"My System" by Aron Nimzowitsch is the book that got me interested in serious chess. I stumbled upon it by accident at a library when I was 12ish, back then I had no idea there were such things as chess books! It's actually a very readable and accessible book, a good read for any beginner+ player: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1880673851/102-65 69902-2362538?v=glance&n=283155
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Agreed. Chess clubs were what turned me off playing chess. And it's not much better online either.
Not only it's object-oriented, it's actually a pretty flexible kind of OO. You can do prototype-based OO out of the box, or class-based with a bit of tweaking.
You put a lot of thought and effort in your reply, so the least I can do is reply to it myself!
I think our main point of divergence is that you seem to say that one *has to* adhere to a complete set of beliefs over another one: for example, you seem to say that one is either a creationist or an evolutionist. How about considering them for what they are: theories? The difference is that the theory of evolution is a scientific one, i.e. it is falsifiable: you are absolutely welcome by the scientific community to use scientific rigor and methodology to poke holes in it. Interestingly enough, in your own post you take that exact stance with the theory of creation, so you have decided to have a scientific attitude toward your religious belief, which I think is healthy.
I do not have the place here to go through all the scientific arsenal (biology, astronomy, chemistry, geology, take your pick!) and evidence that you can use to prove that the planet is WAY WAY older than 6000 years (that's very easy, and you wouldn't even need to date the planet very precisely to that effect, the order of magnitude is that different). I don't know why you are choosing to conveniently dismiss the methodology and technology (such as carbon-dating for example) that is available to that effect.
The allegories, metaphors and guidelines in sacred books can be extremely profound and insightful, but ultimately one should use his own judgement in the face of possibly contradictory evidence. Think for yourself!
I am not an evolutionist. I believe the earth is only about 6,000 years old.
It's really not my habit to disagree abrasively with anyone BUT: you are a smart person (I could tell by checking out your web site), as a Slashdot reader you are a geek and therefore probably have strong logical reasoning skills (and you program in Perl for cryin' out loud!), not to mention a good understanding of scientific facts. HOW could YOU of all people ever believe in such fairytales?
There's nothing wrong with having religious beliefs, but it is important, in this day and age, to draw the line between mythology (which can be beautiful and moving, and has its place in every religion, but it is just that) and reality.
I sincerely hope I didn't hurt your feelings, but Slashdot is the one place I hoped not to have to read things like this.
Guess I'm gonna get my first ever flamebait mod for this, but this is a cause worth some sacrifice...
The author uses a text highlighter as an example of an aspect. I don't see how this is a cross-cutting feature. Why not just put that logic in a TextHighlighter class, and use it via a simple method call? Or use it in a Decorator pattern?
I got nothing against Aspects, but I just think they should be used when they make sense, like everything else I guess.
Once you've learned how to solve the cube (using some simple methods I can get it done in around 2 minutes, nothing impressive), the next fun thing to do is trying to obtain other geometric patterns starting from the solved one. For example, you can rotate the left side 90 degreees upwards and the right side 90 degrees downwards, then face the left side of the cube, apply the same transformation and so on... If I remember correctly, at some point you end up with "Z" shapes on the 4 lateral sides. And if you keep going, you get back to the solved cube!
One I could never obtain that way was to end up with "+" shapes on all 6 sides. Of course I can just come up with it the way I would solve the regular cube, but even then the different pattern plays tricks on you and requires more concentration.
Yeah, right. Because if you don't speak the native language, hate the natives (and all Europe) and alienate yourself in small groups of people like you, it's the fault of the other people if you can't get a nice job.
But it's not because a small minority of immigrants behave as you describe that the majority of them should suffer the consequences of the discrimination that ensues.
It would be interesting to see what percentage of the rioters conform to your description (can't speak French...) and what percentage is people simply fed up with actually trying hard to conform and not seeing the point.
I agree with the parent. In fact I've gone back to 0.7: smaller footprint, none of that download manager madness, no annoying "wizards" (or whatever they call them) to tell me a pop-up was blocked or to "help me" find-as-I-type, no newbie-oriented alerts, fewer crashes...
Probably some of the above can be fixed by setting some environment variable, but 0.7 just looked perfect out of the box.
