Anarchism for Fun and Profit

jprichardson · 2012-05-27T19:08:35.479000+00:00

Presumably the same way the North Koreans do.

jprichardson · 2012-05-27T14:39:26.086669+00:00

You're free to make a fool of yourself by using the term anarchism, and we are free to mock you in the same way that we'd mock the various People's Democratic Republics of the world.

jprichardson · 2012-05-27T13:58:30.914844+00:00

The compulsory education system is designed to produce these psychological results: http://www.newciv.org/whole/schoolteacher.txt

Good people wait for an expert to tell them what to do. It is hardly an exaggeration to say that our entire economy depends upon this lesson being learned.

The first time I read this essay and grasped its truth, I was angry for days.

Kicker774 · 2012-05-26T23:55:33.481873+00:00

Could be a grove of ash trees :( but you have a good point.

Kbeamski · 1 day

Seems like a great way to make the point that people shouldn't run or take seriously online polls.

thedoorstop · 1 day

That's a good find. Does German use a masculine pronoun to describe organisms that do not have a sex, or does it really use a neuter one?

The most correct English pronoun for Emrakul is clearly "it," but if we're going to pick a gender anyway, it seems like "she" is the one more supported by lore.

trodney · 1 day

Seems like you could write a very short program (or have one written) to generate packs from a card list.

thedoorstop · 1 day

The whole point of the Zendikar block was the discovery that the ancient gods were actually Eldrazi titans.

thedoorstop · 1 day

Because that's what the people on Zendikar called her. http://www.wizards.com/Magic/TCG/Article.aspx?x=mtg/tcg/riseoftheeldrazi/flavor3

Loosely corresponding to Emeria, the wind goddess of the merfolk, Emrakul is the largest and most fearsome of the Eldrazi.

thedoorstop · 1 day

Emrakul is a she or an it, definitely not a he. :)

dickeytk · 2 days

If you read Chris Date's recent books, he denies that this is the case. It was a dogma adopted by database educators that was never really examined thoroughly. An array is just as legitimate of a data type as a string is.

You're correct that using an array to store multiple values of a domain is problematic, but array columns actually contain a single value of array type. Often your application isn't looking to use an array type, but sometimes it is.

The new thinking among the relational database practitioners is that every relation is trivially in first normal form.

ArchmageJesus · 4 days

after they leave in 1-3 years.

I see what you did there.

Sindja · 4 days

It seems to me that the layperson's perception of philosophy is uncomfortably close to Richard Rorty's ideas about it...

Sindja · 4 days

Great news! Now, is anyone in the area hiring someone who will work primarily with any of these?

PostgreSQL
Python
Clojure
iOS development

?

Caveat: has to be better than my current JavaScript/Java job, which is pretty good but is looking to be a dead-end career-wise.

policscimajor · 4 days

People voting in Democratic primaries at all this year are more likely to be casting a vote against the president.

Sindja · 4 days

My advice is to learn SQL and Excel very well. A lot of non-programmer jobs (usually entitled Database Analyst or Business Analyst) are actually very technical if done right. You will also probably avoid most of the "5+ year Java experience" snobs. (I hate those postings because they always hire the guy with the same year of "experience" five times, instead of someone like you.)

mcandre · 4 days

The common response at this point is to point out all of the popular de facto single-implementation languages out there, like Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, Objective-C, and C#. Ports or reimplementations of these languages are generally measured against the original implementation rather than some language standard.

Choosing a single Scheme implementation is donning a pair of golden handcuffs, but so is choosing one of those other languages.

metl_lord · 4 days

Smalltalk and to a lesser extent Lisp people always brag about doing this stuff.

NeilyG · 4 days

Also they're usually kind of a house in drafts...

GhostofEnlil · 5 days

Just have her play a good Turbofog deck once against basically anything that relies on creature damage. Board state? Who cares?

GhostofEnlil · 5 days

I wouldn't deliberately play badly.

tinyj316 · 5 days

Surely tokens wasn't played at the pro tour only because Intangible Virtue and Lingering Souls were banned?

PokemasterTT · 5 days

Could be a new version of Graft not limited to +1/+1 counters in the Return to Ravnica block...

GhostofEnlil · 5 days

I get annoyed when I'm playing against someone who plays aggressive counter, mass removal, or mill, but that's because I prefer to play casually and aggressive players/decks are missing the point of casual play.

That doesn't seem fair to players who like those kinds of decks. If it's a friendly game, why not ask them "please don't play that deck" once in a while, and also accommodate them when they ask you not to play your favorite deck?

GhostofEnlil · 5 days

I get annoyed when I'm playing against someone who plays aggressive counter, mass removal, or mill, but that's because I prefer to play casually and aggressive players/decks are missing the point of casual play.

That doesn't really seem fair to the people who play those decks for fun. What's "casual" play can vary from person to person. If it's a friendly game, shouldn't you just be able to ask them "please don't play that deck" once in a while, and also accommodate them when they ask you not to play whatever deck you're favoring?

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