The difference between the idiots who used to wreck the world 100 years ago and the idiots who wreck it today is that the modern day idiots are under the microscope, while the idiots back then could get away with anything.
For all of the faults of modern society, the wealthy are still far, far more accountable for their failures and for the damage they cause society today than they were 100 years ago. 100 years ago, if the public pissed the rich off, the rich responded by killing a hundred strikers and burying them in a mass grave. Environmental damage? Ha! Poverty? So what?! We've come a long way from the days when immigrant-lined sweatshops were the norm.
What Noonan, especially, is whining about arises from a myth: that our Great Leaders were soooo fucking much better. It's not an accident that she masturbates furiously to the myth of Ronald Reagan -- she used to write for the fucker! Talk about being doused in a big bucket of "DUH!"
The difference in this age is that we are aware. We know the emperor has no clothes. Politicians are afraid of asking for real sacrifice in the name of national unity. The public knows that corporate America churns out reams of bullshit every day.
What Noonan is really crying about is that the peasants are now aware.
I call bullshit! You can't cite the worst example as universal proof, you fucking Anonymous Coward!
There are tons of good web news sites out there. Read Talking Points Memo some time. Read Calculated Risk -- economics news on the web already far outpaces anything that has appeared in print since the days of Adam Smith. Does anyone remember reading anything in the print days as cool as the stuff Nate Silver posts online?
Am I the only person who is slightly appalled by saving a "medium"? I mean, fuck, why don't we just bailout the papyrus manufacturers while we're at it?
Obviously it's time to bail out Polaroid, or else there won't be any quality pictures ever taken ever again!!
Journalism will thrive. It will go back to its roots: pamphleteers. The idea of the monolithic newspaper journalistic elite is a product of a brief period during which corporations controlled the best distribution channels. Now they don't. Bloggers do. And journalism will be the better to show for it.
Anything you find as a "forward-looking" press release on Yahoo finance is pretty dependable to be bullshit. In fact, there's probably a penny stock being run up right now using this press release as the bogus basis for such a run.
Frankly, it's naive to believe any sales person has your best interests in mind. If you amble through life being a rube, then that's your curse. At the end of the day, every purchaser has a series of lies they need to be told to complete the sale. And the big lie ill-informed people want to hear is, "No sir, you are not fucking this up."
Let's see . . . First, you have to define glory. Then you have to define IT.
A well-formed question should include well-defined ideas of what you're asking about. Holy shit is it hard for me to believe that a grown person asked this question, and then another grown person actually put it on the frontpage of Slashdot.
Because that is an interesting real world scenario to consider in this context. In fact, it would make for a good litmus test: would your hiring process stop the SF admin problem from occurring?
Perhaps we could have a show where people call in to violently electrocute one of an array of adorable animals. Behind each animal, obviously, we'd place an advertisement. Fluffy goes boom, return on investment goes up, PETA cries like a little girl as always, and suddenly the recession is over!
PS - I will be patenting this process. To any TV studio seeking to use this patented new revolutionary business model, I wish to mention that I accept checks and PayPal.
What you're talking about when exhibited by a person with a criminal record would be considered a psychopathic personality. Believe it or not, some personality types simply cannot fake their way through their disorder. And narcissists are among the weakest at faking neurotypical behavior. NPDs generally have a hard time grasping what is so wrong about their bad behavior, and often are flagrant in their gloating and celebration of every evil deed they ever did.
I have a relative who is a full-fledged malignant narcissist, and he couldn't disengage from his behavior even when he was standing in front of a judge. I swear to God he tried to talk his way out of a traffic citation that involved putting the car airborne at 80 mph. He just plain doesn't understand why the entire world doesn't thing his shit is the awesomest shit ever shat. And he cannot turn it off.
Yes, a lot of personality types can bullshit their way out of a screening process. But, let's be honest: a person with a psychopathic personality disorder isn't applying to be a coder. They're usually fighting their way into upper management.
In the writer's defense, there is a wide difference between malignant narcissism and most other personality disorders. Dealing with a true narcissist is a soul-killing experience. Many other personality disorders range from the ho-hum (adjustment disorders) to the downright funny (obsessive compulsive personality disorder).
