We don't know whether Allchin intended to use the word "destroyed" as an verb in that clause ("Microsoft destroyed [its] credibility") or as a verbal adjective ("Now we have..., Microsoft[-]destroyed credibility,...").
"[Sic]", Latin for "thus", is generally used as a convenient notation for "yes, the dumbass did write it this way, and we know it's not English."
So believing you're being stalked by red and white cars is delusional, while cannibalizing a cosmic Jewish zombie to escape the consequences of a talking snake tricking a mud-man's rib-wife with magic fruit isn't?
I do not care how many people use aoeui/asdfg. I do care that I have a portable, intuitive editor that interfaces transparently with other tools. This makes me more productive.
So damn right it's better. If that makes me arrogant, then fuck you *and* your favorite bloated text editor, whose built-in artificial intelligence psychologist is doubtlessly precious to you.
The single most important thing you can do to protect our democracy is to volunteer as an election judge -- or poll worker, or election inspector, or whatever you call us in your state.
It's easy, it's fun, and we desperately need more people under 80 to do it.
I started right after the election debacle in 2000. Call your city elections department NOW while you can still get into training sessions. Make sure that your local voting is clean, fair, legal, and trustworthy. It all depends on volunteers!
It may be apocryphal, but there's a story that Seymour Cray in '72 was told that Control Data was having a 10% layoff in every division, without exception, including his small and tightly-run 20-person lab in Chippewa Falls, and that he had to name two victims.
"Okay, it'll be me and Les Davis," he replied, and went off to start Cray Research.
I am an election judge. I take a day or two off every year from my supercomputer-design job to help run fair and accurate elections at the busiest precinct in my state. I make sure that everyone with a right to vote can do so and have their vote count. You're welcome. If you don't like your local election judges, become one. Or not. But quit whining.
The very real danger to the book's reviewer is that he may be placed in the position of defending rationality before a jury comprised of people who find it perfectly reasonable to symbolically eat the flesh of a cosmic Jewish zombie and telepathically implore him to save them from the consequences of a snake-deceived rib-woman's consumption of magic fruit.
Which is to say, in our rapidly medievalizing former republic, crazy nutbag plaintiffs are granted a decisive advantage.
Go back to inserting needless apostrophes in "its", please. I was almost able to handle that./., please spend $5/hour to rent an offshore literate for simple proofreading.
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Why pay $$ for a closed-source program when there are nice alternatives, like my
shiny new aoeui text editor available with
source code that you can read and modify to your heart's delight? (Not to mention
some better-known open-source editors, heh, but aoeui's entire sources are smaller
than some people's.emacs files.)
I spend all day in my editor and dammit, it's
going to look and feel exactly the way that I want it to.
Namely, invisible, fast, and part of the rich command environment around it.
And any editor that needs a 200-page manual is weighed down with crap I'll never use.
Look. If these people want to believe crazy medieval crap, and then follow through on their choice of a medieval mindset, there are communities where they can live that kind of lifestyle, such as the Amish and Mennonites and Taliban. No internets, no zippers, no porn, no modern problems.
But those medieval minds who want all the benefits of the Enlightenment without any of the disadvantages and without ever having their inconsistencies pointed out are trying to have it both ways, and there's no way that they're ever going to be satisfied.
Free speech, but no blasphemy, porn, or atheism.
Free inquiry, but no science with "babies" comprising dozens of cells, and no need to listen to climatology.
Free markets, but not for farms, churches, homeowners, oil, and armsmakers.
Look. It's hypocrisy, it's crap, and it's holding the rest of us back.
I think that they know this, at some level, and that it fuels their desire to undermine modernity by limiting scientific research, promoting crap in the classroom, and flying planes into skyscrapers with promises of heaven in their heads.
In macroevolution, an organism gains new features, such as wings. In microevolution an organism gets stronger arms.
What does the baby Jesus command you to call it when an organism gets stronger arms with a longer flap of skin on them that permits gradually improved gliding performance from trees? Is it "microevolution" until the mouse accidentally flaps his front legs and looks kind of like a bat, at which point it would be "macroevolution" and smote down as blasphemous by a jealous genocidal war-god?
The whole "micro/macro" evolution bullshit is a rear-guard action by the hate-crazed godtards. But it's crap. There is no distinction; just small gradual steps, and the ones that increase the number of healthy offspring tending to be preserved.
I think that you mean "distinct" visitors here, meaning that some of them came more than once but all their visits counted as one.
A "unique" visitor would either mean that there was just one visitor, or that each of those visitors was the only person like him or her. The first is not the case, and the second is always true until we start cloning humans or something.
