I don't think "too different from MySQL" is necessarily a minus. There's very little worthwhile about MySQL, all it had was good marketing and a earlier move to being cross-platform (which is very very important, but as a difference it's gone).
The black bit of a period in monospace has more white space on either side than in any other character. When you add yet more white space to it, you find there's a lot of whitespace after the black bit in a monospace ". " combination. Proportional fonts lack that padding.
I would love a tablet computer. but not a really tiny one. Vendors: Start making tablets that have an unlocked bootloader, run android, and are at least 10" (ideally 12" or bigger). If you make that at a reasonable price, I will even locate and visit a local K-Mart to get it.
Oh, p.s. if, considering my argument below, you really prefer standards bodies above the consensus route, "The Chicago Manual of Style (1), the AP Stylebook (2), and the Modern Language Association (3) all recommend using one space after a period at the end of a sentence. ", as noted by "Grammar Girl" at:
(she provides references to back up that assertion).
I should note that I'm more of a "rough consensus" guy myself and that this is a matter where I don't think there's a right answer between one and two -- I think reasonable people may disagree and that it comes down to style.
And? Do you think I haven't seen this countless times when I was making the point? The period takes up a small portion of its box in a fixed-width font. There's space to the left and space to the right of it - much more space than other characters. As a result, dot-space looks completely fine in a fixed-width font.
"What does it mean to be correct on this matter?" "A certain body with which one associates or to which one agrees to be bound agrees, or alternatively there is broad consensus with insignificant dissent" "And when one argues that one usage is correct?" "Either one of the above is true, or one is asserting one's position on the manner in a way that one hopes others will simply accept, in order to try to make the second true"
I'm not sure we're working from the same playbook - on this matter, there is not a strong consensus that a correct form exists. One can either decide one likes a particular authority and point to them (not unprecedented in matters like spelling, and probably fine on matters where it's a lone guy with weird ideas about grammar or punctuation) or make an aesthetic argument.
I was about to say the same thing. Because in fixed-width the period is so small, the space to the right of it in its block plus the space amounts to quite a lot of room. In proportional fonts, you don't need to worry so much.
I am accustomed to working with and thinking about text through a terminal window - as a result I always singlespace my sentences now.
Any technology that requires the local router to be easily and mechanically hackable is not a reliable one. The title on this post is thus terribly chosen.
I still have never heard of any of the cards you mention (except for black vise). Remember, Ice Age was the last set I've seen. I do remember blast decks, and I often enjoyed building decks that were mana-burn centric with mana flare (that I could flip around for a bit using manabarbs if I managed to get more creatures out than they could deal with).
I don't think I've heard of shadow - is it like landwalking?
Anyhow, I imagine I won't start playing again regularly - it might be fun to dust off the old kobold, artifact, or blast decks, but I'm imagining the game is simply too different at this point.
I might be well before your time - I do have some alpha cards but only really started playing in unlimited (I didn't have a lot of arabian knights cards but I have a good number of most of the sets between there and ice age).
Yeah... I stopped playing Magic right after Ice Age was released, but before I quit, I was working on two collections: Atogs and Durkwood Boars. With a bit of trading, I ended up with a good number of Durkwood Boars in foreign languages.
I recently fit my many boxes of Magic into a backpack (barely, and it was damned heavy!) and went to a Magic gaming night at a local toy store. Apparently (and unsurprisingly), the game has changed a lot, as I was lost. Also, apparently it's a lot easier to make fast decks - the pace of the game used to be a lot slower except for tournament quality decks, and my casual decks didn't stand up very well. Oh well - people were kind of amused to see my ancient cards (and a lot of people wanted to trade or buy)
A language is just a syntax and a set of standard libraries. Pick a language, find some examples, and start tweaking them while studying the API. If you still have the skills, it won't be too long until you're writing big stuff. Just be sure to keep studying other people's code so you'll know which of your old habits arn't appreciated in the modern language, and you'll be fine.
The biggest differences you'll need to get used to is:
1) The programming tools you can use today (from vim to Eclipse) are much smarter and more helpful 2) The documentation is differently organized. I still have programming books from my childhood like "Introduction to MS-DOS Programming" -- they're nice and talk-y. Nowadays, particularly in OO languages, the documentation tends to be online and bundled with your compiler or IDE (or maybe on the web). Modern docs tend to be a lot more terse and to-the-point, and you explore them rather than read them.
