This is a subject that is very dear to me, so I will try not to rant about it. There are a couple of things "wrong" with the way we teach kids computers today. Our educators are in the hands of the masters of consumers.…
>Can a very minimal gcc be written which would be capable of bootstrapping the entire gcc compiler? Yes. In fact, this is how gcc is built - in stages. First stage: build a compiler that can build the compiler.…
Take the new iPhone 5C. Turn it over. Look at the position of the Apple logo, and the "iPhone" brand. Put the case on it. Turn it over, look at the position of the Apple logo, and the "iPhone" brand. Hint: It looks like…
I was impressed by his lack of interest in Harry Potter, as I consider it a pox on modern culture, but saddened by his lack of interest in music. To each, their own .. but I hope he discovers something frivolous and…
He needs to get help starting a hackerspace. http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/ There is no better way to treat Genius than to let it propagate, and no better way to propagate knowledge, socially, than a hacker space. Sure,…
Every time I see these Venus pictures, I think about all the dull, lifeless, empty places on Earth that a spacecraft could land in, and lead us to conclude that there's nothing of any interest there. Of course, I trust…
Read the article. The Archeological record is there for your interest.
You didn't post any evidence, but lots of theory, whereas there is plenty of evidence that the human species does indeed manage to survive .. in spite of ones best efforts.
A good sign that its being managed.
Actually, its a view supported by evidence, whereas your view is supported by .. superstition, scientifically described but nevertheless: still superstition.
We managed to survive. We'll continue to manage to survive: if we manage. Welcome to logical positivism. :P
We've already demonstrated that we can bend physical laws to our needs, or have you missed that point in your rush to cast away any faith in the human species' ability to manage its resources? Because: managing our…
Remind me, with science: When were we humans last wiped out, again?
.. okay, fine: then you go and see how we've managed our resources in .. oh, lets just take - The Whole of Europe - and compare. Just because some humans 'are stupid' doesn't mean all humans are. There is a lot of…
> Past performance doesn't guarantee future returns. You might want to consult the factual record of tens of thousands of years of farmers on that particular point of view. ;) You are right that it doesn't guarantee…
What I know of the Pirate Party is that they are suffering for their own collective weakness and inability to organize. It is a fallacy that 'safety in (representative) numbers' is a way to organize a movement; big…
Its a projection of Malthusian ethics: "Humans are stupid". Actually the point of this article is: "Evidence suggests that despite what we think: Humans are smart".
>The main failure of this article is that it assumes that social problems are outside biology and that they are easy to solve. The main point of this article is that the archeological record proves that this is the…
Fixed ideas being challenged is exactly what science - not superstition - is all about. The point of the article is we wouldn't be here today at all if we hadn't been able to manage our resources. The science…
Because you don't know that you can just cut the data wires in a cheap USB cable, and want to be 'protected' by a cool hipster toy that'll sit in your laptop/phone baggie until you're at some party and can shout in…
Doesn't work for me: $ npm start > coder-base@0.0.1 start /Users/seclorum/hak/coder/coder-base > node server.js no certificate found. generating self signed cert. WARNING: unhandled exception: Error: ENOENT, no such…
Growing up in a remote Australia desert beach, I spent a lot of time playing with creatures like this (among many others) and I have come to love them with a great deal of passion. If you're ever in a situation where…
Yikes, what a terrible name for this thing. How do you pronounce it? Lets break it down: Option 1: "Gr-II-P" .. gripe. Yeah, I ride my gripe around. Option 2: "Gr-AY-p" .. yeah, I'm gonna just get on the grape. Option…
.. or, take over a project that was done by a competent developer who knew what they were doing and were able to communicate that knowledge through their codebase to anyone else who might pick up the project later on -…
Yeah, I agree with you: 'just because' .. the author of the article doesn't know anything about protocol buffers, node.js and Cassandra. Probably because those things are 'too new' and 'not proven' technologies - to…
This is a subject that is very dear to me, so I will try not to rant about it. There are a couple of things "wrong" with the way we teach kids computers today. Our educators are in the hands of the masters of consumers.…
>Can a very minimal gcc be written which would be capable of bootstrapping the entire gcc compiler? Yes. In fact, this is how gcc is built - in stages. First stage: build a compiler that can build the compiler.…
Take the new iPhone 5C. Turn it over. Look at the position of the Apple logo, and the "iPhone" brand. Put the case on it. Turn it over, look at the position of the Apple logo, and the "iPhone" brand. Hint: It looks like…
I was impressed by his lack of interest in Harry Potter, as I consider it a pox on modern culture, but saddened by his lack of interest in music. To each, their own .. but I hope he discovers something frivolous and…
He needs to get help starting a hackerspace. http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/ There is no better way to treat Genius than to let it propagate, and no better way to propagate knowledge, socially, than a hacker space. Sure,…
Every time I see these Venus pictures, I think about all the dull, lifeless, empty places on Earth that a spacecraft could land in, and lead us to conclude that there's nothing of any interest there. Of course, I trust…
Read the article. The Archeological record is there for your interest.
