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| da5f20a | Managers of programming projects aren't always aware that certain programming issues are matters of religion. If you're a manager and you try to require compliance with certain programming practices, you're inviting your programmers' ire. Here's a list of religious issues: # Programming language # Indentation style # Placing of braces # Choice of IDE # Commenting style # Efficiency vs. readability tradeoffs # Choice of methodology--for exam.. | software-development | Steve McConnell | |
| d119d1c | People who are effective at developing high-quality software have spent years accumulating dozens of techniques, tricks, and magic incantations. The techniques are not rules; they are analytical tools. | Steve McConnell | ||
| 411c32e | Hopefulness is risky, since it is after all a form of trust, trust in the unknown and the possible, even in discontinuity. To be hopeful is to take on a different persona, one that risks disappointment, betrayal... | hope politics | Rebecca Solnit | |
| bd5fa44 | Language, loose language, vague language becomes an out. Things happen. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 7ed9030 | The few cures we have recorded could be multiplied many times over, many of them experienced by people who had failed to find relief through conventional medical treatment. If a story from Scotland is to be believed, the success of one holy well, St. Drostan's at Newdosk (Angus), was so distasteful to the local doctors that they decided to poison the well. When the people heard of their intention, they banded together to attack and kill the.. | doctors holy-well poison well | Colin Bord | |
| 97bbafc | A young woman stepped in front of the dais and cleared her throat. She had reddish-brown hair that hung in loose waves down her back. Her figure was slender and regal, and Ian could have easily drowned in her emerald eyes. But what captured his attention the most was the way the lass carried herself--confident, yet seemingly unaware of her true beauty. She wore a black gown with hanging sleeves, and the embroidered petticoat under her skirt.. | Victoria Roberts | ||
| 9847512 | It is not at all coincidental that Darwinian psychology has the same difficulty explaining the unity and integration of human reasoning as Darwinian biology has explaining the unity and integration of irreducibly complex functions. Practical and theoretical reasoning is often irreducibly complex. A given argument has several well-matched, interacting reasons, and the removal of any one of them makes the argument break down. | philosophy psychology | Angus Menuge | |
| 40db674 | Drawing from 1.7 million Gallup surveys collected between 2008 and 2012, researchers Angus Deaton and Arthur Stone found that parents with children at home age fifteen or younger experience more highs, as well as more lows, than those without children... And when researchers bother to ask questions of a more existential nature, they find that parents report greater feelings of meaning and reward -- which to many parents is what the entire s.. | parenthood parenting reward rewarding | Jennifer Senior | |
| e379dfe | Well he'll not get her, will he?" Angus exclaimed. "He's just some little pond sprite. He can't do anything out of the water, right? He's powerless. I'll get her out of here! We'll go in to Glasgow or..." Ian sighed. "Come on, Angus. It's not as simple as all that. This is an Elemental you're dealing with. You'd have to take her to the center of the freaking Sahara to get away from him, and even then he'd probably make it rain. He's in eve.. | elliot-mabeuse ian mr-watersprite the-croft | Elliot Mabeuse | |
| dfafd82 | Son of a bitch! I own your place! I'm your host. Is this how you repay me? By stealing my woman?" The spirit stopped and turned. "No one owns me," he said. "I go where I will." "Yeah well I'll fill in your fucking pond and build a goddamned parking lot! How would you like that? Huh? I'll build condos. I'll tear up the whole damned forest and pave it over!" The spirit stopped and regarded him. Angus swept the rain from his face as he wai.. | elliot-mabeuse mr-watersprite the-croft | Elliot Mabeuse | |
| ba5ab5b | No, I'm talking about the aliens inside our own heads. The ones we made up, the ones we've been making up since we realized those glittering lights in the sky were suns like ours and probably had planets like ours spinning around them. You know, the aliens we imagine, the kind of aliens we'd like to attack us, human aliens. You've seen them a million times. They swoop down from the sky in their flying saucers to level New York and Tokyo and.. | Rick Yancey | ||
| 04a8e38 | Rebel [Verse 1] I don't give a fuck my brudda, I never have I'm straight from the gutter my brudda, we never had We living on a budget - holes in the rooftop Room full of buckets, it's getting bad Things could be worse I suppose, school trips, school kids Cursing my clothes, is it the same in every house When the curtains are closed? (daydreamin') I'm in a world of my own (I ain't leavin') It must be because I hate my reality That's why I'm.. | Ghetts | ||
| cd133db | Former member of CSICOP Marcello Truzzi summed up the history of laboratory parapsychology: As proponents of anomalies produce stronger evidence, critics have sometimes moved the goal posts further away. . . . To convince scientists of what had merely been supported by widespread but weak anecdotal evidence, parapsychologists moved psychical research into the laboratory. When experimental results were presented, designs were criticized. Whe.. | Christopher David Carter | ||
