Because "stay at home mom" is simply not spiritually fulfilling for many. And, much as it's valuable and underrated, it's a second-class position in society. For anyone who is fulfilled by that work, more power to you, but it's a bad default setting.
depend on perpetual growth forever - which in turn depends on an ever growing population and ever increasing resource availability.
I'm so tired of seeing this BS on Slashdot, of all places. Did you know there's a word for producing more (perpetual growth) from the same resources? "Technology"
If you don't even understand what that word means, why have you been hanging out here so long?
First, the world has enough "web designers". Learn how to code the hard stuff, do distributed systems with no UI, do low-level coding and debugging, spend the time to develop real skills. Eventually take the "write an OS" and "write a compiler" classes any decent program offers. More than anything, be writing code as much as you can for any reason. "A writer writes," and a coder codes.
In the meantime, summer internships are good, they'll help more than your degree in landing your first full-time engineering job. It's really hard to find one summer of your freshman year (though it's worth putting in the effort to apply, just to learn that skill too), but summer after sophomore year is a real possibility. But note that recruiting for summer internships starts over winter break for the big companies, and pickings get slim as the year goes on.
I've mostly switched to Outlook.com now. I was surprised at how much it doesn't suck (I don't want to be impressed by my email interface, dammit, I just want it to not suck, so I never care about it). I guess Hotmail was so bad that the "designers" were actually fixing things that were broken, but whatever, it's worth a look if you're in the "dammit Google not again" camp I am.
But that's the point, of course. Blacksmiths don't (usually) melt the metals they work with, just soften them a bit. And the construction of the various WTC buildings of course depended on the rigidity of the steel they were built with (in different ways in the different buildings).
Did you know there's a technical term for materials that, rather than melting with an abrupt state change, go through a long transition becoming gradually more plastic and malleable? We call those "metals".
It was common enough for people to have kids at 15-16, and become grandparents in their early 30s. Not the healthiest culture, but still better than our current "two or fewer kids per woman" culture, which leads inevitably to extinction (fortunately the US has plenty of immigrants, unlike Japan, so our population remains stable despite low native birth rates).
Where I grew up, "old enough to be a grandfather" meant "30". Now my friends are having their first kids around 40.
Something pretty basic is broken with work-family balance IMO. It's great that we left "one parent works, the other does family" behind, but "both parents work, and neither does family" is even worse. As automation increases, and unemployment with it, you'd think we could move to shorter work weeks and "both parents work, and have plenty of time for family too"!
It's far easier medically to have kids in your 20s, and far easier to cope with their teenage years in your 30s than your 50s! Society needs to be built on more than just career, and I think we're getting it completely backwards with the ongoing division between workaholics and government-dependents.
but, but, but fire cannot melt metal! This is how we know blacksmiths use their amazing psychic powers to soften metal, and the whole "forge" thing was just part of the cover-up!
Sheesh. You know, I love a good conspiracy theory but the Truthers couldn't even tell an entertaining story, even if you excuse their lack of understanding of middle-school science.
And we need to make it easier for people combatting their weight - restrict advertisements on candy/cake/cookies, just like with smoking. Require supermarkets to move the unhealthy food away from cash registers and by law require a "healthy" path through the market, a path which allows you to buy the daily groceries, without having to fight your inner need for candy, and trust me it's a daily battle and it doesn't get easier.
Can't tell if trolling...
But just in case: you could become an adult, with impulse control. I'm definitely overweight, but the idea that it's anyone's fault but my own is laughable.
There's a lot of calories in cardboard, but you won't get fat by eating it. Availability of calories matters, as does speed of digestion. You get fatter from eating the same amount of calories if those calories are from high-glycemic-index foods.
Most people who have dieted for a while have noticed the difference between foods that give them a quick boost but leave them feeling hungry (or sleepy) later, and boring foods that are filling but don't give that sense of having eaten a large meal.
tl;dr: short peaks of overfeeding are still bad, even if the day's calories aren't.
I really wish people would stop blaming the tools when the problem is people who are tools. Maybe that's endemic to "CS types"? But those of use who code for a living in the real world recognize what you describe as a noob stunt, not a language problem.
The main reason stuff stays in fortran is the general best practice of not messing with working shipped code. If the code needs regular work, for goodness sake use a maintainable language. But lots of fortran code has been stable for decades, and only a madman would go changing it.
If you're targeting the "non-windows, non-mobile Linux home PC user consumer", then, yeah, Mono sucks for that user base (both guys!).
But for the interesting consumer Linux market, which is to say Android, Xamarin has it sorted. I was skeptical of that dev environment for a long time, as the legal situation with Mono seemed unclear to me (even though they're in the right, MS could still sue to be a nuisance). But all that recently changed with an official MS-Xamarin partnership.
C# is a joy to work in compared to Java (and I've spent years writing in each professionally), and now the legal issues flow the other way - MS is partnering while Oracle is suing.
