I assure you that the Creationists I know would not rage at the term Intelligently Designed Evolution. But if the term "Intelligent Design" was in the paper anywhere for any reason, it wouldn't have made it past the journal's spam filter upon submission.
My parents coddled my brother and he was a live-at-home deadbeat until he was 37 years old. And he took money from my 70+ year-old retired father until he was 43. I finally told my dad that if you want him to grow up, you have to just cut him off. Tell him he's done in 6 months and that you are reducing the amount you give him by 1/6 every month until it's zero.
Amazingly(?!?), my brother got a job (a really good job) and is now on his own doing great, by far the best ever in his life. And he's growing up and showing the kind of maturity that most people show in their 20s. But hey, better late than never.
Another friend of mine had his parents kick him out of the house at 21 when he dropped out of a semester of college. He was super angry, but I told him that he really didn't want to be like my loser brother anyway and that in 5-10 years, he would thank his parents for kicking him out. Sure enough, he is second in command for security for a large corporation and doing great.
The problem isn't kicking your kids out (unless they have mental illness). The problem is that most parents give their kids everything they want and protect their kids from every bad situation in life and then are surprised that they get discouraged when the real world doesn't work that way.
I had a semi-junior developer from India that was overall a good coder but did some really bad things at times. As his team lead, I tried the direct approach but he just argued to my face that he was right and had been doing it that way all along and that it was no big deal.
Instead of continuing to argue with him, I just showed him The Daily WTF and laughed with him about how stupid some of these coders were. I told him that I read it every day to laugh at bad coders, as a form of therapy. After about a year, his coding had improved dramatically.
It's because different states and counties have different tax rates but the price of the item is the same nationwide and is used in nationwide advertising.
Then put "In God We Trust" on them and the problem disappears. In fact, the key to acceptance may be to put as many images and slogans of the $1 bill as possible. George Washington's same facial image on the front, the eagle with the arrows on the back (everyone hates the spooky pyramid anyway), E Pluribus Unum and In God We Trust. If it looks the same, people will accept it.
But somehow, feminists have seemingly been in charge of dollar coins putting Susan B. Anthony and Sacajawea on them which very few people know of or respect, instead of a president that everyone respects.
We are at the early stages. Look at the laws from the first few years of automobiles. You had to walk in front waving a lantern. And go slow enough that the cop on horseback could give you a ticket. What's the point of a car with laws like that?
There's a big difference between people selecting for genes that naturally occur in corn and people manipulating the DNA strands using deep-sea fish DNA to make the corn resistant to frost. I trust that the first can be done without much harm, but the second is cause for alarm, as you could have the corn creating chemicals corn never created before as a byproduct. I am happy to see the FDA involved with the salmon and for some decently rigorous testing to have gone on.
No, it's true. I hate IM because I type over 90 wpm and the other person types 5-10. So my side takes 2 seconds and then I wait a minute for the response.
How could a guy that makes such nice looking phones and tablets (and I'm no fan of Apple, but their stuff is pretty) make the ugliest yacht I have ever seen?
There is a difference between breeding characteristics for which the DNA is already present and seeing lasting mutations for which the DNA is not yet present. You are confusing the two. Within recorded history, we have not seen the second.
Sounds like you may need to eat MORE protein. As far as I can tell, and I'm not a scientist or dietician, all the diets that work have a combination of more protein and less carbs. I cut my carbs down to 125 g per day and I lost 70 lbs in 9 months. But I greatly increased my intake of meat, eggs, cheese, nuts, etc. Any time I get hungry, I eat one of those and I feel full immediately.
Ecclesiastes 7:10 Don’t long for “the good old days.”
This is not wise.
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You make a good point about greed, but I think it's "e. all of the above."
I have seen developers that were so bad they couldn't write anything good if they tried. Managers typically don't know enough or don't have time to do anything about it. Besides, they are already trying to add 2 more people. If they fire that guy, they have to add 3.
The worst failures we have at my current company (which hires very well) are problems caused by too smart developers being too clever, creating code that is unmanageable for anyone with less than 140 IQ and stellar recall skills, which less than 10% of programmers have. And we have some very poor beginner developers that can write working, easily-readable, easily-maintainable code. I'll take that any day.
There are developers that never get around to anything and then rush at the last minute. That's largely gone away now due to Agile. But laziness is typically good as lazy developers tend to use libraries and write as little as possible, leading to the less bugs, more readable code, etc.
