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Egypt's traffic and culture
If Egypt's traffic problems are solved, all of Egypt's problems will be solved.
I very much believe that. Egypt's traffic is a replica of our society, a big mess --and for the same reasons. Every problem in our society is reflected in our traffic. So if we are capable of fixing our traffic problems, it means that we were able to fix our societal and cultural problems.
Our traffic problem is a contribution of everyone in our society. The government has a big role, the drivers (and pedestrians) have a role, traffic officers have a role, and the law and its skewed enforcement has a role.
The government is totally incapable of devising a proper traffic system, building a safe road infrastructure (which is not about asphalt, but about road signs, traffic lights, lane markers, sidewalks), cannot set a usable traffic law, and is full of corrupt and inept officers. The officers in the street are enfocring a haphazard law that is not well defined. They are enforcing their own whims on drivers who don't know what the law today is, and have to guess if its illegal to park on this side of the road (when there's no sign), or if its illegal to take a left turn (when there's no sign) only to find an officer waiting for them at the end of the street with a violations book. You have to wait for hours if Hosni's parade is passing by, you have to give the right of way to any high ranking official (or foreign visitor) with a Jeep Cherokee entourage pointing machine guns at you.
To survive Egypt's traffic you either have to be powerful with the right connections, be filthy rich, be a thug, or mind your own business avoiding trouble. I end up being a mix of the four, but I try to mind my own business.
The powerful with the right connections will do as they please in our lawless streets, and never pay a fine. The rich, are powerful, they pay bribes, but never pay a fine. The thugs, will do as they please, never questioned, except if the government is short in money and needs some extra revenue. The peaceful and powerless have no business driving in those streets, they're just causing a traffic jam. If you want to save yourself from going insane, or from being one of the above four types of people, then your best mean of interaction with the traffic system (or any other system in Egypt) is through a proxy. Get a driver.
Those U-turns which they replaced every major traffic light intersection with, enforces an uncivilized culture of 'survival of the fittest', where you don't wait for your turn, but you take a steep left from the extreme right lane to the extreme left lane, take a U-turn, then another steep right from the extreme left lane to the extreme right lane. No yielding allowed, and there is no right of way in this situation. Force will give you your right of way, and that's the way the government wants it, and the only way our society functions.
The reckless goon drivers of the microbusses are a demonstration of the lawlessness in the streets, of the corruption that is supported by the retired police officers who own those microbusses. Human defect is exemplified in those drivers.
The decades old, unsafe and pollution friendly cars filling the streets are a reflection of the way we function and think as a society. The contrast of those old crumbled cars along side of fancy German cars and donkey carts, is a real contrast of our society.
Egyptians in fact do not know how to drive. They keep gloating that they are the best drivers in the world, and that if you drive in Cairo's streets then you can drive anywhere else. But that's not true. Knowing how to push the gas pedal and maneuvering your automobile in between other vehicles and people is not the definition of good driving. Its knowing the traffic rules, and respecting them, its knowing who has the right of way and giving it to them, checking your blind spot, and waiting for a pedestrian to cross, and so forth.
The people are certainly contributing to the mess. The government, lack of proper laws, and proper law enforcement encourages that behavior of ours. But we take it too far however, and enjoy the lawlessness. Typical Egyptian traits can be vividly seen in Egypt's streets. Traits such as always wanting to outsmart the law, taking short cuts and extreme negligence are a daily routine that we can't live without, but which are ruining our lives.
People driving in the opposite direction directly facing other moving cars, has nothing to do with lack/ignorance of laws or their enforcement. It has to do with greed and disrespect for other people's rights and for human lives.
The lack of traffic laws, law enforcement and driver education cannot be excuses for the the Egyptian drivers' attitude of extreme negligence and lack of respect for the other and for the other's rights.
What's amazing is that people somehow manage, cars get moving, people reach their destinations, traffic jams are much less than other countries, accidents are much more which people choose to ignore that fact. It works, in a very screwed up definition of the word "works", but it does.
Just like traffic. What's amazing is that life doesn't stop in Egypt, the country doesn't exactly fall into shambles, we're stagnant as a society and not developing, but we survive. A very screwed up definition of the word "survive", but we do. Is that enough though? just to survive!
Egyptian traits, cultural and societal ills are reflected in our streets. The inept government, traffic officers, drivers, and laws constitute our society, are part of it and result from it. The attitude of all these in the streets is our attitude in our daily lives, in our dealing with each other, in how Egypt is 'developed'.
If our traffic problem is ever solved, then its an indication that the rest of our problems have been solved.


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Victoria and David Beckham have dismissed allegations linking them to an alleged tax avoidance scheme, insisting they have always paid their bills "in full."
The couple has become the latest big names to be linked to a movie-funding company which is among a number of schemes facing a government probe over claims they exploited loopholes in the system to help investors claim tax relief.
Reports suggest many investors could face hefty bills in the coming months as officials look into whether such schemes are legitimate.
However, a representative for the Beckhams has now spoken out to dismiss allegations the superstars ever knowingly participated in a tax avoidance scheme, saying in a statement, "The Beckhams have always paid their taxes in full and have never been involved in aggressive tax avoidance schemes. They have also been long-time supporters of the creative industries."
Theatre mogul Andrew Lloyd Webber, who has also been linked to the Ingenious Media movie company, which has helped fund films such as "Avatar" and "Life of Pi," adds, "(I was) investing in the British film industry… At no time did I consider it solely a tax scheme."
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I'm starting this thread with the simple question -- after installing FireFox, then how do you start it? I have googled, and read various documents from Mozilla, FreeBSD Ports, Linux, Debian, SCO, ad nauseam, but I'm still just not getting it.
After a make install clean, all seems well, but when attempting to start the browser, a message such as "no display specified" is the result.
From what I've read, sounds like an "xterm" session or something needs to be started as a subsystem for FireFox to run in. Can this be real? Seems to me that FireFox should be able to prepare it own run environment. What am I missing? (This is probably one of those things that makes perfect sense . . .once you understand it )
After installing firefox, should be as simple as:
If that's still not doing it, what FreeBSD version are you running, which port did you install exactly, and what is the complete error message you're seeing?
P.S. You are doing this from within a graphical environment, right?
Kill your t.v.
It sounds like he's trying to start firefox without an X server running, that will not work.. for obvious reasons.
Bingo! Precisely it . . ."an X server". Well, you see, all I've read are comments like "after the make, all it takes is $ firefox" , but never any mention of "Oh, by the way, you've got to start an X server." I'm not even trying to suggest that I know everything about programming applications, but I've written a lot of interactive code over the past 35 years. If I were writing a startup shell script or an OS/400 CLP to invoke an application . . .and if the application needed a running X server (whatever), then I'd put in something like "if an X server is not running, then (duh) start one".
This may sound incredible, but since around January 2002, I've run FreeBSD v4.11 with only a command line console. Just last evening, I ported via the internet v7.2 and made FireFox3, so this is a new thing for me. As I mentioned before, this will make perfect sense once I understand it
Thanks, I'll readup on X servers.
