It seems like a lot of industries have "esteemed individuals" who are given the benefit of the doubt. Priests, rabbis, imams, tenured professors, elite actors and directors, etc. Maybe in technology we have people like Larry Wall, David Heinemeier Hansson, Douglas Crockford, Paul Graham, etc. What are your thoughts on this?
I like having the feeling of esteem. It warms my heart when I think about what I've learned reading Fred Brooks, Seth Godin, Donald Knuth, etc. I hold you all in revence. I don't think this is such a bad thing. Would I blindly follow whatever any you say? No, of course not. But wisdom is wisdom, and experience is experience, and those of you who have it, and have had it, and have written to me about it, are very much appreciated and held in high esteem. I think this is all very good and healthy and perfetly natural. Thank you!
I read TFA. I don't think Dvorak appreciates the difference between the technology fads known as "bubbles" and the "bubbles" resulting from fiat money inflation and fractional reserve banking.
I need a version of Access for the 21st century! Robust and simple deployment of distributed databases. RAD gui development..Net under the hood for scripting. Etc.
Why do they keep showing me screenshots of the frickin' word toolbar? Don't they know I have real business problems that I need to solve? What 87-step-paper-workflow-involving-sticky-notes am I going to be able to disappear with a stupid 'ribbon' in Word?
When Linux doesn't need to load "GRUB" or "LILO" but can just load "the boot loader" it'll be one more step in the right direction. Having a Proper Name for every thing in the OS is so annoying. I realize that a lot of people covet the fact that Linus (and OSS in general) have lots of choices. That's great. But realize that if you want to bring in Windows people, having two or three of everything, and giving them all their own names, is just tiresome.
Maybe what I am saying isn't so much that you need to kill off one of the boot loaders. All I'm saying is that a distro that wants to bring in newbies should not have any proper names for any piece of software except the name itself "Linux For Users Of Windows". Everything else is just "the boot loader" or "the window manager" etc. At least when presented to the user. I mean if in the dev community you want to talk about GNOME or KDE or LILO or GRUB or whatever, that's fine. Just leave the windows user easing into the Linux and OSS world *out of it*.
I'd like to see linux die. Then maybe all the crazy open source guys would start a new OS that didn't inherit all the byzantine UNIX crazyness. Don't get me wrong, I'm all about having POSIX compliance and all. But it'd be nice if the OSS world gave me an alternative to MS and Apple that didn't leave me feeling like I was living in 1960.
How about a law that says nobody is protected from discrimination? That way everyone is covered equally and fairly, and nobody can complain because their particular interest group is not represented. Anything other that this is inevitably discriminatory.
I thought the BeOS was written all in C++ and it was darn fast. Or perhaps just the public API was C++ and the actual stuff underneath was C? I dunno. I liked the BeOS. Hmm that RC5 cd is around here someplace...
You've never read Mises? He begins with the self-evident and works his way up from there. It's great stuff. Your assertion that economics is not a science is wrong. Economics as practiced by a vast majority of economists is not. But economics as performed by Austrians (the author of this article is one) tries to be.
You realized that citizens understand these simple economic principles. Yet our governments print fiant currencies like mad. I think it's reasonable for folks to try and do a little educating on the subject. Maybe some of this awareness will trickle up?
"The real story is about how people react to new monies..."
No. The real story is about how people react to non-inflationary monies. The old Iraqi currency didn't remain popular because it was old, it was popular because it was not being printed in mass quantities. Recall that if the supply of something rises, the price must fall. This is just as true for currency as it is for anything else that has cost associated with it.
Makes me wonder why medical care costs so much.
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The next time you're confused about why linux isn't making it's way into the desktop as fast as you'd like... read this quote: "Ah, nothing like satire that only a small group will truly grok. *grin*"
Hehe isn't it cute what a small, tight-knit group those linux geeks are? The phrase "self-perpetuating" comes to mind. As long as serious linux folks think it's cool to be a microcosm, that's exactly what they'll be.
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It seems like a lot of industries have "esteemed individuals" who are given the benefit of the doubt. Priests, rabbis, imams, tenured professors, elite actors and directors, etc. Maybe in technology we have people like Larry Wall, David Heinemeier Hansson, Douglas Crockford, Paul Graham, etc. What are your thoughts on this?
