I knew an electrician who climbed poles to shut off power at the transformer. Well, he'd do that if he had to, most times he'd rather work on live 220V 100A service wires instead of climbing the pole, twice, to switch the breaker.
$20/hr isn't bad pay in rural Oklahoma. Zillow yourself a nice house out there... it looks like $80K will buy a whole lot more house than I got (for $80K) when I was single and earning $37K/yr.
I made an "artificial life" simulator too when I was young, in 10th grade in about 1990. I observed it repeat in cycles with about 100 cycles of conflict, then 5 cycles of cooperation, then 100 cycles of conflict again, and so on. (it was doing iterated prisoner dilemma, played by genetic algorithms with breeding and mutation).
My conclusion? That all these "experiments" are completely dependent on accidents of the way they got set up, and the link between algorithms and outcomes is poorly understood, and we shouldn't draw any moral or evolutionary conclusions from them.
Clearly, the "God" factor entirely determines what happens in the world - whether by design or accident. What I found interesting was that I was putting in what I thought were strong rewards for serial killers, but they never managed to reach a population density where they could interbreed, the "sheep" always strongly outnumbered the "wolves." I even tried giving them ability to recognize their kin (genetic similarity), but in my worlds they just wouldn't take off.
I use Gmail as my primary personal e-mail service because:
1) I don't care that they or anybody else reads my daily drivel, the "nothing to hide" syndrome, I'm not so bold as to put it out there on a Facebook wall like a lot of people, but if you really want to dive in my dumpster, knock yourself out.
2) they provide a more convenient and useful e-mail service (better "experience") than any alternative I have tried, paid or free. I used paid Eudora for quite awhile, but that's not even an option anymore.
If I've got something to say that I wouldn't want dug up and repeated later, it doesn't go in an e-mail at all, I might trust e-mail if my recipient knew how to use strong decryption and erase the messages after reading, but I don't know anyone like that whom I have anything confidential to say to.
Within a short time, non-violent creatures became dominant over intentionally or accidentally violent ones by a ratio of more than 100:1.
Were you able to track the ratio of intentionally violent to accidentally violent ones?
There wasn't an "intentionally violent" boolean in the system, each creature could choose one possible action per turn (sleep, move forward, turn left, turn right, eat, drink, reproduce) based on their senses of the space around them and memory of recent actions and senses.
Accidental violence might be attributed to creatures which moved without consideration of what was infront of them, but I never got that deep into the analysis - I was mostly tracking population trends and life histories of selected creatures. In a population of 30,000 or so, some creatures accumulated over 100 lifetime kills, they would seem to be killing with intention and avoiding losing battles, but they were rare outliers.
Anyway, I wonder if young healthy people will start disappearing off the street.
I've heard stories from decades ago that imply that this has been happening in places like India for a long time. Fortunately there are only a handful of Indians wealthy enough to do this, and with a potential donor pool of over 1B, you've got far better odds of winning a $10M lottery with a single $1 ticket.
So the good news is that this will likely be funded right through the trials phase. The bad news is that it'll come out the other end wrapped in IP restrictions and not widely available to the public as a standard procedure.
If there wasn't the potential for obscene profits, nobody would have put up the obscene funding required to do the research.
Wait until you've lived with sensory deprivation (failing eyesight, hearing, taste, smell, numbness in the extremities), relative dementia (declining ability to learn, remember, reason), reduced mobility, loss of fine motor skills, and chronic pain for a few decades. Also factor in that most of your old friends are suffering similarly, or dead, and if your children are typical, they've left you in the dust long ago.
It comes on slowly, starting around age 20-30, and generally picks up steam around 50-70, generally later in people who don't "live" much in their youth.
I've never met anyone over the age of 95 who wants to live forever.
I wasn't aware that after a transplant the recipient was put on a lifelong immunosupression treatment. I thought either the organ is rejected or it is accepted and that's it.
Common mis-conception, exacerbated by transplant seekers who are desperately seeking to avoid their own death and gloss over how much their post-transplant life is going to suck when pleading for donors.
by 'simulated rape and murder' i am referring to GTA 3, and by 'remotely piloted vehicle' im talking about what the US is doing in Pakistan, Yemen, Afghanistan, and several other countries right now
Nothing that hasn't been done with boot camp, special forces training, and faceless weapons (high altitude bombing, long range artillery) for decades.
I made an "artificial life" simulator - at one point in the simulation I gave the creatures the ability to kill one another (by attempting to occupy the same space at the same time, the bigger (and so, fitter and more able to reproduce) creature would win, and get a food boost as a bonus, too.) Population plummeted for many generations while the creatures slaughtered each other, but then a few generations later, population suddenly increased again - a mutation had learned how to avoid collisions and thus was able to more densely populate the available space. Within a short time, non-violent creatures became dominant over intentionally or accidentally violent ones by a ratio of more than 100:1.
