Dude, this was just her incredibly lame way of saying she wanted to be friends/acquaintances and that's it without hurting your feelings. At best she would use you as a back up if her primary choice didn't work out but probably not. Anyway, most chicks realize that if they just flat out reject you then the chance of friendship is usually out the window.
In this case, your age is an advantage. If you've been coding for 15 years in a certain way and then have to learn how to do it in an entirely different way, it's significantly more difficult. Not impossible, of course, but difficult enough that most won't bother if they can get away with it.
Sorry but the tea-baggers referred to themselves as "tea-baggers". They were also reported as "tea-baggers" on the "fair and balanced" Fox network. I know because I watched it.
As for going easy on Dems...give me a break. It's trivially easy to find anecdotal evidence showing preference for either party. There's things I see on CNN (widely believed by the right to be a leftist mouthpiece) that not only makes the democrats look bad but the entire administration. Yesterday they were discussing whether he has the cajones to be president or is he too weak for the gig (as Hilary suggested during the primaries). I watch CNN daily (as I'm out of work) and I can assure you that they show negative material on Obama and his administration every fucking day of the week. The only thing that varies is how much time they spend on it. Just because they aren't as negative as Fox, does not make them "left-wing", it just makes them left of Fox.
What I've found is that these "news" organizations are entertainment oriented, period. Accuracy and balance just isn't interesting, so the more one-sided, alarmist, etc. it is, the better (and the better the ratings).
There's a huge difference between bullet matching and DNA testing: bullet matching is complete bullshit. The FBI never had scientific evidence to prove it was an effective technique. DNA does actually work with the appropriate caveats (non-contaminated crime scenes, proper handling of evidence, etc.).
It's true there's no magic bullet for evidence, but I wouldn't use bullet matching to support your argument.
Groovy is different because it's easy for Java programmers to learn. In fact, most Java devs can understand Groovy code with little or no explanation. That's certainly not the case for JRuby or Jython.
In any event, I agree Clojure is pretty sweet. However, being a Lisp, it's future is questionable. A lot of devs won't be willing to deal with the brain melting process necessary to grock it.
Please provide links for websites with similar complexity and scalability that were made for less than the $10 million they spent so far. Also be sure to include a reference to the actual cost of building and running the site so we can make the proper comparisons.
I have to say I find it rather sad that "conservatives" don't have enough flat out failures to whine about that when the government actually produces something that's good and cheap (compared to the vast majority of government projects) that they still whine like little bitches anyway. Give credit where credit is due or lose any credibility you have.
Actually, if you used the website, you would know that 30.4% of all government contracts in 2009 were no-bid. You would also know that Steny Hoyer isn't unique in any way and that they ALL do it. In fact, if you want to stay in office, you better be able to report in your election campaign all the jobs you created. Of course, the website will let you know all the money that is going to each congressional district. Everyone has their hands in the pie and USASpending.gov has plenty of pie charts to illustrate that for you. Oh, and it does this very rapidly with no evidence of/.ing.
Actually you're wrong. JRuby can be executed in interpreted or JIT (compiled) mode. So there's no reason it has to be slower than Groovy. Just to be clear, I'm not dissing Groovy in any way...I think it's great and I prefer it over Ruby. But it doesn't change the fact that JRuby should be able to have the performance characteristics (in JIT mode) similar Groovy.
It should also be noted that entering military and/or classified facilities without permission is expressly against federal law. In fact, in most cases, the military has the right to use deadly force to stop you (like if you illegally enter an Air Force flightline).
Groovy was designed to be easy to grock for Java programmers. So if you know Java, you will pick up Groovy very quickly. That said, it's not hard to learn for anyone else but it will take a little longer. As for books, the Groovy in Action book is excellent and is definitely one of the best language books I've ever read. Programming Groovy is also very good and more succinct.
As for the extra overheard of JRuby that Foofoobar speaks of, it's a bunch of horseshit. JRuby has performance that's very comparable to Ruby and when the dynamic features are added to the JVM, it will likely be faster.
Ordinarily I would agree that this would be a good idea (since I'm pro-wiki for this kind of thing) but I think this will fail due to culture. Lower ranks will be very reluctant to change something written by someone higher rank especially in cases where the lower rank is enlisted and the higher rank is an officer. You could even argue that it's a sign of disrespect and the enlisted could end up on charges of insubordination.
Actually we have plenty of ditch diggers. We want people to get science and engineering degrees because that's where the future is. We cannot compete in manufacturing because China will always be cheaper.
Excuse me, but you didn't just ask whether the tax system should be fair or not, did you? Because there's a fucking laundry list of things in the tax code that aren't fair so worrying about being fair to foreigners is very low on the priority list imho.
