Wow... I had forgotten about this game. As I recall each turn you'd make a decision about allocation of resources (buying land, planting seed, and feeding) and then see the results, with an occasional disaster thrown in. For a simple game it was remarkably fun. And it beat doing whatever I was supposed to be doing on the computer at the time.
I haven't used git for a while so I don't recall the details, but I was with a small team of very experienced developers, and even for us going to git had a bunch of surprises. For me it's not so much the UI tools, it's understanding what's going on, and why git does what it does.
That's what I mean when I say there's no simple formula of "do these 3 commands to do this, those 2 commands to do that". You have to understand WHY the commands are doing what they are doing.
I'm even farther away from SVN, but as I recall SVN was more centralized and had more of an obvious "get the current version from the central repository, edit, check it your changes" approach. With git, you are always doing a distributed approach, and I think it just makes it a little harder to figure out. More powerful, but not as clear.
I'd agree. Git is very powerful, in the same way that a double-ended chainsaw is very powerful. You can cut a lot of wood but you can also get seriously hurt. The thing is, Git isn't something where you can just follow a few simple formulas and have it all work. You really have to understand what it's doing and what the underlying model is, and even for people who are experienced with version control, that's going to take some time. I used Subversion for a while and it may not be as powerful, but for a small team in one location it's the simpler choice.
Saw this and had some bad flashbacks to using Perl. What a monstrosity. Even a friend of mine who loved it admitted he could read his own code later on. If you have to write a one liner, fine, but I had to maintain actual code written in Perl. It makes my skin crawl just thinking about it.
Not really. We can call Pluto a "planet" and call the asteroids asteroids and call the Kuiper Belt objects Kuiper Belt objects. There's no particular need to go into a frenzy over it. The reality is that there is going to be range of sizes of objects, from "almost suns" down to pebbles, so sweating exactly how you are going to name objects is ridiculous.
The current US "regime" wanted to charge home owners who had taken a mortgage on a house years ago and were making relatively small payments by current rates, the difference between what their house would rent for (if it was more than the mortgage payment) and the mortgage payment as imputed income. Yes, if you were paying $500 a month and the house could rent for $1500, you would have to add $12000 to your annual income in "imputed" income.
This sounds like extreme BS. Care to cite something other than Internet rumor?
Answer: no. I'm always amazed that people can still use Excel. I only use it a relatively small amount and run into nasty bugs. Is there really no one out there who can write a working spreadsheet?
And in other breaking World War II news, there was this amazing breakthru where vacuum tubes were used to create a powerful electronic machine called "ENIAC".
Your example of the US forcing its laws on other countries is the US refusing to follow EU law... uh, isn't that the EU trying to force its law on the US???
Well, because a lot of critics of Israel ARE in fact antisemites, clothing their hatred of Jews under the guise of "gee, we don't hate all Jews, just the Israelis". It really depends on what's being criticized. If it's a specific policy, ok. If it's the very existence of a Jewish state, that's antisemitic.
No, it's not just doubt. The Holocaust is one of the best documented events in human history. The Germans kept meticulous records. You can still talk to survivors who were in the camps and saw the gas chambers in operation. The "deniers" know that millions were murdered. The purpose of denial is to avoid punishment and increase the chances of doing it again. Really, it's a continuation of Hitler's "big lie" theory: if the lie is big enough, people will believe it.
Given that the guy committed statutory rape, yeah, this was good. By the way, the meaning of being below the age of consent is that the girl in question COULD NOT CONSENT.
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wow... this is your huge problem? You don't have free Internet access? Boo hoo.
If you really knew your Physics 101, you'd include the stop at Venus to pick up some atmosphere.
Heh... happily, I'm getting plenty. But that was too easy.
Wombyn, not womyn, you patriarchal fool.
Wow... I had forgotten about this game. As I recall each turn you'd make a decision about allocation of resources (buying land, planting seed, and feeding) and then see the results, with an occasional disaster thrown in. For a simple game it was remarkably fun. And it beat doing whatever I was supposed to be doing on the computer at the time.
