#define SARCASM
You must be either from outside the USA or a blatant commie!
The PC correct way to comment is: "When we're fucked we'll at least have a huge stash of cash hidden away for bad times. And we'll be needing it dearly to pay our way out of the disaster." PC but not really smart reasoning.
#undef SARCASM
Forget the "bad" things the USA gave us. These things would have come around regardless. Instead consider that Nash gave us game theory which holds keys to solving many problems where egoism is at its root. Indeed, Nash has been pretty altruistic in publishing his theory (for which he received acclaim.)
What's the Cyberespionage alternative for using a window as a mirror to observe the target? What's the counterpart of sitting on a park bench with a newspaper with a hole in it? Cyber Grouch Marx mask anyone?
When I got my degree, C was the primary language. Then Perl 4 came along and suddenly I could access system libs much faster than before. Then I realised the weak typing in Perl would never make it a mainstream language for business purposes. Perl is not to blame but crappy programmers that refuse to read manuals are. Then I switched to the OO paradigm and Java -learning OO the right way takes time. Initially the absence of regular expressions in Java was the only thing preventing me from making a significant switch. Since version 1.4 Java can be used for most things I need. Java 5's best feature for me is generics. Java 6's best feature is JAXB 2.2. JPA 2 is very usable.
In Java I still miss IPC and a DBM/NDBM/GDBM solution to offload hashes and sets to disk in order to minimise memory usage. But Java SE is turning more and more into a general purpose language. I ignore today's GUI/App hype as I know tomorrow will bring new hypes. I use Java SE as a preferred language. And with a bit of schadenfreude I watch newbie programmers overkilling anything coming along.
Be Professional about the whole operation:
1) Brag about how you will succeed well before knowing what it's all about.
2) Immediately after, seek the lowest standards you should comply with.
3) Then, study rhetorics in order to getting away with even lower standards.
4) Subsequently explore the deep and dark lows and lower your standards to the absolute minimum.
5) Hiring time. Get yourself people capable of realizing your preposterous proposition and seek the lowest fee to pay.
6) With a bit of delay -being late is after all quite chique- announce a result and plan a party.
7) Not too late after, make sure the bitmonkey comes up with a result of some kind. Be sure NOT to appreciate his efforts in meeting your egocentric targets.
8) Be smug about the whole adventurous undertaking. Well, you were already from the start, weren't you?
9) Be a celebrity for making headlines with sub-mediocrity.
Not particularly fond of old Steve. Not a truly nice man. However, I guess that if he were still in power such a lame thing would not have happened. Any which way you put it, being an obnoxious shit reflects badly on the company.
Why do we feel compelled to pre-emptively deny allegations? Why do absolute shits feel compelled make false allegations? Why do we let us be fooled by false allegations? Even geeks -the ones seeking facts or accepting them anyway- are sometimes fooled by false allegations...
I can safely state that boat design is an ancient craft. Most stuff is already though of. There's no pioneering going in in that department. No easy, "minimalistic" tricks you can pull off like in designing note books or tablets. You have to stick to the designing but like a blood hound. Get inspiration, try out dozens of variations, chuck out most of them and repeating the process until perfection is nearly obtained. That clearly never happened here. Improving boat design requires much more dedication and hard work than, say, improving the design of the IBM ThinkPad.
It seems that the modern hull is a wedge with a nearly flat bottom. Exactly like the images we see from the Venus. The structure performs well but is extremely dull. The structure on top of the hull is a testimony of poor imagination. The proportions just don't seem to match. Was the golden ratio respected at all?
Kernighan and Ritchie stands for an exemplary coding style. It's spirit can be transferred to more modern languages. It was thought of with readability and screen economy in mind.
My does:
Never omit braces for conditions and loops.
Spaces instead of tabs. This is a holy war which I have fought with myself. Stated with tabs but after years of persevering I realised spaces had less issues.
In related projects, choose one style and stick with it.
Let the IDE do the code formatting for you.
At any cost, avoid the order of members to be significant.
If you need fancy formatted comment then your design may need a review.
Design your software to be a set of modules and develop each module as pure as you can. Solving one problem well reflects in the code you produce.
Divide your compilation units in units containing data structure definitions and units containing processing code. That also makes your code more readable.
