I tend to disagree. The language should allow me to do things, and what is simple and obvious logically should be simple and obvious in the language (I am looking at you, JavaScript with [] != [])
What I intend - well, more than half my work is figuring out what I intend, language should have no say in this, save things like "we do this kind of trick like this here" (for example, C++ has no concept of "interface" entity. Ok, looks like I can use virtual class instead)
It is when languages start trying to be "helpful" they become an ugly mess: meaningful white spaces in Python? The whole shit with prototypes and objects in JS(see above)? Fuck this shit, I am not going to call those two good programming languages
Bonus point: now look at how old humanity is. The Greek civilization, the Chinese, the Egypt... literally empires have come and gone, yet humans are just as dumb as thousands of years ago
Uhm, no. I am fine with my belly full, a place to sleep and a confidence that within foreseeable future no big bad thing is looming over me or my family - with that settled, I have no need to fight.
It needs to be said that the above does not mean I am not going to out effort in things beyond that scope, but those efforts come from the desire to make the word a better place, not from some fighting
Unless your "enemy" is "anything that most people see as a source of suffering/pain/other kind of unpleasantness", I do not see how your statement can be true. And even then it is still a dumb way to exist
Let me share with you unique kind of emotions:)
(I mean this in good faith)
non-native English speakers. It's actually a distinct source of getting astonished: grow up with some English songs around, love them for their melody and whatnot, then learn some English, then actually listen to or read the lyrics, and... oh, damn. So many things come out in totally different light
Around ten years ago, Ubuntu, my first time using Linux. Press Ctrl+Alt+Fsomething, drop to bash, run vlc videofile (Mylene Farmer Ennamoramento clip) - and the damn thing works! It plays video with ASCII graphics out of the box!
Stayed with Linux ever since, I just love that this is something I can actually learn and tinker with
Time to turn inside. Whatever around you gets fucked, essentially no one can order you "be miserable". If this one thing gets fixed a hundred percent your way, the rest is just a question of what you can do and how much of that you are willing to do
But does it seem a very long road to become fully in control of own interiority.
I did not come up with this on my own, just picked if up from someone else, but can't argue with it
I've got flash news then: unless I want 70 years old people to work production lines, my job (a developer) can be done by a seventy years old person. Or a job of an artist. Or
<insert bunch of professions here>
. Physical strength does naturally deteriorate, and that is the only thing that actually is does.
Now, to the more important: producing goods? Really? Since when has it become the only thing you look at? And since when producing goods is something only people-under-random-age-limit can do?
Yeah, can't deny that. That's a shame, they did and still do have some wonderful people, but the you're-not-japanese-so-fuck-you-one-way-or-another mindset is a disgrace. If even I know that granting Japanese citizenship to someone who is not Japanese by blood is something extra-extra-extraordinary, it means things are - ok, I am tired of swearing - very bad
While I do not share the sentiment of "let them finally die", I am very curious what will win: wanting to survive as a country and society or that bullshit worldview they are known for by anyone who learns anything more about Japan than just cool tech-anime-sake combo
I do hope they will change and survive. Ikkyu Sojun has earned a very special place in my heart (the one, who was a monk, son of emperor, who got a particular letter from his mother that is now famous among anyone who learns anything about Buddhism in Japan)
Da fuck "productive" is, for fuck's sake. Anyone thought of not running human intelligence into fucking ground over a period of... what? Roughly 60 - 20 = 40 years?
Or what, humans can't think after retirement age because
<insert some bullshit>
?
You absolutely can have any percentage of
<insert random age group>
, provided human wellbeing is being taken care of, constantly and in all aspects
Simple: death will come, it is a guarantee you get by being born. So, unless your life is hell (diseases can do that easily, including mental ones) and it clearly won't end (or anyway not before you become broken beyond repair), why not see some life before it ends
Heh. My back started hurting when I thought of moving those weights around.
I am no psychiatrist, but hey, now you have one more guy who wants you to live as long as the body can carry you
I tend to disagree. The language should allow me to do things, and what is simple and obvious logically should be simple and obvious in the language (I am looking at you, JavaScript with [] != [])
What I intend - well, more than half my work is figuring out what I intend, language should have no say in this, save things like "we do this kind of trick like this here" (for example, C++ has no concept of "interface" entity. Ok, looks like I can use virtual class instead)
It is when languages start trying to be "helpful" they become an ugly mess: meaningful white spaces in Python? The whole shit with prototypes and objects in JS(see above)? Fuck this shit, I am not going to call those two good programming languages