On 7/17/2012 9:47 PM, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote:
[Despite my better judgement I'm going to respond to this even though it is
seriously off-topic.]
in all likelihood, the topic will probably end pretty soon anyways.
don't really know how much more can really be said on this particular
subject a
[Despite my better judgement I'm going to respond to this even though it is
seriously off-topic.]
On 17/07/12 17:18, BGB wrote:
> an issue though is that society will not tend to see a person as they are as
> a person, but
> will rather tend to see a person in terms of a particular set of stereot
BGB writes:
>> Well it's clear that it's not their best interest to do that: only about
>> 40% males reproduce in this setup.
>
> it is in the best interest of those who are successful.
>
> if a person works in their own best interests, it may benefit
> themselves, but this is not to say that it
On 7/17/2012 8:56 AM, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
BGB writes:
but you can't really afford a house without a job, and can't have a
job without a car (so that the person can travel between their job and
their house).
Job is an invention of the Industrial era. AFAIK, our great great grand
pare
BGB writes:
> likewise, many people who aren't really programmers, but are just
> trying to get something done, probably aren't really going to take a
> formal approach to learning programming, but are more likely going to
> try to find code fragments off the internet they can cobble together
> t
On 7/17/2012 11:12 AM, Loup Vaillant wrote:
Pascal J. Bourguignon a écrit :
BGB writes:
dunno, I learned originally partly by hacking on pre-existing
codebases, and by cobbling things together and seeing what all did and
did not work (and was later partly followed by looking at code and
writin
On 7/17/2012 9:04 AM, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
David-Sarah Hopwood writes:
On 17/07/12 02:15, BGB wrote:
so, typically, males work towards having a job, getting lots money, ... and
will choose
females based mostly how useful they are to themselves (will they be faithful,
would they
make
Pascal J. Bourguignon a écrit :
BGB writes:
dunno, I learned originally partly by hacking on pre-existing
codebases, and by cobbling things together and seeing what all did and
did not work (and was later partly followed by looking at code and
writing functionally similar mock-ups, ...).
some
David-Sarah Hopwood writes:
> On 17/07/12 02:15, BGB wrote:
>> so, typically, males work towards having a job, getting lots money, ... and
>> will choose
>> females based mostly how useful they are to themselves (will they be
>> faithful, would they
>> make a good parent, ...).
>>
>> meanwhile
BGB writes:
> but you can't really afford a house without a job, and can't have a
> job without a car (so that the person can travel between their job and
> their house).
Job is an invention of the Industrial era. AFAIK, our great great grand
parents had houses.
> I don't really think it is a
BGB a écrit :
people need to live their lives, and to do this, they need a job and
money (and a house, car, ...).
As individuals, in our current society, yes. We can strive for other
solutions, however. A analogy with computing would be to say people
need an http//html browser to search the I
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