From what little I know about Danish politics (gleaned from Borgen, and from a nice lady who gave us a walking tour of Copenhagen, including Folketing) - the many parties have drifted so far from their original positions over time, that the names of parties are essentially meaningless.
Meanwhile this doesn't just affect the thousands of people directly employed by ERT, and their families. It affects every drugstore, cafe, grocery those people shop at; their landlords and mortgage lenders. Sizeable local economies build up around a big employer like that, and that one has been wrecked in one fell swoop.
When you're poor, stop spending money on non-essentials.
That's common sense when you're talking about an individual, or a household. The problem is that that people extrapolate that to whole economies, or governments.
Money goes around in loops. At the level of a household, the loops have little significance. If you spend $10 on a movie ticket, that money's spent, and the route that connects it to your next piece of income is so long that it has no bearing on your decisions. At that scale, you might as well think of spending as a sink, and earning as an unending source.
But at the level of corporate and government spending, the loops are very significant. Pay 1000 roadworkers $20,000 dollars each, that money will go into a chain of transactions, most of which are taxed, keeping dozens of people in work.
*Don't* employ those 1000 roadworkers, and they'll spend less, slowing down the entire economy.
A proper meat eater isn't put off by blood and gore.
I've eaten pig in the farmhouse next to which it was raised, and let me tell you, we enjoyed it all the more for knowing exactly where it had come from.
Yes, it's cultural and conditioned, and if we'd been brought up eating insects we might find the idea of grasshopper mouth-watering. However, most of us were not.
Why on earth would you need a website for what ought to be a simple RSS reader?
It feels neater architecturally. If 1000 people use a desktop RSS reader set to poll every 5 minutes, the feed gets 1000 hits every 5 minutes. If they all use a service like Reader (and it's sensibly written) then the feed gets one hit every 5 minutes.
It has the convenience of giving you all your items, with your unread flags up-to-date, wherever you're reading (home, work, mobile,...).
It empowers the provider to generate good "people who liked this also liked..." recommendations -- whether you find that useful, scary or both.
I follow over 60 sites. If I could manually check each one in 5 seconds, it would take me 5 minutes - not counting the actual reading. With a "freaking 24/7/365 watchbot", that's down to, essentially, zero.
Now, of course, it would be even quicker to go cold turkey and drop all those blogs. I don't want to do that; why should I?
This might be competitive cost wise. Soy is fine, but tempeh is just inedible. People do not need a lot of things to live, but what is wrong with eating insects?
I find it strange that you call tempeh (which is, by the way, made of soy) inedible, but you feel you could stomach insects.
Of course it's subjective, but I find tempeh pretty easy to enjoy, whereas I can can see how tofu is an acquired taste.
Whole insects - that turns my stomach. Something I know to be ground-up insects, also turns my stomach. I can handle small amounts of insect matter as an additive (e.g. cochineal) or a contaminant. Yeah, I'd give it a go - I've eaten all sorts of things to be macho - but I'd rather go vegetarian than make insects a staple.
Some of my feeds update several times a day, and yes, it would be OK to just check back regularly.
Other feeds update irregularly, sometimes with weeks or months between updates. I still want to see those updates, and I want to see them reasonably promptly. It's dumb not to automate the checking of those sites, and RSS is the rational way to achieve it.
Not if you paste the ciphertext into your mail program. Then it doesn't matter what the mail program does.
Not if you (or someone you trust) have examined the source code for your mail program, and you trust that it's been honestly compiled from that source. I am not paranoid enough to believe that my copies of Elm or Thunderbird have NSA backdoors.
However, I continue to use GMail, because although I understand and accept the issues, it's too damn convenient just to keep using what I've used for the last 10 years.
You need to be very fussy indeed, to find issues with the emulation of Galaga, Pac Man etc. on Raspberry Pi - class CPUs.
Yes, some people demand stuff like the frame rate dropping at exactly the right moment, but the vast majority of people - even arcade enthusiasts - won't notice.
