Why compare to PHP? Sure, PHP is for small projects (but it can be scaled without much problems, it's awfully designed and not very elegant, but it gets the job done. Anyway, if you are going to talk big projects compare Perl, or if you want something more modern Python. If we are talking truly big and complex, I'll take nothing over C++.
Anyway, why ASP when there are better solutions that don't depend on a particular vendor who is well known for being the dirtiest motherfucker around, second only to oracle, and who is definitely going to let you locked in, and in shitload of troubles. Not to mention it'll be incredibly expensive while offering no measurable advantages.
It's our duty as rational humans to help rid the world of the karma of religion. Accepting things such as christmas, public praying, etc. legitimizes religion.
Also, I'm not particularly found of time off work. I love what I do, and weekends and vacation time when possible are more than enough.
English is my second language, I don't live in an english-speaking country, and considering nobody has treated it worse than Americans are British, I couldn't care less. I don't mind small errors, typos, etc., but when your grasp of a language is so bad that you make communication impossible, it does bother me. It bothers me more when native speakers do things such as mix up the possessives and contractions (their vs. they're, for example), and other similar mistakes that drive me go berserk.
And If I ever learn German (I've wanted to for many years, but I could never find the time), I'll be too busy reading Nietzsche in original language to even go to work anymore. That and using the Ach sound as much as possible. German fucking rocks.
I'm using server4you. Their support sucks if you have to call them (they speak german, and very very limited english). If you need support, this is not your company. But if you can manage your own boxes, their uptime is great, and so is the hardware and bandwidth. In the last year we had less than an hour of downtime, and it was after midnight.
The interesting thing: The prices. $28 for an Athlon X2 with 4GB RAM, 2 SATA disks and unlimited bandwidth.
Again, the support desk is impossible mostly due to the lack of English proficiency, and their billing department suffers the same problem if you ever have an issue, but they do offer web reboots (you click a button, your servers gets rebooted usually in under 5 minutes). I once requested a server re-imaging and it was processed in 20 minutes. Hardware issues are taken care of very fast too. So, if you know what you are doing, and need nothing but hard-reboots and re-imaging if something goes horribly wrong, it doesn't get any cheaper than that.
Why the hell would you want to code in asp in the first place?
Years ago (circa y2k) I worked for a hosting company as a sysadmin. We had some customers that demanded ASP support (less than 10%), and we tried a solution, I think it was called chilliasp, that was essentially a classic ASP implementation for Apache on Linux. It was able to run simple stuff, but complex sites failed. So my boss insisted on getting some windows servers. We ended up running 2 NT4 servers. Those 2 servers took more effort to administrate than our +30 LAMP boxes. In the years I worked there, we had 6 security breaches, and 4 of them were on windows. Of course, the security breaches we had on windows where MAJOR (as in, they took over the entire server), while the 2 security breaches we had on Linux weren't really Linux vulnerabilities, but vulns on phpnuke installations our customers left wide open and unpatched, so those only affected a single site.
I don't get why people would want to code in ASP, what does it have that Perl or PHP don't? I mean, besides expensive licenses, platform restrictions, and huge security issues.
The right way for geeks to celebrate christmas or thanksgiving day is to not celebrate them at all. Geeks are supposed to be smart enough to not believe in imaginary friends in the sky and to not celebrate the biggest genocide in history eating turkey.
They told them they where going to give them windows on a phone. They bought windows on a phone. Random reboots, completely unstable, uses up all resources including battery, the only solution is to wipe it out and start over, and even then you end up with a broken device. Sounds like they managed to port the whole windows experience, I don't get the complains. Maybe it's the lack of a blue screen of dead that's bothering them?
strictly speaking, their wars had simpler motivations, their drugs where natural and for ceremonial use, their weapons far less advanced, and they certainly didn't have something as retarded as christianity.
Actually, each strain of the virus is unique, and if an infected individual gets infected again with a different strain, it can actually make it worse.
Worst case scenario, nothing happens. Good-case scenario, it cures aids. Best-case scenario, HIV mutates into something radically worst and gives us the zombie apocalypse we've been waiting for.
Evolution and natural selection aren't the same thing. Domesticated dogs are still evolving, but not through natural selection. It's artificial selection. We select them. We breed those individuals with phenotypes we like with others we select to remove unwanted traits and encourage desired ones. The same happens to humans. In countries with low child mortality rates, just about every individual can have as many kids as he wants, even if he can't support them, and they'll live to see adulthood, but those that reproduce more are usually not those considered la creme de la creme by society. Natural selection among humans is dead.
