What's puzzling is they either missed or ignored the rise of the whole maker/hacker space movement that's happening right now. Kids are getting back into building and tinkering with stuff, but RadioShack is DOA. Their whole business model is completely incoherent. They should have dominated this space.
^--This. What happened, apparently, is they tried to be everything. You want cellphones? Sure, we've got that. Computers? Sure. Electronics? Well, we'll see what we have left in terms of shelf space... The suits want profits, and don't want to miss out on whatever the next big thing is. I'm sure their electronics hobbyist business generates very small profits compared with, for example, smartphones. I think their business model just played itself out.
Of course, many people are not particularly good at anything, so they may have personalities weak enough to be formed to a degree. But these people will never find the dedication and level of fascination with coding that is an absolute pre-requisite to ever be good at it.
This is the purest bullshit. There are very good coders, mediocre coders and very bad coders, the same as in every other field of human endeavour. Programmers are not special snowflakes.
I'll bet you haven't counted foir profit markup, legal overhead to sue the shit out of the homeboy still cooking in his basement, government licensing fees, local healthcare taxes, administrative overhead, etc.
The end of prohibition *should* have put the moonshiners out of business. Guess what, they're still around. Assuming that legalizing drugs will suddenly drive the criminal enterprises out of business or into legal business.... Well, naive people are naive.
No, but.. citation needed. How much moonshining going on nowadays? I really don't know, but it is pretty minimal. At best this is not a good example. Try the situation with weed in states where it is now recently legal. See also: Netherlands.
In your opinion, what are the societal implications of electing an alleged murdering drug addict to the office of President? As a followup, if elected will you please install a stripper pole in the oval office?
Is teach all Facebook users what the word "empathy" means.
Yes, please tell me what this is and how I may acquire some. Do they accept Bitcoin? Does it have anything to do with puppies? Or pr0n? Because I am very empathy about those.
Anyone that has actively worked inside computer code knows the damage that can be done when someone with the wrong level of understanding starts modifying code.
I apologize, boss. Wait, Brad? That's not you? How do you know so much about me then?
What you say about Trump sucking up the attention so that more reasonable republican candidates can't get any attention, I think is true also of Hillary and Bernie Sanders. Bernie sanders is not in any sense electable, but he drowns out any real opposition to Hillary.
That would be true if Sanders were not experiencing a near media blackout, at least until recently. I heard a BBC story a couple weeks ago that mentioned the Dem race and how there was "no serious opposition" to Clinton, and DID NOT MENTION SANDERS AT ALL. I was dumbfounded. Now finally the mainstream media are apparently catching up. Also, Sanders is the liberal front-runner and, I'm going out on a limb here, the likely nominee. (OK, yes, I am a Bernie fan.) He has the momentum and I think he can pull it off. Then again, just last week I found out that Webb is also in the race. What? How did I not know this? You can say Bernie has sucked all the oxygen out of the room, but I would again say Trump is the main media darling/punching bag. He is stealing "new cycles" (like CPU cycles only newsier) from all the other candidates across the board, on both sides of the aisle. He gets coverage because he is off the hook and an epic asshole. It's like the supermarket store shelves can only carry so many brands, and most of the shelf space is Trump Trump Trump.
Also, I disagree that Bernie is not electable. Case in point, today's political upheavals in Australia and the UK. Of course, the US is a completely different political animal. Simply put, the US electorate is mostly stupid, reacting to tabloid politics and little else. That's why we are where we are. Then again, who thought Obama was electable?
The media won't let it be boring. We give more media coverage to a list of people who are not running, than we do to good candidates like Jim Webb that actually are running. There certainly are links between the two, but money in politics is looking like less of a problem to me than the media picking favorites and covering only people who are newsworthy. As long as the media defines the political winners and losers, we will remain completely fucked.
