All designs are brilliant until you add human nature to the equation. What we have here is a Tragedy of the Forums. Game theory curricula will eventually pick up on it.
Crusading against this widespread tactic will wear you out quickly. Perhaps you should start a campaign for automatic thread folding or something?
P.s. I prefer yyyymmdd as the standard and I'm still not poohpoohing this. I'm an atheist and I use xmas as a present day. People yearn for excuses to celebrate, so just roll with it.
Hi, paranoid Libertarian here. That said, I wouldn't touch bitcoins with a 10 foot virtual pole. Bad design, bad distribution method, no significant support, and doomed for endless cycles of instability.
You can be a pauliac and still think deflationary currencies are a bad idea. The true blue ones are investing in gold, not BTC. It has substance.
Makes me think of those 900 numbers in the late 80's and early 90's dishing out video game tips, which went more or less extinct after the proliferation of the internet.
The Bob Woodward thing was a bit overblown, fyi. Not really as mafia-like as it first seemed once you read the emails. (And I'm on the "Obama administration is fearmongering" side, to put my biases out there)
I was astonished to find that this was a review of a PC game. I honestly had no idea that people still played PC games. Why would anybody bother spending hundreds and hundreds of dollars on fancy PC's just to play games that play better and look just as good on a $200 console? Why would somebody put themselves through that kind of hassle and expense?
First person shooters are simply not fun to play on a console, at least for some people. It slows them down, and for those who have gotten pretty decent at twitch motions with a mouse, it's like having a ball and chain around your right wrist.
FWIW, the first thing that popped into my libertarian head is that they want to increase the supply of programmers, thus decreasing their value. You lost me after that.
Wasn't there a post on slashdot recently saying far more than half of all bitcoins were being hoarded? (That, and/or lost) I don't think you have a handle on just how many people are trying to game the system.
What about slowly merging (inching, really) into the guard rail? Would that slow you down or initiate a death spiral? (I suppose it depends on how much metal is to the outer side of your tires...)
So I've googled that there's no permanent death, so how was $3600 at risk? Would it have just been that one ship that the player lost? (I don't play EVE but this stuff interests me)
Why not just use traditional locking mechanisms? A tiny padlock may be all you need if your suitcase has two zippers for the main compartment. As for the entire unit itself, a simple bike lock should direct a thief's attention to the bag next to yours. Naturally your truly important items (i.e. laptop) will be with you at all times, even when you sleep, no?
The Tea Party movement has made many Republicans promise to never raise taxes.
Just a quick bit of history, the pledge has been around since 1986, and even George H. W. Bush was a signator. Remember "Read My Lips"? Even if you were a kid like I was at the time, you should. It was in campaign ads everywhere in 1992 -- since HW broke the pledge.
That's not to say the Tea Party (2007-present) doesn't have a similar bent -- they most certainly do. (for full "bias" disclosure, I'm a libertarian)
Why would I want that? Where I work, that would amount to an unnecessary layer of bureaucracy. (and would be hell because our codebase is multinational) Plus, I do a lot of original development, an only a moderate amount of maintenance and fixes.
As a general rule, leaving commented code into commits that you make to the main repository is a bad practice. The general idea is that if you do things right, by the time you commit the code you should be pretty confident it does what it's supposed to do - and I might add that this is the main reason why I think rewrites are NOT for any developer.
This is great in theory, but often it might be someone else looking through those lines of code again, and without the direct reference to what needed to be changed before, the new developer may reinsert the bad code for one reason or another. Another case is when a feature is put in, but then the producer or whoever changes their mind before release. It's easier for the same developer to search through all the code for snippets they remember than it is to hunt through VCS, because you can't do a "find all files" on deleted code.
There are many, many other cases for comment over immediate deletion, and I do prune my own comments once I feel confident with the change. That said, it's a bit arrogant to assume that your modifications are going to be perfect, even if you do a decent job of testing it yourself.
I guess it's worth noting that where I work, there are usually only one or two people working on code at any given time, so commits are more focused toward backup than perfection. Your environment may vary.
Many punishments essentially mark a person for life, though. DUI is one of them. It's not in one's self interest to admit to a DUI, no matter how moral it might make you to do so.
Speaking of crimes that mark people for life, drug offenses. (including pot) Many examples put forward by the media where pot users who have been caught have lost permanent rights, such as running for certain offices...like president, which two recent self-admitted tokers have done. (and probably at least a dozen non-admitting, I'd only believe that Nixon never inhaled, frankly...and maybe LBJ)
Not troll. I addressed this person's point in the rest of my post. I even said stuff like "Sony Store", "Apple App Store" (in full), etc was trademarkable. But you can't trademark something like "celery store" against someone else who only sells celery. Hell, someone could sell only apples and call it an "Apple Store", though Apple would surely make their life a living hell with lawsuits. (they'd lose if it drew to a conclusion, but Apple would most likely successfully scare the apple vendor)
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All designs are brilliant until you add human nature to the equation. What we have here is a Tragedy of the Forums. Game theory curricula will eventually pick up on it.
Crusading against this widespread tactic will wear you out quickly. Perhaps you should start a campaign for automatic thread folding or something?
