In the not-too-distant future -- Next Sunday, A.D. -- There was a guy named Joel, Not too different than you or me. He worked in a satellite loading bay, Just polishing switches to pay his way; He did his job well with a cheerful face, But his bosses didn't like him So they shot him into spaaaaaaaaace......
You're a coder who's written hundreds of thousands of lines of code, but you don't know how to start learning a new programming language?
I suspect there's someone out there, tasked with supporting some of these "hundreds of thousands of lines," who is cursing your name and your sorry-ass programming skills, right now.
I'm 41, an "old" programmer, and consider this question so stupid it's embarrassing.
I recommend you read Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon. Ernest Hemingway was a great fan of the fights--even recognized as an aficionado by the Spanish. This book provides an intimate account of the fights and the participants--an excellent first resource for someone interested in the spectacle.
I'm a gamer, but have been PC-only for the past 20-something years. Really. I haven't owned a console since the original Atari, since every time I've investigated the consoles, I haven't been impressed with the lack of enjoyable--to me--games. My impression of the consoles is that they cater pretty much exclusively to the "twitch" gamer, not to someone who prefers a more thinking-style of game. I like war games (traditional hex-and-turn-based, and RTS), some RTS (loved Homeworld, Ground Control, Close Combat, and similar), Civ (class all its own), and some shooters (enjoyed Battlefield 2 in the beginning, Call of Duty). It just seems that too many console games solely reward people who enjoy repetition. It's also probably because I won't play most twitch games long enough to develop any skill, so I'm mostly a noob loser.
In the new crop of consoles, are there some must-have titles that might lead me to reconsider my dislike of consoles?
Arguably, you're right--even if parent was meant as a troll. Only 31 posts on OrangeBadges.com with 121 replies. Not exactly a thriving environment. Sorta surprising that this was considered interesting enough for someone to write an article.
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As do I. Thanks, though for your vote of support. It'd keep me from having to perform this sort of notification.
Go somewhere Spanish is spoken. Live without English for some time, and you'll quickly pick up the basics as a matter of survival. This is the essence of the exchange programs--immersion. Immersion is the best way to learn a language, bar none.
Maybe in "Handle Jiggler 2.0" you could increase the maximum jiggling threshold? You've said nothing about the jiggle-rate, I notice? Scared to mention that the competing "JiggleRight" jiggles much, much faster, PLUS is Open-Source?!
My god, a decent person with a constructive reply. You're awesome, man. Wish there were more like you.
Although I made the comment, I'm not sure where I stand on the concept of America as the policeman/moral-authority of the world. Although I'm certainly not an isolationist, I'm not sure that we should nose our way into all the world's problems, either. It seems we go into these things with the best intentions, but our actions are always blundering mistakes.
I do hold a people responsible for the actions of its government, and I do think there are folks who REALLY need help, I'm not sure that there's not some point that you have to recognize that the costs to help them will be too great. It's probably immoral, but is there a point where you just stand back and let people destroy themselves because you are tired of risking your own sons and daughters? How do you teach people to stand up for freedom that they don't seem to understand or want?
I've a lot more thought on this. I need to do some more reading and a lot more writing and re-writing. Thanks for spurring me to action.
...publishers prefer to have things come in chapter-by-chapter so things can be directed along the way...
I agree. Having done a few myself, it seems that most monolithic tomes that come it have problems making it through the process, generally because the authors are too emotionally invested in their work to accept criticism and editing. That's anathema to the publishing world, where at LEAST three re-writes are the norm. You could get away with it 5 or 6 years ago, when publishers were starving to publish anything and everything tech-related, but that time is long-gone.
How much editing did you get? How far did you get before notification?
Sure, maybe the people aren't--in their heart-of-hearts--supportive of the actions of their governments. I ask, who then, is responsible for the actions of the government? For the very EXISTENCE of the government? If the people are brainwashed, then aren't they then AGENTS of their government? Look, the buck must stop somewhere. Unfortunately, war is terribly imprecise. If your government does something that you don't support, and you do NOTHING to counteract that government, then you are responsible. In the worst case, this means taking up arms (and its why the right to bear them was left in our Bill of Rights). If a population does not control its government, then it MUST be implicated in its government's actions, and therefore held responsible.
