I think it was Sagan who remarked that astronomers and physicists regarded Velikovsky's theories of recent Solar System catastrophes as pseudoscience but that the man had some interesting insights into the ancient world. Scholars of the antiquities, however, thought that his theories of catastrophes in the recent Solar System made for interesting reading, but that his chronologies and interpretations of ancient writings were stark-raving bonkers.
Velikovsky's bizarre account of the planet Venus ejected from Jupiter, whizzing around for some time as a comet, and then settling down as the Second Planet gets the most press, but his equally bizarre pronouncements about the ancient world are "inside baseball", accessible to only a select few who even care when the Egyptian Dynasties started and ended.
The 12'th century BCE, give or take, collapse of Mediterranean civilization, the start of the "Greek Dark Ages" separating the events of the Trojan War from the retelling by Homer hundreds of years later, is both kind of cool as well as sobering. There is a Web site "The Greek Dark Ages Never Happened" that takes inspiration from Velikovsky's claim that every other scholar apart from he has the ancient-world chronology all wrong as a consequence of double-counting Egyptian Pharohs or some such thing. This blends with the (mainly) Russians claiming that the chronology of the 2000+ years CE is all messed up and that all of the big historical events in the textbooks happened in a more recent past.
The car was co-invented by the German Mr. Daimler and the American Mr. Chrysler.
The light bulb -- that's easy, that was invented by Henry Ford, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, where it was incorporated into their advertising as representative of "Ford has a better idea!", such as their innovative double-clutch transmissions conveying the necessary impression of cheapness for their small cars to encourage the sale of their Lincoln Navigator as being "more solid."
Samsung in Korea invented the phone.
The computer was invented in England by a guy we don't want to talk about.
The steam engine? That's easy -- it was invented by Montgomery Scott, supported by his Irish-Jewish friend Cap'n Kirk.
I am not buying this. Anything in COBOL is readily and easily done in C.
And C excels at UIs? Huh? Are you telling me that writing, say, UIs for Gnome (or low-level Windows API) is well-thought-out?
OK, OK, maybe these C-based simulations of object-oriented programming paradigms to handle UIs are better than the stuff sandwich of C++ with either Qt+ or MFC? But, seriously?
"COBOL is so easy to read and debug that even without training, I could just follow the flow of the program . .."
So, then, why do you need 70-something Dude out of retirement (not that I begrudge 10-somethin Dude making some coin on this job)? A reasonably skilled C++ programmer, as you point out, should simply be able to learn enough COBOL to do this work? Think of Joel Spolsky hiring C++ programmers because they can reason deeply how code works and then he puts them in front of Visual Basic 6 to pound out his application because they don't have to fiddle with MFC to get the GUI part?
Is the problem that a C++ programmer will be bitchin' and moanin' the whole time, "COBOL sucks" that you cannot hire him for this work. That maintaining a mission-critical but legacy COBOL program is beneath a C++ person? What if they, like, paid enough coin -- would C++ dude keep those negative vibes to themselves to finish the project?
Milton Thompson's book on the X-15 rocketplane program spoke of one of his colleagues flying the X-15 and a Navy officer.
The anecdote goes that after the X-15, the Navy interviewed him for serving as Executive Officer of a nuclear carrier. Why someone who was skilled at flying the hottest aircraft in the sky and in precision flying to collect aeronautical research data for the engineers, why that person should be promoted to second-in-command of a nuclear carrier is not clear, but the armed services are "up or out" in terms of career building and an officer does whatever the Navy tells them to.
Said Navy officer was subjected to one of these condescending interviews. Instead of the Liskov substitution principle it was something along the lines of knowing what to do if 6 of the 8 reactors were to malfunction. His response was that he didn't know and when scolded about it (it may have even been Rickover himself doing this), he replied that he would rely on his "Chief" (as in a Chief Petty Officer, the high-ranking enlisted person in charge of the ships Engineering section). When pressed on this, his further response was that if the Chief of Engineering or his immediate subordinates didn't know what to do, the ship was in deeper trouble than he as Executive Officer could do anything about.
What about the neighbors who drop their dog waste in your can, after garbage pickup and before you return home from work, that you have to store that dog waste in your garage until the next week? If it rained there is water in the bottom of the can in which the plastic baggie is swimming (we have robotic-arm collection trucks, and the lid is often open after a collection). Ewww!
No. You can learn them whelps good programmin' praktice with a 3-hour corporate seminar. None of this Malcolm Gladwell ten-thousand hours of practice "stuff."
With the biometrics, we will all be in this situation.
The Archbishop is on a train to visit a local church to preside over a Confirmation service. The conductor walks past the compartment (this is the old-style train in England) and calls out, "Tickets, please!"
As the Archbishop is fumbling for his misplaced ticket, the conductor assures him, "That's quite alright, m'lord. We know who you are."
The Archbishop replies in frustration, "That may be fine for British Rail, but I have no way of knowing which stop is mine!"
So the issue at hand is that the printer hacking used up printer supplies and that the hacked pages were racist, misogynist, homophobic, homoerotic, xenophobic, jingoistic, pornographic, plain disgusting, or simply annoying are peripheral concerns?
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I think it was Sagan who remarked that astronomers and physicists regarded Velikovsky's theories of recent Solar System catastrophes as pseudoscience but that the man had some interesting insights into the ancient world. Scholars of the antiquities, however, thought that his theories of catastrophes in the recent Solar System made for interesting reading, but that his chronologies and interpretations of ancient writings were stark-raving bonkers.
Velikovsky's bizarre account of the planet Venus ejected from Jupiter, whizzing around for some time as a comet, and then settling down as the Second Planet gets the most press, but his equally bizarre pronouncements about the ancient world are "inside baseball", accessible to only a select few who even care when the Egyptian Dynasties started and ended.
