So, what, we should just let him run roughshod through the valleys of mental illness? This dude needs professional help, professional help that he's not getting. He needs to be forcibly committed before he decides that his best plan for talking to God is shooting up the next talk from RMS.
Maybe you should actually RTFA:
"From 1996 to 2003, about every six months I would have what they call a manic episode and I would end up in a mental hospital," he says. He hasn’t been to a hospital since; once diagnosed as bipolar, he’s since been declared schizophrenic. He now only takes a single medication, and shrugs off the diagnosis. The label doesn’t concern him. "For those first few years, I was genuinely pretty crazy in a way. Now I'm not. I'm crazy in a different way maybe," he says. He says he’s learned not to freak out.
In other words, he is receiving treatment. He has no issues taking his medication now, unlike many people who figure "Oh, I feel okay. Guess I can stop taking my meds." or "I hate the side effects. I'm going off my meds" and end up back in hospital.
Mental health issues are not cut-and-dried. Try living with a serious mental illness for a while and then get back to us, mkay? It's not as easy as you think.
I hate to point out the painfully obvious here, but if someone is living with a serious mental illness, chances are they're not getting "back" to anyone at any time with anything resembling a sane argument.
Mental illness != insanity.
Or are you going to say that people with PTSD can't make sane arguments? Or those with major depressive disorder?
He's been a schizophrenic for almost 2 decades. He lives with his parents because he couldn't make it in the outside world. What he's doing is harmless.
There's a reason it's called 'mental illness'; because illnesses should be treated.
And if you had read the article you'd know he's taking medication.
And while I agree with your statement that mental illnesses should be treated, there's such a stigma attached to mental illness that people actively resist seeking help, and others, the illness prevents them from seeking help. And unless you're in a crisis situation, for most people it's hard to get timely help, which is why the mentally ill end up having to use the emergency ward as their first contact with a psychiatrist.
* God said 640x480 16 color graphics is a covenant like circumcision.
In that case, we need a better god.
Nonsense. A monochrome monitor on an old hercules card (720x350x8 pages video ram for text, 720x348x2 pages graphics) is much simpler - and simplicity is what his god wants, right? Ergo, he is serving a false god.
(oh, those were the days... early dual monitor setups that could show the code on one screen, the output on another, when everyone else was stuck with video page-flpping).
He's a schizophrenic, after first being diagnosed as bipolar. The world he sees is not, in many ways, the world we live in. His use of the "n" word when attacked on-line crossed the bounds of our social conventions, but I wouldn't rule out some form of aphasia as well - some words don't seem to mean the same to him as to you or I.
After all, he calls himself an atheist, but God has commanded him to build an OS, and this doesn't engender any cognitive dissonance - to the contrary, it "proves" that God is speaking to him. And he's only taking one of his medications...
Mental health issues are not cut-and-dried. Try living with a serious mental illness for a while and then get back to us, mkay? It's not as easy as you think.
Low line count is the highest good, so it is easy to learn the whole thing.
Minimal abstraction is a goal. Sheep are fools. They always respect a design
that is more complicated than another. Any genius can make it complicated.
Free and public domain.
100% open source with all source included.
Now I wouldn't subscribe to his newsletter (and not just because I'm an atheist), but...
f there's a 2' hole in my boat and I am unable to 100% patch that hole should I give up?
Yes. If you have a 2 foot hole in your boat you are fucked regardless of what you do. Depending on the buoyancy of the materials in your boat it is going to sink in seconds.
Anyway just for fun...
A 2 foot hole is 452.39 inch^2. Fill 80% of it and you still have 90.48 inch^2 of unfilled space. 1 US gallon is 231 inch^3. So for every inch of water that comes through your 80% filled hole you have ~0.39 gallons of water coming through.
Your boat is going to sink.
Depends on the boat. For example, your average aircraft carrier can easily cope with that amount of water leaking in. And small craft, with enough boyancy chambers or incorporating enough lighter-than-water materials, won't sink completely. So don't be so quick to abandon ship, matey:-)
The poster asked why nobody heard a statement from a grand juror. This is not the same as disclosing the evidence. Their deliberations are still secret by law.
