But I think it's a good move. I always thought they were trying to do too much in one episode. And really, who can argue with focusing on two really awesome dudes who love to blow stuff up?
More isn't always better, sometimes its just more.
Too much in one episode? Are you kidding me?
There's a lot of unnecessarily repeat after commercials and switching between myths. This is particularly annoying when watching on Netflix, where there are no commercial breaks.
Most episodes could be dramatically improved by cutting their length by 30%.
Don't worry guys, the free market fairy will take care of it.
The free market has taken care of it. Good customer service is expensive. Consumers have demonstrated that they are unwilling to pay additional money for good customer service. Successful companies have aborted customer service to keep prices low.
Tell me how having one ISP to chose from is "free market".
This is supposedly a sign that the race to the bottom is actually done. The bottom filled out and is rebounding, and "we" mostly resisted our worst political urges vis-a-vis protectionism and removing regulatory protections that exist for good reasons. An equilibrium has been reached, and all the sacrificing has been mostly of the short term kind.
The problem with deregulation is that it was applied ridiculously unequally, greatly contributing to income inequality. For example, while unions were being busted up all over the country, doctors successfully bought legislation to make it much harder for foreigners to come practice medicine in the US - legislation that to this day keeps your medical bills artificially high.
And income inequality, when it goes past a certain point - far from being merely a social problem - can be quantified as massive, long-term economic damage.
My point there is that democracy, while important, isn't a cure-all. It's inherently adversarial, a conflict which has notably ground today's national legislature to a standstill.
I'm going to disagree with your point. The founders of the USA designed gridlock into the system, so that if there isn't agreement on what to do, nothing will get done.
Are you worried about theocrat conservatives? Don't worry; they will never get any of their goals accomplished.
Are you worried about liberals completely turning the country into a socialist country? Don't worry; there is a point past which they will never be able to go.
There's only gridlock for the issues that the powerful don't care about. For the other stuff, there is no meaningful public input or interference.
We've already tried that. Hoover after the 1929 crash let the free market work on its own. After 3 years of worsening depression, the people wanted a New Deal.
But it wasn't a free market. The FED - the very concept of which is antithetical to a free market - deliberately crashed it.
Getting education is not about mastering subjects, they are frequently irrelevant to what you end up doing. It is about developing ability to independently study abstract problem outside your knowledge domain and providing you with just enough bare-minimum knowledge that it is possible to self-educate yourself.
I'm going to have to disagree with you there. Maybe other colleges are different, but I learned nothing of the sort at MIT - I didn't learn how to learn, I didn't learn how to work hard. I got in (and graduated) because I already had these traits. And when I successfully went on to very technical work, it became clear almost immediately that I could have gone there strait from of high school, save for the fact that most employers expect you to first trade a large amount of money, and years of your life, for a small piece of paper.
I think the idea of college being able to add anything beyond practical skill (if you're lucky enough to get it) is a myth.
For a multiple step data entry process that ends with a single submit to a database, I use an SPA that steps through partial views. To start I issue a URL with a new GUID, then it's all post-redirect-get to the same URL, so you have none of the forward-back state screw-ups, or the nonsense of F5 asking the user to "re-submit". I store the entered data in memory server-side, accessed via cache keyed on the URL's GUID. This way if the user hits F5, they don't lose everything. And POSTs are only what the user just entered, not the whole freakin form.
Sometimes I get a protest that you can't use the browser's back or forward buttons to navigate the data entry process, but if your UI makes doing that easy and obvious, it's really not that big of a deal.
I don't see a lot of other developers using SPA, but it's worked well for me.
Unless education really is just supposed to be about daycare and busywork I think we should focus on quality more than quantity. Those that actually need the extra time can ruin their summers with summer classes.
All that hand-wringing and extra effort when half the class is destined for Wall-Mart. Educate them more, it will make a difference!
3 months off in the summer currently means that they spend the first month back getting back into the swing of schooling and relearning some of what they've forgotten.
Maybe that's true for shitty schools.
I remember always getting an ass-load of homework the first day back. You were expected to already know what you'd learned before.
For us, getting back into the swing of things took exactly 24 hours.
The Windows Phone Facebook app doesn't filter, it's the unadulterated feed that you claim to want. I don't have that many Facebook friends, but this feed is terrible. It includes all sorts of crap I don't want to see, like how my sister's Farmville farm is doing, and the latest "Share if you love Jesus" that my mom shared, and a boring video of my high school buddy's child playing soccer.
