> How long did you bash your head against your desk before you tried looking for the solutions?
In case you're not deliberately trolling - I didn't spend ANY time on those problem sets.
> If you are actually prepared to learn a whole course, you would actually be prepared to spend 12 hours on a problem set.
Come on, combinatorics? You really think I'd be willing to do that without knowing that I could verify my work when I was done?
Without the solutions my time would be more productively spent attempting to apply the lecture notes directly to the problem I'm working on, or a subset thereof.
By the way, when I was at MIT, I *never* spent 12 hours on a problem set. Except for the labs, most of the time, even 3 hours was pushing it.
Just the other day I got stuck on a particularly woolly Project Euler problem and cruised on by http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/ to finally learn 6.042/18.062. I was actually prepared to learn a whole course worth of material, was psyched I'd found the motivation, only to have cold water poured on me when I discovered that the problem set solutions aren't posted. Looked around at other courses and found that this is not uncommon.
What's the point of this MITx with only one course? Why don't they get serious with what they started with OpenCourseWare first? I'd like to see them go all-in for most of course 6, 8, and 18.
Groups of people tend toward internal modes counter to their purpose. The larger and longer-lived the group, the stronger this effect. It's easy to think we're intelligent and capable beings when you look at individuals, but on larger scales our true nature becomes clear. Unnecessary disasters will always plague large engineering projects, because we're more like monkeys than ants.
Pet peeve of mine. Many times when I click on an article I want to see a picture. Pics or it didn't happen. I expected to see what the printed jaw looks like, the machine that made it, or the woman who received it. Or hell, even the researchers that created it. But instead we get this.
Can't we get articles posted closer to the original source instead of these crap repeater sites?
Even if there were a large ball of Uranium at the center of the Earth, there would be no net change in mass from nuclear decay as the energy it created would have a mass identical to the matter that was annihilated to create it. Yes, this energy would eventually come out as heat and could be lost to space, but it would get rolled into all the other planet-wide processes that generate or lose heat. No meaningful measure of "planetary mass loss due to fission in the Earth's core" is possible.
User-generated anything (code, data, content, etc) is best supported when you allow many modes of expression, and freedom to change without a standards committee getting in the way.
On the other hand, machines require a fixed standard, or something that changes relatively infrequently.
For this reason, I think the choice of any scripting language here is as ill-conceived as the web itself being standardized on HTML/JavaScript.
On the rst traversal, the avatar can safely land on top of the enemy and dig a hole on the left.
The AI will make the enemy fall in the hole, so the avatar may follow
it, land on its top again, and proceed through a ladder, while the enemy
remains forever trapped in the hole below. The avatar cannot attempt to
traverse the gadget a second time without getting stuck in the hole where
the enemy previously was.
Apparently, in Germany, everyone at university-bound high schools takes calculus. It's just expected. It doesn't matter if they're going to be in science or math. It is taught in case they might use it, and so that they can be generally more-knowledgeable people. The same, in my view, should apply with programming. It teaches rigorous, formal thinking skills, something that is sorely lacking in American academia.
It's a different culture, calculus is a minus here. Knowing anything is tantamount to saying you hate god and eat babies.
I'm a programmer because I taught myself and it was fun. If I'd been forced to take it as a subject I never would have taken this career path; one thing my school was really, really good at was making every subject insufferably dull.
But this is a good idea for making sure you're familiar with all the features the IDE offers. Done right, with interactive walkthroughs and whatnot, achievements could serve as an excellent supplement to documentation.
seriously, if you are in the west, you will be outsourced. maybe not in 5 yrs but certainly in 10. I'd bet money on it.
Sorry, but I really don't see evidence of that myself. Everywhere I've been, and everyone I've talked to in the last 5 years in software, it's all the same refrain - outsourcing is a disaster, avoid it at all costs. Yes it's OK for some things related to development, but not the coding itself.
Also, at least in my area, I see demand for developers starting to boom again. I've been getting regular headhunter calls since the middle of last year. Maybe you're living in an economically depressed (tech-wise) area, or could benefit by changing technologies or attitude.
I do agree, though, that working in normal software employment as a grunt is usually a shit job, mostly because of endemic poor management practice in the industry. Nothing beats being your own boss.
That wasn't exactly the best way to say it, but I agree. Derision of users is frequently offered as a justification for laziness in design.
Ironically, developers are the ones that suffer the most from this attitude. We have to deal with stuff that "normal" users would never put up with, up to and including obvious breakage.
I mean, hell, even/. provided us with an example for several months.
Here is an excerpt from 0xOmar's original post on pastebin:
It's first part of our release, my goal is reacing 1 million non-duplicate people, which is 1/6 of Israel's population.
...
