Is Steve Jobs an disciple of Ayn Rand? There sure seems to be a number of indicators pointing in that direction.
If he is - then you can't really blame him can you? He could hardly justify charity as moral.
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If he is - then you can't really blame him can you? He could hardly justify charity as moral.
You mean that people don't know how to talk to me? I don't have tentacles growing out of my head you know... Could you elaborate a bit?
But everybody is an expert on software - since their mother told them so. I'm sick of being patronized by people who refuse to pick up the tiniest bits of the craft saying "no, no, no - that's not my job" - while they are clearly working in a field they haven't the slightest clue about.
Software has to be the only field where ignorance is used as a badge of honour: "I don't need to know anything about how it's done, I'm a project manager."
I'm an excellent communicator, I can figure out how to talk to anyone about anything (I'm a hustler by nature), but when people start talking down to me on a topic I dedicated half of my life to. I make them remember.
From anecdotal experience - the training plan he describes is something I did when I started out mountainbiking and ran straight into a probably best coach in vicinity.
My training program was a lot like the one described in the article - It was longer, but I was too lazy to do all of it - so I landed right where he suggests 3-4 times lifting weights a week. And boy did I get strong. But then I started fiddling out with trendy programs and fuxxored it all. :)
I guess that not using machines wont make such a difference, its more the training regime (reps, measuring your maximum, doing the pyramid). It's just that they are unnecessary.
So there are 3 things I have learned about fitness:
1. Your basic training / off season training should be exactly as described in this article.
2. Most people work out waaay too much.
3. If you are serious about your sport: do interval training twice a week (max).
That's it - that's all are there is. Everything else you can do your sport or whatever.
DHH also caused Rails to happen. With it the DHH spawned another force of nature called the Rails community. The rails community acts very much like DHH and also causes various combustions of various topics. The Rails community also closely monitors DHH activities and should some threat to DHH arise, the Rails community spawns instantly to protect the pure essence of 37 signals idea that is DHH. Oh and Rails community also buys books that DHH has materialized.
No their function is not to divine when did Noah leave the ark and how did all those animals and humans repopulate the earth in 4k and something years.
Their job is to ask "stupid" questions. Their job is to analyse the results of science through spiritual and theological lens. In short role of religion in society is same as role of CEO in a company - to provide strategy, vision and guidance. Sadly both are increasingly failing us.
True problem of religions nowadays is not that there is no place for them - but that they outright refuse to re evaluate their positions, instead demanding their rights of old. Just like RIAA, MPAA, etc..,
But indeed that would mean they had to work and be creative - maybe even expose themselves to some risk, but that would be too hard. Better to cling to old birthrights and refuse to cooperate.
Also what I have noticed with myself ( I had a decadent phase in life, moved on and now look on "friends" who stayed where they were) - decadent consumerism might not look as bad when you start doing it. But it erodes your soul it makes you weak and timid. Arm the lumpenproletariat with high tech - and you won't get "a little bit weaker" society - you get idiocracy.
A human to be happy must play hard, work hard and love hard. This is a virtue that most everybody is abandoning these days. I'm not advocating for repression (like China, India or western world of old), I'm advocating that we don't forget a passion in our lives and that we do not fail to show it to our children. Else everything is in vain.
From henceforth I declare this movemenet DuncanIdahia - you may not have heard of us - but we're growing tremendously (we grew infinitely from 5 minutes ago to now).
Whatever.
Especially since these are completely different markets who do most stuff differently. Thats what I wanted to point out - if they want their chips to play DRM content they'll have to negotiate it themselves with the Hollywood. I also strongly suspect that this is not an exclusive pact.
Since nowadays content producers are very well aware that more and more (probably the majority?) of content is consumed via - non x86 architecture devices.
And now for the record to just rehash what I am doing:
1. The person is obviously being treated differently from others (he is being given a chance),
2. I will not treat his work differently due to his condition. I want him to get up to speed and I'm helping along,
3. He doesn't need blanket pats on the back. He needs them when they're due and he also needs a proverbial kick in the arse when due.
Also, discrimination is a term used when we act negatively towards someone. I'd be discriminating against my mentee if I were telling him that he's no good dimwit. Or are you suggesting that I'm discriminating towards others?
Is Intel supposed to just implement it for them or something?
Or are they supposed to get to their own terms with them studios?
And its not that tech runs just from Intel to AMD.
x64 is AMD tech that got adopted by Intel. Monolith multi-core technology is also something Intel adopted from AMD.
