We are living in an era where many -- perhaps most -- in the public don't really believe or understand that Russia is run by a dangerous group of powerful plutocrat gangsters that would love nothing more than to see the United States break apart at best, or return to isolationism barring that.
Meanwhile in China, the ChiComs are busy stealing every last bit of useful intellectual property, military or otherwise from the complacent Americans.
There is a reason the Matrix franchise made WB 1.6 Billion. It was a really good movie trilogy. Perhaps among the best. People complained about Keanu Reeves, but he was perfect for the part of Neo. People complained about the sequels, but they tied the story together really well. People always complain. It costs nothing to carp. It makes them feel like they have something important to say. But that's like, just their opinion, man... Name me any trilogy that did not have scorn heaped upon it by the Tittering Scofferatti. Star Wars? Every episode was scorned mercilessly. Alien? Should have stopped after Aliens. LOTR? You gotta be kidding me. Harry Potter? They only stopped because the kids grew up too fast. My point is simply, you can't please all the people all the time. Movies are, at their core, artful story telling. You either connect or you don't. No one has the right to pass judgment on them on behalf of anyone else.
Lets face it. Software development is a ruined field. It is full of irritating bloviating self-important hotheads who think their way is the only one true way.
It is a ruined field of endeavor, because if you think software development requires the discipline of other science and engineering degrees, then why is there no licensing exam? Answer: software development is more art than science or engineering. Because it is more art than science, software development is tribal in nature -- each company nurtures and promotes its own unique way of brewing completed projects.
I watched a couple of his game play-through videos. He's fresh and funny. But I think he views himself as some kind of ultimate Hipster. Everything he says and does, by definition, is supposed to be viewed as "ironic". If you don't get his funny, then by definition you're not hip. Or so that is what he's telling us. SNL does a lot of this, and has a lot of fail too. But at least they have a few people to vet their attempts at comedy to ensure it doesn't cross the line. The reality is, PDP is just an ignorant photogenic nerd whose emotional maturity is frozen at 15 years old. He has no care or empathy for those he insults and cares nothing about anyone not in his nerdy fan base. And since he' probably running his own show, he has no one to blame but himself for goring other people's sacred cows.
True story: A while back I was hired at $95K to come in and rescue a tiny tech startup that had lost its star software developer. Not only did I do software development, I also helped with management activities, one of which was to recruit a second software developer. I found a recent Masters Degree graduate from the local university (Taiwanese national) who was happy to take the job at $70K. Fast forward one year later, the company was still struggling, and the owner laid me off and kept the Taiwanese developer.
Honestly I don't think its a racist thing; its just that foreigners and recent arrivees are often much more willing to work harder for less money than locals. Companies would naturally hire lower cost workers if they can do the job.
The Christian Right voted for Trump. The Christian Right thinks about their people, their religion, their way of life, pretty much the same way as the Muslims do. Oh, freedom of speech is nice, freedom of religion is nice, -- as long as its not being abused by those heathens from other lands here in OUR country...
Nowadays "advertising information" is the new biometrics. Or, if you will, meta-biometrics. Its already been reported that it takes only 3 pieces of user preference data to uniquely identify most people. Get used to it. Resistance is Futile. If it isn't already, your every move on the internet is being tracked, indexed, cross-referenced and added to your "dossier". End of story.
Hey, this is the USA you're talking about. 'Merica. We'll see your Satan II and raise you Satan III. We'll invent a warhead that digs Putin out of his 300 foot deep nuclear war bunker, and glassifies Moscow and the other top 50 Russian cities. We may be dead, but we'll die with our dagger in Putin's heart.
Taken to its logical conclusion, the FBI is arguing that it should be able to read all internet traffic in the US, to make sure nobody is breaking the law. That IS what they are saying. There is no need to read between lines here. So then, we just invent a Great Firewall of USA that works like the internet in Communist China? Will we then pay for rooms full of FBI agents who will monitor our email, phone, and browser traffic for signs of law breaking?
I don't know, but this may be the most important question of our generation. How far do we bend over to allow law enforcement to protect us from ourselves? I have already heard law enforcement agencies arguing for more cameras everywhere, license plate readers on every signal light, random DUI stops, random body searches, forced interrogations with lie detection technology, background checks for job applicants, license seekers, renters, real estate purchases, car purchases,...
Wait, we have most of that already. We're basically already screwed. We're only arguing how much worse we're going to be screwed in 5 years...
Actually, I saw a demo recently of a true bash shell running natively on Windows 10. I also saw a demo of a full featured Linux OS embedded somehow into Windows 10, kind of like a humunculus. You could install any software from the Ubuntu Linux apt-get cloud via the bash shell. It was able to run any kind of X-based application including Chrome, Firefox, and Eclipse linux applications. Truly, it was pretty cool. I'd love to get rid of my Oracle VirtualBoxes and use Linux natively on Windows 10.
