Makes me wonder how long it's worth continuing to live, if it's just going to get worse from here.
Well there, let's just not get all worked up about this.
The question to me is wether ASD is really a disorder or rather a preposition that makes a person optimal for certain tasks and not good at others.
It is also measurably common that people who are more intelligent than the average are considered having an ASD, although they're just being less stupid and mundane than the people around them. The problem being that smart people look like crazy people to dumb people.
I favour this theory of genetic preposition. There are things such as abstract thinking, grasping meta-concepts, solving hard problems, not backing down from a fight, seeing beyond the general populations everyday horizon, etc. that 95% of the population would utterly despair at. People who come into my office have their skin crawling in just about sheer horror when they see my screens littered with code, editor and terminal windows... I'm just about the sole IT guy in a marketing agency - go figure. It's extremely alien to them.
They also think I'm a weirdo because I rather read stoic philosophy or go tango dancing than get drunk on a saturday night. I, however, see no point whatsoever in going into Duesseldorfs cramped and hideously expensive old town to get loaded while loosing 50 euros or more a night. The girls think it's peculiar that I turn a date into an artful celebration and think I'm some romantic weirdo - which I am - but they *do* dig it once they get what I'm up to. Very much, AFAICT.
Likewise I don't get why anyone would rag on about someone behind his back and not be able to be straightforward when the person is around. I consider it cowardice. I do lie in social situations, just not as often as others. I'd rather be frank and straighforward - even if people think I'm a weirdo and awkward that way and it makes them uncomfortable. I love and crave to be popular, but I value knowlege and skill and honest over popularity in quite a few situations. Paul Graham was spot on about this.
I'd rather make a splash and be noticed than go unseen - which is more often than it is good for me - admitted. I also like to debate - more often than people around me - which does make me annoying at times.
Does that make me an ASD candidate - D as in "disorder"? I think not. I'm more predisposed to being a leader, innovator, bum or terrorist than a "regular guy" - which makes me exciting, interesting but sometimes also more stenuous to be around. Why bum? Just like many of 'us' I'd rather do nothing or slack off in front of my console that do something I consider utterly pointless. Why terrorist?... Push me far enough and I'll value my ideas about how society should be more that the people around me - one of the prime traits of those people.
I'm a hunter / gatherer / pathfinder in a society with a large majority of settlers & farmers and every patch of land mapped out and explored already.... Which is why I'm into computers, art and other frontiers.
There is so much going wrong in our society, and a lot has to do with broken social traditions and superstition that someone who's diagnosed with "mild ASD" or whatever might just actually be the more healthy person. Elon Musk is a stutterer who can't finish a sentance without tons of ums and ahs and his muttering is difficult to understand at times - no way would I dare call im disordered. He's probably irritated that he has to explain the most fundamental underpinnings of his motivation again and again. AFAICT the man is a freaking genius - and just because he'd rather give away his patents to save the planet that rake in tons of short-term cash doesn't make him a freak - it makes him a healthy person with a very high moral standard.
Bottom Line:
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - Jiddu Krishnamurti
So, apparently being the type of Person that can get all worked up in sich issues sich as IP4 vs. IP6 or String Theory makes you good IT Person or Cosmologist/Physicist respectively.
Next up: A study that proves girly, exalted and hysteric types are into fashion and sometimes really good at it.
Can they be hacked via WiFi/Bluetooth/whatnot? I can imagine some people re-programming these for a detour into somebody garage for looting. Or simply having them drive around in circles or chug along the highway, sprayed with graffity sprayed all over them.... Countless possibilities.:-) The first thing my buddy's gonna get when amazon sends out it's delivery drones is a shotgun.:-)
This is bizar. Anybody with 2 braincells knows that Linus' phrasing and wording of critique can be notably immature. He admitted that himself!
Why does a PL need such a policy in the first place? For instance, the company employing Linus can very well send him a notice, emphasising the fact that he is a public figure - wether he likes it or not - and should be careful when about to fall into profanity. They can offer him a secretary to cross-read his mails on delicate/enraging issues.
There is no need for a friggin' policy just because.5 % of people in coding MLs get childish and unprofessional in a post or two every odd year!!