I like these people, I don't want to unfriend them because they genuinely do post things I want to see. But they also post crap. Facebook has figured out what I think is crap and does a good job of hiding that. And this is my definition of crap - my high school buddy's wife probably does want to see that soccer video.
I'm less sold on the chronological re-ordering that FB does. I'm glad that they're showing me just the stories that they think I care about, but it's confusing when something ten hours old shows up above something ten minutes old.
Dude. You can filter all game posts pretty easy. And I don't know how long it's been since you've used Facebook, but you don't need to unfriend people just to stop following their posts. I've found those two features perfectly adequate for my filtering needs.
I thought there had to be more than 3 macro-scale space dimensions to allow the whole 'finite but unbounded' thing. You know, so you can't sail off the edge of space?
Everyone has a smartphone these days. And I don't know about you, but I like the idea of not having to wait 20 minutes to check in or out while some dude at the front of the line wastes everyone's time by being "social".
I think the entire approach is wrong-headed. Why would it be acceptable for someone who's attempting to recover from addiction hang out with people who are still using - people who would encourage them to use again, in spite of the typically massive damage to their so-called "friend's" life that landed them in rehab in the first place?
Sounds like your IT has been outsourced to India, who as a culture, literally does not know how to say "no".
It takes two to fail to communicate. You should not be asking questions that require a direct "yes or no" answer. In many cultures, that is considered rude.
Really?
Could a question like, "Is it raining?", which presumably would be answered by a yes or a no, really be considered rude?
I'm at a total loss to see how any interpretation of your assertion could be true.
Could you give us a simple and clear example, and then provide another in the context of a work environment, where management is expected and acceptable?
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But I think it's a good move. I always thought they were trying to do too much in one episode. And really, who can argue with focusing on two really awesome dudes who love to blow stuff up?
More isn't always better, sometimes its just more.
Too much in one episode? Are you kidding me?
There's a lot of unnecessarily repeat after commercials and switching between myths. This is particularly annoying when watching on Netflix, where there are no commercial breaks.
Most episodes could be dramatically improved by cutting their length by 30%.
exactly what is "illegal or unethical" about the content of the Wikipedia article on the Westboro Baptist Church?
A hectare is a metric unit. Not that most people have a problem with imperial measurements, just people who think it's cool to complain about it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hectare
You got a problem with square furlongs, bub?
Don't worry guys, the free market fairy will take care of it.
The free market has taken care of it. Good customer service is expensive. Consumers have demonstrated that they are unwilling to pay additional money for good customer service. Successful companies have aborted customer service to keep prices low.
Tell me how having one ISP to chose from is "free market".
I'm gonna disagree.
This is supposedly a sign that the race to the bottom is actually done. The bottom filled out and is rebounding, and "we" mostly resisted our worst political urges vis-a-vis protectionism and removing regulatory protections that exist for good reasons. An equilibrium has been reached, and all the sacrificing has been mostly of the short term kind.
The problem with deregulation is that it was applied ridiculously unequally, greatly contributing to income inequality. For example, while unions were being busted up all over the country, doctors successfully bought legislation to make it much harder for foreigners to come practice medicine in the US - legislation that to this day keeps your medical bills artificially high.
And income inequality, when it goes past a certain point - far from being merely a social problem - can be quantified as massive, long-term economic damage.
My point there is that democracy, while important, isn't a cure-all. It's inherently adversarial, a conflict which has notably ground today's national legislature to a standstill.
I'm going to disagree with your point. The founders of the USA designed gridlock into the system, so that if there isn't agreement on what to do, nothing will get done.
Are you worried about theocrat conservatives? Don't worry; they will never get any of their goals accomplished.
Are you worried about liberals completely turning the country into a socialist country? Don't worry; there is a point past which they will never be able to go.
There's only gridlock for the issues that the powerful don't care about. For the other stuff, there is no meaningful public input or interference.
Hmmm... what's that in square furlongs?
that power, by its very nature, must be kept from the people who perform the actual, useful work.
what happens when everyone can get food, clothing, shelter, medical care, and weapons, from self-maintaining, self-replicating technology?
We've already tried that. Hoover after the 1929 crash let the free market work on its own. After 3 years of worsening depression, the people wanted a New Deal.
But it wasn't a free market. The FED - the very concept of which is antithetical to a free market - deliberately crashed it.
Getting education is not about mastering subjects, they are frequently irrelevant to what you end up doing. It is about developing ability to independently study abstract problem outside your knowledge domain and providing you with just enough bare-minimum knowledge that it is possible to self-educate yourself.
