My problem is that the center left folks are not criticizing the far left angry "I hate white cis males who are all nazis who deserve to be taxed/punished".
Since the centre left is not criticizing these folks, they are opening the door to some godawful policies being put in place to police our thoughts and words when/if the next time they get voted in.
This definitely isn't true. I suspect that this criticism doesn't get as much "air time" because it's not nearly as exciting as clashes between neo-nazis and antifa.
Two places where you can read criticism of this sort that jump to my mind are Heterodox Academy and Areo Magazine. While both of these sites are explicitly open to authors from all parts of the political spectrum, they do both publish critiques of social justice politics from a progressive standpoint.
I live in Minneapolis myself. I have Comcast business service at home with static ips, no bandwidth cap, and several servers live in my basement as I type. It's not super cheap, but it's quite fast and the service and support is quite good. From what I can tell, their business support is totally separate from the consumer support, and is much, much better (competent, responsive, very low hold times).
When I was in Taiwan recently (all of August) I happened upon a rather dirty arcade (not hard to do) which consisted mostly of betting games, some pirate driving games, and this one. I've actually taken taiko lessons so I had to try this one, and besides I'm a big fan of DDR, EZ2Dancer, etc (in fact, I recently bought a modded PS2 to play DDR at home).
Anyway, this game is quite fun, though in the arcade version the drums are at a fixed height and angle, one that was less than ideal for my 6'7" body.
From seeing the home version equipment, I'm wonder how I'd get the drum pad to a reasonable height. And I'm wondering how much it costs too...
Uh, for almost every single thing you mention here there is a Mason equivalent. The sort summary:
"amazingly hackable" - As of 1.10, it is pretty easy to subclass any one piece of Mason, including the part that implements Mason syntax.
"complete language" - I don't consider this a desirable feature, so I'm happy to say Mason _doesn't_ match TT in this respect. But this is a question of style and what type of design you prefer, not power. TT is a complete language, but so is Perl, which Mason uses;)
Mason components are largely equivalent to defining subroutines/methods. Mason also has its own OO-ish system for defining component methods and attributes.
With 1.10, we added a "component calls with content" feature that lets you apply filters to arbitrary chunks of content, and 1.14 included a feature for user-defined escaping mechanisms, so that's pretty well covered.
In the end, I think the one you choose will have much more to do with the particular needs of your project, the people working on it, and which one fits your brain.
But I would point out that there is really very little that one system does that the other _cannot_ do. Some things are a little easier in one versus the other, but both of them are full-featured enough to make pretty much anything possible.
Yeah, I'm pretty curious too. AFAIK, there really isn't anything you can do with one you can't do with the other. Some things may be a little easier in TT vs. Mason, and vice versa, and they each have their "special" features (a lot of people really like Mason's built-in caching features, for example).
But I think they're pretty much comparable in terms of functionality.
One of the advancements in recent versions of Mason is the ability to (relatively) easily replace parts of the core system with your own modules. So if you loved everything about Mason but the templating language, you could replace the lexer (the class that actually parses components) and easily hook it into the system as a whole.
For the book, I showed the beginnings of an implementation of a pure XML syntax. I wouldn't actually _use_ such a thing, but the point is that it's now a lot easier to bend Mason to your will.
Le Guin's earlier works, particularly the first three EarthSea novels and the first three Hainish novels, are very Taoist.
This has definitely changed in recent years. In fact, the latest EarthSea novel, _The Other Wind_, in some ways repudiates the Taoist viewpoint of the other novels.
I'd say that where her early novels were often more concerned with the Taoist concept of balance (among opposing forces/ideals/etc) her later novels have become more concerned with justice.
I like them all, myself, though the more recent ones appeal to me more. The idea of balance is something I can appreciate intellectually but justice has more emotional appeal for me.
Karma points? How about a dope slap? Here's some facts:
- Hong Kong is (was?) the world's third largest movie-producing country (city?) after the US & Hollywood. This may have changed in recent years because of reduced production due to money problems.
