Sorry, but no. Canned beer is worse than bottled beer is worse than tap beer.
1. Be willing to admit that you might be wrong;
2. Post the results of a blind taste test, between the same beer in a can and a bottle;
3. Wonder why your post was mod'ed "Insightful".
Beer tastes better from a can, by a lot. The seal of the metal cap on a glass bottle is inferior to the metal-on-metal seal of a can. So, in addition to less UV radiation (fluorescent lights, Sun) reaching the isomerized hop alpha acids through the glass of a bottle, a metal can just plain ol' keeps more oxygen out. And that helps keep your beer fresh. Don't just take my word for it, though!.. Try a blind can-vs-bottle test, of the exact same beers, for yourself. It's really interesting.
I agree with you. You also hint at a potential limitation of science, itself: That we, as humans, may not even be capable of observing/measuring/verifying all things. --- What discipline, then, would any thing or phenomenon, falling outside of science's limitations, be encompassed by?
Your answer is very utilitarian. What's going to be the penalty for breaking the rules and having an unauthorized child? What about two unauthorized children, or three?
Speaking of utilitarian thought, here's the abstract from a recent paper on the subject (the full version is paywalled, here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027711001351) --->
"Researchers have recently argued that utilitarianism is the appropriate framework by which to evaluate moral judgment, and that individuals who endorse non-utilitarian solutions to moral dilemmas (involving active vs. passive harm) are committing an error. We report a study in which participants responded to a battery of personality assessments and a set of dilemmas that pit utilitarian and non-utilitarian options against each other. Participants who indicated greater endorsement of utilitarian solutions had higher scores on measures of Psychopathy, machiavellianism, and life meaninglessness. These results question the widely-used methods by which lay moral judgments are evaluated, as these approaches lead to the counterintuitive conclusion that those individuals who are least prone to moral errors also possess a set of psychological characteristics that many would consider prototypically immoral."
We're using a four node Riak cluster, in a production environment spanning two datacenters, and have zero downtime because we can lose two nodes (for example, a whole datacenter) and still read/write. Maybe CouchDB can do that; maybe it can't. Maybe our setup isn't even the best. But, as many people have already pointed out, there is a time and a place for a NoSQL solution, and you can have "near zero" (or, so far for us, zero) downtime.
Here's the catch: We are using Secondary Indexing and MapReduce, in Riak, but for searchable analytics we fire off a stripped dataset to a smaller, less-redundant MySQL store.
As an active software developer and college undergrad, I tried Udacity's CS101. It was embarassing, from a professional perspective. From a unicorn and rainbow perspective, it was kind of neat, and I began to drink the koolaid... until I realized that their automated grading system was written poorly, choking on Python code that was barely creative. I pointed this out in their StackExchange-like "forums", only to be immediately engaged by the Python defenders who called me "un pythonic" for building a reusable class library. Sigh.
I use Riak in production and, while it is notably-slow, I appreciate its fault-tolerance. I wonder if HyperDex is just as resilient?
Also, Riak 1.1 just came out, finally adding management and diagnostics. Secondary indexing may not be as fast as HyperDex, but, depending on the design, "crashproof-ness" can come out the winner.
Why is this going to foreign-intel-target Raytheon and not to an under-the-table-paid casual gaming studio spinoff/black team? Think Raytheon is subcontracting this?
Yeah, some of Intel uses command line compiles from huge batch / script files; everything is sent to network shares. It's a disaster.
IDEs should have a "design mentality", a la Steve Jobs. A 12 year old girl should be able to fire up a programming IDE, watch some tutorials, and write her first program in an evening.
I am biased toward IDEs with an excellent design. Visual Studio and Xcode are both "okay", in my opinion, and I use both. Back in the day, I enjoyed working in Borland's TurboXXXX IDEs, actually. I always wished there had been a good one for assembly.
Eclipse is the worst environment I've ever seen. I'd rather use vi over a 2400 baud connection, and I'm not even joking.
It's not at all good for a newbie picking up a language.
Steer them toward a tech-related college, along the lines of UAT or Full Sail. Don't tell them about the negatives; they need to find them out for themselves, in the context of their own future experiences. Encourage them to develop a passion for programming, as if it were an emotional connection to others, in their own spare time.
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Sorry, but no. Canned beer is worse than bottled beer is worse than tap beer.
1. Be willing to admit that you might be wrong; 2. Post the results of a blind taste test, between the same beer in a can and a bottle; 3. Wonder why your post was mod'ed "Insightful".
Beer tastes better from a can, by a lot. The seal of the metal cap on a glass bottle is inferior to the metal-on-metal seal of a can. So, in addition to less UV radiation (fluorescent lights, Sun) reaching the isomerized hop alpha acids through the glass of a bottle, a metal can just plain ol' keeps more oxygen out. And that helps keep your beer fresh. Don't just take my word for it, though!.. Try a blind can-vs-bottle test, of the exact same beers, for yourself. It's really interesting.