This is the next step for a modern post-scarcity economy and society - the ultimate consolidation of wealth transfer into one basic package. I wish Germany would be this close to conditionless basic income.
But with Pegida, the ongoing Greece bailouts and the conservative right crawling out of their holes and popularising conspiracy theory bullshit and fascism once again, I'm afraid Germany is moving away from this sort of thing again.
Have a stack of small name stickers printed and put those on the inside cover. Archive and track your titles with Delicious Library or a similar tool that can scan the book-barcodes with the webcam on your computer and then automatically fetches the books metadata and coverfotos from the intarweb (amazon, etc.).
You can then use Delicious Library to keep track who's got what. The namestickers are enough to let people know who's book they've still got.
It is, by very definition, our job to make ourselves superfluos.
Example: I hardly code anymore. Part of my job constists of setting up WordPress with generic and special plugins. By now mostly automated so that a fresh project can be done by a PM with no clue about web-technologies in less that 10 minutes.
My job now consists of writing requirements, talking to the tech people of our customers and checking the possibilities and the occasional CSS/JS/jQuery and/or PHP Hack to add some obscure special feature to a fresh or existing install. Plus I take care of backups - mostly automated too - and let the bosses know when it's a bad idea to approach project X with strategy Y instead of Z.
Stuff that I do alone today needed 10-15 people 15 years ago. And I only still have work to do because LAMP, WP and all that other stuff is a historically grown technology mess from 2 decades ago. My coding part of the occupation is one smart crew and one MIT licences new-gen web-cms away from becoming totally pointless.
We all know it: The tech-advancement curve is logarithmic. The robots are coming and they're taking most of the jobs. Our's aswell. The smart people have been predicting this for years. This isn't news at all.
Let's just hope that those at the helm don't screw it up and we all can enjoy an utopia rather than some bizar cyberpunk corporate socialism nightmare. I personally am looking forward to a 15 hour workweek with still enough to eat and live from.... I'm down to 25 hours/week already and it feels great.
Nowadays dealers make their money with service, not with sales. Service, of course, needs to be local to make any sense.
I don't see a big problem for car dealers here... except perhaps that as soon as robots drive around for us, owning a car will become way less feasible and large car-pool companies with subscription services will take the place of the privately-owned-cars. The car dealers and service stations then will be replaced by local robot-car-pool service stations. If the first robot trucks driving on Germanys streets right now are any indication, we're a year or two from moving into the transition phase.
A large hindrance for seaching information on Go is its name. Many people have pointed this out already.
What plans does the Go project team have in terms of naming conventions to make future searching for information on Go easyer? Is there an alternative term that you recommend using when searching Google for Go related information - perhaps something like the term "go-lang" or so?
What plans does the Go core team have to mitigate this problem? What approach to searching for Go stuff do you recommend right now?
Is there an official cross-plattform Go IDE in the works? Experience shows that adoption is accelerated by offering a solid toolkit that is easy to pick up and get started with - such as the formidable Android Studio IDE Google offers to developers. Are there any plans similar to this for Go?
I would like to see it take the place of C++ in the development of performant end-user applications with GUIs - are there any officially sanctioned projects that aim to provide a serious GUI toolkit and stack based on Go?
What serious long-term real-world potential do you see for Go?
How do you see the potential of Go replacing existing open source webstacks such as Apache and PHP, Python or Ruby? Was Go built with a technology update of existing approaches in mind? How feasible is it in your opinion to try and replace the existing complex stacks with pure Go runtimes?
The same happed to Mir. "There are places you wouldn't want to stick a hand in." Kosmonauts were quoted.
The fascinating thing is that fungi are actually quite resillient and also can survice in a vacuum. I'd guess that the environment in a space station favours fungi more than anything else.
But if you must change, I recommend using Markdown. Tons of FOSS editors out there, and it's actually simpler than HTML. And also, in a pinch, readable and editable in simple text format.
Let me weigh in on the Cult of Less. Which, by the way, is the right way to handle things in a post-scarcity economy we're moving in to.
