Calling the Springs a "tech hub" is like calling Ft. Collins an "educational powerhouse".
There's some tech there, but I wouldn't consider it a hub by any means.
The reason for the high rape listing is simple. As someone pointed out, it is not only where the Air Force Academy is, but there is also Fort Carson, Peterson AFB, and Schriever AFB. You pair this with changes in FBI reporting and it's not surprise the Springs has that many incidents.
I know it's kind of bastardy, but I would expect to get 2 from that in PHP, since the 1 might have come from a database type INT and the "1" might have come from user input as a string, and your intention is to add them.
I will certainly agree that casting to a type in PHP feels like voodoo. Sometimes you need to, most of the time you don't. It's those "sometimes" that mess you up debugging since the type is often the last thing you think of as the problem.
The degree in a scientific field from a respected school says that I am scientifically literate and know how to learn.
As if there aren't a dozen or more other ways to display these skills to an employer? That you don't realize this displays to me that your college education left you closed minded and not open to new ideas. Your second comment about naive enthusiasm and hipster-tier webcrap (whatever that even means, I hear, "it's not C++ it's crap!") simply reinforces that notion.
What if you were to find that many of these folks didn't have a degree? Based on their real-world reputation (not some imaginary reputation you get for going to a school), would you say they are scientifically literate and they know how to learn (I'd bet they know how to teach also)?
I have interviewed at plenty of places that paid well and would say things like, "oh, most of our developers are self-taught." Certainly there are places that are adamant about having a degree, but definitely not all of them.
I've found that you can surround yourself with brilliant people at work and learn plenty. You can also surround yourself with idiots at work. The same can be said for college. Depending on where you go, you will be surrounded by a varying mixture of brilliant people and idiots. I would rather work for a funded startup with people that have a track record than attend your average diploma mill (assuming bettering myself and career was the goal). Similarly, I would rather attend Carnegie Mellon than work as technician at Fry's.
So you make a statement, I reference that statement, and now you twist the words. Classy.
You said that there were 9 million foreign born in the US and now there are 40 million. So, that's a difference of 31 million. I was referring to a hypothetical Hispanic student that is part of that 31 million that... yes... did not exist 40 years ago because remember, it was 9 million and not 40 million?
And absolutely, yes, I expect education to be cheaper today than it was 40 years ago. Now, let me be clear that I am not referring to the same antiquated education model that was being used 40 years ago, but instead to a new model that embraces the technology we have available. I agree that if we keep doing things the way we did them before The Great War, then of course it's going to continue to rise in cost. Bureaucracy does that.
For example, is it cheaper or more expensive now for someone to learn quantum mechanics than it was 40 years ago? If you maintain that "learn" is equivalent to "college degree", then sure, it's more expensive now because college is much more expensive. However, if you maintain that "learn" is equivalent to "gains knowledge of", then it is immensely cheaper today than 40 years ago precisely because of the Internet.
Honestly, you sound just like every other union cronie I've talked to about this. I say education should be cheaper because their industry's model is failing to adapt and becoming obsolete, and they get defensive because I am talking about them likely losing their job. It's almost like the education system continues to hold students hostage because they don't want to become obsolete.
Heh, and studies have also shown that an increase in per student spending is not reflected in test score improvement, again, studies that were repeated in the UK and France.
You can certainly increase spending from $0 to $X for a specific demographic group and see an improvement in test scores. I am not questioning that your side-case of an Hispanic student that didn't exist 40 years ago would see an improvement over zero. Also, didn't you consider that because of readily accessible information now that you would expect to see a natural rise in test scores because of the Internet? I would think minority demographics would be seeing dramatic changes here as there is less of a need to rely on an ineffective, over budgeted, over crowded, and under staffed school district.
We are in an age where the cost of education should be going down dramatically. And really, it is, just not in the antiquated and over-administered public school system. That shouldn't be much of a surprise and if you are satisfied with current spending (or feel it is not adequate enough), consider that it has doubled (again, adjusted for inflation) since the 70's and that if current practices are continued what would you expect to see in 2040? Doubled again?
Lastly, I am not here to "present evidence" to you. This isn't a courtroom, IANAL, and I would assume if you were interested enough that you would be able spend 15 seconds to Google something for yourself and become informed.
