dextorious

So what? Why should you count this case?

"""I don't really care what the majority think."""

Which is beside the point. The question was whether looks are subjective.

Well, in the aggregate statistical sense they aint.

""" "Do not accept responsibility for anything that you had to do in a very limited time." Yeah, because the ability to stand by your decision is a function of deadlines. """

It most certainly is.

One can be forced to come up with something under a tight deadline that he wouldn't under normal circumstances.

Only, they don't have to know shit.

If what they do re: blocking doesn't fit their purposes, they can adjust it so it does.

If you have the power to pass laws to a specific objective, the technical details are irrelevant.

If we're to judge from this:

http://www.hartwork.org/beamer-theme-matrix/

I wouldn't say that Beamer presentation themes are any better --actually worse--, than what's included with Pages/Powerpoint.

"""Genetically, looks and brains shouldn't be linked at all and I do believe there is no serious (anti-)correlation here."""

How did that "should not" come about?

How about creatures with worse looks (less attractive to their species), cope up by being smarter to turn sexual selection in their favor?

The notion of "looks" has not just come about in the last century or so, it exists even in totally foreign species, like flowers (attractiveness to bees by features/colors/smell/etc).

And looks have been shown to correlate strongly to sexual selection (from big tits to body fat).

"""But seriously, surely looks are a very subjective thing?"""

Subjective as in: "the beauty (or lack thereof) of a person X is not a law of nature, different people can have different opinions on the matter", yes.

But subjective as in: "statistically people don't tend to agree to what's beautiful/ugly", then no.

I could be finding person X beautiful, and you could find it ugly. But showing him to, say, 100,000 people, the opinions won't be 50-50 or close (=totally subjective). People tend to agree. Only if the person is rather bland looking the statistical results will be totally random and not skewed towards ugly/beautiful.

Consider an experiment of showing a picture Anjelica Jolie to 100,000 males to mark as ugly/beautiful. I bet I can predict the results.

Well, if someone "wants it", it has monetary value.

What you're saying amounts to "I'd want it (over other things) if it was free".

Good, move along then, and don't use it because it is no.

White on black? Larger than normal font? Good god, you fooled certain death there by not reading further...

Yeah, the only difference is you're not funny.

Except if you want to use your laptop as a server, churning on with the lid closed...

Then you might have to wonder if yours is maybe not the typical use case.

Just sayin...

Check here for some cv far better that the boring standard LaTeX ones:

http://jobmob.co.il/blog/beautiful-resume-ideas-that-work/

It's not as if your potential boss will be delighted because the hyphenation spacing and kerning is just perfect --but a touch of cleverness and color can get far.

"""What if your friend 'Fred' e-mailed you and asked "Can you send me that picture of us from the rafting trip last year?" Which would you rather do - dig through your photo albums until you find it, or type in a search for it and have it show up in the results?"""

You do realize that this edge case (and tons of similar) are not representative of 99% of the queries we do, right?

(Percentage pulled out of my ass, but still more accurate than the edge case mentioned).

And even if it did, how about doing a special: "Search Social", box instead of polluting the main search results?

"""I think you have the causality wrong. They realized they had to get into the social space and integrate it into their product because of user data."""

They did it because of "user data" alright, but not in the way he means it. User's haven't told them: "wow, it would be great if you had Plus integrated into search".

Their data was more like: "hey, this social thing is lucrative, numbers show we can milk our users more if we get a stronghold in this area".

"""I am never looking for photos of myself. I mean please.

I bet you're the exception."""

And I bet you that he is not.

At least non in Google searches --people weren't looking for photos of themselves there.

"""At some point, photographers will need to understand that their work is not that unique and that the wealth created by the community through sharing is much greater than that derived by a single artist through the licensing and sale of their work."""

Spoken like a true I-want-your-stuff-for-free person...

Really? Are you doing something over IRC or SSH with the lid closed? I normally don't talk to irc with the lid closed, because I can't reach the keyboard that easily...

If you want something on the other side of the SSH to continue, use sleep or tmux.

If you want to keep your session, well, keep your lid open...

"""his is where I find your point to fall apart. The internet is NOT under the laws of any given nation and I doubt very much if some nations even have a sense of Public Domain or copyright. And even the ones that do can hardly agree on common terms."""

Actually, almost all nations have standard international agreements on this matters. Also, tons of common abuses are from the US and EU themselves, that very much agree on common terms.

I'm sure some people are complaining because a web outlet in Kazakstan used their pictures, but those are not many...

From the stackexchange thread: """Probably not before you are hired but you can impress with your good looking reports, presentations etc. after you're hired."""

I don't think so. The stock standard LaTeX templates are not that good looking compared to the kind of reports presentations etc a competent guy versatile in graphic design (not necessarily a graphic designer) can achieve -- perhaps even using some ready made presentation/report template bundled with his office suite or third-party.

Slightly better typography is the main advantage, but people would fell asleep reading a LaTeX template report or presentation. Lack of color, imagery, drab looking charts and diagrams etc --unless you really dive full in and peruse all of LaTeX. And it's not like anyone sweats over typography details when reading a bloody report.