(B) Unless these rules provide otherwise, the following persons must not disclose a matter occurring before the grand jury:
(i) a grand juror;
(ii) an interpreter;
(iii) a court reporter;
(iv) an operator of a recording device;
(v) a person who transcribes recorded testimony;
(vi) an attorney for the government; or
(vii) a person to whom disclosure is made under Rule 6(e)(3)(A)(ii) or (iii).
Disclosure is contempt of court, so you won't hear from the grand jurors:
(7) Contempt. A knowing violation of Rule 6, or of any guidelines jointly issued by the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence under Rule 6, may be punished as a contempt of court.
Disclosure would interfere with the right to a fair trial of the accused.
Their first visual impressions of us will be from "I Love Lucy", "The Honeymooners", "Car 54", etc. They'll think we're crazy, and hopefully give is a wide berth (no intelligent life).
The coolest brown dwarf known has a temperature between -27 and +127 degrees C. That is within the range of life, though it would be more like flatland, with the higher gravitation.
I read the blog post from the Yahoo CEO, and it didn't say anything of the sort.
The Cnet article in the summary also doesn't say that the Google contract had stronger economic terms for Mozilla.
Mozilla was in a good bargaining position: search engines have been placing a higher value on its search traffic, Baker said.
""Both arrangements we were looking at had very good economics," Baker said. "We're utterly confident in our stability and viability going forward."
My point stands - Google had no incentive to even maintain their current level of financial support, given their continuous increase in Chrome market share and the fact that anyone can switch search engines back to Google just by selecting Google in the dropdown.
No, what I'm saying it that this will encourage even more clickbait, spammy sites, etc., since now there's a guaranteed (though small) payment for EVERY visitor.
Sorry, that wasn't my intention. The poster had asked a question, so I just posted the first site that came up on google, which just happens to do a good job of answering it, pictures and all.
If you scroll to the bottom of the page (the "after" pictures), you'll have to admit that the end results are pretty good - and btw, fully functional in *all* respects in most cases:-)
So you don't agree that someone should be dissuaded from blowing their brains out on starting a software shop when they have no domain experience?
His position is the same as someone posting "I've delivered fresh fruit and veggies to restaurants for years. While I have no actual experience running a restaurant, I want to start one. What do you suggest for cutlery, seating, and wine lists?" No info about the type of clientele he wants to cater to (same as the poster) or the type of product he's planning on serving (same as the poster), or even a provisional budget or location (same as the poster).
All these are more important in making an informed decision, and will shape the answers to the questions he's actually asking, such as staff ratios, tools, etc. And they're ALL missing. The fact that they're all missing doesn't bode well. This is why we have "Ask Slashdot." If he wants to post the answers to type of clientele, product/service, budget and location, then maybe the responses would be different.
For example, if he or she DID win $50 million in a lottery, the first advice would be "don't blow it on building a software house." Second advice would be "If you really insist, set a maximum budget and if it doesn't make it, be merciless and pull the plug. And hire someone who knows their stuff and is cynical as all heck - having yes-men around you will cost you in both the short and long term."
Have a senior programmer mentor a low-level programmer that would include code reviews and/or doing some lower level support for the senior programmer.
Even if they normally telecommute, that doesn't make them a sub-contractor. What makes them an employee are things like being mentored, being given detailed instructions on how to complete the task, etc.
How do instructions and training affect the employment status of a worker?
Instructions and training provided to a worker are important factors to be considered. If you give the worker detailed instructions on how work is to be done or train the worker to perform tasks in a certain way, the worker may be an employee. A subcontractor does not need or receive detailed instructions or training on how the work should be done.
Maybe he's in India and wants to be the next Tata or InfoSys? There's obviously a market, cheap local labor, etc., and the quality doesn't have to be high.
Slashdot Mirror
That's a keeper. You could use it in SO many of the arguments^Wdiscussions here!
So, what, we should just let him run roughshod through the valleys of mental illness? This dude needs professional help, professional help that he's not getting. He needs to be forcibly committed before he decides that his best plan for talking to God is shooting up the next talk from RMS.
