"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." -- Samuel Johnson
"The most patriotic thing you can do is get rich." -- Mark Cuban
Sounds about right.
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"The most patriotic thing you can do is get rich." -- Mark Cuban
Sounds about right.
The only problem is that most real humans probably earn a few grains of rice, get bored, and forget about the site. So a bot effectively mimicking a typical human user wouldn't be of much use (unless it was distributed on many different computers).
Maybe some altruistic hackers could create a virus which installed ricebots on systems it infected. Though, unfortunately, that idea would likely backfire, as the ricebots would be quickly detected and that would generate negative PR.
The introvert, according to Jung, generally perfers to focus on his own feelings, thoughts, ideas, dreams.
While the extrovert, generally prefers to focus on things outside himself, like objects, other people, and their ideas, feelings, etc.
So, in the original sense, these definitions have absolutely nothing to do with shyness or lack thereof, or about feeling "drained" by interaction with people vs being alone.
An introvert could be perfectly happy being with other people, as long as he can focus on his own internal world. And an extrovert could be happy being alone, but as long as he can focus on people or things outside himself.
Many of the passwords I currently use have been randomly generated and are stored in a password storage app, the database in which these passwords are stored could be easily lost, damaged beyond recovery, or to which I could forget the master password.
So, if legally required to produce a password for some reason, I could quite conceivably go to jail even if I were willing to provide the password, but just couldn't remember what it was (or if it was one of the randomly generated passwords that I'd never memorized in the first place but no longer had access to for some reason).
This sounds so arbitrary. Why is jumping and landing counted as two units? If a dolphin jumps, it's going to land no matter what. Why not count it as just one point?
"Head butting takes four units, as two individuals jump, hit and use their heads."
Why four and not two?
"A simple turn involves just one unit, so does a forced blow of air out of a partially closed blowhole."
This is the only part that makes sense.
"After hundreds of hours of observation and analyses, the scientists concluded that dolphins perform simple, one-move behaviors more often than complicated, multi-faceted actions."
Or it could just be that it takes a lot more energy (and sometimes cooperation) to perform the actions which they happened to assign higher number of units to, regardless of their complexity.
"Scientists call this phenomenon the "law of brevity," and it exists in all human languages"
Or perhaps it has nothing to do with language, but everything to do with dolphins only being able to perform a limited number of actions that require lots of energy and cooperation.
See: http://www.amazon.com/Reading-Rate-Review-Research-Theory/dp...
"5. 'Bulldozer code' that gives the appearance of refactoring by breaking out chunks into subroutines, but that are impossible to reuse in another context (very high cohesion)"
I disagree with this. The purpose of breaking out code in to subroutines isn't only for code reuse. If you don't break out code in to subroutines, at some point your code is going to become unwieldy and difficult to read.
I try to stick to the rule of having each subroutine consist of no more than a page of code (so that each subroutine can be seen all at one time, without needing to scroll). Often that leads me to break up the subroutine in to many other subroutines. This improves readability greatly and makes it much easier to reason about the code. If any of the subroutines I break my code out in to happen to be reusable, that's just icing on the cake, not a necessity.
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2611
There's a pretty interesting screencast about it here:
See :help i_CTRL-R and :help registers
But once you know that I think it's simpler to just type ZZ
Then, if you have questions, come to #vim on freenode. There are lots of very, very experienced and knowledgeable people there that will be happy to help you learn.
Then, if you still need more, there's:
Vim tips wiki: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
The best collection of vim scripts: http://www.vim.org
From the introduction to Ellul's book "Propaganda":
A related point, central in Ellul's thesis, is that modern propaganda
cannot work without 'education'; he thus reverses the widespread
notion that education is the best prophylactic against propaganda.
On the contrary, he says, education, or what usually goes by that word
in the modern world, is the absolute prerequisite for propaganda.
In fact, education is largely identical with what Ellul call
'pre-propaganda' ...
[Ellul designates] intellectuals as virtually the most vulnerable
of all to modern propaganda, for three reasons: (1) they absorb
the largest amount of secondhand, unverifiable information;
(2) they feel a compelling need to have an opinion on every important
question of our time, and thus easily succumb to opinions offered
to them by propaganda on all such indigestible pieces of information;
(3) they consider themselves capable of 'judging for themselves'.
How to Learn Any Language: Quickly, Easily, Inexpensively, Enjoyably and on Your Own
by Barry Farber
- http://www.amazon.com/How-Learn-Any-Language-Inexpensively/d...
which is available as a PDF here:
- http://fld.hit.edu.cn/english/webedit/uploadfile/20085121524...
Some articles on the TPR method for language learning:
- http://www.languageimpact.com/articles/rw/tprmax.htm
- http://www.languageimpact.com/articles/other/krashentpr.htm
- http://www.languageimpact.com/articles/other/ashertpr.htm
- http://www.languageimpact.com/articles/other/ashertpr.htm
- http://www.languageimpact.com/articles/rw/firstday.htm
More great articles on language learning here:
Alternative media are far, far better. And yes, that includes blogs, the best of which publish original content by professional reporters.
Vim tips wiki: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
The best collection of vim scripts: http://www.vim.org
#vim on freenode
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/08/01/0211232/A-Short-...
Semantics aside, I'll gladly grant you that lard is a food that has been eaten in the past. But, once again, that doesn't mean it's necessarily better than other foods that haven't been eaten in the past.
An good example is "golden" rice. An argument could be made (and has been made) that golden rice could save millions of people from devastating vitamin deficiency which they would continue suffer from were they to avoid golden rice for their "traditional" foods.
Plenty of traditional foods just aren't very nutritious or healthy.