I don't know your nationality, but I'm British and here is my view on it: For a long time British people have been very wary of overt nationalism for a number of reasons that have left a mark on our subconscious. Our view of WWII plays into it. Our view of America and overt patriotism too plays into it, somewhere between thinking it crass and feeling that we can't compete so won't bother. Then there's the way the nation is split up into countries, which can make that feeling of identity a little vague.
Patriotism - it's just not a word that's in common use in the same way. It evokes in me a sense of history, or the feeling that the context is American. It's not a dirty word, just not one we use.
"Britain First" were just another bunch of thugs, of which we get a roundabout of many. The guy selling stuff with the British flag on it didn't get into any trouble at all. Some people off the street commented on the name of his shop for reasons connected with the above. You're allowed to do that in Britain, comment on things. I mean he called it "Really British". That's not a very British thing to do is it.
I've got the new 2016 MacBook Pro 15" through work. I also had the 2014 model, which I ended up owning after being let go by a previous employer. I don't use any peripherals so I'm not bothered by the ports issue. The flatter keyboard on the 2016 model is actually nicer, more clicky, the old one feels mushy now. The touch bar is a nice gimmick, it works OK. But meh, I wouldn't have purchased one with my own money, I'd have probably gone for a Dell XPS with 32GB of memory provided I could get Linux working on it.
I've also still got a MacBook Pro retina from 2012. It's surprising how little things have changed since then.
The best thing about MacBooks: They keep resale value. I sold the old one for a significant amount and used the money to buy a nice coffee machine.
You're correct, I've fallen for the meme: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/oct/23/viral-image/internet-graphic-says-suicide-rate-much-higher-den/
That's a terrible thing to say, I can't understand why you would respond in such a way. It was a terrible ordeal for me. I saw a psychologist privately via my health insurance. My doctor wanted me to see a psychiatrist, and she really tried, but she was unable to get a referral to something suitable in the time I was in the country. I visited a psychiatric ward (by referral) for an assessment, and they explained that I could be admitted but they didn't do outpatient services, so being admitted meant staying in the ward.
Timing was also at play. Had I been assessed in the agitated state I was in before taking Sertraline (or the first week of taking it which was worse) then maybe things would be different. But by the time I was someone I had calmed down quite a bit. The other problem was that because it was anxiety I was convinced I had a serious illness, and I insisted on getting referred to a neurologist, who I have to say was brilliant and went a long way to assuring me my symptoms were the result of anxiety.
Denmark also has one of the highest suicide rates in the world.
I lived in Denmark. It's a nice place, but it's not filled with overly happy people. My belief is that they've used their tax and welfare system to bring up the happiness of the worst off. That's probably a good thing. But in your socioeconomic strata the people there aren't experiencing a greater daily joy. There were some quite negative aspects too, definitely some racism and superiority problems.
I also had anxiety while I was living in Denmark. I resisted taking the drugs offered and took myself to a phycologist. That was probably a mistake, I don't like the drugs for the unpleasant side effects, but had I taken them straight away I'd have skipped.a whole period of almost debilitating anxiety, and I could have worked to come off the drugs. Instead I got worse and worse until they seemed to be the only option. 18 months later and I've just come off of the SSRIs.
The point is they gave the tax breaks selectively, which IS against EU law. You can have a tax of 0% so long as that tax rate is available to any company.
In this case the EU bureaucrats and paper pushers are trying to re-interpret the existing rules covering this situation
You mean they're actually doing something in favour of the tax payer for once? Something that they should have done years ago.
and then apply penalties retroactively.
All penalties are retroactive. You don't get penalised for something you're yet to do.
The other far more difficult thing is getting coffee to go. It's a pretty much given that a coffee shop in Australia or the USA will serve it to go, not so in western Europe where it's much more a sit-down affair.
I can't relate to that from my experience. Denmark has so many walk in/walk out cafe's and coffee carts. You can sit in, but it seems more common to take away than not. Sweden/Norway/Germany/Hungary not as good as Denmark for coffee but certainly the same sort of cafe culture.
I can imagine that it might be different in France, Spain and Italy, I've not visited those places in recent times. Also we may be talking about differing types of dining experience, I mainly get coffee and cafe's during the day with breakfast or lunch, not restaurants for an evening meal. Coffee at restaurants is usually awful, I often order one just to see if they can top the yuk scale.
I don't know what you guys are taking about. I've lived in CA, Copenhagen Denmark, England and New Zealand, and I've visited various European countries and about half the US states. I usually get coffee. There's no noticeable difference in the service speed between all these places. You get better coffee in urban areas mostly.
