Commenters have mentioned both Dunning-Kruger and Gell-Mann Amnesia.
Gell-Mann Amnesia is rather strictly defined by its creator in the journalism domain, but perhaps it could be stretched to include the commentary here at Hacker News.
Still, I think that tagging your answer as "amnesia" does not work - unless you, yourself, manage to forget to be skeptical... on topics where you are not expert and commenters are still show-casing Dunning-Kruger.
And it's hilarious how many of them there are here!
I wouldn't say so. A low-volume product takes engineering costs into the price point, and while engineering might have been reasonably cheap here, I doubt it was free. Replacement tips are quite cheap as well ($6).
It's marketed as a premium tool and selling at a low volume. I don't know how quality it actually is, and I probably wouldn't buy one, but if I were in the market for a capacitive stylus, I wouldn't balk at $25. Pogo styluses (are crap) sit between $10 and $20. And they're useless for writing due to being squishy.
comments here that allude to the history of spaghetti code are actually a bit off topic with respect to the article, but the early fortran family (pointedly - F66) had severly limited control structures in the language: a very weak for loop, and the goto statement.
'while' and 'until' showed up in RATFOR (rational fortran) which fits into the lexical ancestry of 'C'. I think that the Algol family had these too.
without the more powerful control statements, GOTO was heavily used, and with wild abandon. Some variants even let you GOTO up and down the execution stack.
trying to trace logic (of course there weren't symbolic debuggers way back when) could be like following a strand of spaghetti.
my most (not) favorite modern examples are coroutines, but let's not forget the evergreen example of enterprise java wherein one can easily achieve stack depths that boggle the mind.
nevertheless, spaghetti code is a frame of mind in which the untutored implement minimally functional software systems that only work for trivial conditions and for which the source code itself can not be reverse engineered except with great magic, epic heroism and extraordinary luck on the attack roll.
A while back (seems like it's been about a year) Radio Shack solicited ideas to make their stores more relevant. I suggested they install 3d printers in every store to bring hobbyists back in.
For those who aren't well read (grin) a very good read looking at a dystopian future where 3d printers have displaced manufacturing is Cory Doctorow's "Makers". The Creative Commons licensed book can be downloaded from his website, craphound.com, or purchased elsewhere.
I suspect it may be one of those near-prophetic works of science fiction that will amaze future generations - "How'd he see that coming?"
Absolutely you do not have to subject yourself to his whims. You would be free to walk out the door if you found the grammar test offensive, or the push-ups test, or the rope-skipping test.
You do not deserve respect. Ever. You must always earn it.
> Absolutely you do not have to subject yourself to his whims. You would be free to walk out the door if you found the grammar test offensive, or the push-ups test, or the rope-skipping test.
> You do not deserve respect. Ever. You must always earn it.
There are multiple types of respect. "One human being to another" is the basic type. Everyone deserves that. Another is earned. And the last one is context dependent.
If I am coming in for a programming job, there are expectations and norms. I come in and you ask me to unclog the toilet since you read in some blog about some CEO doing it or it represents loyalty or commitment or whatever the fuck, I am free to walk out and I will walk out. But that doesn't excuse the fact that you didn't warrant me the respect I deserved.
Oh god. I hate this attitude. Respect is a right, not a privilege. Why should anyone have to earn something so basic? Do we also have to earn our privilege to breathe air? We're all equals and equally deserve respect. Yes, even you after you muttered that banality.
I would say that we're definitely not identical, but we can all be equal.
A better question, though I will answer yours shortly, is what does equality mean? It's simply the relative value we assign something. The thing is, we can think in terms of valuable and not valuable or we can skip the duality altogether and see everything on an equal level. A spade is thoroughly unvaluable if you have no hole to dig yet indispensable when you do. So what is it's absolute value? Is it equal to a saw? Is one person equal to another? It all depends on your perspective.
The problem with seeing inequality between people in terms of respect is that you will treat some of your fellow man badly, since you don't respect them. If their value is merely a matter of perspective, which is ever changing, would it not make more sense to see past our biases and show everyone respect, whether they are equal to what we currently identify as respect worthy or not?
To me, respect means to consider someone in high regard. In my experience, how I look at people ends up affecting how they act. People always tend towards living up to the expectations placed on them. By showing someone that I don't respect them, I am pushing them down rather than helping them up.
Putting it another way, when someone is on the defensive, because someone else looks down on them and does not show them respect, they close up and are not receptive to new information. By showing them respect even if they are bad at something, they are likely to listen to what you have to say and change how they act as a result of your words. Disrespecting someone with - "you type like an idiot" or ignoring them, will make them respond appropriately. Validating their actions - "cool, a more condensed form of English!" then suggesting something else - "I've had lots of success finding a job by writing like this", they might actually change.
If we want society (and spelling) to improve, we have to embrace those we call idiots and teach them, not push them away.
If someone is an awesome programmer but can't write English to save his life, why not educate him? You'll certainly have a more loyal employee if he feels that he's gained important skills from you.
tl;dr - Disrespect is damaging, respect is nurturing. Respect everyone and the sun will shine brighter.
> You do not deserve respect. Ever. You must always earn it.
Hm. If you don't have my respect, I may well feel justified in stealing from you. Is that really the kind of 'lack of respect' you think should be the default state?
Pretty awesome distillation of the history of software tools since, oh, no later than 1980.
Back in the dino days, the rate of change was tiny compared to today's daily delta V. We mostly had monthly and a few weekly rags to tell us about the next big thing; there weren't that many next big things, anyway. Hey, it was a really big deal when cartridge tapes came out and we didn't have to thread a 1/2 inch magtape by hand anymore... Geez, who could forget 1-base-T networking? or 9600 baud modems? Whew.
Don't get me started on software innovations like Oracle SQL\Forms! ManOhMan! Fergit CICS!
Seriously - the barrier of entry is so low now, that the least of us can throw something up on the wall and if it sticks or even just leaves a little residue, the flies are all over it, preaching it up, "This is the best shit ever."
There really isn't much new out there, mostly it's just lots of new flavor wheels. Think "Hudsucker Proxy" at times like this...
Based on comments here, multi-factor (non-wallet) authentication is used to identify the parties. This method of ID verification is a technique that I helped pioneer at Equifax many years ago, and I've been disappointed that it hasn't ever really seemed to take off before. I occasionally see it in use here and there, but now really expect it to be recognized for its value. Not perfect for every case, but a useful tool nonetheless.
Gell-Mann Amnesia is rather strictly defined by its creator in the journalism domain, but perhaps it could be stretched to include the commentary here at Hacker News.
Still, I think that tagging your answer as "amnesia" does not work - unless you, yourself, manage to forget to be skeptical... on topics where you are not expert and commenters are still show-casing Dunning-Kruger.
And it's hilarious how many of them there are here!