My son, the Esteemed Mother Among Computer Software smiles at you.
May the icon factories currently stuffing lesser programming tools with meaningless little objects of idolatry never pollute your conscious with bric-a-brac.
May you never touch an editor that is less than extensible, customizable, self-documenting, and resplendent, whether dressed in an X session or a humble terminal.
And may evil never your doorway darken, though emacs has a mode to help your recovery therefrom.
By ad-hominem, I mean using unique venom. Calling everyone in the room at Google 'morons' isn't ad hominem. Saying that, oh, Andrew Morton is the 'biggest lobotomy evar', or some other unprecidented slam, would be ad hominem.
Of course, I'm probably a collosal 'tard for tweaking the mean of 'ad hominem' like this, as I tend to think you're right.
I mean, the overall scope creep of the US Government is breathtaking, but do you really think we'll see a Department of Furniture Flinging? I don't think even Mirthless Murtha could support that, unless it were headquartered in his district, of course.
Moderators: this is an on-topic reference to Wayne's World, where one of the two of them picks up a guitar in the shop and starts playing the famous PbZ song.
Store worker yanks the guitar from (Wayne, IIRC?), points to a sign posted that says "No Stairway", at which point Wayne and Garth look at each other and say "Denied".
They would have gotten away with it, too, if not for the meddling employee!
That's not a bug, that's a feature.
He emphasizes engineering over ego. It's a litmus test. If you've got the sack to get in the game, you better not mind seeing your work demolished. This is an anti-prima-donna vaccine for any organization.
So long as he remains consistent, even-handed, and not ad-hominem, it's OK.
You're right; the link was less than explicit between Socialism and people ejecting from Germany.
Having married a lovely German lady, I sort of took it for granted that everyone knew that the micro-management of the economy by the government was stifling the economy and driving people out.
To drop an example, my father-in-law is slated to retire in a year or two. He is by law precluded from, say, opening a bicycle shop or something.
Lovely place to hang out, but I find myself in disagreement with a lot of their policies.
When a government takes away your freedoms they don't willingly give them back.
What I find somewhat amusing about contemporary political dialogue from some quarters is that they are quick to make noises like "Chimpy McHitlerBush", and follow that up with some talk about universal health care.
The Patriot Act and Department of Homeland Security, etc. etc. have had a net negative impact on individual freedom from interference. Deciding whether or not the tradeoff is worthwhile or suicidal is an exercise for the reader.
But if they're going to protest Bush in good conscience, help me grasp why they turn around and want the federal government intruding with health care and other entitlements. If one is to believe articles such as this http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article260048 9.ece then the consensus doesn't seem in favor of the socialized future that some appear to favor for the US.
Hats off to Massachusetts for passing their health care legislation. It is a no-kidding feature of these United States that there is a spectrum of policy, and people can simply go where they agree with the way things are done. Also, their votes compete with fewer opposers to their political expression. Furthermore, if the ideas don't pan out, then, hey: fewer citizens driven off the bridge. Or something.
Thus, I'm contending that any economies of scale attained by concentrating power at the federal level are overshadowed by the suckiness of federally concentrated power.
Policy might be better if were tested with questions like:
Does it minimize the tendency for excessive power to accumulate in DC?
Does it maximize individual responsibility and freedom?
Let's have a strong states-rights tack in US politics--it's long overdue.
Visual Studio Express was a labor of love. It was a small miracle getting Express to be available both for free and for commercial use for customers let alone the engineering work to get it up and running We made a business decision to not allow 3rd party extensibility in Express.
What I draw from this is that some segments of the software industry, like pornography, are an intersection of love and business.
Note Proverbs 6:2 "For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought* to a piece of bread: and the adultress will hunt for the precious life."
Microsoft, if it loves you past your wallet, there is a business model behind that love.
I had some experience with VS2003/NUnit and did a two week project somewhere else where the Express edition came in handy.
Overall, things like VS and NetBeans, (or Eclipse or Borland) where I'm awash in icons, menus, and tiny scattered little files that perform secret rituals every time I want to build a project make me tired.
But then, I haven't actually worked on an enterprise project with a score of monkeys like me cranking out classes. So perhaps I'm not the intended audience.
You certainly expressed the idea more clearly than I did.
The college case is an important facet: hook them while they're young.
Of course, once people realize that it's all really text anyway, and these got-more-icons-than-an-orthodox-cathedral environments are just another case of the means obscuring the end, then the people mature into simpler environments.
Truly, if your tools doesn't run just fine in a console, what good are they?;)
extends the Visual Studio Express Editions which is a direct violation of both the EULA and "ethos" of the Express product line.
Read "ethos" as "business case". MS is using http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_segmentation. The Express products are a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_drug to piss you off enough to pony up enough money for the real deal.
Test Driven Development is not, itself, a bad thing, but if Too Many People glommed onto the underlying technology, and a culture of freedom of expression broke out, well...let us leave the unspeakable unspoken.
The whole thing is business, pure and simple. If you leave off the 'good' and 'evil' labels, the situation is easier to process.
Of course, maybe it's all a stealth advertising campaign for http://www.mingw.org/. Who can say?
Violently agree, though I came at it from the angle of mocking the overly-emotional modernist viewpoint.
What's interesting, though, is the Insighful/Troll mod the post earned.
Something profound about that, in a goofy way.
See, it's unfair to consider only the end.
What about the path to that end?
Mr. Softy had significant features that had to be conceived, marketed, implemented, then yanked.
How unfair of you to just blow off WinFS as if it never existed.
What this world needs is more fairness.
Boo hoo.
TFA tried to make it sound like Mr. Softy had actually gone off and done a skunk-works type of project on this one.
