Oh yeah, fuck that dude. I tried watching Project Veritas back before the election (in the spirit of seeking multiple viewpoints), only to find it very choppy and... long on insinuations, short on substance. Very manipulative.
I probably shouldn't post this, but go to Hacker News. The conversations seem to involve more earnest discussion, and the articles seem to cover more technical depth.
Public transportation that works, in my America? Ha ha... unlikely outside of NYC and a few other urban hotspots.
No the 'MERICAN solution would be to have a fleet of air cranes (helicopters with freaking huge electromagnets) on standby that could come pluck your car out of traffic and set you down near your destination while you laugh manically at the losers stuck behind in gridlock.
You're conflating two types of customers: individuals (who just want to grab a tool and get on with their job) and corporations (who want every procurement to have a business case and approval from IT Security, Legal, Supply Chain, a Business Analyst, and 3-4 managers). The open source product wins because the developer/engineer/analysts/creative can just use it and...er... ask for permission later (like maybe never, later). The big Oracle-like products win because they can afford account reps who will wine-and-dine the C-class folks (who can cut thru the crap required to swipe the company credit card). The micro-ISV loses because--while they may have folks in the company who passionately want their product--there's just too much bureaucracy in the way to make it happen.
I recently advocated for my company to buy a cloud-based product from an existing ISV whom we already had a relationship with. It took MONTHS, despite this product being mission-critical (the older on-premise version had no DR, wasn't getting backed up, etc.). Legal went around in circles trying to revise the ISV's standard contract before capitulating. (Duh... they have a monopoly on this industry segment and they're the only source of the data.) Much hand-wringing was made about using a vendor-hosted solution (okay, somewhat valid, but the data was at more risk sitting on an unpatched server in our DMZ). At least 3 managers and 1 business analyst had to stomp for it, and we only had ~1 month left in the fiscal year when we inked the deal. If that arbitrary date had passed, there would have been a huge headache about how to fund it. If the hard drive in that server had failed, we would have been hemorrhaging money for weeks.
I work on a team. With a high functioning team, the ability to ask and clarify a question, while typing the code, is amazing.
Were you all working on the same software/product? If the interruption is closely related to what you're focusing on, it doesn't cause the context loss that's so harmful to productivity. That's why some book I read (Peopleware, possibly) recommends private team offices of 2-5 employees each.
An evangelist speaks from emotional fervor based on tradition. A climatologist speaks from disciplined scientific enquiry.
Tell me, are you being paid to shitpost, or do you do it out of sheer paranoia?
Funny enough, he was actually executing many of his supporters.
The SA's/brownshirts helped Hitler rise to power; they were the Nazi party's own paramilitary wing.
However, they were also a political liability.
As mostly working-class people (often left jobless in the lurch of the Great Depression), they wanted Hitler to follow thru on his promises of redistributing wealth.
This brought them into the conflict with middle/upper classes and the army (which had deep root in the Prussian aristocracy).
Taking out key SA leaders gained him massive approval from the army (which, as chancellor, he had not previously been able to control).
Shortly after, he justified his action against "treasonous ringleaders" and passed retroactive legislation authorizing the killings.
Everyone seems to be attacking or defending the clock along thinly-veiled pro/anti-Trump lines. Let's pause for a moment and start a discussion about the underlying state of the world the clock is supposed to represent. To help with this, here's a short list of why the clock moved closer to midnight, taken from the 2017 Clock Statement written by the scientists who made the decision to move the clock:
The U.S. and Russion remain at odds with each other over Syria, Ukraine, and NATO.
North Korea conducted 2 nuclear tests.
Militant attack on 2 Indian bases intensified the Pakistan/India conflict.
Continued threat of global warming (though good news included flat emissions growth and Paris climate accord).
Rise in strident nationalism "worldwide".
Wavering public confidence in democratic institutions.
Russian deception campaigns "have brought American democracy and Russian intentions into question".
Donald Trump's comments about expanding US nuclear aresnal.
Donald Trump's "propensity to discount or outright reject expert advice related to international security".
Donald Trump and his nominees dispute climate change.
North Korean missile tests (including a claimed upcoming ICBM test).
Russia is building new missile silos and new submarines.
U.S. is modernizing its nuclear arsenal.
China is helping Pakistan build submarine platforms.
Pakistan and India are both expanding their nuclear arsenal.
Iran nuclear deal in doubt under Trump administration.