You've totally nailed it on the head there. 8 years ago I was using Ubuntu. It seemed like Linux on the desktop was getting better at a nice pace. The graphics stuff improved considerably from 2006-2008 such that the same laptop that in 2006 felt pretty jerky just moving windows around was silky smooth in 2008.
And then somehow it all went to shit and I bought a macbook.
As someone who rents I dislike the idea of AirBnB pushing up prices. But as someone who travels AirBnB has been the best thing in years. Hotels are fine if you're on your own, but I usually travel with my family. Staying in a slightly run down home is way better than a very nice hotel or holiday home when your kids are going to run around in it. Not to mention seeing into other peoples lives and houses.
I travelled around the US with my family and our 3 cats. I know some hotels let you have pets, but the limit is usually 2 and they don't like cats. Didn't have trouble finding places on AirBnB usually within a 4 hour drive of one another. I know that it would be possible before AirBnB existed, but would have required a lot more planning, and our trip was entirely unplanned.
That only makes sense of we had done those things. We haven't put people on Mars with tools, therefore we haven't discredited unmanned missions being the best way to do science in space.
adhering to the since discredited notion that robotic space probes were adequate for exploring the universe.
Since discredited by what? I think there might be some bias in the reporting there, because it should say "since credited by 4 decades of remote robotic exploration"
Yes you're correct, and Rails is still like that. It figures out all the columns on boot (in production, on each page load in development). It has a separate migration system that allows you to modify the schema.
I developed on Rails for a few years. I'm not fond of using it now but I recognize it for what it is/was, a product of it's time. It made developing database backed web applications much faster and easier than Java or.NET at the time, and more structured than PHP. Nothing in software is new, but it built on what came before in it's problem space at just the right time to capture a wave of interest and to spread it's ideas to other platforms.
And yet despite its problems it runs smoother for me than chrome. With the devtools open Firefox is significantly faster. I was really surprised and only found this out when having a look at the Developer Edition of Firefox, but it is now my default browser.
Ruby on Rails is 10 years old, and there's still plenty of jobs in it, and new projects. It's not something I personally want to do anymore, but it fills a niche well enough. JavaScript is 20 years old, and I don't think that's a language that will disappear any time soon. Frameworks may come and go, but surely the same is true of C/C++.
One thing I find confusing is that everyone talks of forcing Apple to make a new version. But it isn't Apple but Apple engineers doing this work. Does the court have the power to tell Apple to fire it's operating system developers if they don't comply?
The summary has it back to front. The polymer can be stretched into other shapes which it keeps until it is raised to body temperature. The material will snap back into shape even when lifting a weight or crush an object that it has been wound around.
This means that in surgery a strand of polymer can be stretched to put into place, whereupon it springs back into the desired shape, perhaps constricting something, or raising / pulling something.
I just today reinstalled Picasa after restoring my photos from backup. I spent some time researching options and decided Picasa was still the best tool.
I don't want to see ads ever. If I visited a site like wired every day then I could see myself paying, but I don't, I only ever follow the occasional link there. Some kind of multi-site micropayment service might work quite well - something like a spotify subscription where the money from my subscription is distributed to the content provider that I visit, proportional to the number of visits. Not perfect but if one provider ducks behind a paywall I just stop visiting, if they all disappeared then I'd probably pay.
I read this yesterday and I found it slightly annoying in the tone. Alpine has been around for awhile, and I don't think anyone using docker for more than experimentation will be happy with massive Ubuntu based images. But would you really use these minimal images packaged by an unknown entity when you can make your own with one line in the dockerfile?
Yes, I've visited many small cities in the US, and many do not have sidewalks. It's a pain tramping over verges. And you get odd things, like an overpass with a sidewalk half way across, so you need to be careful of the traffic over the second half.
I lived in a city in CA with good sidewalks, and it was less than 10 minutes from our house to the center of town. We walked in all the time with our kids, but I hardly ever saw other people walking around. Our neighbour would take her dogs for a long walk, bring them back to her house, get in the car and drive to town. But suggest that she could walk to town instead - blank stare.
There was a playground about 1 mile from our house that my wife would take our kids to often, walking. We had friends with kids the same age whose house was about 5 minutes walk from the playground - and they would DRIVE every time! It's madness, it is as if American's have forgotten that walking is a method of transportation. Having a car with you can be a pain, you have to get everyone in and out, find parking, put up with boiling temperatures if you leave it in the sun, etc etc.
