There is a perfectly suitable system on this site for vetting stories that are submitted. If enough involved users (i.e. nerds) decide a story is interesting enough to discuss further, the story is promoted to the top. Bitch about stories at the firehose, not in the comments of stories that were already promoted by your peers.
I think the point is not to make a site with a bunch of fancy animated crap on it, but to make a site that have content added to it easily, track comments, organize historical articles, etc. Show me "motherfuckingsimpleblog.com" and I'll be impressed.
Obviously a flat text/html site can be "coded from scratch".
It's not the "handful of incidents, and fringe groups" that make me find islam to be a particularly repugnant religion, it's the millions of other muslims that are complicit in these acts of terrorism, or at the very least claim support or understanding for the groups that carry them out.
I don't hold all muslims responsible for these acts, but I hold them responsible for taking a more active role in denouncing and preventing them. Show me an islamic neighborhood in Europe openly displaying the comics in public as a form of protest and I'll be pleasantly shocked. Fat f**king chance.
Yeah, I really want to be able to do it right in the browser - I started wanting it the other day when I was sitting in the waiting room at my kid's ballet class and trying to debug an issue on my phone by looking at the code on github.com. It would have been 100 times easier if I'd been able to click on method names/classes and jump to the declarations, or even search for references right in the browser. Wondering if I can find where/how eclipse stores it's project indices and roll my own...
As others have commented I think this idea can be covered with some simple aliases in bash, seems a tad silly.
What I wish was available was a way to view the source of a git with one minor enhancement - the ability to browse with a click to the declaration/definition of functions/variables a la the IDE of your choice. Would be neat to be able to build an index using some tool, check it into the root of your repo, and then have the site use the index to mark up the source code with the appropriate links.
I've dug around for something that does this but haven't found anything suitable - anyone know of anything?
First off I appreciate your comments, wonderful to see a thoughtful and measured response to this whole thing for a change. I've been using the new site for the past few days - at first just trying to sift through the crap, and then getting fed up and downmodding and finally replying to it out of desperation, and through all of it I never witnessed how the commenting/modding system is any more broken that it has ever been. Missing features galore, yes, but fundamentally broken?
The *only* specific gripe I've seen was that if the thread gets too nested the comments are squeezed into an unreadably narrow box. (1) that's seems like a pretty easy fix, and (2) I can't recall the last time I've read through a good comment thread that was more than 4-5 levels deep. So with respect, what am I missing? What has been fundamentally broken in the comment system? Nobody seems to say, they just say it sucks, or is fundamentally broken, or as you say is an add-on, etc.
I've been an active reader/commenter/submitter for over a decade and none of this makes any sense to me. Worst case the site is done, due not to the redesign itself, but the completely unhinged overreaction to it (see: throwing out the baby with the bathwater.) Best case, 1-2 months from now the is cruising along fine minus a tiny group of users with a very skewed set of priorities.
I can't think of a better idiom to describe what all of you assholes are doing with this Fuck Beta business. Even if you get what you want, something that has changed from "guaranteed access to 'classic'" (even though it's not *really* classic) to "oh yeah, and not just classic, classic with X, Y and Z!!" at this point the site will be ruined because you pimply little fucks have latched onto some kind of mob mentality and will not quit.
The new shit is buggy and is missing features, they've said they'll handle it, let them. Very depressing to see that the general sorry state of discourse in this country has spread now to this site. Fuck the unreasonable vocal minority. I miss the site, quit holding it hostage.
A good contractor won't try to avoid reputation damage by skulking around and trying to figure out the seedy back story of the project they've been assigned to - in fact I can't think of a better way to damage your reputation!
A good contractor fixes the problem, or clearly documents why he or she cannot fix the problem and provides alternative recommendations, one of which might be hire a different contractor. It's called professionalism.
This. The description of the task does not sound out of the ordinary to me, it sounds about like what I have been doing for the past 15 years.
...the code is not robust. You create a small new feature, and the app breaks down in unexpected ways. You fix a bug, and new bugs pop up all over the place.
