Saw this sign earlier. Made the lower sign and posted it as a joke.

zachoverflow · 2012-05-24T09:44:34.756601+00:00

They still have Sungod Festivals? I remember when I went in 1996. If I recall correctly there was some game where you were supposed to throw a softball into a basket, and I threw it over all of the baskets and it ended up near the sidewalk close to the buildings.

Although I guess I really don't remember very well, since it was many, many years ago (not going to do the math, too hard.. maybe that's why I dropped out).

EDIT: no, actually, totally confused, I was thinking of some rinky-dink thing next to a weird statue or something, not Sun God. Sun God I just got drunk.

CareForChillyNuts · 2012-05-24T03:40:16.613126+00:00

I am pretty sure that around half of the major movie releases are war propaganda. To what degree and how the funding is related to the military directly I don't know. Bobcat probably would tell you that himself, notwithstanding this quote. The Avengers, Battle for Los Angeles, GI Joe, Captain America, Transformers, Terminator: Salvation, etc., etc.

Here's a fun little website: http://vigilantcitizen.com/

grauenwolf · 2012-05-24T01:51:42.365378+00:00

Re: programming, we have an agreement on what JSON is, right?

I don't think its about arguing over surface level issues, rather its about creating automated systems with measurable benefits and automated or engineered-in fairness and needs fulfillment. There's more than one 3d game engine right, and some of them are more realistic than others.

To expand my societal reform, I think there should be multiple systems that people can opt into, rather than allowing mafia-like organizations with monopolies on rules and force (governments).

grauenwolf · 2012-05-24T00:20:02.748965+00:00

OK.. sure, technology is foreign to a lot of people, but to me the fact that they got a favorable ruling in the first place calls into question the entire legal system, and in fact the overall social framework.

I mean how dumb do you have to be to think that patents for ideas like "watch this ad instead of paying" is going to be beneficial to society?

Regardless of the answer to the previous question, this is obviously a pre-scientific decision-making process, to have one important person's opinion decide something with such far-reaching consequences on societal organization.

A more scientific approach would be to test different rules and frameworks and measure the outcomes as objectively as possible.

amstarcasanova · 2 days

Where is the video of the solar panels deploying?

Se7en_Sinner · 3 days

I would leave all of it on there except for the part that I absolutely needed to get off, like the screen and possibly the chair. If the boss said anything, I would tell him to have whoever put in on take it off. If they wouldn't or the boss got mad, he could fire me, and that would confirm that I had a shitty job anyway.

I guess I don't have a lot of tolerance for stupid pranks.

guillaume_a · 3 days

Good theory and explanation. Bret Victor is kind of a hard act to follow though. For me its more like: setup, slightly cool thing, very cool thing. Not really trying to pull off a Bret Victor and amaze anyone.

jm114249 · 5 days

On an slightly related note, how come they always talk about SpaceX, but don't say anything about the other commercial space launch successes so far, like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_V or all of the other for example satellite launches?

jm114249 · 5 days

I agree that they should be cautious, but a nightmare? Getting that much weight into space is really hard. It seems like they have done a great job with relatively limited time and resources. Even if the rocket blows up, that doesn't mean they won't be successful. I hope people will cut them slack if there is a significant problem.

jherod · 6 days

Bullshit. We do know what makes code readable. I mean if that is your whole job is doing science on this, its probably the best way to get actual data, the way you are doing this survey. I just think you could pick something better to research. Or maybe actually build something useful.

Easy to understand identifiers. Lack of noise. Lack of cyclomatic complexity. For highly factored object-oriented designs, you need some kind of overview, like a diagram, or a way to look at lots of classes at once.

I like CoffeeScript and Python in general a lot more than any of that stuff.

Most programming languages encourage noise. Long-ass namespaces, extra punctuation, irrelevant type information, mainly irrelevant public/private etc.

Also if you are looking at a type hierarchy then I think some type of diagram is in order rather than just a bunch of text files. Or at least expand/collapse buttons.

I also saw some code that was just laying out some widgets. Widgets should be laid out in a GUI designer. That is a lot more readable than code.

So I hope that the researchers are able to absorb what I have tried to communicate here.

mariuz · 7 days

As far as understanding the API/schema-less argument, see the code example. Everything you need to do to create and maintain a database and related code adds up. All of the characters in the file add up. This is about good software engineering. One of the main findings of recent software engineering research is that less code means fewer defects. Less schema code to maintain is one aspect of that. I am happy to take a break from SQL, joins, create table and all of that and just write a few applications with CoffeeScript and MongoDB.. later I might get sick of dealing with some of the issues that you are concerned with, but for now I am looking forward to not dealing with a bunch of SQL stuff that I am pretty sure is mostly extra work.

I haven't had a lot performance problems with relational databases when they were properly organized and indexed, so that's not a big selling point for me, and I wasn't aware that was something MongoDB was claiming.

