Well I mean I'd call it being dickish but that's just me.
He's a perfect gentleman as far as I'm concerned. I aspire to keep form and force of character as he has this many years on. If anyone wants a pretty amusing documentary featuring him and a pretty good picture of his personality see The KGB, the Computer and Me.
A scene of him sitting next to a guy being proper and having coffee while himself is sitting with feet on the bench and a big icecream shake comes to mind.
I too remember the time when we didn't assume there'd be a Makefile-ish system that has to bundle everything, compile the sass, pull bootstrap, etc. Then there's the map files for debugging that will generate cleanly every now and then.
I've adapted but these strange abstraction languages are still where I'm drawing the line. At a certain point it's like, are you choosing the language for the project or is it the other way around.
Hah, I just remembered Vala.
Edit: Also this thread and the internet in general make me feel bad for liking javascript. It has issues with the global namespace being all wrecked when used for DOM, but the language in and of itself I just find cool for the same reason I find JSON and the way lisp treats objects/data/code cool. So many playa hataz :(
The more people see through fear (lies we tell ourselves to be merciful to ourselves in lieu of the pain of knowledge) the more it becomes clear that those they fear are just different projections of themselves. That this phenomenon called higher level consciousness is something impossible to define or categorize and the more we cut away things to get to the center of what makes the "soul" of every individual, the more it becomes apparent that we are what we fear. It's a beautifully twisted contradiction.
Some people would find this truth disconcerting and opt for the kind of simplicity that confirms cognitive biases rather than the primordial truth that is at the same time simple and fractally complex and spiraling. I find the coastline analogy given in the article quite apt. I think the internet making it harder to delude oneself has helped here. Or at least it did prior to this ugly misinformation and propaganda saturating it currently.
Coming from a small town - Kingman, which I understand Sasha Baren Coen is a fan of - with the usual small town bullshit (e.g. "well if we just locked the border and put 'trespassers will be shot, survivors will be shot twice' our problems would be solved") I can say that I continue to be astounded and thankful that I turned out to react to this truth in a scholarly fashion, just hoping I can learn the fractals to their deepest depth. But I can also recognize the allure of the cited "Simplism" and falling to it in horror if they cannot cope with the aforementioned revelation. I think even the most scholarly and even-minded among us can recognize that allure.
Not even sure I can be angry at them. Disappointed perhaps. If I was able to climb out of the droning sludge of this mindset I am almost certain literally anyone else can.
I find politicians to be reflections of ourselves in the same fashion. They're the outer-shell of the fractal. Whereas in our brains we have sides of ourselves that are terrified of the true nature of things and put walls of narratives in front to categorize the world into something we can understand, as a collective organism we prop up these politicians to be the macro-simplicity in the same way the neurons of our individual brains are. I therefore find it appropriate that we loath them much like we loathe the worse natures of ourselves.
Still though, at the end of the day it's us writing the story like that because that's what we want to read. The politicians don't manifest themselves or perform for a void, and I wouldn't know how to fix this segment of the population any more than I would know how to fix our own individual worse natures. Would have to agree it's driving us into a sea though.
It's my understanding that the "horn" is some kind of growth at the base of the skull caused by craning it so often. So nothing like a horn any more than someone with a spinal condition if I'm reading the article correctly. Hell the messed up scar I have on the back of my head from falling on a rock as a kid looks more like a horn than this condition does.
That's how you know it was an entirely intentional headline meant specifically cause a christian confirmation bias freakout because they know many christians (and some-nons) will stop reading there.
It's getting REALLY annoying in general. HN sometimes helps filter this but sometimes people just paste the headlines unmodified. Really makes the political posts even more loathsome than usual.
Washingtonpost in particular seems to love engineering these rage-clicks at the expensive of integrity. It doesn't help when the same people who stop at headlines will stop when they see the subscription spam.
I like how this thread is at least partly confirming that Facebook has been taken over by parents sharing minion memes and shit, and this explains why.
