He didn't claim that they originated the rules, merely that they expressed them. Others have expressed them too. He merely noted that the ones about interpersonal relations (don't murder, don't steal, don't lie about others, don't covet what you don't have, honor your elders) have been things which most societies have agreed on for a long, long time. Hell, Bill and Ted said it well too: "Be excellent to one another" (I'm sure I got the words wrong.)
I didn't know that one had a way to post at an unnaturally high moderation. Is that done automagically when you have high karma, or is it something that no longer happens (but used to)?
Perhaps because many users (including me) had never heard of Flock, or never even thought that there might be a Built For Social Networking browser, and thus would never have looked.
Trusted isn't the same as Trustworthy. It may just be that Paypal works as expected for so many people, and is so convenient, that many users forget (or disregard the risk implied by) the horror stories.
Still, though, I think you make a good point. However, at the same time, there's some content that I'd like to be able to read on break, and not have to worry about Surprise NSFW. If TVTropes, being a Wiki, is going to have that, I'd prefer they be warning-walled. TVTropes tends to be one of the most innocuous (though time-consuming;)) distractions, but its wiki nature makes it risky.
Now, if only Wikipedia would have a "Gruesome Pictures" section on diseases, with some sort of hiding until you really DO want to see them. =/ Looking up some disease that I've heard of but don't recognize, and then oh god my eyes, isn't very fun.
I think that they will continue to develop it. They use it in-house, if other commenters are to be believed, which means that they will continue to make the improvements to it that serve their needs.
If I maintain a project, and open source it, that doesn't mean that I'm going to incorporate your changes, enhancements, bugfixes, or rewrites into my code base. All it means is that you are allowed to see my code, and then distribute forks/improvements yourself. They're distributing under an Apache license, but are choosing not to let you submit changes to their codebase. The license is still valid and still allows you to make changes.
The trouble is, they both believe fundamentally different things about what it means to have a Good UI.
If my idea of a good dessert is brownies, and yours is lemon meringue pie, it's really hard to combine the two (or compromise) and yeild something that doesn't suck. I'll look at pies you make and say, "This dessert lacks sufficient chewiness" or "This crust makes a fundamentally problematic dessert interface", and you'll look at my brownie-like concoctions and want more crust, less chocolate, more lemon (!?), and some creamy bits. Sometimes, two very different and competing ideas work well by servicing different niches.
(Though, perhaps Schadenfreude pie would be a good compromise between pie and brownies, so my example may be flawed.)
I don't think we can rid ourselves of judgements by declaring bankruptcy, but I could be wrong.
$54k is $150/month ($1800/year) for 30 years. I still think it's out of line with the damages incurred, but at the same time it's something that I expect she could still pay.
Would moving to a climate that has less wintery weather help? (Also, I like Spun's suggestion about hibernation.:) No idea how well it would work, but worth a shot.)
Ironically, last Father's Day my wife gave me permission to buy myself a Kill-a-watt... and I forgot to buy it. It's like the gift that keeps on giving, because I get to buy myself one for Christmas now! (If I remember.)
As with many things like clothes and desert, personal tastes matter. I'm glad that my definition of "the right kind of girl" doesn't fit that, but I wish you luck finding (or keeping) the one(s) that make you happy.
Different people get the "I feel loved" feeling from different things. Some people respond well to being given gifts. (It's big in my wife's family. I could honestly get by just fine if I got a $50 gift card (total), or permission to waste money on video games, and skip the candy/toothpaste/candy/pens/ties. I mean, I appreciate the gifts, but I already feel loved even without them.) Some people feel loved when you Do Things For Them, others feel loved when you simply spend time with them. Some feel most loved when you touch them. None of these things are BAD (or make us feel less loved), but I know all of us can think of someone that would rather spend a holiday cuddling on the sofa or in bed rather than getting a new car or going on a skiing trip. I know people who love getting things, and like to do stuff themselves, while others don't want more stuff but would love to have you come and visit, even if all you do is sit around and play Scrabble.
Sadly I can't remember what book it was in that I read this, but at the time it was tremendously informative as to why my mom and I generally are perfectly happy to send each other money, or even skip that entirely, whereas my in-laws are all "CHRISTMAAAAAS!"
Think carefully about what it is that makes you feel most loved, what you wish your significant other could do to make you happiest at any given time. If your girlfriend, boyfriend, wife, or lover doesn't know what it is, you'll probably be happier if you talk with them frankly about it. Things like, "Yeah, an Xbox would be neat, but I'd rather have sex", or "you don't need to buy me chocolate or jewelery, I'd rather see a spotless kitchen counter every morning". Find out also what your significant lover most appreciates, and find a way to deliver that when you want them to feel loved.
Using the "women make babies" argument to keep them out of the draft is a survival tactic, to an extent. Or, I should say, those using the argument believe it is. The logic goes like this:
In a time of a draft, national survival is potentially at stake. One man can father many babies at once, but one woman can only have one at once, so your society can rebuild its population (after the war is over) more easily if there are more women than men. If you lose both men and women at similar rates in wartime, your subsequent population growth will be substantially less.