Gmail has always done this, even in the early days, it's part of the bargain, like ads on broadcast TV & radio - they target you by the channel you tune to and when you listen
Uhmmm.... then let advertisers target Gmail users by the fact they use Gmail. There, done, and now the analogy isn't completely broken either.
Google ads are, in part, successful due to their targeting features - the group "all Gmail users" is less specific than a radio station. Maybe you would like a subscription based Gmail where you pay for the service instead of the advertisers? I know some real-estate ads get upwards of $1 per click.
From OP : "You shouldn't be sending confidential things through Gmail in the first place"
Why ? Why shouldn't I ? what should I do to send those ? use real mail ? Gmail is an email service, it's not supposed to search through you correspondance, and it shouldn't be allowed to.
I'm sick and tired of assholes trying to defend privacy invading policies with illconceived arguments. Gmail is a service, a service that you PAY FOR through advertising, and there is ABSOLUTELY NO REASON why google should take the right to search through your mail, the same way there is no reason for USPS to search through your mails...
And I'm not an anti-google troll, I have an Android Phone, and I use Gmail and even G+, and they are good products, but all the more reason for us to protect the quality of these services by preventing Google from abusing its position of power regarding its users and invading their privacy.
Ummm... have you ever noticed the targeted advertising right next to your e-mail, you know, ads for what the e-mail is talking about? And, how are they going to do that without searching your mail? Gmail has always done this, even in the early days, it's part of the bargain, like ads on broadcast TV & radio - they target you by the channel you tune to and when you listen. Your bargain for the "free" Gmail service is that they get to sift through the content of your correspondence to serve up their ads - and of course they're going to keep a personal history of what they've seen in your e-mail, so they can serve you better.
Have you found a language that works well on 100-person projects without boilerplate?
I stay out of 100 person projects, usually 3-4 MAX.
As far as boilerplate reduction, the Qt libraries on C++ are pretty good, and I usually extend them with functionality that makes our code as data driven as possible, so instead of 250 individual code chains to ferry events from inception through handling, we have 2 or 3 data driven interpreters, if you will; so, when a new function needs adding, stick it in the.ui editor with a couple of strings telling what it connects to and how and the back end just does it. Back end is necessarily more abstract, but I find much better code reuse this way, and much quicker illumination of rare bugs.
He omitted 'php' from serious php developer. Probably because we'd all have laughed at the notion.
Thanks, I quit listing all the languages I've programmed in after I got my first job (was probably 20ish then, honestly lost count by now), I certainly never got serious with php, but if that's your thing, PDO prepare yourself away, if that's really what needs doing.
I kinda prefer languages (and implementations) that don't require a ton of boilerplate before anything starts happening.
The first construct doesn't expose i because i is irrelevant outside of the current task... if you need i for other things, by all means, use the more verbose construct, but when I (often) do not care about order of operation and just want to process every item in a list, the foreach construct hides irrelevant detail from the code.
If you're used to doing 8 bit assembly code, then you're used to seeing 16, 32, (and probably 24) bit ints represented as a verbose expansion of the individual byte handlers, quite long ones in the case of a 32 bit add operation. Personally, I'm just as glad to declare a char, short, or long somewhere above and go with it as a variable i in the code, let the compiler expand it out.
I mean there ought to be a programming language my little sister could use casually. An intially level and smoothly steepning ramp to ease users into the world of coding.
"I can do more work in one line of Python than you can do in 100 lines of C"
You must be a pretty lousy C programmer then. Python may be higher level than C but its not THAT mush higher.
I would also argue that all that really needed doing could be expressed in 5 lines of C, and that other 95 lines of Python Power is actually wasted overhead.
What serious developer doesn't use PDO/mysqli and prepared statements?
I've been programming for 30 years, 20 for pay, 15 in some management capacity (always with at least 50% hands on coding time), and I don't know what the hell you're talking about, I suppose I could Google it, but why?
Ideally, programming should be a playground accessible to all, not like today where it's more of a military discipline camp accessible to all.
Say what? A new PC costs about a 40 hour paycheck from McDonalds? When I bought my first computer it was more like 300 hours of minimum wage pay, and let's not even try to guess at the performance difference here 30 years later.
If you want to program, buy your own hardware, take your own time and do it. Compilers, instructional texts, and support forums are available for a $15/month internet access fee.
If you don't like the "military discipline camp" feel of wherever you are, just do it yourself. It's easier to freelance program while waiting tables to pay the rent than it is to try to get a start as a (take your pick) actor/actress, artist, stock broker, etc. etc. etc.
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I don't have to risk my life for that insultingly small amount of money anymore.
Look up P.T. Barnum - famous quotes.
I knew an electrician who climbed poles to shut off power at the transformer. Well, he'd do that if he had to, most times he'd rather work on live 220V 100A service wires instead of climbing the pole, twice, to switch the breaker.
