Comment Maybe there is a missing word? (Score 1) 394
I'd just bought a gallon jug of cider at a local apple farm
Try adding the word 'another' at various places in that sentence and see how it reads.
I'd just bought a gallon jug of cider at a local apple farm
Try adding the word 'another' at various places in that sentence and see how it reads.
as they obviously dropped the ball in clarifying the situation with the customer reps.
Or told them to deliberately lie knowing that there was likely no proof of what the customer rep said.
Also, kinda reminds me of that zooming mirror scene in Blade Runner.
Yes, you can learn new tricks, but like everything else you have to work at it. I've been programming in some fashion for close to 30 years but I'm still learning new stuff all the time (getting employed on the basis of the new skills is a bit harder, but not giving up yet).
If you are struggling to come to grips with frameworks, might I suggest that you are probably not getting 'why' they are written, or what they are trying to achieve. Not getting that means you are trying to memorize a whole bunch of stuff that doesn't seem to make any sense, and that is basically impossible.
The easiest way to understand the 'why' of a framework is to start trying to write equivalent things yourself from scratch.
Once upon a time I installed Django and worked through the tutorial. Admittedly I was pretty impressed with the inbuilt admin interface that you got for very little code, but beyond that it all seemed too long-winded and abstract for what I wanted to do. So I decided to not use Django and just write my own application directly using wsgi.
I spent a day or two happily coding up a number of functional pages and a rudimentary menu system. Then I realized that some of my code was getting a bit unwieldy. Functions to parse the url and call the appropriate function were getting too long, and code that produced the output was starting to be duplicated in numerous places. I sat down and had a good think about how I could refactor stuff to be more maintainable when suddenly it hit me... "I'm re-writing Django (though much more poorly)".
Once I realized that, and I understood the problems that Django was trying to solve it all suddenly made a lot more sense and I found it easier to get my head around it all.
This is a race that the guards aren't going to win. Of course, it's not like anyone's ever been able to stop contraband getting into a prison anyway.
Weld them into a cage, inside a huge warehouse. No visitors.
This is a trivially solvable problem, you just need to have the will to actually solve it (note: I'm opposed to the death penalty just in case new evidence comes to light).
The myth of that got out when a married woman claimed she was raped, and since there wasn't enough evidence to prove it, the prosecutor decided to charge her with adultery.
Which means that the myth is not really a myth and is in fact a fact, as you have just illustrated.
Well played sir.
In other news: Space tech often makes it way down to doing practical things, including help feed the poor
You mean like frying up all that food they don't have in Teflon frying pans?
I kid, I kid.
But you gotta admit that usually the link between space exploration and feeding the poor is quite indirect and relies on one of those "trickle down" types of theories.
They're going into a sun spot... you know, a hole where the sun don't shine (as brightly).
No, that's Uran... Nah, too easy.
I often find its much easier to get work done face to face
You're not a programmer.
Yes I know that he or she is posting as AC, but this so beautifully encapsulates where the 'beta' is headed that it really deserves to be seen.
The original slashdot users and discussion format simply don't fit into the 'passive content consumer' business model of dice, and no amount of posting 'fuck beta', or boycotting, or whining to Timothy or any of the other editors is going to change that.
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Zero!!
They've basically written off slashdot as worthless and are now in desperation mode trying to minimize their losses, and if that means turning slashdot into a Justin Beiber Fan page on Facebook then that is what they will do. The original slashdot "audience" is worthless to them and they don't give a damn if we are unhappy and threaten to go elsewhere.
The slashdot that we used to know and love is gone, and the only thing left for us is to direct our energies towards either the altslashdot initiative or respectfully ask Mr. Perens to re-ressurect technocrat.net.
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