Learning to code is more like building rockets. Anyone can play around with pre-build bottle rockets and most people could put together a small rocket kits, but few people can fully appreciate and understand putting together a rocket to launch something into orbit with no instruction guide.
People who are actually good at programming probably already are programming. They find it fun. If they're trying to get more kids into programming, they're probably just getting people who are not entirely interested. Good programmers tend to think a certain way, and people who think that way tend to naturally gravitate to programming, unless they're equally good at something else that also interests them.
I'm defining "good programming" as someone who can design and write a solution for a new and unique problem. Not to say there isn't use for someone who can correctly identify a current problem and know what existing tools could be used to fix it. But that's really a narrow subset of a "good programmer".
I'm not sure about 7, but at 8 I was building computers, configuring SCSI cards, and assigning IRQs so my mouse, keyboard, printer, and modem could all work at the same time. It wasn't long after that, I started reading on how CPUs, memory, and HDs worked. While I had no practical experience in programming, I found ASM very interesting and would at least do thought experiments.
My mom used to tell me stories about how I would get into the tool drawer, and start taking apart electronics around the house, when I was 3. I doubt I knew what I was doing, but I found it interesting enough to keep doing it, at least until I got punished.
Level 3 will exchange transit for transit and probably in volumes of 100gb/s+ unless you have access to some niche market. Public information or not, few companies can handle this.
I think at least land-line ISPs should have to choose between charging on bandwidth or on datacap, but not both. If you get a datacap, then you automatically get their fastest tier.
I love your logic. I should tell my ISP to start paying me for all the traffic they send me. You may want to revisit your logic on who pays during asymmetric data transfers, and it's not "the sender". Level 3 is a backbone ISP, unlike Comcast. Maybe Comcast should be paying Level 3 to access Netflix. Ever think of that?
GPON and WDM-PON use AES and roll random keys every so much time. I think only the down-traffic to the ONTs is encrypted because the up-traffic to the port, only the port can see. Unless someone splices into the fiber, but that's not what the encryption is meant to protect against.
The fact that the code could cause arbitrary commands in the value to be executed at startup was certainly not intended.
There seems to be several "bugs" associated with "ShellShock". At least one of the security issues was postponed because there was no way to fix it without breaking the feature. OpenBSD, then FreeBSD decided just to disable the feature all together. I am not aware of any follow-up on whatever "bug" that was, but it sounded like a "working as expected" issue.
Since I cannot find anything sounding like this on Wiki, I'll assume that I'm wrong.
It wasn't a bug in bash, it was working exactly as expected. What wasn't expected was web devs passing in data directly from the Internet into bash. Bash incorrectly assumed that environmental variables were assigned from a trusted source.
I think when it comes to security related projects, like security libraries, that are used all over the place, we should demand higher quality code and better design and code practices, like those of OpenBSD. We should not compromise on quality when it comes to this kind of stuff. Do it correctly or don't do it at all.
Yeah, but it's going to kill my connection while buffering. When viewing 720p on my Win7 box, my 50mb connection caps out for a good 10 seconds while buffering, even at 9pm. That's for a 3mb/s average. Going to 15mb would mean 5x more data per time, so my 50mb connection could be pegged for almost a minute, assuming the same amount of time is buffered.
Bandwidth per $ of tech is increasing 100% every 18 months and bandwidth usage is increasing 80% every 18 months. Our bills should be going down every 18 months and our speeds going up. Stupid ISPs.
4x the pixels, but much more repetition, making compression much more effective. I would rather have 15mb of 1080p than 4k. I want still images to look crystal clear.
It hasn't left their network at that point. It's over the link that is co-owned by Verizon and Netflix, and Verizon is refusing to maintain the link. It is Verizon not providing.
If Verizon can not manage peering relationships such that it affects the customer's ability to access other network, then Verizon should pay a 3rd party who can, like Level 3.
I got spam once in my gmail account in the past 5 years. I forget when and I forget what, but I remember being flabbergasted because I forgot that spam even still existed.