I mean no judgement here. If you can get your social jollies co-existing with dumb kids (the only ones that haven't migrated from Mom & Dad's new Minion meme deposit that facebook has become) and dumber parents pushing each other anti-vax propaganda- well all the more power to you I suppose.
Really though I think people are too cowardly to just ask each other to hang out in real life. I'm that way myself and miss social cues when people are asking me to hang out constantly. I guess I can see it working for that kind of mindset. Really though, easier to delete all that social media and shit. I'd recommend it. Not that I used facebook, but did use twitter and a few others for a while.
I'm on a continual mission to try to delete my HN account. But I don't think the Hacker News admins have the technical knowledge to understand what I mean by "add a delete button". It is a high level UX concept I know.
P.S. I assume this is the part where the offended parents will be all like "WELL IT MUST BE NICE TO HAVE ALL THAT TIME TO HANG OUT" and then I laugh at their facebook-idling asses.
If I had the fuck-you levels of money facebook does I'd switch you and your house cleaner's salary, hire a PI to follow you and figure out which waiter or clerk hates you the most (you know there's at least one) and give them $3.5 million in front of you. Simply because the most powerful and hilarious usage of fuck-you money is punching up in such a manner.
And making someone's life better at the expense of someone that thinks like you do on top is a cherry on the most flavorful sorbet.
What I'm saying is you're a diiiiiiiick
Edit: I was so taken aback by the dickery I forgot my closing point and I guess this shit isn't obvious to some people: There's little reason whatsoever beyond personal insecurity to not want someone to make as much as possible. But many reasons to not want them to make as little as possible. If you can get away with either - like facebook can at this point, I really feel like - why the hell would you do the latter. I'm aware of the practical issues with incentives with this for example, but you already derailed the thread into dumb anyway so what's it matter.
You know, all those in this thread revealing their membership of Those-Who-Walk-Uphill-Both-Ways are going to get a serious reprimanding.
But yeah I would have to agree with you. Family history of the same kind of poverty shopping. Making a contest of the lowest gas and grocery prices with the membership, food bank and all that. I shat myself when I got an NES from the pawn shop for my birthday once. It certainly instills something in the brain.
I mean I'm still the guy that subsists on plain fruits & veggies, noodles, rice, beans, plain oats and the occasional indulgence of pizza and steak. But I'm also not worried or hurting for anything currently and am happier than I've ever been previously. Which I imagine is optimism, and other concerns tend to make other events kind of feel like noise.
The cumulative inability to relate to pop culture or current events really wrecks my networking efficiency I feel like. I'm not sure I should be so unaware about the news and encroaching issues. But oh well. The ultimately important things have a way of finding themselves to oneself I guess.
Not to be conspiratorial but I find all of this to be pretty intentional. It's currently very hard for me to stay on T-Mobile's legacy (i.e. true) PAYG plan which only supports regular texts. I often have to ask people I'm doing business with to send things as a regular text because emojis and pics don't download.
Looking at the overview on wikipedia and gsma, this thing is feature creeped to the absolute rim before overflowing. Including parts of the specification for APIs and app integration if I'm reading it correctly.
Frankly, if a corporation wanted to lay the groundwork for itself to be the private contractor for when the government wants to make use of the data that can be hoovered from these open channels. It would look a hell of a lot like Google. All this feature creep in abundance is a great way to lock people into centralized monolithic apps or force them into new revenue streams (again, they're already trying it with my PAYG plan for MMS).
I could take it to its greatest logical conclusion especially considering the API, app integration & visible protocol fingerprint and just say this is a great way to introduce WeChat by Google.
I hope this doesn't sound irrational. But I for one find it irrational that I'm even in this position with regular texting versus MMS. It's like phone carriers are the only ones allowed to have shitty interoperability of this kind. Getting really tired of it. Also I hope you're right that their fuckups are resulting in lower adoption, because 68 (including T-Mobile) carriers have already signed onto the Universal Profile part of the spec:
Well I'll say one thing about the "heat", I didn't expect this thread to get so noisy and thought my post was going to defuse it so now I regret that. I thought I was being nice.
