FLOSS can simply reject code that's not up to standard. If someone on your team turns in shitty code you can't always just not use it.
Why not? If they're not worried about quality of code why not just outsource the entire project to some random company whose "proposals" fill their email spam filters?
Re:Maybe for the English, but what about the world
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We Americans write it that way because that's the way we say it.
Compare:
"Today is March fourteenth."
"Today is the fourteenth of March."
Four words are more efficient that six words, and it just sounds more natural in speech.
Real life example:
Q. What's the date?
A. The 14th.
P.S. The USA is not the world, and time might be a concept but...
In her case I introduced her to Lynx (tab key navigation) and elinks for browsing, hotkeys (Home, Ctrl+Home, End, Ctrl+End) for editing and reading, and a large "scrollball" for mouse control. As her condition deteriorated her son built her a custom keyboard - a modified keyboard for the vision impaired (large buttons) with the number pad removed and a large, custom, hotkey pad in it's place.
At some point we plan to change to screen reading and speech recognition as she has issues seeing when she can't control her head movements - based on Klaus Knopper's Ariadne (Knoppix is already based on Debian).
Racism is fucking racism. If you're going to call it out don't get selective about it.
Racial discrimination - like "that white bloke" (two for the price of one! sexual discrimination), or Racial bigotry - like "that uppity nigger"?
'cos "discrimination" is Bad (m'kay)
I'm told colour discrimination is bad - but it's easier to find my car when I employ it. I don't believe the colour of my car is superior to other cars - that would be stupid. (ya no wat I meen, roight?)
First you try and associate what I've written as being pro-"feminist", then you infere I'm a chauvanist - reality is clearly not a friend of yours. Sadly part of the price of evolution is knowing there are people like you every five metres on average. Stop being a dickhead - if you move that tiny sac to one side you might be able to see the world as it really is. No matter, if your "viewpoint" has any genetic basis it's destined to die out very soon. In the meantime keep humming that Cake song - they wrote it with you in mind.
To whoever moderated my comment, why assume someone with the opposite opinion to you is a troll? How childish.
Agreed. It should have been moderated flamebait. What Slashdot needs is an "extremely stupid" to cover the contextually bullshit posts like yours.
There is a feminist movement? (i.e. a common agenda?)
The Feminist movement" (this one bookian fantasy you have) is "all about" equality?
The answer to all those questions - just as the answer to the question "are all men equal?" or "is equality possible?" - is no. Simple answers are for simpletons and serve only to justify the agenda of shockjocks and other scumbags.
Any time I read "they" I can be fairly certain someone is selling a confirmation bias. Jokes are funny, group think is not - and it's always bullshit whether gender, racial, or cultural. Bullshit when "representatives" tell it. i.e. "we [insert bullshit group think] believe", and bullshit when their "opposition" tell it i.e. "the whole [insert bullshit group think] is....". Don't suffer from confirmation bias? Test it then by inserting Baptist, Republican, Greenie, Marxist, Greek, Men, Skaters, etc as the group think - then try finding any three of the them, interviewed seperately, who agree on any ten points (not that you won't find more than 10 points they don't agree on)
The whole anti-feminist movement is bullshit they only want women to act [insert fantasy here] when it suits them
Apropos of little - the synonym for simple is stupid, and evolution isn't horizontal
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration" ~ Edsger W. Dijkstra
1975 called and they want their very out of date quotes back.
And you're still banging the BASIC is good - oh, look it's now in 256 colours drum? I guess in your fanboi haste you missed where I linked to the Wikipedia page on BASIC - but don't let it stop you from spewing realms of your BASIC trivia creds (you forgot the beauty and joys of VisualBASIC). BASIC has new features and Barbie does IT. Grow up and eat your own dog food - 'cause 1988 wants BASIC back (and it can keep it). Maybe try getting children interested in any version of BASIC when they can choose from modern scripted languages (call it - testing your beliefs, I have and I know the answer). Unless you're committed to the 90's (the high point of your life?) when music was good, and Linux and life was simple (for simple people in a land of lollipops and unicorns).
I believe they're both involved, but the two sites (discowhatevah and pixelwitches) both give Mel as the contact.
I remember Mel, kind of full-on (shades of Christopher Skase) - she's the does the thinking and talking. Pixelwitches how, um, original.
