I agree with you, but not for the reason you state. "Handful" != "Hand full". Yes, one came from the other, but I would argue that "handful" does *not* literally mean that the items have to have been literally held in someone's hand. Rather, it means merely that it's a small enough number that, were the items of a reasonably small size, they would comfortably fit in a hand. As wiktionary puts it: "A small quantity, usually approximately equal to five, the number of fingers on a hand."
That said, while I wouldn't be surprised if most of Boston isn't covered by FIOS (I live in another metropolitan area where only a small percentage of the city, not including any of the places I've lived, are eligible for FIOS, which hasn't stopped them from continually spamming me with FIOS ads for the 6 years I've lived there), still, I'm sure the number of people capable of getting FIOS is way more than 5. Thus, I'd still take issue with "literally", just not for the meaning you claim.
> "My puny zero-experience had written a sorting algorithm that really is O(n), and simply isn't taught in school. It's not taught as a standard sorting method purely because it depends high memory requirements and known a data range."
I can give you a sorting algorithm that's O(1). It just requires that the list is already sorted.:p
Um, yes it does? It totally has to do with how you recharge. It's completely obvious to me that extroverts, like my mom, feel more relaxed around other people, and less relaxed by themselves, where for me it's the opposite. I don't *mind* being social, but I also feel the need to have some time where I'm not, to recharge, where to a person like my mom that would drive her crazy. That is *exactly* what introversion means.
They're also Blackberries. I hate 16:9 screens, too, but if my laptop died, and I had a choice between buying a new laptop with a hated 16:9 screen, or buying a laptop that was 10 years old, I would be depressed, and then I would choose the former.
Blackberries suck compared to their competition for all kinds of other reasons than whether they have a keyboard.
Yeah. No-keyboard phones blow. I understand you can make them more cheaply, but screw that, I'll pay for it. It's depressing how few of them get made anymore, because apparently there's "no market for them". Well, gee, nobody is buying phones with keyboards, maybe because they're *not being made*.
Polynomial time doesn't mean fast. It just means that it doesn't grow exponentially as a factor of n. An algorithm could be O(n) and still take a thousand years to run for some input, that just means if the input was twice as large, it would only take twice as long.
I could see giving an 8 year old a phone. 8 year olds are immature, but they're at least capable of reasoning like "I don't want to get in trouble". A 4 year old, *will* call random numbers because it's funny, most likely even after getting in trouble for doing that several times. That just sounds like a recipe for disaster.
Except autocomplete can also provide you with documentation, if you do it right - you can add comments to methods, and then when you look through the method list in the autocomplete list, you can hover over likely-looking methods and see those comments, which is way more convenient than digging out the documentation.
And that matters why? My point wasn't that you should feel sympathy for him, my point was simply that it's not a perfect solution, because it could cause problems later. It could cause problems later anywhere.
That works, until you actually *do* need them to have your real name for some other reason. My best friend from high school did exactly that for WoW, because he didn't see any reason for them to have his real name, so he just gave them a fake "real name". Then, a couple years later, he sent them money for a renewal and their system was messed up and didn't process it right, and when he went to complain, they had a huge mess trying to fix it because his "real name" wasn't his actual real name.
> "Sometimes when I'm writing Java I get the overwhelming feeling that Intelli-sense is helping me muddle more quickly through mountains of code that I wouldn't have to write in the first place if I was using basically any other language on the planet."
Fixed that for you, he said again. The issue isn't intellisense, the issue is that Java is the most annoyingly verbose mainstream language ever created. Yes, intellisense does help you deal with language issues that don't exist in sane languages, but it helps you with sane things, too.:p
How it it irrelevant? Sure it's not usually the hard part, but it's still something you do constantly. Suppose someone said, "I claim you will love this car. It's exactly the same as your current car, only you have to press the inside of the roof with your elbow every time you want to use your turn signal". That doesn't sound that hard, right? Using your turn signal isn't really the hard part of driving, right? Would you want to do something slightly annoying and slightly time-consuming every time you had to, though? For no reason?
There, now all 0 of you who were like "where's the car analogy!?" can stop hypothetically complaining.
I wouldn't say "predatory", and I would even agree that food trucks and permanent-location restaurants generally fulfill different niches, but I would argue against your statement that people don't "go to a food truck to get a quality meal". At least around here, these days people generally go to a food truck to get generally-overpriced hipsterish fusion silliness, the same sort of food they'd get from, for instance, a gastropub minus the booze. Food is often (though admittedly not always) indeed quite fantastic, just almost always also overpriced. Totally different from the pre-2000s roach coach type food truck concept.
