Uh, I think you may be messing up subset with equality. So notation: If a(b) then b is a subset of a: anti-social(anti-social personality(sociopath(psychopath)))
Some people who are anti-social have anti-social personality disorder, but the average delinquent is anti-social and may very well not have a disorder. A sociopath is someone who has anti-social personality disorder, but not all sociopaths are psychopaths. Some of 'em are very successful business men. The psychotic who harms people or goes against society-he's the psychopath.
Yeah, but when they talk they tell you things if you know how to parse the string-drop this chatter, highlight that word 'cause of intonation, flip those two, etc,. Men are similar, (and studies suggest they talk just as much as women), but the parsing works a bit differently.
The fake answers are just as interesting in some ways. When I see a fave album list that looks too carefully constructed (that perfect mix of obscure and popular, with those two horrible but the entire planet loves songs) that tells me as much about the person as an honest list would.
The only remotely suprising thing was that women were both easier to understand and understood people better through profiles.
For me it isn't, but maybe just 'cause I'm a girl who's spent far too much time in heavily female online communities. I think it's just an extension of how people work in the real world; women, just by generally being more communicative (not being sexist so much as that's what most studies find), drop more hints, and probably 'cause they drop so many know what to look for.
For example, should I be allowed to add a "Free Tibet!" splash screen to Firefox, no matter how much objection there is to it by other users?
So long as you aren't getting paid for it (and therefore don't have to follow any professional guidelines) add whatever you want 'cause nobody's forced to download the patch/software/etc.-There's another option for just about anything, and if it matters enough go with the worse one and fix it.
I think that a good solution, is to place way more emphasis on exams or other more verifiable means of grading students. I have a friend who hides books in the bathroom during exams and cheats that way. (And yeah, I don't know what the prof. is thinking letting anyone leave.) During my chemistry final, my calculator broke and I had to share with someone else-could have easily cheated if I'd been inclined to do so. There are also tons of old exams floating around, from professors who don't really change 'em. It's almost as easy to cheat on "verifiable methods" as at anything else. It's just annoying to have to work with those people later on 'cause they don't know anything.
I've read all the Potter books, and quite a bit of other Young Adult fiction to boot, and I wouldn't call even half of it HP knock offs,
And I practically live in the children's/teen's section, and well a decent amount of the stuff on the shelf isn't all that original. The non-fantasy has plenty of stuff that is different, so I definitely should have qualified-but it sometimes seems like a lot of what's out there is very similar to what's popular (and for good reason-it should appeal to the same audience and therefore sell.) Granted too, HP style books have been around long before HP, so yeah knock off was a bad choice of words-but it does often feel like a lot books are getting greenlighted just 'cause they have striking similarities to HP.
Want a good story with nice symbolism, strong characterization and a well worked plot try the Key's to the Kingdom Series by Garth Nix, or/br> Garth Nix is good, (read the Abhoresen trilogy+companion and currently reading the Key's series) but he's a lot denser than Potter, not as funny, and I honestly don't find his characterizations that much better, though the plots are richer. I'll own up, my 60/70's comment is heavily colored by the fact that my favorite author is Lloyd Alexander, and that's when he did some of his best work. Shel Silverstein is another from that era, and LeGuin did some of her best children's work then.
As for Children's and Adult Lit mixing, the judge of whether a book is good shouldn't change based on whether it gets (arbitrarily in my opinion) classified as Child or Adult Lit, it should be based on whether its well written, has a strong plot, well developed characters and is engaging to the reader. I agree with you that "good" shouldn't depend on age characterizations-but the standards for good are totally different for children's and adults works. Different themes and characterizations are valued, as are different styles;I'll take two works of the same genre-Kavelier and Klay and Number the Star-both are very well written, have great prose and all, but totally non-comparable 'cause the audience is different. NtS speaks perfectly to it's audience, really gets things across, but it's not even in the same playing field as K&K (and it's not supposed to be 'cause it's purpose is different.) My favorite books are kids books- I think the distinction is necessary and valuable but I don't limit what I read because of it. (And yeah, of course sometimes it's arbitrary-teen issue books often have more "adult" content then the avg. adult book, but even the best written teen book handles that content differently (and as often as not better) than it's adult counterpart.)
