You are conducting various logical fallacies including slippery slopes and ad-hominem attacks
Conducting? I think you mean committing.
As for "slippery slopes", you're 100% wrong there.
Ad-hominem? Undoubtedly. Of course, it's not a fallacy as I'm not trying to dismiss your argument by attacking you -- I'm attacking you because you're spreading misinformation.
Perhaps you should learn what those terms mean before you try using them!
Look outside, pretty much everything can kill you if you are unlucky.
So we should warn everyone of every possible danger, even if there is no evidence to support it? That's what's at issue here: the nonsense you're spreading about aspartame causing MS. There is no evidence to support that claim, yet here you are warning us about a possible danger! There isn't even any reason to suspect it!
Oh, but there's danger all around. Better not light any scented candles or clean the bathroom with any of those dangerous cleaners! You never know, they could kill you!
If you did not know people who react badly to certain things (or strange allergies) you would think it is crackpot.
No, I understand that people have strange allergies. I wouldn't call them crackpots; they're just unlucky. I am calling you a crackpot, for spreading nonsense about aspartame causing MS with absolutely no evidence!
I may have been wrong about singling out aspartame, it could be another chemical that is in diet colas.
See, you still don't have any correlation between diet soda and MS!
People like you do not see things before they are too late.
Perhaps MS is caused by fumes released by scented candles? We better warn everyone of the dangers!
Oh, maybe it's caused by exposure to residue left from tub & tile cleaner? Stop cleaning the bathroom now! We don't know if we're safe!
You sir are arrogant and unpleasant.
Quite possibly. However, people like you are a serious danger to society. Not only do you spread misinformation, but countering that nonsense takes resources away from more productive avenues of research. If that weren't enough, you call attention to all the idiotic consipriacy sights that may be spreading even more dangerous nonsense, like the false vaccine-autism link that has caused the deaths of hundreds of young children.
I'll take arrogant and unpleasant over that any day.
Ugh, this aspartame nonsense is the worst kind of pseudo science. I suppose you also believe that vaccines cause autism? What about peach-pits curing cancer?
Wait, let me guess: the "medical establishment" doesn't want you to know the "shocking truth".
Looking below, it looks like you also believe Monsanto is in on the conspiracy!
I'd laugh if spreading nonsense like you've been doing wasn't so dangerous. People like you are causing real and measurable harm.
Leave medical science to the experts. Hmmm... I better clarify that: Reading a few conspiracy websites does NOT make you an expert!
Great for that single person in some parts of Alabama. People in large cities, or those with families, would have a much more difficult time (rent alone in New York, San Diego, or Chicago will easily eat up more than half of that). Let's also not forget, that's household income, not individual income.
My point, of course, was that the absolute figures are meaningless unless they're adjusted for cost of living. Just having a bigger number than the other countries is completely meaningless. You can starve in the US earning $10k a year, but that same amount will let you live like royalty in Bangladesh!
USA has very much very loving people, and USA is #1 in the list of countries what has strongest religion believe to God.
This doesn't make much sense. In the US, if you're religious, odds are that you're Christian. I've found that the more devout a Christian in the US is, the more likely they are to be bigoted and hateful and hold the least compassionate political beliefs.
Ever been to a Mensa meeting? Most worthless and uninteresting bunch of people you'll ever meet.
If you've ever wondered why the best and the brightest aren't proud members of Mensa, it's because the best and brightest have better things to do than metaphorically measure their dicks with the basement dwellers at the local Mensa chapter.
(The rampant bigotry also makes those who don't need external validation feel uncomfortable.)
Who cares? I'd rather ignore the occasional bit of fraud (even if it were as high as 10%) than to inadvertently prevent someone or some family from getting desperately needed help.
You'd be the first. The rest of us still haven't come to any agreement on what even constitutes OOP. Even Alan Kay, who coined the term, regrets it (the mess that often passes for OOP today isn't even close to his original vision.)
Wow, it looks like you'd make a really great hire. You're competent, but not arrogant. You know enough to understand your own limitations, and you seem more than eager to learn.
After all, there is so much more to software development than coding.
You're insightful to boot!
I don't know what you do where you work, but I'll bet you're under-appreciated.
That does not reflect my experience. I taught some programming courses and I would say about half of the people didn't really get loops.
Same here. I noticed the same thing years ago as an undergraduate. Even having taught computer programming for years now, I still don't understand the mental block people get when it comes to loops.
They can answer questions about loops. They can look at an example of a loop and tell me what the output will be. I'll be damned if they can write one, or even say "I should use a loop" after determining that some bit of code should iterate. It's like they have all the knowledge they need, but just can't seem to bring themselves to put it into practice.
