I'm pretty sure the privacy destroying abominations are caused by the management and business people... you know, the sociopaths in charge.
I wouldn't call Zuck a sociopath, but I suppose that's a point.
If you think a couple of liberal arts majors will change corporate behavior you're out of your mind.
Given that liberal arts majors are the ones responsible for hipster-tech like Ello and Etsy, I'd say it can work. Whether or not it'll take over the world is another issue.
Liberal arts majors have not been trained to think logically and solve problems.
I've had better luck with philosophy majors than engineering majors on that point. Also, liberal arts majors have not been brainwashed into the toxic Silicon Valley brogrammer subculture, which is an added bonus.
We don't generally hate liberal arts... in this case we just have no idea of why tech firms would be hiring people without tech skills.
Just throwing this out here, but possibly because people with only tech skills tend to produce privacy-destroying abominations. Maybe some people who are skilled in self-reflection could improve things a bit?
Growing up there was a massive amount of scifi to choose from, from Star Trek to Lex and everything in between.
Ah, nostalgia. It gets better with age.
For every Star Trek in the 60s, there were three My Living Dolls. For every ST: TNG in the 80s, there were three Automans. It's no different with British shows, by the way. We all fondly remember Space: 1999 but conveniently forget (or never heard of) Come Back Mrs. Noah.
Most TV sci fi was crap. Not quite to the proportion of Sturgeon's Revelation, but you catch my drift. The shows which still have a following are the ones which have been filtered from the dross.
(Personally, I think Buck Rogers is due for a reboot, and I kind of want Ronald D. Moore to do it.)
Perl 5 (the first version with references and objects) - October 1994 Java 1.02 (first stable release) - January 1996
We're talking about a little over a year here.
Perl 5 was certainly responsible for the growth of CPAN (and CGI scripts!), it didn't take over C in the open source world. Before Java, pretty much everything was written in C, including Perl. After Java, the field was wide open.
Disclaimer: I would welcome a properly managed nuke replacing the local coal plant (Hazelwood - said to be the dirtiest coal plant in the world), [...]
I agree, but to be fair, two things that Victoria has no shortage of is waves and wind.
I would say Prolog and Haskell don't count as "obscure". Everyone has heard of them, even if few people use them regularly.
With you on Mercury, though. Certainly obscure, and worth knowing for the way it will change your thinking. (Disclaimer: I wrote some of the Mercury compiler.)
My "learn one language a year" last year was Coq. I think that's suitably obscure and also quite important.
The GP is kind of correct in that Java was the first GC'd language which the open source world took seriously. (Before you ask, no, nobody took Guile/ELisp seriously.)
It also broke the logjam. Before Java, almost all open source was in C. After Java, open source was wide open.
However, it was about a bunch of actors thrown into a situation their characters on a long-canceled TV show should be in, who eventually figured out how to use their own abilities to win.
Well, you could do it as a fly-on-the-wall backstage mockumentary (a la 30 Rock/The Office/Parks & Rec/Muppets:TNG), set during the run of the original show.
It's the people who wanted to make Atlas Shrugged but couldn't get studio funding.
Atlas Shrugged had studio funding when Angelina Jolie was attached. When that fell through, the deal fell through. That's the free market for you.
(Actually, it could have been made 40 years ago, but Ayn Rand was a control freak.)
It's when Starship Troopers gets turned into pissing on Heinlein's memory.
Not denying that, but on the other hand, Alan Moore has had similar luck. Also, we're yet to see a half-decent superheroine movie ever. Hollywood is an equal opportunity desecrator.
I'ts pretty hard to see the damage unless you know how things were before.
I remember gaming before Gamergate. It was so much better.
Or maybe I just pick my friends carefully, and it was a rude shock to discover that there are nutjob gamers too.
oh seeing as you brought movies into this
Oh, FFS. Let's get this straight:
1. Clint Eastwood has won five academy awards. 2. The movie was nominated even though nobody gamed the nomination process to try to prove a lame point. No evidence of Academy snub. 3. Neither Selma nor The Imitation Game won, so no evidence of SJW conspiracy. The artsiest move won, which is what sometimes happens. (On a related note, do remember that The Hurt Locker beat Avatar, and nobody was stupid enough to call that a "snub".) 4. The movie made a bucketload of cash, and Eastwood will get to make more movies.
But, you know, clickbait hyperbole is journalism these days. Manufactured drama words like "snub" are the order of the day.
That's what conspiracy theorists have been telling me for decades. Not a single one of them have been right so far. I don't see why I should start believing things that are contrary to evidence just because they've started crapping in my areas of interest.
Every line in your post is wrong and if you are posting honestly when you get out of highschool or college reality is going to hit you like a truck.
You probably didn't notice that I have a five-digit uid.
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What, you don't like Hearthstone?
I'm pretty sure the privacy destroying abominations are caused by the management and business people ... you know, the sociopaths in charge.
I wouldn't call Zuck a sociopath, but I suppose that's a point.
If you think a couple of liberal arts majors will change corporate behavior you're out of your mind.
Given that liberal arts majors are the ones responsible for hipster-tech like Ello and Etsy, I'd say it can work. Whether or not it'll take over the world is another issue.
