Sure you can, as long as you promise to convert it back again perfectly before you commit, so anyone looking at the diffs later doesn't have to wade through 657 whitespace-related changes to spot the one line where you changes some behaviour.
There is clearly a (sufficiently) large subset of the programming community that strongly prefer whitespace scoping. And for those people, what are the other mainstream choices? Personally, I don't know of any (although, I'm sure that there are a few). And new language designers are less likely to follow Python's lead because of outspoken critics, like you.
Default to whitespace == scope, fine. But give a #define or option to turn it off/go back to {} or BEGIN/END or whatever instead...
The "redundancy" is because we want human-readable source code, as you state.
But it's not really redundant, because it (should) just be ADDITIONAL information.
BTW, I like and use Python, but would pay money for a way I could turn off intent == scope *in a way that would work in every Python interpreter I'm likely to find*. (i.e. not a hack I have to add on and build my own interpreter)
Copy-paste is one example that often wrecks code. Also, simply wanting to turn off a conditional check to debug something perhaps. Sometimes that involves manually reformatting a hunk of code, instead of simply commenting out the if line, as one could do in C.
Why would one expect "a completely random set of sensations and cognitive inhibition"?
Since we all evolved in the same way, the brain's "experiences" right before it's dead would seem to me to be more likely to be *similar*, just like if you or I trip, we instinctively change our center of gravity to regain balance.
Also, don't some of those "different" causes of death really end up being lack of oxygen in the end, thus making it even more likely the experiences would be similar? Even in a car accident, one might bleed out, and not necessarily be direct head trauma causing the death.
I haven't actually tried it. I'm not necessarily against it, I just explained that I think it's a current fad.
I am not one of those against completely artificial sweeteners, so I use those, and they're *totally* calorie free. (Yes, I know there are some studies claiming people eat more when they use artificial sweeteners. I sure know that when I long ago switched to diet soda, I immediately cut out a few hundred empty calories a day. So yes, I think even the joke about "a Big Mac, Large Fries, and a diet Coke" isn't very funny, because it is _less bad_ than with a large sugared soda too.)
I remember seeing TV news segments about these machines long ago -- I basically thought of them as "reverse vending machines". But you had to put EACH can in one by one. Plus, they never seemed to become common in the U.S.
I just usually count them out at home (since it's usually faster when I return them, plus I'm sure to get the same as what I spent when I bought them, as opposed to by weight) and make a quick trip to recycle them at one of the many close recycling places, usually in a grocery store lot.
Do you never buy cans or bottles of soda or booze? It's right on the can/bottle (e.g. "CA CRV ME-HI 5cents"), and on the receipt, you see the separate charge.
Since I basically use a credit card for as many payments as I can (for convenience & get the cash back -- yes in other posts I've expounded on how it's still beneficial to me, since the individual purchase price is the same whether I pay cash or credit).... Recycling my own cans/bottles usually gives me enough pocket cash for the rare times I need cash (one or two restaurants that don't take credit, or emergency cash).
I think stevia is just being used because it's the latest fad, a la "fat free" (but still loaded with calories), gluten free, Atkin's, etc., something that may have some value for _some_ people, but NOT for the vast majority of people.
This isn't actually meant to be opposite to the last statement, but I always found it ironic that "fat free" sour cream has fewer calories than "light" sour cream. (Yes, I'm probably eating either of them with some higher calorie stuff, but this is one of the areas where I do think cutting out a few calories can be useful. That is, if it's close enough to the 'regular', I'd rather get the lower calorie.)
I know it's just anecdotal, but when has Fry's NOT been a "so-so retailer"? You go there, ignore the salespeople, and get whatever cheap thing of the week or electronics part you need NOW and get out (fairly quickly, even when they have a 'huge' line since when the line is huge they have tons of cashiers).
