I hear they're working on a deal to host the Trump Presidential Library.
It will be 'uge. The best library in human history. Because he has all the best words, and will be donating them! Well, except stupid, because that is the best word, so he's keeping that one for himself.
I have the best, but there is no better word than stupid. Right? There is none, there is none. There’s no, there’s no, there’s no word like that
(actual DJT quote)
But it will still have so many words, you'll be sick of all that reading.
Roper: So now you'd give the Devil benefit of law!
More: Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
Roper: I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you — where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast — man's laws, not God's — and if you cut them down — and you're just the man to do it — d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
That's why I used such a fuzzy figure for the actual number. Also, if anything, the actual number would seem to low to leave the proper impression. The low-end power that car had really had to be felt to be believed. The tricky part was working the gas properly so the tires didn't spin. But once it started up, your head was thrown back if you weren't ready.
There's more detail here for those interested. I'm not enough of a car geek to know how impressive that is on paper, but I sure know how it felt.
According to the summary, "The median time it took for a vehicle to go from 0 to 60 miles per hour was halved, from almost 14 seconds to seven," so in this case more HP does mean faster, or at least, means faster to reach cruising speed.
My first car was a 1970 Caddy that had a hair under 400HP, but weighed two tons. This was in the mid 80's which was probably the lowest HP period in US history (due to the oil crisis catching car-makers unprepared).
I was like a king in that car. I could beat anyone at a 1/8 mile, but I had a secret. It was all low-end power. A Porsche could easily beat me, but only once it got up into a high gear. They had to slog through the embarrassment of being waxed by a old Caddy for the first 1/8th of a mile to get to the point where they could come from behind and beat me. Few Porsche owners had the self-esteem required to pull off that trick (If they did, they wouldn't have bought a Porsche).
Let me tell you, few things in life were more enjoyable that embarrassing 1980's Porsche owners. But yes, compared to Porsches, my car was (theoretically) quite slow.
Actually, there's a lot to be said for a pictogram writing system as a "global language". Since each glyph essentially represents a complete word, anyone who can memorize the meanings of the pictures can read their writing, without having to actually be able to understand or speak the same language. If you learn the calligraphy, you could similarly write your English (or whatever) using their writing system, and anybody who can read their writing system will know what you are saying.
In fact, that's exactly why China stuck with it so long. Many Chinese "dialects" are in actuality separate mutually-unintelligible languages. A phonetic-based writing system like an alphabet would have impeded communications across those language boundaries, which would have made for a weaker state. (This is a bit of a simplification though. There *are* today some phonetic aspects to some modern Chinese glyphs.)
The problem of course is that a writing system with thousands of glyphs is not particularly compatible with printing or computers. When the West invented the printing process that touched off the modern era, China got left in the dust. Even today with Unicode, it was a serious effort to decide on a subset of written Chinese that would fit in the mere 65,356 glyphs (20% of the 16-bit character space) allotted to them. I'm unaware of any keyboard manufacturers who use it.
You think nobody sold standard, simple by today's standards, accounting packages, written in COBOL in 1965?
Sure. They used to sell those boxed at the Sundries stores, along with magazines and malteds, while kids danced to Rock-n-roll from the jukebox after school. But then those damn 70's kids came along with their folk music and their C code, and one-by-one all the old Cobol parlors closed down.
In 1986 the state-of-the-art CPU generation was the i386 (other Motorola and other makers had similarly-powered CPUs available), but it was new and the i286 was much more common. The Pentium 200's were about 79x faster than those (based on the popular NSI). After that, the improvements were mostly in clock rate, with the latest I7's clocking the CPU roughly 20x faster than the Pentium 200.
So that means CPU-bound Fortran code should be executing roughly 1600x faster just by recompiling it on an I7. That's before any parallelization (note that modern Fortran compilers have parallel loop constructs, so that wouldn't be tough to add, if the algorithm allows for it).
So its tempting to think you could get most (perhaps all) of the way to this $55,000 prize with a $400 CPU and a copy of the Intel Fortran compiler.