ROFL...that guy is a fucking psychotic nutbag. First off he's not an economist and second his rant at about 14:00 about the reason for the depression was because rich people had money is such a ridiculous twisting of words it completely invalidates him as being even remotely unbiased. What the guy was actually saying is that to have a stable economy you must have a strong middle class and when the depression started the wealth was too strongly weighted into a small group of people. In addition this fucking moron doesn't seem to know that severe economic downturns were the NORM prior to the great depression where these instabilities happened every 10 to 15 years. I could go on and on but it's a waste of fucking time because there's no way in hell you'd ever change your mind about any of this (because you're fucking brainwashed) and frankly I don't give a flying shit what you believe because you're just one of many random piss-ants on the internet who thinks they understand something because some arch-conservative who talks really loud makes them feel warm and fuzzy about their black or white world. In short, you haven't studied a fucking thing other than crap from mouth-breathers who just add to your confirmation bias.
It's really sad. There actually are some conservatives who understand the nuances of history and economics but unfortunately they don't get listened to.
FYI...I'm not a democrat. Hell, I voted for fucking Reagan. But I'm not a fucking sucker either.
ROFL...you're actually arguing this based on freedom? These religious nuts don't give fuckall about your freedom. In fact, they don't want you to have it. They want you to have to live by their rules. Supporting them in any way is tantamount to saying you are pro-theocracy. They believe in black and white so don't try and play the shades of grey game with them because they will take it and shove it deep up your ass. They are extremist fuckheads who fully believe the end justifies the means.
Be careful what you're fighting for. You may just get it.
rofl...they were getting those bonuses even before the government stepped in. As for bailing them out...virtually every economist out there said we had no choice if we wanted to avoid a full blown depression. I'm no fan of giving them money either but I'd rather do that than live on the street begging for food. Perhaps you never studied the depression but it was an unimaginably bad time for most people and I can assure you that you wouldn't want to sample it for even a week let alone 10 years.
How many children and apes did they test with? One of each is not statistically significant as intelligence varies wildly in both species. Hell, I know adults who wouldn't pass the test you describe above.
Please share with me where Keynes has ever stated he's a socialist. Also share with me any tangible evidence of the sort other than the fact that he believed the government did need to regulate the markets. Keynes was what I would call a moderate capitalist. He didn't believe that everything just magically fixed itself.
Frankly, I think you need to study economics more. Pure capitalists are just as idealistic and retarded as their communist counterparts. They are ideas that don't live in reality. In the end, it's far more complicated than either camp can put a simple equation on and if you see it otherwise than you simply live in a fantasy world.
Perhaps you should read this and learn something:
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Dude, this was just her incredibly lame way of saying she wanted to be friends/acquaintances and that's it without hurting your feelings. At best she would use you as a back up if her primary choice didn't work out but probably not. Anyway, most chicks realize that if they just flat out reject you then the chance of friendship is usually out the window.
In this case, your age is an advantage. If you've been coding for 15 years in a certain way and then have to learn how to do it in an entirely different way, it's significantly more difficult. Not impossible, of course, but difficult enough that most won't bother if they can get away with it.
Sorry but the tea-baggers referred to themselves as "tea-baggers". They were also reported as "tea-baggers" on the "fair and balanced" Fox network. I know because I watched it.
As for going easy on Dems...give me a break. It's trivially easy to find anecdotal evidence showing preference for either party. There's things I see on CNN (widely believed by the right to be a leftist mouthpiece) that not only makes the democrats look bad but the entire administration. Yesterday they were discussing whether he has the cajones to be president or is he too weak for the gig (as Hilary suggested during the primaries). I watch CNN daily (as I'm out of work) and I can assure you that they show negative material on Obama and his administration every fucking day of the week. The only thing that varies is how much time they spend on it. Just because they aren't as negative as Fox, does not make them "left-wing", it just makes them left of Fox.
What I've found is that these "news" organizations are entertainment oriented, period. Accuracy and balance just isn't interesting, so the more one-sided, alarmist, etc. it is, the better (and the better the ratings).
There's a huge difference between bullet matching and DNA testing: bullet matching is complete bullshit. The FBI never had scientific evidence to prove it was an effective technique. DNA does actually work with the appropriate caveats (non-contaminated crime scenes, proper handling of evidence, etc.).
It's true there's no magic bullet for evidence, but I wouldn't use bullet matching to support your argument.
Groovy is different because it's easy for Java programmers to learn. In fact, most Java devs can understand Groovy code with little or no explanation. That's certainly not the case for JRuby or Jython.
In any event, I agree Clojure is pretty sweet. However, being a Lisp, it's future is questionable. A lot of devs won't be willing to deal with the brain melting process necessary to grock it.
How do you propose they support this given that Java generics aren't reified? Arrays are, which is why that works.
Please provide links for websites with similar complexity and scalability that were made for less than the $10 million they spent so far. Also be sure to include a reference to the actual cost of building and running the site so we can make the proper comparisons.
I have to say I find it rather sad that "conservatives" don't have enough flat out failures to whine about that when the government actually produces something that's good and cheap (compared to the vast majority of government projects) that they still whine like little bitches anyway. Give credit where credit is due or lose any credibility you have.
Actually, if you used the website, you would know that 30.4% of all government contracts in 2009 were no-bid. You would also know that Steny Hoyer isn't unique in any way and that they ALL do it. In fact, if you want to stay in office, you better be able to report in your election campaign all the jobs you created. Of course, the website will let you know all the money that is going to each congressional district. Everyone has their hands in the pie and USASpending.gov has plenty of pie charts to illustrate that for you. Oh, and it does this very rapidly with no evidence of /.ing.