I remember that period in my life. In 1969, the world was holding its collective breath, in rapt attention of the drama of Apollo 11 and the first lunar landing. By 1972 when Apollo 17 went, almost no one was paying attention any more. They had basically accomplished all the major things they set out to -- walked on the moon, drove on the moon, golfed on the moon, brought back hundreds of pounds of moon rocks, and proved that there were no moon or space viruses waiting out there to kill us. We had discovered most of what there was to discover, and managed to do it without killing anyone or blowing up any space ships.
This is "The Soup Nazi" approach to helping people with their questions. It is absolutely infuriating. I want to love Stack Overflow. Really, I do. I use it often. But I never, ever post there, because I am not thick-skinned enough to take the harassment from the junior dungeon-masters about the appropriateness of my question -or- answer.
Who gets Senators reelected? Answer: Big Businesses. Big business wants the H1B visa program to be expanded. In our American Corpocracy, they will most certainly get their way. But the Senators are still a little nervous. Selling out to big business on such a high-profile labor issue is going to get noticed. So they're posturing, pretending to care about the poor displaced masses.
Let's face it: If you are in the tech industry, you are a modern-day garment industry worker. Business is going to commoditize this work so that it can be done in Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. It is inevitable.
"I've never been able to figure out how they reconcile such a disconnect where oppression from governments is the single greatest evil, but the same kind of oppression from private business is not only perfectly acceptable, it's a desirable outcome..."
So well said. I've never seen someone so clearly articulate why American Capitalism sucks in so few words.
Fiat money works only as long as there remains confidence in the issuing agency. If you don't trust the government to back up its currency, its currency is so much paper, and it doesn't even make good asswipe. Want to get rid of a competing currency? Undermine confidence in it, it'll go away. We're seeing that with Bitcoin. Whether it's by 'criminal activity' or government design is immaterial; confidence in Bitcoin is gone.
There is no such thing as "non-fiat" money. Money by definition is fiat. It represents some unit of value at a point in time between human beings. If it was not, it would be called "barter".
Sadly, Green Mountain used to sell its coffee in bags like everyone else -- and it was pretty good too. Now it seems they are more interested in selling razors than razor blades. Perhaps we will buy our Keurig Cups from China, along with our fake printer cartridges that have to have fake chips in them to work properly...
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We are living in an era where many -- perhaps most -- in the public don't really believe or understand that Russia is run by a dangerous group of powerful plutocrat gangsters that would love nothing more than to see the United States break apart at best, or return to isolationism barring that. Meanwhile in China, the ChiComs are busy stealing every last bit of useful intellectual property, military or otherwise from the complacent Americans.
There is a reason the Matrix franchise made WB 1.6 Billion. It was a really good movie trilogy. Perhaps among the best. People complained about Keanu Reeves, but he was perfect for the part of Neo. People complained about the sequels, but they tied the story together really well. People always complain. It costs nothing to carp. It makes them feel like they have something important to say. But that's like, just their opinion, man... Name me any trilogy that did not have scorn heaped upon it by the Tittering Scofferatti. Star Wars? Every episode was scorned mercilessly. Alien? Should have stopped after Aliens. LOTR? You gotta be kidding me. Harry Potter? They only stopped because the kids grew up too fast. My point is simply, you can't please all the people all the time. Movies are, at their core, artful story telling. You either connect or you don't. No one has the right to pass judgment on them on behalf of anyone else.
Lets face it. Software development is a ruined field. It is full of irritating bloviating self-important hotheads who think their way is the only one true way. It is a ruined field of endeavor, because if you think software development requires the discipline of other science and engineering degrees, then why is there no licensing exam? Answer: software development is more art than science or engineering. Because it is more art than science, software development is tribal in nature -- each company nurtures and promotes its own unique way of brewing completed projects.
I watched a couple of his game play-through videos. He's fresh and funny. But I think he views himself as some kind of ultimate Hipster. Everything he says and does, by definition, is supposed to be viewed as "ironic". If you don't get his funny, then by definition you're not hip. Or so that is what he's telling us. SNL does a lot of this, and has a lot of fail too. But at least they have a few people to vet their attempts at comedy to ensure it doesn't cross the line. The reality is, PDP is just an ignorant photogenic nerd whose emotional maturity is frozen at 15 years old. He has no care or empathy for those he insults and cares nothing about anyone not in his nerdy fan base. And since he' probably running his own show, he has no one to blame but himself for goring other people's sacred cows.
True story: A while back I was hired at $95K to come in and rescue a tiny tech startup that had lost its star software developer. Not only did I do software development, I also helped with management activities, one of which was to recruit a second software developer. I found a recent Masters Degree graduate from the local university (Taiwanese national) who was happy to take the job at $70K. Fast forward one year later, the company was still struggling, and the owner laid me off and kept the Taiwanese developer. Honestly I don't think its a racist thing; its just that foreigners and recent arrivees are often much more willing to work harder for less money than locals. Companies would naturally hire lower cost workers if they can do the job.
