1. Buy two rubber mats (~30x30 cm). Buy lots of 1-1.5 cm long stud/pin/thumbtack/peg/brad (my english not so good, what are those like-nails-but-thinner-things).
2. push those pins through rubber mats from other side.
3. lay your rubber mat your cars front seat/seats so that sharp size of the pins are up. cover the mats with something soft and furry.
4. Lock the doors of your car.
5. When those punks get into your car, they will have to sit on front seats when they remove the very-expensive-car-audio-system (TM). Ouch!!
6. In the next morning call local hospitals and ask if there has been people with their testicles ripped and ass being full of small holes.
IMPORTANT!! REMEMBER TO REMOVE THE MATS BEFORE USING THE CAR OR LETTING YOUR FRIENDS USE IT!!!
I suffer from deep angst. I have watched trailer in doom3.com upteem times. I have nasty feeling in my stomach and you guys talk about something as irrelevant as gmail and blogging. aaaagggh.
i just wanted to tell all of you how i wait for doom3 binaries for linux. new nvidia card installed, ready take leave from work in short notice. come baby come. (and no you ****ers i'm not going to use windog emulators or install windows)
Common Lisp people seem to behave in a way that is akin to the Borg: they study the various new things that people do with interest and then find that it was eminently doable in Common Lisp all along and that they can use these new techniques if they think they need them. -- Erik Nagggum
languages shape the way we think, or don't. -- Erik Naggum, comp.lang.lisp
``Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the full flavor of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts.'' -- "The Humble Programmer", E. Dijkstra, CACM, vol. 15, n. 10, 1972
You may find this conceptually simple, but real Lisps decided long ago that the human language tendency to have verbs and nouns draw from the same lexicon, but mean different things according to context actually works tremendously well. Lisp was developed in the English language community. Algol and several other languages that fight against this tendency in human languages were developed in non-English communities. If you do not like the ability to spell a verb and a noun the same way, take it up with English or German, not with languages that evolved with designers and users speaking the respective languages. -- Erik Naggum
High on the list of things Lisp offers that most other languages botch is the idea that (+ x 1) for any integer x should return a number bigger than x in all cases. It seems like such a small point, but it's often quite useful. -- Kent M. Pitman
> The continuing holier-than-thou attitude the average lisp programmer... There are no average Lisp programmers. We are the Priesthood. Offerings of incense or cash will do. -- Kenny Tilton at c.l.l
Dalinian: Lisp. Java. Which one sounds sexier? RevAaron: Definitely Lisp. Lisp conjures up images of hippy coders, drugs, sex, and rock & roll. Late nights at Berkeley, coding in Lisp fueled by LSD. Java evokes a vision of a stereotypical nerd, with no life or social skills.
One of the major attractions that Common Lisp offer me personally is that there is just so much in and around it that I would benefit from. I came to the point of SGML expertise where (I thought) I would not be able to develop any further, where there would be nothing more for me to learn, and I found myself always helping people without the reward of learning anything new. This exhausted me and contributed strongly to abandoning 6 years of concentrated effort on something I have additionally come to think of as fundamentally braindamaged. I decided to work in an area where the probability of dealing with people who were smarter than me was nonzero and the Lisp and Scheme worlds offer this in abundance. To work in areas where the sum total of knowledge is acquirable in your youth may seem exciting to the youth, but to realize that you have wasted your most absorbent days on something that would bore you when you exhausted the supply of ideas is nothing but painful to the old. -- Erik Naggum
"Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material." - Alan Kay
[Emacs] is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful. -- Neal Stephenson, _In the Beginning was the Command Line_
Just because we Lisp programmers are better than everyone else is no excuse for us to be arrogant. -- Erann Gat
In Lisp, if you want to do aspect-oriented programming, you just do a bunch of macros and you're there. In Java, you have to get Gregor Kiczales to go out and start a new company, taking months and years and try to get that to work. Lisp still has the advantage there, it's just a question of people wanting that. -- Peter Norvig
"Conceptually FORTRAN remained on familiar grounds in the sense that its p
He is the guy who started his own startup shortly after he complained in public that nobody is willing to pay more than 500 000$/year for programmer/consultant.