The sort of programmer working with a new API, or an API where several functions have similar names, or you know the name of the functions but not the order of their parameters, or you just yourself created a new class and you don't remember exactly what you named all the properties (id? ID? DocID? DocumentID? In which case, granted, you wouldn't be looking at documentation, you'd be looking at your source code, but same idea, really), or any of a number of other reasons why intellisense is convenient to have around.
"They're fans of Intelli-sense, not Visual Studio. If their text editor can't immediately guess which function they should be using, have to go check the documentation, thus wasting a couple minutes that they could have been programming in, and breaking their flow when they get back."
Fixed that for you. Why badmouth something for making your job easier? "Your car has cruise control? You must really blow at driving if you use it." Why do people think like that?
Also, how do I join? I'm a Jew, but I've never gotten any money, or been given any particular power, as a result. (Though I did once get a lawyer to fix something for me pro bono, but that was less being a Jew, and more my mom being really good at knowing people and getting them to do things for her, even if many of those people are from her local temple.)
Completely untrue. I don't know if you're trolling or if you just haven't read his stuff, but Zahn's Thrawn trilogy (and to a lesser extent, the Hand of Thrawn duo) are actually way *better* than the original movie trilogy. And it's not like the original trilogy wasn't great, it just didn't have Thrawn in it. (Don't bother with his SW books after those 5, though; they were pretty crap. Even great authors have off seasons.)
Zahn came up with *plenty* of new ideas. He may have started in someone else's universe, but he definitely made it his own.
Yeah, that is one of my favorite examples of playing with the Wire Dilemma trope, too. Though the Castle episode was fun, too. "Well, one of them had to be the right one."
I suggest finding the person who says you can't use version control, and locking him in a room until he either changes his mind or ceases to be a problem. Then, use version control.
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I agree with you, but not for the reason you state. "Handful" != "Hand full". Yes, one came from the other, but I would argue that "handful" does *not* literally mean that the items have to have been literally held in someone's hand. Rather, it means merely that it's a small enough number that, were the items of a reasonably small size, they would comfortably fit in a hand. As wiktionary puts it: "A small quantity, usually approximately equal to five, the number of fingers on a hand."
That said, while I wouldn't be surprised if most of Boston isn't covered by FIOS (I live in another metropolitan area where only a small percentage of the city, not including any of the places I've lived, are eligible for FIOS, which hasn't stopped them from continually spamming me with FIOS ads for the 6 years I've lived there), still, I'm sure the number of people capable of getting FIOS is way more than 5. Thus, I'd still take issue with "literally", just not for the meaning you claim.
"The" one? I posit that there are likely dozens. It's a pretty common trope. There are a couple on here: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JobStealingRobot
You know that O(2n + 1) = O(n), right?
> "My puny zero-experience had written a sorting algorithm that really is O(n), and simply isn't taught in school. It's not taught as a standard sorting method purely because it depends high memory requirements and known a data range."
I can give you a sorting algorithm that's O(1). It just requires that the list is already sorted. :p
April Fools Day was several months ago. This would have been a great prank, but you're kinda late.
Yes, tons of people did, including The Consumerist, a ton of other blogs, and several mainstream newspapers. :p
Um, yes it does? It totally has to do with how you recharge. It's completely obvious to me that extroverts, like my mom, feel more relaxed around other people, and less relaxed by themselves, where for me it's the opposite. I don't *mind* being social, but I also feel the need to have some time where I'm not, to recharge, where to a person like my mom that would drive her crazy. That is *exactly* what introversion means.
They're also Blackberries. I hate 16:9 screens, too, but if my laptop died, and I had a choice between buying a new laptop with a hated 16:9 screen, or buying a laptop that was 10 years old, I would be depressed, and then I would choose the former.
Blackberries suck compared to their competition for all kinds of other reasons than whether they have a keyboard.
Yeah. No-keyboard phones blow. I understand you can make them more cheaply, but screw that, I'll pay for it. It's depressing how few of them get made anymore, because apparently there's "no market for them". Well, gee, nobody is buying phones with keyboards, maybe because they're *not being made*.
Polynomial time doesn't mean fast. It just means that it doesn't grow exponentially as a factor of n. An algorithm could be O(n) and still take a thousand years to run for some input, that just means if the input was twice as large, it would only take twice as long.
