Oh great advice. Next time I am building some software I will be sure to follow your advice. Let me get this straight:
1) Do my software right
2) Be surprised how easy it is
3) Consider well (sic) my approach as I start to code
4) I work 60 hour weeks so 98% more means I only need to go to a 118 hour work week
5)...derpa derpa derpa...
6) Cross-platform Profit!!!!!
You should really patent that process.
PS: This has to be the most demoralizing 5:insightful I have ever seen. Obviously you and your 5 stooges have absolutely no experience actually doing anything like this.
I don't really see any noticeable difference in how they're treated by their opponents that would indicate racism was a significant factor.
How about that only one of them was slandered on the basis of race. The other lies are bad in their own ways (even just as insidious), but the people pushing Obama as some sort of militant black muslim are definitely engaging in racism to some extent.
It is beyond the pale to claim someone has a belief that they explicitly deny, and then use the "belief" to slander the person. Hunts for communists, witches, and Japanese spies really should have taught everyone this by now.
Ha, this cracked me up. Non-coding "hackers" always talk about "subroutines" for some reason. I am sure it means something concrete on some platform, but usually its a dead give away that someone does not know what they are talking about.
Easier said than done. Making software cross platform can be extremely time consuming, and often requires rewrites of entire modules for each OS. Even multi-OS platforms like Java have a reputation for being "write once, debug everywhere". The cost of adding another OS to the mix can be enormous.
I agree. I am baffled by a lot of the MS hate today. I think a lot of it must be residual, because the MS I know today is not that bad. Nobody is in love with them, but there is not a whole lot to complain about either. As a developer, I could not be more pleased dealing with the Windows platforms. From MS, you really do get the sense that they care about developers, as opposed to Apple where they seem to actively thwart developers more often that not.
So every time the stocks split, the CEO's performance goes down the tubes? Stock price has to be one of the worst indicators of success. The number is almost entirely arbitrary by itself.
Everybody knows that even if management does not allow the 20% goof off time, it is going to happen anyway, unless you are in a call center or something where every action can be tracked. Especially in this industry, most employees CAN and WILL find "creative" of slacking off now and then. Everyone knows that you cannot simply program for 8 hours straight everyday without going batshit insane. Programming is so mentally intensive that most managers could not even micromanage the work without going insane themselves, which is why I love it so much.
At least on TPB, garbage torrents do not get the seal of approval, and I for one, never download anything that does not have the seal of approval and several legit-looking comments. I had a few really nasty viruses back in the limewire days, but started doing this and have not had a problem since.
Speed is around number 10 on the list of things that matter when choosing a general purpose language...And do not even try the ole BS "b-b-but I work in the game industry and I need the speed". 1) No, you don't; I bet you are lying and 2) write the speed intensive stuff (a tiny fraction of any application) in the lowest level language you can and wrap it in a easy to use high level language.
I use a form of it when I use a time tracker at work (personal choice, not company mandated). My tracker has a prominent bar chart with my percentage of productive time vs the average of everyone else using the tool. I make a game out of it and try to keep my bar higher than the average. Personally, I am not motivated at all by the more public forms of gamification; I could care less about a gold star. I feel like if it is used as an actual performance metric that the PHBs can get their greasy hands all over, it breaks down. After all, games are meant to be gamed. People have been trying to come up with even a few quantifiable metrics to evaluate software engineers for years, and every one of them can be gamed. Lines of code: a recipe for copy/paste olympics. Fewest bugs: projects get delayed as the balance between speed and quality get out of whack, or the smartest coders use their weight to get the easiest projects. Most features: 80% of the bug reports are unwanted features, not actual "glitches". For lines of code specifically, Bill Gates once said that "measuring software by lines of code is like measuring airplanes by weight". I tend to think that for most metrics used in this way (even outside programming), they misdirect workers from using common sense and reduce overall quality.
Begging, drinking alcohol in the streets, making noise, driving for fun, lighting fireworks might sometimes be an annoyance, but making them punishable?
China??? We have laws against every one of the things on your list where I live, and I happen to live in South Carolina, the only state in the US that still does not require motorcycle helmets! The list you picked is not really helping your case.
It seems ridiculous to spend 1k on a bike, but if you ride it everyday, you will never go back. For a few years i biked several miles to/from work everyday, including over a very large bridge (like, one of the tallest suspension bridges in the country, not like an overpass). I had a walmart rust bucket for a few months of it and it took me about an hour each way. I switched to an aluminum frame Cannondale after awhile and my trip immediately went down to 20-25 minutes. Especially on hills, it made a huge difference switching from a 60 pound bike to a sub 20 pound bike. You can get into carbon fiber and all that to shave off even more, but if you bike much at all, getting one in the 20-25 pound range should be the priority. FYI: this is for road bikes. I am pretty sure a sub 20 pound aluminum mountain bike would get destroyed pretty quick.