Poop Deck.
I would happily throw 90% of the human race under a bus for a working warp drive.
:) I want to see what the people look like who modded your comment 'Insightful'.
I've seen Elon Musk speak in public, elsewhere, and he was pretty confident. Shrug. Must have just been a bad day for him on The Daily Show.
Access to the UDID is deprecated. iOS developers now have to generate and maintain their own UUID, which can of course be wiped by the phone owner. The reason for this, at least partly, is so phones aren't permanently tied to service X or Y when the device changes ownership. --- http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#DOCUMENTATION/UIKit/Reference/UIDevice_Class/DeprecationAppendix/AppendixADeprecatedAPI.html
I agree with you. You also hint at a potential limitation of science, itself: That we, as humans, may not even be capable of observing/measuring/verifying all things. --- What discipline, then, would any thing or phenomenon, falling outside of science's limitations, be encompassed by?
You, my friend, are a logical person.
Your answer is very utilitarian. What's going to be the penalty for breaking the rules and having an unauthorized child? What about two unauthorized children, or three? Speaking of utilitarian thought, here's the abstract from a recent paper on the subject (the full version is paywalled, here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027711001351) ---> "Researchers have recently argued that utilitarianism is the appropriate framework by which to evaluate moral judgment, and that individuals who endorse non-utilitarian solutions to moral dilemmas (involving active vs. passive harm) are committing an error. We report a study in which participants responded to a battery of personality assessments and a set of dilemmas that pit utilitarian and non-utilitarian options against each other. Participants who indicated greater endorsement of utilitarian solutions had higher scores on measures of Psychopathy, machiavellianism, and life meaninglessness. These results question the widely-used methods by which lay moral judgments are evaluated, as these approaches lead to the counterintuitive conclusion that those individuals who are least prone to moral errors also possess a set of psychological characteristics that many would consider prototypically immoral."
Sure, until someone hacks the "real time vodka infuser".... (shudder) oh, the horrible possibilities....
When I think of the movie Tron, or any similar story where a subject is disassembled and reassembled, via computer, I think of stuff like this.
We're using a four node Riak cluster, in a production environment spanning two datacenters, and have zero downtime because we can lose two nodes (for example, a whole datacenter) and still read/write. Maybe CouchDB can do that; maybe it can't. Maybe our setup isn't even the best. But, as many people have already pointed out, there is a time and a place for a NoSQL solution, and you can have "near zero" (or, so far for us, zero) downtime. Here's the catch: We are using Secondary Indexing and MapReduce, in Riak, but for searchable analytics we fire off a stripped dataset to a smaller, less-redundant MySQL store.
As an active software developer and college undergrad, I tried Udacity's CS101. It was embarassing, from a professional perspective. From a unicorn and rainbow perspective, it was kind of neat, and I began to drink the koolaid... until I realized that their automated grading system was written poorly, choking on Python code that was barely creative. I pointed this out in their StackExchange-like "forums", only to be immediately engaged by the Python defenders who called me "un pythonic" for building a reusable class library. Sigh.
I use Riak in production and, while it is notably-slow, I appreciate its fault-tolerance. I wonder if HyperDex is just as resilient? Also, Riak 1.1 just came out, finally adding management and diagnostics. Secondary indexing may not be as fast as HyperDex, but, depending on the design, "crashproof-ness" can come out the winner.
Why is this going to foreign-intel-target Raytheon and not to an under-the-table-paid casual gaming studio spinoff/black team? Think Raytheon is subcontracting this?
Yeah, some of Intel uses command line compiles from huge batch / script files; everything is sent to network shares. It's a disaster. IDEs should have a "design mentality", a la Steve Jobs. A 12 year old girl should be able to fire up a programming IDE, watch some tutorials, and write her first program in an evening.
I am biased toward IDEs with an excellent design. Visual Studio and Xcode are both "okay", in my opinion, and I use both. Back in the day, I enjoyed working in Borland's TurboXXXX IDEs, actually. I always wished there had been a good one for assembly.
Eclipse is the worst environment I've ever seen. I'd rather use vi over a 2400 baud connection, and I'm not even joking. It's not at all good for a newbie picking up a language.
Steer them toward a tech-related college, along the lines of UAT or Full Sail. Don't tell them about the negatives; they need to find them out for themselves, in the context of their own future experiences. Encourage them to develop a passion for programming, as if it were an emotional connection to others, in their own spare time.
Agreed! Programming is neither science or the commonly-understood definition of engineering. It's more like "painting efficiently" using words.
Reading the documentation and how-to's on the Opa website reminds me of talking to the Orz in Star Control II / Ur-Quan Masters.