As a rule "progressive" policies (Medicare for all, College for everyone, New New Deal, ending wars, infrastructure spending, living wage, etc, etc) poll in the mid to high 60s, yet their candidates can't seem to win elections.
They do when they get the chance to run. The problem, as you just pointed out, is that of the 2 major parties that we seem to be stuck with under first-past-the-post voting, the one that people see as a progressive party is actually the status quo party.
I had fooled around with C a bit because my dad was always writing little [incomplete] games in it. All the tools I had were his.
For some reason I was running Windows NT on my computer. It came in the box with Visual Studio and I thought it sounded cool. Even got it to play Half-Life after horsing with video drivers long enough.
One day I was "cleaning up" the hard drive by deleting files that I didn't recognize or care about. Apparently on that version of NTFS there was a file in the file system that you could delete that was...vital to the filesystem itself. Lost all my data because I sucked at backups back then. "Enough of this Microsoft garbage, I want to try Linux!" I said. And since I had no idea what I was doing, my dad also picked me up a copy of 'Using Red Hat Linux'. Something like the second half of the book was just to introduce you to shell and Perl scripting, and I was like "holy crap this is so much easier than C". And then I discovered Ruby (via Slashdot), and it just made so much sense to me, and programming was actually kind of fun.
This was late 90s or early 2000s. I was about 16 at the time. I got a kick out of finding ways to run Doom on school computers. The librarians always thought I was "hacking" and got all upset. Bahahaha stupid librarians.
Learning new programming languages is always kind of cool. Maybe because I suck so bad at foreign human languages.
I also think that this story reflects the fact that a significant minority of people out there get way more outraged by cruelty to animals that cruelty to humans. I find this attitude quite sickening.
In our world, cruelty to animals is applied on a scale that completely dwarfs cruelty to people. So even if you think the suffering of a cow or pig matters 1/10th the suffering of a person, the total amount of suffering among farm animals is still daunting and horrible.
That said, cruelty to anyone is bad and it's reasonable to be upset about any and all of it. I hate the way farm animals are treated, and I also hate it when police harass/abuse/execute innocent people. I won't fault anyone for focusing their outrage a different way than I do.
Are you able to get networking to work well under Wine? When I try it the cursor moves around at about half a frame per second and makes it completely unplayable. This is the only reason I have left for keeping Windows machines around (though I am hoping Planetary Annihilation can take its place, and that will supposedly be designed to run on Linux).
I'm assuming the updater does this to make sure it's getting a newer version than what's already installed. How would you handle it? A single 64-bit number? A history graph à la Git?
It makes me a bit sad that Java in the browser never really took off to the extent that JavaScript did. These days we have people coming up with monstrosities like asm.js to make it possible to write fast, cross-platform applications, whereas the JVM is a compiler target that's been much better suited to the task for a decade and a half. I suppose its downfall was in its proprietary nature, lack of integration with the DOM, and slow start-up time. If the browsers had included an easily sandboxed subset of the JRE (simply leaving out any classes that could possibly interact with the rest of your system, for starters) in place of JavaScript I think frontend web development would be a lot nicer today. At the time, though, I doubt that Sun would have allowed such a thing.:(
Same here. I would always pour myself an especially large bowl of cereal and then turn on Wii World News. It had nice music for relaxing in the morning.
Some things you didn't mention that I am used. Pro:
Easily rename methods, move classes around, and otherwise refactor code.
Con:
Eats up all resources on my computer (though this may be specific to Eclipse, but Eclipse also has the best refactoring tools of any IDE I've tried, so meh).
Code I've written using Eclipse is *much* easier to follow than code I wrote in Emacs* because refactoring is so much faster. Yeah, you can search-replace and hope you didn't get any unintended matches and use unit tests and the compiler's error messages to help you out, but it's a pain compared to {<select name>, F2, <type new name>, enter}, so I find myself avoiding it until I'm at a machine with Eclipse.
*for all I know, there's scripts for Emacs that would help with refactoring, but they're not as obvious to me.
Except back then we used long rolls of paper, and we didn't fill in the solid parts because that would've used too much ink.
So this is pretty cool, but not groundbreaking. From the way the entire Internet's in an uproar you'd think something important happened today, sheesh.
For collections of large files that Git doesn't handle so efficiently (my photo and music collections), I use a custom git-like system (https://github.com/TOGoS/ContentCouch).