Anyway, speaking of projection. I'm not the one that said a single thing about domain or work-life balance. You're making up stuff in your brain based on your just-stated tendency towards a false sense of superiority. Which is funny given the point of my damned original post.
Whatever. I give up. I'm only here because the site for and by hackers doesn't have an account delete button.
On the contrary, I'm the only one not judging this guy by his profession. As a result their mindset and platitudes look just as pitiable and silly to me than if he were to make a post saying that he works as a grocery clerk.
P.S. Sincere apologies to clerks, you deal with the shit and are respected. Just using as a point about perception and weird notions of what people wear as badges of honor.
Edit: I also don't believe Feynman or any other scientist would define his life by the uni he researched for just as I don't believe an artist would define himself by his job with coca-cola
I think the downvotes (that's what gray means right?) are people's way of saying that the personal narrative that defines your life is so boring that your job is the only place you can achieve feelings like that. I feel bad for you so won't downvote. But I'd suggest finding something for that narrative that doesn't coincidentally mean handing your life over to the guy you work for.
He certainly won't complain that your sense of worth is defined by the firm. It's a lopsided semi-co-dependent relationship and kinda weird. I know people like yourself and respect the ethic but there's surely a way to direct that to your own life instead of defining the satisfaction by how well you make another guy money.
Also, the exceptionalism is needless, generalized and is talking down to foreigners as if they don't have similar work ethics. You're not making us look good as Americans by claiming that you'll bend over backwards for bossman and break your back doing so in order to spend an extra dollar at the company store.
And inconsistently moderated. Actual HN staff seem to hover between not caring about the obvious tactics at play - even calling it a "trope" a if we were in a movie, or flagging posts calling out the tactic while the originals stay preserved (as do the ensuing derailed conversations)
I tried emailing this same staffer to get my account deleted to escape this encroaching noise. They really don't give a shit. I'll be surprised if your post is still here later.
“Politicians need religion even more than a hermit in retreat. If a hermit acts out of bad motivation, he harms no one but himself. But if someone who can directly influence the whole of society acts with bad motivation, then a great number of people will be adversely affected.”
The day I discovered this quote was a rather striking moment. I find it continues to be relevant. Especially when one considers the demagoguery and celeb - I don't just mean TV, note how certain politicians/bootlickers are treated right now - worship that we are effectively replacing establishment religion.
Also important to note that they both use religion. Who puts money in the tithe plate? Not the megachurch preacher. I am a former christian and I struggle to see many differences between a preacher and a politician. Especially celebrity evangelists.
Sorry for being mildly off-topic but the other comment with regards to police being complete morons and causing violence on purpose is pretty much my take on the situation. Definitely justifies my incredulity at the idea. Even the idea of getting weed in a legal state through the mail is strange to me. Let alone this.
That said, good luck convincing a great portion of Americans that the US isn't the end-all be-all authority on the internet and that's where all the packets go like a big funnel. Like we never went beyond campuses, token rings and pre-OSI model hackery. The logic is: We engineered the prototype, therefore internet always murika #1.
(Signed, an American happy that foreigners are finally calling us out on this behavior. Literally took you centuries)
When I see articles like this I can almost predict the steps of the big, bad independent cowboys of the world showing up in a related thread. I fully expect them to be the first to come on their knees to the people forming collectives to more efficiently produce the same resources too.
I mean in and of themselves your steps aren't wrong per-se. It's just that things don't work out like you think and the people that call themselves confederates and encourage each other to be baby machines I imagine won't be very workable as a post-apocalyptic relationship. With outside groups or each other.
Meanwhile, these population centers tend to spring up around a social pillar for a reason and don't simply lose that robustness when the public works begin failing. People are way too quick to assume they're the only rational one surrounded by rabid beasts.
But keep on preppin', california cowboy (sorry couldn't resist, this sounds city boy af and you have it in your username).
