Have you seen the studies where people properly read words with the correct start and end letter, but the middle ones jumbled? That's more how dyslexics read.
Yes, I have seen those studies. That's not how dyslexic's read - that's how 'regular' people read. I am not dyslexic, so I don't know how they read, but I do know that they find it very difficult.
When the dyslexic gets to enough words, reading is no harder than a regular person.
Citation needed
Writing isn't hard... When I, as a teen, got to about "average" adult vocabulary, reading became much easier.
You are not dyslexic. Good for you.
I think you might want to do a bit more research before you proclaim on matters about which you appear to know very little.
My vocabulary is likely more than double average
Unlikely. Lots of people think this, in the same way that lots of people think they are above average drivers. Your vocabulary may very well be very large, although your writing doesn't betray such versatility, but double average? In your own words, I don't believe you.
Quite, and I don't want to suggest that someone who's found something that works should stop using it. But dyslexia is a tough thing to deal with, and the evidence doesn't support what the Irlen outfit want to sell, so people's money and energies should probably be channelled into support strategies that the evidence does support.
If either of my boys decide to wear coloured lenses, and claim that they help, placebo or otherwise, I'm certainly not going to stand in their way. But kids are extremely suggestible, and one should take great care with any self-reported results from them. For instance, both my boys claimed that the coloured overlays helped their reading. But they both struggled the same amount with or without the overlays, and I didn't observe any difference in either their reading speed or their accuracy.
Which isn't to belittle your brother's achievements, but my understanding of Irlen Syndrome is that it's quackery. They diagnosed both of my kids with Irlen, but the colored overlays made no difference to their reading abilities that I could detect. It's always a warning sign when a 'syndrome' is a registered trademark.
ADHD - don't know. High-functioning autistic? Sounds like a contradiction in terms to me. But Dyslexia? Trust me mate, it exists, and if you have it then you will have severe difficulty in learning to read and write. End. Of. Story. I presume from your dismissive attitude that you don't have it, in which case more power to you.
There's no drug for it ether. Sure, I'm very suspicious of problems that have quick fixes you can go out and buy - Dyslexia doesn't have any of that. There's no cure, it's just how you are. You will always struggle with reading and writing, but other aspects of language will be unaffected.
Irlen Syndrome is a scam. Suspiciously overpriced colored overlays, and lo-and-behold everyone who they test ends up having it. If you have children who are dyslexic, save your money and spend it on tuition instead.
Evidently in these cases dyslexia is caused by certain colors being transmitted to the wrong areas of the brain.
Evidently implies evidence. Of which there is none.
Yes. There are pre-reading tests that can detect dyslexia, and they are quite accurate. The tests that I know of are trivial to pass for non-dyslexic children, and surprisingly challenging for children who will exhibit dyslexia once they start to learn to read.
They're all about testing how well children can take words apart and put them back together in their head. I attended a presentation on this at the University of Canterbury - which if you're interested you can see here:
I have two children with dyslexia, and one without. Of the two with dyslexia, one is quite a bit more severe than the other. I would judge that they are each of more or less equal intelligence, but the one with the severe dyslexia can barely write. He can talk intelligently, use his fairly extensive vocabulary, follow complex lego instructions, understand complex language when it's spoken. But he finds it very difficult to read and write.
Except I think he *is* complaining when someone's being rude to him. When someone calls out his abusive and extremely unhelpful behavior, pointing out quite rightly that he really should have grown out of it by now, he gets all uppity and goes on (irrelevantly) about his bathrobe.
Leaving side the unpleasant image of Linus Torvalds in a bathrobe, perhaps he would have been better served if he had just replied;
"I'm rude, you're not, let's leave it at that."
But he didn't. Instead he leant into a rant about how being civil to people is to be conflated with wearing a tie and giving into the corporate mentality, whatever that might be. But it isn't. Being civil to people is a basic aspect of humanity that Linus seems to lack. I wonder, does he treat people at the coffee counter in a similar manner, or is it just when he's safe behind his monitor?
I don't believe that GC works effectively on a device with any amount of memory. As stated in the (extremely interesting) article, GC works best by using anywhere above four times more memory than your application actually needs. That doesn't fit with any definition of 'works' that I'm comfortable using.
Also, my PC has 8 gigs of memory - backed up by a large hard-disc as a virtual store. Your mobile device has 1-2 gigs of memory, backed up by nothing.
assuring that binary protocols will always be 1:1 convertible into equivalent text representations.
Under what circumstances can a binary protocol not be converted in an equivalent text representation? Is there something magic about binary that text cannot capture?
1g of gold will always be worth 1g of gold
Yes, and about as useful. The problem comes when you turn your gold savings into something more useful to you, like food, and discover that your neighbour dug a big hole in the ground - found a whole bunch of gold - and now you can barely afford a snickers bar.
...precious metals are not a guarantee of sound money...
