Yeah, thats pretty much the corner-stone of right-wing propaganda. "We have to pass these laws against gay marriage and abortion, because those left-wing nutjob judges keep legislating from the bench." When the real reason is that judges don't have to play politics, and that reeeaaaally pisses off legislators. How can you manipulate someone who isn't afraid of getting reelected? Why are you criminally liable for bribing a judge, but not a politician? (Jack Abramoff's criminal felonies were fraudulent dealings with Casinos, not bribery) Is the offense not worse?
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Wow, why didn't anyone think of this before? A compensation program that is subject to change at will... I only need to usually make my house payment anyway.
This all sounds familiar. Like the big deal people were making about Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones. All this talk about it being a joke, and how it was such an obviously stupid name. Now we talk about AotC without batting an eye. Its amazing how upset people get over new weird things, but how quickly we get used to them.
A lot of people become programmers because they don't want to talk to idiots all day long (as in Sales or HR). Why would I want to talk to my computer, the biggest idiot of them all?
I actually worked with a guy who got Carpal Tunnel, so our company bought him voice recognition software and a special keyboard. We worked in a war room. Just him, and him alone, talking into his microphone "Begin comment... blah blah new line blah... end comment new line" was enough to drive the three closest tables insane. I couldn't imagine the horror of working in an office full of that sound.
I got my account a couple days ago, and it actually pretty nice. Unlike Geocities/Angelfire, The Google Page Creator is fully wysiwyg (actually, I'm not certain you even can insert HTML), and your domain is slightly cooler. I much prefer: http://eric.redmond.googlepages.com/ to http://geocities.com/athena/eredmond
Just don't do any heavy processing. I can just imagine the seering heat causing the device to fuse to my wrist. I always wanted to be a cyborg, but not that way, man.
Ironically, the biggest problem that we really have with our electoral body is our system of voting. Pick one guy you think should win? It just doesn't work. It polarizes all shades of gray into two packages. Concequently, Hotelling Effect ensues. We need something better, like instant runnoff, or up or down vote per candidate.
I agree. And might I add, this would be far more interesting if, in addition to requiring laptops, they banned paper from the school. No paper handouts, no paper books, no turning in assignments on paper.
Now THAT would be something.
I agree, somewhat. It is easy and natural to ignore the positives. However, I think that a huge misunderstanding of "working harder" is the definition of the word "harder". People's work today is far physically less demanding than 100 years ago, so in that sense it is easier. However, today's work environment is psychologically more taxing that in previous eras... in that sense it is harder.
What have Zen masters and Yogis talked about for eons? Keeping the mind clear, or in neural terms, not overstimulated. They knew that overstimulation was a cause of distress. It is far easier to not be overstimulated when bailing hay on a farm or throwing around stacks of steal in a factory (yes, I've done both of those jobs) than it is to juggle 10 different things at once, which is the paramount of modern working environments. Don't believe me? Look in the paper for an office job... most of them desire someone who can "multitask".
Unfortunately, the open version is lightyears behind the commercial one. And that was three years ago when I last looked into it.
Ultimately, yes, we still have PG!
Hey, for the record, I don't even like Perl. But right is right. Its interesting you have such a limited view of programming, yet are lecturing me on its subtleties. "sequenced logic operations"? Ever hear of declarative programming? That's QBE, that's XML. In the end they're all just data structures. You can ruffle your feathers about it all you want, but I'd be interested to see the compiler that does not compile code into them. The programming languages you speak of are just a shorthand method of creating them, but not the only way.
And as for the point about Jelly: It is XML. Just like the example the last guy gave. Jelly has an interpreter which runs the logic (declarative or sequential, however it may be) defined within. The example he gave is run on an interpreter--which just so happens to be a web browser.
In all fairness, Google just got into this Ajax game coming up on 2 years here next April 1st. MS has been playing with this technology for 8 or 9. Smart is smart, but it's hard to beat a solid team with experience. Also: how many browsers does live.com support? I have no idea.
In any case, I hate to paraphrase Larry Wall, but programming languages are indeed just data structures. XML is a formatting specification, and if you reformatted C code into XML, it would work just the same (assuming you had a compiler). In the case of the example above, I assume he had such a processor.
Penny Arcade (http://www.penny-arcade.com/ is arguably the highest-traffic site running on Rails. Its design is fairly simple, but it is at least a good example of the loads it can handle (hardware be as it may, scalable is scalable).
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Yeah, thats pretty much the corner-stone of right-wing propaganda. "We have to pass these laws against gay marriage and abortion, because those left-wing nutjob judges keep legislating from the bench." When the real reason is that judges don't have to play politics, and that reeeaaaally pisses off legislators. How can you manipulate someone who isn't afraid of getting reelected? Why are you criminally liable for bribing a judge, but not a politician? (Jack Abramoff's criminal felonies were fraudulent dealings with Casinos, not bribery) Is the offense not worse?
