Quality though, is often considered to be higher on the German Wikipedia
Citation Needed
[Citation Needed]
P.S.: Would you believe any shit out there, as soon as someone finds someone else stating it to be true? Wikipedia does. And that’s why I will never ever trust Wikipedia for anything.
That way, he'll either write Haikus and become a rock star programmer, or write Haikus and go raving mad and prove the rest of Hilbert's unsolved problems.
I thought that’s the same thing... ^^
Oh, and never forget: Don’t make another basement dweller.
C also doesn't let you do any kind of little errors.
Some people would consider this a feature, not a bug.
No, it’s definitely a bug. Because that bitch does not forgive you any error, but does not tell you about it either. Until you fuck up in the worst possible way, in mid-runtime. Face it: Humans make errors.
The proper way to handle them, if you want to be strict, is what e.g. Haskell did. To design the whole language and compiler in a way, that does not allow errors to pass in the first place. And to tell you right away.
Does Python have a strict mode? (In the Haskell meaning of “strict”.) If yes, then add pygame, and you got your great learning language.:)
(I must say that only when I started to learn Haskell, did I find out, that I knew nothing before that. And that most programmers also know nothing. Now I can program well in every language, because I always have these modern, proper, elegant concepts in my head.)
Could you please stop parroting that old and false statement? I bet you know shit about JS in the first place.
Secondly, I really fail to see how he would have fun in creating javascript stuff.
That’s your failure. I came up with many cool webapps. That he could instantly show others. The good thing is, that you get fast results with JS!
But I agree that there are better languages.
C#, Delphi or Visual Basic are a lot better languages to start with,
Now you must be kidding! Visual Basic? Of all languages?? Why didn’t you think that to the end and said Intercal? ^^ There is no worse language to start with. Delphi? I am a pretty good Delphi programmer. And it’s an outdated piece of shit of a language. I am very happy that I could move on. C#? Yeah right. Tie him to windows right from the start. And do so with one of the ugliest language families in human history. C-based languages are nice if you want to do micromanagement. But it’s quite the opposite of a “my first language” language.
In conclusion, one could draw tetrahedron. With VB, Delphi and C# as the lower points, and Intercal (as the natural conclusion of a merge) being the top end. ^^
Sorry, but I know a bit about the topic, and that is just not true. Because you can make people be interested about something. Marketing for example is all about this. Leadership even more.
There are some things that you have to know, to get someone motivated though. And there is the moral question if you actually want to manipulate someone that way. (Well, in reality, we do it all the time. Everyone you ever looked up to, did this. Not out of evilness. But it’s just natural. Everyone tries to dominate a bit. Men more than women. And nearly everyone does it in a good way.)
Create the perfect motivating balance between too hard and too easy. The more close to perfect, the more motivation it will create.
That can really be all there is, so someone has fun, is motivated and interested.
Of course you can make it into a game, by seeing it as a toy (something that you manipulate out of curiosity, and that is fun [happiness with surprises]), and then creating goals to be reached by problem solving. (Usual goals are, to understand/learn interesting things, and to have fun.)
I’d say some LEGO robotics, controlled by Python, should be a fun toy. And creating “levels” with goals, obstacles and surprises, and an end boss/level should make it a good game.:) Add real rewards with a value, and you got tons of motivation too. ^^
P.S.: Be sure that you teach him social dynamics and how to handle girls with the same approach next year, so he does not end up in your basement. ^^ (Programming and being good with girls are not mutually exclusive. That’s just what we are socially conditioned to think. But what stops you from doing both? Nothing. You just have to allow yourself to go full scale. How hard is it, to decide that you will be like that. And then just be like that.:)
Well, what do you expect for $850!?! ^^ I mean, think about it. It’s very likely cheaper than your computer. And if you buy it used in one year, it’s so cheap, you could wreck it, and not even care much. (Of course in India, that’s a bit different, as they are not so rich. But still. That’s no price.)