More anecdotes, but my first Premiere 4 was almost DOA (crashing a lot, I waited almost a week before returning it, thinking it MIGHT have been software related), and I had no problem exchanging it at Best Buy.. had to even go to a different one since the one I got the orig at didn't have more... but it was still easy to do.. and at first they thought I wanted to return it and were fine with that.
I think we should get rid of ALL rebates (including ones I like, like solar & electric car rebates), but lets get rid of the oil subsidies too. You're paying lower cost for oil/gas than it should cost because of subsidies -- taking money from "your fellow taxpayers" too.
When Toyota first released the Prius (back in 1997), they warranted the battery pack at 5 years. That would be putting it *just* past the warranty this year.
Our house has all electric utilities - stove, oven water heater, dryer, home heating (in-wall heaters, no central furnace). I'm too lazy to add up the exact numbers, but we're probably paying $2000-2500 a year for electricity (Washington state).
Then you sound like a perfect candidate for getting grid tied solar. (Averaging over the year your use vs. your production, and only paying any extra over what you generate.)
By default, the iPod preferences in iTunes did NOT allow for the user to add or delete files to their iPod.
Your wording is confusing. Are you claiming that it was impossible to manually manage the media on an iPod, or only that the DEFAULT setting was for it to happen automatically?
I certainly have been manually managing my iPod all along. I started out with the original 5 gig iPod. I don't remember what the preference used to be called, but CURRENTLY it's "Manually manage music and videos".
I see why you make the analogy to a pyramid scheme, but I don't think it's completely accurate.
If you're not making dividends, if you hold the stock long, yes, you are expecting the price to go up so you can sell later to someone else at a higher price than you paid for it. But nobody is being 'paid out' by new investors as in a pyramid scheme. The total # of shares is constant at a given time. (Yes, companies can and do make new shares "out of thin air", but it's still different than a pyramid scheme having no limit whatsoever to "investors".)
Plus, if you DON'T think a company is doing well/is going to grow, you can SHORT it, and make money on its stock price going down.
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I agree with you, but...
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Default to whitespace == scope, fine. But give a #define or option to turn it off/go back to {} or BEGIN/END or whatever instead...
The "redundancy" is because we want human-readable source code, as you state.
But it's not really redundant, because it (should) just be ADDITIONAL information.
BTW, I like and use Python, but would pay money for a way I could turn off intent == scope *in a way that would work in every Python interpreter I'm likely to find*. (i.e. not a hack I have to add on and build my own interpreter)
Copy-paste is one example that often wrecks code. Also, simply wanting to turn off a conditional check to debug something perhaps. Sometimes that involves manually reformatting a hunk of code, instead of simply commenting out the if line, as one could do in C.
Why would one expect "a completely random set of sensations and cognitive inhibition"?
Since we all evolved in the same way, the brain's "experiences" right before it's dead would seem to me to be more likely to be *similar*, just like if you or I trip, we instinctively change our center of gravity to regain balance.
Also, don't some of those "different" causes of death really end up being lack of oxygen in the end, thus making it even more likely the experiences would be similar? Even in a car accident, one might bleed out, and not necessarily be direct head trauma causing the death.
Plus, now with *FIRE* and *SMOKE*!
You do realize these are available as free podcasts, right? Then you can even listen at 2x too.
No, he has an *unrealized gain* of "nearly a billion dollars" (today). Only if he sells, does he 'make' the money.
Or *keep* watching TV, and watch it while walking on a treadmill... which is what I do.
I haven't actually tried it. I'm not necessarily against it, I just explained that I think it's a current fad.
I am not one of those against completely artificial sweeteners, so I use those, and they're *totally* calorie free. (Yes, I know there are some studies claiming people eat more when they use artificial sweeteners. I sure know that when I long ago switched to diet soda, I immediately cut out a few hundred empty calories a day. So yes, I think even the joke about "a Big Mac, Large Fries, and a diet Coke" isn't very funny, because it is _less bad_ than with a large sugared soda too.)