Now, granted, our monogamous social mores means that an N:1 ratio of women to men is less likely to be fully exploited, but at least the potential is there. Losing 80% of the male population and 20% of the female is less devastating than losing 50% of each, if your goal is rebuilding population. (Of course, you'd then have a generational lag before you had more men, so who knows which is truly better.)
Then there's the perspective of many in the military which feel that women are less valuable as infantry than men are due to biological differences. I have no idea how true that conclusion is.
Not bitter, just a realist about how clueless some men (myself included) can be. My wife calls me Captain Oblivious sometimes, and it's true. Many times, we don't need clues -- because we don't notice them, don't interpret them correctly, or don't realize that it was a clue. Rather, we need clue-by-four sized nuggets of direction. I cannot put into words how happy it made me when my wife told me, "You bought me a new set of yoga pants for Valentine's day, because you're awesome and I know you like how I look in them." Not only did I know that gifting was taken care of, I knew that it was something she really wanted.
I say "some men" but it applies for women, too. If you never tell her that you'd like a new blue-ray player, or jigsaw, or han solo in carbonite bust, or calligraphy pens, she may not know. She might buy something that you will like, but which you might not like as much as that thing you really were hoping for. (Conversely, you could could be like me, and have so few things on a wishlist that you can't figure out what your in-laws can get you. Doh.)
If a subpoena isn't actually served to him, what would he be in contempt of? "Your honor, we're pretty sure that he knew we wanted to serve him, but can't prove it, and never managed to serve him his subpoena..." I doubt that would fly far.
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Since Lisp is written with alien technology, clearly your car analogy is best served with a UFO analogy. Many people fear it, but a few love it with a passion... and are viewed by much of the rest of the world as crackpots.:)
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Break your program across multiple lines, and mash the tab key in Emacs. It will indent properly for you. (Or, select a region and use ctrl-alt-backspace to do it on a region, usually.) If you're not using an Emacs-based editor, or one that will do similar automagical indentation (especially as a beginner), you're probably doing it the hard way. It's roughly as game-changing as having the autocomplete in Eclipse and Visual Studio be knowledgeable about the object model.
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I wish I had mod points today, as I think you were very informative about the importance of long term planning.
He didn't claim that they originated the rules, merely that they expressed them. Others have expressed them too. He merely noted that the ones about interpersonal relations (don't murder, don't steal, don't lie about others, don't covet what you don't have, honor your elders) have been things which most societies have agreed on for a long, long time. Hell, Bill and Ted said it well too: "Be excellent to one another" (I'm sure I got the words wrong.)
Especially for students. How many other classes explicitly say, "This is how you can avoid having your entire project wiped out by a computer crash"?
... what are his credentials? Why should I take his opinion at face value?
I didn't know that one had a way to post at an unnaturally high moderation. Is that done automagically when you have high karma, or is it something that no longer happens (but used to)?
To think, if you'd played Fallout 2, you'd have known that years ago! :)
Perhaps because many users (including me) had never heard of Flock, or never even thought that there might be a Built For Social Networking browser, and thus would never have looked.
Trusted isn't the same as Trustworthy. It may just be that Paypal works as expected for so many people, and is so convenient, that many users forget (or disregard the risk implied by) the horror stories.
Did you mean: hypocrisy?
;)
Still, though, I think you make a good point. However, at the same time, there's some content that I'd like to be able to read on break, and not have to worry about Surprise NSFW. If TVTropes, being a Wiki, is going to have that, I'd prefer they be warning-walled. TVTropes tends to be one of the most innocuous (though time-consuming ;)) distractions, but its wiki nature makes it risky.
Now, if only Wikipedia would have a "Gruesome Pictures" section on diseases, with some sort of hiding until you really DO want to see them. =/ Looking up some disease that I've heard of but don't recognize, and then oh god my eyes, isn't very fun.
I think that they will continue to develop it. They use it in-house, if other commenters are to be believed, which means that they will continue to make the improvements to it that serve their needs.
If I maintain a project, and open source it, that doesn't mean that I'm going to incorporate your changes, enhancements, bugfixes, or rewrites into my code base. All it means is that you are allowed to see my code, and then distribute forks/improvements yourself. They're distributing under an Apache license, but are choosing not to let you submit changes to their codebase. The license is still valid and still allows you to make changes.
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You underestimate the power of the functional languages.
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The trouble is, they both believe fundamentally different things about what it means to have a Good UI.
If my idea of a good dessert is brownies, and yours is lemon meringue pie, it's really hard to combine the two (or compromise) and yeild something that doesn't suck. I'll look at pies you make and say, "This dessert lacks sufficient chewiness" or "This crust makes a fundamentally problematic dessert interface", and you'll look at my brownie-like concoctions and want more crust, less chocolate, more lemon (!?), and some creamy bits. Sometimes, two very different and competing ideas work well by servicing different niches.
