Teaching kids is way the fuck easier when there are fewer of them.
Talk to any teacher and they'll tell you that by far their most productive days are when half the kids are out sick with the flu or something—especially if it's the right kids.
I just wish people would stop using "she" for the genderless singular pronoun. It makes me think they're talking about someone specific and that I missed who it is, so I need to scan up. Very disruptive to reading.
At this point, I'd say using the plural pronoun "they" for double-duty as the singular-genderless is less jarring. Just give in and use it.
Shit, I spend more time reading docs, googling, staring in to space thinking about problems, and doodling ideas and flows on paper than I do actually coding. I'd think it would be hard for two programers' true coding time to line up well enough for pair programming to work, and you'd have to allow time for them to share any breakthroughs they'd had between sessions, unless you tried to pair-think too, which sounds annoying at best. Bouncing ideas off co-workers as necessary is one thing, but beyond that it seems counterproductive.
Maybe this works if you have a very top-down structure with an engineer/analyst up the chain handing you every single thing you need and defining in extremely precise terms how everything last detail should be implemented so there's nothing left to do but type, and maybe decide which kind of loop to use or whether to use switch/case versus if/else or whatever.
Yeah, my understanding was that the main threat from XSS was the ability of an attacker to run arbitrary Javascript on your site and thus masquerade as you to other users... which is unrelated to SQL injection.
In fact, as described, the "cross-site request forgery" sounds like exactly that sort of thing, with the unauthorized DB access coming as a result of that rather than the other way around. Not SQL injection at all. I too would like more details if it was, because that would be the first I've heard of a SQL injection attack that bypasses prepared statements/bound parameters.
I understand how rifling works, but I would think a spherical bullet would be less-affected by the lack of rifling than the now-standard dome shaped ones, as at least there's no definite front and back to them.
Could you use ordinary modern ammunition in a smoothbore, or would the shape of the bullet cause excessive tumbling and inaccuracy? Seems to me they might have to use powder+ball in these things, if there's no rifling.
For example I remember one person telling me about this new program they created to work with young criminals. He had suggested they give it to 50% of them, using the other as a control group. That was shot down in flames, of course this worked and no juvenile should go without such a program from now on. Did it work? Is this well spent money or a waste of resources? Who the fuck knows[....]
From what I've seen, the US educational system is terrible about doing that kind of shit.
Schools and school districts chase fads like crazy, often haphazardly ("that part makes me uncomfortable, so we'll just do the other stuff, never mind that bit's the piece that holds it all together and makes it work" or "it says do a little of this, so a lot must be better") and sweepingly ("deploy a radically different math curriculum from k-12 in two years? Sure, what could possibly go wrong?") and then they wonder why it didn't work, and move on to the next fad two or three years later.
Bonus fail: every time that happens they drop a pile of cash on training seminars and materials.
I wonder if other countries have that problem? I suspect most have more centralized control over those matters and tend not to flop around so much, saving money and saving their students from intellectual whiplash in the process.
Hospital bills for the uninsured are entirely made-up bullshit. They've got to be some kind of tax scam or similar asshattery.
My wife had a minor-ish surgery a couple months ago, and the amount insurance paid versus what they would have charged us without insurance was a bit under 25% (!!!!!!), and obviously the hospital's not losing money on that—in fact, judging from New Jersey's experience with simply saying "no" to annual insurance premium increases and all the magical savings that appeared out of nowhere at every level of their health care system, I'd guess even the 25% is an inflated, rents-seeking rate.
I've only played it on the PS3, but I think it's available on the 360, too.
It's Mario Kart with real cars and realistic (sort of...) tracks but all the usual powerups and general wackiness. Bonus, its version of the "blue shell" is way better than Mario Kart's.
Wow... I have never seen a more bizarre, confusing, cantankerous user interface. I couldn't figure out how to do anything, and I couldn't figure out what Amarok was trying to do.
Huh, sounds like the UI "designers" from The GIMP finally moved on to another project. Must be why it's (slowly) getting better.
