Translation: I don't understand dynamic typing, therefore, it's bad and PHP is bad.
(Just a guess, but I'll bet he still thinks Python, Perl, Lisp, etc. are okay. There often isn't much thinking involved when repeating memes and talking points.)
The irony in your post is that you also need to grow up about Crack and recognize that, for a lot of people, it is exactly what people want. Ranting about it is just as childish as being an uncritical fanboy.
Also, I will no longer test the software I develop with their browser. In this way, I will contribute to making Firefox deliver a substandard user experience to those who do choose to support them.
How consistent are you?
Do you use Google Chrome? Google openly supports gay marriage, so you must not test your code in their browser either, right? So does Microsoft, so IE is right out.
Ah, you must be a Safari user! Oh, wait. Apple also openly supports gay marriage. I guess that can't be it.
So... with what browser DO you test your software? Are you the last HotJava user? That would be pretty wild.
Sorry, we don't want facts here. The Slashdot MRA crowd will not, under any circumstances, accept facts, reason, or logic. Their simple-minded and grossly incompetent notion of equality shall not be challenged!
This. Deaf "culture" is significantly responsible for many of the problems facing the deaf community, such as the outrageously high unemployment rate, and abysmally low literacy rate, and unimaginably poor deaf schools.
my point was: even with perfect hearing (regardless how you want to define it) it is not guaranteed that a violinist can manage to distinguish a superb violine from a normal one.
Again, no one was suggesting that it was sufficient. However, it's difficult to argue that it wouldn't be an asset!
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Translation: I don't understand dynamic typing, therefore, it's bad and PHP is bad.
(Just a guess, but I'll bet he still thinks Python, Perl, Lisp, etc. are okay. There often isn't much thinking involved when repeating memes and talking points.)
and far more expressive
Such silly nonsense.
If you took ALL the theoretical wealth from the evil 1% or whoever you hate, it wouldn't make up a single years budget deficit in the US.
False!
0/10 not even plausible.
As Steve Jobs once remarked (about iTunes for Windows users), like giving a glass of ice water to someone in hell.
iTunes for Windows? I thought that WAS hell?!
The irony in your post is that you also need to grow up about Crack and recognize that, for a lot of people, it is exactly what people want. Ranting about it is just as childish as being an uncritical fanboy.
breaking the car manufactures monopoly on in-car mapping.
WTF are you talking about?
That would depend on the physical size of the display and your distance from it.
Why? No one cares. You won't be missed.
By his own actions he revealed himself to be an extremist.
Donating money to a cause makes you an extremist?
I must be on the top of one crazy watch list.
Last time I checked, the west coast of the United States does not own exclusive viewing rights to the solar system.
Well, times have changed. If you want to look up, you'd better get packing.
Whos gonna do it if not Slasdotters?
Competent people?
And your qualification or citation to make that claim is?
Says the guy with no formal education.
You've got balls, I'll give you that.
They're trying to catch up to Blackberry?
They're masters of the one-handed interface.
Also, I will no longer test the software I develop with their browser. In this way, I will contribute to making Firefox deliver a substandard user experience to those who do choose to support them.
How consistent are you?
Do you use Google Chrome? Google openly supports gay marriage, so you must not test your code in their browser either, right? So does Microsoft, so IE is right out.
Ah, you must be a Safari user! Oh, wait. Apple also openly supports gay marriage. I guess that can't be it.
So... with what browser DO you test your software? Are you the last HotJava user? That would be pretty wild.
Wow, total fail. You should probably learn a tiny bit about science.
How about breakthroughs in understanding how consciousness emerges
How about breakthroughs in understanding IF consciousness emerges?
or the achievement of strong AI/the singularity?
Pure religious fantasy. It's not the 1970's anymore. That silly belief cannot be defended.
You should move to Somalia. It's a libertarian paradise where all of the things you're wishing for are true.
That's right, Max, there's nothing big left to discover. It's better that you don't study physics. We've got it pretty much all sorted.
It's not like you'll revolutionize everything and get a unit named after you or something.
(More seriously: Doesn't the author understand science? That's not how it works.)
Sorry, we don't want facts here. The Slashdot MRA crowd will not, under any circumstances, accept facts, reason, or logic. Their simple-minded and grossly incompetent notion of equality shall not be challenged!
This. Deaf "culture" is significantly responsible for many of the problems facing the deaf community, such as the outrageously high unemployment rate, and abysmally low literacy rate, and unimaginably poor deaf schools.
Deaf "culture" can't die soon enough.
my point was: even with perfect hearing (regardless how you want to define it) it is not guaranteed that a violinist can manage to distinguish a superb violine from a normal one.
Again, no one was suggesting that it was sufficient. However, it's difficult to argue that it wouldn't be an asset!
This meme isn't dead yet?
Give it up, man. If you can't, at least come up with an actual reason for hanging on to it.
I think the idea is to use vector images for the zillions of things that aren't photographs. It's a very good idea.
So, how does having "perfect ears" prevent someone from becoming an "elite violinist"?
It seems to me that while it may not be necessary, it would certainly be helpful. No one thinks it would be sufficient.
By luck I simply have good ears ... does not really help in RL, it is an annoyance mostly.
I don't know, it seems like a musician would greatly benefit from having "perfect ears". Beethoven wasn't great because he was deaf, after all.
Hmmm... How could someone only two-years younger, with the relevant skills and experience you lack, "be better off" than you?
Such a mystery...