In PL/SQL, when people for some bizarre reason avoid using IF/THEN/ELSE and normal:= assignments, but instead to a SELECT DECODE FROM dual.
Why?! Dear Lord why?
It's harder to read. It's slower. It's against normal practises. It's an utterly unecessary use of SELECT.
So why do they do it? And why do they insist - when I point out their stupidity - that it's "just developer preference" and "there's no performance hit"?
I'd always felt that the orchestral string riff in Bittersweet Symphony was a rip-off of Grieg's "In the halls of the Mountain King", but I could never get anyone else to hear the similarity. For me it's very very similar. Strange how music works in the brain!
I made the switch to Apple about 2 years ago - iPhone, iMac and Mac Book Pro, and I've been very very pleased with almost every single aspect.
EXCEPT FOR MOBILE ME!
It's f***ing DOG-DIRT! Whether it's sync issues or the server dying, or e-mails vanishing into thin air; there's always SOMETHING going wrong with the goddamn thing.
And I keep holding on thinking, "well they're bound to get it right sooner or later", but it's later and later and later, and still no sign of it ever being fixed. Drives me batty.
First of all, Chernobyl was largely not caused by human error. It was due to pure bloody mindedness inherent in the USSR and a dangerous reactor design that made even more dangerous by disabling critical safety systems.
Seems to me, "pure bloodymindedness" is an error, or at least an error-producing state of mind. And the decision to disable critical safety systems was an error.
I'm just picking this one quote (I believe, in context), because it shows so clearly that you do not understand evolution.
However, in the (very) long run evolution theory is quite clear : there can be only one.
If this was the case, how do you explain the fact that independent of some large-scale environmental insults which left temporary reductions in species there has generally been ever increasing numbers of species filling ever greater numbers of evolutionary niches.
Granted, humans are now doing a bang-up job of wiping them out, but we will either learn how to stop doing that, and thus survive alongside what's left. Or keep doing it until the whole ecosystem is screwed (for us) and we die out, leaving the remaing species to fill up all the niches again, as they have always done, because that is what evolution does - fill the niches.
Dude, he say "wind" the population down, not massacre them. We're all gonna die, may as well plan to make the future better for the ones who have yet to live.
What am I missing here? Tidal locking just means (I thought) that the satellite's period of rotation around its own axis is the same as the period of orbit around the planet. Same for planet-to-sun situation. (And they're in the same plane yadda yadda).
And what is being done about this murderer in our midst? Perhaps this censorship furore is just cooked up by Old Father Time to distract us from his evil deeds perpertrated everywhere, all the time.
You know, I was hungover one day, and too lazy to change channels, and this "Idiocracy" movie came on and I thought, oh god this is gonna be bad. But not only was it quite watchable, that particular scene when he's trying to convince them that Brawndo is the problem is absolute pure comedy gold. Well quoted sir/madam.
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Any books you would recommend on this theory? It's interesting stuff.
Haha, I don't know why but this actually made me laugh.
Please cite even one of these texts. Also, please check the meaning of "misnomer" in the dictionary.
This one bugs the hell out of me:
:= assignments, but instead to a SELECT DECODE FROM dual.
In PL/SQL, when people for some bizarre reason avoid using IF/THEN/ELSE and normal
Why?! Dear Lord why?
It's harder to read. It's slower. It's against normal practises. It's an utterly unecessary use of SELECT.
So why do they do it? And why do they insist - when I point out their stupidity - that it's "just developer preference" and "there's no performance hit"?
HELP ME!
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Hahaha, OK looks like it's a sign from above that we have to collaborate on a tune!
I'd always felt that the orchestral string riff in Bittersweet Symphony was a rip-off of Grieg's "In the halls of the Mountain King", but I could never get anyone else to hear the similarity. For me it's very very similar. Strange how music works in the brain!
I made the switch to Apple about 2 years ago - iPhone, iMac and Mac Book Pro, and I've been very very pleased with almost every single aspect.
EXCEPT FOR MOBILE ME!
It's f***ing DOG-DIRT! Whether it's sync issues or the server dying, or e-mails vanishing into thin air; there's always SOMETHING going wrong with the goddamn thing.
And I keep holding on thinking, "well they're bound to get it right sooner or later", but it's later and later and later, and still no sign of it ever being fixed. Drives me batty.
Hahahahahahahaha, brilliant.
Coastguard?
Ha! That's probably an old joke but Id never heard it before, nice one.
How is this flamebait?!?!
First of all, Chernobyl was largely not caused by human error. It was due to pure bloody mindedness inherent in the USSR and a dangerous reactor design that made even more dangerous by disabling critical safety systems.
Seems to me, "pure bloodymindedness" is an error, or at least an error-producing state of mind. And the decision to disable critical safety systems was an error.
These errors were made by humans.
But, whatever.
However, in the (very) long run evolution theory is quite clear : there can be only one.
If this was the case, how do you explain the fact that independent of some large-scale environmental insults which left temporary reductions in species there has generally been ever increasing numbers of species filling ever greater numbers of evolutionary niches.
Granted, humans are now doing a bang-up job of wiping them out, but we will either learn how to stop doing that, and thus survive alongside what's left. Or keep doing it until the whole ecosystem is screwed (for us) and we die out, leaving the remaing species to fill up all the niches again, as they have always done, because that is what evolution does - fill the niches.
OK, who has the instruction manual for the parent post? I don't follow any of it.
PHRASE ... "Emotional state" ... DOES NOT COMPUTE ...
Are you saying "I love you" to GP or to the vacuum cleaner?
... well ... wait, I guess you could put your ... in the ... hmmm ... and then you could ... brb!
Because if it's the vacuum cleaner that you love
Dude, he say "wind" the population down, not massacre them. We're all gonna die, may as well plan to make the future better for the ones who have yet to live.
Eh?
What am I missing here? Tidal locking just means (I thought) that the satellite's period of rotation around its own axis is the same as the period of orbit around the planet. Same for planet-to-sun situation. (And they're in the same plane yadda yadda).
And what is being done about this murderer in our midst? Perhaps this censorship furore is just cooked up by Old Father Time to distract us from his evil deeds perpertrated everywhere, all the time.
You know, I was hungover one day, and too lazy to change channels, and this "Idiocracy" movie came on and I thought, oh god this is gonna be bad. But not only was it quite watchable, that particular scene when he's trying to convince them that Brawndo is the problem is absolute pure comedy gold. Well quoted sir/madam.
Actually, for about 10 seconds after having read your post, I thought for you were serious. Just shows you how loony some people are out there.
Yes, many people have heard this story. Did you actually fucking believe it?
Hahahaha, first slashdot (actual) LOL in ages. Good work.
Ha! Nice comeback.