Having more candidates is only the solution if we have approval voting. If we have plurality voting, then a two-party system is best....but a two-party system is terrible, which is why we need approval voting.
You might need to be more specific, because if you went to Brown, that doesn't count. Pass/fail classes are for middle schools and community colleges; they have no place in the real Ivy League.
Yes. (Do you want me to complain about ending a sentence with a preposition?)
Who/m is one of the things I think the English language is better without. The other thing I want the pedants to let go of us "beg the question". Common speakers have redefined that phrase and made it better, giving it a much more clear and useful meaning, and replacing the old meaning with the more descriptive phrase "circular reasoning".
'Whom' is archaic. Only pedants use it, and that has been true for a couple hundred years at least. Do you also insist on "thou" as a second-person pronoun? Do you complain that "curse" and "horse" are unacceptable bastardizations of "cuss" and "hoss"?
As a grammar nazi myself, I advise you to let this one go. The language is better without 'whom', and speakers have long since left it behind.
You are totally right. I'm just not smart enough to work with Microsoft products. People who can make Windows and Visual Studio function are like magical wizards compared to me. I am like a tadpole wallowing in the tepid waters of easy-to-use, easy-to-understand Unix compared to the soaring big-brained eagles who can decypher the Windows "command line", or figure out how to get past the New Project dialog box in Visual Studio. I'm way too dumb to do that, which is why I stopped trying, and now I work on software which is much easier to understand -- self-configuring self-healing multi-node big data platforms. Compared to Windows, this stuff is a cake walk. Lo! How I wish I could be as brilliant as you Windows users! Lo! How ashamed I feel as a sad little peon compared to a person who can memorize the directory structure and target application of those 300,000 project templates! Alas, I am familiar with so few, such as the Maven project structure, which is dumbed down to the level of noobs like me. You, madam terjeber, have my utmost sincere respect.
It sounds awesome. Maybe I should check it out. Is it focused on streaming or is it more like a cache/download type of system? Well I guess I could just go look at the darn website instead of asking you to explain it to me. It's obviously a popular service so I'll go educate myself. Good luck, thanks.
That is informative but I want to point out that they start out with one base unit (albums) then move to a different base unit (songs). If an album is 10 songs, then the last few pink dots should be about 10 times smaller. Also, the graphic starts out with a unit of music sales and ends with music streams. If I play an album 100 times, then the last few pink dots should be another 100 times smaller. If you make those adjustments (dividing streaming pink dots by 1000), then those last few pink dots all fall into the range of the other pink dots, and the largest pink dot is iTunes downloaded MP3s.
I've never used Spotify, and I never worry about the legality of my enjoyment of human culture, but I do buy music regularly. I like to buy CDs used because I can usually get them for a few dollars (I use half.com but there are lots of other sites too), or buy a CD from the artist website. If you are legally scrupulous, and also financially pinched, you could always listen to the enormous amount of high-quality free music produced. Or you can get discs from friends when they are done with them -- I often pass on discs. If Spotify works for you, then by all means go with it, just remember it's hardly the only way.
I'm curious, what is your threshold for news expiration dates? To me, fifty hours means the news is still very fresh. For you, is it like one hour? five hours?
"a killing was unnecessary and should not have happened"
Okay, if we agree on this, then we agree on enough to say that it was a criminal homicide. "An unnecessary killing that should not have happened" is pretty much the definition of manslaughter, so okay, we're on the same page. We agree, very good, no need to argue.
Mmm hmmm. Yeah, I think that is implied too, don't you? It seems like you are searching for a way to be able to claim that this person fired for refusing to use an IDE was an innocent victim of an unreasonable request to use an IDE, which is possible sure but doesn't seem likely.
Do you want someone to tell you that there are situations where it's okay not to use an IDE? Okay, I'll tell you that. Fine, yes, we can contrive situations where an IDE isn't helpful. However, even though neither you nor I know the people in the purported situation, I think it's a safe bet that an IDE was an appropriate tool in that situation, and a butthead programmer stubbornly refused to learn how to use it.
Ah, yes, the metric system, where "kilogram" is a base unit but "kilometer" is a thousand base units, because if they stuck with grams then all the derived units would be even more preposterous than they already are. I say scrap the metric system and have a new system which uses base 12, for easy divisibility, and has non-retarded base units.
That's weird, that's the opposite of my experience. Here's how it always went for me with VS:
1. Start a new project. 1. (a) File -> New -> Project... 1. (b) WHAT THE FUCK THERE ARE 300,000 PROJECT TEMPLATES? WHAT THE FUCK IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A "WEB PROJECT" AND A "WEB APP" AND A "WEB SITE"? 1. (c) try "Empty Project", doesn't work 1. (d) weep, quit my job
Notice I never got to step 2, "write the first line of code". VS is the *perfect* IDE analogy to Windows.
