The thing I like about cooking _real_ food when I get home is that it means I've got plenty of time to drink lots of beer or cheap red wine while I futz around in the kitchen.
Anyway, about the only thing I use my microwave for is baked potatoes (it has a 'potato' button).
It's not too hard, actually, if you have the right kind of local home-brew shop and can brew a convincing imitation of Guinness (or whatever other beer you like - I must confess that Guinness is not my absolute favourite). I have a fridge containing two pre-mix kegs, one with a gun and one with a proper tap coming through a hole in the door. There's another hole in the side of the fridge for the gas-line in. At the moment, the two kegs contain ginger beer and India Pale Ale, but this will change as they empty (there's another keg, of Olde Socke Broke Down Palace Ale, waiting to find room in the fridge as well). I must admit I'd like to have some way of delivering CO2 to both kegs at once rather than having to fart around swapping the connector, but hey, I have beer on tap, so I'm not too fussed. The major disadvantage is that it's in my shed, so pulling another pint (or more accurately the walk to the tap) can get a bit challenging towards the end of the evening. However this risk is offset by the fact that home-brew is definately not carcinogenic.
> Some neoliberal economists have even tried to argue that increasing your consumption is good for the environment, but this is a notion too insane to bother rebutting.
Of course, if the costs of recycling (or other method of disposal) were built into the purchase price, and the producers were compelled to take it back and dispose of it, we probably wouldn't _need_ to recycle, because we wouldn't use so much of the shit in the first place...
Reduce (the amount of junk mail you get... I know, it's not really under your control), reuse (the junk mail as garden mulch, eg, which _is_ under your control), recycle (the cardboard boxes every 6 months or so).
Actually, using a straight razor _is_ part of the experience of shaving. And before you ask, I hardly ever cut myself (unlike when I use a so-called "safety" razor).
They're not actually being used to smother the flames as such. You can use a flail (usually made out of dampened strips of cloth on a long stick) to put out grass fires. I think it disperses the flames somehow. They're pretty effective, but not as good as high pressure hoses or aerial bombardment.
This is an interesting echo of Anselm's proof that god exists. Since some bloke turned that on its head to prove that god didn't exist (I forget who), perhaps we could use your rant to prove that Microsoft isn't so great after all.
Yeah - the idea is if you kill off all the natural bacteria in the animal's gut, the nutrients that they would otherwise consume go direct to the animal, allowing it to grow faster. Never mind that these bugs may be benign, or even essential to the animal's well-being, it's not going to live that long anyway (especially given that it's getting fatter faster).
Actually, FORTRAN's not as silly as any of the other suggestions. Until comparatively recently, most software in the oil and gas industry was written in FORTRAN.
Ther's certainly some anecdotal evidence at least. My grandfather (probably) and father (certainly) had Asperger traits (and one of my uncles is fairly wierd). I have Asperger traits, as does my oldest son. My youngest son has been diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome. I know a number of other people with similar family histories.
While that's not conclusive, it prompts some interesting questions about a genetic basis for aytism.
Yeah... I have to agree with this bloke. There's nothing wrong with glasses, and they're a passive technology. I need mine to read only (as I'm long sighted), but I also have an astigmatism in my right eye, which makes some things difficult (and it's getting worse as I get older, because of the way it interacts with my hardening lenses). That said, there's no way on earth I'd let anyone point a laser at my eyes in the hope my sight would improve - I like being able to see at all far too much.
A professor of mathematics (Ernie Tuck IIRC) at Adelaide University was comparing two models of maths teaching/learning in an article I read some years ago. The first, he called the cathedral model (a towering structure built on firm foundations), and the second, the Calcutta model (a whole bunch of disconnected hovels). How is getting a whole lot of hovels^H^H^H^H^H^Hcertifications in algorithm design, etc, equivalent to a decent education in computer science?
Try coming back to something complex six months after you wrote it, and see how well you understand it. Or try maintaining someone else's code. Then you'll appreciate well- (not self-) documented code.
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The thing I like about cooking _real_ food when I get home is that it means I've got plenty of time to drink lots of beer or cheap red wine while I futz around in the kitchen.
Anyway, about the only thing I use my microwave for is baked potatoes (it has a 'potato' button).
So who are you back-dooring?