I don't think that you'd change the layout based on which images were selected. Everything would look exactly the same, just the byte-size/quality of the image file would be different.
You are mistaken. In fact, one of the reasons they decided on this method was so that the image is now from layout constraints. You might want to have the image be 400px square on one layout, while it will be 800x600 in another layout.
On top of that, if you are providing images of varying proportions, you don't really want some computer to auto-crop everything depending on the requesting device since the results will be artistically inferior to a trained human.
Curious, I have seen on the ballot every single year everywhere I have ever lived there is always a measure to "support better education" by "allocating more funds". What I find so odd, is that despite these measures passing, and education getting more funds, next year there will be another measure that uses the same language.
If we keep making schools better by giving them more money, why aren't schools exponentially better by now?
Sure, why not part of the core language? Think about it...
Out of all the holidays that I'm thinking of off the top of my head, Easter is the one that stands out as being of significant importance as well as being rather awkward to figure when it occurs. If you couple this with the fact that PHP is a web language (an environment where knowing when Easter is can come in rather handy) I think it makes perfect sense.
I suppose if you're griping because there is no core method `ramadan_date` or `chinese_new_year_date`, then that makes sense.
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... and yet the parent still gets modded up. That should tell you something about relationship between what PHP is perceived as being and what it actually is.
First off, would it be quite easy for you to tell me off the top of your head what the date of Easter will be in 2021? How about just next year? The date it falls on it fairly complicated and not exactly simple to write an algorithm for.
Ok, but who will use it? I guess it comes as a surprise that it is a fairly important holiday for religious reasons and that a number of other holidays' dates are intertwined with Easter.
If you really see no practical application for that, well I guess you're just not trying hard enough.
Colorado is white-hot right now. The developer jobs will soon follow. I spoke with my dad last night and he mentioned business is up 30% over last year (he sells trees/shrubs/etc). That means people are moving here and buying houses again. Two neighbor houses in Denver were on the market for over a year each and both sold within a week of each other. Be damned if they didn't get what they were asking.
I just interviewed yesterday for a job and was told that the salary would be "quite a bit higher" than my previous salary from 2 years ago. Heck, with all the government agencies here, even the old dinosaur coders can still find work. I think it's a great place to work as a developer. Of course, those days are numbered as all these graduating kids from the East Coast move in and saturate the market with developers. Really, it hasn't been very difficult to differentiate yourself here in the past. There are generally more people interviewing for jobs that have no business being there than there are qualified candidates.
This also not to even mention all the newly wealthy pot vendors that are having to refine processes and invest in their own software tools.
It isn't now, but in the future (which is the point, right) it very well could become a language one might call a "programming" language.
Consider the rise of SASS and LESS. We have these now because they are needed modernizations of CSS. At someone point I wouldn't be surprised to see them become a core component.
I don't think it has anything to do with being "remotely managed" but rather the simple fact that a tablet and a laptop are still two different tools.
I think people are starting to understand that using a tablet isn't just "using a computer with a touch screen." It's an entirely different experience, one that is probably better suited for certain tasks that rely on organic movement. Gaming happens to be one of those tasks but certainly not the only. Music and art are others.
A chromebook is a cheap and crippled laptop, basically, but it beats the heck out of any tablet for typing which pretty much anyone would agree, at least as of now.
So I guess if you're seeing a controversy between people clamoring for one item over the other, a reasonable conclusion to draw would be that one person thinks one type of education is better than another.
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Calling the Springs a "tech hub" is like calling Ft. Collins an "educational powerhouse".
There's some tech there, but I wouldn't consider it a hub by any means.
The reason for the high rape listing is simple. As someone pointed out, it is not only where the Air Force Academy is, but there is also Fort Carson, Peterson AFB, and Schriever AFB. You pair this with changes in FBI reporting and it's not surprise the Springs has that many incidents.
You sound like a Windows admin for a gov't entity.
You spend a lot of energy telling people they do it wrong without having any real insight or advice on how to do it correctly.
A blanket statement like this shows your cluelessness and shear ignorance.
What does his knowledge of a specific cutting tool have to do with anything?
Would you feel safer driving I-80 across Wyoming with only large semis on the road with you?
