I agree. Despite what we want to believe, it's not as if the act of coding is in itself a skill that requires 5 years to learn. Especially considering that a large majority of code is not necessarily going into Google, but into some enterprise software where bubble sort is fine, and they're running on such fast machines anyways that it doesn't need to be using bit twiddling tricks to win a handful of cycles per second.
I think what we need to move more towards is getting CS people out of coding and into becoming software architects. Most software can be easily divided into (relatively) simple chunks, and if you have enough skills put into actually building software, instead of writing code (which is probably the least important part of the process), then the divisions become trivial.
We'll always need the super-skilled programmer to work on the single blocking function that eats up 90% of CPU time, and requries intricate knowledge of all the subsystems involved. But most of the time the code itself is just a translation of pretty simple ideas. Anyone with enough time and motivation can absorb the knowledge necessary to work on them. Think of all the Excel spreadsheets in the world, and how many people who would never say they are programmers actually build complex systems in them, because programming in itself isn't hard. What's hard is building something that is clear and maintanable.
CS grads, who do have (if superficial) knowledge of many different systems, have the knowledge to do the very sort of big picture design that is necessary to building maintanable software. We need to get these guys out of the workshop and into the design bureaus, because they are the ones with the knowledge necessary to become the architects of software. Much like how architects don't build houses, software architects shouldn't be relegated to writing code.
A well-designed system might have many small parts that can be hard to maintain, since it might've been written badly. But if the system is well-designed, the intent of the code will have been set on the outset, so you could rewrite it. And if it's small, a person with enough courage and time could decipher it. But the inverse situation is a true nightmare. A single "genius" programmer might by himself write the most amazing subroutines the world has ever seen, but if the general structure is incomprehensible, then the program will be maintanable.
Let's get CS grads out of coding, and into places where they're really needed.
>US Federal law only applies to US citizens
I believe federal law applies in any area of US jurisdiction. Being a foreigner does not somehow preclude you from this.
Pretty sure the UK ( or wherever assange was at the time of the crime ) isn't in that area, but espionage is espionage, I don't really think that the locality of the crime matters to the legal system. I don't see why the US couldn't ask for extradition.
maybe they thought they didn't need 30 police officers to arrest Madoff, while they would for a guy with one of the biggest gun collections in the country (assuming).
While web browsing and all that jazz might be relegated to phones and whatnot, even simple things like word processing (things "real people" do) become frustrating without a decent amount of screen real estate and stable input methods. While something like Surface answers (barely) this, it's really "just" a laptop with a flexible keyboard and a touchscreen. Even the most technologically inept person realises that a keyboard is pretty useful for fast typing.
I use "the cloud" all the time for personal things, but there have been a few times ( my wifi decides to stop working or my ISP decides to stop working or Dropbox decides to stop working) where I've welcomed my local fallback. Imagining that we're going towards a no-storage future ignores the problems our current infrastructure has.
The problem seems more linked to the fact that they use the same model , even if they use different images. This could be considered the "analysis" part of the book, as referenced in other comments, which can be protected by copyright.
Space-qualified microchips can cost something around 5000 euros. Equivalent chips that are "only" rated for automobile usage(for example), cost 10 cents.
Yeah, being a military dictator with pending charges of murder in Panama and France is pretty harmless....
That being said, the US does not have magical jurisdiction on everything.
least risky doesn't mean risk free. If we reach that point, I think I'd be worrying more about the global economy collapsing with the US' than my bond...
While I don't think the Dead Ringer and Eternal Reward are better, it's true that Backburner and (for example) the Ubersaw are pretty much better than their default weapon. But these weapons are gotten through achievements anyways, so after enough playtime you'll have them.
Why do people just think that anything that doesn't "seem right" is unconstitutional? Not only is the public debt of the US legal, but it is explicitly defined in the constitution(14th amendment), for example.
That being said, you could argue that "looking hispanic" might be too little to be probable cause , thus violating 4th amendment rights, but that depends on the judge.
This could just violate other laws(that aren't necessarily in the constitution) against racial profiling however.
I don't understand why so many people think this sort of tax doesn't make sense. We pay import duties for things bought overseas, this is the state equivalent.
oh wait that doesn't make sense, interstate commerce is supposed to be duty free.
A lot of people might not have access to high school CS classes.
And do you expect business majors to have started their own business before their first years?
