Sam—
Your comment "Literate programming means that instead of commenting your code (or feeling guilty for not doing so) you code your comments." is probably the best LP quote I've ever heard. Is that your own original sentence? I'm bookmarking it so I can quote you on it sometime, but I want to make sure I have the attribution correct.
Well said. So "x times less" means "1/x times as much," and "x times more" means "x times as much." So "times" is evidently a modifier that means to multiply or divide instead of to add or subtract.
BTW, it's interesting to note that "3 times closer to" means the same as "3 times less far from," although the latter feels particularly clumsy.
Hmm... If "3 times closer to" means "1/3 the distance from," and "3 meters closer (nearer) to" means "3 meters less far from," then I'm having trouble seeing the ambiguity. Distance and closeness are inversely proportional. Nearness and Farness have an inverse linear relation.
Actually, it's accurate even if you don't understand the idiom. 4x closer means 4 times as much closeness. Closeness is 1 over the distance. So 4x closer is 4 over the distance -- or 1 over 1/4 the distance. No pedantry necessary.
I'm a fan of . for string concatenation in Perl. Of course, this wouldn't work in Java or C++.
It's too bad C++ doesn't have Perl's x operator. Then x could be overridden for cross-product in vectors.
Also, bear in mind, that on average heterosexual men and women will have exactly the same numbers of partners - men will over-report, women will under-report.
Men will over-report to other men, but will under-report to women.
Women will under-report to men, and god knows what they report to other women.
Why would I want to delete something? Storage is cheap.
Well, you said: "I can delete things at will without fear of suddenly creating dangling symlinks."
But here's an example of why/when you would want to delete something, even if you don't delete stuff: What if you obtain a higher-quality copy of something and you want to replace the old copy with the new?
1. How do you deal with hard-linking to directories (i.e., a VIDEO_TS directory or higher level directory)?
2. How do you find and delete every last hard link when you want to delete something?
3. What's wrong with leaving dangling symlinks upon deletion, and then running a script to clean them up?
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No hyphen. It should be an en-dash in this case, not a hyphen.
This:
obsessive–compulsive disorder
Not this:
obsessive-compulsive disorder
ROFL
Interesting... So the center of the galaxy is 14.2 billion light-minutes away, or about 1.75 billion times away from us as our Sun is. Crazy.
Sam— Your comment "Literate programming means that instead of commenting your code (or feeling guilty for not doing so) you code your comments." is probably the best LP quote I've ever heard. Is that your own original sentence? I'm bookmarking it so I can quote you on it sometime, but I want to make sure I have the attribution correct.
Extravert. Not extrovert.
It's posts like the above that make me with /. had a "Like" button.
Daniel — I would totally "like" your post if I could.
I totally agree with you. I'd never heard of it before, and when I saw this I was like, "What the fuck kind of a name is en-ginks?"
mod parent up
steganography, not stenography
[...] but they're a tiny, tiny majority of Apple buyers in real life
You clearly don't have a facebook or twitter account
Or an understanding of basic mathematics. What's a "tiny, tiny majority"? 50.00000001%? <wink>
Well said. So "x times less" means "1/x times as much," and "x times more" means "x times as much." So "times" is evidently a modifier that means to multiply or divide instead of to add or subtract. BTW, it's interesting to note that "3 times closer to" means the same as "3 times less far from," although the latter feels particularly clumsy.
Hmm... If "3 times closer to" means "1/3 the distance from," and "3 meters closer (nearer) to" means "3 meters less far from," then I'm having trouble seeing the ambiguity. Distance and closeness are inversely proportional. Nearness and Farness have an inverse linear relation.
Actually, it's accurate even if you don't understand the idiom. 4x closer means 4 times as much closeness. Closeness is 1 over the distance. So 4x closer is 4 over the distance -- or 1 over 1/4 the distance. No pedantry necessary.
I think Staxxon is a pun on "Stacks On".
I'm a fan of . for string concatenation in Perl. Of course, this wouldn't work in Java or C++. It's too bad C++ doesn't have Perl's x operator. Then x could be overridden for cross-product in vectors.
mod parent up
Also, bear in mind, that on average heterosexual men and women will have exactly the same numbers of partners - men will over-report, women will under-report.
Men will over-report to other men, but will under-report to women.
Women will under-report to men, and god knows what they report to other women.
One error in 640,000 ought to be enough for anyone.
But particle physics in particular seems to have vanished up its own asshole in the last couple of decades [...]
Nice... LOL
There is no possibility of bizarre side effects, like having your living room painted a Slurpee Blue because of 7/11 decided to offer a new feature.
LOL :-)
The Osborne 1 was a Wookiee?
Well, you said: "I can delete things at will without fear of suddenly creating dangling symlinks." But here's an example of why/when you would want to delete something, even if you don't delete stuff: What if you obtain a higher-quality copy of something and you want to replace the old copy with the new?
1. How do you deal with hard-linking to directories (i.e., a VIDEO_TS directory or higher level directory)?
2. How do you find and delete every last hard link when you want to delete something?
3. What's wrong with leaving dangling symlinks upon deletion, and then running a script to clean them up?
The box?
> poking out one eye just so I CAN'T EVER see that in 3D!
Do not look into Phantom Menace with remaining eye.