I have lived in a total of four places in my life. At every location, doors have been open, cars unlocked, etc pp. Sometimes not on purpose, but more often than not on purpose. While I personally tend to lock down my stuff, I know women who have been leaving their purse with wallet, money, id in the unlocked car for _years_.
I am not saying you should not lock up stuff. I do. But living somewhere were you don't need to helps.
If someone breaks into my place (in Germany), they will not have a gun. Never ever.
1) They don't need one to protect themselves against me having a gun. I live in Germany, thus don't. 2) The default sentence doubles if they carry a gun while committing a crime.
> Dogs are useful and all, but bear in mind that your neighbours won't be very happy if the damn things bark all night, or whenever a pedestrian walks past your house.
Large dogs don't need to compensate as much as small dogs. Thus, they bark less. Same as with humans, really. Also, they were talking about a properly trained dog, not a spoiled brat.
> They will also be unimpressed if when you take the brutes for walkies you let them shit all over the sidewalk, nature strips, and their front lawns.
Or if you crapped on the sidewalk yourself. Or hit them in the face with a shovel. Don't be an ass and clean up after yourself.
> This is true, but it's also true that if I saw a burglar breaking into the house of the redneck with the big noisy dogs that bark the whole damn night and shit where I walk, I probably wouldn't report that burglar.
At least in Germany, that is a crime in and as of itself. Hope that no one gets hurt during the burglary or you are in deep trouble.
> That nosy neighbour who stays at home all day can be your greatest security asset if you're on good terms.
And be annoying as all three hells the rest of your life. Yay.
I don't even like dogs, but I don't think I want you as my neighbour, either.
> You do realize that most doors can be kicked down by a moderately healthy guy?
You do realize that fiction is not fact? Movie stars use their foot, real people use a ram. And at least in Germany, outer doors which can not be pushed in (without pushing the whole anchored frame with them) once closed have become the norm. Merely closed, not locked.
Obviously, burglars know this and have been crowbarring a random rear window out with the whole frame for ages. Which is why anchored window frames have started to become more common.
As an aside: Any crime done in Germany with the help of a gun becomes grave by default, doubling the suggested sentences. As burglars don't have to plan on protecting themselves against gun-toting residents (think this through from their side, they don't want to die/be caught), no burglar in Germany has a gun. This means that even if someone were to break in, at the very least they would not be equipped to kill/maim quickly/by mistake/for whatever reason. This results in less risk for life and limb for both parties. Win-win if I ever saw one.
> Scroll down. And I mean WAAAY down, because half of the fucking comments are arguments about religion that have NOTHING to do with this story, regardless of a Churchill one-liner. Seriously, 50% of the comments below are stupid side-bars about religion.
Although your ID seems to imply otherwise, you must be new around here...
Nice analogy, but if I brought you before a court of law, chances are you would walk away freely. Precisely because there would not be any verifiable _proof_.
Not that I have ever met anyone who presented me with his/her story of how he/she knows God which I found credible even if I trusted the whole story without questioning anything.
This is not to say that I am against religion per se, but at least up to now all religions are _faiths_ based on _belief_, not _facts_.
As an aside, don't you think it's funny that the larger miracles seem to have happened in times when scientific verification was a lot harder? The only one in "recent" times I can think of right now is based solely on the story told by one single adolescent boy who profited from the story, so yah..
While I agree that formatting helps in reading stuff, what you refer to is syntax, not formatting. You can still understand what I wrote above as I modified formatting, only. But as modern human languages are not even type 0, the point is almost moot anyway.
Come to think of it, Latin might be type 2 or even 3, but I don't know. If anyone wants to share their insights into that particular question, be my guest:) Same question for Esperanto though I heard it was pretty much broken from a designed language POV.
> For example: two spaces are easier to visually parse than one. That's testable, verifiable, and reproducible.
I read a _lot_ of text and I read fast. The examples on this page where two actual spaces were used made me pause in reading while my brain figured out what the hell just happened. I am sure I could get used to this, same as I got used to lines being spaced differently to make them align left & right and the slightly longer spaces some typesetters use after a full stop.
All that being said, I am seriously considering to start using two spaces, but HTML foils that plan, so there...
Nice rant, but I use a tabwidth of four. I might lose some screen real estate, but you can still read my manually broken lines if you set your editor to two.
I counter your implicit assumption that catering to deep nesting with a tabwidth of two with my tendency to factor out code blocks.
