Diaspora is a great example of nerds marketing to other nerds...
It was entirely designed to be attractive to the sorts of people who would put up Diaspora nodes, and not the people who would actually populate those nodes. Google+ is designed to cater to actual users, not administrators.
A lot of people taking computer science in college and wondering why they're not learning how to do ASP.NET projects in Visual Studio belong in a Tech School. The world needs bottom level implementers just like it needs ditch diggers.
University level computer science is about Design, not Implementation.
Actually, mass automation of every job is one of the corner cases where communism starts to make sense... if there's just no work to do, the spoils should be shared among society.
anyway, for some good background reading about the topic of mass automation, check out Vonnegut's "Player Piano". It describes a technocracy with two classes of people...engineers (maintaining the machines) and everyone else.
The fear here is futureproofing. People fear that 720p content won't be available, and don't know about downscaling. People also like to brag about big numbers they don't quite understand.
Another thing you can take away from this is: Bad interfaces are very common and pervasive, and you can write a bad CLI interface just as easily as you can write a bad GUI interface. People who strongly favor GUI interfaces have probably never been exposed to a 'good' CLI.
Although I think the best CLIs are generally better then the best GUIs, both have their place. This is a fun debate, but this topic never seems to lead anywhere...
Speaking as someone who signed up to see what the fuss was about...you're not missing much. There's no more content having an account then just going to twitter.com; it only allows you to subscribe and organize posts. tweeting feels a lot like yelling into a crowded room full of deaf people.
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I'm worried that the AC may have died while writing that...
My KINGDOM for mod points!
Your college campus probably has it cached; that's why you're getting insane (3-digit) download speeds.
Diaspora is a great example of nerds marketing to other nerds...
It was entirely designed to be attractive to the sorts of people who would put up Diaspora nodes, and not the people who would actually populate those nodes. Google+ is designed to cater to actual users, not administrators.
four years? i've been using it since 2004 (simpler times).... so more like 7
wait...you mean facebook wasn't written in between bong hits?
surprising...
These sort of pissing contests sometimes produce technology that is useful in "real cars".
This.
A lot of people taking computer science in college and wondering why they're not learning how to do ASP.NET projects in Visual Studio belong in a Tech School. The world needs bottom level implementers just like it needs ditch diggers.
University level computer science is about Design, not Implementation.
FORTRAN programs will never become artifacts as long as two conditions are met:
1. FORTRAN manuals still exist
2. The state of computer science education is such that picking up a new language is a trivial task.
I have never used FORTRAN in my life; I am absolutely confident i could learn it quickly if i had to.
Was it that long ago? i feel old...
-1 Redundant.
how about this; whenever you read browser, mentally substitute 'http html5 and javascript interpreter'
that should clear up your issue.
Don't know if that was true at some point, but i've been using a roku since december, and i never gave them a credit card number...
It's possible that policy has changed.
We had a fight with the British for freedom once. If you'd like, come over here and have some before it all dries up...
Actually, mass automation of every job is one of the corner cases where communism starts to make sense... if there's just no work to do, the spoils should be shared among society.
anyway, for some good background reading about the topic of mass automation, check out Vonnegut's "Player Piano". It describes a technocracy with two classes of people...engineers (maintaining the machines) and everyone else.
As an engineer, this sounds good to me!
I used to in the dark ages, when i was using windows 98....
since moving to linux I've only reformatted once in about 9 years, when i moved from Slackware to Ubuntu...
We have the patents
You bankrupt now
Are you afraid?
Death to open source
Microsoft is great
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Fixed that for you.
The fear here is futureproofing. People fear that 720p content won't be available, and don't know about downscaling. People also like to brag about big numbers they don't quite understand.
Not under linux they're not....
i was able to read it in about a minute. i hate myself.
Wish i had mod points, you're post is dead on.
Another thing you can take away from this is: Bad interfaces are very common and pervasive, and you can write a bad CLI interface just as easily as you can write a bad GUI interface. People who strongly favor GUI interfaces have probably never been exposed to a 'good' CLI.
Although I think the best CLIs are generally better then the best GUIs, both have their place. This is a fun debate, but this topic never seems to lead anywhere...
It hasn't. So we should still be doing things the same way we did them 20 years ago. On a proper CLI.
It's probably more like "Woe is me", unless the article is written by Keanu Reeves...
Speaking as someone who signed up to see what the fuss was about...you're not missing much. There's no more content having an account then just going to twitter.com; it only allows you to subscribe and organize posts. tweeting feels a lot like yelling into a crowded room full of deaf people.
I don't get it, honestly.
Does anyone else think sometimes that physicists are just coming up with crazier and crazier ideas just to see what we'll buy?