Yea, but do the behaviors of 13% of Americans really cause all of the childhood obesity in the US? If it was only the children of the poorest americans who were overweight I would agree with you that the problem is purely economic. Clearly when we are looking for solutions to an epidemic this large we should be looking at solutions that apply for the majority of Americans. The solutions to the problems of the poorest 13% are an entirely different discussion.
The idea that a solution is unworkable because it fails for a minority of Americans is foolish, especially when this solution does not preclude trying to solve the problems of the poor.
I am a big fan of making large batches of food that freezes well, chilly, gumbo, beef stew and soups. I'll make up a batch on a weekend and freeze up 3-5 meals worth. When I'm home at the end of the day and I'm feeling tired and don't want to cook, instead of ordering out, I'll make some pasta or rice and serve it with one of those frozen meals (don't freeze noodles, make them fresh). A good meal can be had in about 15 minutes and the cost of making that big batch is very low on a per meal basis.
The day will come when we will realize that having the same company that controls one many of the most popular sites on the web (particularly youtube) and controls one of the most popular browsers on the web wasn't really such a good idea. The leverage that they can have with those two products, assuming chrome continues to gain ground, is far more than anything Microsoft ever had on the web.
This is true, but I don't really need the TIVO to be actually built into the TV for that to be useful. In fact I might like my display from Samsung, my DVR from TIVO and my streaming video client from Apple. I don't want to pay for a bunch of stuff in my actual TV that I don't actually want.
Still, this might be the way it ends up going if they can use it to get people on a more aggressive upgrade cycle for their TVs.
I think the implication here is that you should give away your style guide for free to give every developer access to it, hopefully leading to a more cohesive platform experience.
Also leads to a situation where incumbents have a financial reason to be defensive about their code. Try suggesting to your boss that something he wrote years ago has to be re-written if his bonus is riding on it.
the reality is, any developer who is willing to put out a game that runs poorly on the 360, will do the same thing on the 361 as soon as its common enough.
The real question is, why does any game developer put in a cutscene that drops to 15fps when they know damn well that all the Xbox360s in the world will run the cut scene at that same shitty rate.
If you fix every problem with printf debugging you are likely to waste a lot of time when you are solving problems that are easy to solve in IDE debuggers. Sure, I still fall back to printf debugging when its the best tool for the job and sometimes its really the only tool for the job but its only one tool.
Really the best advice might be to understand how to use tools. I don't mean go out and learn every tool you can, or master one IDE and source control system. I mean try to understand how IDEs and debuggers work in general along with source control, build systems, test systems and analysis tools. Obviously you want to become proficient with your toolset but understanding how you might manage source control branches to manage a release or what kind of analysis tool you might use to find a performance problem or a memory leak.
I think the best advice is to work at a place where a decent number of people understand these things and learn from them but finding such a place can be difficult especially when you are inexperienced.
My car costs, say 20 grand, when it gets damaged they tell me the cost of the damage, if its 10% of the value of the car, 2 grand, then you usually fix the car. They are saying that its not economical to spent 10% of the value of the craft to repair it, unless its more than half way through its viable life span there must be something more going on. The cost of repair has got to be closer to the cost of replacement to make it economically infeasable to repair the plane.
Maybe they are talking about the costs to re-certify it for flight, but in my world, you know the one the rest of us live in, that would be listed as part of the cost of the repair. My mechanic doesn't just quote me the cost of parts when he tells me what a repair will cost.
The question is not what is more important, the question is which of these holds the greatest economic opportunity for America and Americans. Manufacturing hardware or "manufacturing" software.
Having a local copy that you can use off line and mark up is different from browsers and web sites. I mean, the underlying technology is pretty much the same, but they are packaged up for optimized off line use and have features that make them more like books. Plus, these are easier to sell than content on a web site.
I don't really see the problem with having 2 different things for 2 different purposes. Just because we have web sites doesn't mean that ebooks aren't useful.
Apple doesn't produce text books and they don't decide the price that things get sold at. Just because they provide the store front doesn't mean they get to decide how much apps or books cost.
The tools being available on other platforms doesn't interest me and you won't see Apple go out of their way to build authoring tools on other platforms. To expect them to do so, especially for a free tool, is just crazy. What you should be asking is if the format is open so that books authored on this platform can be read on others and people could make their own tools to create the books on other platforms if they wanted too.
Even my hundred year old wood frame house with the three layers of plaster and board on the walls and plumbing and electrical that would give you nightmares sounds good compared to that.
Well I guess it is a trade school, though just software engineering seems a little limited in scope compared to other trade schools which usually offer a variety of trades. With time you might see some parts of the high tech world become more like traditional trades. I'm sure there will still be demand for advanced CS and Software Engineering degrees but don't you think some of the tech jobs out there could be done by someone who went to a trade high school to learn those skills. There are certainly self taught software developers working these days. A focused high school education could be a good choice for someone with a knack for technology but isn't likely to go on to a university either because of financial limitations or personal preference.
That said, I don't think I would send a child to a school like that if I thought they could go to college for software. I do believe a general education is more valuable but its not for everyone.
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There aren't really ads on G+ though, what matters is how much info you put into the system that they can use to advertise to you on other sites.
Yea, but do the behaviors of 13% of Americans really cause all of the childhood obesity in the US? If it was only the children of the poorest americans who were overweight I would agree with you that the problem is purely economic. Clearly when we are looking for solutions to an epidemic this large we should be looking at solutions that apply for the majority of Americans. The solutions to the problems of the poorest 13% are an entirely different discussion.
