If you are an immoral cave-man then yes. If you actually qualify as a modern human being, then no. Or to put it otherwise: You are a problem.
Lighten up. Let me guess, you're the kind of person that uses terms like "micro-aggression" and "cultural appropriation" and expects to be taken seriously.
Oh my, now lets not be so hasty...yes, this is "editing" at a 2nd-grade level, but timothy pushed the boundaries of bad administration until the Guinness Book of World Records was knocking on his door.
I'd have assumed that actual hipsters- who stereotypically hate things as soon as they go mainstream- would have dumped them before that, even if it's the stereotypical "hipster" look.
You're correct in that all of those things have been around for ages, but the defining element of hipsters is that they combine all of those things at the same time to form their signature look.
As a friend of mine said, "They want to be different, just like everyone else!", and the irony wasn't lost on me.
Hipsters want to be different and edgy and unique, yet their consistency of style is as close to a uniform as anything I've ever seen. Hipsters are no harder to spot in a crowd than clowns or Air Force officers, they just have different costumes. You see 'em and you know what they are right away.
Members of a group want to be different and end up dressing exactly alike. It's always been this way and always will be this way.
For hippies and "free spirits" in the 60's and 70's it was jeans, long hair, and t-shirts. For rappers it's baggy jeans, bling, and a backwards baseball cap. For greasers it's leather jackets, chains, and motorcycle boots. For goths it's black clothes, black hair, and black eyeliner. For preppies it's a Brooks Brothers blazer, L.L. Bean boots, and a black labrador retriever.
It works like this, when I am in the zone, I am by far the most productive, super productive and that can not be forced.
I understand, but I do it when *I* want to, not on command. I know how it is- deep into a long session of coding you have it all in your head, the structure, the functions, the calls, the variables, everything. I get it, I've been there. I'd code late into the night and lose track of time. I knew when to quit because the nightly virus scan would kick in around 2am and interrupt my work. That's when I'd call it a day.
But like I said, I did this when *I* wanted to, not because any employer told me to stay late and work until I dropped.
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Forcing everyone into the same corporate mode, means pretty much no one will be zoning out to the work and productivity dies.
The assertion in the summary that a "balanced life" makes you a "better programmer" is not supported by any evidence that I have seen.
I think that having a "balanced life" makes you a "better everything". A better employee, spouse, parent, etc etc etc.
Bragging about working like a dog and putting 80-hour weeks is for suckers who haven't grasped that there's more to life than work.
Sure, I've put in some long hours on occasion, but not often and not regularly. I work to live, not live to work. Fuck that shit.
Feel free to spend your night coding function calls if you want...but while you're doing that, I'll be having dinner at a nice restaurant with my wife.
...Google had the message "Eat. Sleep. Code. Repeat."
Yeah, well fuck you, Google.
Some of us have this thing called a "life", and we want to do whacky shit like spending time with our families, hanging out with friends, going on vacations, pursuing a hobby or two...you know, nutty stuff like that.
Take your "Eat. Sleep. Code. Repeat" shit and stuff it up your ass.
No, we did not send arms to the Taliban to use in killing western aid workers or to shoot school teachers in the head. No, we did not send arms to ISIS.
Lol, you're so adorably naive, I'm tempted to print your post and frame it.
The brilliant tacticians who approved the sale of arms and ammunition to "the enemy of our enemy" knew from long experience that this stuff would inevitably end up in the hands of people who would turn around and use it against us. It's happened so many times that you can place large bets on it and win every single time.
It's like arming the Hell's Angels and sending them against the Crips....and whaddya know, the Hell's Angels end up shooting cops with the guns you gave 'em. Who coulda seen that coming??
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Let me guess, you're in the sue-Remington-because-a-criminal-used-a-gun-to-murder-someone camp, right?
No, I'm not. I own *lots* of guns. I just don't pass them out to the burglars who are casing my neighborhood while claiming that they'll keep me safe from the other burglars casing my neighborhood.
I owned one of these and it was great a great phone for its time. I still have it in a box somewhere.
It had a slick marketing feature in the box design- you pulled a tab on the box and it unfolded up and back, popping the phone up like it was the Hope diamond. The box design probably sold a bunch of them all by itself. You'd pull the tab, the phone would pop up, and people would go, "Ooooh!"
It was a good phone too, slim, durable, and worked great.
But the price of gold is dominated by its use in investment, speculation, and cultural/aesthetic uses.
It also has intrinsic value in all sorts of scientific venues and industrial processes. It's irreplaceable (at least so far) for use in some applications, including medicine, computers, and electronics.
So if I break into your house and steal a kitchen knife which I then use to kill somebody, should you feel guilty because someone else says you provided me with the weapon? No? I see.
