The "OMFG BOOBS! Let's go talk to them" effect creates a really hostile environment, which causes many of us to change majors/jobs... which makes women even more rare, which makes the next set of boobs even more rare... vicious cycle.
This, I think explains it in near entirety. Even if they aren't thinking about the negatives of the ratio, at the very least they'll think of any of those rare entrants as freaks, and wouldn't want to be one themselves.
To piss off the non-collegiates: I know a fair number of people who never went to college. Many of them are snobby about how they didn't get "taken in by it" or that they're "just not college material". Incidentally, many of them could contribute A LOT to an academic setting.
I also hear many parents and grandparents say their kids aren't college material. This trend bothers me. How else can people get a solid grounding in a wide range of the basics that underpin our ability to both learn and critically reason? High school helps a little, but falls short imo.
What I find with non college-goers sometimes is a certain ignorance or narrow-mindedness. Their way, much of the time, seems to be the only way and all others be damned. Some of these people have had success with their jobs, though many I know are still working at Kinko's or Jimmy John's ten years later. Would the non-college achievers be better off if they had gone to college? I don't know.
It's a defense mechanism for people who associate with college graduates. All but one of my friends went to college. Every girlfriend I've had since high school went to college. I don't think you can really understand what it feels like when someone asks, "So where did you go to school?" and you have to say you never went. You can literally hear the disappointment and pity. I'm a master of spin, but there's just no good way to say it. You can tell them you work, but explaining that you were making as much as their kids do now when you were 19 would be tacky, so they assume you have a shit job even if you drop your job title.
I'm not saying everyone is this way, but even a lot of people who think they're better than that look on those who haven't gone to college as a lower class of person.
The passenger's side can use it too! There's very little that's more hilarious than driving backwards through a crowded ATM. The best part is staring straight into the person "behind" you's eyes. I find an absolutely blank expression is best. Don't smile. Don't frown. Just stare, and drive backwards.
A word to the wise though: don't try this if you've got weed in the car. Let's be honest, if you're thinking about this, chances are pretty good...
Which gives a greater chance that two mutations that are harmful alone could pair up to be beneficial.
Also, this guy's a crackpot. OK, so, by age 35 we've got 300 divisions, and by age 50 there's 1,000. So, old dudes getting it on give 3.3 times as many mutations. However, a world population of SIX BILLION versus a world population of half a million, giving us twelve thousand times as many mutations, that's a bad thing?
Absolutely. I've found it's incredibly helpful to comment the everloving crap out of code if I'm having a hard time writing it. Since I absolutely, positively will not allow myself to write redundant, obvious, or incorrect comments, and must explain exactly why a given chunk of code is being written, by the time I'm done I have a very thorough explanation of exactly how to do what I didn't understand at the beginning, and maybe didn't even understand as I was doing it. From there it's just an iterative process of making the code more readable and comments less unnecessarily verbose, specifically by eliminating duplicated code and giving an accurate but succinct overview of the whole problem at the top.
By breaking down a problem into small enough pieces, the solution comes out. Without the ridiculously thorough documentation, sometimes you just can't hold enough of a large problem in your head to break it down into small, workable problems. Self-commenting code helps, but good, plain English comments can help more.
I agree though. Good programmers don't comment every single line. If you see a huge swath of un-commented code, and it's by a good programmer, you can guess that it's a common design/algorithm, and you should know it.
A good programmer is a lot like a good driver. Maybe they could drive fast, but they don't. That's why they don't get into accidents.
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But if you ban cell phones in prison, only criminals will have cell phones in prison!
The "OMFG BOOBS! Let's go talk to them" effect creates a really hostile environment, which causes many of us to change majors/jobs... which makes women even more rare, which makes the next set of boobs even more rare... vicious cycle.
This, I think explains it in near entirety. Even if they aren't thinking about the negatives of the ratio, at the very least they'll think of any of those rare entrants as freaks, and wouldn't want to be one themselves.
To piss off the non-collegiates: I know a fair number of people who never went to college. Many of them are snobby about how they didn't get "taken in by it" or that they're "just not college material". Incidentally, many of them could contribute A LOT to an academic setting. I also hear many parents and grandparents say their kids aren't college material. This trend bothers me. How else can people get a solid grounding in a wide range of the basics that underpin our ability to both learn and critically reason? High school helps a little, but falls short imo.
