As a daily SC2 ladder player, I can definitely state that APM has little to do with skill. It's a useful metric to determine how well a skilled player can execute his strategy but that's it. It doesn't, in any way, indicate whether a player can dynamically adjust his play to beat his opponent. It just means that if he can come up with a sufficient strategy, that he will probably be able to make it happen (assuming, of course, his opponent doesn't throw a wrench into the works). So, it scares me that anyone doing research in this field would put so much weight into APM.
It would cost over $2 trillion to fix existing roads and bridges in the US, so I don't know what the hell you're talking about with environmental concerns. It's not about building new stuff, it's about fixing old stuff.
"The difference between a real computer scientist and some random programmer is that the computer scientist will be able to do anything computer and programming related with a high degree of proficiency..."
What a load of crap. I've worked with tons of people who were supposedly "computer scientists" but their code was shit. I have found zero correlation between the quality of the coder and the sheet of paper they graduated with. You either have it or you don't. I know a guy who graduated from DeVry who will run circles around 90% of people with CS degrees and he will even admit DeVry is a completely worthless school.
The author information for the research paper says , "Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 60208, USA"
It's utterly pointless to complain because speeding is easy money for the police (and the city). Speed isn't usually the cause of accidents. What causes accidents is differences in speed. The other thing is that I see every damn day people tailgating en masse. To add insult to injury, they rarely use their turn signal when changing lanes, or when they do it's after they are already in the lane they are switching to.
Sadly, the police don't care one iota about tailgating or not using turn signals. I have never in my life seen a cop pull someone over for either of those violations but, in theory, they are just as illegal as speeding. It's selective enforcement for easy money.
You cannot take C++ and mangle anything since C++ is a Frankenstein language to begin with. Only it's inventor and the deranged could possibly love it. As for memory hogging, there are plenty of C++ apps that are memory hogs. And please, poor performance in Java? Java is one of the fastest languages on the planet. The only languages that even compete with it are C and C++. Apparently you get your information from the 1990's.
Oh, and last I checked...the vast majority of C++ developers use an IDE.
lol...If I quit where I'm working now, I could have another high paying position in 24h. There's zero unemployment for programmers in my city. Recruiters around here are desperate because they have tons of positions and nobody to fill them with. The only developers who are having issues are the ones who live in cities that have a fairly weak software market to begin with and the ones who just suck as developers and can't pass a tech interview.
There's not much he could actually patent since the vast majority of what he did was on technology built by others. He could have patented HTTP, I guess. However, it would just have been replaced by something else. He didn't invent hyperlinks or any of that stuff that HTML uses so there's really not much for him to patent that couldn't be trivially circumvented.
Classified material is not allowed to be placed on any network physically connected to the internet. Every time I hear these horror stories I never hear about any real classified material that gets leaked. Not that it matters since good old fashion spying has worked like a champ for the Chinese over the last couple of decades.
Your tests are bullshit. There's a huge difference between listening to music one is very familiar with and random crap that you guys decide to throw together into testing samples. This is why you guys are always so convinced nobody can tell the difference.
The real reason it would cost more is that company would probably do a $20,000 study to determine the feasibility and cost effectiveness of procuring a second monitor for the developer and accounting teams. This would, of course, cost more than it would to just buy every developer and bean counter a second monitor to begin with.
Yeah, sorry but I'm out the door unless I get two wide screen monitors. Any employer who is so shortsighted as to deny that to a developer to save a couple hundred dollars is no employer I would want to work for. They are penny-wise and pound foolish. I've spent many years working in the single monitor world and it sucks. I'm not going back and frankly, the demand for developers right now is such that I could probably ask for 3 monitors and get it. I've got headhunters pounding on my door every day. Gotta love supply & demand!
I love how you casually state as fact that nuclear power has caused zero deaths while pointing out deaths from workers fixing wind mills.
Perhaps you're not familiar with how radiation works, or that it can cause cancer in people years after exposure. Either way, your comparison (and implicit assertion) is ridiculous.
Fortunately, the gas companies got legislation passed that makes it illegal for the EPA to study or monitor fracking in any way, so we'll never know the truth. Of course, if there were nothing to worry about they probably wouldn't have bothered getting the EPA off their tail.
Not in software development. The bulk of people graduating from school learn very little that's actually useful in the job world and they have several years of work ahead of them before they are actually worth anything, in spite of their shiny new CS degree. The problem is that CS programs aren't very useful for making good developers and they are doing a disservice to the software world.
1) Retired generals don't count as official military spokesmen. I'm ex-military and I assume you would smart enough not to take my views as those of the US military. 2) No idea what this is referring to. It's sufficiently vague as to be meaningless. 3) That was a military propaganda operation executed as part of a war -- it was not done to effect anything in the US 4).Lynch's propaganda was formulated by the administration. The military merely executed their orders. 5) The Tillman propaganda was formulated by the administration. The military merely executed their orders.
So far I'm not seeing a lot of military borne propaganda.
Their price earnings ration sucks. 42 and half is pretty high these days (especially compared to other game companies). In short, their stock is going nowhere anytime soon and their meager dividend won't change that. If I want big dividends, I'll go with an energy company that pays much much better.
Anyway, either their profits need to shoot up significantly to fix the P/E (unlikely), or there needs to be another stock exchange bubble (also unlikely for the forseable future), or somebody has to try and buy them out. On the plus side, they aren't like to drop much from where they are now.
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All really good players have a high APM but not all people with high APM are really good players. Thus, it's a shit statistic.
As a daily SC2 ladder player, I can definitely state that APM has little to do with skill. It's a useful metric to determine how well a skilled player can execute his strategy but that's it. It doesn't, in any way, indicate whether a player can dynamically adjust his play to beat his opponent. It just means that if he can come up with a sufficient strategy, that he will probably be able to make it happen (assuming, of course, his opponent doesn't throw a wrench into the works). So, it scares me that anyone doing research in this field would put so much weight into APM.