Mathematically, if x and y are distinct, then they are not equal. If x is unique, it is distinct from all other objects. Generally, one says that x is unique after defining a set of objects that have some properties and then showing that the set contains exactly one member, namely x.
Whenever you see the adjective "unique" applied to a set of objects, it's probably being misused.
If you want to really learn the craft of programming, here are some tips. If you don't like them, stick to what you're doing and be happy.
1) Learn assembly language. Play with it. Think in terms of
what you can and cannot do with it. Read the -S output of
your compiler and understand it in terms of your source. 2) Play with algorithms. Can you code up a heapsort without
referring to a book? Can you do it in assembly? Read Jon
Bentley's "Programming Pearls". 3) Know your platforms' hardware and software. Install a
from-source Linux distro like Gentoo. Configure, build,
and install kernels from source. Play with the kernel;
even a simple thing like adding your name in a printk()
can be exciting. 4) Iterate. Keep current on the basics. Do you really know
your programming language? If you don't know how something
works, read up on it and read the sources. It's all just
ones and zeros. 5) Read "Hacker's Delight". Slowly. Enjoy it. 6) When low-level stuff gets to not be fun, play with high
level things. Write some Emacs Lisp. Learn Prolog.
Play with Squeak. Think about how they're implemented.
I have been doing this for a long time and I cannot emphasize strongly enough the importance of refreshing your basic skills. And play. Computers are fun. I have written compilers and kernels from scratch, worked on instruction set architectures, and a bunch of other stuff, and haven't yet exhausted the fun that computers can be.
But they're not fun for everybody. If all this sounds dull to you, it probably will be, and maybe you should pursue some other hobby while pounding out C++ to pay the bills.
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It's not a misspelling, it's incorrect grammar.
We don't know whether Allchin intended to use the word "destroyed" as an verb in that clause ("Microsoft destroyed [its] credibility") or as a verbal adjective ("Now we have ..., Microsoft[-]destroyed credibility, ...").
"[Sic]", Latin for "thus", is generally used as a convenient notation for "yes, the dumbass did write it this way, and we know it's not English."
So believing you're being stalked by red and white cars is delusional, while cannibalizing a cosmic Jewish zombie to escape the consequences of a talking snake tricking a mud-man's rib-wife with magic fruit isn't?
You equate popularity with quality.
I do not care how many people use aoeui/asdfg. I do care that I have a portable, intuitive editor that interfaces transparently with other tools. This makes me more productive.
So damn right it's better. If that makes me arrogant, then fuck you *and* your favorite bloated text editor, whose built-in artificial intelligence psychologist is doubtlessly precious to you.
After 25 years of vi and Emacs, I got fed up and wrote something better. And at 6k lines of C, it's not much bigger than my .emacs file was. :-)
Seriously, people: you don't have to live with the available options. Writing an editor is a easy job.
And yes, I GPL'd it. Have fun.
http://code.google.com/p/aoeui/
Microsoft is to software what the Corleone family was to olive oil imports.
(It may be what they do, but it's not how they make their money.)
The single most important thing you can do to protect our democracy is to volunteer as an election judge -- or poll worker, or election inspector, or whatever you call us in your state.
It's easy, it's fun, and we desperately need more people under 80 to do it.
I started right after the election debacle in 2000. Call your city elections department NOW while you can still get into training sessions. Make sure that your local voting is clean, fair, legal, and trustworthy. It all depends on volunteers!
It may be apocryphal, but there's a story that Seymour Cray in '72 was told that Control Data was having a 10% layoff in every division, without exception, including his small and tightly-run 20-person lab in Chippewa Falls, and that he had to name two victims.
"Okay, it'll be me and Les Davis," he replied, and went off to start Cray Research.
I am an election judge. I take a day or two off every year from my supercomputer-design job to help run fair and accurate elections at the busiest precinct in my state. I make sure that everyone with a right to vote can do so and have their vote count. You're welcome. If you don't like your local election judges, become one. Or not. But quit whining.
Discovering the location of Qwghlm on this map made my entire day. Thanks!
Truly, they are evil, and any person of conscience could not work there and retain their integrity.
... if it had done as little for you as it did for Christians.
Our governor, a Bush ideologue clone elected on a "no new taxes" pledge, has begun to learn that if you ignore your infrastructure, it goes away.
The very real danger to the book's reviewer is that he may be placed in the position of defending rationality before a jury comprised of people who find it perfectly reasonable to symbolically eat the flesh of a cosmic Jewish zombie and telepathically implore him to save them from the consequences of a snake-deceived rib-woman's consumption of magic fruit.
Which is to say, in our rapidly medievalizing former republic, crazy nutbag plaintiffs are granted a decisive advantage.
