I code in Perl for a living. I code in Python and Ruby for fun.
While many languages have excess baggage (like semicolons) simply because their designers didn't want to stray too far from the languages that inspired them, Perl is the only language out there that is made up entirely of this baggage. It's a Frankenstein's Monster of dead language ideas.
Also, Perl, above all other languages I have used, Perl seems to have been been designed with the philosophy "complexity is good." Today, this philosophy is almost universally recognized as being completely backward in the software engineering world.
Perl's criticism is well-deserved. The only real advantages of Perl over the other high level languages in its space are execution speed, availability of skills, and a large module library. It doesn't take a genius to realize that Perl's lead in these areas is shrinking rapidly.
And if you agree that complexity is bad, surely you realize that Perl encourages it, while the other languages do the opposite.
"If drug companies can afford every other Super Bowl commercial, and drug reps can throw money at every doctor and pharmacist in the country, maybe they can afford to sell drugs at reasonable prices to third world countries."
Wow. Again. Your reasoning is stunning. Do you sell herbal medicine or something?
Companies can "afford" to spend money on advertising ONLY because it provides an ROI. Stop and think about that for a while. . . . Get it? Don't think about business decisions in terms of your rich uncle.
Also, an exception to a rule actually DOES prove a rule wrong. That's called "proof by contradiction." It's from this crazy thought-process called "logic."
Did you honestly just suggest that measuring the velocity of an object (by shining a light on it) consumes as much energy as is in a the kinetic energy of a moving massive object? That doesn't pass the laugh test.
Propecia wouldn't cause a baby to be hairy, if that's what you're thinking. Propecia doesn't grow hair. It neutralizes a chemical which causes follicles to shrink and die.
The problem with Propecia and babies is that at very high doses, it also stops the growth of the pituitary gland. The 1mg does is not nearly enough to affect an adult man, but for a fetus made up of a few cells, trace amounts of Propecia could totally screw up that important part of its development.
I have been misdiagnosed many times. Thanks to my ability to do research on the net, I have been able to diagnose medical problems in myself which my doctor missed.
Cases like yours no doubt have prevented some suicides. So, to decide whether ads are worth it, one must weigh the value of those lives against the annoyance of doctors thanks to ad-induced hypochondria.
BTW: can a doctor prescribe psych meds? I thought only shrinks could do that.
If a new drug is invented which is a better treatment for one of your preexisting medical problems, the only way you will get it prescribed is if you KNOW ABOUT IT (from ads) and go in and ask the doctor about it!
it is the doctor's job to know what drugs are available and prescribe them to me.
Wow do you ever miss the point! What these ads do is let people know they need to go to a physician in the first place!
Suppose you have been living with some condition which causes your knees to hurt painfully during every full moon. You asked your doc about it 20 years ago, and there was no cure, so he told you to just live with it and keep off your feet one day per month.
Then a company comes out with a drug that stops that condition. Do you expect your doc to call you at home and say "Guess what?! There's a new drug for your knees!"? No way that will happen. Your doc has so many patients he probably doesn't even think about your knees unless you ask him. And you never ask him at regular checkups because you've already given up on it.
But the drug companies realize this, so they advertise about it on TV. This prompts you to schedule an appointment and ask about this new drug, and finally get over your condition.
PIC is the best. A $2 chip will get you persistent memory, flash reprogrammability, and ADC. But remember: 16F84 is old and busted. 16F88 is the new hotness. It is superior to the 16F84 in every way, and it costs less.
we mere mortals should stick to diving for the closet or under the bed when the parents/jealous hubby/mormons come to the door.
Hide from Mormons? You shouldn't avoid those poor deluded bastards. Spread the good news. Show them the light. Invite them in for spaghetti and convert them to Pastafarianism.
As long as you only use one of the four SATA ports, it works fine. If you use two, and you try to read more than a few gigs into the second drive, your computer will lock up spitting "controller timeout" errors all the way.
This is the 2.6.19 kernel. Tested with several different 500GB drives.
Yeah it works fine as long as you only use ONE of the four SATA ports on it. Use any more and your screen gets flooded with driver errors and locks up!
I have tested this extensively. I compiled the latest kernel from scratch. Apparently being able to use only 1 of your four ports is someone's idea of "works perfectly."
CFL bulbs have a different spectrum from incandescent bulbs. This is what keeps me from using them anywhere but the garage/outdoors. There are also issues of flickering, shape, etc. My house uses Reveal bulbs everywhere people are.
Simply put, CFL and incandescent bulbs are not functionally equivalent. You might as well mandate people use pogosticks instead of cars to get to work; they are both transportation, but the pogo is better for the environment.
What if I drop a nice, salty tortilla chip in to the ocean while on vacation? Won't that increase the salt content of the ocean! Oh know, somebody save the manatees!
I sincerely hope jsepeta was joking and the people who modded this "interesting" were playing along with the joke. Phrases like "when man plays with mother nature" are a dead giveaway that the speaker is either a nut or is making a joke about the half-wits who think in those terms.