Where I work (we have tons of legacy Fortran code), generally C++. However, the real answer is not to bother. If you have a working Fortran compiler, the old code works just fine. "Porting" it to another language does nothing for you but potentially introduce new bugs. At best you'd just have the same functionality you did before (as that is the goal of a port), but we all know the best never happens. Why go through a really expensive effort that will do nothing for you but make your product worse?
However, we do all brand new work in C++, so it will slowly take over.
I suspect most COBOL houses will tell you the same vs C# (or Java or whatever your current language du-jour is).
What would you tell a mechanic who wants $400 to change your perfectly functional alternator with a new one that works exactly the same, but uses the latest in alternator technology, so mechanics will enjoy working on it more? I know I'd tell him if the old one breaks and can't be fixed, put a new one in. Otherwise, I have better uses for my $400, tyvm.
Good for you. I like not having to mess around with my computer that much.
I do spend a fair bit of time picking out components when it comes up, but I'm guessing not as much as you're thinking. The last piece of equipment I had to replace was I believe August before last (Summer of 2015. The hard-drive filled up, so I went to the nearest BB and bought one with twice the storage capacity for $100).
The GFX card may be going soon, but that will cost me perhaps another $200 and 2 hours one fine day when I decide to take care of it. More if I want to be picky about it. However, I could replace it for $100-200 this evening in about 20 minutes (including shopping time) if I didn't "want to mess around with it that much". Its dead easy to do.
I hope you really like being around people, because every time I've had to go to the local "Genius Bar" here in town, its been elbow to elbow people, often taking several minutes just to wade through them all to get to the service desk. The wait is never less than 15 minutes, *and* they always end up telling me there's nothing that can be done but buying an entire new (hideously expensive) something-or-other from them. For me, its utter hell. I finally told my kids if their crappy Apple products malfunction again, they can handle it themselves. I'm NEVER stepping back into one of those places.
Funny thing is, as a Windows 10 user, I already have all that stuff too.
Check. I'm already on Windows, so "switching" isn't an issue
Check. I don't run anti-virus. (The trick is to not give your everyday user account admin pris. Unix users have known this for decades.)
Check. MS keylogging? Like they have something useful to do with all the keystrokes from a billion computers every day? Lol.
Check. I don't use Google Chrome. (Firefox)
Check. I don't use a laptop. Repairs on my desktop are easy to do myself. For mobile computing I use a cheap Android pad.
Check. I don't use iTunes. I keep my own music in my own software (whatever works best this year), and am not shackled to any one big vendor.
Check. I don't buy laptops. I buy my choice PC components when I need a new one for some reason.
Check. My Android phone works just fine with my PC, on those occasions when it matters (eg: saving and restoring from the SD card. Ripping my CDs. Ever tried to get a library of ripped CD.ogg files into iTunes? OMG...I gave up after wasting a weekend trying).
I have. My first development job 20 years ago was at about that level. The software development group I'm in now, as fate would have it, has 10 members, 3 of which identify female (30%).
I am still stuck on how they totally ignore that we went from 8 mpg to 40 mpg in that time. I wonder if that reduced emissions at all? Talk about fudging the numbers. Pollution per person per mile has plummeted!
...which helps not at all if we also went from commuting 8 miles to work every day to commuting 40 miles to work every day in that same time.
That isn't how Wikipedia works; that's how Nupedia worked.
Unlike Wikipedia, Nupedia was not a wiki; it was instead characterized by an extensive peer-review process, designed to make its articles of a quality comparable to that of professional encyclopedias. Nupedia wanted scholars (ideally with PhDs) to volunteer content. Before it ceased operating, Nupedia produced 25 approved articles that had completed its review process (three articles also existed in two versions of different lengths), and 74 more articles were in progress
If they want their own Wikipedia, they can't be restricting the pool of authors and trying to exercise top-down control on the content. OTOH, if they want Nupedia, they are on the right track.
Nupedia was designed by committee, with experts to predefine the rules, and it approved only 21 articles in its first year, compared to Wikipedia posting 200 articles in the first month, and 18,000 in the first year
Its very rare that I do this because I want the boss person to get involved. I do to keep them from swinging by my office and interrupting whatever I'm doing so they can ask how that particular activity is going (at which point I have to dig up that exact email to refresh my own memory). It also keeps them happier with me, which in the long run keeps me happier.