Seeking the best tool in the land does you absolutely no good if nobody will pay you to use it.
Uh. The Good Programmer uses the best tool even if nobody is paying him/her to use it. That's the point of being artist. The 143 000 euros/year is just side effect of being good artist. It was absolutely no good for Van Gogh to be an artist.
n 1960, a researcher interviewed 1500 business-school students and classified them in two categories: those who were in it for the money - 1245 of them - and those who were going to use the degree to do something they cared deeply about - the other 255 people. Twenty years later, the researcher checked on the graduates and found that 101 of them were millionaires?and all but one of those millionaires came from the 255 people who had pursued what they loved to do!
Research on more than 400,000 Americans over the past 40 years indicates that pursuing your passions - even in small doses, here and there each day - helps you make the most of your current capabilities and encourages you to develop new ones.
You non-metric people have nautical miles and miles. <p> So what's the fuzz with having nautical, astronomical (NASA), normal, imperial and inaccurate inches? <p> Btw. my reference says 1 in = 25.4 mm (exact)! huh!
Buisiness people and managers are playing the power game. They don't want craftsman, they want interchangeable parts. With that midset comes necessarily the belief that what you do is factory work. And for 90% of programmers this is actually true.
Quote:
Developers inhabit a continuum from just below real Software Engineers (those that have read Knuth and understood him) down to the burger flippers coding in VB to a spec someone else wrote. They are the post modern agricultural laborers AND THEY KNOW THIS really.
-- read full article
A novice of the temple once approached the Chief Priest with a question.
"Master, does Emacs have the Buddha nature?" the novice asked.
The Chief Priest had been in the temple for many years and could be
relied upon to know these things. He thought for several minutes before
replying.
"I don't see why not. It's got bloody well everything else."
With that, the Chief Priest went to lunch. The novice suddenly
achieved enlightenment, several years later.
Commentary:
His Master is kind, Answering his FAQ quickly, With thought and sarcasm.
Buddhism is not based in dogma. You should trust only your own _practice_ and experience. Buddhism is intrested of human mind. Cosmology and others are not so important. Many buddhist do belive in karma rebirth etc. like many people did in Buddhas time. Buddha himiself consistently refused to respond in many questions: is the world eternal, is the world infinite, is the soul same as body, does buddha (avakened person) exist after death, etc. If you are following buddhist path you are doing something not beliving.
Believe nothing merely because you have been told it, or because it is tradition, or because you yourself have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for him. But whatever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings, believe and cling to that doctrine, and take it as your guide. -- Buddha
"Buddhism is a science, not a fanatic religion like football." -- Lama Khyentse Norbu
"The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion; the religion which is based on experience, which refuses dogmatism. If there's any religion that would cope with scientific needs it will be Buddhism.... " -- Albert Einstein, 1954, [from Albert Einstein: The Human Side, edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman, Princeton University Press]
Developers inhabit a continuum from just below real Software Engineers (those that have read Knuth and understood him) down to the burger flippers coding in VB to a spec someone else wrote. They are the post modern agricultural laborers AND THEY KNOW THIS really.
-- http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/35/30459.html
Slashdot Mirror
Apparently blogs.sun.com is very bad marketing.
0. Buy very expensive car audio system.
1. Buy two rubber mats (~30x30 cm). Buy lots of 1-1.5 cm long stud/pin/thumbtack/peg/brad (my english not so good, what are those like-nails-but-thinner-things).
2. push those pins through rubber mats from other side.
3. lay your rubber mat your cars front seat/seats so that sharp size of the pins are up. cover the mats with something soft and furry.
4. Lock the doors of your car.
5. When those punks get into your car, they will have to sit on front seats when they remove the very-expensive-car-audio-system (TM). Ouch!!