Actually you're wrong. JRuby can be executed in interpreted or JIT (compiled) mode. So there's no reason it has to be slower than Groovy. Just to be clear, I'm not dissing Groovy in any way...I think it's great and I prefer it over Ruby. But it doesn't change the fact that JRuby should be able to have the performance characteristics (in JIT mode) similar Groovy.
It should also be noted that entering military and/or classified facilities without permission is expressly against federal law. In fact, in most cases, the military has the right to use deadly force to stop you (like if you illegally enter an Air Force flightline).
Groovy was designed to be easy to grock for Java programmers. So if you know Java, you will pick up Groovy very quickly. That said, it's not hard to learn for anyone else but it will take a little longer. As for books, the Groovy in Action book is excellent and is definitely one of the best language books I've ever read. Programming Groovy is also very good and more succinct.
As for the extra overheard of JRuby that Foofoobar speaks of, it's a bunch of horseshit. JRuby has performance that's very comparable to Ruby and when the dynamic features are added to the JVM, it will likely be faster.
Ordinarily I would agree that this would be a good idea (since I'm pro-wiki for this kind of thing) but I think this will fail due to culture. Lower ranks will be very reluctant to change something written by someone higher rank especially in cases where the lower rank is enlisted and the higher rank is an officer. You could even argue that it's a sign of disrespect and the enlisted could end up on charges of insubordination.
Actually they made it a white male so they could be entertained by all the white males whining about it on /.
Actually we have plenty of ditch diggers. We want people to get science and engineering degrees because that's where the future is. We cannot compete in manufacturing because China will always be cheaper.
Excuse me, but you didn't just ask whether the tax system should be fair or not, did you? Because there's a fucking laundry list of things in the tax code that aren't fair so worrying about being fair to foreigners is very low on the priority list imho.
That's ridiculous. Everyone knows rainbows are made by unicorns!
ROFL...that guy is a fucking psychotic nutbag. First off he's not an economist and second his rant at about 14:00 about the reason for the depression was because rich people had money is such a ridiculous twisting of words it completely invalidates him as being even remotely unbiased. What the guy was actually saying is that to have a stable economy you must have a strong middle class and when the depression started the wealth was too strongly weighted into a small group of people. In addition this fucking moron doesn't seem to know that severe economic downturns were the NORM prior to the great depression where these instabilities happened every 10 to 15 years. I could go on and on but it's a waste of fucking time because there's no way in hell you'd ever change your mind about any of this (because you're fucking brainwashed) and frankly I don't give a flying shit what you believe because you're just one of many random piss-ants on the internet who thinks they understand something because some arch-conservative who talks really loud makes them feel warm and fuzzy about their black or white world. In short, you haven't studied a fucking thing other than crap from mouth-breathers who just add to your confirmation bias. It's really sad. There actually are some conservatives who understand the nuances of history and economics but unfortunately they don't get listened to. FYI...I'm not a democrat. Hell, I voted for fucking Reagan. But I'm not a fucking sucker either.
And people wonder why it's not just manufacturing jobs that are headed from North America to Asia...
ROFL...you're actually arguing this based on freedom? These religious nuts don't give fuckall about your freedom. In fact, they don't want you to have it. They want you to have to live by their rules. Supporting them in any way is tantamount to saying you are pro-theocracy. They believe in black and white so don't try and play the shades of grey game with them because they will take it and shove it deep up your ass. They are extremist fuckheads who fully believe the end justifies the means.
Be careful what you're fighting for. You may just get it.
You're right, I should be thrilled with the state of education in my country. My bad! Thanks for the attitude adjustment.
rofl...they were getting those bonuses even before the government stepped in. As for bailing them out...virtually every economist out there said we had no choice if we wanted to avoid a full blown depression. I'm no fan of giving them money either but I'd rather do that than live on the street begging for food. Perhaps you never studied the depression but it was an unimaginably bad time for most people and I can assure you that you wouldn't want to sample it for even a week let alone 10 years.
lol, I was waiting for Godwin's Law to come into play and on that note...you're a complete crackpot. We have nothing further to talk about.
How many children and apes did they test with? One of each is not statistically significant as intelligence varies wildly in both species. Hell, I know adults who wouldn't pass the test you describe above.
Link got deleted, here it is: http://socyberty.com/economics/was-john-maynard-keynes-a-socialist/
Please share with me where Keynes has ever stated he's a socialist. Also share with me any tangible evidence of the sort other than the fact that he believed the government did need to regulate the markets. Keynes was what I would call a moderate capitalist. He didn't believe that everything just magically fixed itself.
Frankly, I think you need to study economics more. Pure capitalists are just as idealistic and retarded as their communist counterparts. They are ideas that don't live in reality. In the end, it's far more complicated than either camp can put a simple equation on and if you see it otherwise than you simply live in a fantasy world. Perhaps you should read this and learn something: