Yeah but I have no idea if those players suck or not. I know what sucks about iPods, and I'll take that knowledge over having to find out what sucks about something else any day. And I think most consumers who have issues with iPods/iPhones yet still buy them feel that way, too.
The US is quite solid on speech that doesn't upset major corporations, and is an excellent spot for saying mean things about religious figures, expressing all kinds of fun political theories, hosting your "handguns I have known and loved" archive or whatever. Not such a good place to host "WareZ and DeCSS 4LyFE!", though.
Really? You really consider copyright violation to be an exercise in free speech? And the crackdown on torrent sites a concession of our freedom to the "big evil companies?" I definitely think our government has pandered too much to the **AA, and that our copyright laws are in serious need of reform, but I think it's hard to make this into a freedom of speech issue.
I've lived in the EU, US, China, and have been to Canada several times. The freedom in the US, Canada, and EU are all about the same IMO. China obviously being laughably bad...
Unless you know how to script your console to repeat common tasks like save+build+run test suite with a single keystroke (e.g. F9). Method completion is a little different; I would imagine it really helps for programming languages like Java with ReallyLong.classNames.andMethod.paths(), but isn't as nice for, say, Linux kernel development, where the guidelines ask for a modicum of brevity in function names.
The keystroke "macroing" is obviously going to be at least as much work as, say, configuring a big honking IDE. I'm just saying I think the workflow for the command line can be equally streamlined. I've never actually done that much of it.. for me, saving the file, switching to another bash terminal, and invoking make has never been something I do more than once per 5 minutes, and in the time where I'm switching, I often catch myself remembering a mistake I made.
Even great coders can't crank out *that* much code per day.. even if it's possible to gain some workflow speed with an IDE (still doubtful to me), I don't necessarily think that speed translates to more LOC per day.
I don't like how command liners such as the poster you responded to act like using an IDE makes you a 'wimp' or something (wth is this, pre-K?), but that's beside the point.
"His hiring comes at a crucial time for a company that ties security to its marketing campaigns despite public knowledge that it's rather trivial to launch exploits against the Mac."
Public knowledge? Public knowledge? I doubt the "public" really thinks it's trivial to launch an exploit against the PC.
I feel like I just listened to a 5 year old arguing to another 5 year old... "EVERYONE knows that YOUR operating system IS STOOOPED."
Actually, that is the way the legal system in the US is designed to work. The US is among the first countries in the post Renaissance era to ensure through a Constitution that all persons are entitled to a fair trail. The idea certainly isn't ours, but the were arguably a catalyst for the adoption of this concept in Europe. Or maybe I'm drinking US-centric history kool-aid.
Well, to be fair, I know that the personality of that annoying foreigner lady on MAD TV is supposed to be annoying.. I get the joke, but in the end, I just find her annoying. The fact that the grand parent doesn't share your sense of humor does not necessarily mean he fails to "get it."
Firebug, yslow and colorpicker make firefox an epic win for me over safari on OS X. Haven't tried Opera, and I hear they have something similar to firebug, but still.. firefox is still king for web developers at least.
To go along with this, it took me 30 seconds to add curved corners to some block level elements with -moz-border-radius and -webkit-border-radius. It took me about 5 hours to hack in a particular unicode character that looks like a dot, blow it up to 150px size, and absolutely position it on all four corners so I could get it to work in ie7 (forgot the link that taught me that nasty but brilliant trick). This was because, in this case, my employer wanted curvy corners in ie7.
...or at least, it's a "game" the way The Sims is. Which is to say, it's a simulation.
I have no problem with Second Life operating with real-world dollars. My problem with Second Life is that for what it is, it should not be tied to a single controlling entity (Linden).
But in an actual game, like WoW, well, this is just the next level of gold farming. The result is the same -- status in the game is no longer driven by anything resembling skill, or even time invested, but by how much money you're willing to spend on the game.