"""For me, having reliable builds is FAR more important than the editor holding my hand with respect to Java syntax."""

I don't understand what "reliable builds" means in this context. I never had "unreliable builds" from Eclipse.

Also, what you call "holding your hand" actually is automating tedious manual labor re Java syntax, and continuous AST based syntax checking.

That --and build automation, is exactly what people want from an IDE. If you don't care for those, yeah, use anything else.

I find anything without actual AST-based syntax checking/autocomplete/navigation/refactoring as a dumb text editor, Emacs included.

Now, Eclipse has tons of problems, but that it got right.

It's sad that there is not a modern, GUI based, editor, with pluggable language support for multi-language use, using full AST power (regex highliting and ctags is so last century) while also being lean and mean...

Tremendous! He got his wish re: the use of his photographs respected!

Who told you that "more publicity" (or whatever else snake oil i-want-your-content-for-free types sell), is considered a "gain" by all?

"""True, but at the same time you shouldn't be hosting your pictures on the internet where anyone can copy it if you want to charge money for it. """

This is "blame the victim". Posting something on the internet does not make it public domain.

"""If I was to place some proprietary code on a public git, or just display it on my public webpage, should I get angry if people take it and don't pay me for it?"""

Yeah, you should.

It's the same if you posted some GPL code on a public git, and someone took it and build a closed system with it.

In both cases, the creator/owner or something did not have his wishes and copyright respected.

The same way we insist on people/companies respecting GPL copyright licenses, we should respect other people's licenses for THEIR stuff.

"""Many folks would be happy to allow their photos to be used just for "exposure" or even for fun. Likewise many writers would happily allow their writing to be published for free. This is the case for both aspiring professionals and amateurs who never intend to make significant money with their hobby."""

More power to them. Many others DO NOT.

"""A replacement value is only relevant if it has to be replaced - if I use his photo without permission in a magazine or a website, he still has the photo, no replacement needed."""

No, he doesn't still "have the photo" as in "no damage done".

He has a digital file, but he just lost BOTH the exclusivity of the photo AND his say in how his work should be distributed.

"""Cameras are expensive. Photographs are almost worthless. Supply utterly outstrips demand, especially for shots like landscapes that have great appeal for amateur photographers but little commercial utility."""

Really? Then the photographer could say: if that's so, go use ANOTHER picture, because I don't fu*n supply mine.

You can't have it both ways, i.e the picture is worthless AND I still insist on using it.

"""I would call that a programmer error. The language certainly does make it harder to write "safe" code, but it is certainly doable."""

Everything is "certainly doable" in a turing-complete way, but that fact has not mattered at all in the evolution of programming languages.

It doesn't matter if it's "certainly doable", what matters is how easy it is.

If I have any of the above, I also don't want to CLOSE the lid.

What's with you people? What's next?

"If I have an ssh session running, I don't want the machine to stop when I remove the battery and the charge plug"?

Those Linux machines are mostly used as render-farms, i.e dumb boxes to crunch numbers.

You'd have to get their Mac (or sometimes Windows) machine out of the special effects guys cold, dead, fingers.

That said, there are a few commercial offerings for 3D modeling work on Linux, but shockingly less than in Windows/Mac land.

So, basically: couldn't get my head around Eclipse, so it sucks, right?

Wait till you try Emacs...

Well, "since we do most things on the web now" could also be translated as: "since we don't do much other than read emails, surf the web, do some IM/social stuff, and maybe exchange some documents".

Because sure as hell, 99.9% percent of us doesn't:

1) Write code on the web. 2) Edits images on the web. 3) Write documents on the web. 4) Maintains systems (admin work) on the web. 5) Produces/edits video on the web. 6) Produces/edits music on the web. 7) Watches movies on the web. 8) Does spreadsheets on the web. 9) Plays heavy 3D games on the web. 10) Does DTP on the web. 11) Does 3D modelling on the web.

Web stuff exists for all of these, but much much much fewer people use it than desktop apps.

Last time I checked, programmers use Emacs, Vim, Visual Studio, XCode etc. Those are not web apps.

It doesn't get much better for the general population, though.

Tons more people use something like Paintshop Pro and Photoshop Elements than something like Photoshop Express (the online flash photo-edit tool). And, Google Docs, which is much more realistic a substitute than some online "photo editing" app is, for it's market, is used by a tiny percentage last time I saw the numbers.

Maybe one day we'll do everything in the browser, but this is not that day, and limits in current web technologies (hell, even basic stuff like websockets are not universally available yet) and bandwidth will keep it that way for a while.

There are things that can be done nicely on the web, and things that would be frustrating and a huge throwback to the olden days of slow CPUs and pain. Text editing is one such thing. Everything that needs the handling of large volumes of data (or not that large, anything larger than, say, 10MB) doesn't work that well in the browser.

So, you, the one guy using Bespin for your programming work: good for you, but you are a tiny minority.

Except for the last part, all the others are really really minor gripes...