Finally, while I agree that a textwidth of 80 is nice for code (and 72 for emails), that practice seems to be changing due to wider and wider screens. Similar to how computers did away with the need for fixed-width tabs;)
> People who indent with tabs should be shot. Indent with spaces all you want and I can view it the way IT WAS WRITTEN.
People like you are part of the problem. Use tools properly, don't complain about them when used wrongly.
Use tabs for _indentation_ and spaces for _formatting_.
If you use Vim, you want
set copyindent set list set listchars=eol:$,trail:-,tab:>-,extends:>,precedes: map:set invlist ounmap imap:set invlista
Unfortunately, I can't paste the UTF-8 listchars version on Slashdot. See http://paste.debian.net/82316/ for that part. Ironically, pasting said code converted the tabs to spaces.
Still, it's probably not the best of ideas to fly around with a giant bubble of bomb/fire ingredient. Especially since the other half of said ingredients are all around it.
The need to fly prohibits (too much) armour and once there is a small vent with a fire, the flame can eat at the surrounding layers.
I am not saying those problems will prove to be impossible to solve, but it's not easy, either.
Yes, no matter how this turns out, Heisenberg was as short-sighted as Newton in defining his laws.
Oh wait, the scientific process involves making observations and improving on/revoking the results of others by based on repeated and varied control experiments? Nah.....
Slashdot Mirror
Moat filled with laser-sharks. Bridge equipped with chainsaw-bears.
This is actually sensible advice.
I have lived in a total of four places in my life. At every location, doors have been open, cars unlocked, etc pp. Sometimes not on purpose, but more often than not on purpose. While I personally tend to lock down my stuff, I know women who have been leaving their purse with wallet, money, id in the unlocked car for _years_.
I am not saying you should not lock up stuff. I do. But living somewhere were you don't need to helps.
> In case you get your stuff stolen, get home insurance, they will give you money and then you can buy newer toys!
As any policeman will tell you, being burglarized involves significant psychological trauma for a _lot_ of people.
> Pistol.
If someone breaks into my place (in Germany), they will not have a gun. Never ever.
1) They don't need one to protect themselves against me having a gun. I live in Germany, thus don't.
2) The default sentence doubles if they carry a gun while committing a crime.
> Dogs are useful and all, but bear in mind that your neighbours won't be very happy if the damn things bark all night, or whenever a pedestrian walks past your house.
Large dogs don't need to compensate as much as small dogs. Thus, they bark less. Same as with humans, really. Also, they were talking about a properly trained dog, not a spoiled brat.
> They will also be unimpressed if when you take the brutes for walkies you let them shit all over the sidewalk, nature strips, and their front lawns.
Or if you crapped on the sidewalk yourself. Or hit them in the face with a shovel. Don't be an ass and clean up after yourself.
> This is true, but it's also true that if I saw a burglar breaking into the house of the redneck with the big noisy dogs that bark the whole damn night and shit where I walk, I probably wouldn't report that burglar.
At least in Germany, that is a crime in and as of itself. Hope that no one gets hurt during the burglary or you are in deep trouble.
> That nosy neighbour who stays at home all day can be your greatest security asset if you're on good terms.
And be annoying as all three hells the rest of your life. Yay.
I don't even like dogs, but I don't think I want you as my neighbour, either.
Why are you _insightful_?
In any case, I counter your bear with laser-sharks. You even got to build a moat!
> You do realize that most doors can be kicked down by a moderately healthy guy?
You do realize that fiction is not fact? Movie stars use their foot, real people use a ram. And at least in Germany, outer doors which can not be pushed in (without pushing the whole anchored frame with them) once closed have become the norm. Merely closed, not locked.
Obviously, burglars know this and have been crowbarring a random rear window out with the whole frame for ages. Which is why anchored window frames have started to become more common.
As an aside: Any crime done in Germany with the help of a gun becomes grave by default, doubling the suggested sentences. As burglars don't have to plan on protecting themselves against gun-toting residents (think this through from their side, they don't want to die/be caught), no burglar in Germany has a gun. This means that even if someone were to break in, at the very least they would not be equipped to kill/maim quickly/by mistake/for whatever reason.
This results in less risk for life and limb for both parties. Win-win if I ever saw one.
I think your key ingredient might be time travel, not explosives.
> Scroll down. And I mean WAAAY down, because half of the fucking comments are arguments about religion that have NOTHING to do with this story, regardless of a Churchill one-liner. Seriously, 50% of the comments below are stupid side-bars about religion.
Although your ID seems to imply otherwise, you must be new around here...
"Religion is the opiate of the people"
Sometimes, it hits me just how little things change over time.