I apologize for any disrespect, but "FireFox" is a graphical web browser typically used by people that already have an existing X environment setup on their Unix-based desktops.
Now that you've "updated" this system to version 7.2 of FreeBSD, presuming it's local.. setting up X is typically quite simple these days, but you will probably want to decide on a windowing environment for X.
If you can post a dmesg here in [code][/code], we can attempt to help you with platform specific things..
This might be of some assistances:
Good luck.. we look forward to some future replies.
Hey, no offense taken or apology needed. I'm making X11 right now.
What you are seeing is the result of decisions made decades ago.
When X was developed at MIT, memory was still quite expensive. Thus, it was decided that X's functionality would be treated akin to a "kernel" such that all X applications would simply call down to common shared libraries to conserve memory & promote simultaneous execution of multiple applications at the same time. The alternative would be to statically link all libraries into each application which would be both redundant & increase application size. The result is if an X application does not find necessary libraries already loaded, then it will abort with a "no display specified" message.
This is a common practice adopted by other (emulating) environments such as Windows; if an inadequate subsystem is prescribed (trying to execute a graphical application as a console app...), bail with an equally cryptic message.
Yes, I do understand. On a "sidebar" note, I am amazed that the make file architecture works as well as it does. I told my wife last evening that the dollar co$t to start from scratch, design and code the monster would involve millions of US dollars . . .relative on what you value your time . . .$25, $75, $145 . . .or more. All in all, Free/Open et al BSD is a bargin.
I'm also a fugitive from the original FreeBSD forum, and I have to say that through the years, the help that I've received from other members is invaluable.
Regarding my experience with my latest install (FreeBSD v7.2R, FireFox v3.0.10,1, Xorg, etc.) . . .all I needed was a little nudge in the right direction to help me see the forest in spite of the trees. BTW, my Xorg install finished, wife brought home groceries, I cooked, and finally with a little tweaking, I have FireFox v3 running on my v7.2 FreeBSD install.
Of note, I am absolutely amazed at how fast web pages are served up . . .compared to the same performance on my Windoze XP Pro workstation. We retrieve pages from several gov/mil websites that have certificates that Windoze/IE does not "like", and that negotiation apparently kludges the conversation. Also, I suspect that there is a lot of Windoze overhead involved in the entire process.
I've still got a few configuration things to work out . . .wheel on the mouse doesn't work, and html document fonts are not per the cascading style sheet specs. Also, I may need to ask some questions regarding viewing of MS/PowerPoint presentations, Acrobat PDF's etc., but I'll do some reading first.
Again, many thanks,
Ron W.
OOo's Impress has support for PPT presentations, AFAIK.
For PDFs, aside from Xpdf and the Linux version of Acrobat Reader, you may also try EPDFView.
May the source be with you!
Actually you couldn't install the firefox without having X dependencies being installed beforehand... i think this is just a question of configuration. Follow X configuration guide in handbook...
Actually . . .that's what I expected . . .I did notice a lot of X11 stuff zipping by on stdout as the FireFox make was in progress, never-the-less, X seemed to not want to start . . .probably (obviously) my fault for not configuring X as you've commented. I assumed that FireFox "included" the graphic server layer (for the lack of a better explanation), and I've mentioned that I've several years of interactive application programming. My style is to focus on error, exception and information messaging (quite juxtaposed to the Way of Windoze); consequently, when I attempted to start FireFox outside of a graphic layer, then I concluded that something was wrong with FireFox because there was no message, e.g., "Hey dummy, you need to start X-Windows first!"
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…that means that at or around December 21 2012 the Nation will run out of gold to pay the Federal Reserve
To solve a problem, you have to first know you have a problem. Most of us fail to recognize that in fact there is a problem, and there lies the problem. The problem is, we actually believe we are a free people living in a free country with a robust free market economy. We think we elect the government officials that run this country. This is what the New World Order wants you to think.
It's closer to the truth to say that at the turn of the twentieth century, a group of monied elite overthrew the government of the United States. It has been said we have the best Congress money can buy, and certainly bribery, blackmail and betrayal are not new to American Government.
On December 23, 1913, during Christmas break, with most of the Congressmen home with their families, the monied elite in Congress that stayed in Washington D.C. passed the Federal Reserve Act. It was quickly signed into law before the other members of Congress could get back to Washington D.C. to do anything about it.
This is significant because up until then, the Constitution of the U.S. states that only the Treasury could issue legal money. They did this by minting gold and silver coins and printing Treasury Notes that were backed by gold and silver. Now however, this responsibility to issue legal tender currency (not money, currency) would be shared with a group of twelve privately owned banks that would collectively become known as the Federal Reserve, even though they were not Federal and had no reserve.
The Federal Reserve would be allowed to print and issue Federal Reserve Notes, a currency know as a fiat currency or backed by not gold or silver, but by nothing at all! Furthermore, if other banks needed additional funds, they had to request them from the Federal Reserve Bank in their area. Likewise banks were not allowed to keep excessive funds in their vaults. These had to be surrendered to the Federal Reserve Bank in their area. Now the Federal Reserve was in control of the Nations currency and money supply.
It wasn't long before a rift started. When banks had an excess of funds, what they surrendered to the area Federal Reserve Bank was Federal Reserve Notes or other paper money. That was not what the Federal Reserve wanted. They wanted the gold and silver sent to them. So to punish the bankers who held out the good stuff from them, the next time those banks needed additional funds, the Federal Reserve refused to deliver them. This caused those banks to actually run out of money. The Federal Reserve actually put them out of business because they wouldn't play ball with them.
Monied elite interests that controlled the media at the time, (and for the most part still do) leaked the fact that some banks were running out of money. This created a public panic and citizens rushed to their local banks to draw out their money. As banks funds ran low, the Federal Reserve would send funds only to those banks that had in the past surrendered gold and silver to them. They gave nothing to the other banks, thus putting their competition, those that opposed a worthless currency, out of business.
This went on for about a year and a half until President FDR was elected. Being one of the monied elite and in league with the Federal Reserve, FDR declared a banking emergency and shut down all banks in the Nation for six days. This of course predictably caused an even larger public panic. Banks were re-opened and FDR issued Executive Order #6120 which made it illegal to own gold as a private citizen. All gold was to be surrendered to the Treasury or the Federal Reserve.
Understand something here, the Government of this Nation is of the people, by the people and for the people. That means the Government owns nothing of its own, it is only entrusted with assets which belong to the people of this Nation. The Nations gold supply is really the peoples gold supply, that means you, all of you!
It is interesting that the Federal Reserve Banks did not want to accept their own Federal Reserve Notes. If a chef won't eat their own cooking you shouldn't either. For the job of controlling the Nations money supply, the Federal Reserve gets paid a fee known as Seigniorage. This fee is not paid to them in Federal Reserve Notes. They refuse to accept them as payment because they know they are worth nothing. They are paid in Gold Certificates which are redeemable for only one thing, GOLD! If gold isn't real money, why is it important that it is the only payment the Federal Reserve will accept? Think about that, I mean really…think about it!
