What you're basically saying is that it carries less information. When you write a summary, you generally want more information, not less. That is, unless you're writing it on Slashdot where it usually works the other way around. So I guess you could say it's a good Slashdot summary.
Just for the record: According to this source, wind turbines cost around 1.2-2.6 million USD per MW. Assuming a (I think conservative?) capacity factor of 25%, that's 4.8-10.4 million USD per produced MW, so for 1 billion USD you should be able to buy 96-208 MW.
... one of them is Hostigation. They have a relatively inexpensive backup plan, 0.04 USD per GB storage per month allocated in 30 GB chunks.
So it's not free, but there's no magic in it either. You get your own little Debian VPS so you can use rsync or whatever you fancy. It's not really redundant, though, so if the server goes down for good, you'll have to reupload the data.
We have plenty of options for producing the power we need without CO2 emissions. The only thing missing is funding. That's exactly the same situation as with fusion; except these other techniques have near zero risk since we're already using them and they are likely much cheaper than fusion.
It's very telling that "JavaScript: The Good Parts" is treated as the community's most widely respected book.
I wouldn't want Javascript newbies to spend too much time in Douglas Crockford's company. It's as if he's once been burned by language feature, then that feature cannot ever been used again. That's not a sensible way to think about things.
Javascript works fine for its niche, it's not the most elegant language in many aspects, but it's relatively small and easy to get started on (unlike some other alternatives). Most of the problems are in shoddy browser APIs (like the DOM). That's where jQuery enter the picture. And before you diss that, try comparing GUI programming in HTML + CSS + jQuery to desktop-based libraries like WinForms or GTK. In my experience, the web is much easier and more flexible, despite incompatibilities and whatnot. And the amazing thing is that the whole world can use your stuff directly.
Plus he now has more experience doing this kind of stuff, and has shown he can be motivated without getting paid lots of money. Sounds like an employee you want to keep.
Are you sure you're really receiver-focused when you write all that stuff? Most people don't want to read that much text to use, say a configuration parser. If it takes people 10 hours to dig through your documentation and 1 hour to actually write the code, you're probably not doing it right. Sometimes less is more.
Reference documentation is a bit different because people to some extent can just go directly to what they need. But in my experience, most people just want something they can copy-paste into their project and get started with.
One problem with producing too much stuff yourself is that you tend to build up your own little bubble where everything makes sense. In theory.:)
Why don't you type that up in an article and see if you can get it published in a peer-reviewed journal?
Before you do that, I suggest you save yourself some time and try googling your little theory. You may find this link and this link interesting.
Here's a quote:
[...] One common refrain from skeptics is that the atmosphere is already saturated with CO2 – in other words, that the greenhouse effect has already reached “its peak performance,” as Nova puts it – so adding more of it, even doubling its atmospheric concentration, shouldn’t make a difference. The problem with this logic is that it ignores the complex, multi-layered structure of the atmosphere by essentially treating it as one unit.
I'm continually amazed how people who clearly aren't experts in climate modeling think they can debunk theories from people who have worked in the field for decades without even researching whether their debunk makes any sense.
Any teacher in a biological science who believes in creationism isn't qualified to teach biology.
I used to think people could believe whatever they want, but I recently read a college book on zoology (borrowed from my sister who's a biologist), and there are just so incredibly many things that evolution explains that you'd be a complete moron to seriously question it. You cannot understand how animal species are connected without understanding evolution. It's impossible. It's like a programmer saying he doesn't believe in electronics. It's absurd.
So, I'd much rather have a slow patch from a company that cared enough to actually test it, vs a hobbyist who doesn't care enough to produce quality robust code.
True. That's why I run a mix of Windows ME and Apple MacOS 9 on all my servers. I'm not letting that Linux distro run entirely by volunteers, what's it called, Debbi's Ian? near any of my good stuff. When was the last time Microsoft or Apple released a security fix for those two systems? See. Flawless software.
... NBC is performing racist reporting with the clear intent of inciting racial conflict
Or perhaps they just want to play on people's emotions so they get a better story?
I like that you're saying you don't have the facts at this time to make a decision about what happened. As if you ever had in these kinds of cases. You are deluding yourself.
Do you have any sources of that claim? At least in Denmark, the mother of a great deal of wind turbines, they are maintained because they turn a profit.
Huh? Are you living under a rock? It makes a lot of sense to subsidize it if benefits society as a whole as opposed to relying on oil and gas. For one thing, if you live in America, your government would probably have cared a lot less about what's happening in the middle east and maybe you could have saved billions of dollars and a good bunch of American lives in wars started by your government.