The idea that a solution is unworkable because it fails for a minority of Americans is foolish, especially when this solution does not preclude trying to solve the problems of the poor.
I am a big fan of making large batches of food that freezes well, chilly, gumbo, beef stew and soups. I'll make up a batch on a weekend and freeze up 3-5 meals worth. When I'm home at the end of the day and I'm feeling tired and don't want to cook, instead of ordering out, I'll make some pasta or rice and serve it with one of those frozen meals (don't freeze noodles, make them fresh). A good meal can be had in about 15 minutes and the cost of making that big batch is very low on a per meal basis.
Thats why you have to do all your science from scratch. No handholding.
except you might actually get acceptable performance out of an iPad. I've never gotten that from flash.
The day will come when we will realize that having the same company that controls one many of the most popular sites on the web (particularly youtube) and controls one of the most popular browsers on the web wasn't really such a good idea. The leverage that they can have with those two products, assuming chrome continues to gain ground, is far more than anything Microsoft ever had on the web.
Tell that to Toyota who ended up being back my truck (at quite a nice number BTW) due to a hole in the frame from insufficient undercoating.
Yea, they should have it licked, but sometimes they just fail.
This is true, but I don't really need the TIVO to be actually built into the TV for that to be useful. In fact I might like my display from Samsung, my DVR from TIVO and my streaming video client from Apple. I don't want to pay for a bunch of stuff in my actual TV that I don't actually want.
Still, this might be the way it ends up going if they can use it to get people on a more aggressive upgrade cycle for their TVs.
I think the implication here is that you should give away your style guide for free to give every developer access to it, hopefully leading to a more cohesive platform experience.
Isn't he the guy who made that hovercraft?
Also leads to a situation where incumbents have a financial reason to be defensive about their code. Try suggesting to your boss that something he wrote years ago has to be re-written if his bonus is riding on it.
the reality is, any developer who is willing to put out a game that runs poorly on the 360, will do the same thing on the 361 as soon as its common enough.
The real question is, why does any game developer put in a cutscene that drops to 15fps when they know damn well that all the Xbox360s in the world will run the cut scene at that same shitty rate.
If you fix every problem with printf debugging you are likely to waste a lot of time when you are solving problems that are easy to solve in IDE debuggers. Sure, I still fall back to printf debugging when its the best tool for the job and sometimes its really the only tool for the job but its only one tool.
Really the best advice might be to understand how to use tools. I don't mean go out and learn every tool you can, or master one IDE and source control system. I mean try to understand how IDEs and debuggers work in general along with source control, build systems, test systems and analysis tools. Obviously you want to become proficient with your toolset but understanding how you might manage source control branches to manage a release or what kind of analysis tool you might use to find a performance problem or a memory leak.
I think the best advice is to work at a place where a decent number of people understand these things and learn from them but finding such a place can be difficult especially when you are inexperienced.
You must be a blast at parties.
Something is wrong with that.
My car costs, say 20 grand, when it gets damaged they tell me the cost of the damage, if its 10% of the value of the car, 2 grand, then you usually fix the car. They are saying that its not economical to spent 10% of the value of the craft to repair it, unless its more than half way through its viable life span there must be something more going on. The cost of repair has got to be closer to the cost of replacement to make it economically infeasable to repair the plane.
Maybe they are talking about the costs to re-certify it for flight, but in my world, you know the one the rest of us live in, that would be listed as part of the cost of the repair. My mechanic doesn't just quote me the cost of parts when he tells me what a repair will cost.
The question is not what is more important, the question is which of these holds the greatest economic opportunity for America and Americans. Manufacturing hardware or "manufacturing" software.
Having a local copy that you can use off line and mark up is different from browsers and web sites. I mean, the underlying technology is pretty much the same, but they are packaged up for optimized off line use and have features that make them more like books. Plus, these are easier to sell than content on a web site.
I don't really see the problem with having 2 different things for 2 different purposes. Just because we have web sites doesn't mean that ebooks aren't useful.
Apple doesn't produce text books and they don't decide the price that things get sold at. Just because they provide the store front doesn't mean they get to decide how much apps or books cost.
The tools being available on other platforms doesn't interest me and you won't see Apple go out of their way to build authoring tools on other platforms. To expect them to do so, especially for a free tool, is just crazy. What you should be asking is if the format is open so that books authored on this platform can be read on others and people could make their own tools to create the books on other platforms if they wanted too.
I remember when their "internet directory" was the only fucking way to find anything at all.
Still, its been a long time since they were particularly useful.
Even my hundred year old wood frame house with the three layers of plaster and board on the walls and plumbing and electrical that would give you nightmares sounds good compared to that.
If you really want an emergency shelter, you want one of these
Up in 4 ready to move in in 24. Just add water.
Well I guess it is a trade school, though just software engineering seems a little limited in scope compared to other trade schools which usually offer a variety of trades. With time you might see some parts of the high tech world become more like traditional trades. I'm sure there will still be demand for advanced CS and Software Engineering degrees but don't you think some of the tech jobs out there could be done by someone who went to a trade high school to learn those skills. There are certainly self taught software developers working these days. A focused high school education could be a good choice for someone with a knack for technology but isn't likely to go on to a university either because of financial limitations or personal preference.
That said, I don't think I would send a child to a school like that if I thought they could go to college for software. I do believe a general education is more valuable but its not for everyone.
I remember when people said that about desktop computers.