Other responder to this AC suggested design documents and test suites.
I will also add: the source control revision history will clearly show you whether the code was changed last, or the comment. I leave it as an exercise to the diligent reader to determine which is more current, and adjust appropriately.
Not sure how you religious types continually keep getting modded up. Yeah, sure, E=MC^2 is mysterious to the masses. However:!:!: I'm one of the masses, and I took it upon myself to investigate and read the damn fucking book, and now I understand it and can falsifiably reproduce Einstein's results. You are no closer to reproducing (falsifiably, or otherwise) Jesus Christ's results than a waffle. Your argument panders to the lowest common denominator, and perhaps you'll be voted into office on the strength of that based on the dumbing down of our populace based on unfunded mandates in education -- but, don't let your winning the vote get to your head; you're still selling lies.
Okay, so there are umpteen-thousand religions in which their "saviour" (Son of God) dies, stays dead for 3 days, and then is resurrected, on December 25th, and that there were 3 people in authority (kings, wise men, what-have-you) who followed the "star in the east" to find this Son (sun). So now you're saying that our finding these parallels is evidence that we're just finding what we're looking for? Wow, kooky. Okay, I'll stop playing.
Has Google maps been a positive force on society. Probably yes, but consider the effect on companies like TomTom.
Has the automobile been a positive force on society? Probably yes, but consider the effect on companies that sell buggy whips (who didn't then migrate into S&M paraphernalia). And the effects on butterflies, deer, etc.
TomTom has no innate right to make money based on their mapping technology. Sorry.
People find parallels when they go looking for them
Nothing new under the Son, you mean? I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Are we all seeing faces in the sky because we're wired to identify our parents' faces after birth? Are you supporting or rejecting the observation that many religions are similar because they are based on the zodiac and constellations? Or are you talking about people searching for VM software for the Mac platform?
Not defending the religious (see posting history), but: the appendix is useful in order to "reboot" the flora in the intestines after trauma such as diarrhea.
I loved Religulous; Bill Maher is fascinating, and funny as well. Another great movie in the same spirit is Zeitgeist, the first third of which is devoted to describing the similarities of ancient religions.
The crucifixion myth is excellent. On December 21st, (in the northern hemisphere) we experience Winter Solstice -- the day during which the sun appears for the shortest amount of time. The days remain short for three days. On December 25th, the sun appears 1 degree higher in the sky -- the days stopped getting shorter, so the year has been reborn. Also the three kings/wise men are the three stars making the belt of Orion; follow them, and they point to Sirius, the "star in the East". Continue following the line that those four stars make, and you come to the spot on the horizon that the sun (Son) will appear on December 25th. So the three wise men "followed" the star in the East to find the Son (sun) on the day of its (re)birth.
"Ages" are pretty cool, too; previously it was Taurus, so Moses yelled at his followers for worshipping "a golden calf". We are currently in Pisces, the fishes; Jesus multiplied a bunch of fish as one miracle. The next one is Aquarius, and the bible talks about "a man carrying a pitcher of water, let him into your homes". Some of this is described in the wikipedia entry for zodiac. Each "age" is around 2,150 years long; the page for Age of Aquarius states that nobody really knows when that age actually began, some speculating it started a couple hundred years ago, one saying this past Valentine's Day, another the end of the Mayan calendar on December 21st, 2012 (hence the new disaster movie).
Anyway, just wanted to share something I've recently learned; if you look at my posting history you may think they're paying me, but they're not.:)
Religion has all the evidence that everything else we rely on has.
Wrong. E=MC^2 is simple to deduce; read Einstein's Theory of Relativity, downloadable from Project Gutenberg. Special theory talks about dropping a ball from a moving train; general (the E=MC^2 one) talks about a man in a closed box with a string on the outside, and something pulling the string, and the forces the man experiences. The rest is just math, and fairly simple math at that.
Recent history (Abraham Lincoln) is documented in photographs, paintings, and newspapers.