Mostly I changed because you can't really buy a non-bluray player or non-HD TV any more, but I do notice the change in sound quality for music. For voice and effects the usual compression (I think it's about the same as a 128 MP3) is fine, even to my somewhat-audiophile ears.
Ah, sure, that's neat. From what I read the phone attack was similar in "fixing" the displayed info on the phone.
The good part of all of this is that the non-technological solution is working: the bottleneck in this sort of thing has become muling the money, so the value in new clever browser attacks is reduced, and the police can keep doing the sort of police work they actually understand to further reduce the problem.
HD content has grown - everything recent is available on BluRay now, and a decent selection of older stuff. While it lacks a certain appeal for films that aren't visually interesting, BluRay also tends to come with better sound. It's stupid, because DTS fits just fine on a DVD, but somehow only the BluRay gets the DTS (except the ones that get TrueHD - I hate that nonsense).
Oh, I think they've moved from plugins to altering the executable. There's a cool one for two-factor banking that tries to find people who have both their PC and phone infected, then coordinates to use both for a clever mitm attack against banks that use SMS verification.
Call me crazy, but I like IE (after I found adblock for it). The horror that is IE6 was long, long ago and you can turn off searching from the address bar. When I mis-type a URL (and anyone familiar with my posts knows I have about 1 typo per 5 words), it just sits there waiting for me to correct my typo - it doesn't send anything to anyone beyond the DNS server.
Digging into my system is so 1990s. These days it's all "man in the browser" attacks for the real money. Messing with installed programs, sure, that's worth stopping.
OK, so I'm not the typical user, but if you infect my OS, that's so quick to fix that the reboot is the longest part of the process. Going to backups for user files would suck. But access to my browser as I use it? That's the gold mine.
User space is what matters, is the thing. Every file I care about is accessible by my user account. The OS files are all disposable, easily replaced. If it only protects OS internals, fuck it, it's useless.
You seem to be comparing HD to SD. SD is crap, and everyone can see it's crap, and it's irrelevant. ED (480p, DVD resolution) is the interesting comparison.
I can barely see a difference between 480p and 1080p in most stuff that I watch (on a very large screen). It's not enough that I really care, but I prefer BluRay as you tend to get DTS sound and for some reason you don't on DVD (even though it easily fits for most movies).
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Because "stay at home mom" is simply not spiritually fulfilling for many. And, much as it's valuable and underrated, it's a second-class position in society. For anyone who is fulfilled by that work, more power to you, but it's a bad default setting.
depend on perpetual growth forever - which in turn depends on an ever growing population and ever increasing resource availability.
I'm so tired of seeing this BS on Slashdot, of all places. Did you know there's a word for producing more (perpetual growth) from the same resources? "Technology"
If you don't even understand what that word means, why have you been hanging out here so long?
First, the world has enough "web designers". Learn how to code the hard stuff, do distributed systems with no UI, do low-level coding and debugging, spend the time to develop real skills. Eventually take the "write an OS" and "write a compiler" classes any decent program offers. More than anything, be writing code as much as you can for any reason. "A writer writes," and a coder codes.
In the meantime, summer internships are good, they'll help more than your degree in landing your first full-time engineering job. It's really hard to find one summer of your freshman year (though it's worth putting in the effort to apply, just to learn that skill too), but summer after sophomore year is a real possibility. But note that recruiting for summer internships starts over winter break for the big companies, and pickings get slim as the year goes on.
I've mostly switched to Outlook.com now. I was surprised at how much it doesn't suck (I don't want to be impressed by my email interface, dammit, I just want it to not suck, so I never care about it). I guess Hotmail was so bad that the "designers" were actually fixing things that were broken, but whatever, it's worth a look if you're in the "dammit Google not again" camp I am.
But that's the point, of course. Blacksmiths don't (usually) melt the metals they work with, just soften them a bit. And the construction of the various WTC buildings of course depended on the rigidity of the steel they were built with (in different ways in the different buildings).
Did you know there's a technical term for materials that, rather than melting with an abrupt state change, go through a long transition becoming gradually more plastic and malleable? We call those "metals".
Now you're talking! Any good conspiracy theory ties back to the Templars! What was in that mysterious haywain?
It was common enough for people to have kids at 15-16, and become grandparents in their early 30s. Not the healthiest culture, but still better than our current "two or fewer kids per woman" culture, which leads inevitably to extinction (fortunately the US has plenty of immigrants, unlike Japan, so our population remains stable despite low native birth rates).
Oddly enough, there is such a thing as "negative probability" in risk analysis - but I've never gotten my head around what it is.
Where I grew up, "old enough to be a grandfather" meant "30". Now my friends are having their first kids around 40.
Something pretty basic is broken with work-family balance IMO. It's great that we left "one parent works, the other does family" behind, but "both parents work, and neither does family" is even worse. As automation increases, and unemployment with it, you'd think we could move to shorter work weeks and "both parents work, and have plenty of time for family too"!