"those that can do, and those that can't, teach". i.e. advertise your WordPress version, don't keep it up-to-date, use images where ever possible instead of pesky text, alt tags are for wimps, CSS means make shit up - maybe it'll parse [sigh]. I'm guessing "select" contract work means "if you're gullible".
Dear Slashdot, please do my homework - I've got a killer idea for PixelCamps (low-resolution only), should make a million. Point me at a training program I can scrape for my next arts grant application.
Strange that PixelWichrrs don't list a portfolio Cough
It's TURTLES all the way down? (SMALLTALK). I started with COBOL because PCs weren't around then, then BASIC when IBM released the PS/2 - because TURTLE wasn't around. All my kids started with TURTLE (none are programmers, but they can program in a multitude of languages), and my grandkids with Python.
tl:dr? BASIC sucks badly for teaching children anything but an aversion to thinking like a programmer - it was good when it was the only quick entry to programming. Which is probably why it's Bill Gates only claim to being a programmer (and even then it was done in a locked room with another programmer. DONKEY.BAS. Konzen wrote the code, Gates made it look crappy)
I wasn't sure if it was Melody, or her partner April. I know 'of' them (I have a voluntary position on a community funding body, so I've seen previous "software" by them) - so I chose my words carefully when describing the "market", the nature of some (many?) of those trying to, um, mine it - and what I'd want to see before I'd vote in favour of funding it. Melody(?) has previously promoted this latest 'project' on/. celebrating 1000 downloads (by who?).
Whois showed the current registration was recent , hence my comment about, um, young code.
He's technically correct. Anywhere where there are dark skinned people, there's going to be trouble. That's because anywhere where there are people, there's going to be trouble.
But... if you're white, the problem is people with different skin colour. [mumbles] something about the accumulation of power leading to paranoia and justified guilt - the less competition you have the more you fear it [mumble] the pure and simple truth....
It should be said that women in India are often EXTREMELY hostile and manipulative toward men.
The justification of arseholes and one-bookians with dicks the whole world over. The real reason you hate women is fear and ignorance. Fear that you won't get laid (which is true while you hold those opinions for those reasons) and ignorance as to why you won't get laid (because you refuse to learn anything).
Cue the tire cliches about how "women" only want men who are arseholes (then how come you don't get laid every hour?); they only want "providers" and push the evolutionary psychology line (and ignore a women's right to not become pregnant, which negates that theory); the pathetic truths are that you marginalized yourself with your confirmation bias, and, the caliphate/baptists are recruiting large numbers.
While your saving the world idea sounds exciting, it won't appeal to a large segment of your audience. Give them a choice of some other options, maybe something more social.
It is/. - tell us about the code and who wrote it.
Fix those point and you'll have a product that stands head and shoulders against the competition. Which isn't hard - most of the edutainment market is utter crap (I work with a large number of schools that buy utter shit on the basis of "social-networking" merit points) Until then it 'seems' like you (Melody and Anne?) are just spamming Slashdot to promote a 2 month old project.
Not that the idea isn't without merit - it's just that the "edutainment" market is overcrowded with "outsourced" get-rich-quick, all-froth-(and social marketing) and-no-beer closed-source schemes knocked-up-in-an-afternoon that leave a trail of broken promises in schools already hard pressed to do the bare minimum with their tiny budgets
Good luck
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration" ~ Edsger W. Dijkstra
Email the CEO, keep the body of the email short and simple enough for an IT illiterate to undestand the problem. Don't worry him/her about the consequences of the problem. Be sure to use a click bait subject line (they're probably very busy) e.g. Your account details for account [their bank account number] are attached.
Don't forget to attach their bank account details
Oh - and don't do any of this from your computer - or via your internet connection. And don't expect credit, just that the problem will be rapidly fixed - which is what you want, right?
...but one thing is clear both in reality and in that comic book, that there was no doubt the person with the skull for a face was the punisher.
Are you sure? Or is this like arguing about hobbits? I'd have thought in reality there would be no doubt the person with the skull for a face was someone wearing a punisher suit..
Are you not concerned about the anti-sexual religious morality police that create such an aura of shame and disgust around sex?
While I have no doubt that what he was doing was unethical, I have more of a problem with the fact that society chooses to stigmatise sexuality. A picture of your dick or your pussy should be no more of a problem than a picture of your face. In a healthy community, this would be little more than a personal data protection matter.
