Nah, it's better to start with the short-sighted idiot over-consumers with a fetish for instant gratification and deep-rooted insecurities leading to the War on X (for all values of X.) Luckily, disease won't give a fuck. Most of us will die regardless. Make sure to thank Big Pharma for the antibiotic misuse on the way out!
Stimulants improve focus. Psychedelics improve learning. Obviously, Big Pharma is only interested in the former. That's why Big Prison prosecutes the latter.
No, thanks. Procrastination is a valuable skill to prevent wasted time knowing you are going to abjectly fail (too much for it to be worth even wasting the effort.) It is a form of intelligence which indicates that a problem is only half-baked in your mind. If the problem is not well-known, the solution will certainly not be the right one.
Yet without any of the customary safety we come to expect by using natural compounds! Where can I sign up to have my head drilled into rather than trusting the wisdom of the ancients?!
We're basically talking about the Ruby, JavaScript and NoSQL movements. These communities are among the worst there are. Ignorance, both of social norms and technology, are serious factors in why this is the case. When ignorance is embraced as a core value of a community, the results are never good. Ruby is basically Perl, but 20 years late and with a much inferior foundation. JavaScript is, well, horrible in every way. NoSQL is widely taken to be a joke by professionals, who can easily achieve the same scalability using relational databases, without giving up their many useful and even necessary features. Oh, please. First of all, Ruby's been around for at least a decade longer than you seem to think, and it has an entirely different functional-programming-based design philosophy. Object oriented constructs are also supported very thoroughly and it does all this without the godawful mess of special characters that has become Perl's evolved syntax.
JavaScript is a mature technology underlying essentially all of the web now, and if you denigrate it now, you're already living in the past. Just because there's a lot of bad parts of JavaScript doesn't mean it isn't a perfectly-capable functional programming language now, especially with the amazingly-fast virtual machines built into today's browsers. If those same engines happen to inspire people to create further application frameworks on top of them -- were you trying to insult node.js? -- then you get a pretty good interpreter for your language, something all of the old-school scripting languages largely lack. (Not that there isn't next-generation Perl6/JRuby/PyPy/whatever available for scripting in an advanced VM environment)
I bet if you complain about NoSQL you think memcached is worthless too, right? You've gotta do everything all one way or it's WRONG, innit?
I'm more talking about getting your dog stoned... Granted, I don't have a dog, but my friend's dog stoned turns into a cuddle-monster. She's normally a very sweet and talkative dog, one of relatively high intellect from my own life's experience with dogs. But she was pretty quiet after eating a special cookie, not her usual talkative self!
First, I would want to start with animals of even higher (subjective, to me) intelligence -- crows, african grey parrots, octopui, squid, elephants, bees, maybe domestic dogs and cats -- and then perform similar experimentation with all forms of human language: gesture (sign) language, written language and especially spoken language. I would especially like to do a double-blinded study with safely-administered psychedelics. We already know that psychedelics have a large effect on the language center of the human mind, so it would be natural for a similar effect to be present upon other animals. Most of those animals already have proven to have communication mechanisms and tool-using capabilities that are non-trivial, and so I feel they already have a similar language capability to humans. Those could be even potentiated through the use of thought-enhancing drugs.
Kinda like the US Government: PIPA, SOPA, NDAA, CISPA, starting random wars with other countries, the War on Drugs, the War on the Fourth Amendment (illegal "border" searches on interstates 100 miles from any border the country has), the War on Agriculture, the War on Sick People (our health care system)....
I've used Unix as my professional development platform daily for a decade. I hardly ever use X remotely, and when I do, it works very poorly because the protocol is not designed for the reality of modern rendering. It is extremely slow and ugly even on a "fast" link.
If necessary, I'm sure we can reimplement systemd portably and, if it is a general improvement in other ways, that would take over that niche in the Wayland ecosystem organically.
You're not a developer. Obviously, the statement went over your head. Writing to Xlib means writing to Xlib. It does not meaning writing to GTK+ or Qt that uses Xlib internally when on the Unix platform.
Sorry, but there's no reason the NOTION of network "transparency" needs to be embedded within the design like X does in order to be done well. Break things down to a serialization protocol, certainly, but the typical usage of X is not for remote display and the layering of protocol and design should reflect that.
You need experienced software engineers on a team that's designing a complex, safety-critical system, even if it's not "software." We are the people most familiar with failure scenarios of systems.
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Nah, it's better to start with the short-sighted idiot over-consumers with a fetish for instant gratification and deep-rooted insecurities leading to the War on X (for all values of X.) Luckily, disease won't give a fuck. Most of us will die regardless. Make sure to thank Big Pharma for the antibiotic misuse on the way out!
You could just admit that you know nothing about virology and be done with it.
Oh, please, wise anonymous. Educate me about the glories of an imperialistic, consumer-based world.
