great post! I wanted to answer "why use self replication in propagation of civilization?" I hate to use the example, but stargate universe covers it and the idea is sound - robotic, autonomous discovery and establishment of forward bases is the only REAL logical choice for travel at all. I imagine us organics would only be interested in hanging out in gravity wells anyway, they are comfy and safe from technological collapse.
in any case, a flotilla of tame berserkers (machines that self replicate to destroy all life, the standard technology out-of-control cliche) are actually an excellent idea. Perhaps the only thing worth doing, now, today.
so very true. Government agencies can train people with specialities that private industry would look at as wasteful - but thats because private industries' involvement ends at their front door. There are some things you/cannot/ accomplish alone. Humans are communal. Government is a given.
Privatize-everything-people are either stupid, or control freaks - but they are not as efficient as they want to think in accomplishing greatness. It takes a whole/people/ to do that - Not any one company.
shy is another word for developed-efficient-point-to-point comms and gave up on radio a long time ago. Then again, i suppose you'd have a peep or two... if we were in the right 100,000 years or so. You never know what civilization might pop up to radio intelligence out there... or when.
that is not true at all? what stops you from compiling the HTML/XML and emitting an intermediate form that doesn't require all that? what if i made XML that merely called C functions, using the id of the xml node as the id of function call? It would be plenty fast. Again, nothing about XML in and of itself precludes speed - and the DOM approach to UI's is very nice! the lack of speed, in the case of HTML in the real world, is caused by a slow rendering engine, IMHO. if security wasn't such a big deal, HTML might go very fast indeed - even as fast as compiled game application go.
But we don't have that. We have the stack, as you mentioned, slowing us down. But XML itself doesn't infer the existence of that stack.
there is nothing about XML applications or the DOM, per say, that make it suck. Apple has a "dom" (nib files) and it works quite well. The problem is obviously somewhere else. Something that could go faster, but we don't - for security, or for compatibility with magazines-in-html... but nothing about HTML, in and of itself has to be that slow, imho.
except that we actually get something of identifiable value when we buy coffee. We get only some vague concept of value when we buy information - and there is no parallel between what we pay and what we get! It's not rational. So i don't buy apps.
taxation is in no way government theft. Ghandi wrote that if you oppose a thing, do not participate. Have fun with your privatized fire departments. Oh wait, fire depts are run by volunteers. I guess volunteering is against your damned political agenda, too. It all boils down into misguided selfishness - you have no idea what it takes to make you stay alive. And that's why america is great; you don't have to. lucky for you.
objectivism is a cult in that it's members cling to each other's repeated lies to validate their position that boils down into selfishness, pure and simple. It is a cult in that SHE is the center - the self-appointed lightning rod - of an entire group of people who hold a religious belief (i.e not founded on a rational argument) that it's okay to screw people, so long as it fits a personal notion of "progress", whether for or against the bill of rights, the constitution, or any other moral limitation. In other words, a dangerously immoral people looking to a single person as justification; a cult.
objectivism is a cult in that it's members cling to each other's repeated lies to validate their position that boils down into selfishness, pure and simple. It is a cult in that SHE is the center - the self-appointed lightning rod - of an entire group of people who hold a religious belief (i.e not founded on a rational argument) that it's okay to screw people, so long as it fits a personal notion of "progress", bill of rights, et. al. included.
What does the number of cores have to do with a "good, strong" GPU, or a lag of the UI? Lag is usually interrupt-based (think network or disk access), or the result of software, when operations are poorly ordered and/or uncached lookups perform often.. therefore your benchmark has a rabbit with a pancake on it's head -
That was the dumbest remark possible - as the other poster indicated - and this anonymous poster we all know he'll stay one. Another "it" masturbating to the sound of it's own voice. Ayn Rand was a sociopath, who profited from the system she detested, and hypocrits one and all.
Read the linked comment about XP. On his setup of "two 90/hr contractors" not being better then one: how about 1 70/hr and a 35/hr one? I have seen *very* good coders routinely spend forever on simple issues, spending the the night working to find things that were almost proofreading in nature. Not the way I want to time spent. The second coder can help keep the first developer sane in approach,, focused, and with a venue to verbalize approaches, not least of which is because only when you teach a thing, can you possibly claim to have written quality code.
Not needed you say? Okay, can you find the error i made in the paragraph above? (I'm not joking, start a timer, how long did it take you to find? It's there!). Why should a project stall for half a day because of something like that, something that doesn't take big brains, but a perspective that is merely different? BTW, try not to post the answer below, so others can have fun; the point is that having two people write code together can be really, really effective so long as a chain of command is established and respected, not to mention an amazing way to develop talent in-house!
i love my macbook and you can pry it from my cold dead hands - i code *better* on osx, simple as that. I guess Fisher-Price has gone up a few notches when i wasn't looking! Kids these days!
