Because US foreign policy during the 80's was framed within an entirely different landscape. In hindsight helping the Taliban was a bad, bad idea. Our understanding of the Taliban's MO may have been wildly different back then. And at any rate, nothing trumped the perceived danger of the USSR.
That's a fine stance to take, although I hope I never work for someone who feels that way about his employees. But why the hell do you care about this article, then? You've dismissed a game whismically, confident that another game will suit your fancy... there's no information relevant to Diablo 3 to be gleaned there that makes any discussion interesting.
According to his voting record and platform, he absolutely was a liberal. There was no reason to believe he'd be in favor of a bill like the NDAA at time we voted for him.
> Also, not sure what the summary means with the last statement.
Seems to me that it means "I am a card-carrying member of the Church of RMS, and I'm not about to let any real facts get in the way of disparaging those of less pure faith".
As you point out, it seems a bit stupid. Possibly useful for artificially pumping the Firehose to get a submission on the front page, though.
You must be new here. A member of the Church of RMS would never use the term "open source" like that.
Furthermore, RMS predicted exactly this happening like 5 years ago and worked on a copyleft license that could cover SaaS. Google "tivoization."
RMS may be very passionate and extreme in his views, but his predictions for the future have consistently been spot on.
The problem is that web app APIs can change at a moment's notice, without any announcement, and all the developers who depended on the API will be left out in the cold.
While that's true, if they do it too often and to too great an extent they'll lose developers to some other platform; if the apps start breaking without replacement, users will start to leave for other sites. Facebook (as big as it is) is nothing without its userbase.
As someone who has actually had to integrate with Facebook, in practice they can and do change their API constantly. I'd love to ditch facebook but my clients all require integration.
I agree that skepticism is healthy, but you really need to be looking at the integrity of the group doing the studies, not just at who was paying them.
I don't consider mega farming corporations as having much integrity.
I don't have a dog in this fight, but come on. There obviously have existed atheists who wanted to attack religious freedoms. Consider what the Maoist regime did to the Buddhists in Tibet.
I completely agree, though, that the current political climate of America is swayed very far in favor of the Christians, who simultaneously view themselves as under attack. Which, to me, is less hypocrisy and more a very controlled manipulation campaign that started when the Evangelicals teamed up with the Republicans and will probably end in one of two ways: Either some 1984-esque dystopic future where the "chosen" await rapture and the rest toil, or nuclear winter.
Okay, I need to go take my meds now. Imagination... too... powerful.
... and then health care costs will drop. Basic insurance plans will start to makes sense as providers known they only have to cover emergencies/unpreventable diseases/etc.
Also, a lot of times you don't realize that a specification is completely broken until you're balls deep into implementation.
I personally don't write tests firsts, ever. I tend to work in three steps:
1. Write a proof of concept for the nontrivial parts of the solution. 2. Build tests/specs. 3. Write your production code.
This still isn't perfect, and you're trading a constant decline in productivity for a reduction in the number of times a sprint turns into a disaster because you were solving the problem the wrong way. Also, #1 can often be done in parallel while others solidify the feature requirements more, or supply important assets like graphics comps, branding, copy, etc.
More conservative? Ugh, conservative policy for the internet would suggest that going forward it remain liberated and experimental. In this case, conservative is not the opposite of liberal.
As someone who uses his phone and complains about the battery life constantly- I'd rather that any dev who thinks these are a good idea gets his hands smashed with a hammer so he can never code again.
Seriously, what world do you live in where you don't have to develop your application against a design specification?
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Because US foreign policy during the 80's was framed within an entirely different landscape. In hindsight helping the Taliban was a bad, bad idea. Our understanding of the Taliban's MO may have been wildly different back then. And at any rate, nothing trumped the perceived danger of the USSR.
Have you ever even kissed a girl?
That's a fine stance to take, although I hope I never work for someone who feels that way about his employees. But why the hell do you care about this article, then? You've dismissed a game whismically, confident that another game will suit your fancy... there's no information relevant to Diablo 3 to be gleaned there that makes any discussion interesting.
You guys seem to give up on potentially cool games really easily.