"Eclipse not spamming.project and.classpath all over the place is just fabulous as well."
Amen, man, that's a shortcoming of Eclipse, which I mostly love. Those.classpath files are as annoying as those Mac.DS_STORE files. Someone should be assassinated for those files.
"Was the developer's code inferior in a way that an IDE would improve?"
is obviously "yes". It's sort of implied in the description.
Nobody would say "Gosh, Sergey, you are the most brilliant person I've ever met, you are like Neo rearranging reality with your code, and you've already made me a million dollars in productivity improvements during the first week you've worked here. Your output is unmatched among any mortals, but you're fired because you don't use an IDE, and nothing else matters."
I think a lot of programmers just don't refactor. Once they have a method name, that's it, forever and ever, no changes. To me that is negligent programming. Symbol names should be descriptive and useful and the description and use of methods often change. Refactoring tools is my #1 favorite feature of Eclipse (my fav IDE despite one frustrating bug), and I love lots of other features too.
The fact is Martin *did* walk away. Then he ran away. Then he hid. None of this was sufficient from deterring his stalker. He was hunted like an animal and murdered, just like Zimmerman had non-specifically planned long before that night, when he decided to become a vigilante. He wanted to kill someone and get away with it, and he was successful.
It's preposterous to say that Trayvon suddenly decided for no reason that instead of running away and hiding, oh what the heck I'll just go kill the cracker. It is preposterous, so George's story is preposterous, and only a preposterous person would believe that preposterous lie. If Trayvon wanted to start a fight with George, then he could have and would have done that before walking away, running away, and hiding from him.
"Oh, I know, I want to fight that guy, so I'll run away from him and hide. That's a super effective way to start a fight." That's nonsense.
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Having more candidates is only the solution if we have approval voting. If we have plurality voting, then a two-party system is best. ...but a two-party system is terrible, which is why we need approval voting.
Gore did win the election because he got the most votes in Florida.
How about, nothing?
You might need to be more specific, because if you went to Brown, that doesn't count. Pass/fail classes are for middle schools and community colleges; they have no place in the real Ivy League.
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Yes. (Do you want me to complain about ending a sentence with a preposition?)
Who/m is one of the things I think the English language is better without. The other thing I want the pedants to let go of us "beg the question". Common speakers have redefined that phrase and made it better, giving it a much more clear and useful meaning, and replacing the old meaning with the more descriptive phrase "circular reasoning".
I don't really care strongly about these things.
I've considered your proposal to equate what I said with what you said, and decided not to accept it.
'Whom' is archaic. Only pedants use it, and that has been true for a couple hundred years at least. Do you also insist on "thou" as a second-person pronoun? Do you complain that "curse" and "horse" are unacceptable bastardizations of "cuss" and "hoss"?
As a grammar nazi myself, I advise you to let this one go. The language is better without 'whom', and speakers have long since left it behind.
;-) it's okay, WV is also a hilarious state -- and so is Penn, by the way, for the areas outside Philadelphia.
I'm from Wisconsin which was always a reasonable and unfunny state, until a few years ago when we flipped into political loony land.
It's time to update your joke. In the 90s we all disdained West Virginia, but now the laughingstock state is Floriduh.
You are totally right. I'm just not smart enough to work with Microsoft products. People who can make Windows and Visual Studio function are like magical wizards compared to me. I am like a tadpole wallowing in the tepid waters of easy-to-use, easy-to-understand Unix compared to the soaring big-brained eagles who can decypher the Windows "command line", or figure out how to get past the New Project dialog box in Visual Studio. I'm way too dumb to do that, which is why I stopped trying, and now I work on software which is much easier to understand -- self-configuring self-healing multi-node big data platforms. Compared to Windows, this stuff is a cake walk. Lo! How I wish I could be as brilliant as you Windows users! Lo! How ashamed I feel as a sad little peon compared to a person who can memorize the directory structure and target application of those 300,000 project templates! Alas, I am familiar with so few, such as the Maven project structure, which is dumbed down to the level of noobs like me. You, madam terjeber, have my utmost sincere respect.
It sounds awesome. Maybe I should check it out. Is it focused on streaming or is it more like a cache/download type of system? Well I guess I could just go look at the darn website instead of asking you to explain it to me. It's obviously a popular service so I'll go educate myself. Good luck, thanks.
How does Spotify make money? I've never used it. Are there ads, or do you pay a little bit?