The whole conspiracy was sinister and slow. Take 1% of the Nations gold as payment every year so nobody will notice. 1% is a small amount for a year, however that only lasts 100 years before it is all gone. Remember the Federal Reserve Act was passed on December 23, 1913. That means that at or around December 21, 2012, the date the Mayan calendar predicts destruction of life because (the Earth will move), the Nation will run out of gold to pay the Federal Reserve.
Another term for the Earth moving is a shake-up or upheaval.
In case you are too poor to pay attention, this Nation is in an economic crisis, and every move being made doesn't seem to be able to fix it. That's because fake money (Federal Reserve Notes) do not act like real money. The mechanics that govern money do not work on the credit debt currency that we are forced to use. In a couple of years when we no longer have gold to pay the Federal Reserve, what do you suppose will happen?
The Federal Reserve has suggested combining the currencies of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico into one currency called the Amero. You would be able to exchange your Federal Reserve Notes for Amero at 10 dollars for one Amero. Think about that! That's a ten to one reverse split and it may even be 15 or 20 to one if they can get away with it. That would make your Federal Reserve Notes worth about a nickel, but then truly it already is against the real dollar.
It is only going to get worse and complete collapse of our economy is eminent. Some people want the Money Matrix to continue because they feel warn and fuzzy and are comfortable where they are in the system. But just as in the movie "The Matrix" where Neo wants to pull the plug on the system, if you don't wake up now, it will be too late. Wake up people, the Money Matrix has you!
Phillip Tilley is author of The Money Matrix of the New World Order and other articles.


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Tourism-Related Employment Leads the State in Growth for 33 Straight Months
Governor Scott announced today that according to preliminary estimates* released today by VISIT FLORIDA – the state's official tourism marketing corporation – 89.3 million visitors came to Florida in 2012, an increase of 2.3 percent over 2011. This represents a record year for visitation to Florida, exceeding the previous high of 87.3 million in 2011. The number of direct travel-related jobs in 2012 was also a record high, with 1,030,600 Floridians employed in the tourism industry.
"Welcoming two million more visitors in 2012 marks the second consecutive record year for tourism in the Sunshine State," Governor Scott said. "With the hospitality sector ending the year up 30,300 jobs, it's clear that more visitors means more jobs for Florida families. Our economy is headed in the right direction and with our Florida Families First Budget commitment of $75 million in funding to support VISIT Florida, we will continue to support even more economic growth."
VISIT FLORIDA estimates that 10.2 million overseas visitors and 3.6 million Canadians came to Florida in 2012, both of which are record highs and represent 9.0 percent and 7.3 percent increases over 2011 respectively. Estimates reflect a 1.2 percent increase in domestic visitors to Florida in 2012 and show that Floridians took a total of 20.3 million in-state pleasure trips.
"Surpassing the 10 million overseas visitor mark for the first time ever is a significant milestone for Florida's tourism industry," said Glenn Hastings, Chairman of the VISIT FLORIDA Board of Directors and Executive Director of the St. Johns County Tourist Development Council. "With over 10 percent of all Canadians traveling to Florida last year, we are exceedingly grateful for the loyalty of our friends and family to the North."
Tourism and recreation taxable sales for Florida increased every month year-over-year from January through November 2012 (last reported month), representing a 6.9 percent increase over the same period in 2011. For 2012, the average daily room rate rose 4.2 percent and the occupancy rate for Florida hotels increased 3.2 percentage points compared to 2011. Both ADR and occupancy increased every month year-over-year in 2012.
Preliminary data from Smith Travel Research indicates Florida tourism has been steadily regaining market share since January 2012, outpacing the rest of the U.S. by more than .3 percentage points. According to the same study, room revenue in Florida for 2012 was up 7.6 percent compared to 2011, while the U.S. is only up 7.3 percent.
"We are incredibly encouraged by the tourism industry's record numbers in 2012 and look forward to continuing to build on this momentum in 2013 to make Florida the No. 1 travel destination in the world," said Will Seccombe, President and CEO of VISIT FLORIDA.
For fourth quarter 2012, estimates show 21.4 million people visited the Sunshine State. This reflects an increase of 1.8 percent over the same period in 2011. VISIT FLORIDA also reports that an estimated 2.8 million overseas visitors traveled to Florida in the fourth quarter of 2012, an increase of 8.0 percent, and 749,000 Canadians traveled to Florida, reflecting an increase of 9.6 percent over the same period in 2011.
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CERTIFIED ORGANIC Black Chia Seeds 2lb
The Chia Seed is an amazing food. For centuries many have used the seeds for a host of different reasons. Native Americans would take a pouch of seeds and a gourd of water on their trips. The seeds were their food source and taken with the water they would hydrate their bodies for endurance. When you hydrate the seeds in water the seeds shell opens up and absorbs up to nine times its volume in water. This then forms a gel, which is called Chia Seed Gel. The gel helps keep your body hydrated. The gel is also 90% soluble fiber, which is beneficial for your digestive track. People use the seeds when they are involved in sports or physical activities for endurance.
The seeds have twice the protein of any other seed or grain, five times the calcium of milk, boron which is trace mineral that helps transfer calcium into your bones, omega 3 and omega 6 which are essential oils for the body. They also have a very long list of valuable nutrients in them naturally. The soluble fiber in the gel forms a wall between carbohydrates and the body, releasing them slowly into the body. This has been found to be very helpful for people who have trouble controlling their sugar levels like Diabetics. Dieters love the seeds because it can be added to any food or drink in a ratio of 75% to the volume of food or drink and will not change the taste. Because the carbohydrates are released slowly you will get the feeling of being full. Many use the seeds as a way to control their appetites. The gel has no taste.
The best way to use the seeds is to take the seeds already hydrated so they will not absorb your own body fluids to hydrate. The seeds may be added to anything from water to juice and any food. Any age bracket could benefit from adding the seeds to their diet. Whether it is for physical activity, added nutrition, controlling weight or sugar levels, the seeds have been known to help all of these The most unique part is that it is only a seed, nothing artificial and the cost is minimal. I have many satisfied customers who swear by the Chia seeds. The seeds speak for themselves. When you receive the seeds, first hydrate them and store them in the refrigerator. They will last for three weeks, just use as needed and add to any food or liquid. They may be taken plain as well. Some of my customers will take the dry seeds to work with them and then add them to their drinks or food if they aren't able to store the gel. If you take the seeds dry make sure you use some kind of liquid so that you wont use the liquids from your own body. I can't say enough about the seeds and just how beneficial they can really be. I have seen my customer's response to the seeds and it has been very overwhelming. Finally, there seems to be a way to help your body stay hydrated, control sugar levels, maintain or lose weight and supply your body with the much-needed nutrients all naturally and at a low cost.
