I would say that the following comment is at least as good
as the one provided by Quora:
"Here are some tips:
Most guys have problems approaching strangers and seeming creepy. If you can strike up a conversation with girls, just drop a few comments that you're hanging out with "a really cool friend". It makes things easier when you introduce him later on.
When you do introduce him, drop a few conversation starters where there might be common interest or where he can demonstrate expertise. If he likes cooking, mention the mean casserole he whipped up for your Christmas party or something.
Remember that this is an interaction, and you should stay until both he and the target female are comfortable in conversation. Participate in the interaction until then, and when they are warming up to each other THEN excuse yourself to get a drink, say hi to someone else or whatever.
Encourage him to lead in the interaction. The more he does this, the easier it will be for him to seem attractive. Let him choose the way the conversation is going, when it ends, etc.
It may take a bit of work to get both of you synced, but when it happens you'll be the best thing that happens to his social life."
It is true that Italians don't care much about privacy but old and backward?
Italy is neither old (Italy was born as a state in 1861) nor backward. The problem is that our prime minister has a personal interest in shutting down as much as possible the web as a news/social service.
It is possible to argue that, as you said, "many people don't have a clue what is going on" but I believe it applies to most (all?) other countries as well.
Every time somebody express an opinion somebody else can call it a tautology if he decides that the speaker is willing to tweak the definition as he likes.
To point it out is pleonastic.
The following sentence is tautological.
The previous sentence is tautological and pleonastic.
My point is that, in my opinion, there is no progress in art exactly for the reason you have just given that there is no objective "better" to measure progress with.
About TV..., if you are talking about TV shows I wouldn't consider them art at all.
There is a point that I don't see mentioned in any other comments, maybe because it applies only in my country (Italy).
The main benefit of not watching TV here is that you avoid the relentless, hidden or explicit, endorsement of our right-wing party and the consequent manipulation of reality.
I remember reading a sci-fi novel that impressed me as a child about the wife of a recently deceased composer corrupting a politician to not vote for a proposal to extend the copyright on the basis that there are only a limitited number of possible "interesting" combinations of notes. Hence an unlimited copyright is like a death sentence to the creativity of all future musicians. I believe that the actual limit of 50 years is already too much.
It is also personal. Berlusconi has a huge, and still growing, number of legal problems. He successfully hides them on the media he owns or controls (6 tv channels out of 7). The few newspapers that are not aligned to his policy are read by an handful of people. The only way truthful news about his misbehavior reach the Italian people are social network and similar. So it makes sense to shut them up.
From the FACTOR's FAQ:
"Forth is untyped, not garbage collected, and close to the machine. For flow control, Forth code tends to use immediate words. Variables and arrays tend to be global, and programs aren't usually written in a functional manner. Factor is very different from this. It is dynamically typed, offering a high degree of reflection. Unreferenced objects are garbage collected with a generational garbage collector. Factor code is a little bit more distant from the machine, though the C FFI allows using words like malloc and mmap. For flow control, Factor generally uses quotations, allowing flexible higher order functions; parsing words are used mostly for definitions and data literals. Variables are dynamically or statically scoped, and arrays are just objects which don't need to be treated specially"
Sorry, but as another EU citizen, I have to say that applying your criteria lot of countries (beginning with mine - Italy) should not have been accepted either. I'm afraid that EU simply can't be that much selective without losing any change of counting for something on the world scene.
I agree wholeheartedly. I read it ten years ago and it answered a few questions I had been asking myself for many years. It is (in a healthy way) humbling for a western citizen as it implies that our (declining?) dominant position in the modern world is mainly a matter of luck.
He's not talking about fast typing. He is saying that is a big effort for his students to try out an idea because they have to struggle to find the correct syntax and keywords to express it.
I don't read the article this way.
He candidly admits his bias towards functional languages and
he says that Ruby and Clojure could have been his choice
if not for reasons related to the specific time-frame in which he took the decision.
Overpopulation is a menace and family planning is the only viable solution.
Two or three billions of healthy, nourished, educated human beings are more than enough to substain our economical, social and scientific structure.
"Here are some tips: Most guys have problems approaching strangers and seeming creepy. If you can strike up a conversation with girls, just drop a few comments that you're hanging out with "a really cool friend". It makes things easier when you introduce him later on.
When you do introduce him, drop a few conversation starters where there might be common interest or where he can demonstrate expertise. If he likes cooking, mention the mean casserole he whipped up for your Christmas party or something. Remember that this is an interaction, and you should stay until both he and the target female are comfortable in conversation. Participate in the interaction until then, and when they are warming up to each other THEN excuse yourself to get a drink, say hi to someone else or whatever. Encourage him to lead in the interaction. The more he does this, the easier it will be for him to seem attractive. Let him choose the way the conversation is going, when it ends, etc. It may take a bit of work to get both of you synced, but when it happens you'll be the best thing that happens to his social life."