If anyone here has a real problem understanding loops, or clearly remembers when they did, can you offer some insight?
A degree certifies that you have learned how to learn; that you know how to read and analyse, how to find information and sift it for fact and fiction, how to write what you have learned clearly and concisely, and how to support your argument by pointing at what others have done.
Unfortunately, that's completely untrue for the vast majority of undergraduate degrees. When I was in grad school, I was astonished at how few of my classmates knew how to competently write something as simple as a research paper.
Undergraduates tend to get away with a practice similar to "proof texting", where they first write a paper based on their current knowledge and intuitions, and then dutifully hunt down sources which appear to support their points and inserting quotes and citations as though they were initially referencing those works. It's a bit like plagiarism in reverse, where they credit others for their own work, however inappropriate that may actually be.
Of course, you can't (or shouldn't be able to) get away with that at the graduate level, which is probably why so many people wash-out early on. They simply don't have the skills that their degree implies they have.
You're thinking too superficially. Very often does the right to speak necessitate the right to be heard! (What use would it be otherwise?) A few simple examples would include the right to petition, and the right to speak in ones own defense.
While you are free as a private citizen to ignore what I have to say, that does not impose on me any burden to censure myself in your presence. If speech is to be free, it must never be considered and infringement on the rights of others!
If we were to limit rights only to what has no impact or effect on others for fear of offense or any reason other than actual (measurable) harm, we'd have no rights to speak of at all.
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You are conducting various logical fallacies including slippery slopes and ad-hominem attacks
Conducting? I think you mean committing.
As for "slippery slopes", you're 100% wrong there.
Ad-hominem? Undoubtedly. Of course, it's not a fallacy as I'm not trying to dismiss your argument by attacking you -- I'm attacking you because you're spreading misinformation.
Perhaps you should learn what those terms mean before you try using them!
Look outside, pretty much everything can kill you if you are unlucky.
So we should warn everyone of every possible danger, even if there is no evidence to support it? That's what's at issue here: the nonsense you're spreading about aspartame causing MS. There is no evidence to support that claim, yet here you are warning us about a possible danger! There isn't even any reason to suspect it!
Oh, but there's danger all around. Better not light any scented candles or clean the bathroom with any of those dangerous cleaners! You never know, they could kill you!
If you did not know people who react badly to certain things (or strange allergies) you would think it is crackpot.
No, I understand that people have strange allergies. I wouldn't call them crackpots; they're just unlucky. I am calling you a crackpot, for spreading nonsense about aspartame causing MS with absolutely no evidence!
I may have been wrong about singling out aspartame, it could be another chemical that is in diet colas.
See, you still don't have any correlation between diet soda and MS!
People like you do not see things before they are too late.
Perhaps MS is caused by fumes released by scented candles? We better warn everyone of the dangers!
Oh, maybe it's caused by exposure to residue left from tub & tile cleaner? Stop cleaning the bathroom now! We don't know if we're safe!
You sir are arrogant and unpleasant.
Quite possibly. However, people like you are a serious danger to society. Not only do you spread misinformation, but countering that nonsense takes resources away from more productive avenues of research. If that weren't enough, you call attention to all the idiotic consipriacy sights that may be spreading even more dangerous nonsense, like the false vaccine-autism link that has caused the deaths of hundreds of young children.
I'll take arrogant and unpleasant over that any day.
Ugh, this aspartame nonsense is the worst kind of pseudo science. I suppose you also believe that vaccines cause autism? What about peach-pits curing cancer?
Wait, let me guess: the "medical establishment" doesn't want you to know the "shocking truth".
Looking below, it looks like you also believe Monsanto is in on the conspiracy!
I'd laugh if spreading nonsense like you've been doing wasn't so dangerous. People like you are causing real and measurable harm.
Leave medical science to the experts. Hmmm... I better clarify that: Reading a few conspiracy websites does NOT make you an expert!
Great for that single person in some parts of Alabama. People in large cities, or those with families, would have a much more difficult time (rent alone in New York, San Diego, or Chicago will easily eat up more than half of that). Let's also not forget, that's household income, not individual income.
My point, of course, was that the absolute figures are meaningless unless they're adjusted for cost of living. Just having a bigger number than the other countries is completely meaningless. You can starve in the US earning $10k a year, but that same amount will let you live like royalty in Bangladesh!
Hehe I've only seen one person use that phrase on this site before... I know who you are ;)
Clearly, that AC is not the real Michael Kristopherson!
there were 3 separate wrappers around a database, each returning different objects containing the same data
It was on an embedded platform
I just threw up a little...