It would cost over $2 trillion to fix existing roads and bridges in the US, so I don't know what the hell you're talking about with environmental concerns. It's not about building new stuff, it's about fixing old stuff.
"The difference between a real computer scientist and some random programmer is that the computer scientist will be able to do anything computer and programming related with a high degree of proficiency..."
What a load of crap. I've worked with tons of people who were supposedly "computer scientists" but their code was shit. I have found zero correlation between the quality of the coder and the sheet of paper they graduated with. You either have it or you don't. I know a guy who graduated from DeVry who will run circles around 90% of people with CS degrees and he will even admit DeVry is a completely worthless school.
The author information for the research paper says , "Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 60208, USA"
How does that equate to Wuhan University?
What happened is that corporations are people now.
I live in Minneapolis.
Lets be real, they just pulled you over to see if you were drunk.
It's utterly pointless to complain because speeding is easy money for the police (and the city). Speed isn't usually the cause of accidents. What causes accidents is differences in speed. The other thing is that I see every damn day people tailgating en masse. To add insult to injury, they rarely use their turn signal when changing lanes, or when they do it's after they are already in the lane they are switching to.
Sadly, the police don't care one iota about tailgating or not using turn signals. I have never in my life seen a cop pull someone over for either of those violations but, in theory, they are just as illegal as speeding. It's selective enforcement for easy money.
You cannot take C++ and mangle anything since C++ is a Frankenstein language to begin with. Only it's inventor and the deranged could possibly love it. As for memory hogging, there are plenty of C++ apps that are memory hogs. And please, poor performance in Java? Java is one of the fastest languages on the planet. The only languages that even compete with it are C and C++. Apparently you get your information from the 1990's.
Oh, and last I checked...the vast majority of C++ developers use an IDE.
lol...If I quit where I'm working now, I could have another high paying position in 24h. There's zero unemployment for programmers in my city. Recruiters around here are desperate because they have tons of positions and nobody to fill them with. The only developers who are having issues are the ones who live in cities that have a fairly weak software market to begin with and the ones who just suck as developers and can't pass a tech interview.
At most organizations, programmers are under the IT division or umbrella. So as much as it insults your sense of dignity, that's just the way it is.
There's not much he could actually patent since the vast majority of what he did was on technology built by others. He could have patented HTTP, I guess. However, it would just have been replaced by something else. He didn't invent hyperlinks or any of that stuff that HTML uses so there's really not much for him to patent that couldn't be trivially circumvented.
Really? Please show me the study that reveals how all the knuckle draggers of the world go into IT.
Classified material is not allowed to be placed on any network physically connected to the internet. Every time I hear these horror stories I never hear about any real classified material that gets leaked. Not that it matters since good old fashion spying has worked like a champ for the Chinese over the last couple of decades.
Your tests are bullshit. There's a huge difference between listening to music one is very familiar with and random crap that you guys decide to throw together into testing samples. This is why you guys are always so convinced nobody can tell the difference.
Actually, no it should not. You can create award winning software that has very little to do with mathematics.
The real reason it would cost more is that company would probably do a $20,000 study to determine the feasibility and cost effectiveness of procuring a second monitor for the developer and accounting teams. This would, of course, cost more than it would to just buy every developer and bean counter a second monitor to begin with.
Yeah, sorry but I'm out the door unless I get two wide screen monitors. Any employer who is so shortsighted as to deny that to a developer to save a couple hundred dollars is no employer I would want to work for. They are penny-wise and pound foolish. I've spent many years working in the single monitor world and it sucks. I'm not going back and frankly, the demand for developers right now is such that I could probably ask for 3 monitors and get it. I've got headhunters pounding on my door every day. Gotta love supply & demand!
I love how you casually state as fact that nuclear power has caused zero deaths while pointing out deaths from workers fixing wind mills.
Perhaps you're not familiar with how radiation works, or that it can cause cancer in people years after exposure. Either way, your comparison (and implicit assertion) is ridiculous.
Fortunately, the gas companies got legislation passed that makes it illegal for the EPA to study or monitor fracking in any way, so we'll never know the truth. Of course, if there were nothing to worry about they probably wouldn't have bothered getting the EPA off their tail.
"Academic education is VERY IMPORTANT."
Not in software development. The bulk of people graduating from school learn very little that's actually useful in the job world and they have several years of work ahead of them before they are actually worth anything, in spite of their shiny new CS degree. The problem is that CS programs aren't very useful for making good developers and they are doing a disservice to the software world.
1) Retired generals don't count as official military spokesmen. I'm ex-military and I assume you would smart enough not to take my views as those of the US military.
2) No idea what this is referring to. It's sufficiently vague as to be meaningless.
3) That was a military propaganda operation executed as part of a war -- it was not done to effect anything in the US
4).Lynch's propaganda was formulated by the administration. The military merely executed their orders.
5) The Tillman propaganda was formulated by the administration. The military merely executed their orders.
So far I'm not seeing a lot of military borne propaganda.
Other than recruitment adds, where?
Their price earnings ration sucks. 42 and half is pretty high these days (especially compared to other game companies). In short, their stock is going nowhere anytime soon and their meager dividend won't change that. If I want big dividends, I'll go with an energy company that pays much much better.
Anyway, either their profits need to shoot up significantly to fix the P/E (unlikely), or there needs to be another stock exchange bubble (also unlikely for the forseable future), or somebody has to try and buy them out. On the plus side, they aren't like to drop much from where they are now.
No, I would not because I have a modicum of integrity. Apparently the people running this project have the ethics as the guys on Wall St.