If I want them to *participate*, I'll add them on the recipient list, not the cc's.
The proposed Oregon legislation that I linked to earlier would make this use of your mobile device illegal.
As does the already passed legislation here in Oklahoma. One interesting facet of this is that using my mobile phone (which I already own) with Google Maps or Waze as a GPS navigation device is illegal, while using a $100+ Garman device mounted to the exact same spot for the exact same purpose is legal. Garman has some offices here in Oklahoma...
Well the phone is different because it was not designed to be used while driving. Compare the phone to the climate control or radio controls in a car. The radio controls are in a fixed place on the dash
My stereo has Bluetooth access, and I use my phone (mounted on a secure spot on the dash) as its head unit. That way I've got the same music options (including my entire 200+ CD library) available wherever I am. In this configuration, futzing with it is exactly like someone futzing with their stereo controls.
Now you may argue that it isn't designed for this use. However, it is far better designed for this use than most modern electronic car stereos. Many of those are designed so badly, with unnecessary extra menus, clicks, and delays you have to watch for (with your eyes), that Consumer Reports has started removing recommendations for the cars they come with.
There are a couple of options here. We can be Luddites and just try to blanket ban new things because some ways they are used are dangerous, or we can acknowledge that people will be doing it anyway, and try to do what we can to make what they will be doing safer. Standards for "car-safe" apps when hooked to a BT source would be a really good start.
For example, good movies make you care about the characters, and care when they get injured or die.
For the "good guys" perhaps. How many of the dudes who got their brains clawed out in Logan did you care about? Or the guys who died in Mad Max: Fury Road? How about all those Death Stars in the various Star Wars flicks? They all had a small planet's worth of people on them when they were destroyed. John Wick, Deadpool... I think I just went through most of IMDB's current top 10 action movies.
If they looked that far into it, why would anybody want a Kodi box at all, except for piracy? That's really the only reason to get one, whether they say "this is great for piracy!" or not.
There aren't a lot of mainstream streaming devices for cord-cutters that also act as a DVR. As a Roku user, that's the first thing that strikes me about it.
We have an upscale theater here. I got sick of paying extra, so I generally prefer to just go on low-traffic days (Monday and Tuesday) and take my chances, but if you want to pay extra to put yourself in a theater that families with kids can't afford, that's an option.
That's a temporary problem. Roughly 1 decade of your life (as much as 2 if you have multiple kids, 3 if you get nutty about it). I know that probably sounds like a long time right now, but it does end and life goes on. It won't be like this for long.
Actually, if the tickets were tiered (some movies definitely don't earn their ticket price), if the concession prices weren't obscene, and if there were ushers who would actually remove patrons disturbing everyone else...
Effectively, they are tiered. If you want to see it on day 1, and think the movie will be worth it, you can spend $20 and go see it in iMax 3D. If you don't think its worth that much, go see it for 2/3 to 1/2 price in normal "2D" (which you can also do on day 1, if you look around, but you'll have better luck waiting a week). If you don't think its worth even that much, wait 4+ weeks, and go see it at the discount cinema. If even that isn't worth the time/bother, then you've got HBO/Netflix for $10 a month, all you care to watch.
I remember the good old days on Usenet when advertisers and trolls discovered that the posting software allowed them to crosspost their junk to every single newsgroup in existence with no limitations or drawbacks whatsoever. The term "spam" was invented during the ensuing fun.
Now Twitter is going to unleash the same fun with tagging users for trolls and advertisers on their service. Its nice to see someone who still remembers and appreciates those good old days. You will no longer need to follow someone to get their garbage in your timeline. Ah, the memories... I can hardly wait!
I'm guessing you haven't read a lot of locally-generated user docs. The fact that I don't use "ran" in the present or future tense puts me one leg up over at least 2 of my co-workers.
But to be honest, not that I've noticed. I started using singular "they" my senior year in high-school (at a college prep school back in the mid-80's) and used it all through college, and never got marked off for it. I used to have my mother (a professional editor) look over my high-school papers before turning them in too, and don't remember being told not to do that.
There are a lot of English "rules" that are really only rules to people who actually don't know the language that well.
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I hear they're working on a deal to host the Trump Presidential Library.