Meanwhile, median income in the US is higher than the countries listed.
Way to be purposefully deceptive! You're numbers don't look so good when you normalize that to cost of living.
USA has very much very loving people, and USA is #1 in the list of countries what has strongest religion believe to God.
This doesn't make much sense. In the US, if you're religious, odds are that you're Christian. I've found that the more devout a Christian in the US is, the more likely they are to be bigoted and hateful and hold the least compassionate political beliefs.
No kidding!
Ever been to a Mensa meeting? Most worthless and uninteresting bunch of people you'll ever meet.
If you've ever wondered why the best and the brightest aren't proud members of Mensa, it's because the best and brightest have better things to do than metaphorically measure their dicks with the basement dwellers at the local Mensa chapter.
(The rampant bigotry also makes those who don't need external validation feel uncomfortable.)
Maybe your son will be the next Curtis Jackson!
Who?
What about their kids?
It's their own fault for being born into poverty. They could start getting bootstrappy now if it weren't for those damn liberal child-labor laws.
(This would be funny if there weren't people like Newt Gingrich who actually believe this!)
There are still too many scamming the system
Who cares? I'd rather ignore the occasional bit of fraud (even if it were as high as 10%) than to inadvertently prevent someone or some family from getting desperately needed help.
400k annually? That's change you can believe in!
I have a good understanding of OOP
You'd be the first. The rest of us still haven't come to any agreement on what even constitutes OOP. Even Alan Kay, who coined the term, regrets it (the mess that often passes for OOP today isn't even close to his original vision.)
Give Steve Yegee's excellent essay Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns a read.
You might also want to take a look at some of the discussions on c2 such as this one, and this one
Wow, it looks like you'd make a really great hire. You're competent, but not arrogant. You know enough to understand your own limitations, and you seem more than eager to learn.
After all, there is so much more to software development than coding.
You're insightful to boot!
I don't know what you do where you work, but I'll bet you're under-appreciated.
That does not reflect my experience. I taught some programming courses and I would say about half of the people didn't really get loops.
Same here. I noticed the same thing years ago as an undergraduate. Even having taught computer programming for years now, I still don't understand the mental block people get when it comes to loops.
They can answer questions about loops. They can look at an example of a loop and tell me what the output will be. I'll be damned if they can write one, or even say "I should use a loop" after determining that some bit of code should iterate. It's like they have all the knowledge they need, but just can't seem to bring themselves to put it into practice.
If anyone here has a real problem understanding loops, or clearly remembers when they did, can you offer some insight?
What happens in languages that don't have objects and methods?
Good code gets written.
my idiot boss insisted on IE9, even though no-one used it so I targeted Chrome, Opera, Firefox
...
Did I mention I'm no longer employed at that company?
Gee, I wonder why...
That's the most interesting response I've seen from Siri yet...
The first link is especially funny, as they've merely recreated Alan Kay's original vision from 1968!
Sorry folks, the keyboard is not dead and touch screens are not the future. Prepare to get over it.
Nevermind, I was completely wrong about the Office for Arm thing.
IIRC, those windows tablets last year were x86, not ARM.
Microsoft didn't demo Office for ARM until a few days ago.
A degree certifies that you have learned how to learn; that you know how to read and analyse, how to find information and sift it for fact and fiction, how to write what you have learned clearly and concisely, and how to support your argument by pointing at what others have done.
Unfortunately, that's completely untrue for the vast majority of undergraduate degrees. When I was in grad school, I was astonished at how few of my classmates knew how to competently write something as simple as a research paper.
Undergraduates tend to get away with a practice similar to "proof texting", where they first write a paper based on their current knowledge and intuitions, and then dutifully hunt down sources which appear to support their points and inserting quotes and citations as though they were initially referencing those works. It's a bit like plagiarism in reverse, where they credit others for their own work, however inappropriate that may actually be.
Of course, you can't (or shouldn't be able to) get away with that at the graduate level, which is probably why so many people wash-out early on. They simply don't have the skills that their degree implies they have.
A snow girl or a LED cloud ceiling?
Does it matter?
You're thinking too superficially. Very often does the right to speak necessitate the right to be heard! (What use would it be otherwise?) A few simple examples would include the right to petition, and the right to speak in ones own defense.
While you are free as a private citizen to ignore what I have to say, that does not impose on me any burden to censure myself in your presence. If speech is to be free, it must never be considered and infringement on the rights of others!
If we were to limit rights only to what has no impact or effect on others for fear of offense or any reason other than actual (measurable) harm, we'd have no rights to speak of at all.