No, they certainly aren't. It certainly didn't help the Spanish when the Conquistadors went off and found massive quantities of silver, brought it home, and got all surprised when instead of becoming filthy rich they instead caused massive inflation. The money supply does need to be controlled by something less arbitrary that the current amount of some element in circulation.
far and beyond the point where it is reasonable to switch to a more powerful tool
Nonsense. Spreadsheets do a great job of all sorts of things. Why shouldn't they be made more powerful? A spreadsheet is a database, albeit a slightly specialised one. Why shouldn't I be able to drop 100,000 rows of data into it and have it calculate/plot whatever it is I'm interested in? How will a 'database' do this any better?
switching over to using something like MS access
Crikey. I'll assume you're joking.
Now, what spreadsheets do need is a better UI. I have gigs of ram and megagiggawatts of CPU power and 8 cores and all the rest of it. I should be able to zoom in & out of enormous spreadheets containing gigbytes of data without having my machine grind to a halt. If you need the GPU for this, more power to you. Just make it fast. Have a view that shows all the dependencies between cells, have the ability to specify that these cells are a matrix, and operate on that matrix accordingly. Implement better graphing tools (excel, I'm looking at you here...). Etc etc.
Maybe such a product would have a different name? Sheetbase? Dataspread?
So is it being sober that changes people's personalities?
I don't think either side in this discussion has presented any evidence one way or the other. Saying "I feel it is thus" is not evidence, for either camp. I googled a bit, and found these links, but I accept that they don't constitute evidence by themselves either;
Part of the issue may be defining what 'personality' really means. Is there any basis to make a declaration that we all possess an unchanging and unchangeable personality, that we are always the same as we were yesterday? And if we do change, then surely at least some of those changes must be driven by triggers other than whatever happens between our ears?
I could take so much better care of myself having learned the hard way.
I wonder if you would though? Or would the sudden influx of testosterone (sorry, I'm assuming you're male here) change your personality to the extent that you again wouldn't care until it was too late?
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Scary story. I wonder if some additive could cause the flame to burn with a colour, or would that impurity destroy the whole fuel-cell thing?
who eats french stuff daily?
Er. The French?
A thousand people with their bare hands will overrun you with some difficulty but they'll still win.
What were we talking about anyway?
this is where real men battle it out to the digital death over topics that are extremely critical to all of humanity.
Hilarious.
Head off pedants
You're welcome ;)
In the words on Henry Ford.
If you've always done it that way, it's probably wrong.
1) Nobody writes it.
2) Nobody reads it.
Have you seen the studies where people properly read words with the correct start and end letter, but the middle ones jumbled? That's more how dyslexics read.
Yes, I have seen those studies. That's not how dyslexic's read - that's how 'regular' people read. I am not dyslexic, so I don't know how they read, but I do know that they find it very difficult.
When the dyslexic gets to enough words, reading is no harder than a regular person.
Citation needed
Writing isn't hard ... When I, as a teen, got to about "average" adult vocabulary, reading became much easier.
You are not dyslexic. Good for you.
I think you might want to do a bit more research before you proclaim on matters about which you appear to know very little.
My vocabulary is likely more than double average
Unlikely. Lots of people think this, in the same way that lots of people think they are above average drivers. Your vocabulary may very well be very large, although your writing doesn't betray such versatility, but double average? In your own words, I don't believe you.
Quite, and I don't want to suggest that someone who's found something that works should stop using it. But dyslexia is a tough thing to deal with, and the evidence doesn't support what the Irlen outfit want to sell, so people's money and energies should probably be channelled into support strategies that the evidence does support.
If either of my boys decide to wear coloured lenses, and claim that they help, placebo or otherwise, I'm certainly not going to stand in their way. But kids are extremely suggestible, and one should take great care with any self-reported results from them. For instance, both my boys claimed that the coloured overlays helped their reading. But they both struggled the same amount with or without the overlays, and I didn't observe any difference in either their reading speed or their accuracy.
Well, we live in New Zealand, so of all the languages in the world to learn, one or both of those is probably a good idea. I'll give it a shot.
On the subject of Irlen Syndrome:
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/128/4/e932
Which isn't to belittle your brother's achievements, but my understanding of Irlen Syndrome is that it's quackery. They diagnosed both of my kids with Irlen, but the colored overlays made no difference to their reading abilities that I could detect. It's always a warning sign when a 'syndrome' is a registered trademark.
Dyslexia exists. Get over it.
ADHD - don't know. High-functioning autistic? Sounds like a contradiction in terms to me. But Dyslexia? Trust me mate, it exists, and if you have it then you will have severe difficulty in learning to read and write. End. Of. Story. I presume from your dismissive attitude that you don't have it, in which case more power to you.
There's no drug for it ether. Sure, I'm very suspicious of problems that have quick fixes you can go out and buy - Dyslexia doesn't have any of that. There's no cure, it's just how you are. You will always struggle with reading and writing, but other aspects of language will be unaffected.
Irlen Syndrome is a scam. Suspiciously overpriced colored overlays, and lo-and-behold everyone who they test ends up having it. If you have children who are dyslexic, save your money and spend it on tuition instead.
