It's disappointing that Romney couldn't find a diversity candidate
Show a little compassion to the mentally ill. He is a mostly neocon after all, or at least a fellow traveler, so obviously a complete nutcase. Nothing personal but its kind of like those distasteful comments about Obama being only 1/2 white or whatever.
Aside from the political talking points blather that I'm hearing a lot of, the mystification from a pure game theory approach is "why wisconsin"... instead of near anyplace else.
Last time around the 1%er candidate with the PR campaign of "change" beat the 1% candidate with the message of (damfino, maybe be a good quisling like me and the 1%ers will be nice to you?). The margin was 6 percent. I hesitate to suspect that Paul will win WI for the quisling party. Its not like the north side of milwaukee is going to suddenly vote for the white guy who happens to be from WI instead of the black guy, or down town madison hard core leftie types will change their spots either. But, lets assume a miracle occurs and the quisling party takes WI... that gives a staggering 10 electoral votes to the quisling party.
However the quisling party lost by 190-something votes last time... Now they'll lose by 180 votes if he wins WI. Hmm is the poison-Palin effect worth more than 180 electoral votes? I don't think so. On the other hand is the "Gordon Gekko" effect of the candidate worse than the poison-palin effect?
So Obama's getting a second term. Whats the phrase, something like "gonna win unless they find a live boy or dead girl in his bed" or something like that? Whats the tech effect of a second term, if any?
1) Because an individual earned a (pitiful) reward they are not getting, and should get.
2) More than a few/.ers have custom rules that auto subtract 1 from score if a poster is an AC. I had to click to expand to even see your well written question.... could have missed it. Wouldn't have had to do that were you not a AC. People do this because perhaps 50% of AC posts are still *NAA and so forth so you're usually not missing much.
If a new paradigm doesn't hurt, you're doing it wrong. I admit that years ago when I was just starting ruby my code looked a whole hell of a lot like perl, because I was doin it wrong. I'm old enough to remember the annoying switch to, and then mostly away from, OO.
Thats the role of the OS. This idea that the OS has games, the OS has internet browsers, the OS has paintbrush or gimp or open office or microsoft office is all kinda silly
Once their mind is cleansed of that falsehood, you get to do it all over again with "desktop environments" like kde, gnome, xfce.
why can't we just have xterm, or maybe xterm-version1356+++ and 30 other xterms, instead of afterstep's aterm, elightenments eterm, gnome's gnome-terminal, KDE's konsole, gnustep's terminal.app, xfce's xfce4-terminal
expanding Steam beyond games and will start to deliver other software
On linux?
This means that Steam will compete directly with
apt-get install whatever
I'm having trouble thinking of a proprietary piece of software I need... depends on your hobbies I suppose.
One service they could provide is distributing stuff thats "free" in quotes but not really free. I have not checked lately but I though ye olde heekscad was not quite DFSG (would be glad to hear I'm wrong) and I'm almost certain that xylinx fpga software is "free" but not DFSG-free so thats why there's no simple apt-get solution to install those monsters. Its at the point where I assume if there is no Debian package of a cool piece of software its because its not DFSG free, for example the dropbox client might actually be DFSG-free but since I can't apt-get install it I assume its not DFSG-free. If it were, it would already be in Debian, or at least in non-free.
You know what I'd like to pay someone (a very small amount) to do for me? package emc2 for Debian. There's a binary ubuntu install but emc2 is a dependency nightmare (very specific versions of real time linux kernel extensions? seriously?). My milling machine would thank you. I've got a dozen or so linux boxes at home (more if you count images) and one lonely ubuntu box running my mill. A monoculture mught be a security headache but its a sysadmins dream...
Some other non dfsg linux software includes the microsoft fonts, acrobat pdf reader or whatever its called, maybe some other things.
I'd add new paradigms as a third reason. OO seems to have driven a lot of language choice. I'm betting functional is going to make a splash in the future; after all you can't spell functional without "fun". Either that or massive parallelism is going to force Erlang down our throats like it or not.
That's the problem with IT. If HR did chemistry hiring like HR does IT hiring we'd hear stories about people being underqualified because they used 50 ml beakers at school instead of 75 ml beakers at $job. Or "You used 2-propanol? Sorry we only hire people who use isopropyl in that synthesis."
My experience has been education is always a generation or two behind.