Single-payer, for instance, would be a bigger boon to entrepreneurship, job mobility, and (actual) small businesses than any tax cut proposal the right (or left, for that matter) has put forth. Even better, if it's done right (so, at least as well as it is in the very worst system of that sort in the industrialized world, since they all spend less than we do) it'd cut costs for everyone, including big businesses.
So two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. Two cheers are quite enough: there is no occasion to give three.
Now both Google and Apple need to add (and enforce membership of) a category for free apps that are just demos for their paid counterparts.
If the free version doesn't have enough functionality that a typical user would keep it around without buying addons or upgrading to the paid one, off to the "Demos" category it goes.
... and hope a fairly large number of others don't agree to them, or you'll have no alternative source for the service.
Of course, that state of limitation of practical freedoms occurs "naturally" as a result of market action, so clearly it's fair and just, while a government action prohibiting douchebag behavior to make purchase and contract decisions easier (you know the ways they can fuck you are at least somewhat limited) and improve just about everyone's interactions with the market are tyrannical abominations that must be stopped.
Further, lack of access to infinite time and resources to thoroughly research every purchase option and contract is a failing of the individual. Government action aimed at overcoming the lack of perfect knowledge in the markets by establishing baselines of expected service and behavior are communist market interference.
God, free-market worshippers are annoying. It's like they're proud of their ignorance.
It continues to amaze me that modern "light weight" operating systems are so much more resource hungry BeOS was, doing essentially the same tasks—especially since they get to offload so much basic UI work to the graphics chip!
My phone's much more powerful than my old Pentium 133Mhz machine w/ 64MB RAM (luxury, I know) was, yet BeOS on that clunker was 100x more responsive and less prone to weird UI bugs, brief hangs, and outright lockups than my Android phone. iOS is (a lot) better, but still very greedy and bloated by comparison.
Then again, it ran circles around its contemporaries in the desktop operating system arena (including Linux), so maybe it was just so good that it's asking too much to expect even a company with vast resources to write something comparably nimble and capable.
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So when is the gcc port going to be finished?
That sounds complaint-to-administrators worthy.
Wikipedia says the second one is:
"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."
Which is subtly, but IMO importantly, different.
Though perhaps he said or wrote both things separately.
Lots of teachers work a second (shitty, low-paying) job in the summers.
Better be prepared to raise their pay.
Teaching kids is way the fuck easier when there are fewer of them.
Talk to any teacher and they'll tell you that by far their most productive days are when half the kids are out sick with the flu or something—especially if it's the right kids.
Welcome to the curse of being someone who reads and enjoys science fiction, but doesn't exclusively read sci-fi (or fantasy).
It's also a bigger pain in the ass.
There's something to be said for decent developer tools and APIs.
I just wish people would stop using "she" for the genderless singular pronoun. It makes me think they're talking about someone specific and that I missed who it is, so I need to scan up. Very disruptive to reading.
At this point, I'd say using the plural pronoun "they" for double-duty as the singular-genderless is less jarring. Just give in and use it.
Same with tickets for moving violations.
Shit, I spend more time reading docs, googling, staring in to space thinking about problems, and doodling ideas and flows on paper than I do actually coding. I'd think it would be hard for two programers' true coding time to line up well enough for pair programming to work, and you'd have to allow time for them to share any breakthroughs they'd had between sessions, unless you tried to pair-think too, which sounds annoying at best. Bouncing ideas off co-workers as necessary is one thing, but beyond that it seems counterproductive.
Maybe this works if you have a very top-down structure with an engineer/analyst up the chain handing you every single thing you need and defining in extremely precise terms how everything last detail should be implemented so there's nothing left to do but type, and maybe decide which kind of loop to use or whether to use switch/case versus if/else or whatever.
Yeah, my understanding was that the main threat from XSS was the ability of an attacker to run arbitrary Javascript on your site and thus masquerade as you to other users... which is unrelated to SQL injection.
In fact, as described, the "cross-site request forgery" sounds like exactly that sort of thing, with the unauthorized DB access coming as a result of that rather than the other way around. Not SQL injection at all. I too would like more details if it was, because that would be the first I've heard of a SQL injection attack that bypasses prepared statements/bound parameters.