Your mistake is thinking that every trait that naturally survives has actually been selected for or naturally rewarded. Not true. There are parasitic traits. Traits that are not detrimental to the point of decreasing survival rates or likelihood of reproduction don't get selected against by nature. If one such trait appears as a mutation in a population with other beneficial traits, that trait will survive even if it's not beneficial. If this successful population keeps breeding and being successful, it'll keep this parasitical traits as long as they don't directly affect them.
Regardless, the transmission of religion is most likely not genetic, and better explained by Memetics than by Darwinian evolution.
You should read The selfish gene.
Now, under the premise of Memetics, society is selecting against the religion meme. It's slowly going away, and it's our duty to help speed up the process.
Regarding the rest of your post, words aren't ceremonial sounds. They serve a particular purpose, and change all the time. Their purpose is to be useful, and are judged and modified constantly based on their efficiency. Language evolves constantly to be more effective at communication. Therefore, it's not ceremonial. Money is not ceremonial either, it's a convention that serves a specific purpose, and is in a way a form of communication too. Regardless, money is an ineffective method full of laws, and it's likely to eventually go away.
Don't mistake the purely ceremonial with the actually useful. Ceremonies are things we do that serve no particular useful purpose, and are done merely to perpetuate ideas that have been implanted into individuals by society. Saying hello is not a ceremony, it's a convention. It tells somebody else that we acknowledge their presence. Kissing, smiling or shaking hands tells the other individual that we are friendly, and they can trust us. Again, conventions,not ceremonies. Sliding your credit card is not a ceremony, it's a convention. It serves the actual purpose of facilitating exchange and commerce. Burning a corpse is an actually useful task, we have to get rid of our dead in safe and sanitary way. Getting together in a magical building around a corpse and lighting candles doesn't serve any actual purpose, and is therefore a meaningless ceremony.
Actually discussing and providing arguments like I'm doing is useful, saying " I still think you're a dumbass. " is just a ceremony.
Except in most companies that have actually succeeded in the industry, the founder was a technical dude. Maybe not the main engineer, but at least somewhat technical. Apple, Google, Microsoft, SUN, Autodesk, Oracle: Regardless of your opinion on this companies, or they founders, you have to agree they where all techies, and they worked themselves on their first product, and it was this product that made the companies huge (Woz built the Apple 1, Page and Brin developed the google engine, Gates and Allen developed their basic interpreter, SUN's founders all came from Stanford and Berkeley, John Walker developed AutoCAD, and Larry Ellison developed Oracle for the CIA. There is a reason why I can't name so many examples of IT companies founded by non-techies: The giants of the industry all started in garages, with their later CEOs building their first product by hand.
I wasn't attacking anything. Some guy posts an ask-slashdot story. We are all slashdot, so I reply just as I reply to so many stories. If this where just a story about some guy doing it, I might not have expressed my opinion. His software, his fucking business. But he posted on/. asking our opinion.
In my opinion, anything other than dealing with death in the privacy of our own minds is magical thinking. Any kind of display is a ceremony, and all ceremonies are in a way magical thinking. I'm a skeptical, an atheist, and a preacher of reality. I consider all magical thinking, however small or apparently harmless, to be detrimental to the human species. This guy asked for my opinion, and I got it. So, you post your opinion, and your opinion is that I'm a dumbass for posting my opinion. Interesting.
I'm honestly asking. You already remember your grandmother, so you don't need it.There's no heaven/hell/afterlife of any kind, so your grandma won't see it, and among everybody else, you'll find those that remember her, and those that don't even know your grandma. So what do you win by dedicating something to the memory of somebody? It's just make-believe. It's just something for yourself. It's done to make you feel noble/a better person.
So, my advice: Don't waste your time on petty superstitions.
Let's not hire Woman either, since they might get pregnant and that means increasing health insurance spending, and maternity days, and sick days for her and her newborn. And getting pregnant is a lifestyle choice, just like smoking, so it's not really discrimination, all they have to do is stop getting pregnant, right?
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Sure, the solstice has been celebrated for far long that christmas, but regardless of that, everybody now knows it as christmas, a christian holiday.
If you don't firmly oppose it, then you are helping the religious assholes legitimize their mass delusion, and that is bad for everyone.
Why compare to PHP? Sure, PHP is for small projects (but it can be scaled without much problems, it's awfully designed and not very elegant, but it gets the job done. Anyway, if you are going to talk big projects compare Perl, or if you want something more modern Python. If we are talking truly big and complex, I'll take nothing over C++.
Anyway, why ASP when there are better solutions that don't depend on a particular vendor who is well known for being the dirtiest motherfucker around, second only to oracle, and who is definitely going to let you locked in, and in shitload of troubles. Not to mention it'll be incredibly expensive while offering no measurable advantages.
