Even if it's not used in American English (which honestly, is surprising to me), it's not exactly obtuse or difficult to work it out. Putting ones tools down (and stopping work). What else could it mean? The only possible other interpretation is 'downing', as in 'consuming' ones tools, which obviously doesn't make any sense in this context.
Mostly it reads like a typo, making me wonder what word is missing.
But the 3 sets of double consonants are not consecutive. The only word in the english language (that I know of) for which there exist 3 consecutive sets of double consonants is "bookkeeper."
I found the consonant (not merely double letters) part kind of neat, because I can't think of any other words like that.
Think of cities that have grown (London?) rather than be designed according to some grand master plan (New York?)
(NYC is) almost the exact opposite of what you're saying... Someone designed it to a master plan.... a long time ago. And then it grew
Almost all of Manhattan Island (which is only part of New York City) above 42nd street was planned out as one grid. The Upper West Side (along Central Park from 59th street northward, about 7 miles) has two subway train lines that were largely done by cut-and-cover before the buildings were built; some 10 or 12 miles of Broadway is really a causeway over the #1/2/3 train lines. The East Side, on the other hand, did not get as much service; the work to put it in now, tunneling below, has been disruptive for years!
I was actually thinking of 'anything Robert Moses touched', so all 5 boroughs + LI to start. I don't know how involved he was in other areas. The roads feel like they were designed to induce traffic, as if he could curtail population growth through sheer stubbornness. (stubbornness has 3 sets of double consonants. awesome).
Think of cities that have grown (London?) rather than be designed according to some grand master plan (New York?)
I've never been to London, but I work in NY. It's almost the exact opposite of what you're saying, or maybe the middle ground that you didn't cover. Someone designed it to a master plan.... a long time ago. And then it grew. Nowadays I joke that if you're designing a city and your major highways look anything like NYC, it's time to fire the designer.
Writing code can be like explaining something or teaching. You can give an explanation that is logically correct but difficult for a human to follow. Programmers tend to neglect this in their code because it can be difficult to construct something that reads well and even if it doesn't read well, it can still be executed by a computer.
I like to think that if code is 'elegant', it can be read well after at most after brief explanation of how the algorithm is supposed to work, because code alone is sometimes difficult to interpret.
Similar to my thoughts. There are levels of elegance. The minimum requirement is that it does what it's supposed to, that something is non-trivial, and the code is fairly easy for anyone familiar with the language to understand. Better is when it does all that without any prior explanation of what it's supposed to do. Even better is when the something it's doing is actually quite complex, but still easily understood.
And then there's just plain awesome, where it uses a language feature that the reader has never seen before but instantly understands because the usage makes it obvious.
for all the negative remarks, maybe i'm the only one who wonders how awesome this would be for space travel XD we would be able to explore a meaningful part of the galaxy XD.
Not just able to, we might *need* to at that point.
Also, most states only have one of these evaluative tests a year, so you're not comparing students to their own scores, you're comparing them to the scores of the previous year's class.
If that's how the test is being interpreted, the administrators are idiots. You have test results for each class from last year, look at the difference between those results and the results from this year. That gives you the change in test results as affected by the teacher under scrutiny.
This isn't quantum loop gravity, if your only argument against holding teachers to a standard is that the administration is too stupid to apply one correctly, then it's time to nuke the whole district and start over.
I agree that makes more sense, but I'm betting someone pointed out there's no way to evaluate kindergarten teachers that way. Also some amount of difficulty in tracking students that have moved around. The first approach is easier to implement. Still inferior, but much easier to actually do.
This is much. much older than that. Once upon a time, probably soon after paper and writing were invented, someone invented the bulletin board. Initially people used it to post messages. Then someone posted an advertisement for their apple wagon just up the street. Then someone else changed the location in the ad to the location of their apple wagon just down the street.
Probably took a little longer than that, if only because for the trick to work you need:
1) enough literate people to matter 2) a community large enough that not everybody knows everyone else.
It's surprising how much you know about other peoples' religion. You know so much that you can actually prescribe what they believe. Clearly it's all-or-nothing and there's no allegory at all in the Old Testament. And that's how EVERY theologian interprets it. Thank you for your input, dude.
I don't claim to know what he does or doesn't believe.
He said this:
In the Old Testament, the Jewish people, while wandering in the desert, after seeing the parting of the Red Sea and all the miracles Moses brought down on Egypt, continue to fall away from God. He even had an actual presence in their Temple, and would show up as a flaming column from time to time. Nonetheless, they would turn to idols and he'd have to "smite" them from time to time.
So, yes, even though literally in the presence of God, some people don't believe. Odd, that.
