I would have thought the same too, not long ago. I don't think I've ever seen a woman being cat-called or made to feel uncomfortable by men simply because she's a woman. After all, I live in decent parts of Ontario.
Then a thread on Reddit asked women when they became aware that they were being seen/treated sexually. Most of them were 10-14 years old, and they were being verbally and physically harassed by much older men (sometimes 4-5 times older). Someone compiled the women's ages.
I asked my SO about it. She also grew up in a quiet, relatively safe Ontario town. She confirmed that the same thing happened to her starting around age 12. When she was working in a market, around age 15, middle-aged men would wait until she was walking with big trays of food (and therefore couldn't protect herself) and grope her breasts and ass. This was common, and none of the other people around would say or do anything to help.
So just because you don't see it, doesn't mean it's not happening. It usually happens specifically when the girls have no one around to stand up for them. Talk to some of the women around you, and get their stories. Maybe things have changed, but I thought they had already changed in the '70s and '80s and I was wrong.
Yes, but no one is going to adopt it when the base version (Delphi Architect, I don't count the lesser versions that don't even have client/server capabilities) is $2,500 with a mandatory $800/year subscription ($4,300 and $1,500 respectively for the cross-platform RAD studio). Oh, the subscription is not mandatory, but you literally get no bug fixes or updates without it.
And they have adopted a twice-yearly release cycle, so you have to upgrade every six months.
I was a big Delphi booster (owned 5 versions over the years) but they lost me with the above insanity.
Maybe because Watts are a unit of power, not energy. This is a U.S. report, so they tend to use Imperial units. 4,211 BTU works out to 4.4 MJ (MegaJoules). In Chrome I didn't even have to finish typing in "4211 BTU in Joules" before it gave me the answer.
To "weather something" means to endure severe conditions (e.g. weather) and survive. Imagine being on a ship and getting through a severe store. You and your ship have weathered the storm (this is almost certainly the origin of the phrase). So the company called Mendeley, which is considered an upstart in the publishing business, has survived a storm of controversy (over being bought by Elsevier) and joined the other scientific publishers to protect their content behind a paywall (a website that requires payment to view the contents).
Your opinion would have more weight if it were not for the massive backlog of rape kits. Police departments seem to have no interest in clearing the backlogs.
Correct conclusion, but one point is entirely wrong. The police acted correctly, but only because there was no evidence to support her story and you can only convict people if you can prove guilt. There is no reason at all to assume that she was lying. The guy can not be found guilty, but that does not mean he is innocent.
Anywhere Software produces B4A for Android apps, B4I for iOS, and B4J for desktop Java. They all use a dialect of BASIC very similar to Visual Basic. The Android version, at least, compiles to Java bytecode and gives full access to the Android libraries, etc.
The first two are about $100 for a license and 2 years of updates, the third is completely free. There is a vibrant community, and the main developer is very active on the forums, answering many questions.
Samuel R. Delaney wrote a book (Babel-17, won the Nebula Award in 1966) whose central idea was that humans could not understand an alien culture until they could understand its language. The protagonist, a language savant, discovered that thinking in that language dramatically changed her logical and perceptive abilities.
My younger son, who grew up speaking Japanese and then moved to Canada, asked me to explain when to use "who" and "whom". When I put it in Japanese terms, he understood the concept perfectly (at age 8 or so) and has never confused them again.
They should visit the townships of South Africa, where it's entirely normal for someone to speak five languages (English, Afrikaans, and several "black" languages like Sotho, Zulu, Pedi, Xhosa, etc.).
Japanese also explicitly incorporates the sense of social standing of the speaker/listener, as well as the flow of obligation (ageru/kureru/morau) when one person does something for another. Makes sense where a society is such a complicated web of statuses.
With the modern Pascal IDEs (Delphi and Lazarus), you declare a procedure/function in the interface and press a hotkey that generates the skeleton for the implementation. It's fast and easy.
What I loved about Delphi, when I used it professionally 7 years ago, was compiling about 300,000 lines of code in under five seconds on a typical office PC. That kind of quick feedback made it easy to test things and find syntax errors.
Also built-in range checking on strings and arrays, ridiculously easy data-bound controls (at a time when even Microsoft was telling people not to use the VB ones), great set handling (as mentioned above, and I still miss it in today's languages), EXEs produced with no dependencies.