Funny how it says "if you don't have the equivalent of a danish bachelors degree, you won't have enough points"
There's one thing you need to understand before moving to Denmark. Most people who go to the university here go there with the intention of ending up with a Master's degree (5 years) and do so. So if you're trying to compete on educational level, bachelor is not going to cut it. If I were to hire a Dane with a bachelor degree only, I wouldn't be happy to hear that the person wasn't aiming for higher - everything else being equal it would hint at a below-average ambition level.
Education is serious business in Denmark, it's free for all natives, we even pay people a modest allowance each month while they study.
Native Dane here - everyone has to learn English, from a very early grade these years even, but most people don't get to practice it much and may be slightly uncomfortable having to have a discussion in English. If you get a technical job you should be okay from the beginning, but learning to understand Danish is probably a really good idea. I'm not so sure about speaking it though, I think most people actually prefer to listen to fluent English rather than half-baked Danish.:)
And then there's the library system. Some rookie mistakes, like making String final.
I disagree. The best thing Gosling could have done to Java were making all classes final. It's certainly better than the other way around. Inheritance is in many cases one of the fastest ways of turning an otherwise sensible design into OOP spaghetti.
No, different languages have different kinds of brainwash. But that doesn't detract from the point that the community programming in Java is suffering from it. And managed to get the non-sense carried over to the C# community. Too Much Inheritance, Too Many Concepts.:)
With C++, there's a similar problem that everyone is focusing so much on performance and painstakingly-specified static types that the language as a whole is missing out on some big opportunities. Most of the things that really save me time in Python could have been done in C++ too with no impact on overall speed. But they aren't, or only half-baked, because otherwise corner cases X, Y and Z may be slower or less precisely typed - and thus my Python programs are much shorter and neater than my C++ programs.
Nobody in their right mind is doing that today. You use a compatibility library like jQuery that besides hiding all this kind of crap also gives you a really nice API to work with, in many cases surpassing what's available in any current desktop GUI libraries.
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What you're basically saying is that it carries less information. When you write a summary, you generally want more information, not less. That is, unless you're writing it on Slashdot where it usually works the other way around. So I guess you could say it's a good Slashdot summary.
True, he should have posted his boss's pin number only.
Just for the record: According to this source, wind turbines cost around 1.2-2.6 million USD per MW. Assuming a (I think conservative?) capacity factor of 25%, that's 4.8-10.4 million USD per produced MW, so for 1 billion USD you should be able to buy 96-208 MW.
People are building wind turbines at sea at the moment, so corrosion problems are apparently solvable.
This type of technology never goes to anybody who can actually use it.
Huh? Who says oil sheiks don't need a Beverly Hills style swimming pool?
... one of them is Hostigation. They have a relatively inexpensive backup plan, 0.04 USD per GB storage per month allocated in 30 GB chunks.
So it's not free, but there's no magic in it either. You get your own little Debian VPS so you can use rsync or whatever you fancy. It's not really redundant, though, so if the server goes down for good, you'll have to reupload the data.
Hah, infrared sensor for wireless access.
Huh? What are you talking about?
We have plenty of options for producing the power we need without CO2 emissions. The only thing missing is funding. That's exactly the same situation as with fusion; except these other techniques have near zero risk since we're already using them and they are likely much cheaper than fusion.
It's very telling that "JavaScript: The Good Parts" is treated as the community's most widely respected book.
I wouldn't want Javascript newbies to spend too much time in Douglas Crockford's company. It's as if he's once been burned by language feature, then that feature cannot ever been used again. That's not a sensible way to think about things.
Javascript works fine for its niche, it's not the most elegant language in many aspects, but it's relatively small and easy to get started on (unlike some other alternatives). Most of the problems are in shoddy browser APIs (like the DOM). That's where jQuery enter the picture. And before you diss that, try comparing GUI programming in HTML + CSS + jQuery to desktop-based libraries like WinForms or GTK. In my experience, the web is much easier and more flexible, despite incompatibilities and whatnot. And the amazing thing is that the whole world can use your stuff directly.
Plus he now has more experience doing this kind of stuff, and has shown he can be motivated without getting paid lots of money. Sounds like an employee you want to keep.
Are you sure you're really receiver-focused when you write all that stuff? Most people don't want to read that much text to use, say a configuration parser. If it takes people 10 hours to dig through your documentation and 1 hour to actually write the code, you're probably not doing it right. Sometimes less is more.
Reference documentation is a bit different because people to some extent can just go directly to what they need. But in my experience, most people just want something they can copy-paste into their project and get started with.