I like having the feeling of esteem. It warms my heart when I think about what I've learned reading Fred Brooks, Seth Godin, Donald Knuth, etc. I hold you all in revence. I don't think this is such a bad thing. Would I blindly follow whatever any you say? No, of course not. But wisdom is wisdom, and experience is experience, and those of you who have it, and have had it, and have written to me about it, are very much appreciated and held in high esteem. I think this is all very good and healthy and perfetly natural. Thank you!
I read TFA. I don't think Dvorak appreciates the difference between the technology fads known as "bubbles" and the "bubbles" resulting from fiat money inflation and fractional reserve banking.
I need a version of Access for the 21st century! Robust and simple deployment of distributed databases. RAD gui development. .Net under the hood for scripting. Etc.
Why do they keep showing me screenshots of the frickin' word toolbar? Don't they know I have real business problems that I need to solve? What 87-step-paper-workflow-involving-sticky-notes am I going to be able to disappear with a stupid 'ribbon' in Word?
When Linux doesn't need to load "GRUB" or "LILO" but can just load "the boot loader" it'll be one more step in the right direction. Having a Proper Name for every thing in the OS is so annoying. I realize that a lot of people covet the fact that Linus (and OSS in general) have lots of choices. That's great. But realize that if you want to bring in Windows people, having two or three of everything, and giving them all their own names, is just tiresome. Maybe what I am saying isn't so much that you need to kill off one of the boot loaders. All I'm saying is that a distro that wants to bring in newbies should not have any proper names for any piece of software except the name itself "Linux For Users Of Windows". Everything else is just "the boot loader" or "the window manager" etc. At least when presented to the user. I mean if in the dev community you want to talk about GNOME or KDE or LILO or GRUB or whatever, that's fine. Just leave the windows user easing into the Linux and OSS world *out of it*.
I'd like to see linux die. Then maybe all the crazy open source guys would start a new OS that didn't inherit all the byzantine UNIX crazyness. Don't get me wrong, I'm all about having POSIX compliance and all. But it'd be nice if the OSS world gave me an alternative to MS and Apple that didn't leave me feeling like I was living in 1960.
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Oh I used to work there for a while, FYI, grain of salt, etc.
Also see RentACoder.com. It's a very god place to get work done, and to do work. The *free* arbitration process is fair, too.
How about a law that says nobody is protected from discrimination? That way everyone is covered equally and fairly, and nobody can complain because their particular interest group is not represented. Anything other that this is inevitably discriminatory.
"So I would just be controlling where my tax money is spent."
They have a term for controlling where you money is spent. It's called a "free market".
Hell I'm ever reading the chapters on writing specs. So you can tell it *must* be good then.
I thought the BeOS was written all in C++ and it was darn fast. Or perhaps just the public API was C++ and the actual stuff underneath was C? I dunno. I liked the BeOS. Hmm that RC5 cd is around here someplace...
You're right on all counts, I should have been more careful before I opened my mouth.
You've never read Mises? He begins with the self-evident and works his way up from there. It's great stuff. Your assertion that economics is not a science is wrong. Economics as practiced by a vast majority of economists is not. But economics as performed by Austrians (the author of this article is one) tries to be.
You realized that citizens understand these simple economic principles. Yet our governments print fiant currencies like mad. I think it's reasonable for folks to try and do a little educating on the subject. Maybe some of this awareness will trickle up?
"The real story is about how people react to new monies..." No. The real story is about how people react to non-inflationary monies. The old Iraqi currency didn't remain popular because it was old, it was popular because it was not being printed in mass quantities. Recall that if the supply of something rises, the price must fall. This is just as true for currency as it is for anything else that has cost associated with it.
One word: regulation.
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The next time you're confused about why linux isn't making it's way into the desktop as fast as you'd like... read this quote: "Ah, nothing like satire that only a small group will truly grok. *grin*" Hehe isn't it cute what a small, tight-knit group those linux geeks are? The phrase "self-perpetuating" comes to mind. As long as serious linux folks think it's cool to be a microcosm, that's exactly what they'll be.