Or online games like SubSpace. Having to type stuff like "Attach to attack!" real fast made me learn Dvorak very quickly.
I didn't even bother "learning" Dvorak. I went to some Dvorak typing tutorial website, but decided after ten seconds, "this is boring." I just changed the layout and went at it blind, no charts or anything. It took two days to get proficient (typing or coding much of the time), at about 30 wpm, and after a couple of weeks I felt skilled. (Typing as fast as I like to think.)
Everytime I hear one of these stories about how they can catch criminals from their email messages, I'm like, "OMG! They made a fast factoring algorithm!" But then I read the article and discover it only works for unencrypted messages. Gee.
"Since when did trends need a reason to do something nerdy?"
or s/ner/tren/g;:
"Since when did trends need a reason to do something trendy?"
Maybe I'm missing the point, but what is the use of such an operation? The results don't make any sense!
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If you're in the business of praising people for doing the right thing, you should go around praising people every day for not going on a shooting spree. Because not going on a shooting spree is the right thing! (I think.)
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They wrote the code and they're releasing it to be viewed and used, so shouldn't that be lauded rather than complaining that they're not releasing things the way that the other guys want?
It shouldn't be lauded at all.
If Apple didn't release the code, they'd be in violation of the license. Releasing source code is just an ordinary thing that one does.
PHP? Are you kidding me? There is nothing worse than PHP. PHP looks strewn together without thought. Just consider the system by which PHP's built-in functions are named. Except that there is no such system; the names follow all sorts of different casing rules.
PHP was made by taking a cute language for embedding a broken imitation of Perl-esque syntax in-between HTML and extending it with bajillions of functions that badly needed to be namespaced. It never provided anything useful that Perl couldn't, except that it made newbies comfortable by making them feel like they're in "HTML land" instead of "Programming language land."
It's called economics. There is no moral reason for a company to price at what its product is "actually worth." It is appropriate for the pricing to be that which brings the company the most profit. If the price is such that the deal is unfair to the consumer, then he can buy a competing product. They exist.
Well, no. Mathematically speaking, 800 Mhz is 300% better than 200 Mhz. You see,
200 Mhz is 0% better than 200 Mhz. 250 Mhz is 25% better than 200 Mhz. 400 Mhz is 100% better than 200 Mhz. 600 Mhz is 200% better than 200 Mhz. 800 Mhz is 300% better than 200 Mhz.
You take the percentage and then add to find how much better it is. So 600 is 300% of 200, hence (600 + 200) is 300% better than 200.
For every hour someone works for no pay, they have deprived someone of the possibility of working that same hour for the purpose of feeding, clothing, and sheltering themselves. In a very real way, someone who don't need that hour's pay (or they wouldn't have worked it for free) has managed to take it away from someone who does.
Then it follows that we should all do a half-assed job at everything, so that extra people can be hired. An argument that comes to this conclusion is invalid.
The money that would have gone to paying somebody ends up going to something else -- it enters the economy, and people's incomes, somewhere. The result is the same amount of money going into people's incomes, with the total amount of value produced for the economy ending up higher.
I yell "lol ownzed" at homeless people as I drive by them in my BMW and I picket charities because people would better use their money for themselves. Whenever I'm done with hardware, I burn it because it's MINE and I'll be damned if anybody else is going to use it. And rather than spending thousands of hours per year preaching to city council about how technology can create opportunities for disadvantaged people, I spend thousands of hours per year helping some poor folks in Nigeria find willing volunteers to help transfer their millions out of the country.
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Automation is the wave of the present, and has been for over a century.
So, either photons have no mass, and therefore don't exist,
If your definition of "exists" requires that existing things have mass, then you're using a very distorted definition of the word.
Or online games like SubSpace. Having to type stuff like "Attach to attack!" real fast made me learn Dvorak very quickly.
I didn't even bother "learning" Dvorak. I went to some Dvorak typing tutorial website, but decided after ten seconds, "this is boring." I just changed the layout and went at it blind, no charts or anything. It took two days to get proficient (typing or coding much of the time), at about 30 wpm, and after a couple of weeks I felt skilled. (Typing as fast as I like to think.)
Everytime I hear one of these stories about how they can catch criminals from their email messages, I'm like, "OMG! They made a fast factoring algorithm!" But then I read the article and discover it only works for unencrypted messages. Gee.