I read the offence to be about posting the name and contact details and the images.
I guess it's hard for an anonymous coward to grasp the difference between that and "shame about sex" - or even "personal choice".
In a perfect world we could safely store our beer on the front porch and walk anywhere, any time, without attracting unwanted attention - but the world ain't perfect. e.g. I don't want to see you waddling around with your micro dick exposed - could cause eye damage. When you have a "right" to wander the streets naked I hope I retain the "right" to find you repulsive and smack you on the pee pee but good. Until then - have you heard of nudist farms?
Oh wait... you don't have "right" to show your pimply arse in public, or have sex with dogs. What a morally uptight, context blind world we live in.
no, its really not. give the banks protection from the people who use their services. meaning dont hold the banks responsible for the actions of the acct holder. banks should be like common carriers
Where do you find that reference in this article? It references a number of studies from different sources, which one is "the nuclear power industry"?
And... where did the click-bait headline "we stopped at two bombs" come from!? Who's "we", and W(here)TF was it "stopped" at two bombs. Certainly not Alaska, Muaroa... Japan?
I'm guessing it's a missprint. Should of been "we (cant' handle our drugs/inner realities) stopped at two bongs. Which is where they stopped reading. What were they smoking? Not the kind herb.
Should of stopped about two metres from the keyboard. And had twenty bongs of the kind.
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FLOSS can simply reject code that's not up to standard. If someone on your team turns in shitty code you can't always just not use it.
Why not? If they're not worried about quality of code why not just outsource the entire project to some random company whose "proposals" fill their email spam filters?
We Americans write it that way because that's the way we say it. Compare: "Today is March fourteenth." "Today is the fourteenth of March." Four words are more efficient that six words, and it just sounds more natural in speech.
Real life example:
P.S. The USA is not the world, and time might be a concept but...
In her case I introduced her to Lynx (tab key navigation) and elinks for browsing, hotkeys (Home, Ctrl+Home, End, Ctrl+End) for editing and reading, and a large "scrollball" for mouse control. As her condition deteriorated her son built her a custom keyboard - a modified keyboard for the vision impaired (large buttons) with the number pad removed and a large, custom, hotkey pad in it's place.
At some point we plan to change to screen reading and speech recognition as she has issues seeing when she can't control her head movements - based on Klaus Knopper's Ariadne (Knoppix is already based on Debian).
Racism is fucking racism. If you're going to call it out don't get selective about it.
Racial discrimination - like "that white bloke" (two for the price of one! sexual discrimination), or Racial bigotry - like "that uppity nigger"?
'cos "discrimination" is Bad (m'kay)
I'm told colour discrimination is bad - but it's easier to find my car when I employ it. I don't believe the colour of my car is superior to other cars - that would be stupid. (ya no wat I meen, roight?)
Stop standing up for the weaker stupider sex.
First you try and associate what I've written as being pro-"feminist", then you infere I'm a chauvanist - reality is clearly not a friend of yours. Sadly part of the price of evolution is knowing there are people like you every five metres on average. Stop being a dickhead - if you move that tiny sac to one side you might be able to see the world as it really is. No matter, if your "viewpoint" has any genetic basis it's destined to die out very soon. In the meantime keep humming that Cake song - they wrote it with you in mind.
Don't take that the wrong way Chav.
To whoever moderated my comment, why assume someone with the opposite opinion to you is a troll? How childish.
Agreed. It should have been moderated flamebait. What Slashdot needs is an "extremely stupid" to cover the contextually bullshit posts like yours.
There is a feminist movement? (i.e. a common agenda?)
The Feminist movement" (this one bookian fantasy you have) is "all about" equality?
The answer to all those questions - just as the answer to the question "are all men equal?" or "is equality possible?" - is no. Simple answers are for simpletons and serve only to justify the agenda of shockjocks and other scumbags.
