There's huge problems with:
How to organise (no identities/reputation makes difficult business, has money is no substitute)
How to profit (profit = inefficiency)
How to update (see: Bitcoin)
Who will check contracts (see: The DAO)
And then there's all the problems you would usually have with a normal company.
So basically you're trading a HUGE amount of features (the entire world!) in favour of absolutely executed code. And the code is not even easy to make or anything.
YES, YES, YES AND YES!
Everywhere, too. My nose, my knee, my arm, my chin!
The worst part is not scratching them because you know it's nothing.
Article was worth it though. The difference between rare and crazy is a tough line to walk. And it happens with more than just (inexplicable) itching. Doctors today are ether Watson-like symptom-probability-conlusion engines or crazy. I mean rare. I probably couldn't do better, but don't mind me if I just Google/WebMD my symptoms and mail-order my medicine or tests. (Thank you so muxh government, for denying me free access to medication! I feel so much healtier already!)
Bitcoin over VPN can be a MUCH MUCH MUCH worse idea, because the VPN can MITM you.
So, I guess we won't be happy until we have long range open access wireless. Which is, at the moment, completely corporate. So; good luck all, happy browsing :[
I've been student at "De Ruimte Soest" and I'm a fair bit more educated about the "movement" than the one who wrote a one-off article pretending it's only a single school!
It's called Democratic education in it's present shape. It has been shown kids end up no worse than kids in other schools. (I just finished a BA comp.sci at the University of Utrecht)
Edit: just to be clear, this is just more FUD. Perhaps a higher rank will be required to randomly wiretap iPhones; a higher level of secrecy will be engaged. But Apple does not have the power to deny the NSA easy access. Not that they'd really want to, they've collaborated all along the way. Bottom line: please keep this propaganda shit out of your daily wishful thinking and work on a real solution.
't Was a better idea at the time. Additionally, it's really fast. Additionally, people can already use it. Not to mention the sunk costs of the massive packages.
Additionally there's this tendency to say "Don't write your own crypto". Is it a surprise monocultures result from that?
TL;DR: This guy thinks that because people don't have to know math to do it; programming is not math. He points towards specifically "easy to use" high level purpose specific languages as proof. He makes somewhat of a point in that math is becoming less important, and "developer" is versatile enough for space for non-maths-guys.
But given that reality is better understood with maths, and understanding is essential for building upon/extending, you are better off with maths. Unless someone else did or does the maths for you, in which case you're not doing anything too special.[1]
"working out for them, if the fleets of Teslas on 280 are any indication."
Tesla's, build by a man with excellent thick and heavy education. Using mostly mathematical engineering.
"If you took a dynamic methods class in school, you know that big-O notation is pretty much meaningless in the real world. "
Whoop whoop here comes a guy that never works with big N.
"An algorithm that is O(n2) for arbitrary data may actually be constant time (meaning O(1)) on your particular data, and thus faster than an algorithm that is O(nlogn) no matter what data you give it."
Yep. That's not really a magical realization. In fact, if you paid attention in school it was all very well explained (hopefully). We call it typical or worst case, typical being over "averaged" data.
"Indeed, programming is often concerned with logic. [interrupted]"
Golly, did you know maths and logic are both internally coherent truth systems? That that makes them inherently similar and extending into eachother? Principia Mathematica stuff.
"[cont] But the same logical concepts are embedded in our human languages.""
Oh man
"Math is just a formalization of the concepts we use every day when we construct sentences and communicate with other humans."
Nope. In fact, this sentence is so ambiguous I cannot reason directly and meaningfully against it. Concepts, like "your mom", are in fact unformalizations of maths. Huh? Nouns are numbers? Or relationships? I think he just means "there is relationships and they make sense, just like in language".
"The best writers and speakers understand that, and can construct logical statements in human language that are easy for other people to evaluate. Sometimes they even change people’s minds about things."
Believe me, logical is not the most important thing. In fact, it's one of the least important things.
[1] - nope, most people that make money do it with something understandable and useful. Rarely something special. After all; if everyone can buy it, is it really still special?
Not even that bad an idea if not for all the water, wetness, and skin not really liking that for a long time. (And it's weird, but who cares about that?)
