cubano

This...what do you call it? A mindset? A way of life? The answer to all questions? Because you cannot simply call it a programming language that's for sure.

I started programming in 1979 and throughout my long career I have constantly been exposed to various Smalltalk articles and genuflections.

Wow! Just look! Fucking EVERYTHING is an object! Holy shit can you believe the audacity of the developers?

Along with LISP, Smalltalk is just one of Holy Shrines That One Must Visit In Order To Complete One's Path As A Real Programmer.

I almost think "Ancient Religion" should be the right moniker...

I can see some pretty obvious applications for this tech as the more i think about it, the replies seems very human.

Those three come quickly to mind that were certainly trying very hard to be the " publicly accessible global information network with visual representations of corporate presence" you are speaking of.

For the rest of us, it's a really cool project and I, for one, am glad your efforting it...so thanks!

Bingo. The hard-earned wisdom of this insight right here almost completely explains all the internal issues the OP was feeling when he wrote his rather over-the-top post.

Yeah, it sucks to realize that your just as human as the next guy and that your motives aren't always as pure as you wish they were, but there is nothing at all wrong with being proud and wanting to be noticed for abilities.

Figuring out what path works for you AFTER realizing your motives aren't pure is how one solves the open-source user issue.

"Too much money" is a condition almost always caused by the creation of too much "fiat currency" (ie a currency that is backed by nothing but the good faith and credit of the issuing government)

As we all should know, in the US, on 6/5/1933 FDR took the US off gold-backed currency and started the fiat currency situation we still find ourselves in.

Over the past 13 years, the US M3 money supply (see https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MABMM301USM189S ) has grown from around $7.5T to $22T.

This number represents the "too much money" part of the original equation, and to be honest I'm quite surprised that price inflation isn't significantly worse then what it currently is. This is almost certainly being caused by the fact that the US dollar is the world's Reserve Currency.

Looking at the graph, starting Aug 2020 the line is starting to approach vertical, so it should be completely unsurprising that price inflation is occurring.

Finally, a 0.25% increase in the Federal Funds Rate is laughably small, and will do absolutely nothing to help with the price inflation the US is currently seeing.

Ha. I, too, experienced this same shock when I moved, as a teenager, from MS-BASIC's editor to a Pascal-based (in my case it was Turbo) full-screen editor.

Ton be honest, for the first couple of hours I can recall being very confused about how I was to approch coding with no line numbers? How was I to move to other sections of my program? What, no GOTO...help!

Little did I know at the time almost all GOTO use is bad programming and that Pascal was such an elegant and dare-I-Say beautiful language to program in. It's fairly tame use of pointers (as compared with C smashing you over the head with them) really exposed me to one of CompSci's more powerful paradigms...indirect addressing.

And, OMG, the incredible speed of both the compiler and the programs it generated simply blew my mind...esp. since its very possible I was using a 8Mhz IBM PC/AT at the time. My simulations literally ran 25x faster.

Those were heady times to be a programmer IMHO...you literally had the count the number of bytes in your data structures to squeeze every bit of memory use out of your 64k stacks and 640k DOS limits, and all sorts of tricks were used to overcome these obstacles. ..

For sure next.js is an interesting framework and of course I use plenty of typescript in my projects to keep the UXs from feeling stale, but I have yet to see the overwhelming benefits that going all-in with something like this framework would give me overall, besides just the obvious one that I'm "keeping up with the cool kids"...

One think I do really like here is the way Remix is keeping things on the backend...I'll admit coming from the 1980s I'm much more comfortable working with backend paradigms, so this particular stack has caught my attention more than others and why I am particularly interested in hearing about its direct benefits (besides the obvious ones like "its not PHP" of course)

In the last Econtalk podcast that I listened to last night, they discussed the loneliness "epidemic" and the author ended up blaming Thatcher-based Capitalism as perhaps the main reason why people are so lonely today!

I thought that was quite the stretch but imagine my chagrin when here was another spurious back-handed attack on it.

I asked what I think is a valid question and would like to hear honest reactions from people about my observation.

I feel I have every right to be a cheerleader for Capitalism as my father escaped communist Cuba in 1959 as Castro was coming to power and used the US's system and tons of hard work to create a extremely comfortable life for himself, while friends and family members who stayed there lived rather wretched lives.

He never forgot how lucky he was to be able to get out of there just in time and told me time and time again that the US while having flaws, was by far the best place in the world to live, so my original comment comes from this background.

I don't give a flying fuck if the comment gets modded down, but i would like to know just what in it is so offensive to those modding it donw so I can learn something.

Or are we supposed to imagine that under socialism, there would be no need for Big Tech surveillance? This I most certainly disagree with.

I'm just noticing a trend lately where the word "capitalism" is being attacked on many fronts, and I personally find that troublesome.

Like Churchill said..."Capitalism is absolutely the worse system there is, besides everything else of course"

Same as the old boss.

It was almost pure luck if I managed to save the silly little thing, and all i was really interested in were the games.

I do remember to joy of getting a little ASCII slot machine game actually working after like 3 sessions. and the guys at the RS were so impressed that they left it running and used it as a in store demo.

Don't tell me that Lisp ever achieved cool-kid status that a thousand different libs wouldn't pop up basically overnight.

Also, I always had a strong passion for music, so I started a band as a "side-project" and it added a huge amount of fun to my life...plus it allowed me to meet interesting non-tech people and really put in perspective the "work" side of my life comparted to the "living" side.

It sounds like you need more "living" and less "work"...of course, music probably isn't your thing but anything that really interests you outside of IT could be considered as a way to get out of the rut you find yourself in.

Seriously, did you post this just to brag about how much you make to everyone? It seems almost ludicrous that this could be a serious comment....

And at how many millions does that number start to taper down? Plus, zombie devices of all sorts are being used of course, so while there certainly does feel like some sort of resource-symmetry scheme would be, if nothing else, a satisfying solution, its hard to see logically how that would really help all that much for these sort of attacks.

What do you mean, not working? That the AI was randomly choosing the correct race 82% of the time by luck?

I'm confused by what your implying because it would seem to me that the authors went through many steps to try to pinpoint how the AI was doing this identification and how baffling it was to everyone that even with a lot of x-ray information removed (8x8 pixels compared to say 4k), it somehow was still correctly picking the race.

What would this "something else entirely" that you are implying actually be?

Like 5 under each wing seems like a stretch...could you put maybe 3 under each wing and 2 on the back tail somehow? Or is 5 under each wing the only way to go?

Also...one of my favorite parts of travel is the spontaneity it affords me. I loath the idea of turning my free time into just another work day but with one-offs like "going to the museum" instead of "meeting with sales" embedded into some app....bleh!

Also...maybe no one has been creative enough to crack the problem yet, and someday someone will finally come up with a piece of software that is useful in this domain.

K-12 was, of course, invented by the Germans in order to create good little factory workers that would get up early and work all day and not complain too much. The fact we still use the word Kindergarten is a nod to this origin story.

They weren't at all interested in the students gaining any "understanding" and most certainly not in them "winning" in any sense of the word.

And I think its safe to say that when a women is playing against a misogynic douche like this guy seems to be in spades no less, that she actually does want to take as much money from him and crush his ego.

In general, the FBI doesn't let criminals just slide when the scumbags steal a bunch of money and then launder it in the open if they have enough hard evidence to convict them.

Have you put any thought into why that isn't the way its done?