When I was a young pup, we all wrote C or pascal but the schools taught BASIC and FORTRAN Later on we were writing in java, but the schools taught C++. I slogged thru "detil and detil C++" or something like that. Pink cover as I remember. School taught 68hc11 assembly language, which is a great education, but poor training as supposedly everyone does microcontrollers in C, or at least the people that talk loudly do, I donno what people who actually write code do. I've done a couple years of Perl and Ruby, so I assume schools are teaching awk and... scheme or something? I'm teaching myself scala so I assume kids now are learning scheme or java?
Proxy switchy gets angry on my desktop linux box, recently it starts whining because its not on gnome or kde and refusing to work, for not apparent reason other than it would be fun to complain. Too bad, before they put that detection code in proxy switchy it worked perfectly.
Anyone have a suggestion for an alternative that is less buggy, or at least does not have that bug?
Is it a revealed work or intelligently designed? I think we can rule out being intelligently designed. That leaves us with a revealed work. Also the deletionists have made a nice apocrypha of wiki pages. So. GOP was taken over by religious nuts awhile back and they like a revealed work, surprise surprise.
Very good post AC you should post under your own name to get modded up.
Your analysis of the customers is spot on with the exception that both your example have immense capital investment to keep competition away and they actually run a profit.
In example 1 Apple could be displaced merely by spending a trillion or so, but realize they earn a profit on each device.. Chinese slave laborers and political prisoners make a device and charge apple $180 or whatever, they turn around and sell it for $600. Hard not to make money in a market like that.
In example 2 your apparent restaurant could be competed against by anyone with $1M to construct a building, pay off the zoning commission, hire staff, advertise, buy cookware and food to cook, utilities, etc. Even so, the cost to the provider of a cup of coffee is 15 cents and they sell it for $1.99. Hard not to make money in a market like that, assuming volume is high enough.
So what stops a neo-hipster from replacing instagram as the new hotness. Well, I can register a domain for $5 and cloud host on amazon or competitors for next to nothing, being more creative than instagram can't be terribly difficult, and there seems to be no way for them to earn a profit. They're screwed.
To me it's more like Facebook is grasping for relevance by purchasing Instagram. Facebook will fade out while Instagram will continue to gain popularity.
This is somewhat insightful but takes more explanation.
I'm technically a "user" of linkedin. I haven't logged in for at least a year or two. Its impossible for linkedin to monetize me. I don't look at their site and incoming emails from them go to the spam folder. The same thing happened to me with facebook. Initial rush of friending and impressing people I don't know or care about. Then boredom sets in. Finally I stop logging in. At this point FB can no longer monetize me. Eventually I deleted my FB not because I was using it and deleting was making some kind of political or privacy point, but because I was no longer using it so it made no point to keep it around any longer as a insecurity vector etc.
On the other hand a pic sharing site only exists as its used. Unlike linkedin, I can't say I'm a instagram user unless I'm logging in and having advertisements shoved in my face (well, if I haven't been using an ad blocker since the 00s, anyway). Like reddit or 4chan or/. or a blog, I guess, all the viewers are viewers, not just dead unused accounts.
Or the medium length version is Linkedin / FB / G+ can have millions of "users" who never get spammed because they never log in, but ALL instagram viewers inherently are spamable.
Its kind of like how a chicken has a distant relationship with my breakfast, but a pig is 100% committed to my breakfast. The chicken can always lay another egg, or not, whatever. The pig however is fully and permanently and forever involved with my bacon.
Starbucks will match the photo and the payment will be complete
Can your average employee handle that? Seems like a risk of clicking the wrong victim. If they require the employee to type in the name first, then if they allow users to select their "screen name" or "nick name" you just know jokers like me will have nick names like "Mr Goatse" or "Mr Hugh G Rection"
The other part is I don't want retail establishments to know who I am. Not because I'm a crook but because its too creepy. I already hate having shelf stockers and oxygen wasters at Best Buy bug me every 30 seconds when I'm picking up something I already researched online at Amazon so having them call me by name is going to be even creepier and more annoying.
The future is probably delivering to your local supermarket. It just makes sense, looking at traffic patterns. Same reason they colocate redbox machines at every supermarket. However, retail floorspace, even retail back room warehouse space, is not cheap or free.
I find it easier to just have the things I want delivered to either the company where I work
I purchased a small metal cutting lathe and had it delivered to work... purchasing took one look at the crate and were absolutely mystified, they couldn't even yell at me, they were so distracted/confused/astounded that someone would do that to them. This was at a suit and tie establishment; were I still working at the printing company they wouldn't have batted an eyelash. Getting it home was quite a chore let me tell you, but at least I was hauling it down the stairs, not up.