Well, + is addition in PHP, not concatenation.
I know it's kind of bastardy, but I would expect to get 2 from that in PHP, since the 1 might have come from a database type INT and the "1" might have come from user input as a string, and your intention is to add them.
I will certainly agree that casting to a type in PHP feels like voodoo. Sometimes you need to, most of the time you don't. It's those "sometimes" that mess you up debugging since the type is often the last thing you think of as the problem.
The degree in a scientific field from a respected school says that I am scientifically literate and know how to learn.
As if there aren't a dozen or more other ways to display these skills to an employer? That you don't realize this displays to me that your college education left you closed minded and not open to new ideas. Your second comment about naive enthusiasm and hipster-tier webcrap (whatever that even means, I hear, "it's not C++ it's crap!") simply reinforces that notion.
What if you were to find that many of these folks didn't have a degree? Based on their real-world reputation (not some imaginary reputation you get for going to a school), would you say they are scientifically literate and they know how to learn (I'd bet they know how to teach also)?
I have interviewed at plenty of places that paid well and would say things like, "oh, most of our developers are self-taught." Certainly there are places that are adamant about having a degree, but definitely not all of them.
I've found that you can surround yourself with brilliant people at work and learn plenty. You can also surround yourself with idiots at work. The same can be said for college. Depending on where you go, you will be surrounded by a varying mixture of brilliant people and idiots. I would rather work for a funded startup with people that have a track record than attend your average diploma mill (assuming bettering myself and career was the goal). Similarly, I would rather attend Carnegie Mellon than work as technician at Fry's.
So you make a statement, I reference that statement, and now you twist the words. Classy.
You said that there were 9 million foreign born in the US and now there are 40 million. So, that's a difference of 31 million. I was referring to a hypothetical Hispanic student that is part of that 31 million that ... yes ... did not exist 40 years ago because remember, it was 9 million and not 40 million?
And absolutely, yes, I expect education to be cheaper today than it was 40 years ago. Now, let me be clear that I am not referring to the same antiquated education model that was being used 40 years ago, but instead to a new model that embraces the technology we have available. I agree that if we keep doing things the way we did them before The Great War, then of course it's going to continue to rise in cost. Bureaucracy does that.
For example, is it cheaper or more expensive now for someone to learn quantum mechanics than it was 40 years ago? If you maintain that "learn" is equivalent to "college degree", then sure, it's more expensive now because college is much more expensive. However, if you maintain that "learn" is equivalent to "gains knowledge of", then it is immensely cheaper today than 40 years ago precisely because of the Internet.
Honestly, you sound just like every other union cronie I've talked to about this. I say education should be cheaper because their industry's model is failing to adapt and becoming obsolete, and they get defensive because I am talking about them likely losing their job. It's almost like the education system continues to hold students hostage because they don't want to become obsolete.
"... *free from layout constraints" is what I meant. You don't always want an image to be in the same proportion in different layouts.
Heh, and studies have also shown that an increase in per student spending is not reflected in test score improvement, again, studies that were repeated in the UK and France.
You can certainly increase spending from $0 to $X for a specific demographic group and see an improvement in test scores. I am not questioning that your side-case of an Hispanic student that didn't exist 40 years ago would see an improvement over zero. Also, didn't you consider that because of readily accessible information now that you would expect to see a natural rise in test scores because of the Internet? I would think minority demographics would be seeing dramatic changes here as there is less of a need to rely on an ineffective, over budgeted, over crowded, and under staffed school district.
We are in an age where the cost of education should be going down dramatically. And really, it is, just not in the antiquated and over-administered public school system. That shouldn't be much of a surprise and if you are satisfied with current spending (or feel it is not adequate enough), consider that it has doubled (again, adjusted for inflation) since the 70's and that if current practices are continued what would you expect to see in 2040? Doubled again?
Lastly, I am not here to "present evidence" to you. This isn't a courtroom, IANAL, and I would assume if you were interested enough that you would be able spend 15 seconds to Google something for yourself and become informed.
I don't know, what is the rationale in asking such a long-winded question when you could have made it clearer by saying it in about seven words?
Why trust industry standards when they are so fleeting?
Maybe you'd rather have standards that last forever? Or possibly no standards at all? What exactly are you getting at?