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I don't know your nationality, but I'm British and here is my view on it: For a long time British people have been very wary of overt nationalism for a number of reasons that have left a mark on our subconscious. Our view of WWII plays into it. Our view of America and overt patriotism too plays into it, somewhere between thinking it crass and feeling that we can't compete so won't bother. Then there's the way the nation is split up into countries, which can make that feeling of identity a little vague.
Patriotism - it's just not a word that's in common use in the same way. It evokes in me a sense of history, or the feeling that the context is American. It's not a dirty word, just not one we use.
"Britain First" were just another bunch of thugs, of which we get a roundabout of many. The guy selling stuff with the British flag on it didn't get into any trouble at all. Some people off the street commented on the name of his shop for reasons connected with the above. You're allowed to do that in Britain, comment on things. I mean he called it "Really British". That's not a very British thing to do is it.
I've got the new 2016 MacBook Pro 15" through work. I also had the 2014 model, which I ended up owning after being let go by a previous employer. I don't use any peripherals so I'm not bothered by the ports issue. The flatter keyboard on the 2016 model is actually nicer, more clicky, the old one feels mushy now. The touch bar is a nice gimmick, it works OK. But meh, I wouldn't have purchased one with my own money, I'd have probably gone for a Dell XPS with 32GB of memory provided I could get Linux working on it.
I've also still got a MacBook Pro retina from 2012. It's surprising how little things have changed since then.
The best thing about MacBooks: They keep resale value. I sold the old one for a significant amount and used the money to buy a nice coffee machine.
You're correct, I've fallen for the meme: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/oct/23/viral-image/internet-graphic-says-suicide-rate-much-higher-den/
That's a terrible thing to say, I can't understand why you would respond in such a way. It was a terrible ordeal for me. I saw a psychologist privately via my health insurance. My doctor wanted me to see a psychiatrist, and she really tried, but she was unable to get a referral to something suitable in the time I was in the country. I visited a psychiatric ward (by referral) for an assessment, and they explained that I could be admitted but they didn't do outpatient services, so being admitted meant staying in the ward.
Timing was also at play. Had I been assessed in the agitated state I was in before taking Sertraline (or the first week of taking it which was worse) then maybe things would be different. But by the time I was someone I had calmed down quite a bit. The other problem was that because it was anxiety I was convinced I had a serious illness, and I insisted on getting referred to a neurologist, who I have to say was brilliant and went a long way to assuring me my symptoms were the result of anxiety.
There were definitely some positives: beer and bicycles, and the occasional mix of the two.
psychologist, thanks
Denmark also has one of the highest suicide rates in the world.
I lived in Denmark. It's a nice place, but it's not filled with overly happy people. My belief is that they've used their tax and welfare system to bring up the happiness of the worst off. That's probably a good thing. But in your socioeconomic strata the people there aren't experiencing a greater daily joy. There were some quite negative aspects too, definitely some racism and superiority problems.
I also had anxiety while I was living in Denmark. I resisted taking the drugs offered and took myself to a phycologist. That was probably a mistake, I don't like the drugs for the unpleasant side effects, but had I taken them straight away I'd have skipped.a whole period of almost debilitating anxiety, and I could have worked to come off the drugs. Instead I got worse and worse until they seemed to be the only option. 18 months later and I've just come off of the SSRIs.
In this case the EU bureaucrats and paper pushers are trying to re-interpret the existing rules covering this situation
You mean they're actually doing something in favour of the tax payer for once? Something that they should have done years ago.
and then apply penalties retroactively.
All penalties are retroactive. You don't get penalised for something you're yet to do.
The other far more difficult thing is getting coffee to go. It's a pretty much given that a coffee shop in Australia or the USA will serve it to go, not so in western Europe where it's much more a sit-down affair.
I can't relate to that from my experience. Denmark has so many walk in/walk out cafe's and coffee carts. You can sit in, but it seems more common to take away than not. Sweden/Norway/Germany/Hungary not as good as Denmark for coffee but certainly the same sort of cafe culture. I can imagine that it might be different in France, Spain and Italy, I've not visited those places in recent times. Also we may be talking about differing types of dining experience, I mainly get coffee and cafe's during the day with breakfast or lunch, not restaurants for an evening meal. Coffee at restaurants is usually awful, I often order one just to see if they can top the yuk scale.
I don't know what you guys are taking about. I've lived in CA, Copenhagen Denmark, England and New Zealand, and I've visited various European countries and about half the US states. I usually get coffee. There's no noticeable difference in the service speed between all these places. You get better coffee in urban areas mostly.
