New Year's Eve is not special

I promised a friend to be at his place for New Year because he and others think it is important holiday. I asked my this is so important and made the point that years, weeks, different names of days etc. are just constructions and so nothing particular happens when they come. Still many people here ask questions like "What will the year 2007 be like".

That is of course nonsensical and should be protested against, but I can understand the question as meaning if there will be special new developments. It feels strange to make guesses like this but I will try:

First of all web development is still just stupid Web 2 and all that ilk. The other day I walked around in bookstore when I saw a book called "JavaScript recipes". It contained Ajax, CSS and other abhorrent inventions. As for programming languages the main branches are still things like C# which is just interpreted C-like procedural language with a bit garbage collection. It is slow and for my part under criticism.

In political developments it is just like now or badder. Saddam Hussayn's death was hailed by some colleages as the "greatest thing in years" but I told them to not say such things or not speak. The reason is that now some other leader will just do similar violent and unintelligent measures. Iraq should instead get a system like USA but they do not because of too little smart people there.

Unfortunately I think there will be more stupid "authorities" to write on the web.

Joel Spolsky is an idiot

Joel Spolsky is a "software developer" residing in the New York area who have lot of readers for his blog. However, he only writes stupid things or day-to-day doodling. In one of the latest posts he lambasts simplicity and says everyone wants features. Yes users are often clueless but this is no idea to include stupid things nobody really needs. Joel, let me ask you something. When you sell a lot and lower the quality of software as a whole, don't you feel ashamed?

Joel should change his mind or not write.

The government should sponsor programming computers

I'm sick and tired. Just now I sat with computer and compiled while everything became sloppy and non-moving. Even though I have new processor from Intel compiling just slows whole system down. However, a colleague came up with a bright idea: one or two extra compiling processors. Since this would be expensive, the government should give money to big companies to produce these computers, and only programmers should buy them. Users don't understand anyway.

It is very important for me to focus on many things at once so I read technical publication on the web when I compile. However, on my Dell machine this just slows down. This is completely unacceptable!

"Losing control" is stupid

A couple of days ago two friends discussed with me. They made point that today's society is more and more open and communicating, and that this is shown by consumerism, dancing, open-structured relationships and what have you. Also, one of them made this absolutely nonsensical remark: "It's always been about control, but now we're losing it and it's great".

Naturally I rebuked this harshly. Our society is built on control. Even, the more control the better. Look around and you will see factories, cars and other technical objects engineered and run in completely, automatic controlled fashion. This is reality. If modern people try to be relaxed and "lose control", they are just not acknoledging true facts of reality, they are being stupid and should be told so.

When saying this I received the answer "but Paig, you're so stiff". One of them also raised concern that I am value conservative and that this is not tenable in modern society. To this I will tell that I am not conservative since that is stupid viewpoint and just want old things, on the other hand I am not modern if that is to "lose control". No, I'm true modern and want a more and more automatic and controlled world. Reading formulas, using computerized systems, seeing big lines of factories and other facilites cooperate makes me happy. This is the future.

Shun wrong metaphors

Even though I prefer clear language with little adornment, no hollow and flashiness and so on, I still can accept metaphors since they are old part of language and gives extra understanding. However, yesterday I saw in newspaper the saying "Tibet, the roof of the world". It is obvious that this is completely wrong and false metaphor because even though Tibet is high area, it is not above all the other countries or covering their skies. So it is wrong.

Use rules to see how well you live

Recently a friend asked me what way I live, how I plan daily necessities and so on. When I retorted that it just is meticuluous and done according to drafted routine, he refused to believe. He was thinking about other thing: what I think is good life and how we should live. Normally I shun such locutions as unscientific and given to metaphysical doodling, but in a sense it is good question. So I choosed to answer.

It is very simple: the more rules you follow, the better you are.

Geniuses and other very intelligent people have many, many rules and definitions. They think for example that in order to create a good car, you must know so many concepts and rules that ordinary people can't match you. In the same way, I think that you should number your rules and see how well you live. Only intelligent people can hold many rules in their mind at similar time.

Right now I follow 247 rules. Among them are the following:

35. Follow US law and learn more about it, possibly every evening.
56. Plan 90 percent of your awake time. If others intrude, rebuke them.
71. Every mistake you make must be written in book and studied to avoid further making of same mistake.
133. You must do mental excersises as much as physical to make the brain better.
179. Do not read stupid things to avoid mental chatter.

US stores lack items

The other day I walked outside when it begun to rain. I was caught quite surprised and went into nearby Seven Eleven to buy umbrella when it turned out they did not have, so I told them to stock up with aforementioned item just in case. The answer was muckraking:

- This is no umbrella store, man.

Why is there so much talk about goodness of capitalism in US when it lacks even basic commodities in important stores such as Seven Eleven? They have toothpaste and brushes and what have you. But for weather changes they are completely unaware.

KFC makes horrible food

Since I was brought up on no meat in diet because of religious superstition, I did not eat meat until 18 years of age. Not I eat it all the time and appreaciate extra protein so gained. A friend wanted me to try KFC and said it is famous brand here. I have seen the stupid logo but not paid attention. Today we tried.