As a WoW player, I have to disagree. Blizzard heavily limits what items can be purchased with gold, and actually very few end game items (there's just one ring at this time, actually) can be bought with gold. What gold helps with, however, is a lot of the necessary but time consuming tasks like enchanting and gemming your equipment. You can get a decent set of gear to start raiding with gold, but you can't get very far at all without skill.
With the achievement system in place, I can tell very quickly if a player has real experience and skill under his belt.
He sees that there's not really anything that separates him from people in wealthier parts of the world other than what's effectively birth right.
... because I have, and I can tell you most people I've met in the third world see their own nations as the place where success and material wealth are a birthright, and they see the US as the one place where success is actually accessible to anyone (even immigrants).
What you should be asking is why the Republican party is still against nationalization of banks... Because currently, the taxpayers get to enjoy all the risk, while the owners of the banks gets the profits.
The only reason the taxpayers "enjoy all the risk" is because our government puts up our tax dollars to prop up these companies. If we let them file bankruptcy, the courts can oversee their operation properly. You're claiming that AIG is too large to let fall into bankruptcy--a claim Republicans won't necessarily agree with--and then blaming Republicans for how the taxpayers are the ones that lose.
You're accusing Republicans of being the problem just because they're Republicans. Please stop being a sheep.
If you're that glued to the resume, you may not know how to hire good tech workers. Figure out what they do in their spare time. Kids that spend day and night working on pet projects, open source software, etc. have more motivation and experience than any 'me-too' 'look how many projects I've done' resumes. I've worked with PhD's and Master's degree graduates that had all sorts of "projects" under their belt but they could not deliver. Resume's are a good way to asses whether someone is in the 'ballpark,' but honestly it looks like you're playing a game of wanting to find the eager, capable, confident, experienced applicant who can walk in and be productive on day one, who also happens to be young and can be compensated less $60k/year. That's ridiculous. Hire someone who has 1-3 years experience out of college. Won't be too much more expensive and they'll have all the social awkwardness of the first job out of their system, and has some real context to interview about. School doesn't do squat. It just shows that you are capable of doing more than just squat.
"So, yes, it was Roosevelt that turned around the Great Depression. Of course, GDP doesn't tell the whole story: WW2 certainly helped establish full employment."
Post hoc ergo propter hoc. I agree that WWII didn't pull us out of the Depression. I do not agree that your argument (or any other I've seen) demonstrates that the positive increase in GDP growth was because of Roosevelt.
You obviously haven't taken vocal lessons for singing contemporary or pop music. Bono's voice is completely out of reach for even people who study voice all their lives. His range is huge, though I don't hear him on the low end as much as the high. You don't know what you're talking about.
I consider code that runs when a class is inherited from another, and dynamically defines a set of methods for that class, naming them on the fly to be meta-programming. Maybe my definition is wrong. This kind of programming is ugly almost by definition; and if I wrote it, anyone else would also consider it a mess. That's just the nature of the beast.
Ruby does not stick date/time functionality into integers (or Fixnums, in Ruby lingo). Rails has extended Ruby's Fixnum class to provide methods that convert and operate on dates. It's also added methods to convert 1.thousand into 1000. Since you deal with and compare datetimes SO often when building database-modeled GUI applications, this is a Good Thing in that context. When I write rails code, it's convenient. When I write Ruby code outside of rails, I almost always don't want that.
The amount of ugly, spaghetti-like "meta-programming" needed to make Rails code look as simple and pretty as it does makes me want to scream sometimes. But I must admit, when I resign myself to doing things the Rails way, I can get things done quickly, and reliably.
Everyone programming for Linux should start with C until they have a solid understanding of how the Von Neumann architecture really works. Once you "get" virtual/physical memory, compilation of C into IL, IL into assembler, and how linkage works, start toying with POSIX threads. Once you really understand the tradeoffs and performance implications of things like dynamic binding and certain aspects of object oriented programming, you can move up to something like Ruby or Python and *really* understand not only what you are doing, but what that interpreter is doing for you.
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Lynx... I would say that ads and javascript both do not work in Lynx.
Principles are good, but sometimes they are not right.
