It's only a matter of time before the process of making software itself is transformed, from one that requires a mastery of syntax
If one is spending most of their time on syntax issues after gaining some experience, they are probably either doing something wrong, or shouldn't be coders.
One big time-waster "problem" I do see is that the "web stack" is overly complicated per UI issues. The client is too damned fat and the web has unnecessarily turned UI's into rocket science.
As I've ranted about many times on slashdot, re-formatting and UI placement issues should be handled on the server side instead of the client (browser). This gives one more layout engine choices (project fit) and reduces bugs and testing related to client version/brand differences. The client should merely be a dumb vector processor that simply plots given exacting screen coordinates rather than be a UI "flow and style manager".
When you start mentioning the race in the search term, YOU are the racist.
How else does one describe who they are looking for?
"Person with a semi-dark complexion and a narrow nose and big eyes and big chin and small ears with freckles and a mole on their lower left cheek, a kite-shaped face, and a thick upper lip but thin lower lip..."
If everyone did that, it'd probably crash Google (assuming that's a bad thing).
Factories with robots and 3rd-world de-facto slaves can crank out stuff ever more cheaper over time. But, you can't manufacture real-estate (outside of maybe island-building projects). It's a limited supply. Thus, the price of "stuff" goes down over time relative to real-estate.
I do believe such vehicles will have to be highly regulated outside of rural areas. And, this includes not being allowed to take off unless enough fuel is available to reach the destination, plus a contingency amount.
Could they make an exemption for short hops? For example, mini landing ports could be set up that are roughly 5 miles or less apart. As long as the vehicle can match the speed of available roads, it may not need to be a "full car" to merely get to its final destination.
Tractors usually get an exemption, and they are slower than what I imagine for a flying commute car.
When you're stuck in traffic you look up into the sky and see all that unused space. Being limited to 2D feels silly in that situation.
But to make flying cars practical in cities, they'll probably have to be computer-controlled. When something goes wrong, a vehicle will probably have to use GPS (or similar) against a database of candidate emergency landing spots. Most human pilots can't memorize all the good spots.
I disagree with Sander's definition of "socialism". I'd say a country's GDP would have to be roughly 2/3 government to call it "socialist". His example countries are generally hybrids.
Patreus was found to be intentionally leaking classified info (to impress a lady for romantic advantage). So far no intent has been identified from H.
In fact, I've yet to see confirmation that she even accidentally (or otherwise) leaked CLEARLY classified info that was CLEARLY classified at the time of the alleged link. If you have such evidence, please do provide it.
There are two levels of evidence needed. First, that something was clearly leaked, and THEN it was leaked intentionally. Right now she's still at level 0 (based on public evidence).
The rest of your statements appear to politically motivated, but I choose to focus on current events for now, and thus won't reply on those.
It does seem "lucky" that the Earth has remained relatively stable temperature-wise for roughly 4 billion years.
I was always curious about this fact. I generally attributed it to some kind of negative feedback mechanism whereby if it drifts too far in either direction, then a "feedback factor(s)" kicks in to correct it.
But so far no consistent factors(s) have been identified that I know of. The chemistry of Earth's upper layers has changed a few times such that a correction mechanism that works under one chemical configuration often doesn't work well in another. (And life seems to eventually learn to gobble up excess and change things yet again.)
One consistent factor that's been proposed is that if the Earth becomes completely frozen over, water insulates volcanic heat enough that it eventually triggers higher than usual volcanic action, blowing dark, energy-absorbing dust onto the surface, melting the ice.
But, this requires just the right amount of volcanic action: too little and the dust-ice-melt scenario doesn't happen, and too much and we get more mass extinction events.
Civilization may just be rare and we may just have won the cosmic lottery.
It does seem a bit if a coincidence that we are in a smaller-than-normal galactic cluster. The law of averages should put us in a medium or large one (Copernican principle). This suggests a filter of some kind.
It's possible that civilizations form fairly often in large galactic clusters and conquer or absorb any competitors. We may just be too rural to be worth messing with and/or found.
If we had formed in a larger cluster, which statistically we should have, we'd be conquered or absorbed by now and wouldn't be here wondering why we are alone.
Based on this line of speculation, civilizations (C) arise approximately once in small galactic clusters and a few times in larger ones. If C were more common, we'd wouldn't be alone, and if C were less common, we'd be in a larger cluster.
I believe this a natural "statistical" conclusion of the known facts that 1) we are alone, and 2) we are in a small galactic cluster.
(There is still "zoo theory" that aliens keep us protected but hide from us.)
If they do this I will never use a microsoft OS ever again.
I've been seeing this same threat since early 90's, every time MS did something stupid or sneaky (which is often). Is it the same procrastinator, or just young people new to the MS dance?
