You earn a name for yourself by successfully challenging the status quo. But in order to do that, you need evidence that'll take the scrutiny. So far, there is overwhelming consensus -- bad news for the deniers, because if there is ANY credible evidence refuting AGW, you'd have a million guys all over it.
Something just tells me that -- at least for the wingnut'o'sphere -- there nothing "common" about common sense at all.
The climate change community has a lot of trouble with extremely articulate, anonymous climate deniers, who appear to show up in force and sabotage discussions of climate change on blogs, etc.
I should imagine that such an algorithm might enable researchers to build profiles over denialist astroturf, and correlate them with known people working for known rightwing think tanks. Employed properly, this might have a massive impact on the rightwing black PR industry.
Excellent read. We just got a new development manager, and his first act in the job, after talking and carefully listening to everyone on the development team, was to expense a copy of Code Complete, and ask everybody to read it. When somebody is this clueful, it builds confidence...
Code reviews are also a great way to spread knowledge throughout the team; to get people more familiar with different corners of the codebase, and to get people thinking harder about their code. I see code reviews not just as a(n imperfect QA tool), but as a learning tool.
It's better than that -- there are powerful special interests in the US, like the construction supplies industry, which benefits from using measures and sizes different to everyone else in the world. It effectively acts as a trade barrier against the Chinese.
I think for me, the killer application would be having such a device record everything I see into a circular buffer, and then if some cockhead does something obnoxious or criminal in the street, it can be kept to either hand timestamped footage to police, or to shame said people on the Internet.
The doomsayers may call it a totalitarian hell, but I think it could yet be a renaissance for the polite and law-abiding majority.
People are wont to forget how much blood was shed for freedoms that people literally take for granted, but came out through reforms that cost a LOT of shed blood. The Suffragettes shed blood on both sides of the Atlantic.
Now _absolute_ poverty has been abolished in the West for quite a while now, and exposed what poverty actually is.
That said, we do have powerful right-wing extremists who are trying to grind half the population into the dirt; so I don't rule out absolute poverty making a big comeback, especially in Greece and the good ol' US of A.
Being poor has little to do with actual lack of money; and is much more to do with mental illness (which has a genetic component), bad upbringing and bad attitudes inherited from family and friends; drug abuse; low expections; and bad culture (e.g. anything "gangsta", and the modern tendancy to strip away people's linguistic and cultural identity and replace it with corporate mass-market shit).
Lots of companies refuse to pay for training, because lots of people would just skill up and leave.
Besides, private business is self-interested and cheap -- they expect either you, the government, or foreign governments (through dumping of highly-skilled immigrants) to pay for the skills they require.
Paper (or Powerpoint) spacecraft and launch systems are a dime a dozen.
Even when they DO tool up their factories and begin production, they need to get on top of their industries' QA issues as well. I would think that the somewhat less-than-stellar track record of their newer systems (e.g. Briz-M), suggests that they have a lot of work to do.
Possession is nine tenths of the law. I don't care about the Palestinians if they're too weak or stupid to figure out how to take the land back either with themselves, or with the aid of the mighty Muslim ummah.
Big agribusiness preemptively pumping their animals full of antibiotics to kill off their gut flora as "growth promotors", which packing them in like sardines, to make a quick buck -- a hack to make the animals bigger and more productive, but also to compensate for the filth and squalor the beknighted creatures are kept in...
... and very, very deep supply chains. Like the contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, if you have sub-sub-sub-contractors six to ten levels deep, each taking their cut, you're not going to be cost-effective.
SpaceX would need to have solids, which they've quite deliberately eschewed. As it is, they're thoroughly optimized for space launch, not storable rockets that can be launched at zero notice.
Musk, is essentially running a massive experiment to see what costs can be squeezed out of building and operating launch systems. Much of it has to do with using off the shelf technology (as opposed to the proverbial gold-plated screws...), and flattening his supply chain.
Obviously, it's working, as the old guard are getting butthurt that they're uncompetitive after growing fat and lazy off government space and defence contracts.
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Could be efficiency too.
When you're in Germany, you get 6 weeks vacation a year. But when you work an 8 hour day, you _work_ an 8 hour day.
Best Slashdot comment ever.
Science doesn't work that way.
You earn a name for yourself by successfully challenging the status quo. But in order to do that, you need evidence that'll take the scrutiny. So far, there is overwhelming consensus -- bad news for the deniers, because if there is ANY credible evidence refuting AGW, you'd have a million guys all over it.
Something just tells me that -- at least for the wingnut'o'sphere -- there nothing "common" about common sense at all.