Don't learn PHP if you don't have to. Well, learn it for the sake of knowing what _not_ to do. PHP is Hell!
Oh really?
Why?
If he wrote one of his steps out you'd see how he got 9x = 9:
x = 0.99999...
10x = 9.99999...
10x - x = 9.99999... - 0.99999...
9x = 9
x = 1
You forgot turning repeating decimals into fractions.
What is 0.4523232323 as a fraction?
Well, it's easy; the answer's 45/100 + 23/9900, and from there it's regular simplification.
But "everybody" knows how to turn fractions into decimals; it's just long division, whereas with repeating decimals there's a trick.
That's one clock cycle every five seconds (200 millihertz = 0.2 hertz).
"Since when did trends need a reason to do something nerdy?"
or s/ner/tren/g;:
"Since when did trends need a reason to do something trendy?"
Maybe I'm missing the point, but what is the use of such an operation? The results don't make any sense!
If you're in the business of praising people for doing the right thing, you should go around praising people every day for not going on a shooting spree. Because not going on a shooting spree is the right thing! (I think.)
They wrote the code and they're releasing it to be viewed and used, so shouldn't that be lauded rather than complaining that they're not releasing things the way that the other guys want?
It shouldn't be lauded at all.
If Apple didn't release the code, they'd be in violation of the license. Releasing source code is just an ordinary thing that one does.
Why not do it at -40 next time; that way you don't have to keep all those F's.
Could we please tolerate a little hyperbole today? It promises not to hurt anyone.
No, his example is evidence that the interface is more intuitive and easy to use. I have no idea why you're suddenly railing on about grandmothers.
PHP? Are you kidding me? There is nothing worse than PHP. PHP looks strewn together without thought. Just consider the system by which PHP's built-in functions are named. Except that there is no such system; the names follow all sorts of different casing rules.
PHP was made by taking a cute language for embedding a broken imitation of Perl-esque syntax in-between HTML and extending it with bajillions of functions that badly needed to be namespaced. It never provided anything useful that Perl couldn't, except that it made newbies comfortable by making them feel like they're in "HTML land" instead of "Programming language land."
Extortion? Piracy?
It's called economics. There is no moral reason for a company to price at what its product is "actually worth." It is appropriate for the pricing to be that which brings the company the most profit. If the price is such that the deal is unfair to the consumer, then he can buy a competing product. They exist.
Does anybody care, where "anybody" = 99% of the human population?
There's nothing great about XHTML. Valid HTML works just fine.
Well, no. Mathematically speaking, 800 Mhz is 300% better than 200 Mhz. You see,
200 Mhz is 0% better than 200 Mhz.
250 Mhz is 25% better than 200 Mhz.
400 Mhz is 100% better than 200 Mhz.
600 Mhz is 200% better than 200 Mhz.
800 Mhz is 300% better than 200 Mhz.
You take the percentage and then add to find how much better it is. So 600 is 300% of 200, hence (600 + 200) is 300% better than 200.
For every hour someone works for no pay, they have deprived someone of the possibility of working that same hour for the purpose of feeding, clothing, and sheltering themselves. In a very real way, someone who don't need that hour's pay (or they wouldn't have worked it for free) has managed to take it away from someone who does.
Then it follows that we should all do a half-assed job at everything, so that extra people can be hired. An argument that comes to this conclusion is invalid.
The money that would have gone to paying somebody ends up going to something else -- it enters the economy, and people's incomes, somewhere. The result is the same amount of money going into people's incomes, with the total amount of value produced for the economy ending up higher.
Hypocrite? The parent said that conservation efforts are fruitless. And he is not conserving. His actions appear consistent with his views.
No, it's volunteerism. It would be communism if you forced others to use GPL'd code. But they don't have to.
I yell "lol ownzed" at homeless people as I drive by them in my BMW and I picket charities because people would better use their money for themselves. Whenever I'm done with hardware, I burn it because it's MINE and I'll be damned if anybody else is going to use it. And rather than spending thousands of hours per year preaching to city council about how technology can create opportunities for disadvantaged people, I spend thousands of hours per year helping some poor folks in Nigeria find willing volunteers to help transfer their millions out of the country.
Am I bad?
Yah. And in both cases, it's because other countries interfere with the market while America leaves it alone.