Becoming a road train conductor, which will probably be accompanied by some training and a test or two, would certainly be a very long-winded way.
Keep in mind we're geeks and that we try and solve our luxury problems through knowledge and by employing technologically interesting methods. It is a mere coincidence -a very luck coincidence in this hypothetical example- that we generally get bored shortly before having mastered the skill and that we simply move on and forget about our original purpose.
In any case, you're always better of with knowledge -however useless it may be- than without in two identical situations.
Right now, for instance, I'm studying for the ICC certificate. Not particularly in a country with no sea borders. But the I skills learn through this are mine. And consequently I feel more at ease should I ever need to determine a position or plan a course.
I have no intention to scaremonger all of us. But I just thought of the way to go with a loud BANG when one of the low moods hits me, again. I will enlist to become a road train conductor. I fancy I should be vividly remembered.
Sure, 10 - 11 hours programming per day is feasible. With a few constraints though. 1) You have a clear idea if what you are producing, 2) you're experienced enough to know result is imminent, 3) you have many small successes, 4) you are left in peace and 5) you do this with a maximum of 3 to 6 weeks. These constraints preclude doing so for a company you don't own.
Hi commodore64_love,
Most comments you make I find very fresh and inspiring. However,...
...forced purchasing of hospital insurance...
I fully understand opposing compulsory insurances. As well as opposing disproportionate taxing (like in Holland and in most of the Scandinavian countries for instance.)
However, I have given compulsory hospital insurance some thought and my conclusion is that it makes sense. The situation caused by not having it is that too many won't get one out of opportunism. Rich people can afford treatment anyway and poor people save on it. What's also important to is know that nowhere in the world hospitals run without being subsidised (either by the state of by charity); Running a hospital results in costs to the community. Poor, uninsured people will postpone treatment until they are admitted into the emergency ward. And eventually the community pays for the treatment as 1) the most basic civilisation rules say that you can't just leave someone to die and 2) the poor will not be able to pay the bill. Hence they will be haunted by bailiffs for the rest of their lives. So now you have 2 problems: 1) the community evidently pays for treatment of the poor and 2) poor bastards that got treatment the sneaky way will never be able to redeem themselves and become outcasts.
If everyone pays for a basic hospital insurance (excluding extravaganza like boob, nose and chin jobs) then costs to the community will possibly drop and there won't be a lower class of outcasts caused unpaid hospital bills.
Sure, systems will have to be put in place in order to prevent bastards from exploiting the system. However, the focus should be to protect society from the idiots that cause costs by taking irresponsible risks. Certainly not to protect idiots from being idiots.
This is all entry level navigation stuff and it's blatantly obvious that unlike magnetic north, geographic north never changes. Using geographic north as a reference on an air strip saves you a lot of paint.
Pre-emptive strike on smart arses: The calculation of the true north remains the same even if magnetic north and south decide to trade places.
There's a trap here which you have to have experienced once.
Although I say so myself, I'm not too shabby at programming and at getting systems to run smoothly. There obviously are better people around but I don't meet them too often. I know that I have communication issues and I avoid talking to people about technical issues as my opinions may be too strong for the faint hearted. But I'm a kind person and I will make people feel at ease and I will crack a joke or two.
Anyway, I once tried and became less coarse and soon enough people started thinking that I'm not that good and they started to take advantage. I was encouraged to join the company I was contracting for (cold shivers down my spine) and at one point I had to leave just to get rid of the idiots that became a trifle too amicable with me.
There must be some psychological phenomenon that explains why people appreciate the eccentric as more capable than regular people. The trap is that if you assimilate, you loose appreciation and respect you had before when you were yourself.
I don't advocate being a bastard but I say to remain true to oneself, to have one's fair rules and if the bus must wait for you, well then so it must be then.
The beautiful thing, though, is that because development discussion is held in open, publicly archived mailing lists and all development is done in logged, publicly accessible source code repositories, the interested observer can investigate and come to the real conclusion on his own to see whether either party's explanation makes sense.
Sure, but confirming or rejecting allegations consumes resources. The grapevine "supports" many decisions. Rumours will most likely delay an opponent and rob him of resources.
Spreading unfounded rumours towards charity organisations is particularly evil as it damages their scarce resources. In many aspects Apache and many other open source projects can be considered charity organisations.
Except I deleted my Hotmail account as soon as the service was bought by Microsoft. Must have been 'round December 1997.
Much like dealing with shit on your shoe. A little tedious at first but the stench disappears afterwards.
Let's face it. Here we do not enjoy the company of fine industrial designers.
