You know what? I have no idea. We're probably here just because of a random chance; where everything happened to be nice at the right time. Or we might be an experiment conducted by some other creatures, just so they could see what happens. I don't know.
I can freely say that I don't know something, and I don't have to resort to "That's just the way it is" to try to justify it.
I'm not sure if anyone will see my poor little comment stranded at the bottom of this well of posts, but I have nothing else to do so I'll post it anyway.
It's nice to see a site posting reasons for breakages from time to time. I'm sick of seeing errors like "Database error, sorry for the inconvenience". Database error? Should I try again? Should I try again later? How long will it take to fix? Did someone screw up somewhere, or did some of your hardware explode?
Here, we get "Heh, we forgot to twiddle with the database a while ago. Silly us. It should take a few hours to fix, so come back here then ok?". Very refreshing, or something like that.
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Naah, we never get this with Perl because PHP has a brilliant php.ini, which means that scripts aren't guaranteed to run on any two different hosts, depending on the options set.
My desktops have slowly, but surely, converged into one screen session.
0: stuff: Just a standard shell, yeah. 1: emacs: Text editing. Usually about eight buffers open, depending on what I'm doing. 2: irc: I'm always using irssi, productivity drainer of our time. 3: songs: ncmpc gives me music.
Other than that, there are usually two or three other windows open, again depending on what I'm doing. Usually, they are terminals. I also have both a web browser and Gaim open, neither of which translate very well to a terminal.
That said, I am very picky about windows, and judging by the comments that I have seen so far, no-one is being kind to the window pushers. Emacs buffers get killed if I'm not using them, or haven't used them for a while (half an hour or so). I have the annoying habit of closing chat windows, making searching in the logs quite annoying. Terminals usually get opened for one particular purpose, then I close them again straight after.
I hope I haven't failed some sort of test, that would be awful.
This is going to sound a bit weird at first, especially if you're new to the game, but really... NetHack isn't that hard. After a few years of playing, NetHack is "normal" difficulty, and most other games come under "easy". Redefining terms to suit myself? Yes, but once you get going, losing a game due to bad luck or lack of knowledge becomes less and less believable.
I haven't ascended yet. I've come close twice: I once made it to the VS without the candles [:(] and once had a very promising character blow up Lord Surtur's drawbridge while trying to clear a boulder out the way. Neither of these were my own bad luck, well, not much; the problem was my own stupidity and not paying attention.
Is there a lot to learn? Not really, no. It might take you a few plays of random characters to get to know all the items or monsters, and (if you're not spoiled) some time to get acquainted with them, but from that you can deduce most deaths. Once you've learned that touching or handling a cockatrice (or its corpse) in any way stones you, you know not to take its corpse, feel it while blind, kick one, help one out of a pit, or all those other things. The game still needs to know all these, which is why the list of footrice-related deaths is so long.
The best way to die is to not pay attention. Playing late at night or while tired, playing when you have better things to worry about, or playing too fast are all ways to get you killed quickly. Thought that purple h was a dwarf king? Too bad, you should have checked. Wielding a c corpse while burdened? Should have looked at the status line. I've often died, surrounded by monsters, with (identified!) wands and scrolls of teleportation in my inventory. Woe is me.
On the nethack.alt.org server, the record for ascension streak is IIRC 23 straight ascensions, some with conducts. So although luck plays a part in all games, it's not as big as you think, and ascending with 95% certainty can be done, just as long as you keep paying attention.
Know what's crazy? I can't talk properly either, yet when I sing, I am fine (despite singing badly).
There are a bunch of reasons that I've heard for this: that the words are longer so it's harder for me to mess them up, something about music and talking being in opposite hemispheres of the brain, and something about the singing voice being smoother or calmer than talking.
There was a story a while back about some girl getting a speaking aid where whatever she says is "echoed" into her ear, giving the impression that she's talking with someone else, which makes talking a lot easier. Yeah, here it is.
Hooray to you, mr Adams. Us silent folk aren't all bad.
The PlayStation line seems to be well-known for providing hundreds of poor-quality games alongside a few enjoyable ones, but if half of them are crap yearly sports-based sequels then I can just play the other half instead.
No, time is the 0th dimension. It's easier that way, because the 4D people would have to call time the -fifth- dimension, and the 5D people would have to call it the sixth, and it would all get horribly confusing, more so than usual.
