Yes it bothers me very much, if they wanna cripple someone's account why not just admit it?They are the superuser moderators, who's gonna go against them?
Last but not least, Windows carries a bad reputation in terms of reliability and security.
Isn't the bad reputation of reliability and security there just because it was a dominant platform?If you get down to it, most security breaches were possible not only because of a bad platform but mostly because of bad configuration.People set silly and weak passwords. Don't configure there firewall enough and things like that. And because windows was one of the dominant platform all the crackers used to target them as that would get them access to more machines. As for UNIX, its a very strong platform in terms of security but if not configured well it would be as vulnerable as a WIN machine.
But I also except that a ill configure UNIX machine is still much safer than a WIN machine (just based on my readings I am no security expert).
Thats a novel idea to bite. I mean as is evident from the history of computer science, most work was done on how to remember things effectively. But thinking about how to forget is actually the key to remembering.
Not to be negative but why the perception that someone spelling "you" as "u" is illiterate?
Also if you look at my all posts I personally use the full form and correct spellings (thanks spell checks) of words. My movement was not just limited to the use of incorrect spellings but also HN not excepting any idea other than their own. It makes it look like fashion where the real review are done by only people in Milan or New York, for the rest these reviews are just copied and translated.
If you look at it closely my responses are replys to specific posts. I am not against being downvoted. To me it just proves that people are not buying my view, and that I am totally different. Which is good, in a way.
Also to you this may be a pointless meta-meta-discussion but I take it upon myself to reply to people who have something to say about my views.
who said anything about a war or winning anything?Is stating your opinion about something been called being a jerk these days?Have we been so caught up in being a "Stylist community" that we care so much about style that anyone against it is now "starting a pissing war", "being a jerk" or "trying to win here"?
If thats so then I am fine with my negative karma and "attitude". I really hoped this community to be above such trivial matters or at least try to look at it from a different view point. But NO, even you are too busy with your "style",you dont care to look about anyone who does not think like you. Then I am again compelled to comprehend that this is another mob, which has no right to say they are different from others. But I am going to stay here, just because I care about the content this mob develops not the "atmosphere". I am gonna be happy with a negative karma point here. Because I believe in whatever I say and whatever I feel is right. And there is not a thing you can do to shut me up to stop me saying that.
Well I dont think its the authors job to make it always aesthetically pleasing to everybody, he just wanted to convey his ideas and he did. I am not concerned about the tenth of a second I save by not typing y and o but the one second I do spend making "u" "you" again. The kind of short hand (or SMS) language is just the part of the authors habit. Has it became just so "aesthetically displeasing" to read "u" as the word and not alphabet?
As to the fuckery analogy I wanna say that it would not leave the post entirely understandable because you will have to still think if the word was actually part of the sentence or not?But I think (dont bother to deny it) that everybody who owns a mobile or had used internet would know simple things like "u" stands for "you","ur" stands for "your" and "bt" for "but". And if they dont its entirely possible to get that from context. But your fuckery example is just opposite.Nobody will "know" and will at least have contemplate as to whats the use of that word in the context.
For the 1337 point I wanna say two things. First if the author sounds like six but has a good or at least competent thing to say then whats the matter?You should just except the authors view and choice, also be scared by the fact that he is competent with you by the age of 6 and he would be surely outsmarting you when he reaches your age. Secondly I too dont like such 1337 language, but only when the spellings are so obscure that the reader may never even begin to understand what the word is. But again when someone rights "u" you can easily understand that he means "you" which is not the case when someone writes 1337 $|o3/-\|< |=/-\57 3|\|0U9|-| u </-\|\| 937 /-\ |0T 0F \/\//-\7 |7 5/-\5, 7|-|3|\| U c/-\|\| F|9uR3 0u7 \/\//-\7 u |\/||553o|.
I know to some people atmosphere is very important (like my college professors), but what dont understand is why these people dont understand that for some people it is not. To some people its just the content that matters the most (if you can understand it fully of course). If you expect people to respect your choice, why not first start to respect theres? Or like mahatma Gandhi once put it "You should be the change you want to see in the world". And here by change i mean respect for other people's choice.
PS:- I dont really care if you are down voting me or not, I am already having a rough day at the forum and I am actually eager to see if karma can go into negative or not.Nor do I expect a standing ovation to this post but this is exactly I feel in 500 words.
Edit: Now I officially Know that karma can go into negative, but I would like that people who down vote may just give me a reason as to why they did it
Why use two extra characters when you can get away with one?I know this logic does not appeal to many, but must you not judge the post by its content and not by its language?I mean you know when he is saying "u" he means "you" and language is just a tool to make you understand his ideas, and when that is accomplished why bother about the extra two characters.
PS:- Funny thing is according to my above logic I wasted a whole post just to make you understand the not so great value of two extra characters
I dont understand why people are taking that post of mine against clojure so seriously, and if they are why they are misinterpreting it.
I never said anything against the language or even the JVM in they-are-very-bad sense.Its just a psychological block that was created when my project crashed In front of my teacher, and I simply blame it on JVM. I know that its wrong, because I never debugged it. I just rewrote the whole thing in Ruby without any investigation. Maybe I was wrong,maybe my code was buggy or my project just didnt deserve and A+ (my teacher never gave me any reason for the minus in my grade). I just needed something to blame my crashed project on. Call it escapism and you are right actually. But still when you put something in your mind, a sheer hate for a thing when you are just 13 or 14 you tend to hate it forever. May be thats the case with me. May be it isnt and I am just too stubborn. Maybe I will just learn clojure after my term paper is submitted and then will write a post. Now what I wanna see is what I write in that post
If I got down voted so many times just for this comment clojure sure must be a fine language.But I am still not going to learn it just because it targets the JVM. But maybe some day I will forget the 3 sleep less nights I spent rewriting the project in ruby or the A- I got where I had expected an A++, and try to look into clojure.
Mine are actually more dramatic and I consider it a partial form of duality. This is because I can sense what I am doing but it seems almost a third person view. When I am working feverishly on a math problem (which are not very advanced compaired to what people on HN work on but I keep evolving) it is common for my mother to find papers all over my room and books thrown out of the window just out of spite. But all this seems to be done by some other person almost a friend of mine who I can talk to. There were times when I requested myself to come out of those phases so I can go into parties and enjoy (I consider myself different for that).Its super natural to me thats why I am spiritual but not religious. I find spirituality in maths and (my recent discovery) electronics in ways even I dont understand sometimes.
But what I am proud of is that I have been able to keep it as a alternate identity. Quite separate from my public self. Only people very close to me (or those whom I have ranted to) know I am capable of doing such stuff. To others I am just the sweet boy next door, average in studies, looks, but everyone knows just out of spite that I can make it big.
But sometimes I get confused as to which is my secret identity and which is the super hero/villain one.The boy next door who pleases everyone or the mad scientist with skeletons in the closet
I dont know but your advice does not appeal to me, I mean clojure just doesnt cut it. And i dont wanna go into the hassel of anything java (it ate up my master high school end project, I rewrote it in ruby then). What about haskell I know its not totall Lisp but seems better than clojure
Umm...analyzing self...Beep...Beep...Beep...Panic...Panic...Panic...... I have all the characteristics for a BBM, from top to bottom. Whats worse?I dont even ,know lisp!!!!!What do I do what do I do????!!!!!!!!1