Maybe you should actually RTFA:
"From 1996 to 2003, about every six months I would have what they call a manic episode and I would end up in a mental hospital," he says. He hasn’t been to a hospital since; once diagnosed as bipolar, he’s since been declared schizophrenic. He now only takes a single medication, and shrugs off the diagnosis. The label doesn’t concern him. "For those first few years, I was genuinely pretty crazy in a way. Now I'm not. I'm crazy in a different way maybe," he says. He says he’s learned not to freak out.
In other words, he is receiving treatment. He has no issues taking his medication now, unlike many people who figure "Oh, I feel okay. Guess I can stop taking my meds." or "I hate the side effects. I'm going off my meds" and end up back in hospital.
Mental health issues are not cut-and-dried. Try living with a serious mental illness for a while and then get back to us, mkay? It's not as easy as you think.
I hate to point out the painfully obvious here, but if someone is living with a serious mental illness, chances are they're not getting "back" to anyone at any time with anything resembling a sane argument.
Mental illness != insanity.
Or are you going to say that people with PTSD can't make sane arguments? Or those with major depressive disorder?
He's been a schizophrenic for almost 2 decades. He lives with his parents because he couldn't make it in the outside world. What he's doing is harmless.
There's a reason it's called 'mental illness'; because illnesses should be treated.
And if you had read the article you'd know he's taking medication.
And while I agree with your statement that mental illnesses should be treated, there's such a stigma attached to mental illness that people actively resist seeking help, and others, the illness prevents them from seeking help. And unless you're in a crisis situation, for most people it's hard to get timely help, which is why the mentally ill end up having to use the emergency ward as their first contact with a psychiatrist.
* God said 640x480 16 color graphics is a covenant like circumcision.
In that case, we need a better god.
Nonsense. A monochrome monitor on an old hercules card (720x350x8 pages video ram for text, 720x348x2 pages graphics) is much simpler - and simplicity is what his god wants, right? Ergo, he is serving a false god.
(oh, those were the days ... early dual monitor setups that could show the code on one screen, the output on another, when everyone else was stuck with video page-flpping).
He's a schizophrenic, after first being diagnosed as bipolar. The world he sees is not, in many ways, the world we live in. His use of the "n" word when attacked on-line crossed the bounds of our social conventions, but I wouldn't rule out some form of aphasia as well - some words don't seem to mean the same to him as to you or I.
After all, he calls himself an atheist, but God has commanded him to build an OS, and this doesn't engender any cognitive dissonance - to the contrary, it "proves" that God is speaking to him. And he's only taking one of his medications ...
Mental health issues are not cut-and-dried. Try living with a serious mental illness for a while and then get back to us, mkay? It's not as easy as you think.
Are you sure he's not also Dyslexic?
Oh, I get it - he made an OS to talk to DOG. I talk to mine all the time.
Some of it isn't so crazy.
Low line count is the highest good, so it is easy to learn the whole thing.
Minimal abstraction is a goal. Sheep are fools. They always respect a design
that is more complicated than another. Any genius can make it complicated.
Free and public domain.
100% open source with all source included.
Now I wouldn't subscribe to his newsletter (and not just because I'm an atheist), but ...
f there's a 2' hole in my boat and I am unable to 100% patch that hole should I give up?
Yes. If you have a 2 foot hole in your boat you are fucked regardless of what you do. Depending on the buoyancy of the materials in your boat it is going to sink in seconds.
Anyway just for fun...
A 2 foot hole is 452.39 inch^2. Fill 80% of it and you still have 90.48 inch^2 of unfilled space. 1 US gallon is 231 inch^3. So for every inch of water that comes through your 80% filled hole you have ~0.39 gallons of water coming through.
Your boat is going to sink.
Depends on the boat. For example, your average aircraft carrier can easily cope with that amount of water leaking in. And small craft, with enough boyancy chambers or incorporating enough lighter-than-water materials, won't sink completely. So don't be so quick to abandon ship, matey :-)
Link to El Reg only for the same sort of reasons you would link to The National Enquirer.
Everyone here can benefit from all the useful tips provided by The BOfH.
And that 95% can be reused as a fuel. The other 1% can be entombed in an area smaller than a property my house sits on.
With that kind of "magic math", do you work for the Federal Reserve?
Maybe nuclear is the way out
Maybe it's not,
But to abandon renewables,
'cuz 2 Guys With The Googles,
gave up is premature,
is it not?
