I appreciated all the insightful comments you made today. May I recomment Ask the Headhunter? I think you may find this book complements your philosophy quite well.
In Ukraine (Russian border area, at least) they put mayonaisse on pizza and look at you funny if you ask to have your pizza made without it. (Of course, you don't know to ask to have it left off unless you've been there before...)
Aquiring geocities was the last smart thing yahoo did.
And ruining it was the first dumb thing I noticed.
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I, personally, for me, believe (obviously) that my OS choice is right.
That there's a problem, or at least it could be. I don't believe that my OS choice is "right." I believe it works wonderfully for my purposes. I believe your OS choice probably works wonderfully for your purposes. I can tell you're trying to avoid religious arguments on the subject, but you haven't quite dropped the idea that everyone should use one or the other.
That said, I'd far rather hear from someone who thinks they're right and I'm wrong but simply tries to inform me without demanding my commitment than from someone who wants to browbeat me over my choice.
Thanks. I was vaguely aware of that, but chose to simplify. It's true there's a few books with identical or similar English and Hebrew names (Kings is another good example), but as you say it's really more of a coincidence.
Perhaps you can answer something for me... are the books of the prophets named the same way in Hebrew (first words), or are they named for the prophet who wrote them?
Troll alert. This is not Eric Raymond, but Eric "RAYRNOND." He's trying to make libertarians like Raymond sound silly for bringing up property rights all the time without any reason. He also didn't read the article (the idea of property rights in space is entirely orthogonal to the ideas in the article).
Does anyone else notice the parallel to open source development? People are always asking, "Why do you develop BSD when you could put that work into Linux?" or "Why do we have two desktop systems?" The answer is that you allow people to voluntarily work on what they choose (proverbially scratching their own itches). If people want to build AtheOS, we let them, knowing that while AtheOS may never benefit most of us, it's an interesting project that gives the people working on it a sense of fulfillment as well as providing spillover benefits that may help other projects (persons gaining enhanced expertise on AtheOS going on to apply that expertise to Linux, for example).
Space exploration and all science research should be funded the same way. If your money is forcibly taken away and given to a cause you don't believe in, you are right to protest. But if the government lets us keep that money and we each instead put it toward whatever cause(s) we choose to support, many better opportunities can present themselves. I can still give to manned space exploration, if I choose, while you can fund unmanned probes or earthbound science, while all three causes can benefit from each other's work. Or one of us might decide that money could be better spent helping poor people in the Middle East or fighting AIDS in Africa. Noone can legitimately decide the relative worth of these noble causes for everyone else, so each person should be free to support the causes he chooses instead. This might mean that some causes (which might, sadly to me, include manned space exploration) cannot garner the necessary support at this time; this is an indicator that those causes should not have been attempted anyway since they lack the necessary support.
Some might think that you can't support scientific (or charitable) causes through voluntary donations alone, but tell that to the people who keep running breast cancer marathons in my community. Apparently they generate a tremendous amount of support, because people believe in the cause, and because they apparently benefit from it enough to keep holding the marathons.
Genesis, IIRC, is Latin for "beginning," or something like that. It's like a noun form of our verb, "to generate." The first book of the Bible only got that name because it is about the beginning of the world, and the first phrase in Hebrew is, "In the beginning." The Hebrews named the books by their first word or phrase. Translate through Latin to English, and you get our modern book of Genesis.
The word itself is not at all inherently religious.
Is drinking a social activity? Because as near as I can tell, every member of the online Perl community except Damian Conway enjoys getting together often for drinks.
I met my fiance online. It was good to communicate only through text the first month or so we knew each other, and our online socialization carried over well into real life when we met each other.
Even still the Internet is a valuable part of our communication, like the telephone is to some people. In fact, I just sent her a link to this article.:)
I would say the information I find online is reliable, but I wouldn't mean all the information. What I would mean is that I can usually find a reliable answer by looking in many places, comparing what I find, and evaluating their relative claims to try to get an idea of the truth. Whereas in previous mediums lots of "facts" known only by word of mouth were commonly presented as "truth," on the Internet there is usually somebody who actually does know the real truth that will surface in a Google search.
I recently went looking for a webpage to confirm that "duck tape" is a corruption of the correct "duct tape" and was surprised to discover that I was completely wrong; the tape was originally called "duck tape."
I advise keeping them all in/usr/local, then, which is its stated purpose in most distributions. I'm a Perl programmer and always do my own installation of perl in/usr/local so I can manage modules and upgrades myself.
