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I know many people who I presume like you, let chaos and drama rule their lives.
balanced, productive and stress-free your life is.
I mean if these guys are able to do this in 4K, what else could be done in operating system terms if we achieved that same level of excellence?
Recently I tried to purchase a small stereo, one of those tiny little ones that just play radio and a CD. They demanded that I provide full personal information in order to give me my receipt. I know that demanding personal information in order to print a receit is illegal here. So I question the attendant. She says she can only print it with that data. So before I had a stroke, and after 15 minutes of stupid arguments, I go ahead and do what Stallman did: fill it with BS and negate the "I agree" thing at the end, signed it - bought the stereo.
That movie "Brazil" with the ridiculous 26bStroke6 form is not too far from reality now that I think of it.
What if your car breaks down?
What if a friend has a broken car two blocks from your house and calls you and asks for help?
These types of tight schedules where everything is machinized and controlled don't work in real life unless you become a robot - in that case you've defeated your purpose.
Sleep at 9, wake at 5 is not realistic unless you're training for IronMan triathlon.
These types of schedules break down because things break down: family has issues, cars break, flu happens, roofs get infiltrations, pipes leak, electricity fails, planes get late, airports are crowded, streets may jam, etc, etc...
You part on the principle that everything just works and you can sleep at 9 and wake at 4, that is simply unreal.
1) build some regularity into your daily routine [ ... ]
2) Systemisation will set you free
Here’s my daily routine
Wake up at 4:54am [ ... ]
Jump in front of my iMac
I recall that 14 years ago DHTML was the all the rage and javascript was the key to DHTML. So I took up JS and bought books and went in head first.
Conclusion: it was impossible to take that language seriously. Javascript was a hack.
So for me, the rise of javascript as anything more than a browser helper language has been very surprising. I still have some prejudice towards it. Maybe others feel the same way and knowing how O'Reilly comes from the UNIX tradition, I'm sure that's what they meant with that title.
It is sad how this culture of discovery and hacking is being killed by a stupid "human beings factory" mentality.
These days I was chatting with a friend and suddenly she stared blankly at the crowd and said "look, everyone dresses the same, everyone looks the same".
It's amazing how you turn on the TV and girls in the USA dress just like those in Brazil.
Aldous Huxley predicted we wouldn't be alienated by state oppression or censorship. He predicted we'd have so many artificial distractions, that folks would just alienate themselves.
Nobody wants to take electronics apart anymore, nobody fixes their own automobiles anymore, nobody even dresses differently! We don't question official stories, we believe unbelievable things because the TV told us so. Where are all the inquiring minds? Why is it that when someone is curious and questions things they are called conspiracy nuts? When did the inquiring mind die and become an outcast, a danger for society?
Humanity is becoming dull, self-censored, machinelike. I believe it was either Picasso or Einstein which once said computers were stupid, because they only provided answers. Humans are becoming just like that! Nobody asks questions anymore, everyone just wants to have answers, as if we're stupid robots made to behave according to a standard.
Where's the life! The creativity! The will to take the thing apart and discover!?
Just look at the WWW today. All the websites look the same, have you noticed?
In the early WWW there were terrible spinning things in GIF's, animated banners, horrible neon color pages that hurt the eye, blinking tags(yuck). People just published whatever on the WWW. But it was true, honest, it was legit stuff that folks just wanted to publish. Look at what we have today.
Nowadays every new web site seems to be a marketing project that read some search engine's manuals before publishing.
Look guys I made this thing called Shit-a-gram! It mashes up all sorts of shit from Facebook, and if you name it gram you go virally floated to targetted audiences with immense purchasing power!
Where's the Geocities of today, where everyone did something different and the WWW was truly free? Even if those sites where dead ugly, they were true, they were original, they were the fruit of the hacking mentality, to do something different, freely.
This article got me thinking how much of that we've lost to a stupid culture of control.
Webmasters these days ask search engines for permission to link to some place, to write certain contents which might not meet certain "quality guidelines"(read: what makes the search engines a profit).
How did we reach this point? Where's the freedom? Where's the creativity?
Incentives in a wanted area cause that area to prosper, taxation causes an unwanted area to slow down.
If a sipmle photoshop-plugin-like application like Instagram is worth U$ 1 billion, then of course you are bound to see 250 clones/mashups/whatever by thursday next week, because U$ 1 with nine zeroes is one heck of an incentive.