I... - buy jeans at the vintage clothes store or dirt-cheap no-name brand. Buy 2-3 once every 2 years or so. - buy Longsleves and T-Shirts either from H&M (worse choice, but available) or Contintental - buy once kind of PH-neutral soap for the household. Do my dishwashing, cleaning and moping with just that. In a pinch I can even shower with it and use it as shampoo (no joke). - only use bars of soap. For showering, washing, etc. Saves packaging (no plastic bottles) and gives a wide variety. Plus I know what to shop for when luxury shopping. And people can always give me a bar of nice soap if they don't know what they can give me for a present.
- I, as a computer expert, *do* have too many computers. A now broken Mac Mini, two refurbished Lenovo ThinkPads, a 13" MB Air, a 10" Lenovo Yoga Tablet, a Smartphone, a Xbox 360 (latest model), a Nintendo DSi, a PSP and a Pocket Computer from the mid-80ies. At least two of those I could and should easyly get rid of. Note that most of these are portable. - I live in a 36 square-meter one-room apartment. It's just my size. It takes 2 hours max. to clean up everything and I have a good reason to curb my accumilation of stuff - I only use and learn FOSS technologies. There are still to many of those, but it reduces my field I watch out for a little bit.
Bottom line: Decision fatigue is very real and I've experienced first hand how relaxing it can be when you actively reduce your options.
I never break out of loops or ifs with a direct return. It somehow makes me cringe in a very uncomfortable way. I always return one level up, even if it means using a utility variable (often called returnMe and initialised at the beginning of a function).
I couldn't say that that is much better, but it does make me *feel* a lot better.
As for more good habits: I've recently gotten into more serious function programming territory, trying to avoid variables entirely. Doesn't always work and gets your head all in a knot, but you learn a lot. And it is faster - both in coding and at runtime.
No sweat. We've got better alternatives.. Something like this would give BPG a nice boost in usage and move JPEG to the awkward wayside together with GIF. Go right ahead, I say.
First of all, autonomous cars, lets just call them "automobiles" (harhar) needn't drive perfect to be fully autonomous. They only need to drive better than humans. And - Newsflash! - they already do that!
And even just right now I'd trust a google car way more than I'd trust at least 20% of human dimwits at the wheel today. Testing phase or not. And that's in Germany, where driving training is a very big deal, takes long and is very expensive and elaborate. And behaviour in traffic is compareatively civil.
Second of all, TFA says: "Yet as Mindell also observes, there are many challenges to the Google model: Its cars must identify all nearby objects correctly, need perfectly updated mapping systems, and must avoid all software glitches."
Well, no shit, dude.
"Avoid all software glitches" is called "testing" and/or "test driven development" and/or "design by contract" and/or "correct error handling". Like, for instance, warning the driver... errrm, passenger, when there's a severe problem and they need to stop and he/she needs to get out... It's basically non-douchebag software guys doing the sort of thing any regular respectable engineer would do when designing a bridge. And, trust me, those folks at Google aren't your Type-A hobbyist/wannabe WordPress Plugin Scriptoid - they actually know what they're doing.
And now thats aside, yeah, an autonomous car needs to recognise all those many things. Well, guess what? That's exactly what an autonomous car today is by order of mangitudes *better* at than any human will ever be. For enlightenment I strongly recommend this talk by the head of Googles Autonous Car division, Chirs Urmson, "How a driverless car sees the road". Yes, it's a TED talk - you're gonna live.
Being nude in the Playboy is just about a badge of honor for a woman, and far from being shady these days. I can get a Playboy and read it / look at the pictures and people won't even turn a head or raise an eyebrow. You have upper class straight ladies reading the Playboy in public, if perhaps only for the articles, interviews and the jokes.
That all including todays generally favourable global public perception of the Playboy is pretty much a unique selling point.
I really don't get this decision and it probably makes no sense in the real world either. Releasing less volumes perhaps and upping the quality a little more might have been a better move.
Bild is the epitome of shoddy and sensationalist journalism in Germany, sort of like the Daily Mail in the UK. I doubt the people smart enough to use adblocking read the Bild. And if so, all the better.