Intel wouldn't dare destroying AMD. Since AMD got created for sole reason to prevent Intel from being torn apart. But Intel will do everything to keep AMD's market share somewhere comfortably below 20%.
Addict is never really cured. Once you're through with addiction, the cravings are there for life. Whenever you need to release your steam the craving for drug kicks back in.
My mentee is coping with that through writing, so sometimes he will not come to work on time - because he's setting his mind straight. So our agreement is that I don't care about his schedule - as long as his work is done according to specified parameters.
I didn't say I don't act differently towards him. I said he doesn't get preferential treatment in a sense that I won't be commiserating him for being an ex-addict. Instead I raised his tempo of learning while gently guiding him through the finer intricacies. But I demand highest quality of him. I also look out that nobody (especially superiors) will pick on him since he is pretty introvert - and I don't want him to slip back due to some extrovert having a bad day.
This guy needs to build character, courage and ultimately self-confidence. And not making it hard for him, plus helping along the way if possible is one of my goals.
Tuns out he is an ex-addict (that's why he's rookie at 37). I don't have a problem with people trying to straighten themselves out. He doesn't get any preferential treatment from me - because it won't do him any good. As long as he does the expected work of expected quality he is fine with me.
Knowing that he is an ex addict is valuable to me so I can put our relationship in right context.
Everybody is 7 foot high jock on teh internetz[1]. Everybody is lying and people discount for that. So unless you lie a bit you started loosing your ground even if you are otherwise the tallest building. Take your moralism somewhere else - cuz. this is teh internetz (and its serious business too!)
You remind me of people who keep whining about cheezy tactics in games - they are there so use them. Have you ever heard that winners are those who are willing to do stuff, losers won't?
[1]: http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-biggest-lies-in-online...
Goldman invested into FB - so they can now act as marketmaker for their customers.
What I really wanted to add is - that most of their (and other intelligence agencies round the world) agents are not tall muscular black shaded gorillas like you see in movies.
In US case they're the diplomats, they might be 3rd party governmental officials, or indeed your university professor.
1. Declaratively the governments are indeed taking IT security seriously. Thus many guidelines, laws and other formal documents regarding IT security have been accepted. Unfortunately many of these are internally inconsistent or in conflict with others. The net result is that in the name of "security" the governmental IT systems are unnecessarily complicated and expensive.
2. In practice - prescribed security measures are mostly not enforced due to many reasons (eg.: The measures are so strict and rigid that enforcing them would prohibit various legitimate users from actually doing their work; The people in charge of implementation and administration of these systems are plain incompetent and/or disinterested).
3. Securing everything that is currently deemed necessary to the extent prescribed by relevant law will turn out to be prohibitively expensive due to various logistic problems (who will implement necessary auditing systems for legacy systems that nobody udnerstands and there are no funds to replace, where will you store all the auditing information, where will you get competent engineers that actually understand the infrastructure and are willing to work proactively to secure them - for a laughable wage?,...).
So - as a matter of fact - I have to state that governments don't really take IT security seriously. They don't understand the issues and they don't even care. They care for scapegoats and thats it.
Disclaimer: Most of my work is on government related IT projects/systems.
I'm in same millieu with some of the greatest climbers of the world. And generally they are some of the best (read moral, ethical, sincere) people I ever met.
But when an accident happens somewhere on K2 - sometimes there needs to be a tradeoff - either some die or all die. There have been daring (but foolish) successfull rescue attempts. These guys tend to make peace with the world before they start climbing the damn thing.
Messner himself had to leave his own brother die to stay alive.
I'd go to friggin Mars, just to step on its red soil. I'd go there on a one way trip to stay there and die and I'd sign up tomorrow. If I only could.
But sadly modern world is too worried about my well-being to let me do something like that.
He was also aged 33 at the time, which makes it the more awesome if you compare him to the many other self-made men who managed to create sizable fortunes by their early twenties.
You picked an awful example.
Eastern Germany will stay like that until the workforce that was raised in socialism gets out of the way. Eastern Germany has more in common with Poland, Czech and Slovakia than with western Germany and France.
I'm from ex-socialist country and it is the same situation here - plenty of high value added opportunities are available - but nobody to take advantage of them.
However - pitting women against enemies - either to seduce them or to just get them out of the way (via extortion) has happened before.
Duly noted. I'm not a native speaker, but it seems to me that the comment still works - "won over" as neutral form of implying that government got what it wanted in contrast to "won, over" that implies negative connotation of the same deed.
We have located their base of operations and its Eastasia.