When god cures an amputee we'll talk. No one is denying the power of delusion. People have been willing to die for their deluded beliefs ever since we evolved enough to have them.
Do you believe in Zeus? Thor? Horus? And why not? Onus of proof is always on the side that claims to posses the knowledge of existence of something. Atheism means simply that: not-theism, because there is no evidence that any kind of god exists, let alone a personal one that interferes in lives of people, cares what you eat and on what days, who you sleep with and in what position, and who stops the sun in its motion around the earth:D so that certain people in the bible can finish their work etc.
In fact, we have plenty of evidence that religion and personal gods are man made. The mere fact there are competing religions (so different they are all damning each other to hell) all claiming to posses the truth and the word of one divine creator of the universe is exactly what you would expect to see if religions were man made (and they are not just man made, they are man, as in with penis, made).
scientific developments and technology to disseminate ignorance and world view of the bronze age herdsmen who knew all the secrets of the universe because a burning bush revealed it to them. Seems like a worthy project.
Depends on what you are doing. If your job doesn't require you to think much, then sure. This is my main issue with agile. It's good at extracting value out of mediocre people. For highly specialized, experienced people who know what they are doing and who like solving hard problems, agile is hell really and completely counterproductive.
Religion only tells you why if you are satisfied with bogus explanations made by bronze age herdsmen that at the face of it don't really explain anything. As soon as you start using your reason you discover that teleological (seeking purpose for things) type of thinking is only useful in a very limited subset of situations, and almost invariably leads to wrong conclusions.
Sorry, bur religion is really a branch of human ignorance based on faith (belief without evidence) and it really doesn't have anything to say about the real world we live in. It comes from the infancy of our species, it was our first approximation for cosmology, astronomy, medicine, etc. but as any first approximation we now know it is way off.
Kevin Kelly in "What Technology Wants" has a really good insight into this new kind of economy and technology as extension of our culture. New economy is less about manipulation of physical bits, and all about manipulation of instructions on how to shape physical bits by machines. A must read for anyone really.
Not sure if you are being sarcastic or not, but you sum up the problem with C++ well. It's exactly because Bjarne has forced any idea he remotely heard about into C++ standard that C++ is a complete incoherent mess of a language it is today.
We have pretty decent evidence that theistic gods don't exist (and that includes all three desert dogmas) . So, he is right. God is man made.
The only people who have not examined this evidence are the deluded who want to remain willfully ignorant, or people who are not trained enough to even understand evidence based reasoning, so ignorant in either case.
And you are under the impression this can't be done without an IDE? Yet another person who does not see a difference between IDE and compiler/debugger. But of course you feel qualified to talk about things you don't have any idea about.
Microsoft reboot monkeys keep repeating this fallacy all the time. Visual studio is really a rather dumb editor. UNIX terminal (and toolchain) with good editor like vim or emacs is way more powerful IDE. But people who program by clicking on pictures would never know.
Overproduction of developers/comp.sci. graduates does not create a bubble. Perhaps a lot of miserable people, but not an economic bubble like the.com bubble of the late 90s. The most likely economic impact overproduction of qualified people will have is the cheapening of labor i.e. lower pay rate for developers.
It's is thousands of times harder to get hired as a manager, than it is a developer that knows their stuff of ANY age. A typical company only needs so many managers, but lots of developers, it's simple as that.
Come on guys. What kind of education do you have? Post graduate degrees in CS, math, engineering. You are almost 30 when you leave school with that coveted PhD.
I say know you stuff, be really good at what you do, or don't do it at all, and you won't have to worry about bringing value to employers.
Sorry, but you can't be both religious and sane. The cognitive dissonance required to believe religious fairy tales and reconcile them with modern scientific reality is really mentally draining and is a form on mental illness.