Our tap water comes from a watershed that is filled from rain water. We're on high ground near a river, so any dumped water is pretty much just going to flow down stream into the ocean eventually. Not so concerned about estrogen in the rain water.
I would describe me being "Christian" as more of a practical application of aspiring to being "Christ like", as in forgiving, non-judgmental, etc; To the best of my human ability.
I also have this hard time "accepting" that what I experience as consciousness is not only just a collection of particles interacting with each other, but that the Universe is essentially a static n-dimensional crystal that is fixed and non-changing, which is the logical conclusion of accepting a purely deterministic Universe.
I use the word "accepting" loosely. I logically accept that I am a deterministic bag of carbon, but I can't easily fight the perception of "free will" that I experience. It is a very hard thing to reason away. All of our logic is based on our perceptions, and when logic and perception conflict, it's hard to be somewhat non-logical about it. Our sense of self is really the only thing that keeps us alive, yet it conflicts with the logic that our lives are meaningless in an already determined Universe. "Meaning" is not a real thing, it is something artificial created in our minds. A bit depressing. Whatever.
All of that being said, science is our best form of truth. I love science and I find it fun to attempt wrapping my head about the Big Bang and how time came into existence and when it will end, if it will end. My personal thought is that that "Big Freeze" will eventually leave the entire Universe in a quantum state and time stops because it's at a maximum entropy state, where an infinite possibilities may happen at once, at which point one of those possibilities will become reality, and another "Big Bang" may happen again, and the process repeats itself as a "New Universe" with a new minimum entropy moving forward in time,yet again, towards it's maximum. I don't know, but it's an idea.
Never mind that Mary Magdalene, who is a highly regarded Christian figure, was an active prostitute. The Bible even has Jesus speak highly of her while mentioning her whorish ways in present tense. Not that it matters, because jealously and gossip are sins of equal evil to that of adultery. The church gossiping about someone being adulterous is as bad as the adultery itself. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone, is what I say.
A lot of people in the science community have an irrational belief in math and logic. You cannot prove math or logic without using math or logic and you do all of this while assuming that your brain is working properly.
I am not trying to compare my faith to math in the sense that if you can "blindly believe" in math that you should also believe in my faith, but that having an irrational belief does not automatically mean that a person is annoying.
GPLv3 is broken because it is not friendly to the way businesses currently work in society. FreeBSD has been gaining a lot more traction in the past few years because of GPL's restrictions. Because of this, FreeBSD has been gaining a lot of growth in new features and development. A lot of large datacenter sysadmins can attest to a large growth in FreeBSD at the expense of Linux, but relative to Linux, the "large growth" is still small, but it is gaining momentum.
Speaking about issues. From what I've seen over the years, fragmentation of Linux based OSes has been becoming an issue. Unfocused A.D.D. style flash mobs to the latest and greatest, then fork and jump ship or just start a new project when they get bored, leaving sysadmins in a lurch. SystemD is merely a symptom of the underlying issue that is plaguing the Linux side of Unix.
Linux distros need to return to their Unix roots.
Note: I am using "Linux" as the community as a whole, not as the Kernel.
Which is great if you want to separate out rendering from processing, but the way the industry is heading, they're merging the two together. Rendering is a subset of processing and they're slowly integrating the GPU into the CPU as a vector engine.
I remember reading something about Christians having higher divorce rates than atheists a while back. I myself am Christian, but not in the annoying way that many are. Just based on personal experience, it wouldn't surprise me because so many Christians that I've known were very judgmental two-faced people that tended to top it off with a "do as I say, not as I do" mentality. I was amazed that two people like this could live together for an extended period of time.
Statistically, the Bible Belt has the highest divorce rate, along with many other problems, like highest teen pregnancy rates, violent crime rates, etc. I would lump these people into the "conservative Christian" group. Maybe if they read the Bible instead of just thumping it around as a tool to scare people, they would have higher quality lives.
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Learning to code is more like building rockets. Anyone can play around with pre-build bottle rockets and most people could put together a small rocket kits, but few people can fully appreciate and understand putting together a rocket to launch something into orbit with no instruction guide.
