You may think you're being precise, or avoiding obfuscation, but all you're doing is annoying people.
You are being perfectly dismissive of the large number of people that find language entertaining, those who do not think the most boring way to express something is necessarily also the most apt. I can appreciate you don't care about language at the same level that I do. Can you?
This is very true. Check out http://www.maps.org/ for more information on MDMA-assisted-therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder, Psilocybin-assisted-therapy for terminal cancer anxiety and depression, and much more. This country is generally afraid of some of the most promising drugs for psychotherapy simply because the peace and well-being they impart is recreationally useful. We do this in spite of many legal prescriptions being recreationally-useful themselves: opiates, stimulants, anxiolytics.... Entheogens are a very promising path but one to tread carefully because of how little legitimate information makes it through the filters of political and social rhetoric.
Finally, I had to recognize that social skills, like all other skills, improve with practice. I used put my foot in my mouth all the time: I'd say something that would commit me to a fact, idea, or opinion, often an extreme one (said very loudly), then I'd have trouble walking back from it. That would be really embarrassing, especially when it turned out what I said was something I didn't really want to say, or was wrong. Sometimes I would blurt something out that would bother me for days afterwards. It really helped when I started treating this like a skill to be improved. I tried to treat each of those things as a learning opportunity. What did I say wrong? How could I prevent myself from doing that in the future? Almost always, the answer turned out to be to qualify absolute statements with phrases like "I think" or "It might be true that" or "Maybe." Often, the answer would just be to keep my mouth shut for a few extra sentences and listen.
You can admit you are wrong without speaking in weasel-words. That's part of confidence. Be unafraid of making mistakes and unafraid of owning your mistakes.
I am pretty sure in this case the student in question was actually interested in the rest of the class learning something correctly instead of incorrectly. Not everything is all kinds of insidious.
Very true. MDMA and Ayahuasca are also among those drugs that open the mind up to possibilities that it has previously shut down. There are a number of credible studies showing miraculous benefit from combined administration of entheogenic substances and personalized psychotherapy. I have personally witnessed a lot of success with non-traditional pharmaceuticals. Modern psychiatry seems to be much more about suppressing some aspects the mind rather than opening up blocked pathways. In a way, that's a false distinction, too... I'd post some papers but I think they are a little heady because they are medical in nature.
I don't agree. It is perfectly acceptable to introduce people to new vocabulary in conversation, as long as you do not belittle them for lack of specific language knowledge. If everyone attempts to hit a common denominator then a lot of exceptional things will never occur. I don't want the most boring of worlds.
Being told you're wrong repeatedly, proving yourself, and getting negative acknowledgment. It's a pretty simple feedback loop for creating arrogant personalities, especially when a lot of nerds are very analytic and passionate; those nerds see average people apparently not thriving in production of useful things, yet thriving socially (or whatever), and there's jealousy to feed the ignorance. The only way to solve any of this is for people to be more honest with themselves and genuine with the world.
You are confusing the viewpoints of individual members of an organization with the goals, actions and policies enacted to run the organization (which members are not really influencing.) GP had it far more right than you do about what is "reality" because you are unwilling to believe in sequestration of power as a form of collusion. Government agency oversight is something we overlook as the public because they tell us we don't need to look behind the curtain. The image presented by the media is always heavily sanitized and you appear to buy into that pretty deeply.
The C Programming Language Dragon of the Lost Sea The Science of Language The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation Good Germs, Bad Germs Food of the Gods Brave New World 1984 Fahrenheit 451 The Wheel of Time The C++ Programming Language The Jungle The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System Cryptonomicon Childhood's End
This is the most addictive RPG I have played in my life. I really love the rapid fire pace of the gear and specialization point systems and I only have one real complaint with the combat: it can be pretty hard to actually get your character moving somewhere instead of attacking once you are mostly-surrounded. Cheap deaths are pretty frustrating and the game mechanics are solid but not perfect.
Err... the bacteria in the intestines are where "full digestion" occurs. Those bacteria break food down further into constituents and therefore cause you to get MORE energy from it. We would be in a sad state if the intestinal microherd were parasitic rather than symbiotic.
I never said that -- for example, Dale's Pale Ale comes in a can and is one of the best IPAs that I have ever had. My point was only that very few good beers come in both. Some that are have no comparison -- Guinness in a bottle is Extra Stout, not the same stuff that gets canned.
Different states have different shapes/colors/sizes/fonts/etc. for their state highways signs and yet they are all clearly recognizable as highway signs. You know it's a highway sign. Every country has enumerated highways if it has highways, and it has signs of some kind on those highways. Anyone would know it's a highway sign.
Every single one of them is exactly as cluttered as the programs/shortcuts you put/leave on there. If you consider the stuff you have left on your taskbar other than running programs clutter, then remove or hide them. Remove taskbar applets you don't want. Hide notification icons. Taskbars are all configurable and pretty equivalent these days.
If you can't get that from the class/directory/whatever structure of the program/system then no amounts of comments are going to help -- you need a manual or to simply dive in to ever understand a system like that. Code clarity is not a localized concept. You need to work hard to make sensible naming schemes and hierarchies and to make it very clear when crossing boundaries where things tie together (e.g. the Model/View/Controller paradigm). This absolutely eliminates a large amount of comments and if your comments are so thick and heavy that they are overwhelming the code, it sure as hell better be because you actually are describing a difficult algorithm, not just duplicating your code into English.
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over-analysis != intelligence
LOL at getting all your knowledge of "drugs" from government propaganda?
This is sort of a repost because my comments have not been showing up... but I can find them in a search so *shrug* slashbug!
You may think you're being precise, or avoiding obfuscation, but all you're doing is annoying people.