Evidently in these cases dyslexia is caused by certain colors being transmitted to the wrong areas of the brain.
Evidently implies evidence. Of which there is none.
See: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21930551
Yes. There are pre-reading tests that can detect dyslexia, and they are quite accurate. The tests that I know of are trivial to pass for non-dyslexic children, and surprisingly challenging for children who will exhibit dyslexia once they start to learn to read.
They're all about testing how well children can take words apart and put them back together in their head. I attended a presentation on this at the University of Canterbury - which if you're interested you can see here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzyZquJ4260
I have two children with dyslexia, and one without. Of the two with dyslexia, one is quite a bit more severe than the other. I would judge that they are each of more or less equal intelligence, but the one with the severe dyslexia can barely write. He can talk intelligently, use his fairly extensive vocabulary, follow complex lego instructions, understand complex language when it's spoken. But he finds it very difficult to read and write.
Except I think he *is* complaining when someone's being rude to him. When someone calls out his abusive and extremely unhelpful behavior, pointing out quite rightly that he really should have grown out of it by now, he gets all uppity and goes on (irrelevantly) about his bathrobe.
Leaving side the unpleasant image of Linus Torvalds in a bathrobe, perhaps he would have been better served if he had just replied;
"I'm rude, you're not, let's leave it at that."
But he didn't. Instead he leant into a rant about how being civil to people is to be conflated with wearing a tie and giving into the corporate mentality, whatever that might be. But it isn't. Being civil to people is a basic aspect of humanity that Linus seems to lack. I wonder, does he treat people at the coffee counter in a similar manner, or is it just when he's safe behind his monitor?
I don't believe that GC works effectively on a device with any amount of memory. As stated in the (extremely interesting) article, GC works best by using anywhere above four times more memory than your application actually needs. That doesn't fit with any definition of 'works' that I'm comfortable using.
Also, my PC has 8 gigs of memory - backed up by a large hard-disc as a virtual store. Your mobile device has 1-2 gigs of memory, backed up by nothing.
Point is of course, you can't just forget about memory. And garbage collection has no place on a mobile device.
Memory management is easy. Just program in C++ using smart pointers instead of JavaScript, problem solved.
FTFY.
Python..... efficient....
First time I've heard those two words together in sentence without "is not" between them.
assuring that binary protocols will always be 1:1 convertible into equivalent text representations.
Under what circumstances can a binary protocol not be converted in an equivalent text representation? Is there something magic about binary that text cannot capture?
1g of gold will always be worth 1g of gold
Yes, and about as useful. The problem comes when you turn your gold savings into something more useful to you, like food, and discover that your neighbour dug a big hole in the ground - found a whole bunch of gold - and now you can barely afford a snickers bar.
...precious metals are not a guarantee of sound money...
No, they certainly aren't. It certainly didn't help the Spanish when the Conquistadors went off and found massive quantities of silver, brought it home, and got all surprised when instead of becoming filthy rich they instead caused massive inflation. The money supply does need to be controlled by something less arbitrary that the current amount of some element in circulation.
...hard to punch...
far and beyond the point where it is reasonable to switch to a more powerful tool
Nonsense. Spreadsheets do a great job of all sorts of things. Why shouldn't they be made more powerful? A spreadsheet is a database, albeit a slightly specialised one. Why shouldn't I be able to drop 100,000 rows of data into it and have it calculate/plot whatever it is I'm interested in? How will a 'database' do this any better?
switching over to using something like MS access
Crikey. I'll assume you're joking.
Now, what spreadsheets do need is a better UI. I have gigs of ram and megagiggawatts of CPU power and 8 cores and all the rest of it. I should be able to zoom in & out of enormous spreadheets containing gigbytes of data without having my machine grind to a halt. If you need the GPU for this, more power to you. Just make it fast. Have a view that shows all the dependencies between cells, have the ability to specify that these cells are a matrix, and operate on that matrix accordingly. Implement better graphing tools (excel, I'm looking at you here...). Etc etc.
Maybe such a product would have a different name? Sheetbase? Dataspread?
revealing what was already there before imbibing.
So is it being sober that changes people's personalities?
I don't think either side in this discussion has presented any evidence one way or the other. Saying "I feel it is thus" is not evidence, for either camp. I googled a bit, and found these links, but I accept that they don't constitute evidence by themselves either;
http://healthland.time.com/2013/01/04/our-personalities-are-constantly-changing-even-if-we-think-theyre-not/
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/weight-gain-linked-with-personality-trait-changes.html
Part of the issue may be defining what 'personality' really means. Is there any basis to make a declaration that we all possess an unchanging and unchangeable personality, that we are always the same as we were yesterday? And if we do change, then surely at least some of those changes must be driven by triggers other than whatever happens between our ears?
I could take so much better care of myself having learned the hard way.
I wonder if you would though? Or would the sudden influx of testosterone (sorry, I'm assuming you're male here) change your personality to the extent that you again wouldn't care until it was too late?