I understand how rifling works, but I would think a spherical bullet would be less-affected by the lack of rifling than the now-standard dome shaped ones, as at least there's no definite front and back to them.
Could you use ordinary modern ammunition in a smoothbore, or would the shape of the bullet cause excessive tumbling and inaccuracy? Seems to me they might have to use powder+ball in these things, if there's no rifling.
From what I've seen, the US educational system is terrible about doing that kind of shit.
Schools and school districts chase fads like crazy, often haphazardly ("that part makes me uncomfortable, so we'll just do the other stuff, never mind that bit's the piece that holds it all together and makes it work" or "it says do a little of this, so a lot must be better") and sweepingly ("deploy a radically different math curriculum from k-12 in two years? Sure, what could possibly go wrong?") and then they wonder why it didn't work, and move on to the next fad two or three years later.
Bonus fail: every time that happens they drop a pile of cash on training seminars and materials.
I wonder if other countries have that problem? I suspect most have more centralized control over those matters and tend not to flop around so much, saving money and saving their students from intellectual whiplash in the process.
Hospital bills for the uninsured are entirely made-up bullshit. They've got to be some kind of tax scam or similar asshattery.
My wife had a minor-ish surgery a couple months ago, and the amount insurance paid versus what they would have charged us without insurance was a bit under 25% (!!!!!!), and obviously the hospital's not losing money on that—in fact, judging from New Jersey's experience with simply saying "no" to annual insurance premium increases and all the magical savings that appeared out of nowhere at every level of their health care system, I'd guess even the 25% is an inflated, rents-seeking rate.
It's called Blur.
I've only played it on the PS3, but I think it's available on the 360, too.
It's Mario Kart with real cars and realistic (sort of...) tracks but all the usual powerups and general wackiness. Bonus, its version of the "blue shell" is way better than Mario Kart's.
Huh, sounds like the UI "designers" from The GIMP finally moved on to another project. Must be why it's (slowly) getting better.
Bingo.
Single-payer, for instance, would be a bigger boon to entrepreneurship, job mobility, and (actual) small businesses than any tax cut proposal the right (or left, for that matter) has put forth. Even better, if it's done right (so, at least as well as it is in the very worst system of that sort in the industrialized world, since they all spend less than we do) it'd cut costs for everyone, including big businesses.
Too bad that would be evil socialism, I guess.
# cd /
# sudo git init
# sudo git add .
# sudo git commit -av -m "Git filesystem is a go"
— E.M. Forster, "Two Cheers for Democracy"
Now both Google and Apple need to add (and enforce membership of) a category for free apps that are just demos for their paid counterparts.
If the free version doesn't have enough functionality that a typical user would keep it around without buying addons or upgrading to the paid one, off to the "Demos" category it goes.
Than Android? Than Windows and Linux in the same time period?
To either I say: hahahahahaha.
... and hope a fairly large number of others don't agree to them, or you'll have no alternative source for the service.
Of course, that state of limitation of practical freedoms occurs "naturally" as a result of market action, so clearly it's fair and just, while a government action prohibiting douchebag behavior to make purchase and contract decisions easier (you know the ways they can fuck you are at least somewhat limited) and improve just about everyone's interactions with the market are tyrannical abominations that must be stopped.
Further, lack of access to infinite time and resources to thoroughly research every purchase option and contract is a failing of the individual. Government action aimed at overcoming the lack of perfect knowledge in the markets by establishing baselines of expected service and behavior are communist market interference.
God, free-market worshippers are annoying. It's like they're proud of their ignorance.
It continues to amaze me that modern "light weight" operating systems are so much more resource hungry BeOS was, doing essentially the same tasks—especially since they get to offload so much basic UI work to the graphics chip!
My phone's much more powerful than my old Pentium 133Mhz machine w/ 64MB RAM (luxury, I know) was, yet BeOS on that clunker was 100x more responsive and less prone to weird UI bugs, brief hangs, and outright lockups than my Android phone. iOS is (a lot) better, but still very greedy and bloated by comparison.
Then again, it ran circles around its contemporaries in the desktop operating system arena (including Linux), so maybe it was just so good that it's asking too much to expect even a company with vast resources to write something comparably nimble and capable.
Yep.