Learn from better programmers and become a better programmer every day.
Avoid the pitfall of cryptic programs. The more people can read you code the better it can be maintained.
My don'ts list is getting shorter and shorter. Most programmers have reasons why they produce the code the way they do. Lack of experience should be met with understanding and appreciation for improvements.
To foreigners the USA presidential election is an enigma. It seems the system isn't interested in the population's inclination being represented proportionally.
Hey, I wouldn't worry about it. Here in the UK, we were given a referendum on introducing a fairer voting system. 67.9% of the votes were for keeping the old, broken, first-past-the-post system.
I'm not from the UK but I read a bit on the alternative vote system. The good thing about it is that it is driven by positive positions and makes tactic voting less interesting. Or, the most desired candidate wins instead of the less threatening or the blandest one. One problem is that the system is slightly more complex. Never underestimate the inertia of the man on the Clapham omnibus.
Although it didn't make it, the Brits did actually consider it in a dignified way. Praise to them for that.
I just looked up the table of voting systems by country and IRV does not quite correlate with influence in world politics. The again the set of countries in favour of IRV is too small to base analysis on.
I somehow don't have the impression the slogan "Hillary for president" goes down well in Texas. It isn't really a swing state.
So knowing Texas is a republican state, claiming democrats will be dealt the shit card practically is a moot point. It would matter but it doesn't. For the presidential election anyway.
As I understand -and I guess I will be corrected here- Idaho is the only state that truly matters. Once International Election Observers are banned from Idaho then something significantly rummy is about to unfold.
To foreigners the USA presidential election is an enigma. It seems the system isn't interested in the population's inclination being represented proportionally. It boils down to whoever wins Idaho. I'm surprised people in non swing states still vote. Practically speaking, fixing certain state's inclinations for 20 years would save money without freedom being truly trampled upon.
Several countries still offer this service under various names. In The Netherlands it is called "Teletekst" and besides being available on the TV set, you can also find it online: http://teletekst.nos.nl/
I read Teletekst almost every day and I dearly miss Ceefax which since a longer time is no longer broadcast over satellite channels.
The Dutch the web implementation has serious issues with synchronisation and page linking. Never noticed that sometimes you see half a page? Never noticed that the arrows sometimes just don't bring you to a linked page? Those are tedious little bugs which should be fixed. In more than 15 years of using the service I haven't found time to report them them. The shame is on me!
You smooth talker! You go in straight for the target. I bet you reel in the gals with your suave words. The world envies you and everyone wants to copycat you. Except for the yelling at TVs and radios bit, which you no doubt must fall prey to. You delicious, passionate human being!
You accuse me of assuming facts and yet you proceed with assuming yourself. Read my reply to Rockoon. In theory even China has a state run education system which kids should attend.
The fruits of the industrial age are borne in the knowledge derived from studying it. There's no obligation in repeating hardship as you can avoid it by reading books.
Like most current, former and sort-of communist systems, even China has state run education system. China most likely prides itself on how good it works. Theoretically. Bending the laws and getting kids to work only solves the short term problem with shortage of cheap and dedicated labour force. it will most likely cause a problem in say 10 years time. So it's in both China's and the kid's interests to having kids go to school. No tree hugging melodrama from me here,
BTW, nice and respectful way of starting your posting.
You my lad will probably never grasp the idea that a brain needs to develop and needs to be fed with challenging ideas in order for it to reach a higher level of independence in later life.
..and you will never grasp the concept that whats good in your book doesnt mean shit to the Chinese people, that are striving for a better life through wealth creation.
You want them to be poor forever? Where exactly are those challenging ideas going to come from? The rice fields that they are fleeing where all they have is the tattered robes on their bodies?
Subsistence farming. Look it up you pompous windbag.
It almost sounds patronising the way you stereotype. Anyway. Any society is better off with well educated people. An educated employee will be able to add more value. Perhaps not because he works harder but more likely because he will reflect on the production process and feed back improvements. Let youths stay in school longer and have them adding value later on.
Or try seeing it this way: There are very few countries with a large base of skilled people that die of famine.
If I were Google I'd wait for the law to become effective and then switch off France altogether. Not allowing other search engines to take over beforehand but still serving the French right.