Various stalled negotiations on nuclear disarmament.
Little progress on climate change beyond the Paris Accord.
"Information monocultures, fake news, and the hacking and release of politically sensitive emails...[threaten] the fabric of democracy, which relies on an informed electorate to decide the direction of public policy."
Hacking has the potential to threaten financial activities, electric power facilities, and personal freedoms/privacy.
Autonomous machines "open up a new set of risks", esp. weapons that make kill decisions w/o human intervention.
Advances in synthetic biology (CRISPR) create the potential for new bioweapons.
As a reader of various online forums, I would like a community where I can read a broad spectrum of polite, well-thought out responses to current events. Leading up to the election, I wanted to hear from the Trump supporter, the Hillary supporter, and even the Sanders/Johnson/Stein supporters.
What I don't want is (1) spam, (2) astroturfing, (3) straight-up lying ["fake news"], (4) personal attacks, (5) abusive language, (6) people who can't follow context, and (7) simplistic/repetitive comments that don't add anything new.
I'm not looking for a bubble or a safe space or an echo chamber, but neither do I want to swim thru the sewers.
This. If I knew nothing else about the candidates, just comparing reddit's/r/politics (which mostly posts pro-Hillary articles) with/r/The_Donald would convince me that one of the two must be pretty crazy to have attracted such consistently rabid fans.
The Internet's always struggled with civility (and proper use of caps lock), of course. Scary to see so much of it gathered behind candidate though.
I wouldn't be completely surprised if they did open source Windows, but in a way that leaves out key drivers, subsystems, and applications.
We've entered the age of OPINO: open-source in name only. Android teeters on this boundary, because you've got to install the Google Play spyware to access most applications. (Tip-o-the-hat to the F-droid guys here... they almost make it possible to avoid Google.)
Also, it's better that we have technology like this instead of denial features getting baked into the phones (as has been proposed in the past) by law or by corporate collusion.
Yep. The next step is to capitalize on it. Claim to be a representative of The System. Explain that The System is a lab experiment, and good little Sims will be reborn in The Final Iteration where a perfected humanity will live in perpetual happiness. To be a good little Sim, you just need to live according to The Tenants, especially the one about The Tithe.:-)
Unfortunately, habituating your developers to call.unwrap() on everything (with the tacit "oh I know it's bad, but..." approval) doesn't really put you in a better place.
What you have with Result<T,E> and especially Option<T> is the concept of null delivered in a purposefully non-ergonomic form, with the theory being that the extra explicitness will drive developers to write better code by default. However, that unwrap() escape hatch is mighty convenient; time will tell if the theory was right or not.
Failure is the best default. It's a harsh path that leads to stronger guarantees about data and behavior.
Sentinel values (like 1900-01-01) generate hard-to-find bugs and threaten the trustworthiness of your data. If you can't remember to check for null, you're certainly not going to remember to check for a sentinel value.
The recent shift in language design to favor non-nullability by default is probably a good thing: if you don't need null, it's nice to let the compiler/database enforce that for you. However, if you do need null--if the value of a variable/field can be unknown, for instance--it's best to use it and do the extra work. Muddle things with a sentinel value only if the inevitable consequences are acceptable.
"Anything can be used as money." => Nope, not really. The item must be in suitably common supply while still being somewhat scarce; it must be hard to forge; the recipient must be able to readily trust the authenticity and denomination of the item; it must be be fairly divisible; it must be durable/preservable, transportable, and convenient to exchange. And of course, it must be accepted by a critical mass of commercial participants.
in time developers will be glad Angular went this route
Many technologies have gone this route (breaking backwards compatibility to achieve "perfection"), and most have failed. Consider Perl 6, D 2, Python 3 (which is slowly working, but it's taken a very long time), KDE 4, Gnome 3 (slowly working, maybe). And those technologies don't move at the pace of the JavaScript ecosystem.
Maybe since Google's backing this, it will ultimately succeed. Corporate backing seems to trump everything.
Defending the constitution against a corrupt government sets a pretty damn great precedence if you ask me. Let's have trials for the people who enabled and engaged in warrant-less surveillance first.
The Judge should've jailed all their C-level executives under the ancient English common law principal that there is no crime more heinous than unleashing really crappy installers and flaky database drivers upon an innocent world.
