Religion, when practiced as intended? Is that a joke.
Every single major religion has as their cornerstones violence, genocide, misogyny and racism. Its not an unfortunate occasional side effect. Its codified in their texts. The texts are the intent, those who deviate avoid those things are simply demonstrating the innate reaction most humans have to such behavior. They do so in defiance of the intent of religion.
Their texts are their DNA, and you will not win this argument.
Sure, lots of atheist people will be racist war mongering assholes.
Atheism doesn't preclude flawed actions or flawed beliefs, but given the logical fallacies of faith, and religion's inherent necessity for irrational belief in the face of empirical evidence to the contrary, religious people are more likely to be racist war mongering assholes. At the very least most have to tolerate that behavior to a degree as all of the major religious texts dictate violence, racism and sexism.
I'm not some loony tunes liberal. In fact I'll play devils advocate sometimes and argue that Nixon has gotten a bad rap, and deserves respect for many truly great achievements. I gladly recognize that Reagan was an inspirational leader for many, at a time when the nation face great peril.
Bush Jr was simply an unmitigated disaster. It's beyond incompetence. Not only was he incompetent, he is a bafoon.
I can say with certainty that the H1Bs are not displacing anyone in NYC. We are all desperately trying to hire competent engineers. There is an acute shortage. The larger firms that have good lawyers (Bloomberg, AppNexus) can afford to fill the gaps by brining in H1Bs. Almost all are very very good.For the smaller firms this is often out of reach.
Also all of the H1Bs I know are paid the same or more then their native equivalents. The Bloomberg one's are paid considerably more, but thats just the way Bloomberg is.
So a big part of choosing dependencies is evaluating the community that will be contributing.
A library written coffee script will have fewer possible developers available to contribute then a library written in pure js, as many JS devs won't touch coffee script. So all other things being equal, Ill choose the pure JS library.
Also as I don't plan on becoming proficient in coffee-script, I'm less likely to adopt a early stage coffee script library as I will be dependent on others to offer bug fixes. Unless I want to modify the compiled code, in which case contribution/maintenance becomes more complex.
(A) That is a year old, and node has had something like 6 releases since then (B) Did you bother to read the substance of the test? His test was flawed. Each request he was doing file io in node, but not in vert.
"In your benchmarks nodejs is reading off the disk for every request. That’s the reason for the dramatic performance difference. Monitoring disk ops you can see this as well. Seems the JVM is doing some caching that v8 isn’t for reading the same file.
Also making a small change so that both Vert.x and node.js only read the file once using this:
Then node.js ends up performing substantially better than Vert.x. I changed both Vert.x and node.js apps to match so it would be apples to apples comparison.
The results I got had node.js outperforming Vert.x by 50%."
Funny, I really can't stand coffeescript. Its good that developers have a choice, but I tend to avoid coffeescript projects as dependencies as the community will by definition be smaller.
One example of being quite nice, though admittedly niche. I was writing some complex map reduce stuff for mongo. Multiple steps, lots of data, etc. I really wanted unit tests of the map-reduce scripts, but couldn't see a great way to do this in Mongo. So I wrote a node application that emulated the Mongo map-reduce environment and could then use mocha to do my testing.
I think the really mind blowing stack for web development is node.js + redis + angular. The power of DI & IOC for web development combined with Javascript all the way down makes development a true joy. I've also done web development with Py, Java/Spring/Hibernate, Grails and LAMP, and can honestly say that none compare to node/mongo/angular for performance & developer productivity.
That said, Javascript can result in some terrifyingly bad code in the hands of bad developers. Certainly worse at the extremes then Py or Java.
I don't quite see why his fleeing from the U.S. is a sign that the the U.S. is necessarily repressive.
I'm happy that he released those documents, but there is no question that he did break the law. He is being charged with espionage, which is a legitimate charge given his actions. He should be arrested. He should go to trial, and if the American people believe strongly that what he did was right, we should protest and petition for his pardon.
Thats how a Democracy should function. The fact that he wants to evade capture and avoid the consequences of his actions is no commentary on America.
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Hitchens trounced him, and repeatedly demonstrated that he was willfully twisting the truth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KBx4vvlbZ8
Read them. They are nonsense. Logical contortions desperately attempting to rationalize the demonstrably insane.
Religion, when practiced as intended? Is that a joke.
Every single major religion has as their cornerstones violence, genocide, misogyny and racism. Its not an unfortunate occasional side effect. Its codified in their texts. The texts are the intent, those who deviate avoid those things are simply demonstrating the innate reaction most humans have to such behavior. They do so in defiance of the intent of religion.
Their texts are their DNA, and you will not win this argument.
Sure, lots of atheist people will be racist war mongering assholes.
Atheism doesn't preclude flawed actions or flawed beliefs, but given the logical fallacies of faith, and religion's inherent necessity for irrational belief in the face of empirical evidence to the contrary, religious people are more likely to be racist war mongering assholes. At the very least most have to tolerate that behavior to a degree as all of the major religious texts dictate violence, racism and sexism.
