I guess that when every news agency available leans to the left, whether slightly or strongly, having one that is centrist or slightly right-leaning is such a shock that some leftists have to scream about "bias" and "agenda".
Ah, the old "liberal media" myth. Sssh. That's just something that Republicans tell their kids to scare them straight. I wish the media were at least a little bit liberal! Maybe then, we would have heard some criticism of the war before it began, instead of a thousand "Target: Iraq!" banners tarting up the reporting.
Newspapers and TV stations are owned by corporations, and corporations are about as conservative an entity as you can find.
Even if all the rest of the mainstream media were an evil, Soros-fueled left-fest, it would not logically follow that Fox is merely centrist and just seems right-wing in contrast to the rest. Fox leans pretty far to the right on just about any scale you could think up. Calling themselves "Fair and Balanced" under the circumstances, or presenting opinion as news, is not "admitting their general leanings up front."
Fox gets eyeballs because the conservatives tune in with bliss to hear what they'll say next, and th liberals tune in with outrage to hear what they'll say next. Best just to avoid the whole mess.
No, regulatory takings are buying a property that the law says you can build a subdivision on, taxing you on that basis, and then passing a law that denies you the ability to build
Close, but try again. More like buying a tract of farmland for $100k, being taxed on that basis, attempting to turn it into a Wal-Mart with a few acres of parking, and then whining to mommy about how that Big Evil Government won't let you use the land for a purpose for which it was never intended. And then claiming that the government "stole" $1M from you because the folks in Bentonville might've given you a million for the land.
and destroys the vast majority of the land's economic value without any compensation.
Why is it folks who invest in real estate feel that they're entitled to a kickback if someone passes a law that inconveniences them? If I buy stock in a printer company, and I lose a few bucks because their stock price dips after the EPA outlaws some chemical used in their ink, the feds don't owe me money. Real estate investment is no different. It has risks. That land you bought in the middle of nowhere might one day be suitable for a subdivision, or it might not.
You don't get to expropriate without just compensation no matter the process you adopt
Again, there's a difference between condemning a property and handing it over to profiteers for cash (as in the recent famous SCOTUS case), vs. enacting zoning and land use laws that protect economic value of neighboring land. You might say your right to swing your factory ends where my atmosphere begins.
Just because it's still yours on paper doesn't make it any less expropriation.
I'm sorry, but that's just plain wrong. There are things I'm not allowed to do with my car. That doesn't make it "not mine." There are things I'm not allowed to do with my land. That doesn't make it "not mine," either.
You mean, local zoning stuff enacted by county land use boards? Legislative bodies? People accountable to their constituents? If I don't like some zoning law, I can shout to my legislators, or even go to the ballots myself (as Oregonians are going to do this fall to fix a land use problem).
There's a huge difference between citizens electing a local legislative body to say you're not allowed to build a chemical plant in the middle of a quiet suburban street, and an executive crowning himself legislator for a day to rewrite property law (which is what this Executive Order is, in effect, doing).
I'm a little biased, but I think the RSpec test description language (built on Ruby) encourages nice, legible test scripts. You get to use natural-looking language like this example:
@stack.peek.should == @last_item_added
...as a pleasant alternative to a bunch of assert macros. The source code to RSpec itself is pretty decent, too.
That's only part of the issue. If all you have to do is click Cancel or Allow, then anyone else could ineptly or maliciously Allow some malware to wreak havoc on your system while you're down the hall getting a cup of coffee.
I understand there's a way to set up Vista to require an actual password, not just a yes/no choice, but shouldn't that be the default?
Who said PHP was the answer to Ruby's scalability?
I think he (and you, by way of sarcasm) said that PHP is the answer to a different question entirely: "What do you do when there are already tons of good CMSes available for PHP?"
Nothing to do with scalability.
FWIW, if I were starting from scratch I'd probably use Radiant, the Ruby CMS. Why bother screwing around with Drupal modules and themes?
Please come to work at my company. As a developer, I love most of all the testers who have a knack for breaking my stuff. I don't always realize it at the time, but they're my favorites.
We let them navigate large masses of steel at high speeds
Those large masses of steel aren't designed for the sole purpose of killing. Just sayin' is all (proud concealed-carry licensee, once upon a time, btw).
Granted, mob justice is wrong and all, but I took most of the "shut up, Joey" comments to mean, "don't incriminate yourself (further)." Most of the comments on Kathy's blog didn't seem to be threatening retaliation. I don't remember seeing any remarks about a noose in Joey's size or anything.
