They were cancelled due to threats, but the reinstatement was not because of threats but by others pointing out how it was counter productive and an inappropriate response to threats.
Yes it is. SJW has not been used on slashdot to mean anything other than ultra liberal male hating idiots. When has anyone here ever used it to mean someone who cares about other people and hopes to end racism and sexism? When has anyone here used that word to refer to anyone else without foaming at the mouth?
So you deny it all? No anti-SJW gamergate believer has ever promoted violence, never stalked anyone, never phoned in death threats, and that it's all about gaming journalism ethics and mass media has got it all wrong?
If we're an adult, we should be in an environment more mature than the school playground. At school when we were immature asses, we called each other pussies and dicks. As an adult in my life, it does not happen anymore. We grew out of it. If someone things these are still appropriate terms to use after the age of 18 then they've got some stunted mental growth.
I agree. They do test on smaller machines, but only at the end of the development cycle. Basically they're marketing to the sorts of people who spend $300 on graphics cards and who get a new machine every other year.
I didn't realize you were referring to younger kids when I hit submit. There's always the classic Logo. Also not as popular but the Squeak Smalltalk was nice.
Yes and no. It depends on the person. The worst were the students who felt they knew it all already, and that classes pointless. They'd bitch that declaring variables was a waste of time, they'd not do well in groups, and overall it felt like they had a big chip on their shoulder because they went from the guy who know how to program to the dummy who can't figure it out. Other people however who didn't show up with preconceptions or ego were able to move away from BASIC more easily.
Pascal is still probably the best. And one advantage is that no one uses it much anymore. Teaching the popular stuff is counterproductive and mostly only serves the corporate overlords.
AP can be ignored, teach what's relevant rather than to the test, because high school is too early for real computer science.
My point was not to label the actions of a few nut jubs as representative of all people who are left leaning politically. Because that's what the original post implied, that "liberals" were the cause.
No, the Nazis were not "socialist" beyond a few token programs. And of course, neither were their biggest allies the Fascist Italians. I agree though that the fascist governments, like most dictatorships, never really fit into classical French styles of left vs right.
Of course, a lot of people deny this and sometimes redefine terms to make it seem that they're right. For instance I see people trying to define the Nazi party as a leftist political movement, which is very absurd.
Yes, this is not a political phenomena going on here, but more of a continuation of trying to build a perfectly sheltered environment for children. At some point the offspring will encounter opposing view points, perhaps discover that evil exists in the world. They must be ready at that point to have a rational discussion. Instead we're teaching the offspring to either shut out the offense or to attack it.
And that is indeed what the modern political landscape looks like: with many people shutting themselves off from those with other views and never leaving their bubbles, and many people always on the offense who treat those with differing views the same as enemies.
Bullshit. This coalition is not "liberals", it probably covers a large range of political backgrounds. If you look at attitudes historically, left leaning political views are very often more tolerant than right leaning views. Using liberal/conservative labels just glosses over differences, those terms are more commonly used by people with a strict binary view of politics.
The free-speech movement at Berkeley in the 70s is today mistakenly labeled as a liberal/hippy anomaly, but it was from a broad coalition of student clubs and groups of all types and leanings because the restrictions on free speech affected every single student.
This anti free speech trend by some students is a new phenomena in some ways. However it is not a liberal trend, not a conservative trend, etc.
The rational side says you get more motivated employees instead of indentured servants. That's gotta help out the bottom line if you're a business that deals with actual customers (probably irrelevant if you only sell to the government though). If you underpay people they will underperform. If you treat employees as fundible assets then they will behave like fungible assets.
It can vary from state to state also. States generally grant additional rights to real employees. From how you describe it, I'd say they were employees even though FedEx disagrees. The reason to make them contractors is to avoid legal hassles, keep health insurance costs down, have someone else to pass the blame to.
I know someone who's a contractor, working for several companies at once, and a few of his employers have gone the route of only hiring contractors through temp agencies to avoid law suits. Those agencies then try to verify that the contractor is properly classified through some rather arbitrary criteria (do you bring your own tools, are you allowed to work for more than one company, can you sub-contract to another person or agency, are you required to work full time, etc).
