The more important question is why should someone working in math or engineering be portrayed as nerdy and unsociable in the society, while these demographics deserve the most credit for our society's thrive in modern times. This trend, in my opinion, is directly responsible for the distinct lack of desire amid the youngsters in the recent years. Many kids are just way too busy expressing themselves. Look at the engineering/math grad programs, they are by and large comprised by people from other nations (those who are swiftly going for that card: I am an immigrant engineering grad student myself, so put it back in your hand). My role models growing up, were Shannon, Turing, Dijkstra, Feynman, VonNeumann you name it. I was more than stunned to observe that the recent replicas of my heroes, if exist at all, have grown up combating through a deluge of humiliation in high-school, reality-shows, college and so on. Can't this be a huge turn off for someone who might even be remotely interested in pursuing a career in Math et. al ? And that is for doing what they love and being extremely good at it. I can't assimilate the difference between a professional musician and a mathematicians and why the former is applauded to some deity level, while the latter has is badged with the stigma of nerd.
I fail to see what is new in their approach. Both of these two fields had been explored before and their approach is essentially based on redundancy, only the available standby gates are in the FPGA. I read their paper, it seems that the biggest part that they are still lacking is for problem determination. Their approach is also prone to failure when their reconfiguration hardware or their processor or their analog components are the faulty ones. Although it could have some potentials, it's reliability has to be analyzed and I don't see it replacing classic N-Version systems any time soon.
True, however many of the primitive implementations of Squeak, actually do interface with some native C code. Of course this doesn't mean the couldn't be written in any other language that compiles to the native byte code(including assembly as you pointed out).
pthreads are part of POSIX API that implement OS level threads, there is no mention of the in the C language standard and any code written based on them wont compile on a non POSIX compatible platform. Those who critic C/C++ for lack of parallel mechanisms are asking for homogeneous language level constructs that work uniformly across multiple platforms, such as green threads in Java.
I am totally with you on all you said about Delphi, except the version from since you started seeing the decline. I refused upgrading to anything newer than Delphi 2.0 and IMO Delphi 2.0 has been one of the nicest, most productive IDEs ever created. As you pointed out the programs compiled scarily fast, and the generated code has always been amazingly compact and succinct, even compared to Borland's own CPP builder. I still have no idea how Borland could screw this up as there was a time period in 95-96 that Delphi was THE language to program in. Your alternatives were VB which even naming it would cost you some street cred., Java, an immature slow as F&&% language back then, and VC++ with MFC which was the sign of masochism.
First, by that you mean they are sharing the same package with PPC cores. Second, this is not now or anything recent, I remember Xilinx released one of these combos 5-6 years ago, and even then wasn't brand new. Last, you cant program the ppc core with verilog.
I started using Linux in 96 (Slackware with kernel 2.0.27) which I installed it with floppy disks (not just boot/root, but the whole thing on floppy). The reason was purely exploration. I can't insist how much I learned about computing/OS networking by hacking around linux and reading its source code. I later on used it at work as an embedded OS in several occasions. Right now, as a non-embedded developer, there are several applications that I will only code in linux (anything with multiple processes, IPC, sockets etc.). It is not because Windows doesn't have the alternative for the aforementioned. It does, and they are comparable and I honestly wont argue with anyone who claims they are superior because of this and that, I couldn't care less. I choose linux for these occasions because it is following a standard open API (POSIX) and my knowledge is transferable to a variety of platforms without that much effort.
your level of understanding of Enterprise Architecture is truly amazing. Take an introductory course in distributed systems to learn what middle-ware role is in the whole picture. There is more to computing than just being open or closed source you know...
"Parthians, an empire occupying what is now Iran."
Iran existed way before 53BC. Parthians, Persians and Medyans were all iranian tribes of that era. Parthians took over the country
after 200 years of Greek's army power (Alexander the great invasion). From wikipedia.org :
"The name Iran is a cognate of Aryan and literally means "Land of the Aryans."
They started to call Iran Persia, after 553BC when Cyrus the great became the emperor. On the other hand, Iran is a term that used to refer to that land before the Achaemenian empire and during the Medyan dynasty.
First, lets think about how the engineers are treated after graduation and then put more demand on them.
Nowadays, engineering is the most pathetic program one can choose I believe. You get the least amount of respect
in the university for being a nerd a geek a social outcast and yet you have to go trough the torment of taking
the most difficult courses. No fun, no ladies, no nights out only studying! What is the reward of this ? After graduation
you are lucky if you get a job for 40K CAD in a company, working in a 1m x 1m cubical trying to convince your manager that
you are better than his favorite high school graduate douche-bag who codes with one hand and pops his pimples with the other.
When I was in grad school I fell into a conversation with one of the janitors at the school, their union has had secured them about 60+K CAD salary more than anything a fresh masters student out of the most respectable university in Canada can dream about, the guy had put a down payment for a BMW while I was looking for someone to borrow a couple of hundred dollars to buy a bike. I have had 20 years of education under my belt and he hadn't even finish grade 5.
Even when our beloved companies that we are so loyal to get into trouble, we are the first group of fellows that have to pack and say goodbye.