Your ideal architecture would probably be something like PostGres and C, right? I don't need things like memory management, pointers, schemas or joins in my life if I can avoid them. And avoiding those types of issues when possible is better software engineering.

mariuz · 7 days

If I use the wrong name then its not going to retrieve results in my query or display on my gui or report.. so the only way I would have to correct data is if I had a whole bunch of data entered before doing testing.

Also there are maintenance hassles with schema changes.

mariuz · 7 days

People have slammed MongoDB so much that I am no longer thinking of it as necessarily a good solution for large scale or high performance needs, BUT..

The API and schema-less nature of Mongo make it very easy to use and very flexible. Since simplicity is really important for me, I can't throw MongoDB out unless the performance or other problems really make it unsuitable for my needs, which are modest. I am looking to use MongoDB as sort of like a souped-up version of MS Access, but without the hassle of a relational model. My goal is to create a software system that will work as a blog/content management/small database system for a small to medium sized business.. which is actually most businesses.

So this memory-mapping thing, which I admit sounds very bad.. are you trying to say that if I put MongoDB on a 256MB VPS with a Node.js web server that is using maybe 50MB of RAM, that some of MongoDB's memory mapped data could get swapped out and cause a query to apparently randomly be delayed by a relatively long disk access? Delayed by how much?

As long as it performs adequately for a small business, I don't care about those flaws, because I can write things like

db.collection('boats').insert({engine:'electric',length:18,name:'swifty'})

db.collection('boats').find({engine:'electric'})

to store and query data, without having to run 'CREATE TABLE..' etc. or deal with ORM.. there is also less pressure to completely normalize everything which means writing fewer joins (well, there are actually no joins really but you can do the equivalent).

gshutler · 8 days

Maybe your local water is better than mine.

gshutler · 8 days

How does beer not make perfect sense as an analogy? I think its a great analogy not only for this case, but for most things.

Almost everyone is drinking Bud or Bud Light or some clone. Not because beer is the best beverage, or Bud is the best beer, but just because everyone else is fucking doing it.

Its worse though, because people will usually give up trying to defend beer (especially Bud) after a reasonable amount of time.

gshutler · 8 days

Did you read the article?

If you took a reading comprehension test, would you score above or below the 8th grade level?

adam_lakers_carolla · 8 days

A Book?? LOL -- who reads anymore. You should have released a video online like Louie CK!

Just kidding. Well, no not really. Sadly, I don't buy books anymore, and can't be bothered to read anything longer than two pages online.

mrpopenfresh · 12 days

Did you know that Bobcat Goldthwait is actually also a very good writer and director? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1912398/

irrlicht · 13 days

If people don't want to buy CopperCube there is also free stuff like Three.js which everyone knows about pretty much but GLGE seems less well-known and is also powerful. http://www.glge.org/

irrlicht · 13 days

I think for WebGL it also depends on the hardware and drivers and whether Chrome or Firefox likes your setup or works well with it. I think a fair number of people are not really seeing the optimal WebGL performance because of those types of issues.

i_enjoy_science · 14 days

OK but you still need to get molybdenum, which apparently usually comes from molybdenite. I am wondering if the energy required to convert molybdenite into molybdenum is less than the energy you can get out of it? Or maybe that isn't so important?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molybdenum#Occurrence

In molybdenite processing, the molybdenite is first heated to a temperature of 700 °C (1,292 °F) and the sulfide is oxidized into molybdenum(VI) oxide by air:[13]

davidreiss666 · 15 days

If they leave with the jury finding that you can copyright APIs, that's just not valid and can't be accepted by the technology industry. So I hope the judge does overrule that and if not I hope there is some other legal clarification so people aren't confused.

swizec · 16 days

I'm not saying there is a social pressure not to those tools. There is a social pressure not to use them. Example: Visual Basic 6.

willvarfar · 16 days

Everything automatically moves to SCTP when going over IPv6 really? Wouldn't that actually require changes to application code?

Also how does SCTP compare to uTP?

swizec · 16 days

No one has mentioned components so far that I see on this page. There are lots of custom shops that will install audio components into cars, for example.

I think a lot of software developers, especially in web development, either forgot what components were or never really understood them.

I know people will downvote me for this, but from the perspective of the use of software components in web development, WordPress is state-of-the art compared to a lot of tools. ASP.NET is more advanced I think, but its closed source, and for some reason, people still feel the need to make a custom component for a lot of things, which pretty much defeats the purpose of components.

I think its sort of like, computer programmers write ASCII source code. If they are able to write less source code or even no source code and complete a project, they either aren't even really programming (and therefore aren't programmers) or they can't get paid anymore because they are done. So I think that actually creates a social pressure against the most advanced tools. Also, there are lots of cases where business processes are very complex and there are no interactive tools that the programmer is aware of and so complex ASCII code is the only way to go.

Anyway I think that the guy who is complaining is right in that there are a lot more wheels being reinvented than necessary.

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