My current employer actively discourages people from having personal belongings delivered to them. At work delivery seems to be a perk that is going away. That's sad. Frankly I'd rather have at work delivery than a useless foozball table or nerf products.
actual bench work started with top and bottom overhauls
Must have been pre ASVAB. I still remember taking that test before enlisting and being able to answer the questions, but being mystified as to why I'm answering questions about labeling parts of a turbocharger and which way to turn the wrench to loosen the bolt and given 9 gears in a geartrain complete with a locked differential in the middle, if you rotate gear 2 clockwise which direction does gear 6 rotate? The electronics too... Reminded me of my ham radio general license written, although I was way beyond that at the time I took the ASVAB, but why in the world would the army want, say, a cook, or a unit armorer (aka gunsmith), to be able to identify a colpitts oscillator, or explain why a class B amp has zero crossing distortion, etc. I mean it made sense to me, and made sense for what I ended up doing, but the whole time I took the test I was imagining what the hollywood portrayal of Rambo or the guys from full metal jacket or platoon would do with this really weird test.
That said, I've written my share of quick and dirty code. I always hated doing it, though.
... The agonizing experience of "Ah, its an icky hack, but I'll just run it this one time, you know for cleanup" and next thing you know to your horror it somehow winds its way into production. Oh the pain it burns.
Let's set aside the quibbles, and for the sake of argument just roll with the notion that these writers are mere shills for the Oracle and Google, respectively (after all, that's the notion that clearly lies behind this ruling).
Isn't the right to speak anonymously protected by the First Amendment? Doesn't that protection extend to Oracle and Google too?
Its to protect the profits of the corporations who are not hiring, not the people who they hire. Surprised? Shouldn't be.
I am no one's official spokesweasel (have you read what I write? no corp would be that insane). I can write something jury tamper-ish or jury influence-ish or stock price influencing and there's not a whole heck of a lot the judge can do about it unless I was served a gag order first or can prove I am revealing trade secrets or otherwise doing something shady. Basically if I'm not guilty of fraud/libel/industrial espionage I have to be left alone aside from SLAPP suits, which due to the Streisand Effect are not as powerful as they were 20 years ago.
However... what if I was a secret astroturfer... unless the judge lays down the law on astroturfers on both sides, the "good guys" need to "protect themselves" by hiring their own astroturfers. They have stock values to maintain, they have a financial obligation to try to influence the jury as much as the "bad guys", etc. Its an astroturf arms race.
Its just a huge mess where everyone has to hire astroturfers unless the judge protects the good guys by laying down the law. Its an arms control law aimed at the people in charge of hiring astroturfers. Not much to do with the astroturfers themselves, other than they get pissed off because they won't get hired by either side.
it was thought that they could not be made on non-repeating grids.
I think its a general emergent behavior thing.
So if something really simple results in ridiculously unpredicted behavior, it seems very unlikely that a system that's even more complicated would have to be more boring. Aside from penrose tiles, just look at the world... much more complicated rule set than Conways GoL (don't get started on the combinatorial and bitstream physics guys here) and movement is in fact possible in the world.
Another good example is the more dimensions and neighbors a CA has, the more "entertaining" it becomes. So adding weird topology is also, at a gut level, strongly likely to be entertaining.
You forgot the most important part from an economic standpoint, maintainability.
I can squirt out multi line regexes that are not troubleshootable by anyone, not even myself. Very quickly too. Doesn't mean its a good long term idea.
You know you're in trouble when the fastest way to debug a big mass of regex is to rewrite it from scratch.
If you absolutely must do a food analogy you would do better to compare McDonalds "food" with a fancy gourmet restaurant. Certainly for a given number of employees in a limited amount of time, serving up Big Macs will always win any unit production or economic profit contest, but...
Or if you're willing to permit inter species competition you've got the whole flies on dog poop thing and "a trillion flies can't all be wrong" etc etc.
fake Twitter accounts that are being used to sell fake Twitter followers
Why use twitter? It sounds more and more like that fight club speech WRT doing work at jobs we hate to buy things we don't need to impress people we don't like. Is there anyone still using twitter who is not a bot, bot dealer, or PR shill?
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It's disappointing that Romney couldn't find a diversity candidate
Show a little compassion to the mentally ill. He is a mostly neocon after all, or at least a fellow traveler, so obviously a complete nutcase.
Nothing personal but its kind of like those distasteful comments about Obama being only 1/2 white or whatever.