People who are actually good at programming probably already are programming. They find it fun. If they're trying to get more kids into programming, they're probably just getting people who are not entirely interested. Good programmers tend to think a certain way, and people who think that way tend to naturally gravitate to programming, unless they're equally good at something else that also interests them.
I'm defining "good programming" as someone who can design and write a solution for a new and unique problem. Not to say there isn't use for someone who can correctly identify a current problem and know what existing tools could be used to fix it. But that's really a narrow subset of a "good programmer".
I'm not sure about 7, but at 8 I was building computers, configuring SCSI cards, and assigning IRQs so my mouse, keyboard, printer, and modem could all work at the same time. It wasn't long after that, I started reading on how CPUs, memory, and HDs worked. While I had no practical experience in programming, I found ASM very interesting and would at least do thought experiments.
My mom used to tell me stories about how I would get into the tool drawer, and start taking apart electronics around the house, when I was 3. I doubt I knew what I was doing, but I found it interesting enough to keep doing it, at least until I got punished.
Does the Goat Simulator support this mode of play?
Level 3 will exchange transit for transit and probably in volumes of 100gb/s+ unless you have access to some niche market. Public information or not, few companies can handle this.
I think at least land-line ISPs should have to choose between charging on bandwidth or on datacap, but not both. If you get a datacap, then you automatically get their fastest tier.
I love your logic. I should tell my ISP to start paying me for all the traffic they send me. You may want to revisit your logic on who pays during asymmetric data transfers, and it's not "the sender". Level 3 is a backbone ISP, unlike Comcast. Maybe Comcast should be paying Level 3 to access Netflix. Ever think of that?
GPON and WDM-PON use AES and roll random keys every so much time. I think only the down-traffic to the ONTs is encrypted because the up-traffic to the port, only the port can see. Unless someone splices into the fiber, but that's not what the encryption is meant to protect against.
When gasoline goes to $20/gallon, people;
Stop going to work because it costs them more to drive to work than what they make.
The fact that the code could cause arbitrary commands in the value to be executed at startup was certainly not intended.
There seems to be several "bugs" associated with "ShellShock". At least one of the security issues was postponed because there was no way to fix it without breaking the feature. OpenBSD, then FreeBSD decided just to disable the feature all together. I am not aware of any follow-up on whatever "bug" that was, but it sounded like a "working as expected" issue.
Since I cannot find anything sounding like this on Wiki, I'll assume that I'm wrong.
It wasn't a bug in bash, it was working exactly as expected. What wasn't expected was web devs passing in data directly from the Internet into bash. Bash incorrectly assumed that environmental variables were assigned from a trusted source.
I think when it comes to security related projects, like security libraries, that are used all over the place, we should demand higher quality code and better design and code practices, like those of OpenBSD. We should not compromise on quality when it comes to this kind of stuff. Do it correctly or don't do it at all.
They should just ban procreation. The problem will sort itself out in a century. No more crimes.
Yeah, but it's going to kill my connection while buffering. When viewing 720p on my Win7 box, my 50mb connection caps out for a good 10 seconds while buffering, even at 9pm. That's for a 3mb/s average. Going to 15mb would mean 5x more data per time, so my 50mb connection could be pegged for almost a minute, assuming the same amount of time is buffered.
Bandwidth per $ of tech is increasing 100% every 18 months and bandwidth usage is increasing 80% every 18 months. Our bills should be going down every 18 months and our speeds going up. Stupid ISPs.
300GB caps?! I upload almost 200GB yesterday alone. Comcast must suck.
4x the pixels, but much more repetition, making compression much more effective. I would rather have 15mb of 1080p than 4k. I want still images to look crystal clear.
It hasn't left their network at that point. It's over the link that is co-owned by Verizon and Netflix, and Verizon is refusing to maintain the link. It is Verizon not providing.
If Verizon can not manage peering relationships such that it affects the customer's ability to access other network, then Verizon should pay a 3rd party who can, like Level 3.