The Pascal (well, primarily Delphi) community was always very helpful, and most 3rd-party libraries came with source code.
A lot of people are complaining about "being/end", and I have to say that I prefer curly braces, but that is by no means a significant issue (especially because IDEs highlight and collapse blocks, and in fact write the "begin/end" for you).
I beg to differ. My former company has done it, and it's slick and beautiful. They have targeted clothing retailers, but the software could be used elsewhere.
It was not a critique only of apartheid, but also of the situation afterwards, and the way that migrants from other African countries were (and often still are) being treated in South Africa.
I also started in IT when I was in my early 30s, about 15 years ago. At the age of 45, I was lucky to find a software development job at a university.Yes, the pay is significantly lower, but I rarely exceed the 35-hour workweek (2-3 times in six years). There is flexibility that allows me to be a single parent that my previous 60-100-hour weeks and insane deadlines never had. I have the respect and cooperation of my peers and superiors. I have the opportunity (not taken yet) to take six university courses (anything I like) a year.
When I interviewed for the job, they asked me the standard question, "where do you see yourself in 5 years?" Given that I'm a senior programmer, the only way up would be into management, so I replied, "doing exactly the same work, that I love, but doing it much better".
Being part of an organized workforce (I'm part of the United Steelworkers of Canada, for some bizarre reason), I have a reasonably good chance of continuing to learn and develop my skills until I decide to stop -- but I'm having too much fun to see that happening anytime soon.
Absolutely. I have 2-3 meetings a week, almost never lasting more than one hour each. My boss shields me from all the other crap that I would otherwise have to deal with, including saying "NO", which I'm not very good at.
I remember how delighted I was to learn data structures and algorithms, after 15 years of being a self-taught hobbyist. Tree traversal? Quicksort? Recursion? Quadtrees? I was fascinated and excited to understand how those things worked. I don't remember ever being resentful of long days and late nights. I even had to get the department head's permission to take more CS courses in one semester than they normally allowed.
Of course, I was a mature student, studying CS in my 30s after graduating in chemical engineering (where the only computer course we had was FORTRAN) and spending a decade in the workforce. So motivation was different for me.
As a single dad to two boys, I have been the only dad at multiple birthday parties. I've planned and hosted them. I've dealt with my kids' teachers and coaches and friends without batting an eye.
Maybe I'm lucky that I'm not all that sensitive to what other people are thinking about me. It certainly helped when I was almost the only foreigner in a village in the mountains of Southern Africa for three years. It also helped when I was one of a handful of foreigners in the places I lived in Japan for seven years.
Yes, in some ways I feel more comfortable with people who speak English natively, or who understand about Tim Hortons and the Montreal Canadiens, but I also value the people who are around me, wherever it may be.
When I arrived in the aforementioned African country, my organization immediately (within 24 hours of my two-day trip) placed me in another village, where I lived with a family for a month. The rationale was that when you are thrown into an unfamiliar environment, you seek support and connections among those around you. If I had started with an orientation surrounded by other expat volunteers, I would not form close bonds with the locals. Also, learning the language became a matter of survival (although a few people around me spoke English, learning Sesotho was essential).
I dunno, the average GP (General Practitioner, or Family Doctor) in Ontario makes over $300,000/year, and malpractice is under $4,000. A general surgeon can easily make over $500,000. A senior software developer would earn about $100,000, a teacher with 10 years' experience about $90,000.
Sounds like the daily train commute I used to do in Japan. Have you ever seen those videos of white-gloved train station workers cramming passengers into the train? Every morning for three years. If I didn't have my book up by my face when I got in, there was literally not enough room to get it out of my bag and raise it.
Not that unpleasant when you are crammed against high school girls and OLs ("office ladies", female office workers), but when it's a 50-year-old oyaji who just threw his cigarette away before stepping on the train it is less than ideal.
Speaking of ramen, I lived near the city in Japan that had the country's highest-rated ramen restaurant (according to a popular TV show). There were lineups out the door and down the street after midnight on a week night!
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I would have thought the same too, not long ago. I don't think I've ever seen a woman being cat-called or made to feel uncomfortable by men simply because she's a woman. After all, I live in decent parts of Ontario.