More distant history is of course more difficult to ascertain. But saying that "religion relies on the same evidence as science" is ridiculous on the face of it. Thanks for playing.
(Hint: religion is not falsifiable; science is. What this means: science can say "here is something I want to disprove using what I've already learned; and here is an experiment that should disprove it, depending on the outcome of the experiment." Religion has no such utility; religion is always "close your mind to the abject reality around you, and substitute this one with a sky fairy where most people burn for eternity upon their death.")
Also, watch the first half hour of the first Zeitgeist movie. Does an excellent job of explaining why we're all sun (not Son) worshippers, what "ages" means, and how the zodiac influenced many, many religions.
I first heard that joke on Will and Grace. Megan Mullally's character responded to a kid saying "oh cool, you have an Xbox!" with something similar to "Just because it hasn't seen much use in a while doesn't mean it's... oh, you mean a game console". (And, yeah, it wasn't so funny then, either:P)
Read a neat article recently on a monkey psychology experiment. They put some bananas at the top of a pole in a monkey cage. Whenever the monkeys started climbing the pole, they'd hit them with a blast of water. Soon the monkeys learned not to try. When they introduced a new monkey who hadn't been hit with water, the other monkeys grabbed him and brought him down when he tried to climb. Then they introduced more monkeys, and started removing the original ones. Pretty soon, none of the monkeys in the cage had been hit by water -- but they kept pulling each other down because that's what they had "learned" from the others.
So the lesson here is: you need to hit your users hard enough for them to want to warn each other, and not so softly that they try to find ways to avoid being hit. Or something.
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Humor: fail. Literal interpretation: pass, barely, but still fail.
Other responder to this AC suggested design documents and test suites.
I will also add: the source control revision history will clearly show you whether the code was changed last, or the comment. I leave it as an exercise to the diligent reader to determine which is more current, and adjust appropriately.
Or those of us who can afford to drink heavily, year-round, damn the liver damage. :)
Just wanted to shout out a thanks for helping me debate. Although I think "debate" is too kind a word for what we've been participating in...
Now this, I'd like to see. Did he put down his sandwich, or just gropingly reach for his zipper?
I see that you have a strong opinion about people with strong opinions, and are posting pointless propaganda for your pet ideology.
(Oh, and :)
Hi, grammar (and spelling!) fails in sig, but judging from post content, it doesn't matter.
Horus.
That said, I'm entirely certain that you don't care about the debate; IHBRT.
Not sure how you religious types continually keep getting modded up. Yeah, sure, E=MC^2 is mysterious to the masses. However:!:!: I'm one of the masses, and I took it upon myself to investigate and read the damn fucking book, and now I understand it and can falsifiably reproduce Einstein's results. You are no closer to reproducing (falsifiably, or otherwise) Jesus Christ's results than a waffle. Your argument panders to the lowest common denominator, and perhaps you'll be voted into office on the strength of that based on the dumbing down of our populace based on unfunded mandates in education -- but, don't let your winning the vote get to your head; you're still selling lies.
Gonna have to take your word on that; but, my friend has said for years that Red Bull (no alcohol added) tastes like "sweetness and strange".
Okay, so there are umpteen-thousand religions in which their "saviour" (Son of God) dies, stays dead for 3 days, and then is resurrected, on December 25th, and that there were 3 people in authority (kings, wise men, what-have-you) who followed the "star in the east" to find this Son (sun). So now you're saying that our finding these parallels is evidence that we're just finding what we're looking for? Wow, kooky. Okay, I'll stop playing.
Has the automobile been a positive force on society? Probably yes, but consider the effect on companies that sell buggy whips (who didn't then migrate into S&M paraphernalia). And the effects on butterflies, deer, etc.
TomTom has no innate right to make money based on their mapping technology. Sorry.
Nothing new under the Son, you mean? I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Are we all seeing faces in the sky because we're wired to identify our parents' faces after birth? Are you supporting or rejecting the observation that many religions are similar because they are based on the zodiac and constellations? Or are you talking about people searching for VM software for the Mac platform?
