It surprised me, at first, too. But if you watch Fox News and Al Jazeera, you'll probably find that the truth is somewhere in the middle. If that doesn't work for you, remember Tsun Tzu: Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.
It's not enough to consider the "prima facie": you also have to consider the context. The country's mindset, at the time, was such that "Communist == Evil." Rational thought, much less discussion, regarding it was out the door: Commie == BAD. That's all you needed to know or think about.
It's not hard to see how this works. We had a similar rehash during the last election. It's amazing that people would look at Palin and say, "Yep, she's qualified for VP, one heartbeat away from the most powerful position on the planet. You betcha." But, they did - in large numbers. Why? Because the general mindset, originating with the Republicans, and aided by the mainstream media, was one of fear: Obama's a closet Muslim; Obama's inexperienced; Obama will sell our children into slavery in China; Obama's weak on defense and will give away the country to the terr'ists; Obama will rape all the white women; yada yada. These things start out small, gain momentum, and, next thing you know, turn into mass hysteria.
We've already ruled out the possibility that there _might_ just be a consumer-beneficial reason for pushing back the changeover date? I mean, because it's political, it _has_ to be so someone or some company can game the system and reap megabucks?
I think he'll get over it. I called my Pascal prof - _way_ back in the day - a "fucking bitch," and lived to tell about it. I passed the class the next semester.
There's a difference, and YMMV, of course. For stability for my children, absolutely, I'd say find a good place and stick around for a while, even if it means you have to suck it up for a crappy job, now and then.
But, for those of us with an empty nest, the "Dada" lifestyle isn't all that bad. I started a family early - not really as part of any plan - and now, in my early 40s, I'm mostly free of obligations like middle school events, PTA, etc. A couple of years ago, when I was a freelancer, I kind of liked going from place to place. I'm "permanently" employed, now, but if Mr. Dada called me up with a reasonable offer involving extensive travel, I'd seriously consider it.
I'm one of the _last_ people to fall prey to marketing - I don't have TV, so I rarely see those ads, and I'm not swayed by that type of thing, anyway - but I _do_ have an iPod shuffle and I just love the little thing. It's trivial to use, does exactly what I want, and, combined w/ iTunes, I don't even have to think about it. Sync-unplug-go. Tag me a "phanboi" if you wish, but there's more to the iPod phenomenon than just marketing.
I'd like to believe you, but all of the intolerance - cf. McCain's 2008 campaign - and religious hostility we _still_ have kind of tells me that, socially, we _can't_ adapt. Not all of us, anyway.
It's called a properly authorized warrant. If you do not comply, you can be punished. In fact, as a matter of principle, companies should _not_ comply with government requests without one. That's the whole point of seeking immunity: because the telcos were wrong to comply without warrants.
Plenty of that type of poo to go around. I see it all the time, here at Gigantor Medical Co. Of course, we can't do _anything_ to fix the real problems; we don't have the time or resources. Doing things the right way to begin with is somewhat like witnessing a miracle.
When you do it long enough, it's probably not that big a deal. Because of my work/family arrangement, I stay at work up to 14 or 15 hours for 10 days at a stretch. Sometimes as long as 21 days, if I can't get a weekend off. After a while of this, staying at the office - I didn't necessarily say "working," but nurses get to stand around and chat, too - for that length of time becomes unremarkable.
I understand you a little bit, because I remember once, in particular, when I was pressed for an answer "now!" and the Camel book just seemed, at that time, to be more cutesy than informative: it's a technical book, dammit, just tell me what I need to know. In fact, I sent a note to Tom Christenson about it. It didn't change anything, really; the newer versions still maintained their flippancy. It's not as big a deal, now, because I've learned enough that I don't need to refer to the book as much, and certainly not under critical conditions like back then.
If 2d, let alone 3d arrays scare you, why are you in the programming business? These are common in _lots_ of applications. That's hardly the worst you can see.
What's wrong with having more than one way to do something? I think it reflects that reality that, yep, there usually is more than one way to accomplish the same thing.
You're thirsty. Your choices are milk or milk. Gee, how exciting. What if I like vodka?
Frankly, I think that expressiveness is useful. You and I might not approach a problem the same way, and having a language confine us to one approach would make it more difficult to solve the problem: one of us would have to change our way of thinking to accommodate the language. That's not acceptable. It's like the concept of languages in general: if you don't like perl, no one's forcing you to use it. But don't take it away from me, if it helps me get my work done.
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They _are_ allowing waivers in certain cases. I think there are two of them, already. One in Defense, and I don't recall the other one.
Why should _that_ stop us from getting all hysterical? C'mon - this /..
It surprised me, at first, too. But if you watch Fox News and Al Jazeera, you'll probably find that the truth is somewhere in the middle. If that doesn't work for you, remember Tsun Tzu: Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.
It's not enough to consider the "prima facie": you also have to consider the context. The country's mindset, at the time, was such that "Communist == Evil." Rational thought, much less discussion, regarding it was out the door: Commie == BAD. That's all you needed to know or think about.
