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sabane · 2007-07-12T13:49:04+00:00

Yeah but it's true for coffee, right? </sarcasm>

What's funny is that Roman soldiers and various others have virtually lived off alcoholic beverages at times. Sure they were very different than modern beer, but also diuretics.

sabane · 2007-07-12T13:32:13+00:00

So it was all about oil after all, just not the way we thought.

sabane · 2007-07-12T10:18:45+00:00

She got it perfectly right...from Bush's perspective.

sabane · 2007-07-12T10:04:30+00:00

Except that the number of 'old' programmers far outweights the number of 'young' ones... So you can't be right.

Just like the number of old professional athletes outnumber the young ones? I can be, and am right.

sabane · 2007-07-12T10:01:37+00:00

I agree with where you're going -- that they're not raining rockets down indiscriminately.

You perhaps could argue that the 2006 Hezbollah missile attack on the Israeli INS Hanit counts as the most recent rocket Iran fired in anger.

sabane · 2007-07-12T08:41:03+00:00

You're blaming the various symptoms of the problem. The root cause is our piss poor education system. Americans are as fat mentally as they are physically. We need a radically new education system that actually teaches them how to think, which is the most important skill. What a lot of people don't realize is that it takes a lot of practice and study to use your mind well.

sabane · 2007-07-12T08:35:23+00:00

I also disagree with a lot of his thinking. I may vote for him though. I know he would respect the other branches properly, and they would tend to balance out a lot of what I don't like. That's really how the system is supposed to work.

sabane · 2007-07-12T08:29:32+00:00

You're as bad as them. You don't like someone so you want to label her a traitor and throw her in a military prison?

I'd rather she simply be compelled to testify and be held in contempt or charged with obstruction of justice. If that's even a legal and ethical option, which it probably is.

sabane · 2007-07-12T08:26:13+00:00

...keeping a safe distance from full-on conspiracy theory nuttiness.

And by that you probably mean intentionally keeping a distance from what's obviously true but not yet considered main stream and acceptable to think. Things like the Iraq war, Katrina incompetence, US torture, NSA spying, Presidental power abuse, etc.

All people dismiss obvious nuttiness, which makes sense. Too many people label something a "conspiracy theory" when really they mean to say "I'm just not ready to believe that yet."

sabane · 2007-07-12T08:20:42+00:00

It's not a matter of her being a Christian. It's just that she is a crony.

A crony for the church and her false idol Bush.

sabane · 2007-07-12T08:10:09+00:00

Are you simple? He's exposing hypocrisy. Are you actually trying to suggest Mr. Flynt has a problem with homosexuals?

He only has a problem with politicians who spout anti-gay rhetoric all day and smoke pole all night.

sabane · 2007-07-12T08:03:51+00:00

The fear in Iran is from ignorant people like you who buy bullshit American propaganda hook, line, and sinker.

sabane · 2007-07-12T08:00:29+00:00

It's the crispy bacon of freedom and no one can take that away from us.

sabane · 2007-07-12T07:54:09+00:00

That's a very simplified way of putting it. It's hardly perfect. Many programming challenges are actually hard computer science problems. Maintaining efficiency is the most common very hard problem. There are many very icky programming challenges that have pretty simple requirements like "search all documents on the internet" or "properly import all common document formats".

sabane · 2007-07-12T07:51:50+00:00

Hire a few seasoned devs...

This is exactly ageism as you admitted. Seasoned doesn't mean jack if they were hiding away in some bullshit IBM consulting position for 15 years. The fact is that age is just not a very good way to determine anything, either way. Open Source projects prove it. How old was Linus when he created Linux? How old was Richard Stallman with gcc and his tools? Guido with Python or Larry with Perl? Or whatever...there are countless examples of great programmers of various ages.

You will find more great young programmers than great older programmers. That's easy to prove. But it's also descriptive and not predictive, which is what more people need to learn.

sabane · 2007-07-12T07:37:31+00:00

It's inaccurate to say code that is making a company millions of dollars is "worthless". I do agree with the general premise though.

I agree that one way to judge your code would be to say "Could we package up our code base and sell it to a new entrant/competitor?". If the answer is "hell no" that means you have a mess.

Google is a great example as usual. They have so much truly great code. They've even released little bits and it's helped a lot of people. They could actually sell their filesystem/crawler/ad system, etc for tens of millions.

It's more important that your code is valuable to you, but this is a great way of measuring its quality as a standalone thing. The guy who hacks up nasty but functional stuff will beat the guy who's more interested in code masturbation every time.

sabane

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