The fact that we treat religious as sane is only because it is perfectly socially acceptable to believe outrageous things, like that god impregnated his virgin mother in order that he could die on the cross for what he condemned the humanity to and so he could make himself forgive the transgressions he invented, performed by the beings created in his own image. And his followers are required to eat his flesh, soul and divinity in a form of a cookie which magically turns into him after a few incantations. All that so that we could join him one day in a celestial North Korea, praising the dear leader incessantly, compelled to love someone we fear (essence of sadomasochism).
But if the above story weren't so familiar (see Mormonism) or Scientology and even the deluded Christians have issues with how absurd it is.
Why don't you just buy a notebook (not electronic) and a bunch of pencils. Nothing beats the flexibility, increases uptake of the new material and still allow for active listening, is not distracting (no internet and facebook or chat) than pen and paper.
If you really want to have your lecture notes in electronic format, type them up in LaTeX later at night and compile to PDF. But for actual note taking nothing beats pen and paper.
By jailbreaking, which is essentially a security exploit that allows arbitrary code execution. Ever single iOS release has been exploited (there is a jailbreak) and in some instances user doesn't have to do anything but visit a page. Talk about security. The only reason iOS is not exploited is because the people making the jailbreak are not malicious.
I don't know much how Android functions. Never has an Android phone.
Then don't switch to Linux. Linux/UNIX philosophy is to use the command line as much as possible. In fact most of us live in the terminal all the time, and going into GUI to view something is considered a major disruption. It's really opposite of Windows.
Yeah, that was nice for a decade or so. But watch Apple remove root access from your computer and turning your computer into an appliance within next 2-5 years. Why would you buy a computer from a phone company anyway?
Not if you are trying to build a successful platform and have people who actually build software for it, and not use some cross platform toolkit that does not take advantage of the platform capabilities, and in addition is slow to adopt new features of the platform, slowing down innovation. I think the point 6 in the original letter sums it up nicely.
Besides the fact that Flash is closed and proprietary, has major technical drawbacks, and doesn’t support touch based devices, there is an even more important reason we do not allow Flash on iPhones, iPods and iPads. We have discussed the downsides of using Flash to play video and interactive content from websites, but Adobe also wants developers to adopt Flash to create apps that run on our mobile devices.
We know from painful experience that letting a third party layer of software come between the platform and the developer ultimately results in sub-standard apps and hinders the enhancement and progress of the platform. If developers grow dependent on third party development libraries and tools, they can only take advantage of platform enhancements if and when the third party chooses to adopt the new features. We cannot be at the mercy of a third party deciding if and when they will make our enhancements available to our developers.
This becomes even worse if the third party is supplying a cross platform development tool. The third party may not adopt enhancements from one platform unless they are available on all of their supported platforms. Hence developers only have access to the lowest common denominator set of features. Again, we cannot accept an outcome where developers are blocked from using our innovations and enhancements because they are not available on our competitor’s platforms.
Flash is a cross platform development tool. It is not Adobe’s goal to help developers write the best iPhone, iPod and iPad apps. It is their goal to help developers write cross platform apps. And Adobe has been painfully slow to adopt enhancements to Apple’s platforms. For example, although Mac OS X has been shipping for almost 10 years now, Adobe just adopted it fully (Cocoa) two weeks ago when they shipped CS5. Adobe was the last major third party developer to fully adopt Mac OS X.
Our motivation is simple – we want to provide the most advanced and innovative platform to our developers, and we want them to stand directly on the shoulders of this platform and create the best apps the world has ever seen. We want to continually enhance the platform so developers can create even more amazing, powerful, fun and useful applications. Everyone wins – we sell more devices because we have the best apps, developers reach a wider and wider audience and customer base, and users are continually delighted by the best and broadest selection of apps on any platform.
It is a perfectly reasonable explanation. Same reason why Java on the desktop never took off. Developers could only program for the lowest common denominator and never take advantage of unique hardware capabilities.
No application on the mac app store (once sandboxing becomes mandatory) will be able to take screenshots. It is simply not one of the entitlements an application get be granted.
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When god cures an amputee we'll talk. No one is denying the power of delusion. People have been willing to die for their deluded beliefs ever since we evolved enough to have them.