Americans don't care about privacy, at least not when it matters.
Anti-Democrat ads for the 2014 election often emphasized the "over-snooping" of the executive branch, per Snowden revelations.
Snooping generally polled a fairly-close 2nd behind ACA as reasons for the high Republican turnout that gave GOP such big gains in Congress.
Voters cared then. Maybe the "trick" is to associate it with a personality while demonizing that personality. It's psychologically easier for humans to hate a face than a policy.
FBI are getting too big for their britches, between lobbying efforts for more power, and pressure tactics on both commercial and other government agencies.
By the way, I wrote "loser" when I meant "looser". I have loser spelling.
And they will still walk away with a full severance package
That might be true, but competitive personalities often don't have a saturation point. And you typically don't get to be an executive unless you have a competitive personality.
Then, within six to twelve months they'll be picked up by another company
But your compensation is usually lower under such conditions. Your ego and compensation take a hit.
I'm hesitant to directly "blame" executives for tuning their practices to fit what the economy gives them. They are just doing what shareholders expect them to do.
If executives use too much altruism at the expense of profits, the shareholders will reduce their compensation or terminate them. It would be nice if they showed more altruism, but that's generally not realistic on a larger scale.
Our economy is out-of-whack, rewarding the top echelon while devaluing the rest.
Perhaps in a global market, rank-and-file employees are simply of less value than before, economically, because the owners can shop the world for the employees they want instead of just the local market.
Or, perhaps the rules are stacked against rank-and-file citizens. The wealthy push through laws, regulations, and conventions that favor them because they can and have the money to buy influence.
The existing patent system favors big companies, for example, because of the large resources needed to obtain, manage, and perform legal battles and counter-negotiations with them. (i.e., "Patent Industrial Complex".) Loser patent interpretation would give little guys more options because they would be less likely to be targeted by patent claims.
I suspect the compensation differential problem is a combination: globalization and system rule bias . The solutions appear to either be some form of "soft" socialism, such as tax-the-rich, and/or regular citizens making an effort to fix the laws that favor the wealthy over rest of us. The second is usually less controversial, but not by much.
Automation may also be part of this, but even careers not yet affected much by automation have also been generally stagnant relative to the 1%.
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If one is spending most of their time on syntax issues after gaining some experience, they are probably either doing something wrong, or shouldn't be coders.
One big time-waster "problem" I do see is that the "web stack" is overly complicated per UI issues. The client is too damned fat and the web has unnecessarily turned UI's into rocket science.
As I've ranted about many times on slashdot, re-formatting and UI placement issues should be handled on the server side instead of the client (browser). This gives one more layout engine choices (project fit) and reduces bugs and testing related to client version/brand differences. The client should merely be a dumb vector processor that simply plots given exacting screen coordinates rather than be a UI "flow and style manager".
How else does one describe who they are looking for?
"Person with a semi-dark complexion and a narrow nose and big eyes and big chin and small ears with freckles and a mole on their lower left cheek, a kite-shaped face, and a thick upper lip but thin lower lip..."
If everyone did that, it'd probably crash Google (assuming that's a bad thing).
When you are in Rome, it's best to be Roman.
for i = 1 to 99999999999
kid.write "Are we there yet?"
bot.write "No."
next i
Well, the term stuck and there's no common replacement yet.
Factories with robots and 3rd-world de-facto slaves can crank out stuff ever more cheaper over time. But, you can't manufacture real-estate (outside of maybe island-building projects). It's a limited supply. Thus, the price of "stuff" goes down over time relative to real-estate.
I do believe such vehicles will have to be highly regulated outside of rural areas. And, this includes not being allowed to take off unless enough fuel is available to reach the destination, plus a contingency amount.
Could they make an exemption for short hops? For example, mini landing ports could be set up that are roughly 5 miles or less apart. As long as the vehicle can match the speed of available roads, it may not need to be a "full car" to merely get to its final destination.
Tractors usually get an exemption, and they are slower than what I imagine for a flying commute car.
Yes, steam-roll it.
(You didn't say anything about re-use, I would note.)
When you're stuck in traffic you look up into the sky and see all that unused space. Being limited to 2D feels silly in that situation.
But to make flying cars practical in cities, they'll probably have to be computer-controlled. When something goes wrong, a vehicle will probably have to use GPS (or similar) against a database of candidate emergency landing spots. Most human pilots can't memorize all the good spots.
I disagree with Sander's definition of "socialism". I'd say a country's GDP would have to be roughly 2/3 government to call it "socialist". His example countries are generally hybrids.
Yah, those Belgians are wafflers
It's a delicate balancing act. If we tick off enough nations, they'll fork and go their own way without us.
We'll probably have to settle for a degree of control if we want some control. We don't get the whole enchilada in the longer run.
