I know Perl is not sexy these days, but we use it a lot for things that we need done but don't want to spend a lot of time on maintenance. And I catch flack from some of the programmers who always want to use whatever "new hotness" is this year. But I'll take stable and mature any day of the week.
Perl hard. Make puzzler hurt. Mongo work in java now.
I'm not going to argue with your point of view (since you're more or less correct), but I would like to point out that offensive (as opposed to defensive) riding is unfortunately essential in a large urban environment. Getting out in front of traffic at a stop light, riding two abreast, moving from sidewalk to road and back again, and splitting lanes are all part of not being hit. For every asshole bunny-hopping the curb or cube-gleaming your fender, there's another who's totally oblivious to the fact that they're behind two tons of metal.
It's a lose-lose scenario, yet for some reason blame is passed between various forms of commuters instead of placed on urban planners where it so rightfully belongs. We need one lane for transit/commerce/utility, one lane for personal motorized transport, one for muscle powered, and one for pedestrians. Crying that it's difficult is begging the point.
((Critical Mass doesn't fit into this picture. It's a protest, and you know full well when and where it will occur. Getting your side mirror bashed or your windshield krypto'd is your own damn fault))
We've proven twice now that when the government gets involved too much, the economy stays depressed artificially longer.
If you keep repeating a statement it magically turns into a fact? That would explain why glenn beck was so worried about what hey may or may not have done in 1990.
From reading TFA (I know, I know...) it seems like more of a "if you can't be bothered to remember one thing your test couldn't have been that important" idea. No clue if it's an appropriate move, but it does seem like an awful lot of whining for what is essentially a minor procedural change.
As the commentor above mentioned, this field seems to be a little ill-defined.
That's because there isn't enough work to call it a 'field'. When you have one or two people attempting to define their work as a separate body, make sure that the most fitting descriptor isn't "a couple of assholes" (ethnodouchebaggery).
It seems like you've got the cart before the horse here a bit. I don't see how you'd have a large static population before you'd have serious and intensive agriculture.
The hunter/gatherer approach surely needs small tribal units that can move on when an area is depleted. It'd be hard to build a city on that basis, and without cities it's hard to see how larger collaborative projects could be sustained.
Possibly, but you need to quantify what you consider a 'small tribal unit' and an 'area' (I'm not being pedantic, I swear =)
For example, in the pacific northwest we had fairly large societies built on netting runs of salmon down one river. We have evidence of continual habitation along one stretch of the Columbia dating back eleven thousand years (sorry literal biblicists =/), and these would definitely be considered hunter/gatherer. They didn't, sadly, collaborate on microbrews, but did leave evidence of a cohesive society spanning millennium. The point being that these folks were basically camped on an unlimited resource node (in the popular parlance) without a need for much mobility.
The topic you bring up here is fascinating (ok, at least to an anthropologist) and is far from hashed out.
Gimme a break. That's because there's no such thing as a "cocaine lever" in the wild.
My point.
If you did have piles of cocaine around (very small ones so it didn't kill them immediately), rats or any other animals would probably get addicted too.
"would probably" isn't science.
We're getting a little far afield, but the gist is that this "classic" study is fundamentally flawed since it posits a situation that would not naturally occur. You can't subject an animal to horrific circumstances and then attempt to draw conclusions based on it's use of ameliorative substances that you yourself supply.
Well, ok, you can, but your thesis adviser should have stepped in a while ago.
As near as anyone can tell, organised human society became possible with the rise of agrarian societies
There's actually a pretty good argument for the manufacture of alcohol as one of the key motivations behind agriculture. Hunt/gather provides a better diet with a great deal less effort.
Your problem, if I may be so blunt, is that you seem to think there might be one universal truth to any given situation. There isn't. There are only different perspectives.
Actually, rats will push a button that sends an impulse to their pleasure center, and ignore food, sex, etc...
His point was that they do that when strapped into wire cages with hardware surgically attached to their skulls. An entirely sensible response to the situation IMO. Nobody has ever observed a rat pushing a cocaine lever in the wild.
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How about the "information wants to be free" trolls
You mean the ones taking this quote out of context to further their own agenda?
I know Perl is not sexy these days, but we use it a lot for things that we need done but don't want to spend a lot of time on maintenance. And I catch flack from some of the programmers who always want to use whatever "new hotness" is this year. But I'll take stable and mature any day of the week.
Perl hard. Make puzzler hurt. Mongo work in java now.
Hero worship doesn't work if your heroes have flaws.
Despite what PETA and the rest think, we're going to be eating animals[...]
Come back in thirty years after the water wars.
I'm not going to argue with your point of view (since you're more or less correct), but I would like to point out that offensive (as opposed to defensive) riding is unfortunately essential in a large urban environment. Getting out in front of traffic at a stop light, riding two abreast, moving from sidewalk to road and back again, and splitting lanes are all part of not being hit. For every asshole bunny-hopping the curb or cube-gleaming your fender, there's another who's totally oblivious to the fact that they're behind two tons of metal.