An iPod killer can't just be as good as an iPod. It has to be way better and have people know what it is for it to be a success.
I think that the term "iPod killer" has become so clichéd that a few people, our beloved editors included, are probably using it to mean an MP3 player that won't do well at all.
You know, like all the other "iPod killer"s have succeeded.
I learned 150 or so decimal places by singing a song about dancing and robots and dancing robots. Flirting with infinity your geometric progeny that fit inside you oh so tight with triangles that feel so right etc
regexp should NEVER be used to protect against sql injection
In Perl and Ruby, variables are "tainted" if they come from outside, and can't be used in sql or system. Running a string through a regex is the preferred way to untaint it. Your mysql_real_escape_string is the equivalent of a simple regex anyway (replacing characters with \characters).
Does Python have a taint mode? I know that PHP doesn't (shame)
To my mind, if someone has gone to the trouble to block adverts (and trouble it is - no browser does so by default), it implies that they have no interest whatsoever in them.
No, not always.
I don't mind ads that much. Even if they're stupid, flashy, click here now, I can still sweep them to the side and ignore them, and just read the page I went to. Example: this dictionary site has a few banners, but the list of meanings for "spoon" is still right in front of me to read.
What irks me and makes me go somewhere else is when you link to an old, overloaded ad server that makes me wait about ten seconds before I can see the rest of the page. (boingboing is a bad offender here). Worse than that, I've seen ads that spill over into the text, load in front of the text; some even force you to have a "grace period" for the ad (user friendly?). I don't see why I should wait and see that a site is worthless when I can just block all obnoxious ads at the hosts level.
The site I'm working on at the moment hosts its ads itself. Fast-loading, and relevant, that's the way it should be.
The words like baz or quux
Mean simply nothing to you Because it doesn't really matter
What you say or do You know you're gonna have to face it
You're addicted to foo
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, there too.
"It's not a bug, it's a feature!" Where have I heard that before
When you grow other what?
No, but they tried Blossom and Buttercup.
you named your kitten Sparks?
You know what? I have no idea. We're probably here just because of a random chance; where everything happened to be nice at the right time. Or we might be an experiment conducted by some other creatures, just so they could see what happens. I don't know.
I can freely say that I don't know something, and I don't have to resort to "That's just the way it is" to try to justify it.
Fined in the Article?
I'm not sure if anyone will see my poor little comment stranded at the bottom of this well of posts, but I have nothing else to do so I'll post it anyway.
It's nice to see a site posting reasons for breakages from time to time. I'm sick of seeing errors like "Database error, sorry for the inconvenience". Database error? Should I try again? Should I try again later? How long will it take to fix? Did someone screw up somewhere, or did some of your hardware explode?
Here, we get "Heh, we forgot to twiddle with the database a while ago. Silly us. It should take a few hours to fix, so come back here then ok?". Very refreshing, or something like that.
Naah, we never get this with Perl because PHP has a brilliant php.ini, which means that scripts aren't guaranteed to run on any two different hosts, depending on the options set.
My desktops have slowly, but surely, converged into one screen session.
0: stuff: Just a standard shell, yeah.
1: emacs: Text editing. Usually about eight buffers open, depending on what I'm doing.
2: irc: I'm always using irssi, productivity drainer of our time.
3: songs: ncmpc gives me music.
Other than that, there are usually two or three other windows open, again depending on what I'm doing. Usually, they are terminals. I also have both a web browser and Gaim open, neither of which translate very well to a terminal.
That said, I am very picky about windows, and judging by the comments that I have seen so far, no-one is being kind to the window pushers. Emacs buffers get killed if I'm not using them, or haven't used them for a while (half an hour or so). I have the annoying habit of closing chat windows, making searching in the logs quite annoying. Terminals usually get opened for one particular purpose, then I close them again straight after.
I hope I haven't failed some sort of test, that would be awful.
This is going to sound a bit weird at first, especially if you're new to the game, but really... NetHack isn't that hard. After a few years of playing, NetHack is "normal" difficulty, and most other games come under "easy". Redefining terms to suit myself? Yes, but once you get going, losing a game due to bad luck or lack of knowledge becomes less and less believable.