The problem with putting a Raspberry Pi in an arcade cabinet is that AFAIK nobody's found a clean way to drive a 15Khz RGB monitor from a Pi.
The closest I've seen is through two gadgets - an HDMI -> VGA convertor, then a 31KHz -> 15Khz downscaler. Yuk.
Lots of people replace the CRT monitors in their cabs with modern monitors. I think that detracts noticeably from the experience. Games like Galaga are designed so the sprites benefit from the scanlines, and the animation benefits from persistence trails.
I have a "60-in-one JAMMA card" in my cabinet. It's legally very dubious - the ROMS themselves aren't cleared, and I'm pretty sure it's a fork of MAME that violates their license. But it does exactly what I want, easily and cheaply. It's an ARM CPU and a few other chips on a board the size of a paperback. It's nice to play portrait aspect-ratio games on a vertical monitor.
An indie record label is one that's not owned/controlled by a major corporation. If its records are stocked by HMV, or Amazon, the label is no less independent.
By analogy, if an indie games developer gets their product stocked by a corporate retailer, that doesn't stop them being an indie developer.
It never STAYS that way. It almost always meanders into being a bit to a lot more than what it's "supposed" to be. Yes, if you've seen this, you've not encountered a "proper" agile process standup. The thing is...it's impossible, due to human nature, to accomplish the "proper" meeting
It's not impossible. It just takes some discipline. Someone should be in charge of the standup meeting, and should mercilessly cut short that kind of conversation. "Guys, don't go into detail on the standup. Get together afterwards. Next person?".
A mature agile team will get used to the conventions, and won't need telling.
Not a strawman - if you simply discuss issues as they arise, then what's the point of having dailies?
Because sometimes you'll say "I'm coding up a widget to foo bars", and a colleague will say "oh, I wrote one of those a couple of years ago, you can use mine or I can help you with the issues". Or "I'm going to need to foo bars from my component, make sure it handles baz".
I frequently get irritating situations where I think "well, why did nobody tell me they were doing X, or looking for Y, months ago". Standups are intended to fix that.
People who roll their eyes at the phrase "design pattern" irritate me. There's nothing wacky about noticing effective ways people have solved a problem in the past, and giving those patterns names so that they can be efficiently referred to.
Yeah, a friend of mine (since married with two kids, to a woman he met on a dating site), went to meet someone he'd been talking to on the site. It was immediately clear that she'd lied about her physical appearance, her job, and a number of other things.
Her actual physical appearance, and job, would not have been a problem for him. That she had lied, was game over.
When I was "doing" online dating, I took the view that meeting up should be done pretty early on. Two weeks of chatting online, maximum, before meeting for a coffee, or a meal, or whatever.
Why:
- If they don't want to meet in person, they're timewasters. It may not be their fault -- but this is going nowhere. Feel free to keep talking to them online, if it gives you pleasure, but expect no more to come of it.
- Only by meeting up, can you establish whether there's a real mutual attraction. If there's none, you might continue to be friends anyway. But if romance isn't on the cards, it's worth knowing early.
- It's nerve jangling, but it's fun!
If you're morbidly obese, then quite separate from wanting companionship, you should do something about it. Seriously. But I expect you know that.
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From what little I know about Danish politics (gleaned from Borgen, and from a nice lady who gave us a walking tour of Copenhagen, including Folketing) - the many parties have drifted so far from their original positions over time, that the names of parties are essentially meaningless.
Meanwhile this doesn't just affect the thousands of people directly employed by ERT, and their families. It affects every drugstore, cafe, grocery those people shop at; their landlords and mortgage lenders. Sizeable local economies build up around a big employer like that, and that one has been wrecked in one fell swoop.
When you're poor, stop spending money on non-essentials.
That's common sense when you're talking about an individual, or a household. The problem is that that people extrapolate that to whole economies, or governments.