The climate change community has a lot of trouble with extremely articulate, anonymous climate deniers, who appear to show up in force and sabotage discussions of climate change on blogs, etc.
I should imagine that such an algorithm might enable researchers to build profiles over denialist astroturf, and correlate them with known people working for known rightwing think tanks. Employed properly, this might have a massive impact on the rightwing black PR industry.
The Muslims killed and enslaved their fair share too.
The difference between Islam and Christianity now, is that Christians grew out of it, but Muslims never did.
+1.
Excellent read. We just got a new development manager, and his first act in the job, after talking and carefully listening to everyone on the development team, was to expense a copy of Code Complete, and ask everybody to read it. When somebody is this clueful, it builds confidence...
Code reviews are also a great way to spread knowledge throughout the team; to get people more familiar with different corners of the codebase, and to get people thinking harder about their code. I see code reviews not just as a(n imperfect QA tool), but as a learning tool.
Impossible on massive corporate codebases, with low standards to begin with.
Implementing something like this would be asking your developers to clean the Augean Stables.
Easy ways to approach this with managers:
Use the technical debt idiom, and how accumulated debt needs to be paid back with interest before the burden of poor productivity strangles your team.
Also:
A feature is an asset.
A line of code is a liability.
It's better than that -- there are powerful special interests in the US, like the construction supplies industry, which benefits from using measures and sizes different to everyone else in the world. It effectively acts as a trade barrier against the Chinese.
I think for me, the killer application would be having such a device record everything I see into a circular buffer, and then if some cockhead does something obnoxious or criminal in the street, it can be kept to either hand timestamped footage to police, or to shame said people on the Internet.
The doomsayers may call it a totalitarian hell, but I think it could yet be a renaissance for the polite and law-abiding majority.
Thanks SmallFurryCreature. Wish I had mod points.
People are wont to forget how much blood was shed for freedoms that people literally take for granted, but came out through reforms that cost a LOT of shed blood. The Suffragettes shed blood on both sides of the Atlantic.
Now _absolute_ poverty has been abolished in the West for quite a while now, and exposed what poverty actually is.
That said, we do have powerful right-wing extremists who are trying to grind half the population into the dirt; so I don't rule out absolute poverty making a big comeback, especially in Greece and the good ol' US of A.
Being poor has little to do with actual lack of money; and is much more to do with mental illness (which has a genetic component), bad upbringing and bad attitudes inherited from family and friends; drug abuse; low expections; and bad culture (e.g. anything "gangsta", and the modern tendancy to strip away people's linguistic and cultural identity and replace it with corporate mass-market shit).
Lots of companies refuse to pay for training, because lots of people would just skill up and leave.
Besides, private business is self-interested and cheap -- they expect either you, the government, or foreign governments (through dumping of highly-skilled immigrants) to pay for the skills they require.
Elder abuse and neglect would be especially shocking in a culture which values and honours old people.
The suggested solution is typically heavy handed, but the problem is very real.
Paper (or Powerpoint) spacecraft and launch systems are a dime a dozen.
Even when they DO tool up their factories and begin production, they need to get on top of their industries' QA issues as well. I would think that the somewhat less-than-stellar track record of their newer systems (e.g. Briz-M), suggests that they have a lot of work to do.
Possession is nine tenths of the law. I don't care about the Palestinians if they're too weak or stupid to figure out how to take the land back either with themselves, or with the aid of the mighty Muslim ummah.
Karma's a bitch.
When the superbugs become immune to everything, the richarses will be just as screwed as us, and it'll probably serve them right.
Big agribusiness preemptively pumping their animals full of antibiotics to kill off their gut flora as "growth promotors", which packing them in like sardines, to make a quick buck -- a hack to make the animals bigger and more productive, but also to compensate for the filth and squalor the beknighted creatures are kept in...
What could _possibly_ go wrong?
It's hilarious when the guys from China Great Wall Industry are accusing Musk of lying and cooking his figures....
... and very, very deep supply chains. Like the contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, if you have sub-sub-sub-contractors six to ten levels deep, each taking their cut, you're not going to be cost-effective.
SpaceX would need to have solids, which they've quite deliberately eschewed. As it is, they're thoroughly optimized for space launch, not storable rockets that can be launched at zero notice.
Musk, is essentially running a massive experiment to see what costs can be squeezed out of building and operating launch systems. Much of it has to do with using off the shelf technology (as opposed to the proverbial gold-plated screws...), and flattening his supply chain.
Obviously, it's working, as the old guard are getting butthurt that they're uncompetitive after growing fat and lazy off government space and defence contracts.
Gotta love free markets when they work well.
Shilling for these muslim dogs?
When the first shots are fired, AC, I hope you're the first to die.