Comment I've seen this before.. (Score 2) 262
The next step is to put a little box on the wall with speech recognition. Then it could print out a fine automatically..
".. you have been fined 1 credit for a violation of the verbal morality..."
The next step is to put a little box on the wall with speech recognition. Then it could print out a fine automatically..
".. you have been fined 1 credit for a violation of the verbal morality..."
I'm sick of you dang 4 digit newbies complaining about change. In my day everything was static. And then the next day your guys showed up and things started changing. I liked it when slashdot didn't have user accounts... Or users.. We had better discussions in the forums! I was my lunch now dammit. I can't believe nothing costs a nickle.
Different, updated and personalized version:
No full MacOS X, too big, lame...
It's not just developers. This is why we have unions and labor regulations. They can always find replacements: even in good times, one person in twenty is unemployed at any given time, a figure that the Federal Reserve works very hard to maintain lest it create upward pressure on wages. And most people prefer shitty working conditions to the uncertainty of finding another job, never mind actual unemployment.
This has to be balanced with the fact that the unemployment rate for programmers tends to be *much* lower than the general employments rate. Also, the skill difference between an average programmer and a great programmer is a factor of 10 in productivity which means that programmers are not commodities. If you're good at programming and well connected you can do very well.
By the way, 5% unemployment is basically full employment. It gets disproportionately harder to do better the closer you get to 0% unemployment. Programmers (especially good ones) are extremely rare and hard to hire.
> Instead, test it formally, with double blinds, hoping that it works (so you don't subconsciously suppress data).
The entire point in a double blind study is that you don't subconsciously disclose something...
> As a science type, I encourage you to not turn off your brain to astrology, Feng Shui, crystal power, and other crap.
It has been investigated and found lacking. If any of this were real it would point to new mechanisms that science would be very interested in.
Keeping an open mind is a great idea but astrology, crystal power etc.. have failed to demonstrate their purported abilities time and time again. This is why they have not found a home within the scientific establishment.
We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts. -- Patrick Moynihan
