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mircea_popescu: lesson for stan : next time girl breaks her ring, don't try to weld it back on her.
mircea_popescu: arth will be programming these idiotic boxes pretty soon if managers don't wise up to the fact that the equivalent of automatic switches already exist and have done so for at least 20 years. yet if Y2K doesn't light up most manager's view of the world of programming, there isn't hope for mankind at all."
mircea_popescu: " I remember someone saying that if it hadn't been for automatic switches in the telephone network, the entire population of planet earth would have had to be telephone operators to handle the load of telephone usage in 1993 or thereabout. I get the eerie feeling that because modern computer systems are so incredibly braindamaged in their design and in the tools used to program them, the entire population of planet e
mircea_popescu: incidentally, now that im apparently using it, wtf does chicom even mean ?
mircea_popescu: so the other barbarian couldn't jack off to the marbles.
mircea_popescu: see, here's the thing : we had these idiots in romania, too. the sort that could be millionaires as long as the public treasury poured a billion or two in theior pants
mircea_popescu: decimation well at least he knows how to make a small fortune.
mircea_popescu: anyone still know virgin atlantic branson dayton w/e his name was ?
mircea_popescu: It says that it's from Sky Dayton (founder of Earthlink) although it is actually from Earthlink's direct marketing department. I can just see the thought going through the copy writer's head. "People won't open it unless it's from someone they know, and everyone knows Sky Dayton!"
mircea_popescu: it's a fucking derrogatory, it's almost like calling bitcoin's media company "cunt, raw"
mircea_popescu: someone actually thought that "yahoo" is a sane string to associate to your busines.
mircea_popescu: decimation just think, what they were. remember... lycos ?
mircea_popescu: in fact, the history of the internet and the browser narrowly mimicks the history of bitcoin
mircea_popescu: "and the loss to the software company that has to give up two months of sales is even worse." << dat logic. so if i have sex for the first time today, rather than next week, i gain a full week of first time sexings.
mircea_popescu: as joel well points out, we got a mental problem. no comprende como sheeping works.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform listen : if coders didn't have to worry about whether THEIR PROGRAM EVEN HALTS
mircea_popescu: In fact there are lots of great reasons for bloatware. For one, if programmers don't have to worry about how large their code is, they can ship it sooner. And that means you get more features, and features make your life better (when you use them) and don't usually hurt (when you don't).
mircea_popescu: sort-of equivalent to the moment when archimedes turned on the mirrors.
mircea_popescu: decimation that would have been the fucking moment of truth for the cataphract : when someone turned on a giant magnet
mircea_popescu: "Recently, I devoted several sleepless nights to this problem. Why is it that our computers are getting faster and faster yet we are using them more and more to render things generated on some distant server? And it’s still slow!" <<< average bovine is comforted by the second delay.
mircea_popescu: part of the reason perhaps being that if i had, i'd start bludgeoning the machine into the ground.
mircea_popescu: "it is not rare to see a palpable (and all the more so for its unpredictability) delay between pressing a key and the drawing of a symbol on the screen." << i have never seen this.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo actually, they didn't come up with duralumin
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually the mediteranean people volcanoes prolly more than meteorites.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in romanian it's how you say "base metal" generally.
mircea_popescu: come to think about it : the original siege cannon was carried by two dozen oxen, fired twice a day, had to be cooled with hlf a ton of oil and exploded every two weeks killing everyone around
mircea_popescu: was some sort of columbus of metallurgy. little is known.
mircea_popescu: the most recent pulse went in all directions, just about to india.
mircea_popescu: decimation the golden crescent is this pulsing heart of human civilisaiton.
mircea_popescu: so much so they got dragged all over to europe by various turkic people.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in fairnes, the gypsies did show real talent in working with zamak,
mircea_popescu: anyway, tardpedia's fascination with the east and white-hating notwithstanding, steel is a western invention.
mircea_popescu: swords are like computers - they only work for some grades of si
mircea_popescu: "the iron! my god, the iron!" spoken in italia by the degenerate successors of the latins.
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> Shhhhh, you are about to spoil the part where the hittites surprise pete_d with iron weapns << the hittites never had iron. you're thinking the franks.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> the kid who gets his first fuck - also disappointed << rly ?!
mircea_popescu: decimation: as I recall it cost around $2k in the late 80's << ahh, the days when a shitty mouse was 100 bux.
mircea_popescu: at some point you gotta put an engine in there somewhere.