6. In the next morning call local hospitals and ask if there has been people with their testicles ripped and ass being full of small holes.
IMPORTANT!! REMEMBER TO REMOVE THE MATS BEFORE USING THE CAR OR LETTING YOUR FRIENDS USE IT!!!
please don't mod me down but share my pain.
I suffer from deep angst. I have watched trailer in doom3.com upteem times. I have nasty feeling in my stomach and you guys talk about something as irrelevant as gmail and blogging. aaaagggh.
i just wanted to tell all of you how i wait for doom3 binaries for linux. new nvidia card installed, ready take leave from work in short notice. come baby come. (and no you ****ers i'm not going to use windog emulators or install windows)
Common Lisp people seem to behave in a way that is akin to the Borg:
they study the various new things that people do with interest and then
find that it was eminently doable in Common Lisp all along and that they
can use these new techniques if they think they need them.
-- Erik Nagggum
languages shape the way we think, or don't.
-- Erik Naggum, comp.lang.lisp
``Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a
computer". I think that description is a great compliment because it
transmits the full flavor of liberation: it has assisted a number of our
most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts.''
-- "The Humble Programmer", E. Dijkstra, CACM, vol. 15, n. 10, 1972
You may find this conceptually simple, but real Lisps decided long ago
that the human language tendency to have verbs and nouns draw from the
same lexicon, but mean different things according to context actually
works tremendously well. Lisp was developed in the English language
community. Algol and several other languages that fight against this
tendency in human languages were developed in non-English communities.
If you do not like the ability to spell a verb and a noun the same way,
take it up with English or German, not with languages that evolved with
designers and users speaking the respective languages.
-- Erik Naggum
High on the list of things Lisp offers that most other languages botch is
the idea that (+ x 1) for any integer x should return a number bigger than
x in all cases. It seems like such a small point, but it's often quite
useful. -- Kent M. Pitman
> The continuing holier-than-thou attitude the average lisp programmer...
There are no average Lisp programmers. We are the Priesthood. Offerings
of incense or cash will do.
-- Kenny Tilton at c.l.l
Dalinian: Lisp. Java. Which one sounds sexier?
RevAaron: Definitely Lisp. Lisp conjures up images of hippy coders,
drugs, sex, and rock & roll. Late nights at Berkeley, coding in Lisp
fueled by LSD. Java evokes a vision of a stereotypical nerd, with no
life or social skills.
One of the major attractions that Common Lisp offer me personally is that
there is just so much in and around it that I would benefit from. I came to
the point of SGML expertise where (I thought) I would not be able to develop
any further, where there would be nothing more for me to learn, and I found
myself always helping people without the reward of learning anything new.
This exhausted me and contributed strongly to abandoning 6 years of
concentrated effort on something I have additionally come to think of as
fundamentally braindamaged. I decided to work in an area where the
probability of dealing with people who were smarter than me was nonzero and
the Lisp and Scheme worlds offer this in abundance. To work in areas where
the sum total of knowledge is acquirable in your youth may seem exciting to
the youth, but to realize that you have wasted your most absorbent days on
something that would bore you when you exhausted the supply of ideas is
nothing but painful to the old.
-- Erik Naggum
"Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material."
- Alan Kay
[Emacs] is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is
beautiful.
-- Neal Stephenson, _In the Beginning was the Command Line_
Just because we Lisp programmers are better than everyone else is no
excuse for us to be arrogant. -- Erann Gat
In Lisp, if you want to do aspect-oriented programming, you just do a
bunch of macros and you're there. In Java, you have to get Gregor
Kiczales to go out and start a new company, taking months and years
and try to get that to work. Lisp still has the advantage there, it's
just a question of people wanting that. -- Peter Norvig
"Conceptually FORTRAN remained on familiar grounds in the sense that its
p
2 articles:
Applicability of discovery science approach to determine biological effects of mobile phone radiation
Proteomics analysis of human endothelial cell line EA.hy926 after exposure to GSM 900 radiation
He is the guy who started his own startup shortly after he complained in public that nobody is willing to pay more than 500 000$/year for programmer/consultant.