College degree doesn't say anything about job competence, and it's not really the point. What the degree says is that you've been educated, you understand the concepts, possibly there was a little training on the side, but mostly it says that you learned how to learn. Thus an English major degree is better than nothing because there's been at least a year or two of rigorous mental activity, learning how to write, learning how to research, etc, stuff that you almost never get in a high school.
He gave stuff to schools, but that was mostly a marketing push. Get kids hooked on Apple products early. The machines were often left unused because there was no training or guidance on how to use them.
East Palo Alto. Also there are parts in Palo Alto itself, and Menlo Park, that are poor. The divide between rich and poor is just a hell of a lot higher in those areas than most others.
Will that always be possible though. The games as installed are probably easy to crack, but the games before installation may be encrypted and thus vastly more difficult to deal with. Of course, you could torrent the whole thing, but that's likely to still remain illegal.
It's a shortcut, so it's attractive. Skip extensive training, skip college, and still get the benefits of those. You could not take a welding course in that period of time and expect to get a job with it, without needing a whole lot more training and apprenticeship. Imagine if you could become a military officer by skipping West Point by having a few week long course in officer academy. Or become a physician in a month or two. No one would accept that. But with coding they do. Wishful thinking, but also something that is so alien that parents just don't know what it takes.
Maybe one cause is that coding (much less programming or computer science) is a complete unknown to most people, parents too, that they don't know how to gauge if a few weeks is long enough to learn it or not.
The drawbacks is that you are producing more idiots en-masse when we already have to many. You will get people who can possibly code, if lucky, but know nothing else whatsoever. It means High School is the maximum of their education; no additional breadth requirements to get that degree, no in depth requirements, nothing. These people will almost certainly hit a brick wall in advancement immediately.
Sure, there will be a few people who make it without the education. Parents should learn that this is the rare exception, not the rule. The college drop outs who became billionaires are an oddity, and they succeeded because of factors other than coding skills.
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They were cancelled due to threats, but the reinstatement was not because of threats but by others pointing out how it was counter productive and an inappropriate response to threats.
Yes it is. SJW has not been used on slashdot to mean anything other than ultra liberal male hating idiots. When has anyone here ever used it to mean someone who cares about other people and hopes to end racism and sexism? When has anyone here used that word to refer to anyone else without foaming at the mouth?
So you deny it all? No anti-SJW gamergate believer has ever promoted violence, never stalked anyone, never phoned in death threats, and that it's all about gaming journalism ethics and mass media has got it all wrong?
If we're an adult, we should be in an environment more mature than the school playground. At school when we were immature asses, we called each other pussies and dicks. As an adult in my life, it does not happen anymore. We grew out of it. If someone things these are still appropriate terms to use after the age of 18 then they've got some stunted mental growth.
Never get the latest versions. They may fix bugs, but they add unwanted and ill meaning new features.
Isn't there a helium shortage already?
I agree. They do test on smaller machines, but only at the end of the development cycle. Basically they're marketing to the sorts of people who spend $300 on graphics cards and who get a new machine every other year.
I didn't realize you were referring to younger kids when I hit submit.
There's always the classic Logo. Also not as popular but the Squeak Smalltalk was nice.
Yes and no. It depends on the person. The worst were the students who felt they knew it all already, and that classes pointless. They'd bitch that declaring variables was a waste of time, they'd not do well in groups, and overall it felt like they had a big chip on their shoulder because they went from the guy who know how to program to the dummy who can't figure it out. Other people however who didn't show up with preconceptions or ego were able to move away from BASIC more easily.
Pascal is still probably the best. And one advantage is that no one uses it much anymore. Teaching the popular stuff is counterproductive and mostly only serves the corporate overlords.
AP can be ignored, teach what's relevant rather than to the test, because high school is too early for real computer science.
I only use Fakeblock.
My point was not to label the actions of a few nut jubs as representative of all people who are left leaning politically. Because that's what the original post implied, that "liberals" were the cause.
No, the Nazis were not "socialist" beyond a few token programs. And of course, neither were their biggest allies the Fascist Italians. I agree though that the fascist governments, like most dictatorships, never really fit into classical French styles of left vs right.