Greetings fellow wisconsinite
Aside from the political talking points blather that I'm hearing a lot of, the mystification from a pure game theory approach is "why wisconsin"... instead of near anyplace else.
Last time around the 1%er candidate with the PR campaign of "change" beat the 1% candidate with the message of (damfino, maybe be a good quisling like me and the 1%ers will be nice to you?). The margin was 6 percent. I hesitate to suspect that Paul will win WI for the quisling party. Its not like the north side of milwaukee is going to suddenly vote for the white guy who happens to be from WI instead of the black guy, or down town madison hard core leftie types will change their spots either. But, lets assume a miracle occurs and the quisling party takes WI... that gives a staggering 10 electoral votes to the quisling party.
However the quisling party lost by 190-something votes last time... Now they'll lose by 180 votes if he wins WI. Hmm is the poison-Palin effect worth more than 180 electoral votes? I don't think so. On the other hand is the "Gordon Gekko" effect of the candidate worse than the poison-palin effect?
So Obama's getting a second term. Whats the phrase, something like "gonna win unless they find a live boy or dead girl in his bed" or something like that? Whats the tech effect of a second term, if any?
Why do people always say AC should log in?
1) Because an individual earned a (pitiful) reward they are not getting, and should get.
2) More than a few /.ers have custom rules that auto subtract 1 from score if a poster is an AC. I had to click to expand to even see your well written question.... could have missed it. Wouldn't have had to do that were you not a AC. People do this because perhaps 50% of AC posts are still *NAA and so forth so you're usually not missing much.
If a new paradigm doesn't hurt, you're doing it wrong. I admit that years ago when I was just starting ruby my code looked a whole hell of a lot like perl, because I was doin it wrong. I'm old enough to remember the annoying switch to, and then mostly away from, OO.
Thats the role of the OS. This idea that the OS has games, the OS has internet browsers, the OS has paintbrush or gimp or open office or microsoft office is all kinda silly
Once their mind is cleansed of that falsehood, you get to do it all over again with "desktop environments" like kde, gnome, xfce.
why can't we just have xterm, or maybe xterm-version1356+++ and 30 other xterms, instead of afterstep's aterm, elightenments eterm, gnome's gnome-terminal, KDE's konsole, gnustep's terminal.app, xfce's xfce4-terminal
expanding Steam beyond games and will start to deliver other software
On linux?
This means that Steam will compete directly with
apt-get install whatever
I'm having trouble thinking of a proprietary piece of software I need... depends on your hobbies I suppose.
One service they could provide is distributing stuff thats "free" in quotes but not really free. I have not checked lately but I though ye olde heekscad was not quite DFSG (would be glad to hear I'm wrong) and I'm almost certain that xylinx fpga software is "free" but not DFSG-free so thats why there's no simple apt-get solution to install those monsters. Its at the point where I assume if there is no Debian package of a cool piece of software its because its not DFSG free, for example the dropbox client might actually be DFSG-free but since I can't apt-get install it I assume its not DFSG-free. If it were, it would already be in Debian, or at least in non-free.
You know what I'd like to pay someone (a very small amount) to do for me? package emc2 for Debian. There's a binary ubuntu install but emc2 is a dependency nightmare (very specific versions of real time linux kernel extensions? seriously?). My milling machine would thank you. I've got a dozen or so linux boxes at home (more if you count images) and one lonely ubuntu box running my mill. A monoculture mught be a security headache but its a sysadmins dream...
Some other non dfsg linux software includes the microsoft fonts, acrobat pdf reader or whatever its called, maybe some other things.
I'd add new paradigms as a third reason. OO seems to have driven a lot of language choice. I'm betting functional is going to make a splash in the future; after all you can't spell functional without "fun". Either that or massive parallelism is going to force Erlang down our throats like it or not.
and employees need proven credentials
That's the problem with IT. If HR did chemistry hiring like HR does IT hiring we'd hear stories about people being underqualified because they used 50 ml beakers at school instead of 75 ml beakers at $job. Or "You used 2-propanol? Sorry we only hire people who use isopropyl in that synthesis."
My experience has been education is always a generation or two behind.
When I was a young pup, we all wrote C or pascal but the schools taught BASIC and FORTRAN ... scheme or something?
Later on we were writing in java, but the schools taught C++. I slogged thru "detil and detil C++" or something like that. Pink cover as I remember.
School taught 68hc11 assembly language, which is a great education, but poor training as supposedly everyone does microcontrollers in C, or at least the people that talk loudly do, I donno what people who actually write code do.