The semantic web expects everyone to agree on one ontological framework (one master ontology) and further for each and every web page to markup parts of the page (or the entire page) by indicating parts of the ontology which refer to that piece of text.
I don't think that's necessarily true. Metadata markup doesn't have to be embedded within the web page, therefore a third party could create RDF statements relating documents that were created by traditional web designers.
Space 1999 is the second most psychedelic TV series I've ever seen, (#1 being the Prisoner of course). Planets were typically orange, green, yellow, or pink, and the worst the aliens could do was make the crew have some bad hallucinatory trip. Way cool!
Feel free to mod me down since only the ignoramuses get modded up. Stuff that is just downright dumb gets modded as "insightful" and comments that lend weight to an argument get modded down.
So what does it say about your post, since it ended up being modded up?
It simply opened my eyes about what true OO was about. I thought I was already fairly proficient in Smalltalk, but it's after learning a few of the patterns in the book that I truly understood the need for abstract classes and methods, the proper use of inheritance (vs composition), and the constant fight against code duplication.
Well, I don't know if that answers your question, but I use Ant to package my Firefox extension. It has commands for creating zip files and Jars, as well as creating and moving folders, which is all I need.
Ant is extensible, so I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of tasks have been made available for programming languages other than Java.
Agreed. One thing the author could have tried is to play his program against one that simply picks one move randomly amongst the available ones, and see if his program at least beats the random program consistently. I'm not even sure that it would be the case.
Until he does the above: if he claims his program can play chess then he should also admit that the random program can do too.
The problem of badly parked cars looks worse than it is really. Think about it: if the car was parked correctly, chances are that another car would have parked there before you already. If the parking is full otherwise, tell yourself that in most likelihood it would have been just as full with another car parked at that spot.
And if the parking's not full, quit you're bitching already and park somewhere else!;-)
Other thing: sometimes the badly parked car you're looking at is parked that way because a car next to it was badly parked before it, but is gone now.
The folder/subfolder hierarchical classification scheme is certainly limiting, but it is not incompatible with using keywords and databases. Think of folders/subfolders as a type of metadata with some formal syntax. The only thing is that it is good to have a mandatory scheme by default to ensure that users do associate some metadata to their files, and the folder/subfolder namespace is not a bad one at all.
I mostly agree with you, but I guess the point of all the advice in this thread is to make some small sacrifices (and the right ones) that can make your life more enjoyable while it lasts.
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Now is there a way to mod the mod himself "+1 funny" in this case?
"My System" by Aron Nimzowitsch is the book that got me interested in serious chess. I stumbled upon it by accident at a library when I was 12ish, back then I had no idea there were such things as chess books! It's actually a very readable and accessible book, a good read for any beginner+ player: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1880673851/102-65 69902-2362538?v=glance&n=283155
Agreed. Chess clubs were what turned me off playing chess. And it's not much better online either.
Maybe it's a "Gnu is Not Unix" infinite recursion acronym kind of joke...
Could it be that you are not part of the target market for whom you are developing your software?
Not only it's object-oriented, it's actually a pretty flexible kind of OO. You can do prototype-based OO out of the box, or class-based with a bit of tweaking.
You put a lot of thought and effort in your reply, so the least I can do is reply to it myself!
I think our main point of divergence is that you seem to say that one *has to* adhere to a complete set of beliefs over another one: for example, you seem to say that one is either a creationist or an evolutionist. How about considering them for what they are: theories? The difference is that the theory of evolution is a scientific one, i.e. it is falsifiable: you are absolutely welcome by the scientific community to use scientific rigor and methodology to poke holes in it. Interestingly enough, in your own post you take that exact stance with the theory of creation, so you have decided to have a scientific attitude toward your religious belief, which I think is healthy.
I do not have the place here to go through all the scientific arsenal (biology, astronomy, chemistry, geology, take your pick!) and evidence that you can use to prove that the planet is WAY WAY older than 6000 years (that's very easy, and you wouldn't even need to date the planet very precisely to that effect, the order of magnitude is that different). I don't know why you are choosing to conveniently dismiss the methodology and technology (such as carbon-dating for example) that is available to that effect.