So far "mishandling of classified documents" has not been demonstrated beyond vague guesses (to the public).
Patreus was found to be intentionally leaking classified info (to impress a lady for romantic advantage). So far no intent has been identified from H.
In fact, I've yet to see confirmation that she even accidentally (or otherwise) leaked CLEARLY classified info that was CLEARLY classified at the time of the alleged link. If you have such evidence, please do provide it.
There are two levels of evidence needed. First, that something was clearly leaked, and THEN it was leaked intentionally. Right now she's still at level 0 (based on public evidence).
The rest of your statements appear to politically motivated, but I choose to focus on current events for now, and thus won't reply on those.
It does seem "lucky" that the Earth has remained relatively stable temperature-wise for roughly 4 billion years.
I was always curious about this fact. I generally attributed it to some kind of negative feedback mechanism whereby if it drifts too far in either direction, then a "feedback factor(s)" kicks in to correct it.
But so far no consistent factors(s) have been identified that I know of. The chemistry of Earth's upper layers has changed a few times such that a correction mechanism that works under one chemical configuration often doesn't work well in another. (And life seems to eventually learn to gobble up excess and change things yet again.)
One consistent factor that's been proposed is that if the Earth becomes completely frozen over, water insulates volcanic heat enough that it eventually triggers higher than usual volcanic action, blowing dark, energy-absorbing dust onto the surface, melting the ice.
But, this requires just the right amount of volcanic action: too little and the dust-ice-melt scenario doesn't happen, and too much and we get more mass extinction events.
Civilization may just be rare and we may just have won the cosmic lottery.
It does seem a bit if a coincidence that we are in a smaller-than-normal galactic cluster. The law of averages should put us in a medium or large one (Copernican principle). This suggests a filter of some kind.
It's possible that civilizations form fairly often in large galactic clusters and conquer or absorb any competitors. We may just be too rural to be worth messing with and/or found.
If we had formed in a larger cluster, which statistically we should have, we'd be conquered or absorbed by now and wouldn't be here wondering why we are alone.
Based on this line of speculation, civilizations (C) arise approximately once in small galactic clusters and a few times in larger ones. If C were more common, we'd wouldn't be alone, and if C were less common, we'd be in a larger cluster.
I believe this a natural "statistical" conclusion of the known facts that 1) we are alone, and 2) we are in a small galactic cluster.
(There is still "zoo theory" that aliens keep us protected but hide from us.)
And gave her a free email account, just what she needs!
Link, please.
I've been seeing this same threat since early 90's, every time MS did something stupid or sneaky (which is often). Is it the same procrastinator, or just young people new to the MS dance?
Anti-Democrat ads for the 2014 election often emphasized the "over-snooping" of the executive branch, per Snowden revelations.
Snooping generally polled a fairly-close 2nd behind ACA as reasons for the high Republican turnout that gave GOP such big gains in Congress.
Voters cared then. Maybe the "trick" is to associate it with a personality while demonizing that personality. It's psychologically easier for humans to hate a face than a policy.
The evidence is inconclusive. And there is general evidence he was surprised by how quickly software vendors used up the full 640k.
FBI are getting too big for their britches, between lobbying efforts for more power, and pressure tactics on both commercial and other government agencies.
By the way, I wrote "loser" when I meant "looser". I have loser spelling.
That might be true, but competitive personalities often don't have a saturation point. And you typically don't get to be an executive unless you have a competitive personality.
But your compensation is usually lower under such conditions. Your ego and compensation take a hit.
I'm hesitant to directly "blame" executives for tuning their practices to fit what the economy gives them. They are just doing what shareholders expect them to do.
If executives use too much altruism at the expense of profits, the shareholders will reduce their compensation or terminate them. It would be nice if they showed more altruism, but that's generally not realistic on a larger scale.
Our economy is out-of-whack, rewarding the top echelon while devaluing the rest.
Perhaps in a global market, rank-and-file employees are simply of less value than before, economically, because the owners can shop the world for the employees they want instead of just the local market.
Or, perhaps the rules are stacked against rank-and-file citizens. The wealthy push through laws, regulations, and conventions that favor them because they can and have the money to buy influence.
The existing patent system favors big companies, for example, because of the large resources needed to obtain, manage, and perform legal battles and counter-negotiations with them. (i.e., "Patent Industrial Complex".) Loser patent interpretation would give little guys more options because they would be less likely to be targeted by patent claims.
I suspect the compensation differential problem is a combination: globalization and system rule bias . The solutions appear to either be some form of "soft" socialism, such as tax-the-rich, and/or regular citizens making an effort to fix the laws that favor the wealthy over rest of us. The second is usually less controversial, but not by much.
Automation may also be part of this, but even careers not yet affected much by automation have also been generally stagnant relative to the 1%.