I got spam once in my gmail account in the past 5 years. I forget when and I forget what, but I remember being flabbergasted because I forgot that spam even still existed.
Our tap water comes from a watershed that is filled from rain water. We're on high ground near a river, so any dumped water is pretty much just going to flow down stream into the ocean eventually. Not so concerned about estrogen in the rain water.
I would describe me being "Christian" as more of a practical application of aspiring to being "Christ like", as in forgiving, non-judgmental, etc; To the best of my human ability.
I also have this hard time "accepting" that what I experience as consciousness is not only just a collection of particles interacting with each other, but that the Universe is essentially a static n-dimensional crystal that is fixed and non-changing, which is the logical conclusion of accepting a purely deterministic Universe.
I use the word "accepting" loosely. I logically accept that I am a deterministic bag of carbon, but I can't easily fight the perception of "free will" that I experience. It is a very hard thing to reason away. All of our logic is based on our perceptions, and when logic and perception conflict, it's hard to be somewhat non-logical about it. Our sense of self is really the only thing that keeps us alive, yet it conflicts with the logic that our lives are meaningless in an already determined Universe. "Meaning" is not a real thing, it is something artificial created in our minds. A bit depressing. Whatever.
All of that being said, science is our best form of truth. I love science and I find it fun to attempt wrapping my head about the Big Bang and how time came into existence and when it will end, if it will end. My personal thought is that that "Big Freeze" will eventually leave the entire Universe in a quantum state and time stops because it's at a maximum entropy state, where an infinite possibilities may happen at once, at which point one of those possibilities will become reality, and another "Big Bang" may happen again, and the process repeats itself as a "New Universe" with a new minimum entropy moving forward in time,yet again, towards it's maximum. I don't know, but it's an idea.
Never mind that Mary Magdalene, who is a highly regarded Christian figure, was an active prostitute. The Bible even has Jesus speak highly of her while mentioning her whorish ways in present tense. Not that it matters, because jealously and gossip are sins of equal evil to that of adultery. The church gossiping about someone being adulterous is as bad as the adultery itself. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone, is what I say.
A lot of people in the science community have an irrational belief in math and logic. You cannot prove math or logic without using math or logic and you do all of this while assuming that your brain is working properly.
I am not trying to compare my faith to math in the sense that if you can "blindly believe" in math that you should also believe in my faith, but that having an irrational belief does not automatically mean that a person is annoying.
GPLv3 is broken because it is not friendly to the way businesses currently work in society. FreeBSD has been gaining a lot more traction in the past few years because of GPL's restrictions. Because of this, FreeBSD has been gaining a lot of growth in new features and development. A lot of large datacenter sysadmins can attest to a large growth in FreeBSD at the expense of Linux, but relative to Linux, the "large growth" is still small, but it is gaining momentum.
Speaking about issues. From what I've seen over the years, fragmentation of Linux based OSes has been becoming an issue. Unfocused A.D.D. style flash mobs to the latest and greatest, then fork and jump ship or just start a new project when they get bored, leaving sysadmins in a lurch. SystemD is merely a symptom of the underlying issue that is plaguing the Linux side of Unix.
Linux distros need to return to their Unix roots.
Note: I am using "Linux" as the community as a whole, not as the Kernel.
Which is great if you want to separate out rendering from processing, but the way the industry is heading, they're merging the two together. Rendering is a subset of processing and they're slowly integrating the GPU into the CPU as a vector engine.
I remember reading something about Christians having higher divorce rates than atheists a while back. I myself am Christian, but not in the annoying way that many are. Just based on personal experience, it wouldn't surprise me because so many Christians that I've known were very judgmental two-faced people that tended to top it off with a "do as I say, not as I do" mentality. I was amazed that two people like this could live together for an extended period of time.
Statistically, the Bible Belt has the highest divorce rate, along with many other problems, like highest teen pregnancy rates, violent crime rates, etc. I would lump these people into the "conservative Christian" group. Maybe if they read the Bible instead of just thumping it around as a tool to scare people, they would have higher quality lives.