You've just described every project I've ever been dropped into - welcome to the wonderful world of software development, where anything is possible - but NOTHING is easy.
...I know you've taken it in the teeth out there, but the first guy through the wall. It always gets bloody, always. It's the threat of not just the way of doing business, but in their minds it's threatening the game. But really what it's threatening is their livelihoods, it's threatening their jobs, it's threatening the way that they do things. And every time that happens, whether it's the government or a way of doing business or whatever it is, the people are holding the reins, have their hands on the switch. They go bat shit crazy. I mean, anybody who's not building a team right and rebuilding it using your model, they're dinosaurs...
I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras. -- Alan Kay
Get the kids involved in an ongoing operation whereby books are acquired, digitally scanned, and then re-donated to other schools/libraries/etc. Store the digital copies in some offsite database that can be shared amongst other schools/libraries/etc. Provide terminals where the students can peruse the scanned books and allow access to the digital library for students at home.
Can't think of a better way to keep a library as a place to learn new and relevant skills and be exposed to gobs of information and knowledge at the same time.
I'm sure this all falls apart when the copyright lawyers get involved, but I would love to see the publicity the publishers get when they sue a school library:)
...but IMHO the curiosity landing makes anything like this that I read about seem like a cake walk. Still in complete awe of the team(s) that pulled that off.
That's great. It's amazing the level of interest that people express when they are presented the opportunity to view these things with no effort or cost associated.
When the Venus transit happened I set up my little orion in the driveway and projected the image onto a sheet of paper and within 10 or 15 minutes a mob of people from my neighborhood (most of whom I'd never met) had gathered around - parents on walks with their kids, dogs, or out jogging, what have you - it was great. They were all talking about it, asking questions about it, generally marveling at the image.
The best part was explaining it to the kids - I would explain what was happening, they would turn to the image again, and a few seconds later you could see on their faces the realization of the scope of what they were witnessing. It was really great. I can see why he did it.
If you have a mac (or any Unicode able terminal) try out my sig. Saw the c64 code in someone else's sig, linked to a book about the phenomenon (maybe too strong a word)
I'll check that out. Agreed that shitloads of nested anonymous handler functions is ugly as hell... and seems to be were most complex javascript leads. I'm not a huge proponent of node or anything, but I do think it has its uses.
Interesting - it has occurred to me that a lot of these "new" fangled frameworks and such really are just a return to concepts and practices from the past - didn't know what the historic analog of this nodeJS (and the like) stuff was.
Thanks.
No multi-threading is kind of the point with nodeJS. It's a different approach than your normal "servlet" where you're firing up new threads for every request and sharing a pool of database connections between them. In this model you run a nodeJS listener and it uses a simple event loop, just like in the browser. If you want to scale you spin up 50 more node instances and slap them behind a load balancing proxy. They are all typically hitting a highly scalable nosql datasource on the backend, which can also easily spin up another 50 instances if needed.
I've dabbled, it is definitely fun for little side projects but I haven't tried to do anything major league with it - in any case, don't knock anything until you try it. For giggles try creating a large searchable data set using elasticsearch and nodejs running behind apache proxies, one hour into it when you have a working site you'll see the appeal.
I thought they were already doing this in Boston, maybe not... In any case I always assumed this was a way for the states to make money. They own the highways, therefore the exclusive rights to put these sensors up, and therefore exclusive access to hyper-accurate realtime traffic data that they can license out to the likes of google and apple for their map applications. I suppose it could simply be used to provide information for the "X minutes to airport" signs they have on most highways now.
All seems pretty harmless to me, they could just as easily hire human beings to stand along the highways with walkie talkies and monitor average traffic speeds, would people throw a shit fit then?
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I thought MacKeeper was already malware. If you get suckered into installing it in the first place then anything goes.
Oh, shut up.
