Very interesting. A few months ago, I followed links to a few TCS articles and thought that they seemed awfully slanted -- this certainly explains where they're coming from.
All of whom should have, in theory, been erased by the invisible hand or otherwise kicked in the pants by the market. But in fact, these beaurocracies are no better than most mediocre government beaurocracies.
How true. Heard a great line a few days ago - something to the effect of "the problem with the invisible hand is that it often isn't there."
Haven't heard any stories about wealthy Californians' homes spared by their hyper-efficient private fire departments this week, either.
For every scientific study "proving" that prayer doesn't work, there's one proving that it does
There was at least one recent, well-publicized study in which having remote people praying for patients was found to have some sort of positive effect. I suspect the point of posting this study is to inform us that the original study's results are contradicted, without giving the original study more attention than it deserves.
I tend to agree that these studies are a waste of time.
Note that "single speed" as applied to fixed bicycles is redundant, unless you count a differently-sized cog on the other side of a flip-flop hub.
Another advantage oft cited for the fixed is that the average lowlife thief has no idea how to ride them.
Mainly, though, they're lots of fun once you get used to them. Except the part about riding in traffic without brakes - I don't get that. Must be lacking a death wish.
Actually, Harley claimed to trademark the distinctive "potato,potato" sound of its engine and threated legal action when either Yamaha or Honda introduced an engine with the same cylinder timing and sound.
They also have a history of litigation against independant shops that work on Harleys and sell related stuff. Some shops have closed, which hurts Harley's customers, but I guess that's of small concern when compared to maintaining the integrity of their brand.
it completely alienates all the Slashdot readers who don't have a rather high level understanding of how compilers work and the debugging process in general.
If only you were right - a good many of us would be thrilled if Slashdot readers who don't have a high level understanding of "how compilers work and the debugging process in general" were completely alienated.
gcc is one of the reasons a number of developers in *bsd land are waiting for this to mature. others (theo is a big advocate) are trying to get the plan9 toolchain freed up more.
FYI, this came up on deadly.org a while back and it was pretty clear that a non-gcc compiler is not a priority for most (any?) of the main OpenBSD people. If someday one works as well as gcc, great, but it's not going to happen any time soon.
Minimum wage may be vastly less than you or I currently earn, but the fact that one can afford luxuries such as consumer electronics, broadband, automobiles, their own living space, etc - on that wage, is remarkable.
It's so remarkable, it's not even close to true. Look at Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed; it's not even possible to afford housing and food on minimum wage, much less "luxuries such as consumer electronics, broadband. .."
Stas is also behind the excellent online mod_perl guide, without which I can't imagine being able to use mod_perl in any kind of production environment. He's a great counterexample for those who complain that nobody puts together proper docs for open source projects.
First, you have XML files which somehow are supposed to respresent data. ..(XPathScript grousing). ..XSLT stylesheets are no better.
Depends on your situation - if you're a web programmer working with XSLT-savvy designers, then using AxKit and XSLT is awfully straighforward. The programmer and designer just need to agree on how the XML will be structured, then the programmer can worry about getting the data into the XML format, and the designer can worry about transforming the XML.
Of course that doesn't help you if you've been thrown onto a project already built with XPS.
Just from a front-page glance, I'd be willing to wager AiM and the featured PC site are really not all that related. AiM appears, from its headlines, to be a serious media watchdog site
Try reading a few articles (as I just did) and AIM looks about as biased as the 'censorship' project. AIM definitely does a better job writing their headlines, and their prose and website are more professional.
Just another example of a left-wing group doing a half-ass job of getting its message out, while its counterpart organization on the right achieves high levels of gloss and sheen.
Truman and his cabinet debated the merits of various approaches and concluded that the best approach was the one they followed. I think history has shown them to have been right.
Yes, the ensuing 60+ years of nuclear brinkmanship have been great. Good thing we were brave enough to demonstrate to the world that there is a nation crazy enough to use nuclear weapons against other nations.
All poor people may not be defended by Mark Geragos, but they do get a lawyer. To imply that anyone who gets convicted of a felony just didn't have a big enough lawyer is nonsense... Charges come with specifications that increase or decrease the penalty... plea bargains only work if the prosecution is willing to deal, and state law is what makes a criminal act a felony, not the lawyer.