The 12'th century BCE, give or take, collapse of Mediterranean civilization, the start of the "Greek Dark Ages" separating the events of the Trojan War from the retelling by Homer hundreds of years later, is both kind of cool as well as sobering. There is a Web site "The Greek Dark Ages Never Happened" that takes inspiration from Velikovsky's claim that every other scholar apart from he has the ancient-world chronology all wrong as a consequence of double-counting Egyptian Pharohs or some such thing. This blends with the (mainly) Russians claiming that the chronology of the 2000+ years CE is all messed up and that all of the big historical events in the textbooks happened in a more recent past.
I have read after many years on Slashdot.
The car was co-invented by the German Mr. Daimler and the American Mr. Chrysler.
The light bulb -- that's easy, that was invented by Henry Ford, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, where it was incorporated into their advertising as representative of "Ford has a better idea!", such as their innovative double-clutch transmissions conveying the necessary impression of cheapness for their small cars to encourage the sale of their Lincoln Navigator as being "more solid."
Samsung in Korea invented the phone.
The computer was invented in England by a guy we don't want to talk about.
The steam engine? That's easy -- it was invented by Montgomery Scott, supported by his Irish-Jewish friend Cap'n Kirk.
Forget about how many people it kills. Think of the person it leaves . . . deeply frustrated.
Hello, Hal, do you read me? Do you read me Hal?
Affirmative Dave, I read you. I'm sorry Dave, I'm sorry I can't do that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I am not buying this. Anything in COBOL is readily and easily done in C.
And C excels at UIs? Huh? Are you telling me that writing, say, UIs for Gnome (or low-level Windows API) is well-thought-out?
OK, OK, maybe these C-based simulations of object-oriented programming paradigms to handle UIs are better than the stuff sandwich of C++ with either Qt+ or MFC? But, seriously?
"COBOL is so easy to read and debug that even without training, I could just follow the flow of the program . . ."
So, then, why do you need 70-something Dude out of retirement (not that I begrudge 10-somethin Dude making some coin on this job)? A reasonably skilled C++ programmer, as you point out, should simply be able to learn enough COBOL to do this work? Think of Joel Spolsky hiring C++ programmers because they can reason deeply how code works and then he puts them in front of Visual Basic 6 to pound out his application because they don't have to fiddle with MFC to get the GUI part?
Is the problem that a C++ programmer will be bitchin' and moanin' the whole time, "COBOL sucks" that you cannot hire him for this work. That maintaining a mission-critical but legacy COBOL program is beneath a C++ person? What if they, like, paid enough coin -- would C++ dude keep those negative vibes to themselves to finish the project?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Does Uber have Louis working for them?
Come back one year!
Just like multiplication tables are made obsolete by calculators, is nightmare algebra a problem when you have Maple or Mathematica?
Is that you, Judy Collins?
Milton Thompson's book on the X-15 rocketplane program spoke of one of his colleagues flying the X-15 and a Navy officer.
The anecdote goes that after the X-15, the Navy interviewed him for serving as Executive Officer of a nuclear carrier. Why someone who was skilled at flying the hottest aircraft in the sky and in precision flying to collect aeronautical research data for the engineers, why that person should be promoted to second-in-command of a nuclear carrier is not clear, but the armed services are "up or out" in terms of career building and an officer does whatever the Navy tells them to.
Said Navy officer was subjected to one of these condescending interviews. Instead of the Liskov substitution principle it was something along the lines of knowing what to do if 6 of the 8 reactors were to malfunction. His response was that he didn't know and when scolded about it (it may have even been Rickover himself doing this), he replied that he would rely on his "Chief" (as in a Chief Petty Officer, the high-ranking enlisted person in charge of the ships Engineering section). When pressed on this, his further response was that if the Chief of Engineering or his immediate subordinates didn't know what to do, the ship was in deeper trouble than he as Executive Officer could do anything about.
Hey, our questions to be asked during an interview are proprietary information!
Maybe the plane could be powered by distributed AA-size batteries?
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-ni...
What about the neighbors who drop their dog waste in your can, after garbage pickup and before you return home from work, that you have to store that dog waste in your garage until the next week? If it rained there is water in the bottom of the can in which the plastic baggie is swimming (we have robotic-arm collection trucks, and the lid is often open after a collection). Ewww!
That's the need for that Nest device.
The proper use of a tunnel allowing boat passage is in one of those amusement park rides where you would take your date.
No. You can learn them whelps good programmin' praktice with a 3-hour corporate seminar. None of this Malcolm Gladwell ten-thousand hours of practice "stuff."
Programmin' talent comes in a can!
Wikipedia!
We must not have a soybean-yield gap!
Don't you realize that the Metric System came from a bunch of head choppers? Who also had a Metric Calendar?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
We need to do away with everything Metric System.
. . . if they figure out where it is.
Somewhere near Chih-cah-go?
Hey, dude; we're wise to your kind!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
. . . damned real estate developer!
"In recent years, more houses have been built in areas that were previously uninhabited"
With the biometrics, we will all be in this situation.
The Archbishop is on a train to visit a local church to preside over a Confirmation service. The conductor walks past the compartment (this is the old-style train in England) and calls out, "Tickets, please!"
As the Archbishop is fumbling for his misplaced ticket, the conductor assures him, "That's quite alright, m'lord. We know who you are."
The Archbishop replies in frustration, "That may be fine for British Rail, but I have no way of knowing which stop is mine!"
So the issue at hand is that the printer hacking used up printer supplies and that the hacked pages were racist, misogynist, homophobic, homoerotic, xenophobic, jingoistic, pornographic, plain disgusting, or simply annoying are peripheral concerns?