To be fair there's been a lot of new stuff introduced from 1.8 onwards as part of ECMAScript 5, which do address a lot of the shortcomings of the language, including a lot of object changes - properties and descriptors, frozen objects, Object.getOwnPropertyNames etc. Development is proceeding rapidly after a long period of stasis.
Something that is fungible means any one instance of it can be swapped with any other instance of it without changing its effects - electricity is electricity, whether it comes from a solar panel on your roof or a nuclear power plant via the grid. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungibility
Yes, they're required to have a session with another licensed therapist every week, or at least that's the case here in the UK - my friend started doing this from when she started the course to become licensed.
I suspect deep-seated feelings of inadequacy fueled by compulsive viewing of videos such as "Black Dicks, White Chicks". With a large dash of homo-eroticism.
I wrote a "slashdot trolling HOWTO" a decade ago lol, I know what the two words mean - not sure where you thought I'd got the two confused...?
The one mention of politics was meant to be about all the Alpha Nerd behaviour here - instead of "rep" or "cred" or "coolness" it's intelligence, but it's still the same set of touchy pride and insecurity over status that leads to people wanting to be part of a "gang", and then prove their gang is better than anyone else's. You end up with people spending hours arguing over vi vs Emacs, KDE vs GNOME, Windows XP vs Windows 7 because it's about the politics of power and not any kind of intellectual endeavour towards knowledge:)
Trolling ten years ago was our own little group, we had our own "secret" thread (originally slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=trolltalk) where we hung out and would share links to our trolls so we could share its progress together and get congratulated when it had done well. There isn't anything that cliquey now, just a more diverse userbase with pre-existing conflicts of opinion... calling someone or someones a shill is basically a lazy way to demonise them and undermine their status until you look better in comparison. Or an attempt to derail an argument that you're losing and avoiding it becoming an actual defeat.
Political moderation options would just make moderation even more of a thing people can argue about in the absence of any *actual* hot button topic to hand. People get accused of being Microsoft shills all the time, but I can't remember anyone having been accused of being an IPCC shill, or a shill for the Koch brothers, even when people are having a massive flamefest over them.
I stopped posting on/. at around that point - the crap-flooders invaded sid=k22320inchfan (the successor to sid=trolltalk) and made our little place where we posted links to our trolls and generally hung out useless. I think Rusty and Scoop was what probably gave us the idea for starting Adequacy, so we pretty much abandoned/. en masse for there, and that lasted another two years before we decided to close it. I kept reading/. but only once in a while, k5 and Adequacy were enough.
Nowadays I read./. every day, but don't really post anywhere at all... trying to rectify that this year, writing is a useful skill:) And I used to love arguing with libertarians and nowadays/. has tons of them - the ones that are smart enough to have a whole framework that's internally consistent and they can defend, but it's based on some really deep-buried ideas that are just utterly wrong and they can't or won't even consider the idea. I think it's why so many of them are so disparaging towards things like psychology, sociology and even the humanities lol, they represent a deep existential threat to them.
The years 2002 to 2005 were the low point here, people seem to forget all the crap-flooding, page-widening, GNAA manifestos an large amounts of racist,/homophobic/etc one line posts, Signal 11 and karma whoring, at least one cut and paste story involving eating crap in each article... lol, I had forgotten a lot of that:)
I lost the use of the email account I first signed up for here about a year afterwards, went through two more before getting the current gmail account and only changed my email address here a few years ago - almost locked myself out in the process due to some weirdness! Handily though, I've reused the same passwords over the years; I've added newer, more complicated ones over time, but my password here is one of the original three I can be sure I used one of for anything I signed up to before 2005 or so:)
I wrote 450 diaries on k5 - went there and downloaded them all a couple of years ago, it can be strange to read them back! Should do the same for my ones on HuSi, am planning on reformatting them as maybe an e-book, but crikey, Scoop generated some epically shit HTML. Damn Perl monkeys;)
I doubt the proportion of libertarians on here has changed substantially since I joined in 2000, and there's still very, very few on the hard left at all. There may overall be a slight leftward shift, but it may just be down to more non-Americans posting here. What's changed is that over time more and more topics and stories have become political, or can be made so by posters with strong opinions - patents, automation, the financial crisis, Bitcoins and other money topics, and of course, climate change - and anything related to political opinions are reinforced by opposition even without the whirling craziness of the modern world's political and economical situation.