The untangled mess my and most other peoples thoughts and emotions are most of the time isn't really something that is worth downloading. I do have experience and wisdom, after having lived for 45 years on this planet, amoung other humans - but most of that would fit into a series of 2-5 books. The rest is made up and driven by all those desires and drives that make us human: Need for sex & love, for recognition and respect, meaning in life, etc. I do not want the mistakes I've done in the past to fulfill those to be downloaded into a computer. Not really, no.
What might be useful or at least interesting is a machine, that takes all those insight, extracts the garbage and keeps the good stuff. There's an artform/science that does that, and it's called stoic philosophy. I don't see machines joining in on it too soon.... But then again, I could be wrong.
Then again, philosophy is such a fun thing to do, I wouldn't want to hand it of to machines. That would be like having two robots doing the sex for me and my girlfriend.
... Howtos + 5-minute Screencasts are what you're looking for.
Most KMSes/DMSes are crap - wether FOSS or not. Don't burden yourself with an extra system that is more trouble than use. Verbose opening comments of classes, API docs with examples, documented Usecases, double-checked by the users, Howtos and Screencasts are what you're need and want.
Once you've generated the final docs, give them a nice design, some search-thingy with elasticsearch or something and put the Howtos andd Screencasts Front and center along with some Intros for n00b users.
All that is done best with textfiles and API doctools + proper versioning. Perhaps some diagrams of archticture, setup and Main Usecases nicht help.
KMSes are the Fallout of 2000s mid-execs bullshit-bingo sessions and IMHO hardly ever worth the hassle.
... we have written the year 2000, that the world will observe strange things (...) from the West a law which purpose will be to supress all individual thinking..." - Rudolf Steiner, 1916
With post 2K Software patents and now this 1984 nightmare of a law package, I'm wondering if this guy actually was on to something.
Slashdot Mirror
Makes me wonder how long it's worth continuing to live, if it's just going to get worse from here.
Well there, let's just not get all worked up about this.
The question to me is wether ASD is really a disorder or rather a preposition that makes a person optimal for certain tasks and not good at others.
It is also measurably common that people who are more intelligent than the average are considered having an ASD, although they're just being less stupid and mundane than the people around them. The problem being that smart people look like crazy people to dumb people.
I favour this theory of genetic preposition. There are things such as abstract thinking, grasping meta-concepts, solving hard problems, not backing down from a fight, seeing beyond the general populations everyday horizon, etc. that 95% of the population would utterly despair at. People who come into my office have their skin crawling in just about sheer horror when they see my screens littered with code, editor and terminal windows ... I'm just about the sole IT guy in a marketing agency - go figure. It's extremely alien to them.
They also think I'm a weirdo because I rather read stoic philosophy or go tango dancing than get drunk on a saturday night. I, however, see no point whatsoever in going into Duesseldorfs cramped and hideously expensive old town to get loaded while loosing 50 euros or more a night. The girls think it's peculiar that I turn a date into an artful celebration and think I'm some romantic weirdo - which I am - but they *do* dig it once they get what I'm up to. Very much, AFAICT.
Likewise I don't get why anyone would rag on about someone behind his back and not be able to be straightforward when the person is around. I consider it cowardice. I do lie in social situations, just not as often as others. I'd rather be frank and straighforward - even if people think I'm a weirdo and awkward that way and it makes them uncomfortable. I love and crave to be popular, but I value knowlege and skill and honest over popularity in quite a few situations. Paul Graham was spot on about this.
I'd rather make a splash and be noticed than go unseen - which is more often than it is good for me - admitted.
I also like to debate - more often than people around me - which does make me annoying at times.
Does that make me an ASD candidate - D as in "disorder"? I think not. I'm more predisposed to being a leader, innovator, bum or terrorist than a "regular guy" - which makes me exciting, interesting but sometimes also more stenuous to be around. Why bum? Just like many of 'us' I'd rather do nothing or slack off in front of my console that do something I consider utterly pointless. Why terrorist? ... Push me far enough and I'll value my ideas about how society should be more that the people around me - one of the prime traits of those people.
I'm a hunter / gatherer / pathfinder in a society with a large majority of settlers & farmers and every patch of land mapped out and explored already. ... Which is why I'm into computers, art and other frontiers.
