Prosontod wothot commot:
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What the viewers care about is GitHub as company. "Should I invest in it?"
Well, I think they're trying to explain why GitHub is so valuable
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You don't even need that; since the piece is about GitHub, just say it's a website where lots of programmers work together on software.
Which means they prefer it for some damn reason. We don't know why, and we interviewed someone to try to understand why. But unfortunately the tech industry is very protected of their definitions, to the point where no one actually defines anything.
So we've decided to offer up the following definitions.
repository - the fun happy place.
forking - making a copy of the fun happy place.
pull request - uploading your own copy of the fun happy place, with any changes you made to the fun happy place, to see if the owner of the fun happy place you copied from, likes your changes and decides to change his fun happy place in the same way.
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Even true things, once aired on Fox News, are lies
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The pen is blue!
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Even true things, once aired on Fox News, are lies
Slightly relevant quote:
GP: Is Eris true?
M2: Everything is true.
GP: Even false things?
M2: Even false things are true.
GP: How can that be?
M2: I don't know man, I didn't do it.
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Like the Eiffel Tower!
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Reminds me of a joke by urbanus.
Preacher: God is everywhere
Young Urbanus: Even in our back yard?
Preacher: Yes Urbanus, even in your back yard.
Young Urbanus: We don't have a back yard.
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The conservative editorials must bother someone who imagines herself as a pink, lesbian, anthropomorphic hedgehog in a same-sex e-marriage.
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Amen
A serious young man found the conflicts of mid 20th Century America confusing. He went to many people seeking a way of resolving within himself the discords that troubled him, but he remained troubled.
One night in a coffee house, a self-ordained Zen Master said to him, "go to the dilapidated mansion you will find at this address which I have written down for you. Do not speak to those who live there; you must remain silent until the moon rises tomorrow night. Go to the large room on the right of the main hallway, sit in the lotus position on top of the rubble in the northeast corner, face the corner, and meditate."
He did just as the Zen Master instructed. His meditation was frequently interrupted by worries. He worried whether or not the rest of the plumbing fixtures would fall from the second floor bathroom to join the pipes and other trash he was sitting on. He worried how would he know when the moon rose on the next night. He worried about what the people who walked through the room said about him.His worrying and meditation were disturbed when, as if in a test of his faith, ordure fell from the second floor onto him. At that time two people walked into the room. The first asked the second who the man was sitting there was. The second replied "Some say he is a holy man. Others say he is a shithead."Hearing this, the man was enlightened.
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The conservative editorials
What about the non-conservative editorials? I still doubt she's witnessed many of either, which still shouldn't stop her from understanding English. Though she lives in the UK, and those guys sound pretty messed up, so maybe I'm assuming too much.
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Or you could go by the philosophy of Didactylos:
Things just happen, what the hell
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she lives in the UK, and those guys sound pretty messed up
Hey! We're not messed up, we're just eccentric!
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Or you could go by the philosophy of Didactylos:
I prefer the Vonnegut version:
So it goes.
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Good, but some may say it's still a bit too techy for laypeople. Certainly better than the Fox 'definitions', at any rate.
*reads again*
Code? The concept of copying shit? Modification? Contribution? Am I not allowed to use these words? Wut? Where?
I'm struggling to find where it's "too techy" for anyone who has a grasp of English language good enough to be able to watch anything more complicated than Teletubbies on TV.
Should I just replace it all with "It maeks monezzz guise!!!11!"?
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I'm struggling to find where it's "too techy" for anyone who has a grasp of English language good enough to be able to watch anything more complicated than Teletubbies on TV.
The problem is that the intern who wrote the definitions isn't a techie. We could all improve the definitions and keep them lay person friendly, but the marginal value in communicating this to a guy wondering about GitHub's market valuation is lower than blakey's appreciation of their service.
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naughty Noo Noo. SPANK
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but the marginal value in communicating this to a guy wondering about GitHub's market valuation is lower than blakey's appreciation of their service.
Genius. +
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but the marginal value in communicating this to a guy wondering about GitHub's market valuation is lower than blakey's appreciation of their service.
GitHub's service is taking a piece of shit broken crap program like Git and trying to make it slightly usable. I appreciate that a lot.