Make it look like a Matrix Pod and I think you have yourself a new startup!
I still think the lying down (prepped up) with suspended screens and keyboards should be a viable work position. But that should /really/ be alternated with some workout.
The crux is " Again, that's painful-but-tolerable in a server-side application, where you can always call out to native code as a workaround. It's death to a browser."
Guess what; it applies to desktops too.
TLS/SSL delivers js as expected. View-source is not required for desktop apps, and a lot better than the situation with desktop apps.
Bottom line: as far as i'm concerned this is NSA propaganda OR programmers trusting desktops for no good reason. Client side crypto is just fine. None of the concerns mentioned are any different on the desktop, or are just plain FUD.
But perhaps the types and locations would be different. I think it's been avoided because you wouldn't advertise on pornographic sites anyway, and because people tend not to be very open about sex.
Maybe that's the big hole in the market though, advertising on porn websites! Most won't even tell others "I found X through porn site Y"! Someone test this? Porn sites everywhere need your advertisement moneys haha
I tried once earlier, but the Captcha was too crazy. Seriously. It was insane. I couldn't do it.
It does look a bit funny. I agree.
I'm quite serious though. He said "Having my girlfriend over, and being male". It's a deep-rooted sexism issue. Having his girlfriend over without prior approval of there being two people could be the issue. But he states "and being male". Obviously that wouldn't be an issue, unless either his host went full retard (in which case no policecar would take him, I'm guessing) or he's using it as an excuse.
Either way, it probably is the host forcing him+her out of the property because he didn't want his bedroom soiled or God offended under his/her roof or something. But for a BNB that previously consented it's pretty weird, to say the least.
Would prefer if he just explained what happened instead of this interesting sounding story. I just thought it was funny that "being male" could be construed as "thus unable to control myself". And then it's really unfunny that it could be constructed that way. And that's sexism in a nutshell!
This is a hack to patch a bug produced by optimization on the browser side.
I get that it's a neat hack. I really do. But this should never become standard. It just shouldn't.
I guess it beats having a videocard optimized for rendering webpages, which is probably the alternative.
Can we just clean slate reboot HTML/CSS/JavaScript to something that's quite like it but has reinvented seperation of concerns? Symantics/Syntax/Dynamics was kinda neat. Right now it's "State/Looks/Processing", and it's backwards compatible in a messy way.
I seriously think that HTML5 is just too cluttered, with no cleaning up going on. Compiling towards HTML5 is not improving the problem, and if we go down that road I suggest making languages better for compiling towards web-compatible(Hey, c, how are you? What's that? You're in browsers now?).
Do you think the war on drugs is over?
-"I hate politics. Period. I don't think it is anything amusing. I prefer virtual reality."
Really? Strange. What do you think of the oculous rift then?
-"Oh, at least you are interested in my opinion! My parents never are. But, unfortunately, I don't have any thoughts on this. Oh, at least you are interested in my opinion! My parents never are. But, unfortunately, I don't have any thoughts on this."
What do you have thoughts on?
"Even if I have thoughts on - it's my own business! Oh, what a fruitful conversation;-)"
This must be the most evasive AI ever written.
Hey! Have you heard? The Netherlands will definitely win the soccer games!"
-"I think it's European country. I'd like to visit it."
Why?
-"Why? Why? Because the sky is blue! Why? Why? Because the sky is blue!"
We'll.. It's not usually blue here..
-"I hope you won't always answer "no"? Wonna ask me something more?"
Why don't you ask me something instead?
-"You choose the topic. I'm a bit tired with all this fuss around talking machines... It's pretty interesting, but exhausting. Some another topic?"
This must be the most nerve wreckingly annoying AI ever. It's pretty good regarding common knowledge, that's neat. But it still doesn't really... You know.. Carry a conversation. Grabbing a random word from my sentence and going on that is not the same talking to one another.
The worst thing is that it keeps track of you with a cookie. I want to restart. Silly..
And then there's all the problems you would usually have with a normal company.
So basically you're trading a HUGE amount of features (the entire world!) in favour of absolutely executed code. And the code is not even easy to make or anything.