I totally agree that wanting to make money to provide a better life for yourself and family is very laudable. However, the article didn't mention the greatest creator of wealth in the world, which is compound interest and time. You don't have to do something big to have big money. Consistently saving over decades is how most people achieve financial security. For more than just security, the standard way to get rich is to start your own business. Even a small business, if it succeeds and lasts five years, should be a cash cow for life. The richest guy I know runs a single dog kennel, for example.
The kind of jack-ass feature that's been carefully kept by its creator despite a number of people doing exactly what you did and then complaining about it. I've honestly got no idea why.
You just have to hover it for the kudo counting. How many are from people that didn't even see the widget? Or people like me, that just read it, and discovered that I was interacting with it only after it counted my vote?
Anyway, it doesn't have any consequence. It's just some feelgood freature... Kind of stupid to have a counter that doesn't count anything real.
I like both, but Vim's modal nature and the consequently far fewer control combinations make it much faster for editing text. On the other hand, emacs' language-specific modes and built-in repl-in-the-editor support is awesome.
If only working with multiple files was easier... what are you guys using these days ?
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Also, one thing that shows how Vim is oriented towards opening and closing it all time is that preventing acidental quitting is quite hard to achieve (only with hacks..)
If you have two windows, :q closes the current window, and most people do that all the time, for removing buffers from the view. But if you only have one window and run that, with the intention of dumping the buffer or simply by mistake, your Vim is closed...
Boys need good women around them to become good men, and girls need good men around them to become good women.
We men should be policing ourselves. If you see this happening, step up and tell them it's not OK. Just stop them, it's that simple. This isn't a women's issue, it's a people issue.
About 90% right but rather than being divisive, as in forming or expressing division or distribution, you could just summarize it as "its a being civilized issue". As in you shouldn't act like a zoo primate, regardless of who is doing what to which gender, etc.
What those cons need is need is a bunch of moms and grannies not just young hotties (and no this is not blame the victim, keep reading) In that old women are a instinctual effective civilizing influence on young boys who are operating at a lower mental age for whatever reason. A stern glance from an old grannie is, oh, probably about 100x more effective at intimidating a jerk than a strongly worded article in Marie Claire. I'm sure that an entire nation of drunken childish frat boys is quaking in their boots knowing that Marie Claire magazine is not so happy with them. The presence of some father figures would help too, fathers of daughters of roughly the age of the harassed hotties tend to be kinda protective. I have no idea how a PR campaign "Take yer mom and grandpa to Defcon this year" would work.
Who would ever have guessed that it takes a cross section of all of society to act civilized, that some kinda weekend long lord of the flies re-enactment doesn't result in the revival of medieval chivalry or the revival of the womens lib movement or whatever.
No, I do not and never will. If other people want to, fine, but privacy concerns are entirely reasonable.
Comments posted to the internet are permanent like nothing else in history. It's like having your casual conversations recorded and then stored in an indestructible format accessible to anyone who cares to look for it, forever. Of all the thousands of strangers who see your posts, whether individuals, corporations, or governments, some are actively looking to exploit you. Please be aware of the increased vulnerability when you're in a vastly more public setting. You don't owe the world unfettered access. Boundaries and levels of access are a good thing.
I would recommend some MOOC's for a good, pressure-free re-introduction. Udacity has an algebra class. I assume it's really good. The Norvig course I took there was excellent. Also check out Coursera.
If your interest is math for programming, you want an introductory course or book on 'discrete mathematics', which should be enough math for you to take an algorithms and data structures class. That will position you to do some real programming.
Beware of trying to learn everything. For adults that is probably impossible due to time constraints. Standard subjects like trigonometry and calculus will have less utility for programming than discrete math.
Focus on algebra and discrete math. Then, if you want more, probability and statistics. That will give you the biggest bang for the buck.
This is what people have told me when I inquired about this in person.
Thanks for confirming it. And, of course, all of us already know about MOOCs, but knowing someone has taken a course there and it was good, is a decent indication for a beginner like myself.
Your advice also seems to get to the nitty-gritty -- to the point! So this is good! Thanks!
