It's not cheaper in the US because the government refuses to subsidize it, and indeed has done almost everything they could do to destroy Amtrak. Airlines, on the other hand, since they are private, get bailouts and subsidies and tax incentives and all sorts of help from the government.
I'm wondering if those flowcharts actually do help people learn basic program flow and basic boolean logic. After a while, you don't need them, because you can think like the machine. But, for getting started, it might be a good step and encourage thought before shotgun coding.
I tend to fix my own problem and then submit the code anyway. If my dealings with the project are unsatisfactory (and they usually are), I find a new solution to my problem.
Even submitting bug reports is hit-and-miss regarding appreciating contributions...
It's semantics, is what GP is saying. Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan wasn't about "What would happen if we had the power to create worlds?", it was a character-driven action movie about Captain Kirk. It was a good movie, but it was not a good example of SF.
It's for this reason that I love this industry. I have no college education and I am well beyond the mean salary for developers in my area. I at least double the average salary for high-school graduates.
Because I can hack it (and got some lucky opportunities to prove it), I get a job. Almost fools me into believing there's a meritocracy.
With crime on an incredible downswing, I don't see how anyone can justify draconian measures for law enforcement when it is becoming less and less likely that they will be the victim of a crime.
My first online multiplayer game was Diablo. I have avoided every online multiplayer RPG since, and generally avoid multiplayer "experiences".
Multiplayer video games are a cesspool of the worst elements of society. You have to be relatively well-off to afford everything you need to play. In fact, the more well-off you are, the more time you have to spend in the game, the more likely you're going to be an asshole.
You're anonymous. You're being competitive. You are (mostly) rewarded for being a complete asshole (loot, loot, precious loot! loot the newb corpse!)
At least before voice chat you could close the text box or put it out of your mind. Now, if I decided to partake, I'd have to deal with 8-year-olds telling me how they fucked my mother in the ass and how she moaned (when they don't have to tell me, I could hear it just fine).
Fuck multiplayer. Other people are too shitty to play with.
Perl::Critic, the link you mentioned, doesn't disable things for you (but you're right in that you can get modules that disable core language things, like "no indirect"). Perl::Critic is a linter.
Devel::Declare and now hooks into Perl's parser allow you to define your own parsing contexts! You can declare a keyword and say that inside here, I control the parsing, not perl. So many wild things one can do with that...
5.20 finally added proper subroutine signatures, so you don't have to unwind the @_ (alias to the Perl stack) yourself, but I'm glad someone else mentioned this one as "strange".
It's less strange when you finally grok the technical details behind it, but I was doing Perl for 12 years before I finally got it.
I thought someone would mention "lists" vs. "arrays" in Perl, and how @_ is really just an alias onto the current Perl stack. "list context". Types are declared by the operation being performed, not the data stored in the variable. The fluid definition of "compile time" and "run time" and how you can switch between the two.
I'm sure I could come up with more reasons I love Perl, but they'd all sound like reasons to avoid it like the plague.
Rule #1 has been "Don't post anything illegal" for a very long time. I just read moot's deposition where he explained 4chan for some trial on April 22, 2010. It was part of the rules then.
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It's not cheaper in the US because the government refuses to subsidize it, and indeed has done almost everything they could do to destroy Amtrak. Airlines, on the other hand, since they are private, get bailouts and subsidies and tax incentives and all sorts of help from the government.
I'm wondering if those flowcharts actually do help people learn basic program flow and basic boolean logic. After a while, you don't need them, because you can think like the machine. But, for getting started, it might be a good step and encourage thought before shotgun coding.
I tend to fix my own problem and then submit the code anyway. If my dealings with the project are unsatisfactory (and they usually are), I find a new solution to my problem.
Even submitting bug reports is hit-and-miss regarding appreciating contributions...
That's awesome. Thanks!
[citation needed]. The Tesla deification is starting to get annoying.
