I can believe that a fair proportion of the population are aware that a furlong is a measure of distance about >that< far (>points to an object well down the street<). However, that doesn't mean that they know what a furlong *is*. I'd be willing to bet thier furrows are no longer a furrow-length in length any more too, so even knowing the etymology wouldn't help them know the actual distance.
(Straw poll of the only yank in the room: "what's a furlong?" - "I don't care". Not a very large sample, and she's never bet on a horse.)
The people who actually make the screens have never even seen an Imperial inch. They're made with metric dimensions. And their imperial measurements should have fractions in them, were they to be rendered accurately (I've seen nominally 23" and 24" screens made with exactly the same panel, as one manufacturer's marketting department decided he could round up, while the others round down.)
Ditto the floppies of old - there was never such a thing as a 3 1/2" floppy, it was always a metric size (90mm) that we idiots in the west just gave a stupid out-dated name to.
Do people really care about the difference between 86F and 87F? I certainly don't, and don't know anyone who does. (Not that our temperatures ever reach that high.)
If I'm concerned with the range 37-40 C, say, then invariably, the 1st decimal place will be pulled into use, but I'd hypothetically do that in F as well. (Not that I would, I'd probably just laugh and sneer instead.)
a thousandth, a million. Instant answers. Why would you need to know such ratios? In your head, please, and quickly.
If I were dealing with cubic metres of water, I'd want to be using tonnes. And as if by magic, a 1:1 ratio appears - it's almost as if intelligent people had designed the system.
The size of a typical bottle of ale in the UK is 500 ml, not 550 ml. To be honest I don't remember seeing any 550ml bottles, and I've certainly not had one in the last 5 years (and I've had many many hundreds of UK beers in that time).
> Windows Phone explicity avoided any sort of skeumophism in its design
Bollocks. I see at least 4 skeumorphic icons in the screenshot here: http://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Windows-Phone-Summit-2012-slashgear_s-Photos.jpg
You've chosen to perform a Schwarzian transform in the perl example, which may be an unnecessary optimisation. I know this, as I can read the code. (Even though you were too lazy to preview it, and submitted it mangled.)
I have no idea if Ruby performs the same optimisation with your code. I guess that means that it's unreadable, as I certainly can't ascertain what I require to glean from just reading the code.
Assuming you're missing some "<=>"s (you know, you could preview), that's at least as readable as it would be in any other language. More so, if anything, as it's nice and terse.
How would you write the same in C++, Lua, or JavaScript?
The ultimate prevention for Alzheimers is to die earlier from some other disease. That's worked for my family, certainly - we can tick all the big boxes apart from that one. As you can tell, I really am more for making a shorter life better than prolonging lives.
It is tales like these that are why practically the only charitable donations I make are to homeless charities (and very closely related causes such as soup kitchens, food banks, clothing banks, etc.). All the diseases that you get when you're old, and might die of, fuck it, I couldn't care less about - you've got to die of *something*, finding a cure for one of them just means you die of a different one; so all those charities miss out completely. I rarely give cash in person (I find it hard to overcome an "they might spend it on the wrong thing" attitude), but will often offer food to those who look like they need it most.
I think those with a negative prejudice against the homeless should be forced to play "The Bum Game": http://www.globalgamenetwork.com/bumgame/ . And not be allowed to stop until they win, or recant.
Whilst the balding cucumbers sounds an interesting twist, every bit of hard primary evidence that I can find online points to it being false.
The bigmac tale was the thing that flashed the warning signs. An assertion that McD had stated something, and then no evidence from them that they had. Look at their webpages - all still list the same old pickles.
And are you sure Dr. Nancy Walker said what she's claimed to have said. Her official webpage makes no reference to it or even her expertise in the matter. A search for ``Nancy Walker Director of Public Health Research site:dal.ca'' makes no mention of her holding that position.
This is basically a not-particularly-funny Onion story, IMHO.
(That's a larger venn diagram than ones I've previously seen, so haven't checked they're all as relevant as the previous diagram I saw. However, the general thrust remains the same.)
You know things are messed up when SCOTUS is bent.
Apart from the fact that he *explicitly* says that anti-GMO's should leave pro-GMO's to their own business, despite the fact that there has been a diametrically opposite reciprocal relationship in the last 3 decades. A fact that he doesn't highlight at all. That makes him look like someone who has no interest in the whole truth.
Just tonight I watched/Food Inc./ so it's very easy to be cynical, I agree.
To me he just comes over like a fickle and pollyannaish teenager. Half a decade ago his fashion was GMOs, but now his fashion is CO2. I look forward to see what he's campaigning against in 2017... (not!)