Money is controlling the media. It all goes back to the money. Wait, Jim Webb is indeed running. How did I not know that? (the media, thanks media)
... and another thing, another evil being perpetrated is the smokescreen created by Trump and his band of merry media cohorts.. "what Trump said today.. film at 11". It's a sideshow that is drawing attention away from the rest of the candidates, notably the abhorent views of many of the other Republican candidates. When the "sensible" Republican voters (yeah, I know, but follow me here for a moment..) attempt to pick a candidate, they will have scant real information on any of them, because Trump has basically sucked all the oxygen out of the room. I believe the candidates are somewhat in on the joke here. All Jeb, for example, has to do is appear slightly less batshit crazy than the rest of them and the lemmings will follow him, or any of the other corrupt assholes.
Well now we are talking about mathematicians. They have to write their own Integer class because MAX_INT just isn't close enough.
But more seriously, readability, maintainability and good coding practices are something you learn from experience, not some innate understanding of the concepts. If you had to choose between working code that's unreadable or non-working code that is readable, which would you take?
Not that that's a good example, most bad programmers I know produce code that doesn't work and is unreadable.
Easy. Readable and coherent non-working code can be fixed. Unreadable working code is going to bite you in the ass one way or another. "Well, we want you to modify it to do X." Then what? I deal with this all the time. Don't you? Bad coders make simple tasks complex and complex tasks impossible.
Someone inherently good at programming will be inherently good at math and vise versa. Someone who can't understand mathematical concepts will struggle with logical ones. As to your point about engineers, most of the best programmers I know came from fields other than programming that required a higher level of mathematics, like engineering.
Well, I have seen brilliant mathematicians who write the... Worst. Code. Ever. Sure, they can write code that works, but some of them have no experience in making that code readable (read: maintainable by anyone other than the authors).
In other words, any web developer who has not worked through their own proof of the Fermat-Euler theorum is not qualified to call themselves a good programmer.
I've got a remarkable proof of it, but $('#paragraph').css('margin-left') < 12;
I proved this once, and also P=NP, but I left it in my pocket and it went through the laundry.
It's true! You can google it.
Also, be sure to have ample supplies of Grey Poupon whenever you drive around in your limo, because you never know when some smart ass is going to ask you for some. Then you'd be all... "BOOM! Grey Poupon in da hizzy!"
I'd buy an island and make a nation out of it. I would live there with the family and my army of 1000 topless female slave-warriors. The island would have a private airstrip and a private jet, piloted by a topless female slave-warrior, that would whisk us around the globe. People would become jealous of my topless female slave-warriors because Grub Island would be the only place on the planet with them.
I would have a lottery with $1,000,000 ticket prices. The prize would be one week on my island with 10 topless female slave-warriors to be at the winner's beck and call. After the winner departed Grub Island, the other topless female slave-warriors would destroy the lottery winner's 10 because they would then be soiled and not worthy of me.
Dude, your island, so lame. I would instead buy an island adjacent to Grub Island and open up Dave's All Nude Badass Island!!! (neon signage mandatory of course). 1000 topless female slave-warriors??? Nope. Too much work. We will limit this to 100, and have some kind of competition from all the disgruntled (read: horny) warriors from Grub Island, and.. oh hell, lunch break is over. Back to my appointed task of wage slavery..
Actually, there's a better place for this. New Hampshire has a range of mountains known as the Presidential Range. Mount Washington is probably the best known of these. There are several peaks in this range that don't have names associated with Presidents (or patriots like Samuel Adams and Benjamin Franklin). I'd propose renaming one of those mountains after McKinley. New Hampshire actually renamed Mt. Clay (named for Henry Clay) to Mt. Reagan, though the US government still considers the peak to be Mt. Clay.
Sorry, nope. All peaks shall be named after President Trump. No other names shall be permitted. For convenience, all peaks shall be helpfully numbered, so Mount Washington may be referred to as Mount Trump 371.
It's OK, you'll learn to love the new naming conventions like I did!
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What's puzzling is they either missed or ignored the rise of the whole maker/hacker space movement that's happening right now. Kids are getting back into building and tinkering with stuff, but RadioShack is DOA. Their whole business model is completely incoherent. They should have dominated this space.