And the final reason is everything is cheaped out and rushed.
I had a guy do this once. We didn't have any coding standards. He stayed up all night to reformat my code into his format, which he somehow thought was superior (braces on the same line, spaces inside parens, etc., etc.) and checked it in.
The next time I checked it out, it was completely different and made it difficult to compare histories (he actually introduced a bug with his reformatting).
So I hit Ctrl-K Ctrl-D so I could compare it, found the bug and checked it back it.
He came to my desk angry and said I couldn't win because he would never stop so I might as well give up. He spent all night again and checked it in.
I came in in the morning and saw that it was different. I hit Ctrl-K Ctrl-D and checked it in.
He spent a couple hours and worked through lunch and when I came back from lunch, he told me that he had done it again and I should just give up.
In front of him, I checked it out, hit Ctrl-K Ctrl-D and checked it back in. He asked me, "How did you do that?" I told him that he could set his settings in Visual Studio to see it however he wanted.
Anyway, because he had wasted so much time (and charged overtime!), they asked me to make a coding standards document, which I put 2 or 3 things in and for everything else said "Windows default style".
So that's why you have coding standards. Even though I made them, it wasn't my fault.
But do most denialists deny that climate change is actually happening? Or just question how much man contributes to it and by what measures? Realize that in the past Siberia flash froze for some reason (probably not man) and that Iraq used to be the "fertile crescent". So the question is, are we the cause of these events or do they just happen despite us?
That said, one of the easiest changes to make is for governments to start giving incentives for telecommuting. Saves tons of gas and solves traffic issues. I don't think much would change if I went into the office 3 days a week instead of 5, except the amount of gas I purchase.
Yeah. Since smart people sit in the same classrooms with everyone else and are typically held to the same standard, they get used to putting in minimal effort and skating by. Not great for their long-term development, but pretty common.
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I assure you that the Creationists I know would not rage at the term Intelligently Designed Evolution. But if the term "Intelligent Design" was in the paper anywhere for any reason, it wouldn't have made it past the journal's spam filter upon submission.
This is EXACTLY what happened to my brother.
My parents coddled my brother and he was a live-at-home deadbeat until he was 37 years old. And he took money from my 70+ year-old retired father until he was 43. I finally told my dad that if you want him to grow up, you have to just cut him off. Tell him he's done in 6 months and that you are reducing the amount you give him by 1/6 every month until it's zero.
Amazingly(?!?), my brother got a job (a really good job) and is now on his own doing great, by far the best ever in his life. And he's growing up and showing the kind of maturity that most people show in their 20s. But hey, better late than never.
Another friend of mine had his parents kick him out of the house at 21 when he dropped out of a semester of college. He was super angry, but I told him that he really didn't want to be like my loser brother anyway and that in 5-10 years, he would thank his parents for kicking him out. Sure enough, he is second in command for security for a large corporation and doing great.
The problem isn't kicking your kids out (unless they have mental illness). The problem is that most parents give their kids everything they want and protect their kids from every bad situation in life and then are surprised that they get discouraged when the real world doesn't work that way.
I had a semi-junior developer from India that was overall a good coder but did some really bad things at times. As his team lead, I tried the direct approach but he just argued to my face that he was right and had been doing it that way all along and that it was no big deal.
Instead of continuing to argue with him, I just showed him The Daily WTF and laughed with him about how stupid some of these coders were. I told him that I read it every day to laugh at bad coders, as a form of therapy. After about a year, his coding had improved dramatically.
It's because different states and counties have different tax rates but the price of the item is the same nationwide and is used in nationwide advertising.
Then put "In God We Trust" on them and the problem disappears. In fact, the key to acceptance may be to put as many images and slogans of the $1 bill as possible. George Washington's same facial image on the front, the eagle with the arrows on the back (everyone hates the spooky pyramid anyway), E Pluribus Unum and In God We Trust. If it looks the same, people will accept it.
But somehow, feminists have seemingly been in charge of dollar coins putting Susan B. Anthony and Sacajawea on them which very few people know of or respect, instead of a president that everyone respects.
In benefits society because it's an incentive for you to write even more music, which benefits us all.
We are at the early stages. Look at the laws from the first few years of automobiles. You had to walk in front waving a lantern. And go slow enough that the cop on horseback could give you a ticket. What's the point of a car with laws like that?