You are being perfectly dismissive of the large number of people that find language entertaining, those who do not think the most boring way to express something is necessarily also the most apt. I can appreciate you don't care about language at the same level that I do. Can you?
This is very true. Check out http://www.maps.org/ for more information on MDMA-assisted-therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder, Psilocybin-assisted-therapy for terminal cancer anxiety and depression, and much more. This country is generally afraid of some of the most promising drugs for psychotherapy simply because the peace and well-being they impart is recreationally useful. We do this in spite of many legal prescriptions being recreationally-useful themselves: opiates, stimulants, anxiolytics.... Entheogens are a very promising path but one to tread carefully because of how little legitimate information makes it through the filters of political and social rhetoric.
Finally, I had to recognize that social skills, like all other skills, improve with practice. I used put my foot in my mouth all the time: I'd say something that would commit me to a fact, idea, or opinion, often an extreme one (said very loudly), then I'd have trouble walking back from it. That would be really embarrassing, especially when it turned out what I said was something I didn't really want to say, or was wrong. Sometimes I would blurt something out that would bother me for days afterwards. It really helped when I started treating this like a skill to be improved. I tried to treat each of those things as a learning opportunity. What did I say wrong? How could I prevent myself from doing that in the future? Almost always, the answer turned out to be to qualify absolute statements with phrases like "I think" or "It might be true that" or "Maybe." Often, the answer would just be to keep my mouth shut for a few extra sentences and listen.
You can admit you are wrong without speaking in weasel-words. That's part of confidence. Be unafraid of making mistakes and unafraid of owning your mistakes.
I am pretty sure in this case the student in question was actually interested in the rest of the class learning something correctly instead of incorrectly. Not everything is all kinds of insidious.
Very true. MDMA and Ayahuasca are also among those drugs that open the mind up to possibilities that it has previously shut down. There are a number of credible studies showing miraculous benefit from combined administration of entheogenic substances and personalized psychotherapy. I have personally witnessed a lot of success with non-traditional pharmaceuticals. Modern psychiatry seems to be much more about suppressing some aspects the mind rather than opening up blocked pathways. In a way, that's a false distinction, too... I'd post some papers but I think they are a little heady because they are medical in nature.
I don't agree. It is perfectly acceptable to introduce people to new vocabulary in conversation, as long as you do not belittle them for lack of specific language knowledge. If everyone attempts to hit a common denominator then a lot of exceptional things will never occur. I don't want the most boring of worlds.
Calm down. Linux is on plenty of devices. It has never been on desktops and never will be.
Being told you're wrong repeatedly, proving yourself, and getting negative acknowledgment. It's a pretty simple feedback loop for creating arrogant personalities, especially when a lot of nerds are very analytic and passionate; those nerds see average people apparently not thriving in production of useful things, yet thriving socially (or whatever), and there's jealousy to feed the ignorance. The only way to solve any of this is for people to be more honest with themselves and genuine with the world.
You are confusing the viewpoints of individual members of an organization with the goals, actions and policies enacted to run the organization (which members are not really influencing.) GP had it far more right than you do about what is "reality" because you are unwilling to believe in sequestration of power as a form of collusion. Government agency oversight is something we overlook as the public because they tell us we don't need to look behind the curtain. The image presented by the media is always heavily sanitized and you appear to buy into that pretty deeply.
The C Programming Language
Dragon of the Lost Sea
The Science of Language
The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation
Good Germs, Bad Germs
Food of the Gods
Brave New World
1984
Fahrenheit 451
The Wheel of Time
The C++ Programming Language
The Jungle
The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System
Cryptonomicon
Childhood's End
Sounds like a waste of breath to me.
Great tip! I need to check out all the keys I haven't looked at; thank you!
This is the most addictive RPG I have played in my life. I really love the rapid fire pace of the gear and specialization point systems and I only have one real complaint with the combat: it can be pretty hard to actually get your character moving somewhere instead of attacking once you are mostly-surrounded. Cheap deaths are pretty frustrating and the game mechanics are solid but not perfect.
Err... the bacteria in the intestines are where "full digestion" occurs. Those bacteria break food down further into constituents and therefore cause you to get MORE energy from it. We would be in a sad state if the intestinal microherd were parasitic rather than symbiotic.
I never said that -- for example, Dale's Pale Ale comes in a can and is one of the best IPAs that I have ever had. My point was only that very few good beers come in both. Some that are have no comparison -- Guinness in a bottle is Extra Stout, not the same stuff that gets canned.
What "beer" can you get in both a bottle or a can?
Beeswax.
The stomach does not contain water... Lots of things are extremely soluble in a pretty strong hydrochloric acid .
Different states have different shapes/colors/sizes/fonts/etc. for their state highways signs and yet they are all clearly recognizable as highway signs. You know it's a highway sign. Every country has enumerated highways if it has highways, and it has signs of some kind on those highways. Anyone would know it's a highway sign.
Every single one of them is exactly as cluttered as the programs/shortcuts you put/leave on there. If you consider the stuff you have left on your taskbar other than running programs clutter, then remove or hide them. Remove taskbar applets you don't want. Hide notification icons. Taskbars are all configurable and pretty equivalent these days.
But that metadata also helps describe how that code is transcribed into new programs when recombined, doesn't it?
If you can't get that from the class/directory/whatever structure of the program/system then no amounts of comments are going to help -- you need a manual or to simply dive in to ever understand a system like that. Code clarity is not a localized concept. You need to work hard to make sensible naming schemes and hierarchies and to make it very clear when crossing boundaries where things tie together (e.g. the Model/View/Controller paradigm). This absolutely eliminates a large amount of comments and if your comments are so thick and heavy that they are overwhelming the code, it sure as hell better be because you actually are describing a difficult algorithm, not just duplicating your code into English.