1. half anonymity, and 2. don't say stupid shit with an account that can be linked back to your real-life (TM) identity.
That's why I use a different "handle" on/. Reddit, Steam, and YouTube/Google+. Precisely so I can freely speak my mind and people can't link my real identity with my programming & political views because what belongs in one place doesn't belong on the others.
Until this bullshit witch hunt of the general masses and vigilante justice of Social IN-justice Warriors completely stop (Ha!) simply because one person dares to speak the truth, or god forbid, have a _different_ but unpopular opinion_, half anonymity is the only practical real solution.
I precisely DON'T use Twitter nor Facebook. You can't say something stupid to come back to haunt you if you don't use the data mining services in the first place.
When you have crap like more people "follow" retards like Kartrashian, then the News or Oprah, I'm not missing anything of substance by. Why would I follow someone else's artificial life when I have my own real life to live???
... Kim Kardashian, you know that she is very, very famous. Some would say that's all you need to know. At press time, she has 25 million Twitter followers, about a million less than Oprah Winfrey and nearly 5 million more than CNN Breaking News.
* So I can properly evaluate the _entire_ context instead of making a flippant judgement based on incomplete data (i.e. 1 episode) * "It is so bad it is almost funny" * I like Halle Berry - curious where she takes the story
-- First Contact will be allowed by 2024. Are you ready for a new universal perspective?
> Continuum (Couldn't get through season 1, need to check it out again)
I'm almost done watching Season 3. See if you can make it to season 2. Show starts off really slow, but it it kind of grows on you as it unfolds.
> Extant (Couldn't get through a single episode... just painful)
I've watched it from the beginning to the current episode. I agree 100% **Every** episode is SO bloody painful to watch. I keep hoping it will get better but patience long past the breaking point.
That's one area ST:TNG did way better -- comment on current issues but veiled. If you read in-between the lines you could spot the analogous current day events.
> For me 'Firefly' hits on the answer. There is a complete lack of competition in the scifi genre.
Completely agree! There is a complete dearth of *good* Sci-Fi.
Here's my list sorted alphabetically: (Note: You'll have to forgive me for including "scifi-y" stuff. Some of these clearly aren't SciFi but I've lumped them together since they had an interest in Science.)
= Sci-Fi TV Shows =
* Battlestar Galactica (2004) - Holy shit, this was freaking AWESOME! Excellent writing and acting. * Caprica (2009) - OK, had potential; worth watching if you liked BSG * Continuum (2012) - Good; Struggles to be great. Worth watching simply because it is far better then the rest of the junk out there currently. Status: Ending this year w/ Season 4. * Extant (2014) - Complete and utter shite and I even *like* Halle Berry (well, I did, before her boob job) Do we get an endurance badge for watching it? SO much potential and it is completely squandered time and time again. * Futurama (1999) - EXCELLENT, Smithers. Oh wait, wrong character;-) TONS of great science jokes. * Forever (2014) - Loved it! (technically NOT sci-fi) Status: Cancelled:-( Bloody suits. * Lost (2004) - Great, but WAY over-rated; worth watching. Ending sucked. * Proof (2015) - Meh. (NOT sci-fi.) Had some funny moments, but most of the time had more fun watching paint dry at times. Never pursues the *interesting* data! WTF. Also, absolutely no mention of actual facts such as: Lucid Dreaming, Out-of-Body, Lazarus Syndrome, etc. Complete disappointment. At least Jennifer Beals is beautiful to watch. * Terra Nova (2011) - Started to like it by the end of S1; had potential. Great cliffhanger at end S1! Status: Cancelled. Forever in limbo:-( Blood suits. * The Tomorrow People (2013) - Meh. Status: Cancelled. * True Blood (2008) - First few seasons were good. Jumped the shark with Lilith. Ending sucked. * Wayward Pines (2015) - Meh, disappointing. Loved the actors. Plot was OK but s-l-o-w. Ending sucked. X-Files (1993) - The only reason I'm listing it here is that because a new X-Files is coming in 2016. Binge watching the series again. Loving it! Yeah, the FX are cheesy but the stories (at least for the first few seasons) are great and original.
These retards keep cancelling the good shows after 1 season. How the fuck do you expect to build an audience if you keep canceling the dam things??
If there is sufficient interesting I'll post my list of recent Sci-Fi Movies.
> I watch any scifi that comes out no matter how bad it is
Not me. I would rather "starve" then watch vomit. Most of the crap on TV is utter shite. Cardboard characters, plot holes you could drive a garbage truck through, no compelling reason to give a fuck about *any* of the characters, bad acting, etc.
At least we can binge watch ST (TOS), ST:TNG, DS9, Voyager, on Netflix to tie us in the mean time.
The problem with the OOP philosophy is that it tends to encourage architecturing/designing for the uncommon case: 1 object. DOD instead designs for the common case: many objects.
DOD is the 3rd tier of optimization.
1. Low-level bit twiddling 2. Algorithm 3. Data cache access and usage patterns
> where there is not enough information to prove that they never need dynamic dispatch
The other mantra of DOD is "Know Thy Data. Instead of having a generic container (because one is under the delusion this is "symmetrically nice") where you need to use a virtual function simply because you want generic polymoprhic behavior -- this will _always_ be far slower then if you made homogeneous containers. It is simple putting in practice the old trade-off:
* rigid and fast vs. flexible and slow.
Games use TONS of dynamic objects. DOD is about asking the question: Why?
By "sorting by type" you remove X% of the branches of unnecessary RTTI. If _you_ don't even know your types then why would you make the compiler work for something? You _already_ know ALL the possible types before-hand. If one doesn't, then one has an incomplete design. Relying on the compiler to do your job -- when you have FAR more knowledge about the system -- means you will never be extracting maximize performance.
> it's usually possible to rewrite your app to sacrifice some readability to make it faster.
Who said anything about readability?? In contradistinction DOD tends to be smaller, cleaner, simpler, and MORE readable, along with allowing for deep pipelining simply because you are optimizing for throughput instead of latency.
Where DOD is huge is in Game Dev and High Frequency Trading -- they share a common #1 priority. Performance at all costs.
DOD has its weaknesses as well:
* Inflexibility
* Takes time to re-write traditional code from a L1 L2 D$ (data cache) POV.
The other weakness with OOP is that people tend to shoehorn a classification system over-top whatever problem they are trying to solve. Rarely does a class taxonomy 100% match the problem at hand. Abstraction is a very powerful tool. Its cost is performance.
> Modern languages with runtimes like Java, C# (and presumably Swift when it gets its act together) can actually be *faster* than C/C++ in some cases because they have more optimization information at runtime...
Except that high performance code does NOT use OOP; it uses DOD (Data Orientated Design) which is far faster.
Guess I got lucky then. But yeah, the GNU toolchain definitely can end up in dependency-hell like you mention! For some reason my Ubuntu box is much more susceptible to this then OSX.:-/ Then again I wasn't using `brew` -- which has its own set of problems.
> It hasn't, because 95 got it just about perfect for comfortable productive.
Except the fucking close button is next to the maximize button instead of being on the other side of the window where you can't accidentally mis-click it.
It hasn't changed because MS doesn't know what the fuck they are doing on how to make _great_ UI. The only thing they know what do is copy others without understanding why or why not.
Window's UI for window management is still shit compared to BeOS. e.g. You can "drag" the Windows Title along the top for every window. One of these Apple or Microsoft will copy it and rave about their "innovation."
You're talk about %0.001 of users. We're not talking about 10-bit -- we're talking about the claim of 6-bit/channel monitors and wanting proof of _actual_ monitors.
Thanks for the heads up 10-bit displays are finally south of $500 though!
Slashdot Mirror
Agree 100%. Automatic Semicolon Insertion makes Javascript look like it was designed by an idiot.
Even Doug Crockford @34:31 "Why am I betting my career on this piece of crap?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Or true masters ...
"How to paint he Mona Lisa with MS Paint"
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
> C++ was encouraging or spurring on the acceptance of the OOP paradigm (whatever that is),
Uh, you DO realize Alan Kay _invented_ the term Object-Orientated back in 1967, which is 20 *years* before C++ took off in 1990, right?
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
* http://programmers.stackexchan...
The solution is
1. half anonymity, and
2. don't say stupid shit with an account that can be linked back to your real-life (TM) identity.
That's why I use a different "handle" on /. Reddit, Steam, and YouTube/Google+. Precisely so I can freely speak my mind and people can't link my real identity with my programming & political views because what belongs in one place doesn't belong on the others.
Until this bullshit witch hunt of the general masses and vigilante justice of Social IN-justice Warriors completely stop (Ha!) simply because one person dares to speak the truth, or god forbid, have a _different_ but unpopular opinion_, half anonymity is the only practical real solution.
I precisely DON'T use Twitter nor Facebook. You can't say something stupid to come back to haunt you if you don't use the data mining services in the first place.
When you have crap like more people "follow" retards like Kartrashian, then the News or Oprah, I'm not missing anything of substance by. Why would I follow someone else's artificial life when I have my own real life to live???
Reference:
* http://www.papermag.com/2014/1...
Two 1/2 reasons:
* So I can properly evaluate the _entire_ context instead of making a flippant judgement based on incomplete data (i.e. 1 episode)
* "It is so bad it is almost funny"
* I like Halle Berry - curious where she takes the story
--
First Contact will be allowed by 2024. Are you ready for a new universal perspective?
> Continuum (Couldn't get through season 1, need to check it out again)
I'm almost done watching Season 3. See if you can make it to season 2. Show starts off really slow, but it it kind of grows on you as it unfolds.
> Extant (Couldn't get through a single episode... just painful)
I've watched it from the beginning to the current episode. I agree 100% **Every** episode is SO bloody painful to watch. I keep hoping it will get better but patience long past the breaking point.
IMHO BSG jumped the shark around the end of season 4 -- right around the time of the writer's strike. But for the first 3 1/2 seasons were fantastic.
BSG never had proper closure. i.e. How the fuck did StarBuck come back?? How did StarBuck's ship remains on Earth??
Gaius Baltar was a great character.
Extant -- "keep throwing shit at the wall and see what sticks." Writing was horrible. Ethan (A.I.) was mostly shoved aside for Aliens.
Lost seemed to jump the shark shortly after the time travel thing. Again, no closure. WTF was the smoke monster??
That's one area ST:TNG did way better -- comment on current issues but veiled. If you read in-between the lines you could spot the analogous current day events.
> For me 'Firefly' hits on the answer. There is a complete lack of competition in the scifi genre.
Completely agree! There is a complete dearth of *good* Sci-Fi.
Here's my list sorted alphabetically:
(Note: You'll have to forgive me for including "scifi-y" stuff. Some of these clearly aren't SciFi but I've lumped them together since they had an interest in Science.)
= Sci-Fi TV Shows =
* Battlestar Galactica (2004) - Holy shit, this was freaking AWESOME! Excellent writing and acting. ;-) TONS of great science jokes. :-( Bloody suits. :-( Blood suits.
* Caprica (2009) - OK, had potential; worth watching if you liked BSG
* Continuum (2012) - Good; Struggles to be great. Worth watching simply because it is far better then the rest of the junk out there currently. Status: Ending this year w/ Season 4.
* Extant (2014) - Complete and utter shite and I even *like* Halle Berry (well, I did, before her boob job) Do we get an endurance badge for watching it? SO much potential and it is completely squandered time and time again.
* Futurama (1999) - EXCELLENT, Smithers. Oh wait, wrong character
* Forever (2014) - Loved it! (technically NOT sci-fi) Status: Cancelled
* Lost (2004) - Great, but WAY over-rated; worth watching. Ending sucked.
* Proof (2015) - Meh. (NOT sci-fi.) Had some funny moments, but most of the time had more fun watching paint dry at times. Never pursues the *interesting* data! WTF. Also, absolutely no mention of actual facts such as: Lucid Dreaming, Out-of-Body, Lazarus Syndrome, etc. Complete disappointment. At least Jennifer Beals is beautiful to watch.
* Terra Nova (2011) - Started to like it by the end of S1; had potential. Great cliffhanger at end S1! Status: Cancelled. Forever in limbo
* The Tomorrow People (2013) - Meh. Status: Cancelled.
* True Blood (2008) - First few seasons were good. Jumped the shark with Lilith. Ending sucked.
* Wayward Pines (2015) - Meh, disappointing. Loved the actors. Plot was OK but s-l-o-w. Ending sucked.
X-Files (1993) - The only reason I'm listing it here is that because a new X-Files is coming in 2016. Binge watching the series again. Loving it! Yeah, the FX are cheesy but the stories (at least for the first few seasons) are great and original.
These retards keep cancelling the good shows after 1 season. How the fuck do you expect to build an audience if you keep canceling the dam things??
If there is sufficient interesting I'll post my list of recent Sci-Fi Movies.
> I watch any scifi that comes out no matter how bad it is
Not me. I would rather "starve" then watch vomit. Most of the crap on TV is utter shite. Cardboard characters, plot holes you could drive a garbage truck through, no compelling reason to give a fuck about *any* of the characters, bad acting, etc.
At least we can binge watch ST (TOS), ST:TNG, DS9, Voyager, on Netflix to tie us in the mean time.
OT, but good ideas.
The only thing I miss from Reddit: The ability to touch up my posts to fix grammar, spelling, etc.
... that they could be classified as a pedophile for viewing child pornography??
Wait till the kids learn how to abuse the law and fuck* every grownup!!
Where the hell is common sense?
* Not literally, but legally
The problem with the OOP philosophy is that it tends to encourage architecturing/designing for the uncommon case: 1 object. DOD instead designs for the common case: many objects.
DOD is the 3rd tier of optimization.
1. Low-level bit twiddling
2. Algorithm
3. Data cache access and usage patterns
> where there is not enough information to prove that they never need dynamic dispatch
The other mantra of DOD is "Know Thy Data. Instead of having a generic container (because one is under the delusion this is "symmetrically nice") where you need to use a virtual function simply because you want generic polymoprhic behavior -- this will _always_ be far slower then if you made homogeneous containers. It is simple putting in practice the old trade-off:
* rigid and fast vs. flexible and slow.
Games use TONS of dynamic objects. DOD is about asking the question: Why?
By "sorting by type" you remove X% of the branches of unnecessary RTTI. If _you_ don't even know your types then why would you make the compiler work for something? You _already_ know ALL the possible types before-hand. If one doesn't, then one has an incomplete design. Relying on the compiler to do your job -- when you have FAR more knowledge about the system -- means you will never be extracting maximize performance.
> it's usually possible to rewrite your app to sacrifice some readability to make it faster.
Who said anything about readability?? In contradistinction DOD tends to be smaller, cleaner, simpler, and MORE readable, along with allowing for deep pipelining simply because you are optimizing for throughput instead of latency.
Where DOD is huge is in Game Dev and High Frequency Trading -- they share a common #1 priority. Performance at all costs.
DOD has its weaknesses as well:
* Inflexibility
* Takes time to re-write traditional code from a L1 L2 D$ (data cache) POV.
The other weakness with OOP is that people tend to shoehorn a classification system over-top whatever problem they are trying to solve. Rarely does a class taxonomy 100% match the problem at hand. Abstraction is a very powerful tool. Its cost is performance.
> Modern languages with runtimes like Java, C# (and presumably Swift when it gets its act together) can actually be *faster* than C/C++ in some cases because they have more optimization information at runtime...
Except that high performance code does NOT use OOP; it uses DOD (Data Orientated Design) which is far faster.
* Pitfalls of Object Oriented Programming
* Mike Acton: Code Clinic 2015: How to Write Code the Compiler Can Actually Optimize
... what's next; banning Mathematics?? Because that's exactly what encryption is.
Instead of banning the tool (which never works) how about going after the _behaviors_.
Gee, if only we had some evidence about the power of peer pressure (7. The Harvard Man)
Guess I got lucky then. But yeah, the GNU toolchain definitely can end up in dependency-hell like you mention! For some reason my Ubuntu box is much more susceptible to this then OSX. :-/ Then again I wasn't using `brew` -- which has its own set of problems.
I've been forced to manually install gcc 5.x on OSX simply because clang didn't support OpenMP.
This is great news. Now I can support both compilers on OSX.
> Good craftsmen don't keep crappy tools.
An expert craftsmen will demonstrate mastery using crappy tools just to prove that the quality of the tool is just an excuse / cop-out.
* Mona Lisa with MSPaint
That is definitely one area Linux is eating Microsoft for lunch!
Servers.
Gee, why are 97.6% (to be exact) of the top 500 super computers all running Linux? :-)
* http://www.top500.org/statisti...
Again in mobile, Android makes Windows Mobile look like a joke.
Microsoft is going to end up like IBM in 20 years if they aren't careful. Still around, but most people go, meh.
> It hasn't, because 95 got it just about perfect for comfortable productive.
Except the fucking close button is next to the maximize button instead of being on the other side of the window where you can't accidentally mis-click it.
It hasn't changed because MS doesn't know what the fuck they are doing on how to make _great_ UI. The only thing they know what do is copy others without understanding why or why not.
Window's UI for window management is still shit compared to BeOS. e.g. You can "drag" the Windows Title along the top for every window. One of these Apple or Microsoft will copy it and rave about their "innovation."
I agree. The 2 best OS's I used were:
* NextStep
* BeOS
Everything else pales in comparison.
Lua is used in the game industry as a light weight VM to interface with C/C++ code.
e.g. One game dev job I worked at we had Lua running on the PS2 and Wii.
We got enough glyphs -- we don't need a fucking symbol for every idea / concept / etc.
I'd rather see a 3DMark Vantage/11/13 figure so we can gauge how fast (or slow) it is. The Valley Benchmark would be good to see too.
I think you have me confused with someone else ...
> As I told you before, we're not in the days of your shitty Apple displays
1. Who said anything about Apple displays??
2. When?
> 10-bit (that's 30-bit A-RGB colorspace) 4K monitors, S-IPS, 28" for $600.
You're talk about %0.001 of users. We're not talking about 10-bit -- we're talking about the claim of 6-bit/channel monitors and wanting proof of _actual_ monitors.
Thanks for the heads up 10-bit displays are finally south of $500 though!
* http://www.amazon.com/Asus-PA2...
I'm still holding out for the "holy grail" of monitors is 10-bit, 120+ Hz refresh rate, 2560x1440, 28"+.
Thanks for helping out with the instructions. That is exactly right !