Well sci-fi and fantasy novels are classic books in some sense, and "1001 exp." books are often a great mix of principal and practice (same with the Magic school bus books actually.) Some of my earliest science books were of the "1001 answers" variety.
"EW's list seems to represent a major shortcoming in the field: it still isn't diffusing into popular culture."
They've got a couple of pop-social science books on the list: Gladwell's Tipping Point (neuropsych), Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed (sociology), and Fast Food Nation (medicine/sociology/psychology sort of). Which means that even EW's audience doesn't mind science, so long as it's of the really soft no math, instant applications to people, can't even really see the science variety. (And actually, Gladwell's is decently scientific for being science lite). 3 out of 100 isn't that much worse than the percentage for some of the more popular fields (there are about 4/5 children's books on the list.)
I'm not sure how any Harry Potter book could even make the list at all. The Harry Potter series was simply written and not intellectually engaging at all. I disagree 'cause I happen to think they're fabulous-lots of layers of symbolism and characterization (really solid for the kids and teams) and some of the most structured books around, though I agree that the plot was weak and the writing wasn't the best. That being said-I still don't think that GoF was the best of the lot. (And the HP books are some of the best children's books in the past 25 years-most of the really great books are from the 60s/70s and just miss the cut off, and most everything in the past 10 years are bad HP knockoffs.
Though really, the list shouldn't mix children's and adult lit 'cause it broadens the field too much and makes it impossible to find some arbitrary value judgment. Some of my faves are on the list-Maus, Kavelier and Clay, Giver-and some I can't stand-His Dark Materials-and they're not even in the same league. They deal with material very differently, have very different writing styles, and have very different appeals (same with HP.)
Isn't this subjective with the term "best read". I can tell you right now that I'm not even moderatly interested in the majority of those books.
I've read a good sample of the books on their list and few would end up in my best. Still not sure how Goblet of Fire-which few, if any HP fans would name the best of the lot-ended up #2 and none of the others managed to even show up. This whole list just seems incredibly random.
I'd be amazed that such a resource would ever be allowed to be "played" on. Why? Professor/lab probably had some money that had to be spent and it came from a source where they had to buy equipment so this set up seemed like the best option-cool and could be useful later, but isn't now, so reasonably justifiable. So 'til somebody decides they've gotta use this thing, it's a shiny toy.
I don't think most of the profs/researchers at my school even know about the cluster we have-most of the comp sci. profs run their own setup (and/or don't want to bother with getting access to the cluster) and the depts. don't really talk to each other much.
but if you try hitting on a few guys you'll probably find that we love it when we for once don't have to do all the work... Been there, done that, gotten rejected in various shades of brilliant. Dude, I know it's hard and some what mortifying.
Of course if I'm saying that geeks should hit on girls more, it's 'cause I've got some screwed up double standards-not cause you know, most of the guy's who've hit on me have been of the cocky bastard variety.
Why does code need documentation? Of course any half decent programmer should be able to understand other peoples code or just use it as a black box-and then why should documentation matter? (And yes, I've actually encountered this attitude-though it came from a student working on a project, not a FOSS guy.)
I've seen too many open source projects that try to pass off cleaned up (by a doc generating program) code as their documentation. I'm working on somethingb where the open source project we're using (playerstage) is so badly documented we're thrilled when a new wiki page gets added.
Well not quite, but a bimbo will probably have as many sexual partners as any badboy, which will probably be more than the general population. Personality that looks for multiple partners and all that jazz.
Sorry, maybe it's 'cause I'm a girl, but I don't get what this is on slashdot, aside from why some of it's readers are not getting laid-which really, I know plenty of nerds who outrank the "badboys" in the "traid of bad behaviors" who still can't get laid.
I'm also curious about the correlational chain here-are these guys just more confident in themselves and therefore just more likely to ask the girl out? A guy can be fabulous, but if he never hits on the girl how the hell is she supposed to know he's interested?