I would hope that this new Debian installer tool respects/usr/local. I would think that even then you'd still probably have issues with package-managed library dependencies.
If I understand correctly, it will remove all of your programs and start over. That's actually what I'd want (I'd prefer to apt-get them again as I use them and not install anything I'm not using any more), but probably not what you want.
I did something manually like this recently, compiling debootstrap from source and installing while chrooted to a new partition I wanted debian in. The reason was that while I preferred debian, I could not install it on this system because the harddrive was not on the main controller card. Or something like that; whatever it is, debian couldn't detect it while RedHat didn't even flinch. My harddrive actually shows up as/dev/hde. The document I referred to at the time made the joke, "Sometimes I'm asked if non-Debian distributions are good for anything. I answer, 'Yes, actually some of them make very good Debian installers.'" Of course, it's kind of pitiful that the Debian installer is that bad, but I expect that to improve.
So in my case, I couldn't install Debian "from scratch."
This is why went I want to find something on the net I type it into google, rather than adding.com and typing it into my URL bar. google will tell me where the real site or sites are about what I want. For example, google will tell me that I can read about the Matrix (assuming I still want to read about the Matrix) at www.whatisthematrix.com rather than www.matrix.com (which will allow me to "Get Expert Personalized Hair Advice").
Honestly, are there still people out there who just add.com and type things into their URL bar expecting to see what they want? That's so 1997.
Anyone remember these? I have about eight sets in my closet waiting for me to have children to play with them. (Threw out the capsela recently when I found it.)
Nothing fired our imaginations like construx. We used the alien set with glow in the dark pieces to build proton packs which we would use to "bust ghosts" (also made out of glow in the dark pieces) in our darkened hallway. Ah, the 80's!:) Even had a ghost trap operated with a pedal, although it fell apart a lot.
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That's unlike any other business model I've ever seen. I'm not entirely sure what's different, but it seems like it must be something about step 2...
Hmm, I'd heard about that Carnegie book, but didn't realize it had that kind of stuff in it.
I've heard there aren't that many good career counselors ... sounds like you really got a good deal.
Incidentally, I was just reading this article which you might find interesting.
Hmmm, mind sharing what books you recommend?
I appreciated all the insightful comments you made today. May I recomment Ask the Headhunter? I think you may find this book complements your philosophy quite well.
In Ukraine (Russian border area, at least) they put mayonaisse on pizza and look at you funny if you ask to have your pizza made without it. (Of course, you don't know to ask to have it left off unless you've been there before...)
Aquiring geocities was the last smart thing yahoo did.
And ruining it was the first dumb thing I noticed.
I, personally, for me, believe (obviously) that my OS choice is right.
That there's a problem, or at least it could be. I don't believe that my OS choice is "right." I believe it works wonderfully for my purposes. I believe your OS choice probably works wonderfully for your purposes. I can tell you're trying to avoid religious arguments on the subject, but you haven't quite dropped the idea that everyone should use one or the other.
That said, I'd far rather hear from someone who thinks they're right and I'm wrong but simply tries to inform me without demanding my commitment than from someone who wants to browbeat me over my choice.
Thanks. I was vaguely aware of that, but chose to simplify. It's true there's a few books with identical or similar English and Hebrew names (Kings is another good example), but as you say it's really more of a coincidence.
Perhaps you can answer something for me ... are the books of the prophets named the same way in Hebrew (first words), or are they named for the prophet who wrote them?
Troll alert. This is not Eric Raymond, but Eric "RAYRNOND." He's trying to make libertarians like Raymond sound silly for bringing up property rights all the time without any reason. He also didn't read the article (the idea of property rights in space is entirely orthogonal to the ideas in the article).
Does anyone else notice the parallel to open source development? People are always asking, "Why do you develop BSD when you could put that work into Linux?" or "Why do we have two desktop systems?" The answer is that you allow people to voluntarily work on what they choose (proverbially scratching their own itches). If people want to build AtheOS, we let them, knowing that while AtheOS may never benefit most of us, it's an interesting project that gives the people working on it a sense of fulfillment as well as providing spillover benefits that may help other projects (persons gaining enhanced expertise on AtheOS going on to apply that expertise to Linux, for example).
Space exploration and all science research should be funded the same way. If your money is forcibly taken away and given to a cause you don't believe in, you are right to protest. But if the government lets us keep that money and we each instead put it toward whatever cause(s) we choose to support, many better opportunities can present themselves. I can still give to manned space exploration, if I choose, while you can fund unmanned probes or earthbound science, while all three causes can benefit from each other's work. Or one of us might decide that money could be better spent helping poor people in the Middle East or fighting AIDS in Africa. Noone can legitimately decide the relative worth of these noble causes for everyone else, so each person should be free to support the causes he chooses instead. This might mean that some causes (which might, sadly to me, include manned space exploration) cannot garner the necessary support at this time; this is an indicator that those causes should not have been attempted anyway since they lack the necessary support.
Some might think that you can't support scientific (or charitable) causes through voluntary donations alone, but tell that to the people who keep running breast cancer marathons in my community. Apparently they generate a tremendous amount of support, because people believe in the cause, and because they apparently benefit from it enough to keep holding the marathons.
Genesis, IIRC, is Latin for "beginning," or something like that. It's like a noun form of our verb, "to generate." The first book of the Bible only got that name because it is about the beginning of the world, and the first phrase in Hebrew is, "In the beginning." The Hebrews named the books by their first word or phrase. Translate through Latin to English, and you get our modern book of Genesis.
The word itself is not at all inherently religious.
... and fast internet access, with frequent FedEx dropoffs of the stuff I'm gonna buy online with the $5 million.
Biblically, Mammon means money, so I wonder if they're saying that those who were in the business only for the profit motive cowered in horror.
On the contrary, MINDSTORMS, CLIKITS and BIONICLE are all good examples of products the company wants to stake on.
I'd be only too happy to drive a stake throught the guy who invented Bionicles. Not Lego at all.
Glad to hear about Mindstorms, though.
Yeah, I was surprised, too.
You could try googling for it...
Is drinking a social activity? Because as near as I can tell, every member of the online Perl community except Damian Conway enjoys getting together often for drinks.
I met my fiance online. It was good to communicate only through text the first month or so we knew each other, and our online socialization carried over well into real life when we met each other.
Even still the Internet is a valuable part of our communication, like the telephone is to some people. In fact, I just sent her a link to this article. :)
I would say the information I find online is reliable, but I wouldn't mean all the information. What I would mean is that I can usually find a reliable answer by looking in many places, comparing what I find, and evaluating their relative claims to try to get an idea of the truth. Whereas in previous mediums lots of "facts" known only by word of mouth were commonly presented as "truth," on the Internet there is usually somebody who actually does know the real truth that will surface in a Google search.
I recently went looking for a webpage to confirm that "duck tape" is a corruption of the correct "duct tape" and was surprised to discover that I was completely wrong; the tape was originally called "duck tape."
I advise keeping them all in /usr/local, then, which is its stated purpose in most distributions. I'm a Perl programmer and always do my own installation of perl in /usr/local so I can manage modules and upgrades myself.
I would hope that this new Debian installer tool respects /usr/local. I would think that even then you'd still probably have issues with package-managed library dependencies.
If I understand correctly, it will remove all of your programs and start over. That's actually what I'd want (I'd prefer to apt-get them again as I use them and not install anything I'm not using any more), but probably not what you want.
I did something manually like this recently, compiling debootstrap from source and installing while chrooted to a new partition I wanted debian in. The reason was that while I preferred debian, I could not install it on this system because the harddrive was not on the main controller card. Or something like that; whatever it is, debian couldn't detect it while RedHat didn't even flinch. My harddrive actually shows up as /dev/hde. The document I referred to at the time made the joke, "Sometimes I'm asked if non-Debian distributions are good for anything. I answer, 'Yes, actually some of them make very good Debian installers.'" Of course, it's kind of pitiful that the Debian installer is that bad, but I expect that to improve.
So in my case, I couldn't install Debian "from scratch."
This is why went I want to find something on the net I type it into google, rather than adding .com and typing it into my URL bar. google will tell me where the real site or sites are about what I want. For example, google will tell me that I can read about the Matrix (assuming I still want to read about the Matrix) at www.whatisthematrix.com rather than www.matrix.com (which will allow me to "Get Expert Personalized Hair Advice").
Honestly, are there still people out there who just add .com and type things into their URL bar expecting to see what they want? That's so 1997.
If the GPL fails in courts, then you don't get to copy the code anymore. Is this man illiterate, or what?
Anyone remember these? I have about eight sets in my closet waiting for me to have children to play with them. (Threw out the capsela recently when I found it.)
Nothing fired our imaginations like construx. We used the alien set with glow in the dark pieces to build proton packs which we would use to "bust ghosts" (also made out of glow in the dark pieces) in our darkened hallway. Ah, the 80's! :) Even had a ghost trap operated with a pedal, although it fell apart a lot.