...to write unit and integration tests to catch these kinds of things. If you add libfoo to implement foo functionality, you want to test that it actually results in a working foo.
They have an article debunking the myth that Marilyn Monroe had six toes. As part of the evidence against this, they wrote:
One doesn’t simply get up and start trotting around after having a toe removed — the missing digit affects one’s balance, and it takes some time to adjust to the change and “relearn” how to walk.
The problem is that isn't true. My wife is a podiatrist who amputates toes routinely as part of her job. I discussed this with her and she said that the whole "relearning to walk" thing is in itself a myth, and that even people who have their big toes removed generally do just fine in no time. Try it yourself: walk across the floor with your big toe pulled upward so it doesn't hit the ground. Easy, right? And that's the big toe; a vestigial extra-pinky toe hanging off the side would contribute almost nothing to balance or your gait.
I wrote them with this information. They replied, quite defensively, that I was wrong and that she did not have six toes. Uh, yeah, I totally agree! I still think they should have removed the invalid evidence that contradicts expert testimony. If you're proving that "1 + 1 = 2 because cats have wings", and I tell you cats don't actually have wings, it doesn't invalidate your premise but it does suggest that you'd want to update your proof.
I have [firstname][lastinitial]@[ancientwebmail].com that I check maybe once every 6 months out of curiosity. Someone else with that combo signed up for a Facebook account. I tried to tell them (via Facebook) that they made a mistake and they told me to fuck myself.
OK then. So I use Facebook's password reset, changed their email to `pwgen 32 1`@gmail.com, and their password to something similar.
(Note: I never would have done that if they hadn't been so nasty when I originally tried to help them.)
This is the hygiene hypothesis of IT. When things are legitimately rolling along smoothly - like IT did their job well and there aren't hidden-from-users fires for them to put out - many organizations either get bored or panicky. Then they start doing public things to justify their budgets and headcount, like trying to manage BYOD or locking down developers' machines "for consistency". This is the corporate version of an autoimmune disease, and it kills or disables the host.
Sadly, I think you're right. Pity. I wonder if he understands that members of other world religions are as certain about his eternal fate - but in the opposite direction - as he is of ours?
I've got lots of family there and think nothing bad of the Midwest. I'm proud of my background. And I certainly don't think they're "dumber than people on the coasts". But what they are is a hell of a lot more religious on average, and strong religious beliefs can trump intelligence any day of the week. That doesn't mean (and I never said) that all Midwesterners think that way. However, 64% of white evangelical protestants believe that "humans have existed in their present form since the beginning of time."
When nearly 2/3 of a demographic believes stupid shit like that, I have a hard time saying that they have horse sense over the "educated" and "informed" coasties.
I think you're moving the goalposts a little. The original quote was:
because it's in your Holy Book and it is right and so everything else is wrong
which is something I've heard my entire life growing up: that the bible is the sole inerrant source of truth, and anything conflicting with the bible is inherently wrong. That's how we end up with BS like a young Earth, and people being anti-evolution because "that's now how the bible says it happened".
People in the Midwest say that if Quantum Mechanics or anything else isn't mentioned in the bible, it is wrong?
Some people in the Midwest literally do. I've heard them. I grew up around them. They'd say that QM is something "those silly scientists invented because the truth that God did it that way is too much for them to bear".
Since I live there as well, tell me where go to see this curious specimen.
Pick the evangelical church of your choice - Baptist, Assemblies of God, Mt. Trailerpark Half Gospel - and go in. Sit and be enlightened.
I love that my bathroom scale talks to my phone (via HealthKit, which means that I'm the only person who can decrypt the information). It's nice to step on it and then have a nice chart update a few seconds later.
TL;DR tell me where you found the evidence that they wouldn't allow your stay-at-home mom example. I saw a non-detailed news story that listed examples of future plans (school, work, military, etc.) but nothing that claimed to be exhaustive.
You like formality, don'tcha? Regardless, I think your point is moot as the plan doesn't seem to be at all what you're describing. The actual description sounds a lot more reasonable: you need to have something, anything more concrete than "I dunno, chill with my crew, I guess" lined up after graduation. That doesn't seem like a bad thing.
I have no quams about a fee being charged, but proper notice time/method is reuqired so people can change without being in a panic.
People were uploading images:
to a free service
...who hasn't advertised itself as an image host
...but has been paying the server and bandwidth bills of people who are hotlinking its content
...and whose terms of service say "These Terms and the Privacy Policy can change. Again, please carefully read this document and our other policies. We may announce if any "big" changes are made, but so long as you've used the Site after the change, regardless of any separate notice, you agree to the current posted version of the Terms."
I don't have a dog in this hunt, but I can't see that Photobucket did anything wrong or that they have any moral or ethical obligation to allow people to keep using them in a way they never intended. Do you think for a second that if people had been using Facebook as a CDN that Facebook would hesitate to nip that in the bud? And would you blame them? If people were misusing your service in a way you never advertised, would you feel obligated to support that for "proper notice time"? (Rhetorical question: you wouldn't.)
except with respect to children (which, the article acknowledges, is not something all chiropractors endorse).