What I find with non college-goers sometimes is a certain ignorance or narrow-mindedness. Their way, much of the time, seems to be the only way and all others be damned. Some of these people have had success with their jobs, though many I know are still working at Kinko's or Jimmy John's ten years later. Would the non-college achievers be better off if they had gone to college? I don't know.
It's a defense mechanism for people who associate with college graduates. All but one of my friends went to college. Every girlfriend I've had since high school went to college. I don't think you can really understand what it feels like when someone asks, "So where did you go to school?" and you have to say you never went. You can literally hear the disappointment and pity. I'm a master of spin, but there's just no good way to say it. You can tell them you work, but explaining that you were making as much as their kids do now when you were 19 would be tacky, so they assume you have a shit job even if you drop your job title.
I'm not saying everyone is this way, but even a lot of people who think they're better than that look on those who haven't gone to college as a lower class of person.
+ -pants.
It appears I've salted my joke...
Rainbow tables.
I'm sure it is why it did that, I ran into it once myself and was amazed and excited for about three seconds.
Also from ~/.ssh/known_hosts.
More than 1% of the US voting-age population is in prison. If you count those on parole or probation, you go up to 3.2%. We do have bigger issues.
Completely translucent... you mean clear? Seriously, wtf is almost completely translucent?
http://www.village.fairport.ny.us/Fairport_ElectricWater.cfm
$0.03/kWh, all day every day. I live where I do specifically for that and the excellent broadband available.
It makes you psychic? SWEET!
... an empty bookshelf ...
If your first thought was gay, you're gay.
Please. Lovable isn't going to make Americans want to do math.
We gotta make it fuckable.
God I hate those things. The flickering distracts the crap out of me.
The passenger's side can use it too! There's very little that's more hilarious than driving backwards through a crowded ATM. The best part is staring straight into the person "behind" you's eyes. I find an absolutely blank expression is best. Don't smile. Don't frown. Just stare, and drive backwards.
A word to the wise though: don't try this if you've got weed in the car. Let's be honest, if you're thinking about this, chances are pretty good...
Which gives a greater chance that two mutations that are harmful alone could pair up to be beneficial.
Also, this guy's a crackpot. OK, so, by age 35 we've got 300 divisions, and by age 50 there's 1,000. So, old dudes getting it on give 3.3 times as many mutations. However, a world population of SIX BILLION versus a world population of half a million, giving us twelve thousand times as many mutations, that's a bad thing?
HEY!
I derive better when I'm drunk!
Implications?
but it can assuage untargeted, dragnet sniffing of backbones
Can you read the subtext there? Snap, how's that for an implication? Privacy. (from the government.)
No, he just doesn't know what he's talking about.
Whoops, forgot about this, fell asleep, ^D the window, had to run it again... anyway:
2147483647
0
Absolutely. I've found it's incredibly helpful to comment the everloving crap out of code if I'm having a hard time writing it. Since I absolutely, positively will not allow myself to write redundant, obvious, or incorrect comments, and must explain exactly why a given chunk of code is being written, by the time I'm done I have a very thorough explanation of exactly how to do what I didn't understand at the beginning, and maybe didn't even understand as I was doing it. From there it's just an iterative process of making the code more readable and comments less unnecessarily verbose, specifically by eliminating duplicated code and giving an accurate but succinct overview of the whole problem at the top.
By breaking down a problem into small enough pieces, the solution comes out. Without the ridiculously thorough documentation, sometimes you just can't hold enough of a large problem in your head to break it down into small, workable problems. Self-commenting code helps, but good, plain English comments can help more.
I agree though. Good programmers don't comment every single line. If you see a huge swath of un-commented code, and it's by a good programmer, you can guess that it's a common design/algorithm, and you should know it.
A good programmer is a lot like a good driver. Maybe they could drive fast, but they don't. That's why they don't get into accidents.
stack.c++:
... still going at the time of this post.
----------
1 #include <iostream>
2 #include <limits>
3
4 using namespace std;
5
6 void blowTheStack (int const i) {
7 cout << i << "\r";
8 if (i == numeric_limits<int>::max()) {
9 return;
10 }
11 blowTheStack(i + 1);
12 }
13
14 int main () {
15 blowTheStack(0);
16 return 0;
17 }
g++ -O0 -o stack.noopt stack.c++
./stack.noopt; echo $?
523776Segmentation fault.
139
g++ -O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -o stack stack.c++
./stack; echo $?
161515648
Running now, will update to let you know if we return 0.