Did you really just misspell "satellite"?
/., please spend $5/hour to rent an offshore literate for simple proofreading.
Go back to inserting needless apostrophes in "its", please.
I was almost able to handle that.
The article gets the usage right: "far better than its predecessor."
/., the site that HAS to always get this point wrong, it becomes "far better than it's predecessor."
But quoted on
This is NOT THAT HARD to get right, people. No apostrophe means that it's possessive. With an apostrophe,
it's a contraction of "it is" or "it has".
it's == it is
its == possessive
This is *so* easy to get right, goddammit.
This is categorically amazing! Gliese 581 has not one, but *two* planets capable of sustaining life as we know it!
... FOR ME TO POOP ON!
I spend all day in my editor and dammit, it's going to look and feel exactly the way that I want it to. Namely, invisible, fast, and part of the rich command environment around it. And any editor that needs a 200-page manual is weighed down with crap I'll never use.
Look. If these people want to believe crazy medieval crap, and then follow through on their choice of a medieval mindset, there are communities where they can live that kind of lifestyle, such as the Amish and Mennonites and Taliban. No internets, no zippers, no porn, no modern problems.
But those medieval minds who want all the benefits of the Enlightenment without any of the disadvantages and without ever having their inconsistencies pointed out are trying to have it both ways, and there's no way that they're ever going to be satisfied.
Free speech, but no blasphemy, porn, or atheism.
Free inquiry, but no science with "babies" comprising dozens of cells, and no need to listen to climatology.
Free markets, but not for farms, churches, homeowners, oil, and armsmakers.
Look. It's hypocrisy, it's crap, and it's holding the rest of us back.
I think that they know this, at some level, and that it fuels their desire to undermine modernity by limiting scientific research, promoting crap in the classroom, and flying planes into skyscrapers with promises of heaven in their heads.
In macroevolution, an organism gains new features, such as wings. In microevolution an organism gets stronger arms.
What does the baby Jesus command you to call it when an organism gets stronger arms with a longer flap of skin on them that permits gradually improved gliding performance from trees? Is it "microevolution" until the mouse accidentally flaps his front legs and looks kind of like a bat, at which point it would be "macroevolution" and smote down as blasphemous by a jealous genocidal war-god?
The whole "micro/macro" evolution bullshit is a rear-guard action by the hate-crazed godtards. But it's crap. There is no distinction; just small gradual steps, and the ones that increase the number of healthy offspring tending to be preserved.
... because C++ programmers make "friends" solely for the purpose of exposing their "private" parts to them.
IP addresses are necessarily unique ("one of a kind"). You mean "distinct" here.
"13M unique visitors each month"
I think that you mean "distinct" visitors here,
meaning that some of them came more than once
but all their visits counted as one.
A "unique" visitor would either mean that there
was just one visitor, or that each of those visitors
was the only person like him or her. The first is
not the case, and the second is always true until
we start cloning humans or something.
Mathematically, if x and y are distinct, then
they are not equal. If x is unique, it is distinct
from all other objects. Generally, one says that
x is unique after defining a set of objects that have
some properties and then showing that the set contains
exactly one member, namely x.
Whenever you see the adjective "unique" applied to
a set of objects, it's probably being misused.
If you want to really learn the craft of programming, here are
some tips. If you don't like them, stick to what you're doing
and be happy.
1) Learn assembly language. Play with it. Think in terms of
what you can and cannot do with it. Read the -S output of
your compiler and understand it in terms of your source.
2) Play with algorithms. Can you code up a heapsort without
referring to a book? Can you do it in assembly? Read Jon
Bentley's "Programming Pearls".
3) Know your platforms' hardware and software. Install a
from-source Linux distro like Gentoo. Configure, build,
and install kernels from source. Play with the kernel;
even a simple thing like adding your name in a printk()
can be exciting.
4) Iterate. Keep current on the basics. Do you really know
your programming language? If you don't know how something
works, read up on it and read the sources. It's all just
ones and zeros.
5) Read "Hacker's Delight". Slowly. Enjoy it.
6) When low-level stuff gets to not be fun, play with high
level things. Write some Emacs Lisp. Learn Prolog.
Play with Squeak. Think about how they're implemented.
I have been doing this for a long time and I cannot emphasize
strongly enough the importance of refreshing your basic skills.
And play. Computers are fun. I have written compilers and
kernels from scratch, worked on instruction set architectures,
and a bunch of other stuff, and haven't yet exhausted the fun
that computers can be.
But they're not fun for everybody. If all this sounds dull to
you, it probably will be, and maybe you should pursue some other
hobby while pounding out C++ to pay the bills.