This guy sounds like the kind of twat who joins our company, bitches about how badly everything's been written, then leaves behind a load of shitty unmaintainable code that's "really clever".
And somehow he's in charge at Twitter? Christ.
"Forrer said the system has tens of thousands of lines of code, so it is time-consuming to find and replace salaries for each job classification on an individual basis."
Ummm...... they should have a look at the 30million line codebase I support. I'd love to give _that_ excuse.
I think you're confusing depression without cause with depression with cause.
If you've been depressed with cause, then in some ways that's a rational response to a situation, eg grief (tho it's debatable). If you've been depressed without cause, then it's a debilitating condition that doesn't in any way help you deal with dificulties later on. Try telling someone with MS that they should be grateful for their condition because it helps them deal with other difficulties in their life.
I find it hard to believe you'd rather let people risk their lives than give them a few pills to help them through a difficult period.
I can't comment on your friend, but to reject drugs as a treatment for depression because of one case is absurd.
To most of your points I would reply that you've obviously never been depressed; if you had been, you would see how glib they are.
Yer but, no but, yer but the user could easily rip the track from the video, surely? Unless the sound quality was so poor you wouldn't want to watch it in the first place.
BOC
Customer: "Why does my site not work in the new version of IE?"
Me: "Well, Mr Big, I'm afraid Microsoft does not conform to the CSS standard, so we're boycotting them."
Customer: "What the fuck are you talking about? Make my site work or you're fired."
EOC
I'm not talking about eczema. I'm talking about seb derm, which is a very specific condition. Eczema is a catch-all term for all kinds of skin problems with many different causes, from genetic to psychological.
Dandruff is arguably a mild form of seb derm which affects only the scalp and doesn't itch or produce red raw patches. You don't get dandruff on the face and other parts of the body. It's also commonly confused with psoriasis.
I disagree. The condition is quite nasty and can cause depression and even suicide. People really want to get rid of it.
I think there's a lot more awareness now about the effect of food on the body, at least in the UK, and a suggestion that certain foods may be the cure would not be dismissed as much as it might have been before. It's little different from an allergy, isn't it?
Treating and preventing in this case are the same. The effects of the change in diet are more immediate than topical treatments.
I'd seen dermatologists for years - none of them had suggested anything other than creams which did little that was useful.
I don't really understand your point. You seem to be saying that doctors won't tell patients to change their diets if it will reduce the effects of a skin condition because the patient won't do it.
Well, the patient will if it's that important to them. It's not that hard to eat healthily, or at least significantly reduce intake of harmful foods. That's what I did - I cut out chocolate, coke and switched to wholemeal bread, pasta and rice. I still take in small amounts of sugar in foods, but the lower amount means that my seb derm is significantly reduced. I don't just eat alfalfa sprouts. Tonight I''m having spaghetti bolognaise. Hardly out there. And it's bull that that's difficult to do.
Also, doctors will tell you to quit smoking or eating junk food if you're unfit or fat, so why not for skin conditions?
What pisses me off is that I read an article saying this years ago, but ignored it thinking "the writer is not a doctor - it must have been a coincidence. Surely they would have researched such a simple theory", etc etc..
I suffer from seborrhaic dermatitis. For years I had no success with doctors' treatments which generally had bad side effects. Then I gave up sucrose and junk food and was effectively cured. No doctor ever mentioned this and it turns out that there's a group of people on yahoo who advocate this treatment. It works pretty much 100% of the time, according to those guys.
This has made me a lot more cynical about the medical profession and its relationship with business. It's in no-one's financial interest to advocate a cheap and simple cure that involves _not_ buying and consuming refined foods, except the patient - not the doctor, not the food industry, not the makers of creams etc..
I'm sure Cisco routers are very stable, but mobile phone crashes are pretty frequent in my experience.
Cisco routers were about the only big one I could see in the article. I can't remember the last time I had to reboot my Linux server.
In the sense that everything has a niche, yeah. But there's an ongoing debate about whether OSX is really a microkernel. From the article: "Mac OS X is sort of microkernelish. Inside, it consists of Berkeley UNIX riding on top of a modified version of the Mach microkernel. Since all of it runs in kernel mode (to get that little extra bit of performance) it is not a true microkernel"
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This guy sounds like the kind of twat who joins our company, bitches about how badly everything's been written, then leaves behind a load of shitty unmaintainable code that's "really clever". And somehow he's in charge at Twitter? Christ.
"Forrer said the system has tens of thousands of lines of code, so it is time-consuming to find and replace salaries for each job classification on an individual basis." Ummm...... they should have a look at the 30million line codebase I support. I'd love to give _that_ excuse.
