Ye olde Turbo Pascal running computers you could just set graphics mode and peek and poke pixels straight from and onto the screen,
You could wait on a keypress, you could write to screen, WITHOUT PAGES AND PAGES AND PAGES of gluey gui setup code.
Sniff. I miss those days.
And the Good old Turbo Pascal license. "Treat this software like a book..."
And to make a beep was just "play(N,S)" where N was the freq and s was the time in secs.
At most the set up was "require sound" or something simple like that.
Flame bait nothing, wake up call to see past the hype... yes.
Maybe if I was a Nobel Laureate material... I'd agree with you.
However, Feynman is not a suitable teacher neither for I, nor for that 99.9% segment of Humanity we call "mere ordinary mortals".
My wife, bless her, is quite capable of digesting and following Feynman's books, but then her skills are "world class" (to me "goddess-like").
By far most maths / physics university graduates, let's be honest now, get a "Whee! Wow! That was exciting!" feeling when reading Feynman...
Very very few can then move on to doing anything useful with what they should have just learnt.
Learning to do stuff with that material takes either genius, or days and days of hard page after page after page of slogging through the math. (Often both)
... is excessively vague and handwaving requiring literally hours and pages of close work to fill in the gaps between the equation N he shows and the next equation N+1 that he says follows from N.
Yup, a brilliant guy I'm sure, but not the guy I want teaching me. At the end of a course, (call me greedy), _I_ want to know how to do everything in the course, not merely have a warm fuzzy WEE-WOW feeling that something exciting just went by that I can't quite reproduce.
Give me Richard Hamming's books instead of Feynman's any day. Ok, they won't make you go "WEEE WOW!!!", but on the other hand you will have an excellent understanding of the material AND be able to reproduce and USE any result in them yourself.
His book Coding and Information Theory is by far the best written and most readable hard science textbook I ever had in my university career. Read it if you want to understand the subject, read it if you want to understand how to write a good textbook!
Parent said, I always liked the "Strangest Abuse of the Rules" catagory winner for Hello World
char*_="Hello world.\n";
That is it - the whole program.
echo 'char*_="Hello world.\n"; ' > a.c $ gcc a.c /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.4.1/../../../../lib/crt1.o: In function `_start': /build/buildd/eglibc-2.10.1/csu/../sysdeps/i386/elf/start.S:115: undefined reference to `main' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
So what would you do if you held trillions of Junk American debt?
I'd keep chanting about how marvelously solid the America dollar is (must be).... while buying hard assets / resources from whoever would sell them to me in exchange for Junk America bonds.
But wait, that's exactly what China is doing.
End game?
Guess who ends up owning the hard assets... and guess who ends up owning "Intellectual Property".
Sums of random variables from distributions with infinite variance may look normally distributed to the naked eye, but nevertheless still have infinite variance.
The trouble is project time length definitely does _not_ come from a well behaved finite variance distribution!
...same as any other feature, with a priority higher than some lower than other features.
Now that's really insightful.
Although I would also add that it is one of the buggier and more unstable features, since it is highly coupled to a large number of other features and bug fixes.
Yip. You guys had it tough... and were tough. Those who weren't tough enough died.
And now you have created a world view where being tough and succeeding is all that matters.... small wonder that the 2nd generation is a trifle stressed even in the midst of seeming plenty. I dare say if conditions get that tough again they'd either "harden the fuck you", or die... or fall back on alcoholism and the "gin and valium" of your forgotten peers.
Submit Good Quality bug reports.
Bug Reports are 10 a penny. Submit Good ones.
Be exact about versions of the software and related software (distro, kernel etc.)
Produce the smallest possible test case. NEVER say "it just happens when I do something with this 10000 line document I can't let your see."
Be responsive in answering queries in the issue tracker for that issue. Try out patches and workarounds suggested and give feedback.
Report the problem to the correct forum. Understand which is the correct forum. Understand the differences between distros, distro versions and original developer. Try work out if it's a packaging problem or a software problem.
Try the latest version from the original developer. If that fixes the problem, reports this in the distros issue tracker as well.
RTFM.
Report bugs in The Fine Manual, preferably along with a suggested rewording.