Yeah, pretty much; I saw that the link was from "gwu.edu" and just figured, "GodWin University"...
Not defending the religious (see posting history), but: the appendix is useful in order to "reboot" the flora in the intestines after trauma such as diarrhea.
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
I loved Religulous; Bill Maher is fascinating, and funny as well. Another great movie in the same spirit is Zeitgeist, the first third of which is devoted to describing the similarities of ancient religions.
The crucifixion myth is excellent. On December 21st, (in the northern hemisphere) we experience Winter Solstice -- the day during which the sun appears for the shortest amount of time. The days remain short for three days. On December 25th, the sun appears 1 degree higher in the sky -- the days stopped getting shorter, so the year has been reborn. Also the three kings/wise men are the three stars making the belt of Orion; follow them, and they point to Sirius, the "star in the East". Continue following the line that those four stars make, and you come to the spot on the horizon that the sun (Son) will appear on December 25th. So the three wise men "followed" the star in the East to find the Son (sun) on the day of its (re)birth.
"Ages" are pretty cool, too; previously it was Taurus, so Moses yelled at his followers for worshipping "a golden calf". We are currently in Pisces, the fishes; Jesus multiplied a bunch of fish as one miracle. The next one is Aquarius, and the bible talks about "a man carrying a pitcher of water, let him into your homes". Some of this is described in the wikipedia entry for zodiac. Each "age" is around 2,150 years long; the page for Age of Aquarius states that nobody really knows when that age actually began, some speculating it started a couple hundred years ago, one saying this past Valentine's Day, another the end of the Mayan calendar on December 21st, 2012 (hence the new disaster movie).
Anyway, just wanted to share something I've recently learned; if you look at my posting history you may think they're paying me, but they're not. :)
Wrong. E=MC^2 is simple to deduce; read Einstein's Theory of Relativity, downloadable from Project Gutenberg. Special theory talks about dropping a ball from a moving train; general (the E=MC^2 one) talks about a man in a closed box with a string on the outside, and something pulling the string, and the forces the man experiences. The rest is just math, and fairly simple math at that.
Recent history (Abraham Lincoln) is documented in photographs, paintings, and newspapers.
More distant history is of course more difficult to ascertain. But saying that "religion relies on the same evidence as science" is ridiculous on the face of it. Thanks for playing.
(Hint: religion is not falsifiable; science is. What this means: science can say "here is something I want to disprove using what I've already learned; and here is an experiment that should disprove it, depending on the outcome of the experiment." Religion has no such utility; religion is always "close your mind to the abject reality around you, and substitute this one with a sky fairy where most people burn for eternity upon their death.")
Also, watch the first half hour of the first Zeitgeist movie. Does an excellent job of explaining why we're all sun (not Son) worshippers, what "ages" means, and how the zodiac influenced many, many religions.
I first heard that joke on Will and Grace. Megan Mullally's character responded to a kid saying "oh cool, you have an Xbox!" with something similar to "Just because it hasn't seen much use in a while doesn't mean it's ... oh, you mean a game console". (And, yeah, it wasn't so funny then, either :P)
Doubtful?
Hang on, what is the minimum required pieces of flair in order to troll?
Citation: Zeitgeist and Zeitgeist: Addendum.
Read a neat article recently on a monkey psychology experiment. They put some bananas at the top of a pole in a monkey cage. Whenever the monkeys started climbing the pole, they'd hit them with a blast of water. Soon the monkeys learned not to try. When they introduced a new monkey who hadn't been hit with water, the other monkeys grabbed him and brought him down when he tried to climb. Then they introduced more monkeys, and started removing the original ones. Pretty soon, none of the monkeys in the cage had been hit by water -- but they kept pulling each other down because that's what they had "learned" from the others.
So the lesson here is: you need to hit your users hard enough for them to want to warn each other, and not so softly that they try to find ways to avoid being hit. Or something.
If denying him that line of coke means he can't get it up tonight ... perhaps you are killing his babies!