I thought Jef Raskin's suggestion of leveraging the color capabilities of modern systems by changing or inverting colors dependent on mode was a pretty good answer to that argument.
Whatever. You 300K and above whippersnappers with your Dan Fogelberg albums and your 'Beat-a-Diddle' dungarees ought to have to shovel mercury with a thumbnail into a hot reverberatory furnce (*and* hit the crucible without spilling!) to seperate out pure gold from the foeces. You can't make a danged Babbage geartrain with brass that is worth a hoot and I don't care if you *do* have it in a linseed oil-bath!
Heh. I know the feeling. I have referred to this page or a version thereof on and off for years.
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What is the ':' for "Aquire Disciplined Layout Rules"? I'd love to map that in my.vimrc.:-)
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I still remember the glow on my first wife's face when she unwrapped that cool aluminum USR 1200 baud modem. *meeemmoooriiiieeees*
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In pc keyboards, the Esc key is FAR away. Yes Lawd! I had a burning in my carpals, so I actually shelled out the money and bought one of those cute little 'Happy Hacking' keyboards. They are small enough to fit in your cargo pants pocket (or down in your cargo pants if you feel really friendly toward them), have Contol on the home row and escape lives on the top row to the left of the '1'.
Some love them, some loathe them, but I've been using mine since 1999 and have few complaints. The main think folks dislike on the 'lite' version (which I use) is that the arrow keys are accessed by holding a function key with your pinky and manipulating the "[", "'", ";" and "/" keys to move the cursor around. If you live in vi (or play lots and lots of nethack) this is no problem, but it do annoy in other editors until you get bulging, macho slabs of muscle built up around your radius.
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commands, than to hit ESC and:. It's not that you are correct, it's the fact that you used 'than' rather than 'then'.
It's gotten so bad around here that I'm starting to tense up when I feel a comparison coming on in a sentence.
C++ and Java are not "modern" languages; their designs are barely more modern than COBOL, actually. Thank you!
When I suffered through a java class a couple of years ago, one of the first things the professor said was that he belibed java's true target market was replacing legacy cobol code.
True that. In 1989 I dated a fine young woman whose mother was a COBOL programmer for a local bank. Mom was slated to retire in 1990. She is still going in 3 days a week to work in 2007 - they just keep backing up truckloads of money to her house, since they can't find anyone to replace her for whatever reason.
How many 70 year old coders do you know outside of acedemia?!
Man, I should have married the daughter and just nepotized my way into the job. RICH! RICH, I TELL YOU!!!!
Despite the fact that it's hard to hear you from atop thy high horse, I believe you are speaking true trueisms. However, speaking as an unwashed hippie, I cannot agree with the usage of the term "solution" when describing the temporal logic fix added to these sorts of systems. That is known as the "Fuck-You Forward Fix" (Pronounced 'Fife' as in Barney). Nothing was 'solved' by dumping this dungheap upon the heads of future coders (`though I'm sure the mgt types are thinking only about future mgt types, if at all). It was a crutch. A very expensive flying butress on your cash cathedral with a very definite expiration date.
This does not say that it is the wrong fix for the business' financial state, the business climate and/or time pressure. I sympathise with the money-men. I've committed such boners myself in my own business for whatever reason... However, half-assing is half-assing and attempting to cover the half-ass by inverting your whole ass with your mouth (i.e. blathering on about "the real world") does not render a 'solution'. If we are going to abuse chemical terms, perhaps we could call this sort of thing a 'suspension', as it is going to settle out eventually.
I hereby nominate "deserves to be fired" to the 'invoking hitler' list of thread-killers.
If I'm not mistaken, the roomba sweeping patterns were partially developed using neural nets. I guess one could say that the progenitor roomba did learn from experience, then all the roombae that followed had the most successful one(s) burned in.
I actually *like* the warm-up period in certain applications. When I stagger into el ban~o at 5:30 for my morning shower, it is much nicer to have a slightly lower candlepower for a few seconds. In fact, I actually replaced one of the three "instant-on" 100w-equivalent CFs above the mirror with an older CF with a bit of a delay for the same reason. `twould be nice if we morning zombies could find a "gentle cycle" lightswitch that would bring up the lumens over a period of minutes. As it is now, the flick of the switch is often followed by a scream similar to the one vampires make when Buffy stakes them.
Ay, manye and divers spellings are ye ycleptions and nott ye rule in modern english.
