All I pointed out is that "involved" is different than "explains". The former implies that the crack epidemic was in some way facilitated or aided by Reagan's policies, and the other implies that Reagan's policies are solely responsible. That's it, period. Please quit putting words in my mouth. They don't taste very good.
It sounds like you (or he) may be hypoglycemic. Protein contains the same cal/gram as sugars without the catastrophic insulin spike and subsequent blood sugar crash characteristic of people with "low blood sugar". I actually find that meat is just fine, even fatty meat, and works even better than nuts (which have more carbs than meat). In any case, I agree, but this may not be as helpful for some as for others.
Congratulations. You've demonstrated a rock-solid string of causality from the Reagan administration to the 90s crack epidemic (which definitely had abslutely nothing to do with Escobar's massive importation of a cheaper, more potent product since those fucking republicans were in office). Bravo, my good sir. We need more people in this world making such stellar arguments such as yourself.
I was referring to the differentiation between "New-style Classes" (inheriting from object) and "Old-Style Classes" Which have in their hierarchy a class defined without an explicit base. They support different __methods__ and follow slightly different rules. "Old-Style" classes were kept in the language for historic and compatbility reasons. The New object system (where New means 2001-2002+) is much better, but the old one was kept around, destroying any semblance of orthogonality in the language.
I never said that low-level languages were best for everything, but a low-level language can still be clean and orthogonal, and I feel that C is an example of such a language. Of course "productivity" is higher in high-level languages, but that's really off-topic as to the discussion of cleanliness.
I would consider python's extention interface to be one of the messiest, along with JNI. Consider this: You can only embed one python interpreter per application because of the way the python library links. What's so clean about that? Lua and Io both do a significantly better job in this regard.
Yeah...having two object systems shoved into one language is "clean". I suppose having a reference counting system and a pausing cycle breaker is "clean", too (worst of both worlds--extra overhead on assignment without time-determinism). C is simple and orthogonal. I can't really think of anything particularly "dirty" about it that wouldn't be inherent to any low-level language. Don't get me wrong--I've used and loved python for a long time now, and I have a decidedly large soft spot for dynamically typed languages, but python is hardly "clean". Have you seen the C extention interface? Blech.
Bloomberg build one of the largest privately held companies from the world from the ground up. His coworkers, some of whom I know, testify whenever possible as to the sweat and intensity he put into the business and how wonderful he was to work for. The benefits offered at his company are among the best in the industry. It's hard to accuse him of not understanding how work gets done or how to/not to treat employees in light of what he's accomplished in his life, in particular from a management perspective.
Also, if the employee were so indispensible, I assume his manager would have defended him and done whatever possible to give him another chance. Honestly, if the man got fired by a chance remark, even coming out of Bloomberg's mouth, he probably was on the line already for other reasons.
Oh..it's horribly archaic. I was just pointing out that it exists. I'm sure that the speed limits are controlled manually by a person with something vaguely resembling a weather report and traffic information. I have only driven those roads a handful of times and the speeds always seemed to reasonably reflect the conditions. Driving in Jersey is a nightmare and the roads are terrible in general, so one doesn't expect too much.
Ever driven in New Jersey? Many long stretches of highway there have electronic speed limit signs that vary from 35-65 depending on conditions, traffic flow, etc.
The salesperson quoted him a price and then the cashier honored it. I don't see a problem here? That's what salesman do. If a salesman mistakenly quotes a wrong price, that's between him and his employer. It doesn't matter if the customer knows that other stores are charging more for the same item, that's completely irrelevant.
Learn ruby/perl/python/something and automate *everything* the each time you find yourself repeating a task that could be easily parametrized. Most of this is an attitude thing. If repetitive tasks don't annoy you, then you're not going to be able to eliminate them from your life. It will never seem worth the effort.
Also, get a decent window manager like ion and learn its shortcuts. Developing more than a passing knowledge of Ion and Vim has doubled my productivity when debugging code. Ion makes one monitor feel like two, so I can imagine that on two it would be pretty damn good.