There is so much going wrong in our society, and a lot has to do with broken social traditions and superstition that someone who's diagnosed with "mild ASD" or whatever might just actually be the more healthy person. Elon Musk is a stutterer who can't finish a sentance without tons of ums and ahs and his muttering is difficult to understand at times - no way would I dare call im disordered. He's probably irritated that he has to explain the most fundamental underpinnings of his motivation again and again. AFAICT the man is a freaking genius - and just because he'd rather give away his patents to save the planet that rake in tons of short-term cash doesn't make him a freak - it makes him a healthy person with a very high moral standard.
Bottom Line:
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - Jiddu Krishnamurti
I couldn't say it any better.
I got chills reading that. That's one of the most accurate descriptions I think I've ever read.
The description fits me very good aswell.
I'd bet it fits about 95% of the population
It's called the Barnum Effect.
So, apparently being the type of Person that can get all worked up in sich issues sich as IP4 vs. IP6 or String Theory makes you good IT Person or Cosmologist/Physicist respectively.
Next up: A study that proves girly, exalted and hysteric types are into fashion and sometimes really good at it.
Can they be hacked via WiFi/Bluetooth/whatnot? ... :-) :-)
I can imagine some people re-programming these for a detour into somebody garage for looting.
Or simply having them drive around in circles or chug along the highway, sprayed with graffity sprayed all over them.
Countless possibilities.
The first thing my buddy's gonna get when amazon sends out it's delivery drones is a shotgun.
This is bizar.
Anybody with 2 braincells knows that Linus' phrasing and wording of critique can be notably immature.
He admitted that himself!
Why does a PL need such a policy in the first place?
For instance, the company employing Linus can very well send him a notice, emphasising the fact that he is a public figure - wether he likes it or not - and should be careful when about to fall into profanity. They can offer him a secretary to cross-read his mails on delicate/enraging issues.
There is no need for a friggin' policy just because .5 % of people in coding MLs get childish and unprofessional in a post or two every odd year!!
Good heavens, could everyone just grow up?
This is the next step for a modern post-scarcity economy and society - the ultimate consolidation of wealth transfer into one basic package. I wish Germany would be this close to conditionless basic income.
But with Pegida, the ongoing Greece bailouts and the conservative right crawling out of their holes and popularising conspiracy theory bullshit and fascism once again, I'm afraid Germany is moving away from this sort of thing again.
It's a shame actually.
Make it simple.
Have a stack of small name stickers printed and put those on the inside cover.
Archive and track your titles with Delicious Library or a similar tool that can scan the book-barcodes with the webcam on your computer and then automatically fetches the books metadata and coverfotos from the intarweb (amazon, etc.).
You can then use Delicious Library to keep track who's got what.
The namestickers are enough to let people know who's book they've still got.
Bingo!
Cigar for you, Sir.
It is, by very definition, our job to make ourselves superfluos.
Example: I hardly code anymore.
Part of my job constists of setting up WordPress with generic and special plugins. By now mostly automated so that a fresh project can be done by a PM with no clue about web-technologies in less that 10 minutes.
My job now consists of writing requirements, talking to the tech people of our customers and checking the possibilities and the occasional CSS/JS/jQuery and/or PHP Hack to add some obscure special feature to a fresh or existing install. Plus I take care of backups - mostly automated too - and let the bosses know when it's a bad idea to approach project X with strategy Y instead of Z.
Stuff that I do alone today needed 10-15 people 15 years ago. And I only still have work to do because LAMP, WP and all that other stuff is a historically grown technology mess from 2 decades ago. My coding part of the occupation is one smart crew and one MIT licences new-gen web-cms away from becoming totally pointless.
We all know it:
The tech-advancement curve is logarithmic.
The robots are coming and they're taking most of the jobs.
Our's aswell.
The smart people have been predicting this for years. This isn't news at all.
Let's just hope that those at the helm don't screw it up and we all can enjoy an utopia rather than some bizar cyberpunk corporate socialism nightmare. ... I'm down to 25 hours/week already and it feels great.
I personally am looking forward to a 15 hour workweek with still enough to eat and live from.
My 2 cents.
Nowadays dealers make their money with service, not with sales.
Service, of course, needs to be local to make any sense.
