> "C is a particularly good language for it" A particularly good language for writing bad code? Quite the euphemism.
"Censorship is quietly deciding which games you can buy" What an asinine sentence.
"My brain seems to naturally work in cause->effect order" You must be Jesus. Most brains observe events first and use that information to reason about their causes.
"I think many speakers would still start with "He was hit by a ball", not "A ball hit him." We're not interested in assigning agency to the ball here, we're interested in the effects on the boy." And you don't favor the…
"The main technique is keeping things simple." Orwell also knew to avoid clichés, and lo, he made a much stronger argument for simplicity in his essays. "Keep it simple" means nothing by itself and Adams does not…
I'm sure that's also an option but I'm looking at their website right now and it says I can own this warmed-over text editor outright for 179$. What a bargain.
"Pay less attention, otherwise you might become apathetic." Granted, mass media is generally slop (this article being no exception), but that's all the more reason one should observe and think carefully.
Doesn't that seem a bit too complacent? Personally I've always thought the opposite - malcontents have more to gain and less to lose by criticizing or opposing the status quo.
Excuse my ignorance, but what exactly are these stupid checkboxes supposed to accomplish? Surely they do not represent a serious obstacle.
> "C is a particularly good language for it" A particularly good language for writing bad code? Quite the euphemism.
"Censorship is quietly deciding which games you can buy" What an asinine sentence.
"My brain seems to naturally work in cause->effect order" You must be Jesus. Most brains observe events first and use that information to reason about their causes.
"I think many speakers would still start with "He was hit by a ball", not "A ball hit him." We're not interested in assigning agency to the ball here, we're interested in the effects on the boy." And you don't favor the…
"The main technique is keeping things simple." Orwell also knew to avoid clichés, and lo, he made a much stronger argument for simplicity in his essays. "Keep it simple" means nothing by itself and Adams does not…
I'm sure that's also an option but I'm looking at their website right now and it says I can own this warmed-over text editor outright for 179$. What a bargain.
"Pay less attention, otherwise you might become apathetic." Granted, mass media is generally slop (this article being no exception), but that's all the more reason one should observe and think carefully.
Doesn't that seem a bit too complacent? Personally I've always thought the opposite - malcontents have more to gain and less to lose by criticizing or opposing the status quo.
Excuse my ignorance, but what exactly are these stupid checkboxes supposed to accomplish? Surely they do not represent a serious obstacle.