to oed (verb, transitive): (vowels pronounced like "ooze") to purposely dilute the integrity of a whole by needless inclusion of crap, especially when done disingenuously for short-sighted profit (see "to dumb down" and "cruft").
Feel free to respond with examples of use. I'd really like to see this word come into common usage.
Chris Pine has written a book, which is also available online, called Learn to Program which uses ruby to teach basic programming concepts. In addition to the book, he offers his thoughts behind introducing students to programming, and why ruby is a good language to choose. I enjoyed his book, and I generally agree with his ideas on teaching.
I still think that if the student wants to understand how a computer works, there is much insight to be gained from using a low level declarative language like C, and this should probably be the next language she learns. However, as a first language I would go with ruby (and definitely not VB). With ruby, the introduction is easy, with intuitive syntax and no steep learning curve, and yet as the student's skills progress, she is free to experiment with more advanced programming concepts like lazy evaluation and currying.
Perfectly Scientific, Inc. sells posters of these primes, printed explicitly (in provocative notation?). If printer technology allows, there will soon be one for this 10 million digit beast too.
They're great if you're looking to test that macro lens on your digital SLR, or if you're just curious what 8 square feet of 1pt font looks like (it looks like a gray slab).
Or you could find your own primes. There's some open source code for the interested.
[/shameless plug]
Nice points worb. They'll always be someone who can't understand something fun when they see it.
Really, Slashdotters should use this opportunity to make a celebrity geek of their choosing. Everybody loved it when Andrew Wiles, when told he'd be interviewed, asked, "Who's Barbara Walters?" Let's hoist a similarly worthy individual into the public eye.
In this spirit, I'd like to selflessly (I can't join him) nominate my good friend Sean. As a mathematician and web developer (I think he gave Tanquerey's website a facelift), I think he'd represent us well.
So, Slashdotters, organize and vote! Oh wait, right... I must be new here.
Contrary to what's announced in the previous post, Safari was not the first browser to be Acid2-compatible. The mac-only iCab beated it from more than three months.
This is incorrect. Contrary to your post, "perennial Mac browser also-ran iCab has edged out Linux browsing heavyweight Konqueror for second place in the Acid2 stakes." link
I just finished blowing all of my mod points on posts correcting the misinformation propagated by your most recent unedited submission: Supernova 1987A Decoded.
Malor sums up well my recent frustrations with slashdot. After 8 years of coming here, the quality has sunk to a level that I just can't bear anymore. Honestly, these misleading headlines and summaries filled with falsehoods are not just degrading slashdot; they do a disservice.
This *used* to be news for nerds. Now it's crackpot studies from 6 years ago (presented as new breakthroughs), ruminations on Steve Jobs' personal life (dup'ed over and over again), and fancy case mods for gamerz (/.'ed in 5 minutes). Honestly, in 10 years, the front page will read: "Intelligent design: brand new theory trumps Darwin?", "Some blogger talks about OSD", and "OMG: Smileys cause cancer??"
So, I'm done. I quit. It will take training to unlearn the slashdot twitch, but maybe someday I'll forget the URL.... I haven't found a replacement yet, but maybe I can get by with acm.org and wikipedia.org.
What can I say... SM, you're a captain on a sinking ship.
In DS, the monsters would be *hiding* in the bushes. As you walked along, you would get close to them, then they'd just "appear", along with some bushes rustling.
Oh dear. I didn't know it could be so bad. At least have my zombie adversaries spawn off-screen...
I remember in Diablo II, even though the baddies would hide as you just described in DS1, you could actually run straight through a level as the Barbarian, jumping over the hordes of monsters in your path. Pretty comical, actually. Does DS2 offer this?
That's actually not too bad. I think much more was lost in the German -> English translation than English -> German.
What's particularly fun is to take sentences like these, and just go back and forth English -> German -> English -> German -> English... to see if it ever converges on a final translation.
Often (in the case of Babelfish a while back) it does not, and instead just keeps inserting instances of the passive voice wherever it gets confused, until eventually, the English sentences are just filled with "to be to be to be"
Did you try copying the keyboard config file from Unix to OS X?
