You forgot to mention where you're from and where you got this
number from.
one disagreement I had with the book's author
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In the book, he advocates reducing lines of code by getting
rid of temporary variables where possible. I've never agreed
with that philosophy, and I think it's a terrible way to
make code maintainable.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
but I really have to doubt that Microsoft is quite this dumb. They've got a lot of really tallented people working there so you have to think that someone would have thought about this.
Someone thinking about something is entirely different than a group of people implementing it, particularly in a large organization. I've grown to think that these kind of things are often attributable neither to malice nor to stupidity. (I'd try to explain it in terms of our limitations not only in resources but also human limitations such as the fact that we aren't a single hive mind, but I haven't thought about it enough I guess to clearly formulate it).
Change programming (which you claim is well below your level) to Chinese and see how your philosophy works.
It's an introductory course. Introducing people to something they don't know about. I had too many physics and math teachers who taught like you said, and it's just absurd. If you don't have something on which to "stick" certain things in your mind, then it doesn't stick.
When I first learned programming, it was about making stick figures do jumping jacks with print statements. You want to do something quick and simple and see how the results relate to what you did.
Uh, that's how most of the English-speaking worlds spells the word. Unless I am very much mistaken, it's only the US (and US dependencies) where the spelling "favorite" is used instead of "favourite".
I guess it depends on how you define "English-speaking world". If you go by number of native English speakers, the populations of the main English-speaking countries are (data found in the CIA World Factbook)
United Kingdom: 60 million
Australia: 20 million
Canada: 32.5 million (60% of which is English!)
New Zealand: 4 million (Maori also an official language
India: 1000 million (but what percentage English -- also the literacy rate is 60%)
United States: 290 million (not sure of Spanish percentage)
So, depending on how you define it, the US might actually have more people spelling it "favorite" instead of "favourite".
If you ask me, they removed it out of fear of getting slashdotted.
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Where I've worked, people leave the entire thread at the bottom of an email in case you later CC someone so that they can know what you're talking about. They write on the top so that you don't have to scroll down ten pages to get to the relevant part if you already know what it's about. On usenet, on the other hand, interlacing threads works well because you can always check previous articles in the thread.
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It's the same reason that RMS avoided adding dynamic linking support (for example to be able to add elisp wrappers around C libraries) to GNU Emacs, whereas this apparently exists in XEmacs.
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How many GUIs give you the option of not streaming? You at least have a chance to do it.
How hard would it be to script that and wrap it in a GUI?
It took me a couple hours to install Half-Life 2 because of that stupid online installation. After that, though, I have to admit that it's a pretty sweet game.
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In the book, he advocates reducing lines of code by getting rid of temporary variables where possible. I've never agreed with that philosophy, and I think it's a terrible way to make code maintainable.
Someone thinking about something is entirely different than a group of people implementing it, particularly in a large organization. I've grown to think that these kind of things are often attributable neither to malice nor to stupidity. (I'd try to explain it in terms of our limitations not only in resources but also human limitations such as the fact that we aren't a single hive mind, but I haven't thought about it enough I guess to clearly formulate it).
Change programming (which you claim is well below your level) to Chinese and see how your philosophy works. It's an introductory course. Introducing people to something they don't know about. I had too many physics and math teachers who taught like you said, and it's just absurd. If you don't have something on which to "stick" certain things in your mind, then it doesn't stick.
When I first learned programming, it was about making stick figures do jumping jacks with print statements. You want to do something quick and simple and see how the results relate to what you did.
People like to laugh at Adobe and Flash, but until you put a better alternative forward, you might as well shut up. (Start hacking SVG or something.)
Craze is the right word for it.
`xpdf` works fine.
I thought that it was pretty cool, myself.
The Word grammar checker is right. You're supposed to use "that" there.
Since when are breasts obscene?
I don't care if Windows developers use Linux.
I guess it depends on how you define "English-speaking world". If you go by number of native English speakers, the populations of the main English-speaking countries are (data found in the CIA World Factbook)
- United Kingdom: 60 million
- Australia: 20 million
- Canada: 32.5 million (60% of which is English!)
- New Zealand: 4 million (Maori also an official language
- India: 1000 million (but what percentage English -- also the literacy rate is 60%)
- United States: 290 million (not sure of Spanish percentage)
So, depending on how you define it, the US might actually have more people spelling it "favorite" instead of "favourite".I'd prove you wrong, but my ASCII diagram was blocked.
These terrorists must be stopped.
I work with a variety of people who think in different ways and use different means of communication.
If you ask me, they removed it out of fear of getting slashdotted.
Where I've worked, people leave the entire thread at the bottom of an email in case you later CC someone so that they can know what you're talking about. They write on the top so that you don't have to scroll down ten pages to get to the relevant part if you already know what it's about. On usenet, on the other hand, interlacing threads works well because you can always check previous articles in the thread.
It's the same reason that RMS avoided adding dynamic linking support (for example to be able to add elisp wrappers around C libraries) to GNU Emacs, whereas this apparently exists in XEmacs.
It took me a couple hours to install Half-Life 2 because of that stupid online installation. After that, though, I have to admit that it's a pretty sweet game.
Did people start chanting "Big! Big! Big!" after reading the article summary?
What does "compete on a level playing field" mean?