From time to time we may churn out well designed software, but nobody in the/. crowd will either wear interesting spectacles or smoke stylish pipes. This is one of the few certainties in life. We're just not conceived to be designers and we could just well have a go at astrology or at table arrangement.
That's what I thought until I realised that Maestro is owned by Mastercard.
Any which way you put it, one of one country's corporations will most likely be moderating my internet payments. Nothing against their success as they earned it but it's damn hard to vote with money when the pond only has smelly fish.
On a side note, I came to realize that there's no true alternative to US based credit card companies.
I'll be ditching my Mastercard soon. However, there are no real alternatives. Here in Europe there's the German EC debit card but it is only accepted in Germany, Switzerland and neighbouring regions.
This situation is actually more concerning than Oracle becoming arseholes over Java. Most likely, the US government can influence payments globally.
Who in their half sane mind would even need to hand over personal information?
I mean, you pay for a hamburger with cash and last time I checked there wasn't a web store for you to need to punch in your and your family's intimate details.
... Apache is in a good position to know what devs want. And by extension, they know what businesses want.
Ever worked for a corporation with half a decent IT architecture dept? Apache servers are tolerated at best and are not part of the process of making money. What corporations want is a product supported by a vendor and they are prepared to pay top bucks for that. That is, either BEA Weblogic or IBM Websphere.
Not to knock Apache -they make many a dev's life happier to live- or any other community effort, but to shine a realistic light in the whole.
take his license away and force him to take the bus
Buddy you're on a US centric forum here. How dare you spout such uncanny and sacrilegious crap? I mean, what's next? Pronouncing the "t" in software? Dash it, show the hosts some respect, I say.
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The kg should nod be taken light-heartedly. Many other units depend on the kg. I say "keep sciencing" until a true solution emerges!
Becoming a road train conductor, which will probably be accompanied by some training and a test or two, would certainly be a very long-winded way.
Keep in mind we're geeks and that we try and solve our luxury problems through knowledge and by employing technologically interesting methods. It is a mere coincidence -a very luck coincidence in this hypothetical example- that we generally get bored shortly before having mastered the skill and that we simply move on and forget about our original purpose.
In any case, you're always better of with knowledge -however useless it may be- than without in two identical situations.
Right now, for instance, I'm studying for the ICC certificate. Not particularly in a country with no sea borders. But the I skills learn through this are mine. And consequently I feel more at ease should I ever need to determine a position or plan a course.
Is it just me or is the 4th robot shooting by flashing his metallic phallus? See for yourself at 0:17.
I have no intention to scaremonger all of us. But I just thought of the way to go with a loud BANG when one of the low moods hits me, again. I will enlist to become a road train conductor. I fancy I should be vividly remembered.
Sure, 10 - 11 hours programming per day is feasible. With a few constraints though. 1) You have a clear idea if what you are producing, 2) you're experienced enough to know result is imminent, 3) you have many small successes, 4) you are left in peace and 5) you do this with a maximum of 3 to 6 weeks. These constraints preclude doing so for a company you don't own.
Don't you have to be a citizen in order to be charged with treason?
No, not in a Florida trailer park.
Most comments you make I find very fresh and inspiring. However,...
...forced purchasing of hospital insurance...
I fully understand opposing compulsory insurances. As well as opposing disproportionate taxing (like in Holland and in most of the Scandinavian countries for instance.)
However, I have given compulsory hospital insurance some thought and my conclusion is that it makes sense. The situation caused by not having it is that too many won't get one out of opportunism. Rich people can afford treatment anyway and poor people save on it. What's also important to is know that nowhere in the world hospitals run without being subsidised (either by the state of by charity); Running a hospital results in costs to the community. Poor, uninsured people will postpone treatment until they are admitted into the emergency ward. And eventually the community pays for the treatment as 1) the most basic civilisation rules say that you can't just leave someone to die and 2) the poor will not be able to pay the bill. Hence they will be haunted by bailiffs for the rest of their lives. So now you have 2 problems: 1) the community evidently pays for treatment of the poor and 2) poor bastards that got treatment the sneaky way will never be able to redeem themselves and become outcasts.
If everyone pays for a basic hospital insurance (excluding extravaganza like boob, nose and chin jobs) then costs to the community will possibly drop and there won't be a lower class of outcasts caused unpaid hospital bills.
Sure, systems will have to be put in place in order to prevent bastards from exploiting the system. However, the focus should be to protect society from the idiots that cause costs by taking irresponsible risks. Certainly not to protect idiots from being idiots.
Reading compasses is NOT straight forward. Both declination (the angle between magnetic north and true north) and deviation (the error induced in a compass by local magnetic fields) must be considered in calculating the true direction. The magnetic north shifts constantly and navigation maps are updated periodically in order to reflect this changing. If you don't calculate your course properly (or if you "lost" the skill), you might wind up in interesting places when electronics fail you.