- While Hong Kong is a source of action movies it is also a great source of art movies, dramas, comedies.
Here's some quick recommendations:
Art: - Anything directed by Wong Kar-Wai (Chungking Express, Happy Together) - Anything directed by Fruit Chan (Made in Hong Kong) - Anna Magdalena - Four Faces of Eve
Drama: - Lost and Found - Kitchen - Peking Opera Blues (also comedy and action) - The Killer (also action) - Twenty Something - Fly Me to Polaris.
Comedy: - Most Stephen Chow movies (Forbidden City Copy) - He's a Woman, She's a Man - Yesterme, Yesteryou, Yesterday
Watch a few those and maybe you'll understand why Yahoo might be interested in Hong Kong. And BTW, some of those action movies are works of art in and of themselves (Peking Opera Blues, The Killer, Fist of Legend, Fong Sai Yuk, Beyong Hypothermia, and many more).
quick plug: db.hkmdb.com is a great source of info on HK films (I coded a lot of it).
I work at a company that shall remain nameless. When I started it was already public. When I was hired last February, I was given 3000 stock options at a buy in price of about $30 or so.
I vest at 25% per year.
Back in September or October, our stock was down to around $20, meaning even if I could exercise the options there would be no point. At that time, as a form of apology (more or less), I was given 1500 more options with a buy in price of around $20.
Right now the stock is at $30-35.
Here's the real problem, I can't stand my job and I'm really looking to escape. So even if I'm there come February chances are the most I could make would be $2-5/share, which isn't that great. Frankly, I have little confidence in this company and suspect that their stock will go down again.
My advice, unless you think this company you're going to work for is going to be a long term home, ask for more salary/vacation/up front goodies rather than stock. You can always invest wisely and make a profit and you can always enjoy time off. Note that my experience was with a company which was already public when I started.
A pre-IPO company is a totally different situation, particularly if they go public and then experience a takeover. In that case, you could be rolling in it.
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My problem is that the center left folks are not criticizing the far left angry "I hate white cis males who are all nazis who deserve to be taxed/punished".
Since the centre left is not criticizing these folks, they are opening the door to some godawful policies being put in place to police our thoughts and words when/if the next time they get voted in.
This definitely isn't true. I suspect that this criticism doesn't get as much "air time" because it's not nearly as exciting as clashes between neo-nazis and antifa.
Two places where you can read criticism of this sort that jump to my mind are Heterodox Academy and Areo Magazine. While both of these sites are explicitly open to authors from all parts of the political spectrum, they do both publish critiques of social justice politics from a progressive standpoint.
I live in Minneapolis myself. I have Comcast business service at home with static ips, no bandwidth cap, and several servers live in my basement as I type. It's not super cheap, but it's quite fast and the service and support is quite good. From what I can tell, their business support is totally separate from the consumer support, and is much, much better (competent, responsive, very low hold times).
See above.
When I was in Taiwan recently (all of August) I happened upon a rather dirty arcade (not hard to do) which consisted mostly of betting games, some pirate driving games, and this one. I've actually taken taiko lessons so I had to try this one, and besides I'm a big fan of DDR, EZ2Dancer, etc (in fact, I recently bought a modded PS2 to play DDR at home).
...
Anyway, this game is quite fun, though in the arcade version the drums are at a fixed height and angle, one that was less than ideal for my 6'7" body.
From seeing the home version equipment, I'm wonder how I'd get the drum pad to a reasonable height. And I'm wondering how much it costs too
Uh, for almost every single thing you mention here there is a Mason equivalent. The sort summary:
;)
"amazingly hackable" - As of 1.10, it is pretty easy to subclass any one piece of Mason, including the part that implements Mason syntax.
"complete language" - I don't consider this a desirable feature, so I'm happy to say Mason _doesn't_ match TT in this respect. But this is a question of style and what type of design you prefer, not power. TT is a complete language, but so is Perl, which Mason uses
Mason components are largely equivalent to defining subroutines/methods. Mason also has its own OO-ish system for defining component methods and attributes.