Is there any verification that the person who posted five or six times as "Joey" is the same one who originally posted the noose remark? He keeps changing his story ("I'm a poor retiree on a fixed income and can't afford a lawyer," "I have a bunch of money and I'm going to get a lawyer to clear my name -- it's worth it," etc.). He alleges several past flamewars between Kathy and her critics, but Google couldn't find 'em.
People who boo-hoo Microsoft really need to sit down in front of Office 2007 for ten minutes and just check out its new features. Throw out your old ideas of menus and icons and just give it a try before you bash it.
I did. I tried as much as I could to take a clean-slate approach and give 'em a fair shake. It took those ten minutes, and more, just to figure out how to save the document.
I'll try to give Unca Bill a little bit of credit here: the fly-by style previews are kind of nice. Pity it's impossible to figure out how to actually do anything, though.
I'm not sure I agree. I tried out their beta, and it took me several minutes just to figure out how to save a document. I looked up and down the ribbons for one that had a picture of a floppy diskette, or a hard drive, or the word "Save," or _something_. Even the online help had trouble finding the answer.
Apparently, I was supposed to click on the weird, ill-fitting, awkwardly-sized, non-button-like lozenge thingy with the Office logo in it. That was supposed to be a button?
And saving documents is hardly a power-user feature.
I'm not saying a big redesign isn't occasionally in order for some apps. But this particular redesign of this particular app seems to be a bad one.
And they changed their access method from an easy-to-implement wire protocol to a mandatory, ActiveX-only API (blech!). And they kept flooding developers with junk snail-mail, so they could brag to us about how great the new Gracenote was.
Things seemed to have improved somewhat since the bad old days, though. For one thing, they've got a non-ActiveX way to query their database from non-Windows machines.
I've run the same non-trivial Rails app on three different database products (MySQL on the old Web host, PostgresQL on the new host, and SQLite locally) with minimal headaches -- just migrate the data, tweak a config-file setting, and It Just Works (tm).
Okay, but at least the version of GnuCash I was using (can't cough up the number here, sorry) tortured me with a "wizard" upon import, requiring me to assign a category to each transaction (even ones it should have been able to guess from my previous activity, like the rent). And it had zero ability to recognize and deal with duplicate transactions. Don't get me wrong -- I love GnuCash standalone. But I haven't found a way to make it work with my bank that's any easier than just treating it as an offline check register.
Any tips on setting up the whole crontab / OFX thing? (Sans specific bank info, of course!)
Bollocks. Leaving aside the nearly absent prewar coverage of antiwaar protestors, even today we see about equal amounts of both sides -- this despite the fact that most Americans oppose the war. And that's in my blue state.
I've read it cover to cover, and there are also plenty of passages instructing followers to leave the Jews and Christians alone, 'cause they're just fine.
I've heard it said that some of the passages you quote above, though phrased as generalities, were actually directed at specific groups back in the day. IANA Koran scholar, so I'll leave it to the historians to explain the context. In any case, people lifting passages out of a book and using them to "justify" violence is, alas, old news.
Wait 'till you try to explain to some maintaining programmer how to untangle that!
Already have done. Both times I've explained quickies like that to maintenance programmers, they understood immediately, and preferred its cleanliness (yes, even with mem_fun_ref and ampersands).
Oh, and just for laughs, try to debug this thing. Put an assert in SetParameter, and you get a lovely callstack from gdb:
Looked pretty clear to me. You get the file, line, and function where the assert happened.
Now that's something to scare newbie programmers with! Oh, and forget about putting a breakpoint inside the loop; templated functions aren't targetable until executed.
True, but I can count on one hand the number of times I've wished for that. Put a breakpoint inside SetParameter instead.
So why not just use an iterator loop? for_each does not have a monopoly on it:
Your foreach macro does indeed look pretty cool.
And I agree completely, but while you replace pointers with auto_ptr, I prefer to restructure the code to eliminate the need for any explicit memory management altogether.
Isn't using auto_ptr a way to reduce the need for explicit memory management? It sounds like you guys at least agree on that general goal.
Kudos for doing something different and cool, but I'd just like to point out that the housing bubble (at least the one here) is certainly not caused by regulation. It's caused by sellers setting the prices super-high because they know they can find suckers to pay that much. I guarantee you that if we dropped little regulatory add-ons like the System Development Charge the builder has to pay in order to hook up water/sewer/etc., the developers would just pocket the money and keep the home price at the same inflated level.
