I don't know, I think this is sexism and a problem we need to address. How do we even things out, so we have half dressed women dancing around in their underwear when their sports teams are on?
They're called cheerleaders. They've been around for decades.
On the other hand, if I walk up and grab your crotch and suck on my lip, you're not going to file for sexual harassment, you're going to follow me to the bathroom and fuck me silly.
Not likely. I'd assume that your buddy was waiting for me in the bathroom, ready to mug me.
Second, did you see the numbers above? "45 percent of the entire gaming population is now women, and women make up 46 percent of the most frequent game buyers." It is *not* a male-dominated industry any more.
I'm not a gamer, so maybe I just don't get it, but why is it necessary to staff video game conferences with sex objects? I mean, don't get me wrong, I love scantily-clad attractive women, and I'd stare at them all day long if I could get away with it, but again, why are they a necessary fixture at video game conferences?
Actually, it's only white males who have to be PC all the time. If you belong to a protected class, you can say whatever the hell you want. Doesn't matter how racist it is.
Theres a pretty specific and good reason maternity leave is given more often than paternity leave. It has something to do with the ordeal the mother went through, and with a particular set of secondary sex characteristics.
I would believe you, except the same maternity/paternity leave discrepancy applies when a couple adopts a child.
Really, giving women longer parental leave is due to the outdated and blatantly sexist assumption that permeates society that mothers are important to children and fathers are not.
It's not the information, it's the obnoxious noise that the thing makes that I hate. I was in a meeting with a client, and all of a sudden my phone starts making this insanely obnoxious noise at full blast that is impossible to turn off. I did NOT sign up for that level intrusion, and I strongly resent it.
It is my device and I should be allowed to decide if I want my phone to become a beacon of fingernails on the chalkboard.
Oh, and if you're curious, the important emergency notification that I received was a flash flood warning while I was on the 15th floor of a building. Real fuckin' relevant.
The Old Reader does not, though I believe they're working on an iOS app and have said they'll do an Android one afterwards (I could be wrong about that).
Ahh. One of *those*, eh. I'm going to give Tiny Tiny RSS a try.
Why on earth would you need a website for what ought to be a simple RSS reader?
I don't really care about the website bit, but I love having my phone synched to the desktop client. If I read an article on my phone, it no longer shows up in Reader and vice versa.
Someone pls don't tell me it's going to stop working come July....? *cringe*
When the Google Reader shutdown was announced, gReader said that they'd figure out a way to make gReader continue to work without Google. I haven't read anything since then, though.
If the whitespace still bothers you - it means you haven't even spent 15m using it.
Whitespace doesn't bother me at all. Improperly indented C-syntax code makes me want to vomit.
For me, it's the fact that Python can't figure out what version it's on. Python 3 is clearly the way forward, but many important packages, including Django, are Python 2-only. I'm not going to waste my time learning Python 2, and neither am I going to learn Python 3 until, at the bare minimum, Django is stable under it.
In fact, the idea that you would use whitespace to denote ANYTHING is ludicrous.
I agree with this in principle; and indeed, the whitespace thing kept me from learning Python for a number of years. However, I must note that every time I look at any C-syntax code that isn't indented properly, it irritates the ever loving fuck out of me. So maybe the whitespace thing isn't that bad.
Anyhow, I still have no desire to learn Python, at least until they can figure out which version they're on. I don't really want to waste time learning Python 2 because Python 3 is the way forward, but at the same time, I don't want to learn Python 3, only to find out that a library that I need only runs on Python 2. Also, as of the last I checked, Django only runs on Python 2.
So, yeah. Can't really justify learning Python right now, whitespace or not.
I don't normally respond to ACs, but I'll respond here anyway.
I'm deeply sorry that you lost your mother. It sounds like you did everything that you could have done.
I just wanted to take a minute to let you know that I was not in any way implying that "God chose [my] wife to survive over [your] mother." One of the questions that the various religions of the world have grappled with, but have never come up with a satisfying answer for, is: Why do bad things happen to good people?
When my wife was fighting cancer, it got to the point that we were told by her doctors that she would die of it. Not an unreasonable conclusion, as she had a very aggressive cancer, and we had tried all of the standard treatments.
Faced with that situation, we found that we placed more faith both in science and religion, simultaneously. We went all over the country to see the best experts in her particular cancer, and we also accepted prayers from all religions, all denominations. Obviously we focused the lion's share of our energies on her treatment (science), but we did not neglect the spiritual.
A funny thing happened. We traveled to see a one expert, a delightful old fellow who happened to be of our same religion. He took a particular interest in her case, and wound up unearthing a many-decades-old study that showed success in treating women in a similar position to my wife. Ultimately, it did wind up working for my wife, and she survived.
So, in summary, we threw our faith at anything we could find, science and religion. Was there some intervention that placed the idea in this doctor's head to search such old studies? Well, how the hell should I know? All I know is that she alive in the next room instead of dead in a cemetery, so I'm happy. I wouldn't change a thing.
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I don't know, I think this is sexism and a problem we need to address. How do we even things out, so we have half dressed women dancing around in their underwear when their sports teams are on?
They're called cheerleaders. They've been around for decades.
All three of us ended up back at the friends house for a very fun sleep over.
Where did you find a babysitter that would be cool with you staying out all night?
On the other hand, if I walk up and grab your crotch and suck on my lip, you're not going to file for sexual harassment, you're going to follow me to the bathroom and fuck me silly.
Not likely. I'd assume that your buddy was waiting for me in the bathroom, ready to mug me.
