The big goal is a sense of accomplishment, of having done something special. Asking a hacker why he doesn't just buy an off-the-shelf solution is like asking a Marathon running why he doesn't just call a cab.
When that something is so "special" as running windows (!!), I submit it's more like asking a random Manhattan cab driver why he doesn't switch to pulling his cab with a bicycle, Beijing style.
Is it just me? I'm seeing all sorts of weird layout problems.
Not just you. In Safari (v2.0.1) some stories and comments start about midpage, leaving the left side blank. With Firefox (1.0), no apparent problems here.
Whatever answer you get, you should immediately do some poll elsewhere to find out if you can trust it. A lot of Slashdot critics(*) have pointed to hypothetical situations where comments might not actually be tech-savvy!
Hey! I found this article through Slashdot and it mentions a book, "The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less", that sounds interesting, I think I'm going to <clickety-click> look it u...
hammer out the real needs with solid performance requirements, timeframes, growth expectations, (meaning real numbers)
Integers, kid. INTEGERS.
Those newfangled "real numbers" are nothing but bullet-point creeping featuritis. Integers, on the other hand, have been around since at least Kernighan & Richie. They do one thing and do it well. Keep true to the Unix philosophy! Real numbers in information technology? Just say NO.
They may be nice, but the flash animation on every one of their pages got me off their site as fast as I could.
(Using Mozilla 1.7.2 on OS X 10.3.8 with, I see, Macromedia Flash Player 7.0 r24 in/Library/Internet Plug-Ins --> Spinning wheel with browser CPU usage at 90%.)
So...why not start a fund to provide developers with BitKeeper licenses? The amount of people making meaningful kernel contributions is limited, and the amount of time/money to switch to SVN or something would be huge.
Hey, brilliant! In fact, why not start a fund to provide developers with Windows licenses?? The amount of people not using MSWord is negligible anyway, and the amount of time/money to switch to Linux or something would be huge!
The solution is string theory. This website has a nice list of expirements that have been done in favor of string theory.
String theory may or may "be the solution". But let's not kid ourselves; there have been *no* experiments done that support string theory. The site linked is just playing "let's pretend".
"the most interesting challenges in computer science" are happening in academia, not in corporations.
If you want to find real discoveries you have to look in places where people don't have shareholders telling them what to do.
Unfortunately academia itself is increasingly under the spell of (well-meaning but) clueless administrators who believe science will magically happen if they drive OUT anything that doesn't claim immediate applications.
Case in point, our Dean right here, who I wish could read what you wrote. Since you appear to have given this some thought, can you recommend published (non-anonymous...) sources of similar insider wisdom?
That must be it -- though I still can't remember where I read this; and was probably mixing memories with this (from The Nation, November 19, 1868, view source):
..The Secretary of the French Academy of Sciences, at a recent meeting, suggested the propriety of publishing once more the decision of the Academy in 1775, never to give any attention to solutions which might be sent in of the following problems : " The duplication of the cube, the trisection of the angle, perpetual motion by means of a machine, and the quadrature of the circle...
(Not a canned answer, but suggests they may have had one.)
The general idea of a standardized checklist for blowing someone off is probably even older than that.
Yes, much. Some famous mathematician (or was it the French Academy of Sciences?) had a form letter to answer alleged proofs of Fermat's theorem (or was it circle squarers?). "The first error occurs on line _____;" etc.
(Sorry, can't find a link for this story. But even modestly famous mathematicians get lots of such junk proofs in the mail.)
The BBC's business model is to charge each household in the UK who have a television a fee
Don't want to be charged? Don't get a TV!
(N.B. I don't have one, except 1 month every 4 years for the World Cup. I probably would have one if the BBC did broadcast around here. That's how pathetic our commercials-funded programs are. Be careful what you wish for...)
Slashdot Mirror
When that something is so "special" as running windows (!!), I submit it's more like asking a random Manhattan cab driver why he doesn't switch to pulling his cab with a bicycle, Beijing style.
Not just you. In Safari (v2.0.1) some stories and comments start about midpage, leaving the left side blank. With Firefox (1.0), no apparent problems here.
If you're going to put it this way, then I can't disagree!
The right to free spech, now based on the right to private property. Oh, the wonders of ambient ideology.
Man... I thought your link was a satire site, but on looking this up it's also right there on reputable <g> c|net. What's up with this?!
Of course. Given that
is equivalent to what can an englishman possibly conclude?Note:
Whatever answer you get, you should immediately do some poll elsewhere to find out if you can trust it. A lot of Slashdot critics(*) have pointed to hypothetical situations where comments might not actually be tech-savvy!
(*)"It should be noted that polls on Slashdot, like most on the Internet, are notoriously unreliable."
Or not? =8-0
Those newfangled "real numbers" are nothing but bullet-point creeping featuritis. Integers, on the other hand, have been around since at least Kernighan & Richie. They do one thing and do it well. Keep true to the Unix philosophy! Real numbers in information technology? Just say NO.
(sorry...)
on c|net...
Thre goes my karma but I mean, come on...
Man aren't we getting tired of the NYT zealots. Mossberg rules. Pogue sucks! End of discussion.
By which time the correct prediction would have been, connected without wires :-P
(Using Mozilla 1.7.2 on OS X 10.3.8 with, I see, Macromedia Flash Player 7.0 r24 in /Library/Internet Plug-Ins --> Spinning wheel with browser CPU usage at 90%.)
Hey kid, I have the right to Fourier-transform. One better!
Hey, brilliant! In fact, why not start a fund to provide developers with Windows licenses?? The amount of people not using MSWord is negligible anyway, and the amount of time/money to switch to Linux or something would be huge!
The solution is string theory. This website has a nice list of expirements that have been done in favor of string theory.
String theory may or may "be the solution". But let's not kid ourselves; there have been *no* experiments done that support string theory. The site linked is just playing "let's pretend".
If you want to find real discoveries you have to look in places where people don't have shareholders telling them what to do.
Unfortunately academia itself is increasingly under the spell of (well-meaning but) clueless administrators who believe science will magically happen if they drive OUT anything that doesn't claim immediate applications.
Case in point, our Dean right here, who I wish could read what you wrote. Since you appear to have given this some thought, can you recommend published (non-anonymous...) sources of similar insider wisdom?
Yes, much. Some famous mathematician (or was it the French Academy of Sciences?) had a form letter to answer alleged proofs of Fermat's theorem (or was it circle squarers?). "The first error occurs on line _____;" etc.
(Sorry, can't find a link for this story. But even modestly famous mathematicians get lots of such junk proofs in the mail.)
Don't want to be charged? Don't get a TV!
(N.B. I don't have one, except 1 month every 4 years for the World Cup. I probably would have one if the BBC did broadcast around here. That's how pathetic our commercials-funded programs are. Be careful what you wish for...)
J.-L. Godard
Yes!