I haven't tried copying the config file, but I have found that under
"Preferences...->Advanced->Shortcuts->Keyboard->Ed it...->Advanced->Edit widget"
I can add new shortcuts with names "Go to line start", "Delete to end of line", etc. to match the contents of the keyboard config file on my linux box.
The problem, as it turns out, is that Opera actually doesn't seem to support the Ctrl key for any shortcuts on OS X!! It just ignores those keyboard events. I don't think there's any way around this, although I'd love to be proven wrong.
I'm afraid I have (Preferences -> Advanced -> Shortcuts -> Edit...), and there are no actions in the list corresponding to "advance to line begin", "kill text after cursor", etc to which I can bind keyboard shortcuts.
I'm using Opera on OS X. I also use Opera on a Debian box. I cannot function without ctrl-a, ctrl-e, ctrl-k in the text fields of the program I'm working in. Safari allows this. Opera on Debian allows this. But Opera on OS X just ignores these commands.
Please, oh God, if any of you know a fix, I'd give my first-born to hear it.
I love opera, but if these commands don't work, I'm going to have to go back to Safari on the Mac...
You drove 20 minutes to watch the movie that you thought was going to last 140 minutes. But nope, there's "the twenty". And then the previews. And then the traffic outside the theater after the movie ends. It's not just the money you're throwing away, it's a huge chunk of time!
So even if the Russians are correct, it doesn't matter.:rollseyes
While you were rolling your eyes, you overlooked the context of that sentence. "It" in this case was referring to coral bleaching and melting glaciers. Regardless of whether the Russians win their $10K, the climate is being disrupted, and we are already seeing the effects.
I'm not sure about the rest of the world, but I think we could use some global warming in northern Ohio.
I hate the term "Global Warming" - as you demonstrate, it just doesn't seem to get the point across. Perhaps "Climate Disruption" or maybe "Cascading Temperature Fluctuation Catastrophe" or "Global Badness" would do a little better in places like Ohio.
It's not about warming. It's about drought, flooding, contaminated water supply, crop failures, extinction, loss of glaciers outside the poles, complete death of coral reefs, poor air quality, and all the aspects of life that these things affect in the aggregate. Sure, this won't all happen in your lifetime, but much of it will. Regardless of whether the Russians win $10K in 10 years, the reefs are dying, the glaciers are melting - they aren't issues "somewhere down the road from now."
Of course, I just got back from a trip to northern Ohio. It was 97 degrees in the shade.
You can thank American Government pollution laws for that not happening.
No, you can thank state and city pollution laws for that not happening. I only wish more legislation were national in scope. In Los Angeles, for example, pollution is trending downward relative to smog leader Houston, where folks apparently have no interest in local legislation to curb pollution.
As much as he'd like it to be, that post was not insightful.
The grandparent's quote was not "fake" - it was just out of context, as Bush used it jokingly. In contrast, Clinton, never equated Hitler and Jesus in any context.
The post you replied to summarizes well why the microwave gun is a threat. It threatens protesters with permanent injury, and it threatens our right to peaceable assembly through its inherent inability to discern between the criminal and the demonstrator.
Sandia points out in their article that "Burn injury is prevented by limiting the beam's intensity and duration." I am convinced that when they aim this on a crowd (nevermind those wearing glasses and carrying coins in their pockets), someone will be trapped or incapacitated to the point where they can limit neither the intensity nor the duration.
Remember when the right to assembly was actually valued in this country? Never forget: from the Boston tea party to MLK, most of our "freedoms" are the direct result of somebody else's direct action, usually through assembly. Somewhere on/. there is a sig: Democracy doesn't make you free: inalienable rights do.
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I propose:
to oed (verb, transitive): (vowels pronounced like "ooze") to purposely dilute the integrity of a whole by needless inclusion of crap, especially when done disingenuously for short-sighted profit (see "to dumb down" and "cruft").
Feel free to respond with examples of use. I'd really like to see this word come into common usage.
What an oedacious idea.
Probably faster to just mail it.
Chris Pine has written a book, which is also available online, called Learn to Program which uses ruby to teach basic programming concepts. In addition to the book, he offers his thoughts behind introducing students to programming, and why ruby is a good language to choose. I enjoyed his book, and I generally agree with his ideas on teaching.