> I don't know if this is true of every company, but it wouldn't surprise me, since global companies make the same profit from your work, no matter where you live.
This isn't true. A company can choose from a larger, more talented pool in "desireable" areas (such as Manhattan), and it would be expected that the average output of a programmer drawn from that superior talent pool should be worth more.
So you can live your dream, but not him his because of some abstract notion that cities are somehow more efficient/less polluting than rural areas?
Your arguments are silly and juvenile--"barbequeue is overrated"--give me a break. You're essentially saying that he shouldn't be able to cook his food the way he wants to because it doesn't fit sufficiently into your idea of an ideal society. Are you really that ignorant? Isn't the point of America the freedom to live our lives how we wish so long as it doesn't harm others?
Also, crime statistics disagree with you; I suggest you look at them sometime. Violent crime and property crime are significantly higher per capita in the cities. This suggests that you expect the grandparent to accept your irrational and illogical feelings about your own personal security just so he can satisfy your personal worldview.
Some of my assignments have been a stretch for a 1ghz powerbook? If you can't imagine needing cycles to do your homework, you don't have a very active imagination. I've run into this on several instances, the most recent being a LISP-based audio-rendering framework (non realtime) which took FOREVER to do anything nontrivial on my powerbook. Even on my more formidable PC, it was sometimes a stretch.
No; you don't need more than that to read the internet, write email, or do a paper, but students are doing significantly more interesting things on their home PC's these days. For the audio class, there were no lab machines--you were required to do this at home. On a 500mhz iBook...well..I'd still be working on the second assignment.
Even for general programming classes, development cycle time matters. If it takes a few minutes to compile (ever compiled on an iBook? You know what I'm talking about) then a student is less likely to try different solutions to the problem or even be able to concentrate (when build times pass 45 seconds or so, the temptation to look at the internet rather than stare at nothing overcomes most students. Try to solve a non-trivial problem in say, robotics, while reading the internet in between every change--it doesn't work).
Speaking of robotics code--I remember the agony of running an ARM compiler and a complicated link on a 600Mhz pentium-III--3-5 minutes per cycle. Ow.
Fast computers do matter. Perhaps more to computer science students than most, but you didn't seem to specifically exclude anyone but people who do video editing (something that should't be expected to work on a laptop, anyhow). Start imagining it.
No. The number can be trusted--it's the number of downloads from the firefox site of firefox binaries excluding the default firefox user agent. It can't be made into something it's not, examples of which would be unique firefox users or all downloads of firefox across the whole internet.
That's not the point. The point is, Thunderbird shouldn't be capable of losing mail *ever*. These kinds of issues are what keep open source desktop applications in the tenths of percentage points (the notable exception being firefox which is not really capable of losing data beyond bookmarks/settings)
I love my powerbook, but I can't use it for any serious development because it takes too long to...
1. Compile anything 4. Do anything involving the X server 5. Run a debugger/profiler 6. Do anything productive while watching a movie on an external monitor (or anything productive with a two-screen setup, period)
This is a 1ghz 12" Albook with 1.25gb of ram and a 5400rpm disk (aftermarket). I use it religiously and it goes everywhere I do. Still, though, developing compiled software is too much for it. Even debugging web apps (running mysql, rails, lighttpd, satari, textmate) was pushing it back when I only had 512mb. Now I think that would be ok.
My linux PC, with all of it's linuxy quirks and faults, ends up being the favorite for development. All the unix trimmings in the world won't make my computer any faster.
My host has an apache setup for general-purpose needs, but will use a vhost and mod_proxy to hook up to your own lighttpd instance running on a non-priv port if you want to do anything weird. The end result is that a lot of people on that host do just that. It's just too damn tempting to have your own private config and server that you can up and down as you please. Since lighttpd uses so little in the way of system resources compared with apache, it works out for everyone.
That wasn't the point you tried to make or the point I responded to. Anyone who wants to plant poles, corporation, co-op, or individual would need government's cooperation to do so. How does this differentiate a co-op from a corporation in a meaningful way?