$20/hr isn't bad pay in rural Oklahoma. Zillow yourself a nice house out there... it looks like $80K will buy a whole lot more house than I got (for $80K) when I was single and earning $37K/yr.
Another form of accounting put the cost of 135 shuttle launches at $170B - you do need to include program startup and shutdown costs.
I made an "artificial life" simulator too when I was young, in 10th grade in about 1990. I observed it repeat in cycles with about 100 cycles of conflict, then 5 cycles of cooperation, then 100 cycles of conflict again, and so on. (it was doing iterated prisoner dilemma, played by genetic algorithms with breeding and mutation).
My conclusion? That all these "experiments" are completely dependent on accidents of the way they got set up, and the link between algorithms and outcomes is poorly understood, and we shouldn't draw any moral or evolutionary conclusions from them.
Clearly, the "God" factor entirely determines what happens in the world - whether by design or accident. What I found interesting was that I was putting in what I thought were strong rewards for serial killers, but they never managed to reach a population density where they could interbreed, the "sheep" always strongly outnumbered the "wolves." I even tried giving them ability to recognize their kin (genetic similarity), but in my worlds they just wouldn't take off.
I use Gmail as my primary personal e-mail service because:
1) I don't care that they or anybody else reads my daily drivel, the "nothing to hide" syndrome, I'm not so bold as to put it out there on a Facebook wall like a lot of people, but if you really want to dive in my dumpster, knock yourself out.
2) they provide a more convenient and useful e-mail service (better "experience") than any alternative I have tried, paid or free. I used paid Eudora for quite awhile, but that's not even an option anymore.
If I've got something to say that I wouldn't want dug up and repeated later, it doesn't go in an e-mail at all, I might trust e-mail if my recipient knew how to use strong decryption and erase the messages after reading, but I don't know anyone like that whom I have anything confidential to say to.
Within a short time, non-violent creatures became dominant over intentionally or accidentally violent ones by a ratio of more than 100:1.
Were you able to track the ratio of intentionally violent to accidentally violent ones?
There wasn't an "intentionally violent" boolean in the system, each creature could choose one possible action per turn (sleep, move forward, turn left, turn right, eat, drink, reproduce) based on their senses of the space around them and memory of recent actions and senses.
Accidental violence might be attributed to creatures which moved without consideration of what was infront of them, but I never got that deep into the analysis - I was mostly tracking population trends and life histories of selected creatures. In a population of 30,000 or so, some creatures accumulated over 100 lifetime kills, they would seem to be killing with intention and avoiding losing battles, but they were rare outliers.
Anyway, I wonder if young healthy people will start disappearing off the street.
I've heard stories from decades ago that imply that this has been happening in places like India for a long time. Fortunately there are only a handful of Indians wealthy enough to do this, and with a potential donor pool of over 1B, you've got far better odds of winning a $10M lottery with a single $1 ticket.
So the good news is that this will likely be funded right through the trials phase. The bad news is that it'll come out the other end wrapped in IP restrictions and not widely available to the public as a standard procedure.
If there wasn't the potential for obscene profits, nobody would have put up the obscene funding required to do the research.
cause I don't want to die.... ever.
Wait until you've lived with sensory deprivation (failing eyesight, hearing, taste, smell, numbness in the extremities), relative dementia (declining ability to learn, remember, reason), reduced mobility, loss of fine motor skills, and chronic pain for a few decades. Also factor in that most of your old friends are suffering similarly, or dead, and if your children are typical, they've left you in the dust long ago.
It comes on slowly, starting around age 20-30, and generally picks up steam around 50-70, generally later in people who don't "live" much in their youth.
I've never met anyone over the age of 95 who wants to live forever.
I wasn't aware that after a transplant the recipient was put on a lifelong immunosupression treatment. I thought either the organ is rejected or it is accepted and that's it.
Common mis-conception, exacerbated by transplant seekers who are desperately seeking to avoid their own death and gloss over how much their post-transplant life is going to suck when pleading for donors.
by 'simulated rape and murder' i am referring to GTA 3, and by 'remotely piloted vehicle' im talking about what the US is doing in Pakistan, Yemen, Afghanistan, and several other countries right now
Nothing that hasn't been done with boot camp, special forces training, and faceless weapons (high altitude bombing, long range artillery) for decades.
CJD is a bitch.
I made an "artificial life" simulator - at one point in the simulation I gave the creatures the ability to kill one another (by attempting to occupy the same space at the same time, the bigger (and so, fitter and more able to reproduce) creature would win, and get a food boost as a bonus, too.) Population plummeted for many generations while the creatures slaughtered each other, but then a few generations later, population suddenly increased again - a mutation had learned how to avoid collisions and thus was able to more densely populate the available space. Within a short time, non-violent creatures became dominant over intentionally or accidentally violent ones by a ratio of more than 100:1.