The allegories, metaphors and guidelines in sacred books can be extremely profound and insightful, but ultimately one should use his own judgement in the face of possibly contradictory evidence. Think for yourself!
There's nothing wrong with having religious beliefs, but it is important, in this day and age, to draw the line between mythology (which can be beautiful and moving, and has its place in every religion, but it is just that) and reality.
I sincerely hope I didn't hurt your feelings, but Slashdot is the one place I hoped not to have to read things like this.
Guess I'm gonna get my first ever flamebait mod for this, but this is a cause worth some sacrifice...
Well, this is about "Top 20 Geek Novels in English since 1932", so Jules Verne would be a no-go for at least two reasons by that definition...
The author uses a text highlighter as an example of an aspect. I don't see how this is a cross-cutting feature. Why not just put that logic in a TextHighlighter class, and use it via a simple method call? Or use it in a Decorator pattern?
I got nothing against Aspects, but I just think they should be used when they make sense, like everything else I guess.
Once you've learned how to solve the cube (using some simple methods I can get it done in around 2 minutes, nothing impressive), the next fun thing to do is trying to obtain other geometric patterns starting from the solved one. For example, you can rotate the left side 90 degreees upwards and the right side 90 degrees downwards, then face the left side of the cube, apply the same transformation and so on... If I remember correctly, at some point you end up with "Z" shapes on the 4 lateral sides. And if you keep going, you get back to the solved cube!
One I could never obtain that way was to end up with "+" shapes on all 6 sides. Of course I can just come up with it the way I would solve the regular cube, but even then the different pattern plays tricks on you and requires more concentration.
But it's not because a small minority of immigrants behave as you describe that the majority of them should suffer the consequences of the discrimination that ensues.
It would be interesting to see what percentage of the rioters conform to your description (can't speak French...) and what percentage is people simply fed up with actually trying hard to conform and not seeing the point.
Al-Jean? So they've even adapted the name of the executive producer? That's perfectionism!
I agree with the parent. In fact I've gone back to 0.7: smaller footprint, none of that download manager madness, no annoying "wizards" (or whatever they call them) to tell me a pop-up was blocked or to "help me" find-as-I-type, no newbie-oriented alerts, fewer crashes...
Probably some of the above can be fixed by setting some environment variable, but 0.7 just looked perfect out of the box.
Space 1999 is the second most psychedelic TV series I've ever seen, (#1 being the Prisoner of course). Planets were typically orange, green, yellow, or pink, and the worst the aliens could do was make the crew have some bad hallucinatory trip. Way cool!
This is a really cool idea! You should make it available on sourceforge.
It simply opened my eyes about what true OO was about. I thought I was already fairly proficient in Smalltalk, but it's after learning a few of the patterns in the book that I truly understood the need for abstract classes and methods, the proper use of inheritance (vs composition), and the constant fight against code duplication.
Well, I don't know if that answers your question, but I use Ant to package my Firefox extension. It has commands for creating zip files and Jars, as well as creating and moving folders, which is all I need.
Ant is extensible, so I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of tasks have been made available for programming languages other than Java.
Agreed. One thing the author could have tried is to play his program against one that simply picks one move randomly amongst the available ones, and see if his program at least beats the random program consistently. I'm not even sure that it would be the case. Until he does the above: if he claims his program can play chess then he should also admit that the random program can do too.
The problem of badly parked cars looks worse than it is really. Think about it: if the car was parked correctly, chances are that another car would have parked there before you already. If the parking is full otherwise, tell yourself that in most likelihood it would have been just as full with another car parked at that spot.
;-)
And if the parking's not full, quit you're bitching already and park somewhere else!
Other thing: sometimes the badly parked car you're looking at is parked that way because a car next to it was badly parked before it, but is gone now.
PS: I never park my car badly!
The folder/subfolder hierarchical classification scheme is certainly limiting, but it is not incompatible with using keywords and databases. Think of folders/subfolders as a type of metadata with some formal syntax. The only thing is that it is good to have a mandatory scheme by default to ensure that users do associate some metadata to their files, and the folder/subfolder namespace is not a bad one at all.
I mostly agree with you, but I guess the point of all the advice in this thread is to make some small sacrifices (and the right ones) that can make your life more enjoyable while it lasts.