But they didn't win, and thus the truth remains well known. The British were the ones acting in tyrannical ways, not the colonists.
Yes, yes, we all know that. But that's not the point. The point is that the winner write the history books, and my point still stands. Had the British prevailed, George Washington and the founding fathers would have gone down in history as "terrorists". Some people would have known the truth, but it would have been a historical byline at best.
Nobody cares if Taliban wants to call school teachers terrorists, because we know, and they know that's bullshit. We just care what they DO, and what they do is try to scare people into conducting their lives the way their religious say they should. Beard police! No dancing! Fly kites and die!
But what if I dance beardless while flying a kite?
This just gives Microsoft license to do whatever the fuck they want at any time with no recourse. Pretty much like before except now it can be done under the auspices of "fighting terrorism".
Plus it gives them a wide-open excuse to paw through your files and content because, you know, they're just lookin' for terroristic content, who could possibly have a problem with that?
There should be other ways for the user to determine what is and what isn't an executable. The filename is supposed to be the user's domain.
Yeah, there should be but in Windows there isn't- at least not any safe or easy way. The file extension was a simple, useful way to let users know what a file was, regardless of its icon (which is easily faked or spoofed).
This is how you get users to run shit like PictureOfMyCutePuppy.js or GirlWithBigBoobs.gif.exe, because Windows shows these files as "PictureOfMyCutePuppy" and "GirlWithBigBoobs.gif".
Hiding the file extension was idiocy at the highest level.
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because people don't break so called laws where the so called penalty is death?
Well, they won't break the law twice.
need to be hunted down and killed, and quickly too, do it enough and soon the rest of them will quit because it is not worth it anymore
I'd like to get a Kickstarter campaign going for this. Call it the "Botnet Operator Death Squad". I'd donate.
If you are an immoral cave-man then yes. If you actually qualify as a modern human being, then no. Or to put it otherwise: You are a problem.
Lighten up. Let me guess, you're the kind of person that uses terms like "micro-aggression" and "cultural appropriation" and expects to be taken seriously.
No, those people should just be flogged. I'm thinking 20 hard lashes.
Agreed. And make it 40 if it's during rush hour.
Come back timothy, all is forgiven!
Oh my, now lets not be so hasty...yes, this is "editing" at a 2nd-grade level, but timothy pushed the boundaries of bad administration until the Guinness Book of World Records was knocking on his door.
I don't expect a lot from the editors here,
We have standards and expect you not to exceed them!
I'd have assumed that actual hipsters- who stereotypically hate things as soon as they go mainstream- would have dumped them before that, even if it's the stereotypical "hipster" look.
You're correct in that all of those things have been around for ages, but the defining element of hipsters is that they combine all of those things at the same time to form their signature look.
As a friend of mine said, "They want to be different, just like everyone else!", and the irony wasn't lost on me.
Hipsters want to be different and edgy and unique, yet their consistency of style is as close to a uniform as anything I've ever seen. Hipsters are no harder to spot in a crowd than clowns or Air Force officers, they just have different costumes. You see 'em and you know what they are right away.
Members of a group want to be different and end up dressing exactly alike. It's always been this way and always will be this way.
For hippies and "free spirits" in the 60's and 70's it was jeans, long hair, and t-shirts.
For rappers it's baggy jeans, bling, and a backwards baseball cap.
For greasers it's leather jackets, chains, and motorcycle boots.
For goths it's black clothes, black hair, and black eyeliner.
For preppies it's a Brooks Brothers blazer, L.L. Bean boots, and a black labrador retriever.
I won't be happy until I can run COBOL in my browser under WINE through a VM running on a aliased instance of Win XP under AmigaOS.
Oh, and I want a high frame rate too.
It works like this, when I am in the zone, I am by far the most productive, super productive and that can not be forced.
I understand, but I do it when *I* want to, not on command. I know how it is- deep into a long session of coding you have it all in your head, the structure, the functions, the calls, the variables, everything. I get it, I've been there. I'd code late into the night and lose track of time. I knew when to quit because the nightly virus scan would kick in around 2am and interrupt my work. That's when I'd call it a day.
But like I said, I did this when *I* wanted to, not because any employer told me to stay late and work until I dropped.
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Forcing everyone into the same corporate mode, means pretty much no one will be zoning out to the work and productivity dies.
That's what they want.
My dear employee
You are paid a salary
Work until it's done
And I will....at 40 hours per week. It'll be done when it's done, so stop harshing my buzz, man.
The assertion in the summary that a "balanced life" makes you a "better programmer" is not supported by any evidence that I have seen.
I think that having a "balanced life" makes you a "better everything". A better employee, spouse, parent, etc etc etc.