(Though, perhaps Schadenfreude pie would be a good compromise between pie and brownies, so my example may be flawed.)
Thanks for giving the link to the book. =)
Shoot, I hit Submit instead of Continue Editing.
I don't think we can rid ourselves of judgements by declaring bankruptcy, but I could be wrong.
$54k is $150/month ($1800/year) for 30 years. I still think it's out of line with the damages incurred, but at the same time it's something that I expect she could still pay.
I thought judgements were not something one could discharge with bankruptcy?
Would moving to a climate that has less wintery weather help? (Also, I like Spun's suggestion about hibernation. :) No idea how well it would work, but worth a shot.)
Ironically, last Father's Day my wife gave me permission to buy myself a Kill-a-watt... and I forgot to buy it. It's like the gift that keeps on giving, because I get to buy myself one for Christmas now! (If I remember.)
As with many things like clothes and desert, personal tastes matter. I'm glad that my definition of "the right kind of girl" doesn't fit that, but I wish you luck finding (or keeping) the one(s) that make you happy.
Different people get the "I feel loved" feeling from different things. Some people respond well to being given gifts. (It's big in my wife's family. I could honestly get by just fine if I got a $50 gift card (total), or permission to waste money on video games, and skip the candy/toothpaste/candy/pens/ties. I mean, I appreciate the gifts, but I already feel loved even without them.) Some people feel loved when you Do Things For Them, others feel loved when you simply spend time with them. Some feel most loved when you touch them. None of these things are BAD (or make us feel less loved), but I know all of us can think of someone that would rather spend a holiday cuddling on the sofa or in bed rather than getting a new car or going on a skiing trip. I know people who love getting things, and like to do stuff themselves, while others don't want more stuff but would love to have you come and visit, even if all you do is sit around and play Scrabble.
Sadly I can't remember what book it was in that I read this, but at the time it was tremendously informative as to why my mom and I generally are perfectly happy to send each other money, or even skip that entirely, whereas my in-laws are all "CHRISTMAAAAAS!"
Think carefully about what it is that makes you feel most loved, what you wish your significant other could do to make you happiest at any given time. If your girlfriend, boyfriend, wife, or lover doesn't know what it is, you'll probably be happier if you talk with them frankly about it. Things like, "Yeah, an Xbox would be neat, but I'd rather have sex", or "you don't need to buy me chocolate or jewelery, I'd rather see a spotless kitchen counter every morning". Find out also what your significant lover most appreciates, and find a way to deliver that when you want them to feel loved.
Using the "women make babies" argument to keep them out of the draft is a survival tactic, to an extent. Or, I should say, those using the argument believe it is. The logic goes like this:
In a time of a draft, national survival is potentially at stake. One man can father many babies at once, but one woman can only have one at once, so your society can rebuild its population (after the war is over) more easily if there are more women than men. If you lose both men and women at similar rates in wartime, your subsequent population growth will be substantially less.
Now, granted, our monogamous social mores means that an N:1 ratio of women to men is less likely to be fully exploited, but at least the potential is there. Losing 80% of the male population and 20% of the female is less devastating than losing 50% of each, if your goal is rebuilding population. (Of course, you'd then have a generational lag before you had more men, so who knows which is truly better.)
Then there's the perspective of many in the military which feel that women are less valuable as infantry than men are due to biological differences. I have no idea how true that conclusion is.
Not bitter, just a realist about how clueless some men (myself included) can be. My wife calls me Captain Oblivious sometimes, and it's true. Many times, we don't need clues -- because we don't notice them, don't interpret them correctly, or don't realize that it was a clue. Rather, we need clue-by-four sized nuggets of direction. I cannot put into words how happy it made me when my wife told me, "You bought me a new set of yoga pants for Valentine's day, because you're awesome and I know you like how I look in them." Not only did I know that gifting was taken care of, I knew that it was something she really wanted.
I say "some men" but it applies for women, too. If you never tell her that you'd like a new blue-ray player, or jigsaw, or han solo in carbonite bust, or calligraphy pens, she may not know. She might buy something that you will like, but which you might not like as much as that thing you really were hoping for. (Conversely, you could could be like me, and have so few things on a wishlist that you can't figure out what your in-laws can get you. Doh.)
If a subpoena isn't actually served to him, what would he be in contempt of? "Your honor, we're pretty sure that he knew we wanted to serve him, but can't prove it, and never managed to serve him his subpoena..."
I doubt that would fly far.
Since Lisp is written with alien technology, clearly your car analogy is best served with a UFO analogy. Many people fear it, but a few love it with a passion ... and are viewed by much of the rest of the world as crackpots. :)
Break your program across multiple lines, and mash the tab key in Emacs. It will indent properly for you. (Or, select a region and use ctrl-alt-backspace to do it on a region, usually.) If you're not using an Emacs-based editor, or one that will do similar automagical indentation (especially as a beginner), you're probably doing it the hard way. It's roughly as game-changing as having the autocomplete in Eclipse and Visual Studio be knowledgeable about the object model.