Yeah, that free speech stuff really sucks.
I haven't used git for a while so I don't recall the details, but I was with a small team of very experienced developers, and even for us going to git had a bunch of surprises. For me it's not so much the UI tools, it's understanding what's going on, and why git does what it does.
That's what I mean when I say there's no simple formula of "do these 3 commands to do this, those 2 commands to do that". You have to understand WHY the commands are doing what they are doing.
I'm even farther away from SVN, but as I recall SVN was more centralized and had more of an obvious "get the current version from the central repository, edit, check it your changes" approach. With git, you are always doing a distributed approach, and I think it just makes it a little harder to figure out. More powerful, but not as clear.
I'd agree. Git is very powerful, in the same way that a double-ended chainsaw is very powerful. You can cut a lot of wood but you can also get seriously hurt. The thing is, Git isn't something where you can just follow a few simple formulas and have it all work. You really have to understand what it's doing and what the underlying model is, and even for people who are experienced with version control, that's going to take some time. I used Subversion for a while and it may not be as powerful, but for a small team in one location it's the simpler choice.
This reminds me of the old joke about Forth: Real programmers can tell the difference between Forth and line noise.
duh... "admitted he could NOT read his own code later on"
Saw this and had some bad flashbacks to using Perl. What a monstrosity. Even a friend of mine who loved it admitted he could read his own code later on. If you have to write a one liner, fine, but I had to maintain actual code written in Perl. It makes my skin crawl just thinking about it.
Huh?
Not really. We can call Pluto a "planet" and call the asteroids asteroids and call the Kuiper Belt objects Kuiper Belt objects. There's no particular need to go into a frenzy over it. The reality is that there is going to be range of sizes of objects, from "almost suns" down to pebbles, so sweating exactly how you are going to name objects is ridiculous.
The current US "regime" wanted to charge home owners who had taken a mortgage on a house years ago and were making relatively small payments by current rates, the difference between what their house would rent for (if it was more than the mortgage payment) and the mortgage payment as imputed income. Yes, if you were paying $500 a month and the house could rent for $1500, you would have to add $12000 to your annual income in "imputed" income.
This sounds like extreme BS. Care to cite something other than Internet rumor?
Answer: no. I'm always amazed that people can still use Excel. I only use it a relatively small amount and run into nasty bugs. Is there really no one out there who can write a working spreadsheet?
And in other breaking World War II news, there was this amazing breakthru where vacuum tubes were used to create a powerful electronic machine called "ENIAC".
Where did I say anyone shouldn't hear about it? Read a history book about WW II if you are interesting. But it is NOT FUCKING NEWS! Got it?
It is interesting, but it's also something that anyone interested in WW II has known about for years. How on earth is this "news".
Your example of the US forcing its laws on other countries is the US refusing to follow EU law... uh, isn't that the EU trying to force its law on the US???
Yes, let's beat the "Amerika eVil" drum.
How on earth is the parent "Insightful"?
At $30/hr it sure doesn't sound like a big market.
Well, because a lot of critics of Israel ARE in fact antisemites, clothing their hatred of Jews under the guise of "gee, we don't hate all Jews, just the Israelis". It really depends on what's being criticized. If it's a specific policy, ok. If it's the very existence of a Jewish state, that's antisemitic.
No, it's not just doubt. The Holocaust is one of the best documented events in human history. The Germans kept meticulous records. You can still talk to survivors who were in the camps and saw the gas chambers in operation. The "deniers" know that millions were murdered. The purpose of denial is to avoid punishment and increase the chances of doing it again. Really, it's a continuation of Hitler's "big lie" theory: if the lie is big enough, people will believe it.
Given that the guy committed statutory rape, yeah, this was good. By the way, the meaning of being below the age of consent is that the girl in question COULD NOT CONSENT.