Our judgement of the Roman / british legacy is subject to "Survivor Bias". If you can't see the cost paid by those who did not survive then things will look much better !
The standard of living might have improved for the descendants of those that survived but what about those who had to undergo generations of subjugation or slavery or worse? What about those wiped out? In other words at…
The standard operating procedure of the British Empire was "divide and conquer". In order to rule a minority was usually put in a privileged position. It should be no surprise to anyone that when the British left things…
"high point in world history" hahahaha - for who ? Look how many conflicts today have their roots in the decisions and actions of the British Empire. Seriously, yes, there were some side benefits eventually for the…
well said !
Good points. Also since there will be loads of users stuck on Gingerbread / Froyo the N1 will probably be useful as a development test phone in my case.
When did you get your IPhone 3G? I got my Nexus one around 14 months ago. I choose it because its was the official Google developer's phone and so mostly likely to get updated! Except of course we now know that the…
Thanks. I think you have proven something that many of us have experienced - Android may have a number of technical advantages but its rollout management is unreliable and chaotic and so many non technical users may…
"Crashing in a managed environment is never the developer's fault" !!! WHAT? Are you serious? Please educate us as to how that is done.
Where did I say that that coding is the only useful thing? The point I was trying to make is that tools are productivity aids and if a tool gets in the way and distracts you from your main activity (or activities) too…
Err - Maybe we just resent having to spend so much time on the mechanics of the tool/s rather than our main activity which is writing code.
Totally agree. We switched from SVN to Mercurial around 6 months ago and I have to say I am annoyed that I have to spend so much time messing around with the tool rather than coding.
One of the comments on this article referred to this long but very insightful article. http://www.truth-out.org/goodbye-all-reflections-gop-operati...
I agree with the principle of "over design" - we old guys call it "if it isn't broken don't fix it". However, some of his examples aren't convincing for me. I actually like the ugly Motion-X toggle switches compared to…
Hey - I like your approach. Its a sort of "for dummies" illustration of the indeterminate nature of 0^0 that everyone can understand.
joe's reply clarified things somewhat - at least for me. Are replies always supposed to be rebuttals?
HAHAHAHAHA - I can't believe anyone is taking this seriously !!!
akeefer. I find it arrogant when someone assumes that disagreement means that the other person just don't understand. Ok. That aside. Let me go back to the actual issues here as I see them. You seem to be arguing that…
As a software programmer I don't agree with this view that software patents are wrong in principle. There I said it! Software just as much as hardware can be used to "express" something new. I.e. to invent something. An…
For me their philosophy is clear. Each G+ user needs to be identifiable. They are not against pseudonyms per se but if your pseudonym means they can't identify you then "off with your head" - Otherwise how can they sell…
Taking things on face value I congratulate him. There's been a few times when I've tried to access an interesting academic paper only to find that it's only available behind some pay- wall. Why should we have to pay for…
So you raised finance for a business based on an app which can be used (amongst other things) to raise finance for an app? :-)
Quote: "Researchers collected fecal samples to measure levels of stress hormones called glucocorticoids". So you can tell who the boss is by their shit ! Metaphorically speaking we've been doing this for years :-)
I don't understand how facebook DO NOT see the danger to their own long term success here. It is clear that being dependent on them for any significant part of your business model is risky and currently ill-advised. Why…
Well done. Surprising good fun to play !
Our judgement of the Roman / british legacy is subject to "Survivor Bias". If you can't see the cost paid by those who did not survive then things will look much better !
The standard of living might have improved for the descendants of those that survived but what about those who had to undergo generations of subjugation or slavery or worse? What about those wiped out? In other words at…
The standard operating procedure of the British Empire was "divide and conquer". In order to rule a minority was usually put in a privileged position. It should be no surprise to anyone that when the British left things…
"high point in world history" hahahaha - for who ? Look how many conflicts today have their roots in the decisions and actions of the British Empire. Seriously, yes, there were some side benefits eventually for the…
well said !
Good points. Also since there will be loads of users stuck on Gingerbread / Froyo the N1 will probably be useful as a development test phone in my case.
When did you get your IPhone 3G? I got my Nexus one around 14 months ago. I choose it because its was the official Google developer's phone and so mostly likely to get updated! Except of course we now know that the…
Thanks. I think you have proven something that many of us have experienced - Android may have a number of technical advantages but its rollout management is unreliable and chaotic and so many non technical users may…
"Crashing in a managed environment is never the developer's fault" !!! WHAT? Are you serious? Please educate us as to how that is done.
Where did I say that that coding is the only useful thing? The point I was trying to make is that tools are productivity aids and if a tool gets in the way and distracts you from your main activity (or activities) too…
Err - Maybe we just resent having to spend so much time on the mechanics of the tool/s rather than our main activity which is writing code.
Totally agree. We switched from SVN to Mercurial around 6 months ago and I have to say I am annoyed that I have to spend so much time messing around with the tool rather than coding.
One of the comments on this article referred to this long but very insightful article. http://www.truth-out.org/goodbye-all-reflections-gop-operati...
I agree with the principle of "over design" - we old guys call it "if it isn't broken don't fix it". However, some of his examples aren't convincing for me. I actually like the ugly Motion-X toggle switches compared to…
Hey - I like your approach. Its a sort of "for dummies" illustration of the indeterminate nature of 0^0 that everyone can understand.
joe's reply clarified things somewhat - at least for me. Are replies always supposed to be rebuttals?
HAHAHAHAHA - I can't believe anyone is taking this seriously !!!
akeefer. I find it arrogant when someone assumes that disagreement means that the other person just don't understand. Ok. That aside. Let me go back to the actual issues here as I see them. You seem to be arguing that…
As a software programmer I don't agree with this view that software patents are wrong in principle. There I said it! Software just as much as hardware can be used to "express" something new. I.e. to invent something. An…
For me their philosophy is clear. Each G+ user needs to be identifiable. They are not against pseudonyms per se but if your pseudonym means they can't identify you then "off with your head" - Otherwise how can they sell…
Taking things on face value I congratulate him. There's been a few times when I've tried to access an interesting academic paper only to find that it's only available behind some pay- wall. Why should we have to pay for…
So you raised finance for a business based on an app which can be used (amongst other things) to raise finance for an app? :-)
Quote: "Researchers collected fecal samples to measure levels of stress hormones called glucocorticoids". So you can tell who the boss is by their shit ! Metaphorically speaking we've been doing this for years :-)
I don't understand how facebook DO NOT see the danger to their own long term success here. It is clear that being dependent on them for any significant part of your business model is risky and currently ill-advised. Why…
Well done. Surprising good fun to play !