What's fun for us?
- Watching 400,000 people gathered in front of Israeli credit card companies and banks, complaining about cards and that they are stolen
- Watching Israeli banks shredding 400,000 credit cards and re-generate new cards (so costly, huh?)
- Watching people purchasing stuff for theirself using the cards and making Israeli credit cards untrustable in the world, like Nigerian credit cards
- and much more...
The alleged goal is to hurt lots of random people without any personal gain. And what is the goal of terrorism?
The alleged goal is to hurt lots of random people without any personal gain. And what is the goal of terrorism?
Wrong.
The US Code of Federal Regulation states that terrorism is "...the unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives."
Of course this places many first-world governments squarely in 'terrorist organization' camp, particularly the US and Israel. This is why this definition is downplayed or ignored, but rather replaced with a hand-waving 'complicated to define', or more recently, 'whatever we say it is'.
Can't do that. It'll never sell, and the issue isn't the genetic modifications themselves and their positives or negatives. It's the perceived un-naturalness of the GM process. People buy "organic" stuff - paying significant premiums - as if that means anything in practice. The perception is that it's more natural.
So what? GM is unnecessary. Heaven forbid, lost profits to some megacorp if we have labels. Give people what they want.
I'm happy to be able to come in, do my thing, and let someone else worry about all that other shit. Long as I'm reasonably well treated and paid... I'm happy being a wage slave.
I'm under the impression pure development jobs are hard to find. In regular employment I always found crap like installing, troubleshooting and maintaining infrastructure, testing, managing others, documentation, (usually completely pointless) project management, and endless, worthless meetings took up a good chunk of my time. Often most of it.
... providing decent metrics for software development *is* possible. The biggest problem is that we don't want to admit that it is just a really difficult problem; instead we give up. And giving up is what is BS.
Who's giving up? You really think you can speak for every one of us? Who died and made you God.
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> How long did you bash your head against your desk before you tried looking for the solutions?
In case you're not deliberately trolling - I didn't spend ANY time on those problem sets.
> If you are actually prepared to learn a whole course, you would actually be prepared to spend 12 hours on a problem set.
Come on, combinatorics? You really think I'd be willing to do that without knowing that I could verify my work when I was done?
Without the solutions my time would be more productively spent attempting to apply the lecture notes directly to the problem I'm working on, or a subset thereof.
By the way, when I was at MIT, I *never* spent 12 hours on a problem set. Except for the labs, most of the time, even 3 hours was pushing it.
Just the other day I got stuck on a particularly woolly Project Euler problem and cruised on by http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/ to finally learn 6.042/18.062. I was actually prepared to learn a whole course worth of material, was psyched I'd found the motivation, only to have cold water poured on me when I discovered that the problem set solutions aren't posted. Looked around at other courses and found that this is not uncommon.
What's the point of this MITx with only one course? Why don't they get serious with what they started with OpenCourseWare first? I'd like to see them go all-in for most of course 6, 8, and 18.
My kingdom, for a mod point.
Groups of people tend toward internal modes counter to their purpose. The larger and longer-lived the group, the stronger this effect. It's easy to think we're intelligent and capable beings when you look at individuals, but on larger scales our true nature becomes clear. Unnecessary disasters will always plague large engineering projects, because we're more like monkeys than ants.
Pet peeve of mine. Many times when I click on an article I want to see a picture. Pics or it didn't happen. I expected to see what the printed jaw looks like, the machine that made it, or the woman who received it. Or hell, even the researchers that created it. But instead we get this.
Can't we get articles posted closer to the original source instead of these crap repeater sites?
Even if there were a large ball of Uranium at the center of the Earth, there would be no net change in mass from nuclear decay as the energy it created would have a mass identical to the matter that was annihilated to create it. Yes, this energy would eventually come out as heat and could be lost to space, but it would get rolled into all the other planet-wide processes that generate or lose heat. No meaningful measure of "planetary mass loss due to fission in the Earth's core" is possible.
User-generated anything (code, data, content, etc) is best supported when you allow many modes of expression, and freedom to change without a standards committee getting in the way.
On the other hand, machines require a fixed standard, or something that changes relatively infrequently.
For this reason, I think the choice of any scripting language here is as ill-conceived as the web itself being standardized on HTML/JavaScript.
Yes it's a typo, one that I can never correct no matter how it nettles to see that I made it.
Also - I never played the arcade version, so I stand corrected.
On the rst traversal, the avatar can safely land on top of the enemy and dig a hole on the left. The AI will make the enemy fall in the hole, so the avatar may follow it, land on its top again, and proceed through a ladder, while the enemy remains forever trapped in the hole below. The avatar cannot attempt to traverse the gadget a second time without getting stuck in the hole where the enemy previously was.
