I read somewhere that the shooter was a foreign student on an exchange visa issued in Shanghai.
If I remember correctly, most visas, TN, K, H, do not permit gun ownership in the US. You have to be a citizen or permanent resident to own a gun legally in the US I believe.
So the V. Tech. shooter was breaking the law, or at least the conditions of his visa, by purchasing a firearm. But what are the chances he bought his irons at Gun City...
I agree, particularly with your recommendations for "small and clean languages" and "the right tool for each job". IMHO, the world has more than enough 3rd Generation Languages already, and 4th too... It's time to move forwards not sideways.
Tools that help me are not new languages... an IDE, perhaps like Eclipse (and all it's plugins) that helps to manage complexity by supporting projects that span multiple programming languages, provide revision control, continuous integration etc. So much of my work involves maintenance, I would like to see a tool that can make a million lines of code easier for me to understand, perhaps the source code navigation history of previous developers. But why work on something hard like that when you can do something easier and more fun like a new front-end to a compiler?
carpal tunnel, obesity, diabetes, back problems, eye strain and other conditions that arise from spending large continuous amounts of time at a computer...
This guy seems to have his priorities right. Seems to me like we haven't yet finished the One Pair of Shoes Per Child Project, Clean Running Water Per Child Project and the Effective Sewage Per Child Project.
I know very little about the OLPC project, but it sounds like a pet engineering project that's trying to justify itself with a philanthropic spin.
Most of the kids that will receive these computers would probably rather have a bike anyway. I was fortunate to have both a bike and access to a computer by the age of twelve, and the bike was more useful to me.
Maybe I'm just experiencing a little irony after reading an earlier article about Electronics Waste in Africa...
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I read somewhere that the shooter was a foreign student on an exchange visa issued in Shanghai. If I remember correctly, most visas, TN, K, H, do not permit gun ownership in the US. You have to be a citizen or permanent resident to own a gun legally in the US I believe. So the V. Tech. shooter was breaking the law, or at least the conditions of his visa, by purchasing a firearm. But what are the chances he bought his irons at Gun City...
I said the socket set, boy!!!
Pick one:
a) cheap
b) fast
c) good
I agree, particularly with your recommendations for "small and clean languages" and "the right tool for each job". IMHO, the world has more than enough 3rd Generation Languages already, and 4th too... It's time to move forwards not sideways.
Tools that help me are not new languages... an IDE, perhaps like Eclipse (and all it's plugins) that helps to manage complexity by supporting projects that span multiple programming languages, provide revision control, continuous integration etc. So much of my work involves maintenance, I would like to see a tool that can make a million lines of code easier for me to understand, perhaps the source code navigation history of previous developers. But why work on something hard like that when you can do something easier and more fun like a new front-end to a compiler?
carpal tunnel, obesity, diabetes, back problems, eye strain and other conditions that arise from spending large continuous amounts of time at a computer...
This guy seems to have his priorities right. Seems to me like we haven't yet finished the One Pair of Shoes Per Child Project, Clean Running Water Per Child Project and the Effective Sewage Per Child Project. I know very little about the OLPC project, but it sounds like a pet engineering project that's trying to justify itself with a philanthropic spin. Most of the kids that will receive these computers would probably rather have a bike anyway. I was fortunate to have both a bike and access to a computer by the age of twelve, and the bike was more useful to me. Maybe I'm just experiencing a little irony after reading an earlier article about Electronics Waste in Africa...