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Most effective advertisements are not logical and don't have good argument, because they are aimed the lowest common denominator.
The target audience for this ad is probably the kind of people who have shitty jobs which they hate, and they are not enthusiastic Hackers who love their jobs.
For example: Valve, Google and Facebook all try to be "good," since their target audience are often young, technology-oriented people who care about how good the company is.
But for some corporations, it doesn't matter what their users think. Majority of AT&T customers are average people, who know nothing about ISPs and slow Internet. They just want their "Skype-box" to work.
> hacker - A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and stretching their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary.
Quality of programming and success are not necessarily related.
Not the only one. There is also Cinnamon. And hopefully, Enlightenment will soon be stable enough, and even included in a popular distro.
EA is scared, and taking the threat seriously. They are not scared enough to actually address the issue (instead of doing fake PR speeches), but hopefully it will soon be too late for that.
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1aqdxn/temple_o...
This guy has schizophrenia, and a some of things he says is really weird.
>The reason you're stuck is because you're too focused on yourself. Remember, it's not about you. It's about others.
I disagree. Often times, great projects start with "scratching a developer's personal itch" (ex: Linux kernel).
If you try to build something for others, it will often be boring and unmotivated. You have to be passionate about making exciting & new things. Most importantly, hack for fun, not to satisfy someone else and get profit.
You need GNU Sed for this to work.
Bash version
>Now nginx is helping with some of the work. Ironically the transition was planned for today anyway, except it was meant to happen at night with no downtime. So it goes.
Does this mean that HN no longer uses Arc, but nginx? Or are you using nginx+Arc now?
What's more surprising is that this is a top comment! People who upvoted this are not any better than you are!
It's always better to be honest and take pride in your work. Hacking is about making something great and interesting, not making a cheap buck.
I am definitely picking the harder path, but I believe that in the end it is the right decision.
Most people don't need an advanced degree to contribute to society. Proportionally, only a small number people are needed to make transistors and develop mathematical concepts for computers compared to the amount of people using their work.
While it is necessary to have people with PhDs conducting research to have progress, hackers and doers (which base their work on the research) are also needed to exploit the results of research.
It is also possible to not have a degree and still succeed in life, and do things that you love.
Moreover, I think that nowadays it is becoming easier to get knowledge (that traditionally was only accessible in Universities) for free on Internet. I think traditional education system is extremely limiting and archaic. It permits people which excel in only certain kind of environments to conduct research.
And some of the more advanced concepts that you mentioned are not beneficial to know for majority of things you will do in day-to-day work, although I bet you can still learn a lot of it for free with online e-books.
If you want to do research on some really advanced topics then a degree is a must, but an average (high-)school education is a complete waste of time.
I am 15, and I am planning to drop out of school.
It is extremely frustrating trying to persuade my parents that dropping out of school doesn't mean I am giving up on life, and that I am not a failure.
I cannot function in this artificial society that exists in schools, and I learn much better by myself. Finishing school would be complete waste of my time, for a stupid piece of paper. During this day and age, it is extremely easy to attain knowledge for free without attending any institutions. Currently, I have several dozen textbooks on my kindle, and I am taking 3 classes at Coursera.
My parents are trying to compare me to all the stupid kids that usually drop out, and I cannot comprehend their close-mindedness and ignorance.
Because of their stupidity and effort to "help" me, I may even end up homeless by the end of this year.
Idiots make an overwhelming majority of population.
Make is a horrible tool, and is extremely hard to learn. I think it should only be used when generated by other build systems.
I don't think it did. Lisp itself didn't become popular, but a lot of functional ideas are being implemented in more mainstream programming languages, and some functional languages are also becoming popular.