I lived in, according to local statute. So he had to go to court and tried to defend himself; he even brought in his next-door neighbors to support him. He drew up a diagram showing how all our neighbors have dogs and we're the weirdos, but of course the prosecuting attorney simple stated the law, showed he was in violation, and he was found guilty.
"We all don't like you" doesn't mean squat when you're in violation of the law and the police are willing to testify against you and the city is willing to prosecute you. He ended up getting slapped with a fine and having to use a bark collar. The fine was a few hundred dollars I think, not huge, but if he got caught again leaving his dog outside for hours on end barking its head off, the penalty of course would have been much worse. This really shut up the neighbors for a while (both him, and his next-door buddy who also had a noisy dog).
We eventually did move out, but for other reasons. My advice here: before you buy a house, check out the neighborhood thoroughly and make sure there's no noise issues like that around. Also check out the local ordinances to see what legal power you have in case it becomes a problem. Personally, I've gotten to the point where I think it's pointless to buy a house at all unless you're ready to retire and/or are going to have a lot of land around you. Renting is better: you can move out pretty quickly, and given the way the job market is for engineering, I end up moving every couple of years anyway.
I'm not saying they should; I'm saying there's no economic pressure on them not to. There isn't a noose around their necks; if they have 1000 kids, it's some minimum-wage worker who starves. What stops them?
Um, didn't I already go over this earlier? It's pretty simple: why should they want to? You seem to be assuming that everyone has some kind of biological drive to produce as many children as they possibly can, subject to physical restraints (how much resources you have to devote to them). Obviously, that's a faulty assumption. There's more to life than having kids. Most people, when not under any kind of economic pressure, might have one or two, or even 3 or 4, but once they've got it out of their system they don't want any more. Go talk to some 40-something parents and ask them if they'd have more kids if money wasn't a factor. Most of them don't want any more; they already raised one or two and they're done. And most people who haven't had any by that age never really wanted any to being with.
If I put a gun to some starving Etheopean's head without telling you, will you still post stupid shit, even though he'll get his head blown off? Or will that stop you from posting idiocy, not knowing that some anonymous African will die when you hit submit?
WTF is that supposed to mean? Now you're just being insane.
But *are* the yields that good? They keep pushing the process technology every generation, so I'd think they'd never get to 99% perfect chips. If they just stuck with 2010-era chips, then sure.
This isn't really like Uber or anything like that, because I don't see how Gigster would be violating the law. You're probably thinking of employment law, but your mistake is thinking that US employment law applies in India. It doesn't.
Yeah, it sounds like it's basically competition for rentacoder or something like that, but Gigster just has more involvement in the process and probably coordinates putting together a team a little better. In the end, it's really just about getting a bunch of Indian coders to work dirt-cheap on projects for westerners.
You're just bitching and griping and still not offering any better alternative. The OP already pointed out how the status quo isn't really any better.
Um, I thought "binning" hadn't really changed, and that lower-clocked processors were usually sold that way because they didn't pass the higher-clock tests. Of course, you could get lucky because they probably also bin a lot of them at lower clocks just because there's more demand for cheaper CPUs, and to keep the prices of the high-clock versions high, but you're betting that you're getting a CPU binned for a lower clockspeed only for sales purposes rather than test purposes, and there's no way to know which yours is.
By that definition, Amazon isn't really a tech company either, since they just have a website that connects supply with demand, though they also do their own warehousing (which isn't tech).
Instead of going to that trouble, just use Linux and install NoScript.
Yeah, same here on SMT. It's a lot easier than thru-hole crap, unless of course you get to BGAs. With a good fine-tip soldering station and a hot-air rework station, you can work on all kinds of things, and a lot faster and easier than with PTH components.
The old fart-ism does seem to only afflict some people, and frequently at rather young ages. I think a lot of it does correlate with extreme political conservatism though.
PowerPoint slides are generally useless on their own; when done "properly", they don't actually contain all the information conveyed in the lecture, just some high-level bullet-points which the presenter then orally expands upon, plus maybe some diagrams here and there which are easier shown than talked about.
If you want to convey information properly on the web, the proper way is in text, the way the web was originally designed before everyone jumped on the stupid video-for-everything bandwagon. There's a reason humans invented written language: it's more accurate and more efficient than oral language.
+1 Insightful.
This is exactly right. This "let's make a video" trend is simply idiotic and enables illiteracy. Videos are great for some things: if I want to see how someone installs a part on a car, for instance, a video is great for this. But a lecture? Completely useless, idiotic, and time-wasting, not to mention a massive waste of bandwidth.
You should take your own advice. You're the one who's saying that rich people should have tons of kids like the Duggars and then wondering why they aren't.
It's not just the wacky-libertarianism and complete lack of empathy (and worship of Objectivism) that gets me here on Slashdot, it's the old-fart-ism. You'd think that a place that's supposed to be full of self-professed "nerds" ("News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters") / technologists would be full of people who like technology, but no, it's really full of people who hate change and want to stick with old shit, whether it's some shitty old 70s car that they refuse to give up and claim is far better than any modern car, or the insane belief that they're a race-car-skill-level driver and can outperform ABS systems; I'm sure I could find a bunch more examples if I looked. I'm pretty sure I've seen posts bitching about surface-mount electronics at some point. And I'm someone who sticks with tried-and-true a lot, but the people here take it to a ridiculous extreme. It's not just here; I've seen it with a lot of other engineers too, it's a weird trait for people who are supposed to be creating new technologies.
The touchpad isn't too bad until a flair-up and then it's probably worse as the natural position is elevated above. To solve that, I use (when I'm smart enough) a wrist-rest.
Aren't there touchpads which are stand-alone USB-connected devices? You could get one of those and just keep it in your lap or some other orientation that works better, instead of being stuck with where the laptop maker decided to put it.
Sounds like noise in the data or something else. Considering how long people are keeping their cars now (someone else here posted the average age of a car in the US is 11 years), how strong the used-car market is now, and how soft the economy is now (esp. regarding new-car purchases), I think the idea that at least 8% of drivers have suddenly bought brand-new cars, within 6 months or so, with these safety devices is pretty silly.