There is a perfectly suitable system on this site for vetting stories that are submitted. If enough involved users (i.e. nerds) decide a story is interesting enough to discuss further, the story is promoted to the top. Bitch about stories at the firehose, not in the comments of stories that were already promoted by your peers.
I think the point is not to make a site with a bunch of fancy animated crap on it, but to make a site that have content added to it easily, track comments, organize historical articles, etc. Show me "motherfuckingsimpleblog.com" and I'll be impressed.
Obviously a flat text/html site can be "coded from scratch".
It's not the "handful of incidents, and fringe groups" that make me find islam to be a particularly repugnant religion, it's the millions of other muslims that are complicit in these acts of terrorism, or at the very least claim support or understanding for the groups that carry them out.
I don't hold all muslims responsible for these acts, but I hold them responsible for taking a more active role in denouncing and preventing them. Show me an islamic neighborhood in Europe openly displaying the comics in public as a form of protest and I'll be pleasantly shocked. Fat f**king chance.
BTW: "lose", "losing" - look into it.
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Best I can find so far
Yeah, I really want to be able to do it right in the browser - I started wanting it the other day when I was sitting in the waiting room at my kid's ballet class and trying to debug an issue on my phone by looking at the code on github.com. It would have been 100 times easier if I'd been able to click on method names/classes and jump to the declarations, or even search for references right in the browser. Wondering if I can find where/how eclipse stores it's project indices and roll my own...
Thanks for the reply!
As others have commented I think this idea can be covered with some simple aliases in bash, seems a tad silly.
What I wish was available was a way to view the source of a git with one minor enhancement - the ability to browse with a click to the declaration/definition of functions/variables a la the IDE of your choice. Would be neat to be able to build an index using some tool, check it into the root of your repo, and then have the site use the index to mark up the source code with the appropriate links.
I've dug around for something that does this but haven't found anything suitable - anyone know of anything?
First off I appreciate your comments, wonderful to see a thoughtful and measured response to this whole thing for a change. I've been using the new site for the past few days - at first just trying to sift through the crap, and then getting fed up and downmodding and finally replying to it out of desperation, and through all of it I never witnessed how the commenting/modding system is any more broken that it has ever been. Missing features galore, yes, but fundamentally broken?
The *only* specific gripe I've seen was that if the thread gets too nested the comments are squeezed into an unreadably narrow box. (1) that's seems like a pretty easy fix, and (2) I can't recall the last time I've read through a good comment thread that was more than 4-5 levels deep. So with respect, what am I missing? What has been fundamentally broken in the comment system? Nobody seems to say, they just say it sucks, or is fundamentally broken, or as you say is an add-on, etc.
I've been an active reader/commenter/submitter for over a decade and none of this makes any sense to me. Worst case the site is done, due not to the redesign itself, but the completely unhinged overreaction to it (see: throwing out the baby with the bathwater.) Best case, 1-2 months from now the is cruising along fine minus a tiny group of users with a very skewed set of priorities.
I can't think of a better idiom to describe what all of you assholes are doing with this Fuck Beta business. Even if you get what you want, something that has changed from "guaranteed access to 'classic'" (even though it's not *really* classic) to "oh yeah, and not just classic, classic with X, Y and Z!!" at this point the site will be ruined because you pimply little fucks have latched onto some kind of mob mentality and will not quit.
The new shit is buggy and is missing features, they've said they'll handle it, let them. Very depressing to see that the general sorry state of discourse in this country has spread now to this site. Fuck the unreasonable vocal minority. I miss the site, quit holding it hostage.
A good contractor won't try to avoid reputation damage by skulking around and trying to figure out the seedy back story of the project they've been assigned to - in fact I can't think of a better way to damage your reputation!
A good contractor fixes the problem, or clearly documents why he or she cannot fix the problem and provides alternative recommendations, one of which might be hire a different contractor. It's called professionalism.
...the code is not robust. You create a small new feature, and the app breaks down in unexpected ways. You fix a bug, and new bugs pop up all over the place.