I still think that if the student wants to understand how a computer works, there is much insight to be gained from using a low level declarative language like C, and this should probably be the next language she learns. However, as a first language I would go with ruby (and definitely not VB). With ruby, the introduction is easy, with intuitive syntax and no steep learning curve, and yet as the student's skills progress, she is free to experiment with more advanced programming concepts like lazy evaluation and currying.
Perfectly Scientific, Inc. sells posters of these primes, printed explicitly (in provocative notation?). If printer technology allows, there will soon be one for this 10 million digit beast too.
They're great if you're looking to test that macro lens on your digital SLR, or if you're just curious what 8 square feet of 1pt font looks like (it looks like a gray slab).
Or you could find your own primes. There's some open source code for the interested. [/shameless plug]
Fun for the whole family. Sort of.
If you're new to programming (or your kid or sibling is), there is a great introduction to programming (that happens to use ruby) at:
Learn to program, by Chris Pine
Check it out. It's really fantastic.
But is he hot?
Of course! Aren't we all?
It's "there'll" not "they'll"
Uh, yeah. Noted.
Nice points worb. They'll always be someone who can't understand something fun when they see it.
Really, Slashdotters should use this opportunity to make a celebrity geek of their choosing. Everybody loved it when Andrew Wiles, when told he'd be interviewed, asked, "Who's Barbara Walters?" Let's hoist a similarly worthy individual into the public eye.
In this spirit, I'd like to selflessly (I can't join him) nominate my good friend Sean. As a mathematician and web developer (I think he gave Tanquerey's website a facelift), I think he'd represent us well.
So, Slashdotters, organize and vote! Oh wait, right... I must be new here.
Contrary to what's announced in the previous post, Safari was not the first browser to be Acid2-compatible. The mac-only iCab beated it from more than three months.
This is incorrect. Contrary to your post, "perennial Mac browser also-ran iCab has edged out Linux browsing heavyweight Konqueror for second place in the Acid2 stakes." link
Hi ScuttleMonkey,
I just finished blowing all of my mod points on posts correcting the misinformation propagated by your most recent unedited submission: Supernova 1987A Decoded.
Malor sums up well my recent frustrations with slashdot. After 8 years of coming here, the quality has sunk to a level that I just can't bear anymore. Honestly, these misleading headlines and summaries filled with falsehoods are not just degrading slashdot; they do a disservice.
This *used* to be news for nerds. Now it's crackpot studies from 6 years ago (presented as new breakthroughs), ruminations on Steve Jobs' personal life (dup'ed over and over again), and fancy case mods for gamerz (/.'ed in 5 minutes). Honestly, in 10 years, the front page will read: "Intelligent design: brand new theory trumps Darwin?", "Some blogger talks about OSD", and "OMG: Smileys cause cancer??"
So, I'm done. I quit. It will take training to unlearn the slashdot twitch, but maybe someday I'll forget the URL.... I haven't found a replacement yet, but maybe I can get by with acm.org and wikipedia.org.
What can I say... SM, you're a captain on a sinking ship.
In DS, the monsters would be *hiding* in the bushes. As you walked along, you would get close to them, then they'd just "appear", along with some bushes rustling.
Oh dear. I didn't know it could be so bad. At least have my zombie adversaries spawn off-screen...
I remember in Diablo II, even though the baddies would hide as you just described in DS1, you could actually run straight through a level as the Barbarian, jumping over the hordes of monsters in your path. Pretty comical, actually. Does DS2 offer this?
I'm always a bit disappointed by these articles on case mods. I guess it's art, but it'd be cooler if the case were mobile...
This guy has taken a Mac Mini, an iSight, and a cheap interface board (called bTop) to create a programmable autonomous robot.
Somewhere out there I think there's a video of George's case mod chasing him around the room.
That's actually not too bad. I think much more was lost in the German -> English translation than English -> German.
What's particularly fun is to take sentences like these, and just go back and forth English -> German -> English -> German -> English ... to see if it ever converges on a final translation.
Often (in the case of Babelfish a while back) it does not, and instead just keeps inserting instances of the passive voice wherever it gets confused, until eventually, the English sentences are just filled with "to be to be to be"
Did you try copying the keyboard config file from Unix to OS X?