1 "Let there be light"
2 create universe()
3 while (1)
4 # I'll finish this up later
I don't know where Concensus is. Don't tell me we're going to invade there as well?
It's a good job IBM patented that, because otherwise we'd all have to wait until the files are released to see how it's done. Oh, hang on...
I hate all such generalisations.
Get it right: you will haven been telling him tomorrow.
If you are struggling, I can recommend Dr Dan Streetmentioner's book on time travel grammar.
Sure, but global warming has the benefit of giving a moral edge to telling China to quit building power stations and growing their economy...
I think you're confusing depression without cause with depression with cause. If you've been depressed with cause, then in some ways that's a rational response to a situation, eg grief (tho it's debatable). If you've been depressed without cause, then it's a debilitating condition that doesn't in any way help you deal with dificulties later on. Try telling someone with MS that they should be grateful for their condition because it helps them deal with other difficulties in their life. I find it hard to believe you'd rather let people risk their lives than give them a few pills to help them through a difficult period.
I can't comment on your friend, but to reject drugs as a treatment for depression because of one case is absurd. To most of your points I would reply that you've obviously never been depressed; if you had been, you would see how glib they are.
If you'd ever been depressed, you'd know the answer to that.
Yer but, no but, yer but the user could easily rip the track from the video, surely? Unless the sound quality was so poor you wouldn't want to watch it in the first place.
Those are his lyrics, not his philosophy. He lived in a very big house and had many material possessions.
It's good enough to have been passed by all the regulators and is used by our online gaming systems.
BOC Customer: "Why does my site not work in the new version of IE?" Me: "Well, Mr Big, I'm afraid Microsoft does not conform to the CSS standard, so we're boycotting them." Customer: "What the fuck are you talking about? Make my site work or you're fired." EOC
Naa, the batteries ran out!
I'm not talking about eczema. I'm talking about seb derm, which is a very specific condition. Eczema is a catch-all term for all kinds of skin problems with many different causes, from genetic to psychological.
Dandruff is arguably a mild form of seb derm which affects only the scalp and doesn't itch or produce red raw patches. You don't get dandruff on the face and other parts of the body. It's also commonly confused with psoriasis.
I disagree. The condition is quite nasty and can cause depression and even suicide. People really want to get rid of it. I think there's a lot more awareness now about the effect of food on the body, at least in the UK, and a suggestion that certain foods may be the cure would not be dismissed as much as it might have been before. It's little different from an allergy, isn't it?
Treating and preventing in this case are the same. The effects of the change in diet are more immediate than topical treatments. I'd seen dermatologists for years - none of them had suggested anything other than creams which did little that was useful.
I don't really understand your point. You seem to be saying that doctors won't tell patients to change their diets if it will reduce the effects of a skin condition because the patient won't do it. Well, the patient will if it's that important to them. It's not that hard to eat healthily, or at least significantly reduce intake of harmful foods. That's what I did - I cut out chocolate, coke and switched to wholemeal bread, pasta and rice. I still take in small amounts of sugar in foods, but the lower amount means that my seb derm is significantly reduced. I don't just eat alfalfa sprouts. Tonight I''m having spaghetti bolognaise. Hardly out there. And it's bull that that's difficult to do. Also, doctors will tell you to quit smoking or eating junk food if you're unfit or fat, so why not for skin conditions? What pisses me off is that I read an article saying this years ago, but ignored it thinking "the writer is not a doctor - it must have been a coincidence. Surely they would have researched such a simple theory", etc etc..
seborrheic-dermatitis-support
I suffer from seborrhaic dermatitis. For years I had no success with doctors' treatments which generally had bad side effects. Then I gave up sucrose and junk food and was effectively cured. No doctor ever mentioned this and it turns out that there's a group of people on yahoo who advocate this treatment. It works pretty much 100% of the time, according to those guys. This has made me a lot more cynical about the medical profession and its relationship with business. It's in no-one's financial interest to advocate a cheap and simple cure that involves _not_ buying and consuming refined foods, except the patient - not the doctor, not the food industry, not the makers of creams etc..
I'm sure Cisco routers are very stable, but mobile phone crashes are pretty frequent in my experience. Cisco routers were about the only big one I could see in the article. I can't remember the last time I had to reboot my Linux server.
In the sense that everything has a niche, yeah. But there's an ongoing debate about whether OSX is really a microkernel. From the article: "Mac OS X is sort of microkernelish. Inside, it consists of Berkeley UNIX riding on top of a modified version of the Mach microkernel. Since all of it runs in kernel mode (to get that little extra bit of performance) it is not a true microkernel"