It's a lose-lose scenario, yet for some reason blame is passed between various forms of commuters instead of placed on urban planners where it so rightfully belongs. We need one lane for transit/commerce/utility, one lane for personal motorized transport, one for muscle powered, and one for pedestrians. Crying that it's difficult is begging the point.
((Critical Mass doesn't fit into this picture. It's a protest, and you know full well when and where it will occur. Getting your side mirror bashed or your windshield krypto'd is your own damn fault))
We've proven twice now that when the government gets involved too much, the economy stays depressed artificially longer.
If you keep repeating a statement it magically turns into a fact? That would explain why glenn beck was so worried about what hey may or may not have done in 1990.
This country was founded on sedition.
Aren't most of them?
From reading TFA (I know, I know...) it seems like more of a "if you can't be bothered to remember one thing your test couldn't have been that important" idea. No clue if it's an appropriate move, but it does seem like an awful lot of whining for what is essentially a minor procedural change.
The GP's point was that the bubble index would be "universal knowledge" and thus could not be exploited for advantage
Is there a difference between 'exploited for advantage' and 'used as a tool to prevent economic catastrophe'?
Garbage disposals really aren't that great of an idea. Job security for plumbers, basically.
I'm Batman (you insensitive clod!)
Oh god. I just flashed back to a project where my client wanted to send opted-in emails to customers with AOL addresses...
You know the cleaning woman character on Family Guy? The one who answers everything with "ehhh...no...."
Actually, his "any true patriot" line really deserved a dick-sucking joke. What kind of asshole says something like that?
As the commentor above mentioned, this field seems to be a little ill-defined.
That's because there isn't enough work to call it a 'field'. When you have one or two people attempting to define their work as a separate body, make sure that the most fitting descriptor isn't "a couple of assholes" (ethnodouchebaggery).
You could just leave bowls of beer and whisky out in a forest and see what happens? :P
You end up w/ a bunch of (happily?) drowned gastropods.
It seems like you've got the cart before the horse here a bit. I don't see how you'd have a large static population before you'd have serious and intensive agriculture.
The hunter/gatherer approach surely needs small tribal units that can move on when an area is depleted. It'd be hard to build a city on that basis, and without cities it's hard to see how larger collaborative projects could be sustained.
Possibly, but you need to quantify what you consider a 'small tribal unit' and an 'area' (I'm not being pedantic, I swear =)
For example, in the pacific northwest we had fairly large societies built on netting runs of salmon down one river. We have evidence of continual habitation along one stretch of the Columbia dating back eleven thousand years (sorry literal biblicists =/), and these would definitely be considered hunter/gatherer. They didn't, sadly, collaborate on microbrews, but did leave evidence of a cohesive society spanning millennium. The point being that these folks were basically camped on an unlimited resource node (in the popular parlance) without a need for much mobility.
The topic you bring up here is fascinating (ok, at least to an anthropologist) and is far from hashed out.
Gimme a break. That's because there's no such thing as a "cocaine lever" in the wild.
My point.
If you did have piles of cocaine around (very small ones so it didn't kill them immediately), rats or any other animals would probably get addicted too.
"would probably" isn't science.
We're getting a little far afield, but the gist is that this "classic" study is fundamentally flawed since it posits a situation that would not naturally occur. You can't subject an animal to horrific circumstances and then attempt to draw conclusions based on it's use of ameliorative substances that you yourself supply.
Well, ok, you can, but your thesis adviser should have stepped in a while ago.
but to insinuate that the government is using the citizens to get "free" work out of them is almost offensive.
While factually correct, your post goes against the narrative we're trying to push here. "Us" vs. "Them" doesn't work too well if there is no "them".
As near as anyone can tell, organised human society became possible with the rise of agrarian societies
There's actually a pretty good argument for the manufacture of alcohol as one of the key motivations behind agriculture. Hunt/gather provides a better diet with a great deal less effort.
I have a friend who thinks it is a problem, so it looks like our data point to a huge schism within the Apple community!
Your problem, if I may be so blunt, is that you seem to think there might be one universal truth to any given situation. There isn't. There are only different perspectives.
America's founding fathers, who any true American patriot reveres
I actually just finished sacrificing a goat to Jefferson. May he grant me a thousand blessings.
Actually, rats will push a button that sends an impulse to their pleasure center, and ignore food, sex, etc...
His point was that they do that when strapped into wire cages with hardware surgically attached to their skulls. An entirely sensible response to the situation IMO. Nobody has ever observed a rat pushing a cocaine lever in the wild.
Applicants to Assholes Inc. tend to be self-selecting.
Also, personally, I thought that Keanu in Johnny Mnemonic was okay.
Yeah, I didn't really get what the fuss was about either. Plus, I've never coveted an article of clothing as much as the suit he wore in that movie.