One problem with producing too much stuff yourself is that you tend to build up your own little bubble where everything makes sense. In theory. :)
Agreed. That's why, if you writing a library, it's a really good idea you write some documentation before others start depending on the API.
Why don't you type that up in an article and see if you can get it published in a peer-reviewed journal?
Before you do that, I suggest you save yourself some time and try googling your little theory. You may find this link and this link interesting.
Here's a quote:
[...] One common refrain from skeptics is that the atmosphere is already saturated with CO2 – in other words, that the greenhouse effect has already reached “its peak performance,” as Nova puts it – so adding more of it, even doubling its atmospheric concentration, shouldn’t make a difference. The problem with this logic is that it ignores the complex, multi-layered structure of the atmosphere by essentially treating it as one unit.
I'm continually amazed how people who clearly aren't experts in climate modeling think they can debunk theories from people who have worked in the field for decades without even researching whether their debunk makes any sense.
"Is that apple on the backside glowing?"
Any teacher in a biological science who believes in creationism isn't qualified to teach biology.
I used to think people could believe whatever they want, but I recently read a college book on zoology (borrowed from my sister who's a biologist), and there are just so incredibly many things that evolution explains that you'd be a complete moron to seriously question it. You cannot understand how animal species are connected without understanding evolution. It's impossible. It's like a programmer saying he doesn't believe in electronics. It's absurd.
So, I'd much rather have a slow patch from a company that cared enough to actually test it, vs a hobbyist who doesn't care enough to produce quality robust code.
True. That's why I run a mix of Windows ME and Apple MacOS 9 on all my servers. I'm not letting that Linux distro run entirely by volunteers, what's it called, Debbi's Ian? near any of my good stuff. When was the last time Microsoft or Apple released a security fix for those two systems? See. Flawless software.
You need to think bigger. Like a balloon, hovering over your house. :)
... NBC is performing racist reporting with the clear intent of inciting racial conflict
Or perhaps they just want to play on people's emotions so they get a better story?
I like that you're saying you don't have the facts at this time to make a decision about what happened. As if you ever had in these kinds of cases. You are deluding yourself.
Do you have any sources of that claim? At least in Denmark, the mother of a great deal of wind turbines, they are maintained because they turn a profit.
What is the point of subsiding them?
Huh? Are you living under a rock? It makes a lot of sense to subsidize it if benefits society as a whole as opposed to relying on oil and gas. For one thing, if you live in America, your government would probably have cared a lot less about what's happening in the middle east and maybe you could have saved billions of dollars and a good bunch of American lives in wars started by your government.
Funny how it says "if you don't have the equivalent of a danish bachelors degree, you won't have enough points"
There's one thing you need to understand before moving to Denmark. Most people who go to the university here go there with the intention of ending up with a Master's degree (5 years) and do so. So if you're trying to compete on educational level, bachelor is not going to cut it. If I were to hire a Dane with a bachelor degree only, I wouldn't be happy to hear that the person wasn't aiming for higher - everything else being equal it would hint at a below-average ambition level.
Education is serious business in Denmark, it's free for all natives, we even pay people a modest allowance each month while they study.
Native Dane here - everyone has to learn English, from a very early grade these years even, but most people don't get to practice it much and may be slightly uncomfortable having to have a discussion in English. If you get a technical job you should be okay from the beginning, but learning to understand Danish is probably a really good idea. I'm not so sure about speaking it though, I think most people actually prefer to listen to fluent English rather than half-baked Danish. :)
And then there's the library system. Some rookie mistakes, like making String final.
I disagree. The best thing Gosling could have done to Java were making all classes final. It's certainly better than the other way around. Inheritance is in many cases one of the fastest ways of turning an otherwise sensible design into OOP spaghetti.
And this is unique to Java?
No, different languages have different kinds of brainwash. But that doesn't detract from the point that the community programming in Java is suffering from it. And managed to get the non-sense carried over to the C# community. Too Much Inheritance, Too Many Concepts. :)
With C++, there's a similar problem that everyone is focusing so much on performance and painstakingly-specified static types that the language as a whole is missing out on some big opportunities. Most of the things that really save me time in Python could have been done in C++ too with no impact on overall speed. But they aren't, or only half-baked, because otherwise corner cases X, Y and Z may be slower or less precisely typed - and thus my Python programs are much shorter and neater than my C++ programs.
Nobody in their right mind is doing that today. You use a compatibility library like jQuery that besides hiding all this kind of crap also gives you a really nice API to work with, in many cases surpassing what's available in any current desktop GUI libraries.