Congratulations, Heartland Institute, your argument is now so depraved that you've reduced yourselves to holding up pictures of Hitler in a public forum while pantomiming your opponents. Is that reductio ad ridiculum or is this so childish that people didn't even bother coming up with a Latin phrase for it?
The appropriate phrase is "Reductio ad Hitlerum" (seriously, google it).
A pay-based social network is not going to happen. Most people could care less about online ads (the kind facebook has at least, not spammy popups), but having to pull out their credit card would be a huge barrier, even if the cost was 3 cents per month. There are certainly plenty of people who would prefer this model, however, not enough to reach critical mass (think G+), and social networks are all about reaching that critical mass point.
Yes! Many Buddhist temples these days are run like roadside attractions. Christians are clearly not "supposed" to do those things either. It does not mean that they are not Christians; it means that they are hypocritical Christians. If you read pretty much anything Jesus said, most of it can be roughly translated to "poor people rule, rich people drool". 99.99% of Christians do not follow teachings like this (the parable of the young ruler, camel through the eye of a needle, etc.). This does not mean that there are only a handful of Christians in the world. It just means that 99.99% of Christians don't want to eat their own dog food. I guess what I am getting at is that Buddhists pull the same stuff. There are no "real" Buddhists and "fake" Buddhists. The practices of Buddhists are defined by what self proclaimed Buddhists actually do. If this were not the case, then your point about Christians with McMansions would be off-base, since I could just say, "oh those are not the real Christians. All real Christians are perfectly loving and beautiful". We are probably just getting into semantics here, but I just do not think that any belief system deserves the luxury of being judged by its ideals instead of its actual resulting actions.
It turns on cells that produce insulin when there is excess sugar in the blood stream. That would cure a diabetic, not murder them. Regardless, the technology already exists to give someone an insulin overdose (insulin and a syringe; probably easier to administer than a cutting edge radio-genetic-modifier-machine).
This would be true except that the antidote to insulin overdose is a glass of apple juice (or anything with simple sugars), which your body will instinctively crave in that situation. Diabetics frequently have low blood sugars on a regular basis, so they can tell when they are having one with astounding accuracy. Trust me, if you were having a low blood sugar that was heading towards being fatal, you would find something sweet and you would eat it. It is the closest thing to an animal instinct that I have ever felt.
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1) Do my software right ...derpa derpa derpa...
2) Be surprised how easy it is
3) Consider well (sic) my approach as I start to code
4) I work 60 hour weeks so 98% more means I only need to go to a 118 hour work week
5)
6) Cross-platform Profit!!!!!
You should really patent that process.
PS: This has to be the most demoralizing 5:insightful I have ever seen. Obviously you and your 5 stooges have absolutely no experience actually doing anything like this.
I don't really see any noticeable difference in how they're treated by their opponents that would indicate racism was a significant factor.
How about that only one of them was slandered on the basis of race. The other lies are bad in their own ways (even just as insidious), but the people pushing Obama as some sort of militant black muslim are definitely engaging in racism to some extent.
It is beyond the pale to claim someone has a belief that they explicitly deny, and then use the "belief" to slander the person. Hunts for communists, witches, and Japanese spies really should have taught everyone this by now.
Said that he was a muslim? I do not remember that part.
Ha, this cracked me up. Non-coding "hackers" always talk about "subroutines" for some reason. I am sure it means something concrete on some platform, but usually its a dead give away that someone does not know what they are talking about.
I suppose we should start calling prisons "debuggers". We can say "Oh, just run him through the debugger and see if the system works out".
It is better than nothing.
Easier said than done. Making software cross platform can be extremely time consuming, and often requires rewrites of entire modules for each OS. Even multi-OS platforms like Java have a reputation for being "write once, debug everywhere". The cost of adding another OS to the mix can be enormous.
I agree. I am baffled by a lot of the MS hate today. I think a lot of it must be residual, because the MS I know today is not that bad. Nobody is in love with them, but there is not a whole lot to complain about either. As a developer, I could not be more pleased dealing with the Windows platforms. From MS, you really do get the sense that they care about developers, as opposed to Apple where they seem to actively thwart developers more often that not.
So every time the stocks split, the CEO's performance goes down the tubes? Stock price has to be one of the worst indicators of success. The number is almost entirely arbitrary by itself.
Everybody knows that even if management does not allow the 20% goof off time, it is going to happen anyway, unless you are in a call center or something where every action can be tracked. Especially in this industry, most employees CAN and WILL find "creative" of slacking off now and then. Everyone knows that you cannot simply program for 8 hours straight everyday without going batshit insane. Programming is so mentally intensive that most managers could not even micromanage the work without going insane themselves, which is why I love it so much.
At least on TPB, garbage torrents do not get the seal of approval, and I for one, never download anything that does not have the seal of approval and several legit-looking comments. I had a few really nasty viruses back in the limewire days, but started doing this and have not had a problem since.