The Sun will be brighter tomorrow. On average anyway. It gains 1% luminosity every 100 million years.
You've totally nailed it on the head there. 8 years ago I was using Ubuntu. It seemed like Linux on the desktop was getting better at a nice pace. The graphics stuff improved considerably from 2006-2008 such that the same laptop that in 2006 felt pretty jerky just moving windows around was silky smooth in 2008. And then somehow it all went to shit and I bought a macbook.
As someone who rents I dislike the idea of AirBnB pushing up prices. But as someone who travels AirBnB has been the best thing in years. Hotels are fine if you're on your own, but I usually travel with my family. Staying in a slightly run down home is way better than a very nice hotel or holiday home when your kids are going to run around in it. Not to mention seeing into other peoples lives and houses.
I travelled around the US with my family and our 3 cats. I know some hotels let you have pets, but the limit is usually 2 and they don't like cats. Didn't have trouble finding places on AirBnB usually within a 4 hour drive of one another. I know that it would be possible before AirBnB existed, but would have required a lot more planning, and our trip was entirely unplanned.
That only makes sense of we had done those things. We haven't put people on Mars with tools, therefore we haven't discredited unmanned missions being the best way to do science in space.
Since discredited by what? I think there might be some bias in the reporting there, because it should say "since credited by 4 decades of remote robotic exploration"
Yes you're correct, and Rails is still like that. It figures out all the columns on boot (in production, on each page load in development). It has a separate migration system that allows you to modify the schema.
I developed on Rails for a few years. I'm not fond of using it now but I recognize it for what it is/was, a product of it's time. It made developing database backed web applications much faster and easier than Java or .NET at the time, and more structured than PHP. Nothing in software is new, but it built on what came before in it's problem space at just the right time to capture a wave of interest and to spread it's ideas to other platforms.
And yet despite its problems it runs smoother for me than chrome. With the devtools open Firefox is significantly faster. I was really surprised and only found this out when having a look at the Developer Edition of Firefox, but it is now my default browser.
Ruby on Rails is 10 years old, and there's still plenty of jobs in it, and new projects. It's not something I personally want to do anymore, but it fills a niche well enough. JavaScript is 20 years old, and I don't think that's a language that will disappear any time soon. Frameworks may come and go, but surely the same is true of C/C++.
One thing I find confusing is that everyone talks of forcing Apple to make a new version. But it isn't Apple but Apple engineers doing this work. Does the court have the power to tell Apple to fire it's operating system developers if they don't comply?
The summary has it back to front. The polymer can be stretched into other shapes which it keeps until it is raised to body temperature. The material will snap back into shape even when lifting a weight or crush an object that it has been wound around.
This means that in surgery a strand of polymer can be stretched to put into place, whereupon it springs back into the desired shape, perhaps constricting something, or raising / pulling something.
I just today reinstalled Picasa after restoring my photos from backup. I spent some time researching options and decided Picasa was still the best tool.
I don't want to see ads ever. If I visited a site like wired every day then I could see myself paying, but I don't, I only ever follow the occasional link there. Some kind of multi-site micropayment service might work quite well - something like a spotify subscription where the money from my subscription is distributed to the content provider that I visit, proportional to the number of visits. Not perfect but if one provider ducks behind a paywall I just stop visiting, if they all disappeared then I'd probably pay.
I read this yesterday and I found it slightly annoying in the tone. Alpine has been around for awhile, and I don't think anyone using docker for more than experimentation will be happy with massive Ubuntu based images. But would you really use these minimal images packaged by an unknown entity when you can make your own with one line in the dockerfile?
because they're about to launch their own pedometer type site?
Yes, I've visited many small cities in the US, and many do not have sidewalks. It's a pain tramping over verges. And you get odd things, like an overpass with a sidewalk half way across, so you need to be careful of the traffic over the second half.
I lived in a city in CA with good sidewalks, and it was less than 10 minutes from our house to the center of town. We walked in all the time with our kids, but I hardly ever saw other people walking around. Our neighbour would take her dogs for a long walk, bring them back to her house, get in the car and drive to town. But suggest that she could walk to town instead - blank stare.
There was a playground about 1 mile from our house that my wife would take our kids to often, walking. We had friends with kids the same age whose house was about 5 minutes walk from the playground - and they would DRIVE every time! It's madness, it is as if American's have forgotten that walking is a method of transportation. Having a car with you can be a pain, you have to get everyone in and out, find parking, put up with boiling temperatures if you leave it in the sun, etc etc.