Then he sold his company for 50 million.
n 1960, a researcher interviewed 1500 business-school students and
classified them in two categories: those who were in it for the
money - 1245 of them - and those who were going to use the degree to do
something they cared deeply about - the other 255 people. Twenty years
later, the researcher checked on the graduates and found that 101 of
them were millionaires?and all but one of those millionaires came from
the 255 people who had pursued what they loved to do!
Research on more than 400,000 Americans over the past 40 years
indicates that pursuing your passions - even in small doses, here and
there each day - helps you make the most of your current capabilities
and encourages you to develop new ones.
In galaxy far, far away.... Death Star fires. You get the idea.
Take us away!
Let's see how many hours NZX is down during next five years due hw/sw malfunction. That's meaninful.
Special variables, multimethods. meta-object-protocol, lisp-syntax, lisp-macros,
You non-metric people have nautical miles and miles.
<p>
So what's the fuzz with having nautical, astronomical (NASA), normal, imperial and inaccurate inches?
<p>
Btw. my reference says 1 in = 25.4 mm (exact)! huh!
User Complaint About Existing Services Leads Google to Create Search-Based Pornsite
Search is Number Two Bandwidth Hog - Porn is Number One; "Heck, Yeah," Say Google Founder
At least they are not any of that 4 000 000$ year to web designers. That's allways a good sign.
The homepage looks absolutely horrible!!
In the beginning of the third millenium USA changed into religiously fanatic bushlim state.
Yeah. Sand, no arabs, possibly life, oil is dead life. We go there.
craftsman, they want interchangeable parts. With that midset comes
necessarily the belief that what you do is factory work. And for 90% of programmers this is actually true.
Quote:
Developers inhabit a continuum from just below real Software Engineers
(those that have read Knuth and understood him) down to the burger
flippers coding in VB to a spec someone else wrote. They are the post
modern agricultural laborers AND THEY KNOW THIS really.
-- read full article
Suppose we actually were immortal...
what is the opposite of living your life as if every day were your last?
Emacs koan:
A novice of the temple once approached the Chief Priest with a question.
"Master, does Emacs have the Buddha nature?" the novice asked.
The Chief Priest had been in the temple for many years and could be
relied upon to know these things. He thought for several minutes before
replying.
"I don't see why not. It's got bloody well everything else."
With that, the Chief Priest went to lunch. The novice suddenly
achieved enlightenment, several years later.
Commentary:
His Master is kind,
Answering his FAQ quickly,
With thought and sarcasm.
Buddhism is not based in dogma. You should trust only your own _practice_ and experience. Buddhism is intrested of human mind. Cosmology and others are not so important. Many buddhist do belive in karma rebirth etc. like many people did in Buddhas time. Buddha himiself consistently refused to respond in many questions: is the world eternal, is the world infinite, is the soul same as body, does buddha (avakened person) exist after death, etc. If you are following buddhist path you are doing something not beliving.
Believe nothing merely because you have been told it, or because it is
tradition, or because you yourself have imagined it. Do not believe
what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for him. But
whatever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be conducive
to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings, believe and cling
to that doctrine, and take it as your guide. -- Buddha
Great quotes:
"Buddhism is a science, not a fanatic religion like football."
-- Lama Khyentse Norbu
"The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion; the religion
which is based on experience, which refuses dogmatism. If there's any
religion that would cope with scientific needs it will be Buddhism.... "
-- Albert Einstein, 1954, [from Albert Einstein: The Human Side,
edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman, Princeton University Press]
Are-we-where-sun-dosnt-shine-yet?
This is the last post in in slashdot!
So true.
Developers inhabit a continuum from just below real Software Engineersl
(those that have read Knuth and understood him) down to the burger
flippers coding in VB to a spec someone else wrote. They are the post
modern agricultural laborers AND THEY KNOW THIS really.
-- http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/35/30459.htm