i can't believe you got modded insightful. paul graham built a successful ecommerce site using LISP, FreeBSD, and no relational database systems. he and his co-developer robert morris sold it to yahoo for 50 million.
think about that before you go to insult him again, and say that he's detached from the real world.
-toomuchPerl
Packaging is the right idea. I do not want to deal with anything but Firefox -- I have no need to. I don't need a scheduling app, and I read my email with pine.
I never want to deal with Netscape Navigator, Composer, and all that jazz again. Ugh.
I don't design databases for a living, either, however, I *am* a web developer. I've had to write import code to retrieve data from Access databases and store it into our systems.
It is not uncommon for me to see really awful schemas produced by clients using Access.
Unfortunately, few users will ever be educated about the proper way to design databases, so I think the real solution is to give them better tools to create them properly.
The Gravis controller won't be any good for playing Halo. You need the xbox controller. What about console controllers? The Gravis gamepad really won't be good for much, at least for me personally.
Moving towards a bit of a "me too" response, I'd say that after installing redhat 9 with Gnome/metacity as the default [but kde apps installed anyway], I soon moved to blackbox WM and discovered perfection.
10 workspaces, almost perfectly customized to how i like it (only missing feature for me is how i cannot configure it to send apps to the next and prior workspace via keybindings)... the speed is beautiful, as well.
I have a Celeron 2ghz machine, and I like snappy performance. Blackbox let me have that, and a speedy work environment to boot. On the plus side, I can still load both gnome and kde apps. The desktop environment isn't what's important, for me.
-toomuchPerl
And the immediate counterargument: if you teach your children right, they WON'T do illegal crap. Do you trust them in a candy store? Then why shouldn't you trust them on the web? You have to teach them to use it respectfully, otherwise it will become, like alcohol or anything else, a focus and eventually an abuse.
The reason not to trust them on the web as opposed to in a candy store is simple. There is a social stigma attached to stealing from a candy store,
as opposed to stealing music from the 'Net, which has become quite acceptable. If you were among a group of kids at school and said that you didn't steal music online because it was wrong, you would be thought an idiot and possibly even picked on. I can't say for sure because I've never said for such a thing, of course, but I do know that all of my friends currently download music and find using kazaa and similar services mainstream and acceptable at this point.
Also, your metaphor for the candy store and the internet is way off -- especially for younger children. Would you trust your kids in a candy store if it was a dark place where pedophiles could lure your children away from you to molest them? Food for thought. A candy store conveys a place of innocence and happiness, and the internet is/not/ that place for young children.
Don't tell me it's easier said than done. I'm 17, and I've had full access since we've had the internet. (four, five years ago.) I haven't done anything stupid yet.
I'm 17 too. I've been brought up ethically but I've also been trusted alone on the internet since I was... 8 or so? Moving up from MSN to regular dialup to broadband/dialup combined.
I've engaged in all typical geek activites on the internet. I've ripped CDs from friends rather than buy them -- despite my part time job I'm not interested in paying $15 for a CD every single time -- I've downloaded songs and movies from IRC and Kazaa. I've engaged in software piracy. Why?
Because I'm 17, and I'm/far/ from rich.
It's cause my parents talk to me about it and I respect it.
I'm not clear on what you respect - it must be lost among contexts. Do you mean to say that you're 17 and you've never even used the internet to look at porn? Or to even download a favorite song or CD by a band that you love? Please. We are 17! This is the pinnacle of hormonal stages!
-tooMuchPerl
"Ahh, the Internet King - maybe he can provide me with faster pornography."
Without a warrant but not without a reason? Sorry, I don't follow your drift.
Take this as flamebait if you must, but why the hell are you bragging on slashdot?
I find this tripe of yours pompous and boring. If you are involved in anything of this nature, you wouldn't be shouting about it on slashdot.
(ducks)I see that you have bipolar disorder.:P
You're apparently some sort of boastful security consultant. Whatever, man. If you want to prove it somehow, then put up, otherwise shut up.
There's plenty of logic to it.