Erm, he said roughly the same thing nearly 3 years ago; there's nothing particularly new about his recent comments. At least how they're summarised in the summary. ("How the greens keep getting it wrong", or some such, back in 2010.)
Nowadays, the youngsters seem to think that everything has to be a "pattern".
Everyone I've worked with who's talked about patterns I have found to be fundamentally lacking as a programmer. Design patterns lead to lazy thinking, which lead to flawed, or even braindead, designs.
Most of the DP dipshits have been java programmers. So I've come to associate OO with dipshittedness too (despite having lectured many courses in OOP decades, back before the shit hit the fanbois).
I couldn't agree more Even though I have an N9 too, I never use it. And the reason I have a beaming smile on my face right now is because I was the maintainer of the touchscreen driver for the N900 for the year or so before it hit the market (and after that too, but there were never any after-sales issues with that driver, so that was a no-op). Thank you for reminding me to still feel good about the work I did for Nokia.
However, after using it for 4 years, it's still far too often clunky, being too slow to respond to things, and is generally far from perfect. It's just that it was slower than other devices in the race for the bottom when it comes to usability.
I deployed mine. (At least against visitors from some parts of the world, much of the world was allowed to skip it.)
It was a maze where every node was a trivia question, and as soon as you answered with a wrong answer the whole maze would be regenerated, and your current URL would become invalid, so you'd have to start again. Upon reaching the far end of the maze, answerring every question correctly, you'd be allowed to see my website normally.
There was nothing "active" about the site apart from the failure options that did the regeneration and the reaching the final goal - basically everything was just symbolic links that were shuffled around, so that the maze was effectively stateless. Regeneration was simply unlinking a few dozen links, and relinking differently, so could be done in a tiny fraction of a second.
A common view from within thetraditional canons of the Christian church in the UK is that the Mormans are a "Christian Cult", i.e. not Christianity, but a bastardisation of it. And being a large influential club, they can decide who is a member, and who isn't. And the Catholics, Protestants, and Baptists all agree that they themselves are all in the club, but that LDS, and the JWs and CSs are not in the club. Those of us outside have no leverage in saying "but these others should also be in" - we simply don't get a vote.
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I can believe that a fair proportion of the population are aware that a furlong is a measure of distance about >that< far (>points to an object well down the street<). However, that doesn't mean that they know what a furlong *is*. I'd be willing to bet thier furrows are no longer a furrow-length in length any more too, so even knowing the etymology wouldn't help them know the actual distance.
(Straw poll of the only yank in the room: "what's a furlong?" - "I don't care". Not a very large sample, and she's never bet on a horse.)
The people who actually make the screens have never even seen an Imperial inch. They're made with metric dimensions. And their imperial measurements should have fractions in them, were they to be rendered accurately (I've seen nominally 23" and 24" screens made with exactly the same panel, as one manufacturer's marketting department decided he could round up, while the others round down.)
Ditto the floppies of old - there was never such a thing as a 3 1/2" floppy, it was always a metric size (90mm) that we idiots in the west just gave a stupid out-dated name to.
Do people really care about the difference between 86F and 87F? I certainly don't, and don't know anyone who does. (Not that our temperatures ever reach that high.)
If I'm concerned with the range 37-40 C, say, then invariably, the 1st decimal place will be pulled into use, but I'd hypothetically do that in F as well. (Not that I would, I'd probably just laugh and sneer instead.)
a thousandth, a million. Instant answers.
Why would you need to know such ratios? In your head, please, and quickly.
If I were dealing with cubic metres of water, I'd want to be using tonnes. And as if by magic, a 1:1 ratio appears - it's almost as if intelligent people had designed the system.
The size of a typical bottle of ale in the UK is 500 ml, not 550 ml. To be honest I don't remember seeing any 550ml bottles, and I've certainly not had one in the last 5 years (and I've had many many hundreds of UK beers in that time).
So the Texans will have Meedurs?
> Windows Phone explicity avoided any sort of skeumophism in its design
Bollocks. I see at least 4 skeumorphic icons in the screenshot here:
http://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Windows-Phone-Summit-2012-slashgear_s-Photos.jpg
You've chosen to perform a Schwarzian transform in the perl example, which may be an unnecessary optimisation. I know this, as I can read the code. (Even though you were too lazy to preview it, and submitted it mangled.)
I have no idea if Ruby performs the same optimisation with your code. I guess that means that it's unreadable, as I certainly can't ascertain what I require to glean from just reading the code.
Assuming you're missing some "<=>"s (you know, you could preview), that's at least as readable as it would be in any other language. More so, if anything, as it's nice and terse.
How would you write the same in C++, Lua, or JavaScript?
No, this is a comment post:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3359033&cid=42485963
Yours is a link back to this article.