You didn't post any evidence, but lots of theory, whereas there is plenty of evidence that the human species does indeed manage to survive .. in spite of ones best efforts.
A good sign that its being managed.
Actually, its a view supported by evidence, whereas your view is supported by .. superstition, scientifically described but nevertheless: still superstition.
We managed to survive. We'll continue to manage to survive: if we manage. Welcome to logical positivism. :P
We've already demonstrated that we can bend physical laws to our needs, or have you missed that point in your rush to cast away any faith in the human species' ability to manage its resources? Because: managing our…
Remind me, with science: When were we humans last wiped out, again?
.. okay, fine: then you go and see how we've managed our resources in .. oh, lets just take - The Whole of Europe - and compare. Just because some humans 'are stupid' doesn't mean all humans are. There is a lot of…
> Past performance doesn't guarantee future returns. You might want to consult the factual record of tens of thousands of years of farmers on that particular point of view. ;) You are right that it doesn't guarantee…
What I know of the Pirate Party is that they are suffering for their own collective weakness and inability to organize. It is a fallacy that 'safety in (representative) numbers' is a way to organize a movement; big…
Its a projection of Malthusian ethics: "Humans are stupid". Actually the point of this article is: "Evidence suggests that despite what we think: Humans are smart".
>The main failure of this article is that it assumes that social problems are outside biology and that they are easy to solve. The main point of this article is that the archeological record proves that this is the…
Fixed ideas being challenged is exactly what science - not superstition - is all about. The point of the article is we wouldn't be here today at all if we hadn't been able to manage our resources. The science…
Because you don't know that you can just cut the data wires in a cheap USB cable, and want to be 'protected' by a cool hipster toy that'll sit in your laptop/phone baggie until you're at some party and can shout in…
Doesn't work for me: $ npm start > coder-base@0.0.1 start /Users/seclorum/hak/coder/coder-base > node server.js no certificate found. generating self signed cert. WARNING: unhandled exception: Error: ENOENT, no such…
Growing up in a remote Australia desert beach, I spent a lot of time playing with creatures like this (among many others) and I have come to love them with a great deal of passion. If you're ever in a situation where…
Yikes, what a terrible name for this thing. How do you pronounce it? Lets break it down: Option 1: "Gr-II-P" .. gripe. Yeah, I ride my gripe around. Option 2: "Gr-AY-p" .. yeah, I'm gonna just get on the grape. Option…
.. or, take over a project that was done by a competent developer who knew what they were doing and were able to communicate that knowledge through their codebase to anyone else who might pick up the project later on -…
Yeah, I agree with you: 'just because' .. the author of the article doesn't know anything about protocol buffers, node.js and Cassandra. Probably because those things are 'too new' and 'not proven' technologies - to…