The finest form of Internet cleansing. Everyone's a winner.
At the age of 8 I apostatised my catholic religion. Initially I was morally blackmailed by my family but I persevered and I eventually got accepted. I simply refuse to believe anything that cannot be backed up by reason. I refuse to even entertain the idea of the Celestial Teapot.
How can we fully eliminate religion from governing our lives? How can a movement be brought about that denounces religious influence in government? A movement that limits itself to that issue and hence suits both right and left wing politics. A movement that is influential. A movement that has no opinion on privately pursued religion yet protects kids from religion being forced upon them. A movement to celebrate freedom from religion.
I realise it will be a long and inspiring way to travel. But which modality would suit best? The problems I see are that a) the religious oppression is either disneyfied like in most western cultures or absolute like in many religion ruled states and both variants are hard to counter and b) "celebrating freedom from religion" might be a bit boring.
Why is it such a big deal that there are 14 year olds at Foxconn?
..because a bunch of do-gooders think that its uncivilized. They equate child labor with forced labor.
You my lad will probably never grasp the idea that a brain needs to develop and needs to be fed with challenging ideas in order for it to reach a higher level of independence in later life. Allowing kids to work earlier brings them money but on the whole working at early age deprives them from development. At a younger age kids are easily influenced and will apparently consent to doing stuff they later regret. Civilised societies protect kids from taking risks they cannot oversee, like working too early in life. Sure, such regulations will not suit for an extremely small part of the population. Absence of such laws will however compromise a significant amount of kids and that will reflect onto society later on.
OK, the joke is pretty lame. But there's a whole subculture on the internet dealing with tasteless jokes and this seems to be one of them. You could Google for alt.tasteless FAQ.
Has MS lost the advertising war on the playground? And does it now want to toss out all marbles so nobody can play any longer?
I don't oppose to being tracked by some firms, because I feel advertisement is needed to run services on the Internet. However, I want advertisement to be non-intrusive.
You can spend a week in a tiger team lock-in session, mind mapping the shizzle out of your next project. Eventually, a desperate delirium sets in, and you'll agree to anything just to get out of there. Thus the design is "finalised".
You're brutally right here. Brainstorming is fine for coming up with ideas. Design by comity is almost always a guarantee that a system will perform the bare minimum without ever being able to achieve the perceived full potential and more.
Slashdot Mirror
We're fucked.
#define SARCASM
You must be either from outside the USA or a blatant commie!
The PC correct way to comment is: "When we're fucked we'll at least have a huge stash of cash hidden away for bad times. And we'll be needing it dearly to pay our way out of the disaster." PC but not really smart reasoning.
#undef SARCASM
Forget the "bad" things the USA gave us. These things would have come around regardless. Instead consider that Nash gave us game theory which holds keys to solving many problems where egoism is at its root. Indeed, Nash has been pretty altruistic in publishing his theory (for which he received acclaim.)
What's the Cyberespionage alternative for using a window as a mirror to observe the target? What's the counterpart of sitting on a park bench with a newspaper with a hole in it? Cyber Grouch Marx mask anyone?
Steve! Still dead Steve? Take that! You good old Android-Crusher zealot.
Burn, karma burn! Let thy fumes rise to heaven. Like from sweet smelling incense. Let us drink and be merry.
I would gladly welcome commodity server motherboards with ARM 64 bits CPUs. I trust I would easily find a suitable distro for my home server.
Java gets used places where it doesn't belong
When I got my degree, C was the primary language. Then Perl 4 came along and suddenly I could access system libs much faster than before. Then I realised the weak typing in Perl would never make it a mainstream language for business purposes. Perl is not to blame but crappy programmers that refuse to read manuals are. Then I switched to the OO paradigm and Java -learning OO the right way takes time. Initially the absence of regular expressions in Java was the only thing preventing me from making a significant switch. Since version 1.4 Java can be used for most things I need. Java 5's best feature for me is generics. Java 6's best feature is JAXB 2.2. JPA 2 is very usable.