I don't see a big problem for car dealers here ... except perhaps that as soon as robots drive around for us, owning a car will become way less feasible and large car-pool companies with subscription services will take the place of the privately-owned-cars.
The car dealers and service stations then will be replaced by local robot-car-pool service stations.
If the first robot trucks driving on Germanys streets right now are any indication, we're a year or two from moving into the transition phase.
A large hindrance for seaching information on Go is its name. Many people have pointed this out already.
What plans does the Go project team have in terms of naming conventions to make future searching for information on Go easyer? Is there an alternative term that you recommend using when searching Google for Go related information - perhaps something like the term "go-lang" or so?
What plans does the Go core team have to mitigate this problem? What approach to searching for Go stuff do you recommend right now?
Is there an official cross-plattform Go IDE in the works? Experience shows that adoption is accelerated by offering a solid toolkit that is easy to pick up and get started with - such as the formidable Android Studio IDE Google offers to developers. Are there any plans similar to this for Go?
I would like to see it take the place of C++ in the development of performant end-user applications with GUIs - are there any officially sanctioned projects that aim to provide a serious GUI toolkit and stack based on Go?
What serious long-term real-world potential do you see for Go?
How do you see the potential of Go replacing existing open source webstacks such as Apache and PHP, Python or Ruby? Was Go built with a technology update of existing approaches in mind? How feasible is it in your opinion to try and replace the existing complex stacks with pure Go runtimes?
The same happed to Mir.
"There are places you wouldn't want to stick a hand in." Kosmonauts were quoted.
The fascinating thing is that fungi are actually quite resillient and also can survice in a vacuum.
I'd guess that the environment in a space station favours fungi more than anything else.
If it works for you, why change?
But if you must change, I recommend using Markdown. Tons of FOSS editors out there, and it's actually simpler than HTML. And also, in a pinch, readable and editable in simple text format.
Glad I could help.
Let me weigh in on the Cult of Less. Which, by the way, is the right way to handle things in a post-scarcity economy we're moving in to.
I ...
- buy jeans at the vintage clothes store or dirt-cheap no-name brand. Buy 2-3 once every 2 years or so.
- buy Longsleves and T-Shirts either from H&M (worse choice, but available) or Contintental
- buy once kind of PH-neutral soap for the household. Do my dishwashing, cleaning and moping with just that. In a pinch I can even shower with it and use it as shampoo (no joke).
- only use bars of soap. For showering, washing, etc. Saves packaging (no plastic bottles) and gives a wide variety. Plus I know what to shop for when luxury shopping. And people can always give me a bar of nice soap if they don't know what they can give me for a present.
- I, as a computer expert, *do* have too many computers. A now broken Mac Mini, two refurbished Lenovo ThinkPads, a 13" MB Air, a 10" Lenovo Yoga Tablet, a Smartphone, a Xbox 360 (latest model), a Nintendo DSi, a PSP and a Pocket Computer from the mid-80ies. At least two of those I could and should easyly get rid of. Note that most of these are portable.
- I live in a 36 square-meter one-room apartment. It's just my size. It takes 2 hours max. to clean up everything and I have a good reason to curb my accumilation of stuff
- I only use and learn FOSS technologies. There are still to many of those, but it reduces my field I watch out for a little bit.
Bottom line:
Decision fatigue is very real and I've experienced first hand how relaxing it can be when you actively reduce your options.
I never break out of loops or ifs with a direct return.
It somehow makes me cringe in a very uncomfortable way.
I always return one level up, even if it means using a utility variable (often called returnMe and initialised at the beginning of a function).
I couldn't say that that is much better, but it does make me *feel* a lot better.
As for more good habits:
I've recently gotten into more serious function programming territory, trying to avoid variables entirely. Doesn't always work and gets your head all in a knot, but you learn a lot. And it is faster - both in coding and at runtime.
No sweat. We've got better alternatives..
Something like this would give BPG a nice boost in usage and move JPEG to the awkward wayside together with GIF.
Go right ahead, I say.
First of all, autonomous cars, lets just call them "automobiles" (harhar) needn't drive perfect to be fully autonomous.
They only need to drive better than humans.
And - Newsflash! - they already do that!
