But there's a trade-off between less code run and less code written (by you, that needs to be looked at to maintain/debug). You have to make an informed choice about performance vs available time and visible complexity. jQuery et al. arel going to turn out much smaller blocks of code (that have to be written, and later read by the maintainer) for a lot of common operations. This is especially true if your support window includes IE or mobile.
There are a lot of tasks where using a resource (that's likely already in cache, if you're loading from the CDN) to smooth over AJAX handling or deferred event assignment is absolutely more valuable than making it so an operation that runs maximum three times per pageview can run a billionty times per second. And there are times when it would be stupid.
More accurately, they branched the codebase into the 1.x branch that supports IE8 and the 2.x branch that doesn't, because a large set of support windows now don't include OldIE. Both of which are fully supported.
And that dropdown menu works in the absence of hoverstate support? I'm a big proponent of doing it in CSS if you can, but Javascript is basically necessary to get menus that support touch, even if it's just by adding and removing a toggle class.
Hey! Your site is awesome - it's only been down once so far when I have tried to use it.
One question - how do you make the decision of when to update the preview? I've found that it's a little over-eager - I have had multiple updates cascade while typing a single sentence, and since it's not an immediate update (and I'd be shocked if it was, since it isn't for desktop LaTeX;-) that seems like extra cycles for not much benefit.
It's also not a real law - it's a heuristic leading from human behavior. There have been plenty of weird instances in human history where changes in supply or demand didn't show the expected direct influence on the opposing factor. But there aren't local exceptions to physics, and there are fewer ways to artificially manipulate the terms in global energy equations than there are in even large economies.
I agree with just about everything you say besides this: "Both sides are wrong." The left isn't as single note as you're putting them here - there's a pretty widespread understanding that poverty is the root cause of inequity, and that education is just one of many places that desperately need work.
If your friends genuinely just think it's an education problem, well, there's something screwy there - but we genuinely DO have deep inequity built into our education system, much of it coming out of the 80s and 90s, much of it in the guise of "measurement" or "achievement-based funding."
But seriously - it's kind of just that sentence, and only in that it implies equal blame, when it's really more of an 80/20(but still benefiting from the results) kind of thing. The left has been a pretty useless ally, but the right is actually working hard every day to make it worse.
Your opinion of the parent poster is spot on, and, as someone who did a lot of subbing in Sarasota, Fl. (the most segregated city in the U.S., btw.) it's really, really true - poverty, much of which is directly the result of the insane racism we as a society still cling to, is the root cause of this shit.
I think that particularly an observed debugging session would be a tremendous interview test. You'd need to suit it to their known technologies unless it was pretty simple, but I think someone's debugging process speaks volumes about how well they think about problems.
Unity, like most other operating system visual shells, is moving in a decidedly touch-oriented direction. Has this actually proved beneficial in pushing forward an OS that's primarily in use on servers and workstations? Have users (as a percentage of total OS users, or as a percentage of total Linux users) risen or declined since Unity was introduced?
I'll help - it's there because an email from a U of Humbug account DOES CARRY the implicit assumption that its author is speaking for the school in some capacity. If it didn't, there wouldn't be a disclaimer.
Even if not every message on school letterhead IS attempting to speak in the school's person, that interpretation is still enabled by the presence of that letterhead.
If that was how that worked, maybe it would be a problem. But it's not - no one is saying you can't post things on external resources accessed through campus connections. They're just saying that your advocacy site can't have myschool.edu after it.
I was born and raised in FLORIDA and I still think you're being kind of an ageist jerk here.
I've seen that behavior in over-50s, I've seen it in under-50s. Entitlement isn't an age issue, it's a class issue, or sometimes just a personality issue.
Oh no! Large organizations that do charity work have overhead, just like any real organization!
Overhead costs are a very bad measure of charity effectiveness - especially for large, long-term charities that offer services like high-quality legal aid, which is where a lot of the "expensive lawyer fees" come from.
I do think effectiveness is an important thing to determine, and a hard one - but "low admin costs" aren't actually a way to determine it, and it's not actually shameful to have your donation to the women's shelter go to the salary of their childcare provider or other employees.
I suggest you read my comment more carefully. My point there isn't that "she" is or is not exclusionary, or that the bias in the word "he" is or is not imaginary. My point is that it can't be both.
Also, I'd suggest you read any of the actual rationales behind people who use "she" exclusively for the neutral gender case, or who use "he" and "she" interchangeably. You're misrepresenting their arguments very, very badly.