Burma Shave
The poster asked why nobody heard a statement from a grand juror. This is not the same as disclosing the evidence. Their deliberations are still secret by law.
Have you heard a statement from anyone who was on the grand jury?
Of course you haven't
(B) Unless these rules provide otherwise, the following persons must not disclose a matter occurring before the grand jury:
(i) a grand juror;
(ii) an interpreter;
(iii) a court reporter;
(iv) an operator of a recording device;
(v) a person who transcribes recorded testimony;
(vi) an attorney for the government; or
(vii) a person to whom disclosure is made under Rule 6(e)(3)(A)(ii) or (iii).
Disclosure is contempt of court, so you won't hear from the grand jurors:
(7) Contempt. A knowing violation of Rule 6, or of any guidelines jointly issued by the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence under Rule 6, may be punished as a contempt of court.
Disclosure would interfere with the right to a fair trial of the accused.
Their first visual impressions of us will be from "I Love Lucy", "The Honeymooners", "Car 54", etc. They'll think we're crazy, and hopefully give is a wide berth (no intelligent life).
The coolest brown dwarf known has a temperature between -27 and +127 degrees C. That is within the range of life, though it would be more like flatland, with the higher gravitation.
Mozilla was in a good bargaining position: search engines have been placing a higher value on its search traffic, Baker said.
""Both arrangements we were looking at had very good economics," Baker said. "We're utterly confident in our stability and viability going forward."
My point stands - Google had no incentive to even maintain their current level of financial support, given their continuous increase in Chrome market share and the fact that anyone can switch search engines back to Google just by selecting Google in the dropdown.
No, what I'm saying it that this will encourage even more clickbait, spammy sites, etc., since now there's a guaranteed (though small) payment for EVERY visitor.
because women have never built a civilization worth a shit
Who would want to live in a civilization that's only "worth a sh*t?"
Sorry, that wasn't my intention. The poster had asked a question, so I just posted the first site that came up on google, which just happens to do a good job of answering it, pictures and all.
If you scroll to the bottom of the page (the "after" pictures), you'll have to admit that the end results are pretty good - and btw, fully functional in *all* respects in most cases :-)
So you don't agree that someone should be dissuaded from blowing their brains out on starting a software shop when they have no domain experience?
His position is the same as someone posting "I've delivered fresh fruit and veggies to restaurants for years. While I have no actual experience running a restaurant, I want to start one. What do you suggest for cutlery, seating, and wine lists?" No info about the type of clientele he wants to cater to (same as the poster) or the type of product he's planning on serving (same as the poster), or even a provisional budget or location (same as the poster).
All these are more important in making an informed decision, and will shape the answers to the questions he's actually asking, such as staff ratios, tools, etc. And they're ALL missing. The fact that they're all missing doesn't bode well. This is why we have "Ask Slashdot." If he wants to post the answers to type of clientele, product/service, budget and location, then maybe the responses would be different.
For example, if he or she DID win $50 million in a lottery, the first advice would be "don't blow it on building a software house." Second advice would be "If you really insist, set a maximum budget and if it doesn't make it, be merciless and pull the plug. And hire someone who knows their stuff and is cynical as all heck - having yes-men around you will cost you in both the short and long term."
The first is to have a great deal of money - far more than you could possibly think is necessary.
1. How much will it take.
2. Quadruple it.
3. Add a zero.
They said that to Mark Zuckerberg also.
Zuckerberg had two things this one doesn't - a product and users.
Contradictions here:
Pay them as sub-contractors
... and ...
Have a senior programmer mentor a low-level programmer that would include code reviews and/or doing some lower level support for the senior programmer.
Even if they normally telecommute, that doesn't make them a sub-contractor. What makes them an employee are things like being mentored, being given detailed instructions on how to complete the task, etc.
Here's what the IRS says:
How do instructions and training affect the employment status of a worker?
Instructions and training provided to a worker are important factors to be considered. If you give the worker detailed instructions on how work is to be done or train the worker to perform tasks in a certain way, the worker may be an employee. A subcontractor does not need or receive detailed instructions or training on how the work should be done.
Maybe he's in India and wants to be the next Tata or InfoSys? There's obviously a market, cheap local labor, etc., and the quality doesn't have to be high.