Back when I was still using XP (I've since switched to Linux and am getting by without multiple desktops on my home Windows 7 machine), VirtualDimension worked pretty well for me. You can give shortcut keys (I used Win+1-0) to switch between them, and it works by hiding all windows except those on the 'current desktop'. Some applications (most notably web browsers) would get sometimes get stuck on all the desktops if they were summoned to appear by another program while you were looking at a different desktop than the one you had put them on. Reason would seem to hang if I switched desktops while its file open dialog was open. But once I learned to avoid these situations it was perfectly useable.
I also used SlickRun and had each virtual desktop span 2 monitors and didn't run into any conflicts.
Sweet, it's scorched earth with spherical gravitational fields! I'm having a good time putting things into orbit, but the only way I've managed to hit the target so far is plowing through the planet in the middle...
This is what someone called, uhm, 'emergent ideas', or something. You think of something new only to find out someone else announced the same project a week ago!
Java apps tend to be slow because a lot of 'standard practices' (which could be more accurately called 'n00b practices') encourage inefficient constructs.
If you know what the heck you're doing, you can write very snappy programs in Java. Otherwise your apps are going to suck regardless.
I suspect that comment was directed at developers, not users. I've often wondered how java got such traction among devs. I don't know any who actually enjoy using it. Their stories sound a lot like those told by Cobol programmers ("Things to do today: write code, write code, write code,...").
* Build a JAR file
* Anyone with Java installed can run it
Is why. And the JVM is a pretty solid platform. I'm not a huge fan of the language itself, but no other platform comes close in terms of simplicity of development and deployment.
Hmm, I've often thought that while OO is good for encapsulating low-level operations, relational database tables and SQL were a much more natural way to model and query data. I just started reading, but his table-oriented-programming page hints at this problem under 'No Ceilings'. I'm not yet sold on his idea of Control Tables, but then I haven't read that part, yet. Maybe he's onto something.
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But they'd also run out of money to buy shitty politicians to fuck us all over constantly, so it'd still be a win.
As a rule "progressive" policies (Medicare for all, College for everyone, New New Deal, ending wars, infrastructure spending, living wage, etc, etc) poll in the mid to high 60s, yet their candidates can't seem to win elections.
They do when they get the chance to run. The problem, as you just pointed out, is that of the 2 major parties that we seem to be stuck with under first-past-the-post voting, the one that people see as a progressive party is actually the status quo party.
I had fooled around with C a bit because my dad was always writing little [incomplete] games in it. All the tools I had were his.
For some reason I was running Windows NT on my computer. It came in the box with Visual Studio and I thought it sounded cool. Even got it to play Half-Life after horsing with video drivers long enough.
One day I was "cleaning up" the hard drive by deleting files that I didn't recognize or care about. Apparently on that version of NTFS there was a file in the file system that you could delete that was...vital to the filesystem itself. Lost all my data because I sucked at backups back then. "Enough of this Microsoft garbage, I want to try Linux!" I said. And since I had no idea what I was doing, my dad also picked me up a copy of 'Using Red Hat Linux'. Something like the second half of the book was just to introduce you to shell and Perl scripting, and I was like "holy crap this is so much easier than C". And then I discovered Ruby (via Slashdot), and it just made so much sense to me, and programming was actually kind of fun.
This was late 90s or early 2000s. I was about 16 at the time. I got a kick out of finding ways to run Doom on school computers. The librarians always thought I was "hacking" and got all upset. Bahahaha stupid librarians.
Learning new programming languages is always kind of cool. Maybe because I suck so bad at foreign human languages.
I also think that this story reflects the fact that a significant minority of people out there get way more outraged by cruelty to animals that cruelty to humans. I find this attitude quite sickening.
In our world, cruelty to animals is applied on a scale that completely dwarfs cruelty to people. So even if you think the suffering of a cow or pig matters 1/10th the suffering of a person, the total amount of suffering among farm animals is still daunting and horrible.
That said, cruelty to anyone is bad and it's reasonable to be upset about any and all of it. I hate the way farm animals are treated, and I also hate it when police harass/abuse/execute innocent people. I won't fault anyone for focusing their outrage a different way than I do.
Are you able to get networking to work well under Wine? When I try it the cursor moves around at about half a frame per second and makes it completely unplayable. This is the only reason I have left for keeping Windows machines around (though I am hoping Planetary Annihilation can take its place, and that will supposedly be designed to run on Linux).
