Always fucking expand the first instance of your acronym in your summary. Always.
... and yet every article here about Stallman is titled with "RMS", as if most educated people wouldn't see that as Root Mean Square instead of referring to some random hairy dude.
Big Data algorithms like the ones used by Google and IBM appear to be displacing even white collar tech workers. How long before the only ones left on the payroll are the few "rockstar" programmers and administrators needed to maintain the system?
Anyone familiar with the BS processes and positions the grow up around SDLC knows this will never, ever happen. Businesses love to highly overcomplicate software development, often turning simple, single person projects into impossible to complete, 20+ person clusterf*cks.
And it's too bad - most of the work I've encountered suggests that a ton of developers do indeed need to be kicked out of the industry.
I agree that too many people get into the field that shouldn't, but you're out of line using your example to generalize to all autodidacts. The most brilliant people in any field are by definition autodidacts, because what education offers falls short of their capabilities.
Also, CS teaches absolutely nothing about good real-world design. The most perverse architectures I've seen have come from the highly educated - and I say that being highly educated myself. To borrow an old military cliche, many with high degrees fall into the "diligent but stupid" camp.
...I'm feeling a bit smug about this development. I can hold it six inches away from my nose, peer under my glasses, and have the equivalent FOV and resolution of a 28-inch desktop display, handheld.
If you were profoundly nearsighted you'd know that 6" is not a near-sighted reading distance for smartphones - that's a common distance for normal vision.
The AMA has lobbied successfully to make it illegal for a patient to find out the malpractice history of physicians.
This may be true for your state, but not in MA. You can go here to review the profile of any physician that has ever been registered in the state of Massachusetts. These profiles include malpractice, disciplinary action, and criminal history. This information is primary and authoritative; the site that hospitals and other healthcare providers use to check on their doctors, and what the public sees, is one in the same. In addition, anyone is allowed to call the Board of Medicine to request specific details about any averse information shown here.
Many other states have similar websites that were made in direct response to the concerns of those like you.
Sure, the body would burn up for most vehicles -- the shuttle sees a temperature of around 1500 C for 15 to 20 minutes which I'm confident would do the job
According to Randall Munroe, the corpse wouldn't burn up on re-entry.
The Web programming language of the future must also make it easier for the programmer to build and test applications.
Jesus, then get rid of HTML. Have the web "developers" keep their markup and scripting language, but it all needs to compile down to a lower-level standard that isn't categorically "web".
A simpler surface would be easier to secure, easier to implement and optimize per platform, and would free all the higher-level stuff to evolve under market forces instead of a ponderous standards committee.
Nothing will change for the better until the system and the rules that govern it do, changes that are extremely unlikely to be made by elected officials.
By the way, the Tea Party is the very definition of a special interest group.
The complaints seem to be about a lot of perfectly fixable usability problems, common to open source development tools, that nobody's bothered, or will ever bother, to address.
I know - we're supposed to hate MS here - but I've never had these problems in projects of any type, large or small, closed or open source, using Visual Studio.
And you get people also complaining that if making programming (actually, using the programming tools) too easy makes bad programmers. Which is total bullshit.
Demand far outstrips the supply of what you would call a reasonably skilled programmer. Also, unless you get an interview that requires coding (all should, none do) it is practically impossible for an interviewer to tell a good developer from a bad one.
Don't bother learning anything ahead of time... just memorize jargon, and you can land a job where you can screw around for six months before they figure out they made a mistake.
I clean up the messes this creates all the time. Good luck.
The word here is zero carbs, not low carbs. I'm sure your diet worked great for you.
I can't find a link to the study any more (2008 I think), it was about using a zero-carb diet to increase endurance in Olympic athletes. Results showed that it worked (endurance was increased) in both humans and mice, but it always resulted in brittle diabetes. Discussed at a MITOC lecture.
And wow... I wonder if/. has a way of detecting people who mod comments down and then post trollish replies to them as an AC.
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Always fucking expand the first instance of your acronym in your summary. Always.
... and yet every article here about Stallman is titled with "RMS", as if most educated people wouldn't see that as Root Mean Square instead of referring to some random hairy dude.
Big Data algorithms like the ones used by Google and IBM appear to be displacing even white collar tech workers. How long before the only ones left on the payroll are the few "rockstar" programmers and administrators needed to maintain the system?
Anyone familiar with the BS processes and positions the grow up around SDLC knows this will never, ever happen. Businesses love to highly overcomplicate software development, often turning simple, single person projects into impossible to complete, 20+ person clusterf*cks.
And it's too bad - most of the work I've encountered suggests that a ton of developers do indeed need to be kicked out of the industry.
"The web is just an enormous stack of kluges upon hacks upon misbegotten designs
Actually, the web is an enormous stack of kluges piled on top of a standard applied at an entirely inappropriate level of abstraction.
The problem isn't with programming or its tools, it's that HTML desperately needs to be replaced with something lower-level.
I agree that too many people get into the field that shouldn't, but you're out of line using your example to generalize to all autodidacts. The most brilliant people in any field are by definition autodidacts, because what education offers falls short of their capabilities.