Any time I read "they" I can be fairly certain someone is selling a confirmation bias. Jokes are funny, group think is not - and it's always bullshit whether gender, racial, or cultural. Bullshit when "representatives" tell it. i.e. "we [insert bullshit group think] believe", and bullshit when their "opposition" tell it i.e. "the whole [insert bullshit group think] is....". Don't suffer from confirmation bias? Test it then by inserting Baptist, Republican, Greenie, Marxist, Greek, Men, Skaters, etc as the group think - then try finding any three of the them, interviewed seperately, who agree on any ten points (not that you won't find more than 10 points they don't agree on)
The whole anti-feminist movement is bullshit they only want women to act [insert fantasy here] when it suits them
Apropos of little - the synonym for simple is stupid, and evolution isn't horizontal
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration" ~ Edsger W. Dijkstra
1975 called and they want their very out of date quotes back.
And you're still banging the BASIC is good - oh, look it's now in 256 colours drum? I guess in your fanboi haste you missed where I linked to the Wikipedia page on BASIC - but don't let it stop you from spewing realms of your BASIC trivia creds (you forgot the beauty and joys of VisualBASIC). BASIC has new features and Barbie does IT. Grow up and eat your own dog food - 'cause 1988 wants BASIC back (and it can keep it). Maybe try getting children interested in any version of BASIC when they can choose from modern scripted languages (call it - testing your beliefs, I have and I know the answer). Unless you're committed to the 90's (the high point of your life?) when music was good, and Linux and life was simple (for simple people in a land of lollipops and unicorns).
I believe they're both involved, but the two sites (discowhatevah and pixelwitches) both give Mel as the contact.
I remember Mel, kind of full-on (shades of Christopher Skase) - she's the does the thinking and talking. Pixelwitches how, um, original.
"those that can do, and those that can't, teach". i.e. advertise your WordPress version, don't keep it up-to-date, use images where ever possible instead of pesky text, alt tags are for wimps, CSS means make shit up - maybe it'll parse [sigh]. I'm guessing "select" contract work means "if you're gullible".
Dear Slashdot, please do my homework - I've got a killer idea for PixelCamps (low-resolution only), should make a million. Point me at a training program I can scrape for my next arts grant application.
Strange that PixelWichrrs don't list a portfolio Cough
I've seen worse. I'll stop now.
BASIC is just the ultimate bad language.
It's TURTLES all the way down? (SMALLTALK). I started with COBOL because PCs weren't around then, then BASIC when IBM released the PS/2 - because TURTLE wasn't around. All my kids started with TURTLE (none are programmers, but they can program in a multitude of languages), and my grandkids with Python.
tl:dr? BASIC sucks badly for teaching children anything but an aversion to thinking like a programmer - it was good when it was the only quick entry to programming. Which is probably why it's Bill Gates only claim to being a programmer (and even then it was done in a locked room with another programmer. DONKEY.BAS. Konzen wrote the code, Gates made it look crappy)
It's Melody Ayres-Griffiths.
I wasn't sure if it was Melody, or her partner April. I know 'of' them (I have a voluntary position on a community funding body, so I've seen previous "software" by them) - so I chose my words carefully when describing the "market", the nature of some (many?) of those trying to, um, mine it - and what I'd want to see before I'd vote in favour of funding it. Melody(?) has previously promoted this latest 'project' on /. celebrating 1000 downloads (by who?).
Whois showed the current registration was recent , hence my comment about, um, young code.
DiscoRunner is different because:-
Yes, I'm a jaded cynic (and Australian).
He's technically correct. Anywhere where there are dark skinned people, there's going to be trouble. That's because anywhere where there are people, there's going to be trouble.
But... if you're white, the problem is people with different skin colour. [mumbles] something about the accumulation of power leading to paranoia and justified guilt - the less competition you have the more you fear it [mumble] the pure and simple truth....
It should be said that women in India are often EXTREMELY hostile and manipulative toward men.
The justification of arseholes and one-bookians with dicks the whole world over. The real reason you hate women is fear and ignorance. Fear that you won't get laid (which is true while you hold those opinions for those reasons) and ignorance as to why you won't get laid (because you refuse to learn anything).
Cue the tire cliches about how "women" only want men who are arseholes (then how come you don't get laid every hour?); they only want "providers" and push the evolutionary psychology line (and ignore a women's right to not become pregnant, which negates that theory); the pathetic truths are that you marginalized yourself with your confirmation bias, and, the caliphate/baptists are recruiting large numbers.
While your saving the world idea sounds exciting, it won't appeal to a large segment of your audience. Give them a choice of some other options, maybe something more social.
