> If it's serious, like assault, you're out. i've seen some examples that suggest it might not be as cut-and-dry as that. i don't have the url handy, but some time ago someone in one of this discussions linked to a…
i guess the new digg is the old reddit....
i went to academic summer camps basically from sixth grade on (Duke TIP-affiliated stuff), and one year i took chemistry class. one of the three weeks was "uncontrolled oxidation" week. lots of fun. :) the biggest…
ethanol burns relatively cool (as do (some of?) the other alcohols). the problem is that it often burns above the ignition point of its carrier substance, which itself burns much hotter. e.g. calcium acetate/isopropyl…
"Users may be experiencing issues" is not the passive voice (not that you explicitly said it was, but IMAO you implied it), it's the continuous aspect, modified by whatever an auxiliary like "may" does. (this is where…
you ever see American Graffiti? one thing that really stuck with me was the bit at the end where they're boarding a plane--it was just walk out onto the runway, present your ticket and walk up the stairs. to do that…
ever work on a non-gnu box? (old solaris, *bsd, stock os x, etc.) there's a decent chance they don't have -r at all.
this is traditional: they almost always undershoot the over-expectations
a few years ago i moved into an apartment in NYC that somehow didn't have a phone line. at all. like there wasn't a wall jack in the entire apartment. (it was a hundred-year-old building, i have no idea how this was…
> What exactly is the "violence" that Austin would do to competitors? To paraphrase P.J. O'Rourke: If you run your own cable, you'll need a permit. If you do it by negotiating with the landowners without a permit,…
it's old printers' stuff to do with physical properties of lead type, i think. as to why it won't go away, i have no idea. i happily ignore it in almost all my writing....
no, just illiterate. the original author and the commenters here all made allowances for non-native speakers of english, which apparently you couldn't be bothered to read....
> For example if you have a zero tolerance policy for it's vs its, or for commas making things confusing, the framers of the US Constitution would fail the test. that's a question of knowing something about history.…
they have their place. i saw a lovely translation recently of a french request to "tutoyer" (address in the familiar) as "i must be thee to thou".
There's an Allan Sherman song ("When I Was a Lad") where one of the rhymes depends on who/whom: I learned who was going out with whom And who had the keys to the powder room
relatedly, there's a little-used rule that lets you use a semi-colon as your list separator if the individual elements contain commas: "My favorite law firms are Dewey, Cheatem & Howe; Robinall, Widowes, &…
is it clear that there were any such standards?
proofreading to match a style guide is completely different from grammar. learn the difference between grammar and style....
note that you can't actually make them work, no matter what the contract says (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_performance). (you can sue them for compensation though.)
> Who would have thought that Obama would bring back the Espionage Act? liberals politicians increase police power, conservative politicians increase social spending. their bases let them get away with it because…
> For people who want to have real friendships as adults, maybe what we need is some kind of structure in our lives that more closely resembles what people have earlier in life. If you're willing to dedicate time to…
sounds like asker/guesser striking again (<http://ask.metafilter.com/55153/Whats-the-middle-ground-betw...). i've had a job implode, and endless relationship friction, because i'm an asker all the way (as i expect…
Home sewing is killing fashion! http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Homesewin...
one of the things someone pointed out to me most of a decade ago is that more and more things are becoming algorithmic--or perhaps we should say, being revealed as being algorithmic. take some classic physical patent…
note that both "car" and "computer" were patented at the concept level (both causing huge messes, incidentally). of course, those patents expired long before the relevance of the concepts....
> If it's serious, like assault, you're out. i've seen some examples that suggest it might not be as cut-and-dry as that. i don't have the url handy, but some time ago someone in one of this discussions linked to a…
i guess the new digg is the old reddit....
i went to academic summer camps basically from sixth grade on (Duke TIP-affiliated stuff), and one year i took chemistry class. one of the three weeks was "uncontrolled oxidation" week. lots of fun. :) the biggest…
ethanol burns relatively cool (as do (some of?) the other alcohols). the problem is that it often burns above the ignition point of its carrier substance, which itself burns much hotter. e.g. calcium acetate/isopropyl…
"Users may be experiencing issues" is not the passive voice (not that you explicitly said it was, but IMAO you implied it), it's the continuous aspect, modified by whatever an auxiliary like "may" does. (this is where…
you ever see American Graffiti? one thing that really stuck with me was the bit at the end where they're boarding a plane--it was just walk out onto the runway, present your ticket and walk up the stairs. to do that…
ever work on a non-gnu box? (old solaris, *bsd, stock os x, etc.) there's a decent chance they don't have -r at all.
this is traditional: they almost always undershoot the over-expectations
a few years ago i moved into an apartment in NYC that somehow didn't have a phone line. at all. like there wasn't a wall jack in the entire apartment. (it was a hundred-year-old building, i have no idea how this was…
> What exactly is the "violence" that Austin would do to competitors? To paraphrase P.J. O'Rourke: If you run your own cable, you'll need a permit. If you do it by negotiating with the landowners without a permit,…
it's old printers' stuff to do with physical properties of lead type, i think. as to why it won't go away, i have no idea. i happily ignore it in almost all my writing....
no, just illiterate. the original author and the commenters here all made allowances for non-native speakers of english, which apparently you couldn't be bothered to read....
> For example if you have a zero tolerance policy for it's vs its, or for commas making things confusing, the framers of the US Constitution would fail the test. that's a question of knowing something about history.…
they have their place. i saw a lovely translation recently of a french request to "tutoyer" (address in the familiar) as "i must be thee to thou".
There's an Allan Sherman song ("When I Was a Lad") where one of the rhymes depends on who/whom: I learned who was going out with whom And who had the keys to the powder room
relatedly, there's a little-used rule that lets you use a semi-colon as your list separator if the individual elements contain commas: "My favorite law firms are Dewey, Cheatem & Howe; Robinall, Widowes, &…
is it clear that there were any such standards?
proofreading to match a style guide is completely different from grammar. learn the difference between grammar and style....
note that you can't actually make them work, no matter what the contract says (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_performance). (you can sue them for compensation though.)
> Who would have thought that Obama would bring back the Espionage Act? liberals politicians increase police power, conservative politicians increase social spending. their bases let them get away with it because…
> For people who want to have real friendships as adults, maybe what we need is some kind of structure in our lives that more closely resembles what people have earlier in life. If you're willing to dedicate time to…
sounds like asker/guesser striking again (<http://ask.metafilter.com/55153/Whats-the-middle-ground-betw...). i've had a job implode, and endless relationship friction, because i'm an asker all the way (as i expect…
Home sewing is killing fashion! http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Homesewin...
one of the things someone pointed out to me most of a decade ago is that more and more things are becoming algorithmic--or perhaps we should say, being revealed as being algorithmic. take some classic physical patent…
note that both "car" and "computer" were patented at the concept level (both causing huge messes, incidentally). of course, those patents expired long before the relevance of the concepts....