It sounds nice where you live. Maybe someday the United States will have a similar justice system.
The way it makes you put different objects in different files/modules is so counter to Perl's scripting heritage
Different classes can be defined in the same file, no problem - just make a package declaration to begin each new one.
Having said that, I've never wanted to actually have more than one class in a file. Sure, OO is counter to 'Perl's scripting heritage', but so what? There's a reason that much of the good stuff on CPAN is written in an OO style.
You then can return to your business and ignore politics for the next four years, since a voter can exercise no power between elections anyway.
If you're basically happy with the way things are, that's fine advice. However, if you expect any kind of meaningful change to happen solely through voting, forget about it. You can exercise infinitely more influence on government officials, elected and unelected, by putting your energy into an organized group, be it a political party or an issue-based group.
With mod_perl, XML::LibXML, XML::LibXSLT, I EASILY get 100/per second. and my code is shitty.
Amen. All of my XML processing code for the last year has been written using the above-mentioned tools, and it's been fast enough that I haven't needed to spend time performance tuning.
The jobs offered by Western companies make this situation better, by creating a new technological middle class capable of seeing the benefits of free information flow and educated enough to fight for it.
Ideally. In reality, many jobs exported from the US don't pay a living wage, and the poor human rights situations in those countries allow the Western companies to hire thugs to threaten or kill the workers when they strike for better conditions.
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Very interesting. A few months ago, I followed links to a few TCS articles and thought that they seemed awfully slanted -- this certainly explains where they're coming from.
I gave up on the ACLU back when they sued to force that Russian kid to go back to the USSR with his parents
Missed that one - I gave up on them when they took $1 million from the tobacco industry to argue against restrictions on cigarette advertising.
You do seem pretty interested in the topic, seeing how you have 24+ comments in this thread alone.
Not taking part in our improving economy, I guess. Better luck next quarter.
All of whom should have, in theory, been erased by the invisible hand or otherwise kicked in the pants by the market. But in fact, these beaurocracies are no better than most mediocre government beaurocracies.
How true. Heard a great line a few days ago - something to the effect of "the problem with the invisible hand is that it often isn't there."
Haven't heard any stories about wealthy Californians' homes spared by their hyper-efficient private fire departments this week, either.
Punch cards worked absolutely fine up until the 2000 election
You mean, you didn't hear about the problems with some types of punch card machines until Florida 2000.
Nice of you to decide that tens of thousands of voters in Florida "shouldn't be voting". You're on the same page as Sec. State Harris.
Factor in the huge impact of corruption and nepotism in government & commerce and you have a recipie for trouble
Certainly not factors in the Russian or Saudi oil industries, which have always been completely transparent.
For every scientific study "proving" that prayer doesn't work, there's one proving that it does
There was at least one recent, well-publicized study in which having remote people praying for patients was found to have some sort of positive effect. I suspect the point of posting this study is to inform us that the original study's results are contradicted, without giving the original study more attention than it deserves.
I tend to agree that these studies are a waste of time.
Note that "single speed" as applied to fixed bicycles is redundant, unless you count a differently-sized cog on the other side of a flip-flop hub.
Another advantage oft cited for the fixed is that the average lowlife thief has no idea how to ride them.
Mainly, though, they're lots of fun once you get used to them. Except the part about riding in traffic without brakes - I don't get that. Must be lacking a death wish.
Actually, Harley claimed to trademark the distinctive "potato,potato" sound of its engine and threated legal action when either Yamaha or Honda introduced an engine with the same cylinder timing and sound.
They also have a history of litigation against independant shops that work on Harleys and sell related stuff. Some shops have closed, which hurts Harley's customers, but I guess that's of small concern when compared to maintaining the integrity of their brand.
it completely alienates all the Slashdot readers who don't have a rather high level understanding of how compilers work and the debugging process in general.
If only you were right - a good many of us would be thrilled if Slashdot readers who don't have a high level understanding of "how compilers work and the debugging process in general" were completely alienated.
gcc is one of the reasons a number of developers in *bsd land are waiting for this to mature. others (theo is a big advocate) are trying to get the plan9 toolchain freed up more.
