You do know that sort of obsessive language-lawyering is exactly what turns people off to exploring C, right?
Obsessive attention to details is the essence of programming in a non-managed language. People are simply drawing the completely correct conclusion that the gain is not worth the pain in most cases.
No the dirty secret is when IT people are young we are all naive, idealistic Libertarians who couldn't fathom the idea that Labor might need protection from Capital when the Free Market can clearly fix all ills if only the government would get out of the way.
Or, more cynically, everyone thinks they're better than average, so they don't want a union cramping their style. One might say the result is laser-guided karma giving them exactly what they said those "weaker" programmers deserved: low wage, bad working conditions and no job security.
Eventually, at some point, us plebians have to get fed up with it right? I mean, we just MUST have a breaking point, right?
And then what? Revolution? You know how that'll end - meet the new boss, the same as the old boss. It's because the new boss what taught what it means to be a boss by the old boss. Just like LinkedIn's leadership was taught that making money is the most valuable thing, and just like the slap on the wrist they received as a nominal punishment confirms that they have indeed correctly discerned and internalized society's values, so their only real crime was getting caught.
People's internalized value systems and patterns of behaviour interpret information and suggest actions just like inherent biological instincts do. Acting out these impulses then demonstrates these models to any onlookers, who'll eventually internalize them in turn. Abused people often become abusers, because they have the model and only need to switch roles. Similarly, current world culture has as a central model constant abuse of the weak by the powerful, and has been for who knows how many millenia. It's so endemic it's become more or less synonymous with "human nature", and keeps on being imprinted on every new generation, even in nominally free societies.
So no, us plebeians reaching our breaking point wouldn't change anything. The basic assumptions on the system are inside us - specifically that some people are plebeian and some patrician - so we'd simply rebuild it with some role reassignments. The only way to break free is to recognize these internalized diseased structures in yourself, systematically eradicate them by ignoring their promptings so they fade away, and let your new behaviour re-socialize the people around you by contradicting their internalized systems of abuse. But of course, that means giving up the quest for money and power, and simultaneously making yourself the mortal enemy of an entire world culture built on a fundamentally insane basis, so historically such quests have ended very, very badly.
Given our success in the "War on Drugs", we should declare war on prosperity.
Unfortuntely, that was one war the Powers That Be actually wanted to win, rather than keep going in perpetuity, so they did. After all, prosperous people are hard to control, since they can afford to think beyond mere survival.
The system is adversarial on purpose.
Specifically, the purpose is to ensure you're as equal before the law as the contents of your wallet allow. Unless you pissed off someone more powerful, of course, in which case they will be confiscated.
You are seeing an inelastic market; that is if a drug or procedure will save you life, it does not matter of it costs $5 or $5000, you will find the money to pay for it.
Of course, this ignores the reaction of onlookers, who are given a clear message that they're worth nothing to their society, and as such don't owe it anything either. I wonder if a nation facing such a problem might turn to exaggerated forms of patriotism as a desperate attempt to win loyalty where none is deserved, such as making little kids swear their allegiance every morning?
Health care is one of the few areas where "the free market" does not work as naively expected.
Free market doesn't really seem to work anywhere anymore, seeing how economy is always in a crisis, unemployment has apparently become permanent fixture of it and even employed people can't afford the lifestyle of their parents without getting into debt.
All of these comments, and not one person making wise about Koreans playing Starcraft and deciding to develop their own SCV's.
People are too busy explaining how they can lift more than the robo-suit. Dunno when Slashdot became a high school.
This man either has no real vision, or he's very bad at communicating a clear vision.
He has no idea what to do. Mass layoffs make it pretty much impossible to launch new products (since who will develop them) or do any other major moves (since those always cause inefficiency before people adapt). Assuming he's not a complete idiot, he doesn't see Microsoft to be doing either in near future, then, and is trying to optimize the current situation by cutting costs.
In other words, as far as Nadella is concerned Microsoft has become a has-been, and he's adapting the company to make as much profits as possible from its legacy on its way out.
The problem is that when you run a newspaper, you don't run the newspaper - the advertisers are your gods and masters, and you have no say in the matter.
Which of course makes the newspaper worthless to readers, who'll turn to online sources out of necessity. Let's face it: the industry is obsolete.
That's why FOSS tends to suck in those areas compared to the commercial stuff (where they actually pay technical writers, designers, marketers, etc.)
So, I take it you've never written commercial software?
Just because you are an unethical lying manipulative bastard doesn't mean everyone is.
Doesn't matter. That there are unethical lying manipulative bastards is sufficient to cast doubt on evidence that could have been tampered with.
Also, you should seek help for whatever personal issues you're projecting here.
*ROAR!*
*Nuclear missiles*
*CHEEP*
*Winter feeding*
Welcome to the age of mammals, dude.
You have to specifically DO something to test your claim and NOT do other things for control for it to be an experiment.
But in that case the word "experiment" has been defined so narrowly it's no longer the sole validator of scientific theory. For example, General Relativity predicted that light would be affected by Sun's gravitational field, which was later observed during a solar eclipse, which is a naturally occurring event.
"Ancient skulls show testosterone levels in humans fell around the time civilization rose".
And while you pine for that which never was, I'll simply scratch my head and think, "Well, the Internet IS a single point of failure, innit?"
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of money? -- Ayn Rand