Tell that to the “dark energy” crowd. They are all about getting the expected results. Because they went “Well that‘s wrong. Guys come here and let’s invent some voodoo stuff, because our theory can’s possibly be wrong“. ^^
Says the guy who pops them like candy... My friend did take them exactly once. And never again.
Of course, now your ability to handle anxiety without it is (at least partially) gone. But it’s oh so nice to just pop a pill and be done with it. Also, what an epic fail is it, to just run away from your fears all your life? In reality, you would have to face them. And grow in the process. Being prepared for the future. Like a muscle.
Oh, and wanna know why you take them on a regular basis? Because you can’t do without them anymore! That’s half the point of those pills. After all they are a addictive drug.
Good luck with the incredible fear and uneasiness that will overcome you, as soon as you try to stop taking them. Go ahead. Try it. lol.
It’s a bit hard. I guess getting used to such a t(h)reatment profits the control freaks who then use it for profit and power. But other than that?
I mean it’s clear that the only reason the TSA did ignore all usual precautions, did ignore that that guy was on that terror list already, and did not even listen to his own father, calling in, and warning them that this exact thing was going to happen, is that the TSA just was happy to get another justification for its existence and power lever.
I think the perceived cause/effect relationship is wrong here. In my opinion, the new rules are not because of that guy. No, that guy did what he did, because the TSA wanted to push trough new rules. He’s just another random straw-man.
At least that’s what comes out when you “follow the profit”, and assume that they are not totally retarded.
Why that assumption? Simple: If the TSA would be dumb, they would already be replaced by more intelligent criminals. In that “business” you don’t survive long if you’re dumb. So we really can’t in any way assume that they are just being dumb. That’s like a car salesman going “Oh, sorry that I wrecked your car. I guess I must be a bad driver. Me dumb. Sorry.”. Would you believe him? ^^ See...:)
1. Unless yo smoke weed: Shut the fuck up about your “cloud“ shit! 2. iPhones, iPods, iAssplugs, iBubbles, iFails: See point 1. 3. It is OK to call hooters 'knockers' and sometimes snack trays 4. It is wrong to be French (Yeah, that was the point 4 you always forgot. ^^) 5. PROFIT
"Most sad thing about it was that they had camps where they trained 5-6 year old boys to exercise physically and to mentally think without fear of enemy, while learning military tactics and strategies."
That’s an invention of the Prussian era. It’s called “school”! ^^ (Seriously! That’s the point and how school started. And you wondered why it’s so dull, just trains people to follow without thinking and also to do automate tasks.)
Maybe the law is still a bit backwards, but you must agree that that’s a very fitting analogy.
I’d sue them, encrypt the hard disk (with booting a tiny system that then asks for the password via a ssh terminal connection), and move to another provider. If in any way possible all at the same time. ^^
WTF. Just seriously WTF.
You could even sue them for lost profits because of the server being down. Or for hacking into it, for “rooting” it. I bet a lawyer could come up with a package that would blast their sorry asses to the gamma quadrant and back. ^^
That’s simple to explain: Good alcohol has little fusel alcohols. Which are a product of incomplete transformation to alcohol. Or of adding sugar to it. And whiskey simply has more of them, as the strongly distilled vodka.
The sugar (and cheap alcoholic products) inside is why cocktails can be even worse.
...that in the real world, alcohol making you drunk is the whole point! We certainly don’t drink it because of the bitter, burning taste. ^^
If this had any chance of being a success, then people would already prefer non-alcoholic cocktails and brews for a looong time. And I don’t see that being the case, or ever happening.
You mean like the average lifespan in Afghanistan was (in the 80s) at 35 (and probably still is)? You can guess the *cough*cold*cough* main *cough*war*cough* reasons for that. ^^ (My father is Afghani, so I think I know this.:)
That’s the thing: There is a “too much”. Like with “sanitation“/antibiotics.