I remember seeing TV news segments about these machines long ago -- I basically thought of them as "reverse vending machines". But you had to put EACH can in one by one. Plus, they never seemed to become common in the U.S.
I just usually count them out at home (since it's usually faster when I return them, plus I'm sure to get the same as what I spent when I bought them, as opposed to by weight) and make a quick trip to recycle them at one of the many close recycling places, usually in a grocery store lot.
Do you never buy cans or bottles of soda or booze? It's right on the can/bottle (e.g. "CA CRV ME-HI 5cents"), and on the receipt, you see the separate charge.
Since I basically use a credit card for as many payments as I can (for convenience & get the cash back -- yes in other posts I've expounded on how it's still beneficial to me, since the individual purchase price is the same whether I pay cash or credit).... Recycling my own cans/bottles usually gives me enough pocket cash for the rare times I need cash (one or two restaurants that don't take credit, or emergency cash).
Your system in Finland is much newer than that in other places.. According to the various Wikipedia pages, the deposits started in 1996 there.
They started in 1970 in British Columbia, and 1971 in Oregon (the progenitor of various U.S. deposit bills).
But I hadn't realized that it started in *1799* in Dublin. (Not via a law.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container_deposit_legislation#History
You earned it, you should keep it.
I think stevia is just being used because it's the latest fad, a la "fat free" (but still loaded with calories), gluten free, Atkin's, etc., something that may have some value for _some_ people, but NOT for the vast majority of people.
This isn't actually meant to be opposite to the last statement, but I always found it ironic that "fat free" sour cream has fewer calories than "light" sour cream. (Yes, I'm probably eating either of them with some higher calorie stuff, but this is one of the areas where I do think cutting out a few calories can be useful. That is, if it's close enough to the 'regular', I'd rather get the lower calorie.)
I know it's just anecdotal, but when has Fry's NOT been a "so-so retailer"? You go there, ignore the salespeople, and get whatever cheap thing of the week or electronics part you need NOW and get out (fairly quickly, even when they have a 'huge' line since when the line is huge they have tons of cashiers).
More anecdotes, but my first Premiere 4 was almost DOA (crashing a lot, I waited almost a week before returning it, thinking it MIGHT have been software related), and I had no problem exchanging it at Best Buy.. had to even go to a different one since the one I got the orig at didn't have more... but it was still easy to do.. and at first they thought I wanted to return it and were fine with that.
Then get a Leaf, a Fiat 500e, a plug in Prius, etc.
Why are you ignoring the subsidies to the fossil fuel energy companies too?
http://www.plugincars.com/tesla-roadster-battery-life-study-85-percent-after-100000-miles-127733.html
I think we should get rid of ALL rebates (including ones I like, like solar & electric car rebates), but lets get rid of the oil subsidies too. You're paying lower cost for oil/gas than it should cost because of subsidies -- taking money from "your fellow taxpayers" too.
Did you mean *15* years?
Then you sound like a perfect candidate for getting grid tied solar. (Averaging over the year your use vs. your production, and only paying any extra over what you generate.)
Your wording is confusing. Are you claiming that it was impossible to manually manage the media on an iPod, or only that the DEFAULT setting was for it to happen automatically?
I certainly have been manually managing my iPod all along. I started out with the original 5 gig iPod. I don't remember what the preference used to be called, but CURRENTLY it's "Manually manage music and videos".
I see why you make the analogy to a pyramid scheme, but I don't think it's completely accurate.
If you're not making dividends, if you hold the stock long, yes, you are expecting the price to go up so you can sell later to someone else at a higher price than you paid for it. But nobody is being 'paid out' by new investors as in a pyramid scheme. The total # of shares is constant at a given time. (Yes, companies can and do make new shares "out of thin air", but it's still different than a pyramid scheme having no limit whatsoever to "investors".)
Plus, if you DON'T think a company is doing well/is going to grow, you can SHORT it, and make money on its stock price going down.
Making $6.9 billion in quarterly profit sure is sucking.