Human history is primarily a chronicle of mankind constantly triumphing over nature. Clothes, roads, irrigation, and medicine are all examples of us playing with nature and winning. Do you wear shoes? You're playing with nature!
I've got news for all the undereducated hippies out there: Nature sucks! There have been several mass extinctions before humans had a chance to interfere. Climates change from ocean to desert and vice-versa. Disease ravages populations.
The only way we will be able to prevent another (natural) mass extinction is to master both genetics and climate control. We need to terraform Earth. That is the ultimate goal of playing with nature, it is best for both mankind and for nature.
I worked at a tourist bureau a few years ago. An amazingly fit, yet very old (60-ish) guy came in asking about the town. He said he was doing some kind of canoe trip along the rivers, by himself, for hundreds of miles. I congratulated him, shook his hand, and hoped I could do that when I'm that old.
The next day a body was found washed up on the side of the river.
Listen up old people! Your cardiovascular system will age no matter how well you eat and exercise! Accept that fact and quit doing the extreme sports already!
You think because you, as a home user, don't use business applications, that 99% of people don't? Get a job, hippie.
Half the apps used internally by my (large multi-national) company require Windows. We have many thousands of computers. It is not economically possible to support two major platforms, so we are forced to support only Windows. Because all their customers have Windows, many app vendors only write for Windows. Because so many apps only run on Windows, we only....
I can see that for your first job out of college (as an investment to establish a reputation for being reliable). After that, going in to debt for transportation is going to cause you to fall further behind (at ever-increasing rates) where you could have been. It's like the monkeys that keep hitting the "cocaine" lever instead of the food lever until they starve.
The ONLY debts you should ever take on are those that make you money. Education, margin investing, your own business, and arguably housing--that's it. If you borrow for things like luxury cars, vacations, or TVs, you are officially the bitch of the banking industry.
That's correct. Windows is REQUIRED for many applications due to its MONOPOLY position.
Your Macs can suck it. They are simply not adequate for many applications (due to the consequences of Microsoft's monopoly, not due to technical limitations).
Am I the only one failing to see the damage done here?
When you are bidding against someone, you don't really have to worry about overpaying for a collectible because, if you later want to sell, you know that at least someone out there was willing to pay almost as much as you.
When someone bids on his own stuff, this fraudulently inflates the value of the item because SEEMS to indicate the item is of value to someone else, but it reality it is not.
Additionally, bidding on your own stuff allows you to fraudulently increase your reputation.
This should be banned, and the people who do it should be sued.
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I'm curious: What hosts are you writing for which don't support modern high level languages (without excessive effort)?
I code in Perl for a living. I code in Python and Ruby for fun.
While many languages have excess baggage (like semicolons) simply because their designers didn't want to stray too far from the languages that inspired them, Perl is the only language out there that is made up entirely of this baggage. It's a Frankenstein's Monster of dead language ideas.
Also, Perl, above all other languages I have used, Perl seems to have been been designed with the philosophy "complexity is good." Today, this philosophy is almost universally recognized as being completely backward in the software engineering world.
Perl's criticism is well-deserved. The only real advantages of Perl over the other high level languages in its space are execution speed, availability of skills, and a large module library. It doesn't take a genius to realize that Perl's lead in these areas is shrinking rapidly.
And if you agree that complexity is bad, surely you realize that Perl encourages it, while the other languages do the opposite.
Futurama now comes in suppository form!
"If drug companies can afford every other Super Bowl commercial, and drug reps can throw money at every doctor and pharmacist in the country, maybe they can afford to sell drugs at reasonable prices to third world countries."
Wow. Again. Your reasoning is stunning. Do you sell herbal medicine or something?
Companies can "afford" to spend money on advertising ONLY because it provides an ROI. Stop and think about that for a while. . . . Get it? Don't think about business decisions in terms of your rich uncle.
Also, an exception to a rule actually DOES prove a rule wrong. That's called "proof by contradiction." It's from this crazy thought-process called "logic."
Did you honestly just suggest that measuring the velocity of an object (by shining a light on it) consumes as much energy as is in a the kinetic energy of a moving massive object? That doesn't pass the laugh test.
Propecia wouldn't cause a baby to be hairy, if that's what you're thinking. Propecia doesn't grow hair. It neutralizes a chemical which causes follicles to shrink and die.
The problem with Propecia and babies is that at very high doses, it also stops the growth of the pituitary gland. The 1mg does is not nearly enough to affect an adult man, but for a fetus made up of a few cells, trace amounts of Propecia could totally screw up that important part of its development.
I have been misdiagnosed many times. Thanks to my ability to do research on the net, I have been able to diagnose medical problems in myself which my doctor missed.
So my point is.... you're just wrong.
Cases like yours no doubt have prevented some suicides. So, to decide whether ads are worth it, one must weigh the value of those lives against the annoyance of doctors thanks to ad-induced hypochondria.
BTW: can a doctor prescribe psych meds? I thought only shrinks could do that.
That's funny.