You essentially need that massive amount microbes in your digestive system, to digest your food. They are as much a part of you, as your heart or your brain. If you kill them, you kill yourself!
If you ever had a wrecked digestive system, you know what you are talking about. Not only dose life become really shitty. It even changes your character. And not only as secondary effects. But because your digestive system got just as much neurons as your brain, and the messed up digestion messes with those neurons too. Just as you got a protective film on your tongue, and on your whole skin.
If you kill them off, you basically lose the firewall and part of your PSU. Good luck withstanding the DDOS and botnet shitstorm and the hurricane outside then...
Sure you can try to recreate protection in form of chemicals and bubble boy bubbles. But what’s the point, if you already got a extremely effective system that’s been in use and improvement since millions, if not billions of years.
Those who do not understand nature are doomed to recreate it. Badly. ^^
I am someone, who always seeks to find simple rules that describe complex mechanisms and patterns. And if there is one all-encompassing mechanism in nature, that can be described by simple rules, it’s that of the cycles and balances. In our bodies, as in all of nature.
See, they are complex systems of interacting cycles, that are in perfect balance. If you change something... anything... no matter how small it seems... it influences the whole cycle. Then it can create a feedback loop. And it can spread to related cycles. And so on, and so on... Until in the end, it falls into another less perfect balance... or everything dies.
Until now, we always had luck, since the cycles often had good fallback mechanisms that made them still run stable for decades. A good example for the body, are most of those “age-related” diseases. They don’t come because of old age. They come with old age. They are the reason for a not-so-stable cycle/system that starts to fail after decades. So nearly nobody links them to the original cause. Usually it’s caused by pushing a cycle out of balance for decades.
The exact same thing happens on a global level with nature. The machine slowly fails. But since the duration between action and punishment is no extremely slow, and since we humans learn by association, we do not learn from our misbehavior.
And later, we go to the doctors, let them give us tons of pills for everything, and even the doctors tell us the lie, that “it’s just because you’re old”. (Mind you, that of course there are some things that really are because of old age. But e.g. gout and hair loss definitely aren’t.)
Also until now, it did not affect our ability to reproduce. So it really did not matter that much. But in the last years/decades, infertility rates rose dramatically, and the overall effort to keep ourselves alive and (in the illusion of being) “healthy” rises and rises. I once extrapolated a graph of those infertility rates, and by my prediction, if it does not flatten out somewhere, all humanity will be unable to reproduce in around 3 generations.
I just hope we will notice, until it’s too late. But I don’t expect everyone to notice. Natural selection will finally do its job again.:)
So I decided, to also become a hacker on another level. To hack world’s most advanced machine: The human body. So that even if most of humanity goes down the drain, I (my genes any my ideas) will be one of the few, who will be left. And I think for people like us here on Slashdot, who pride themselves in being so good with such complex machines, that would be the ultimate mastery, wouldn’t it?
Childish approach? He’s just mimicking the $puppet1 Standard Operating Procedure. Yeah I can see how that’s childish.
I’m not sure if you’re trying to say that the $puppet2s are no less or more childish than the $puppet1s (if you are, I agree with you) but you do know that he’s a $puppet2 with, of course, a history of controversies, right?
You seem to be confused in thinking it’s “$puppet1 Standard Operating Procedure” when in reality it”s "Politician Standard Operating Procedure."
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Quality though, is often considered to be higher on the German Wikipedia
Citation Needed
[Citation Needed]
P.S.: Would you believe any shit out there, as soon as someone finds someone else stating it to be true? Wikipedia does. And that’s why I will never ever trust Wikipedia for anything.
That way, he'll either write Haikus and become a rock star programmer,
or write Haikus and go raving mad and prove the rest of Hilbert's unsolved problems.
I thought that’s the same thing... ^^
Oh, and never forget: Don’t make another basement dweller.
C also doesn't let you do any kind of little errors.
Some people would consider this a feature, not a bug.
