this is going to cause problems with using DNA as evidence in criminal causes. If scientists claim that people may have mixed DNA, then it's not going to be long before some defense attorney uses that to get his client acquitted, or some shady DA uses that to get a conviction that s/he wanted.
Exactly, and thats why I choose to be an introvert. I dont see how its chemistry of the brain if I literally made a choice one day to become an introvert because I was tired of being an extrovert. I don't think that you chose to change from extrovert to introvert so much as you chose to stop acting like an extrovert. A true extrovert wouldn't be capable of not focusing on people because they need to do so in order to recharge their mental energy. A true introvert knows that they need to be alone, and a smart introvert knows the hallmarks of extroversion, so that you can fake it when need be, and they also know the difference between themselves and others much more than an extrovert does - extros think everyone's like them in some way.
You were faking it - that's natural, I did it too, but I grew to accept myself, so I gave up on faking my personality type.
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it's not a choice.
I'm an introvert. people bore me. I'd much rather sit here and work on my code instead of talk to other people about what I'm doing. I get energy from thinking about what I'm doing and from within myself. I don't NEED other people to energize me. I feel that this is a superior way to live, in fact, because I've been very alone before and I survived it. An extrovert would go stir-crazy and do things that might not be the best for them just to avoid being alone. Not needing others, but only having them in your life when you want them in it, helps prevent being taken advantage of by people who prey on others.
Oh, and if you're wondering, I'm getting married in November to another introvert, so it's not impossible for dregs like us to have what the holy extroverts have.
personally, I detest dress codes, but I've grown to respect them. I find it more insulting that they have to make rules about how to dress because they don't trust us to know better than that the acceptable forms of dress are limited.
The thing about flying free but only wearing slacks is ridiculous. Sounds like an airline exec had some kind of pedophilic fetish for boys in slacks.
there's no long-term market for this thing. Clarion already tried it with the AutoPC. Basically all it could do that a satnav + CD player couldn't do was take notes and work your schedule - do you really want to be working even when you're driving?
Lots of people will go gee-whiz and buy it and then wish they hadn't and it'll die like the CueCat.
A buddy of mine has a growing business doing house calls and on-site service. He loves it.
I used to do service calls as an employee of another business. I truly miss it. You get to leave the office instead of sit in a cubicle, work on problems that are all a little different and -- here's the best part -- when you're done, people are GRATEFUL. They're always ecstatically happy that you've fixed their computer problems. If they're not, they're just assholes that aren't worth repeat business.
This all means that they're not a monopoly on the consumer market anymore, but they ARE a monopoly on the commodity bandwidth market. If you want to be a CLEC, you buy your lines from SBC, period.
Oh, I suppose you could go through the decades-long process of running your own copper, but the government has determined that it isn't realistic to expect a new company to be able to do that and remain in the market, so SBC is obligated to sell bandwidth as a commodity, a raw material if you will, to the CLECs.
Lasseiz-faire capitalists find any government definition of or intervention in markets appalling, but then they'd turn around and bitch if SBC were the only DSL provider in the area and charged $100 a month, too.
Sometimes the government helps you, turn off the talk radio and get a clue.
I'm just saying that we should be careful about putting too much faith in localized popular rule, because it may have a tendency to squash those not in power without some oversight. Same goes for the federal government. Problem is there's not a meta-government to oversee them.
The closest thing to oversight of the federal government is voting in general elections. Nobody takes that seriously anymore.
In the best games, design comes first. You write the technology to support the design, you don't design the GAME mechanics within the constraints of technology. Sounds like some kind of karma-whoring aphorism, but it's true in all the literature that I've read about game design in the real world. The visionary type (Sid Meier, Warren Spector) comes up with a Big Idea and takes it to his tech director to see if it's feasible. The tech director figures out how much of it can be done and gets the ball rolling on technical design, while the visionary designs the game mechanics - stuff like what skills a character can have or what kind of missiles a plane will carry. IMO this is why licensed games are so cheaply done a lot of the time - much of the conceptual work is already done for you, and in the case of licenses like D&D, then you even have the game mechanics already created - you just need to write an engine around them. you still can't write an engine without knowing what the game is that will be running on it.
that's roughly how FPS games are developed. There are so many other genres of game that to take that as a global opinion is ridiculous. Lots of games are still built from scratch, since off-the-shelf stuff never does everything you want it to.