Most personality disorders are fairly dealable. NPD is just a nightmare that never ends, short of someone one shooting the narcissist.
I was hoping there was a joke in there
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When you said that he asked, "Do you understand recursion?" I was hoping that you'd say, "Then after that, he asked, 'Do you understand recursion?' And I said yes. And then he asked . . . (wait for it) . . . 'Do you understand recursion?'"
I'm sorry. It just felt like a setup for a joke about recursion.
Most of the progress in chip fabrication has been driven by consumer demand for faster, cooler processors. That demand by consumers has fallen off a lot since the Core 2 Duo. For a lot of folks, there isn't a pressing need to go on to newer chips from the C2D unless they're very cost effective.
The remaining consumer demand for better fabrication is now in the GPU market.
While there are still clear needs for improvements for commercial grade server farms and for scientific and engineering needs, those markets have historically not been the strong driver that the consumer market is.
Even accounting for the successful introduction of new materials for transistors, 12 years to get to 4nm seems a tad ambitious. Also, you have to wonder whether or not they're approaching the top of the S curve.
Because let's just be honest, we're plain out of decent ideas when $200m gets you a thoroughly rehashed plot and a movie with graphics only slightly better than running WoW on 5500FX.
I'm intrigued that no one has mentioned another possible parallel, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. Seems like a much more apt comparison considering the game-changing goals are similar.
Geez. Sure, Thundercats was kinda gay, but in a beefy gymnast way. Avatar blows rights past gay and then past prancy and light-footed all the way until it arrives at teenage girl with serious learning disabilities.
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For example, just imagine a world where every website can easily implement Comic Sans, even if the end user has uninstalled the font.
I didn't say he was great. Adam Smith simply represents the beginning point for what is considered modern economic thought.
Indeed. Noonan's lack of imagination is ironic to say the least.
The difference between the idiots who used to wreck the world 100 years ago and the idiots who wreck it today is that the modern day idiots are under the microscope, while the idiots back then could get away with anything.
For all of the faults of modern society, the wealthy are still far, far more accountable for their failures and for the damage they cause society today than they were 100 years ago. 100 years ago, if the public pissed the rich off, the rich responded by killing a hundred strikers and burying them in a mass grave. Environmental damage? Ha! Poverty? So what?! We've come a long way from the days when immigrant-lined sweatshops were the norm.
What Noonan, especially, is whining about arises from a myth: that our Great Leaders were soooo fucking much better. It's not an accident that she masturbates furiously to the myth of Ronald Reagan -- she used to write for the fucker! Talk about being doused in a big bucket of "DUH!"
The difference in this age is that we are aware. We know the emperor has no clothes. Politicians are afraid of asking for real sacrifice in the name of national unity. The public knows that corporate America churns out reams of bullshit every day.
What Noonan is really crying about is that the peasants are now aware.
Talking Points Memo has broken big stories. They were all over the Ted Stevens scandal years before anyone in the traditional media was on it.
Also, thanks for digging in to the other two examples before -- oh, wait . . . you didn't. Way to follow the entire point.
I call bullshit! You can't cite the worst example as universal proof, you fucking Anonymous Coward!
There are tons of good web news sites out there. Read Talking Points Memo some time. Read Calculated Risk -- economics news on the web already far outpaces anything that has appeared in print since the days of Adam Smith. Does anyone remember reading anything in the print days as cool as the stuff Nate Silver posts online?
Web news already is superior.
Am I the only person who is slightly appalled by saving a "medium"? I mean, fuck, why don't we just bailout the papyrus manufacturers while we're at it?
Obviously it's time to bail out Polaroid, or else there won't be any quality pictures ever taken ever again!!
Journalism will thrive. It will go back to its roots: pamphleteers. The idea of the monolithic newspaper journalistic elite is a product of a brief period during which corporations controlled the best distribution channels. Now they don't. Bloggers do. And journalism will be the better to show for it.
Anything you find as a "forward-looking" press release on Yahoo finance is pretty dependable to be bullshit. In fact, there's probably a penny stock being run up right now using this press release as the bogus basis for such a run.