An ex-friend took her baby to a chiropractor for colic. Ex-friend.
I do not accept that it is universal or that chiropractors are incapable of providing any benefit whatsoever.
I've told this before, but I hurt my back carrying something heavy. For about 2 months straight, I'd take a doctor-prescribed Vicodin and Flexeril before bed, then sleep fine until about 3AM when I'd wake up crying because someone was shoving a rusty knife into my spine. I didn't get more than 4-5 hours of drugged rest per night the whole time, and I was going insane from the pain and sleep deprivation.
My dad suggested I try his chiropractor, and I was at the point of either that or suicide, so why not. He felt my back, said "I bet it hurts right... here, right?" It did. "Take a deep breath. This is going to hurt for a moment." When he cracked my back, it was like a supernova exploded in my brain. I might've blacked out.
But it stopped. I was painfree. "Do I need to come back?" "No, you're done. Hope that helps!" I went home that night and got 12 hours of blissful, drug-free, painless, uninterrupted sleep.
Chiropractors might be 99% full of crap, but one took me from literally on the edge of suicide to utterly pain-free in one single visit.
Given that I'd used Python for a couple of decades without experiencing significant type errors, I find that using optional, well supported and semi-official static analysis still has something nice to offer. But frankly, I feel like you're moving the goalposts. Python's had strong typing basically forever. It now has official support for typechecking. No, it's not identical to static compilation but it's a far cry from totally lacking type safety.
But too much procedure is also a major problem. I've been in shops where I had to hold a serious of meetings to use open source library A to accomplish a task because an unrelated group already started using open source library B several years ago (even though no one uses B anymore because A is clearly better in every way). "It's important that we standardize everything!" was the logic given. We were in a very competitive industry and competing with shops that weren't spending their days in endless meetings to "build consensus" on every single little detail of every task. Sure, you can't allow total chaos, but it's probably OK for the engineering department to start using Flask even though the marketing department also has some Django deployments.
At one place, I got in several arguments with a manager who insisted I should be using an IDE (when I was already using Emacs). Him: "We'd be more efficient if everyone was using a similar work environment." Me, finally: "OK, I'll be happy to help them all upgrade to Emacs. No, I'm not switching. Stop asking."
Too little procedure is bad. I think it's less bad than having too much, especially when most of it is cargo cult stuff that's only done because "that's the way we do things here" even though no one remembers why.
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...to write unit and integration tests to catch these kinds of things. If you add libfoo to implement foo functionality, you want to test that it actually results in a working foo.
They have an article debunking the myth that Marilyn Monroe had six toes. As part of the evidence against this, they wrote:
The problem is that isn't true. My wife is a podiatrist who amputates toes routinely as part of her job. I discussed this with her and she said that the whole "relearning to walk" thing is in itself a myth, and that even people who have their big toes removed generally do just fine in no time. Try it yourself: walk across the floor with your big toe pulled upward so it doesn't hit the ground. Easy, right? And that's the big toe; a vestigial extra-pinky toe hanging off the side would contribute almost nothing to balance or your gait.
I wrote them with this information. They replied, quite defensively, that I was wrong and that she did not have six toes. Uh, yeah, I totally agree! I still think they should have removed the invalid evidence that contradicts expert testimony. If you're proving that "1 + 1 = 2 because cats have wings", and I tell you cats don't actually have wings, it doesn't invalidate your premise but it does suggest that you'd want to update your proof.
And everyone stood up and clapped.
Oh, for sure. I'd stop complaining to the agent and start complaining to their clients, lawyers, banks etc.
I have [firstname][lastinitial]@[ancientwebmail].com that I check maybe once every 6 months out of curiosity. Someone else with that combo signed up for a Facebook account. I tried to tell them (via Facebook) that they made a mistake and they told me to fuck myself.
OK then. So I use Facebook's password reset, changed their email to `pwgen 32 1`@gmail.com, and their password to something similar.
(Note: I never would have done that if they hadn't been so nasty when I originally tried to help them.)
This is the hygiene hypothesis of IT. When things are legitimately rolling along smoothly - like IT did their job well and there aren't hidden-from-users fires for them to put out - many organizations either get bored or panicky. Then they start doing public things to justify their budgets and headcount, like trying to manage BYOD or locking down developers' machines "for consistency". This is the corporate version of an autoimmune disease, and it kills or disables the host.
To a point, but USPS delivers on Sundays here and I definitely don't get regular mail on that day.
Wow, you weren't kidding.
Sadly, I think you're right. Pity. I wonder if he understands that members of other world religions are as certain about his eternal fate - but in the opposite direction - as he is of ours?
You said "no theist says this". I gave personal experience and supporting numbers that at least some do, so I think we're done here.
Ah well, we have a process for that. 78% of my demographic know your issue will resolve itself.
You keep saying this but I have no idea what you mean.
I've got lots of family there and think nothing bad of the Midwest. I'm proud of my background. And I certainly don't think they're "dumber than people on the coasts". But what they are is a hell of a lot more religious on average, and strong religious beliefs can trump intelligence any day of the week. That doesn't mean (and I never said) that all Midwesterners think that way. However, 64% of white evangelical protestants believe that "humans have existed in their present form since the beginning of time."