I was misinformed about this case. I was under the impression that tax money was going to this. Since it isn't, they're essentially taking advantage of their community's credit rating in issuing the bonds, which is less objectionable.
Co-ops don't have the legal standing of government. We have a hierarchy in this country--national, state, local, etc. Each level of government must recognize governments on the level below. Since states don't recognize co-ops of citizens as local governments, they can't be equated so simply. There's a huge difference between a non-profit corporation and a government agency.
You missed my point. I was talking about government--which isn't the same as business at all. Once the government starts charging taxes and providing a service, a company is unable to make money by offering the same level of service. It has to be worth it to the consumers to pay the tax, forfeit that service, then pay for the company's service on top of that. That's not the case in company-to-company competition, which is the point of my previous post and the reason why your analogies fail.
Is there modern video/audio editing software for it? Particularly, is there a recent version of a production grade audio production suite (like protools or logic or cubase) for it?
If not, then why are people touting it's multimedia capabilities? I mean sure, it's damn cool, but it's not going to be used for pro audio video if they're not there. I however, am ignorant--what's out there for Be in the audio/(video) world?
Of course they do. Did you read farther into what I said than my words? Yes people have the right. Corporations also have the right to sue. I said myself that they shouldn't win the suit. If the market becomes valuable, the company might want to enter at a later date. They shouldn't be put in a position of "now or never" which is essentially what's happening. People aren't going to pay more for their service (unless it's vastly better than what everyone else in the country has) if they're already paying it in taxes.
That last part is what bothers me about this whole thing. Chances are you use broadband. I do too. Chances are grandma marge doesn't want or need it. Now, in that community, she'll be paying for it whether she likes it or not. I could care less about the cable company. My problem is with that, and it seems that we are in agreement on that one if your last sentence means what it says.
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All I pointed out is that "involved" is different than "explains". The former implies that the crack epidemic was in some way facilitated or aided by Reagan's policies, and the other implies that Reagan's policies are solely responsible. That's it, period. Please quit putting words in my mouth. They don't taste very good.
It sounds like you (or he) may be hypoglycemic. Protein contains the same cal/gram as sugars without the catastrophic insulin spike and subsequent blood sugar crash characteristic of people with "low blood sugar". I actually find that meat is just fine, even fatty meat, and works even better than nuts (which have more carbs than meat). In any case, I agree, but this may not be as helpful for some as for others.
Congratulations. You've demonstrated a rock-solid string of causality from the Reagan administration to the 90s crack epidemic (which definitely had abslutely nothing to do with Escobar's massive importation of a cheaper, more potent product since those fucking republicans were in office). Bravo, my good sir. We need more people in this world making such stellar arguments such as yourself.
So is rubbing alcohol and rock salt. Should we begin restricting those, too? Where does this argument end?
I was referring to the differentiation between "New-style Classes" (inheriting from object) and "Old-Style Classes" Which have in their hierarchy a class defined without an explicit base. They support different __methods__ and follow slightly different rules. "Old-Style" classes were kept in the language for historic and compatbility reasons. The New object system (where New means 2001-2002+) is much better, but the old one was kept around, destroying any semblance of orthogonality in the language.
I never said that low-level languages were best for everything, but a low-level language can still be clean and orthogonal, and I feel that C is an example of such a language. Of course "productivity" is higher in high-level languages, but that's really off-topic as to the discussion of cleanliness.
I would consider python's extention interface to be one of the messiest, along with JNI. Consider this: You can only embed one python interpreter per application because of the way the python library links. What's so clean about that? Lua and Io both do a significantly better job in this regard.
Yeah...having two object systems shoved into one language is "clean". I suppose having a reference counting system and a pausing cycle breaker is "clean", too (worst of both worlds--extra overhead on assignment without time-determinism). C is simple and orthogonal. I can't really think of anything particularly "dirty" about it that wouldn't be inherent to any low-level language. Don't get me wrong--I've used and loved python for a long time now, and I have a decidedly large soft spot for dynamically typed languages, but python is hardly "clean". Have you seen the C extention interface? Blech.
