I was more thinking about that some books are more about the way the story is told than the actual story. You will not just miss the good parts by speed reading those, you will miss the entire point.
That is true. You must pace through poetry and play to fully appreciate them.
It also means that there is a high probability that you can "read" a book and miss the good part about it, thinking that it was crap.
If there's only one good part, it's crap anyway. If there's 10 good parts in a chapter and you miss half of them, you still have 5 reasons it's not crap. The "high probability" you missed them all is 0.5^5 = 3%.
Maybe if you repeatedly skimmed the good parts, for instance fauna & flora descriptions bore you to tears. But then, the good parts are crap to you.
So no, it's not possible to miss enough parts to turn a good book into crap.
Quick look seems to indicate the law set the minimum at 83%, but it seems to be set at 92%. "Le Règlement sur le taux de retour des loteries vidéo (c. L-6, r. 13) exige un taux de retour de 83 %."
So it's more bureaucratic control than money grabbing.
I wonder if this has anything to do with Twin primes. If a prime ends in 9, then its twin will end in 1, and so we should expect primes ending in 9 to more often be followed by primes ending in 1.
If a prime ends in 7, then its twin will end in 9. Without further detail, we'd expect half the 9 primes to be followed by a composite. Your explanation is missing something. Why should 9-1 happen more often than 7-9?
By implementation, do you means you are unable to follow a general plan, or do you mean you're unwilling to teach evolution and other religous controversies?
The Governement cheated us out of it. You believe it's only to protect us from terrorists and those who think too much of the children? Heck, the 5 eyes are engaged in industrial espionage for corporate interests. Our phones have nothing of value, our wealth is in those corporations whose phones will be hacked by the Governement and sold to competitors.
They took the illegal road to spy on us and profit from our indulgence, we'll take the legal road to make that impossible.
Impossible. The universe was created last Friday with the appearance of {being created last Thursday with the appearance of coming into existence in 1970}. Therefore, the universe was not created last Thursday with the appearance of coming into existence in 1970.
Good luck proving this isn't true.
Sorry, but the universe was just created. I never wrote this post. In fact, you never read it. It's just a memory implanted in your mind.
ability to moderate in a discussion you've contributed to
Bad idea. OTOH, you should be able to flag certain posts as "in need of meta-moderation" to fix unfair moderation. But let someone else agree with you.
I'd rather make it harder to climb. Something like 1+2+3 to get to +5 and -1-2-3 to push it back down, and keep both separate.
So you need 1+2+3=6 upvotes for +5, but if a single downvote is cast you'll need 1+2+3+4=10 upvotes to return to +5. It also makes group moderation harder since you'll need 3 moderating sock-puppets to shift by 2 if no one else interferes. A controversial post might get 1+2+3+4 upvotes and -1-2-3 downvotes for a +1 shift.
As it stands, too many posts bump to the +5 limit.
Many high end, professional programs are in fact rather hard to learn and pick up.
Well of course, if you spend 20 hours a week using a single software. There are 2-3 that I use enough to master them.
Not every piece of software is a "special snowflake" that deserves its own non-standard UX, no matter what its developper believes. The problem is not "the user is king", it's "the developper is king" who wears his emperor's new clothes by thinking users have 30 hours to waste in 30 programs to be functional.
I've spent many years in an IDE that mapped "close" to ctrl-cmd-W to keep the important emacs shortcut free, amongst many key shifts. I had no problem adapting since I spent most of my time in it, but you should have seen those who dabbled in it... That completely cured me of any fantasy that users will pick the bestest over the easiest.
No, you make the interface as standard as you can and you only deviate if there's a marked gain in efficiency. And even then, it's the same as the master rule of optimisation: don't.
If the default interface is standard and efficient, you don't need to configure everything. There's nothing more hateful than using another person's computer and being unable to do anything because they configured everything away and none of it fits your own configuring away. I had to force my gitconfig on everyone at the office to get around this.
That's the problem with many Open Source UX, they apply their vi/emacs knowledge and force the user to adapt to the program instead of adapting the program to their use. If it doesn't work out-of-the-box, I'll find something else that does. Just look at Dwarf Fortress with its 3 ways to move the cursor, for instance.