If a new drug is invented which is a better treatment for one of your preexisting medical problems, the only way you will get it prescribed is if you KNOW ABOUT IT (from ads) and go in and ask the doctor about it!
Suppose you have been living with some condition which causes your knees to hurt painfully during every full moon. You asked your doc about it 20 years ago, and there was no cure, so he told you to just live with it and keep off your feet one day per month.
Then a company comes out with a drug that stops that condition. Do you expect your doc to call you at home and say "Guess what?! There's a new drug for your knees!"? No way that will happen. Your doc has so many patients he probably doesn't even think about your knees unless you ask him. And you never ask him at regular checkups because you've already given up on it.
But the drug companies realize this, so they advertise about it on TV. This prompts you to schedule an appointment and ask about this new drug, and finally get over your condition.
Advertising is a good thing.
PIC is the best. A $2 chip will get you persistent memory, flash reprogrammability, and ADC. But remember: 16F84 is old and busted. 16F88 is the new hotness. It is superior to the 16F84 in every way, and it costs less.
Also, Microchip will give you PICs for free!
As long as you only use one of the four SATA ports, it works fine. If you use two, and you try to read more than a few gigs into the second drive, your computer will lock up spitting "controller timeout" errors all the way.
This is the 2.6.19 kernel. Tested with several different 500GB drives.
Yeah it works fine as long as you only use ONE of the four SATA ports on it. Use any more and your screen gets flooded with driver errors and locks up!
I have tested this extensively. I compiled the latest kernel from scratch. Apparently being able to use only 1 of your four ports is someone's idea of "works perfectly."
CFL bulbs have a different spectrum from incandescent bulbs. This is what keeps me from using them anywhere but the garage/outdoors. There are also issues of flickering, shape, etc. My house uses Reveal bulbs everywhere people are.
Simply put, CFL and incandescent bulbs are not functionally equivalent. You might as well mandate people use pogosticks instead of cars to get to work; they are both transportation, but the pogo is better for the environment.
I can run it on a PS3, but I still can't run it on an Asus A8V motherboard, because there are no working drivers for the onboard SATA controller. Boo.
What if I drop a nice, salty tortilla chip in to the ocean while on vacation? Won't that increase the salt content of the ocean! Oh know, somebody save the manatees!
I sincerely hope jsepeta was joking and the people who modded this "interesting" were playing along with the joke. Phrases like "when man plays with mother nature" are a dead giveaway that the speaker is either a nut or is making a joke about the half-wits who think in those terms.
Human history is primarily a chronicle of mankind constantly triumphing over nature. Clothes, roads, irrigation, and medicine are all examples of us playing with nature and winning. Do you wear shoes? You're playing with nature!
I've got news for all the undereducated hippies out there: Nature sucks! There have been several mass extinctions before humans had a chance to interfere. Climates change from ocean to desert and vice-versa. Disease ravages populations.
The only way we will be able to prevent another (natural) mass extinction is to master both genetics and climate control. We need to terraform Earth. That is the ultimate goal of playing with nature, it is best for both mankind and for nature.
It sounds like the guy was (hopefully is) a scientist. The loss of a scientist is a big loss to humanity as a whole.
I worked at a tourist bureau a few years ago. An amazingly fit, yet very old (60-ish) guy came in asking about the town. He said he was doing some kind of canoe trip along the rivers, by himself, for hundreds of miles. I congratulated him, shook his hand, and hoped I could do that when I'm that old.
The next day a body was found washed up on the side of the river.
Listen up old people! Your cardiovascular system will age no matter how well you eat and exercise! Accept that fact and quit doing the extreme sports already!
"the APPLICATION DEVELOPERS chose not to write cross-platform software" due to the economic realities of Microsoft's MONOPOLY position.
You think because you, as a home user, don't use business applications, that 99% of people don't? Get a job, hippie.
Half the apps used internally by my (large multi-national) company require Windows. We have many thousands of computers. It is not economically possible to support two major platforms, so we are forced to support only Windows. Because all their customers have Windows, many app vendors only write for Windows. Because so many apps only run on Windows, we only....
get it?
That's monopoly lock-in.
I can see that for your first job out of college (as an investment to establish a reputation for being reliable). After that, going in to debt for transportation is going to cause you to fall further behind (at ever-increasing rates) where you could have been. It's like the monkeys that keep hitting the "cocaine" lever instead of the food lever until they starve.
The ONLY debts you should ever take on are those that make you money. Education, margin investing, your own business, and arguably housing--that's it. If you borrow for things like luxury cars, vacations, or TVs, you are officially the bitch of the banking industry.
That's correct. Windows is REQUIRED for many applications due to its MONOPOLY position.
Your Macs can suck it. They are simply not adequate for many applications (due to the consequences of Microsoft's monopoly, not due to technical limitations).
When someone bids on his own stuff, this fraudulently inflates the value of the item because SEEMS to indicate the item is of value to someone else, but it reality it is not.
Additionally, bidding on your own stuff allows you to fraudulently increase your reputation.
This should be banned, and the people who do it should be sued.