Yes, this requirement blows goats. But it is clear and straightforward.
It blows goats for both legitimate business (sort of—it creates a safer, consistent marketplace, which is a big part of why people are willing to spend money buying software and media on their iDevices, and that doesn't blow goats. Actually, I'd say it's a net benefit for most businesses) and for scammers.
It's good for Apple (obviously) and for most users most of the time.
It's worth $80 not to have Android 4.x's stupid, giant menu bar wasting pixels and bouncing you out of your apps when you accidentally touch it while trying to swipe, or just when a thumb rolls on to the screen while you're holding it.
Seriously thinking of starting my own company - but the IP battles (and $$$$$$$$$) with McKesson don't appeal to me.
Pft, please.
Just do what every other startup moving in to an established space does: don't aim to compete, aim to be annoying enough (and to have a good enough product) that it's a better business move for one of the big guys to simply buy you rather than ruining you in court.
Most of us are no good at judging literature and consider Dan Brown to be a totally kickass author?
Lots of us go to church so we're used to really boring, repetitive, preachy monologues full of unjustifiable logical leaps and question-begging?
Political science and theory education is all but non-existant outside of university major programs specializing in those areas? Ditto general philosophy and reasoning.
I don't understand austerity; is the idea "sacrifice tomorrow to pay for today"? I bet that will work about as well as it sounds.
It seems to me that people in power have decided that the prevailing wisdom that "austerity" caused a deepening of the Great Depression and the stagflation of the '70s is bullshit, or that it's true but for other reasons they'd prefer to say it's not.
- Redhat (briefly) - Mandrake - Debian (briefly) - Gentoo - Ubuntu - Fuck Linux on the desktop, whatever's easiest to stick in VirtualBox on Windows in case I need to do real work there rather than just play games. OSX when actual money is involved. Linux on the server. I don't really give a damn which distro.
It's been a long journey, from confusion to love to eventual hate and resentment.
If by "electoral college system" you mean "awarding most states' electoral votes in a winner-(of that state)-take-all manner", then yes, it is a major contributor to our de facto two party system.
The electoral college itself is stupid for other reasons, though, notably that it has all the problems of a simple popular election and more, with no clear benefit.
Like much of our American system, the idea of choosing representatives to handle the actual selection of the president is very sensible—it is and always has been ridiculous to expect the average person to be competent to make that choice directly—but the implementation failed to account for the adaptability of douchebaggery and it was neutered almost immediately to become the direct-by-proxy popularity contest bullshit we still see today.
Also, neither of our current parties lean toward the center. One is center-right, the other is far right, and both seem to move farther right with each passing year. We're to the point where the bulk of mainstream Republicans' policy ideas and plans from (at least) the last half century are portrayed as being to the left of Marx.
You cut your electricity bill. That's why you're paying less money: less electricity.
You can't invent heat. It came from somewhere. The system has to be less than 100% efficient *unless you added some from somewhere else*. Claims of higher than 100% are science fiction. You did something else, like had sunshine, body heat, or some other source. You only get 100% max. That's all there is.
Holy god, where's the -1 Jackass mod when you need it?
It's fine as long as you make sure you don't go over about 500 lines of code. It's well suited for cheap, single-task listening worker processes that you need to be able to spawn or kill at a moment's notice. Very Unixy, in that regard.
I do agree that it's goddamn stupid to use it to do anything that a traditional language + Apache/Nginx could do just as well. And of course we could all just learn Erlang and the world would be a better place, certainly.
(function() {
var MarketingFunction = new function (options, callback) {
var revisedText = new String(options.originalText + "!!!!");
callback(revisedText);
}
Function.prototype.toString = MarketingFunction; });
Then again this is Nintendo. I still don't have 2 nun-chucks because of the ridiculous high prices they ask.
Yeah, left out of the price discussion last generation was how much it cost to outfit any of the rigs for four local players.
Wiimote+nunchuck+classic controller X 4 versus 4 X 360 or PS3 controllers and suddenly the prices aren't so different, especially when you consider how fast the Wii controllers eat batteries and the fact that you're probably going to want a charger with battery packs. Then there's the "light bar" which is worthless shit in any room bigger than a typical Tokyo apartment living room, so there's a chance you'll need to buy a better 3rd-party one of those... all in all, when I got my Wii I felt like a sucker within an hour, while neither of the other consoles made me feel that way—and that's before I got sick of the RSI-inducing motion controls and started just doing wrist-flicking for everything, like all players eventually do, defeating the whole purpose of all that controller clutter.
Of course, the Kinect and Move sort-of evened things out later in the life cycle (if you care about those—I don't).
I really wish they'd just re-done the controllers for this one, since the Wii has hands-down my least favorite ones of any console I've owned, though the classic controller(s) are very nice if you're doing something other than using them with a Wii (say, plugging them in to a PC via USB).
Unrelatedly, I also find it bizarre that Nintendo went from having the most-portable console last generation to by far the least-portable one this generation.
I'm willing to chalk up a lot of my dislike of Javascript to preference, but its broken-ass scoping is so bad that "fine" is not an adjective that can be used to describe it.
Its next biggest problem IMO is how often libraries blindly modify built-in objects, but that has more to do with the culture surrounding the language than the language itself.
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It blows goats for both legitimate business (sort of—it creates a safer, consistent marketplace, which is a big part of why people are willing to spend money buying software and media on their iDevices, and that doesn't blow goats. Actually, I'd say it's a net benefit for most businesses) and for scammers.
It's good for Apple (obviously) and for most users most of the time.