It's our duty as rational humans to help rid the world of the karma of religion. Accepting things such as christmas, public praying, etc. legitimizes religion.
Also, I'm not particularly found of time off work. I love what I do, and weekends and vacation time when possible are more than enough.
English is my second language, I don't live in an english-speaking country, and considering nobody has treated it worse than Americans are British, I couldn't care less. I don't mind small errors, typos, etc., but when your grasp of a language is so bad that you make communication impossible, it does bother me. It bothers me more when native speakers do things such as mix up the possessives and contractions (their vs. they're, for example), and other similar mistakes that drive me go berserk.
And If I ever learn German (I've wanted to for many years, but I could never find the time), I'll be too busy reading Nietzsche in original language to even go to work anymore. That and using the Ach sound as much as possible. German fucking rocks.
Yes, the other imaginary friends in the sky, namely god, jesus, and whatever other character the catholic church has come up with lately.
I'm using server4you. Their support sucks if you have to call them (they speak german, and very very limited english). If you need support, this is not your company. But if you can manage your own boxes, their uptime is great, and so is the hardware and bandwidth. In the last year we had less than an hour of downtime, and it was after midnight.
The interesting thing: The prices. $28 for an Athlon X2 with 4GB RAM, 2 SATA disks and unlimited bandwidth.
Again, the support desk is impossible mostly due to the lack of English proficiency, and their billing department suffers the same problem if you ever have an issue, but they do offer web reboots (you click a button, your servers gets rebooted usually in under 5 minutes). I once requested a server re-imaging and it was processed in 20 minutes. Hardware issues are taken care of very fast too. So, if you know what you are doing, and need nothing but hard-reboots and re-imaging if something goes horribly wrong, it doesn't get any cheaper than that.
Why the hell would you want to code in asp in the first place?
Years ago (circa y2k) I worked for a hosting company as a sysadmin. We had some customers that demanded ASP support (less than 10%), and we tried a solution, I think it was called chilliasp, that was essentially a classic ASP implementation for Apache on Linux. It was able to run simple stuff, but complex sites failed. So my boss insisted on getting some windows servers. We ended up running 2 NT4 servers. Those 2 servers took more effort to administrate than our +30 LAMP boxes. In the years I worked there, we had 6 security breaches, and 4 of them were on windows. Of course, the security breaches we had on windows where MAJOR (as in, they took over the entire server), while the 2 security breaches we had on Linux weren't really Linux vulnerabilities, but vulns on phpnuke installations our customers left wide open and unpatched, so those only affected a single site.
I don't get why people would want to code in ASP, what does it have that Perl or PHP don't? I mean, besides expensive licenses, platform restrictions, and huge security issues.
The right way for geeks to celebrate christmas or thanksgiving day is to not celebrate them at all. Geeks are supposed to be smart enough to not believe in imaginary friends in the sky and to not celebrate the biggest genocide in history eating turkey.
are you excited by how much m$ will pay you?
Why are people complaining?
They told them they where going to give them windows on a phone. They bought windows on a phone. Random reboots, completely unstable, uses up all resources including battery, the only solution is to wipe it out and start over, and even then you end up with a broken device. Sounds like they managed to port the whole windows experience, I don't get the complains. Maybe it's the lack of a blue screen of dead that's bothering them?
Your sarcasm detector seems to be broken.
Anyway, nobody asked anything from the US. Actually, you've caused most of this century's international conflicts, so please stay home.
strictly speaking, their wars had simpler motivations, their drugs where natural and for ceremonial use, their weapons far less advanced, and they certainly didn't have something as retarded as christianity.
Easy and cheap, and it works, but it's not a lot of fun. Unknown, untested wet holes are exactly the place you want to be.
Actually, each strain of the virus is unique, and if an infected individual gets infected again with a different strain, it can actually make it worse.
Well, look at it this way:
Worst case scenario, nothing happens. Good-case scenario, it cures aids. Best-case scenario, HIV mutates into something radically worst and gives us the zombie apocalypse we've been waiting for.
We bring them crap such as war, drugs, weapons and Christianity, and they embrace it. We instead bring them the cure for HIV, and they reject it. WTF.
Steve Jobs would approve (of the cutting out the liver part). I'm sure you are obliged by the itunes EULA to hand it over to steve immediately.
Evolution and natural selection aren't the same thing. Domesticated dogs are still evolving, but not through natural selection. It's artificial selection. We select them. We breed those individuals with phenotypes we like with others we select to remove unwanted traits and encourage desired ones. The same happens to humans.