A short summary of such might go as such: "Sure, in a world where we could just search and replace sexist customs and cultural constructs by magic, your argument makes sense. But the people who use "she" exclusively are largely reacting to the existing male bias in the language - they're trying to counterbalance the perceived imbalance, by engaging in the opposite behavior. You don't right a scale by putting pressure on the fulcrum."
If using the female gendered pronoun is exclusionary, how is using the male gendered pronoun not? Either the usage of the gendered pronoun is exclusionary, or the bias isn't imaginary. Pick one.
I do think that "fan" is probably not the term to use, but he's clearly not using it to be snobby - he refers to himself as a Unix "fan" as often as he says "Windows fan."
Yes. Those people. And I very, very much agree on the lack of pretension.
Another writer who I felt has a pleasing lack of pretension (although he's much inferior in many other respects) is E. C. Tubb. The Dumarest series is kind of fun - it's formulaic fluff, but the sense of fun I got out of it kind of reminds me of Simak.
The roving band of nitwits seems clearly constructed above as a generic term for people who dislike Rand, but alright.
Rand didn't actually invent a new definition of selfishness - she tried to positively connote the existing one as part of her "enlightened self-interest." But she's clearly advocating for greed as a motivating factor, when viewed through any outside lens.
As far as (B), I don't think she did. Her villains were caricatures of attitudes that don't actually exist - their motivations and construction is so far removed from reality as to be useless to model the genuine possibility of abuse in the guise of altruism.
Brunner took the narrative technique in Zanzibar from John Dos Passos, and I wouldn't call it cyberpunk, myself - but I agree, he's a tremendous writer when he gets it right, and he does so very often. I just finished The Squares of the City, which I quite enjoyed - the ending was a little weak, but the book overall was very strong.
One of my favorites of his that's less well known is The Stone That Never Came Down - it's a bit lighter than Zanzibar or The Sheep Look Up, while having a slightly more traditional plot-focused structure to it.
YES! Joel Rosenberg is great, although I've mostly read his fantasy. I really, really like The Guardians of the Flame series. It's such a shame he passed away.
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But there's a trade-off between less code run and less code written (by you, that needs to be looked at to maintain/debug). You have to make an informed choice about performance vs available time and visible complexity. jQuery et al. arel going to turn out much smaller blocks of code (that have to be written, and later read by the maintainer) for a lot of common operations. This is especially true if your support window includes IE or mobile.
There are a lot of tasks where using a resource (that's likely already in cache, if you're loading from the CDN) to smooth over AJAX handling or deferred event assignment is absolutely more valuable than making it so an operation that runs maximum three times per pageview can run a billionty times per second. And there are times when it would be stupid.
More accurately, they branched the codebase into the 1.x branch that supports IE8 and the 2.x branch that doesn't, because a large set of support windows now don't include OldIE. Both of which are fully supported.
And that dropdown menu works in the absence of hoverstate support? I'm a big proponent of doing it in CSS if you can, but Javascript is basically necessary to get menus that support touch, even if it's just by adding and removing a toggle class.
Hey! Your site is awesome - it's only been down once so far when I have tried to use it.
One question - how do you make the decision of when to update the preview? I've found that it's a little over-eager - I have had multiple updates cascade while typing a single sentence, and since it's not an immediate update (and I'd be shocked if it was, since it isn't for desktop LaTeX ;-) that seems like extra cycles for not much benefit.
It's also not a real law - it's a heuristic leading from human behavior. There have been plenty of weird instances in human history where changes in supply or demand didn't show the expected direct influence on the opposing factor. But there aren't local exceptions to physics, and there are fewer ways to artificially manipulate the terms in global energy equations than there are in even large economies.
I agree with just about everything you say besides this: "Both sides are wrong." The left isn't as single note as you're putting them here - there's a pretty widespread understanding that poverty is the root cause of inequity, and that education is just one of many places that desperately need work.
If your friends genuinely just think it's an education problem, well, there's something screwy there - but we genuinely DO have deep inequity built into our education system, much of it coming out of the 80s and 90s, much of it in the guise of "measurement" or "achievement-based funding."
But seriously - it's kind of just that sentence, and only in that it implies equal blame, when it's really more of an 80/20(but still benefiting from the results) kind of thing. The left has been a pretty useless ally, but the right is actually working hard every day to make it worse.
Your opinion of the parent poster is spot on, and, as someone who did a lot of subbing in Sarasota, Fl. (the most segregated city in the U.S., btw.) it's really, really true - poverty, much of which is directly the result of the insane racism we as a society still cling to, is the root cause of this shit.
YES.
I think that particularly an observed debugging session would be a tremendous interview test. You'd need to suit it to their known technologies unless it was pretty simple, but I think someone's debugging process speaks volumes about how well they think about problems.