So, you started your post with "No" indicating you thought I was wrong. But then what do you mean by "moderate?"
Obama decidedly fit on the left side of the political spectrum when he ran for President. Why do you think I'm wrong?
Just because no one has the time to read millions of lines of code alone doesn't mean that every line of code won't get seen by someone.
According to his voting record and platform, he absolutely was a liberal. There was no reason to believe he'd be in favor of a bill like the NDAA at time we voted for him.
This is really naive statement. And not because your implied criticisms of Western religions are untrue.
I stole your book, made a photocopy, and put it back where you left it.
If I may say so, sir, you're into some rather strange pr0n. I suggest you talk to someone about it.
> Also, not sure what the summary means with the last statement.
Seems to me that it means "I am a card-carrying member of the Church of RMS, and I'm not about to let any real facts get in the way of disparaging those of less pure faith".
As you point out, it seems a bit stupid. Possibly useful for artificially pumping the Firehose to get a submission on the front page, though.
You must be new here. A member of the Church of RMS would never use the term "open source" like that.
Furthermore, RMS predicted exactly this happening like 5 years ago and worked on a copyleft license that could cover SaaS. Google "tivoization."
RMS may be very passionate and extreme in his views, but his predictions for the future have consistently been spot on.
The problem is that web app APIs can change at a moment's notice, without any announcement, and all the developers who depended on the API will be left out in the cold.
While that's true, if they do it too often and to too great an extent they'll lose developers to some other platform; if the apps start breaking without replacement, users will start to leave for other sites. Facebook (as big as it is) is nothing without its userbase.
As someone who has actually had to integrate with Facebook, in practice they can and do change their API constantly. I'd love to ditch facebook but my clients all require integration.
So, I'm guessing you think Tom Hardy camping gear is way awesome.
I agree that skepticism is healthy, but you really need to be looking at the integrity of the group doing the studies, not just at who was paying them.
I don't consider mega farming corporations as having much integrity.
I don't have a dog in this fight, but come on. There obviously have existed atheists who wanted to attack religious freedoms. Consider what the Maoist regime did to the Buddhists in Tibet.
I completely agree, though, that the current political climate of America is swayed very far in favor of the Christians, who simultaneously view themselves as under attack. Which, to me, is less hypocrisy and more a very controlled manipulation campaign that started when the Evangelicals teamed up with the Republicans and will probably end in one of two ways: Either some 1984-esque dystopic future where the "chosen" await rapture and the rest toil, or nuclear winter.
Okay, I need to go take my meds now. Imagination... too... powerful.
... and then health care costs will drop. Basic insurance plans will start to makes sense as providers known they only have to cover emergencies/unpreventable diseases/etc.
No, "DuGNU/kem Forever." :P
Because code reviews end up being an enabler for OCD coworkers to tell me how to indent.
The cost of buying a second monitor for one developer is immaterial. The cost of buying second monitors for every developer isn't.
Also, a lot of times you don't realize that a specification is completely broken until you're balls deep into implementation.
I personally don't write tests firsts, ever. I tend to work in three steps:
1. Write a proof of concept for the nontrivial parts of the solution.
2. Build tests/specs.
3. Write your production code.
This still isn't perfect, and you're trading a constant decline in productivity for a reduction in the number of times a sprint turns into a disaster because you were solving the problem the wrong way. Also, #1 can often be done in parallel while others solidify the feature requirements more, or supply important assets like graphics comps, branding, copy, etc.
I don't think you're aware of this, so even though I think I'm stating the obvious, I'll do it anyways. Here it goes:
Passion != fun
That's a failure, certainly, but calling it the 'main failure' is a bit of a hyperbole, IMO.
Can the cores be clocked down individually?
Longtime Windows user, eh? I'm sorry to hear that.
More conservative? Ugh, conservative policy for the internet would suggest that going forward it remain liberated and experimental. In this case, conservative is not the opposite of liberal.
As someone who uses his phone and complains about the battery life constantly- I'd rather that any dev who thinks these are a good idea gets his hands smashed with a hammer so he can never code again.
Seriously, what world do you live in where you don't have to develop your application against a design specification?