I personally take the seeds to help with hydration and my digestive tract. I also feel better now that I am getting the nutrients my body needs without all the additives it doesn't need. I hope you will try the seeds for yourself. Once you try them you will be able to judge for yourself the benefits. You do not need too much protein or omega 3 and 6 so the maximum of the gel you will need is three tablespoonfuls three times a day of the gel. Once a day you may substitute one tablespoon of dry seeds in place of the three tablespoons of gel. Along with the seeds you will receive directions on how to make the gel and their nutritional values.
Directions for using Chia Seeds
Put 1/3 cup dry seeds into two cups of warm water whisk, wait fifteen mins then whisk again then store gel in refrigerator .Use three tablespoons three times a day of the gel (seeds hydrated).
You can mix them into any drink or food and may even just take the gel. Once a day you can take up to one tablespoon of the dry seeds and add them to fluid or sprinkle them on food and drink fluid at the same time so the seeds hydrate from the fluid. Depending on the reason you are taking the seeds you may choose the time to take the one-tablespoon of dry seeds. Either before a workout or meal or in the morning. If you are taking the one-tablespoon daily in fluid you can do what I do with mine. So not to have to mix it every day and wait for the seeds to hydrate I take seven bottles (20oz.Size) of purified water, and seven tablespoons of dry seeds and mix in a bowl. Whisk and then fifteen mins. whisk again. Pour back into bottles and refrigerate.
If you want to have juice added to your bottle just add two cans of juice concentrate into the water and seed gel and mix before you place back into bottles. (You will need two empty bottles for the extra due to the juice concentrate)
Every day I just take out the bottle already prepared and drink it. The rest of the day I take three tablespoons of gel at lunchtime and at dinnertime. You will know your body and what is right for you. The most you need to take is three tablespoons three times a day of the gel with one serving being replaced with one tablespoon of dry seeds with liquid if wanted.
Uses For Chia Seeds
You can mix the Chia Gel - Fruit juices, smoothies, milk, shakes,jams, jellies,preserves,syrups, lemonade, yogurt, nut butters, hot cereal, cold cereal, polenta, grits, pancake and waffle mix (use 1 tablespoon per pancake), mustard, bbq sauce, tarter sauce, dips, soups, mayonnaise, salad dressings, or used instead of oil or shortening in baking. Up to 75%, by weight, of the gel may be added to anything without loss of flavor while enhancing texture and cutting fat calories 30 to 50 percent. Add to anything you wish for reducing calories, saturated fat and sugar amounts without compromising sensory appeal. It is a dieters dream food and its use is limitless.
Digestive Aid
Use of 2-3 tablespoons Chia gel with each meal for better assimilation of food, increases nutrient absorption and encourages better elimination. It also prevents indigestion and heartburn without risk of harmful side effects. An exceptional food for Diabetics as it slows the conversion of carbohydrates to sugar which stabilizes blood sugar and regulates the body's absorption of fluids, i.e. electrolyte balance, more efficiently.
Incorporating Chia seeds into your daily diet will enhance the nutrient absorption of all foods, including nutritional supplements. As an Aid in GERD, Ulcers, Gastritis and Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
I myself have Gerd (Gastro Esophagus Reflux Disease), acute gastritis, a gastric ulcer and IBS. I have dealt with these conditions for almost 20 years. I have taken all the medications from Tagament to Prevacid. In using the Chia Seeds myself, I always told my customers not to use the Chia Seeds without a fluid because it would hydrate from the fluid in your stomach.
One day my stomach was hurting real bad because of the acid. I took one tablespoon of dried seeds with just enough water to get them down. I waited for five minutes and then I drank more water to finish hydrating the seeds. It worked! The seeds hydrated from the acid in my stomach. The pain stopped. :)
The part that impressed me the most was that I was relieving the pain as well as getting all the benefits the seeds have to offer. Now I do recommend taking the Chia Seeds dry only if you have a lot of acid in your stomach. At 10 cents a serving it is a natural alternative to high price prescription drugs. A lot of my customers have used the seeds this way. I also recommend them to my customers who have IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) because of the high soluble fiber in the Chia Seed gel. Only if you have a lot of acid in your stomach, should you take them dry with no water till five minutes later.
Chia Milk (makes full blender jar / 5 cups)
In a jar or glass, soak seeds and walnuts overnight in 3 cups of water. Pour into blender jar, add 1 cup of water, and turn on blender, running it at medium speed. With blender running, add tahini, honey, and vanilla, and then add 1 more cup of water. Blend only until smooth.
Chia milk is rich in EFAs and protein. Because of the soaking, it is also particularly rich in enzymes. Because of Chia seeds' antioxidants, it will keep well in your refrigerator. Use it within a week as a substitute for other forms of milk. (Maybe you'll decide that Chia milk isn't a substitute for anything; rather, other forms of milk are a substitute for Chia milk.)
Chia Seeds for pets
I have had many customers also give their pets the Chia seeds and have been approached by companies who sell animal food and snacks with Chia Seeds added. They will do the same for your animals as they do for you. You can take the information to your vet and he will advise you.
CHIA SEED FAQ's
Where do you get your Chia seed?
We source our chia seed from Mexico.
How is it processed?
Goes thru a shaking and sifting process to clean.
Does it see any heat treatment?
Absolutely NO heat treatment.
Is the soil it's farmed on naturally rich or fortified with fertilizers?
No fertilizers or chemicals are used, Chia is naturally rich.
Where did you get the information regarding the nutritional factors in the comparisons you gave in the items description?
The information comes from our Supplier. Also, our chia seed will go thru testing from FDA at customs and have COA along with each shipment.
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*As a result of changing seasons and crops, you may notice a difference or variation in the color, size, texture, taste, etc. of this product. We thank you for your kind understanding of these variances. Your feedback and suggestions are always welcome. We highly value your input, as it helps us to identify how we can better serve you in the future. Thank YOU! -The Raw Food World Team
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I made a very similar recipe last year and I could have sworn that it was from Epicurious. However when I went to dig up the recipe I could not for the life of me find it! I knew it had flank steak, noodles and spinach. It was also Asian flavored. But for whatever reason I couldn't find the darn recipe. So, I searched through some of my favorite blogs and found two recipes – one here and the other here.
I think what I love most about this recipe is that it is a noodle and green leaf salad. I get my pasta and my salad all in one meal! The sweet/salty soy dressing and marinated flank steak is just perfect and somewhat addicting – especially when you kick up the heat a few notches with the sriracha – YUM!
You can serve this with all of the ingredients cold or you can serve it while the steak and noodles are still slightly warm. This wilts the veggies a bit which I love.
As I am writing I am thinking about the different combinations you could do with this. You could swap out the flank steak for chicken or even tofu. You could swap out the green onions for some fried onions or even some thinly sliced red onions. I might also like this with some cashews or water chestnuts. Wow, I am getting hungry and I need to stop thinking about this salad.
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Asian Steak and Noodle Salad
- 1 Asian Flank Steak Recipe - Prepared
- Dressing:
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon teaspoon honey (For low carb can omit or replace with your favorite Sugar substitute. I use a tablespoon or golden Monkfruit.)