Perhaps - before you even attempt that:-
Fix those point and you'll have a product that stands head and shoulders against the competition. Which isn't hard - most of the edutainment market is utter crap (I work with a large number of schools that buy utter shit on the basis of "social-networking" merit points)
Until then it 'seems' like you (Melody and Anne?) are just spamming Slashdot to promote a 2 month old project.
Not that the idea isn't without merit - it's just that the "edutainment" market is overcrowded with "outsourced" get-rich-quick, all-froth-(and social marketing) and-no-beer closed-source schemes knocked-up-in-an-afternoon that leave a trail of broken promises in schools already hard pressed to do the bare minimum with their tiny budgets
Good luck
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration" ~ Edsger W. Dijkstra
Explain Jim fix?
Too much tofu. Jogging too soon after eating too much tofu?
Bill Hicks might have said "Not enough time spent smoking cigarettes and getting nude women to sit on his bald noggin"
Seriously - congenital heart disease(?)
Email the CEO, keep the body of the email short and simple enough for an IT illiterate to undestand the problem. Don't worry him/her about the consequences of the problem. Be sure to use a click bait subject line (they're probably very busy) e.g. Your account details for account [their bank account number] are attached. Don't forget to attach their bank account details
Oh - and don't do any of this from your computer - or via your internet connection. And don't expect credit, just that the problem will be rapidly fixed - which is what you want, right?
...but one thing is clear both in reality and in that comic book, that there was no doubt the person with the skull for a face was the punisher.
Are you sure? Or is this like arguing about hobbits? I'd have thought in reality there would be no doubt the person with the skull for a face was someone wearing a punisher suit..
Polarized plate covers.
OT. I wonder (with little thought) whether they could be engineered to show one number to the naked eye and another to an infared sensitive camera?
Are you not concerned about the anti-sexual religious morality police that create such an aura of shame and disgust around sex? While I have no doubt that what he was doing was unethical, I have more of a problem with the fact that society chooses to stigmatise sexuality. A picture of your dick or your pussy should be no more of a problem than a picture of your face. In a healthy community, this would be little more than a personal data protection matter.
I read the offence to be about posting the name and contact details and the images.
I guess it's hard for an anonymous coward to grasp the difference between that and "shame about sex" - or even "personal choice".
In a perfect world we could safely store our beer on the front porch and walk anywhere, any time, without attracting unwanted attention - but the world ain't perfect. e.g. I don't want to see you waddling around with your micro dick exposed - could cause eye damage. When you have a "right" to wander the streets naked I hope I retain the "right" to find you repulsive and smack you on the pee pee but good. Until then - have you heard of nudist farms?
Oh wait... you don't have "right" to show your pimply arse in public, or have sex with dogs. What a morally uptight, context blind world we live in.
no, its really not. give the banks protection from the people who use their services. meaning dont hold the banks responsible for the actions of the acct holder. banks should be like common carriers
Like government backing? Or insurance?
sign me up!
I would - if I could still see.
The light1 - it's like, um, fried my fucking eyeballs.
Hey cool! The bong water glows in the dark. Heav-ee (water).
That would be... from the last two lines of TFA.
Noted (now) - thanks
Sigh - even thinking I read the TFA didn't help.
Clearly the "science writer" should have put that into a context - i.e. against Japan.
Proportional to the number of forum flooding (trolling and stupid questions) : relevant posts ratio (?)
And much of the now-occupied hinterlands of Europe and the USA were underwater... not so bad. Flag as Inappropriate
Butttt... the water was nice and warm. Of course it was relatively non-toxic then - won't be next time.
In Eurasia rodents did well, while primate distribution declined. But wait... there's more! Fucking big lava lamps (it was cool kids. You call them volcanoes now).
Where do you find that reference in this article? It references a number of studies from different sources, which one is "the nuclear power industry"?
And... where did the click-bait headline "we stopped at two bombs" come from!? Who's "we", and W(here)TF was it "stopped" at two bombs. Certainly not Alaska, Muaroa... Japan?
I'm guessing it's a missprint. Should of been "we (cant' handle our drugs/inner realities) stopped at two bongs . Which is where they stopped reading. What were they smoking? Not the kind herb.
Should of stopped about two metres from the keyboard. And had twenty bongs of the kind.
Note that there is a difference between "stupid" and "ignorant".
One has it's charms.