Money goes around in loops. At the level of a household, the loops have little significance. If you spend $10 on a movie ticket, that money's spent, and the route that connects it to your next piece of income is so long that it has no bearing on your decisions. At that scale, you might as well think of spending as a sink, and earning as an unending source.
But at the level of corporate and government spending, the loops are very significant. Pay 1000 roadworkers $20,000 dollars each, that money will go into a chain of transactions, most of which are taxed, keeping dozens of people in work.
*Don't* employ those 1000 roadworkers, and they'll spend less, slowing down the entire economy.
Fine, but you must surely recognise that both of those things put you in a minority.
Most people like peanuts. Most (in the "developed" world, at least), are grossed out by the idea of eating insects.
A proper meat eater isn't put off by blood and gore.
I've eaten pig in the farmhouse next to which it was raised, and let me tell you, we enjoyed it all the more for knowing exactly where it had come from.
Yes, it's cultural and conditioned, and if we'd been brought up eating insects we might find the idea of grasshopper mouth-watering. However, most of us were not.
In the immortal words of Ben Elton (before he lost his cool).
"But I'm *sensitive* and I *love you*... so *please* stick a bit of barbed wire in your fanny"
Why on earth would you need a website for what ought to be a simple RSS reader?
It feels neater architecturally. If 1000 people use a desktop RSS reader set to poll every 5 minutes, the feed gets 1000 hits every 5 minutes. If they all use a service like Reader (and it's sensibly written) then the feed gets one hit every 5 minutes.
It has the convenience of giving you all your items, with your unread flags up-to-date, wherever you're reading (home, work, mobile, ...).
It empowers the provider to generate good "people who liked this also liked..." recommendations -- whether you find that useful, scary or both.
That's great if you're only interested in 4 sites. What if you're interested in 60?
I follow over 60 sites. If I could manually check each one in 5 seconds, it would take me 5 minutes - not counting the actual reading. With a "freaking 24/7/365 watchbot", that's down to, essentially, zero.
Now, of course, it would be even quicker to go cold turkey and drop all those blogs. I don't want to do that; why should I?
This might be competitive cost wise.
Soy is fine, but tempeh is just inedible. People do not need a lot of things to live, but what is wrong with eating insects?
I find it strange that you call tempeh (which is, by the way, made of soy) inedible, but you feel you could stomach insects.
Of course it's subjective, but I find tempeh pretty easy to enjoy, whereas I can can see how tofu is an acquired taste.
Whole insects - that turns my stomach. Something I know to be ground-up insects, also turns my stomach. I can handle small amounts of insect matter as an additive (e.g. cochineal) or a contaminant. Yeah, I'd give it a go - I've eaten all sorts of things to be macho - but I'd rather go vegetarian than make insects a staple.
This isn't sufficient.
Some of my feeds update several times a day, and yes, it would be OK to just check back regularly.
Other feeds update irregularly, sometimes with weeks or months between updates. I still want to see those updates, and I want to see them reasonably promptly. It's dumb not to automate the checking of those sites, and RSS is the rational way to achieve it.
Not if you paste the ciphertext into your mail program. Then it doesn't matter what the mail program does.
Not if you (or someone you trust) have examined the source code for your mail program, and you trust that it's been honestly compiled from that source. I am not paranoid enough to believe that my copies of Elm or Thunderbird have NSA backdoors.
However, I continue to use GMail, because although I understand and accept the issues, it's too damn convenient just to keep using what I've used for the last 10 years.
You need to be very fussy indeed, to find issues with the emulation of Galaga, Pac Man etc. on Raspberry Pi - class CPUs.
Yes, some people demand stuff like the frame rate dropping at exactly the right moment, but the vast majority of people - even arcade enthusiasts - won't notice.
The problem with putting a Raspberry Pi in an arcade cabinet is that AFAIK nobody's found a clean way to drive a 15Khz RGB monitor from a Pi.
The closest I've seen is through two gadgets - an HDMI -> VGA convertor, then a 31KHz -> 15Khz downscaler. Yuk.