When nearly 2/3 of a demographic believes stupid shit like that, I have a hard time saying that they have horse sense over the "educated" and "informed" coasties.
I think you're moving the goalposts a little. The original quote was:
because it's in your Holy Book and it is right and so everything else is wrong
which is something I've heard my entire life growing up: that the bible is the sole inerrant source of truth, and anything conflicting with the bible is inherently wrong. That's how we end up with BS like a young Earth, and people being anti-evolution because "that's now how the bible says it happened".
People in the Midwest say that if Quantum Mechanics or anything else isn't mentioned in the bible, it is wrong?
Some people in the Midwest literally do. I've heard them. I grew up around them. They'd say that QM is something "those silly scientists invented because the truth that God did it that way is too much for them to bear".
Since I live there as well, tell me where go to see this curious specimen.
Pick the evangelical church of your choice - Baptist, Assemblies of God, Mt. Trailerpark Half Gospel - and go in. Sit and be enlightened.
No theist says this.
You couldn't be more wrong. Source: raised in the Midwest.
I love that my bathroom scale talks to my phone (via HealthKit, which means that I'm the only person who can decrypt the information). It's nice to step on it and then have a nice chart update a few seconds later.
TL;DR tell me where you found the evidence that they wouldn't allow your stay-at-home mom example. I saw a non-detailed news story that listed examples of future plans (school, work, military, etc.) but nothing that claimed to be exhaustive.
You like formality, don'tcha? Regardless, I think your point is moot as the plan doesn't seem to be at all what you're describing. The actual description sounds a lot more reasonable: you need to have something, anything more concrete than "I dunno, chill with my crew, I guess" lined up after graduation. That doesn't seem like a bad thing.
I have no quams about a fee being charged, but proper notice time/method is reuqired so people can change without being in a panic.
People were uploading images:
I don't have a dog in this hunt, but I can't see that Photobucket did anything wrong or that they have any moral or ethical obligation to allow people to keep using them in a way they never intended. Do you think for a second that if people had been using Facebook as a CDN that Facebook would hesitate to nip that in the bud? And would you blame them? If people were misusing your service in a way you never advertised, would you feel obligated to support that for "proper notice time"? (Rhetorical question: you wouldn't.)
Turns out it doesn't.
except with respect to children (which, the article acknowledges, is not something all chiropractors endorse).
An ex-friend took her baby to a chiropractor for colic. Ex-friend.
I do not accept that it is universal or that chiropractors are incapable of providing any benefit whatsoever.
I've told this before, but I hurt my back carrying something heavy. For about 2 months straight, I'd take a doctor-prescribed Vicodin and Flexeril before bed, then sleep fine until about 3AM when I'd wake up crying because someone was shoving a rusty knife into my spine. I didn't get more than 4-5 hours of drugged rest per night the whole time, and I was going insane from the pain and sleep deprivation.
My dad suggested I try his chiropractor, and I was at the point of either that or suicide, so why not. He felt my back, said "I bet it hurts right... here, right?" It did. "Take a deep breath. This is going to hurt for a moment." When he cracked my back, it was like a supernova exploded in my brain. I might've blacked out.
But it stopped. I was painfree. "Do I need to come back?" "No, you're done. Hope that helps!" I went home that night and got 12 hours of blissful, drug-free, painless, uninterrupted sleep.
Chiropractors might be 99% full of crap, but one took me from literally on the edge of suicide to utterly pain-free in one single visit.
Given that I'd used Python for a couple of decades without experiencing significant type errors, I find that using optional, well supported and semi-official static analysis still has something nice to offer. But frankly, I feel like you're moving the goalposts. Python's had strong typing basically forever. It now has official support for typechecking. No, it's not identical to static compilation but it's a far cry from totally lacking type safety.
As a Python programmer, I use types and check them before it runs.
The last thing a company in that situation needs is more instability.
It sounds to me like they've already maximized instability, and any change whatsoever could only lessen it.
But too much procedure is also a major problem. I've been in shops where I had to hold a serious of meetings to use open source library A to accomplish a task because an unrelated group already started using open source library B several years ago (even though no one uses B anymore because A is clearly better in every way). "It's important that we standardize everything!" was the logic given. We were in a very competitive industry and competing with shops that weren't spending their days in endless meetings to "build consensus" on every single little detail of every task. Sure, you can't allow total chaos, but it's probably OK for the engineering department to start using Flask even though the marketing department also has some Django deployments.
At one place, I got in several arguments with a manager who insisted I should be using an IDE (when I was already using Emacs). Him: "We'd be more efficient if everyone was using a similar work environment." Me, finally: "OK, I'll be happy to help them all upgrade to Emacs. No, I'm not switching. Stop asking."
Too little procedure is bad. I think it's less bad than having too much, especially when most of it is cargo cult stuff that's only done because "that's the way we do things here" even though no one remembers why.
That's the modern version of "we have RAID backup!"