MrRage

It isn't limited to Google. At the end of 2014 Facebook put this thing in my brother's feed that said "It's been a great year" and then put in post he made right after our mother passed away. I wonder if it's a being young thing too?

Of course. You can't learn that sort of judgement (when to use vs when not to use) from a book.

But our profession's training material, at least in my experience reading, drills it in your head to use all these abstracting devices.

It's certainly true that you can get some "book knowledge" that tells you that you can over abstract. I mean, this blog post is one example. But I only hear this sort of stuff from things like blog post from experienced devs, it seems to me. (Or maybe I just read the wrong kind of books?)

> I can tell an amateur programmer from a professional by looking at their order of priorities when they grow a code base.

> Amateur programmers tend to put code de-duplication at the top of their priority list and will burn the whole house down to that often-trivial end.

To be fair, lots of how to program books spend a lot of time on teaching you how to abstract, and sing abstractions praises to the heavens, as it were. It takes some experience to learn that real world stuff is not like the toy programs in books.

I can only partially answer your question for Pascal: Look at the Free Pascal compiler.

I learned (Turbo) Pascal many years ago. Recently I've revived my usage while writing a video game. I wanted a mature, compiled, no GC language that worked well on Windows but wasn't C/C++. For the most part I've been happy with it.

It's still an alive project (version 3.0 released this year). It supports a wide selection of platforms, and a few Pascal dialects including Delphi, although I've been sticking to the old school procedural style in my game. It easily interfaces with C libraries (I've tried SDL and Lua).

As for the language itself, it seems to have lackluster support for template / generic programming, so I avoid it. That's a little disappointing to me but I think I can live without it. It does support old scool C++ style OOP, but try to avoid it because OOP's not cool anymore :).

There's plenty of documentation on the Internet, but not the amount of some of the more hip languages of today (and the websites tend to look older).

The number of tools is lackluster. It has an IDE called Lazarus that I've never used. The IDE seems focused on GUI development, which doesn't interest me. It comes with Turbo Pascal like IDE that runs in a console window, which probably won't be appealing to most people. I mostly use Notepad++ and script building in PowerShell for my game. I do miss the features from Visual Studio, like Intellisense though.

I'm using only Ghostery, and I did not see any ads. Perhaps it stops such code from running?

I always thought the fastest was the closed form formula: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number#Closed-form_ex...

Unless looping and counting is that much faster than doing some floating point math?

Isn't a Microwave a Farady Cage for the frequency used by the oven? I'm guessing the Cell frequencies are different so they can penetrate the cage?

I was thinking about driving before GPS recently and I had to go somewhere I've never been to before. So I resolved to just look at Google maps before hand and then just try to driver there and back without my GPS unit or resorting to my phone. I really enjoyed it. I had to pay attention to where I was and what direction I was going. I feel like I actually learned the area better. So I get what you're saying.

Interesting. I guess it actually emits all sorts of frequencies of light visible or not, but Superman is still wrong. :)

Sun is actually white... which is why you see a all the colors in a rainbow. I know Superman lied to you. :)

> In a similar timeframe will anyone be able to read our digital thoughts?

Lots of famous writing from the ancient world doesn't survive in the original and had to be copied; what we have is copies of copies of copies, etc. And plenty of ancient works are lost.

We will need to copy to newer media what is important for archival purposes even now it seems.

Most mainstream music (i.e. stuff that makes it into Billboard's charts) is obviously targeted at teenagers and maybe people in their young 20's. I'd say the same thing is true about movies. I guess I wouldn't call any of this for "children" though but I guess this becomes a boring semantic argument at this point.

Tangentially, now that I'm over 30 it's starting to become painfully obvious that new music is geared towards younger people. I don't want to be one of those people who are stuck listening to music of their youth, but its so difficult to find things that appeal to me. I.e. music and films that are mature but still are progressing and not relying nostalgia.

Hmm so when were was there a lull? Serious question. I grew up in the 80's and although I don't check space news every day it doesn't seem like activity in space decreased in that time. All I'm really aware of is the loss in interest in, say, manned moon missions after Apollo 11. Are you talking about robotic probes?

When did this era start? This probe was launched 10 years go, and the planning must have started at least a few years before that.

I submit, as argued in my other comment, that greggman is the one assuming his/her experience should take priority.

If you are able to work years on end at 70 hours a week then more power to you. But that doesn't mean other people who do burn out are to blame or inferior b/c they didn't follow in greggman's footsteps or didn't choose "a career you don't get real enjoyment from".

