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Who gets to define "good"?

&& precedence mans that the && arguments are bound first, so:

    .where(p -> p.getCategory == 2 || p.getCategory == 5 && isProductUnderDiscount(p))

is equivalent to:

    if (product.getCategory() == 2 || ( product.getCategory() == 5 && isProductUnderDiscount(product) );

The extra set of parentheses are not needed due to precedence, but have been included for clarification.

Hiya, Scott! I recently heard the first episode of Rationally Speaking podcast episode where you were the guest (yes, I'm catching up with the RS Archives during my long commute). I've also started reading QCSD (hey, if it's going to be our decade's GEB, we may as well give it an acronym. :: grin:: )

I've already corrected my very mistaken understanding of how QC works, as in the tagline of your blog. Are there any other concepts that we need to shake off that would make explaining these concepts easier for the layman? Do you have any words of wisdom for the masses?

I can speak from my own experience; even though English is my first language, I entered as a grad student and TA in a public US university as a foreigner, since my undergrad degree was done outside the US. After they determined that I was capable of speaking understandable English, they actually made me an instructor of record for a 300-level course that none of the active faculty was available to teach.

It was quite an experience.

Thank you for this! I've always wondered if there was anything similar being done.

I will say that this is quite a large collection of papers. Do you have any pointers as to which of these papers I should start with as a foundation?

I've always wanted a page where it would have the translation of "I'm sorry, but I don't speak a word of X" in perfectly enunciated X for all X in [Languages].

I guess this is the next best thing.

A lot of the "rarity" with baseball cards was that they weren't inherently rare on release, but that the player on the card became a standout for the team afterwards, and therefore, owning the "rookie" card for them (when they were relatively unknown) was a game of patience and luck. Also, baseball has a avid fanbase that is focused on statistics, and the back of the cards would have the player's stats. I don't doubt that the statistics were available in published manuals back then, but having them on a card made straight comparisons across players easier than flipping across multiple pages.

I have a small velvet bag that I use to keep my cell phone safe from scratches in my pocket. You can keep the fingerprint sensor on, but drop it in a similar bag with the sensor at the bottom; that way, you keep the fingerprint security, but there's an extra step involved before you can use it.

It's a funny after-dinner speech (where some of the attendees aren't experts in coding theory), providing a somewhat tongue-in-cheek biography of Alice and Bob.