Abolish the electoral college... and no candidate for US Presidency will ever set foot in Montana again
I feel like a Libertarian for saying this, but since this country was founded on the notion of "one person, one vote" it makes sense that sparsely populated states should matter little to presidential candidates.
You didn't get it. He was referring to a woman's influence specifically in the microcosmic world of the creative male (complete with counterexamples I might add). Go back and read it again. Those points were damn near impossible to refute, especially from the knee-jerk feminist circles who were FAR more interested in labels than debate. Some of the best contemperary literature I've ever read.
I agree, but perhaps Safari's niche won't be replacing their dead tree counterparts, but acting as a try-before-you-buy library. Your local library probably doesn't buy a copy of every new tech book that comes out, and even if it did you can't perform a search against a shelf of books.
The monthly fee isn't peanuts, but if I'm starting a new project using a language I haven't used yet, I can fork over the 20 bucks for 5 books and find the best Python book out there, then try a few others as well.
If this takes off, hopefully it will raise eyebrows at the MPAA and RIAA as to how an online service should be run (printing allowed, emailing content to friends, etc)
Your code will be more readable if you use underscores in your variable names;)
As long as we're on the topic of books, Code Complete is an outstanding book on writing readable, maintainable code (don't let 'Microsoft Press' fool you, Windows systems programmers probably HAVEN'T read this one)
A long article with some stupid errors like saying developers code with UML
Is it any wonder Pud used Fastcompany as the parody basis for his better site?
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Hey, does anyone have a walkthrough for Swordquest: Earthworld? Basically you had to experiment by carrying different items into different coloured rooms and hope you stumbled onto the right combination (there were about 100,000 possible combinations IIRC). Thinking back to that game, it would be cool to finally finish it almost 20 years later - the most clues I ever found was 2 out of (I believe) 12.
Yes this was a brutal game, but I kind of liked the challenege that was like Frogger where you had to jump on logs to get to the top of the screen
with locations in either airports, railway stations or bus terminals in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Kingston.
OK, I understand those other cities, but last time I checked, mullet-sporting, wraparound-sunglass-wearing, Camaro-driving guys named Darren didn't care much about WiFi access....
Seriously this would be the US equivalent of debuting new technology in New York, LA, Chicago and Gary IN.
I have a feeling we all (command line jockeys, that is) do this to some extent. For me, I type pwd after practically every cd even though I know exactly what directory I'm in. I think it has something to do with busy fingers helping the mind concentrate on the task at hand.
I am an O'Reilly fan but I found Linux in a Nutshell to be startlingly lame. Most of it is taken up by a rehash of the man page entries for all of the common Linux shell commands (grep, cat, tar, ln,...) There are plenty of free resources (including said man pages) that you can use to find out which arguments do what for a given command.
I liked Linux Firewalls quite a bit. Network security is more hobby than profession for me, but this book's progression made it easy (for me) to get the hang of ipchains and iptables.
The feature that makes IE unusable for me is the lack of gesture recognition. It took me all of 11 seconds to get used to "swiping" a page back. Now I can't bear the wait while I move the pointer all the way up to that Back button.
I'm guessing you havent played the game, because it's not very "twitchy". Just prepare your army when you go into battle and be ready to cast spells and maneuvre troops as the battle is going on - in Starcraft oftentimes units would be dead when you tried to cast one of their spells or move them back from the front line. The game is designed so that battles last MUCH longer than Warcraft 2 or Starcraft, so getting off a spell, or "dancing" your huntresses so they survive is much easier (I just learned how good the Lich's Frost Nova spell is last night). Can you name an RTS that fits your ideal description?
Ditto for me. I have some mod points but I'm wary about up-modding because I'm worried I'll get meta-moderated into oblivion. But that really is some hilarious stuff, so I'll vote with a 'me too' instead of a +1
I second your comment, and I strongly disagree with timothy implying that intro CS students should not have to think through and code their own bubble sort. In CS as in any other discipline, the foundations are CRITICAL for further success in later semesters. You cannot breeze through CS101 with only a half-assed understanding of arrays and switch statements. You will need this stuff later, no way around it.
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A classic! Bravo to you sir, that's the best I've seen in some time.
*stands on desk and cheers*
Abolish the electoral college... and no candidate for US Presidency will ever set foot in Montana again
I feel like a Libertarian for saying this, but since this country was founded on the notion of "one person, one vote" it makes sense that sparsely populated states should matter little to presidential candidates.
You didn't get it. He was referring to a woman's influence specifically in the microcosmic world of the creative male (complete with counterexamples I might add). Go back and read it again. Those points were damn near impossible to refute, especially from the knee-jerk feminist circles who were FAR more interested in labels than debate. Some of the best contemperary literature I've ever read.