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When was Deal or No Deal ever a good show? How many different ways are there to pick a numbered briefcase?
I guess that when every news agency available leans to the left, whether slightly or strongly, having one that is centrist or slightly right-leaning is such a shock that some leftists have to scream about "bias" and "agenda".
Ah, the old "liberal media" myth. Sssh. That's just something that Republicans tell their kids to scare them straight. I wish the media were at least a little bit liberal! Maybe then, we would have heard some criticism of the war before it began, instead of a thousand "Target: Iraq!" banners tarting up the reporting.
Newspapers and TV stations are owned by corporations, and corporations are about as conservative an entity as you can find.
Even if all the rest of the mainstream media were an evil, Soros-fueled left-fest, it would not logically follow that Fox is merely centrist and just seems right-wing in contrast to the rest. Fox leans pretty far to the right on just about any scale you could think up. Calling themselves "Fair and Balanced" under the circumstances, or presenting opinion as news, is not "admitting their general leanings up front."
Fox gets eyeballs because the conservatives tune in with bliss to hear what they'll say next, and th liberals tune in with outrage to hear what they'll say next. Best just to avoid the whole mess.
No, regulatory takings are buying a property that the law says you can build a subdivision on, taxing you on that basis, and then passing a law that denies you the ability to build
Close, but try again. More like buying a tract of farmland for $100k, being taxed on that basis, attempting to turn it into a Wal-Mart with a few acres of parking, and then whining to mommy about how that Big Evil Government won't let you use the land for a purpose for which it was never intended. And then claiming that the government "stole" $1M from you because the folks in Bentonville might've given you a million for the land.
and destroys the vast majority of the land's economic value without any compensation.
Why is it folks who invest in real estate feel that they're entitled to a kickback if someone passes a law that inconveniences them? If I buy stock in a printer company, and I lose a few bucks because their stock price dips after the EPA outlaws some chemical used in their ink, the feds don't owe me money. Real estate investment is no different. It has risks. That land you bought in the middle of nowhere might one day be suitable for a subdivision, or it might not.
You don't get to expropriate without just compensation no matter the process you adopt
Again, there's a difference between condemning a property and handing it over to profiteers for cash (as in the recent famous SCOTUS case), vs. enacting zoning and land use laws that protect economic value of neighboring land. You might say your right to swing your factory ends where my atmosphere begins.
Just because it's still yours on paper doesn't make it any less expropriation.
I'm sorry, but that's just plain wrong. There are things I'm not allowed to do with my car. That doesn't make it "not mine." There are things I'm not allowed to do with my land. That doesn't make it "not mine," either.
You mean, local zoning stuff enacted by county land use boards? Legislative bodies? People accountable to their constituents? If I don't like some zoning law, I can shout to my legislators, or even go to the ballots myself (as Oregonians are going to do this fall to fix a land use problem).
There's a huge difference between citizens electing a local legislative body to say you're not allowed to build a chemical plant in the middle of a quiet suburban street, and an executive crowning himself legislator for a day to rewrite property law (which is what this Executive Order is, in effect, doing).
I'm a little biased, but I think the RSpec test description language (built on Ruby) encourages nice, legible test scripts. You get to use natural-looking language like this example:
@stack.peek.should == @last_item_added
That's only part of the issue. If all you have to do is click Cancel or Allow, then anyone else could ineptly or maliciously Allow some malware to wreak havoc on your system while you're down the hall getting a cup of coffee.
I understand there's a way to set up Vista to require an actual password, not just a yes/no choice, but shouldn't that be the default?
Who said PHP was the answer to Ruby's scalability?
I think he (and you, by way of sarcasm) said that PHP is the answer to a different question entirely: "What do you do when there are already tons of good CMSes available for PHP?"
Nothing to do with scalability.
FWIW, if I were starting from scratch I'd probably use Radiant, the Ruby CMS. Why bother screwing around with Drupal modules and themes?
Please come to work at my company. As a developer, I love most of all the testers who have a knack for breaking my stuff. I don't always realize it at the time, but they're my favorites.
We let them navigate large masses of steel at high speeds
Those large masses of steel aren't designed for the sole purpose of killing. Just sayin' is all (proud concealed-carry licensee, once upon a time, btw).
Granted, mob justice is wrong and all, but I took most of the "shut up, Joey" comments to mean, "don't incriminate yourself (further)." Most of the comments on Kathy's blog didn't seem to be threatening retaliation. I don't remember seeing any remarks about a noose in Joey's size or anything.