The drop down menu isn't even testing-it's something they should have done before they even considered using the software. (It's probably in some of the documentation-'specially if the reason for it is fraud.) Part of figuring out if it's the right tool for the job and all that. Though even if they did implement it, looking at the drop down menu isn't testing-it's just learning the damn software. You should know what options users have, just 'cause it may be important for a variety of things.
My store isn't so bad-I found the capacitor I needed today (though I was lucky 'cause I think it was the only one in the bin.) It's a mixed bag, but well most brick & mortar stores seem to be. Often the bookstore doesn't stock that one book I'm looking for, or the clothing store doesn't have my size-all shopping's kind of just luck. And the help tends to be equally clueless everywhere-once you start asking for anything less than popular, they've gotta look it up on a computer or ask for more information.
I'm the same with my tablet-love the toy so don't want to just get a new one, but I've had complete hell trying to upgrade it. Tried 3 different RAM sticks that didn't work and two harddrives-learned the hardway about 1.8" form factors (completely obsolete and the one in my Dell DJ is busted and therefore can't be stolen for this)-and have paid Newegg far too much in restocking fees.
My old thinkpad (R series) had a touchpad-it was the only thing that died when I drowned the thing in tea, though it also made the trackpoint flakey. That's my main reason for buying 'em-they're really hard to break. I've dropped, melted, and bathed various ones and they're still ticking.
My mom (the current owner of my R-series) can't stand the trackpoint so she makes me dig up mice for her. I've got an X41-no touchpad-so I've learned to adjust and now I can't use a touchpad anymore.
That's your situation, and granted I also run circles around my mom (a programmer) when it comes to computers. But what about when/if you have kids. Do you really expect that they'll be that much better (or even as good), even ignoring the intellectual challenge of trying to break whatever levels of security they went through. Even if they are very good-even if you don't know how to implement, you've got a vague understanding of what's possible, just from background and experience.
All that kind of adds up-I'm sure there are guys on./ perfectly aware of their kid's porn harddrive who are just pretending it does not exist 'cause it's not a battle worth picking.
I think it's a beginners/newbie/inexperience thing-I have code with those kind of redundant comments 'cause sometimes I can't tell just from looking at it-especially if the while loop is part of a crazy nested structure or otherwise buried under mounds of code. Granted, at that point I should probably be restructuring my code anyway, but when I'm writing code that looks that bad/has that sort of commenting-I'm probably in over my head anyway.
And I've been on teams with guys who couldn't copy the example off the web properly-no really, I spent a decent amount of time basically plugging the example code into his so everything would work. For every girl I know who's hopeless, I know 5 guys who don't really understand the concept of an object. I also know a 'lite female programmer, and a handful of male ones. Whad'ya know, the actual ratio of good to bad is probably damn near the same for both genders.
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Uh, I think you may be messing up subset with equality.
So notation: If a(b) then b is a subset of a:
anti-social(anti-social personality(sociopath(psychopath)))
Some people who are anti-social have anti-social personality disorder, but the average delinquent is anti-social and may very well not have a disorder. A sociopath is someone who has anti-social personality disorder, but not all sociopaths are psychopaths. Some of 'em are very successful business men. The psychotic who harms people or goes against society-he's the psychopath.
Yeah, but when they talk they tell you things if you know how to parse the string-drop this chatter, highlight that word 'cause of intonation, flip those two, etc,. Men are similar, (and studies suggest they talk just as much as women), but the parsing works a bit differently.
The fake answers are just as interesting in some ways. When I see a fave album list that looks too carefully constructed (that perfect mix of obscure and popular, with those two horrible but the entire planet loves songs) that tells me as much about the person as an honest list would.
The only remotely suprising thing was that women were both easier to understand and understood people better through profiles.
For me it isn't, but maybe just 'cause I'm a girl who's spent far too much time in heavily female online communities. I think it's just an extension of how people work in the real world; women, just by generally being more communicative (not being sexist so much as that's what most studies find), drop more hints, and probably 'cause they drop so many know what to look for.