Ohhh they didn't mean reversing the concept of TCP, they really meant to just reverse the direciton of connection. They really could've phased that better.
Oracle must've improved by leaps and bounds - last I used it (some years ago), it was one of the hardest databases to install casually, and its tools were relatively user-unfriendly.
Nah - iirc, it's opensource, meaning that if need be, MySQL's development will be reconstituted under other leadership.
I've had the same issues with MySQL since I first had to use it, partly issues with its parser being ridiculously bad at handling relational calculus (meaning you're stuck with relational algebra if you want your queries to scale, and eventually they will), its SQL dialect being obscene (oh god why do I grant privileges to nonexistent users to make them exist?), it not handling locking well (although it has improved remarkably on this front over the years), and a few other smaller things.
Of relational databases, I learned Oracle first - maybe this makes my preferences a bit "stuffy", but it's been very rare that I've met systems people who, given a project using MySQL, won't say that they wish they had started it with PostgreSQL, Oracle, DB/2, or one of the other choices people have. MySQL is the PHP of databases.
I wouldn't start with database stuff until you have a programming language or two mastered, but when you do learn one, learn PostgreSQL. MySQL's SQL flavour is messed up and because their parser doesn't handle relational calculus well, you're stuck with a language that's unusuable for much of SQL without syntactic contortions.
I wouldn't start with web stuff either - you want a classic programming background (which will be a bit depth-first) to see if you can handle it. If you can't, you probably should find another hobby - the world is full of bad code written by people who don't know what they're doing.
There are times when it's not desirable for something to be a political football - relative independence in a government body helps insulate it at least a bit from the political process. If these things become big enough issues then congress *could* address them.
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Ahh, the databass, such a noble fish.
I don't think "too different from MySQL" is necessarily a minus. There's very little worthwhile about MySQL, all it had was good marketing and a earlier move to being cross-platform (which is very very important, but as a difference it's gone).
The black bit of a period in monospace has more white space on either side than in any other character. When you add yet more white space to it, you find there's a lot of whitespace after the black bit in a monospace ". " combination. Proportional fonts lack that padding.
I would love a tablet computer. but not a really tiny one. Vendors: Start making tablets that have an unlocked bootloader, run android, and are at least 10" (ideally 12" or bigger). If you make that at a reasonable price, I will even locate and visit a local K-Mart to get it.
I will let my subconscious claim credit for this one - I didn't see it until you pointed it out.
Oh, p.s. if, considering my argument below, you really prefer standards bodies above the consensus route, "The Chicago Manual of Style (1), the AP Stylebook (2), and the Modern Language Association (3) all recommend using one space after a period at the end of a sentence. ", as noted by "Grammar Girl" at:
http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/spaces-period-end-of-sentence.aspx
(she provides references to back up that assertion).
I should note that I'm more of a "rough consensus" guy myself and that this is a matter where I don't think there's a right answer between one and two -- I think reasonable people may disagree and that it comes down to style.
And? Do you think I haven't seen this countless times when I was making the point? The period takes up a small portion of its box in a fixed-width font. There's space to the left and space to the right of it - much more space than other characters. As a result, dot-space looks completely fine in a fixed-width font.
"What does it mean to be correct on this matter?" "A certain body with which one associates or to which one agrees to be bound agrees, or alternatively there is broad consensus with insignificant dissent"
"And when one argues that one usage is correct?"
"Either one of the above is true, or one is asserting one's position on the manner in a way that one hopes others will simply accept, in order to try to make the second true"
I'm not sure we're working from the same playbook - on this matter, there is not a strong consensus that a correct form exists. One can either decide one likes a particular authority and point to them (not unprecedented in matters like spelling, and probably fine on matters where it's a lone guy with weird ideas about grammar or punctuation) or make an aesthetic argument.
I was about to say the same thing. Because in fixed-width the period is so small, the space to the right of it in its block plus the space amounts to quite a lot of room. In proportional fonts, you don't need to worry so much.
I am accustomed to working with and thinking about text through a terminal window - as a result I always singlespace my sentences now.
Any technology that requires the local router to be easily and mechanically hackable is not a reliable one. The title on this post is thus terribly chosen.