I know I am.
Security by obscurity. Nice. Your security model is quite...infamous.
I feel like if it is used as an actual performance metric that the PHBs can get their greasy hands all over, it breaks down.
Speed is around number 10 on the list of things that matter when choosing a general purpose language...And do not even try the ole BS "b-b-but I work in the game industry and I need the speed". 1) No, you don't; I bet you are lying and 2) write the speed intensive stuff (a tiny fraction of any application) in the lowest level language you can and wrap it in a easy to use high level language.
I use a form of it when I use a time tracker at work (personal choice, not company mandated). My tracker has a prominent bar chart with my percentage of productive time vs the average of everyone else using the tool. I make a game out of it and try to keep my bar higher than the average. Personally, I am not motivated at all by the more public forms of gamification; I could care less about a gold star. I feel like if it is used as an actual performance metric that the PHBs can get their greasy hands all over, it breaks down. After all, games are meant to be gamed. People have been trying to come up with even a few quantifiable metrics to evaluate software engineers for years, and every one of them can be gamed. Lines of code: a recipe for copy/paste olympics. Fewest bugs: projects get delayed as the balance between speed and quality get out of whack, or the smartest coders use their weight to get the easiest projects. Most features: 80% of the bug reports are unwanted features, not actual "glitches". For lines of code specifically, Bill Gates once said that "measuring software by lines of code is like measuring airplanes by weight". I tend to think that for most metrics used in this way (even outside programming), they misdirect workers from using common sense and reduce overall quality.
Begging, drinking alcohol in the streets, making noise, driving for fun, lighting fireworks might sometimes be an annoyance, but making them punishable?
China??? We have laws against every one of the things on your list where I live, and I happen to live in South Carolina, the only state in the US that still does not require motorcycle helmets! The list you picked is not really helping your case.
It seems ridiculous to spend 1k on a bike, but if you ride it everyday, you will never go back. For a few years i biked several miles to/from work everyday, including over a very large bridge (like, one of the tallest suspension bridges in the country, not like an overpass). I had a walmart rust bucket for a few months of it and it took me about an hour each way. I switched to an aluminum frame Cannondale after awhile and my trip immediately went down to 20-25 minutes. Especially on hills, it made a huge difference switching from a 60 pound bike to a sub 20 pound bike. You can get into carbon fiber and all that to shave off even more, but if you bike much at all, getting one in the 20-25 pound range should be the priority. FYI: this is for road bikes. I am pretty sure a sub 20 pound aluminum mountain bike would get destroyed pretty quick.
The first legitimate slippery slope argument!
Congratulations, Heartland Institute, your argument is now so depraved that you've reduced yourselves to holding up pictures of Hitler in a public forum while pantomiming your opponents. Is that reductio ad ridiculum or is this so childish that people didn't even bother coming up with a Latin phrase for it?
The appropriate phrase is "Reductio ad Hitlerum" (seriously, google it).
A pay-based social network is not going to happen. Most people could care less about online ads (the kind facebook has at least, not spammy popups), but having to pull out their credit card would be a huge barrier, even if the cost was 3 cents per month. There are certainly plenty of people who would prefer this model, however, not enough to reach critical mass (think G+), and social networks are all about reaching that critical mass point.
Yes! Many Buddhist temples these days are run like roadside attractions. Christians are clearly not "supposed" to do those things either. It does not mean that they are not Christians; it means that they are hypocritical Christians. If you read pretty much anything Jesus said, most of it can be roughly translated to "poor people rule, rich people drool". 99.99% of Christians do not follow teachings like this (the parable of the young ruler, camel through the eye of a needle, etc.). This does not mean that there are only a handful of Christians in the world. It just means that 99.99% of Christians don't want to eat their own dog food. I guess what I am getting at is that Buddhists pull the same stuff. There are no "real" Buddhists and "fake" Buddhists. The practices of Buddhists are defined by what self proclaimed Buddhists actually do. If this were not the case, then your point about Christians with McMansions would be off-base, since I could just say, "oh those are not the real Christians. All real Christians are perfectly loving and beautiful". We are probably just getting into semantics here, but I just do not think that any belief system deserves the luxury of being judged by its ideals instead of its actual resulting actions.
It turns on cells that produce insulin when there is excess sugar in the blood stream. That would cure a diabetic, not murder them. Regardless, the technology already exists to give someone an insulin overdose (insulin and a syringe; probably easier to administer than a cutting edge radio-genetic-modifier-machine).
This would be true except that the antidote to insulin overdose is a glass of apple juice (or anything with simple sugars), which your body will instinctively crave in that situation. Diabetics frequently have low blood sugars on a regular basis, so they can tell when they are having one with astounding accuracy. Trust me, if you were having a low blood sugar that was heading towards being fatal, you would find something sweet and you would eat it. It is the closest thing to an animal instinct that I have ever felt.