Easy to use is awesome, it's about being able to express very complex systems concisely. If that can be done graphically I would be stunned, but if it really can be done and is more efficient I learn it and use it with joy.
Yeah.. Apple threw away the next generation of programming (written using the "verbal paradigm"), before senselessly abandoning it for the "verbal paradigm". Why would every company across the globe make such a stupid mistake? Non-verbal was so interesting
Anyone remember "Click n' Play"? That was the future if you asked me, before those verbal assholes ruined it.. If they had just continued in that process I would be expressing the ideas in this post with the dragging and dropping of icons and pipes by now..
you can already make an ISO image of them easily using the software built into OS X, why not just sell it through the App Store and let people download and burn their own image?
Hmm... Because the App Store is controlled by Apple, and they could reject it outright (plus, for once, they'd be banning something not only because it went against their interests but because it was actually illegal)
That's just not true.. They would send over a team to run some workshops, evaluate the wiki's work processes, recommend an alternative ERP, reevaluate all competing systems, and charge for analysis, installation, maintenance, and travel, and then they'd spend 12 months and 10 million dollars writing a "program" in PL/SQL to access the wiki.
But the accessed wiki would be hosted in Oracle's cloud storage, so you would need an extra few eBusiness modules to interface with that, plus service and bandwidth of course (not to mention consulting and security).
Once it's all paid up (Oracle hosts your finance software, but it's just coincidence that they charge slightly less than you can possibly afford) you have the glory of an eBusiness form which ties the "WikiID" with all your "EmployeeID"s (it's called integration), and you can run all sorts of reports like "WikiIDs vs EmployeeIDs" or "Sum of WikiIDs vs EmployeeIDs", or even "Sum of WikiIDs vs EmployeeIDs two weeks ago".
Your CFO will love it, the board will think it's vital, and we'll leech the hard won efficiency gains out of your business and use the money to kill cheap open-source competitors and fight innovation with lawyers.
Welcome to eLogicStackEnterprise; an obsolete database powering a recently closed source stack supporting a thin layer of generic business logic supporting a veneer of customized business logic straining under a mountain of bullshit.
Yeah, it was fun before, but now that it's mainstream there's just nothing that differentiates it from Windows. I'll say to people "hey you should try OS X, it's way better than that crap" and instead of saying "what's that? looks refreshingly different and cool" they'll say "yeah, but my one didnt connect to the internet or my printer so I put Windows on it"
Back to a plan9 console running on a linux bochs VM for me..
(By the way I'm not saying nature is the best judge of "good" traits to be passed on, just that there's definitely no reason to think humans would be any better.)
Annoying, really. Eugenics really had some potential for doing good - just a matter of convincing those with genetic diseases to not breed, and in a few generations they could be almost eliminated.
But how do you convince non Aryan people to refrain from breeding?
Seriously though I've spoken to someone, a regular user of another forum I frequent, who took the movie Idiocracy seriously, thought he was smart and understood evolution, that smart genes (i.e. his genes, hah) deserved to be artificially selected for and that road signs should be removed so there could be more "cleansing".
People are just too ignorant and selfish for eugenics to do good.
If I watch TV or even think about something else my power output starts going down pretty quickly, and before long I've drifted into a comfy but unproductive pace.
They know if they stick to their current revenue streams without doing anything to diversify or at least lock people in they'll lose market share, so they're desperately reaching out in every direction using their insane amounts of cash trying to get more fingers in more pies.
Only for people where intercourse involves the transfer of blood from one person's bloodstream to the other person's bloodstream (and in large enough quantities that viruses reach their target cells, which could be in a completely different part of the body).
That lists which authors of that paper endorse other papers.
Perhaps analyze this idea for its own worth rather than look for silly reasons to discard it? How about that it relies on generating a secure password already, which would be hard for people to memorize, how the blind couldn't use it, or how it's really just the combination of two already common ideas?
Let's be clear; your initial point was that someone should not choose which language they specialize in to optimize for money.
You say this stance is backed up by the fact that people who are paid too much or too little do a worse job.