- 1 Tablespoon lime juice
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 2 teaspoons fresh ginger minced
- Salad
- 1/2 bag of baby spinach - washed
- 12 oz angel hair pasta (for low carb you can use rinsed Shirataki Noodles)
- red or yellow pepper - sliced into thin 2 inch strips
- 3 green onions sliced thin white and green parts
- Chopped Cilantro
- handful of sunflower seeds
- Sriracha
- Cook flank steak according to directions here. Slice into thin strips.
- Combine dressing ingredients and set aside.
- Cook pasta according to directions on box.
- Slice peppers and green onion. Chop cilantro.
- To put salad together place spinach in the bottom of your salad bowl and then add pepper and green onions. Place pasta and steak on top of your vegetables. sprinkle with cilantro, sunflower seeds a sriracha if desired. Add dressing and toss to coat evenly.
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Sunday, May 4, 2008
An Under-Appreciated Fact: We Don't Know How We Program
My immediate response, I freely admit, was to open and shut my mouth a couple of times while trying to think of response more diplomatic than "How could anyone be so dumb as to suggest that?". But I have been mulling over that conversation, and I have come to the conclusion that the suggestion was not dumb at all. The problem lies not with my colleague's intelligence but in a simple fact. It is so basic that nobody in the software industry notices it, but nobody outside the industry knows it. The fact is this: there is no process for programming.
Software development abounds with processes of course: we have processes for requirements engineering, requirements management, configuration management, design review, code review, test design, test review, and on and on. Massive process documents are written. Huge diagrams are drawn with dozens of boxes to try to encompass the complexity of the process, and still they are gross oversimplifications of what needs to happen. And yet in every one of these processes and diagrams there is a box which basically says "write the code", and ought to be subtitled "(and here a miracle occurs)". Because the process underneath that box is very simple: read the problem, think hard until a solution occurs to you, and then write down the solution. That is all we really know about it.
To anyone who has written a significant piece of software this fact is so obvious that it seems to go without saying. We were taught to program by having small examples of code explained to us, and then we practiced producing similar examples. Over time the examples got larger and the concepts behind them more esoteric. Loops and arrays were introduced, then pointers, lists, trees, recursion, all the things you have to know to be a competent programmer. Like many developers I took a 3 year degree course in this stuff. But at no point during those three years did any lecturer actually tell me how to program. Like everyone else, I absorbed it through osmosis.
But to anyone outside the software world this seems very strange. Think about other important areas of human endeavor: driving a car, flying a plane, running a company, designing a house, teaching a child, curing a disease, selling insurance, fighting a lawsuit. In every case the core of the activity is well understood: it is written down, taught and learned. The process of learning the activity is repeatable: if you apply yourself sufficiently then you will get it. Aptitude consists mostly of having sufficient memory capacity and mental speed to learn the material and then execute it efficiently and reliably. Of course in all these fields there are differences in ability that transcend the mere application of process. But basic competence is generally within reach of anyone with a good memory and average mental agility. It is also true that motor skills such as swimming or steering a car take practice rather than book learning, but programming does not require any of those.
People outside the software industry assume, quite reasonably, that software is just like all the other professional skills; that we take a body of knowledge and apply it systematically to particular circumstances. It follows that variation in productivity and quality is a solvable problem, and that the solution lies in imposing uniformity. If a project is behind schedule then people need to be encouraged to crank through the process longer and faster. If quality is poor then either the process is defective or people are not following it properly. All of this is part of the job of process improvement, which is itself a professional skill that consists of systematically applying a body of knowledge to particular circumstances.
But if there is no process then you can't improve it. The whole machinery of process improvement loses traction and flails at thin air, like Wiley Coyote running off a cliff. So the next time someone in your organisation says something seemingly dumb about software process improvement, try explaining that software engineering has processes for everything except actually writing software.
Update: Some of the discussion here, and on Reddit and Hacker News is arguing that many other important activities are creative, such as architecture and graphic design. Note that I didn't actually mention "architecture" as a profession, I said "designing a house" (i.e. the next McMansion on the subdivision, not one of Frank Lloyd Wright's creations). People give architects and graphic designers room to be creative because social convention declares that their work needs it. The problem for software is that non-software-developers don't see anything creative about it.
The point of this post is not that software "ought" to be more creative or that architecture "ought" to be less. The point is that we need to change our rhetoric when explaining the problem. Declaring software to be creative looks to the rest of the world like a sort of "art envy", or else special pleading to be let off the hook for project overruns and unreliable software. Emphasising the lack of a foundational process helps demonstrate that software really does have something in common with the "creative" activities.
39 comments:
My big realization, similar to yours, is that programming is 95% design.
No manufacturing. No construction. Just design.
Furthermore, when you look closely at design tasks in other professions, you'll discover that nobody has a process for design.
- May 5, 2008 at 3:14 AM
- Paul Johnson said...
Actually I think programming is 100% design. The source code is just the final representation of that design.
But I disagree with your last paragraph: when you look at design tasks in other professions you do find processes. Take a look around the next office building you are in. They all have the same basic requirements, and this leads to the same basic designs, which is why they all feel basically the same.
- May 5, 2008 at 3:53 AM
The thought process in programming looks alien to most people in business, but there is a group to whom it would be perfectly natural: mathematicians. They basically just have the problem, and maybe some interesting properties of the problem and similar problems, but there is no process in the world that could ever produce a sound proof for any given problem, but sit a team of mathematicians down with it and sooner or later a solution will be produced.
This ties in very intimately to Fred Brooks' thought. The difference between software (or maths) and architecture is that once a problem is solved, it should never be solved again. (Except for didactic purposes, or finding a more general/elegant solution, but the point still stands). Wheras, for architects, they basically build the same buildings using the same components over and over again, which is exactly where processes shine.
- May 5, 2008 at 4:14 AM
- Giles said...
I agree that there is no process for writing a program, and that code is all design. But I think you're being unfair on real architecture.
Sure, many modern office buildings all look the same, but if you read Christopher Alexander's (the father of design patterns) original work on real architecture you'll see that shouldn't be the case.
Buildings are supposed to evolve in an undefinable, organic process. Modern cookie-cutter buildings are a symptom of not doing that; rather than an indication that building buildings doesn't require deep thought.
And by extension you can apply the same arguments to most professions: even if we (as software engineers) don't really understand what they do. Neither do they.
- May 5, 2008 at 4:44 AM
I think anonymous (#1) is correct. Most what passes for design in other professions is reuse of existing designs. That is the reason why every office looks the same: it's one solution applied again and again, reuse with only limited configuration.
Configuration is not programming.
Configuration can be made into a process, it can be automated. One can write a program to do configuration. Even if you don't really understand what you need you get a long way with a evolutionary algorithm and a good test set.
Programming is very different. Programming is the creation of original designs. Originality as far as I understand it can not be turned in to a repeatable process.
- May 5, 2008 at 4:55 AM
- KenDowns said...
Nice article, a new blog for me to follow!