This is a personal soapbox issue for me, I admit. Responsibility must extend beyond personal responsibility to the realm of civic responsibility; you must control your government or it will control you. And you WILL be held accountable.
ActionOutline from Green Parrots software. Cheap, cool, and uber-simple. Keeps outlines, allowing notes, links, and whatnot in a WYSIWYG format, plus exportable to various formats. Support your small software vendors!
I've used it for years, and have found competing products to be a little too disorganized. I like outlines, and this product does EXACTLY one thing well--outlines. This is how software should be.
You got me there. I even own an OED, and I didn't look it up. I'll stop correcting the use of NAUSEOUS now. Like I said, though...I'm an irritating ass.
Five? Five Black and White games? For god's sake, why? I thought the first iteration was an interesting exercise, and it made for a few good times, but did it and its subsequent add-ons sell enough to warrant a continuation? I suppose the sequel is a given, but planning 4 more seems a bit silly. Kind of like the Duke Nukem sequel...
I did that, too. However, if you optimize your search using Regex searching for [A-Z]{3}([a-z])[A-Z]{3} pattern first (before diving into the other dimensions, printing a status message shows the answer pretty clearly. Still, I should've tried the obvious first. That's probably a learning experience.
I just wonder when people will start using the word "effect" again as a noun and "affect" again as a verb instead of the seemingly-all-encompassing "impact." You all sound like a bunch of Republican speech-writers.
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In the not-too-distant future --
Next Sunday, A.D. --
There was a guy named Joel,
Not too different than you or me.
He worked in a satellite loading bay,
Just polishing switches to pay his way;
He did his job well with a cheerful face,
But his bosses didn't like him
So they shot him into spaaaaaaaaace......
...on what it's an image OF.
Am I the only person imagining genitalia icons?
You're a coder who's written hundreds of thousands of lines of code, but you don't know how to start learning a new programming language?
I suspect there's someone out there, tasked with supporting some of these "hundreds of thousands of lines," who is cursing your name and your sorry-ass programming skills, right now.
I'm 41, an "old" programmer, and consider this question so stupid it's embarrassing.
I recommend you read Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon. Ernest Hemingway was a great fan of the fights--even recognized as an aficionado by the Spanish. This book provides an intimate account of the fights and the participants--an excellent first resource for someone interested in the spectacle.
I'm a gamer, but have been PC-only for the past 20-something years. Really. I haven't owned a console since the original Atari, since every time I've investigated the consoles, I haven't been impressed with the lack of enjoyable--to me--games. My impression of the consoles is that they cater pretty much exclusively to the "twitch" gamer, not to someone who prefers a more thinking-style of game. I like war games (traditional hex-and-turn-based, and RTS), some RTS (loved Homeworld, Ground Control, Close Combat, and similar), Civ (class all its own), and some shooters (enjoyed Battlefield 2 in the beginning, Call of Duty). It just seems that too many console games solely reward people who enjoy repetition. It's also probably because I won't play most twitch games long enough to develop any skill, so I'm mostly a noob loser.
In the new crop of consoles, are there some must-have titles that might lead me to reconsider my dislike of consoles?
Arguably, you're right--even if parent was meant as a troll. Only 31 posts on OrangeBadges.com with 121 replies. Not exactly a thriving environment. Sorta surprising that this was considered interesting enough for someone to write an article.
As do I. Thanks, though for your vote of support. It'd keep me from having to perform this sort of notification.
Nope. Sorry, still don't give a rat's ass.
Is this an ad, or have I accidentally loaded GameSpot?
The BEST way? Easy:
Go somewhere Spanish is spoken. Live without English for some time, and you'll quickly pick up the basics as a matter of survival. This is the essence of the exchange programs--immersion. Immersion is the best way to learn a language, bar none.
Last time I checked, TWO ain't a standard. It's a competition.
Hmmm. Did your WIFE tell you this? Are you sure it was just her shoes? Gotta watch those women...
