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Dai numeri?
(To "give numbers", in Italian, means to talk like a crazy person)
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Ethyl didn't look like she was enjoying herself? 
It's been 6 months since I joined the gym and there's been no progress. I'm going there tomorrow in person to find out what's really going on!
JaxCoder.com
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I've been a volunteer firefighter for the last 18 years... and Carbecue is the term we use for a vehicle fire.
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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So my particular flavor of crazy has made me into a shutin over the past couple of years - i am too paranoid to deal with other people on a regular basis outside by spouse. Being schizoaffective requires me to develop some insular hobbies.
It has made employment challenging. Well that, and the fact that I can't control when i daydream and my short term memory is shot meaning i need email or i won't remember we even spoke.
So I've had time to fill, and been hoping I could find something I could do to get me working more and I see ads for a lot of remote gigs.
Trouble is I've tried that before and it's really challenging because being in a separate physical space puts me in "work mode" and I don't have a spare room to make an office out of.
And getting out of the house anyway most days isn't happening as long as my agoraphobia is what it is.
But at least I can still code. I just need to get clever if I want to do enough of it to fill up my days like it used to.
Either that or i need to take on a lot more hobbies. I'm still trying to learn to deal with all this business of being mad. It doesn't come with a manual. It really should. "The hatter's guide to madness" or something. That would be nice.
Real programmers use butterflies
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If you want to work outside a "traditional" office, you obviously need the discipline to do so. Agoraphobia is less of a problem; Isaac Asimov, for example, hated travel, and spent as much time as possible in his regular haunts (living in NYC certainly made that easier for him...).
I would suggest looking for the kind of small organizations that want minor computer programming, and starting with them. While you won't get paid much (if anything), they may serve to get back in harness and rebuild the discipline required for delivery in a commercial environment. If these work out well, you can try going after the commercial gigs.
As for guides about madness, I can't help you. I looked for a "March Hare's Guide to Lunacy", but drew a blank.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Me and you have a lot in commom
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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If you do get a gig, though, remember not to tell the audience to shut up, then start clapping.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I don't even like U2
Real programmers use butterflies
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The bit that the checker "corrected" is italicised; and the bit in brackets is paraphrased, for brevity:
- How was he to know that almost every [person in the group had done something]
The "correction":
- How he to know that almost every was [person in the group had done something]
I do so enjoy having a laugh at the idiocy of grammar fu checkers.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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"... like a lamp to those who perceive the meaning of words, and like a hand mirror for a blind man to those without grammar." Bhatti: "Bhattikhavya" 7th. century CE.
The key to correct usage is in the context you intend the reader to imagine. In this case, if you intend to imply that it is in the future ... not present, or past ... that someone cannot "know," then: "would" is appropriate. If your readers assume, or, you have already made clear in the context, you are discussing "future," then greater explicitness may not be necessary.
There is a level of semantic ambiguity in the use of "how," here. Is it a marker for rhetorical usage, or, is it a direct question that asks for a literal description of "method(s)" ? "How" as rhetoric invites a projective response; "how" as gimme-details asks for a constrained response.
Hypothesis: American and English style differences might account for variable usage of could-would-did and how-how-do-how did.
imho, parsing this sentence is beyond the current capability of grammar checkers.
cheers, Bill
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
modified 26-Jan-20 2:57am.
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It's not that complicated. Everything from the "that" onward is the object of the verb "to know". The fact that it's a clausal object is immaterial.BillWoodruff wrote: imho, parsing this sentence is beyond the current capability of grammar checkers.
This and about 11% of all other sentences -- but I do so enjoy watching the poor dear tangle itself in knots, trying to cope.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: "that" onward
which that is that ?
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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That one there, that's spelled "that".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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which there is there ?
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Where?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It is rumoured that a teacher once remarked to a student's text containing two thats: "That that that that that refers to is not that that that that refers to!"
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This is the kind of nonsense, up with which I will not put!
-- Winston Churchill, in response to an accusation that he ended a sentence with a preposition.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I really like this one from Winnie, because it is also an example where the unjumbled phrasing is not even incorrect by the standards of idiots who want to apply the Latin rule on ending clauses with prepositions -- but the jumbled version is incorrect.
i.e. "To put up with" is a phrasal verb, so the clause "that I will not put up with" ends with a verb, not a preposition.
Moving "up with" breaks the verb (you can put words between the particles of a phrasal verb, but you can't change their order). "To up with put" makes no sense, except if used ironically, as Winnie did.
If you end a Latin clause with a preposition, it becomes nonsense, so the idiotic "rule" came from toffs studying Classics, who were told off when they directly translated English clauses into Latin, with prepositions at the end.
The rule they should have recognised and obeyed was "don't translate directly from one language to another".
"Put" is one of my fave phrasal verb roots:
• Put = "put"
• Put up = "give lodgings to"
• Put up with = "withstand"/"stand for"/"suffer"
It makes no logical sense whatsoever; cute as a button!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I suspect that some of these rules were invented in order to separate the lower classes from those who went to the right schools. Only when the middle classes gained pretensions of gentility did these rules become common usage.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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"put up" can apply to gaming, or the act of decorating, or posting, and, "put up or shut up" has a similar meaning to "put up," but broader, imperative, use.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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