Or course, they may have simply acquired technology in a fashion similar to:
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but hey, we're in a good mood, so how 'bout the benefit of the doubt?
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My son, the Esteemed Mother Among Computer Software smiles at you.
May the icon factories currently stuffing lesser programming tools with meaningless little objects of idolatry never pollute your conscious with bric-a-brac.
May you never touch an editor that is less than extensible, customizable, self-documenting, and resplendent, whether dressed in an X session or a humble terminal.
And may e vi l never your doorway darken, though emacs has a mode to help your recovery therefrom.
By ad-hominem, I mean using unique venom. Calling everyone in the room at Google 'morons' isn't ad hominem. Saying that, oh, Andrew Morton is the 'biggest lobotomy evar', or some other unprecidented slam, would be ad hominem.
Of course, I'm probably a collosal 'tard for tweaking the mean of 'ad hominem' like this, as I tend to think you're right.
I mean, the overall scope creep of the US Government is breathtaking, but do you really think we'll see a Department of Furniture Flinging? I don't think even Mirthless Murtha could support that, unless it were headquartered in his district, of course.
No sweat. "Scooby Doo Ending" reference thrown in as a tip o' the hat.
Moderators: this is an on-topic reference to Wayne's World, where one of the two of them picks up a guitar in the shop and starts playing the famous PbZ song.
Store worker yanks the guitar from (Wayne, IIRC?), points to a sign posted that says "No Stairway", at which point Wayne and Garth look at each other and say "Denied".
They would have gotten away with it, too, if not for the meddling employee!
Follow-on study,
Buried, page 798.
Essential earmarks.
He emphasizes engineering over ego. It's a litmus test. If you've got the sack to get in the game, you better not mind seeing your work demolished. This is an anti-prima-donna vaccine for any organization.
So long as he remains consistent, even-handed, and not ad-hominem, it's OK.
You're right; the link was less than explicit between Socialism and people ejecting from Germany.
Having married a lovely German lady, I sort of took it for granted that everyone knew that the micro-management of the economy by the government was stifling the economy and driving people out.
To drop an example, my father-in-law is slated to retire in a year or two. He is by law precluded from, say, opening a bicycle shop or something.
Lovely place to hang out, but I find myself in disagreement with a lot of their policies.
The Patriot Act and Department of Homeland Security, etc. etc. have had a net negative impact on individual freedom from interference. Deciding whether or not the tradeoff is worthwhile or suicidal is an exercise for the reader.
But if they're going to protest Bush in good conscience, help me grasp why they turn around and want the federal government intruding with health care and other entitlements. If one is to believe articles such as this http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article26004
Hats off to Massachusetts for passing their health care legislation. It is a no-kidding feature of these United States that there is a spectrum of policy, and people can simply go where they agree with the way things are done. Also, their votes compete with fewer opposers to their political expression. Furthermore, if the ideas don't pan out, then, hey: fewer citizens driven off the bridge. Or something.
Thus, I'm contending that any economies of scale attained by concentrating power at the federal level are overshadowed by the suckiness of federally concentrated power.
Policy might be better if were tested with questions like:
- Does it minimize the tendency for excessive power to accumulate in DC?
- Does it maximize individual responsibility and freedom?
Let's have a strong states-rights tack in US politics--it's long overdue.Concur. What fascinates me is the capacity of humans to look at this sort of thing and appear shocked.
Note Proverbs 6:2 "For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought* to a piece of bread: and the adultress will hunt for the precious life."
Microsoft, if it loves you past your wallet, there is a business model behind that love.
*reduced
Oh yeah? Well, my Haskell on Heroin project gets it all done in 14 lines of simple code, in 11 minutes, as my monads crush your gonads.
Preach it.
I had some experience with VS2003/NUnit and did a two week project somewhere else where the Express edition came in handy.
Overall, things like VS and NetBeans, (or Eclipse or Borland) where I'm awash in icons, menus, and tiny scattered little files that perform secret rituals every time I want to build a project make me tired.
But then, I haven't actually worked on an enterprise project with a score of monkeys like me cranking out classes. So perhaps I'm not the intended audience.
Rather, amplifies the need to crush this young whipper-snapper.
You certainly expressed the idea more clearly than I did. ;)
The college case is an important facet: hook them while they're young.
Of course, once people realize that it's all really text anyway, and these got-more-icons-than-an-orthodox-cathedral environments are just another case of the means obscuring the end, then the people mature into simpler environments.
Truly, if your tools doesn't run just fine in a console, what good are they?
http://www.charlespetzold.com/etc/DoesVisualStudi
Test Driven Development is not, itself, a bad thing, but if Too Many People glommed onto the underlying technology, and a culture of freedom of expression broke out, well...let us leave the unspeakable unspoken.
The whole thing is business, pure and simple. If you leave off the 'good' and 'evil' labels, the situation is easier to process.
Of course, maybe it's all a stealth advertising campaign for http://www.mingw.org/. Who can say?
Which, like that of Stevens, cost a lot without exactly going anywhere useful, no doubt.
Violently agree, though I came at it from the angle of mocking the overly-emotional modernist viewpoint.
What's interesting, though, is the Insighful/Troll mod the post earned.
Something profound about that, in a goofy way.
See, it's unfair to consider only the end.
What about the path to that end?
Mr. Softy had significant features that had to be conceived, marketed, implemented, then yanked.
How unfair of you to just blow off WinFS as if it never existed.
What this world needs is more fairness.
Boo hoo.
How can this thing be true, with no mention of Paludis?
Dude, Solomon crushes all of the existentialists so handily in Ecclesiastes.
Or course, they may have simply acquired technology in a fashion similar to: but hey, we're in a good mood, so how 'bout the benefit of the doubt?