^--This. What happened, apparently, is they tried to be everything. You want cellphones? Sure, we've got that. Computers? Sure. Electronics? Well, we'll see what we have left in terms of shelf space... The suits want profits, and don't want to miss out on whatever the next big thing is. I'm sure their electronics hobbyist business generates very small profits compared with, for example, smartphones. I think their business model just played itself out.
Of course, many people are not particularly good at anything, so they may have personalities weak enough to be formed to a degree. But these people will never find the dedication and level of fascination with coding that is an absolute pre-requisite to ever be good at it.
This is the purest bullshit. There are very good coders, mediocre coders and very bad coders, the same as in every other field of human endeavour. Programmers are not special snowflakes.
That's not what my Mom said.
In space, no one can hear you BSOD..
[Sorry, that's presumptuous..]
In space, no one can hear you core dump. Oh, that just doesn't sound quite right.
Citation needed.
I'll bet you haven't counted foir profit markup, legal overhead to sue the shit out of the homeboy still cooking in his basement, government licensing fees, local healthcare taxes, administrative overhead, etc.
The end of prohibition *should* have put the moonshiners out of business. Guess what, they're still around. Assuming that legalizing drugs will suddenly drive the criminal enterprises out of business or into legal business.... Well, naive people are naive.
No, but.. citation needed. How much moonshining going on nowadays? I really don't know, but it is pretty minimal. At best this is not a good example. Try the situation with weed in states where it is now recently legal. See also: Netherlands.
Next question!
In your opinion, what are the societal implications of electing an alleged murdering drug addict to the office of President? As a followup, if elected will you please install a stripper pole in the oval office?
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Is teach all Facebook users what the word "empathy" means.
Yes, please tell me what this is and how I may acquire some. Do they accept Bitcoin? Does it have anything to do with puppies? Or pr0n? Because I am very empathy about those.
Anyone that has actively worked inside computer code knows the damage that can be done when someone with the wrong level of understanding starts modifying code.
I apologize, boss. Wait, Brad? That's not you? How do you know so much about me then?
What? You mean you weren't working Sunday?
What you say about Trump sucking up the attention so that more reasonable republican candidates can't get any attention, I think is true also of Hillary and Bernie Sanders. Bernie sanders is not in any sense electable, but he drowns out any real opposition to Hillary.
That would be true if Sanders were not experiencing a near media blackout, at least until recently. I heard a BBC story a couple weeks ago that mentioned the Dem race and how there was "no serious opposition" to Clinton, and DID NOT MENTION SANDERS AT ALL. I was dumbfounded. Now finally the mainstream media are apparently catching up. Also, Sanders is the liberal front-runner and, I'm going out on a limb here, the likely nominee. (OK, yes, I am a Bernie fan.) He has the momentum and I think he can pull it off. Then again, just last week I found out that Webb is also in the race. What? How did I not know this? You can say Bernie has sucked all the oxygen out of the room, but I would again say Trump is the main media darling/punching bag. He is stealing "new cycles" (like CPU cycles only newsier) from all the other candidates across the board, on both sides of the aisle. He gets coverage because he is off the hook and an epic asshole. It's like the supermarket store shelves can only carry so many brands, and most of the shelf space is Trump Trump Trump.
Also, I disagree that Bernie is not electable. Case in point, today's political upheavals in Australia and the UK. Of course, the US is a completely different political animal. Simply put, the US electorate is mostly stupid, reacting to tabloid politics and little else. That's why we are where we are. Then again, who thought Obama was electable?
Anyway, must be time for coffee..
The media won't let it be boring. We give more media coverage to a list of people who are not running, than we do to good candidates like Jim Webb that actually are running. There certainly are links between the two, but money in politics is looking like less of a problem to me than the media picking favorites and covering only people who are newsworthy. As long as the media defines the political winners and losers, we will remain completely fucked.
