For roughly 6 million years, there appear to be multiple species of up-right-walking apes who also partly lived in trees and had roughly the same brain-size as chimps. It was a stable niche. Lucy was one of them.
Then new type of "ape" arose around a million years ago that relied ever more on tools and larger brains. The leading theory is that the climate started fluctuating heavily in Africa around that time, favoring adaptability over metabolic efficiency, and this is where human-ness branches off of ape-ness.
May be fine for small, isolated projects, but when you are dealing with a whole ecosystem of re-usable modules that can be recombined in any number of ways, internal consistency is just as important as 'my concrete thingy passes the unit test'.
From their perspective you may be creating an e-bureaucracy that only you or a handful of architects fully understand. It gives you the sense of power but slows them down because they can't grasp your "ecosystem" or libraries quickly.
And when they complain you perhaps tell them "be smarter and spend more time learning them, or quit so we can hire faster library grokkers".
That's how communism (or extreme socialism) viewed economic systems: factor everything into as few parts as possible (parsimony) for efficiency and consistency. You don't need 5 brands of peanut-butter like those market nations have.
It sounded wonderful on paper, but did poorly in practice (except for the top-level bureaucrats).
Sometimes reinventing the wheel is more efficient for humans than grokking and managing a Department of Wheels. Perhaps such duplication working is counter-intuitive, but hey, some things just are.
Another problem is that "method" and "message" are not well-defined (or consistently defined among proponents).
In many cases one has to first define "object" before "method" is defined, and method is part of one's definition of object. Thus, it's a circular definition.
(I suppose circular definitions are not necessarily wrong or erroneous, as one may define recursion as "something that uses recursion". But it will confuse the daylights out of a lot of people.)
'Well factored' is, to an extent, a matter of opinion.
Indeed. And well-factored is not necessarily the same as "useful". I've made what I thought was "beautifully factored code" and patted myself on the back thinking how clever am I.
THEN the domain requirements changed, and went against the grain of my factoring, creating a mess. Parsimony can show you how to factor an existing abstraction, but says nothing about the future.
The most future-proof abstractions in my observation are bunches of smaller abstractions that can be discarded as needed: a set of little functions or utilities that can be glued together as needed or ignored as needed.
"Big umbrella" integrated frameworks are a disaster waiting to happen because they are too hard to unwind: it's all an interconnected ball of yarn. There is more annoying glue-work between the abstractions when using smaller abstractions, but they handle future changes better. It's better to live with more glue. Break big abstractions into parts that can be used independently.
I can partly agree, but their rapid expansion has also left notable gaps that are still third-world-ish. For example, their horrible pollution, and poor working conditions in e-waste. U.S. faced similar problems around 1900. It took a few decades to adjust.
(P.S. sorry for missing the "a" before "double standard". Modnays.)
Is it possible this is gov't propaganda to benefit Chinese companies at the expense of Apple?
I'm sure a lot of factories don't follow written guidelines: it's still a 3rd world country with a lot of bribery and cruft. (Then again, I've seen abuse in USA cubicle-land also.)
There have been complaints from other co's that Chinese gov't inspectors inspect and/or publicize with double standard on foreign firms.
If not for them walking upside down to counter our shuffles, the world would fall into shambles: we'd have duopolies as ISP's, and orange-haired clowns and email misplacers running for president.
You don't use BleachBit for yoga emails or bridesmaids emails. When you're using BleachBit, it is something you really do not want the world to see
But being the Clintons, aggressive Foxnews-like snoops would love to get their hands on yoga and bridesmaids info also. Look how many conservatives sites are claiming a health conspiracy. Why give conspiracy nuts more fuel? They'll weave yoga into their narrative also.
Don't get your hopes up: bots can be programmed to stiff ya and be annoying also. Instead of chit-chat, you'll get pop-up ads. Right now there's too much press and scrutiny, but in the future when it becomes routine, tricks and slack will slide in.
On a different note, Singapore has an advantage over the USA for roll-out in that they are not a democracy* and have fewer checks and balances: if something goes wrong, the gov't can tell the victims and lawyers to STFU and everyone is used to that.
* The USA arguably isn't either, but not to Singapore's level.
Slashdot Mirror
Ending needs work to better fit the pattern of the original. Suggestion B:
"Lucy falls from the sky and dies, man"
Next!
"Hey look, a Microsoft Hammock on Branch 10.0..."
For roughly 6 million years, there appear to be multiple species of up-right-walking apes who also partly lived in trees and had roughly the same brain-size as chimps. It was a stable niche. Lucy was one of them.