Slashdot is about the only place I've come across with users from the left and the right that hasn't degenerated into a flamefest or where one "side" drives out the other and then devolves into groupthink. Which is one reason I read it all the time still. Plus, it's good to be reminded that there are people out there who seriously think libertarianism is a viable economic or political theory given it's utter conflict with human nature and reality:D
But unless you had an average moderation of less than 1 on a post, it really didn't make a lot of difference what the score was, so why bother using sock-puppets? Plus, moderators deleted accounts doing that, or at least they did when I was posting there.
You actually think there are paid shills here? I've seem this meme become common here in the last three or four years, and I still think it's ridiculous.
I've been here since 2000 and really can't say the overall feel is much different than it ever was. There's less hardcore nerd stuff and more political stuff (although everything becomes political here due to strong opinions lol), but tone and signal-to-noise are about the same IMO. In fact there's way less zero-content posts and crapflooding nowadays than there was for most of the early to mid 2000s.
Thanks, I'd not really paid attention to k5 after leaving for HuSi in 2003 or so, sad and quite shocking to see what it has become now, although the decline was obvious when HuSi started. As an ex-k5 regular and ex-Adequacy editor, the site is a shitpit nowadays.
I don't post there any more, but lots of the regulars are still active over at Hulver's site, although it's focussed more around the journals than articles. There was a switch en masse in 2003 after things started going downhill, but just like you when I last looked at k5 (about six months ago) I was shocked by the sheer level of crap that is now the only thing on there. Rusty might not be dead, but since his appeal all those years ago he might as well have been.
That was a couple of years after a significant proportion of the site's regular diary section users upped and left en masse for a new site run by hulver which was basically centered around the journal section, allowed users more options when posting, and deleted anyone who kept causing problems. This was in 2003 if I remember correctly. This was a big chunk of community, and that's hard to replace quickly.
However given that after Rusty's big appeal he pretty much seemed to stop giving a fuck about the site and we hardly heard anything from him at all, can't say I was bothered. Shame, I spent more time there than on/. for some years.
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Here in the UK the plural of Lego is indeed Lego, and I would ask someone to come and play with my Lego. There's some good discussion here about the pluralisation issue.
I've also been doing poi for almost a decade now, although not nearly at the ferocious pace I learnt at in the first four years or so. It's interesting how it has developed over the years, people now learn a whole different way than I did, back before concepts such as flowers, isolations and hyperloops were developed... was lucky enough to be around some of the people who came up with these things when I was very much into it. It's still one of the few things that calms my ADD twitchiness and anxiety, and it's nice to be able to physically push yourself to learn new ways of moving and dancing.
Actually most personality traits tend to be equally influenced by genetics as environment, plus a much smaller contribution from parental influence. I can't think of any examples of "intelligence and behavior" that are more determined by environment than genetics - the opposite isn't true however.
Yes, but if that happens in a locked and windowless room, to observers outside of the room the entire room plus physicist is still in a super-position of alive and dead until they (or the physicist!) open the door to check. For someone outside the building the system of observers outside and the room are in a superposition until they check. See Wigner's friend.
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Agreed, it may even have improved from the penis bird days of yore.
To be fair there's been a lot of new stuff introduced from 1.8 onwards as part of ECMAScript 5, which do address a lot of the shortcomings of the language, including a lot of object changes - properties and descriptors, frozen objects, Object.getOwnPropertyNames etc. Development is proceeding rapidly after a long period of stasis.