I haven't tried copying the config file, but I have found that underd it...->Advanced->Edit widget"
"Preferences...->Advanced->Shortcuts->Keyboard->E
I can add new shortcuts with names "Go to line start", "Delete to end of line", etc. to match the contents of the keyboard config file on my linux box.
The problem, as it turns out, is that Opera actually doesn't seem to support the Ctrl key for any shortcuts on OS X!! It just ignores those keyboard events. I don't think there's any way around this, although I'd love to be proven wrong.
You've tried re-mapping the key configs?
I'm afraid I have (Preferences -> Advanced -> Shortcuts -> Edit...), and there are no actions in the list corresponding to "advance to line begin", "kill text after cursor", etc to which I can bind keyboard shortcuts.
I'm using Opera on OS X. I also use Opera on a Debian box. I cannot function without ctrl-a, ctrl-e, ctrl-k in the text fields of the program I'm working in. Safari allows this. Opera on Debian allows this. But Opera on OS X just ignores these commands.
Please, oh God, if any of you know a fix, I'd give my first-born to hear it.
I love opera, but if these commands don't work, I'm going to have to go back to Safari on the Mac...
You drove 20 minutes to watch the movie that you thought was going to last 140 minutes. But nope, there's "the twenty". And then the previews. And then the traffic outside the theater after the movie ends. It's not just the money you're throwing away, it's a huge chunk of time!
Great story. Way better than TFA. Thanks!
So even if the Russians are correct, it doesn't matter. :rollseyes
While you were rolling your eyes, you overlooked the context of that sentence. "It" in this case was referring to coral bleaching and melting glaciers. Regardless of whether the Russians win their $10K, the climate is being disrupted, and we are already seeing the effects.
I'm not sure about the rest of the world, but I think we could use some global warming in northern Ohio.
I hate the term "Global Warming" - as you demonstrate, it just doesn't seem to get the point across. Perhaps "Climate Disruption" or maybe "Cascading Temperature Fluctuation Catastrophe" or "Global Badness" would do a little better in places like Ohio.
It's not about warming. It's about drought, flooding, contaminated water supply, crop failures, extinction, loss of glaciers outside the poles, complete death of coral reefs, poor air quality, and all the aspects of life that these things affect in the aggregate. Sure, this won't all happen in your lifetime, but much of it will. Regardless of whether the Russians win $10K in 10 years, the reefs are dying, the glaciers are melting - they aren't issues "somewhere down the road from now."
Of course, I just got back from a trip to northern Ohio. It was 97 degrees in the shade.
Go to a major city in China
Or check out Kuala Lumpur's current pollution crisis.
You can thank American Government pollution laws for that not happening.
No, you can thank state and city pollution laws for that not happening. I only wish more legislation were national in scope. In Los Angeles, for example, pollution is trending downward relative to smog leader Houston, where folks apparently have no interest in local legislation to curb pollution.
Depends where they build it. If they built it in New Mexico, that'd be fine by me. It'd look in many ways small next to the Very Large Array.
As much as he'd like it to be, that post was not insightful.
The grandparent's quote was not "fake" - it was just out of context, as Bush used it jokingly. In contrast, Clinton, never equated Hitler and Jesus in any context.
It was a literary device. Without needing to agree with the implication, I understood the grandparent's intent. You missed it.
Might I direct you to some reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
The post you replied to summarizes well why the microwave gun is a threat. It threatens protesters with permanent injury, and it threatens our right to peaceable assembly through its inherent inability to discern between the criminal and the demonstrator.
Sandia points out in their article that "Burn injury is prevented by limiting the beam's intensity and duration." I am convinced that when they aim this on a crowd (nevermind those wearing glasses and carrying coins in their pockets), someone will be trapped or incapacitated to the point where they can limit neither the intensity nor the duration.
Remember when the right to assembly was actually valued in this country? Never forget: from the Boston tea party to MLK, most of our "freedoms" are the direct result of somebody else's direct action, usually through assembly. Somewhere on /. there is a sig: Democracy doesn't make you free: inalienable rights do.