Uhmmm.... then let advertisers target Gmail users by the fact they use Gmail. There, done, and now the analogy isn't completely broken either.
Google ads are, in part, successful due to their targeting features - the group "all Gmail users" is less specific than a radio station. Maybe you would like a subscription based Gmail where you pay for the service instead of the advertisers? I know some real-estate ads get upwards of $1 per click.
From OP : "You shouldn't be sending confidential things through Gmail in the first place"
Why ? Why shouldn't I ? what should I do to send those ? use real mail ? Gmail is an email service, it's not supposed to search through you correspondance, and it shouldn't be allowed to.
I'm sick and tired of assholes trying to defend privacy invading policies with illconceived arguments. Gmail is a service, a service that you PAY FOR through advertising, and there is ABSOLUTELY NO REASON why google should take the right to search through your mail, the same way there is no reason for USPS to search through your mails...
And I'm not an anti-google troll, I have an Android Phone, and I use Gmail and even G+, and they are good products, but all the more reason for us to protect the quality of these services by preventing Google from abusing its position of power regarding its users and invading their privacy.
Ummm... have you ever noticed the targeted advertising right next to your e-mail, you know, ads for what the e-mail is talking about? And, how are they going to do that without searching your mail? Gmail has always done this, even in the early days, it's part of the bargain, like ads on broadcast TV & radio - they target you by the channel you tune to and when you listen. Your bargain for the "free" Gmail service is that they get to sift through the content of your correspondence to serve up their ads - and of course they're going to keep a personal history of what they've seen in your e-mail, so they can serve you better.
Have you found a language that works well on 100-person projects without boilerplate?
I stay out of 100 person projects, usually 3-4 MAX.
As far as boilerplate reduction, the Qt libraries on C++ are pretty good, and I usually extend them with functionality that makes our code as data driven as possible, so instead of 250 individual code chains to ferry events from inception through handling, we have 2 or 3 data driven interpreters, if you will; so, when a new function needs adding, stick it in the .ui editor with a couple of strings telling what it connects to and how and the back end just does it. Back end is necessarily more abstract, but I find much better code reuse this way, and much quicker illumination of rare bugs.
http://www.facebook.com/ladieslearningcode - I think they're kind of geographically restricted, but them or something like them might help.
He omitted 'php' from serious php developer. Probably because we'd all have laughed at the notion.
Thanks, I quit listing all the languages I've programmed in after I got my first job (was probably 20ish then, honestly lost count by now), I certainly never got serious with php, but if that's your thing, PDO prepare yourself away, if that's really what needs doing.
I kinda prefer languages (and implementations) that don't require a ton of boilerplate before anything starts happening.
The first construct doesn't expose i because i is irrelevant outside of the current task... if you need i for other things, by all means, use the more verbose construct, but when I (often) do not care about order of operation and just want to process every item in a list, the foreach construct hides irrelevant detail from the code.
If you're used to doing 8 bit assembly code, then you're used to seeing 16, 32, (and probably 24) bit ints represented as a verbose expansion of the individual byte handlers, quite long ones in the case of a 32 bit add operation. Personally, I'm just as glad to declare a char, short, or long somewhere above and go with it as a variable i in the code, let the compiler expand it out.
I mean there ought to be a programming language my little sister could use casually. An intially level and smoothly steepning ramp to ease users into the world of coding.
MIT Scratch
"I can do more work in one line of Python than you can do in 100 lines of C"
You must be a pretty lousy C programmer then. Python may be higher level than C but its not THAT mush higher.
I would also argue that all that really needed doing could be expressed in 5 lines of C, and that other 95 lines of Python Power is actually wasted overhead.
What serious developer doesn't use PDO/mysqli and prepared statements?
I've been programming for 30 years, 20 for pay, 15 in some management capacity (always with at least 50% hands on coding time), and I don't know what the hell you're talking about, I suppose I could Google it, but why?
I have a suspicion that the first practical languages for that will be "C with knobs on".
I suspect it will depend a whole lot on the personal tastes of the particular group doing the work.
I was shocked at the strong presence of FORTRAN in the highly optimized parallel world in 2005.
Ideally, programming should be a playground accessible to all, not like today where it's more of a military discipline camp accessible to all.
Say what? A new PC costs about a 40 hour paycheck from McDonalds? When I bought my first computer it was more like 300 hours of minimum wage pay, and let's not even try to guess at the performance difference here 30 years later.
If you want to program, buy your own hardware, take your own time and do it. Compilers, instructional texts, and support forums are available for a $15/month internet access fee.
If you don't like the "military discipline camp" feel of wherever you are, just do it yourself. It's easier to freelance program while waiting tables to pay the rent than it is to try to get a start as a (take your pick) actor/actress, artist, stock broker, etc. etc. etc.