While you find a lot of obsessional people in CS majors, who have been writing code for 10 years, it is not a necessary quality(nor is it sufficient) to have potential in the major.
While this is obviously not aimed at desktops, couldn't this version of windows run on ARM-enabled desktops? If so, then the ideal market for such (low-end, low-consumption computers) would have a lot less incentive to go over to windows 8
I'm sure there are examples to the contrary, but I'm pretty sure it's easier to work with people you get along with than with people you don't even talk to.
I don't think this is about making a happy-happy fun-time environment, but more about creating a culture of mutual understanding so people can work well together without having to show shitfits because of some misunderstandings or personal differences.
Granted there are people with certain character traits that no amount of lunches could fix, but that's another problem...
You forgot how buying physical copies let you own the CD/Vinyl/whatever, instead of a file that could be lost, either through human error(well guess my hard drive crashed!) or market forces( well guess amazon doesn't exist anymore!).
And Digital is far from complete in certain areas.Being a big classical music fan, it greatly annoys me how few performances of certain pieces can be found in the digital marketplace. And many of the performances are quite lackluster. Good thing I do have some physical copies of performances I like and have listened to for years, god knows if I could find them again.
But independent record stores often cary stuff you wont find in the big retailers. Granted the Internet argument is valid, as it is with most any meatspace vendor. I still think people enjoy going into stores every once in a while though, and you don't get that through amazon.
... and a simple, almost-no-config necessary access to hundreds of scripts, along with a well built interface that doesn't force me to be a lua expert to do anything interesting. Discounting the work that went into that is insulting.
99 cents won't make someone have a decent salary. Tech books are rarely million sellers. And tech books are usually the kinds of books that have the most man-hours put into it
I think you were looking for immoral(ie against moral sense) instead of amoral(ie not relating to moral values).
Pedantry aside, I understand not wanting to look at ads. I've just had relatively good experiences with ads(sometimes they actually inform me about things I want) that I don't mind them and will sometimes click on them. I think most sites have gone beyond the "200 popup ads" phase.
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I agree. Despite what we want to believe, it's not as if the act of coding is in itself a skill that requires 5 years to learn. Especially considering that a large majority of code is not necessarily going into Google, but into some enterprise software where bubble sort is fine, and they're running on such fast machines anyways that it doesn't need to be using bit twiddling tricks to win a handful of cycles per second.
I think what we need to move more towards is getting CS people out of coding and into becoming software architects. Most software can be easily divided into (relatively) simple chunks, and if you have enough skills put into actually building software, instead of writing code (which is probably the least important part of the process), then the divisions become trivial.
We'll always need the super-skilled programmer to work on the single blocking function that eats up 90% of CPU time, and requries intricate knowledge of all the subsystems involved. But most of the time the code itself is just a translation of pretty simple ideas. Anyone with enough time and motivation can absorb the knowledge necessary to work on them. Think of all the Excel spreadsheets in the world, and how many people who would never say they are programmers actually build complex systems in them, because programming in itself isn't hard. What's hard is building something that is clear and maintanable.
CS grads, who do have (if superficial) knowledge of many different systems, have the knowledge to do the very sort of big picture design that is necessary to building maintanable software. We need to get these guys out of the workshop and into the design bureaus, because they are the ones with the knowledge necessary to become the architects of software. Much like how architects don't build houses, software architects shouldn't be relegated to writing code.
A well-designed system might have many small parts that can be hard to maintain, since it might've been written badly. But if the system is well-designed, the intent of the code will have been set on the outset, so you could rewrite it. And if it's small, a person with enough courage and time could decipher it. But the inverse situation is a true nightmare. A single "genius" programmer might by himself write the most amazing subroutines the world has ever seen, but if the general structure is incomprehensible, then the program will be maintanable.
Let's get CS grads out of coding, and into places where they're really needed.
>US Federal law only applies to US citizens I believe federal law applies in any area of US jurisdiction. Being a foreigner does not somehow preclude you from this. Pretty sure the UK ( or wherever assange was at the time of the crime ) isn't in that area, but espionage is espionage, I don't really think that the locality of the crime matters to the legal system. I don't see why the US couldn't ask for extradition.
maybe they thought they didn't need 30 police officers to arrest Madoff, while they would for a guy with one of the biggest gun collections in the country (assuming).