And even just right now I'd trust a google car way more than I'd trust at least 20% of human dimwits at the wheel today.
Testing phase or not.
And that's in Germany, where driving training is a very big deal, takes long and is very expensive and elaborate.
And behaviour in traffic is compareatively civil.
Second of all, TFA says: "Yet as Mindell also observes, there are many challenges to the Google model: Its cars must identify all nearby objects correctly, need perfectly updated mapping systems, and must avoid all software glitches."
Well, no shit, dude.
"Avoid all software glitches" is called "testing" and/or "test driven development" and/or "design by contract" and/or "correct error handling". Like, for instance, warning the driver ... errrm, passenger, when there's a severe problem and they need to stop and he/she needs to get out... It's basically non-douchebag software guys doing the sort of thing any regular respectable engineer would do when designing a bridge. And, trust me, those folks at Google aren't your Type-A hobbyist/wannabe WordPress Plugin Scriptoid - they actually know what they're doing.
And now thats aside, yeah, an autonomous car needs to recognise all those many things. Well, guess what? That's exactly what an autonomous car today is by order of mangitudes *better* at than any human will ever be. For enlightenment I strongly recommend this talk by the head of Googles Autonous Car division, Chirs Urmson, "How a driverless car sees the road". Yes, it's a TED talk - you're gonna live.
Now could someone send this guy the memo?
Thanks.
... in the next half year.
Being nude in the Playboy is just about a badge of honor for a woman, and far from being shady these days. I can get a Playboy and read it / look at the pictures and people won't even turn a head or raise an eyebrow. You have upper class straight ladies reading the Playboy in public, if perhaps only for the articles, interviews and the jokes.
That all including todays generally favourable global public perception of the Playboy is pretty much a unique selling point.
I really don't get this decision and it probably makes no sense in the real world either.
Releasing less volumes perhaps and upping the quality a little more might have been a better move.
Or were they just talking about the US Playboy?
Bild is the epitome of shoddy and sensationalist journalism in Germany, sort of like the Daily Mail in the UK.
I doubt the people smart enough to use adblocking read the Bild. And if so, all the better.
People still use Visual Basic and Java in their most recent incarnations, so why shouldn't we have modern versions of other terrible languages?
No reason to insult Cobol in such a manner and put it on one level with Visual Basic and Java.
No, probably not.
The untangled mess my and most other peoples thoughts and emotions are most of the time isn't really something that is worth downloading.
I do have experience and wisdom, after having lived for 45 years on this planet, amoung other humans - but most of that would fit into a series of 2-5 books.
The rest is made up and driven by all those desires and drives that make us human: Need for sex & love, for recognition and respect, meaning in life, etc. I do not want the mistakes I've done in the past to fulfill those to be downloaded into a computer. Not really, no.
What might be useful or at least interesting is a machine, that takes all those insight, extracts the garbage and keeps the good stuff. ... But then again, I could be wrong.
There's an artform/science that does that, and it's called stoic philosophy.
I don't see machines joining in on it too soon.
Then again, philosophy is such a fun thing to do, I wouldn't want to hand it of to machines.
That would be like having two robots doing the sex for me and my girlfriend.
... Howtos + 5-minute Screencasts are what you're looking for.
Most KMSes/DMSes are crap - wether FOSS or not. Don't burden yourself with an extra system that is more trouble than use. Verbose opening comments of classes, API docs with examples, documented Usecases, double-checked by the users, Howtos and Screencasts are what you're need and want.
Once you've generated the final docs, give them a nice design, some search-thingy with elasticsearch or something and put the Howtos andd Screencasts Front and center along with some Intros for n00b users.
All that is done best with textfiles and API doctools + proper versioning. Perhaps some diagrams of archticture, setup and Main Usecases nicht help.
KMSes are the Fallout of 2000s mid-execs bullshit-bingo sessions and IMHO hardly ever worth the hassle.
My 2 cents.
... we have written the year 2000, that the world will observe strange things (...) from the West a law which purpose will be to supress all individual thinking ..." - Rudolf Steiner, 1916
With post 2K Software patents and now this 1984 nightmare of a law package, I'm wondering if this guy actually was on to something.