Kentucky Fry Chicken is just chicken fried in much oil with kind of dough. Then to this you can buy fries, corn of kind or even mashed potatoes. The taste was quite horrible. Only salt and also much grease. I will not go back later.

Flickr is bad

Some friends ask me about pictures, whether I take them, put them on the web and so on. My answer to this is that it contains so many loopholes and problems that not worth trying. Example:

1. When using more than 200 pictures and you don't have "Pro" account (requires money) you can't upload more pictures, or does not show. Abhorrent!

2. Only 20M pictures can be uploaded per month.

This is also example of why Web 2.0 is no good idea. Like many other new things that promise everything or "silver bullets" as we call them here, it doesn't work out. When technology is more mature, promise more, otherwise keep quiet and don't release.

I am questioned on intelligence

James Rhodes proposed question on why I think so much of intelligence, and refer to as silly. This is no new phenomenon so I will answer seriously. Actually, many other times people and also friends have asked me "why you care so much about IQ", referring to this utterance as quite totalitarian and possibly fascist. I have two answers to this:

1. The problem with fascism is violence, not that it rightly points out that society must be strictly engineered and also have a hierarchy where intelligent people tell others what to do.

2. The problem today is stupid people. So much happen because people not think enough. Bin Laden and fascist (yes!) friends bombs buildings, programming errors introduced because sloppy design (read up on anti-patterns before beginning), teachers say wrong things and what not. Why I should accept this?

The last question is pointed. I am a formal and serious person, which is nothing wrong. When others make mistakes I point it out and the world as whole becomes better. Still I get complaints for being "surly" as some say here. I find this all very annoying and angry.

Non-GB languages should be reserved for the elite

Recently there has been much buzz over Microsoft's C#, Apple Computer's new version of Objective-C and some other garbage collected languages, or GB-languages (Java, C#, Lisp)  as we call them for short. It is said that they bring higher levels of productivity and what have you. The reason for abovementioned productivity is that nasty memory bugs can easier be found, and for many people this is true. However, most programmers are unintelligent.

Languages like C and assembler are very good for fast applications, but so many misuse them and then complain about lack of GC. Of course GC might be good but for fastness it is C that counts. So what should be done to solve this problem?

The US should make a law that only people above IQ 150 should be allowed use C, and maybe 170 for assembler. Then there will be no memory bugs there, and the badder programmers can use C#, new Objective-C and all that. And then actually most people can be happy. End-users don't matter much because they don't understand involved issues anyway, and high-profile developers with good brains can enjoy not having to answer stupid questions.

Pluto was never a planet

There has been debate recently about Pluto, a astronomical object that was never a planet according to correct definition. Now that that has been recorded for book-keeping, a Harvard "astronomer" protests. I have said it before and I say it again: Harvard is getting badder and badder. It never was good school and now it is even worse. It is a shame that such a shananagan institution should continue to spread wrong words and image.

Web 2.0 is nothing

Often we hear locutions such as "this is newest computer language and solves all problems", "with the new technology everybody will prosper", "this solves all problems with the world in near future", "why you are so backwards and not use this" etc. Here we refer to such as "silver bullets", things people believe is solution to everything.

Now the uninformed speak about Web 2 as the solution to everything. And again they are completely wrong and should apologize. Why?

• Wikipedia is good in some ways but not trustworthy! Anybody can write on page, even without university education! This is not tenable.
• Dating services making people forget about work and do unimportant, irrational things such as meeting strangers and engaging in sex that take away energy and potentially criminal activity.
• Blogs, even though good when used by correct people, do not convey better information than learned sources.

However this is also fault of the original creators of HTML. It is a bad standard and it will continue to create things like this.

Eric Raymond is an idiot

A couple of days ago I happen to run into a webpage which says it is blog and belongs to avowed computer programmer Eric Raymond. He tout Linux in different places (not in third world!) and quite often make some racist and reactionary remarks. He dismiss all components as "lefties". Now this time he write the follows:

Monkey feces and other forms of communication

He says he is unhappy because he must remove comments and really believe in free speech. My dear Eric, please let me ask you a question. How does what you do impede free speech. And how could deleting commentaries from a blog be considered harming to free speech. You just try to tout your political cause everywhere and you do it badly. As well, consider separating between your own world and society in big context which needs free speech.

It is strange that such bright computer programmer can be so stupid in ordinary measures.

Chewing gum

 I feel very annoyed and angry. Today when I took the train I saw two youngsters spitting chewing gum on the walkway, so I walked over and ask them what they think they are doing. The response was muck-raking. They pointed out I have very strange ethnic personality and should not intrude in strangers ways. So I try to call the police who however state they have no interest.

This makes me very unhappy. US is the most advanced country in the world, how come they accepts such blatant racism and nonsensical ways. Also how they can say that they are protecting civil liberties, against terrorism and so on? Clearly they are completely hopeless.

Mankind makes me depressed.

I am on internet

Hello. My name is Paig Saghamullit. I am male, 35 years old and not married. My interests include much everything and I think truth must hold so I point out errors when occurs such as stupid articles in newsgroup, discussion etc etc. Most people are very sloppy with facts, not check and so on so I provide correct viewpoint and point out obvious things.

I will post here every time I think there is need.