While web browsing and all that jazz might be relegated to phones and whatnot, even simple things like word processing (things "real people" do) become frustrating without a decent amount of screen real estate and stable input methods. While something like Surface answers (barely) this, it's really "just" a laptop with a flexible keyboard and a touchscreen. Even the most technologically inept person realises that a keyboard is pretty useful for fast typing. I use "the cloud" all the time for personal things, but there have been a few times ( my wifi decides to stop working or my ISP decides to stop working or Dropbox decides to stop working) where I've welcomed my local fallback. Imagining that we're going towards a no-storage future ignores the problems our current infrastructure has.
Google already has video recognition filters in place. Granted it's not nearly as develloped as their music recognition but it exists.
Yelling out generalities doesn't make you any righter.
The problem seems more linked to the fact that they use the same model , even if they use different images. This could be considered the "analysis" part of the book, as referenced in other comments, which can be protected by copyright.
Space-qualified microchips can cost something around 5000 euros. Equivalent chips that are "only" rated for automobile usage(for example), cost 10 cents.
Yeah, being a military dictator with pending charges of murder in Panama and France is pretty harmless.... That being said, the US does not have magical jurisdiction on everything.
least risky doesn't mean risk free. If we reach that point, I think I'd be worrying more about the global economy collapsing with the US' than my bond...
Except, unlike a ponzi scheme, the US government has other forms of revenue ( taxes), meaning it's possible for it to pay back the debts....
I think the word you're looking for is "design" Never let a programmer design your applications
While I don't think the Dead Ringer and Eternal Reward are better, it's true that Backburner and (for example) the Ubersaw are pretty much better than their default weapon. But these weapons are gotten through achievements anyways, so after enough playtime you'll have them.
Why do people just think that anything that doesn't "seem right" is unconstitutional? Not only is the public debt of the US legal, but it is explicitly defined in the constitution(14th amendment), for example.
That being said, you could argue that "looking hispanic" might be too little to be probable cause , thus violating 4th amendment rights, but that depends on the judge.
This could just violate other laws(that aren't necessarily in the constitution) against racial profiling however.
I don't understand why so many people think this sort of tax doesn't make sense. We pay import duties for things bought overseas, this is the state equivalent.
oh wait that doesn't make sense, interstate commerce is supposed to be duty free.
A lot of people might not have access to high school CS classes. And do you expect business majors to have started their own business before their first years? While you find a lot of obsessional people in CS majors, who have been writing code for 10 years, it is not a necessary quality(nor is it sufficient) to have potential in the major.
While this is obviously not aimed at desktops, couldn't this version of windows run on ARM-enabled desktops? If so, then the ideal market for such (low-end, low-consumption computers) would have a lot less incentive to go over to windows 8
I'm sure there are examples to the contrary, but I'm pretty sure it's easier to work with people you get along with than with people you don't even talk to. I don't think this is about making a happy-happy fun-time environment, but more about creating a culture of mutual understanding so people can work well together without having to show shitfits because of some misunderstandings or personal differences. Granted there are people with certain character traits that no amount of lunches could fix, but that's another problem...
You forgot how buying physical copies let you own the CD/Vinyl/whatever, instead of a file that could be lost, either through human error(well guess my hard drive crashed!) or market forces( well guess amazon doesn't exist anymore!). And Digital is far from complete in certain areas.Being a big classical music fan, it greatly annoys me how few performances of certain pieces can be found in the digital marketplace. And many of the performances are quite lackluster. Good thing I do have some physical copies of performances I like and have listened to for years, god knows if I could find them again.
But independent record stores often cary stuff you wont find in the big retailers. Granted the Internet argument is valid, as it is with most any meatspace vendor. I still think people enjoy going into stores every once in a while though, and you don't get that through amazon.
... and a simple, almost-no-config necessary access to hundreds of scripts, along with a well built interface that doesn't force me to be a lua expert to do anything interesting. Discounting the work that went into that is insulting.
Year of the linux desktop!
but isn't GPL the peak of licensing? I thought re-licensing was impossible under it.
99 cents won't make someone have a decent salary. Tech books are rarely million sellers. And tech books are usually the kinds of books that have the most man-hours put into it
I think you were looking for immoral(ie against moral sense) instead of amoral(ie not relating to moral values). Pedantry aside, I understand not wanting to look at ads. I've just had relatively good experiences with ads(sometimes they actually inform me about things I want) that I don't mind them and will sometimes click on them. I think most sites have gone beyond the "200 popup ads" phase.