That is a really boring and unhelpful name for it.
I'll be really sad if the actual name of the device isn't "Fakeblock".
I could see giving an 8 year old a phone. 8 year olds are immature, but they're at least capable of reasoning like "I don't want to get in trouble". A 4 year old, *will* call random numbers because it's funny, most likely even after getting in trouble for doing that several times. That just sounds like a recipe for disaster.
Except autocomplete can also provide you with documentation, if you do it right - you can add comments to methods, and then when you look through the method list in the autocomplete list, you can hover over likely-looking methods and see those comments, which is way more convenient than digging out the documentation.
And that matters why? My point wasn't that you should feel sympathy for him, my point was simply that it's not a perfect solution, because it could cause problems later. It could cause problems later anywhere.
That works, until you actually *do* need them to have your real name for some other reason. My best friend from high school did exactly that for WoW, because he didn't see any reason for them to have his real name, so he just gave them a fake "real name". Then, a couple years later, he sent them money for a renewal and their system was messed up and didn't process it right, and when he went to complain, they had a huge mess trying to fix it because his "real name" wasn't his actual real name.
> "Sometimes when I'm writing Java I get the overwhelming feeling that Intelli-sense is helping me muddle more quickly through mountains of code that I wouldn't have to write in the first place if I was using basically any other language on the planet."
Fixed that for you, he said again. The issue isn't intellisense, the issue is that Java is the most annoyingly verbose mainstream language ever created. Yes, intellisense does help you deal with language issues that don't exist in sane languages, but it helps you with sane things, too. :p
How it it irrelevant? Sure it's not usually the hard part, but it's still something you do constantly. Suppose someone said, "I claim you will love this car. It's exactly the same as your current car, only you have to press the inside of the roof with your elbow every time you want to use your turn signal". That doesn't sound that hard, right? Using your turn signal isn't really the hard part of driving, right? Would you want to do something slightly annoying and slightly time-consuming every time you had to, though? For no reason?
There, now all 0 of you who were like "where's the car analogy!?" can stop hypothetically complaining.
I wouldn't say "predatory", and I would even agree that food trucks and permanent-location restaurants generally fulfill different niches, but I would argue against your statement that people don't "go to a food truck to get a quality meal". At least around here, these days people generally go to a food truck to get generally-overpriced hipsterish fusion silliness, the same sort of food they'd get from, for instance, a gastropub minus the booze. Food is often (though admittedly not always) indeed quite fantastic, just almost always also overpriced. Totally different from the pre-2000s roach coach type food truck concept.
The sort of programmer working with a new API, or an API where several functions have similar names, or you know the name of the functions but not the order of their parameters, or you just yourself created a new class and you don't remember exactly what you named all the properties (id? ID? DocID? DocumentID? In which case, granted, you wouldn't be looking at documentation, you'd be looking at your source code, but same idea, really), or any of a number of other reasons why intellisense is convenient to have around.
"They're fans of Intelli-sense, not Visual Studio. If their text editor can't immediately guess which function they should be using, have to go check the documentation, thus wasting a couple minutes that they could have been programming in, and breaking their flow when they get back."
Fixed that for you. Why badmouth something for making your job easier? "Your car has cruise control? You must really blow at driving if you use it." Why do people think like that?
I really wish I had mod points.
Also, how do I join? I'm a Jew, but I've never gotten any money, or been given any particular power, as a result. (Though I did once get a lawyer to fix something for me pro bono, but that was less being a Jew, and more my mom being really good at knowing people and getting them to do things for her, even if many of those people are from her local temple.)
Completely untrue. I don't know if you're trolling or if you just haven't read his stuff, but Zahn's Thrawn trilogy (and to a lesser extent, the Hand of Thrawn duo) are actually way *better* than the original movie trilogy. And it's not like the original trilogy wasn't great, it just didn't have Thrawn in it. (Don't bother with his SW books after those 5, though; they were pretty crap. Even great authors have off seasons.)
Zahn came up with *plenty* of new ideas. He may have started in someone else's universe, but he definitely made it his own.
Yeah, that is one of my favorite examples of playing with the Wire Dilemma trope, too. Though the Castle episode was fun, too. "Well, one of them had to be the right one."
I suggest finding the person who says you can't use version control, and locking him in a room until he either changes his mind or ceases to be a problem. Then, use version control.
Sounds like the Whizzo Chocolate Company is expanding into pastries?