Nice analogy, but if I brought you before a court of law, chances are you would walk away freely. Precisely because there would not be any verifiable _proof_.
Not that I have ever met anyone who presented me with his/her story of how he/she knows God which I found credible even if I trusted the whole story without questioning anything.
This is not to say that I am against religion per se, but at least up to now all religions are _faiths_ based on _belief_, not _facts_.
As an aside, don't you think it's funny that the larger miracles seem to have happened in times when scientific verification was a lot harder? The only one in "recent" times I can think of right now is based solely on the story told by one single adolescent boy who profited from the story, so yah..
While
I
agree
that
formatting
helps
in
reading
stuff, what you refer to is syntax, not formatting. You can still understand what I wrote above as I modified formatting, only.
But as modern human languages are not even type 0, the point is almost moot anyway.
Come to think of it, Latin might be type 2 or even 3, but I don't know. If anyone wants to share their insights into that particular question, be my guest :)
Same question for Esperanto though I heard it was pretty much broken from a designed language POV.
> For example: two spaces are easier to visually parse than one. That's testable, verifiable, and reproducible.
I read a _lot_ of text and I read fast. The examples on this page where two actual spaces were used made me pause in reading while my brain figured out what the hell just happened. I am sure I could get used to this, same as I got used to lines being spaced differently to make them align left & right and the slightly longer spaces some typesetters use after a full stop.
All that being said, I am seriously considering to start using two spaces, but HTML foils that plan, so there...
Dunno, I don't think I ever even heard about the whole two space thing and I never had any issues reading text.
Both wrong. It's
;)
;)
if( $foo == true) {
$a=x;
}
of course
Note that if( foo = true) will always be true
> Look at python code, where leading white space counts
A language which makes formatting part of the syntax is inherently broken.
> mixing tabs with spaces is dumb.
Oh, really? How do _you_ distinguish between indentation and formatting?
Nice rant, but I use a tabwidth of four. I might lose some screen real estate, but you can still read my manually broken lines if you set your editor to two.
I counter your implicit assumption that catering to deep nesting with a tabwidth of two with my tendency to factor out code blocks.
Finally, while I agree that a textwidth of 80 is nice for code (and 72 for emails), that practice seems to be changing due to wider and wider screens. Similar to how computers did away with the need for fixed-width tabs ;)
With the help of http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1743318&cid=33152326 and the anti-Slashdot-parser version of the relevant part of my .vimrc you can find at http://paste.debian.net/82317/ the above example would look like:
>---printf("testing 1 2 3 %d %s",$
>--- var1, var2);---$
Note that I added three trailing whitespaces just to show how easily _that_ particular suckage can be avoided with the help of a proper setup.
Gah... Slashdot eats "HTML tags", i.e. the left angle bracket after "precedes:" and the left angle bracket F2 right angle bracket is removed.
This being Slashdot, you are neither warned about this fact nor are you sent into preview mode automagically.
The full, non-Slashdot-garbled, code can be found at http://paste.debian.net/82317/
That should read:
set listchars=eol:$,trail:-,tab:>-,extends:>,precedes:
Sorry.
> People who indent with tabs should be shot. Indent with spaces all you want and I can view it the way IT WAS WRITTEN.
People like you are part of the problem. Use tools properly, don't complain about them when used wrongly.
Use tabs for _indentation_ and spaces for _formatting_.
If you use Vim, you want
set copyindent :set invlist :set invlista
set list
set listchars=eol:$,trail:-,tab:>-,extends:>,precedes:
map
ounmap
imap
Unfortunately, I can't paste the UTF-8 listchars version on Slashdot. See http://paste.debian.net/82316/ for that part. Ironically, pasting said code converted the tabs to spaces.
Still, it's probably not the best of ideas to fly around with a giant bubble of bomb/fire ingredient. Especially since the other half of said ingredients are all around it.
The need to fly prohibits (too much) armour and once there is a small vent with a fire, the flame can eat at the surrounding layers.
I am not saying those problems will prove to be impossible to solve, but it's not easy, either.
Yes, no matter how this turns out, Heisenberg was as short-sighted as Newton in defining his laws.
Oh wait, the scientific process involves making observations and improving on/revoking the results of others by based on repeated and varied control experiments? Nah.....
Google Latitude (or Skyhook).
The MAC for my neighbor is still half of Germany away, but then, Latitude is almost non-existant in Germany.
Sorry, but to imply that they might just now have thought of the concept of "not enough energy, rover dead" is laughable.
Beginning to accept, yes. Beginning to realize, no.