This is all entry level navigation stuff and it's blatantly obvious that unlike magnetic north, geographic north never changes. Using geographic north as a reference on an air strip saves you a lot of paint.
Pre-emptive strike on smart arses: The calculation of the true north remains the same even if magnetic north and south decide to trade places.
There's a trap here which you have to have experienced once.
Although I say so myself, I'm not too shabby at programming and at getting systems to run smoothly. There obviously are better people around but I don't meet them too often. I know that I have communication issues and I avoid talking to people about technical issues as my opinions may be too strong for the faint hearted. But I'm a kind person and I will make people feel at ease and I will crack a joke or two.
Anyway, I once tried and became less coarse and soon enough people started thinking that I'm not that good and they started to take advantage. I was encouraged to join the company I was contracting for (cold shivers down my spine) and at one point I had to leave just to get rid of the idiots that became a trifle too amicable with me.
There must be some psychological phenomenon that explains why people appreciate the eccentric as more capable than regular people. The trap is that if you assimilate, you loose appreciation and respect you had before when you were yourself.
I don't advocate being a bastard but I say to remain true to oneself, to have one's fair rules and if the bus must wait for you, well then so it must be then.
The beautiful thing, though, is that because development discussion is held in open, publicly archived mailing lists and all development is done in logged, publicly accessible source code repositories, the interested observer can investigate and come to the real conclusion on his own to see whether either party's explanation makes sense.
Sure, but confirming or rejecting allegations consumes resources. The grapevine "supports" many decisions. Rumours will most likely delay an opponent and rob him of resources.
Spreading unfounded rumours towards charity organisations is particularly evil as it damages their scarce resources. In many aspects Apache and many other open source projects can be considered charity organisations.
This could have happened to me!
Except I deleted my Hotmail account as soon as the service was bought by Microsoft. Must have been 'round December 1997.
Much like dealing with shit on your shoe. A little tedious at first but the stench disappears afterwards.
Let's face it. Here we do not enjoy the company of fine industrial designers.
/. crowd will either wear interesting spectacles or smoke stylish pipes. This is one of the few certainties in life. We're just not conceived to be designers and we could just well have a go at astrology or at table arrangement.
From time to time we may churn out well designed software, but nobody in the
Window's dominance of the PC market has been good in many ways ... increased IT literacy
What?! That's like saying McDonald's did anything for fine cuisine. Gimme a break!
The maestro card is accepted in Europe
That's what I thought until I realised that Maestro is owned by Mastercard.
Any which way you put it, one of one country's corporations will most likely be moderating my internet payments. Nothing against their success as they earned it but it's damn hard to vote with money when the pond only has smelly fish.
On a side note, I came to realize that there's no true alternative to US based credit card companies.
I'll be ditching my Mastercard soon. However, there are no real alternatives. Here in Europe there's the German EC debit card but it is only accepted in Germany, Switzerland and neighbouring regions.
This situation is actually more concerning than Oracle becoming arseholes over Java. Most likely, the US government can influence payments globally.
Who in their half sane mind would even need to hand over personal information?
I mean, you pay for a hamburger with cash and last time I checked there wasn't a web store for you to need to punch in your and your family's intimate details.
I remember Waterloo. Saucy Ikea chicks. Thanks for bringing that up. Forgot the topic completely now. Well, better switch to wanking then he?
... Apache is in a good position to know what devs want. And by extension, they know what businesses want.
Ever worked for a corporation with half a decent IT architecture dept? Apache servers are tolerated at best and are not part of the process of making money. What corporations want is a product supported by a vendor and they are prepared to pay top bucks for that. That is, either BEA Weblogic or IBM Websphere.
Not to knock Apache -they make many a dev's life happier to live- or any other community effort, but to shine a realistic light in the whole.
Long live uuencode!
If you don't get this you'd better off browsing barbie.com.
Sokoban must be based on my sorry life.
Only I seem to live in a buggy level with one more crate than there are spots.
You guessed it, I should sue.
take his license away and force him to take the bus
Buddy you're on a US centric forum here. How dare you spout such uncanny and sacrilegious crap? I mean, what's next? Pronouncing the "t" in software? Dash it, show the hosts some respect, I say.
(BTW, these UL-lists look like crap.)
Today then... Must be a serious contender for second place... For me anyway...
Note to self: Must get a life.
Alternative test:
The moral: Actively NOT doing something primarily needs you to contemplate performing the actual task. And then you have to suffer the abstinence.
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Nuff said.