Your comment "insert miracle here" reminds me of a Scientific American article. Frequently SA receives letters form people claiming to have designed interstellar starships, inevitably there will be an empty box somewhere that say, "put warp drive here."
- May 5, 2008 at 4:57 AM
It reminds me of a speech I heard, somewhere - that McDonalds creates a set process for making a burger. It won't be as good as a burger by a Master Chef because the master schef takes tons of little variables into account - how old the meat is, how fresh the lettuce, etc. MscDonalds makes the process so anyone can make a burger and have it turn out the same. It's not very good, but they are all not very good in the same exact way.
Your post makes sense, but following it through with the above - if we were to create a set process for programming, it could flatten the curve. Poor programmers would become better - but would fantastic programmers become worse (or more likely, fewer in number)?
- May 5, 2008 at 4:59 AM
- George Jempty said...
I'm trying to figure out the point. Is it that, because of lack of process, the disparity amongst programmers is so large? Even if this is the point, it begs many questions. Is the disparity larger than in other fields? What are other possible causes for the disparity?
I don't discount that lack of process may be a major contributing factor toward the disparity between the best programmers, and just average programmers. But in my experience, there are at least 2 other factors, the first being sheer ability. As a basketball coach once said, you can't teach tall.
But the other seems to be motivation. I don't know how many times I immediately see my way through a problem that average programmers struggle with, because I was motivated to read or learn in the past, and so the solution is at my fingertips. The sad fact of the matter, is while excellence at programming pays, mediocrity at programming pays almost equally well, and because of this, our field will always be rife with un-motivated programmers satisfied with simply collecting a paycheck.
- May 5, 2008 at 5:24 AM
- James said...
Most engineering disciplines create one thing (e.g. a bridge, a building, roadways, etc.) and this one thing is well studied and known. It is repeatable. A process exists to transform the inputs (raw materials) into outputs (structures).
A program is a process by which a computer transforms a set of inputs into a set of outputs.
So we need a meta-process for generating processes?
- May 5, 2008 at 5:27 AM
To Aviewanew:
The thing about McDonalds is from an early Joel [Spolsky] on Software.
- May 5, 2008 at 5:36 AM
- Kevin said...
Get over yourself, this is how all the technical disciplines are. Sure there is a process for a lot of things, but every field has its "non-process" part. The intuition part is crucial. You are saying that we know less about how to do computer science than chemistry, physics, math, or other engineerings? Take a class in serious dynamics and tell me it is less rote process than writing a program. For a large majority of programmers it really is open Java library, duct tape together. I'm not saying computer science is easy, but the truth is all of the disciplines look easy from the outside, to think that computer science is the ONLY one with that magical step is laughable. That magical step is known in other fields as intuition or design. And if you want to look at an institution that has totally removed the intuition step from programming and made it all process successfully, look at NASA. It can be done, it just takes more patience and more money than most companies can justify sinking into a product.
- May 5, 2008 at 6:08 AM
I agree with you.
However I think PROGRAMMING in itself is an extensions towards mathematics (formulas, logical thinking even though this is not only mathematics, but it has strong roots in mathematics etc...)
And no, i dont mean statistics. Everyone can learn statistic easily. I mean mathematical THINKING. Where you know so much that you can think in it with ease, while you program.
I also agree about the poster that wrote that programming is about design.
For me, I am using ruby because I feel that the ruby way is (syntax) very clean, while completely staying towards a true object system. Ruby is like a modern merge between perl and smalltalk. Everyone who knows perl, should give ruby a serious try.
- May 5, 2008 at 6:28 AM
- Andy said...
There isn't a process for writing a song, or painting a picture either. You can make processes for doing these more creative tasks, but you won't always end up with desirable results.
I wonder if programming is more akin to an art form than a skilled trade. Maybe it utilizes the abstract thought processes and creativity more than it uses memorization and application.
I come from a music background. I have written a lot of music and am just now moving into programming. I have noticed I have a much easier time actually writing programs than a lot of my class mates. Everyone seems to understand the concepts behind the programs, and they know the applications for the concepts because they have memorized and studied them, but when it comes to writing a program they struggle to apply the concepts they have memorized.
I think this disparity can be made up for in some ways. Design Patterns can be learned and applied to fitting situations, just like a Design Pattern can be used to write a song (verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, end) but this doesn't mean you will have a good song when you get done, because in the end the song is being judged by a humans sense of aesthetics. Good programs are ultimately judged according to human aesthetics as well... whether or not your program solves the problem is just the first metric, but how well it solves that problem, how elegantly, how quickly, and how easy is your program to use.
These aesthetics may be more measurable than the properties that make a good song, which may make a process or design pattern easier to teach to others, but in the end it is all a matter of human aesthetics you are catering to.
- May 5, 2008 at 6:56 AM
- Matthias Marschall said...
Maybe because there are so many surrounding processes we forget about some basics in programming: Take end-to-end responsibility for your code, understand how it will be used, and make sure you are (or someone else will be) able to change it later.
I agree that writing code is a creative task. You need to have a strong focus on the aforementioned basics to avoid getting completely off track (like the worst programmers do).
- May 5, 2008 at 7:07 AM
I can't believe all the people saying all the offices are all the same. I picture my mom saying Ubuntu and Windows are the same because they both have shortcuts on the desktop, drop down menus, off button ...
- May 5, 2008 at 7:51 AM
- James said...
When I program, I sit there, staring into space for a while, and then I write.
I'm visualising how the code needs to flow. And visualising isn't really the right word - I don't see shapes and colours. I see what-ifs and when-ifs.
And I don't think it has anything to do with mathematics. They do overlap in places, yes, but they are different disciplines.
- May 5, 2008 at 7:52 AM
- Jake Voytko said...
I beg to differ, good sir! There is a clear process for programming, and it was discovered for Feynman:
1. Write down the problem
2. Think very hard
3. Write down the answer
(Your mileage my vary on #3)
- May 5, 2008 at 7:59 AM
- Mitch Barnett said...
Jack Reeves said the same thing back in 92 - the source code is the final design: http://www.developerdotstar.com/mag/articles/reeves_design_main.html
Also, http://softwareindustrialization.com/TheTruthAboutSoftwareEngineering.aspx
- May 5, 2008 at 8:23 AM
- Bernie Thompson said...
Software is a design activity, not a production activity. And that does make it impossible to proceduralize.
But we can break it down a little, to help people understand and get better at it, as you hoped for.
Of course, this kind of breakdown is still only a small part of the picture. It's still all magic in the end. :)
- May 5, 2008 at 8:26 AM
- Cyde Weys said...
Excellent point you've made here. I'm trying to come up with a way of describing the process of programming and I'm drawing a blank. The best I can say is that it either happens right away, or first I do some Googling on the parts I'm not sure of, read some things, and then it happens eventually when I've learned enough to synthesize together to solve the problem.
- May 5, 2008 at 8:38 AM
- Ola Alexander said...