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Sure, ruin my jokes.
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Frell. Resolution is hideous. I refuse to put more work into this. Mostly because it would involve looking for a better Teletubbie image. I wouldn't do it at home, even less so right now since I'm in a train. Take it or leave it.
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Yessir.
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Should have made it a BSOD.
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That would be a non-sequitur and we don't allow those on this forum.
Except in
/t/1000
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thread. And... Damn it, I just logiced myself.
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Copied the code from the repository to their machine so they can edit it
Not necessarily...
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Depends on what you mean by wrong.
If you take the definitions as,
This tries to accomplish the same goals as a system that does this, then they're right.
Yeah, this kind of "that's not wrong!" usually leads to lengthy discussions in my classroom when it turns out that, yes, Physics, Chemistry and Biology do use some words in a slightly different manner than the laymen do.
The jury is still out, for example, on whether it's better to use the term "oxidation" when introducing reactions with oxygen or to save the term until we can define it as an electron transfer. Because in the former case, you'll usually have several pupils who are stuck on "oxidations need oxygen!"
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Though she lives in the UK, and those guys sound pretty messed up,
Seems like a reasonable inference to me...
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Because in the former case, you'll usually have several pupils who are stuck on "oxidations need oxygen!"
Science is always a process of re-specifying in favor of more detail or accuracy.
Students should learn that lesson early.
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That would be a non-sequitur and we don't allow those on this forum.
Except in
/t/1000
Why hasn't that thread been Terminated yet?
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Science is always a process of re-specifying in favor of more detail or accuracy.
Students should learn that lesson early.
This would fall under "re-defining" and not "adding to a definition". Defining terms which you already know that you'll have to redefine later on is not a good thing to do.
You can teach the scientific method in other ways which don't cost you hours and don't run into the problem that pupils may remember the wrong thing.
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The jury is still out, for example, on whether it's better to use the term "oxidation" when introducing reactions with oxygen or to save the term until we can define it as an electron transfer. Because in the former case, you'll usually have several pupils who are stuck on "oxidations need oxygen!"
I'd introduce it to them as the oxidation of oxygen by fluorine to produce OF2 ;)
You can teach the scientific method in other ways which don't cost you hours and don't run into the problem that pupils may remember the wrong thing.
Yeah -- besides, electron transfer redox is common enough that examples are trivial to come by.
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Yeah -- besides, electron transfer redox is common enough that examples are trivial to come by.
Well, we're talking about 7th grade chemistry here - that's the first grade over here where they're having "real" chemistry. At that point, you're usually fighting the battle for correct reaction equations (as in: the right number of atoms on both sides of the equation), so introducing electrons would be overkill.
7th grade - basic reactions
8th grade - atomic model with electrons and stuff (Bohr only, though)
9th grade then sees the introduction of "real" redox.
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I'd introduce it to them as the oxidation of oxygen by fluorine to produce OF2
That sounds like some Thing I Wouldn't Work WIth.
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I agree with @boomzilla. Nerds always be like “Uh, actually, you're not drinking a cup, you're drinking the coffee that's in the cup. Big difference.”
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I agree with @boomzilla. Pedantic dickweeds always be like “Uh, actually, you're not drinking a cup, you're drinking the coffee that's in the cup. Big difference.”
FTFY
The even more pedantically inclined will point out that a cup is both a unit of measure and a unit of ceramics.
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Not to mention it's a unit-protection.
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Fox 'News'
You know, I wasn't going to say anything, but you kept repeating this, and it's a dumbshit thing to say, and it makes you sound stupid.
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. The media has always had trouble understanding technology
Anyone else remember that scene in The Net where they broke a Macintosh so Sandra Bullock could put a floppy in backwards?
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You know, I wasn't going to say anything, but you kept repeating this, and it's a dumbshit thing to say, and it makes you sound stupid.
'Fox' News?
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techie
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They say it's fox news, but I don't see any foxes! Where is the news about foxes?
Filed under: in an alternate unverse, there is a television network for news about the alphabet
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Nerds always be like “Uh, actually, you're not drinking a cup, you're drinking the coffee that's in the cup. Big difference.”
What if I was actually drinking the cup, though? (Molten ceramics or whatever is needed to make that work?)