Lots of people replace the CRT monitors in their cabs with modern monitors. I think that detracts noticeably from the experience. Games like Galaga are designed so the sprites benefit from the scanlines, and the animation benefits from persistence trails.
I have a "60-in-one JAMMA card" in my cabinet. It's legally very dubious - the ROMS themselves aren't cleared, and I'm pretty sure it's a fork of MAME that violates their license. But it does exactly what I want, easily and cheaply. It's an ARM CPU and a few other chips on a board the size of a paperback. It's nice to play portrait aspect-ratio games on a vertical monitor.
I didn't check past the first two, but Mark of the Ninja and The Cave are both written by indie developers, and published by large publishers.
Although Double Fine might be getting too big to count; as if Creation was an "indie" record label when Oasis were at peak popularity.
The first product I became aware of through this service, was a bundle of Double Fine games. Not humble. But a bundle.
Pretty good too, $9.99 for Brutal Legend, The Cave and a bunch more.
I already own The Cave, and thoroughly recommend it to anyone who enjoyed Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle etc.
An indie record label is one that's not owned/controlled by a major corporation. If its records are stocked by HMV, or Amazon, the label is no less independent.
By analogy, if an indie games developer gets their product stocked by a corporate retailer, that doesn't stop them being an indie developer.
Godwin's law states:
"As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1."
So, far from violating it, GP demonstrates Godwin's law. Faster than usual, but that's probability for you.
It never STAYS that way. It almost always meanders into being a bit to a lot more than what it's "supposed" to be. Yes, if you've seen this, you've not encountered a "proper" agile process standup. The thing is...it's impossible, due to human nature, to accomplish the "proper" meeting
It's not impossible. It just takes some discipline. Someone should be in charge of the standup meeting, and should mercilessly cut short that kind of conversation. "Guys, don't go into detail on the standup. Get together afterwards. Next person?".
A mature agile team will get used to the conventions, and won't need telling.
Not a strawman - if you simply discuss issues as they arise, then what's the point of having dailies?
Because sometimes you'll say "I'm coding up a widget to foo bars", and a colleague will say "oh, I wrote one of those a couple of years ago, you can use mine or I can help you with the issues". Or "I'm going to need to foo bars from my component, make sure it handles baz".
I frequently get irritating situations where I think "well, why did nobody tell me they were doing X, or looking for Y, months ago". Standups are intended to fix that.
As much as I hate the buzzword "design patterns",
The title of an 18 year old book is a "buzzword"?
People who roll their eyes at the phrase "design pattern" irritate me. There's nothing wacky about noticing effective ways people have solved a problem in the past, and giving those patterns names so that they can be efficiently referred to.
Yeah, a friend of mine (since married with two kids, to a woman he met on a dating site), went to meet someone he'd been talking to on the site. It was immediately clear that she'd lied about her physical appearance, her job, and a number of other things.
Her actual physical appearance, and job, would not have been a problem for him. That she had lied, was game over.
Well, if staying comfortable was the aim, then you'd have a point.
One disadvantage of covering every topic under the sun before meeting in person, is that they're all useful fillers for uncomfortable silences!
if the one you've set up a date with turns out to be a lesbian dolphin trainer?
AWESOME!
But surely after 10 years, "how you met" has faded into insignificance, compared with all the other factors that strengthen or weaken the marriage.
When I was "doing" online dating, I took the view that meeting up should be done pretty early on. Two weeks of chatting online, maximum, before meeting for a coffee, or a meal, or whatever.
Why:
- If they don't want to meet in person, they're timewasters. It may not be their fault -- but this is going nowhere. Feel free to keep talking to them online, if it gives you pleasure, but expect no more to come of it.
- Only by meeting up, can you establish whether there's a real mutual attraction. If there's none, you might continue to be friends anyway. But if romance isn't on the cards, it's worth knowing early.
- It's nerve jangling, but it's fun!
If you're morbidly obese, then quite separate from wanting companionship, you should do something about it. Seriously. But I expect you know that.