NO BODY agrees with you. There is no cognitive bias. You are a shill, trying to establish some authority to dictate what a movement is about. You're ego is stunning in it's simplicity. You can have the last word - but ill have the last laugh, because you can't kill an idea no matter how many people, like you, try. Suck on it.
Also, I am sure that a SSD would make my computer load programs faster, but I do not close them all that often. I have firefox running all the time (and restart it when it starts using too much memory or becomes too slow, maybe once every few days), same with other stuff, except games of course, but games do not take long to load either (especially compared to play time).
so you've adapted to the computers lack of speed by changing your behavior. Commendable! when i'm coding, not having the 10 sec lag while it spins up and does a grep means 10 seconds less i have to remember something while i work.
Humans have limited short term memory and anything that can allow a human to process within that short term memory horizon is going to confer a big advantages.. i wish people realized that that specific ability to buffer is quite variable and should not be relied upon, when saying a system is "good enough". Good enough for you, maybe, on a good day, when you were on lots of caffeine and young. I say the computer revolution is about *maxmizing my intellect*, and SSD's do that by working close to the speed of my thoughts. Which is why i love them/end rant:)
may Facebook quote, that i altered from the same source, "Shared sadness is decreased, and shared joy is increased, this is the little loophole to entropy that makes life worth while"
no, actually, you've changed no one here, you made assy comments, and got an answer to match - and saying that anti-Semitism is a key characteristic of the occupy movement means I DONT LIKE YOU - MOVE ALONG.
whoa and YOU will really buy that the KKK represents the whole thing? REALLY? You damn well know if you read the news that, yes, the KKK put out a press release asking their members to go out and say that. so that rubes like you could mad at it, i guess. Yes it hurt the image, but only a jackass would associate the two in any thing but the loosest sense. Fuck off.
I see, so, you think you can tell us who's a "real" human based on your brush so broad, it fails to paint? How, sir, could you say that any successful genius wasn't one of those, one day? But no, you need someone easily digestible.. maybe you could toss "jew" and "n*gger" in there, too?
trolololol you said "occupier" like a noun - because you can't handle the fact a movement can be composed of people from all walks of life. Life - you know - that thing you get when you stop toiling to sound like an ass.
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you did it with a contract. That's like saying you bought a new yacht for 5$ but omitting you sold your soul to the devil for the chance! Great!
you can't read the books once.. i've listened to the audio books about 10 times through. (while coding, sure) test me.. go ahead :)
doesn't change that they ARE a document description - you're just defining document rather strictly :)
great post! I wanted to answer "why use self replication in propagation of civilization?" I hate to use the example, but stargate universe covers it and the idea is sound - robotic, autonomous discovery and establishment of forward bases is the only REAL logical choice for travel at all. I imagine us organics would only be interested in hanging out in gravity wells anyway, they are comfy and safe from technological collapse.
in any case, a flotilla of tame berserkers (machines that self replicate to destroy all life, the standard technology out-of-control cliche) are actually an excellent idea. Perhaps the only thing worth doing, now, today.
Tame ones, that is.
so very true. Government agencies can train people with specialities that private industry would look at as wasteful - but thats because private industries' involvement ends at their front door. There are some things you /cannot/ accomplish alone. Humans are communal. Government is a given.
Privatize-everything-people are either stupid, or control freaks - but they are not as efficient as they want to think in accomplishing greatness. It takes a whole /people/ to do that - Not any one company.
shy is another word for developed-efficient-point-to-point comms and gave up on radio a long time ago. Then again, i suppose you'd have a peep or two... if we were in the right 100,000 years or so. You never know what civilization might pop up to radio intelligence out there... or when.
that is not true at all? what stops you from compiling the HTML/XML and emitting an intermediate form that doesn't require all that? what if i made XML that merely called C functions, using the id of the xml node as the id of function call? It would be plenty fast. Again, nothing about XML in and of itself precludes speed - and the DOM approach to UI's is very nice! the lack of speed, in the case of HTML in the real world, is caused by a slow rendering engine, IMHO. if security wasn't such a big deal, HTML might go very fast indeed - even as fast as compiled game application go.
But we don't have that. We have the stack, as you mentioned, slowing us down. But XML itself doesn't infer the existence of that stack.
there is nothing about XML applications or the DOM, per say, that make it suck. Apple has a "dom" (nib files) and it works quite well. The problem is obviously somewhere else. Something that could go faster, but we don't - for security, or for compatibility with magazines-in-html... but nothing about HTML, in and of itself has to be that slow, imho.
except that we actually get something of identifiable value when we buy coffee. We get only some vague concept of value when we buy information - and there is no parallel between what we pay and what we get! It's not rational. So i don't buy apps.
taxation is in no way government theft. Ghandi wrote that if you oppose a thing, do not participate. Have fun with your privatized fire departments. Oh wait, fire depts are run by volunteers. I guess volunteering is against your damned political agenda, too. It all boils down into misguided selfishness - you have no idea what it takes to make you stay alive. And that's why america is great; you don't have to. lucky for you.
objectivism is a cult in that it's members cling to each other's repeated lies to validate their position that boils down into selfishness, pure and simple. It is a cult in that SHE is the center - the self-appointed lightning rod - of an entire group of people who hold a religious belief (i.e not founded on a rational argument) that it's okay to screw people, so long as it fits a personal notion of "progress", whether for or against the bill of rights, the constitution, or any other moral limitation. In other words, a dangerously immoral people looking to a single person as justification; a cult.