There is actually a "program". Aristotle wrote about it - but it has been a taboo since the church banned his description of the thinkable process of how we create in the middle ages. I have the vital ingredients in my digestion from 2005: Get Rid of Our Final Taboo! - The Human Ability to Create is Thinkable:
- May 5, 2008 at 8:55 AM
As an architect, I feel obliged to point out that most McMansions are not designed by architects, they are designed by builders.
The former are focused on a myriad of factors: aesthetics, quality of space, sustainability, etc.
The latter are focused on: $. Which is why their houses usually suck.
More to the point, here is a "process" for solving problems (the little intersecting area in the Venn diagram of programming and architecting):
1) Define the problem in a manner which can be measurably solved.
2) Imagine as many solutions to that problem as possible.
3) Define the client's priorities. (speed, cost, style, etc.)
4) Choose the best solution and implement it.
5) Profit !!
- May 5, 2008 at 9:02 AM
Test Driven Development is a process for programming. So is Dijkstra's method of Correctness by Construction. There are similar processes for design at that level of detail in a variety of disciplines.
You may not know how you program, but I certainly do.
- May 5, 2008 at 9:14 AM
It's easy to make assumptions about other professions. Your point is well taken that non-programmers just don't get how it really works. I'm with you there. But then you proceed to apply a double standard and assume you know how every other profession works to make your claim that programming is different than everything else.
As an entrepreneur, I've worn a lot of hats. I can tell you that the "absence of a process" phenomenon is a lot more common than you'd think. Marketing, consulting, sales... none of these have learnable, repeatable processes. Sure -- there are frameworks, but they're just that. They spell out what you do but not how you do it.
Good read, though. Thanks for posting.
- May 5, 2008 at 9:20 AM
I thnik mamny people, when faced with a design problem, freeze up in there thinking and right afterr hearing teproblem relaize theydont knw whatt dod net. Pnac ensues and finally end up settiflt hing thmi comnd ds mind. Tm sequo fques tions rto ffollow bllaaa blaaaaaaaaa wwwwwzzzzzzzzzzz
- May 5, 2008 at 9:36 AM
- Ray said...
Most of the posts appear to confirm the 'hand waving theory' of software development: stare into space, become enlightened, commit abstract thoughts to symbols on a screen, cross ones fingers that it is a functional program.
When I do software development, it is something similar to the 'scientific method.
Step zero point one: spend time learning about data structures and program flow
Step zero point two: spend time how a specific language implements tis flavour of data structures and program flows
First step: what is it that needs to be accomplished?
Second step: what are the user actions, what is the data source and format, how does it need to be manipulated, and what is the output?
Third step: by selecting appropriate data structures to match data inputs, calculations, and outputs, program statics can be implemented
Fourth step: Figure out the sequence of steps to get the data in, calculate on it, and then get it out.
Fifth step: test the theory and confirm that it matches the specification provided in step one.
Sixth step: pat your self on the back for successfully writing a program.
Does that satisfactorily define the methodology one uses to program?
Of course, the secret is in the appropriate definition of the question, the successful selection of appropriate data structures, and the proper ordering of program flow statements. But each of those should be able to be defined in a recursively more detailed manner.
- May 5, 2008 at 9:39 AM
- Casper Bang said...
Coincidentally, software design is also by far the hardest thing (and somewhat underestimated) to master. Rather than all the processes and algorithm stuff at university, I would really have appreciated design and architecture (patterns, anti-patterns etc.) as a first-class... class.
- May 5, 2008 at 10:46 AM
There seems to be a hidden assumption in your post - that we all have the same mental hardware, but some are lacking in mental software. I am pretty sure that the first part is not true.
As a culture, we have no problem accepting that people are born with different physical potentials. I once heard an exercise physiologist talk about Lance Armstrong. He said the average person could train for years, while Lance sat on the beach and Lance would still beat them.
The way I would explain the 10:1 ratio is that natural mental potential in programming, along with hardwork, motivation and a passion for programming, creates kind of a snowball effect on ability.
I also strongly disagree that this phenomena is limited to just a few disciplines. I think it is the case in most disciplines. What sets programming apart is the observability of the results.
One of the many hats I wear is in marketing. There are so many factors that affect the success of a product, it is difficult to figure out how much a marketer contributed to the process.
All that said, I agree with the others who have mentioned the importance of motivation. At my company, top producers are dis-incented. Top producers do not get paid that much more than bottom producers, yet over time the company expects (needs) the top producers to keep producing at a high rate. This can be really stressful. Every time you do something amazing, that becomes the expectation for you. After a while, there is a strong incentive to stop doing amazing things. Maybe instead of looking for ways to make the programming process more teachable, companies would have more luck creating incentive structures that would encourage higher productivity.
- May 5, 2008 at 10:51 AM
- Paul W. Homer said...
Culture, I think, is the key reason why we don't want to admit that we know how to program. Another common problem is that most programmers make it harder by over-thinking their solutions. It is 'harder' until you learn that it isn't.
Some more thoughts on creativity
- May 5, 2008 at 11:53 AM
There's actually a very popular book written, that describes how WRONG the author of this article is...
- May 5, 2008 at 12:01 PM
- planetmcd said...
I also think that using a process analogy to other professions, you ignore the concept of quality. There may be a structure and process to creating a legal brief or a medical diagnosis, but following that process does not insure a quality legal brief or medical diagnosis. It can mask a poor quality solution. Just as a working application can mask poor coding.
- May 5, 2008 at 1:45 PM
- Brett Morgan said...
There is another profession that trains by copying ever previous works. Starting with small exercises and working upwards. It's called art school.
And the reason is simple.
Most of the skills that most professionals use are basically analysis skills. They have a bunch of rules for breaking things down and then reacting. Be it visual recognition of road signs, or a set of rules of thumb for negotiating a balance sheet and a cash flow statement.
But all design is synthesis. Take a set of inspirations and a set of constraints and create something new that fits in the hole.
That is why programming is unpredictable. Some people can see the solution, and some can't. And a whole lot of variation on the quality of the solution envisaged by those who can.
- May 5, 2008 at 2:31 PM
- pbrunett said...
I thought this was fairly obvious, but nobody seems to have mentioned it. Imagine you're trying to write software to solve some problem - e.g. adding two numbers. Let's pretend there exists some "process" to write an algorithm to solve said problem. What would it look like? (at a fairly high level)
1.) tell computer to accept two numbers as input.
2.) tell computer to add second inputed number to
first inputed number (How/what level you do this at isn't really important)
3.)tell computer to output the number resulting from this addition.
Something is fishy about this, of course. It's that imbedded in our "process" is exactly the algorithm that we wanted to write. In other words, any "process" one might follow to write an algorithm is going to contain the algorithm to begin with. How you actually go about commanding the computer to do this is a question of syntax. This should look familiar from Theory of Comp.
- May 5, 2008 at 2:31 PM
This reminds me of the moment I decided to leave my job and look for a better opportunity. I was sitting down in a meeting with my boss discussing a particular project that I was about to start working on. Then he asked me to explain to him (a non developer...never was never will be) exactly how I was going to solve the problem at hand. He wanted right then and there a step by step plan of how I planned to solved the problem. That was the moment I realized he didn't get my job and never would.