In countries with low child mortality rates, just about every individual can have as many kids as he wants, even if he can't support them, and they'll live to see adulthood, but those that reproduce more are usually not those considered la creme de la creme by society. Natural selection among humans is dead.
Your mistake is thinking that every trait that naturally survives has actually been selected for or naturally rewarded. Not true. There are parasitic traits. Traits that are not detrimental to the point of decreasing survival rates or likelihood of reproduction don't get selected against by nature. If one such trait appears as a mutation in a population with other beneficial traits, that trait will survive even if it's not beneficial. If this successful population keeps breeding and being successful, it'll keep this parasitical traits as long as they don't directly affect them.
Regardless, the transmission of religion is most likely not genetic, and better explained by Memetics than by Darwinian evolution.
You should read The selfish gene.
Now, under the premise of Memetics, society is selecting against the religion meme. It's slowly going away, and it's our duty to help speed up the process.
Regarding the rest of your post, words aren't ceremonial sounds. They serve a particular purpose, and change all the time. Their purpose is to be useful, and are judged and modified constantly based on their efficiency. Language evolves constantly to be more effective at communication. Therefore, it's not ceremonial. Money is not ceremonial either, it's a convention that serves a specific purpose, and is in a way a form of communication too. Regardless, money is an ineffective method full of laws, and it's likely to eventually go away.
Don't mistake the purely ceremonial with the actually useful. Ceremonies are things we do that serve no particular useful purpose, and are done merely to perpetuate ideas that have been implanted into individuals by society. Saying hello is not a ceremony, it's a convention. It tells somebody else that we acknowledge their presence. Kissing, smiling or shaking hands tells the other individual that we are friendly, and they can trust us. Again, conventions,not ceremonies. Sliding your credit card is not a ceremony, it's a convention. It serves the actual purpose of facilitating exchange and commerce. Burning a corpse is an actually useful task, we have to get rid of our dead in safe and sanitary way. Getting together in a magical building around a corpse and lighting candles doesn't serve any actual purpose, and is therefore a meaningless ceremony.
Actually discussing and providing arguments like I'm doing is useful, saying " I still think you're a dumbass. " is just a ceremony.
Except in most companies that have actually succeeded in the industry, the founder was a technical dude. Maybe not the main engineer, but at least somewhat technical. Apple, Google, Microsoft, SUN, Autodesk, Oracle: Regardless of your opinion on this companies, or they founders, you have to agree they where all techies, and they worked themselves on their first product, and it was this product that made the companies huge (Woz built the Apple 1, Page and Brin developed the google engine, Gates and Allen developed their basic interpreter, SUN's founders all came from Stanford and Berkeley, John Walker developed AutoCAD, and Larry Ellison developed Oracle for the CIA. There is a reason why I can't name so many examples of IT companies founded by non-techies: The giants of the industry all started in garages, with their later CEOs building their first product by hand.
I wasn't attacking anything. Some guy posts an ask-slashdot story. We are all slashdot, so I reply just as I reply to so many stories. If this where just a story about some guy doing it, I might not have expressed my opinion. His software, his fucking business. But he posted on /. asking our opinion.
In my opinion, anything other than dealing with death in the privacy of our own minds is magical thinking. Any kind of display is a ceremony, and all ceremonies are in a way magical thinking. I'm a skeptical, an atheist, and a preacher of reality. I consider all magical thinking, however small or apparently harmless, to be detrimental to the human species. This guy asked for my opinion, and I got it. So, you post your opinion, and your opinion is that I'm a dumbass for posting my opinion. Interesting.
'Probably 80% of people who want to get involved in mobile either don't know how to code an app or don't know an app developer,'
Well, 80% of people who want to get involved in brain surgery don't know how to operate on the brain or don't know a brain surgeon.
If you know jack shit about development,don't get into development, you freak.
I'm honestly asking. You already remember your grandmother, so you don't need it.There's no heaven/hell/afterlife of any kind, so your grandma won't see it, and among everybody else, you'll find those that remember her, and those that don't even know your grandma. So what do you win by dedicating something to the memory of somebody? It's just make-believe. It's just something for yourself. It's done to make you feel noble/a better person.
So, my advice: Don't waste your time on petty superstitions.
Bullshit, there is no god.
Let's not hire Woman either, since they might get pregnant and that means increasing health insurance spending, and maternity days, and sick days for her and her newborn. And getting pregnant is a lifestyle choice, just like smoking, so it's not really discrimination, all they have to do is stop getting pregnant, right?
Read, motherfucker.
Sarcasm is slowly dying because no matter how sarcastic you are, I can assure you that there is at least one person that actually believes that shit.