I'm assuming the updater does this to make sure it's getting a newer version than what's already installed. How would you handle it? A single 64-bit number? A history graph à la Git?
I would submit that this is somewhat sensible and that the switch from 1.5 to 5.0 back in the Sun days was far more confusing.
It makes me a bit sad that Java in the browser never really took off to the extent that JavaScript did. These days we have people coming up with monstrosities like asm.js to make it possible to write fast, cross-platform applications, whereas the JVM is a compiler target that's been much better suited to the task for a decade and a half. I suppose its downfall was in its proprietary nature, lack of integration with the DOM, and slow start-up time. If the browsers had included an easily sandboxed subset of the JRE (simply leaving out any classes that could possibly interact with the rest of your system, for starters) in place of JavaScript I think frontend web development would be a lot nicer today. At the time, though, I doubt that Sun would have allowed such a thing. :(
Hindsight FTW.
Same here. I would always pour myself an especially large bowl of cereal and then turn on Wii World News. It had nice music for relaxing in the morning.
Some things you didn't mention that I am used. Pro:
Con:
Code I've written using Eclipse is *much* easier to follow than code I wrote in Emacs* because refactoring is so much faster. Yeah, you can search-replace and hope you didn't get any unintended matches and use unit tests and the compiler's error messages to help you out, but it's a pain compared to {<select name>, F2, <type new name>, enter}, so I find myself avoiding it until I'm at a machine with Eclipse.
*for all I know, there's scripts for Emacs that would help with refactoring, but they're not as obvious to me.
Except back then we used long rolls of paper, and we didn't fill in the solid parts because that would've used too much ink. So this is pretty cool, but not groundbreaking. From the way the entire Internet's in an uproar you'd think something important happened today, sheesh.
When all the ridiculous CP laws were passed. i.e. the whole point of the article.
This. Sorry no mod points today.
You may be confusing the term 'at-will' with 'right-to-work', which is what Walker wants. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment
Who's to say we haven't already reached it, especially taking into account civilization's inability to stop its destructive behaviors?
No mod points today, but this.
For collections of large files that Git doesn't handle so efficiently (my photo and music collections), I use a custom git-like system (https://github.com/TOGoS/ContentCouch).
Back when I was still using XP (I've since switched to Linux and am getting by without multiple desktops on my home Windows 7 machine), VirtualDimension worked pretty well for me. You can give shortcut keys (I used Win+1-0) to switch between them, and it works by hiding all windows except those on the 'current desktop'. Some applications (most notably web browsers) would get sometimes get stuck on all the desktops if they were summoned to appear by another program while you were looking at a different desktop than the one you had put them on. Reason would seem to hang if I switched desktops while its file open dialog was open. But once I learned to avoid these situations it was perfectly useable.
I also used SlickRun and had each virtual desktop span 2 monitors and didn't run into any conflicts.
Sweet, it's scorched earth with spherical gravitational fields! I'm having a good time putting things into orbit, but the only way I've managed to hit the target so far is plowing through the planet in the middle...
Angry birds is already doing it.
This is what someone called, uhm, 'emergent ideas', or something. You think of something new only to find out someone else announced the same project a week ago!
Java apps tend to be slow because a lot of 'standard practices' (which could be more accurately called 'n00b practices') encourage inefficient constructs.
If you know what the heck you're doing, you can write very snappy programs in Java. Otherwise your apps are going to suck regardless.
I suspect that comment was directed at developers, not users. I've often wondered how java got such traction among devs. I don't know any who actually enjoy using it. Their stories sound a lot like those told by Cobol programmers ("Things to do today: write code, write code, write code, ...").
* Build a JAR file
* Anyone with Java installed can run it
Is why. And the JVM is a pretty solid platform. I'm not a huge fan of the language itself, but no other platform comes close in terms of simplicity of development and deployment.
One of the neighbors is particularly upset about it to this day. They put up a sign that's visible from the runway. http://www.flickr.com/photos/picatoria/3309671778/
I needed more reasons to quit AT&T; maybe now I finally will (we have some other, crappy-in-different-ways competitors here in Madison, WI).
Hmm, I've often thought that while OO is good for encapsulating low-level operations, relational database tables and SQL were a much more natural way to model and query data. I just started reading, but his table-oriented-programming page hints at this problem under 'No Ceilings'. I'm not yet sold on his idea of Control Tables, but then I haven't read that part, yet. Maybe he's onto something.
Most of us would prefer something more subtle.