You've just described every project I've ever been dropped into - welcome to the wonderful world of software development, where anything is possible - but NOTHING is easy.
Relevant quote from the movie Moneyball:
...I know you've taken it in the teeth out there, but the first guy through the wall. It always gets bloody, always. It's the threat of not just the way of doing business, but in their minds it's threatening the game. But really what it's threatening is their livelihoods, it's threatening their jobs, it's threatening the way that they do things. And every time that happens, whether it's the government or a way of doing business or whatever it is, the people are holding the reins, have their hands on the switch. They go bat shit crazy. I mean, anybody who's not building a team right and rebuilding it using your model, they're dinosaurs...
I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras. -- Alan Kay
Get the kids involved in an ongoing operation whereby books are acquired, digitally scanned, and then re-donated to other schools/libraries/etc. Store the digital copies in some offsite database that can be shared amongst other schools/libraries/etc. Provide terminals where the students can peruse the scanned books and allow access to the digital library for students at home.
:)
Can't think of a better way to keep a library as a place to learn new and relevant skills and be exposed to gobs of information and knowledge at the same time.
I'm sure this all falls apart when the copyright lawyers get involved, but I would love to see the publicity the publishers get when they sue a school library
Looks like they took a crack at it, interesting read:
The Voynich Manuscript: An Elegant Enigma
...but IMHO the curiosity landing makes anything like this that I read about seem like a cake walk. Still in complete awe of the team(s) that pulled that off.
Excited to see what Rosetta sends back!
That's great. It's amazing the level of interest that people express when they are presented the opportunity to view these things with no effort or cost associated.
When the Venus transit happened I set up my little orion in the driveway and projected the image onto a sheet of paper and within 10 or 15 minutes a mob of people from my neighborhood (most of whom I'd never met) had gathered around - parents on walks with their kids, dogs, or out jogging, what have you - it was great. They were all talking about it, asking questions about it, generally marveling at the image.
The best part was explaining it to the kids - I would explain what was happening, they would turn to the image again, and a few seconds later you could see on their faces the realization of the scope of what they were witnessing. It was really great. I can see why he did it.
"Don't say 'murder,' don't say 'kill' It was destiny, it was God's will"
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Pretty sure they were referring to the device/setup itself, not the effect.
If you have a mac (or any Unicode able terminal) try out my sig. Saw the c64 code in someone else's sig, linked to a book about the phenomenon (maybe too strong a word)
I'll check that out. Agreed that shitloads of nested anonymous handler functions is ugly as hell... and seems to be were most complex javascript leads. I'm not a huge proponent of node or anything, but I do think it has its uses.
Interesting - it has occurred to me that a lot of these "new" fangled frameworks and such really are just a return to concepts and practices from the past - didn't know what the historic analog of this nodeJS (and the like) stuff was. Thanks.
No multi-threading is kind of the point with nodeJS. It's a different approach than your normal "servlet" where you're firing up new threads for every request and sharing a pool of database connections between them. In this model you run a nodeJS listener and it uses a simple event loop, just like in the browser. If you want to scale you spin up 50 more node instances and slap them behind a load balancing proxy. They are all typically hitting a highly scalable nosql datasource on the backend, which can also easily spin up another 50 instances if needed.
I've dabbled, it is definitely fun for little side projects but I haven't tried to do anything major league with it - in any case, don't knock anything until you try it. For giggles try creating a large searchable data set using elasticsearch and nodejs running behind apache proxies, one hour into it when you have a working site you'll see the appeal.
I thought they were already doing this in Boston, maybe not... In any case I always assumed this was a way for the states to make money. They own the highways, therefore the exclusive rights to put these sensors up, and therefore exclusive access to hyper-accurate realtime traffic data that they can license out to the likes of google and apple for their map applications. I suppose it could simply be used to provide information for the "X minutes to airport" signs they have on most highways now.
All seems pretty harmless to me, they could just as easily hire human beings to stand along the highways with walkie talkies and monitor average traffic speeds, would people throw a shit fit then?