So there.
objectivism is a cult in that it's members cling to each other's repeated lies to validate their position that boils down into selfishness, pure and simple. It is a cult in that SHE is the center - the self-appointed lightning rod - of an entire group of people who hold a religious belief (i.e not founded on a rational argument) that it's okay to screw people, so long as it fits a personal notion of "progress", bill of rights, et. al. included.
So there.
What does the number of cores have to do with a "good, strong" GPU, or a lag of the UI? Lag is usually interrupt-based (think network or disk access), or the result of software, when operations are poorly ordered and/or uncached lookups perform often.. therefore your benchmark has a rabbit with a pancake on it's head -
That was the dumbest remark possible - as the other poster indicated - and this anonymous poster we all know he'll stay one. Another "it" masturbating to the sound of it's own voice. Ayn Rand was a sociopath, who profited from the system she detested, and hypocrits one and all.
[looking at picture linked] Where's the dining table? The napkins? A couple ASIMO waiters?
Read the linked comment about XP. On his setup of "two 90/hr contractors"
not being better then one: how about 1 70/hr and a 35/hr one? I have seen
*very* good coders routinely spend forever on simple issues, spending the
the night working to find things that were almost proofreading in nature. Not
the way I want to time spent. The second coder can help keep the
first developer sane in approach,, focused, and with a venue to verbalize approaches,
not least of which is because only when you teach a thing, can you possibly
claim to have written quality code.
Not needed you say? Okay, can you find the error i made in the paragraph
above? (I'm not joking, start a timer, how long did it take you to find? It's
there!). Why should a project stall for half a day because of something
like that, something that doesn't take big brains, but a perspective that is
merely different? BTW, try not to post the answer below, so others can have fun;
the point is that having two people write code together can be really,
really effective so long as a chain of command is established and respected,
not to mention an amazing way to develop talent in-house!
.5 cents for water, 1.5 cents for bottle, and damn don't you look dumb with the bottle of aquafina? (Think outside the bux!)
i love my macbook and you can pry it from my cold dead hands - i code *better* on osx, simple as that. I guess Fisher-Price has gone up a few notches when i wasn't looking! Kids these days!
NO BODY agrees with you. There is no cognitive bias. You are a shill, trying to establish some authority to dictate what a movement is about. You're ego is stunning in it's simplicity. You can have the last word - but ill have the last laugh, because you can't kill an idea no matter how many people, like you, try. Suck on it.
Also, I am sure that a SSD would make my computer load programs faster, but I do not close them all that often. I have firefox running all the time (and restart it when it starts using too much memory or becomes too slow, maybe once every few days), same with other stuff, except games of course, but games do not take long to load either (especially compared to play time).
so you've adapted to the computers lack of speed by changing your behavior. Commendable! when i'm coding, not having the 10 sec lag while it spins up and does a grep means 10 seconds less i have to remember something while i work.
Humans have limited short term memory and anything that can allow a human to process within that short term memory horizon is going to confer a big advantages.. i wish people realized that that specific ability to buffer is quite variable and should not be relied upon, when saying a system is "good enough". Good enough for you, maybe, on a good day, when you were on lots of caffeine and young. I say the computer revolution is about *maxmizing my intellect*, and SSD's do that by working close to the speed of my thoughts. Which is why i love them /end rant :)
may Facebook quote, that i altered from the same source, "Shared sadness is decreased, and shared joy is increased, this is the little loophole to entropy that makes life worth while"
no, actually, you've changed no one here, you made assy comments, and got an answer to match - and saying that anti-Semitism is a key characteristic of the occupy movement means I DONT LIKE YOU - MOVE ALONG.
whoa and YOU will really buy that the KKK represents the whole thing? REALLY? You damn well know if you read the news that, yes, the KKK put out a press release asking their members to go out and say that. so that rubes like you could mad at it, i guess. Yes it hurt the image, but only a jackass would associate the two in any thing but the loosest sense. Fuck off.
I see, so, you think you can tell us who's a "real" human based on your brush so broad, it fails to paint? How, sir, could you say that any successful genius wasn't one of those, one day? But no, you need someone easily digestible.. maybe you could toss "jew" and "n*gger" in there, too?
You doth toil too hard at failing!
trolololol you said "occupier" like a noun - because you can't handle the fact a movement can be composed of people from all walks of life. Life - you know - that thing you get when you stop toiling to sound like an ass.