I have the X11 book on my shelf, and it's about 300 pages long. Most people don't understand it. Nonetheless, there are a lot of criticisms. Generally when someone re-writes a project from scratch, it deserves to be criticized. But X wasn't particularly great to begin with. There were a lot of criticism even when it was written, calling it bloated, etc. The "Unix Haters" handbook has a whole chapter on the topic. So if it gets replaced, meh........hopefully it's with something better (which doesn't seem to be the case but whatever).
Systemd on the other hand, replaces an init that was so simple everyone could understand. Furthermore, systemd only has ~300k lines of code, so it's not too hard to navigate and find dislikeable things, either. People have been reading through the code and finding things to dislike.
The reason people got upset about the ad is because it's clearly trying to use her attractiveness to get attention.
The ad itself is sexist.
Its using sex appeal to get people to do things.
People get upset because they know its a lie. Working at that company will not get you surrounded by beautiful women.
It has nothing to do with the model they used, and whether she's a programmer or not.
It's the experience her managers are trying to sell.
The purpose of this article, and the connection with driverless cars, is to draw attention to the book, so he can sell more copies.
If he had brought up reasonable points, I could accept that, but the points he brings up in the article seem rather lame to me.
all I get is people quickly talking over me to cover up any concern for the poor so they can bitch about the rich having too much and talk about how we should tax them to death and take their stuff, because nobody honestly gives a shit about anyone with less--only about people they can blame and attack, which tends to be people with more.
Yeah, that's true, I actually noticed that.....a lot of the complaining about the 1% seems to be based in jealousy or something. If you start talking about actual inequality, and people who live on $3 a day, people get upset that you are changing the subject.
If MV = PQ is so well tested, why are there still Keynsians?
There aren't, there are neo-Keynsians.
The Keynsians say, "In the short term (so short that we can't measure it accurately), increasing inflation might still improve employment."
In other words, the dispute isn't about whether the equation will become balanced, but how long it will take for it to become so.
Never mind that back in the prosperous '50s "good ol' days" taxes here were even more progressive than they are now...
I prefer progressive taxation, but this is a myth.
Back in the 50s, there were so many loop-holes in the tax laws, that almost no one paid the full rate. To pay it, you basically had to get your entire income as salary (which is why some athletes were among those in the highest tax bracket). I'll bet you can think of ways to avoid that kind of tax, structuring your income to not be salary (or hourly).
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and making stuff up is better than reported information?
No
I'm basing my assessment on the information available
That's your problem. Accurate information is almost never available in news stories.
That's a nice post.
I have the X11 book on my shelf, and it's about 300 pages long. Most people don't understand it. Nonetheless, there are a lot of criticisms. Generally when someone re-writes a project from scratch, it deserves to be criticized. But X wasn't particularly great to begin with. There were a lot of criticism even when it was written, calling it bloated, etc. The "Unix Haters" handbook has a whole chapter on the topic. So if it gets replaced, meh........hopefully it's with something better (which doesn't seem to be the case but whatever).
Systemd on the other hand, replaces an init that was so simple everyone could understand. Furthermore, systemd only has ~300k lines of code, so it's not too hard to navigate and find dislikeable things, either. People have been reading through the code and finding things to dislike.
She didn't put on make-up or brush her hair
Dude, the article says she wore make-up and her hair has a part.
Objective-C comes free with GCC, so it basically runs on everything.
Availability doesn't seem to matter....they're both mainly used on a small subset of devices, for a small subset of projects.
At this point there's no reason not to do anything new in Objective-C, and port what you can when it makes sense.
I really am not sure what you meant by that sentence.
Keep that in mind when you consider how accurate the Tiobe index is.
Hai, sensei.
I saw them all when they were live in BART.
I wondered whether they were real or not, then moved on with my day.
The reason people got upset about the ad is because it's clearly trying to use her attractiveness to get attention.
The ad itself is sexist.
Its using sex appeal to get people to do things.
People get upset because they know its a lie. Working at that company will not get you surrounded by beautiful women.
It has nothing to do with the model they used, and whether she's a programmer or not.
It's the experience her managers are trying to sell.
It's your day to feel guilty.
Look what you are doing to women!
You are preventing them from joining the tech industry.
Why are you so bad?
Oh, what a pity.
If you aren't interested in helping people less fortunate than yourself, I have no sympathy for you.
From what I read, they had under-sampled the female demographic, and that is why the polls were wrong.
My Computer Science classes focused a lot more on Big O performance, while other students Never heard of it.
Any university that claims to teach computer science without teaching Big O should lose its accreditation.
Big O is fairly important.
The guy in the article has just written a book about robots and automation. It was released today.
The purpose of this article, and the connection with driverless cars, is to draw attention to the book, so he can sell more copies.
If he had brought up reasonable points, I could accept that, but the points he brings up in the article seem rather lame to me.
Now please relax, and watch as we show you this ad. A sedative will be provided shortly.
All other things are not equal, and economics fails to take that into account.
Economics doesn't fail to take that into account. YOU think it does, because you get your information about economics from dubious sources.
That's a problem with predicting the market for sure, but it's not a problem with economics.
You can predict plenty of stuff in economics. Seriously, open a book, you're talking like an ignoramus.
all I get is people quickly talking over me to cover up any concern for the poor so they can bitch about the rich having too much and talk about how we should tax them to death and take their stuff, because nobody honestly gives a shit about anyone with less--only about people they can blame and attack, which tends to be people with more.
Yeah, that's true, I actually noticed that.....a lot of the complaining about the 1% seems to be based in jealousy or something. If you start talking about actual inequality, and people who live on $3 a day, people get upset that you are changing the subject.
I think it makes it easier to find regions of the brain, but I could be wrong
If you're going to say how great your theory is, you should at least link to it, so we can know what it says.
If MV = PQ is so well tested, why are there still Keynsians?
There aren't, there are neo-Keynsians.
The Keynsians say, "In the short term (so short that we can't measure it accurately), increasing inflation might still improve employment."
In other words, the dispute isn't about whether the equation will become balanced, but how long it will take for it to become so.
Never mind that back in the prosperous '50s "good ol' days" taxes here were even more progressive than they are now...
I prefer progressive taxation, but this is a myth.
Back in the 50s, there were so many loop-holes in the tax laws, that almost no one paid the full rate. To pay it, you basically had to get your entire income as salary (which is why some athletes were among those in the highest tax bracket). I'll bet you can think of ways to avoid that kind of tax, structuring your income to not be salary (or hourly).