It will be 'uge. The best library in human history. Because he has all the best words, and will be donating them! Well, except stupid, because that is the best word, so he's keeping that one for himself.
I have the best, but there is no better word than stupid. Right? There is none, there is none. There’s no, there’s no, there’s no word like that
(actual DJT quote)
But it will still have so many words, you'll be sick of all that reading.
Roper: So now you'd give the Devil benefit of law!
More: Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
Roper: I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you — where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast — man's laws, not God's — and if you cut them down — and you're just the man to do it — d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
That's why I used such a fuzzy figure for the actual number. Also, if anything, the actual number would seem to low to leave the proper impression. The low-end power that car had really had to be felt to be believed. The tricky part was working the gas properly so the tires didn't spin. But once it started up, your head was thrown back if you weren't ready.
There's more detail here for those interested. I'm not enough of a car geek to know how impressive that is on paper, but I sure know how it felt.
According to the summary, "The median time it took for a vehicle to go from 0 to 60 miles per hour was halved, from almost 14 seconds to seven," so in this case more HP does mean faster, or at least, means faster to reach cruising speed.
My first car was a 1970 Caddy that had a hair under 400HP, but weighed two tons. This was in the mid 80's which was probably the lowest HP period in US history (due to the oil crisis catching car-makers unprepared).
I was like a king in that car. I could beat anyone at a 1/8 mile, but I had a secret. It was all low-end power. A Porsche could easily beat me, but only once it got up into a high gear. They had to slog through the embarrassment of being waxed by a old Caddy for the first 1/8th of a mile to get to the point where they could come from behind and beat me. Few Porsche owners had the self-esteem required to pull off that trick (If they did, they wouldn't have bought a Porsche).
Let me tell you, few things in life were more enjoyable that embarrassing 1980's Porsche owners. But yes, compared to Porsches, my car was (theoretically) quite slow.
Actually, there's a lot to be said for a pictogram writing system as a "global language". Since each glyph essentially represents a complete word, anyone who can memorize the meanings of the pictures can read their writing, without having to actually be able to understand or speak the same language. If you learn the calligraphy, you could similarly write your English (or whatever) using their writing system, and anybody who can read their writing system will know what you are saying.
In fact, that's exactly why China stuck with it so long. Many Chinese "dialects" are in actuality separate mutually-unintelligible languages. A phonetic-based writing system like an alphabet would have impeded communications across those language boundaries, which would have made for a weaker state. (This is a bit of a simplification though. There *are* today some phonetic aspects to some modern Chinese glyphs.)
The problem of course is that a writing system with thousands of glyphs is not particularly compatible with printing or computers. When the West invented the printing process that touched off the modern era, China got left in the dust. Even today with Unicode, it was a serious effort to decide on a subset of written Chinese that would fit in the mere 65,356 glyphs (20% of the 16-bit character space) allotted to them. I'm unaware of any keyboard manufacturers who use it.
You think nobody sold standard, simple by today's standards, accounting packages, written in COBOL in 1965?
Sure. They used to sell those boxed at the Sundries stores, along with magazines and malteds, while kids danced to Rock-n-roll from the jukebox after school. But then those damn 70's kids came along with their folk music and their C code, and one-by-one all the old Cobol parlors closed down.
We live in a fallen era.
In 1986 the state-of-the-art CPU generation was the i386 (other Motorola and other makers had similarly-powered CPUs available), but it was new and the i286 was much more common. The Pentium 200's were about 79x faster than those (based on the popular NSI). After that, the improvements were mostly in clock rate, with the latest I7's clocking the CPU roughly 20x faster than the Pentium 200.
So that means CPU-bound Fortran code should be executing roughly 1600x faster just by recompiling it on an I7. That's before any parallelization (note that modern Fortran compilers have parallel loop constructs, so that wouldn't be tough to add, if the algorithm allows for it).
So its tempting to think you could get most (perhaps all) of the way to this $55,000 prize with a $400 CPU and a copy of the Intel Fortran compiler.
Where I work (we have tons of legacy Fortran code), generally C++. However, the real answer is not to bother. If you have a working Fortran compiler, the old code works just fine. "Porting" it to another language does nothing for you but potentially introduce new bugs. At best you'd just have the same functionality you did before (as that is the goal of a port), but we all know the best never happens. Why go through a really expensive effort that will do nothing for you but make your product worse?