Perhaps its time for an orthographic reformation, with teeth.
No, Better: I vote that we clone a pair of my 7th grade english teacher, Mrs. Julian, give the two a big jar of steroids, matching `luminum bats and a big, fat printout of all slashdot comments since 1998. Ah! The sweet sound of grammar/spelling philistines screaming beneath the lash as they are forced to diagram sentences until they soil themselves and swear never to bruise the language again.
Hai, but one also needs to couple that with decent products. This is what seperates "Reality Distortion Field" from "Flaming Peckerhead". I don't think Steve Jobs would make a great AMWAY salesman.:-)
It is completely obvious (to me at least) that all recorded media in open sessions of congress should be recorded at taxpayer expense and entered into the congressional record. (How much would you pay per diem to see your congresscritter behaving exactly as s/he behaves? I'd rather pay for an AV record of congress than for a strategic helium reserve...) The precedent is there with our existing "paper" congressional record. (Of course, it might be a little different if the affected official would like to go back and "amend" their recording... those of you old enough to remember the "We Are the World" video might want to ponder Michael Jackson's soft-focus glitter edits that stuck out like a necrotizing 'hroid).
Of course, I'm a big, fat, hippie loser who thinks that all electronic voting machines should have their source code and schematics made public for a reasonable period before being implemented, so feel free to mock.
*snizx* Mwhah? Where did this luxuriant white beard come from? And who are these little men a-bowling `neath my desk? By my faith! Is that process still running?
Which says to me: It's time for pr0n site developers to band together for the common good by developing stylesheets that cover up the "good parts" on all non-ACID2 compliant browsers.
geek: "Ah! Ah! Gh0d! Render for me! Render for meeeeeeeee!" computer: "Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm "
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The :wq sequence, along with good, old sudo has saved me over and over again.
Muscle memory
so fine until speed kills.
Think: drag chute, geek boy.
I thought Jef Raskin's suggestion of leveraging the color capabilities of modern systems by changing or inverting colors dependent on mode was a pretty good answer to that argument.
:-)
Tomato/Tomahto.
Whatever. You 300K and above whippersnappers with your Dan Fogelberg albums and your 'Beat-a-Diddle' dungarees ought to have to shovel mercury with a thumbnail into a hot reverberatory furnce (*and* hit the crucible without spilling!) to seperate out pure gold from the foeces. You can't make a danged Babbage geartrain with brass that is worth a hoot and I don't care if you *do* have it in a linseed oil-bath!
*cough*
Heh. I know the feeling. I have referred to this page or a version thereof on and off for years.
What is the ':' for "Aquire Disciplined Layout Rules"? I'd love to map that in my .vimrc. :-)
I still remember the glow on my first wife's face when she unwrapped that cool aluminum USR 1200 baud modem. *meeemmoooriiiieeees*
Some love them, some loathe them, but I've been using mine since 1999 and have few complaints. The main think folks dislike on the 'lite' version (which I use) is that the arrow keys are accessed by holding a function key with your pinky and manipulating the "[", "'", ";" and "/" keys to move the cursor around. If you live in vi (or play lots and lots of nethack) this is no problem, but it do annoy in other editors until you get bulging, macho slabs of muscle built up around your radius.
It's gotten so bad around here that I'm starting to tense up when I feel a comparison coming on in a sentence.
(I have no karma anyway
When I suffered through a java class a couple of years ago, one of the first things the professor said was that he belibed java's true target market was replacing legacy cobol code.
True that. In 1989 I dated a fine young woman whose mother was a COBOL programmer for a local bank. Mom was slated to retire in 1990. She is still going in 3 days a week to work in 2007 - they just keep backing up truckloads of money to her house, since they can't find anyone to replace her for whatever reason.
How many 70 year old coders do you know outside of acedemia?!
Man, I should have married the daughter and just nepotized my way into the job. RICH! RICH, I TELL YOU!!!!
Wow. I guess we've just been schooled.
... However, half-assing is half-assing and attempting to cover the half-ass by inverting your whole ass with your mouth (i.e. blathering on about "the real world") does not render a 'solution'. If we are going to abuse chemical terms, perhaps we could call this sort of thing a 'suspension', as it is going to settle out eventually.