I still have never heard of any of the cards you mention (except for black vise). Remember, Ice Age was the last set I've seen. I do remember blast decks, and I often enjoyed building decks that were mana-burn centric with mana flare (that I could flip around for a bit using manabarbs if I managed to get more creatures out than they could deal with).
I don't think I've heard of shadow - is it like landwalking?
Anyhow, I imagine I won't start playing again regularly - it might be fun to dust off the old kobold, artifact, or blast decks, but I'm imagining the game is simply too different at this point.
I might be well before your time - I do have some alpha cards but only really started playing in unlimited (I didn't have a lot of arabian knights cards but I have a good number of most of the sets between there and ice age).
Yeah... I stopped playing Magic right after Ice Age was released, but before I quit, I was working on two collections: Atogs and Durkwood Boars. With a bit of trading, I ended up with a good number of Durkwood Boars in foreign languages.
I recently fit my many boxes of Magic into a backpack (barely, and it was damned heavy!) and went to a Magic gaming night at a local toy store. Apparently (and unsurprisingly), the game has changed a lot, as I was lost. Also, apparently it's a lot easier to make fast decks - the pace of the game used to be a lot slower except for tournament quality decks, and my casual decks didn't stand up very well. Oh well - people were kind of amused to see my ancient cards (and a lot of people wanted to trade or buy)
Oh, you're right. I haven't played the game for years and my memories are slightly foggy.
See: http://magiccards.info/st2k/de/3.html
Ahh, reminds me of my Magic: The Gathering days... cast "Wild Growth" on the "Dusterwaldkeiler" and goodbye to enemy "Serra Angel"s. Muhaha
A language is just a syntax and a set of standard libraries. Pick a language, find some examples, and start tweaking them while studying the API. If you still have the skills, it won't be too long until you're writing big stuff. Just be sure to keep studying other people's code so you'll know which of your old habits arn't appreciated in the modern language, and you'll be fine.
The biggest differences you'll need to get used to is:
1) The programming tools you can use today (from vim to Eclipse) are much smarter and more helpful
2) The documentation is differently organized. I still have programming books from my childhood like "Introduction to MS-DOS Programming" -- they're nice and talk-y. Nowadays, particularly in OO languages, the documentation tends to be online and bundled with your compiler or IDE (or maybe on the web). Modern docs tend to be a lot more terse and to-the-point, and you explore them rather than read them.
Good luck!
Let professors teach the way they see fit, provided their teaching is effective.
Ohhh they didn't mean reversing the concept of TCP, they really meant to just reverse the direciton of connection. They really could've phased that better.
What does that even mean?
Oracle must've improved by leaps and bounds - last I used it (some years ago), it was one of the hardest databases to install casually, and its tools were relatively user-unfriendly.
Nah - iirc, it's opensource, meaning that if need be, MySQL's development will be reconstituted under other leadership.
I've had the same issues with MySQL since I first had to use it, partly issues with its parser being ridiculously bad at handling relational calculus (meaning you're stuck with relational algebra if you want your queries to scale, and eventually they will), its SQL dialect being obscene (oh god why do I grant privileges to nonexistent users to make them exist?), it not handling locking well (although it has improved remarkably on this front over the years), and a few other smaller things.
Of relational databases, I learned Oracle first - maybe this makes my preferences a bit "stuffy", but it's been very rare that I've met systems people who, given a project using MySQL, won't say that they wish they had started it with PostgreSQL, Oracle, DB/2, or one of the other choices people have. MySQL is the PHP of databases.
I wouldn't start with database stuff until you have a programming language or two mastered, but when you do learn one, learn PostgreSQL. MySQL's SQL flavour is messed up and because their parser doesn't handle relational calculus well, you're stuck with a language that's unusuable for much of SQL without syntactic contortions.
I wouldn't start with web stuff either - you want a classic programming background (which will be a bit depth-first) to see if you can handle it. If you can't, you probably should find another hobby - the world is full of bad code written by people who don't know what they're doing.
There are times when it's not desirable for something to be a political football - relative independence in a government body helps insulate it at least a bit from the political process. If these things become big enough issues then congress *could* address them.
"How to Piss off your Judge, for Dummies". Unfortunately, it was meant as a parody book.