adrianonantua

from http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/email.html

> My secretary prints out all messages addressed to taocp@cs.stanford.edu or knuth-bug@cs.stanford.edu, so that I can reply with written comments when I have a chance.

He just does not USE email himself.

Some tech text becomes very amusing: http://goo.gl/FzVBBv

Totally relate. My two year old son actually prevents me from burning out. Everyday, when I get home, my wife says "your turn!" and I transform into Daddy. We play soccer, we play music, we play, I bathe him, I feed him, I tuck him in.

Code? What cod... wait, right, I'm a developer. Gosh, that problem I'm stuck at is really diffic... Wait, I got it! I know what way to go now and try to solve that.

Thanks, son!

"In 2012, on the 35th anniversary of the Wow! signal, Arecibo Observatory beamed a response from humanity, containing 10,000 Twitter messages"

Oh, man, what will they think of us now? Couldn't we have sent Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and similar content?

People, please, don't feed the trolls

Upvoted, not be cause of the tl;dr request, but for the "shocking changes we should all be complaining about". It made me laugh and then think about the peculiar nature of this community.

While OP makes some valid points (i.e. community receptivity), this is something that caught my attention:

    > StackOverflow is filled to the brim with people giving fishes.

Perhaps. But those get only a few points. Joel Spolsky wrote about not only answering a specific domain question, but rather writing a comprehensive answer about some topic in a away that it becomes the default answer everyone reverts to when the question comes up again (http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/reputation-not-rep/)

I tried that. Guess what happened:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/7745635/570191

Not saying my answer is awesome, but I just tried to be comprehensive on a very recurring SQL topic and the community responded very positively to it.

I get it, SO feels like a game. But I use it to hone my skills and learn new things. When I want to learn, I don't ask on SO: I stick to a tag and keep trying to answer something on it. Learned a lot that way.

Just my 2c.

Beautiful, but the article fails in delivering the actual coordinates:

https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!q=UTA+Flight+772+Memori...

You lost me at "to do X in browser Y". One of the main reasons to adopt an experimented and highly used library such a jQuery is that it already deals with the complication of multiple HTML engines. They already solved that problem. Their code is tested and less likely to have bugs than my code.

This is getting ridiculous by the minute. Being a software developer, I fear sooner or later I'll be a target. I feel it's just a matter of time.

But worst of all is the feeling of helplessness of it all: it's a big dog fight. Small ones either have to run with tail between legs (pay up, give up, throw work away) or fight to eventually get crushed (by the outcome or by being out of financial breath in the process).

I apologize for the negative rant, but frankly, as I re-read it, it really looks more realistic then pessimistic.

This guy's history speaks volumes about success and being good at something.

People who want to get into Software business because of money and people who want to learn how to play the guitar because of popularity have one thing in common: they only envision the outcome. They daydream of sitting on a load of cash or being surrounded by friends (and girls) when playing a tune.

People who get really successful at something enjoy the freaking process. Most of the times (if not all) they don't even realize they are heading for success: they are too busy enjoying the improvement of their craft.

"If free and open access to all of human knowledge at the push of a button truly prevents our society’s beloved artists, authors, thinkers, and other creative people from putting food on their tables, then maybe it’s time to rethink how to put food on their tables."

This itself nails half of the core of the issue. The other half is getting rid of the middle men, who are now just struggling to justify their existence. Their time will come.

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.". Looks like victory is pretty close.

I think we all agree that software patents just gotta go (specially the ones regarding UI). The real question is how to make that happen. Perhaps having a big player like Microsoft targeted by a troll will help.

Among everything I read in this thread, this was by far the most insightful.

Almost anything can be shed a favored light upon. Being slow and late can just be called being patient.

Also, in the remote case he gets to be right, he will get known as the wise told-you-so guy.