You defend this statement based on the fact that most people think money is always correlated to quality.
None of these follow each other or even respond to what I said. ("But they do follow each other, because some people think that throwing their money down the well will grant wishes, but it won't.")
--> When people are paid too little or too much they do a worse job.
<-- How do you define too little or too much?
--> When they are paid so little or so much that their work isn't as good as it would otherwise be.
Your argument is a tautology; if anyone is too ___ or not ___ enough they will do a worse job by definition, so you're right but there's no content to the statement.
Plus when someone is getting paid to do something saying that their motivation isn't money is subjective/semantic. ("I am paid to do this, and I wouldn't do it if I wasn't paid to do it, but money isn't the motivation and I'm neither paid too little or too much" is a pretty meaningless statement)
Sounds like one of those wishy-washy philosophical/semantic things with no practical consequences. People put customers/clients first because that's also placing profits first, but whether you're driven by repeat business or "the goal" clients don't care and the outcome is the same. It just sounds like vague interview babble to me.
Look guys even though my day job right now is at Wendys that gives you all no right to talk about Drupal developers as if all they do is make burgers.. Becoming a committed Drupal dev is an investment in Web 2.0, something that you short sighted people wouldn't understand..
Here we learn Java, C++, and Oracle at uni, then go into the field and do C#, VBA, and MSSQL.. If your uni lines you up for exactly the set of languages you'll end up using you're lucky, and you have a better shot at being lucky if they teach you.NET these days.
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Easy to use is awesome, it's about being able to express very complex systems concisely. If that can be done graphically I would be stunned, but if it really can be done and is more efficient I learn it and use it with joy.
Yeah.. Apple threw away the next generation of programming (written using the "verbal paradigm"), before senselessly abandoning it for the "verbal paradigm". Why would every company across the globe make such a stupid mistake? Non-verbal was so interesting
Anyone remember "Click n' Play"? That was the future if you asked me, before those verbal assholes ruined it.. If they had just continued in that process I would be expressing the ideas in this post with the dragging and dropping of icons and pipes by now..
you can already make an ISO image of them easily using the software built into OS X, why not just sell it through the App Store and let people download and burn their own image?
Hmm... Because the App Store is controlled by Apple, and they could reject it outright (plus, for once, they'd be banning something not only because it went against their interests but because it was actually illegal)
That's just not true.. They would send over a team to run some workshops, evaluate the wiki's work processes, recommend an alternative ERP, reevaluate all competing systems, and charge for analysis, installation, maintenance, and travel, and then they'd spend 12 months and 10 million dollars writing a "program" in PL/SQL to access the wiki.
But the accessed wiki would be hosted in Oracle's cloud storage, so you would need an extra few eBusiness modules to interface with that, plus service and bandwidth of course (not to mention consulting and security).
Once it's all paid up (Oracle hosts your finance software, but it's just coincidence that they charge slightly less than you can possibly afford) you have the glory of an eBusiness form which ties the "WikiID" with all your "EmployeeID"s (it's called integration), and you can run all sorts of reports like "WikiIDs vs EmployeeIDs" or "Sum of WikiIDs vs EmployeeIDs", or even "Sum of WikiIDs vs EmployeeIDs two weeks ago".
Your CFO will love it, the board will think it's vital, and we'll leech the hard won efficiency gains out of your business and use the money to kill cheap open-source competitors and fight innovation with lawyers.
Welcome to eLogicStackEnterprise; an obsolete database powering a recently closed source stack supporting a thin layer of generic business logic supporting a veneer of customized business logic straining under a mountain of bullshit.
Yeah, it was fun before, but now that it's mainstream there's just nothing that differentiates it from Windows. I'll say to people "hey you should try OS X, it's way better than that crap" and instead of saying "what's that? looks refreshingly different and cool" they'll say "yeah, but my one didnt connect to the internet or my printer so I put Windows on it"
Back to a plan9 console running on a linux bochs VM for me..
Yup lets suddenly abandon Afghanistan now that the immediate threat is gone, like we did last time.
What could possibly go wrong?