The question on my mind is: are these websites worth this? Is a photo sharing app like tens of others out there worth this much? imgur is worth how many billions if instagram is worth a billion?
Amazing what an IPO can do for transparency. This is the sort of thing you'd never find out about a limited risk small company.
We reproduce and feel awesome about our kids, because that is part of our "mark" on the planet. They'll carry on.
I believe the answer to the question "why do we brag"? Is because it's part of our instincts to let other human beings know of the "marks we've made" to the planet. What have we changed on this Earth? What did we accomplish?
If according to the article bragging is on the same brain energetic level as ingesting food, then obviously bragging is part of our survival instinct. To reach that level, then it's been there for millions of years.
Which can only mean one thing: it's also part of our most basic instincts which are to survive and to reproduce.
Maybe bragging has been a way of reproducing in the past?
Food and money(current day weapon) mean survival, why is bragging on par with those two? It's part of our DNA's assembly language instructions to reproduce and leave a dent on the planet and telling others about it seems to be a way to reinforce that instinct. My 2 cents.
Disclaimer: I have absolutely zero knowledge of whatever it is I'm talking about here.
What's "best" for what? Does the safety critical system need to be fast and respond to real time events in real time? Or is it safety critical but is allowed to be slow? What kind of hardware is it running on?
Depending on your hardware, the only safety critical language may be assembler, so you can check every single instruction and make sure it's precise.
Having said all that, Apollo 11's code was written in a meta-language, then compiled to assembly instructions, then hand-compiled into computer code. You don't get any more safety critical than taking the first men to the moon.
http://googlecode.blogspot.com.br/2009/07/apollo-11-missions...
This may be true, but I'd like to point out that I've been hearing this since 1980something.
Writing from Brazil here : still over 70% of the visitors, on average, to most sites I monitor are using some version of IE.
So claiming a "feature" like that down here would be like rejecting 70% customers on a popular mall because they're not wearing red shoes(or some other arbitrary reason).
BUT.
If you do not have the proper theoretical background, then learning from peers without proper books and the "alone time" will most certainly turn you into a hack.
Even highly skilled coders like demoscene hackers and hardware specialists had to have some proper theoretical background. Linus Torvalds was in a good university and used Tanenbaum's books to later defy Tanenbaum himself. The fact is Linus didn't just crop out of nowhere and hacked Linux together, he had proper theory to go with his major league hacking foo.
Social interaction is great, fun and a wonderful way to learn and trade cards, but there is a time to code alone and it's a necessary one for you to improve.
If the latest rumors of EA being in talks with Ubuntu are true, then if massively successful games start appearing for the platform, it may well signify a turning point for desktop Linux.
Here's hoping widespread desktop Linux finally becomes a reality. Well deserved for the amazing work Ubuntu has put into it.
I guess by your reasoning, then yes, he is implying that, otherwise the implication is always true and there's no logic to assuming a false P.
Thus: I fear for the worst. API's may be copyrightable according to this ruling. I assume Google's teams are all over this right this minute.
Yes but you must discard the hypothesis later(assumption of P), which only the judge can do in this case, deciding whether or not P is true.
I see but does the fact that the judge told them to assume so indicate something about what he thinks about it?
I'm not a lawyer and I wonder how it goes in these cases: when a judge tells the jury to assume something, is he implying there is a good chance that that is how he would judge the case?
I had a lawsuit many years ago against a bank here in my hometown. The judge initially ruled he "believed the evidence I presented was consistent with my arguments". In the end, years later, that is how he judged it finally. Therefore I wonder if API's are all now on the brink because of this ruling.
But TCP actually does not suck, it's been there for longer than I have and served us pretty darned well up until now.
Never forget that when the TCP protocol was designed, the biggest concern we had was that a nuke would land on top of our heads at any minute and the network should keep working. Also, the "Internet" was thought to be a small niche network of networks among the military and academics.
I guess this is all well known, it's just my reaction to the editorialized title.
You couldn't say the same about the Photoshop team, IMO.
That's just great. The world's most successful entrepeneur used to be a AOL%#$r script kiddie.
Kidding aside, nice tl;dr; summary of his success. I still believe U$ 1 billion for a startup was a bit too much to pay, kind of hard to understand for mere mortals like myself who also tinkered with Gorillas.BAS in QBasic but actually never kicked anyone off AOL using Visual Basic!