Try telling that to Piggy. F**king boulder-drop h4xx0rz
I agree, but perhaps Safari's niche won't be replacing their dead tree counterparts, but acting as a try-before-you-buy library. Your local library probably doesn't buy a copy of every new tech book that comes out, and even if it did you can't perform a search against a shelf of books.
The monthly fee isn't peanuts, but if I'm starting a new project using a language I haven't used yet, I can fork over the 20 bucks for 5 books and find the best Python book out there, then try a few others as well.
If this takes off, hopefully it will raise eyebrows at the MPAA and RIAA as to how an online service should be run (printing allowed, emailing content to friends, etc)
Keep in mind, they are selling to a lot of skinflint music stealers - not exactly big money-spenders. I wonder if advertisers consider that?
But the "companies" that sell black market satellite dishes would target their demographic nicely!
Can someone please tell me what the hell is that R doing there in Infogrames???
for (;;) { unemployed-again() }
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Your code will be more readable if you use underscores in your variable names
As long as we're on the topic of books, Code Complete is an outstanding book on writing readable, maintainable code (don't let 'Microsoft Press' fool you, Windows systems programmers probably HAVEN'T read this one)
A long article with some stupid errors like saying developers code with UML
Is it any wonder Pud used Fastcompany as the parody basis for his better site?
Hey, does anyone have a walkthrough for Swordquest: Earthworld? Basically you had to experiment by carrying different items into different coloured rooms and hope you stumbled onto the right combination (there were about 100,000 possible combinations IIRC). Thinking back to that game, it would be cool to finally finish it almost 20 years later - the most clues I ever found was 2 out of (I believe) 12.
Yes this was a brutal game, but I kind of liked the challenege that was like Frogger where you had to jump on logs to get to the top of the screen
What, you think all the Terminators look alike?
If you've played T2: The Arcade Game then you know the answer is yes.
with locations in either airports, railway stations or bus terminals in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Kingston.
OK, I understand those other cities, but last time I checked, mullet-sporting, wraparound-sunglass-wearing, Camaro-driving guys named Darren didn't care much about WiFi access....
Seriously this would be the US equivalent of debuting new technology in New York, LA, Chicago and Gary IN.
I have a feeling we all (command line jockeys, that is) do this to some extent. For me, I type pwd after practically every cd even though I know exactly what directory I'm in. I think it has something to do with busy fingers helping the mind concentrate on the task at hand.
I am an O'Reilly fan but I found Linux in a Nutshell to be startlingly lame. Most of it is taken up by a rehash of the man page entries for all of the common Linux shell commands (grep, cat, tar, ln, ...) There are plenty of free resources (including said man pages) that you can use to find out which arguments do what for a given command.
I liked Linux Firewalls quite a bit. Network security is more hobby than profession for me, but this book's progression made it easy (for me) to get the hang of ipchains and iptables.
Dude, that story made my day. Glad to hear karma really does work out the way it's supposed to sometimes (my experience has shown it rarely does).
Are you hiring? :O
Give the guy a break! He's already lost 5 somehow!
The feature that makes IE unusable for me is the lack of gesture recognition. It took me all of 11 seconds to get used to "swiping" a page back. Now I can't bear the wait while I move the pointer all the way up to that Back button.
I'm guessing you havent played the game, because it's not very "twitchy". Just prepare your army when you go into battle and be ready to cast spells and maneuvre troops as the battle is going on - in Starcraft oftentimes units would be dead when you tried to cast one of their spells or move them back from the front line. The game is designed so that battles last MUCH longer than Warcraft 2 or Starcraft, so getting off a spell, or "dancing" your huntresses so they survive is much easier (I just learned how good the Lich's Frost Nova spell is last night). Can you name an RTS that fits your ideal description?
If \. is the MS equivalent of /. then I think humanity is a lost cause.
Ditto for me. I have some mod points but I'm wary about up-modding because I'm worried I'll get meta-moderated into oblivion. But that really is some hilarious stuff, so I'll vote with a 'me too' instead of a +1
Years from now, those names will look like Ye Olde Englishe and all the kiddies will have moved on to obscure unicode characters.
You forgot to mention Virtual Boy. God, I love reminding Nintendo-lovers about THAT mistake. It was as bad as Sega CD, 32X and Saturn combined!
I second your comment, and I strongly disagree with timothy implying that intro CS students should not have to think through and code their own bubble sort. In CS as in any other discipline, the foundations are CRITICAL for further success in later semesters. You cannot breeze through CS101 with only a half-assed understanding of arrays and switch statements. You will need this stuff later, no way around it.