I had a similar situation while working at a hostel.
A couple walked into my hostel and they were both just beaming these beautiful smiles. They were the kind of people who are just so happy to be on vacation it makes me happy to tell them all of the crazy shit they can enjoy in the city. I stood up and beamed a smile back to them asking them if they were there to check in or if they needed a reservation. They looked at each other, then me, and started to sign.
I panic'd... My mother was friends with a guy who lived in a retirement home because a grenade had taken his eyes in world war two and I often spent time with him and became acquainted with the blind and the nuance of interacting such that we could both make sure we were completely understood, but there have been very few interactions in my life with deaf people and so at this moment in the hostel I was simply unprepared.
The couple saw my panic and laughed and the guy signed using his finger a as a pencil and his other palm as a notebook.
No shit! Write it down. I got us some paper and everything was smooth from there. I got them a room, a deal, and told them where the best place to catch some romance in the city was.
The writer's reaction and feelings toward the interaction mirrored my own quite well. I can believe it, but if it is a fiction, at least it is an accurate one.
I use Firefox for the reasons stated in the article.
What I want to know is why do I still see errors on specific websites that say I need Chrome to view this page.
I think Mozilla matters, but are they interested in keeping pace on what matters to their users: the best usability; or are they more interested in this blog's bullet points?
If only the latter, then I say I support your efforts and hope you continue the good work, but I should start looking for a web browser that is trying to be that.
I think a problem here is the release of 'weekend projects'. Someone is trying to boast their speed and efficiency when they build something for themselves, and then claim that projects are impossibly difficult when asked how much they would charge for their work.
That being said, I think this guys request and offer are both ridiculous. Maybe someone who likes the general idea, contacts him and explains that they could rough out a shitty version to test the idea and hopefully pull some seed money to hire some real crunchers at a true wage to flesh it out completely.
That 'weekend project' took you much longer than a weekend. It took years of research and study. A lifetime of perspective building experience. A performance of Beethoven's 9th lasts 45 minutes. Do you think he released it saying 'this sound took me less than an hour to create!'.
Let's avoid mocking the ignorance of others when our own nonsensical boasting is what is causing these people's misunderstanding.
Perhaps it is his ridiculous tone of a hyperbolic Call To Arms, but can someone help me weed through this nonsense?
So he's saying we need to create and use for ourselves more powerful encryption schemes to protect us from powers that be?
Wikileaks is all about breaking information out from behind those walls that the powers themselves puts up to protect themselves.
So create systems to protect ourselves from people like ourselves? It's nonsense. I thought Assange's old call to arms was much more on point with the inevitable future: transparency.
Has he changed his mind? Does he now agree with his old enemies?
I always thought the old adage of 'Failing to Beat 'em so Let's Join 'em' was a sign of weakness?
Employees able to talk reluctant employers into deserved yet withheld pay raises are reluctant to expose that success because others will in turn attempt the same.
With a flood of employees seeking a pay raise similar to the first is feared to cause the employer to develop resentment and distrust to the employee who first received the raise.
Thus employees keep their salaries secret from each other. Fearing it could be higher than a colleague.
I agree, hiding pay is a means of keeping the salaries down. Very far down.
This is great. These frameworks usually have a .css and a .min.css file.
I would love to see one that has a .verbose.css where all possible attributes or properties are listed and commented out in the brackets for that element.
As a reference or resource to grab a chunk from for your own .css file.
It is my belief that Ulysses is the one true novel.
All other novels are attempts to achieve what Joyce accomplished. A sort of Platonic Ideal.
My reasoning is the evidence, meaning the reason it is the one true novel is because I believe a novel is: the act of attempting to fully represent an individual's experience; If you disagree with my definition of novelisation, that's fine, but it is how I classify novels, and in so much Joyce achieves the nearest perfection of this through the novels seeming opaque or random nature.
One's experience is a cloud of infinite affects and effects that one could attempt to catalogue, but would fail miserably. Here is exactly what Joyce achieved. Through Ulysses' failures it achieves perfection. Like Dali's belief that all things are latent with hidden meanings, or how if you hate Warhol because you think his work is crap then you should recognise that you actually love his work because his message was to show you that all mass manufacture is simply the production of crap.
It is more than What?, it is Why?.
Finnegan's Wake is an even a better example of this belief in practice, but it throws out the rules which unjustly garners it ire.
Ulysses plays by the rules, that is grammar`dictionary`genre, and that is why I believe it is held in higher regard.
tl;dr : if you think Ulysses is difficult to read and incomprehensible, you are reading it correctly. Read it without guides, they dismantle the work's truth.
A couple walked into my hostel and they were both just beaming these beautiful smiles. They were the kind of people who are just so happy to be on vacation it makes me happy to tell them all of the crazy shit they can enjoy in the city. I stood up and beamed a smile back to them asking them if they were there to check in or if they needed a reservation. They looked at each other, then me, and started to sign.
I panic'd... My mother was friends with a guy who lived in a retirement home because a grenade had taken his eyes in world war two and I often spent time with him and became acquainted with the blind and the nuance of interacting such that we could both make sure we were completely understood, but there have been very few interactions in my life with deaf people and so at this moment in the hostel I was simply unprepared.
The couple saw my panic and laughed and the guy signed using his finger a as a pencil and his other palm as a notebook.
No shit! Write it down. I got us some paper and everything was smooth from there. I got them a room, a deal, and told them where the best place to catch some romance in the city was.
The writer's reaction and feelings toward the interaction mirrored my own quite well. I can believe it, but if it is a fiction, at least it is an accurate one.