I don't think that you'd change the layout based on which images were selected. Everything would look exactly the same, just the byte-size/quality of the image file would be different.
You are mistaken. In fact, one of the reasons they decided on this method was so that the image is now from layout constraints. You might want to have the image be 400px square on one layout, while it will be 800x600 in another layout.
On top of that, if you are providing images of varying proportions, you don't really want some computer to auto-crop everything depending on the requesting device since the results will be artistically inferior to a trained human.
I said real spending. It is already adjusted for inflation. Similar findings have been found in the UK and France.
If just spending more money produced a better education, then why has real spending per pupil doubled since the 70's with no improvement in results?
Curious, I have seen on the ballot every single year everywhere I have ever lived there is always a measure to "support better education" by "allocating more funds". What I find so odd, is that despite these measures passing, and education getting more funds, next year there will be another measure that uses the same language.
If we keep making schools better by giving them more money, why aren't schools exponentially better by now?
I'm not sure, but I do know that nobody in Texas is having sex, because they're all fucking here.
Sure, why not part of the core language? Think about it ...
Out of all the holidays that I'm thinking of off the top of my head, Easter is the one that stands out as being of significant importance as well as being rather awkward to figure when it occurs. If you couple this with the fact that PHP is a web language (an environment where knowing when Easter is can come in rather handy) I think it makes perfect sense.
I suppose if you're griping because there is no core method `ramadan_date` or `chinese_new_year_date`, then that makes sense.
... and yet the parent still gets modded up. That should tell you something about relationship between what PHP is perceived as being and what it actually is.
Can you really not figure it out?
First off, would it be quite easy for you to tell me off the top of your head what the date of Easter will be in 2021? How about just next year? The date it falls on it fairly complicated and not exactly simple to write an algorithm for.
Ok, but who will use it? I guess it comes as a surprise that it is a fairly important holiday for religious reasons and that a number of other holidays' dates are intertwined with Easter.
If you really see no practical application for that, well I guess you're just not trying hard enough.
You must be looking in the wrong places.
Colorado is white-hot right now. The developer jobs will soon follow. I spoke with my dad last night and he mentioned business is up 30% over last year (he sells trees/shrubs/etc). That means people are moving here and buying houses again. Two neighbor houses in Denver were on the market for over a year each and both sold within a week of each other. Be damned if they didn't get what they were asking.
I just interviewed yesterday for a job and was told that the salary would be "quite a bit higher" than my previous salary from 2 years ago. Heck, with all the government agencies here, even the old dinosaur coders can still find work. I think it's a great place to work as a developer. Of course, those days are numbered as all these graduating kids from the East Coast move in and saturate the market with developers. Really, it hasn't been very difficult to differentiate yourself here in the past. There are generally more people interviewing for jobs that have no business being there than there are qualified candidates.
This also not to even mention all the newly wealthy pot vendors that are having to refine processes and invest in their own software tools.
So in order to be a programming language it has to be compiled instead of interpreted?
Where does compiled PHP fit into your world view?
The irony is what made me click the article.
... which is basically saying the same thing as "Yeah, but then I'd have to work a corporate job!"
Some people like Texas, some people like other places. Some people like the start-up atmosphere, some people prefer being employee #499329.
That said, if you work at a start-up that is already funded, there's no reason you shouldn't be compensated well.
It isn't now, but in the future (which is the point, right) it very well could become a language one might call a "programming" language.
Consider the rise of SASS and LESS. We have these now because they are needed modernizations of CSS. At someone point I wouldn't be surprised to see them become a core component.
I don't think it has anything to do with being "remotely managed" but rather the simple fact that a tablet and a laptop are still two different tools.
I think people are starting to understand that using a tablet isn't just "using a computer with a touch screen." It's an entirely different experience, one that is probably better suited for certain tasks that rely on organic movement. Gaming happens to be one of those tasks but certainly not the only. Music and art are others.
A chromebook is a cheap and crippled laptop, basically, but it beats the heck out of any tablet for typing which pretty much anyone would agree, at least as of now.
So I guess if you're seeing a controversy between people clamoring for one item over the other, a reasonable conclusion to draw would be that one person thinks one type of education is better than another.
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