@FaheemMitha Yes. I don't remember when I was here last, but I went from working at a bank to being a consultant in a smallish company a while back. Right now I'm hired out to a government agency to help manage their linux and solaris servers.
She really is a sweet one but she needs a skilled rider, and they're hard to come by for a small pony... she shouldn't have a rider weighing more than than about 50 kgs and not taller than at most 155-160 cm
@FaheemMitha That breed of pony will usually be for children up to 10-12 years or so. The girl who rides her now is 13 and she's really too tall and heavy for the horse... We used to have an adult woman who is very short and slim, and they did very well together - but I wouldn't sell that pony to someone wanting the first horse for their child.
@FaheemMitha Preferably, yes... one who can handle her when she gets frisky and who doesn't get scared when they get thrown off occasionally, because that will happen... But the horse is really a charmer and with the right rider she'd do well in both dressage and show jumping
@FaheemMitha We've got another one that's 32 now I think.
@FaheemMitha Yes, it's basically horse gymnastics - they need to show different types of movements, in walk, trot and canter, and they get judged based on how well they move.
@FaheemMitha In order to make money you'd have to be very good indeed. Which I'm definitely not. But many riders compete at lower levels, mainly for fun - also it's a good idea to get someone else than your usual trainer to see how you ride and give you comments on it.
but it's an olympic event, and the ones competing at that level do make enough to live on. not as much as soccer or hockey stars, but probably as much as e.g. gymnasts
but it's a sport that's fairly boring unless you actually know enough to tell the difference between different rides, otherwise it just looks like horse after horse doing the exact same thing
at least with jumping anyone can follow along, it's not hard to tell if the horse kicks down a bar :-)
Right. Yes, I don't know anything about horses. Ditto about sports in general, I think. If I attended the Olympics, I'd probably fall asleep out of sheer boredom.
I've never been much of a sports fan either, except that I used to look at football when I was a teenager. But that was mainly because there were some really cute players :-)
@FaheemMitha I never had a horse as a child, but I spent most of my pocket money on riding lessons... but now I have my own horse. We do some dressage training because it's good for us both, but I'm mainly interested in going on long rides. I love being out in the woods on horseback.
@FaheemMitha That's part of why I like it, you really can't think of work while you're riding... as for cold, one just has to dress properly for it. And it helps to be sitting on 600 kgs of warm horse :-)
in winter I have this big woolly blanket attached around my waist, that covers my legs and keeps the heat from the horse trapped there. It helps a lot.
@FaheemMitha We've got an indoor arena, but it's very small. But on winter weekends I enjoy getting out - can't do it during work weeks since I don't get there until it's dark and it's much less fun to ride out when you can't see a thing.
Also, we do play fetch with a ball sometimes, too :-)
This is a really trivial question, with probably a really trivial answer.
I often know there is a file with a specific name inside a directory, but i don't know the path. see i have foo.txt somewhere inside a directory. what command will return to me its path?
I guess i could use some command line find thingy, but is there something simple i could easily remember?
I think he was saying "I know the file is named foo and it's in the /a/b tree somewhere, but I don't know that the full path is /a/b/c/d/e/foo". So it'd be find
ok, here's another one. we're building a program which grabs a lot of memory.
this is C++. does anyone know a good utility to measure ram usage for compiling C++ object files? valgrind was suggested, but it makes a lot of noise by default.
The difference between a poor or meh question and a stellar question can often simply be someone understanding it and providing it a great answer. I can't begin to count the number of times I've justified re-opening a question as a moderator by saying:
Look at the answer it got, though. This ...
@Ramesh you mean when reviewing a tag wiki? You only get that if you can edit it directly, i.e. at 20k rep. There's no facility to stack suggested edits.