Requiring them to reside within city limits and be as educated as the median city employee would eliminate needing to fire anyone.
The residents of Eugene may be regarded as left leaning
(as in peaceful, go along get along) but that appears to also mean
naive and easily manipulated.
I'm not sure I understand your point about the errata[1]. Are you saying it's wonderful that he provides an online errata from the get go, and looks like he's committed to maintaining it? Or are you saying that it's a bad sign that a bunch of errors have been found in a newly published book?
The latter, in software we would get an error message, big whoop.
In learning electronics we get blue smoke if we are lucky and frustratingly silent failure usually. Add that each failure has a tangible and potentially significant cost and for me enthusiasm does not cancel sloppy details.
It did lead me buy another book the author wrote, and maybe this one will be better in future editions. But I am neither an expert who can just see and correct or disregard the errors, nor a disinterested tourist for whom it is all the same anyway. So as I implied, I passed this time.
Learning about the concept of “negative zero” in school stuck with me. It was one of those lessons where the professor had us bang our heads against one’s complement to understand the shortcomings and introduced two’s complement like Moses coming down with the stone tablets.
The residents of Eugene may be regarded as left leaning (as in peaceful, go along get along) but that appears to also mean naive and easily manipulated.
Lazzar for mayor!
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