Do you believe in Zeus? Thor? Horus? And why not? Onus of proof is always on the side that claims to posses the knowledge of existence of something. Atheism means simply that: not-theism, because there is no evidence that any kind of god exists, let alone a personal one that interferes in lives of people, cares what you eat and on what days, who you sleep with and in what position, and who stops the sun in its motion around the earth :D so that certain people in the bible can finish their work etc.
In fact, we have plenty of evidence that religion and personal gods are man made. The mere fact there are competing religions (so different they are all damning each other to hell) all claiming to posses the truth and the word of one divine creator of the universe is exactly what you would expect to see if religions were man made (and they are not just man made, they are man, as in with penis, made).
scientific developments and technology to disseminate ignorance and world view of the bronze age herdsmen who knew all the secrets of the universe because a burning bush revealed it to them. Seems like a worthy project.
Depends on what you are doing. If your job doesn't require you to think much, then sure. This is my main issue with agile. It's good at extracting value out of mediocre people. For highly specialized, experienced people who know what they are doing and who like solving hard problems, agile is hell really and completely counterproductive.
Religion only tells you why if you are satisfied with bogus explanations made by bronze age herdsmen that at the face of it don't really explain anything. As soon as you start using your reason you discover that teleological (seeking purpose for things) type of thinking is only useful in a very limited subset of situations, and almost invariably leads to wrong conclusions.
Sorry, bur religion is really a branch of human ignorance based on faith (belief without evidence) and it really doesn't have anything to say about the real world we live in. It comes from the infancy of our species, it was our first approximation for cosmology, astronomy, medicine, etc. but as any first approximation we now know it is way off.
Kevin Kelly in "What Technology Wants" has a really good insight into this new kind of economy and technology as extension of our culture. New economy is less about manipulation of physical bits, and all about manipulation of instructions on how to shape physical bits by machines. A must read for anyone really.
Not sure if you are being sarcastic or not, but you sum up the problem with C++ well. It's exactly because Bjarne has forced any idea he remotely heard about into C++ standard that C++ is a complete incoherent mess of a language it is today.
for writing bad code?
We have pretty decent evidence that theistic gods don't exist (and that includes all three desert dogmas) . So, he is right. God is man made.
The only people who have not examined this evidence are the deluded who want to remain willfully ignorant, or people who are not trained enough to even understand evidence based reasoning, so ignorant in either case.
And you are under the impression this can't be done without an IDE? Yet another person who does not see a difference between IDE and compiler/debugger. But of course you feel qualified to talk about things you don't have any idea about.
Microsoft reboot monkeys keep repeating this fallacy all the time. Visual studio is really a rather dumb editor. UNIX terminal (and toolchain) with good editor like vim or emacs is way more powerful IDE. But people who program by clicking on pictures would never know.
Overproduction of developers/comp.sci. graduates does not create a bubble. Perhaps a lot of miserable people, but not an economic bubble like the .com bubble of the late 90s. The most likely economic impact overproduction of qualified people will have is the cheapening of labor i.e. lower pay rate for developers.
It's is thousands of times harder to get hired as a manager, than it is a developer that knows their stuff of ANY age. A typical company only needs so many managers, but lots of developers, it's simple as that.
Come on guys. What kind of education do you have? Post graduate degrees in CS, math, engineering. You are almost 30 when you leave school with that coveted PhD.
I say know you stuff, be really good at what you do, or don't do it at all, and you won't have to worry about bringing value to employers.
Sorry, but you can't be both religious and sane. The cognitive dissonance required to believe religious fairy tales and reconcile them with modern scientific reality is really mentally draining and is a form on mental illness.
The fact that we treat religious as sane is only because it is perfectly socially acceptable to believe outrageous things, like that god impregnated his virgin mother in order that he could die on the cross for what he condemned the humanity to and so he could make himself forgive the transgressions he invented, performed by the beings created in his own image. And his followers are required to eat his flesh, soul and divinity in a form of a cookie which magically turns into him after a few incantations. All that so that we could join him one day in a celestial North Korea, praising the dear leader incessantly, compelled to love someone we fear (essence of sadomasochism).