Dead on ;-)
Side note - the $a and $b are Perl's semi-magic sort variables (they're globals that become references to the items being sorted).
Unity, like most other operating system visual shells, is moving in a decidedly touch-oriented direction. Has this actually proved beneficial in pushing forward an OS that's primarily in use on servers and workstations? Have users (as a percentage of total OS users, or as a percentage of total Linux users) risen or declined since Unity was introduced?
Which disclaimer was present why?
I'll help - it's there because an email from a U of Humbug account DOES CARRY the implicit assumption that its author is speaking for the school in some capacity. If it didn't, there wouldn't be a disclaimer.
Even if not every message on school letterhead IS attempting to speak in the school's person, that interpretation is still enabled by the presence of that letterhead.
THIS.
If that was how that worked, maybe it would be a problem. But it's not - no one is saying you can't post things on external resources accessed through campus connections. They're just saying that your advocacy site can't have myschool.edu after it.
I was born and raised in FLORIDA and I still think you're being kind of an ageist jerk here.
I've seen that behavior in over-50s, I've seen it in under-50s. Entitlement isn't an age issue, it's a class issue, or sometimes just a personality issue.
Correction - I guess ATI released technical specifications; but your second concern would seem to apply.
Because that's what's happened with ATI's recent foray into OSS drivers?
Oh no! Large organizations that do charity work have overhead, just like any real organization!
Overhead costs are a very bad measure of charity effectiveness - especially for large, long-term charities that offer services like high-quality legal aid, which is where a lot of the "expensive lawyer fees" come from.
I do think effectiveness is an important thing to determine, and a hard one - but "low admin costs" aren't actually a way to determine it, and it's not actually shameful to have your donation to the women's shelter go to the salary of their childcare provider or other employees.
I suggest you read my comment more carefully. My point there isn't that "she" is or is not exclusionary, or that the bias in the word "he" is or is not imaginary. My point is that it can't be both.
Also, I'd suggest you read any of the actual rationales behind people who use "she" exclusively for the neutral gender case, or who use "he" and "she" interchangeably. You're misrepresenting their arguments very, very badly.
A short summary of such might go as such: "Sure, in a world where we could just search and replace sexist customs and cultural constructs by magic, your argument makes sense. But the people who use "she" exclusively are largely reacting to the existing male bias in the language - they're trying to counterbalance the perceived imbalance, by engaging in the opposite behavior. You don't right a scale by putting pressure on the fulcrum."
If using the female gendered pronoun is exclusionary, how is using the male gendered pronoun not? Either the usage of the gendered pronoun is exclusionary, or the bias isn't imaginary. Pick one.
I do think that "fan" is probably not the term to use, but he's clearly not using it to be snobby - he refers to himself as a Unix "fan" as often as he says "Windows fan."
Basically, chill, the only rage here is yours.
Aren't those tutorials just "the articles on AListApart?" http://www.alistapart.com/articles/responsive-web-design/ http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fluidgrids/ They don't quite cover the mockup aspect, but I think they're at least a baby step in the direction of comprehending the issues you're talking about.
That... that's not exactly new. I mean, are you saying that kids were encouraged to watch softcore porn in the 60s?
Yes. Those people. And I very, very much agree on the lack of pretension.
Another writer who I felt has a pleasing lack of pretension (although he's much inferior in many other respects) is E. C. Tubb. The Dumarest series is kind of fun - it's formulaic fluff, but the sense of fun I got out of it kind of reminds me of Simak.
The roving band of nitwits seems clearly constructed above as a generic term for people who dislike Rand, but alright.
Rand didn't actually invent a new definition of selfishness - she tried to positively connote the existing one as part of her "enlightened self-interest." But she's clearly advocating for greed as a motivating factor, when viewed through any outside lens.
As far as (B), I don't think she did. Her villains were caricatures of attitudes that don't actually exist - their motivations and construction is so far removed from reality as to be useless to model the genuine possibility of abuse in the guise of altruism.
Brunner took the narrative technique in Zanzibar from John Dos Passos, and I wouldn't call it cyberpunk, myself - but I agree, he's a tremendous writer when he gets it right, and he does so very often. I just finished The Squares of the City, which I quite enjoyed - the ending was a little weak, but the book overall was very strong. One of my favorites of his that's less well known is The Stone That Never Came Down - it's a bit lighter than Zanzibar or The Sheep Look Up, while having a slightly more traditional plot-focused structure to it.
YES! Joel Rosenberg is great, although I've mostly read his fantasy. I really, really like The Guardians of the Flame series. It's such a shame he passed away.