I've done a couple years of Perl and Ruby, so I assume schools are teaching awk and
I'm teaching myself scala so I assume kids now are learning scheme or java?
There are also programs, such as Proxy Switchy
Proxy switchy gets angry on my desktop linux box, recently it starts whining because its not on gnome or kde and refusing to work, for not apparent reason other than it would be fun to complain. Too bad, before they put that detection code in proxy switchy it worked perfectly.
Anyone have a suggestion for an alternative that is less buggy, or at least does not have that bug?
...did the GOP start believing in Wikipedia?
Is it a revealed work or intelligently designed? I think we can rule out being intelligently designed. That leaves us with a revealed work. Also the deletionists have made a nice apocrypha of wiki pages. So. GOP was taken over by religious nuts awhile back and they like a revealed work, surprise surprise.
Very good post AC you should post under your own name to get modded up.
Your analysis of the customers is spot on with the exception that both your example have immense capital investment to keep competition away and they actually run a profit.
In example 1 Apple could be displaced merely by spending a trillion or so, but realize they earn a profit on each device.. Chinese slave laborers and political prisoners make a device and charge apple $180 or whatever, they turn around and sell it for $600. Hard not to make money in a market like that.
In example 2 your apparent restaurant could be competed against by anyone with $1M to construct a building, pay off the zoning commission, hire staff, advertise, buy cookware and food to cook, utilities, etc. Even so, the cost to the provider of a cup of coffee is 15 cents and they sell it for $1.99. Hard not to make money in a market like that, assuming volume is high enough.
So what stops a neo-hipster from replacing instagram as the new hotness. Well, I can register a domain for $5 and cloud host on amazon or competitors for next to nothing, being more creative than instagram can't be terribly difficult, and there seems to be no way for them to earn a profit. They're screwed.
To me it's more like Facebook is grasping for relevance by purchasing Instagram. Facebook will fade out while Instagram will continue to gain popularity.
This is somewhat insightful but takes more explanation.
I'm technically a "user" of linkedin. I haven't logged in for at least a year or two. Its impossible for linkedin to monetize me. I don't look at their site and incoming emails from them go to the spam folder. The same thing happened to me with facebook. Initial rush of friending and impressing people I don't know or care about. Then boredom sets in. Finally I stop logging in. At this point FB can no longer monetize me. Eventually I deleted my FB not because I was using it and deleting was making some kind of political or privacy point, but because I was no longer using it so it made no point to keep it around any longer as a insecurity vector etc.
On the other hand a pic sharing site only exists as its used. Unlike linkedin, I can't say I'm a instagram user unless I'm logging in and having advertisements shoved in my face (well, if I haven't been using an ad blocker since the 00s, anyway). Like reddit or 4chan or /. or a blog, I guess, all the viewers are viewers, not just dead unused accounts.
Or the medium length version is Linkedin / FB / G+ can have millions of "users" who never get spammed because they never log in, but ALL instagram viewers inherently are spamable.
Its kind of like how a chicken has a distant relationship with my breakfast, but a pig is 100% committed to my breakfast. The chicken can always lay another egg, or not, whatever. The pig however is fully and permanently and forever involved with my bacon.
Starbucks will match the photo and the payment will be complete
Can your average employee handle that? Seems like a risk of clicking the wrong victim. If they require the employee to type in the name first, then if they allow users to select their "screen name" or "nick name" you just know jokers like me will have nick names like "Mr Goatse" or "Mr Hugh G Rection"
The other part is I don't want retail establishments to know who I am. Not because I'm a crook but because its too creepy. I already hate having shelf stockers and oxygen wasters at Best Buy bug me every 30 seconds when I'm picking up something I already researched online at Amazon so having them call me by name is going to be even creepier and more annoying.
one of the supermarkets. They deliver
The future is probably delivering to your local supermarket. It just makes sense, looking at traffic patterns. Same reason they colocate redbox machines at every supermarket. However, retail floorspace, even retail back room warehouse space, is not cheap or free.
I find it easier to just have the things I want delivered to either the company where I work
I purchased a small metal cutting lathe and had it delivered to work... purchasing took one look at the crate and were absolutely mystified, they couldn't even yell at me, they were so distracted/confused/astounded that someone would do that to them. This was at a suit and tie establishment; were I still working at the printing company they wouldn't have batted an eyelash. Getting it home was quite a chore let me tell you, but at least I was hauling it down the stairs, not up.