I think a lot of us react negatively because Best Practices are often pushed by architect types that don't write code but they have all the Best Practice books and they use those to evaluate your output. In other words, they can be used as a crutch for the unknowledgable.
Also, there are the questions of "just who decided that these were the Best Practices anyway?" and "What exactly about them makes them Best?" Those are questions that aren't usually answered before the Best Practice is pushed on you.
Some developers have egos that keep them from from using any sort of guide to coding past the learning stage. These people feel that if you always follow a "Best Practice", coding becomes little more than cutting and pasting. I'm guilty of this sometimes, but my main gig is maintaining old Perl/CGI apps, something I've been doing for 7-8 years. Sometimes to maintain my sanity I HAVE to do it differently.
If there are these "Best Practices" that are endorsed by the language makers, then why the hell don't they just constrain the language to only allow you to program in the "best practice" way? I mean, why allow you to screw up and use "worst practices" when they already know the best way? It seems like a setup to me.
I grew up in a non-industrialized small town. You obviously didn't if you think that people there are inherently nice. They are backstabbers. When they're not being friendly to you, they are talking shit behind your back and plotting ways to ruin your life. They have no other options for entertainment other than fucking with other people so they throw themselves into that full-bore.
I offer you a guided tour of the place I'm talking about. You will see what it's like, unless you're on so much goddamn crack that you don't recognize reality anymore.
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he could have been a bandit that tried to rob the wrong people. Didn't they find him in a pass? Perfect place to ambush some travelers.
this is going to cause problems with using DNA as evidence in criminal causes. If scientists claim that people may have mixed DNA, then it's not going to be long before some defense attorney uses that to get his client acquitted, or some shady DA uses that to get a conviction that s/he wanted.
Exactly, and thats why I choose to be an introvert. I dont see how its chemistry of the brain if I literally made a choice one day to become an introvert because I was tired of being an extrovert.
I don't think that you chose to change from extrovert to introvert so much as you chose to stop acting like an extrovert. A true extrovert wouldn't be capable of not focusing on people because they need to do so in order to recharge their mental energy. A true introvert knows that they need to be alone, and a smart introvert knows the hallmarks of extroversion, so that you can fake it when need be, and they also know the difference between themselves and others much more than an extrovert does - extros think everyone's like them in some way.
You were faking it - that's natural, I did it too, but I grew to accept myself, so I gave up on faking my personality type.
it's not a choice.
I'm an introvert. people bore me. I'd much rather sit here and work on my code instead of talk to other people about what I'm doing. I get energy from thinking about what I'm doing and from within myself. I don't NEED other people to energize me. I feel that this is a superior way to live, in fact, because I've been very alone before and I survived it. An extrovert would go stir-crazy and do things that might not be the best for them just to avoid being alone. Not needing others, but only having them in your life when you want them in it, helps prevent being taken advantage of by people who prey on others.
Oh, and if you're wondering, I'm getting married in November to another introvert, so it's not impossible for dregs like us to have what the holy extroverts have.
you just took the starch out of THAT argument.
yeah, but once they're done with the wah pedal, they go find your girlfriend and give her the fucking that you can't with your worn-down pencil dick.
ok, it was a dress up fetish. either way it's fucking ridiculous.
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personally, I detest dress codes, but I've grown to respect them. I find it more insulting that they have to make rules about how to dress because they don't trust us to know better than that the acceptable forms of dress are limited.
The thing about flying free but only wearing slacks is ridiculous. Sounds like an airline exec had some kind of pedophilic fetish for boys in slacks.
there's no long-term market for this thing. Clarion already tried it with the AutoPC. Basically all it could do that a satnav + CD player couldn't do was take notes and work your schedule - do you really want to be working even when you're driving?
Lots of people will go gee-whiz and buy it and then wish they hadn't and it'll die like the CueCat.
A buddy of mine has a growing business doing house calls and on-site service. He loves it.
I used to do service calls as an employee of another business. I truly miss it. You get to leave the office instead of sit in a cubicle, work on problems that are all a little different and -- here's the best part -- when you're done, people are GRATEFUL. They're always ecstatically happy that you've fixed their computer problems. If they're not, they're just assholes that aren't worth repeat business.
