Andy Hunt says Simple applications should be simple to write, easy to install and maintain.
So use Python, already, dammit!
He he, sorry, I'm not trying to be religious but I do see Python as a good example of keeping things simple... You get spoiled and stuff like J2EE just looks absolutely hideous. Python is certainly part of the "pushback against complexity" that Dave Thomas goes on to mention.
Aren't people a bit, er, less naive about stock options these days, post-internet boom? So maybe this change is less important that it would have been in the past.
However, I do happen to know someone that just today got $1.4M through stock options as part of the sale of their company. But in that case, even tho the owners were big on the worker/owner model, they plan to go with LLC or something other than corporation the next time around, and will use a system of substantial bonuses based on revenues instead of stock options.
Not really "redone" for another culture but the Tin Tin comic books seem to be the mother of all cross-cultural comics. Translated into 30-something languages, including Esperanto.
Reading this patent, I can't help but wonder if this isn't part of a larger attempt to get the USPTO to patent such absurdity that it ends be being destroyed in the courts and/or by congress pushing through some kind of "reform".
Now we see that they aren't just allowing through idiotic software patents, but are willing to diversify into other domains.
Maybe, but the first block-sized ad that came up
on slashdot for me just now was a "myth buster"
ad from Microsoft and I'm on the other side of the pond.
The mystery will be solved for you in a few years when your child is being prematurely sexualized by our culture
He he, some of the stuff she gets for clothing, I'd say she's already being prematurely sexualized...
But look for a minute at most of the other cultures on the planet: Showing breasts does not (a) cause wide-spread "underwear tents" (I guess this is a good indicator of the permanently adolescent state of american sexuality), or (b) lead to premature sexualization.
America has a bizarrely repressive sex-crazed culture, but it has nothing to do with seeing breasts on billboards, TV, beaches, or elsewhere, as you might know is fairly common in much of Europe. The rest of the western world moved past the Victorian era but sexually we somehow got stuck there (maybe because it's so much more fun that way?)
Things like Janet Jackson at the super bowl don't make me feel sorry for the guilty parties at all. National tv with children watching and people feel the need to "push the envenlope."
Hey, my breast-fed toddler was watching and she not only noticed but pointed and said "daaaa!!!". Why exactly anyone would decide that exposing a mammary gland is half time entertainment, and why anyone would actually care afterwards, is still a mystery to both myself and my daughter.
The majority of uninformed users will continue to use IE no matter how ancient and clunky it gets compared to other browsers out there because the vast majority don't have any idea that Mozilla or Opera even exist, much less how massively superior to microsoft's offerings they are.
Yea, and as long as the vast majority is running broken crap, it's hard to create websites that actually take advantage of features like for example alpha transparent images (PNGs w/ variable opacity). Freakin' heck!.
I'm not joking when I say that the "roboporn" industry is likely to be a significant driving force when it comes to creating cheap, lifelike robots.
I read somewhere that suitability for porn is the #1 indicator whether a technology will succeed. I have no evidence to the contrary... all my technology has worked amazingly well for porn.
All I've used IRC for is (a) providing technical support to customers, and (b) holding bored, er board meetings for a non-profit I'm a member of. Yawn. Very boaring, er, boring.
The real question in my mind is whether the US's ability to innovate is running out of steam. Since the 1950's at least, technological innovation has created new industries and new high-quality jobs at a higher rate than we've been moving jobs overseas. IT is just the latest thing to go, but not all programming falls into the corporate IT mold and it's certainly possible to create really high-value software products where the difference between paying American vs. overseas salaries makes virtually no difference financially.
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So use Python, already, dammit!
He he, sorry, I'm not trying to be religious but I do see Python as a good example of keeping things simple... You get spoiled and stuff like J2EE just looks absolutely hideous. Python is certainly part of the "pushback against complexity" that Dave Thomas goes on to mention.
OK, so go and mod me into oblivion...
However, I do happen to know someone that just today got $1.4M through stock options as part of the sale of their company. But in that case, even tho the owners were big on the worker/owner model, they plan to go with LLC or something other than corporation the next time around, and will use a system of substantial bonuses based on revenues instead of stock options.
Huh? Are you telling me there Windows versions *with* those features?
Not really "redone" for another culture but the Tin Tin comic books seem to be the mother of all cross-cultural comics. Translated into 30-something languages, including Esperanto.
Reading this patent, I can't help but wonder if this isn't part of a larger attempt to get the USPTO to patent such absurdity that it ends be being destroyed in the courts and/or by congress pushing through some kind of "reform". Now we see that they aren't just allowing through idiotic software patents, but are willing to diversify into other domains.
OTOH drinking methanol isn't particularly good for you. So leakage is a bit of an issue in that regard (child safety if nothing else).
This article has some details on what I'm fairly sure is the same project. The article is trying to pitch Python but may still be of interest.
Maybe, but the first block-sized ad that came up on slashdot for me just now was a "myth buster" ad from Microsoft and I'm on the other side of the pond.
If you don't know why a mammary gland is entertainment, are you sure she's your daughter?
Aren't you a bit confused about the actual process that leads to conception? Oh, wait, nevermind... this is slashdot.
The mystery will be solved for you in a few years when your child is being prematurely sexualized by our culture
He he, some of the stuff she gets for clothing, I'd say she's already being prematurely sexualized...
But look for a minute at most of the other cultures on the planet: Showing breasts does not (a) cause wide-spread "underwear tents" (I guess this is a good indicator of the permanently adolescent state of american sexuality), or (b) lead to premature sexualization.
America has a bizarrely repressive sex-crazed culture, but it has nothing to do with seeing breasts on billboards, TV, beaches, or elsewhere, as you might know is fairly common in much of Europe. The rest of the western world moved past the Victorian era but sexually we somehow got stuck there (maybe because it's so much more fun that way?)
Things like Janet Jackson at the super bowl don't make me feel sorry for the guilty parties at all. National tv with children watching and people feel the need to "push the envenlope."
Hey, my breast-fed toddler was watching and she not only noticed but pointed and said "daaaa!!!". Why exactly anyone would decide that exposing a mammary gland is half time entertainment, and why anyone would actually care afterwards, is still a mystery to both myself and my daughter.
The majority of uninformed users will continue to use IE no matter how ancient and clunky it gets compared to other browsers out there because the vast majority don't have any idea that Mozilla or Opera even exist, much less how massively superior to microsoft's offerings they are.
Yea, and as long as the vast majority is running broken crap, it's hard to create websites that actually take advantage of features like for example alpha transparent images (PNGs w/ variable opacity). Freakin' heck!.
No, that's called Windows.
This is nothing more than the Windows OS's architecture mapped into the physical world. A pile of... ?
I read somewhere that suitability for porn is the #1 indicator whether a technology will succeed. I have no evidence to the contrary... all my technology has worked amazingly well for porn.
All I've used IRC for is (a) providing technical support to customers, and (b) holding bored, er board meetings for a non-profit I'm a member of. Yawn. Very boaring, er, boring.
The real question in my mind is whether the US's ability to innovate is running out of steam. Since the 1950's at least, technological innovation has created new industries and new high-quality jobs at a higher rate than we've been moving jobs overseas. IT is just the latest thing to go, but not all programming falls into the corporate IT mold and it's certainly possible to create really high-value software products where the difference between paying American vs. overseas salaries makes virtually no difference financially.