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The problem with being owed favours is that you have to be in a position of power to collect, or you’ll be paid in platitudes.
If running Tartarus generates ongoing costs, as it appears to be the case, the business model would kind of require a hedge, the ability to release prisoners against a binding promise of non-retaliation, as well as some compensation.
Tartarus would pretty much have to be written in the Concords for that to happen.
[quote=Tizzy;3385]Yeah, he’d have to get it from Damien. Remember, he has the copy he got from the Oorstemothians.[/quote]
Wait, doesn’t Tom own all rights regarding his likeness, so if there’s merchandising to be done, he should be getting his cut.
I suppose one of the drawbacks of living with orcs is that you can’t find an entertainment lawyer when you need one.[quote=The Author Guy;4929]Jiangshi. Chinese Hopping Vampires[/quote]
Reminds me of [url=https://youtu.be/Q6s0hs0k8kE?t=1h47m57s]https://youtu.be/Q6s0hs0k8kE?t=1h47m57s[/url]
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6s0hs0k8kE?t=1h47m57s[/youtube]
The film is great, and Joe Hisaishi’s soundtrack beautiful.
[quote=The Author Guy;4710]Most bagel shops have, in fact, a ‘smear’ list [/quote]
I would therefore pick something on the ‘smear’ list, say a ‘Swift Boat Special’, and receive forthwith a bagel with lax and pineapple?
English is hard, let’s go schtupping!
In Finland we have these:
[img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Karjalanpiirakka-20060227.jpg[/img]
You go ‘saisinko karjalanpiirakan munavoilla’, and you’ll receive your Karelian pastry with egg butter.
So Talarius’ struggle with his own nature is now rooted in both the removal of the dagger’s effect, as well as the introduction of the concept of consequentialist ethics to someone so rooted in deontological thinking.
Which is essentially the difference in outlook between the Astlanian and Nysegardian church organizations.
Also, the poor forgotten hero Rex died horribly only a few in-story weeks ago, didn’t he? It felt like Jenn was lacking some closure on the whole “why do good people die” thingy that’s the bread and butter of the priesthood.
I wonder how long the El Ohim saint school takes…
[quote=Gelcube;3606]power signature of Tiernon[/quote]
Do you think Tiernon is aware of his subordinates’ hijinks, and if not, will he support them in the end?
This is the perfect time to speculate – since we’re all about to be proven wrong, it’s that much more fun.
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I am really hoping that with nothing left to lose, he does a lot.
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If you’re using a DB connection pool, is the pool checking the connection with a query before proceeding?
This started only yesterday for me, so maybe it might well be a function of how many comments you’ve made on the boards… perhaps an index issue combined with the timeouts you mentioned?
[quote=The Author Guy;4666]Loyola University[/quote]
Used to know a lawyer called Kate from that area, but she passed away twelve years ago. I miss her.
She had problems with metaphysics and hell when her cancer got terminal.
Got terrible hell dreams, even though she was an atheist in daylight.
We fought fire with fire – scary stories about death and the afterlife with less scary stories about death and the afterlife, like Kim Stanley Robinson’s “The Years of Rice and Salt”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Years_of_Rice_and_Salt
Imagine my surprise when it worked.
You may imagine that you’re just writing for fun, but somewhere out there might be someone who gets something from your books you didn’t know you put in there.
Let’s just hope that it’s something positive, and that it’s not YOUR book that’s found in the clocktower beside the rifle and the dead guy.
That Grob really knows how to shake his money maker, he’s getting quite a bit of practise!
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Grob shook his head again and glanced in confirmation at Arch-Diocate Verablis Tierny the most senior priest of Tiernon on Nysegard after the death of High Pontificate Sessblame sixth months ago.“Not as much as we might hope.” Grob shook his head.
Grob shook his head in amazement, “Jacquesparrow even? I…I…”
“The Storm Lords are still in the process of setting up, assembling their siege-craft, organizing their regiments, setting up camps, battle lines.” Grob shook his head.
“What the?” Grob yelled, moving towards Karis before stopping dead in his tracks and staring at the wizard. Grob shook his head, even as Diocate Aeris came to his side.
[/quote]What’s the word count for “shook” in book 3?
[quote]“These are the days my friend!” Darg-Krallnom shouted to his second in command, Ergda Doom Wraith.
“Hah!” Ergda shouted back. “It is good to be back home on Nysegard, I take great comfort in obliterating Unlife! I was sure we would never return to such simple pleasures!” She said flicking the head off of an alvaran zombie and into her mouth. “Candy!”[/quote]
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KODZtjOIPg[/youtube]Nah, I loaded up the new IntelliJ WebStorm EAP (thank goodness for IntelliJ’s “app products” licenses) and went to town with https://angular.io/docs/ts/latest/tutorial/
Over the last decade, I’ve kind of settled down with a couple of statically typed languages, but since the component-based model failed, JavaScript, Node.JS and all that BS has become kind of mandatory, if you want to be able to architect good solutions for your clients.
Now, ES5 is just hateful, but since Babel.JS started supporting what’s now called ES2015, things have been looking up. Angular 1 was just terrible, but React.JS solved a large piece of the puzzle, conceptually. Now Angular 2 is primarily supporting TypeScript, which resembles modern JavaScript (ES2015 with Facebook Flow extensions, providing type and null checking) quite a bit.
That’s where we are today. There are two majority market-share web-native component models, React.JS and Angular 2, with Babel.JS/ES2015, Flow and TypeScript holding up the code maintainability end of things.
On the backend, there’s the JVM with 80% of the enterprise market, .NET with 10% and the rest with 10%. There’s a large amount of legacy, but the new stuff is mostly Spring or Spring Boot, or other solutions which don’t require a JEE application server, or its license, anymore.
Of the JVM languages, Java 8 is the norm, Scala had its day (but its lack of clothing got apparent as organizations tried it out), so Clojure is the new golden child. IntelliJ’s Kotlin is up and coming, and has a lot of the professionals looking at it positively. Java 9 is years away, and not going to bring anything too business-critical to the table. They just took too long, like Perl 6.
On the .NET side of things, since TFS and VS 15 comes out in 2017, it’s safe to assume that the community will learn how to .NET Core and ASP.NET Core during the first half of the year, and will solve the current cross-platform compatibility issues, so that ASP.NET solutions can be run in production on Linux. That’s when things like IntelliJ’s Rider tooling will really come into play.
On the database side, PostgreSQL has made great strides and will likely continue to do so, while Oracle’s MySQL work is a bit of a question mark, and MariaDB funding will have to be solved. I don’t see big surprises coming in 2017 from the big data toolset people, maybe more out-of-the-box machine learning integrations.
Intel’s 3D XPoint technology is coming out into production, and when it’s been integrated to the PC platform more closely, database vendors have to decide how to react to it. It has the potential to really boost performance, and simplify event logging architecture.
I think I’ll probably concentrate my studies on the frontend side of things in 2017, as well as encourage the same for my colleagues. Of course, the frontend people I’ll try to get involved with some Spring Boot and Kotlin. Luckily, I just got a budget of ten grand to pay people for self-study through open-source development.