My current employer actively discourages people from having personal belongings delivered to them. At work delivery seems to be a perk that is going away. That's sad. Frankly I'd rather have at work delivery than a useless foozball table or nerf products.
actual bench work started with top and bottom overhauls
Must have been pre ASVAB. I still remember taking that test before enlisting and being able to answer the questions, but being mystified as to why I'm answering questions about labeling parts of a turbocharger and which way to turn the wrench to loosen the bolt and given 9 gears in a geartrain complete with a locked differential in the middle, if you rotate gear 2 clockwise which direction does gear 6 rotate? The electronics too... Reminded me of my ham radio general license written, although I was way beyond that at the time I took the ASVAB, but why in the world would the army want, say, a cook, or a unit armorer (aka gunsmith), to be able to identify a colpitts oscillator, or explain why a class B amp has zero crossing distortion, etc. I mean it made sense to me, and made sense for what I ended up doing, but the whole time I took the test I was imagining what the hollywood portrayal of Rambo or the guys from full metal jacket or platoon would do with this really weird test.
That said, I've written my share of quick and dirty code. I always hated doing it, though.
... The agonizing experience of "Ah, its an icky hack, but I'll just run it this one time, you know for cleanup" and next thing you know to your horror it somehow winds its way into production. Oh the pain it burns.
Let's set aside the quibbles, and for the sake of argument just roll with the notion that these writers are mere shills for the Oracle and Google, respectively (after all, that's the notion that clearly lies behind this ruling).
Isn't the right to speak anonymously protected by the First Amendment? Doesn't that protection extend to Oracle and Google too?
Its to protect the profits of the corporations who are not hiring, not the people who they hire. Surprised? Shouldn't be.
I am no one's official spokesweasel (have you read what I write? no corp would be that insane). I can write something jury tamper-ish or jury influence-ish or stock price influencing and there's not a whole heck of a lot the judge can do about it unless I was served a gag order first or can prove I am revealing trade secrets or otherwise doing something shady. Basically if I'm not guilty of fraud/libel/industrial espionage I have to be left alone aside from SLAPP suits, which due to the Streisand Effect are not as powerful as they were 20 years ago.
However... what if I was a secret astroturfer... unless the judge lays down the law on astroturfers on both sides, the "good guys" need to "protect themselves" by hiring their own astroturfers. They have stock values to maintain, they have a financial obligation to try to influence the jury as much as the "bad guys", etc. Its an astroturf arms race.
Its just a huge mess where everyone has to hire astroturfers unless the judge protects the good guys by laying down the law. Its an arms control law aimed at the people in charge of hiring astroturfers. Not much to do with the astroturfers themselves, other than they get pissed off because they won't get hired by either side.
it was thought that they could not be made on non-repeating grids.
I think its a general emergent behavior thing.
So if something really simple results in ridiculously unpredicted behavior, it seems very unlikely that a system that's even more complicated would have to be more boring. Aside from penrose tiles, just look at the world... much more complicated rule set than Conways GoL (don't get started on the combinatorial and bitstream physics guys here) and movement is in fact possible in the world.
Another good example is the more dimensions and neighbors a CA has, the more "entertaining" it becomes. So adding weird topology is also, at a gut level, strongly likely to be entertaining.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence
it will never be possible to increase bandwidth fast enough to keep up with demand.
I've been hearing that since I got on the net in '91. Tell me a new lie.
Its an end time message. "Repent, for the end is near". Yet, stubbornly, the sun always rises tomorrow.
Did he just reinvent magnet links?
Closer to a reinvention of freenet.
Or maybe reinventing mdns
Or maybe reinventing AFS
Its been a pretty popular idea for a couple decades now.
You forgot the most important part from an economic standpoint, maintainability.
I can squirt out multi line regexes that are not troubleshootable by anyone, not even myself. Very quickly too. Doesn't mean its a good long term idea.
You know you're in trouble when the fastest way to debug a big mass of regex is to rewrite it from scratch.
If you absolutely must do a food analogy you would do better to compare McDonalds "food" with a fancy gourmet restaurant. Certainly for a given number of employees in a limited amount of time, serving up Big Macs will always win any unit production or economic profit contest, but...
Or if you're willing to permit inter species competition you've got the whole flies on dog poop thing and "a trillion flies can't all be wrong" etc etc.
fake Twitter accounts that are being used to sell fake Twitter followers
Why use twitter? It sounds more and more like that fight club speech WRT doing work at jobs we hate to buy things we don't need to impress people we don't like. Is there anyone still using twitter who is not a bot, bot dealer, or PR shill?