There's a big difference between people selecting for genes that naturally occur in corn and people manipulating the DNA strands using deep-sea fish DNA to make the corn resistant to frost. I trust that the first can be done without much harm, but the second is cause for alarm, as you could have the corn creating chemicals corn never created before as a byproduct. I am happy to see the FDA involved with the salmon and for some decently rigorous testing to have gone on.
There's 3 ways to make love!
Good, fast and cheap? Pick two?
No, it's true. I hate IM because I type over 90 wpm and the other person types 5-10. So my side takes 2 seconds and then I wait a minute for the response.
All of us making fun of him are using Android tablets, so Google Maps got us here just fine...
How could a guy that makes such nice looking phones and tablets (and I'm no fan of Apple, but their stuff is pretty) make the ugliest yacht I have ever seen?
There is a difference between breeding characteristics for which the DNA is already present and seeing lasting mutations for which the DNA is not yet present. You are confusing the two. Within recorded history, we have not seen the second.
I make sure I don't drown in meat proteins
Sounds like you may need to eat MORE protein. As far as I can tell, and I'm not a scientist or dietician, all the diets that work have a combination of more protein and less carbs. I cut my carbs down to 125 g per day and I lost 70 lbs in 9 months. But I greatly increased my intake of meat, eggs, cheese, nuts, etc. Any time I get hungry, I eat one of those and I feel full immediately.
Ecclesiastes 7:10 Don’t long for “the good old days.” This is not wise.
You make a good point about greed, but I think it's "e. all of the above."
I have seen developers that were so bad they couldn't write anything good if they tried. Managers typically don't know enough or don't have time to do anything about it. Besides, they are already trying to add 2 more people. If they fire that guy, they have to add 3.
The worst failures we have at my current company (which hires very well) are problems caused by too smart developers being too clever, creating code that is unmanageable for anyone with less than 140 IQ and stellar recall skills, which less than 10% of programmers have. And we have some very poor beginner developers that can write working, easily-readable, easily-maintainable code. I'll take that any day.
There are developers that never get around to anything and then rush at the last minute. That's largely gone away now due to Agile. But laziness is typically good as lazy developers tend to use libraries and write as little as possible, leading to the less bugs, more readable code, etc.
And the final reason is everything is cheaped out and rushed.
It might be, if it weren't black on gray with no contrast. But since it is, I'll never know.
I code in a proportional font. Fixed fonts are so 80s.
Some people hate breaks, continues and early returns as much as goto. Personally, I think they lead to more readable code.
I had a guy do this once. We didn't have any coding standards. He stayed up all night to reformat my code into his format, which he somehow thought was superior (braces on the same line, spaces inside parens, etc., etc.) and checked it in.
The next time I checked it out, it was completely different and made it difficult to compare histories (he actually introduced a bug with his reformatting).
So I hit Ctrl-K Ctrl-D so I could compare it, found the bug and checked it back it.
He came to my desk angry and said I couldn't win because he would never stop so I might as well give up. He spent all night again and checked it in.
I came in in the morning and saw that it was different. I hit Ctrl-K Ctrl-D and checked it in.
He spent a couple hours and worked through lunch and when I came back from lunch, he told me that he had done it again and I should just give up.
In front of him, I checked it out, hit Ctrl-K Ctrl-D and checked it back in. He asked me, "How did you do that?" I told him that he could set his settings in Visual Studio to see it however he wanted.
Anyway, because he had wasted so much time (and charged overtime!), they asked me to make a coding standards document, which I put 2 or 3 things in and for everything else said "Windows default style".
So that's why you have coding standards. Even though I made them, it wasn't my fault.
Corporate executives can be tried under criminal law
Link?
But do most denialists deny that climate change is actually happening? Or just question how much man contributes to it and by what measures? Realize that in the past Siberia flash froze for some reason (probably not man) and that Iraq used to be the "fertile crescent". So the question is, are we the cause of these events or do they just happen despite us?
That said, one of the easiest changes to make is for governments to start giving incentives for telecommuting. Saves tons of gas and solves traffic issues. I don't think much would change if I went into the office 3 days a week instead of 5, except the amount of gas I purchase.
Maybe he's in New Zealand...
apparently underapplying themselves like crazy
Yeah. Since smart people sit in the same classrooms with everyone else and are typically held to the same standard, they get used to putting in minimal effort and skating by. Not great for their long-term development, but pretty common.