I guess John Riccitiello couldn't get past Turbo Tubes...
When you do fix it, be sure to replace it with bitcoin.
I should correct myself: Present day (for nieces/nephews) and excuse for partying. (me)
P.s. I prefer yyyymmdd as the standard and I'm still not poohpoohing this. I'm an atheist and I use xmas as a present day. People yearn for excuses to celebrate, so just roll with it.
Then no pi(e) for you!
Hi, paranoid Libertarian here. That said, I wouldn't touch bitcoins with a 10 foot virtual pole. Bad design, bad distribution method, no significant support, and doomed for endless cycles of instability.
You can be a pauliac and still think deflationary currencies are a bad idea. The true blue ones are investing in gold, not BTC. It has substance.
Makes me think of those 900 numbers in the late 80's and early 90's dishing out video game tips, which went more or less extinct after the proliferation of the internet.
The Bob Woodward thing was a bit overblown, fyi. Not really as mafia-like as it first seemed once you read the emails. (And I'm on the "Obama administration is fearmongering" side, to put my biases out there)
I was astonished to find that this was a review of a PC game. I honestly had no idea that people still played PC games. Why would anybody bother spending hundreds and hundreds of dollars on fancy PC's just to play games that play better and look just as good on a $200 console? Why would somebody put themselves through that kind of hassle and expense?
First person shooters are simply not fun to play on a console, at least for some people. It slows them down, and for those who have gotten pretty decent at twitch motions with a mouse, it's like having a ball and chain around your right wrist.
FWIW, the first thing that popped into my libertarian head is that they want to increase the supply of programmers, thus decreasing their value. You lost me after that.
Wasn't there a post on slashdot recently saying far more than half of all bitcoins were being hoarded? (That, and/or lost) I don't think you have a handle on just how many people are trying to game the system.
What about slowly merging (inching, really) into the guard rail? Would that slow you down or initiate a death spiral? (I suppose it depends on how much metal is to the outer side of your tires...)
That would be Awesome
So I've googled that there's no permanent death, so how was $3600 at risk? Would it have just been that one ship that the player lost? (I don't play EVE but this stuff interests me)
Clearly you haven't been to the internet lately. Cats are everything and nothing, the alpha and the omega, predators and noms...
It easily be treated as a "don't mess with these folks" list, as well...
Why not just use traditional locking mechanisms? A tiny padlock may be all you need if your suitcase has two zippers for the main compartment. As for the entire unit itself, a simple bike lock should direct a thief's attention to the bag next to yours. Naturally your truly important items (i.e. laptop) will be with you at all times, even when you sleep, no?
The Tea Party movement has made many Republicans promise to never raise taxes.
Just a quick bit of history, the pledge has been around since 1986, and even George H. W. Bush was a signator. Remember "Read My Lips"? Even if you were a kid like I was at the time, you should. It was in campaign ads everywhere in 1992 -- since HW broke the pledge.
That's not to say the Tea Party (2007-present) doesn't have a similar bent -- they most certainly do. (for full "bias" disclosure, I'm a libertarian)
Why would I want that? Where I work, that would amount to an unnecessary layer of bureaucracy. (and would be hell because our codebase is multinational) Plus, I do a lot of original development, an only a moderate amount of maintenance and fixes.
As a general rule, leaving commented code into commits that you make to the main repository is a bad practice. The general idea is that if you do things right, by the time you commit the code you should be pretty confident it does what it's supposed to do - and I might add that this is the main reason why I think rewrites are NOT for any developer.
This is great in theory, but often it might be someone else looking through those lines of code again, and without the direct reference to what needed to be changed before, the new developer may reinsert the bad code for one reason or another.
Another case is when a feature is put in, but then the producer or whoever changes their mind before release. It's easier for the same developer to search through all the code for snippets they remember than it is to hunt through VCS, because you can't do a "find all files" on deleted code.
There are many, many other cases for comment over immediate deletion, and I do prune my own comments once I feel confident with the change. That said, it's a bit arrogant to assume that your modifications are going to be perfect, even if you do a decent job of testing it yourself.
I guess it's worth noting that where I work, there are usually only one or two people working on code at any given time, so commits are more focused toward backup than perfection. Your environment may vary.
Many punishments essentially mark a person for life, though. DUI is one of them. It's not in one's self interest to admit to a DUI, no matter how moral it might make you to do so.
Speaking of crimes that mark people for life, drug offenses. (including pot) Many examples put forward by the media where pot users who have been caught have lost permanent rights, such as running for certain offices...like president, which two recent self-admitted tokers have done. (and probably at least a dozen non-admitting, I'd only believe that Nixon never inhaled, frankly...and maybe LBJ)
Not troll. I addressed this person's point in the rest of my post. I even said stuff like "Sony Store", "Apple App Store" (in full), etc was trademarkable. But you can't trademark something like "celery store" against someone else who only sells celery. Hell, someone could sell only apples and call it an "Apple Store", though Apple would surely make their life a living hell with lawsuits. (they'd lose if it drew to a conclusion, but Apple would most likely successfully scare the apple vendor)
I guess tl;dr applies to posts that are longer than one sentence.