No, it’s definitely a bug. Because that bitch does not forgive you any error, but does not tell you about it either. Until you fuck up in the worst possible way, in mid-runtime.
Face it: Humans make errors.
The proper way to handle them, if you want to be strict, is what e.g. Haskell did.
To design the whole language and compiler in a way, that does not allow errors to pass in the first place. And to tell you right away.
Does Python have a strict mode? (In the Haskell meaning of “strict”.) :)
If yes, then add pygame, and you got your great learning language.
(I must say that only when I started to learn Haskell, did I find out, that I knew nothing before that. And that most programmers also know nothing. Now I can program well in every language, because I always have these modern, proper, elegant concepts in my head.)
First of all, javascript is an awful language.
Could you please stop parroting that old and false statement? I bet you know shit about JS in the first place.
Secondly, I really fail to see how he would have fun in creating javascript stuff.
That’s your failure. I came up with many cool webapps. That he could instantly show others. The good thing is, that you get fast results with JS!
But I agree that there are better languages.
C#, Delphi or Visual Basic are a lot better languages to start with,
Now you must be kidding!
Visual Basic? Of all languages?? Why didn’t you think that to the end and said Intercal? ^^ There is no worse language to start with.
Delphi? I am a pretty good Delphi programmer. And it’s an outdated piece of shit of a language. I am very happy that I could move on.
C#? Yeah right. Tie him to windows right from the start. And do so with one of the ugliest language families in human history. C-based languages are nice if you want to do micromanagement. But it’s quite the opposite of a “my first language” language.
In conclusion, one could draw tetrahedron. With VB, Delphi and C# as the lower points, and Intercal (as the natural conclusion of a merge) being the top end. ^^
Because if he isn”t, he will never be.
Sorry, but I know a bit about the topic, and that is just not true.
Because you can make people be interested about something. Marketing for example is all about this. Leadership even more.
There are some things that you have to know, to get someone motivated though.
And there is the moral question if you actually want to manipulate someone that way.
(Well, in reality, we do it all the time. Everyone you ever looked up to, did this. Not out of evilness. But it’s just natural. Everyone tries to dominate a bit. Men more than women. And nearly everyone does it in a good way.)
But I already explained, how to motivate, in my earlier comment.
Protip: If you push like a waste press, you instantly lose the game. Instead, be the light that pulls others in. :)
Create the perfect motivating balance between too hard and too easy. The more close to perfect, the more motivation it will create.
That can really be all there is, so someone has fun, is motivated and interested.
Of course you can make it into a game, by
seeing it as a toy (something that you manipulate out of curiosity, and that is fun [happiness with surprises]),
and then creating goals to be reached by problem solving. (Usual goals are, to understand/learn interesting things, and to have fun.)
I’d say some LEGO robotics, controlled by Python, should be a fun toy. :)
And creating “levels” with goals, obstacles and surprises, and an end boss/level should make it a good game.
Add real rewards with a value, and you got tons of motivation too. ^^
P.S.: Be sure that you teach him social dynamics and how to handle girls with the same approach next year, so he does not end up in your basement. ^^ (Programming and being good with girls are not mutually exclusive. That’s just what we are socially conditioned to think. But what stops you from doing both? Nothing. You just have to allow yourself to go full scale. How hard is it, to decide that you will be like that. And then just be like that. :)
Well, what do you expect for $850!?! ^^
I mean, think about it. It’s very likely cheaper than your computer. And if you buy it used in one year, it’s so cheap, you could wreck it, and not even care much. (Of course in India, that’s a bit different, as they are not so rich. But still. That’s no price.)
Tell that to the “dark energy” crowd. They are all about getting the expected results. Because they went “Well that‘s wrong. Guys come here and let’s invent some voodoo stuff, because our theory can’s possibly be wrong“. ^^
Protip: Nature is always right. By definition.
Says the guy who pops them like candy...
My friend did take them exactly once. And never again.
Of course, now your ability to handle anxiety without it is (at least partially) gone.
