I don't know if this is cross platform or not, but when I pull down my bookmarks from the menu, typing the first letter of the bookmark doesn't cycle me through the bookmarks starting with that letter. Rather it takes me to either a subset of that group or, in the case of U on my mac, to the first bookmark starting with W. I really wish that would work better.
I've had a shell account with Speakeasy for about a decade now. All of my multiple addresses filter there. As long as that still works, I'll stay there rather than switch everything over again.
I might be the only person in world who still uses Pine for email, but I prefer that to web based solutions, let alone something like Outlook...
I drive 40 miles a day, mostly on highways, and I get a little over 50 MPG in my Prius. I'm not sure how anyone can get 25 mpg unless there's something wrong with the car.
Of course, RAW was one of those anarcho-capitalists and 20 years ago probably would have mocked the idea of helping someone else like that. I love his work, but no longer buy the philosophy behind a lot of it.
Not in the cases where people buy lottery tickets knowing that they're not likely to win but - in part - because they support the causes that the lottery money goes towards. It's not always a tax on the stupid, sometimes it's a voluntary tax with a slight chance of getting a huge windfall. I don't remember the IRS ever giving out money like that.
What happened is that artists saw what scalpers were charging for tickets and figured that that was the true demand for their act. Why should they charge $40 for a ticket, have them bought up by resellers, and have fans end up paying $150 when they can charge that much to begin with and keep the money?
Once that started, venues got greedy. They only wanted to book people who could afford the prices that the big names could. When's the last time your local shed had a band that charged $20? You can't afford to play the big venues unless you're charging $50 a pop.
"But, if that's the case, then why aren't ships made of the same material as vibrablades?"
Weight. The ships have to be light enough to acheive escape velocity off of a planet. Also who knows what requirements entering and leaving hyperspace has on a vehicle.
Your solution, "Be the best at something," is as unrealistic as telling everyone to go into management. There aren't enough important subsets of programming for everyone to be the best at something.
Yes, things worked for you, but that doesn't mean that the same approach will work for everyone. I've had a really good job for the last 5 years, but I wouldn't advise everyone to follow my career path. Don't confuse things working out with having a foolproof plan.
Your job gets outsourced? Don't worry. Just upgrade your skills. Eventually everyone will be a CEO!
That's the usual refrain here when outsourcing debates start. In addition to the fact that we can't all be the best and ok but not amazing programmers have to do something for a living, if we don't have the entry level jobs here, who will learn the skills to let them design programs?
How was the parent post to this a troll? The post I was responding to make it out like straight, white males are currently disadvantaged in this society. Is it not fair to respond to that?
How would this system - as silly as it is - make it harder for a while male to get a job than any other group? A random sampling is just that, random. It doesn't weight minorities in any way. All it does (and again, I'm opposed to it, but not for this reason) is eliminate the factor of people getting an advantage because they were in the right fraternity or know the boss's son. I suspect, as a result, this will affect class issues more than racial ones.
I don't see how this penalizes any one group. It's stupid and probably unconstitutional, but I don't see how an black woman would have an advantage over a white male.
Yeah it's really rough to be a straight, white, Christian male in this country. It's too bad that no one who fits that profile could ever gain political power or be appointed to the Supreme Court or be in charge of a Fortune 500 company or anything like that.
What these rules do is reduce the advantage that the majority culture has, not to give an advantage to minorities. Sure, it feels bad to have that happen, but this is like someone being given a 30 meter advantage in a 100 meter dash and complaning because they used to get a 40 meter advantage.
I went to a small college so everyone knew everyone else. The semester after I graduated, a friend made a plaque saying "David Steinberg Memorial Room" and put it up in a classroom. When I returned for the first time, a lot of people thought I was dead. It stayed up there for months.
That most likely has a lot to do with ticket prices. The old bands appeal to people with much more disposible income, so they can get $200 or so for a ticket.
One thing to remember though is that this isn't a calc test. Actually doing the integral was the last step after dozens designed to prove that that was the answer you'd need. I didn't have time to try to make some substitutions in order to get the right answer; I had some more hairy proofs to do.
I still think I should have received 70-85% of the points for the question. Her teaching style was a large part of what drove me away from analysis and towards algebra.
I was taking a real analysis class in my first semester of grad school. I did a good job on the first question, figured everything out, and got that the answer was the integral of 1/(1 + x^2).
I got no points at all for the question - despite solving the parts relevant to the class - because I didn't know off the top of my head that the integral of that is the arctan function.
I have to admit that I would probably use this quite a bit to check my email and play on the web on flights.
However, I'll miss the fact that there was a space where I couldn't do those things. There's so much pressure on people to be available all the time, that it was nice to have forced downtime.
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I don't know if this is cross platform or not, but when I pull down my bookmarks from the menu, typing the first letter of the bookmark doesn't cycle me through the bookmarks starting with that letter. Rather it takes me to either a subset of that group or, in the case of U on my mac, to the first bookmark starting with W. I really wish that would work better.