You know, that's a good point. And I can't deny that now I'm probably locked into it by loose (/very/ loose) association. But yes I poorly chose my words, I'm sorry.
Your example of branding is appropriate because at this stage I can't see paganism as anything more than a satire religion in the vein of bob or FSM or hell even the Twilight fanbase while we're at it. The edginess is all equally adorable.
They have half-remembered christianity-mingled rituals and holy men, probably. Just like how the Church of the Subgenius has a preacher and gospel and we're all adherents of Bob or the FSM when praying that our code runs. Only difference is that they pretend that it has age and significance that - for all they know - could be the result of christian priests wiping their butt with old norse practices as any correct ritualistic lineage.
I wish they would be honest about the fact that they are satirical. Things already readily not taken seriously are anathema to the fascist. So it wouldn't even be an issue if they were honest. No one is trying to appropriate Bob's face to be an edgy viking. Maybe they should get their branding together so people like me don't have to clarify it being for entertainment value only.
Perceived? You don't see why I would find someone responding to a bad faith link with another link to a $15 pamphlet about their religion offensive? Why should I treat that as anything else like how I'd treat a mormon operating in such a way.
Come on man. At least I put my money where my mouth is and showed my real and inoffensive (albeit highly aesthetic and nerdy) attachment to these symbols and why such generalizations are pretty unfair to perpetuate.
Of course, someone immediately ignored the point and judged me by the skin. But wouldn't have posted if it were unexpected. The quality of passionate social discourse on HN remains ass, world goes on.
A videogame and book reference with crocs and PJs on? Yeah, seems even more foolish that I feel more identity with that look than real practitioners of its inspiration apparently do. :o
Such expert casting aside of personal responsibility and character that - I would assume - defines the self-sufficient individual who can dance and play hard that defines a heathen.
How does it feel knowing that a conservative catholic (tolkien) and ex-christian atheist southern american latino (me) care about - and wears - your aesthetic better than any nordic native or heathen in this thread so far? My convictions seem to be stronger despite this being the spiritual equivalent of how tourists use egyptian hieroglyphics.
Don't worry, I'll have flavor and force of will for your religion's (objectively speaking, very awesome) aesthetic SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO.
Is this a thing vikings did by the by? No wonder the confusion between what ritual survived as pagan and what became christian and vice-versa is so muddled. It's like lifting pollen from fields! Just straight up, boot-to-face subservience. Tsk tsk.
(Foreward: I get the point you're trying to make, so please don't interpret as argumentative at you, forgottenpass)
I enjoy Tolkien's success. This is the point I'm trying to make. I'm a bystander here and would not even be aware of pagans beyond a superficial level had it not been specifically for the fact that their adherents have failed so badly at keeping their own tribe in check. I found out about all of this long after I got the tattoos. But I still have to feel like a party to it for no reason but superficial resemblance of runic alphabets.
And yet I'm the only one that seemed to have been interested to expand upon my position so far. There's at least 3 heathens here by my count. I guess I'm fine with the notion that I'm a bigger badass than a self-proclaimed viking in this sense. Why shouldn't I call them cowards if I'm more willing to step up for a fictional mythos than one they consider a real part of their daily lives?
P.S. I am doing part of the hard work in defending their reputation for them by making a point about context. I will not feel like a bad person for wearing Cirth runes. And they will be with me forever, and I will happily discuss the difference with anyone who asks me. And when I do explain the difference it will start with "It's not actually norse or pagan, I know what you mean but those are dying niche religions used by rednecks and slavic meth heads, it sucks but you can't judge a writing system by it".
He's a perfect gentleman as far as I'm concerned. I aspire to keep form and force of character as he has this many years on. If anyone wants a pretty amusing documentary featuring him and a pretty good picture of his personality see The KGB, the Computer and Me.
A scene of him sitting next to a guy being proper and having coffee while himself is sitting with feet on the bench and a big icecream shake comes to mind.