When I worked in GIS, the "big boss" was a geography major. Believe it or not, that worked.
I've had better luck with philosophy majors than engineering majors on that point. Also, liberal arts majors have not been brainwashed into the toxic Silicon Valley brogrammer subculture, which is an added bonus.
Just throwing this out here, but possibly because people with only tech skills tend to produce privacy-destroying abominations. Maybe some people who are skilled in self-reflection could improve things a bit?
He does have a good beard.
(Oh, and I made a slight mistake. Postel is definitely a Unix neckbeard, but he was never Bell Labs.)
The original bearded nerd.
Uhm... no. The Bell Labs "neck beards" (Brian Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson, Jon Postel, etc) were there first.
Ah, nostalgia. It gets better with age.
For every Star Trek in the 60s, there were three My Living Dolls. For every ST: TNG in the 80s, there were three Automans. It's no different with British shows, by the way. We all fondly remember Space: 1999 but conveniently forget (or never heard of) Come Back Mrs. Noah.
Most TV sci fi was crap. Not quite to the proportion of Sturgeon's Revelation, but you catch my drift. The shows which still have a following are the ones which have been filtered from the dross.
(Personally, I think Buck Rogers is due for a reboot, and I kind of want Ronald D. Moore to do it.)
Posterity is a nosy bastard. Don't tell me you haven't noticed.
I really want to do a fake "WARNING: Goatse link!" but I couldn't be arsed.
Perl 5 (the first version with references and objects) - October 1994
Java 1.02 (first stable release) - January 1996
We're talking about a little over a year here.
Perl 5 was certainly responsible for the growth of CPAN (and CGI scripts!), it didn't take over C in the open source world. Before Java, pretty much everything was written in C, including Perl. After Java, the field was wide open.
Disclaimer: I would welcome a properly managed nuke replacing the local coal plant (Hazelwood - said to be the dirtiest coal plant in the world), [...]
I agree, but to be fair, two things that Victoria has no shortage of is waves and wind.
If it means we can make way for the cylon-human hybrid race, I'm all for it.
I prefer Qwghlmian.
Lua is not obscure.
No, and more to the point it never was. Hipsters do use Python out of irony, though...
The intermediate languages like GENERIC/GIMPLE.
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Appropriate sig!
If you're going to learn one of those, LLVM is a better long-term bet.
I would say Prolog and Haskell don't count as "obscure". Everyone has heard of them, even if few people use them regularly.
With you on Mercury, though. Certainly obscure, and worth knowing for the way it will change your thinking. (Disclaimer: I wrote some of the Mercury compiler.)
My "learn one language a year" last year was Coq. I think that's suitably obscure and also quite important.
The GP is kind of correct in that Java was the first GC'd language which the open source world took seriously. (Before you ask, no, nobody took Guile/ELisp seriously.)
It also broke the logjam. Before Java, almost all open source was in C. After Java, open source was wide open.
However, it was about a bunch of actors thrown into a situation their characters on a long-canceled TV show should be in, who eventually figured out how to use their own abilities to win.
Well, you could do it as a fly-on-the-wall backstage mockumentary (a la 30 Rock/The Office/Parks & Rec/Muppets:TNG), set during the run of the original show.
You're welcome. I'll just make my exit now.
Yes it did.
Not saying you're wrong, but I'm struggling to think of an example. That isn't what ruined Red Sonja, or Supergirl, or Catwoman, or Aeon Flux.
It's the people who wanted to make Atlas Shrugged but couldn't get studio funding.
Atlas Shrugged had studio funding when Angelina Jolie was attached. When that fell through, the deal fell through. That's the free market for you.
(Actually, it could have been made 40 years ago, but Ayn Rand was a control freak.)
It's when Starship Troopers gets turned into pissing on Heinlein's memory.
Not denying that, but on the other hand, Alan Moore has had similar luck. Also, we're yet to see a half-decent superheroine movie ever. Hollywood is an equal opportunity desecrator.
I remember gaming before Gamergate. It was so much better.
Or maybe I just pick my friends carefully, and it was a rude shock to discover that there are nutjob gamers too.
Oh, FFS. Let's get this straight:
1. Clint Eastwood has won five academy awards.
2. The movie was nominated even though nobody gamed the nomination process to try to prove a lame point. No evidence of Academy snub.
3. Neither Selma nor The Imitation Game won, so no evidence of SJW conspiracy. The artsiest move won, which is what sometimes happens. (On a related note, do remember that The Hurt Locker beat Avatar, and nobody was stupid enough to call that a "snub".)
4. The movie made a bucketload of cash, and Eastwood will get to make more movies.
But, you know, clickbait hyperbole is journalism these days. Manufactured drama words like "snub" are the order of the day.
Imagine Twitch, only with YouTube commenters in the chat.
You're in for a rude awakening.
That's what conspiracy theorists have been telling me for decades. Not a single one of them have been right so far. I don't see why I should start believing things that are contrary to evidence just because they've started crapping in my areas of interest.
Every line in your post is wrong and if you are posting honestly when you get out of highschool or college reality is going to hit you like a truck.
You probably didn't notice that I have a five-digit uid.