It takes a closet purist to make such a claim :)
All of what you said, plus a predilection for hot grits.
Can't you mount a different hard drive partition into C:\Windows and then keep all your programs?
Why would someone want more than one root partition? I do not comprehend...
Yeah but I have no idea if those players suck or not. I know what sucks about iPods, and I'll take that knowledge over having to find out what sucks about something else any day. And I think most consumers who have issues with iPods/iPhones yet still buy them feel that way, too.
The US is quite solid on speech that doesn't upset major corporations, and is an excellent spot for saying mean things about religious figures, expressing all kinds of fun political theories, hosting your "handguns I have known and loved" archive or whatever. Not such a good place to host "WareZ and DeCSS 4LyFE!", though.
Really? You really consider copyright violation to be an exercise in free speech? And the crackdown on torrent sites a concession of our freedom to the "big evil companies?" I definitely think our government has pandered too much to the **AA, and that our copyright laws are in serious need of reform, but I think it's hard to make this into a freedom of speech issue.
I've lived in the EU, US, China, and have been to Canada several times. The freedom in the US, Canada, and EU are all about the same IMO. China obviously being laughably bad...
Do you know how many lines of code are in the Linux kernel? How many core contributors do you think use IDEs?
Unless you know how to script your console to repeat common tasks like save+build+run test suite with a single keystroke (e.g. F9). Method completion is a little different; I would imagine it really helps for programming languages like Java with ReallyLong.classNames.andMethod.paths(), but isn't as nice for, say, Linux kernel development, where the guidelines ask for a modicum of brevity in function names.
The keystroke "macroing" is obviously going to be at least as much work as, say, configuring a big honking IDE. I'm just saying I think the workflow for the command line can be equally streamlined. I've never actually done that much of it.. for me, saving the file, switching to another bash terminal, and invoking make has never been something I do more than once per 5 minutes, and in the time where I'm switching, I often catch myself remembering a mistake I made.
Even great coders can't crank out *that* much code per day.. even if it's possible to gain some workflow speed with an IDE (still doubtful to me), I don't necessarily think that speed translates to more LOC per day.
I don't like how command liners such as the poster you responded to act like using an IDE makes you a 'wimp' or something (wth is this, pre-K?), but that's beside the point.
"His hiring comes at a crucial time for a company that ties security to its marketing campaigns despite public knowledge that it's rather trivial to launch exploits against the Mac."
Public knowledge? Public knowledge? I doubt the "public" really thinks it's trivial to launch an exploit against the PC.
I feel like I just listened to a 5 year old arguing to another 5 year old... "EVERYONE knows that YOUR operating system IS STOOOPED."
Actually, that is the way the legal system in the US is designed to work. The US is among the first countries in the post Renaissance era to ensure through a Constitution that all persons are entitled to a fair trail. The idea certainly isn't ours, but the were arguably a catalyst for the adoption of this concept in Europe. Or maybe I'm drinking US-centric history kool-aid.
Well, to be fair, I know that the personality of that annoying foreigner lady on MAD TV is supposed to be annoying.. I get the joke, but in the end, I just find her annoying. The fact that the grand parent doesn't share your sense of humor does not necessarily mean he fails to "get it."
Firebug, yslow and colorpicker make firefox an epic win for me over safari on OS X. Haven't tried Opera, and I hear they have something similar to firebug, but still.. firefox is still king for web developers at least.
To go along with this, it took me 30 seconds to add curved corners to some block level elements with -moz-border-radius and -webkit-border-radius. It took me about 5 hours to hack in a particular unicode character that looks like a dot, blow it up to 150px size, and absolutely position it on all four corners so I could get it to work in ie7 (forgot the link that taught me that nasty but brilliant trick). This was because, in this case, my employer wanted curvy corners in ie7.
...or at least, it's a "game" the way The Sims is. Which is to say, it's a simulation.
I have no problem with Second Life operating with real-world dollars. My problem with Second Life is that for what it is, it should not be tied to a single controlling entity (Linden).