Money is controlling the media. It all goes back to the money. Wait, Jim Webb is indeed running. How did I not know that? (the media, thanks media)
At least politics is no longer boring...
Well now we are talking about mathematicians. They have to write their own Integer class because MAX_INT just isn't close enough. But more seriously, readability, maintainability and good coding practices are something you learn from experience, not some innate understanding of the concepts. If you had to choose between working code that's unreadable or non-working code that is readable, which would you take? Not that that's a good example, most bad programmers I know produce code that doesn't work and is unreadable.
Easy. Readable and coherent non-working code can be fixed. Unreadable working code is going to bite you in the ass one way or another. "Well, we want you to modify it to do X." Then what? I deal with this all the time. Don't you? Bad coders make simple tasks complex and complex tasks impossible.
Someone inherently good at programming will be inherently good at math and vise versa. Someone who can't understand mathematical concepts will struggle with logical ones. As to your point about engineers, most of the best programmers I know came from fields other than programming that required a higher level of mathematics, like engineering.
Well, I have seen brilliant mathematicians who write the... Worst. Code. Ever. Sure, they can write code that works, but some of them have no experience in making that code readable (read: maintainable by anyone other than the authors).
Yes, there are similarities between proofs and programming but I'm living proof that you don't need to be good at proofs to be a programmer.
... and where is your proof sir? Otherwise, this is a theory. Ha, gotcha again!
In other words, any web developer who has not worked through their own proof of the Fermat-Euler theorum is not qualified to call themselves a good programmer.
I've got a remarkable proof of it, but $('#paragraph').css('margin-left') < 12;
I proved this once, and also P=NP, but I left it in my pocket and it went through the laundry. It's true! You can google it.
Yeah, she totally said she was moving to my area and couldn't wait to meet. Bitch.
Bastards..
Also, be sure to have ample supplies of Grey Poupon whenever you drive around in your limo, because you never know when some smart ass is going to ask you for some. Then you'd be all... "BOOM! Grey Poupon in da hizzy!"
This++. But don't limit yourself to rare and vintage, necessarily. Give me a call when you need musicians...
I would (wait for it...) take a really nice nap.
I'd buy an island and make a nation out of it. I would live there with the family and my army of 1000 topless female slave-warriors. The island would have a private airstrip and a private jet, piloted by a topless female slave-warrior, that would whisk us around the globe. People would become jealous of my topless female slave-warriors because Grub Island would be the only place on the planet with them. I would have a lottery with $1,000,000 ticket prices. The prize would be one week on my island with 10 topless female slave-warriors to be at the winner's beck and call. After the winner departed Grub Island, the other topless female slave-warriors would destroy the lottery winner's 10 because they would then be soiled and not worthy of me.
Dude, your island, so lame. I would instead buy an island adjacent to Grub Island and open up Dave's All Nude Badass Island!!! (neon signage mandatory of course). 1000 topless female slave-warriors??? Nope. Too much work. We will limit this to 100, and have some kind of competition from all the disgruntled (read: horny) warriors from Grub Island, and.. oh hell, lunch break is over. Back to my appointed task of wage slavery..
Actually, there's a better place for this. New Hampshire has a range of mountains known as the Presidential Range. Mount Washington is probably the best known of these. There are several peaks in this range that don't have names associated with Presidents (or patriots like Samuel Adams and Benjamin Franklin). I'd propose renaming one of those mountains after McKinley. New Hampshire actually renamed Mt. Clay (named for Henry Clay) to Mt. Reagan, though the US government still considers the peak to be Mt. Clay.
Sorry, nope. All peaks shall be named after President Trump. No other names shall be permitted. For convenience, all peaks shall be helpfully numbered, so Mount Washington may be referred to as Mount Trump 371.
It's OK, you'll learn to love the new naming conventions like I did!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
(Radiohead--pretty much a cure-all for AC/DC collections)
Ashley Madison is one thing with measurable but small social impact.
Clearly you haven't seen my profile. Just ask all my ladies about my "social impact".
[bonus joke: that's what she said]