Despite the fact that it's hard to hear you from atop thy high horse, I believe you are speaking true trueisms. However, speaking as an unwashed hippie, I cannot agree with the usage of the term "solution" when describing the temporal logic fix added to these sorts of systems. That is known as the "Fuck-You Forward Fix" (Pronounced 'Fife' as in Barney). Nothing was 'solved' by dumping this dungheap upon the heads of future coders (`though I'm sure the mgt types are thinking only about future mgt types, if at all). It was a crutch. A very expensive flying butress on your cash cathedral with a very definite expiration date.
This does not say that it is the wrong fix for the business' financial state, the business climate and/or time pressure. I sympathise with the money-men. I've committed such boners myself in my own business for whatever reason
I hereby nominate "deserves to be fired" to the 'invoking hitler' list of thread-killers.
Remember: columns 1-6 are sequence number, column 7 is indicator.
:-)
Go forth an set thy tabstop to 8 and you should be able to make your hello.cob compile!
Mr. 303, I knew Barles Cabbage, and you aren't Barles Cabbage.
Sorry.
If I'm not mistaken, the roomba sweeping patterns were partially developed using neural nets. I guess one could say that the progenitor roomba did learn from experience, then all the roombae that followed had the most successful one(s) burned in.
I actually *like* the warm-up period in certain applications. When I stagger into el ban~o at 5:30 for my morning shower, it is much nicer to have a slightly lower candlepower for a few seconds. In fact, I actually replaced one of the three "instant-on" 100w-equivalent CFs above the mirror with an older CF with a bit of a delay for the same reason. `twould be nice if we morning zombies could find a "gentle cycle" lightswitch that would bring up the lumens over a period of minutes. As it is now, the flick of the switch is often followed by a scream similar to the one vampires make when Buffy stakes them.
Ay, manye and divers spellings are ye ycleptions and nott ye rule in modern english.
Perhaps its time for an orthographic reformation, with teeth.
No, Better: I vote that we clone a pair of my 7th grade english teacher, Mrs. Julian, give the two a big jar of steroids, matching `luminum bats and a big, fat printout of all slashdot comments since 1998. Ah! The sweet sound of grammar/spelling philistines screaming beneath the lash as they are forced to diagram sentences until they soil themselves and swear never to bruise the language again.
*swot* *swack* "Holier _than_ thou, not holer _then_ thou!" *sweesh* *schplot*
As a former GE employee, I can *cough*SixSigma*urp* say that not everyone was *hack*SixSigma*choke* so sad to see ol' "Fromthegut" go.
Hai, but one also needs to couple that with decent products. This is what seperates "Reality Distortion Field" from "Flaming Peckerhead". I don't think Steve Jobs would make a great AMWAY salesman. :-)
It is completely obvious (to me at least) that all recorded media in open sessions of congress should be recorded at taxpayer expense and entered into the congressional record. (How much would you pay per diem to see your congresscritter behaving exactly as s/he behaves? I'd rather pay for an AV record of congress than for a strategic helium reserve ...) The precedent is there with our existing "paper" congressional record. (Of course, it might be a little different if the affected official would like to go back and "amend" their recording ... those of you old enough to remember the "We Are the World" video might want to ponder Michael Jackson's soft-focus glitter edits that stuck out like a necrotizing 'hroid).
Of course, I'm a big, fat, hippie loser who thinks that all electronic voting machines should have their source code and schematics made public for a reasonable period before being implemented, so feel free to mock.
*snizx* Mwhah? Where did this luxuriant white beard come from? And who are these little men a-bowling `neath my desk? By my faith! Is that process still running?
Which says to me: It's time for pr0n site developers to band together for the common good by developing stylesheets that cover up the "good parts" on all non-ACID2 compliant browsers.
m "
geek: "Ah! Ah! Gh0d! Render for me! Render for meeeeeeeee!"
computer: "Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Incon*thp*evable!
It took about five episodes of "Dead Like Me" before my wife and I could stop makin' with the Inago lines every time Mandy came on the screen.
I just run an irc bot that pipes commands to my root shell.
Nobody can blame me for *NOTHING* man.
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GoogleNASA Announces Dissassembly of Mercury and Venus
GoogleNASA's strategic alliance with FungibleNano has pushed their disassembly of the "useless" innerplanets into a computronium cloud. The "Massively Massive Massive 4D Quantuum Processor Fog" will reportedly use 10 years of spam filtered from gmail users to train an AI to solve large N-Body problems and appreciate fine wine.
"Brown is the New Beige."
... like floating on a cloud of mammary glands.
It just rolls off the tongue, don't it?
"DRM is the New Freedom"
Aaaahhhhh