But in an actual game, like WoW, well, this is just the next level of gold farming. The result is the same -- status in the game is no longer driven by anything resembling skill, or even time invested, but by how much money you're willing to spend on the game.
As a WoW player, I have to disagree. Blizzard heavily limits what items can be purchased with gold, and actually very few end game items (there's just one ring at this time, actually) can be bought with gold. What gold helps with, however, is a lot of the necessary but time consuming tasks like enchanting and gemming your equipment. You can get a decent set of gear to start raiding with gold, but you can't get very far at all without skill.
With the achievement system in place, I can tell very quickly if a player has real experience and skill under his belt.
Do you know who wrote GPL2?
Have you ever been outside of the US?
... because I have, and I can tell you most people I've met in the third world see their own nations as the place where success and material wealth are a birthright, and they see the US as the one place where success is actually accessible to anyone (even immigrants).
The only reason the taxpayers "enjoy all the risk" is because our government puts up our tax dollars to prop up these companies. If we let them file bankruptcy, the courts can oversee their operation properly. You're claiming that AIG is too large to let fall into bankruptcy--a claim Republicans won't necessarily agree with--and then blaming Republicans for how the taxpayers are the ones that lose.
You're accusing Republicans of being the problem just because they're Republicans. Please stop being a sheep.
If you're that glued to the resume, you may not know how to hire good tech workers. Figure out what they do in their spare time. Kids that spend day and night working on pet projects, open source software, etc. have more motivation and experience than any 'me-too' 'look how many projects I've done' resumes. I've worked with PhD's and Master's degree graduates that had all sorts of "projects" under their belt but they could not deliver. Resume's are a good way to asses whether someone is in the 'ballpark,' but honestly it looks like you're playing a game of wanting to find the eager, capable, confident, experienced applicant who can walk in and be productive on day one, who also happens to be young and can be compensated less $60k/year. That's ridiculous. Hire someone who has 1-3 years experience out of college. Won't be too much more expensive and they'll have all the social awkwardness of the first job out of their system, and has some real context to interview about. School doesn't do squat. It just shows that you are capable of doing more than just squat.
"So, yes, it was Roosevelt that turned around the Great Depression. Of course, GDP doesn't tell the whole story: WW2 certainly helped establish full employment."
Post hoc ergo propter hoc. I agree that WWII didn't pull us out of the Depression. I do not agree that your argument (or any other I've seen) demonstrates that the positive increase in GDP growth was because of Roosevelt.
I must be out of the loop... what would that legislation be?
You obviously haven't taken vocal lessons for singing contemporary or pop music. Bono's voice is completely out of reach for even people who study voice all their lives. His range is huge, though I don't hear him on the low end as much as the high. You don't know what you're talking about.
I consider code that runs when a class is inherited from another, and dynamically defines a set of methods for that class, naming them on the fly to be meta-programming. Maybe my definition is wrong. This kind of programming is ugly almost by definition; and if I wrote it, anyone else would also consider it a mess. That's just the nature of the beast.
Ruby does not stick date/time functionality into integers (or Fixnums, in Ruby lingo). Rails has extended Ruby's Fixnum class to provide methods that convert and operate on dates. It's also added methods to convert 1.thousand into 1000. Since you deal with and compare datetimes SO often when building database-modeled GUI applications, this is a Good Thing in that context. When I write rails code, it's convenient. When I write Ruby code outside of rails, I almost always don't want that.
The amount of ugly, spaghetti-like "meta-programming" needed to make Rails code look as simple and pretty as it does makes me want to scream sometimes. But I must admit, when I resign myself to doing things the Rails way, I can get things done quickly, and reliably.
Everyone programming for Linux should start with C until they have a solid understanding of how the Von Neumann architecture really works. Once you "get" virtual/physical memory, compilation of C into IL, IL into assembler, and how linkage works, start toying with POSIX threads. Once you really understand the tradeoffs and performance implications of things like dynamic binding and certain aspects of object oriented programming, you can move up to something like Ruby or Python and *really* understand not only what you are doing, but what that interpreter is doing for you.