In Java I still miss IPC and a DBM/NDBM/GDBM solution to offload hashes and sets to disk in order to minimise memory usage. But Java SE is turning more and more into a general purpose language. I ignore today's GUI/App hype as I know tomorrow will bring new hypes. I use Java SE as a preferred language. And with a bit of schadenfreude I watch newbie programmers overkilling anything coming along.
Be Professional about the whole operation:
1) Brag about how you will succeed well before knowing what it's all about.
2) Immediately after, seek the lowest standards you should comply with.
3) Then, study rhetorics in order to getting away with even lower standards.
4) Subsequently explore the deep and dark lows and lower your standards to the absolute minimum.
5) Hiring time. Get yourself people capable of realizing your preposterous proposition and seek the lowest fee to pay.
6) With a bit of delay -being late is after all quite chique- announce a result and plan a party.
7) Not too late after, make sure the bitmonkey comes up with a result of some kind. Be sure NOT to appreciate his efforts in meeting your egocentric targets.
8) Be smug about the whole adventurous undertaking. Well, you were already from the start, weren't you?
9) Be a celebrity for making headlines with sub-mediocrity.
Not particularly fond of old Steve. Not a truly nice man. However, I guess that if he were still in power such a lame thing would not have happened. Any which way you put it, being an obnoxious shit reflects badly on the company.
I have no use for recreational drugs
Why do we feel compelled to pre-emptively deny allegations? Why do absolute shits feel compelled make false allegations? Why do we let us be fooled by false allegations? Even geeks -the ones seeking facts or accepting them anyway- are sometimes fooled by false allegations...
I can safely state that boat design is an ancient craft. Most stuff is already though of. There's no pioneering going in in that department. No easy, "minimalistic" tricks you can pull off like in designing note books or tablets. You have to stick to the designing but like a blood hound. Get inspiration, try out dozens of variations, chuck out most of them and repeating the process until perfection is nearly obtained. That clearly never happened here. Improving boat design requires much more dedication and hard work than, say, improving the design of the IBM ThinkPad.
It seems that the modern hull is a wedge with a nearly flat bottom. Exactly like the images we see from the Venus. The structure performs well but is extremely dull. The structure on top of the hull is a testimony of poor imagination. The proportions just don't seem to match. Was the golden ratio respected at all?
Who modded the parent down?! To me the parent actually was insightful. Anyone have positive mod points to spare for the AC?
My does:
My don'ts list is getting shorter and shorter. Most programmers have reasons why they produce the code the way they do. Lack of experience should be met with understanding and appreciation for improvements.
To foreigners the USA presidential election is an enigma. It seems the system isn't interested in the population's inclination being represented proportionally.
Hey, I wouldn't worry about it. Here in the UK, we were given a referendum on introducing a fairer voting system. 67.9% of the votes were for keeping the old, broken, first-past-the-post system.
I'm not from the UK but I read a bit on the alternative vote system. The good thing about it is that it is driven by positive positions and makes tactic voting less interesting. Or, the most desired candidate wins instead of the less threatening or the blandest one. One problem is that the system is slightly more complex. Never underestimate the inertia of the man on the Clapham omnibus.
Although it didn't make it, the Brits did actually consider it in a dignified way. Praise to them for that.
I just looked up the table of voting systems by country and IRV does not quite correlate with influence in world politics. The again the set of countries in favour of IRV is too small to base analysis on.
I somehow don't have the impression the slogan "Hillary for president" goes down well in Texas. It isn't really a swing state.
So knowing Texas is a republican state, claiming democrats will be dealt the shit card practically is a moot point. It would matter but it doesn't. For the presidential election anyway.
As I understand -and I guess I will be corrected here- Idaho is the only state that truly matters. Once International Election Observers are banned from Idaho then something significantly rummy is about to unfold.
To foreigners the USA presidential election is an enigma. It seems the system isn't interested in the population's inclination being represented proportionally. It boils down to whoever wins Idaho. I'm surprised people in non swing states still vote. Practically speaking, fixing certain state's inclinations for 20 years would save money without freedom being truly trampled upon.
Several countries still offer this service under various names. In The Netherlands it is called "Teletekst" and besides being available on the TV set, you can also find it online: http://teletekst.nos.nl/
I read Teletekst almost every day and I dearly miss Ceefax which since a longer time is no longer broadcast over satellite channels.