However, we do all brand new work in C++, so it will slowly take over.
I suspect most COBOL houses will tell you the same vs C# (or Java or whatever your current language du-jour is).
What would you tell a mechanic who wants $400 to change your perfectly functional alternator with a new one that works exactly the same, but uses the latest in alternator technology, so mechanics will enjoy working on it more? I know I'd tell him if the old one breaks and can't be fixed, put a new one in. Otherwise, I have better uses for my $400, tyvm.
Good for you. I like not having to mess around with my computer that much.
I do spend a fair bit of time picking out components when it comes up, but I'm guessing not as much as you're thinking. The last piece of equipment I had to replace was I believe August before last (Summer of 2015. The hard-drive filled up, so I went to the nearest BB and bought one with twice the storage capacity for $100).
The GFX card may be going soon, but that will cost me perhaps another $200 and 2 hours one fine day when I decide to take care of it. More if I want to be picky about it. However, I could replace it for $100-200 this evening in about 20 minutes (including shopping time) if I didn't "want to mess around with it that much". Its dead easy to do.
I hope you really like being around people, because every time I've had to go to the local "Genius Bar" here in town, its been elbow to elbow people, often taking several minutes just to wade through them all to get to the service desk. The wait is never less than 15 minutes, *and* they always end up telling me there's nothing that can be done but buying an entire new (hideously expensive) something-or-other from them. For me, its utter hell. I finally told my kids if their crappy Apple products malfunction again, they can handle it themselves. I'm NEVER stepping back into one of those places.
Check. I'm already on Windows, so "switching" isn't an issue
Check. I don't run anti-virus. (The trick is to not give your everyday user account admin pris. Unix users have known this for decades.)
Check. MS keylogging? Like they have something useful to do with all the keystrokes from a billion computers every day? Lol.
Check. I don't use Google Chrome. (Firefox)
Check. I don't use a laptop. Repairs on my desktop are easy to do myself. For mobile computing I use a cheap Android pad.
Check. I don't use iTunes. I keep my own music in my own software (whatever works best this year), and am not shackled to any one big vendor.
Check. I don't buy laptops. I buy my choice PC components when I need a new one for some reason.
Check. My Android phone works just fine with my PC, on those occasions when it matters (eg: saving and restoring from the SD card. Ripping my CDs. Ever tried to get a library of ripped CD .ogg files into iTunes? OMG...I gave up after wasting a weekend trying).
I have. My first development job 20 years ago was at about that level. The software development group I'm in now, as fate would have it, has 10 members, 3 of which identify female (30%).
I am still stuck on how they totally ignore that we went from 8 mpg to 40 mpg in that time. I wonder if that reduced emissions at all? Talk about fudging the numbers. Pollution per person per mile has plummeted!
...which helps not at all if we also went from commuting 8 miles to work every day to commuting 40 miles to work every day in that same time.
That isn't how Wikipedia works; that's how Nupedia worked.
Unlike Wikipedia, Nupedia was not a wiki; it was instead characterized by an extensive peer-review process, designed to make its articles of a quality comparable to that of professional encyclopedias. Nupedia wanted scholars (ideally with PhDs) to volunteer content. Before it ceased operating, Nupedia produced 25 approved articles that had completed its review process (three articles also existed in two versions of different lengths), and 74 more articles were in progress
If they want their own Wikipedia, they can't be restricting the pool of authors and trying to exercise top-down control on the content. OTOH, if they want Nupedia, they are on the right track.
Nupedia was designed by committee, with experts to predefine the rules, and it approved only 21 articles in its first year, compared to Wikipedia posting 200 articles in the first month, and 18,000 in the first year
Good luck with that, China.
I do this a lot actually.
Its very rare that I do this because I want the boss person to get involved. I do to keep them from swinging by my office and interrupting whatever I'm doing so they can ask how that particular activity is going (at which point I have to dig up that exact email to refresh my own memory). It also keeps them happier with me, which in the long run keeps me happier.
If I want them to *participate*, I'll add them on the recipient list, not the cc's.
The proposed Oregon legislation that I linked to earlier would make this use of your mobile device illegal.