It's far easier medically to have kids in your 20s, and far easier to cope with their teenage years in your 30s than your 50s! Society needs to be built on more than just career, and I think we're getting it completely backwards with the ongoing division between workaholics and government-dependents.
but, but, but fire cannot melt metal! This is how we know blacksmiths use their amazing psychic powers to soften metal, and the whole "forge" thing was just part of the cover-up!
Sheesh. You know, I love a good conspiracy theory but the Truthers couldn't even tell an entertaining story, even if you excuse their lack of understanding of middle-school science.
And we need to make it easier for people combatting their weight - restrict advertisements on candy/cake/cookies, just like with smoking. Require supermarkets to move the unhealthy food away from cash registers and by law require a "healthy" path through the market, a path which allows you to buy the daily groceries, without having to fight your inner need for candy, and trust me it's a daily battle and it doesn't get easier.
Can't tell if trolling ...
But just in case: you could become an adult, with impulse control. I'm definitely overweight, but the idea that it's anyone's fault but my own is laughable.
There's a lot of calories in cardboard, but you won't get fat by eating it. Availability of calories matters, as does speed of digestion. You get fatter from eating the same amount of calories if those calories are from high-glycemic-index foods.
Most people who have dieted for a while have noticed the difference between foods that give them a quick boost but leave them feeling hungry (or sleepy) later, and boring foods that are filling but don't give that sense of having eaten a large meal.
tl;dr: short peaks of overfeeding are still bad, even if the day's calories aren't.
*lives
I keep hearing this "academics who will be programming their whole loves are too fucking stupid to learn new tools" stuff. Somehow I doubt it.
None of that is good programming, is the thing.
I really wish people would stop blaming the tools when the problem is people who are tools. Maybe that's endemic to "CS types"? But those of use who code for a living in the real world recognize what you describe as a noob stunt, not a language problem.
The main reason stuff stays in fortran is the general best practice of not messing with working shipped code. If the code needs regular work, for goodness sake use a maintainable language. But lots of fortran code has been stable for decades, and only a madman would go changing it.
If you're targeting the "non-windows, non-mobile Linux home PC user consumer", then, yeah, Mono sucks for that user base (both guys!).
But for the interesting consumer Linux market, which is to say Android, Xamarin has it sorted. I was skeptical of that dev environment for a long time, as the legal situation with Mono seemed unclear to me (even though they're in the right, MS could still sue to be a nuisance). But all that recently changed with an official MS-Xamarin partnership.
C# is a joy to work in compared to Java (and I've spent years writing in each professionally), and now the legal issues flow the other way - MS is partnering while Oracle is suing.
Mostly I changed because you can't really buy a non-bluray player or non-HD TV any more, but I do notice the change in sound quality for music. For voice and effects the usual compression (I think it's about the same as a 128 MP3) is fine, even to my somewhat-audiophile ears.
Ah, sure, that's neat. From what I read the phone attack was similar in "fixing" the displayed info on the phone.
The good part of all of this is that the non-technological solution is working: the bottleneck in this sort of thing has become muling the money, so the value in new clever browser attacks is reduced, and the police can keep doing the sort of police work they actually understand to further reduce the problem.
Yep - as much as RSA tokens have had their woes, they remain my favorite second factor (at least the hardware tokens - the software ones not so much).
HD content has grown - everything recent is available on BluRay now, and a decent selection of older stuff. While it lacks a certain appeal for films that aren't visually interesting, BluRay also tends to come with better sound. It's stupid, because DTS fits just fine on a DVD, but somehow only the BluRay gets the DTS (except the ones that get TrueHD - I hate that nonsense).
Oh, I think they've moved from plugins to altering the executable. There's a cool one for two-factor banking that tries to find people who have both their PC and phone infected, then coordinates to use both for a clever mitm attack against banks that use SMS verification.
Call me crazy, but I like IE (after I found adblock for it). The horror that is IE6 was long, long ago and you can turn off searching from the address bar. When I mis-type a URL (and anyone familiar with my posts knows I have about 1 typo per 5 words), it just sits there waiting for me to correct my typo - it doesn't send anything to anyone beyond the DNS server.
Digging into my system is so 1990s. These days it's all "man in the browser" attacks for the real money. Messing with installed programs, sure, that's worth stopping.
OK, so I'm not the typical user, but if you infect my OS, that's so quick to fix that the reboot is the longest part of the process. Going to backups for user files would suck. But access to my browser as I use it? That's the gold mine.
User space is what matters, is the thing. Every file I care about is accessible by my user account. The OS files are all disposable, easily replaced. If it only protects OS internals, fuck it, it's useless.
You seem to be comparing HD to SD. SD is crap, and everyone can see it's crap, and it's irrelevant. ED (480p, DVD resolution) is the interesting comparison.
I can barely see a difference between 480p and 1080p in most stuff that I watch (on a very large screen). It's not enough that I really care, but I prefer BluRay as you tend to get DTS sound and for some reason you don't on DVD (even though it easily fits for most movies).