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The more important question is why should someone working in math or engineering be portrayed as nerdy and unsociable in the society, while these demographics deserve the most credit for our society's thrive in modern times. This trend, in my opinion, is directly responsible for the distinct lack of desire amid the youngsters in the recent years. Many kids are just way too busy expressing themselves. Look at the engineering/math grad programs, they are by and large comprised by people from other nations (those who are swiftly going for that card: I am an immigrant engineering grad student myself, so put it back in your hand). My role models growing up, were Shannon, Turing, Dijkstra, Feynman, VonNeumann you name it. I was more than stunned to observe that the recent replicas of my heroes, if exist at all, have grown up combating through a deluge of humiliation in high-school, reality-shows, college and so on. Can't this be a huge turn off for someone who might even be remotely interested in pursuing a career in Math et. al ? And that is for doing what they love and being extremely good at it. I can't assimilate the difference between a professional musician and a mathematicians and why the former is applauded to some deity level, while the latter has is badged with the stigma of nerd.
I fail to see what is new in their approach. Both of these two fields had been explored before and their approach is essentially based on redundancy, only the available standby gates are in the FPGA. I read their paper, it seems that the biggest part that they are still lacking is for problem determination. Their approach is also prone to failure when their reconfiguration hardware or their processor or their analog components are the faulty ones. Although it could have some potentials, it's reliability has to be analyzed and I don't see it replacing classic N-Version systems any time soon.
True, however many of the primitive implementations of Squeak, actually do interface with some native C code. Of course this doesn't mean the couldn't be written in any other language that compiles to the native byte code(including assembly as you pointed out).
pthreads are part of POSIX API that implement OS level threads, there is no mention of the in the C language standard and any code written based on them wont compile on a non POSIX compatible platform. Those who critic C/C++ for lack of parallel mechanisms are asking for homogeneous language level constructs that work uniformly across multiple platforms, such as green threads in Java.
that interview is fake, Stroustrup denied it himself.
I am totally with you on all you said about Delphi, except the version from since you started seeing the decline. I refused upgrading to anything newer than Delphi 2.0 and IMO Delphi 2.0 has been one of the nicest, most productive IDEs ever created. As you pointed out the programs compiled scarily fast, and the generated code has always been amazingly compact and succinct, even compared to Borland's own CPP builder. I still have no idea how Borland could screw this up as there was a time period in 95-96 that Delphi was THE language to program in. Your alternatives were VB which even naming it would cost you some street cred., Java, an immature slow as F&&% language back then, and VC++ with MFC which was the sign of masochism.
First, by that you mean they are sharing the same package with PPC cores. Second, this is not now or anything recent, I remember Xilinx released one of these combos 5-6 years ago, and even then wasn't brand new. Last, you cant program the ppc core with verilog.
I started using Linux in 96 (Slackware with kernel 2.0.27) which I installed it with floppy disks (not just boot/root, but the whole thing on floppy). The reason was purely exploration. I can't insist how much I learned about computing/OS networking by hacking around linux and reading its source code. I later on used it at work as an embedded OS in several occasions. Right now, as a non-embedded developer, there are several applications that I will only code in linux (anything with multiple processes, IPC, sockets etc.). It is not because Windows doesn't have the alternative for the aforementioned. It does, and they are comparable and I honestly wont argue with anyone who claims they are superior because of this and that, I couldn't care less. I choose linux for these occasions because it is following a standard open API (POSIX) and my knowledge is transferable to a variety of platforms without that much effort.
your level of understanding of Enterprise Architecture is truly amazing. Take an introductory course in distributed systems to learn what middle-ware role is in the whole picture. There is more to computing than just being open or closed source you know...
"Parthians, an empire occupying what is now Iran." Iran existed way before 53BC. Parthians, Persians and Medyans were all iranian tribes of that era. Parthians took over the country after 200 years of Greek's army power (Alexander the great invasion). From wikipedia.org : "The name Iran is a cognate of Aryan and literally means "Land of the Aryans." They started to call Iran Persia, after 553BC when Cyrus the great became the emperor. On the other hand, Iran is a term that used to refer to that land before the Achaemenian empire and during the Medyan dynasty.
First, lets think about how the engineers are treated after graduation and then put more demand on them. Nowadays, engineering is the most pathetic program one can choose I believe. You get the least amount of respect in the university for being a nerd a geek a social outcast and yet you have to go trough the torment of taking the most difficult courses. No fun, no ladies, no nights out only studying! What is the reward of this ? After graduation you are lucky if you get a job for 40K CAD in a company, working in a 1m x 1m cubical trying to convince your manager that you are better than his favorite high school graduate douche-bag who codes with one hand and pops his pimples with the other. When I was in grad school I fell into a conversation with one of the janitors at the school, their union has had secured them about 60+K CAD salary more than anything a fresh masters student out of the most respectable university in Canada can dream about, the guy had put a down payment for a BMW while I was looking for someone to borrow a couple of hundred dollars to buy a bike. I have had 20 years of education under my belt and he hadn't even finish grade 5. Even when our beloved companies that we are so loyal to get into trouble, we are the first group of fellows that have to pack and say goodbye.