Is there any verification that the person who posted five or six times as "Joey" is the same one who originally posted the noose remark? He keeps changing his story ("I'm a poor retiree on a fixed income and can't afford a lawyer," "I have a bunch of money and I'm going to get a lawyer to clear my name -- it's worth it," etc.). He alleges several past flamewars between Kathy and her critics, but Google couldn't find 'em.
Wow, just like the old Sun workstations at school. The more things change....
I am an ENFP, but I'm not a party girl -- you insensitive, like, clod!
I'd be fired at work if I told 10% of our customers to f*** off.
I did. I tried as much as I could to take a clean-slate approach and give 'em a fair shake. It took those ten minutes, and more, just to figure out how to save the document.
I'll try to give Unca Bill a little bit of credit here: the fly-by style previews are kind of nice. Pity it's impossible to figure out how to actually do anything, though.
I'm not sure I agree. I tried out their beta, and it took me several minutes just to figure out how to save a document. I looked up and down the ribbons for one that had a picture of a floppy diskette, or a hard drive, or the word "Save," or _something_. Even the online help had trouble finding the answer.
Apparently, I was supposed to click on the weird, ill-fitting, awkwardly-sized, non-button-like lozenge thingy with the Office logo in it. That was supposed to be a button?
And saving documents is hardly a power-user feature.
I'm not saying a big redesign isn't occasionally in order for some apps. But this particular redesign of this particular app seems to be a bad one.
And they changed their access method from an easy-to-implement wire protocol to a mandatory, ActiveX-only API (blech!). And they kept flooding developers with junk snail-mail, so they could brag to us about how great the new Gracenote was.
Things seemed to have improved somewhat since the bad old days, though. For one thing, they've got a non-ActiveX way to query their database from non-Windows machines.
You forgot to call the poster an insensitive clod!
I've run the same non-trivial Rails app on three different database products (MySQL on the old Web host, PostgresQL on the new host, and SQLite locally) with minimal headaches -- just migrate the data, tweak a config-file setting, and It Just Works (tm).
Okay, but at least the version of GnuCash I was using (can't cough up the number here, sorry) tortured me with a "wizard" upon import, requiring me to assign a category to each transaction (even ones it should have been able to guess from my previous activity, like the rent). And it had zero ability to recognize and deal with duplicate transactions. Don't get me wrong -- I love GnuCash standalone. But I haven't found a way to make it work with my bank that's any easier than just treating it as an offline check register.
Any tips on setting up the whole crontab / OFX thing? (Sans specific bank info, of course!)
Bollocks. Leaving aside the nearly absent prewar coverage of antiwaar protestors, even today we see about equal amounts of both sides -- this despite the fact that most Americans oppose the war. And that's in my blue state.
I've read it cover to cover, and there are also plenty of passages instructing followers to leave the Jews and Christians alone, 'cause they're just fine.
I've heard it said that some of the passages you quote above, though phrased as generalities, were actually directed at specific groups back in the day. IANA Koran scholar, so I'll leave it to the historians to explain the context. In any case, people lifting passages out of a book and using them to "justify" violence is, alas, old news.
Already have done. Both times I've explained quickies like that to maintenance programmers, they understood immediately, and preferred its cleanliness (yes, even with mem_fun_ref and ampersands).
Oh, and just for laughs, try to debug this thing. Put an assert in SetParameter, and you get a lovely callstack from gdb:
Looked pretty clear to me. You get the file, line, and function where the assert happened.
Now that's something to scare newbie programmers with! Oh, and forget about putting a breakpoint inside the loop; templated functions aren't targetable until executed.
True, but I can count on one hand the number of times I've wished for that. Put a breakpoint inside SetParameter instead.
So why not just use an iterator loop? for_each does not have a monopoly on it:
Your foreach macro does indeed look pretty cool.
And I agree completely, but while you replace pointers with auto_ptr, I prefer to restructure the code to eliminate the need for any explicit memory management altogether.
Isn't using auto_ptr a way to reduce the need for explicit memory management? It sounds like you guys at least agree on that general goal.
One thing at a time? Do you even know how FPGAs work?
Kudos for doing something different and cool, but I'd just like to point out that the housing bubble (at least the one here) is certainly not caused by regulation. It's caused by sellers setting the prices super-high because they know they can find suckers to pay that much. I guarantee you that if we dropped little regulatory add-ons like the System Development Charge the builder has to pay in order to hook up water/sewer/etc., the developers would just pocket the money and keep the home price at the same inflated level.
Well, something analogous does....