With 1.10, we added a "component calls with content" feature that lets you apply filters to arbitrary chunks of content, and 1.14 included a feature for user-defined escaping mechanisms, so that's pretty well covered.
In the end, I think the one you choose will have much more to do with the particular needs of your project, the people working on it, and which one fits your brain.
But I would point out that there is really very little that one system does that the other _cannot_ do. Some things are a little easier in one versus the other, but both of them are full-featured enough to make pretty much anything possible.
Yeah, I'm pretty curious too. AFAIK, there really isn't anything you can do with one you can't do with the other. Some things may be a little easier in TT vs. Mason, and vice versa, and they each have their "special" features (a lot of people really like Mason's built-in caching features, for example).
But I think they're pretty much comparable in terms of functionality.
One of the advancements in recent versions of Mason is the ability to (relatively) easily replace parts of the core system with your own modules. So if you loved everything about Mason but the templating language, you could replace the lexer (the class that actually parses components) and easily hook it into the system as a whole.
For the book, I showed the beginnings of an implementation of a pure XML syntax. I wouldn't actually _use_ such a thing, but the point is that it's now a lot easier to bend Mason to your will.
Damn straight! What's wrong with that?
Le Guin's earlier works, particularly the first three EarthSea novels and the first three Hainish novels, are very Taoist.
This has definitely changed in recent years. In fact, the latest EarthSea novel, _The Other Wind_, in some ways repudiates the Taoist viewpoint of the other novels.
I'd say that where her early novels were often more concerned with the Taoist concept of balance (among opposing forces/ideals/etc) her later novels have become more concerned with justice.
I like them all, myself, though the more recent ones appeal to me more. The idea of balance is something I can appreciate intellectually but justice has more emotional appeal for me.
Karma points? How about a dope slap? Here's some facts:
- Hong Kong is (was?) the world's third largest movie-producing country (city?) after the US & Hollywood. This may have changed in recent years because of reduced production due to money problems.
- While Hong Kong is a source of action movies it is also a great source of art movies, dramas, comedies.
Here's some quick recommendations:
Art:
- Anything directed by Wong Kar-Wai (Chungking Express, Happy Together)
- Anything directed by Fruit Chan (Made in Hong Kong)
- Anna Magdalena
- Four Faces of Eve
Drama:
- Lost and Found
- Kitchen
- Peking Opera Blues (also comedy and action)
- The Killer (also action)
- Twenty Something
- Fly Me to Polaris.
Comedy:
- Most Stephen Chow movies (Forbidden City Copy)
- He's a Woman, She's a Man
- Yesterme, Yesteryou, Yesterday
Watch a few those and maybe you'll understand why Yahoo might be interested in Hong Kong. And BTW, some of those action movies are works of art in and of themselves (Peking Opera Blues, The Killer, Fist of Legend, Fong Sai Yuk, Beyong Hypothermia, and many more).
quick plug: db.hkmdb.com is a great source of info on HK films (I coded a lot of it).
I work at a company that shall remain nameless. When I started it was already public. When I was hired last February, I was given 3000 stock options at a buy in price of about $30 or so.
I vest at 25% per year.
Back in September or October, our stock was down to around $20, meaning even if I could exercise the options there would be no point. At that time, as a form of apology (more or less), I was given 1500 more options with a buy in price of around $20.
Right now the stock is at $30-35.
Here's the real problem, I can't stand my job and I'm really looking to escape. So even if I'm there come February chances are the most I could make would be $2-5/share, which isn't that great. Frankly, I have little confidence in this company and suspect that their stock will go down again.
My advice, unless you think this company you're going to work for is going to be a long term home, ask for more salary/vacation/up front goodies rather than stock. You can always invest wisely and make a profit and you can always enjoy time off. Note that my experience was with a company which was already public when I started.
A pre-IPO company is a totally different situation, particularly if they go public and then experience a takeover. In that case, you could be rolling in it.