I'm going to have to disagree with you there. Maybe other colleges are different, but I learned nothing of the sort at MIT - I didn't learn how to learn, I didn't learn how to work hard. I got in (and graduated) because I already had these traits. And when I successfully went on to very technical work, it became clear almost immediately that I could have gone there strait from of high school, save for the fact that most employers expect you to first trade a large amount of money, and years of your life, for a small piece of paper.
I think the idea of college being able to add anything beyond practical skill (if you're lucky enough to get it) is a myth.
It's not evolution. It's the writer looking stupid.
our great ape social hierarchies per se, but rather that they emerge at highly inappropriate scales.
For a multiple step data entry process that ends with a single submit to a database, I use an SPA that steps through partial views. To start I issue a URL with a new GUID, then it's all post-redirect-get to the same URL, so you have none of the forward-back state screw-ups, or the nonsense of F5 asking the user to "re-submit". I store the entered data in memory server-side, accessed via cache keyed on the URL's GUID. This way if the user hits F5, they don't lose everything. And POSTs are only what the user just entered, not the whole freakin form.
Sometimes I get a protest that you can't use the browser's back or forward buttons to navigate the data entry process, but if your UI makes doing that easy and obvious, it's really not that big of a deal.
I don't see a lot of other developers using SPA, but it's worked well for me.
Unless education really is just supposed to be about daycare and busywork I think we should focus on quality more than quantity. Those that actually need the extra time can ruin their summers with summer classes.
All that hand-wringing and extra effort when half the class is destined for Wall-Mart. Educate them more, it will make a difference!
Not.
3 months off in the summer currently means that they spend the first month back getting back into the swing of schooling and relearning some of what they've forgotten.
Maybe that's true for shitty schools.
I remember always getting an ass-load of homework the first day back. You were expected to already know what you'd learned before.
For us, getting back into the swing of things took exactly 24 hours.
No. The universe does not close in on itself. That has been proven.
Citation needed. Care to share?
You don't, you really don't.
The Windows Phone Facebook app doesn't filter, it's the unadulterated feed that you claim to want. I don't have that many Facebook friends, but this feed is terrible. It includes all sorts of crap I don't want to see, like how my sister's Farmville farm is doing, and the latest "Share if you love Jesus" that my mom shared, and a boring video of my high school buddy's child playing soccer.
I like these people, I don't want to unfriend them because they genuinely do post things I want to see. But they also post crap. Facebook has figured out what I think is crap and does a good job of hiding that. And this is my definition of crap - my high school buddy's wife probably does want to see that soccer video.
I'm less sold on the chronological re-ordering that FB does. I'm glad that they're showing me just the stories that they think I care about, but it's confusing when something ten hours old shows up above something ten minutes old.
Dude. You can filter all game posts pretty easy. And I don't know how long it's been since you've used Facebook, but you don't need to unfriend people just to stop following their posts. I've found those two features perfectly adequate for my filtering needs.
that I don't have the choice to tell Facebook to just stop randomly hiding shit on me.
Some of us don't have 1200 "friends" and don't want a filter.
I thought there had to be more than 3 macro-scale space dimensions to allow the whole 'finite but unbounded' thing. You know, so you can't sail off the edge of space?
why they feel the need to public data requiring sanitation in the first place?
If the failure a result of a code change, why was there no unit test to catch it?
And if there was no code change, why would you set up such a publish process to silently continue if such a critical step failed?
Compared with tools we had 10 years ago or more, UIs have indeed improved significantly.
I don't know what crappy tools you've been using, bub, but the Visual Studio UI is roughly the same as it was 10 years ago (and no complaints).
Everyone has a smartphone these days. And I don't know about you, but I like the idea of not having to wait 20 minutes to check in or out while some dude at the front of the line wastes everyone's time by being "social".
I think the entire approach is wrong-headed. Why would it be acceptable for someone who's attempting to recover from addiction hang out with people who are still using - people who would encourage them to use again, in spite of the typically massive damage to their so-called "friend's" life that landed them in rehab in the first place?
Sounds like your IT has been outsourced to India, who as a culture, literally does not know how to say "no".
It takes two to fail to communicate. You should not be asking questions that require a direct "yes or no" answer. In many cultures, that is considered rude.
Really? Could a question like, "Is it raining?", which presumably would be answered by a yes or a no, really be considered rude?
I'm at a total loss to see how any interpretation of your assertion could be true.
Could you give us a simple and clear example, and then provide another in the context of a work environment, where management is expected and acceptable?