In this case perhaps the audience should grow up and learn about the side of the world that doesn't follow strict formal logic. Hackers shouldn't be afraid of aesthetic arguments, with all of the desire for elegant solutions they profess.
Nobody is questioning the necessity of aesthetic considerations to solve problems of all kinds. What brought up this discussion was the usage of ornate but empty language to describe typography. Quicksort is an elegant solution but would you pay any attention to a text stating that ”Quicksort is not merely a sorting algorithm. It is a living creature; it feels joy at a well-chosen pivot point?“
That notwithstanding, I disagree again. When the author disregards their audience, alienation ensues. To change someone’s mind, I must first have someone’s attention. It’s my job as the author to make the audience grow up.
"Algorithms can be beautiful", or "code can be beautiful" is certainly something I wouldn't be surprised to hear from a programmer. I don't see people freaking out over those usages, though.
Certainly, yes, and appropriately so. Furthermore, ”code can be beautiful” entices attention and curiosity while ornate language does not. That’s all I meant.
The logical conclusion of the intuition to save this restaurant from rentiers is that all of the FIRE industries should be owned by the community that enables them, not private hands of a few psychopaths.
Article claims:
- Google should canonized (stock market as implied canon?)
- Anti-trust legislation is merely political whimsy
- Corporations don't have inherent structural problems, all problems are caused by individuals
Can we keep this shallow business major ideology crap off of HN? It is simplistic corporate knob slobbing. I expect a more empirical stance in this community.
Go talk to someone at the uni who who cares about enthusiasm. Simply filling out a boilerplate form deliver great results unless you are boilerplate too. Engage some social hacking.
If you wanna go the "official" route, you can pay VZW (and AT&T?) to have it act like a MiFi and connect up to five devices to it over WiFi. So awesome. But it does burn through batteries. The good news is...the Pre has REPLACEABLE BATTERIES! And they're cheap as hell on Amazon.
Even the new Veer has tethering available from AT&T. All webOS phones are capable of tethering, the older models being capable of wifi, bluetooth, and usb tethering.
