To call the XY learning QA a problem is akin to calling learning to swim a problem. It can be a problem on a sinking ship but not at the community pool.
The movie ex machina approaches intelligence as the ability to
manipulate others.
When you encounter people way more intelligent than you having contrary
opinions from yours the best option is to remain silent or subject yourself
to the whims of those with superior intellect trying to dissect you.
Nobody wants to feel like a victim or a martyr or impostor. Better to be the
fly on the wall.
Newsbreak: A Univ of YALE study/research confirms that you'll have a better chance to get hired if you talk like a YALE professor at your job interview. Unless the job interview is working the cash register at Sonic's.
Tried in cygwin and was a no-go.
Tried some other concoctions in stack-overflow without
success.
Then I whiped this one and it worked.
With a warning that will be promptly subdue to >/dev/null
The researched yielded non surprising results: Stealthy patches without a proper smoke screen to provide a veil of legitimacy will cause the the purveyor of the patches to become black listed....DUH!
I watched The Sweatbox: A documentary posted on youtube re-telling the story of the making of the movie by Sting and the animators. It is a sad story. I loved when Sting reacted to Disney's decision of canning all his songs and come up with 1 song (obviously so Disney can put his name on the credits) instead of sending them their way he said: "I am a craftsman" I gather he meant that he will give them their song because they ask him for one. Great intro song he gave them.
Let's ponder on one example where programming was fundamentally improved in the last 10 years.
Git
Some developers adopted immediately.
Others were dragged into it kicking and screaming.
Some ignored it (managers).
In my humble opinion improvements on a given tool latch
on the esoteric definition of what is considered "better".
Better for me?
Better for the company?
Better for the machine?
In the case of Git, the case is base on the "me" (Linus Torvalds).
In the dev-world we had the joke that goes: If you don't
like the tool/language go ahead and write your own.
My take away is that improving programming languages and tools,
can happen if we take the joke above at heart.
Git is like piano. You can play chopsticks or Berliotz. Are piano's too hard? Unlike other tools out there, git is utterly transparent on the mechanics above and under the hood. This coming from someone who has gone trough the gauntlet, MS Visual Source Safe, ClearCase, CVS, Subversion, Razor and (gasp) Perforce.
Linear algebra: Everything is happy lad-dee-dah for x and y. The moment we go into matrices I go downhill from there. I saw a very cool youtube on Tesla Dojo and machine learning. I recommend.
I watched both presentations in youtube.
Joel presentation was a critique on a web tool.
Jeremy presentation was a rebuttal, perhaps a bit sanguine.
The overuse of satirical memes will get ruffled feathers.
All in all the whole thing seems petty.
R Wilson was 2 yrds from the goal line. The offensive coach called the pass. That was the right decision. A moment later became the wrong decision. Maybe the quality of the decision has nothing to do with the outcome. It has to do with a congruent strategy, regardless of the outcome.
A victim of complexity:
I remember my kid trying to open a child-proofed bottle of pills: "It's child-proof" I told her.
"How does the bottle knows I am a child?"
She asked.
Why do we meet?
To avoid going on a picnic and while unpacking the food
someone asking: "Ok, who brought the salt?" and everybody
getting a blank look.
That its easily achieved today with online tools.
Then why we keep having meetings?
To avoid going on a picnic and while unpacking the food
find out that some people went to McDonalds because they
feel that the food and the whole idea of preparing your
food sucks.
It's group therapy.
It might help, or get on the way of getting things done.
That is a terrible article.
I appreciate statically linked programs that load faster
and force the code to behave as a unit vs. a collection
of libraries that require the housekeeping of ensuring the
correct version the program and the library or else...
Indeed, Microsoft Edge for Linux too is a trojan horse. Windows needs to gain leverage against open development platforms. They they need to reach other ecosystems (fedora, centos, mac os). Just like Google when you use their technologies you bet the app is talking to the mothership.
From Betheasda news press release: "And, we have a long history of working with Microsoft. Our companies share many of the same basic principles. We believe in a culture that values passion, quality, collaboration, and innovation."
Last week Microsoft was thanking Trump from giving them a chance to acquire TikTok. It did not go well.
It lost me from the main page example.
How about...
fn main() {
areas := ['game', 'web', 'tools', 'science', 'systems',
'embedded', 'drivers', 'GUI', 'mobile']
areas.each_with_index i {
println('Hello, '+ ' areas[i] ' + developers!')
}
}
for loops should not exist because they they are external
to the an object reflection attributes.
I remember once seeing those NIST guys one evening at Dogfish Head Alehouse across the street talking physics and neutrinos. To measure time between two events, something needs to move faster than those events to perceive it. After a few beers, you'll be left with the check.
Hey MS I am scheduling an upgrade for some of your cloud services sometimes next week. Expect some slow down in your data centers throughput across several regions in the US and whatever happens, dont reboot the servers. How that feels eh?
Self preservation expressed through fear. Can a movie be enjoyed if told that the film is broken and will end abruptly? Without resolution? Life takes one chair away and death stops the music. We all try to find a seat but there not enough chairs. What a game!
Code should be obvious the the point that anyone taking a glance can say: "I can take it from here". It happened to me once. I was let go from a gig because the code was so darn easy to maintain (Django plugins), that I coded myself out the job.
No Coca Cola? No Jarritos? No Chaparritas? No Joya (De Naranja, Pi~a, Durazno, Uva, Mandarina, Fresa, Toronja, Ponche, Raiz, Manzana o Limon)? I drank all that crap In the 80s and I am not fat. I do have root canals and implants galore.