The Christian Right voted for Trump. The Christian Right thinks about their people, their religion, their way of life, pretty much the same way as the Muslims do. Oh, freedom of speech is nice, freedom of religion is nice, -- as long as its not being abused by those heathens from other lands here in OUR country...
Classic illness-induced food aversion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Nowadays "advertising information" is the new biometrics. Or, if you will, meta-biometrics. Its already been reported that it takes only 3 pieces of user preference data to uniquely identify most people. Get used to it. Resistance is Futile. If it isn't already, your every move on the internet is being tracked, indexed, cross-referenced and added to your "dossier". End of story.
Hey, this is the USA you're talking about. 'Merica. We'll see your Satan II and raise you Satan III. We'll invent a warhead that digs Putin out of his 300 foot deep nuclear war bunker, and glassifies Moscow and the other top 50 Russian cities. We may be dead, but we'll die with our dagger in Putin's heart.
Taken to its logical conclusion, the FBI is arguing that it should be able to read all internet traffic in the US, to make sure nobody is breaking the law. That IS what they are saying. There is no need to read between lines here. So then, we just invent a Great Firewall of USA that works like the internet in Communist China? Will we then pay for rooms full of FBI agents who will monitor our email, phone, and browser traffic for signs of law breaking? I don't know, but this may be the most important question of our generation. How far do we bend over to allow law enforcement to protect us from ourselves? I have already heard law enforcement agencies arguing for more cameras everywhere, license plate readers on every signal light, random DUI stops, random body searches, forced interrogations with lie detection technology, background checks for job applicants, license seekers, renters, real estate purchases, car purchases, ...
Wait, we have most of that already. We're basically already screwed. We're only arguing how much worse we're going to be screwed in 5 years...
Actually, I saw a demo recently of a true bash shell running natively on Windows 10. I also saw a demo of a full featured Linux OS embedded somehow into Windows 10, kind of like a humunculus. You could install any software from the Ubuntu Linux apt-get cloud via the bash shell. It was able to run any kind of X-based application including Chrome, Firefox, and Eclipse linux applications. Truly, it was pretty cool. I'd love to get rid of my Oracle VirtualBoxes and use Linux natively on Windows 10.
This is the most appropriate and ethical response. Vote with your feet and close the site. They WILL get the message.
I remember that period in my life. In 1969, the world was holding its collective breath, in rapt attention of the drama of Apollo 11 and the first lunar landing. By 1972 when Apollo 17 went, almost no one was paying attention any more. They had basically accomplished all the major things they set out to -- walked on the moon, drove on the moon, golfed on the moon, brought back hundreds of pounds of moon rocks, and proved that there were no moon or space viruses waiting out there to kill us. We had discovered most of what there was to discover, and managed to do it without killing anyone or blowing up any space ships.
Maybe we should start paying off our share of the national debt first -- around $160,000 per taxpayer, mid-2015...
This is "The Soup Nazi" approach to helping people with their questions. It is absolutely infuriating. I want to love Stack Overflow. Really, I do. I use it often. But I never, ever post there, because I am not thick-skinned enough to take the harassment from the junior dungeon-masters about the appropriateness of my question -or- answer.
Who gets Senators reelected? Answer: Big Businesses. Big business wants the H1B visa program to be expanded. In our American Corpocracy, they will most certainly get their way. But the Senators are still a little nervous. Selling out to big business on such a high-profile labor issue is going to get noticed. So they're posturing, pretending to care about the poor displaced masses. Let's face it: If you are in the tech industry, you are a modern-day garment industry worker. Business is going to commoditize this work so that it can be done in Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. It is inevitable.
For example, take awk. Please...
"I've never been able to figure out how they reconcile such a disconnect where oppression from governments is the single greatest evil, but the same kind of oppression from private business is not only perfectly acceptable, it's a desirable outcome..."
So well said. I've never seen someone so clearly articulate why American Capitalism sucks in so few words.
Fiat money works only as long as there remains confidence in the issuing agency. If you don't trust the government to back up its currency, its currency is so much paper, and it doesn't even make good asswipe. Want to get rid of a competing currency? Undermine confidence in it, it'll go away. We're seeing that with Bitcoin. Whether it's by 'criminal activity' or government design is immaterial; confidence in Bitcoin is gone.
There is no such thing as "non-fiat" money. Money by definition is fiat. It represents some unit of value at a point in time between human beings. If it was not, it would be called "barter".
Sadly, Green Mountain used to sell its coffee in bags like everyone else -- and it was pretty good too. Now it seems they are more interested in selling razors than razor blades. Perhaps we will buy our Keurig Cups from China, along with our fake printer cartridges that have to have fake chips in them to work properly...
Demon-Haunted World is a very good recommendation. To that, I would add: Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl (a Nazi prison camp survivor)