I should probably have been more precise. To say that "literally in the presence of God, some people don't believe." requires a belief that the sections at least referring to God's active presence in the temple are literally true, if not the Old Testament in its entirety. Without that, his last statement doesn't make sense. If you don't accept that particular part literally, then it's merely speculation as to how people would respond.
In the Old Testament, the Jewish people, while wandering in the desert, after seeing the parting of the Red Sea and all the miracles Moses brought down on Egypt, continue to fall away from God. He even had an actual presence in their Temple, and would show up as a flaming column from time to time. Nonetheless, they would turn to idols and he'd have to "smite" them from time to time.
So, yes, even though literally in the presence of God, some people don't believe. Odd, that.
Kind of requires you to accept the Old Testament as 100% historically accurate though, which seems a tad problematic to me.
and What the hell does the 9th amendment have to do with this.
I think he meant the 9th circuit, as referred to in the summary: The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has granted a temporary takedown order on behalf of Cindy Lee Garcia
I was thinking Tracy the Truck Driver. My not-that-intensive search on gender stats in truck drivers suggest that the field is approx 93% male, which sounds plausible to me. We should push women towards that profession too.
When I think of movie rental stores, I think of VHS tapes. But the article just says "video", so it was probably a DVD.
Regardless, movies sold to rental places were far more expensive than retail versions because you also got a license to rent them out. I lost a rental movie once and I think I got charged a "replacement fee" of about $150.
My understanding was that they were often available for rental before they were available for sale, and the inflated price reflects that the item was not actually commercially available.
of course, you've just used things you saw on TV to advocate what laws the government should pass..... and you didn't see any resemblance to Cameron doing exactly the same thing?
I blame modern education that eschews classical teaching in favour of shiny technology:-(
What do you blame for missing that he obviously did that on purpose? Subject line was kind of a big hint there.
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I appreciate the nod, though I've never stated it happened while he slept.
wonder what that dude used to shave...
Even if it's not used in American English (which honestly, is surprising to me), it's not exactly obtuse or difficult to work it out. Putting ones tools down (and stopping work). What else could it mean? The only possible other interpretation is 'downing', as in 'consuming' ones tools, which obviously doesn't make any sense in this context.
Mostly it reads like a typo, making me wonder what word is missing.
So this is either legit or an absolutely brilliantly executed joke.
Yeah. They're doing it right, finally.
I've got to admit. The discussion going on in that ticket is pretty convincing, leading me to think that either:
a) legit
b) they sucked in a lot of their own people
c) really well thought out
I'm thinking (and hoping) b, with c as an unlikely but possible second.
I'll confess I was fooled until I remember what day it is.
Cut them some slack. The summary is not merely one, but TWO sentences. That takes real work.
I've eaten chinese food and italian food in NYC. They use tomatoes very differently.
And that's about as on topic as what you wrote.
But the 3 sets of double consonants are not consecutive. The only word in the english language (that I know of) for which there exist 3 consecutive sets of double consonants is "bookkeeper."
I found the consonant (not merely double letters) part kind of neat, because I can't think of any other words like that.
Think of cities that have grown (London?) rather than be designed according to some grand master plan (New York?)
(NYC is) almost the exact opposite of what you're saying ... Someone designed it to a master plan.... a long time ago. And then it grew
Almost all of Manhattan Island (which is only part of New York City) above 42nd street was planned out as one grid. The Upper West Side (along Central Park from 59th street northward, about 7 miles) has two subway train lines that were largely done by cut-and-cover before the buildings were built; some 10 or 12 miles of Broadway is really a causeway over the #1/2/3 train lines. The East Side, on the other hand, did not get as much service; the work to put it in now, tunneling below, has been disruptive for years!
I was actually thinking of 'anything Robert Moses touched', so all 5 boroughs + LI to start. I don't know how involved he was in other areas. The roads feel like they were designed to induce traffic, as if he could curtail population growth through sheer stubbornness. (stubbornness has 3 sets of double consonants. awesome).
Think of cities that have grown (London?) rather than be designed according to some grand master plan (New York?)
I've never been to London, but I work in NY. It's almost the exact opposite of what you're saying, or maybe the middle ground that you didn't cover. Someone designed it to a master plan.... a long time ago. And then it grew. Nowadays I joke that if you're designing a city and your major highways look anything like NYC, it's time to fire the designer.
Writing code can be like explaining something or teaching. You can give an explanation that is logically correct but difficult for a human to follow. Programmers tend to neglect this in their code because it can be difficult to construct something that reads well and even if it doesn't read well, it can still be executed by a computer.
I like to think that if code is 'elegant', it can be read well after at most after brief explanation of how the algorithm is supposed to work, because code alone is sometimes difficult to interpret.
Similar to my thoughts. There are levels of elegance. The minimum requirement is that it does what it's supposed to, that something is non-trivial, and the code is fairly easy for anyone familiar with the language to understand. Better is when it does all that without any prior explanation of what it's supposed to do. Even better is when the something it's doing is actually quite complex, but still easily understood.