I haven't ascended yet. I've come close twice: I once made it to the VS without the candles [:(] and once had a very promising character blow up Lord Surtur's drawbridge while trying to clear a boulder out the way. Neither of these were my own bad luck, well, not much; the problem was my own stupidity and not paying attention.
Is there a lot to learn? Not really, no. It might take you a few plays of random characters to get to know all the items or monsters, and (if you're not spoiled) some time to get acquainted with them, but from that you can deduce most deaths. Once you've learned that touching or handling a cockatrice (or its corpse) in any way stones you, you know not to take its corpse, feel it while blind, kick one, help one out of a pit, or all those other things. The game still needs to know all these, which is why the list of footrice-related deaths is so long.
The best way to die is to not pay attention. Playing late at night or while tired, playing when you have better things to worry about, or playing too fast are all ways to get you killed quickly. Thought that purple h was a dwarf king? Too bad, you should have checked. Wielding a c corpse while burdened? Should have looked at the status line. I've often died, surrounded by monsters, with (identified!) wands and scrolls of teleportation in my inventory. Woe is me.
On the nethack.alt.org server, the record for ascension streak is IIRC 23 straight ascensions, some with conducts. So although luck plays a part in all games, it's not as big as you think, and ascending with 95% certainty can be done, just as long as you keep paying attention.
Attention demands 27096 gold pieces. Pay? (yn)
Know what's crazy? I can't talk properly either, yet when I sing, I am fine (despite singing badly).
There are a bunch of reasons that I've heard for this: that the words are longer so it's harder for me to mess them up, something about music and talking being in opposite hemispheres of the brain, and something about the singing voice being smoother or calmer than talking.
There was a story a while back about some girl getting a speaking aid where whatever she says is "echoed" into her ear, giving the impression that she's talking with someone else, which makes talking a lot easier. Yeah, here it is.
Hooray to you, mr Adams. Us silent folk aren't all bad.
Surprise! Not all games are good.
The PlayStation line seems to be well-known for providing hundreds of poor-quality games alongside a few enjoyable ones, but if half of them are crap yearly sports-based sequels then I can just play the other half instead.
No, time is the 0th dimension. It's easier that way, because the 4D people would have to call time the -fifth- dimension, and the 5D people would have to call it the sixth, and it would all get horribly confusing, more so than usual.
An iPod killer can't just be as good as an iPod. It has to be way better and have people know what it is for it to be a success.
I think that the term "iPod killer" has become so clichéd that a few people, our beloved editors included, are probably using it to mean an MP3 player that won't do well at all.
You know, like all the other "iPod killer"s have succeeded.
It's called Opera, and works like a charm.
Opera may work nice but it still looks ugly. I'd prefer it if it looked anything like the rest of my desktop...
I can't write a list of all of them, but if you give me a few, I can probably pick out the ones I remember.
I learned 150 or so decimal places by singing a song about dancing and robots and dancing robots. Flirting with infinity your geometric progeny that fit inside you oh so tight with triangles that feel so right etc
regexp should NEVER be used to protect against sql injection
In Perl and Ruby, variables are "tainted" if they come from outside, and can't be used in sql or system. Running a string through a regex is the preferred way to untaint it. Your mysql_real_escape_string is the equivalent of a simple regex anyway (replacing characters with \characters).
Does Python have a taint mode? I know that PHP doesn't (shame)
Are you some sort of grammar robot?
No, not always.
I don't mind ads that much. Even if they're stupid, flashy, click here now, I can still sweep them to the side and ignore them, and just read the page I went to. Example: this dictionary site has a few banners, but the list of meanings for "spoon" is still right in front of me to read.
What irks me and makes me go somewhere else is when you link to an old, overloaded ad server that makes me wait about ten seconds before I can see the rest of the page. (boingboing is a bad offender here). Worse than that, I've seen ads that spill over into the text, load in front of the text; some even force you to have a "grace period" for the ad (user friendly?). I don't see why I should wait and see that a site is worthless when I can just block all obnoxious ads at the hosts level.
The site I'm working on at the moment hosts its ads itself. Fast-loading, and relevant, that's the way it should be.
Happens already. "Damn, I left my saved RPG character at home."
I know that, filetype.vim, I was talking about when you open a New File (without a filename) it would work out the filetype from what I wrote in it.