Then new type of "ape" arose around a million years ago that relied ever more on tools and larger brains. The leading theory is that the climate started fluctuating heavily in Africa around that time, favoring adaptability over metabolic efficiency, and this is where human-ness branches off of ape-ness.
From their perspective you may be creating an e-bureaucracy that only you or a handful of architects fully understand. It gives you the sense of power but slows them down because they can't grasp your "ecosystem" or libraries quickly.
And when they complain you perhaps tell them "be smarter and spend more time learning them, or quit so we can hire faster library grokkers".
That's how communism (or extreme socialism) viewed economic systems: factor everything into as few parts as possible (parsimony) for efficiency and consistency. You don't need 5 brands of peanut-butter like those market nations have.
It sounded wonderful on paper, but did poorly in practice (except for the top-level bureaucrats).
Sometimes reinventing the wheel is more efficient for humans than grokking and managing a Department of Wheels. Perhaps such duplication working is counter-intuitive, but hey, some things just are.
Another problem is that "method" and "message" are not well-defined (or consistently defined among proponents).
In many cases one has to first define "object" before "method" is defined, and method is part of one's definition of object. Thus, it's a circular definition.
(I suppose circular definitions are not necessarily wrong or erroneous, as one may define recursion as "something that uses recursion". But it will confuse the daylights out of a lot of people.)
Indeed. And well-factored is not necessarily the same as "useful". I've made what I thought was "beautifully factored code" and patted myself on the back thinking how clever am I.
THEN the domain requirements changed, and went against the grain of my factoring, creating a mess. Parsimony can show you how to factor an existing abstraction, but says nothing about the future.
The most future-proof abstractions in my observation are bunches of smaller abstractions that can be discarded as needed: a set of little functions or utilities that can be glued together as needed or ignored as needed.
"Big umbrella" integrated frameworks are a disaster waiting to happen because they are too hard to unwind: it's all an interconnected ball of yarn. There is more annoying glue-work between the abstractions when using smaller abstractions, but they handle future changes better. It's better to live with more glue. Break big abstractions into parts that can be used independently.
Next we'll hear Microsoft say, "We are not a malware conduit company!"
I can partly agree, but their rapid expansion has also left notable gaps that are still third-world-ish. For example, their horrible pollution, and poor working conditions in e-waste. U.S. faced similar problems around 1900. It took a few decades to adjust.
(P.S. sorry for missing the "a" before "double standard". Modnays.)
Dude, take off your orange foil hat
As a (very) amateur musician with an IT day job, it's good to hear somebody similar made it a success. (I'm a studio guy, not a stage performer.)
Management has now been replaced by robots who replace people with robots.
Is it possible this is gov't propaganda to benefit Chinese companies at the expense of Apple?
I'm sure a lot of factories don't follow written guidelines: it's still a 3rd world country with a lot of bribery and cruft. (Then again, I've seen abuse in USA cubicle-land also.)
There have been complaints from other co's that Chinese gov't inspectors inspect and/or publicize with double standard on foreign firms.
Don't laugh, I've encountered conspiratorial trolls who probably think he's reptilian. Annoying bast#rds.
The news makes we want to play a really small violin.
Relax, there's trillions of other moons, if you travel far enough.
If not for them walking upside down to counter our shuffles, the world would fall into shambles: we'd have duopolies as ISP's, and orange-haired clowns and email misplacers running for president.
Because they are drunk and mistype "bang".
"Harny slots" gets a lot of hits also.
Mass disconnecting has already been invented, it's called Comcast.
See, the machine works! It convinced a used-casino salesman to run for president, go to a drunk barber, and say silly shit.
That would explain Harley Quinn's voice.
But being the Clintons, aggressive Foxnews-like snoops would love to get their hands on yoga and bridesmaids info also. Look how many conservatives sites are claiming a health conspiracy. Why give conspiracy nuts more fuel? They'll weave yoga into their narrative also.
Rush Lindenburgh
Don't get your hopes up: bots can be programmed to stiff ya and be annoying also. Instead of chit-chat, you'll get pop-up ads. Right now there's too much press and scrutiny, but in the future when it becomes routine, tricks and slack will slide in.
On a different note, Singapore has an advantage over the USA for roll-out in that they are not a democracy* and have fewer checks and balances: if something goes wrong, the gov't can tell the victims and lawyers to STFU and everyone is used to that.
* The USA arguably isn't either, but not to Singapore's level.
I knew it, them Mormons diddit!
That's the last view you saw of her, eh?
Must have been your "I do Wookies" tattoo.
Rename it "Butty McButtface"