This all means that they're not a monopoly on the consumer market anymore, but they ARE a monopoly on the commodity bandwidth market. If you want to be a CLEC, you buy your lines from SBC, period.
Oh, I suppose you could go through the decades-long process of running your own copper, but the government has determined that it isn't realistic to expect a new company to be able to do that and remain in the market, so SBC is obligated to sell bandwidth as a commodity, a raw material if you will, to the CLECs.
Lasseiz-faire capitalists find any government definition of or intervention in markets appalling, but then they'd turn around and bitch if SBC were the only DSL provider in the area and charged $100 a month, too.
Sometimes the government helps you, turn off the talk radio and get a clue.
I for one welcome our new robot overlords!
why do they hate their countrymen so much that they'd rather redistribute their wealth to other countries?
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I'm just saying that we should be careful about putting too much faith in localized popular rule, because it may have a tendency to squash those not in power without some oversight.
Same goes for the federal government. Problem is there's not a meta-government to oversee them.
The closest thing to oversight of the federal government is voting in general elections. Nobody takes that seriously anymore.
Some clarification:
you're definitely not allowed to own a gun without a permit and license
This is on a state-by-state basis. The state I live in, Missouri, has no such permit system that I know of, though I haven't lived here long enough.
You're right on all other counts.
I know what you mean. I recently read a collection of short stories by Phillip K. Dick and it's amazing how wrong he turned out to be.
1) everyone doesn't smoke
2) computers got smaller, not bigger
3) we don't have space colonies or civilian space transportation
if you have to pay to eat the bitch then she's ripping you off twice.
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In the best games, design comes first. You write the technology to support the design, you don't design the GAME mechanics within the constraints of technology. Sounds like some kind of karma-whoring aphorism, but it's true in all the literature that I've read about game design in the real world. The visionary type (Sid Meier, Warren Spector) comes up with a Big Idea and takes it to his tech director to see if it's feasible. The tech director figures out how much of it can be done and gets the ball rolling on technical design, while the visionary designs the game mechanics - stuff like what skills a character can have or what kind of missiles a plane will carry. IMO this is why licensed games are so cheaply done a lot of the time - much of the conceptual work is already done for you, and in the case of licenses like D&D, then you even have the game mechanics already created - you just need to write an engine around them. you still can't write an engine without knowing what the game is that will be running on it.
that's roughly how FPS games are developed. There are so many other genres of game that to take that as a global opinion is ridiculous. Lots of games are still built from scratch, since off-the-shelf stuff never does everything you want it to.
OK, fair enough - so why do some books and classes for beginners teach outside of the best practices?
Thanks for the thoughtful response.
I think a lot of us react negatively because Best Practices are often pushed by architect types that don't write code but they have all the Best Practice books and they use those to evaluate your output. In other words, they can be used as a crutch for the unknowledgable.
Also, there are the questions of "just who decided that these were the Best Practices anyway?" and "What exactly about them makes them Best?" Those are questions that aren't usually answered before the Best Practice is pushed on you.
Some developers have egos that keep them from from using any sort of guide to coding past the learning stage. These people feel that if you always follow a "Best Practice", coding becomes little more than cutting and pasting. I'm guilty of this sometimes, but my main gig is maintaining old Perl/CGI apps, something I've been doing for 7-8 years. Sometimes to maintain my sanity I HAVE to do it differently.
If there are these "Best Practices" that are endorsed by the language makers, then why the hell don't they just constrain the language to only allow you to program in the "best practice" way? I mean, why allow you to screw up and use "worst practices" when they already know the best way? It seems like a setup to me.
I grew up in a non-industrialized small town. You obviously didn't if you think that people there are inherently nice. They are backstabbers. When they're not being friendly to you, they are talking shit behind your back and plotting ways to ruin your life. They have no other options for entertainment other than fucking with other people so they throw themselves into that full-bore.
I offer you a guided tour of the place I'm talking about. You will see what it's like, unless you're on so much goddamn crack that you don't recognize reality anymore.
Oh sure, that's fine, but then the bitch starts expecting it all the time, and you never get anything in return BUT points.