For example, should I be allowed to add a "Free Tibet!" splash screen to Firefox, no matter how much objection there is to it by other users?
So long as you aren't getting paid for it (and therefore don't have to follow any professional guidelines) add whatever you want 'cause nobody's forced to download the patch/software/etc.-There's another option for just about anything, and if it matters enough go with the worse one and fix it.
I've read all the Potter books, and quite a bit of other Young Adult fiction to boot, and I wouldn't call even half of it HP knock offs,
And I practically live in the children's/teen's section, and well a decent amount of the stuff on the shelf isn't all that original. The non-fantasy has plenty of stuff that is different, so I definitely should have qualified-but it sometimes seems like a lot of what's out there is very similar to what's popular (and for good reason-it should appeal to the same audience and therefore sell.) Granted too, HP style books have been around long before HP, so yeah knock off was a bad choice of words-but it does often feel like a lot books are getting greenlighted just 'cause they have striking similarities to HP. Want a good story with nice symbolism, strong characterization and a well worked plot try the Key's to the Kingdom Series by Garth Nix, orAs for Children's and Adult Lit mixing, the judge of whether a book is good shouldn't change based on whether it gets (arbitrarily in my opinion) classified as Child or Adult Lit, it should be based on whether its well written, has a strong plot, well developed characters and is engaging to the reader. I agree with you that "good" shouldn't depend on age characterizations-but the standards for good are totally different for children's and adults works. Different themes and characterizations are valued, as are different styles;I'll take two works of the same genre-Kavelier and Klay and Number the Star-both are very well written, have great prose and all, but totally non-comparable 'cause the audience is different. NtS speaks perfectly to it's audience, really gets things across, but it's not even in the same playing field as K&K (and it's not supposed to be 'cause it's purpose is different.) My favorite books are kids books- I think the distinction is necessary and valuable but I don't limit what I read because of it. (And yeah, of course sometimes it's arbitrary-teen issue books often have more "adult" content then the avg. adult book, but even the best written teen book handles that content differently (and as often as not better) than it's adult counterpart.)
Well sci-fi and fantasy novels are classic books in some sense, and "1001 exp." books are often a great mix of principal and practice (same with the Magic school bus books actually.) Some of my earliest science books were of the "1001 answers" variety.
"EW's list seems to represent a major shortcoming in the field: it still isn't diffusing into popular culture."
They've got a couple of pop-social science books on the list: Gladwell's Tipping Point (neuropsych), Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed (sociology), and Fast Food Nation (medicine/sociology/psychology sort of). Which means that even EW's audience doesn't mind science, so long as it's of the really soft no math, instant applications to people, can't even really see the science variety. (And actually, Gladwell's is decently scientific for being science lite). 3 out of 100 isn't that much worse than the percentage for some of the more popular fields (there are about 4/5 children's books on the list.)
Though really, the list shouldn't mix children's and adult lit 'cause it broadens the field too much and makes it impossible to find some arbitrary value judgment. Some of my faves are on the list-Maus, Kavelier and Clay, Giver-and some I can't stand-His Dark Materials-and they're not even in the same league. They deal with material very differently, have very different writing styles, and have very different appeals (same with HP.)
Isn't this subjective with the term "best read". I can tell you right now that I'm not even moderatly interested in the majority of those books.
I've read a good sample of the books on their list and few would end up in my best. Still not sure how Goblet of Fire-which few, if any HP fans would name the best of the lot-ended up #2 and none of the others managed to even show up. This whole list just seems incredibly random.Magic school bus, sci-fi, some fantasy, and all those "1001 experiment" books-or they watch a tv show or actually do an experiment.
I don't think most of the profs/researchers at my school even know about the cluster we have-most of the comp sci. profs run their own setup (and/or don't want to bother with getting access to the cluster) and the depts. don't really talk to each other much.
Of course if I'm saying that geeks should hit on girls more, it's 'cause I've got some screwed up double standards-not cause you know, most of the guy's who've hit on me have been of the cocky bastard variety.