Bloomberg build one of the largest privately held companies from the world from the ground up. His coworkers, some of whom I know, testify whenever possible as to the sweat and intensity he put into the business and how wonderful he was to work for. The benefits offered at his company are among the best in the industry. It's hard to accuse him of not understanding how work gets done or how to/not to treat employees in light of what he's accomplished in his life, in particular from a management perspective.
Also, if the employee were so indispensible, I assume his manager would have defended him and done whatever possible to give him another chance. Honestly, if the man got fired by a chance remark, even coming out of Bloomberg's mouth, he probably was on the line already for other reasons.
Oh..it's horribly archaic. I was just pointing out that it exists. I'm sure that the speed limits are controlled manually by a person with something vaguely resembling a weather report and traffic information. I have only driven those roads a handful of times and the speeds always seemed to reasonably reflect the conditions. Driving in Jersey is a nightmare and the roads are terrible in general, so one doesn't expect too much.
Ever driven in New Jersey? Many long stretches of highway there have electronic speed limit signs that vary from 35-65 depending on conditions, traffic flow, etc.
The salesperson quoted him a price and then the cashier honored it. I don't see a problem here? That's what salesman do. If a salesman mistakenly quotes a wrong price, that's between him and his employer. It doesn't matter if the customer knows that other stores are charging more for the same item, that's completely irrelevant.
Learn ruby/perl/python/something and automate *everything* the each time you find yourself repeating a task that could be easily parametrized. Most of this is an attitude thing. If repetitive tasks don't annoy you, then you're not going to be able to eliminate them from your life. It will never seem worth the effort.
Also, get a decent window manager like ion and learn its shortcuts. Developing more than a passing knowledge of Ion and Vim has doubled my productivity when debugging code. Ion makes one monitor feel like two, so I can imagine that on two it would be pretty damn good.
> I don't know if this is true of every company, but it wouldn't surprise me, since global companies make the same profit from your work, no matter where you live.
This isn't true. A company can choose from a larger, more talented pool in "desireable" areas (such as Manhattan), and it would be expected that the average output of a programmer drawn from that superior talent pool should be worth more.
So you can live your dream, but not him his because of some abstract notion that cities are somehow more efficient/less polluting than rural areas?
Your arguments are silly and juvenile--"barbequeue is overrated"--give me a break. You're essentially saying that he shouldn't be able to cook his food the way he wants to because it doesn't fit sufficiently into your idea of an ideal society. Are you really that ignorant? Isn't the point of America the freedom to live our lives how we wish so long as it doesn't harm others?
Also, crime statistics disagree with you; I suggest you look at them sometime. Violent crime and property crime are significantly higher per capita in the cities. This suggests that you expect the grandparent to accept your irrational and illogical feelings about your own personal security just so he can satisfy your personal worldview.
Get some perspective, please, for the rest of us.
All the alternatives in the world won't get the $30k out of the account and into the hands of the people who need it.
Regardless of alternatives, paypal shouldn't fuck around with this and they did. Unfortunately, there's no real consequences for them.
Some of my assignments have been a stretch for a 1ghz powerbook? If you can't imagine needing cycles to do your homework, you don't have a very active imagination. I've run into this on several instances, the most recent being a LISP-based audio-rendering framework (non realtime) which took FOREVER to do anything nontrivial on my powerbook. Even on my more formidable PC, it was sometimes a stretch.
No; you don't need more than that to read the internet, write email, or do a paper, but students are doing significantly more interesting things on their home PC's these days. For the audio class, there were no lab machines--you were required to do this at home. On a 500mhz iBook...well..I'd still be working on the second assignment.
Even for general programming classes, development cycle time matters. If it takes a few minutes to compile (ever compiled on an iBook? You know what I'm talking about) then a student is less likely to try different solutions to the problem or even be able to concentrate (when build times pass 45 seconds or so, the temptation to look at the internet rather than stare at nothing overcomes most students. Try to solve a non-trivial problem in say, robotics, while reading the internet in between every change--it doesn't work).
