One can espouse a more nuanced view without requiring the 'natural consequence' ( ie slippery slope). Must one decry democracy if the natural consequence is everyone being required to vote on every decision? Nice stereotyping though. Could you impugn our collective sexual prowess as well?
Critical thinking won't teach you how to code, it will teach you how to solve problems. Not quite the same thing. You need both to write anything more than a quick and dirty fix.
It seems extremely unlikely to me that in the age of virtually ubiquitous access to free pornography that many buyers fit your description. I do know I've payed way more than the cost of a magazine for things far less valuable than beautiful pictures of the female form.
I"m with you on nearly all that, but the jury duty thing is off the mark. You get paid (modestly) to serve, you can't be fired for it (legally), and there are all manner of ways to get out of it (including claiming financial hardship.). It's a duty to your fellow citizen to help provide a jury of peers.
The overuse of the word 'toxic' by feminists is getting out of hand. Can you get the crew together to determine a spectrum of terms to describe this environment? Also, a maximum PPM of toxic elements would be helpful so we can figure out if we have to go full triple filtered reverse osmosis or if a standard carbon filter would do the trick.
And then if the car companies use geo-location information, driver facial recognition or some other tomfoolery to adjust the engines when they are detected to be in a 'test' area, would you still blame the test? At some point you have to say 'attempting to rig this vehicle for the test is cheating, and you'll be penalized harshly when caught' or you'll be playing whack-a-mole endlessly.
Extreme? No, that's a long way from extreme to me. Extreme would be seizing their assets and executing the wrongdoers china style.
it'll put millions of people out of work, destroy a lot of wealth, and then when it files for bankruptcy, it won't be able to fix the cars in the first place.
That sounds a lot like too big to fail. Which most of the big automotive companies appear to be. How do we fix this problem?
Not really. My first and only programming course in high school was in c++. It was long enough ago that I don't remember well what we did, but it seemed pretty easy to make small functional applications without any knowledge of the basics of memory management. I bet with better tooling and language progression it would be even easier than it was 20 years ago.
Hi chipschap, welcome to the internet! If this is your first time here, please be aware that there will be individuals, sometimes dubbed 'trolls', that will say intentionally inflammatory things to try and get a response. What's worse, they actually are actually encouraged by folks wasting precious time addressing their commentary. Please refrain from giving them extra visibility by responding to their drivel, as I wasted time reading the comment that inspired yours, rather than something that adds to the conversation. Cheers!
Software engineers responsible for real-time, public safety software should be capable of managing memory in their code
And surgeons responsible for cutting open live human beings should be capable of not leaving tools in the person they're operating on, but it still happens. Professionals make mistakes. Garbage collection is a useful tool to make it more difficult to screw up.
What a load of partisan bullshit. If that's how republicans are crying themselves to sleep at night; rationalizing their own losses on a manipulated brain rather than being remotely introspective about the candidates they put forth, they're more deluded than the general public. I'm confident republican spindoctor Frank 'Death Tax' Luntz sitting next to him on the panel corrected his assertion that it was the democrats alone were preying on the gullibility of the human mind.
I've never had a problem overseas with my books being region locked, and I can't imagine that's a huge problem. You can download unencumbered books from all over the place, or rip them and strip the DRM if it bothers you which has the added benefit of being able to share books more easily:)
Rarely have I ever seen the price of an e-book be as much as a paperback (but e-books are still overpriced in my mind).
I haven't used Cortanta, but MS speech recognition technology that's used for the parsing of voicemail in Exchange seems extremely good. In the last few messages I've gotten I haven't even felt the need to verify that the parsing was correct (that will probably bite me in the ass soon).
The main problem I think most people have is that it does not really offer any sort of hand-holding in terms of how you should structure your program. But in a way it is quite beautiful how you can create usable frameworks for OO, imperative, or functional programming with the same language.
True. I write straight machine code for the self-same reason; flexibility of writing expansive and divergent frameworks with none of the pesky hand-holding. It's so beautiful!
It's worth noting that mortgage interest is tax deductible, in addition to the other misc. tax benefits of home ownership. In my city, a mortgage payment is significantly lower then the corresponding rental prices (which seems obvious, in most cases someone is renting a location in order to make money). I can't make the math add up for renting if one is likely to stay in an area for at least 5 years. The only reason I can see for _not_ buying is not having the upfront investment, or not wanting to take on the liability.
How does home ownership give you more control over your finances? Just that someone can't jack up your rent payment on a whim?
the original claim was that a developer slept with a journalist in exchange for positive coverage of her game, which turned out to be completely and demonstrably untrue
I haven't followed this very closely, but I hadn't heard that, do you have a source?
Though I disagree, I'm not interested in debating the topic. All I mean to say is that if someone is willing to share something on social media, it's hard to be too sympathetic of it being spread across the internet.
I guess my sense of this is out of the mainstream then. I'd never think that expressing an opinion on a forum is harassment. Uncouth and childish, but not harassment.
All costs are directly, or indirectly, based on labor.
And here I was thinking it was supply and demand in a rapidly growing city causing the increase in my real estate value. I _am_ having to mow my lawn a lot more with this extra rain.
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One can espouse a more nuanced view without requiring the 'natural consequence' ( ie slippery slope). Must one decry democracy if the natural consequence is everyone being required to vote on every decision? Nice stereotyping though. Could you impugn our collective sexual prowess as well?
Critical thinking won't teach you how to code, it will teach you how to solve problems. Not quite the same thing. You need both to write anything more than a quick and dirty fix.