There's also the reverse problem, there are many cases where you'd like to know which command-line options matches that checkbox because it's much easier to change the config from the cli than to roam around the variable UI of the Mac / Win / Linux versions.
Let's pick a plausible-enough example... What if in 200 years there is such a population crunch that we need a "cap and trade" on new babies, and procreation and birth control are such that... I don't know, unsafe sex without a permit was as morally risky as driving drunk and for similar reasons?
No need to go that far. Driving a gaz-guzzing car, smoking tobacco, killing and eating animals. Although I must admit that using a woman's body for reproduction is discusting, we have tanks for that.
If your employer isn't happy, you can always commute to their closest office THEN get paid to commute back to the client. Keeping a local office sure is cheaper than paying for 4 hours commutes every day.
I know independent contractors in Canada who'd rather rent their car and computer because the cost is 100% deductible on the first year. Buying thing means dealing with depreciation and getting your tax break later.
I think it comes down to this: don't anthropomorphize animals, they don't like it.
I saw a video of a trainer "harassing" a horse. Once he was done, the horse had found its place and its purpose. What looked like bullying was in fact healing.
Direct google search yields: USA energy consumption per capita = 6,793.96 kg of oil equivalent (2012) China energy consumption per capita = 2,029.36 kg of oil equivalent (2011)
Note that Europe is in the 3-4k range while Canada is above 7k.
You mention caps lock, which I don't use, but any change is likely to just screw with muscle memory and not have any practical benefit except as some symbolic gesture against caps lock.
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I was more thinking about that some books are more about the way the story is told than the actual story.
You will not just miss the good parts by speed reading those, you will miss the entire point.
That is true. You must pace through poetry and play to fully appreciate them.
It also means that there is a high probability that you can "read" a book and miss the good part about it, thinking that it was crap.
If there's only one good part, it's crap anyway. If there's 10 good parts in a chapter and you miss half of them, you still have 5 reasons it's not crap. The "high probability" you missed them all is 0.5^5 = 3%.
Maybe if you repeatedly skimmed the good parts, for instance fauna & flora descriptions bore you to tears. But then, the good parts are crap to you.
So no, it's not possible to miss enough parts to turn a good book into crap.
Quick look seems to indicate the law set the minimum at 83%, but it seems to be set at 92%.
"Le Règlement sur le taux de retour des loteries vidéo (c. L-6, r. 13) exige un taux de retour de 83 %."
So it's more bureaucratic control than money grabbing.
Expensive, perhaps, but Reed College wasn't exactly a highly-regarded MBA factory, and certainly wasn't anything one would call "prestigious".
It certainly is better than Weed College.
I don't know. Is willful ignorance a form of trolling?
What is it? It's an elephant being eaten by a snake, of course.
Sorry, I thought it was a hat.
This is meaningless since every twin prime ends with 1, there's no distribution.
A better rebuttal would be that the paper states +10 is less likely, which only relates with the last digit in base 10.
I wonder if this has anything to do with Twin primes. If a prime ends in 9, then its twin will end in 1, and so we should expect primes ending in 9 to more often be followed by primes ending in 1.
If a prime ends in 7, then its twin will end in 9. Without further detail, we'd expect half the 9 primes to be followed by a composite. Your explanation is missing something. Why should 9-1 happen more often than 7-9?
By implementation, do you means you are unable to follow a general plan, or do you mean you're unwilling to teach evolution and other religous controversies?
More facts, less fantasies.
Legal warrant.
The Governement cheated us out of it. You believe it's only to protect us from terrorists and those who think too much of the children? Heck, the 5 eyes are engaged in industrial espionage for corporate interests. Our phones have nothing of value, our wealth is in those corporations whose phones will be hacked by the Governement and sold to competitors.
They took the illegal road to spy on us and profit from our indulgence, we'll take the legal road to make that impossible.
Impossible. The universe was created last Friday with the appearance of {being created last Thursday with the appearance of coming into existence in 1970}.
Therefore, the universe was not created last Thursday with the appearance of coming into existence in 1970.
Good luck proving this isn't true.