Then a thread on Reddit asked women when they became aware that they were being seen/treated sexually. Most of them were 10-14 years old, and they were being verbally and physically harassed by much older men (sometimes 4-5 times older). Someone compiled the women's ages.
I asked my SO about it. She also grew up in a quiet, relatively safe Ontario town. She confirmed that the same thing happened to her starting around age 12. When she was working in a market, around age 15, middle-aged men would wait until she was walking with big trays of food (and therefore couldn't protect herself) and grope her breasts and ass. This was common, and none of the other people around would say or do anything to help.
So just because you don't see it, doesn't mean it's not happening. It usually happens specifically when the girls have no one around to stand up for them. Talk to some of the women around you, and get their stories. Maybe things have changed, but I thought they had already changed in the '70s and '80s and I was wrong.
Yes, but no one is going to adopt it when the base version (Delphi Architect, I don't count the lesser versions that don't even have client/server capabilities) is $2,500 with a mandatory $800/year subscription ($4,300 and $1,500 respectively for the cross-platform RAD studio). Oh, the subscription is not mandatory, but you literally get no bug fixes or updates without it.
And they have adopted a twice-yearly release cycle, so you have to upgrade every six months.
I was a big Delphi booster (owned 5 versions over the years) but they lost me with the above insanity.
Maybe because Watts are a unit of power, not energy. This is a U.S. report, so they tend to use Imperial units. 4,211 BTU works out to 4.4 MJ (MegaJoules). In Chrome I didn't even have to finish typing in "4211 BTU in Joules" before it gave me the answer.
Oh, and in English we always capitalize "English" and "German" (and, of course, other languages).
To "weather something" means to endure severe conditions (e.g. weather) and survive. Imagine being on a ship and getting through a severe store. You and your ship have weathered the storm (this is almost certainly the origin of the phrase). So the company called Mendeley, which is considered an upstart in the publishing business, has survived a storm of controversy (over being bought by Elsevier) and joined the other scientific publishers to protect their content behind a paywall (a website that requires payment to view the contents).
Your opinion would have more weight if it were not for the massive backlog of rape kits. Police departments seem to have no interest in clearing the backlogs.
Correct conclusion, but one point is entirely wrong. The police acted correctly, but only because there was no evidence to support her story and you can only convict people if you can prove guilt. There is no reason at all to assume that she was lying. The guy can not be found guilty, but that does not mean he is innocent.
And the best way to comment on another person's intelligence is to spell the word "Intelligent" wrong in your title! :P
Anywhere Software produces B4A for Android apps, B4I for iOS, and B4J for desktop Java. They all use a dialect of BASIC very similar to Visual Basic. The Android version, at least, compiles to Java bytecode and gives full access to the Android libraries, etc.
The first two are about $100 for a license and 2 years of updates, the third is completely free. There is a vibrant community, and the main developer is very active on the forums, answering many questions.
Samuel R. Delaney wrote a book (Babel-17, won the Nebula Award in 1966) whose central idea was that humans could not understand an alien culture until they could understand its language. The protagonist, a language savant, discovered that thinking in that language dramatically changed her logical and perceptive abilities.
My younger son, who grew up speaking Japanese and then moved to Canada, asked me to explain when to use "who" and "whom". When I put it in Japanese terms, he understood the concept perfectly (at age 8 or so) and has never confused them again.
They should visit the townships of South Africa, where it's entirely normal for someone to speak five languages (English, Afrikaans, and several "black" languages like Sotho, Zulu, Pedi, Xhosa, etc.).
Japanese also explicitly incorporates the sense of social standing of the speaker/listener, as well as the flow of obligation (ageru/kureru/morau) when one person does something for another. Makes sense where a society is such a complicated web of statuses.
With the modern Pascal IDEs (Delphi and Lazarus), you declare a procedure/function in the interface and press a hotkey that generates the skeleton for the implementation. It's fast and easy.
What I loved about Delphi, when I used it professionally 7 years ago, was compiling about 300,000 lines of code in under five seconds on a typical office PC. That kind of quick feedback made it easy to test things and find syntax errors.