It seems extremely unlikely to me that in the age of virtually ubiquitous access to free pornography that many buyers fit your description. I do know I've payed way more than the cost of a magazine for things far less valuable than beautiful pictures of the female form.
I"m with you on nearly all that, but the jury duty thing is off the mark. You get paid (modestly) to serve, you can't be fired for it (legally), and there are all manner of ways to get out of it (including claiming financial hardship.). It's a duty to your fellow citizen to help provide a jury of peers.
The overuse of the word 'toxic' by feminists is getting out of hand. Can you get the crew together to determine a spectrum of terms to describe this environment? Also, a maximum PPM of toxic elements would be helpful so we can figure out if we have to go full triple filtered reverse osmosis or if a standard carbon filter would do the trick.
And then if the car companies use geo-location information, driver facial recognition or some other tomfoolery to adjust the engines when they are detected to be in a 'test' area, would you still blame the test? At some point you have to say 'attempting to rig this vehicle for the test is cheating, and you'll be penalized harshly when caught' or you'll be playing whack-a-mole endlessly.
the German built ones seem way better than the Mexico built ones. The engines seem solid but the electrical and interior go to shit in a hurry.
"ban them from selling cars here for 5 years"
Extreme? No, that's a long way from extreme to me. Extreme would be seizing their assets and executing the wrongdoers china style.
it'll put millions of people out of work, destroy a lot of wealth, and then when it files for bankruptcy, it won't be able to fix the cars in the first place.
That sounds a lot like too big to fail. Which most of the big automotive companies appear to be. How do we fix this problem?
Not really. My first and only programming course in high school was in c++. It was long enough ago that I don't remember well what we did, but it seemed pretty easy to make small functional applications without any knowledge of the basics of memory management. I bet with better tooling and language progression it would be even easier than it was 20 years ago.
The audiacity to fine higher than a year of profit. It's almost like these volks want the fine to be punitive rather than a pop of the lederhosen.
I second the recommendation. Svante tells a great story as well so it's an interesting read
Hi chipschap, welcome to the internet! If this is your first time here, please be aware that there will be individuals, sometimes dubbed 'trolls', that will say intentionally inflammatory things to try and get a response. What's worse, they actually are actually encouraged by folks wasting precious time addressing their commentary. Please refrain from giving them extra visibility by responding to their drivel, as I wasted time reading the comment that inspired yours, rather than something that adds to the conversation. Cheers!
You shouldn't have. He backpedaled on this specific issue regarding the FISA bill before he even got elected.
Software engineers responsible for real-time, public safety software should be capable of managing memory in their code
And surgeons responsible for cutting open live human beings should be capable of not leaving tools in the person they're operating on, but it still happens. Professionals make mistakes. Garbage collection is a useful tool to make it more difficult to screw up.
What a load of partisan bullshit. If that's how republicans are crying themselves to sleep at night; rationalizing their own losses on a manipulated brain rather than being remotely introspective about the candidates they put forth, they're more deluded than the general public. I'm confident republican spindoctor Frank 'Death Tax' Luntz sitting next to him on the panel corrected his assertion that it was the democrats alone were preying on the gullibility of the human mind.
I've never had a problem overseas with my books being region locked, and I can't imagine that's a huge problem. You can download unencumbered books from all over the place, or rip them and strip the DRM if it bothers you which has the added benefit of being able to share books more easily :)
Rarely have I ever seen the price of an e-book be as much as a paperback (but e-books are still overpriced in my mind).
I haven't used Cortanta, but MS speech recognition technology that's used for the parsing of voicemail in Exchange seems extremely good. In the last few messages I've gotten I haven't even felt the need to verify that the parsing was correct (that will probably bite me in the ass soon).
The main problem I think most people have is that it does not really offer any sort of hand-holding in terms of how you should structure your program. But in a way it is quite beautiful how you can create usable frameworks for OO, imperative, or functional programming with the same language.
True. I write straight machine code for the self-same reason; flexibility of writing expansive and divergent frameworks with none of the pesky hand-holding. It's so beautiful!
It's worth noting that mortgage interest is tax deductible, in addition to the other misc. tax benefits of home ownership. In my city, a mortgage payment is significantly lower then the corresponding rental prices (which seems obvious, in most cases someone is renting a location in order to make money). I can't make the math add up for renting if one is likely to stay in an area for at least 5 years. The only reason I can see for _not_ buying is not having the upfront investment, or not wanting to take on the liability.
How does home ownership give you more control over your finances? Just that someone can't jack up your rent payment on a whim?
the original claim was that a developer slept with a journalist in exchange for positive coverage of her game, which turned out to be completely and demonstrably untrue
I haven't followed this very closely, but I hadn't heard that, do you have a source?
Though I disagree, I'm not interested in debating the topic. All I mean to say is that if someone is willing to share something on social media, it's hard to be too sympathetic of it being spread across the internet.
I guess my sense of this is out of the mainstream then. I'd never think that expressing an opinion on a forum is harassment. Uncouth and childish, but not harassment.
2 things:
Their policy appears to be to ban subreddits that are actively harassing people.
That policy seems to have been implemented unevenly enough that the justification is questionable.
posting stolen pictures of fat people from social media
if you post a photo to social media and someone that's been given access to see the photo shares it, that's not 'stealing' in my book.
All costs are directly, or indirectly, based on labor.
And here I was thinking it was supply and demand in a rapidly growing city causing the increase in my real estate value. I _am_ having to mow my lawn a lot more with this extra rain.
Ah, you're right. Thank you for that correction.