Speaking of robotics code--I remember the agony of running an ARM compiler and a complicated link on a 600Mhz pentium-III--3-5 minutes per cycle. Ow.
Fast computers do matter. Perhaps more to computer science students than most, but you didn't seem to specifically exclude anyone but people who do video editing (something that should't be expected to work on a laptop, anyhow). Start imagining it.
No. The number can be trusted--it's the number of downloads from the firefox site of firefox binaries excluding the default firefox user agent. It can't be made into something it's not, examples of which would be unique firefox users or all downloads of firefox across the whole internet.
That's not the point. The point is, Thunderbird shouldn't be capable of losing mail *ever*. These kinds of issues are what keep open source desktop applications in the tenths of percentage points (the notable exception being firefox which is not really capable of losing data beyond bookmarks/settings)
Wait, wait...that's logic.
We're talking about criminal liability law.
And they're slow as all hell.
I love my powerbook, but I can't use it for any serious development because it takes too long to...
1. Compile anything
4. Do anything involving the X server
5. Run a debugger/profiler
6. Do anything productive while watching a movie on an external monitor (or anything productive with a two-screen setup, period)
This is a 1ghz 12" Albook with 1.25gb of ram and a 5400rpm disk (aftermarket). I use it religiously and it goes everywhere I do. Still, though, developing compiled software is too much for it. Even debugging web apps (running mysql, rails, lighttpd, satari, textmate) was pushing it back when I only had 512mb. Now I think that would be ok.
My linux PC, with all of it's linuxy quirks and faults, ends up being the favorite for development. All the unix trimmings in the world won't make my computer any faster.
My host has an apache setup for general-purpose needs, but will use a vhost and mod_proxy to hook up to your own lighttpd instance running on a non-priv port if you want to do anything weird. The end result is that a lot of people on that host do just that. It's just too damn tempting to have your own private config and server that you can up and down as you please. Since lighttpd uses so little in the way of system resources compared with apache, it works out for everyone.
That wasn't the point you tried to make or the point I responded to. Anyone who wants to plant poles, corporation, co-op, or individual would need government's cooperation to do so. How does this differentiate a co-op from a corporation in a meaningful way?
I was misinformed about this case. I was under the impression that tax money was going to this. Since it isn't, they're essentially taking advantage of their community's credit rating in issuing the bonds, which is less objectionable.
Co-ops don't have the legal standing of government. We have a hierarchy in this country--national, state, local, etc. Each level of government must recognize governments on the level below. Since states don't recognize co-ops of citizens as local governments, they can't be equated so simply. There's a huge difference between a non-profit corporation and a government agency.
You missed my point. I was talking about government--which isn't the same as business at all. Once the government starts charging taxes and providing a service, a company is unable to make money by offering the same level of service. It has to be worth it to the consumers to pay the tax, forfeit that service, then pay for the company's service on top of that. That's not the case in company-to-company competition, which is the point of my previous post and the reason why your analogies fail.
Is there modern video/audio editing software for it? Particularly, is there a recent version of a production grade audio production suite (like protools or logic or cubase) for it?
If not, then why are people touting it's multimedia capabilities? I mean sure, it's damn cool, but it's not going to be used for pro audio video if they're not there. I however, am ignorant--what's out there for Be in the audio/(video) world?
Of course they do. Did you read farther into what I said than my words? Yes people have the right. Corporations also have the right to sue. I said myself that they shouldn't win the suit. If the market becomes valuable, the company might want to enter at a later date. They shouldn't be put in a position of "now or never" which is essentially what's happening. People aren't going to pay more for their service (unless it's vastly better than what everyone else in the country has) if they're already paying it in taxes.
That last part is what bothers me about this whole thing. Chances are you use broadband. I do too. Chances are grandma marge doesn't want or need it. Now, in that community, she'll be paying for it whether she likes it or not. I could care less about the cable company. My problem is with that, and it seems that we are in agreement on that one if your last sentence means what it says.