mdhughes

But nobody's doing anything about it. Me, either.

Thanks for your completely useless post.

Now this is the story all about how, My life got flipped-turned upside down, And I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there, I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel Air.

In West Philadelphia, born and raised On the playground is where I spent most of my days. Chillin' out, maxin', relaxin all cool, And all shootin' some B-ball outside of the school.

When a couple of guys who were up to no good, Started makin' trouble in my neighborhood. I got in one little fight and my mom got scared, And said "You're movin' with your auntie and uncle in Bel Air."

I whistled for a cab, and when it came near, The license plate said "fresh" and it had dice in the mirror. If anything I could say that this cab was rare, But I thought "Nah forget it, Yo home to Bel Air."

I pulled up to the house about seven or eight, and I yelled to the cabby "Yo homes, smell ya later." Looked at my kingdom, I was finally there, To sit on my throne as the Prince of Bel Air.

But the thing is, Rings of Power is incredibly fun, because it completely ignores source, steals just enough character names & places to get Lord of the Rings fans excited, but it's not boring. Lord of the Rings is about thousands of pages of walking.

Galadriel is a WOMAN and therefore according to Professor Tolkien is useless. Show makes her the one badass in Middle Earth.

I did hate the not-yet-Hobbits, that was not a good invention.

"I Am Legend" has been made into 3 or more movies, none of which have anything like the book's ending.

The Last Man on Earth (1964) is dull and misses the point almost entirely, but almost manages the title line. Not quite.

The Omega Man (1971) is exciting and misses the point even further.

I Am Legend (2007) almost gets it. The vampires are competent. Will Smith's smarter than Neville of the book, but crazier. But then both endings fail to treat the vampires as a society.

What made me mad at RP1 movie was they put the Easter Egg in Atari Adventure. Which is mentioned in chapter 0 of the book, and again in the fake town (not put in the movie) because it's so obvious, nobody who cared about games at all would hide anything there.

And no Tomb of Horrors.

Instead Spielberg put a bunch of lame movie references in, because he's too senile to understand the game references.

And the actors are far too pretty for the "but you're beautiful inside" plot.

If you're looking for validation, then probably you want numbers on anyway!

(I leave them on, but don't seek validation. I'm just around to talk and/or fight.)

All my career. They can't program, they have no valid opinion about programming, as long as we finish the user stories. Which is several times faster in a nice dynamic language than a bondage language.

There's some math & CS papers you should read, Gödel's incompleteness theorem, Turing's halting problem. YOU CANNOT prove your way out of logic errors. You cannot make a universal type system. All you're doing is wasting time with false confidence.

Terrible projects are terrible because of the developers, not because of the language.

I find dynamic projects easier to refactor and fix, just write some tests and if it's green bar before and after, you're fine.

Typing can't prove anything, either. It just creates bugs and crashes.

Your program logic is the part that will not be fixed by it.

Some languages really do suck so much they're all but unwriteable by plain text, and need constant compiler tree parsing to get right.

But that's an incentive to quit using bad languages. Write in something you can read and write in ed, and you can hold it in your head.