Sorry, but the universe was just created. I never wrote this post. In fact, you never read it. It's just a memory implanted in your mind.
ability to moderate in a discussion you've contributed to
Bad idea. OTOH, you should be able to flag certain posts as "in need of meta-moderation" to fix unfair moderation. But let someone else agree with you.
Indeed. A higher moderation cap is fine
I'd rather make it harder to climb. Something like 1+2+3 to get to +5 and -1-2-3 to push it back down, and keep both separate.
So you need 1+2+3=6 upvotes for +5, but if a single downvote is cast you'll need 1+2+3+4=10 upvotes to return to +5. It also makes group moderation harder since you'll need 3 moderating sock-puppets to shift by 2 if no one else interferes. A controversial post might get 1+2+3+4 upvotes and -1-2-3 downvotes for a +1 shift.
As it stands, too many posts bump to the +5 limit.
Many high end, professional programs are in fact rather hard to learn and pick up.
Well of course, if you spend 20 hours a week using a single software. There are 2-3 that I use enough to master them.
Not every piece of software is a "special snowflake" that deserves its own non-standard UX, no matter what its developper believes. The problem is not "the user is king", it's "the developper is king" who wears his emperor's new clothes by thinking users have 30 hours to waste in 30 programs to be functional.
I've spent many years in an IDE that mapped "close" to ctrl-cmd-W to keep the important emacs shortcut free, amongst many key shifts. I had no problem adapting since I spent most of my time in it, but you should have seen those who dabbled in it... That completely cured me of any fantasy that users will pick the bestest over the easiest.
No, you make the interface as standard as you can and you only deviate if there's a marked gain in efficiency. And even then, it's the same as the master rule of optimisation: don't.
If the default interface is standard and efficient, you don't need to configure everything. There's nothing more hateful than using another person's computer and being unable to do anything because they configured everything away and none of it fits your own configuring away. I had to force my gitconfig on everyone at the office to get around this.
That's the problem with many Open Source UX, they apply their vi/emacs knowledge and force the user to adapt to the program instead of adapting the program to their use. If it doesn't work out-of-the-box, I'll find something else that does. Just look at Dwarf Fortress with its 3 ways to move the cursor, for instance.
There's also the reverse problem, there are many cases where you'd like to know which command-line options matches that checkbox because it's much easier to change the config from the cli than to roam around the variable UI of the Mac / Win / Linux versions.
The closest thing they have to our Republicans is the Christian Heritage party, if they even exist anymore.
Well there's the rhino party. Does that count?
You forgot one point:
3) Make the code efficient.
efficient = work + readable, I think that covers it
Let's pick a plausible-enough example... What if in 200 years there is such a population crunch that we need a "cap and trade" on new babies, and procreation and birth control are such that... I don't know, unsafe sex without a permit was as morally risky as driving drunk and for similar reasons?
No need to go that far. Driving a gaz-guzzing car, smoking tobacco, killing and eating animals. Although I must admit that using a woman's body for reproduction is discusting, we have tanks for that.
If your employer isn't happy, you can always commute to their closest office THEN get paid to commute back to the client. Keeping a local office sure is cheaper than paying for 4 hours commutes every day.
I know independent contractors in Canada who'd rather rent their car and computer because the cost is 100% deductible on the first year. Buying thing means dealing with depreciation and getting your tax break later.
I think it comes down to this: don't anthropomorphize animals, they don't like it.
I saw a video of a trainer "harassing" a horse. Once he was done, the horse had found its place and its purpose. What looked like bullying was in fact healing.
Direct google search yields:
USA energy consumption per capita = 6,793.96 kg of oil equivalent (2012)
China energy consumption per capita = 2,029.36 kg of oil equivalent (2011)
Note that Europe is in the 3-4k range while Canada is above 7k.
You mention caps lock, which I don't use, but any change is likely to just screw with muscle memory and not have any practical benefit except as some symbolic gesture against caps lock.
Do it for the children!
Yep! Sharing my car would mean finding another convenient spot for my umbrella and shopping bags. Unless every car came with those.
"sudo rm -rf /" also fits in a tweet. It will even ask for the password which their exploit isn't capable of.