Also built-in range checking on strings and arrays, ridiculously easy data-bound controls (at a time when even Microsoft was telling people not to use the VB ones), great set handling (as mentioned above, and I still miss it in today's languages), EXEs produced with no dependencies.
The Pascal (well, primarily Delphi) community was always very helpful, and most 3rd-party libraries came with source code.
A lot of people are complaining about "being/end", and I have to say that I prefer curly braces, but that is by no means a significant issue (especially because IDEs highlight and collapse blocks, and in fact write the "begin/end" for you).
I beg to differ. My former company has done it, and it's slick and beautiful. They have targeted clothing retailers, but the software could be used elsewhere.
There are also several excellent books for Scratch programming. My son used Super Scratch Programming Adventure and really liked it.
It was not a critique only of apartheid, but also of the situation afterwards, and the way that migrants from other African countries were (and often still are) being treated in South Africa.
I also started in IT when I was in my early 30s, about 15 years ago. At the age of 45, I was lucky to find a software development job at a university.Yes, the pay is significantly lower, but I rarely exceed the 35-hour workweek (2-3 times in six years). There is flexibility that allows me to be a single parent that my previous 60-100-hour weeks and insane deadlines never had. I have the respect and cooperation of my peers and superiors. I have the opportunity (not taken yet) to take six university courses (anything I like) a year.
When I interviewed for the job, they asked me the standard question, "where do you see yourself in 5 years?" Given that I'm a senior programmer, the only way up would be into management, so I replied, "doing exactly the same work, that I love, but doing it much better".
Being part of an organized workforce (I'm part of the United Steelworkers of Canada, for some bizarre reason), I have a reasonably good chance of continuing to learn and develop my skills until I decide to stop -- but I'm having too much fun to see that happening anytime soon.
Absolutely. I have 2-3 meetings a week, almost never lasting more than one hour each. My boss shields me from all the other crap that I would otherwise have to deal with, including saying "NO", which I'm not very good at.
I remember how delighted I was to learn data structures and algorithms, after 15 years of being a self-taught hobbyist. Tree traversal? Quicksort? Recursion? Quadtrees? I was fascinated and excited to understand how those things worked. I don't remember ever being resentful of long days and late nights. I even had to get the department head's permission to take more CS courses in one semester than they normally allowed.
Of course, I was a mature student, studying CS in my 30s after graduating in chemical engineering (where the only computer course we had was FORTRAN) and spending a decade in the workforce. So motivation was different for me.
As a single dad to two boys, I have been the only dad at multiple birthday parties. I've planned and hosted them. I've dealt with my kids' teachers and coaches and friends without batting an eye.
Maybe I'm lucky that I'm not all that sensitive to what other people are thinking about me. It certainly helped when I was almost the only foreigner in a village in the mountains of Southern Africa for three years. It also helped when I was one of a handful of foreigners in the places I lived in Japan for seven years.
Yes, in some ways I feel more comfortable with people who speak English natively, or who understand about Tim Hortons and the Montreal Canadiens, but I also value the people who are around me, wherever it may be.
When I arrived in the aforementioned African country, my organization immediately (within 24 hours of my two-day trip) placed me in another village, where I lived with a family for a month. The rationale was that when you are thrown into an unfamiliar environment, you seek support and connections among those around you. If I had started with an orientation surrounded by other expat volunteers, I would not form close bonds with the locals. Also, learning the language became a matter of survival (although a few people around me spoke English, learning Sesotho was essential).
I dunno, the average GP (General Practitioner, or Family Doctor) in Ontario makes over $300,000/year, and malpractice is under $4,000. A general surgeon can easily make over $500,000. A senior software developer would earn about $100,000, a teacher with 10 years' experience about $90,000.
A heyday?
Sounds like the daily train commute I used to do in Japan. Have you ever seen those videos of white-gloved train station workers cramming passengers into the train? Every morning for three years. If I didn't have my book up by my face when I got in, there was literally not enough room to get it out of my bag and raise it.
Not that unpleasant when you are crammed against high school girls and OLs ("office ladies", female office workers), but when it's a 50-year-old oyaji who just threw his cigarette away before stepping on the train it is less than ideal.
Speaking of ramen, I lived near the city in Japan that had the country's highest-rated ramen restaurant (according to a popular TV show). There were lineups out the door and down the street after midnight on a week night!