It's not too hard, actually, if you have the right kind of local home-brew shop and can brew a convincing imitation of Guinness (or whatever other beer you like - I must confess that Guinness is not my absolute favourite). I have a fridge containing two pre-mix kegs, one with a gun and one with a proper tap coming through a hole in the door. There's another hole in the side of the fridge for the gas-line in. At the moment, the two kegs contain ginger beer and India Pale Ale, but this will change as they empty (there's another keg, of Olde Socke Broke Down Palace Ale, waiting to find room in the fridge as well). I must admit I'd like to have some way of delivering CO2 to both kegs at once rather than having to fart around swapping the connector, but hey, I have beer on tap, so I'm not too fussed. The major disadvantage is that it's in my shed, so pulling another pint (or more accurately the walk to the tap) can get a bit challenging towards the end of the evening. However this risk is offset by the fact that home-brew is definately not carcinogenic.
Actually, I think the original attribution of the quote is Blaise Pascal.
> Some neoliberal economists have even tried to argue that increasing your consumption is good for the environment, but this is a notion too insane to bother rebutting.
Redundant (insane + neo-liberal economist).
Of course, if the costs of recycling (or other method of disposal) were built into the purchase price, and the producers were compelled to take it back and dispose of it, we probably wouldn't _need_ to recycle, because we wouldn't use so much of the shit in the first place ...
Reduce (the amount of junk mail you get ... I know, it's not really under your control), reuse (the junk mail as garden mulch, eg, which _is_ under your control), recycle (the cardboard boxes every 6 months or so).
What, no spark plugs, distributor, alternator, battery, lights, ... ?
Has it occurred to anyone that the parent post may have been sarcastic (or at least tongue-in-cheek)?
Yeah ... I thought that both the geek/thief and the spade software engineer were reasonably accurate.
As you said, not exactly rivetting stuff to watch.
Actually, using a straight razor _is_ part of the experience of shaving. And before you ask, I hardly ever cut myself (unlike when I use a so-called "safety" razor).
They're not actually being used to smother the flames as such. You can use a flail (usually made out of dampened strips of cloth on a long stick) to put out grass fires. I think it disperses the flames somehow. They're pretty effective, but not as good as high pressure hoses or aerial bombardment.
He _might_ be talking about Ada.
This is an interesting echo of Anselm's proof that god exists. Since some bloke turned that on its head to prove that god didn't exist (I forget who), perhaps we could use your rant to prove that Microsoft isn't so great after all.
Yeah - the idea is if you kill off all the natural bacteria in the animal's gut, the nutrients that they would otherwise consume go direct to the animal, allowing it to grow faster. Never mind that these bugs may be benign, or even essential to the animal's well-being, it's not going to live that long anyway (especially given that it's getting fatter faster).
Actually, FORTRAN's not as silly as any of the other suggestions. Until comparatively recently, most software in the oil and gas industry was written in FORTRAN.
Ther's certainly some anecdotal evidence at least. My grandfather (probably) and father (certainly) had Asperger traits (and one of my uncles is fairly wierd). I have Asperger traits, as does my oldest son. My youngest son has been diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome. I know a number of other people with similar family histories.
While that's not conclusive, it prompts some interesting questions about a genetic basis for aytism.
Oh ... I don't know ... _I'm_ doing ok. Although it's certainly no bed of roses.
In a few decades _lots_ of stuff will be gone from my memory - a combination of alcohol and senility.
Yeah ... I have to agree with this bloke. There's nothing wrong with glasses, and they're a passive technology. I need mine to read only (as I'm long sighted), but I also have an astigmatism in my right eye, which makes some things difficult (and it's getting worse as I get older, because of the way it interacts with my hardening lenses). That said, there's no way on earth I'd let anyone point a laser at my eyes in the hope my sight would improve - I like being able to see at all far too much.
More a micro ice age, I would have thought.
A professor of mathematics (Ernie Tuck IIRC) at Adelaide University was comparing two models of maths teaching/learning in an article I read some years ago. The first, he called the cathedral model (a towering structure built on firm foundations), and the second, the Calcutta model (a whole bunch of disconnected hovels). How is getting a whole lot of hovels^H^H^H^H^H^Hcertifications in algorithm design, etc, equivalent to a decent education in computer science?
Of course, exactly the same thing has happened to Philip Dick.
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Try coming back to something complex six months after you wrote it, and see how well you understand it. Or try maintaining someone else's code. Then you'll appreciate well- (not self-) documented code.