| 15af009 | The long year passed slowly. Then one day, as October winds blew golden leaves around the farm, Autumn heard his mother say that even though her son was gone she would bake a pumpkin pie for Halloween. And of course she would need a pumpkin. At last an idea came to Autumn. If he could just get his mother to the barn and up to the loft she would find the magic pumpkin. Autumn began to pull at his mother's apron. "What's wrong with you today?.. | David Ray | ||
| 3950336 | The part of the light spectrum that is visible to us is less than a ten-trillionth of it. The rest of the spectrum--carrying TV shows, radio signals, microwaves, X-rays, gamma rays, cell phone conversations, and so on--flows through us with no awareness on our part. | David Eagleman | ||
| b3e2216 | Usama bin Laden has died a peaceful death due to an untreated lung complication, the Pakistan Observer reported, citing a Taliban leader who allegedly attended the funeral of the Al Qaeda leader...Bin laden, according to the source, was suffering from a serious lung complication and succumbed to the disease in mid-December, in the vicinity of the Tora Bora mountains. | David Ray Griffin | ||
| eaf7c4e | 10. Both the North Tower and the South Tower collapsed just as their respective fires were dying down, even though this meant that the South Tower, which had been hit second, collapsed first. | 9-11-conspiracy-theories | David Ray Griffin | |
| 47c03c3 | My prickles or smoothness are as much a quality of your hand as of myself. I cannot tell you what I am, more than a ray of the summer's sun. What I am I am, and say not. Being is the great explainer. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| b0733e1 | Obama's father had studied in a missionary school and was working as a clerk in Nairobi. He was encouraged to come to America for further study by two missionary women, Helen Roberts and Elizabeth Mooney, who were living at the time in Kenya. In Obama's Selma narrative, this was made possible by the Kennedy family. "What happened in Selma, Alabama, and Birmingham also, stirred the conscience of the nation. It worried folks in the White Hous.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| eb8b081 | The illiberal left does not share this commitment. Their burgeoning philosophy in favor of government power to curtail freedom of thought, speech, and conscience is troubling. Environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.--a graduate of one of the nation's most elite law schools, the University of Virginia--said in a September 2014 interview of those who deny climate change, "I wish that there were a law you could punish them under."36 Accusing th.. | Kirsten Powers | ||
| affe24a | The self is...a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist. This unfinished work of becoming ends only when you do, if then, and the consequences live on. | self-realization | Rebecca Solnit | |
| 3747bed | Whose maps are we trying to read? And what are we trying to draw? It's so common to live in a place without truly knowing its history, its systems, and the people who are different from you and who move through different versions of the city. | community history maps | Rebecca Solnit | |
| 0f5112f | Americans have swapped the awkward phrase "same-sex marriage" for the term "marriage equality." The phrase is ordinarily employed to mean that same-sex couples will have the rights different-sexed couples do. But it could also mean that marriage is between equals. That's not what traditional marriage was." | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 2dac612 | Heartbreak is a little like falling in love, in the way it charges everything with a kind of incandescence, as though the beloved has stepped away and your gaze now rests with all the same intensity on all the items of the view that close-up person blocked. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 36049ff | We treat desire as a problem to be solved, address what desire is for and focus on that something and how to acquire it rather than on the nature and the sensation of desire, though often it is the distance between us and the object of desire that fills the space in between with the blue of longing. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 93d0099 | A Presbyterian pastor who had performed a number of such marriages told me, "I remember coming to this realization when I was meeting with same-sex couples before performing their ceremonies when it was legal in California. The old patriarchal default settings did not apply in their relationships, and it was a glorious thing to witness." | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| b0fcbf6 | I've often wondered what alliances and affinities might arise without those badges of right and left. For example, the recent American militia movements were patriarchal, nostalgic, nationalist, gun-happy, and full of weird fantasies about the UN, but they had something in common with us: they prized the local and feared its erasure by the transnational. The guys drilling with guns might've been too weird to be our allies, but they were jus.. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 2e7f3c2 | Paint in several colors was squeezed out of tubes and mixed and applied to woven fabric stretched on a wooden frame so artfully we say we see a woman hanging out a sheet rather than oil on canvas. Ana Teresa Fernandez's image on that canvas is six feet tall, five feet wide, the figure almost life-size. Though it is untitled, the series it's in has a title: Telarana. Spiderweb. The spiderweb of gender and history in which the painted woman i.. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| e13fb25 | Reading is also traveling, with the eyes along the length of an idea, which can be folded up into the compressed space of a book and unfolded within your imagination and your understanding. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| d2f1b5d | A city is built to resemble a conscious mind, a network that can calculate, administrate, manufacture. Ruins become the unconscious of a city, it's memory, unknown, darkness, lost lands, and in this truly bring it to life | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 410310b | It wasn't surprising and it wasn't quite real. I kept thinking it was a bizarre mistake or a made-up story, until I called her mother, who told me how beautifully made up Marine's corpse was and urged me to see her at the funeral chapel. This with her cigarettes still in my ashtray, her hair still in my brush, her clothes still in my car, her voice still in my ears, so soon after we'd been looking at ourselves together in my mirror and she .. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 2a4dc74 | Alas, many of these long-distance writers are not fascinating thinkers, and it's a dubious premise that someone who would be dull to walk round the corner with must be fascinating for a six-month trek. To hear about walking from people whose only claim on our attention is to have walked far is like getting one's advice on food from people whose only credentials come from winning pie-eating contests. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| c537748 | In the wildlife sanctuaries of literature, we study the species of speech, the flight patterns of individual words, the herd behavior of words together, and we learn what language does and why it matters. this is excellent training for going out into the world and looking at all the unhallowed speech of political statements and news headlines and CDC instructions and seeing how it makes the word or in this case, makes a mess of it. It is th.. | literature | Rebecca Solnit | |
| c6789b3 | One more thing about Cassandra: in the most famous version of the myth, the disbelief with which her prophecies were met was the result of a curse placed on her by Apollo when she refused to have sex with the god. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 598cf1e | On January 18, 1915, six months into the First World War, as all Europe was convulsed by killing and dying, Virginia Woolf wrote in her journal, 'The future is dark, which is on the whole, the best thing the future can be, I think.' Dark, she seems to be saying, as in inscrutable, not as in terrible. We often mistake the one for the other. Or we transform the future's unknowability into something certain, the fulfillment of all our dread, t.. | future unknowability | Rebecca Solnit | |
| 475f939 | For mothers, some mothers, my mother, daughters are division and sons are multiplication; the former reduce them, fracture them, take from them, the latter augment and enhance. My mother, who would light up at the thought that my brothers were handsome, rankled at the idea that I might be nice-looking. The queen's envy of Snow White is deadly. It's based on the desire to be the most beautiful of all, and it raises the question of whose admi.. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 9af2c5e | If the body is the register of the real, then reading with one's feet is real in a way reading with one's eyes alone is not. | travel walking words | Rebecca Solnit | |
| a091e5a | What's blocking action on climate change is what's blocking action on all the other issues that matter: it would cut into profits. Never mind the deep future, not when what's at stake is quarterly earnings. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| ca842d1 | Cause-and-effect assumes history marches forward, but history is not an army. It is a crab scuttling sideways, a drip of soft water wearing away stone, an earthquake breaking centuries of tension. Sometimes | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 3bb34aa | I]t's become standard practice to erect a miniature police state around any globalization summit, and these rights free zones seem to prefigure what corporate globalization promises. | rights-free-zones | Rebecca Solnit | |
| 24ff980 | Certain kinds of beauty make people weep, the moments "when hope and history rhyme," | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 878df04 | The word for teardrinkers is lachryphagous, and for the eaters of human flesh it is anthropophagous, and the rest of us feed on sorrow all the time. It is the essence of many of the most beautiful ballads and pop songs, and why sorrow and heartbreak are so delicious might have to do with the emotions it stirs in us, the empathy for others' suffering, and the small comfort of not being alone with our own. With a sad song we feel a delicate g.. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 1e721e9 | explaining men still assume I am, in some sort of obscene impregnation metaphor, an empty vessel to be filled with their wisdom and knowledge. | mansplaining metaphor | Rebecca Solnit | |
| c76b899 | This is what is behind the special relationship between tale and travel, and, perhaps, the reason why narrative writing is so closely bound up with walking. To write is to carve a new path through the terrain of the imagination, or to point out new features on a familiar route. To read is to travel through that terrain that the author as guide - a guide one may not always agree with our trust, but who can at least be counted upon to take on.. | traveling walking writing | Rebecca Solnit |