Typical short-sighted liberal claptrap. "We can't even get living on Earth right..." is EXACTLY WHY we have to get off this rock.
Maybe in "Handle Jiggler 2.0" you could increase the maximum jiggling threshold? You've said nothing about the jiggle-rate, I notice? Scared to mention that the competing "JiggleRight" jiggles much, much faster, PLUS is Open-Source?!
My god, a decent person with a constructive reply. You're awesome, man. Wish there were more like you.
Although I made the comment, I'm not sure where I stand on the concept of America as the policeman/moral-authority of the world. Although I'm certainly not an isolationist, I'm not sure that we should nose our way into all the world's problems, either. It seems we go into these things with the best intentions, but our actions are always blundering mistakes.
I do hold a people responsible for the actions of its government, and I do think there are folks who REALLY need help, I'm not sure that there's not some point that you have to recognize that the costs to help them will be too great. It's probably immoral, but is there a point where you just stand back and let people destroy themselves because you are tired of risking your own sons and daughters? How do you teach people to stand up for freedom that they don't seem to understand or want?
I've a lot more thought on this. I need to do some more reading and a lot more writing and re-writing. Thanks for spurring me to action.
I agree. Having done a few myself, it seems that most monolithic tomes that come it have problems making it through the process, generally because the authors are too emotionally invested in their work to accept criticism and editing. That's anathema to the publishing world, where at LEAST three re-writes are the norm. You could get away with it 5 or 6 years ago, when publishers were starving to publish anything and everything tech-related, but that time is long-gone.
How much editing did you get? How far did you get before notification?
Sure, maybe the people aren't--in their heart-of-hearts--supportive of the actions of their governments. I ask, who then, is responsible for the actions of the government? For the very EXISTENCE of the government? If the people are brainwashed, then aren't they then AGENTS of their government? Look, the buck must stop somewhere. Unfortunately, war is terribly imprecise. If your government does something that you don't support, and you do NOTHING to counteract that government, then you are responsible. In the worst case, this means taking up arms (and its why the right to bear them was left in our Bill of Rights). If a population does not control its government, then it MUST be implicated in its government's actions, and therefore held responsible.
This is a personal soapbox issue for me, I admit. Responsibility must extend beyond personal responsibility to the realm of civic responsibility; you must control your government or it will control you. And you WILL be held accountable.
ActionOutline from Green Parrots software. Cheap, cool, and uber-simple. Keeps outlines, allowing notes, links, and whatnot in a WYSIWYG format, plus exportable to various formats. Support your small software vendors!
http://www.greenparrots.com/
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http://www.actionoutline.com/
I've used it for years, and have found competing products to be a little too disorganized. I like outlines, and this product does EXACTLY one thing well--outlines. This is how software should be.
You got me there. I even own an OED, and I didn't look it up. I'll stop correcting the use of NAUSEOUS now. Like I said, though...I'm an irritating ass.
You beat me to it.
I generally correct people (irritating ass that I am) by saying, "You probably mean NAUSEATED. If you feel NAUSEOUS, you're making ME sick."
Sticks pretty well.
Five? Five Black and White games? For god's sake, why? I thought the first iteration was an interesting exercise, and it made for a few good times, but did it and its subsequent add-ons sell enough to warrant a continuation? I suppose the sequel is a given, but planning 4 more seems a bit silly. Kind of like the Duke Nukem sequel...
Translation:
"I'm too pissy to do puzzles. Fuck you all for thinking Python puzzles might be fun."
I did that, too. However, if you optimize your search using Regex searching for [A-Z]{3}([a-z])[A-Z]{3} pattern first (before diving into the other dimensions, printing a status message shows the answer pretty clearly. Still, I should've tried the obvious first. That's probably a learning experience.
This article reads like a book report turned in by a not-so-bright eighth grader. Gad. Just because you can type doesn't mean you should write.
C'est crap.
I just wonder when people will start using the word "effect" again as a noun and "affect" again as a verb instead of the seemingly-all-encompassing "impact." You all sound like a bunch of Republican speech-writers.