I've met plenty of women in business who throw around more verbal weight than any man. I've watched men leave rooms verbally emasculated by a powerful and determined woman's speech. If you said he was a misogynist who continually refers to female genitals as his only insult of choice, you might have a point. Being verbally abusive in general though is certainly not the sole territory of men.
There was an excellent paper summarized in Sci-Am a couple years ago about this -- stating basically that nobody can judge someone else's ability beyond their own. That is, if I'm a 6 at coding, I'd have a very hard time ranking anyone else who's actually above a 6, because I have no way of recognizing their differences in abilities.
By the same token (against Linus), those who are poor communicators cannot properly judge how poor they are until they get better and look back.
I think if we stopped the fake politeness and heard what other people really think, we'd stop thinking its so abnormal and irrational to be imperfect.
I'm a bit sick personally of watching people get fired for doing something nearly everyone else would do or has done but didn't get caught doing. Nobody would dare stand up for them because they believe they were "wrong" to be normal (imperfect).
When exactly did this western culture of extreme niceness happen? I find it incredibly confusing when I look at popular media and see violence and intimidation and power struggles and then in mass news and business media we're all told its only correct to be nice and polite and easy going with each other.
Like all things, I think there should be limits to rude and violent behaviour in the workplace, but this ignorant zero tolerance stuff just makes people fake as Linus says, and improves nothing but the sense of well-being of those who suck.
And everyone should service their own car and own their own property...
And yet apartments and condos hold a vast majority of the world's population because efficiency is more important than personal control.
Actually your argument supports thin clients because screen and UI hardware doesn't need to upgrade with newer software so when you go from that old version of some CAD package to the new version, you upgrade the serve r(if at all) and the clients get a newer faster package with *no* work at their end.
The other option is to upgrade *every* PC when you need more power to run a new package. Having done PC upgrades most of my life, I see the value in a thin client system.
You have a real problem with following logical thoughts, don't you? I made no claim that this had anything to do with commercialization (quite the opposite) and you failed to reply to my comment being that this *is* advertising.
We wouldn't have Linux at all without wheel reinvention, and I think that comment is generally silly.
As to system management, installing and maintaining third party software adds trust and management and security issues that didn't exist in the first place, so its not all positive either.
For hundreds of machines I can see the value. However, my point was for 20.
Agreed. Plus, I maintain dozens of servers with both consistent and independant user IDs. They belong to multiple companies and what with how I know BASH and git, I don't have any problems keeping it all straight either. Some people are incredibly underskilled at sysadmin life if they think 20 servers is hard to maintain.
LMAO you can't even argue the point that was made bu tyou cite latin.
Jeez.
The point was that the article isn't a review at all... Puppet may be the next best thing since sliced bread, but this review was supposed to be of the book and we all learned nothing about if its any good.
This has no correlation to politics. This is the software that you depend on every day to run your computer.
Those of us who make an effort from a security standpoint to actually review source code realize what a real issue this is in the world.
That medical device you'll depend on if you're in hospital, are you sure its not open to random worm attacks? Because some of them are. How would you review it? The answer 'make it open source' doesn't make it better if the article's points are relevant.
Actually no, its a real issue that people should understand when they go about their lives using software. Software may not be what you think it is on any given day, and the importance of that cannot be underestimated after the number of worms, infections, trojans and other malice computers have been exposed to over the years.
Thank God some of the developers still care. I'm half way through Naughty Dog's latest and I'm thoroughly enjoying it and glad I spent the money on it. I felt worse spending $5 on an RPG with sucky mobile graphics than $60 on a console game that's simply incredible.
Production value matters to some people.
My primary desktop has done 97GB in five days, so about 20GB/day and to be fair, I haven't done any coding or torrents on it this week... which is why I only use an SSD as a boot drive.
I'm confused like you, if you're going to use SQL, use it properly. If you want a big flat file of data, just write it out as a pickled Python object or something.
Properly normalized data with properly maintained indexes is efficient and fast despite the people with crap drives trying to prove otherwise.
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I've met plenty of women in business who throw around more verbal weight than any man. I've watched men leave rooms verbally emasculated by a powerful and determined woman's speech. If you said he was a misogynist who continually refers to female genitals as his only insult of choice, you might have a point. Being verbally abusive in general though is certainly not the sole territory of men.
Being polite is a great way to make people who suck at something feel better about themselves. The other option would be improving.