- May 5, 2008 at 8:14 PM
As to the suggestion that mathematicians are good programmers, I've seen no such correlation. There is too much arcane knowledge and peculiar trivia involved in software development for anyone with an exceptional grasp of logic to have much of an advantage. It is a sad fact that when working on software, patience and general creativity often get you further than sound reason. As an aside, in hiring for our own team we have found those with applied physics backgrounds have the best academic foundation for software engineering.
- May 5, 2008 at 8:28 PM
- Friedrich said...
I disagree, with very much you wrote. At first building houses is a variation of one theme. Sure there are different houses but the principles are "dictated" by sheer needs. For not wasting material you try to centralize things. One central point in many houses is where the heating takes places you hardly find the heating room on one side and all the consumers on the other side.
However another example is farming. You can do follow every rule but may fail, there are things one can not control. If e.g the weather turns out to be bad, you loose a whole year of work.
Or see craftmanship. One can surely automate let's say building a chair, but if you ever have the luck ot find a masterpiece of a cabinetmaker you hopefully get the difference.
Or yet another example, why are Bach, Beethoven and the like are so famous? Why not you if "making" music would be that easy....?
I'm sorry, but your first impression was the right one.
"How could anyone be so dumb as to suggest that?"
That does not mean that this is absolutly pointless, but you can send the programmers to as many course about design. If he does not care about his work and "just slaps together code" without appreciating than, he also will underperform.
If you find someone enthusiatic about programming and keen on learning then course might help. But be aware of:
- May 5, 2008 at 9:50 PM
Programmers should know better than anybody that you take a big gamble by saying "my job couldn't be done by a machine", which seems to be what this article boils down to.
Just because you intuitively know that something dropped will fall doesn't mean that isn't a law of gravity that can be taught. That people got by for millennia without it doesn't negate the huge advances that were made once it was discovered.
At the weekend I was discussing with my mother the differences between the Java coding I do in Eclipse today and the punch tape programming she did in the early 1960s, including literally cutting and pasting together sections of programs with scissors and glue. There are so many fundamental principles of modern programming that are inherent in the language and the IDE that we take for granted and which just didn't exist 40 years. I am sure in another 40 years time my son will be amused by the clumsiness and naivety of the way we do things today.
Nietzsche recognised this truth in the 1880s:
"All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. You have made your way from worm to man, and much in you is still worm. Once you were apes, and even now, too, man is more ape than any ape."
It may be safer not to say "It can't be taught" but rather "I couldn't teach it".
- May 6, 2008 at 3:10 AM
- Michael Bernstein said...
I've seen plenty of people comparing to various 'creative' endeavors, but in reality, writing software is fundamentally an act of *writing*.
Writing spans both more and less creative acts, from the mundane grocery list through driving directions (which actually does have a creative element when you are careful to give people the directions that they actually need (turn-based vs. landmark-based, etc.)), all the way up to stories and songs (which also can be subdivided into more and less creative works).
And yet, the process of writing prose is *identical* to writing code (except you don't have a ruthless test for correctness), and the method of learning to write prose is also identical to learning to write code.
Non-coders just assume that what we're doing is equivalent to writing a grocery list (or, at most, driving directions), when really we're usually writing narratives from short stories all the way up to multi-author shared-universe anthologies, because externally it looks the same.
So, why don't non-authors make the same assumption about authors? Many actually do, until they try to write their own Magnum Opus.
Conclusion: to raise the status of programming as a creative endeavor, we need to promote the teaching of simple coding as a basic skill, exactly the way we teach reading, writing, and mathematics.
- May 26, 2008 at 8:14 PM
- Libby said...
I'm new to studying software engineers, but I'm not new to studying other professionals. My first reaction to your post is to get angry (again) that someone in software engineering thinks that software engineers are somehow special and different from everyone else - they do a job that doesn't have process. But, getting angry doesn't do much good. So, my second reaction is to think, "Huh, isn't it interesting that we assume other people's activities can be described in process documents?"
Paul, you wrote, "In every case the core of the activity is well understood: it is written down, taught and learned." That's simply not true. Professional activity can't be reduced to process documents, can't be written down, taught, and learned in the simple manner you seem to think characterizes everything from driving a car to running a company. It's not just design work that's complicated.
Please try to be more respectful of others' unique expertise. For more info on how "process" might be a word we use to describe things after the fact, see Lucy Suchman's work on plans (1st and 2nd editions). For more on how expertise develops that has nothing to do with written processes, see Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger's work on legitimate peripheral participation. The midwives, tailors, and canoers they study should fall somewhere between driving and running companies. Not your cup of tea? How about professional sports and less academic writing - becoming an NFL place kicker
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1. Re: InitialContext.lookup returns nullJaikiran Pai Oct 31, 2006 7:34 AM (in response to MUHAMMAD RAHMAN)
What are you looking up?
2. Re: InitialContext.lookup returns nullPeter Johnson Oct 31, 2006 10:38 AM (in response to MUHAMMAD RAHMAN)
Also, do you have a firewall on the Linux machine? If so make sure you open the ports 1098, 1099, 4443 and 4444 (or their equivalents if you changed the port settings). The last two you might not need unless you are accessing mbeans.
3. Re: InitialContext.lookup returns nullMUHAMMAD RAHMAN Nov 1, 2006 1:00 AM (in response to MUHAMMAD RAHMAN)
In my jndi.properties file I have written as follows
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Line 1 and 2 has no problem, but in line 3 when I look up my ejb in server it returns null. I am not using any firewall and my necessary ports are open.
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4. Re: InitialContext.lookup returns nullPeter Johnson Nov 1, 2006 10:30 AM (in response to MUHAMMAD RAHMAN)
Try this. Enter the following at a command prompt on Windows:
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The last line of the response shpould have an IP address in it. On my PC it looks like:
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5. Re: InitialContext.lookup returns nullMUHAMMAD RAHMAN Nov 3, 2006 11:58 PM (in response to MUHAMMAD RAHMAN)
My problem has been solved.
Thanks to everyone for giving me the solution.
6. Re: InitialContext.lookup returns nullGuillaume Soing Aug 23, 2007 11:30 AM (in response to MUHAMMAD RAHMAN)
I have the same problem. How did you solve it?
7. Re: InitialContext.lookup returns nullRavi Samavedula Nov 9, 2012 7:40 AM (in response to Guillaume Soing)
Hi Peter,
I have the same issue, and in log file i am getting some thing like this.
Exception in thread "main" javax.naming.CommunicationException: Could not obtain connection to any of these urls: R2SP11:11099 [Root exception is javax.naming.CommunicationException: Failed to connect to server R2SP11/192.168.1.46:11099 [Root exception is javax.naming.ServiceUnavailableException: Failed to connect to server R2SP11/192.168.1.46:11099 [Root exception is java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect]]]
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