Apart from Object.keys(obj) and obj.length that is.
If you're doing XML in Python use the lxml library, it's a wrapper around libxml2 and libxslt, and is a joy to use.
Something that is fungible means any one instance of it can be swapped with any other instance of it without changing its effects - electricity is electricity, whether it comes from a solar panel on your roof or a nuclear power plant via the grid. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungibility
Great post, and I think spot on analysis.
Yes, they're required to have a session with another licensed therapist every week, or at least that's the case here in the UK - my friend started doing this from when she started the course to become licensed.
I grew up in London about three miles walk from a gun shop. It was still there last time I went past, about two years ago.
I suspect deep-seated feelings of inadequacy fueled by compulsive viewing of videos such as "Black Dicks, White Chicks". With a large dash of homo-eroticism.
I wrote a "slashdot trolling HOWTO" a decade ago lol, I know what the two words mean - not sure where you thought I'd got the two confused...?
The one mention of politics was meant to be about all the Alpha Nerd behaviour here - instead of "rep" or "cred" or "coolness" it's intelligence, but it's still the same set of touchy pride and insecurity over status that leads to people wanting to be part of a "gang", and then prove their gang is better than anyone else's. You end up with people spending hours arguing over vi vs Emacs, KDE vs GNOME, Windows XP vs Windows 7 because it's about the politics of power and not any kind of intellectual endeavour towards knowledge :)
Trolling ten years ago was our own little group, we had our own "secret" thread (originally slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=trolltalk) where we hung out and would share links to our trolls so we could share its progress together and get congratulated when it had done well. There isn't anything that cliquey now, just a more diverse userbase with pre-existing conflicts of opinion ... calling someone or someones a shill is basically a lazy way to demonise them and undermine their status until you look better in comparison. Or an attempt to derail an argument that you're losing and avoiding it becoming an actual defeat.
Political moderation options would just make moderation even more of a thing people can argue about in the absence of any *actual* hot button topic to hand. People get accused of being Microsoft shills all the time, but I can't remember anyone having been accused of being an IPCC shill, or a shill for the Koch brothers, even when people are having a massive flamefest over them.
I stopped posting on /. at around that point - the crap-flooders invaded sid=k22320inchfan (the successor to sid=trolltalk) and made our little place where we posted links to our trolls and generally hung out useless. I think Rusty and Scoop was what probably gave us the idea for starting Adequacy, so we pretty much abandoned /. en masse for there, and that lasted another two years before we decided to close it. I kept reading /. but only once in a while, k5 and Adequacy were enough.
Nowadays I read ./. every day, but don't really post anywhere at all... trying to rectify that this year, writing is a useful skill :) And I used to love arguing with libertarians and nowadays /. has tons of them - the ones that are smart enough to have a whole framework that's internally consistent and they can defend, but it's based on some really deep-buried ideas that are just utterly wrong and they can't or won't even consider the idea. I think it's why so many of them are so disparaging towards things like psychology, sociology and even the humanities lol, they represent a deep existential threat to them.
The years 2002 to 2005 were the low point here, people seem to forget all the crap-flooding, page-widening, GNAA manifestos an large amounts of racist,/homophobic/etc one line posts, Signal 11 and karma whoring, at least one cut and paste story involving eating crap in each article... lol, I had forgotten a lot of that :)
I lost the use of the email account I first signed up for here about a year afterwards, went through two more before getting the current gmail account and only changed my email address here a few years ago - almost locked myself out in the process due to some weirdness! Handily though, I've reused the same passwords over the years; I've added newer, more complicated ones over time, but my password here is one of the original three I can be sure I used one of for anything I signed up to before 2005 or so :)
I wrote 450 diaries on k5 - went there and downloaded them all a couple of years ago, it can be strange to read them back! Should do the same for my ones on HuSi, am planning on reformatting them as maybe an e-book, but crikey, Scoop generated some epically shit HTML. Damn Perl monkeys ;)
As one of Adequacy's editors, thanks! We enjoyed it, wrote some good stuff, and ended it before it could start turning into work rather than fun.