Test and Report bugs in Beta releases. Critical bugs reported then will get fixed before release. Bugs reported after release will probably only get fixed in the next release.
The Gnome team is working with several university neurology departments to develop a patch for human nature that fixes this problem. It will be included in Gnome 4.
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I love Pomplamoose's cover of the Theme Music. Such Fun!
Allow one or two deaths of "Our Heroic Sons and Defenders" apparently as the result of it.
Crack down savagely on all 'net freedoms whilst Middle America cheers.
Profit.
Just not for you or I.
Those who can't, hire Lawyers.
BADGER BADGER BADGER! mushrooom!
Sniff. I miss those days.
And the Good old Turbo Pascal license. "Treat this software like a book..."
And to make a beep was just "play(N,S)" where N was the freq and s was the time in secs.
At most the set up was "require sound" or something simple like that.
I really miss the Whack-A-Pendant feature my old wooden tally stick had.
Then we have a revolution.
Till the common Maker can fill in his credit card number and gets some of this stuff... ..nothing exciting is going to happen.
Maybe if I was a Nobel Laureate material... I'd agree with you.
However, Feynman is not a suitable teacher neither for I, nor for that 99.9% segment of Humanity we call "mere ordinary mortals".
My wife, bless her, is quite capable of digesting and following Feynman's books, but then her skills are "world class" (to me "goddess-like").
By far most maths / physics university graduates, let's be honest now, get a "Whee! Wow! That was exciting!" feeling when reading Feynman...
Very very few can then move on to doing anything useful with what they should have just learnt.
Learning to do stuff with that material takes either genius, or days and days of hard page after page after page of slogging through the math. (Often both)
Yup, a brilliant guy I'm sure, but not the guy I want teaching me. At the end of a course, (call me greedy), _I_ want to know how to do everything in the course, not merely have a warm fuzzy WEE-WOW feeling that something exciting just went by that I can't quite reproduce.
Give me Richard Hamming's books instead of Feynman's any day. Ok, they won't make you go "WEEE WOW!!!", but on the other hand you will have an excellent understanding of the material AND be able to reproduce and USE any result in them yourself.
His book Coding and Information Theory is by far the best written and most readable hard science textbook I ever had in my university career. Read it if you want to understand the subject, read it if you want to understand how to write a good textbook!
That is it - the whole program.
Doesn't say "Hello" to me!
I'd keep chanting about how marvelously solid the America dollar is (must be).... while buying hard assets / resources from whoever would sell them to me in exchange for Junk America bonds.
But wait, that's exactly what China is doing.
End game?
Guess who ends up owning the hard assets... and guess who ends up owning "Intellectual Property".
I know which I'd rather own.
Our (NZ) Mad Scientists are quite Busy in rather fascinating ways thanks.
Oh! But you should see it go *SPLAT*!
Feed me a pop up or pop under and I instantly block.
If the page takes ages to load because it's waiting for the ad server. I block.
Feed me more content than crap, and I disable ad block on that site.
ps: I usually use "no script" because 99.99% of what I care about doesn't need JavaScript and 99.99% of what pisses me off does!
Sums of random variables from distributions with infinite variance may look normally distributed to the naked eye, but nevertheless still have infinite variance.
The trouble is project time length definitely does _not_ come from a well behaved finite variance distribution!
...same as any other feature, with a priority higher than some lower than other features.
Now that's really insightful.
Although I would also add that it is one of the buggier and more unstable features, since it is highly coupled to a large number of other features and bug fixes.
And now you have created a world view where being tough and succeeding is all that matters.... small wonder that the 2nd generation is a trifle stressed even in the midst of seeming plenty. I dare say if conditions get that tough again they'd either "harden the fuck you", or die... or fall back on alcoholism and the "gin and valium" of your forgotten peers.
Therefore the only things I put on facebook are what is already public knowledge.
As such it's useful.
The private stuff... that's what disposable email accounts are for.
Just don't piss her off Mr Bobbit.
Don't you mean "Genome 4"?
Oh the Geekiness!
Now you know what to do with a Trebuchet.
...why did we ever move away from statically linked binaries?