That is informative but I want to point out that they start out with one base unit (albums) then move to a different base unit (songs). If an album is 10 songs, then the last few pink dots should be about 10 times smaller. Also, the graphic starts out with a unit of music sales and ends with music streams. If I play an album 100 times, then the last few pink dots should be another 100 times smaller. If you make those adjustments (dividing streaming pink dots by 1000), then those last few pink dots all fall into the range of the other pink dots, and the largest pink dot is iTunes downloaded MP3s.
I've never used Spotify, and I never worry about the legality of my enjoyment of human culture, but I do buy music regularly. I like to buy CDs used because I can usually get them for a few dollars (I use half.com but there are lots of other sites too), or buy a CD from the artist website. If you are legally scrupulous, and also financially pinched, you could always listen to the enormous amount of high-quality free music produced. Or you can get discs from friends when they are done with them -- I often pass on discs. If Spotify works for you, then by all means go with it, just remember it's hardly the only way.
I'm curious, what is your threshold for news expiration dates? To me, fifty hours means the news is still very fresh. For you, is it like one hour? five hours?
"a killing was unnecessary and should not have happened"
Okay, if we agree on this, then we agree on enough to say that it was a criminal homicide. "An unnecessary killing that should not have happened" is pretty much the definition of manslaughter, so okay, we're on the same page. We agree, very good, no need to argue.
Mmm hmmm. Yeah, I think that is implied too, don't you? It seems like you are searching for a way to be able to claim that this person fired for refusing to use an IDE was an innocent victim of an unreasonable request to use an IDE, which is possible sure but doesn't seem likely.
Do you want someone to tell you that there are situations where it's okay not to use an IDE? Okay, I'll tell you that. Fine, yes, we can contrive situations where an IDE isn't helpful. However, even though neither you nor I know the people in the purported situation, I think it's a safe bet that an IDE was an appropriate tool in that situation, and a butthead programmer stubbornly refused to learn how to use it.
Vi? Emacs? What is this, 1986? Wake up, man, we've had BBEdit since the Clinton administration.
Ah, yes, the metric system, where "kilogram" is a base unit but "kilometer" is a thousand base units, because if they stuck with grams then all the derived units would be even more preposterous than they already are. I say scrap the metric system and have a new system which uses base 12, for easy divisibility, and has non-retarded base units.
MURIKA!
also Liberia
That's weird, that's the opposite of my experience. Here's how it always went for me with VS:
1. Start a new project.
1. (a) File -> New -> Project...
1. (b) WHAT THE FUCK THERE ARE 300,000 PROJECT TEMPLATES? WHAT THE FUCK IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A "WEB PROJECT" AND A "WEB APP" AND A "WEB SITE"?
1. (c) try "Empty Project", doesn't work
1. (d) weep, quit my job
Notice I never got to step 2, "write the first line of code". VS is the *perfect* IDE analogy to Windows.
"Eclipse not spamming .project and .classpath all over the place is just fabulous as well."
Amen, man, that's a shortcoming of Eclipse, which I mostly love. Those .classpath files are as annoying as those Mac .DS_STORE files. Someone should be assassinated for those files.
I respect all that, and I respect people who can build things with C++, but you just listed all the reasons I prefer Java to C++.
C# is a great language for a shit OS, so I'll never use it. I hope they add LINQ to Java, though.
I think this
"Was the developer's code inferior in a way that an IDE would improve?"
is obviously "yes". It's sort of implied in the description.
Nobody would say "Gosh, Sergey, you are the most brilliant person I've ever met, you are like Neo rearranging reality with your code, and you've already made me a million dollars in productivity improvements during the first week you've worked here. Your output is unmatched among any mortals, but you're fired because you don't use an IDE, and nothing else matters."
I think a lot of programmers just don't refactor. Once they have a method name, that's it, forever and ever, no changes. To me that is negligent programming. Symbol names should be descriptive and useful and the description and use of methods often change. Refactoring tools is my #1 favorite feature of Eclipse (my fav IDE despite one frustrating bug), and I love lots of other features too.
The fact is Martin *did* walk away. Then he ran away. Then he hid. None of this was sufficient from deterring his stalker. He was hunted like an animal and murdered, just like Zimmerman had non-specifically planned long before that night, when he decided to become a vigilante. He wanted to kill someone and get away with it, and he was successful.
It's preposterous to say that Trayvon suddenly decided for no reason that instead of running away and hiding, oh what the heck I'll just go kill the cracker. It is preposterous, so George's story is preposterous, and only a preposterous person would believe that preposterous lie. If Trayvon wanted to start a fight with George, then he could have and would have done that before walking away, running away, and hiding from him.
"Oh, I know, I want to fight that guy, so I'll run away from him and hide. That's a super effective way to start a fight." That's nonsense.