But if the above story weren't so familiar (see Mormonism) or Scientology and even the deluded Christians have issues with how absurd it is.
He hasn't discovered the Sun yet?
requires it to be strong, nor particularly light. How about lighter road bike frames (which is the first application that I care about :D)?
Why don't you just buy a notebook (not electronic) and a bunch of pencils. Nothing beats the flexibility, increases uptake of the new material and still allow for active listening, is not distracting (no internet and facebook or chat) than pen and paper. If you really want to have your lecture notes in electronic format, type them up in LaTeX later at night and compile to PDF. But for actual note taking nothing beats pen and paper.
By jailbreaking, which is essentially a security exploit that allows arbitrary code execution. Ever single iOS release has been exploited (there is a jailbreak) and in some instances user doesn't have to do anything but visit a page. Talk about security. The only reason iOS is not exploited is because the people making the jailbreak are not malicious. I don't know much how Android functions. Never has an Android phone.
Then don't switch to Linux. Linux/UNIX philosophy is to use the command line as much as possible. In fact most of us live in the terminal all the time, and going into GUI to view something is considered a major disruption. It's really opposite of Windows.
Yeah, that was nice for a decade or so. But watch Apple remove root access from your computer and turning your computer into an appliance within next 2-5 years. Why would you buy a computer from a phone company anyway?
Not if you are trying to build a successful platform and have people who actually build software for it, and not use some cross platform toolkit that does not take advantage of the platform capabilities, and in addition is slow to adopt new features of the platform, slowing down innovation. I think the point 6 in the original letter sums it up nicely.
Sixth, the most important reason.
Besides the fact that Flash is closed and proprietary, has major technical drawbacks, and doesn’t support touch based devices, there is an even more important reason we do not allow Flash on iPhones, iPods and iPads. We have discussed the downsides of using Flash to play video and interactive content from websites, but Adobe also wants developers to adopt Flash to create apps that run on our mobile devices.
We know from painful experience that letting a third party layer of software come between the platform and the developer ultimately results in sub-standard apps and hinders the enhancement and progress of the platform. If developers grow dependent on third party development libraries and tools, they can only take advantage of platform enhancements if and when the third party chooses to adopt the new features. We cannot be at the mercy of a third party deciding if and when they will make our enhancements available to our developers.
This becomes even worse if the third party is supplying a cross platform development tool. The third party may not adopt enhancements from one platform unless they are available on all of their supported platforms. Hence developers only have access to the lowest common denominator set of features. Again, we cannot accept an outcome where developers are blocked from using our innovations and enhancements because they are not available on our competitor’s platforms.
Flash is a cross platform development tool. It is not Adobe’s goal to help developers write the best iPhone, iPod and iPad apps. It is their goal to help developers write cross platform apps. And Adobe has been painfully slow to adopt enhancements to Apple’s platforms. For example, although Mac OS X has been shipping for almost 10 years now, Adobe just adopted it fully (Cocoa) two weeks ago when they shipped CS5. Adobe was the last major third party developer to fully adopt Mac OS X.
Our motivation is simple – we want to provide the most advanced and innovative platform to our developers, and we want them to stand directly on the shoulders of this platform and create the best apps the world has ever seen. We want to continually enhance the platform so developers can create even more amazing, powerful, fun and useful applications. Everyone wins – we sell more devices because we have the best apps, developers reach a wider and wider audience and customer base, and users are continually delighted by the best and broadest selection of apps on any platform.
It is a perfectly reasonable explanation. Same reason why Java on the desktop never took off. Developers could only program for the lowest common denominator and never take advantage of unique hardware capabilities.
No application on the mac app store (once sandboxing becomes mandatory) will be able to take screenshots. It is simply not one of the entitlements an application get be granted.