Moreover, seriously consider this: Is working 72 hours for just 5 months enough to burn someone out? Especially if your young and responsibility free, wouldn't it take a lot longer?

Good to hear that you're happy and your choices have worked out, sincerely. But kindly please consider the following points:

1. You may not have worked enough to burn out. If you're in your 20's you can work longer too. If you don't have a family you can work longer.

2. Not everyone can make the career choices you got to make. I do program and enjoy it but it's way to risky for me personally to quit my corporate job. Please consider you might have some privileges others don't have or less responsibilities than other people.

3. For those of us who toil in the corporate world, depending on the situation, it is just foolish to spend more than the required 40 hours (except for limited crunch time). Why should I slave away and get no reward? I get paid the same. Consider that corporation might take advantage of those who do enjoy programming to do more work for less.

Anyway I wish you all the luck on your idea. :)

The author's analogy with Mozart's music is curious. Mozart's compositions are closer to the classical forms of a symphony, concerto, etc. than other well known composers who came later. He didn't slavishly follow some rules, but other composers broke way more rules than he did.

Edit: Grammar

Most artist, according to my understanding, have never really made money on record sales even before the advent of Napster (for example, google "The Problem with Music" by Steve Albini). Most musicians are going to make money off of concerts tickets and T-Shirts, etc sold at concerts.

Album is _Hurt Seconds_ by The Shy Trafficker. I'll warn you that it's a long poorly recorded slog. There's a couple songs with some vocals but most of it is instrumental. Instrumental rock tends to be pretty unpopular I've found so I felt like the "warning" was needed.

I was in a band in my college years that played this "indie / experimental" instrumental rock. We only played maybe a dozen shows that were sparsely attended. There's one show we played that had at least 50-100 people, but that was because we opened for a semi-popular local band. In 2003-2004, just about when I left the band, we recorded an album in on of the band member's bedroom. I doubt more than a handful of people have ever listened to it.

This album is on Spotify. If it has any listens it's probably because I listened to it, or maybe another one of the former band members did.

That made me wonder what the procedures are if one was to die on the ISS. You'd have to store the remains somewhere until the next Soyuz ship can launch? That's probably enough morbid thinking for today.

This is not an example of racist hashtags, but I remember hearing about a lot of racist tweets when Obama's speech about the Newtown massacre interrupted Sunday Night Football.

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I certainly agree with what you're saying. There is a difference between fiscal and social conservatives, and the fiscal camp is larger. The religious right by themselves are not as powerful as some on the left make them out to be. But I still think the evangelicals have a certain power, because the fiscal camp needs them to vote. So the fiscal camp whips up concerns about the social issue du jour to get them to the polls.

Speaking as someone who grew up in Texas in conservative evangelical family, there are plenty of churches that are politically active (not all but there are a lot). So you basically have a voting block that takes marching orders from their spiritual leaders.

I attended such a church until my early 20's (I'm 32 now) and around elections there were many sermon reminders that they needed to go vote for people aligned with their conservative values. At my former church they wouldn't explicitly endorse candidates, but it was understood you voted Republican. If the Republican at least appeared to be an evangelical Christian, you would get more support. (I remember George W. Bush being called a "man of God" by several people.)

Moreover, if you had an inclination to, say, vote Democrat, then you better be quite about it. People would just about question how "true" of a Christian you were if you did that.

Disclaimer: I know that not every church in states like Texas are like this. I know because I went to less political churches too. (I don't go to church anymore for what it's worth.)

I'm not sure how compelling my argument is... but if I have nothing to hide then why does anybody need to look? For example does the TSA seeing everybody naked actually improve security?

I attended two state Universities in Texas, and both had cheap licenses like you describe. I don't think it's so weird.

I agree it is a red herring in general. That's why I asked when do you see NC-17 movies in a cinema (in the US).

True it was in the US release. I guess I assumed that since we're talking about censoring nudity we were talking primarily about the US market.

This is getting off topic, but I don't think it was a bad movie, although certainly not his best. Despite the nudity, the film is strangely un-erotic. I think you are unfair about Kubrick's motives in making the movie. I also think there's much that can be said about the movie, For example: http://www.collativelearning.com/EYES%20WIDE%20SHUT%20analys...

Edited: Terrible grammar.

Censorship does happen. Stanley Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut, was censored to avoid an NC-17 rating. You're correct NC-17 movies do get made, but how often can you go to your local cinema and see an NC-17 movie?

> My old boss at Apple told me back in the day if you wanted a job you just showed up at the door ready to work. A few weeks later if you lasted you're hired.

Sorta sound like how people joined Project Mayhem in Fight Club.