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by crpatino 10y ago
That's even worse, you know. Not only you are working people to the brink of exahustion. You are failing to cull the idiots in your midst and then work those idiots to the brink of exahustion. What could possibly go wrong. Also, I am
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by crpatino 10y ago
> I hear this thing about return of energy, etc. But this is nothing new, right? Check out the oil sands project in Canada. Do you think the market cares about how much energy is used to create something? No.. just the $. Ok, please stop
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by crpatino 10y ago
You know... the Fossil-Fuels-Fairy is not going to put another million dinosaurs in the oven just because you happen to throw a tantrum over non-renewable resource depletion. Having established this fact, the importante of solar, - and all
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by crpatino 10y ago
> The build system lets me forget entierly about "how am I going to write my tup/make/cmake/anything file" as it just works when I click go. This is a bug, not a feature. Or rather, it is extremely easy for this
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by crpatino 10y ago
Thank you for this. Our hordes of bright-eyed would-be disrupters and world changers need to hear this a hundred time, a thousand times, and then ponder carefully in precisely what direction they want to actually have the world moving.
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by crpatino 10y ago
Does it? I rather think that your criticism shows a complete lack of awareness of how the the public opinion operates. Let's say for the sake of the argument that Google's datacenters consume 1% of the electricity in the US. If Go
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by crpatino 10y ago
And then, because the tester gets paid to write test, not to understand the product, you will operate with huge blindspots. [Edit] I erased a cheap shot I took at Ken Beck. I still think the title of the article is stupid, but what the guy
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by crpatino 10y ago
It is less ridiculous than you make it out to be. Nobody forces you to buy a cow to put milk on your cofee, but if you go around offering "organic capuccinos" for sale, your customers could normally expect you to either milk the g
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by crpatino 10y ago
Also not my area of expertise, but I think the idea behind the biomass == carbon neutral is that the carbon in those fuels was already in the atmosphere a few year ago, so you are not really tapping into the fosil fuels stored in the Earth&
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by crpatino 10y ago
Yes, it does change the whole meaning of this. Running even just the datacenters in renewable energy alone is a huge technical and organizational undertaking, - maybe on par with Project Manhattan and the Apollo Program. Doing the carbon ne
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by crpatino 10y ago
> That isn't what managing by consensus means. In the real world bad eggs don't "run rampant", they are reined in by peer pressure, and poor developers very often recognize that they are poor developers This does not
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by crpatino 10y ago
You got a priviledged education (there are public schools and there are public schools), and assume one is available for every child, if not for their evil parent preventing them to attend to. Also, you fail to take into account that with t
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by crpatino 10y ago
> would I have a marketable skill? Yes. Systems programming and Embedded are your best and most visible playing fields, but many large, legacy applications were written in C and continue to be maintained. > Is it possible for C to be
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by crpatino 10y ago
The language is that of Redmont, which I shall not utter here.
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by crpatino 10y ago
Well, the haters could always reimplement the whole infrastructure in their language of choice, wouldn't they? It's been done at least once before for ideological reasons (and in C none-the-less) by the FSF. It should be even easi
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by crpatino 10y ago
People get used to whatever is normal for them, and then resent change. I am pretty sure your great-grandfather would have felt depressed after spending an whole afternoon in a flourescent lited room.
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by crpatino 10y ago
Your average office worker does not get decent screens. Even if the Windows default settings for the desktop have been kind of acceptable for many years, it does you little good if you are looking at it through a 9"-by-5" rectangl
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by crpatino 10y ago
The biggest problem is not heating, but cooling. Ironically, on very cold days that design does not keep heat very well. From the article: "The US Modernist office building, a cube with a steel skeleton and glass curtain walls, is esse
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by crpatino 10y ago
Yes, perhaps. But if you bear with me, you can stretch the "violence" argument a long way. If you have a no government at all, you have this "Mad Max" scenario. The strong take from the weak until the only way to survive
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by crpatino 10y ago
> Why do we need a government at all? Why not live in anarchy? Are you a charismatic amoral-yet-benevolent despot with a knack for turning violent tuggs into loyal enforcers? Anarchy sounds so great, but keep in mind that other, less enl
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by crpatino 10y ago
No, it is a stupid presentation of an even more stupid idea. Numbers are abstract constructions devoid of any meaning. For mathematics to have any practical application, there are of course ways to assign meaning to numbers, but there are a
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by crpatino 10y ago
Not sure about tectonic activity, but definitively more extreme weather events. Each 1°C increase does not mean that the whole atmosphere goes a little up uniformly, but that in general there's much more energy available to make strong
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by crpatino 10y ago
A great decrease in population, yes. That is different from extintion.
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by crpatino 10y ago
History that is not only innacurate, but conveniently presents the author's least preferred side as gratiously Evil? We have a word for that: propaganda.
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by crpatino 10y ago
If the business requirement is to produce something to sell to other companies, more likely than not you will end up writing software. You simply cannot build enough entry barriers and protectable IP by glueing together a bunch of standar
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by crpatino 10y ago
Agreed, but to tie it up with the article... At first you are paid to write code, then you are paid to maintain it. You become part of the system you helped build. You are the steering wheel that alligns the overall thing's behavior wi
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by crpatino 10y ago
Indeed it has. Unfortunatelly for the USA, what now passes for the left do support economic policies that would have been considered "hard right" merely 50 years ago. Instead, they have devoted themselves to the task of policing o
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by crpatino 10y ago
I had missed the point about Nazis already going parading on the street. In that case, indoors methods of dealing with the medals provide a big advantage. I'd probably have tried to melt them, though.
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by crpatino 10y ago
If you want a digging to go unnoticed, you don't try to conceal the digging; you dig in a place where lots of other mundane diggings are already happening. So, not going out in the middle of the night in ninja swit; but chearful garden
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by crpatino 10y ago
What makes you think advertising networks aren't Evil AIs running on a distributed mesh of wetware hosts?

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