Wow. "Please die"? I know social graces are lost on many Slashdot readers, but really? You could take etiquette lessons from Mr. Turnip Guy a couple posts up.
First principle of karma whoring: the self-fulfilling prophecy. If you mention you'll probably (or probably not) get modded a certain way, and you want to, you won't be. If you don't want to, you will be.
Well no, I wasn't - what you said still seems like a completely different thing to me (and I still get the idea that you were looking for an argument). However, it was childish of me to call you a troll, swear at you, and accuse you of "foaming at the mouth", so I apologize for that. I'll try to stop being an ass.
Yes, troll. If Tux the Linux penguin was trademarked, and they made a game involving Tux, nobody would give a damn. Shut up and quit trying to be an ass.
Well, I graduated high school just this year, and I can tell you off the top of my head the sine, cosine and tangent for pi/6, pi/4, pi/3, pi/2, and so on all around the circle. A little memorization is not a bad thing, and what happened to writing questions so that memorized facts can be used? I hate using a calculator on questions where it's not necessary. I remember a couple of years when questions would work out to nice things like sqrt(144) or cos(3pi/4) - now they're having us figure wacky things like sqrt(241.7) and cos(20) (that's in radians).
No, withholding sex is not abuse. It's choosing not to have sex. When A wants to fuck B but B doesn't want to, proceeding is called rape even if B doesn't have a "valid" reason not to want sex. Apparently marriage is a statement that "I'll always want to have sex with you even if I say I don't" now?
This is Slashdot. Anyone here who doesn't know about scripting can Google it, and anyone who can't Google things, well.... I don't know how they even got here.
Honestly, the level of casual profanity from a person is directly connected to their lack of education and socio-economic status.
No. The level of holier-than-thou attitude is directly connected to socio-economic status, and also tends to follow education.
I suppose things are different where you live, because around here (upstate New York) just about everyone swears casually when with peers. What comes with lack of education and lower socio-economic status is not knowing when to stop. All the assholes (sorry) who swear at work or in class are the ones with brains of oatmeal.
Languages like python are taught such that you completely gloss over these subjects and just assume that the computer magically knows what you're trying to tell it to do.
That's because the teacher is lazy. Yes, you can teach Python without actually teaching. I agree that C is the place to start. Doctors start with anatomy; programmers should start with C. However, Python is great for some things. You can get into some pretty advanced object-oriented topics, and even things like metaprogramming quite cleanly, and the language stays out of your way so you can focus on the concepts.
Even the way it works with objects doesn't have to be treated like a black box. It's really quite simple. I don't know about your 'integer as string' problem; I've never seen that, and would probably have to know exactly what's going on. Python's data model is really nice, and a great way to teach things like object proxying. Again, the language gets the hell out of your way so you can program.
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My laptop definitely got warm enough to grab my attention...
I always thought we knew that heat on skin is bad. Whether are not you are in pain. Guess I was wrong all these years...
There is a medical term. "Burn".
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(Better post this as AC)
Good luck with that. Lemme know how you make out, ok?
Troll...?
Nah, I was half-joking, anyway. I saw what was meant - just, the overworked, tired me was slightly amused at the unusual wording of the sentence.
You can't spell incompetent without open
Uhm. Right. Okay.
fuck-up...don't give a shit...the *#&#%! thing
What the fuck?
Wow. "Please die"? I know social graces are lost on many Slashdot readers, but really? You could take etiquette lessons from Mr. Turnip Guy a couple posts up.
First principle of karma whoring: the self-fulfilling prophecy. If you mention you'll probably (or probably not) get modded a certain way, and you want to, you won't be. If you don't want to, you will be.
Nice job.
Well no, I wasn't - what you said still seems like a completely different thing to me (and I still get the idea that you were looking for an argument). However, it was childish of me to call you a troll, swear at you, and accuse you of "foaming at the mouth", so I apologize for that. I'll try to stop being an ass.
That's quite different from what you said before. Next time, make sure you're done foaming at the mouth before you post, ok?
Yes, troll. If Tux the Linux penguin was trademarked, and they made a game involving Tux, nobody would give a damn. Shut up and quit trying to be an ass.
nowhere in the Bible does "God hate" anyone!
How the hell do you suggest someone should be put to death (best example Lev 20:13, but there are myriad others) without hating him??
Poor AC.... I see you're still trying to get that stick out of your ass.
Really? Look again. We really don't need to know if "la Anglo estas tre malmola". That's his business, and his wife's...
Well, I graduated high school just this year, and I can tell you off the top of my head the sine, cosine and tangent for pi/6, pi/4, pi/3, pi/2, and so on all around the circle. A little memorization is not a bad thing, and what happened to writing questions so that memorized facts can be used? I hate using a calculator on questions where it's not necessary. I remember a couple of years when questions would work out to nice things like sqrt(144) or cos(3pi/4) - now they're having us figure wacky things like sqrt(241.7) and cos(20) (that's in radians).
No, withholding sex is not abuse. It's choosing not to have sex. When A wants to fuck B but B doesn't want to, proceeding is called rape even if B doesn't have a "valid" reason not to want sex. Apparently marriage is a statement that "I'll always want to have sex with you even if I say I don't" now?
This is Slashdot. Anyone here who doesn't know about scripting can Google it, and anyone who can't Google things, well.... I don't know how they even got here.
Yes, because scripting and batch automation are unique to Mac OS.
My kingdom for a mod point...
Please, please please please, please read before you write. He's running 'shred' on the block special, not on the individual file.
Says "celibate for life".
Honestly, the level of casual profanity from a person is directly connected to their lack of education and socio-economic status.
No. The level of holier-than-thou attitude is directly connected to socio-economic status, and also tends to follow education.
I suppose things are different where you live, because around here (upstate New York) just about everyone swears casually when with peers. What comes with lack of education and lower socio-economic status is not knowing when to stop. All the assholes (sorry) who swear at work or in class are the ones with brains of oatmeal.
Languages like python are taught such that you completely gloss over these subjects and just assume that the computer magically knows what you're trying to tell it to do.
That's because the teacher is lazy. Yes, you can teach Python without actually teaching. I agree that C is the place to start. Doctors start with anatomy; programmers should start with C. However, Python is great for some things. You can get into some pretty advanced object-oriented topics, and even things like metaprogramming quite cleanly, and the language stays out of your way so you can focus on the concepts.
Even the way it works with objects doesn't have to be treated like a black box. It's really quite simple. I don't know about your 'integer as string' problem; I've never seen that, and would probably have to know exactly what's going on. Python's data model is really nice, and a great way to teach things like object proxying. Again, the language gets the hell out of your way so you can program.
By that logic, asking people for money should be illegal because you create a demand for them to mug someone for it.