And then there's just plain awesome, where it uses a language feature that the reader has never seen before but instantly understands because the usage makes it obvious.
for all the negative remarks, maybe i'm the only one who wonders how awesome this would be for space travel XD
we would be able to explore a meaningful part of the galaxy XD.
Not just able to, we might *need* to at that point.
"I'll just fix this quick and dirty for now, management will allow me time to redo it properly later."
The standard method for that is to grossly overestimate something else and then fix the original in the extra time.
Also, most states only have one of these evaluative tests a year, so you're not comparing students to their own scores, you're comparing them to the scores of the previous year's class.
If that's how the test is being interpreted, the administrators are idiots.
You have test results for each class from last year, look at the difference between those results and the results from this year. That gives you the change in test results as affected by the teacher under scrutiny.
This isn't quantum loop gravity, if your only argument against holding teachers to a standard is that the administration is too stupid to apply one correctly, then it's time to nuke the whole district and start over.
I agree that makes more sense, but I'm betting someone pointed out there's no way to evaluate kindergarten teachers that way. Also some amount of difficulty in tracking students that have moved around. The first approach is easier to implement. Still inferior, but much easier to actually do.
This is much. much older than that. Once upon a time, probably soon after paper and writing were invented, someone invented the bulletin board. Initially people used it to post messages. Then someone posted an advertisement for their apple wagon just up the street. Then someone else changed the location in the ad to the location of their apple wagon just down the street.
Probably took a little longer than that, if only because for the trick to work you need:
1) enough literate people to matter
2) a community large enough that not everybody knows everyone else.
It's surprising how much you know about other peoples' religion. You know so much that you can actually prescribe what they believe. Clearly it's all-or-nothing and there's no allegory at all in the Old Testament. And that's how EVERY theologian interprets it. Thank you for your input, dude.
I don't claim to know what he does or doesn't believe.
He said this:
In the Old Testament, the Jewish people, while wandering in the desert, after seeing the parting of the Red Sea and all the miracles Moses brought down on Egypt, continue to fall away from God. He even had an actual presence in their Temple, and would show up as a flaming column from time to time. Nonetheless, they would turn to idols and he'd have to "smite" them from time to time.
So, yes, even though literally in the presence of God, some people don't believe. Odd, that.
I should probably have been more precise. To say that "literally in the presence of God, some people don't believe." requires a belief that the sections at least referring to God's active presence in the temple are literally true, if not the Old Testament in its entirety. Without that, his last statement doesn't make sense. If you don't accept that particular part literally, then it's merely speculation as to how people would respond.
In the Old Testament, the Jewish people, while wandering in the desert, after seeing the parting of the Red Sea and all the miracles Moses brought down on Egypt, continue to fall away from God. He even had an actual presence in their Temple, and would show up as a flaming column from time to time. Nonetheless, they would turn to idols and he'd have to "smite" them from time to time.
So, yes, even though literally in the presence of God, some people don't believe. Odd, that.
Kind of requires you to accept the Old Testament as 100% historically accurate though, which seems a tad problematic to me.
So lying in a contract is ok?
Totally agree with your point here, but ...
and What the hell does the 9th amendment have to do with this.
I think he meant the 9th circuit, as referred to in the summary:
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has granted a temporary takedown order on behalf of Cindy Lee Garcia
I was thinking Tracy the Truck Driver. My not-that-intensive search on gender stats in truck drivers suggest that the field is approx 93% male, which sounds plausible to me. We should push women towards that profession too.
If money grew on trees it would be valueless.
I know I'm nitpicking here, but my literal side has always hated this expression. Fruit is not valueless. I have to pay for it. And it grows on trees.
And sometimes, when I'm a little drunk, I start to think things like "Monkeys are REALLY expensive, and they grow IN trees.... close enough."
When I think of movie rental stores, I think of VHS tapes. But the article just says "video", so it was probably a DVD.
Regardless, movies sold to rental places were far more expensive than retail versions because you also got a license to rent them out. I lost a rental movie once and I think I got charged a "replacement fee" of about $150.
My understanding was that they were often available for rental before they were available for sale, and the inflated price reflects that the item was not actually commercially available.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
A thousand pictures flipping past at 24 frames per second is worth ten words.
Is that yours or are you quoting someone? I'd like to do the attribution properly when I use that.
Using classic, had mod points yesterday. Used em all up.
of course, you've just used things you saw on TV to advocate what laws the government should pass..... and you didn't see any resemblance to Cameron doing exactly the same thing?
I blame modern education that eschews classical teaching in favour of shiny technology :-(
What do you blame for missing that he obviously did that on purpose? Subject line was kind of a big hint there.