They ask us to decrease emissions, research carbon sequestration, and invest more in researching/exploiting renewable energy sources. Yeah, it costs money and sometimes comfort/convenience. How much do hurricanes like Katrina and Sandy cost? (Hint: $108b and $65b.) How much does a 1/2 meter or 1 meter rise in sea levels cost (billions to hundreds of billions, just for the U.S.). How much do forced migrations, famine, and war cost? Pay now or let your children pay later... either way nature can't be fooled.
There is virtually no investment of any kind in fusion research.
But there could be, if we were serious about addressing climate change. That could have been Bush's legacy, for instance, in a world where $2000b seems better spent on solving energy insecurity than bombing Muslims on the other side of the globe. And fusion is not our only option: smart grid, smart appliances, renewables, and good old fission are within our grasp. (Granted the NIMBY/anti-nuke groups aren't helping the big picture here.)
Governments are also not showing much interest in other possible ways of reducing climate change.
Voters haven't given them much reason to.
"The science" is actually a mass of utterly impenetrable papers - tens of thousands of them
You're complaining about too much science? After years of saying we need more research? That's rich.
I was going to ream you for choosing your web browser based on its underlying programming language. After all, if you're not having to interface with it as a plugin-developer, what does it matter?
Then I remembered: security. Relying on a human programmer to get every memory allocation and deallocation right every single time has proven to be a security nightmare for the past 20 years the internet has been accessible by the general public. The more safety checks you can push down into the underlying platform/language/runtime/API, the fewer security holes you'll have.
And if you need proof that your standard, mature languages aren't cutting it, look no further than Symantec's recent debacle. If kernel programmers at the world's premiere security firm can't get it right, who can?
Humans are terrible drivers. We drive emotionally, we get fatigued, we get bored, we drive too fast, we zone out, we fall asleep at the wheel, we have wierd medical mishaps like heart attacks and epilepsy and fainting spells. To top it all of we voluntarily impair ourselves with alcohol, drugs, text messages, and staring at ads/women/wrecks/houses/scenery.
How old will you be in fifty years? As you get old and decline in skill and health, do you truly think there won't come a point where it's smarter to trust your life to the algorithms instead of your own failing mind and body?
Self-driving cars will be a blessing for humankind. Not only will they save you from yourself, they'll also save you from all those other dumbasses out on the road. They'll give the elderly their freedom back, and open up new transportation options for children, the blind, the inebriated. They'll likely transform cities in ways we can't even imagine: probably some balance between easing congestion and allowing parking lots to be re-purposed.
But we have got to go thru an intermediary period first. Tesla was the first manufacturer with the gumption to release such a feature; others will eventually follow. As with commercial aviation, each death will be learned from and used to make the systems progressively better... it won't be a big wasted opportunity like the ~30,000 fatalities/year we currently have in the U.S.
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Oh yeah, fuck that dude. I tried watching Project Veritas back before the election (in the spirit of seeking multiple viewpoints), only to find it very choppy and... long on insinuations, short on substance. Very manipulative.
Silly, Congress swore am oath to protect the rich, and they take that oath seriously.
I probably shouldn't post this, but go to Hacker News. The conversations seem to involve more earnest discussion, and the articles seem to cover more technical depth.
Public transportation that works, in my America? Ha ha... unlikely outside of NYC and a few other urban hotspots.
No the 'MERICAN solution would be to have a fleet of air cranes (helicopters with freaking huge electromagnets) on standby that could come pluck your car out of traffic and set you down near your destination while you laugh manically at the losers stuck behind in gridlock.
You're conflating two types of customers: individuals (who just want to grab a tool and get on with their job) and corporations (who want every procurement to have a business case and approval from IT Security, Legal, Supply Chain, a Business Analyst, and 3-4 managers). The open source product wins because the developer/engineer/analysts/creative can just use it and ...er... ask for permission later (like maybe never, later). The big Oracle-like products win because they can afford account reps who will wine-and-dine the C-class folks (who can cut thru the crap required to swipe the company credit card). The micro-ISV loses because--while they may have folks in the company who passionately want their product--there's just too much bureaucracy in the way to make it happen.
I recently advocated for my company to buy a cloud-based product from an existing ISV whom we already had a relationship with. It took MONTHS, despite this product being mission-critical (the older on-premise version had no DR, wasn't getting backed up, etc.). Legal went around in circles trying to revise the ISV's standard contract before capitulating. (Duh... they have a monopoly on this industry segment and they're the only source of the data.) Much hand-wringing was made about using a vendor-hosted solution (okay, somewhat valid, but the data was at more risk sitting on an unpatched server in our DMZ). At least 3 managers and 1 business analyst had to stomp for it, and we only had ~1 month left in the fiscal year when we inked the deal. If that arbitrary date had passed, there would have been a huge headache about how to fund it. If the hard drive in that server had failed, we would have been hemorrhaging money for weeks.