Religions always devolve into violence. Always.
I don't know where you work, but it sounds like hell.
Yes. Great developers use lots of...stored procedures?!?!?!?!
What fucking planet are you from?
Mongo is ACID compliant at the document level.
Its not the right choice for everything, but defaulting to "run away" is just nutters.
Get with the times AC.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bafoon
Seriously.
I'm not some loony tunes liberal. In fact I'll play devils advocate sometimes and argue that Nixon has gotten a bad rap, and deserves respect for many truly great achievements. I gladly recognize that Reagan was an inspirational leader for many, at a time when the nation face great peril.
Bush Jr was simply an unmitigated disaster. It's beyond incompetence. Not only was he incompetent, he is a bafoon.
All while pulling himself up by his own bootstraps!
I'm sure his massive family connections in no way assisted in any of that.
Andreessen Horowitz doesn't fuck around.
I've been working in Tech in the US since 1997.
I can say with certainty that the H1Bs are not displacing anyone in NYC. We are all desperately trying to hire competent engineers. There is an acute shortage. The larger firms that have good lawyers (Bloomberg, AppNexus) can afford to fill the gaps by brining in H1Bs. Almost all are very very good.For the smaller firms this is often out of reach.
Also all of the H1Bs I know are paid the same or more then their native equivalents. The Bloomberg one's are paid considerably more, but thats just the way Bloomberg is.
So a big part of choosing dependencies is evaluating the community that will be contributing.
A library written coffee script will have fewer possible developers available to contribute then a library written in pure js, as many JS devs won't touch coffee script. So all other things being equal, Ill choose the pure JS library.
Also as I don't plan on becoming proficient in coffee-script, I'm less likely to adopt a early stage coffee script library as I will be dependent on others to offer bug fixes. Unless I want to modify the compiled code, in which case contribution/maintenance becomes more complex.
(1) NPM works just find for package management.
(2) https://github.com/rbranson/node-ffi
I guess we are good now.
Very few people query mongo via rest.
However the mongo shell is v8. So all querying, aggregation and map reduce is in JS.
Or for people who understand RDM just fine and know when to use it, but who also understand that Map Reduce and schema-less also have a place.
I'm not going to put financial transactions into mongo. However I will gladly do analytics in it.
(A) That is a year old, and node has had something like 6 releases since then
(B) Did you bother to read the substance of the test? His test was flawed. Each request he was doing file io in node, but not in vert.
"In your benchmarks nodejs is reading off the disk for every request. That’s the reason for the dramatic performance difference. Monitoring disk ops you can see this as well. Seems the JVM is doing some caching that v8 isn’t for reading the same file.
Also making a small change so that both Vert.x and node.js only read the file once using this:
https://gist.github.com/2652991
Then node.js ends up performing substantially better than Vert.x. I changed both Vert.x and node.js apps to match so it would be apples to apples comparison.
The results I got had node.js outperforming Vert.x by 50%."
There is shit loads of javascript on google.com
Funny, I really can't stand coffeescript. Its good that developers have a choice, but I tend to avoid coffeescript projects as dependencies as the community will by definition be smaller.
It does make some things much simpler.
One example of being quite nice, though admittedly niche. I was writing some complex map reduce stuff for mongo. Multiple steps, lots of data, etc. I really wanted unit tests of the map-reduce scripts, but couldn't see a great way to do this in Mongo. So I wrote a node application that emulated the Mongo map-reduce environment and could then use mocha to do my testing.
I think the really mind blowing stack for web development is node.js + redis + angular. The power of DI & IOC for web development combined with Javascript all the way down makes development a true joy. I've also done web development with Py, Java/Spring/Hibernate, Grails and LAMP, and can honestly say that none compare to node/mongo/angular for performance & developer productivity.
That said, Javascript can result in some terrifyingly bad code in the hands of bad developers. Certainly worse at the extremes then Py or Java.
I'm sorry but what web development can be done w/o needing to at least mix in JS on the client side?
I don't quite see why his fleeing from the U.S. is a sign that the the U.S. is necessarily repressive.
I'm happy that he released those documents, but there is no question that he did break the law. He is being charged with espionage, which is a legitimate charge given his actions. He should be arrested. He should go to trial, and if the American people believe strongly that what he did was right, we should protest and petition for his pardon.
Thats how a Democracy should function. The fact that he wants to evade capture and avoid the consequences of his actions is no commentary on America.
Of foreign combatants. Not domesting journalists. Big difference.
Pravda is about equivalent to The Enquirer. Its a tabloid, and its quite funny, but its not journalism.
Dude its not a POV thing. The U.S. government does not assassinate reporters, or CIA leakers. Putin routinely jails his critics.
The U.S. is headed in a very bad direction on these issues, but the gulf between them and Russia is still quite large.