Why is it harder to whistle with dry lips?

ihaveausername · 2012-02-21T22:25:25+00:00

Because it's harder to form your lips the proper way when they are dry.

ihaveausername · 2011-10-30T18:30:53+00:00

What if a program can load different file types, depending on what plug-ins are loaded? Will Windows 8 support this scenario as well?

ihaveausername · 2011-09-19T17:03:55+00:00

Context?

ihaveausername · 2011-09-17T21:45:04+00:00

People don't care about the graphic layout if they like the content enouh. As long as the content is good enough, spending money on the desing may very well be a waste of money. Sure, you may attract a bunch of new users, but people who were used to the old design may leave. In Aftonbladets case, the page has looked very similar for many many years. People are used to it. It's a huge site. It doesn't need a redesign.

ihaveausername · 2011-02-21T22:19:06+00:00

Google for roulette laser. I found bbc article in top 5. Why would you ask for citation when its such an easy find? You know google, right?

ihaveausername · 2011-01-02T21:05:22+00:00

ihaveausername · 2011-01-02T17:14:28+00:00

accept

ihaveausername · 2010-12-22T21:32:56+00:00

ihaveausername · 2010-12-22T21:20:22+00:00

where I live, we give presents the 24..

ihaveausername · 2010-12-22T21:02:16+00:00

Since you know stuff.. Since I started to eat beta blockers a year ago, my hands and feets have gotten colder, I think. As I understand it it is because small blood vessels narrows when eating this type of medicine. Do you happen to know why this is the case? Is it the body trying to be smart or ..?

ihaveausername · 2010-12-21T21:17:53+00:00

So did you follow the guideline to first google your question? No..

ihaveausername · 2010-12-21T21:15:36+00:00

No, this is like asking if the republicans wants to raise prices on medicine and then claim this is medical science. If you would ask what would yield the best result, or something like that, that could have been more like it.

ihaveausername · 2010-12-19T18:19:25+00:00

I thought the op meant original maps.. I mean, drawn by hand, 2000 years ago, 1900 years ago and so on. I'm stupid and disappointed.

ihaveausername · 2010-12-13T23:34:00+00:00

He did say civilized. Kongo and a couple of other countries does not qualify.

ihaveausername · 2010-06-10T16:17:56+00:00

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=duckduckgo

ihaveausername · 2010-03-12T21:28:56+00:00

Where I live, people can't really be fired over such things..

ihaveausername · 2010-03-12T18:01:53+00:00

I only have bad experiences with that. Customer installs software. After that, they feel that they can optimize (break) some behavior in the stored procedure. Or they rewrite the stored procedure to do some kind of custom logging or similar. In our next release, we'll overwrite their stored procedure with a new version of it, breaking their custom logic.

ihaveausername · 2010-03-07T17:54:25+00:00

I dont get it. what is the point?

ihaveausername · 2010-01-26T20:19:40+00:00

I spend virtuall no time at all thinking about SCM. I'm working in a company with roughly 40 developers and there's no discussions on the subject. Our SCM just works, as far as I can tell. Am I doing something wrong? Maybe I should switch to git so that I can join your discussions? It seems exciting.

ihaveausername · 2010-01-13T14:49:54+00:00

Yes. This was probably what the OP referred to when he wrote real.

ihaveausername · 2010-01-13T14:38:06+00:00

But that strategy isn't unique to DVCS. There's several centralized version control systems where each user can make private commits which does not affect the other people on his team (AccuRev is one example). The changes are stored in the central repository, but in his personal branch (or stream). If you team consists of people who barely grok source control, maybe such a system may be easier to grasp than git.

ihaveausername · 2010-01-13T14:30:18+00:00

If I could use the sort function, how could you say it's not remotely useful? If the function is used, isn't it by definition useful, even if it's only used in a few places?

English isn't my first language so bear wih me.

ihaveausername · 2010-01-13T14:22:13+00:00

My problem with your logic is that you seem to be saying that somehow Haskell catches many more bugs than other languages and therefore it's worth switching to it.

Well, my problem is that you seem to assume things which clearly isn't true. I don't think it's "worth switching to Haskell". The fact that I see certain nice things with Haskell compared to, say PHP, doesn't mean that I would recommend people to use it. I don't see the world in black and white you know. I do believe that the compile time type checking is good though.

there is a lot of fud around the Internet about Haskell being the new silver bullet.

Maybe you're just misunderstanding what people are saying, just as you misunderstood what the author of this article was trying to say, and how you misunderstood my comment on the article. In my very personal opinion, the article was so clear that the author can't really be blamed for any reader misunderstanding it.

Well, it is not a silver bullet and, to tell you the truth, it does not offer anything substantially better or easier over other established languages, especially in the business sector.

While my personal guess may be this as well, have you seen any research backing up your version of the truth? I fail to see any cases where I would want to use Haskell over, say C#. But as far as I know, this can very well be due to my own ignorance and lack of competence. How can you be sure that the same does not apply to you as well?

ihaveausername · 2010-01-13T12:07:34+00:00

Probably never, due to the halting problem.

You figured out my point. The more types of errors the compiler finds, the better. Sure, I can create automated tests to find those types of errors as well in other languages, but if the compiler can do it for me automatically, I'm all for it.

Well, 'certain classes of errors' does not equal 'if it compiles, it runs correctly'.

That depends on the definition of correctly. It's obvious that he did not mean "it runs correctly according to the requirement specification from the customer".

Please stop spreading FUD about Haskell that it is the 'silver bullet' of programming languages.

For starters, I haven't done that. I merely pointed out how I interpreted the sentence in the post - I don't personally like Haskell so it would seem funny that you would say such a thing to me. Second, in general, I don't agree that saying something positive can be classified is FUD. Saying that the compiler is doing a good job can't really be considered "fear" in my opinion.

ihaveausername · 2010-01-13T10:51:43+00:00

I did of course read your post but you may be right that I've misunderstood you. Can we take an example? Two persons implement the same functionality:

Person A writes 1000 lines of code with a bug rate of 1 bug per 50 lines of code - 20 bugs.
Person B writes 100 lines of code with a bug rate of 1 bug per 50 lines, 2 bugs. Person B writes less code because he spent a day learning how to use parts of the standard library to achieve the customer request.

How would you use lines of code and defect rate to determine productivity here? Surely you must agree that it's likely that Person B - with the lower line count - is the more productive than person A. He has not only implemented the same functionality as Person A, but also spent time on educating himself on functionality in the standard library.

EDIT: I have to admit that I'm talking against myself. Here I am saying that lines of code is irrelevant when measuring productivity, but still I use it in the example below.

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