The Dutch the web implementation has serious issues with synchronisation and page linking. Never noticed that sometimes you see half a page? Never noticed that the arrows sometimes just don't bring you to a linked page? Those are tedious little bugs which should be fixed. In more than 15 years of using the service I haven't found time to report them them. The shame is on me!
Talcum powder should aid the highlighting of the rings. Let sphincter training commence!
Sorry to have put an explicit graphical image inside your brain.
You are a bigger idiot than I thought ...
and then
... you fucking moron.
You smooth talker! You go in straight for the target. I bet you reel in the gals with your suave words. The world envies you and everyone wants to copycat you. Except for the yelling at TVs and radios bit, which you no doubt must fall prey to. You delicious, passionate human being!
You accuse me of assuming facts and yet you proceed with assuming yourself. Read my reply to Rockoon. In theory even China has a state run education system which kids should attend.
The fruits of the industrial age are borne in the knowledge derived from studying it. There's no obligation in repeating hardship as you can avoid it by reading books.
Like most current, former and sort-of communist systems, even China has state run education system. China most likely prides itself on how good it works. Theoretically. Bending the laws and getting kids to work only solves the short term problem with shortage of cheap and dedicated labour force. it will most likely cause a problem in say 10 years time. So it's in both China's and the kid's interests to having kids go to school. No tree hugging melodrama from me here,
BTW, nice and respectful way of starting your posting.
You my lad will probably never grasp the idea that a brain needs to develop and needs to be fed with challenging ideas in order for it to reach a higher level of independence in later life.
It almost sounds patronising the way you stereotype. Anyway. Any society is better off with well educated people. An educated employee will be able to add more value. Perhaps not because he works harder but more likely because he will reflect on the production process and feed back improvements. Let youths stay in school longer and have them adding value later on.
Or try seeing it this way: There are very few countries with a large base of skilled people that die of famine.
If I were Google I'd wait for the law to become effective and then switch off France altogether. Not allowing other search engines to take over beforehand but still serving the French right.
The finest form of Internet cleansing. Everyone's a winner.
At the age of 8 I apostatised my catholic religion. Initially I was morally blackmailed by my family but I persevered and I eventually got accepted. I simply refuse to believe anything that cannot be backed up by reason. I refuse to even entertain the idea of the Celestial Teapot.
How can we fully eliminate religion from governing our lives? How can a movement be brought about that denounces religious influence in government? A movement that limits itself to that issue and hence suits both right and left wing politics. A movement that is influential. A movement that has no opinion on privately pursued religion yet protects kids from religion being forced upon them. A movement to celebrate freedom from religion.
I realise it will be a long and inspiring way to travel. But which modality would suit best? The problems I see are that a) the religious oppression is either disneyfied like in most western cultures or absolute like in many religion ruled states and both variants are hard to counter and b) "celebrating freedom from religion" might be a bit boring.
Why is it such a big deal that there are 14 year olds at Foxconn?
You my lad will probably never grasp the idea that a brain needs to develop and needs to be fed with challenging ideas in order for it to reach a higher level of independence in later life. Allowing kids to work earlier brings them money but on the whole working at early age deprives them from development. At a younger age kids are easily influenced and will apparently consent to doing stuff they later regret. Civilised societies protect kids from taking risks they cannot oversee, like working too early in life. Sure, such regulations will not suit for an extremely small part of the population. Absence of such laws will however compromise a significant amount of kids and that will reflect onto society later on.
OK, the joke is pretty lame. But there's a whole subculture on the internet dealing with tasteless jokes and this seems to be one of them. You could Google for alt.tasteless FAQ.
Has MS lost the advertising war on the playground? And does it now want to toss out all marbles so nobody can play any longer?
I don't oppose to being tracked by some firms, because I feel advertisement is needed to run services on the Internet. However, I want advertisement to be non-intrusive.
You can spend a week in a tiger team lock-in session, mind mapping the shizzle out of your next project. Eventually, a desperate delirium sets in, and you'll agree to anything just to get out of there. Thus the design is "finalised".
You're brutally right here. Brainstorming is fine for coming up with ideas. Design by comity is almost always a guarantee that a system will perform the bare minimum without ever being able to achieve the perceived full potential and more.