Pssst. I'll let you in on the dirty little secret of metamoderation. M2 is not about grading other people's moderations -- it is about grading your ability to moderate. This has been mentioned several times, but the metamoderation system is analagous to one of those "personality inventory" tests to help ensure that only the right sort get modpoints with any sort of frequency. Assuming your account it currently in a state where you get modpoints, there's an easy test you can try: metamod every time you are elligible but always inline with the groupthink. Note the sharp increase in your modpoints. Repeat the process antithetical to the agenda slashdot pushes. Note the decrease in your modpoints.
All I can say is that I hope the next Morrowind at least tries to be balanced somehow. Don't get me wrong, I was having a lot of fun with 3... Then I started playing around with the alchemy system, saw what an int potion does, and haven't turned the game on in the last four months.
You forgot the greedy birds which signal predator when there's no predator in order to get at the food first. People do it too -- just look at Bush/Cheney signaling Iraq with WMDs just so Halliburton can eat well...
That's the only coherent argument I've heard on this subject, and I'm rather sick of hearing it. Well, alow me to retort. Does Marsellus Wallace look like a bitch??
*cough* If you're gonna have yourself an "indentation convention" you can just as easily have yourself a "tab width convention". If you want to use an eightspace display for a tab then fine. If you want four, fine. But the code reviewer should load it up in "whatever our standard tab width" is, and review it like that. You see a convention of "tab width is four spaces" is better than "indentation is four spaces" because then for 99% of the code 99% of the time someone can adjust their width based on what their eyes need. Additionally my editor can make sense of a tab and use a smaller font/different font/greener font/whatever based on the number of preceeding tabs.
Yes, hellish things can happen if you're not careful. Which is why we have scripts to perform certain actions on checkin -- like checking your indentation, compiling your code, running (at least part of) the BVT suite,...
I actually agree with you though -- as long as the indent character in question is a tab. People who want to indent with spaces need their heads examined.
I know you qualified it with "simple BAT" and presumably by extension "simple shell script" -- so please don't think I am arguing with you... I would say however that the non-simple BAT/non-simple shell scripts need comments more than the average piece of C code, for instance.
C is very expressive, has a number of well-known idioms, and so on... Shell scripts are generally quite terse and often more in need of commenting.
The canonical form of your maxim is "If you don't have time to do it right the first time, when will you find time to do it again?". The correlary is: "The problem with quick and dirty is that dirty remains long after quick is forgotten."
But... Why? I mean... Why? I mean nine out of ten people who are going to want to use Linux on anything except the mainline architectures are going to be running Gentoo anyways d/t the complete and total ease of installing it anywhere Linux boots...
Damn. That's scary. I mean the 'beef' alone should cost more than that -- never mind prep time, the bun, condiments, the lights, rent on the store,... They must be selling a lot of overpriced sugar water to balance that out. Or do they actually turn a profit on that burger?
I got no clue about the mcrib. I had a chicken nugget -- and it was frightening how _good_ it tasted and how bad my stomach felt an hour later.
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Dooom! You've uncovered the secret of Flash Mobbing! Now all of us time travelers will need to go back to using raves as our cover...
Pssst. I'll let you in on the dirty little secret of metamoderation. M2 is not about grading other people's moderations -- it is about grading your ability to moderate. This has been mentioned several times, but the metamoderation system is analagous to one of those "personality inventory" tests to help ensure that only the right sort get modpoints with any sort of frequency. Assuming your account it currently in a state where you get modpoints, there's an easy test you can try: metamod every time you are elligible but always inline with the groupthink. Note the sharp increase in your modpoints. Repeat the process antithetical to the agenda slashdot pushes. Note the decrease in your modpoints.
Insert "you owe me a beer/keyboard/monitor" here. That was beautiful.
All I can say is that I hope the next Morrowind at least tries to be balanced somehow. Don't get me wrong, I was having a lot of fun with 3... Then I started playing around with the alchemy system, saw what an int potion does, and haven't turned the game on in the last four months.
I don't see a dump of this on TFE -- anyone have a copy they can insert?
Yup.
This thread is useless without the pics!!!
You forgot the greedy birds which signal predator when there's no predator in order to get at the food first. People do it too -- just look at Bush/Cheney signaling Iraq with WMDs just so Halliburton can eat well...
*cough* If you're gonna have yourself an "indentation convention" you can just as easily have yourself a "tab width convention". If you want to use an eightspace display for a tab then fine. If you want four, fine. But the code reviewer should load it up in "whatever our standard tab width" is, and review it like that. You see a convention of "tab width is four spaces" is better than "indentation is four spaces" because then for 99% of the code 99% of the time someone can adjust their width based on what their eyes need. Additionally my editor can make sense of a tab and use a smaller font/different font/greener font/whatever based on the number of preceeding tabs.
Yes, hellish things can happen if you're not careful. Which is why we have scripts to perform certain actions on checkin -- like checking your indentation, compiling your code, running (at least part of) the BVT suite, ...
Another reason might be something about how there's a long history of 'x' representing the horizontal axis, and 'm' being the slope...
So the length of a variable name for a global var should approach infinity?
I actually agree with you though -- as long as the indent character in question is a tab. People who want to indent with spaces need their heads examined.
C is very expressive, has a number of well-known idioms, and so on... Shell scripts are generally quite terse and often more in need of commenting.
"Don't get suckered in by the comments -- they can be terribly misleading. Debug only code."
--Dave Storer
The canonical form of your maxim is "If you don't have time to do it right the first time, when will you find time to do it again?". The correlary is: "The problem with quick and dirty is that dirty remains long after quick is forgotten."
It will bring your ancestors back to life!
Actually it's just that the space was mis-placed. It was supposed to read "powerful luser lock-in".
Don't bother replying to Taco (or any other /. admin ) in the threads. They don't read slashdot. (Or there email, but that's another story).
Egg on my face.
Did it go gold, or did it get pushed back?
But... Why? I mean... Why? I mean nine out of ten people who are going to want to use Linux on anything except the mainline architectures are going to be running Gentoo anyways d/t the complete and total ease of installing it anywhere Linux boots...
Damn. That's scary. I mean the 'beef' alone should cost more than that -- never mind prep time, the bun, condiments, the lights, rent on the store, ... They must be selling a lot of overpriced sugar water to balance that out. Or do they actually turn a profit on that burger?
I got no clue about the mcrib. I had a chicken nugget -- and it was frightening how _good_ it tasted and how bad my stomach felt an hour later.
I haven't been in a McDonalds in something like 15 years. Do they actually have a 29 cent hamburger?
I've seen catch played with a tennis ball and an orange ribbon to increase visibility...