And besides, you can get along just fine with only one thumb.
Of course, a lot of people deny this and sometimes redefine terms to make it seem that they're right. For instance I see people trying to define the Nazi party as a leftist political movement, which is very absurd.
Yes, this is not a political phenomena going on here, but more of a continuation of trying to build a perfectly sheltered environment for children. At some point the offspring will encounter opposing view points, perhaps discover that evil exists in the world. They must be ready at that point to have a rational discussion. Instead we're teaching the offspring to either shut out the offense or to attack it.
And that is indeed what the modern political landscape looks like: with many people shutting themselves off from those with other views and never leaving their bubbles, and many people always on the offense who treat those with differing views the same as enemies.
Bullshit. This coalition is not "liberals", it probably covers a large range of political backgrounds. If you look at attitudes historically, left leaning political views are very often more tolerant than right leaning views. Using liberal/conservative labels just glosses over differences, those terms are more commonly used by people with a strict binary view of politics.
The free-speech movement at Berkeley in the 70s is today mistakenly labeled as a liberal/hippy anomaly, but it was from a broad coalition of student clubs and groups of all types and leanings because the restrictions on free speech affected every single student.
This anti free speech trend by some students is a new phenomena in some ways. However it is not a liberal trend, not a conservative trend, etc.
If they plumber has to work on the house 8 hours a day for 300 days out of the year, then maybe that's appropriate.
The rational side says you get more motivated employees instead of indentured servants. That's gotta help out the bottom line if you're a business that deals with actual customers (probably irrelevant if you only sell to the government though). If you underpay people they will underperform. If you treat employees as fundible assets then they will behave like fungible assets.
It can vary from state to state also. States generally grant additional rights to real employees. From how you describe it, I'd say they were employees even though FedEx disagrees. The reason to make them contractors is to avoid legal hassles, keep health insurance costs down, have someone else to pass the blame to.
I know someone who's a contractor, working for several companies at once, and a few of his employers have gone the route of only hiring contractors through temp agencies to avoid law suits. Those agencies then try to verify that the contractor is properly classified through some rather arbitrary criteria (do you bring your own tools, are you allowed to work for more than one company, can you sub-contract to another person or agency, are you required to work full time, etc).
College degree doesn't say anything about job competence, and it's not really the point. What the degree says is that you've been educated, you understand the concepts, possibly there was a little training on the side, but mostly it says that you learned how to learn. Thus an English major degree is better than nothing because there's been at least a year or two of rigorous mental activity, learning how to write, learning how to research, etc, stuff that you almost never get in a high school.
He gave stuff to schools, but that was mostly a marketing push. Get kids hooked on Apple products early. The machines were often left unused because there was no training or guidance on how to use them.
East Palo Alto. Also there are parts in Palo Alto itself, and Menlo Park, that are poor. The divide between rich and poor is just a hell of a lot higher in those areas than most others.
Will that always be possible though. The games as installed are probably easy to crack, but the games before installation may be encrypted and thus vastly more difficult to deal with. Of course, you could torrent the whole thing, but that's likely to still remain illegal.
It's a shortcut, so it's attractive. Skip extensive training, skip college, and still get the benefits of those. You could not take a welding course in that period of time and expect to get a job with it, without needing a whole lot more training and apprenticeship. Imagine if you could become a military officer by skipping West Point by having a few week long course in officer academy. Or become a physician in a month or two. No one would accept that. But with coding they do. Wishful thinking, but also something that is so alien that parents just don't know what it takes.
Maybe one cause is that coding (much less programming or computer science) is a complete unknown to most people, parents too, that they don't know how to gauge if a few weeks is long enough to learn it or not.
The drawbacks is that you are producing more idiots en-masse when we already have to many. You will get people who can possibly code, if lucky, but know nothing else whatsoever. It means High School is the maximum of their education; no additional breadth requirements to get that degree, no in depth requirements, nothing. These people will almost certainly hit a brick wall in advancement immediately.
Sure, there will be a few people who make it without the education. Parents should learn that this is the rare exception, not the rule. The college drop outs who became billionaires are an oddity, and they succeeded because of factors other than coding skills.