As does the already passed legislation here in Oklahoma. One interesting facet of this is that using my mobile phone (which I already own) with Google Maps or Waze as a GPS navigation device is illegal, while using a $100+ Garman device mounted to the exact same spot for the exact same purpose is legal. Garman has some offices here in Oklahoma...
Well the phone is different because it was not designed to be used while driving. Compare the phone to the climate control or radio controls in a car. The radio controls are in a fixed place on the dash
My stereo has Bluetooth access, and I use my phone (mounted on a secure spot on the dash) as its head unit. That way I've got the same music options (including my entire 200+ CD library) available wherever I am. In this configuration, futzing with it is exactly like someone futzing with their stereo controls.
Now you may argue that it isn't designed for this use. However, it is far better designed for this use than most modern electronic car stereos. Many of those are designed so badly, with unnecessary extra menus, clicks, and delays you have to watch for (with your eyes), that Consumer Reports has started removing recommendations for the cars they come with.
There are a couple of options here. We can be Luddites and just try to blanket ban new things because some ways they are used are dangerous, or we can acknowledge that people will be doing it anyway, and try to do what we can to make what they will be doing safer. Standards for "car-safe" apps when hooked to a BT source would be a really good start.
For example, good movies make you care about the characters, and care when they get injured or die.
For the "good guys" perhaps. How many of the dudes who got their brains clawed out in Logan did you care about? Or the guys who died in Mad Max: Fury Road? How about all those Death Stars in the various Star Wars flicks? They all had a small planet's worth of people on them when they were destroyed. John Wick, Deadpool... I think I just went through most of IMDB's current top 10 action movies.
If they looked that far into it, why would anybody want a Kodi box at all, except for piracy? That's really the only reason to get one, whether they say "this is great for piracy!" or not.
There aren't a lot of mainstream streaming devices for cord-cutters that also act as a DVR. As a Roku user, that's the first thing that strikes me about it.
We have an upscale theater here. I got sick of paying extra, so I generally prefer to just go on low-traffic days (Monday and Tuesday) and take my chances, but if you want to pay extra to put yourself in a theater that families with kids can't afford, that's an option.
That's a temporary problem. Roughly 1 decade of your life (as much as 2 if you have multiple kids, 3 if you get nutty about it). I know that probably sounds like a long time right now, but it does end and life goes on. It won't be like this for long.
Actually, if the tickets were tiered (some movies definitely don't earn their ticket price), if the concession prices weren't obscene, and if there were ushers who would actually remove patrons disturbing everyone else...
Effectively, they are tiered. If you want to see it on day 1, and think the movie will be worth it, you can spend $20 and go see it in iMax 3D. If you don't think its worth that much, go see it for 2/3 to 1/2 price in normal "2D" (which you can also do on day 1, if you look around, but you'll have better luck waiting a week). If you don't think its worth even that much, wait 4+ weeks, and go see it at the discount cinema. If even that isn't worth the time/bother, then you've got HBO/Netflix for $10 a month, all you care to watch.
I remember the good old days on Usenet when advertisers and trolls discovered that the posting software allowed them to crosspost their junk to every single newsgroup in existence with no limitations or drawbacks whatsoever. The term "spam" was invented during the ensuing fun.
Now Twitter is going to unleash the same fun with tagging users for trolls and advertisers on their service. Its nice to see someone who still remembers and appreciates those good old days. You will no longer need to follow someone to get their garbage in your timeline. Ah, the memories... I can hardly wait!
Order of probability; 1.) The error is in my code. 2.) The error is in the library routine. 3.) The error is in the hardware.
This is exactly why errors in library routines and hardware tick us off so much. Its the next best thing to being betrayed.
I'm guessing you haven't read a lot of locally-generated user docs. The fact that I don't use "ran" in the present or future tense puts me one leg up over at least 2 of my co-workers.
But to be honest, not that I've noticed. I started using singular "they" my senior year in high-school (at a college prep school back in the mid-80's) and used it all through college, and never got marked off for it. I used to have my mother (a professional editor) look over my high-school papers before turning them in too, and don't remember being told not to do that.
There are a lot of English "rules" that are really only rules to people who actually don't know the language that well.