Maybe. But for most of the annoying places where you'd use $_ in Perl, you have Ruby's iterators and blocks. Call "it" something meaningful, call it what you like.
Farnsworth: Hmm. Let me see that vial, Bender. [He takes it and puts it in a microwave-like machine. A readout prints and he looks at it and gasps.] Good Lord! According to the spectrolizer, Spargle's magic ingredient was... water. Ordinary water!
[Everyone gasps.]
Hermes: No!
Fry: Ah, so the real gift Spargle gave you was confidence. The confidence to be your best.
Farnsworth: Yes, ordinary water.... Laced with nothing more than a few spoonfuls of LSD.
He offers advice from the heart of Ninjadom, like 'always be able to kill your students,'.... At age 76, students are speculating on his successor
At first, I thought his ninja-advice was full of powerful thought-fu. Then, I realized that it's not that hard to 'always be able to kill your students' when you ensure that they're all in their dotage.
Now, let's see; when one of these babies is hooked up to a box with a sweet dual-core processor (which can, so to speak, "think" "itself"), and the photo-receptors are used to capture the image of the lickable GUI currently appearing on the screen... the computer will be... seeing itself. (*thinks*.) Hmm.
OMG! No!!! It's going to achieve self-consciousness! Don't do a screenshot! Don't do a sc.*.n..o....
NO CARRIER
It is a problem that has been going on for 15 / 75 / 110 / 408 / 2600 years.
I'm not sure why you would choose to express this in the form of a mathematical equation, but if it's only been going on for.054 seconds as you say, I don't really see what the problem is.
Dude, for a 3GHz processor, that's like 162 million cycles. Practically an eternity. Can you imagine doing anything 162 million times?
People who know the history behind the name seem unable to get this: it reads as though the "flavor" of SQL on offer is the flaccid and unpronounceable "Postgre." (You'd have to know about Ingres, etc., IIRC.) I feel a slight heaving motion in my stomach and nearly throw up a little in my mouth every time I think of the incredibly short-sighted tech-cutesy sense of taste that led to that naming decision. POSTGRE!!! WTF IS THAT! If I had paid tens of thousands of dollars to a marketing consultancy to name a product and the answer they came back with was "Postgre," I would try to have them executed.
Good reason not to use what is plainly an excellent product? Of course not. But for Christ's sake, people, learn to make better names. "MySQL"? Great name (though I look forward to the days when the "my-" and "i-" prefixes are gone), good enough product, big win in popularity.
Sure, that's the real lesson to be taken from the massive success and influence of people like Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, etc.: Be nice and your side's numbers will go up.
I hear this a lot, but I have yet to see concrete evidence (if that's even possible) of it. From word of mouth, most people I talk to voted for the lesser of two evils.
You express skepticism about the possibility of there even being evidence of the reasons for voting patterns.
You appeal to the anecdotal, self-reported reasons of some inexact "most" of some indeterminately large population (people you talked to).
Maybe you should read an introductory sociology textbook. There are indeed methods more exact than yours.
More accurately, "Gore"'s "mistake" was being lied about constantly in all major media outlets, even by nominally liberal commentators. Of course, that wasn't his doing, so you can't really call it a mistake.
Even with that endless stream of lies, he almost won.
People of my age from the New York area may remember ads for a usurious lending company called "The Money Store." Among the many breathlessly delivered talking points in the commercial: "Borrow up to no limit! Or more!"
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Maybe. But for most of the annoying places where you'd use $_ in Perl, you have Ruby's iterators and blocks. Call "it" something meaningful, call it what you like.
Yes, it's well documented and can be easily overridden. It just extends the String class to have a 'pluralize' method.
Maybe it's obvious, but could you say what in Ruby's syntax is borrowed from Perl?
[Everyone gasps.]
Hermes: No!
Fry: Ah, so the real gift Spargle gave you was confidence. The confidence to be your best.
Farnsworth: Yes, ordinary water.... Laced with nothing more than a few spoonfuls of LSD.
You've been looking only at the 'V' part of it all. Some people put things in V that belong in M or C. That's not Rails' fault.
That's why GNU/HURD has been so successful. ;-)
It's pretty much my favorite operating system.
Oh, go balance a tack hammer on your head.
At first, I thought his ninja-advice was full of powerful thought-fu. Then, I realized that it's not that hard to 'always be able to kill your students' when you ensure that they're all in their dotage.
Good points, but how do you explain the Vito Corleone sequences in Godfather II?
OMG! No!!! It's going to achieve self-consciousness! Don't do a screenshot! Don't do a sc.*.n..o....
NO CARRIER
More likely, you will access your virtual yacht from your cubicle.
I'm not sure why you would choose to express this in the form of a mathematical equation, but if it's only been going on for .054 seconds as you say, I don't really see what the problem is.
Dude, for a 3GHz processor, that's like 162 million cycles. Practically an eternity. Can you imagine doing anything 162 million times?
The situation is, regrettably, far more dire. I fear we may have to perform a complete walletectomy.
As for me, I'm just sad we have to wait until September for the new season of Blattellastar Germanica.
"usage of English"? I think not. "English usage"? OK.
Good reason not to use what is plainly an excellent product? Of course not. But for Christ's sake, people, learn to make better names. "MySQL"? Great name (though I look forward to the days when the "my-" and "i-" prefixes are gone), good enough product, big win in popularity.
"Swinging both ways" effectively gives you twice the power by increasing by a factor of 2 your opportunities for coupling. :-o
Here's the bit I don't get.
No link? Show me that this wasn't some loonie acting alone and instead acting as an agent of the Democratic party.
Sure, that's the real lesson to be taken from the massive success and influence of people like Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, etc.: Be nice and your side's numbers will go up.
Maybe you should read an introductory sociology textbook. There are indeed methods more exact than yours.
More accurately, "Gore"'s "mistake" was being lied about constantly in all major media outlets, even by nominally liberal commentators. Of course, that wasn't his doing, so you can't really call it a mistake.
Even with that endless stream of lies, he almost won.
People of my age from the New York area may remember ads for a usurious lending company called "The Money Store." Among the many breathlessly delivered talking points in the commercial: "Borrow up to no limit! Or more!"