Frankly, it's naive to believe any sales person has your best interests in mind. If you amble through life being a rube, then that's your curse. At the end of the day, every purchaser has a series of lies they need to be told to complete the sale. And the big lie ill-informed people want to hear is, "No sir, you are not fucking this up."
Let's see . . . First, you have to define glory. Then you have to define IT.
A well-formed question should include well-defined ideas of what you're asking about. Holy shit is it hard for me to believe that a grown person asked this question, and then another grown person actually put it on the frontpage of Slashdot.
That's a better punchline than mine. Another victory for crowdsourcing.
Because that is an interesting real world scenario to consider in this context. In fact, it would make for a good litmus test: would your hiring process stop the SF admin problem from occurring?
Perhaps we could have a show where people call in to violently electrocute one of an array of adorable animals. Behind each animal, obviously, we'd place an advertisement. Fluffy goes boom, return on investment goes up, PETA cries like a little girl as always, and suddenly the recession is over!
PS - I will be patenting this process. To any TV studio seeking to use this patented new revolutionary business model, I wish to mention that I accept checks and PayPal.
Thank you.
What you're talking about when exhibited by a person with a criminal record would be considered a psychopathic personality. Believe it or not, some personality types simply cannot fake their way through their disorder. And narcissists are among the weakest at faking neurotypical behavior. NPDs generally have a hard time grasping what is so wrong about their bad behavior, and often are flagrant in their gloating and celebration of every evil deed they ever did.
I have a relative who is a full-fledged malignant narcissist, and he couldn't disengage from his behavior even when he was standing in front of a judge. I swear to God he tried to talk his way out of a traffic citation that involved putting the car airborne at 80 mph. He just plain doesn't understand why the entire world doesn't thing his shit is the awesomest shit ever shat. And he cannot turn it off.
Yes, a lot of personality types can bullshit their way out of a screening process. But, let's be honest: a person with a psychopathic personality disorder isn't applying to be a coder. They're usually fighting their way into upper management.
In the writer's defense, there is a wide difference between malignant narcissism and most other personality disorders. Dealing with a true narcissist is a soul-killing experience. Many other personality disorders range from the ho-hum (adjustment disorders) to the downright funny (obsessive compulsive personality disorder).
Most personality disorders are fairly dealable. NPD is just a nightmare that never ends, short of someone one shooting the narcissist.
When you said that he asked, "Do you understand recursion?" I was hoping that you'd say, "Then after that, he asked, 'Do you understand recursion?' And I said yes. And then he asked . . . (wait for it) . . . 'Do you understand recursion?'"
I'm sorry. It just felt like a setup for a joke about recursion.
The article is about how to not hire a self important misanthrope.
Oh, wait. Safety devices make us all safer. Damn, I was so close.
Will no one think of the livestock?!
Motown will never be the same now that we can answer back to the song "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?"
Most of the progress in chip fabrication has been driven by consumer demand for faster, cooler processors. That demand by consumers has fallen off a lot since the Core 2 Duo. For a lot of folks, there isn't a pressing need to go on to newer chips from the C2D unless they're very cost effective.
The remaining consumer demand for better fabrication is now in the GPU market.
While there are still clear needs for improvements for commercial grade server farms and for scientific and engineering needs, those markets have historically not been the strong driver that the consumer market is.
Excellent example. Although, in fairness, Polar Express was like The Santa Clause meets Dark City. An all around weird film, hype notwithstanding.
Even accounting for the successful introduction of new materials for transistors, 12 years to get to 4nm seems a tad ambitious. Also, you have to wonder whether or not they're approaching the top of the S curve.
Because let's just be honest, we're plain out of decent ideas when $200m gets you a thoroughly rehashed plot and a movie with graphics only slightly better than running WoW on 5500FX.
I'm intrigued that no one has mentioned another possible parallel, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. Seems like a much more apt comparison considering the game-changing goals are similar.
Geez. Sure, Thundercats was kinda gay, but in a beefy gymnast way. Avatar blows rights past gay and then past prancy and light-footed all the way until it arrives at teenage girl with serious learning disabilities.