3. Compensation. Unless otherwise covered in a separate written Addendum to this Agreement, your compensation for completing an assignment will be listed on the Committed Community website when you apply for the assignment. Compensation is subject to change by OpenLogic and any changes shall be effective when posted to the Committed Community website or provided to you via email. You are responsible for any and all taxes due on any compensation received from OpenLogic.
Wow, why didn't anyone think of this before? A compensation program that is subject to change at will... I only need to usually make my house payment anyway.
This all sounds familiar. Like the big deal people were making about Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones. All this talk about it being a joke, and how it was such an obviously stupid name. Now we talk about AotC without batting an eye. Its amazing how upset people get over new weird things, but how quickly we get used to them.
A lot of people become programmers because they don't want to talk to idiots all day long (as in Sales or HR). Why would I want to talk to my computer, the biggest idiot of them all?
I actually worked with a guy who got Carpal Tunnel, so our company bought him voice recognition software and a special keyboard. We worked in a war room. Just him, and him alone, talking into his microphone "Begin comment... blah blah new line blah... end comment new line" was enough to drive the three closest tables insane. I couldn't imagine the horror of working in an office full of that sound.
I claim that Weird Al clearly isn't funny either. Does that mean he's less parody now? The point being, paradoy doesn't have to be funny at all.
Wait... so I shouldn't have registered boycottyahoofortakingovertheweb.org? Damnit!
I got my account a couple days ago, and it actually pretty nice. Unlike Geocities/Angelfire, The Google Page Creator is fully wysiwyg (actually, I'm not certain you even can insert HTML), and your domain is slightly cooler. I much prefer: http://eric.redmond.googlepages.com/ to http://geocities.com/athena/eredmond
Just don't do any heavy processing. I can just imagine the seering heat causing the device to fuse to my wrist. I always wanted to be a cyborg, but not that way, man.
Great. Now we're back to the old days of Nintendo. Doesn't work? Just blow on the disk and try again...
Ironically, the biggest problem that we really have with our electoral body is our system of voting. Pick one guy you think should win? It just doesn't work. It polarizes all shades of gray into two packages. Concequently, Hotelling Effect ensues. We need something better, like instant runnoff, or up or down vote per candidate.
You're either joking, or just got out of Logic 101.
I agree. And might I add, this would be far more interesting if, in addition to requiring laptops, they banned paper from the school. No paper handouts, no paper books, no turning in assignments on paper. Now THAT would be something.
Were's the door that uses a secret handshake?
Yeah, that'll be the headline from the Washington Post.
I agree, somewhat. It is easy and natural to ignore the positives. However, I think that a huge misunderstanding of "working harder" is the definition of the word "harder". People's work today is far physically less demanding than 100 years ago, so in that sense it is easier. However, today's work environment is psychologically more taxing that in previous eras... in that sense it is harder.
What have Zen masters and Yogis talked about for eons? Keeping the mind clear, or in neural terms, not overstimulated. They knew that overstimulation was a cause of distress. It is far easier to not be overstimulated when bailing hay on a farm or throwing around stacks of steal in a factory (yes, I've done both of those jobs) than it is to juggle 10 different things at once, which is the paramount of modern working environments. Don't believe me? Look in the paper for an office job... most of them desire someone who can "multitask".
Unfortunately, the open version is lightyears behind the commercial one. And that was three years ago when I last looked into it. Ultimately, yes, we still have PG!
Loop Quantum Gravity: http://www.angryflower.com/dating.gif
Huh, I had no idea that owning a business automatically made you rich... Thanks for letting the secret out!
Hey, for the record, I don't even like Perl. But right is right. Its interesting you have such a limited view of programming, yet are lecturing me on its subtleties. "sequenced logic operations"? Ever hear of declarative programming? That's QBE, that's XML. In the end they're all just data structures. You can ruffle your feathers about it all you want, but I'd be interested to see the compiler that does not compile code into them. The programming languages you speak of are just a shorthand method of creating them, but not the only way.
And as for the point about Jelly: It is XML. Just like the example the last guy gave. Jelly has an interpreter which runs the logic (declarative or sequential, however it may be) defined within. The example he gave is run on an interpreter--which just so happens to be a web browser.
Sheesh.In all fairness, Google just got into this Ajax game coming up on 2 years here next April 1st. MS has been playing with this technology for 8 or 9. Smart is smart, but it's hard to beat a solid team with experience. Also: how many browsers does live.com support? I have no idea.
XML code, you say? Ever hear of Jelly? http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/jelly/
In any case, I hate to paraphrase Larry Wall, but programming languages are indeed just data structures. XML is a formatting specification, and if you reformatted C code into XML, it would work just the same (assuming you had a compiler). In the case of the example above, I assume he had such a processor.
Penny Arcade (http://www.penny-arcade.com/ is arguably the highest-traffic site running on Rails. Its design is fairly simple, but it is at least a good example of the loads it can handle (hardware be as it may, scalable is scalable).
But... isn't he going to need it when the terrorists attack?