That bit in quotes - where's it from? I can't find it on google.
The ultimate prevention for Alzheimers is to die earlier from some other disease. That's worked for my family, certainly - we can tick all the big boxes apart from that one. As you can tell, I really am more for making a shorter life better than prolonging lives.
It is tales like these that are why practically the only charitable donations I make are to homeless charities (and very closely related causes such as soup kitchens, food banks, clothing banks, etc.). All the diseases that you get when you're old, and might die of, fuck it, I couldn't care less about - you've got to die of *something*, finding a cure for one of them just means you die of a different one; so all those charities miss out completely. I rarely give cash in person (I find it hard to overcome an "they might spend it on the wrong thing" attitude), but will often offer food to those who look like they need it most.
I think those with a negative prejudice against the homeless should be forced to play "The Bum Game": http://www.globalgamenetwork.com/bumgame/ . And not be allowed to stop until they win, or recant.
I thought that could only occur within a dyson sphere?
Whilst the balding cucumbers sounds an interesting twist, every bit of hard primary evidence that I can find online points to it being false.
The bigmac tale was the thing that flashed the warning signs. An assertion that McD had stated something, and then no evidence from them that they had. Look at their webpages - all still list the same old pickles.
And are you sure Dr. Nancy Walker said what she's claimed to have said. Her official webpage makes no reference to it or even her expertise in the matter. A search for ``Nancy Walker Director of Public Health Research site:dal.ca'' makes no mention of her holding that position.
This is basically a not-particularly-funny Onion story, IMHO.
> I haven't heard of much about this with GMO crops -- why is that?
http://occupy-monsanto.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/individual_monsanto_federal_position-large.jpg
(That's a larger venn diagram than ones I've previously seen, so haven't checked they're all as relevant as the previous diagram I saw. However, the general thrust remains the same.)
You know things are messed up when SCOTUS is bent.
Apart from the fact that he *explicitly* says that anti-GMO's should leave pro-GMO's to their own business, despite the fact that there has been a diametrically opposite reciprocal relationship in the last 3 decades. A fact that he doesn't highlight at all. That makes him look like someone who has no interest in the whole truth.
Just tonight I watched /Food Inc./ so it's very easy to be cynical, I agree.
To me he just comes over like a fickle and pollyannaish teenager. Half a decade ago his fashion was GMOs, but now his fashion is CO2. I look forward to see what he's campaigning against in 2017... (not!)
Erm, he said roughly the same thing nearly 3 years ago; there's nothing particularly new about his recent comments. At least how they're summarised in the summary. ("How the greens keep getting it wrong", or some such, back in 2010.)
Nowadays, the youngsters seem to think that everything has to be a "pattern".
Everyone I've worked with who's talked about patterns I have found to be fundamentally lacking as a programmer. Design patterns lead to lazy thinking, which lead to flawed, or even braindead, designs.
Most of the DP dipshits have been java programmers. So I've come to associate OO with dipshittedness too (despite having lectured many courses in OOP decades, back before the shit hit the fanbois).
I couldn't agree more Even though I have an N9 too, I never use it. And the reason I have a beaming smile on my face right now is because I was the maintainer of the touchscreen driver for the N900 for the year or so before it hit the market (and after that too, but there were never any after-sales issues with that driver, so that was a no-op). Thank you for reminding me to still feel good about the work I did for Nokia.
However, after using it for 4 years, it's still far too often clunky, being too slow to respond to things, and is generally far from perfect. It's just that it was slower than other devices in the race for the bottom when it comes to usability.
Everybody knows, you never go full retail.
I deployed mine. (At least against visitors from some parts of the world, much of the world was allowed to skip it.)
It was a maze where every node was a trivia question, and as soon as you answered with a wrong answer the whole maze would be regenerated, and your current URL would become invalid, so you'd have to start again. Upon reaching the far end of the maze, answerring every question correctly, you'd be allowed to see my website normally.
There was nothing "active" about the site apart from the failure options that did the regeneration and the reaching the final goal - basically everything was just symbolic links that were shuffled around, so that the maze was effectively stateless. Regeneration was simply unlinking a few dozen links, and relinking differently, so could be done in a tiny fraction of a second.
As that thread is presently only 413 pages long, I presume that Apple have deleted the most interesting comments.
A common view from within thetraditional canons of the Christian church in the UK is that the Mormans are a "Christian Cult", i.e. not Christianity, but a bastardisation of it. And being a large influential club, they can decide who is a member, and who isn't. And the Catholics, Protestants, and Baptists all agree that they themselves are all in the club, but that LDS, and the JWs and CSs are not in the club. Those of us outside have no leverage in saying "but these others should also be in" - we simply don't get a vote.