Also, CS teaches absolutely nothing about good real-world design. The most perverse architectures I've seen have come from the highly educated - and I say that being highly educated myself. To borrow an old military cliche, many with high degrees fall into the "diligent but stupid" camp.
...I'm feeling a bit smug about this development. I can hold it six inches away from my nose, peer under my glasses, and have the equivalent FOV and resolution of a 28-inch desktop display, handheld.
If you were profoundly nearsighted you'd know that 6" is not a near-sighted reading distance for smartphones - that's a common distance for normal vision.
Maybe you meant to say 3".
Taking your own initiative to improve efficiency and effectiveness? In the military?
It's hard to understand because the expected response is a reprimand.
I don't want to slag the Firefox devs too badly (hey, it's a free browser)
I wouldn't feel too bad about slagging them, they deserve it.
They've spent their development time screwing up the UI instead of working on a major 13 year old bug that's annoyed everyone since its release.
The AMA has lobbied successfully to make it illegal for a patient to find out the malpractice history of physicians.
This may be true for your state, but not in MA. You can go here to review the profile of any physician that has ever been registered in the state of Massachusetts. These profiles include malpractice, disciplinary action, and criminal history. This information is primary and authoritative; the site that hospitals and other healthcare providers use to check on their doctors, and what the public sees, is one in the same. In addition, anyone is allowed to call the Board of Medicine to request specific details about any averse information shown here.
Many other states have similar websites that were made in direct response to the concerns of those like you.
Sure, the body would burn up for most vehicles -- the shuttle sees a temperature of around 1500 C for 15 to 20 minutes which I'm confident would do the job
According to Randall Munroe, the corpse wouldn't burn up on re-entry.
Every person who modded this story up should have their karma removed.
That's kind of sociopathic of them to pull that kind of a stunt unless the dispute is resolved, cooperatively.
All sufficiently large organizations tend toward sociopathy.
with video and not include an example of the camera's output?
Seriously, was it just too difficult?
Maybe I'm just in a bad mood, but it pissed me off that the whole video was just some dude talking.
If you're going to be that lazy just give us a transcript.
GUI for web, mobile and desktop. One language?
Even if you could get away with that, the language itself is the most trivial part of learning a platform.
Just don't bother. Seriously. If you don't have time, reign in your expectations.
This is open-and-shut case, and the only question is what the settlement and payout to Jonathan Daniel would be.
Normal people aren't allowed to pay their way out of jail for their crimes.
Why are there settlements instead of sentences when a business or any other type of organization is involved?
The Web programming language of the future must also make it easier for the programmer to build and test applications.
Jesus, then get rid of HTML. Have the web "developers" keep their markup and scripting language, but it all needs to compile down to a lower-level standard that isn't categorically "web".
A simpler surface would be easier to secure, easier to implement and optimize per platform, and would free all the higher-level stuff to evolve under market forces instead of a ponderous standards committee.
Nothing will change for the better until the system and the rules that govern it do, changes that are extremely unlikely to be made by elected officials.
By the way, the Tea Party is the very definition of a special interest group.
can I rage against it?
The complaints seem to be about a lot of perfectly fixable usability problems, common to open source development tools, that nobody's bothered, or will ever bother, to address.
I know - we're supposed to hate MS here - but I've never had these problems in projects of any type, large or small, closed or open source, using Visual Studio.
And you get people also complaining that if making programming (actually, using the programming tools) too easy makes bad programmers. Which is total bullshit.
that you need to know what you're doing.
Demand far outstrips the supply of what you would call a reasonably skilled programmer. Also, unless you get an interview that requires coding (all should, none do) it is practically impossible for an interviewer to tell a good developer from a bad one.
Don't bother learning anything ahead of time... just memorize jargon, and you can land a job where you can screw around for six months before they figure out they made a mistake.
I clean up the messes this creates all the time. Good luck.
I don't think that word means what you think it does.
Oh, it's timothy...
Never mind. At least this one's readable and has complete sentences.
Thorium 232 + a neutron -> Uranium 233.
No entirely accurate.
Th232 + n -> Th233 -> U233 + e
You forgot to bombard the Th 233 with a positron going backward in time.
You mean, a positron. Or, an electron, going backwards in time.
BTW most physicists don't believe that positrons are electrons moving backwards in time.
'academic librarian doesn't know how to proofread or use spell-check'
The word here is zero carbs, not low carbs. I'm sure your diet worked great for you.
/. has a way of detecting people who mod comments down and then post trollish replies to them as an AC.
I can't find a link to the study any more (2008 I think), it was about using a zero-carb diet to increase endurance in Olympic athletes. Results showed that it worked (endurance was increased) in both humans and mice, but it always resulted in brittle diabetes. Discussed at a MITOC lecture.
And wow... I wonder if
Not you - the other post.
Everything I write down I forget, because I know it's written down.
It's better to go into class knowing that you have to pay attention.
until I realized that CMU had not, in fact, developed an iron man suit, or anything else in the Marvel comics movies.