Amen. I like games, and I like boobs. What's wrong with using boobs to try to draw my interest? At least I get to see boobs.
Go to the beach, man.
Second, did you see the numbers above? "45 percent of the entire gaming population is now women, and women make up 46 percent of the most frequent game buyers." It is *not* a male-dominated industry any more.
Yeah, if you include Candy Crush.
I'm not a gamer, so maybe I just don't get it, but why is it necessary to staff video game conferences with sex objects? I mean, don't get me wrong, I love scantily-clad attractive women, and I'd stare at them all day long if I could get away with it, but again, why are they a necessary fixture at video game conferences?
Most at 30 are just smart enough to act otherwise.
That changes a bit as you get a little older, when your brain-to-mouth filter starts to lose its influence. That's when you get to be a Dirty Old Man.
Actually, it's only white males who have to be PC all the time. If you belong to a protected class, you can say whatever the hell you want. Doesn't matter how racist it is.
Theres a pretty specific and good reason maternity leave is given more often than paternity leave. It has something to do with the ordeal the mother went through, and with a particular set of secondary sex characteristics.
I would believe you, except the same maternity/paternity leave discrepancy applies when a couple adopts a child.
Really, giving women longer parental leave is due to the outdated and blatantly sexist assumption that permeates society that mothers are important to children and fathers are not.
It's not the information, it's the obnoxious noise that the thing makes that I hate. I was in a meeting with a client, and all of a sudden my phone starts making this insanely obnoxious noise at full blast that is impossible to turn off. I did NOT sign up for that level intrusion, and I strongly resent it.
It is my device and I should be allowed to decide if I want my phone to become a beacon of fingernails on the chalkboard.
Oh, and if you're curious, the important emergency notification that I received was a flash flood warning while I was on the 15th floor of a building. Real fuckin' relevant.
My suggestion would be to skip Django.
What is your suggestion for Python-based web applications, then?
Thanks for the tip. I've seen others mention it, so I'll give it a try. I already have tt-rss set up, and I like it a lot!
Yeah, that's the self-hosted one. I'm importing all of my feeds right now. Hoping it doesn't suck.
The Old Reader does not, though I believe they're working on an iOS app and have said they'll do an Android one afterwards (I could be wrong about that).
Ahh. One of *those*, eh. I'm going to give Tiny Tiny RSS a try.
Thanks for the info!
Which client do you use?
Are there android apps for The Old Reader or Comma Feed?
Why on earth would you need a website for what ought to be a simple RSS reader?
I don't really care about the website bit, but I love having my phone synched to the desktop client. If I read an article on my phone, it no longer shows up in Reader and vice versa.
Using Feedly as a backend to gReader (Android app).
How did you set that up? I don't see an option for that.
Someone pls don't tell me it's going to stop working come July....? *cringe*
When the Google Reader shutdown was announced, gReader said that they'd figure out a way to make gReader continue to work without Google. I haven't read anything since then, though.
So maybe you should learn java instead.
I'm already pretty decent in Java. Looking for something new to learn so I don't get bored.
Ugh... You really just don't get it.
Excellent rebuttal. You really made your point there, didn't you. Very well supported.
If the whitespace still bothers you - it means you haven't even spent 15m using it.
Whitespace doesn't bother me at all. Improperly indented C-syntax code makes me want to vomit.
For me, it's the fact that Python can't figure out what version it's on. Python 3 is clearly the way forward, but many important packages, including Django, are Python 2-only. I'm not going to waste my time learning Python 2, and neither am I going to learn Python 3 until, at the bare minimum, Django is stable under it.
In fact, the idea that you would use whitespace to denote ANYTHING is ludicrous.
I agree with this in principle; and indeed, the whitespace thing kept me from learning Python for a number of years. However, I must note that every time I look at any C-syntax code that isn't indented properly, it irritates the ever loving fuck out of me. So maybe the whitespace thing isn't that bad.
Anyhow, I still have no desire to learn Python, at least until they can figure out which version they're on. I don't really want to waste time learning Python 2 because Python 3 is the way forward, but at the same time, I don't want to learn Python 3, only to find out that a library that I need only runs on Python 2. Also, as of the last I checked, Django only runs on Python 2.
So, yeah. Can't really justify learning Python right now, whitespace or not.
I don't normally respond to ACs, but I'll respond here anyway.
I'm deeply sorry that you lost your mother. It sounds like you did everything that you could have done.
I just wanted to take a minute to let you know that I was not in any way implying that "God chose [my] wife to survive over [your] mother." One of the questions that the various religions of the world have grappled with, but have never come up with a satisfying answer for, is: Why do bad things happen to good people?
When my wife was fighting cancer, it got to the point that we were told by her doctors that she would die of it. Not an unreasonable conclusion, as she had a very aggressive cancer, and we had tried all of the standard treatments.
Faced with that situation, we found that we placed more faith both in science and religion, simultaneously. We went all over the country to see the best experts in her particular cancer, and we also accepted prayers from all religions, all denominations. Obviously we focused the lion's share of our energies on her treatment (science), but we did not neglect the spiritual.
A funny thing happened. We traveled to see a one expert, a delightful old fellow who happened to be of our same religion. He took a particular interest in her case, and wound up unearthing a many-decades-old study that showed success in treating women in a similar position to my wife. Ultimately, it did wind up working for my wife, and she survived.
So, in summary, we threw our faith at anything we could find, science and religion. Was there some intervention that placed the idea in this doctor's head to search such old studies? Well, how the hell should I know? All I know is that she alive in the next room instead of dead in a cemetery, so I'm happy. I wouldn't change a thing.