There was an excellent paper summarized in Sci-Am a couple years ago about this -- stating basically that nobody can judge someone else's ability beyond their own. That is, if I'm a 6 at coding, I'd have a very hard time ranking anyone else who's actually above a 6, because I have no way of recognizing their differences in abilities. By the same token (against Linus), those who are poor communicators cannot properly judge how poor they are until they get better and look back.
I think if we stopped the fake politeness and heard what other people really think, we'd stop thinking its so abnormal and irrational to be imperfect. I'm a bit sick personally of watching people get fired for doing something nearly everyone else would do or has done but didn't get caught doing. Nobody would dare stand up for them because they believe they were "wrong" to be normal (imperfect).
When exactly did this western culture of extreme niceness happen? I find it incredibly confusing when I look at popular media and see violence and intimidation and power struggles and then in mass news and business media we're all told its only correct to be nice and polite and easy going with each other. Like all things, I think there should be limits to rude and violent behaviour in the workplace, but this ignorant zero tolerance stuff just makes people fake as Linus says, and improves nothing but the sense of well-being of those who suck.
And everyone should service their own car and own their own property ...
And yet apartments and condos hold a vast majority of the world's population because efficiency is more important than personal control.
We've only had household PCs for a couple decades and sales have dropped off like crazy. Tablets and smartphones? They're selling like mad.
A thin client system doesn't take away a lot of choices, it just centralizes them. There's no restriction on having a dozen OS clients on that server.
Actually your argument supports thin clients because screen and UI hardware doesn't need to upgrade with newer software so when you go from that old version of some CAD package to the new version, you upgrade the serve r(if at all) and the clients get a newer faster package with *no* work at their end. The other option is to upgrade *every* PC when you need more power to run a new package. Having done PC upgrades most of my life, I see the value in a thin client system.
You have a real problem with following logical thoughts, don't you? I made no claim that this had anything to do with commercialization (quite the opposite) and you failed to reply to my comment being that this *is* advertising.
We wouldn't have Linux at all without wheel reinvention, and I think that comment is generally silly. As to system management, installing and maintaining third party software adds trust and management and security issues that didn't exist in the first place, so its not all positive either. For hundreds of machines I can see the value. However, my point was for 20.
advertising has nothing to do with commercialization ...
Agreed. Plus, I maintain dozens of servers with both consistent and independant user IDs. They belong to multiple companies and what with how I know BASH and git, I don't have any problems keeping it all straight either. Some people are incredibly underskilled at sysadmin life if they think 20 servers is hard to maintain.
LMAO you can't even argue the point that was made bu tyou cite latin. Jeez. The point was that the article isn't a review at all... Puppet may be the next best thing since sliced bread, but this review was supposed to be of the book and we all learned nothing about if its any good.
My thoughts exactly. Terrible review.
This has no correlation to politics. This is the software that you depend on every day to run your computer. Those of us who make an effort from a security standpoint to actually review source code realize what a real issue this is in the world. That medical device you'll depend on if you're in hospital, are you sure its not open to random worm attacks? Because some of them are. How would you review it? The answer 'make it open source' doesn't make it better if the article's points are relevant.
At no point did compiling the software himself fail in the article. I've only rarely had packages fail to build when I use distro source packages.
Actually no, its a real issue that people should understand when they go about their lives using software. Software may not be what you think it is on any given day, and the importance of that cannot be underestimated after the number of worms, infections, trojans and other malice computers have been exposed to over the years.
Thank God some of the developers still care. I'm half way through Naughty Dog's latest and I'm thoroughly enjoying it and glad I spent the money on it. I felt worse spending $5 on an RPG with sucky mobile graphics than $60 on a console game that's simply incredible. Production value matters to some people.
Sure, a very few games make good money on iOS. A lot of that I suspect is novelty. http://www.insidesocialgames.com/2012/11/07/guest-post-how-much-does-the-1-game-on-the-ios-store-earn-in-a-day-199k-i-think/ In the long run, I don't think its a problem for consoles at all. I think its a market issue.
My primary desktop has done 97GB in five days, so about 20GB/day and to be fair, I haven't done any coding or torrents on it this week ... which is why I only use an SSD as a boot drive.
I'm confused like you, if you're going to use SQL, use it properly. If you want a big flat file of data, just write it out as a pickled Python object or something.
Properly normalized data with properly maintained indexes is efficient and fast despite the people with crap drives trying to prove otherwise.
I see walking GPS and transit stop announcements ... other people see porn and voyeurism.
Sometimes I suspect the perspective reflects the individual more than the technology.
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Actually the stall isn't public, its private, it has a door -- you have an expectation of privacy.
If you're walking down the street you don't.