And then 10 years later when they want to have kids the taxpayer can foot the bill for the lawsuits / IVF! Great idea, how do I sign you up?
(By the way I'm not saying nature is the best judge of "good" traits to be passed on, just that there's definitely no reason to think humans would be any better.)
Annoying, really. Eugenics really had some potential for doing good - just a matter of convincing those with genetic diseases to not breed, and in a few generations they could be almost eliminated.
But how do you convince non Aryan people to refrain from breeding?
Seriously though I've spoken to someone, a regular user of another forum I frequent, who took the movie Idiocracy seriously, thought he was smart and understood evolution, that smart genes (i.e. his genes, hah) deserved to be artificially selected for and that road signs should be removed so there could be more "cleansing".
People are just too ignorant and selfish for eugenics to do good.
If I watch TV or even think about something else my power output starts going down pretty quickly, and before long I've drifted into a comfy but unproductive pace.
Unless you like reading tables across then down it helps to have one tuple per line.. Despite the horrific waste of data.
.NET framework Dictionaries are filled with nothing but tuples (ahar).
Firefox doesn't have "tuple" in the dictionary?.. In the
Slam means "to right a blog post about", right?
Don't make me slam you..
They know if they stick to their current revenue streams without doing anything to diversify or at least lock people in they'll lose market share, so they're desperately reaching out in every direction using their insane amounts of cash trying to get more fingers in more pies.
I guess because it's so easy to get started with, and there is stuff you can't do with SVG that you can with Canvas (like Mario, or this)
Only for people where intercourse involves the transfer of blood from one person's bloodstream to the other person's bloodstream (and in large enough quantities that viruses reach their target cells, which could be in a completely different part of the body).
That lists which authors of that paper endorse other papers.
Perhaps analyze this idea for its own worth rather than look for silly reasons to discard it? How about that it relies on generating a secure password already, which would be hard for people to memorize, how the blind couldn't use it, or how it's really just the combination of two already common ideas?
Let's be clear; your initial point was that someone should not choose which language they specialize in to optimize for money.
You say this stance is backed up by the fact that people who are paid too much or too little do a worse job.
You defend this statement based on the fact that most people think money is always correlated to quality.
None of these follow each other or even respond to what I said. ("But they do follow each other, because some people think that throwing their money down the well will grant wishes, but it won't.")
Your argument is a tautology; if anyone is too ___ or not ___ enough they will do a worse job by definition, so you're right but there's no content to the statement.
Plus when someone is getting paid to do something saying that their motivation isn't money is subjective/semantic. ("I am paid to do this, and I wouldn't do it if I wasn't paid to do it, but money isn't the motivation and I'm neither paid too little or too much" is a pretty meaningless statement)
Money is the reward, not the goal.
Sounds like one of those wishy-washy philosophical/semantic things with no practical consequences. People put customers/clients first because that's also placing profits first, but whether you're driven by repeat business or "the goal" clients don't care and the outcome is the same. It just sounds like vague interview babble to me.
I can only see it as a nice marketing trick from Microsoft.
Yup that's all .NET is; a marketing trick to get ".NET" onto people's resumes.
(I have a hunch that the Three Gorges Dam is also a marketing trick by China.. Heaven forbid they would see beyond their damned resumes..)
Look guys even though my day job right now is at Wendys that gives you all no right to talk about Drupal developers as if all they do is make burgers.. Becoming a committed Drupal dev is an investment in Web 2.0, something that you short sighted people wouldn't understand..
Here we learn Java, C++, and Oracle at uni, then go into the field and do C#, VBA, and MSSQL.. If your uni lines you up for exactly the set of languages you'll end up using you're lucky, and you have a better shot at being lucky if they teach you .NET these days.
Too true; I'm motivated by a hatred of successful companies and fighting the counter-revolution in the República de Cuba.
As you can imagine my Haskell is pretty exceptional.. I just wish I had more opportunities to write it.
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This copy of Photoshop CS I've got installed is also a statement of fact, by the way. I love lawyers!
We should stick to more critical failures, like a floating point unit that returns 1.33381 when it should return 1.33382