That's just not true. Grain of skepticism += 1.
the first use I thought for such a device was to make home-size non-Uranium nuclear reactors (Thorium, Hafnium) a practical reality.
Why the fuck is this bullshit on slashdot??
It's because we don't have a mechanism to punish or ban people who vote up stories like this.
Apparently, in Germany, everyone at university-bound high schools takes calculus. It's just expected. It doesn't matter if they're going to be in science or math. It is taught in case they might use it, and so that they can be generally more-knowledgeable people. The same, in my view, should apply with programming. It teaches rigorous, formal thinking skills, something that is sorely lacking in American academia.
It's a different culture, calculus is a minus here. Knowing anything is tantamount to saying you hate god and eat babies.
I'm a programmer because I taught myself and it was fun. If I'd been forced to take it as a subject I never would have taken this career path; one thing my school was really, really good at was making every subject insufferably dull.
Who in their right mind would write an article like that without including the photographs?
And seriously... why do we even see this story here?
Meaningful coding achievements need to be task-oriented.
But this is a good idea for making sure you're familiar with all the features the IDE offers. Done right, with interactive walkthroughs and whatnot, achievements could serve as an excellent supplement to documentation.
seriously, if you are in the west, you will be outsourced. maybe not in 5 yrs but certainly in 10. I'd bet money on it.
Sorry, but I really don't see evidence of that myself. Everywhere I've been, and everyone I've talked to in the last 5 years in software, it's all the same refrain - outsourcing is a disaster, avoid it at all costs. Yes it's OK for some things related to development, but not the coding itself.
Also, at least in my area, I see demand for developers starting to boom again. I've been getting regular headhunter calls since the middle of last year. Maybe you're living in an economically depressed (tech-wise) area, or could benefit by changing technologies or attitude.
I do agree, though, that working in normal software employment as a grunt is usually a shit job, mostly because of endemic poor management practice in the industry. Nothing beats being your own boss.
That wasn't exactly the best way to say it, but I agree. Derision of users is frequently offered as a justification for laziness in design.
/. provided us with an example for several months.
Ironically, developers are the ones that suffer the most from this attitude. We have to deal with stuff that "normal" users would never put up with, up to and including obvious breakage.
I mean, hell, even
Here is an excerpt from 0xOmar's original post on pastebin:
It's first part of our release, my goal is reacing 1 million non-duplicate people, which is 1/6 of Israel's population.
...
What's fun for us? - Watching 400,000 people gathered in front of Israeli credit card companies and banks, complaining about cards and that they are stolen - Watching Israeli banks shredding 400,000 credit cards and re-generate new cards (so costly, huh?) - Watching people purchasing stuff for theirself using the cards and making Israeli credit cards untrustable in the world, like Nigerian credit cards - and much more...
The alleged goal is to hurt lots of random people without any personal gain. And what is the goal of terrorism?
The alleged goal is to hurt lots of random people without any personal gain. And what is the goal of terrorism?
Wrong.
The US Code of Federal Regulation states that terrorism is "...the unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives."
Of course this places many first-world governments squarely in 'terrorist organization' camp, particularly the US and Israel. This is why this definition is downplayed or ignored, but rather replaced with a hand-waving 'complicated to define', or more recently, 'whatever we say it is'.
Can't do that. It'll never sell, and the issue isn't the genetic modifications themselves and their positives or negatives. It's the perceived un-naturalness of the GM process. People buy "organic" stuff - paying significant premiums - as if that means anything in practice. The perception is that it's more natural.
So what? GM is unnecessary. Heaven forbid, lost profits to some megacorp if we have labels. Give people what they want.
Deming said it first.
Don't mod me a troll until you've actually seen the trailer. Listen to the sound track for god's sake.
No CGI? How about no talent and no budget either?
Both are the same thing, which is infinite.
Time and space are illusions*. Try to prove them and you will only produce paradoxes.
* lunch time, doubly so.
If time didn't exist, everything would happen at once.
Also, all observable dimensions (including timelike ones) are finite by definition.
I'm happy to be able to come in, do my thing, and let someone else worry about all that other shit. Long as I'm reasonably well treated and paid... I'm happy being a wage slave.
I'm under the impression pure development jobs are hard to find. In regular employment I always found crap like installing, troubleshooting and maintaining infrastructure, testing, managing others, documentation, (usually completely pointless) project management, and endless, worthless meetings took up a good chunk of my time. Often most of it.
... providing decent metrics for software development *is* possible. The biggest problem is that we don't want to admit that it is just a really difficult problem; instead we give up. And giving up is what is BS.
Who's giving up? You really think you can speak for every one of us? Who died and made you God.