“You can laugh, but I mean it!”I inadvertently ended up with a political mission of my own at Woodstock. For a while, I was hanging around the Press Tent, which later turned into the Hospital For Bad Trips. A reporter from the New York Daily News asked me, “How do you spell ...
2 years ago I launched my first Python course for the student that was in the same spot as I was… I made if for those of us that are struggling to learn Python.Struggling to make a damn matplotlib plot. Stuggling to do a regression. And stuck (because we’re not coders, we are...
The last line has five syllables To get started, think about what you want to say. Maybe you want to write about a mosquito or a frog. Jot down words that describe it. What observation do you want to share? Refer to your fly-watching notes for ideas. Now put it together in your li...
The language is backwards. Force the VBers to learn C# . . . It will do them good! And maybe my workload might lighten up! Clinton Gallagher January 8, 2006 Who can dispute the mastery of web development demands a mastery of client-side development as well as server-side development...
Need to search or replace with text that includes line breaks? You can do that in NoteTab! Or how about searching with easy-to-usewildcards? With NoteTab you can. For example, type “not*” and you’ll find all the words that start with those three letters. Like “not”, “notes”...
It was perfect--a traditional shout of spontaneous joy which had just the right attitude for a media myth. I worked my way backwards. Yippie could be derived naturally from the initials YIP. Then, for what words could YIP become an appropriate acronym? Youth --this was essentially a movemen...
informal bulletins to your friends—fine. no one cares how you spell your text messages, any more than they care how you spell your grocery lists or party invitations. deciphering a few misspelled words in a tweet isn't too burdensome; we'll do it for a bud. and if we can't, who ...
To further explain why the Chinese writing system is so hard in this respect, it might be a good idea to spell out (no pun intended) why that of English is so easy. Imagine the kind of task faced by the average Chinese adult who decides to study English. What skills are needed to ...
During the 1960’s and 1970’s there was a growing awareness amongst political, cultural, business and scientific leaders around the globe that the spread of nuclear weapons and our excessive exploitation of the earth’s precious resources might spell the end of humanity as we know it. A...
Backwards compatibility. The deliberate changes are the worst. It seems that new minor revision of PHP breaks existing code. There’s a change in the return of builtin function, or a change in the flags that it can accept. Why break BC? Why?! I’d understand if it the break came with...