You mentioned you're a physicist -- how do you remember all those rules and formulas? The same principle applies. Writing regular expressions isn't complicated. It just takes time to learn well, like anything else. And "learning stuff by heart" is just rote memorization -- even animals can do that.
I'm not really sure how to feel about your comments.
If something like Lycoris were on 95% of computers out there, where everyone runs as root, maybe some more sploits WOULD occur.
However, assuming that the damned distros that made it onto 95% of computers out there were just secure out of the box (eg. you don't need any damned services running by default as a desktop user, there's no reason for this vulnerability on Windows!) then this would never happen on Linux, or any other Unix for that matter.
Also, this is not a virus, it's a worm. Viruses have been shown to be pretty much harmless on Linux, because of the fact that they would have to have exploits and such things coded into them to be really really effective. Linux worms have been exceedingly rare anyway, compared to Windows.
> What is even more strange is that a 16 year old guy is not even allowed to take naked photos of his 16 year old girlfriend. If she were in an even slightly sexually suggestive pose and possibly even if she weren't, he could go to prison for quite a while.
Does this count also if she's not naked but in sexually suggestive poses? Just curious.
-toomuchPerl
> To conclude, you're very elitist in your vision of computers in society, and you need to alter your perspective drastically before you can comment more meaningfully about what "should be" in the world of personal computers.
In the eyes of Nick Burns, you are the Anti-Christ.
-toomuchPerl
You obviously have no clue what you're talking about in regards to tools that are underdeveloped. As far as I am concerned, you had better be one hell of a C hacker to say that replacing a website with C on the backend will increase the security.
Abstracted high-level tools are what gets jobs done. I wouldn't recommend Java, VB, and C# though - Personally I get things done best with Perl.
why even bother w/ XML? S-expressions are truly superior, and much easier to parse. You can write an S-expression parser in about a hundred lines of Perl, and there exist decent libraries or bindings for S-expression parsers available for C, Python, Java, Ruby. It's much faster and the overhead is always less.
i am surprised it took someone so long to think of IM-based blog. it's really simple to implement in Perl, as there are numerous modules with whic to write IM bots.
they're really not contributing
hrm, think i'll go write one right now!
-toomuchPerl
Slashdot Mirror
think about that before you go to insult him again, and say that he's detached from the real world.
-toomuchPerl
Paul Graham's site makes no mention of using Bigloo Scheme. On the contrary, he mentions Scheme-48 and PLT Scheme.
Also, how do they know it uses Bigloo Scheme? I find no mention of this on the Roadsend website.
-toomuchPerl
I never want to deal with Netscape Navigator, Composer, and all that jazz again. Ugh.
-toomuchPerl
Just curious, exactly how drunk were you when you wrote that post?
.... ot ... havign .. Ligation ... theri .. msoke.. form.. :)
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(ducks)
-toomuchPerl
God, all I've got is some web development experience. I'm on the bottom of the totem pole.
Where's that leave me?
--toomuchPerl, with a battered ego
It is not uncommon for me to see really awful schemas produced by clients using Access.
Unfortunately, few users will ever be educated about the proper way to design databases, so I think the real solution is to give them better tools to create them properly.
-toomuchPerl
The Gravis controller won't be any good for playing Halo. You need the xbox controller. What about console controllers? The Gravis gamepad really won't be good for much, at least for me personally.
10 workspaces, almost perfectly customized to how i like it (only missing feature for me is how i cannot configure it to send apps to the next and prior workspace via keybindings) ... the speed is beautiful, as well.
I have a Celeron 2ghz machine, and I like snappy performance. Blackbox let me have that, and a speedy work environment to boot. On the plus side, I can still load both gnome and kde apps. The desktop environment isn't what's important, for me.
-toomuchPerl
mod down, this has been posted before.