But it’s oh so nice to just pop a pill and be done with it.
Also, what an epic fail is it, to just run away from your fears all your life? In reality, you would have to face them. And grow in the process. Being prepared for the future. Like a muscle.
Oh, and wanna know why you take them on a regular basis? Because you can’t do without them anymore! That’s half the point of those pills. After all they are a addictive drug.
Good luck with the incredible fear and uneasiness that will overcome you, as soon as you try to stop taking them. Go ahead. Try it. lol.
You may have tried to go for funny. But you’r actually more true than you might think. :)
Who profits from this?
It’s a bit hard. I guess getting used to such a t(h)reatment profits the control freaks who then use it for profit and power.
But other than that?
I mean it’s clear that the only reason the TSA did ignore all usual precautions, did ignore that that guy was on that terror list already, and did not even listen to his own father, calling in, and warning them that this exact thing was going to happen, is that the TSA just was happy to get another justification for its existence and power lever.
I think the perceived cause/effect relationship is wrong here. In my opinion, the new rules are not because of that guy. No, that guy did what he did, because the TSA wanted to push trough new rules. He’s just another random straw-man.
At least that’s what comes out when you “follow the profit”, and assume that they are not totally retarded.
Why that assumption? Simple: If the TSA would be dumb, they would already be replaced by more intelligent criminals. In that “business” you don’t survive long if you’re dumb. So we really can’t in any way assume that they are just being dumb. That’s like a car salesman going “Oh, sorry that I wrecked your car. I guess I must be a bad driver. Me dumb. Sorry.”. Would you believe him? ^^ See... :)
In the name of probably pretty much all of us:
1. Unless yo smoke weed: Shut the fuck up about your “cloud“ shit!
2. iPhones, iPods, iAssplugs, iBubbles, iFails: See point 1.
3. It is OK to call hooters 'knockers' and sometimes snack trays
4. It is wrong to be French (Yeah, that was the point 4 you always forgot. ^^)
5. PROFIT
"Most sad thing about it was that they had camps where they trained 5-6 year old boys to exercise physically and to mentally think without fear of enemy, while learning military tactics and strategies."
That’s an invention of the Prussian era. It’s called “school”! ^^ (Seriously! That’s the point and how school started. And you wondered why it’s so dull, just trains people to follow without thinking and also to do automate tasks.)
$35 a DAY??
Here you get a server with a serial console for 40€ a MONTH!
Maybe the law is still a bit backwards, but you must agree that that’s a very fitting analogy.
I’d sue them, encrypt the hard disk (with booting a tiny system that then asks for the password via a ssh terminal connection), and move to another provider. If in any way possible all at the same time. ^^
WTF. Just seriously WTF.
You could even sue them for lost profits because of the server being down. Or for hacking into it, for “rooting” it. I bet a lawyer could come up with a package that would blast their sorry asses to the gamma quadrant and back. ^^
Benzoes? How did a friend say: I tried everything. Even Heroine. But that benzo shit? That’s even worse!
That’s simple to explain: Good alcohol has little fusel alcohols. Which are a product of incomplete transformation to alcohol. Or of adding sugar to it. And whiskey simply has more of them, as the strongly distilled vodka.
The sugar (and cheap alcoholic products) inside is why cocktails can be even worse.
No, I found the perfect solution. Tested an proven many, manyy times by me and friends of mine:
Eat a really nice filet steak *before* going out! Or something similar. The redder, the better! (Less destroyed molecules.)
I never have hangovers anymore. I can’t remember the last time I had one. Even if I drink like a hole.
Aaah, shit. I forgot to read TFS.
Now where is the delete button for my comment??
Or: What is the ^H equivalent for whole comments?
...that in the real world, alcohol making you drunk is the whole point! We certainly don’t drink it because of the bitter, burning taste. ^^
If this had any chance of being a success, then people would already prefer non-alcoholic cocktails and brews for a looong time.