Why does code need documentation? Of course any half decent programmer should be able to understand other peoples code or just use it as a black box-and then why should documentation matter? (And yes, I've actually encountered this attitude-though it came from a student working on a project, not a FOSS guy.)
I've seen too many open source projects that try to pass off cleaned up (by a doc generating program) code as their documentation. I'm working on somethingb where the open source project we're using (playerstage) is so badly documented we're thrilled when a new wiki page gets added.
Well not quite, but a bimbo will probably have as many sexual partners as any badboy, which will probably be more than the general population. Personality that looks for multiple partners and all that jazz.
Sorry, maybe it's 'cause I'm a girl, but I don't get what this is on slashdot, aside from why some of it's readers are not getting laid-which really, I know plenty of nerds who outrank the "badboys" in the "traid of bad behaviors" who still can't get laid.
I'm also curious about the correlational chain here-are these guys just more confident in themselves and therefore just more likely to ask the girl out? A guy can be fabulous, but if he never hits on the girl how the hell is she supposed to know he's interested?
The drop down menu isn't even testing-it's something they should have done before they even considered using the software. (It's probably in some of the documentation-'specially if the reason for it is fraud.) Part of figuring out if it's the right tool for the job and all that. Though even if they did implement it, looking at the drop down menu isn't testing-it's just learning the damn software. You should know what options users have, just 'cause it may be important for a variety of things.
My store isn't so bad-I found the capacitor I needed today (though I was lucky 'cause I think it was the only one in the bin.) It's a mixed bag, but well most brick & mortar stores seem to be. Often the bookstore doesn't stock that one book I'm looking for, or the clothing store doesn't have my size-all shopping's kind of just luck. And the help tends to be equally clueless everywhere-once you start asking for anything less than popular, they've gotta look it up on a computer or ask for more information.
You can also sometimes get some free chips (definitely PICs) from some of the parts manufactures-my robotics club does it all the time.
I'm the same with my tablet-love the toy so don't want to just get a new one, but I've had complete hell trying to upgrade it. Tried 3 different RAM sticks that didn't work and two harddrives-learned the hardway about 1.8" form factors (completely obsolete and the one in my Dell DJ is busted and therefore can't be stolen for this)-and have paid Newegg far too much in restocking fees.
My old thinkpad (R series) had a touchpad-it was the only thing that died when I drowned the thing in tea, though it also made the trackpoint flakey. That's my main reason for buying 'em-they're really hard to break. I've dropped, melted, and bathed various ones and they're still ticking.
My mom (the current owner of my R-series) can't stand the trackpoint so she makes me dig up mice for her. I've got an X41-no touchpad-so I've learned to adjust and now I can't use a touchpad anymore.
That's your situation, and granted I also run circles around my mom (a programmer) when it comes to computers. But what about when/if you have kids. Do you really expect that they'll be that much better (or even as good), even ignoring the intellectual challenge of trying to break whatever levels of security they went through. Even if they are very good-even if you don't know how to implement, you've got a vague understanding of what's possible, just from background and experience.
./ perfectly aware of their kid's porn harddrive who are just pretending it does not exist 'cause it's not a battle worth picking.
All that kind of adds up-I'm sure there are guys on
Unless, you're just as good and that's why your kids a programmer at 6.
I think it's a beginners/newbie/inexperience thing-I have code with those kind of redundant comments 'cause sometimes I can't tell just from looking at it-especially if the while loop is part of a crazy nested structure or otherwise buried under mounds of code. Granted, at that point I should probably be restructuring my code anyway, but when I'm writing code that looks that bad/has that sort of commenting-I'm probably in over my head anyway.
And I've been on teams with guys who couldn't copy the example off the web properly-no really, I spent a decent amount of time basically plugging the example code into his so everything would work. For every girl I know who's hopeless, I know 5 guys who don't really understand the concept of an object. I also know a 'lite female programmer, and a handful of male ones. Whad'ya know, the actual ratio of good to bad is probably damn near the same for both genders.