The reason not to trust them on the web as opposed to in a candy store is simple. There is a social stigma attached to stealing from a candy store, as opposed to stealing music from the 'Net, which has become quite acceptable. If you were among a group of kids at school and said that you didn't steal music online because it was wrong, you would be thought an idiot and possibly even picked on. I can't say for sure because I've never said for such a thing, of course, but I do know that all of my friends currently download music and find using kazaa and similar services mainstream and acceptable at this point. /not/ that place for young children.
Also, your metaphor for the candy store and the internet is way off -- especially for younger children. Would you trust your kids in a candy store if it was a dark place where pedophiles could lure your children away from you to molest them? Food for thought. A candy store conveys a place of innocence and happiness, and the internet is
Don't tell me it's easier said than done. I'm 17, and I've had full access since we've had the internet. (four, five years ago.) I haven't done anything stupid yet.
I'm 17 too. I've been brought up ethically but I've also been trusted alone on the internet since I was... 8 or so? Moving up from MSN to regular dialup to broadband/dialup combined. /far/ from rich.
I've engaged in all typical geek activites on the internet. I've ripped CDs from friends rather than buy them -- despite my part time job I'm not interested in paying $15 for a CD every single time -- I've downloaded songs and movies from IRC and Kazaa. I've engaged in software piracy. Why? Because I'm 17, and I'm
It's cause my parents talk to me about it and I respect it.
I'm not clear on what you respect - it must be lost among contexts. Do you mean to say that you're 17 and you've never even used the internet to look at porn? Or to even download a favorite song or CD by a band that you love? Please. We are 17! This is the pinnacle of hormonal stages!
-tooMuchPerl
"Ahh, the Internet King - maybe he can provide me with faster pornography."
Take this as flamebait if you must, but why the hell are you bragging on slashdot?
I find this tripe of yours pompous and boring. If you are involved in anything of this nature, you wouldn't be shouting about it on slashdot.
(ducks)I see that you have bipolar disorder. :P
You're apparently some sort of boastful security consultant. Whatever, man. If you want to prove it somehow, then put up, otherwise shut up.
You mentioned you're a physicist -- how do you remember all those rules and formulas? The same principle applies. Writing regular expressions isn't complicated. It just takes time to learn well, like anything else. And "learning stuff by heart" is just rote memorization -- even animals can do that.
-toomuchPerl
^_^
-malander
on
dialup.... ...
you....
insensitive
clod!
And my connection is wheezing just trying to post this!
I am a grammar a need grammar checker for my sentences, also like post slashdot. I still have to finish high school though -toomuchPerl
try watching the movie again, "fool".
King Arthur in the context of the original post is IBM, and IBM says "Alright, we'll call it a draw" -- Arthur then proceeds to walk away.
-toomuchPerl
Sippin' on Jolt and Dew, laid back. With my mind on my cubicle and my cubicle on my mind.
And you call yourself a Monty Python fan? In the context of this quote, it should be IBM-All right, we'll call it a draw.
Jeez.
-toomuchPerl
If something like Lycoris were on 95% of computers out there, where everyone runs as root, maybe some more sploits WOULD occur.
However, assuming that the damned distros that made it onto 95% of computers out there were just secure out of the box (eg. you don't need any damned services running by default as a desktop user, there's no reason for this vulnerability on Windows!) then this would never happen on Linux, or any other Unix for that matter.
Also, this is not a virus, it's a worm. Viruses have been shown to be pretty much harmless on Linux, because of the fact that they would have to have exploits and such things coded into them to be really really effective. Linux worms have been exceedingly rare anyway, compared to Windows.
-toomuchPerl
Does this count also if she's not naked but in sexually suggestive poses?
Just curious.
-toomuchPerl
In the eyes of Nick Burns, you are the Anti-Christ.
-toomuchPerl
Oh man, you look at kiddie horses?! The older ones are waaaaaaay hotter though!
-toomuchPerl
Albeit a hardly hilarious one.
Abstracted high-level tools are what gets jobs done. I wouldn't recommend Java, VB, and C# though - Personally I get things done best with Perl.
-toomuchPerl
--toomuchPerl
they're really not contributing hrm, think i'll go write one right now!
-toomuchPerl