And I don’t see that being the case, or ever happening.
You mean like the average lifespan in Afghanistan was (in the 80s) at 35 (and probably still is)? :)
You can guess the *cough*cold*cough* main *cough*war*cough* reasons for that. ^^
(My father is Afghani, so I think I know this.
That’s the thing: There is a “too much”. Like with “sanitation“/antibiotics.
You essentially need that massive amount microbes in your digestive system, to digest your food. They are as much a part of you, as your heart or your brain.
If you kill them, you kill yourself!
If you ever had a wrecked digestive system, you know what you are talking about. Not only dose life become really shitty. It even changes your character. And not only as secondary effects. But because your digestive system got just as much neurons as your brain, and the messed up digestion messes with those neurons too.
Just as you got a protective film on your tongue, and on your whole skin.
If you kill them off, you basically lose the firewall and part of your PSU. Good luck withstanding the DDOS and botnet shitstorm and the hurricane outside then...
Sure you can try to recreate protection in form of chemicals and bubble boy bubbles. But what’s the point, if you already got a extremely effective system that’s been in use and improvement since millions, if not billions of years.
Those who do not understand nature are doomed to recreate it. Badly. ^^
I am someone, who always seeks to find simple rules that describe complex mechanisms and patterns. And if there is one all-encompassing mechanism in nature, that can be described by simple rules, it’s that of the cycles and balances.
In our bodies, as in all of nature.
See, they are complex systems of interacting cycles, that are in perfect balance.
If you change something... anything... no matter how small it seems... it influences the whole cycle. Then it can create a feedback loop. And it can spread to related cycles. And so on, and so on...
Until in the end, it falls into another less perfect balance... or everything dies.
Until now, we always had luck, since the cycles often had good fallback mechanisms that made them still run stable for decades.
A good example for the body, are most of those “age-related” diseases. They don’t come because of old age. They come with old age. They are the reason for a not-so-stable cycle/system that starts to fail after decades. So nearly nobody links them to the original cause. Usually it’s caused by pushing a cycle out of balance for decades.
The exact same thing happens on a global level with nature. The machine slowly fails. But since the duration between action and punishment is no extremely slow, and since we humans learn by association, we do not learn from our misbehavior.
And later, we go to the doctors, let them give us tons of pills for everything, and even the doctors tell us the lie, that “it’s just because you’re old”. (Mind you, that of course there are some things that really are because of old age. But e.g. gout and hair loss definitely aren’t.)
Also until now, it did not affect our ability to reproduce. So it really did not matter that much.
But in the last years/decades, infertility rates rose dramatically, and the overall effort to keep ourselves alive and (in the illusion of being) “healthy” rises and rises.
I once extrapolated a graph of those infertility rates, and by my prediction, if it does not flatten out somewhere, all humanity will be unable to reproduce in around 3 generations.
I just hope we will notice, until it’s too late. But I don’t expect everyone to notice. Natural selection will finally do its job again. :)
So I decided, to also become a hacker on another level. To hack world’s most advanced machine: The human body.
So that even if most of humanity goes down the drain, I (my genes any my ideas) will be one of the few, who will be left.
And I think for people like us here on Slashdot, who pride themselves in being so good with such complex machines, that would be the ultimate mastery, wouldn’t it?
We do not need them... We ARE them!
They say that wars, hate and greed will kill humanity.
But I believe, that it’s the human arrogance will kill us.
How this looked with my Greasemonkey script:
Childish approach? He’s just mimicking the $puppet1 Standard Operating Procedure. Yeah I can see how that’s childish.
I’m not sure if you’re trying to say that the $puppet2s are no less or more childish than the $puppet1s (if you are, I agree with you) but you do know that he’s a $puppet2 with, of course, a history of controversies, right?
You seem to be confused in thinking it’s “$puppet1 Standard Operating Procedure” when in reality it”s "Politician Standard Operating Procedure."
Instantly removes the distortion goggles. :)