But you've reminded me of Michael D Crawford and his antics now, lol.
I doubt the proportion of libertarians on here has changed substantially since I joined in 2000, and there's still very, very few on the hard left at all. There may overall be a slight leftward shift, but it may just be down to more non-Americans posting here. What's changed is that over time more and more topics and stories have become political, or can be made so by posters with strong opinions - patents, automation, the financial crisis, Bitcoins and other money topics, and of course, climate change - and anything related to political opinions are reinforced by opposition even without the whirling craziness of the modern world's political and economical situation.
Slashdot is about the only place I've come across with users from the left and the right that hasn't degenerated into a flamefest or where one "side" drives out the other and then devolves into groupthink. Which is one reason I read it all the time still. Plus, it's good to be reminded that there are people out there who seriously think libertarianism is a viable economic or political theory given it's utter conflict with human nature and reality :D
But unless you had an average moderation of less than 1 on a post, it really didn't make a lot of difference what the score was, so why bother using sock-puppets? Plus, moderators deleted accounts doing that, or at least they did when I was posting there.
You actually think there are paid shills here? I've seem this meme become common here in the last three or four years, and I still think it's ridiculous.
I've been here since 2000 and really can't say the overall feel is much different than it ever was. There's less hardcore nerd stuff and more political stuff (although everything becomes political here due to strong opinions lol), but tone and signal-to-noise are about the same IMO. In fact there's way less zero-content posts and crapflooding nowadays than there was for most of the early to mid 2000s.
Thanks, I'd not really paid attention to k5 after leaving for HuSi in 2003 or so, sad and quite shocking to see what it has become now, although the decline was obvious when HuSi started. As an ex-k5 regular and ex-Adequacy editor, the site is a shitpit nowadays.
I don't post there any more, but lots of the regulars are still active over at Hulver's site, although it's focussed more around the journals than articles. There was a switch en masse in 2003 after things started going downhill, but just like you when I last looked at k5 (about six months ago) I was shocked by the sheer level of crap that is now the only thing on there. Rusty might not be dead, but since his appeal all those years ago he might as well have been.
Lots of the regulars are still active over at Hulver's site, although it's focussed more around the journals than articles.
That was a couple of years after a significant proportion of the site's regular diary section users upped and left en masse for a new site run by hulver which was basically centered around the journal section, allowed users more options when posting, and deleted anyone who kept causing problems. This was in 2003 if I remember correctly. This was a big chunk of community, and that's hard to replace quickly.
However given that after Rusty's big appeal he pretty much seemed to stop giving a fuck about the site and we hardly heard anything from him at all, can't say I was bothered. Shame, I spent more time there than on /. for some years.
It's undoubtedly Charlie Brooker.
Here in the UK the plural of Lego is indeed Lego, and I would ask someone to come and play with my Lego. There's some good discussion here about the pluralisation issue.
I've also been doing poi for almost a decade now, although not nearly at the ferocious pace I learnt at in the first four years or so. It's interesting how it has developed over the years, people now learn a whole different way than I did, back before concepts such as flowers, isolations and hyperloops were developed... was lucky enough to be around some of the people who came up with these things when I was very much into it. It's still one of the few things that calms my ADD twitchiness and anxiety, and it's nice to be able to physically push yourself to learn new ways of moving and dancing.
Actually most personality traits tend to be equally influenced by genetics as environment, plus a much smaller contribution from parental influence. I can't think of any examples of "intelligence and behavior" that are more determined by environment than genetics - the opposite isn't true however.
Yes, but if that happens in a locked and windowless room, to observers outside of the room the entire room plus physicist is still in a super-position of alive and dead until they (or the physicist!) open the door to check. For someone outside the building the system of observers outside and the room are in a superposition until they check. See Wigner's friend.