FYI, this came up on deadly.org a while back and it was pretty clear that a non-gcc compiler is not a priority for most (any?) of the main OpenBSD people. If someday one works as well as gcc, great, but it's not going to happen any time soon.
Minimum wage may be vastly less than you or I currently earn, but the fact that one can afford luxuries such as consumer electronics, broadband, automobiles, their own living space, etc - on that wage, is remarkable.
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It's so remarkable, it's not even close to true. Look at Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed; it's not even possible to afford housing and food on minimum wage, much less "luxuries such as consumer electronics, broadband. .
Stas is also behind the excellent online mod_perl guide, without which I can't imagine being able to use mod_perl in any kind of production environment. He's a great counterexample for those who complain that nobody puts together proper docs for open source projects.
How do you fuel the fight against AIDs in Africa?
I had no idea fossil fuels were being used to combat AIDs in Africa. Doesn't seem to be working too well.
First, you have XML files which somehow are supposed to respresent data. . .(XPathScript grousing). . .XSLT stylesheets are no better.
Depends on your situation - if you're a web programmer working with XSLT-savvy designers, then using AxKit and XSLT is awfully straighforward. The programmer and designer just need to agree on how the XML will be structured, then the programmer can worry about getting the data into the XML format, and the designer can worry about transforming the XML.
Of course that doesn't help you if you've been thrown onto a project already built with XPS.
Just from a front-page glance, I'd be willing to wager AiM and the featured PC site are really not all that related. AiM appears, from its headlines, to be a serious media watchdog site
Try reading a few articles (as I just did) and AIM looks about as biased as the 'censorship' project. AIM definitely does a better job writing their headlines, and their prose and website are more professional.
Just another example of a left-wing group doing a half-ass job of getting its message out, while its counterpart organization on the right achieves high levels of gloss and sheen.
Yes, the ensuing 60+ years of nuclear brinkmanship have been great. Good thing we were brave enough to demonstrate to the world that there is a nation crazy enough to use nuclear weapons against other nations.
All poor people may not be defended by Mark Geragos, but they do get a lawyer. To imply that anyone who gets convicted of a felony just didn't have a big enough lawyer is nonsense... Charges come with specifications that increase or decrease the penalty... plea bargains only work if the prosecution is willing to deal, and state law is what makes a criminal act a felony, not the lawyer.
It sounds nice where you live. Maybe someday the United States will have a similar justice system.
If you cater to a socioeconomic group with a high number of felons in it, then I'm sorry... get a higher-quality constituency.
That must explain why few to none of our elected officials do anything meaningful for people who can't afford top-of-the-line lawyers, eh?
I can't help but think that it's the buyers half of the time. I know the USPS isn't that unreliable.
$0.45 for package tracking from the USPS... sounds like it would have been worth it for you.
The way it makes you put different objects in different files/modules is so counter to Perl's scripting heritage
Different classes can be defined in the same file, no problem - just make a package declaration to begin each new one.
Having said that, I've never wanted to actually have more than one class in a file. Sure, OO is counter to 'Perl's scripting heritage', but so what? There's a reason that much of the good stuff on CPAN is written in an OO style.
You then can return to your business and ignore politics for the next four years, since a voter can exercise no power between elections anyway.
If you're basically happy with the way things are, that's fine advice. However, if you expect any kind of meaningful change to happen solely through voting, forget about it. You can exercise infinitely more influence on government officials, elected and unelected, by putting your energy into an organized group, be it a political party or an issue-based group.
The government of the United States was elected by the people.
Although this is often true, note that the current administration was selected by the Supreme Court in violation of Florida state law.
With mod_perl, XML::LibXML, XML::LibXSLT, I EASILY get 100/per second. and my code is shitty.
Amen. All of my XML processing code for the last year has been written using the above-mentioned tools, and it's been fast enough that I haven't needed to spend time performance tuning.
See the apache axkit project for more info.
The jobs offered by Western companies make this situation better, by creating a new technological middle class capable of seeing the benefits of free information flow and educated enough to fight for it.
Ideally. In reality, many jobs exported from the US don't pay a living wage, and the poor human rights situations in those countries allow the Western companies to hire thugs to threaten or kill the workers when they strike for better conditions.