Bragging about working like a dog and putting 80-hour weeks is for suckers who haven't grasped that there's more to life than work.
Sure, I've put in some long hours on occasion, but not often and not regularly. I work to live, not live to work. Fuck that shit.
Feel free to spend your night coding function calls if you want...but while you're doing that, I'll be having dinner at a nice restaurant with my wife.
...Google had the message "Eat. Sleep. Code. Repeat."
Yeah, well fuck you, Google.
Some of us have this thing called a "life", and we want to do whacky shit like spending time with our families, hanging out with friends, going on vacations, pursuing a hobby or two...you know, nutty stuff like that.
Take your "Eat. Sleep. Code. Repeat" shit and stuff it up your ass.
No, we did not send arms to the Taliban to use in killing western aid workers or to shoot school teachers in the head.
No, we did not send arms to ISIS.
Lol, you're so adorably naive, I'm tempted to print your post and frame it.
The brilliant tacticians who approved the sale of arms and ammunition to "the enemy of our enemy" knew from long experience that this stuff would inevitably end up in the hands of people who would turn around and use it against us. It's happened so many times that you can place large bets on it and win every single time.
It's like arming the Hell's Angels and sending them against the Crips....and whaddya know, the Hell's Angels end up shooting cops with the guns you gave 'em. Who coulda seen that coming??
-
Let me guess, you're in the sue-Remington-because-a-criminal-used-a-gun-to-murder-someone camp, right?
No, I'm not. I own *lots* of guns. I just don't pass them out to the burglars who are casing my neighborhood while claiming that they'll keep me safe from the other burglars casing my neighborhood.
...and cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon carried in a bag made of hemp.
New part of the hipster uniform --
Muslim-style beard
Thick, black glasses
Flip Phone
You forgot:
skinny jeans (black, of course)
plaid shirt (the kind your grandad owned)
vinyl LP (carried ostentatiously under the arm)
Every mobile phone I've ever used had a removable battery. Motorola, Nokia, AT&T, etc. But then I've never stooped to owning an iPhone.
I owned one of these and it was great a great phone for its time. I still have it in a box somewhere.
It had a slick marketing feature in the box design- you pulled a tab on the box and it unfolded up and back, popping the phone up like it was the Hope diamond. The box design probably sold a bunch of them all by itself. You'd pull the tab, the phone would pop up, and people would go, "Ooooh!"
It was a good phone too, slim, durable, and worked great.
But the price of gold is dominated by its use in investment, speculation, and cultural/aesthetic uses.
It also has intrinsic value in all sorts of scientific venues and industrial processes. It's irreplaceable (at least so far) for use in some applications, including medicine, computers, and electronics.
So if I break into your house and steal a kitchen knife which I then use to kill somebody, should you feel guilty because someone else says you provided me with the weapon? No? I see.
Holy fuck, Analogy Failure Alert, Level 1 Million.
They didn't break into our military stockpiles and steal weapons and money, we sent it to them.
Are you really unable to discern the difference between these two things?
But they didn't win, and thus the truth remains well known. The British were the ones acting in tyrannical ways, not the colonists.
Yes, yes, we all know that. But that's not the point. The point is that the winner write the history books, and my point still stands. Had the British prevailed, George Washington and the founding fathers would have gone down in history as "terrorists". Some people would have known the truth, but it would have been a historical byline at best.
Nobody cares if Taliban wants to call school teachers terrorists, because we know, and they know that's bullshit. We just care what they DO, and what they do is try to scare people into conducting their lives the way their religious say they should. Beard police! No dancing! Fly kites and die!
But what if I dance beardless while flying a kite?
I guess "Terrorism" is on the eyes of the beholder...
You got it. If the British had won, George Washington and the founding fathers would have gone down in history as "terrorists".
This just gives Microsoft license to do whatever the fuck they want at any time with no recourse. Pretty much like before except now it can be done under the auspices of "fighting terrorism".
Plus it gives them a wide-open excuse to paw through your files and content because, you know, they're just lookin' for terroristic content, who could possibly have a problem with that?
"AI Will Create 'Useless Class' Of Human, Predicts Bestselling Historian"
But we already have politicians.....
One word sums this up for me: NO.
There should be other ways for the user to determine what is and what isn't an executable. The filename is supposed to be the user's domain.
Yeah, there should be but in Windows there isn't- at least not any safe or easy way. The file extension was a simple, useful way to let users know what a file was, regardless of its icon (which is easily faked or spoofed).
This is how you get users to run shit like PictureOfMyCutePuppy.js or GirlWithBigBoobs.gif.exe, because Windows shows these files as "PictureOfMyCutePuppy" and "GirlWithBigBoobs.gif".
Hiding the file extension was idiocy at the highest level.