It's not hard to see how this works. We had a similar rehash during the last election. It's amazing that people would look at Palin and say, "Yep, she's qualified for VP, one heartbeat away from the most powerful position on the planet. You betcha." But, they did - in large numbers. Why? Because the general mindset, originating with the Republicans, and aided by the mainstream media, was one of fear: Obama's a closet Muslim; Obama's inexperienced; Obama will sell our children into slavery in China; Obama's weak on defense and will give away the country to the terr'ists; Obama will rape all the white women; yada yada. These things start out small, gain momentum, and, next thing you know, turn into mass hysteria.
We've already ruled out the possibility that there _might_ just be a consumer-beneficial reason for pushing back the changeover date? I mean, because it's political, it _has_ to be so someone or some company can game the system and reap megabucks?
WTF? KFC BBQ! FTW!!
I think he'll get over it. I called my Pascal prof - _way_ back in the day - a "fucking bitch," and lived to tell about it. I passed the class the next semester.
No, it's just reverse-double-over-and-under psychology. Brilliant!
There's a difference, and YMMV, of course. For stability for my children, absolutely, I'd say find a good place and stick around for a while, even if it means you have to suck it up for a crappy job, now and then.
But, for those of us with an empty nest, the "Dada" lifestyle isn't all that bad. I started a family early - not really as part of any plan - and now, in my early 40s, I'm mostly free of obligations like middle school events, PTA, etc. A couple of years ago, when I was a freelancer, I kind of liked going from place to place. I'm "permanently" employed, now, but if Mr. Dada called me up with a reasonable offer involving extensive travel, I'd seriously consider it.
Yeah, Lance's cycling team - Cofidis - gave him up for dead, too. In hindsight, I'm sure they still support that decision.
Can I buy some pot from you?
I'm one of the _last_ people to fall prey to marketing - I don't have TV, so I rarely see those ads, and I'm not swayed by that type of thing, anyway - but I _do_ have an iPod shuffle and I just love the little thing. It's trivial to use, does exactly what I want, and, combined w/ iTunes, I don't even have to think about it. Sync-unplug-go. Tag me a "phanboi" if you wish, but there's more to the iPod phenomenon than just marketing.
I'd like to believe you, but all of the intolerance - cf. McCain's 2008 campaign - and religious hostility we _still_ have kind of tells me that, socially, we _can't_ adapt. Not all of us, anyway.
It's called a properly authorized warrant. If you do not comply, you can be punished. In fact, as a matter of principle, companies should _not_ comply with government requests without one. That's the whole point of seeking immunity: because the telcos were wrong to comply without warrants.
Amen, brother. I pretty much don't care what I'm doing - as long as I'm engaged, and can't think about the drudgery. Ennui kills me.
$50. Though I'd pay _way_ more for "333" - 'cuz, really, I'm only half-evil...
Plenty of that type of poo to go around. I see it all the time, here at Gigantor Medical Co. Of course, we can't do _anything_ to fix the real problems; we don't have the time or resources. Doing things the right way to begin with is somewhat like witnessing a miracle.
You should meet my boss. Foreigner's "Cold As Ice" is her theme song.
When you do it long enough, it's probably not that big a deal. Because of my work/family arrangement, I stay at work up to 14 or 15 hours for 10 days at a stretch. Sometimes as long as 21 days, if I can't get a weekend off. After a while of this, staying at the office - I didn't necessarily say "working," but nurses get to stand around and chat, too - for that length of time becomes unremarkable.
Here's what I got, so far. Sorry it's not tabbed and cross-referenced...
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/17/224230 -- in case anyone wants this page, too
http://www.quickref.org/
http://gotapi.com/
http://www.regular-expressions.info/ -- regular expressions
http://www.perlmonks.org/
http://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://perldoc.perl.org/
http://www.perlbuzz.com/
http://java.sun.com/reference/
http://forums.sun.com/index.jspa
http://developer.mozilla.org/ -- javascript
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/Advanced.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/
http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/
http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/011/firstcss
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/learning
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Tcl
http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/webmonkeys/book/c_guide/
http://cprogramming.com/
http://www.cplusplus.com/
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cbook/
http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/
http://en.wikibooks.org/
http://developer.apple.com/
http://cocoadev.com/
http://www.cocoabuilder.com/
Take the $400 mil and hop a jet to someplace warm and sunny.
Your move, asshole!
I understand you a little bit, because I remember once, in particular, when I was pressed for an answer "now!" and the Camel book just seemed, at that time, to be more cutesy than informative: it's a technical book, dammit, just tell me what I need to know. In fact, I sent a note to Tom Christenson about it. It didn't change anything, really; the newer versions still maintained their flippancy. It's not as big a deal, now, because I've learned enough that I don't need to refer to the book as much, and certainly not under critical conditions like back then.
If 2d, let alone 3d arrays scare you, why are you in the programming business? These are common in _lots_ of applications. That's hardly the worst you can see.
What's wrong with having more than one way to do something? I think it reflects that reality that, yep, there usually is more than one way to accomplish the same thing.
You're thirsty. Your choices are milk or milk. Gee, how exciting. What if I like vodka?
Frankly, I think that expressiveness is useful. You and I might not approach a problem the same way, and having a language confine us to one approach would make it more difficult to solve the problem: one of us would have to change our way of thinking to accommodate the language. That's not acceptable. It's like the concept of languages in general: if you don't like perl, no one's forcing you to use it. But don't take it away from me, if it helps me get my work done.
Thank you for so sensibly pointing this out. Well done.
If I had mod points...