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  1. Proof of concept: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Proof of Concept For Ajax Without JavaScript

    ... that he is a n00b!

  2. Re:Cancel my trip to Charleston by JonathansCorner.com · · Score: 3, Interesting · on South Carolina Seeking To Outlaw Profanity

    I would remind the reader who wants to be scrupulous about the Bible that, unlike U.S. English, none of the ancient languages associated with the Bible use a single word for "backside" and "donkey." But that stated, there's more in the Bible. To take a de-bowlderized translation I beat on for a while: The Uncensored Bible (exhibit one, two), or see a dialogue on what the Bible's "Behemoth" could be besides a dinosaur seen by men. The Bible as it is presented today is somewhat bowlderized... but there is a lot to the Bible, even besides the passages that never seem to make it through modern translations clearly. Jonathan

  3. Re:Cancel my trip to Charleston by JonathansCorner.com · · Score: 3, Interesting · on South Carolina Seeking To Outlaw Profanity

    I would remind the reader who wants to be scrupulous about the Bible that, unlike U.S. English, none of the ancient languages associated with the Bible use a single word for "backside" and "donkey." But that stated, there's more in the Bible. To take a de-bowlderized translation I beat on for a while: The Uncensored Bible (exhibit one, two), or see a dialogue on what the Bible's "Behemoth" could be besides a dinosaur seen by men. The Bible as it is presented today is somewhat bowlderized... but there is a lot to the Bible, even besides the passages that never seem to make it through modern translations clearly. Jonathan

  4. Read: I can't get an estimate out of my hacker by BSAtHome · · Score: 0 · on How can a Developer Estimate Times?
    You should read "So You've Hired A Hacker" point 5.2 and insist. Basically, you cannot estimate unknown factors. Therefore, don't estimate. They will wait for a result if it is important.

    --
    Greetings

  5. Re:Large groups of employers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on .Net Programmers Fall in CNN's Top 5 In-Demand
    I think Perl mainly suffers from a too complex syntax, which makes it too hard for new people to learn or to instruct people in the language.

    use Natural::Language::Principles::In::Perl;

    Learn it once, use it many times. You learn a natural language once and use it many times. The lesson for a language designer is that a language should be optimized for expressive power rather than for ease of learning. It's easy to learn to drive a golf cart, but it's hard to express yourself in one.

    Learn as you go. You don't learn a natural language even once, in the sense that you never stop learning it. Nobody has ever learned any natural language completely.

    Tinkering With Perl: A Child's Guide is a clear and concise introduction to Perl for all ages.

  6. Re:It's so encouraging to know ... by zapfie · · Score: 4, Informative · on Congress To Consider Age Limits On Violent Games

    Funny thing about the whole 'turn the other cheek' bit.. it wasn't meant as a sign of humility or accepting being persecuted or any of that. It was to force your attacker to accept you as an equal.

    In the society of that time, a slap on the cheek was not intended as a physical injury but rather as an insult, putting an inferior back in his or her place. The strength of that insult depended greatly upon which hand dealt it: as the left hand was seen as unclean, a slap with the left hand was the insult far greater than one dealt with the right hand. This was reflected in the legal penalties for an inappropriate slap: the penalty for slapping a peer with your left hand was a fine one hundred times the penalty for slapping a peer with your right hand; the penalty for slapping a better with your right hand was a fine while the penalty for slapping a better with your left hand was death. The people Jesus was speaking to most directly were, by and large, slaves and the downtrodden. A slap on the right cheek was dealt with the left hand. To turn the other cheek would leave the master with two options. The first would be to slap the slave again, but this time with the right hand (therefore declaring the slave a peer). The second would be not to slap the slave again (therefore effectively rescinding the first slap). Now, such impudence and sauciness would often tend to bring punishment, but it none the less says "Hey, I'm a human. I have rights. You can't treat me like this." It is not an action without suffering for oneself, nor does it inflict suffering on the "enemy": but it does say and do something in a powerful way.
    (from JonathansCorner.com)