Good. The world could really use a LOT less humans.
Maybe we should stop monocropping the world.
They sell tools for changing light bulbs... they're like cherry-pickers.
Stimulants improve focus. Psychedelics improve learning. Obviously, Big Pharma is only interested in the former. That's why Big Prison prosecutes the latter.
No, thanks. Procrastination is a valuable skill to prevent wasted time knowing you are going to abjectly fail (too much for it to be worth even wasting the effort.) It is a form of intelligence which indicates that a problem is only half-baked in your mind. If the problem is not well-known, the solution will certainly not be the right one.
...syntactical intelligence (pedants)?
FTFY
Also OCD and even low self-esteem (perfectionism)... there's a lot more value to the "handicapped" than Big Pharma wants you to believe.
The people who are smart enough to realize that your job is not equivalent to your self-worth?
I don't have to imagine anything. People can already take entheogens (psychedelics (hallucinogens)) every day with no ill effect.
Yet without any of the customary safety we come to expect by using natural compounds! Where can I sign up to have my head drilled into rather than trusting the wisdom of the ancients?!
We're basically talking about the Ruby, JavaScript and NoSQL movements. These communities are among the worst there are. Ignorance, both of social norms and technology, are serious factors in why this is the case. When ignorance is embraced as a core value of a community, the results are never good. Ruby is basically Perl, but 20 years late and with a much inferior foundation. JavaScript is, well, horrible in every way. NoSQL is widely taken to be a joke by professionals, who can easily achieve the same scalability using relational databases, without giving up their many useful and even necessary features.
Oh, please. First of all, Ruby's been around for at least a decade longer than you seem to think, and it has an entirely different functional-programming-based design philosophy. Object oriented constructs are also supported very thoroughly and it does all this without the godawful mess of special characters that has become Perl's evolved syntax.
JavaScript is a mature technology underlying essentially all of the web now, and if you denigrate it now, you're already living in the past. Just because there's a lot of bad parts of JavaScript doesn't mean it isn't a perfectly-capable functional programming language now, especially with the amazingly-fast virtual machines built into today's browsers. If those same engines happen to inspire people to create further application frameworks on top of them -- were you trying to insult node.js? -- then you get a pretty good interpreter for your language, something all of the old-school scripting languages largely lack. (Not that there isn't next-generation Perl6/JRuby/PyPy/whatever available for scripting in an advanced VM environment)
I bet if you complain about NoSQL you think memcached is worthless too, right? You've gotta do everything all one way or it's WRONG, innit?
I'm more talking about getting your dog stoned... Granted, I don't have a dog, but my friend's dog stoned turns into a cuddle-monster. She's normally a very sweet and talkative dog, one of relatively high intellect from my own life's experience with dogs. But she was pretty quiet after eating a special cookie, not her usual talkative self!
First, I would want to start with animals of even higher (subjective, to me) intelligence -- crows, african grey parrots, octopui, squid, elephants, bees, maybe domestic dogs and cats -- and then perform similar experimentation with all forms of human language: gesture (sign) language, written language and especially spoken language. I would especially like to do a double-blinded study with safely-administered psychedelics. We already know that psychedelics have a large effect on the language center of the human mind, so it would be natural for a similar effect to be present upon other animals. Most of those animals already have proven to have communication mechanisms and tool-using capabilities that are non-trivial, and so I feel they already have a similar language capability to humans. Those could be even potentiated through the use of thought-enhancing drugs.
...and here in the real world, programmers realize that products are generally "niche" and not applicable to the world at large.
Kinda like the US Government: PIPA, SOPA, NDAA, CISPA, starting random wars with other countries, the War on Drugs, the War on the Fourth Amendment (illegal "border" searches on interstates 100 miles from any border the country has), the War on Agriculture, the War on Sick People (our health care system)....
It is not backlit,
That's evolution in action. It doesn't prove anything.
I've used Unix as my professional development platform daily for a decade. I hardly ever use X remotely, and when I do, it works very poorly because the protocol is not designed for the reality of modern rendering. It is extremely slow and ugly even on a "fast" link.
If necessary, I'm sure we can reimplement systemd portably and, if it is a general improvement in other ways, that would take over that niche in the Wayland ecosystem organically.
You're not a developer. Obviously, the statement went over your head. Writing to Xlib means writing to Xlib. It does not meaning writing to GTK+ or Qt that uses Xlib internally when on the Unix platform.
Sorry, but there's no reason the NOTION of network "transparency" needs to be embedded within the design like X does in order to be done well. Break things down to a serialization protocol, certainly, but the typical usage of X is not for remote display and the layering of protocol and design should reflect that.
You need experienced software engineers on a team that's designing a complex, safety-critical system, even if it's not "software." We are the people most familiar with failure scenarios of systems.