I work on a team. With a high functioning team, the ability to ask and clarify a question, while typing the code, is amazing.
Were you all working on the same software/product? If the interruption is closely related to what you're focusing on, it doesn't cause the context loss that's so harmful to productivity. That's why some book I read (Peopleware, possibly) recommends private team offices of 2-5 employees each.
An evangelist speaks from emotional fervor based on tradition. A climatologist speaks from disciplined scientific enquiry. Tell me, are you being paid to shitpost, or do you do it out of sheer paranoia?
Bernie wants to fix it, Trump wants to milk it, and Bannon wants to burn it down.
Funny enough, he was actually executing many of his supporters. The SA's/brownshirts helped Hitler rise to power; they were the Nazi party's own paramilitary wing.
However, they were also a political liability. As mostly working-class people (often left jobless in the lurch of the Great Depression), they wanted Hitler to follow thru on his promises of redistributing wealth. This brought them into the conflict with middle/upper classes and the army (which had deep root in the Prussian aristocracy). Taking out key SA leaders gained him massive approval from the army (which, as chancellor, he had not previously been able to control). Shortly after, he justified his action against "treasonous ringleaders" and passed retroactive legislation authorizing the killings.
Everyone seems to be attacking or defending the clock along thinly-veiled pro/anti-Trump lines. Let's pause for a moment and start a discussion about the underlying state of the world the clock is supposed to represent. To help with this, here's a short list of why the clock moved closer to midnight, taken from the 2017 Clock Statement written by the scientists who made the decision to move the clock:
As a reader of various online forums, I would like a community where I can read a broad spectrum of polite, well-thought out responses to current events. Leading up to the election, I wanted to hear from the Trump supporter, the Hillary supporter, and even the Sanders/Johnson/Stein supporters.
What I don't want is (1) spam, (2) astroturfing, (3) straight-up lying ["fake news"], (4) personal attacks, (5) abusive language, (6) people who can't follow context, and (7) simplistic/repetitive comments that don't add anything new.
I'm not looking for a bubble or a safe space or an echo chamber, but neither do I want to swim thru the sewers.
Funny... /r/The_Donald was the most stringently run safe space I've ever seen, and it certainly wasn't being run by SJW's.
This. If I knew nothing else about the candidates, just comparing reddit's /r/politics (which mostly posts pro-Hillary articles) with /r/The_Donald would convince me that one of the two must be pretty crazy to have attracted such consistently rabid fans.
The Internet's always struggled with civility (and proper use of caps lock), of course. Scary to see so much of it gathered behind candidate though.
I wouldn't be completely surprised if they did open source Windows, but in a way that leaves out key drivers, subsystems, and applications.
We've entered the age of OPINO: open-source in name only. Android teeters on this boundary, because you've got to install the Google Play spyware to access most applications. (Tip-o-the-hat to the F-droid guys here... they almost make it possible to avoid Google.)
My first thought was revulsion: people don't want to be treated like children. They will start bringing decoy phones or even box cutters.
Then I saw that they're also being marketed toward schools. Treating children like children makes more sense.
Also, it's better that we have technology like this instead of denial features getting baked into the phones (as has been proposed in the past) by law or by corporate collusion.
Yep. The next step is to capitalize on it. Claim to be a representative of The System. Explain that The System is a lab experiment, and good little Sims will be reborn in The Final Iteration where a perfected humanity will live in perpetual happiness. To be a good little Sim, you just need to live according to The Tenants, especially the one about The Tithe. :-)
Unfortunately, habituating your developers to call .unwrap() on everything (with the tacit "oh I know it's bad, but..." approval) doesn't really put you in a better place.
What you have with Result<T,E> and especially Option<T> is the concept of null delivered in a purposefully non-ergonomic form, with the theory being that the extra explicitness will drive developers to write better code by default. However, that unwrap() escape hatch is mighty convenient; time will tell if the theory was right or not.
Failure is the best default. It's a harsh path that leads to stronger guarantees about data and behavior.