I've had a shell account with Speakeasy for about a decade now. All of my multiple addresses filter there. As long as that still works, I'll stay there rather than switch everything over again.
I might be the only person in world who still uses Pine for email, but I prefer that to web based solutions, let alone something like Outlook...
Yes, I meant credit, not refund, thanks. The point still stands though.
You forgot to subtract the $3150 tax refund they were giving last year.
I didn't buy the car to save money though, I bought it to use less of a declining resource.
I drive 40 miles a day, mostly on highways, and I get a little over 50 MPG in my Prius. I'm not sure how anyone can get 25 mpg unless there's something wrong with the car.
Whistler is a mountain town north of Vancouver where the skiing events will be held.
Thanks. I kept thinking that the inverse of taking the square root would be to square something but obviously that isn't what that code did.
Of course, RAW was one of those anarcho-capitalists and 20 years ago probably would have mocked the idea of helping someone else like that. I love his work, but no longer buy the philosophy behind a lot of it.
I guess Pluto DOES know when to quit...
Not in the cases where people buy lottery tickets knowing that they're not likely to win but - in part - because they support the causes that the lottery money goes towards. It's not always a tax on the stupid, sometimes it's a voluntary tax with a slight chance of getting a huge windfall. I don't remember the IRS ever giving out money like that.
That has a lot to do with the fact that cars are much more complicated. You can't just fiddle under the hood anymore really.
What happened is that artists saw what scalpers were charging for tickets and figured that that was the true demand for their act. Why should they charge $40 for a ticket, have them bought up by resellers, and have fans end up paying $150 when they can charge that much to begin with and keep the money?
Once that started, venues got greedy. They only wanted to book people who could afford the prices that the big names could. When's the last time your local shed had a band that charged $20? You can't afford to play the big venues unless you're charging $50 a pop.
"But, if that's the case, then why aren't ships made of the same material as vibrablades?"
Weight. The ships have to be light enough to acheive escape velocity off of a planet. Also who knows what requirements entering and leaving hyperspace has on a vehicle.
Your solution, "Be the best at something," is as unrealistic as telling everyone to go into management. There aren't enough important subsets of programming for everyone to be the best at something.
Yes, things worked for you, but that doesn't mean that the same approach will work for everyone. I've had a really good job for the last 5 years, but I wouldn't advise everyone to follow my career path. Don't confuse things working out with having a foolproof plan.
Your job gets outsourced? Don't worry. Just upgrade your skills. Eventually everyone will be a CEO!
That's the usual refrain here when outsourcing debates start. In addition to the fact that we can't all be the best and ok but not amazing programmers have to do something for a living, if we don't have the entry level jobs here, who will learn the skills to let them design programs?
How was the parent post to this a troll? The post I was responding to make it out like straight, white males are currently disadvantaged in this society. Is it not fair to respond to that?
How would this system - as silly as it is - make it harder for a while male to get a job than any other group? A random sampling is just that, random. It doesn't weight minorities in any way. All it does (and again, I'm opposed to it, but not for this reason) is eliminate the factor of people getting an advantage because they were in the right fraternity or know the boss's son. I suspect, as a result, this will affect class issues more than racial ones.
I don't see how this penalizes any one group. It's stupid and probably unconstitutional, but I don't see how an black woman would have an advantage over a white male.
Yeah it's really rough to be a straight, white, Christian male in this country. It's too bad that no one who fits that profile could ever gain political power or be appointed to the Supreme Court or be in charge of a Fortune 500 company or anything like that.
What these rules do is reduce the advantage that the majority culture has, not to give an advantage to minorities. Sure, it feels bad to have that happen, but this is like someone being given a 30 meter advantage in a 100 meter dash and complaning because they used to get a 40 meter advantage.
I went to a small college so everyone knew everyone else. The semester after I graduated, a friend made a plaque saying "David Steinberg Memorial Room" and put it up in a classroom. When I returned for the first time, a lot of people thought I was dead. It stayed up there for months.
That most likely has a lot to do with ticket prices. The old bands appeal to people with much more disposible income, so they can get $200 or so for a ticket.
One thing to remember though is that this isn't a calc test. Actually doing the integral was the last step after dozens designed to prove that that was the answer you'd need. I didn't have time to try to make some substitutions in order to get the right answer; I had some more hairy proofs to do.
I still think I should have received 70-85% of the points for the question. Her teaching style was a large part of what drove me away from analysis and towards algebra.
I was taking a real analysis class in my first semester of grad school. I did a good job on the first question, figured everything out, and got that the answer was the integral of 1/(1 + x^2).
I got no points at all for the question - despite solving the parts relevant to the class - because I didn't know off the top of my head that the integral of that is the arctan function.
I love abstract math but I hate trig.
I have to admit that I would probably use this quite a bit to check my email and play on the web on flights.
However, I'll miss the fact that there was a space where I couldn't do those things. There's so much pressure on people to be available all the time, that it was nice to have forced downtime.
Have they never heard of a currency exchange?
Anyone who can get a CBC channel (such as us in Seattle who have cable) can watch it on that.