It's semantics, is what GP is saying. Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan wasn't about "What would happen if we had the power to create worlds?", it was a character-driven action movie about Captain Kirk. It was a good movie, but it was not a good example of SF.
It's for this reason that I love this industry. I have no college education and I am well beyond the mean salary for developers in my area. I at least double the average salary for high-school graduates.
Because I can hack it (and got some lucky opportunities to prove it), I get a job. Almost fools me into believing there's a meritocracy.
gr8 b8 m8! Caught some fish with that one!
They still have to announce it manually? CTA's had automatic announcements as long as I've known.
Also, blame shitty audio equipment first. The actual CTA stations have such horrible speakers it's impossible to know what's being said.
Oh disable advertising checkbox! I trusted you! You were the chosen one!
Huh. Looked up a youtube video from the 80s, and they appear to alternate between "brand" and no-"brand"... It still feels like that word is out-of-place in the tune...
Good. The privatization of the prison system is leading to what the ACLU is labeling massive human rights abuses. Coupled with our using the criminal justice system, ultimately ending up with the prison system, to deal with obvious mental health issues, and we've got incredible injustice being done in the name of the law.
The flood waters during Eternal September _are_ rising...
I left Magic for the same basic reasons, but that was 20 years ago. Honestly, I feel it is more RPG-centric, where actions have lasting consequences.
In modern games, there are fewer chances to be a complete asshole, but that first experience soured me on the whole thing...
Do you mean politicians?
With crime on an incredible downswing, I don't see how anyone can justify draconian measures for law enforcement when it is becoming less and less likely that they will be the victim of a crime.
My first online multiplayer game was Diablo. I have avoided every online multiplayer RPG since, and generally avoid multiplayer "experiences".
Multiplayer video games are a cesspool of the worst elements of society. You have to be relatively well-off to afford everything you need to play. In fact, the more well-off you are, the more time you have to spend in the game, the more likely you're going to be an asshole.
You're anonymous. You're being competitive. You are (mostly) rewarded for being a complete asshole (loot, loot, precious loot! loot the newb corpse!)
At least before voice chat you could close the text box or put it out of your mind. Now, if I decided to partake, I'd have to deal with 8-year-olds telling me how they fucked my mother in the ass and how she moaned (when they don't have to tell me, I could hear it just fine).
Fuck multiplayer. Other people are too shitty to play with.
But "Kleenex" is still a trademark, like "Band-Aid", "Lego", and "Nintendo". It's a very fuzzy line, and companies fight like hell against it.
"I am stuck on Band-Aid (brand)" just doesn't have the same cadence as the original jingle...
Here's a Band-Aid to apply to that burn. Take some Aspirin, too.
Hiro Protagonist will be an Uber driver.
Deprecated, thank YHWH, in 5.20 or .22. To be removed "not soon enough."
Perl::Critic, the link you mentioned, doesn't disable things for you (but you're right in that you can get modules that disable core language things, like "no indirect"). Perl::Critic is a linter.
Devel::Declare and now hooks into Perl's parser allow you to define your own parsing contexts! You can declare a keyword and say that inside here, I control the parsing, not perl. So many wild things one can do with that...
5.20 finally added proper subroutine signatures, so you don't have to unwind the @_ (alias to the Perl stack) yourself, but I'm glad someone else mentioned this one as "strange".
It's less strange when you finally grok the technical details behind it, but I was doing Perl for 12 years before I finally got it.
I thought someone would mention "lists" vs. "arrays" in Perl, and how @_ is really just an alias onto the current Perl stack. "list context". Types are declared by the operation being performed, not the data stored in the variable. The fluid definition of "compile time" and "run time" and how you can switch between the two.
I'm sure I could come up with more reasons I love Perl, but they'd all sound like reasons to avoid it like the plague.
Rule #1 has been "Don't post anything illegal" for a very long time. I just read moot's deposition where he explained 4chan for some trial on April 22, 2010. It was part of the rules then.
Yeah, that worked so well in the Bay of Pigs.