> "Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones." -- Marcus Aurelius
@ircmaxell What I was trying to say before is this -- you can pick a functional language just to get an understanding of what it all means. For that an old school one is best -- Prolog, Standard ML, Lisp variant...
or you can pick a more modern functional language which are not as "pure" -- but can be more easily used in the real world -- for these I would pick F#, Python, JavaScript -- etc
I'm kind of wishing I went that route myself. It's apparently cool enough in the rest of the house for the air conditioning not to come on, but it's unpleasantly warm where I am at the moment.
@balpha, actually it was very strange seeing the three of you. It's a bit like reading a book and then seeing the film. I can't say I imagined that you looked different, I think I just didn't imagine a look at all, your entire identities were symbolised by a name and a gravatar :)
I currently have a flag weight of 531.7108. Is it just me, or are the 4 digits of precision after the decimal point just a tad unnecessary? Borderline bug I think.
> Let's face it, the only way the US administration could have got more column inches out of the outrage was if bin Laden had been caught in bed with a Las Vegas hooker and a bottle of Scotch, toking on a post-coital spliff while reading The Satanic Verses.
It's acting really funny for me (notifications aren't going away, pressing enter actually sends the message, but inserts a new line in the new message box, misc jumping around, etc)
> Did you graduate in the last 15 years (1996 thru 2011)? If so, you’ll want to take a trip down memory lane and join us for a Happy Hour reception at the Mill Creek Tavern
Hmmmm
My university is offering me free alcohol and food. That might be hard to pass up. Crafty alumni association.
So I have a question for le room, might be better suited for another place, idk
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since our last SOMeetup was such a resounding success, we are doing another one tomorrow night.
However, this area is pretty techy even tho it doesn't seem to be (most likely true of everywhere, but this is where I happen to be)
Should I encourage the group to continue to meet under the auspices of SO/SEI, or should I encourage the group to come up with our own identity for our area?
Our state is looking to bring in real money to help encourage more tech in this area, both in the case of knowledge workers/IT pros, and in the case of things like FIOS etc.
So us having a core community of enthusiastic and veterate techheads and geeks would be a really good thing
being able to identify them as part of a worldwide phenomenon might be even better, or it might not
that could detract when it comes to decisions by the state, as they would view us as some arm of a larger group, and that we weren't really a dedicated community in the state
granted, you can't keep our type rooted just by willpower, and if we feel the need to migrate, we will (and do) so being part of a larger group just shows that we have like-minded brethren that might want to migrate here, especially if we show that this is a good place to be.
Microecons 101 - if the Australian government responds to a British tobacco export tax cut by raising taxes so that the prices stay even, what would be the change in revenue experienced by the tobacco companies, as per reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/hczwm/…
@YiJiang Does it say which taxes are raised? If the sales taxes are raised, the tobacco company makes off better since it only has to pay the export taxes. If there's some import tax then I'd suspect there's no difference.
The Law of Attraction is a metaphysical New Thought belief that "like attracts like", that positive and negative thinking bring about positive and negative physical results, respectively.
According to the Law of Attraction, the phrase "I need more money" allows the subject to continue to "need more money". If the subject wants to change this they would focus their thoughts on the goal (having more money) rather than the problem (needing more money). This might take the form of phrases such as "I have as much money as I need" or "I have a job that pays very well".
Interpretation
Skeptic...
I can't think "I need an aggregate function" I have to think "I already have all the functions I need".
@drachenstern Yes, and I'm aware of several ways of doing that, I'm just dragging my feet about it because the query I need to add it to is already a clusterf***.
I would rather ask you to spend time editing answers to be current (for things that are older than 18 months and that are now wrong - preferably by adding comments) or to edit questions to be more understandable.
or preferably, instead, to answer questions.
but flagging, that's just not something to be concerned about, other than "am I doing it right"
Argh, just clicked "flag for attention" by mistake when I was aiming for "show 30 more." Clearly, it's time to go ask an MSO question requesting that those links be moved farther apart from each other.
@Wes I wouldn't be surprised. People come to MSO with every conceivable request for UI tweaks and account settings and information options and whatnot.
(Which is actually what my original comment was alluding to.)
I just saw the question in screenshot 1 after clicking on the link in screenshot 2.
Note that the closure and vote count are mismatched. I did a hard refresh (Ctrl + F5) of both pages before taking the screenshots. The question is Please help me. I cant add topics.
I know a lot of caching ha...
@PopularDemand On Meta at least it normally takes about 30 seconds for the home page to reflect changes in the question, but it sounds like much more time than that had passed in your case.
> Flag these for moderator attention. These questions need to be reverted and locked. This is a total perversion of how a Q&A site works, and must be stopped outright. Repeat offenders should be dealt with by the mods as they see fit (Ideally this involves Ninjas, but suspensions work, too).
That was the unofficial but highest-voted answer to my question on the topic.
@Hogan Perhaps. I admit to being one of the people who wouldn't downvote many bad questions in the past because of the rep hit. Once I pass 10k I won't care as much, but that's still far away.