It's worth $80 not to have Android 4.x's stupid, giant menu bar wasting pixels and bouncing you out of your apps when you accidentally touch it while trying to swipe, or just when a thumb rolls on to the screen while you're holding it.
Jesus Christ, another one?
Long S
Are you trolling, or are you seriously not aware of the Long S?
It was used when a lower-case S occurred anywhere but the end of a word, much like the two lower case forms of the greek letter sigma.
Damn. I gotta put up a Craigslist ad.
Does he at least do some custom skinning/theming, or is it purely pointy-clicky Wordpress installation and ticking a few boxes on the settings page?
Pft, please.
Just do what every other startup moving in to an established space does: don't aim to compete, aim to be annoying enough (and to have a good enough product) that it's a better business move for one of the big guys to simply buy you rather than ruining you in court.
Most of us are no good at judging literature and consider Dan Brown to be a totally kickass author?
Lots of us go to church so we're used to really boring, repetitive, preachy monologues full of unjustifiable logical leaps and question-begging?
Political science and theory education is all but non-existant outside of university major programs specializing in those areas? Ditto general philosophy and reasoning.
Don't skip Salinger.
Skip Raise High the Roofbeams and Seymour, an Introduction. Never, ever, ever read it. Ugh.
Skip Catcher.
Read Nine Stories, then read Franny and Zooey if you loved that.
If you loved both, maybe circle back and try Catcher after all.
If you loved all three of those... still don't read Raise High....
Seriously? Might as well throw The Hunger Games and Harry Potter on the list too, then.
It's decent juvi-fic, but life altering?
It seems to me that people in power have decided that the prevailing wisdom that "austerity" caused a deepening of the Great Depression and the stagflation of the '70s is bullshit, or that it's true but for other reasons they'd prefer to say it's not.
I guess we get to learn that lesson again. Yay.
The thing about CoffeeScript is that it sucks almost as much as Javascript, but it does it in half the lines, so point: CoffeeScript.
Please do.
- Redhat (briefly)
- Mandrake
- Debian (briefly)
- Gentoo
- Ubuntu
- Fuck Linux on the desktop, whatever's easiest to stick in VirtualBox on Windows in case I need to do real work there rather than just play games. OSX when actual money is involved. Linux on the server. I don't really give a damn which distro.
It's been a long journey, from confusion to love to eventual hate and resentment.
If by "electoral college system" you mean "awarding most states' electoral votes in a winner-(of that state)-take-all manner", then yes, it is a major contributor to our de facto two party system.
The electoral college itself is stupid for other reasons, though, notably that it has all the problems of a simple popular election and more, with no clear benefit.
Like much of our American system, the idea of choosing representatives to handle the actual selection of the president is very sensible—it is and always has been ridiculous to expect the average person to be competent to make that choice directly—but the implementation failed to account for the adaptability of douchebaggery and it was neutered almost immediately to become the direct-by-proxy popularity contest bullshit we still see today.
Also, neither of our current parties lean toward the center. One is center-right, the other is far right, and both seem to move farther right with each passing year. We're to the point where the bulk of mainstream Republicans' policy ideas and plans from (at least) the last half century are portrayed as being to the left of Marx.
So fraud's fine as long as the buyer doesn't notice?
I think you mean 1997, October 1
The END DAY
Holy god, where's the -1 Jackass mod when you need it?
Or FTPS, even.
It's fine as long as you make sure you don't go over about 500 lines of code. It's well suited for cheap, single-task listening worker processes that you need to be able to spawn or kill at a moment's notice. Very Unixy, in that regard.
I do agree that it's goddamn stupid to use it to do anything that a traditional language + Apache/Nginx could do just as well. And of course we could all just learn Erlang and the world would be a better place, certainly.
Here, I fixed it for you:
(function() {
var MarketingFunction = new function (options, callback) {
var revisedText = new String(options.originalText + "!!!!");
callback(revisedText);
}
Function.prototype.toString = MarketingFunction;
});
You can get a Gamecube for, like, $30, and that's if you don't shop around for a good deal.
Yeah, left out of the price discussion last generation was how much it cost to outfit any of the rigs for four local players.
Wiimote+nunchuck+classic controller X 4 versus 4 X 360 or PS3 controllers and suddenly the prices aren't so different, especially when you consider how fast the Wii controllers eat batteries and the fact that you're probably going to want a charger with battery packs. Then there's the "light bar" which is worthless shit in any room bigger than a typical Tokyo apartment living room, so there's a chance you'll need to buy a better 3rd-party one of those... all in all, when I got my Wii I felt like a sucker within an hour, while neither of the other consoles made me feel that way—and that's before I got sick of the RSI-inducing motion controls and started just doing wrist-flicking for everything, like all players eventually do, defeating the whole purpose of all that controller clutter.
Of course, the Kinect and Move sort-of evened things out later in the life cycle (if you care about those—I don't).
I really wish they'd just re-done the controllers for this one, since the Wii has hands-down my least favorite ones of any console I've owned, though the classic controller(s) are very nice if you're doing something other than using them with a Wii (say, plugging them in to a PC via USB).
Unrelatedly, I also find it bizarre that Nintendo went from having the most-portable console last generation to by far the least-portable one this generation.
I'm willing to chalk up a lot of my dislike of Javascript to preference, but its broken-ass scoping is so bad that "fine" is not an adjective that can be used to describe it.
Its next biggest problem IMO is how often libraries blindly modify built-in objects, but that has more to do with the culture surrounding the language than the language itself.
Man, if I had a nickel for every time I'd had to design a query language that doesn't allow queries which will have EXPTIME complexity...