Sentinel values (like 1900-01-01) generate hard-to-find bugs and threaten the trustworthiness of your data. If you can't remember to check for null, you're certainly not going to remember to check for a sentinel value.
The recent shift in language design to favor non-nullability by default is probably a good thing: if you don't need null, it's nice to let the compiler/database enforce that for you. However, if you do need null--if the value of a variable/field can be unknown, for instance--it's best to use it and do the extra work. Muddle things with a sentinel value only if the inevitable consequences are acceptable.
"Anything can be used as money." => Nope, not really. The item must be in suitably common supply while still being somewhat scarce; it must be hard to forge; the recipient must be able to readily trust the authenticity and denomination of the item; it must be be fairly divisible; it must be durable/preservable, transportable, and convenient to exchange. And of course, it must be accepted by a critical mass of commercial participants.
in time developers will be glad Angular went this route
Many technologies have gone this route (breaking backwards compatibility to achieve "perfection"), and most have failed. Consider Perl 6, D 2, Python 3 (which is slowly working, but it's taken a very long time), KDE 4, Gnome 3 (slowly working, maybe). And those technologies don't move at the pace of the JavaScript ecosystem.
Maybe since Google's backing this, it will ultimately succeed. Corporate backing seems to trump everything.
Defending the constitution against a corrupt government sets a pretty damn great precedence if you ask me.
Let's have trials for the people who enabled and engaged in warrant-less surveillance first.
The Judge should've jailed all their C-level executives under the ancient English common law principal that there is no crime more heinous than unleashing really crappy installers and flaky database drivers upon an innocent world.
The climate change proponents ask for a lot.
They ask us to decrease emissions, research carbon sequestration, and invest more in researching/exploiting renewable energy sources. Yeah, it costs money and sometimes comfort/convenience. How much do hurricanes like Katrina and Sandy cost? (Hint: $108b and $65b.) How much does a 1/2 meter or 1 meter rise in sea levels cost (billions to hundreds of billions, just for the U.S.). How much do forced migrations, famine, and war cost? Pay now or let your children pay later... either way nature can't be fooled.
There is virtually no investment of any kind in fusion research.
But there could be, if we were serious about addressing climate change. That could have been Bush's legacy, for instance, in a world where $2000b seems better spent on solving energy insecurity than bombing Muslims on the other side of the globe. And fusion is not our only option: smart grid, smart appliances, renewables, and good old fission are within our grasp. (Granted the NIMBY/anti-nuke groups aren't helping the big picture here.)
Governments are also not showing much interest in other possible ways of reducing climate change.
Voters haven't given them much reason to.
"The science" is actually a mass of utterly impenetrable papers - tens of thousands of them
You're complaining about too much science? After years of saying we need more research? That's rich.
I was going to ream you for choosing your web browser based on its underlying programming language. After all, if you're not having to interface with it as a plugin-developer, what does it matter?
Then I remembered: security. Relying on a human programmer to get every memory allocation and deallocation right every single time has proven to be a security nightmare for the past 20 years the internet has been accessible by the general public. The more safety checks you can push down into the underlying platform/language/runtime/API, the fewer security holes you'll have.
And if you need proof that your standard, mature languages aren't cutting it, look no further than Symantec's recent debacle. If kernel programmers at the world's premiere security firm can't get it right, who can?
Humans are terrible drivers. We drive emotionally, we get fatigued, we get bored, we drive too fast, we zone out, we fall asleep at the wheel, we have wierd medical mishaps like heart attacks and epilepsy and fainting spells. To top it all of we voluntarily impair ourselves with alcohol, drugs, text messages, and staring at ads/women/wrecks/houses/scenery.
How old will you be in fifty years? As you get old and decline in skill and health, do you truly think there won't come a point where it's smarter to trust your life to the algorithms instead of your own failing mind and body?
Self-driving cars will be a blessing for humankind. Not only will they save you from yourself, they'll also save you from all those other dumbasses out on the road. They'll give the elderly their freedom back, and open up new transportation options for children, the blind, the inebriated. They'll likely transform cities in ways we can't even imagine: probably some balance between easing congestion and allowing parking lots to be re-purposed.
But we have got to go thru an intermediary period first. Tesla was the first manufacturer with the gumption to release such a feature; others will eventually follow. As with commercial aviation, each death will be learned from and used to make the systems progressively better... it won't be a big wasted opportunity like the ~30,000 fatalities/year we currently have in the U.S.