they are an indicator that the person is interested in computers
A weak indicator, sure. At minimum it's a sign that someone sat in a chair for four years. A better indicator would be if they picked up programming on their own outside of a work or school environment (which I did not, as it happens).
If they're the sort of people who've learnt some noddy scripting language at home and think they're ready for prime time corporate development on the 24/7 systems written in C++ here they wouldn't get an interview in the first place so you don't need to worry.
Self-taught yes, but I'm more of an FP snob these days and have no interest in bit-twiddling. If academia paid more I'd probably just go get lost in Lisp or APL or some other ivory tower language and end up treating the real world as a special case. Programming is interesting as puzzle-solving and as a general intellectual pursuit; when you start talking about making money off it I lose interest. However, my merits are really neither here nor there; the issue at stake is that your employer seems to hire assholes, which means that no one should consider working there regardless of ability.
Degrees aren't useless, but let's not pretend like they're an indicator of whether someone can program. You should post where you work so that people know to avoid it.
You're arguing for some sort of union or guild style of organization and instruction. That's not what university is for. University is not there to teach the practical state of the art, it's there to teach the academic state of the art. The tech stack is incidental to that end, and Microsoft has absolutely nothing to do with this topic. There are a lot of people who confuse university with a job training program, and the US government and culture at large has done nothing to discourage this. Computer Science is Turing, McKay, Shannon, Knuth, Dijkstra -- and note how only one of those people ever owned a computer. Both the theoretical and practical are important scopes of knowledge for a programmer, but the university's purview should only be the former.
If you think of speed as distance per unit of time, then you could view that as the photon not having any speed at all, since it does not experience time. `c` is not special at all, it just happens to be the speed at which certain massless effects propagate in the universe. It's a limiting condition, sort of inherent to the idea that space and time can be traversed. You might also think of it as the "clock rate" of the universe.
I mean, think about it, if you support Western civilization in its jihad, that makes you a stupid tribalist.
FTFY. The ironic thing is that the West already won. There were vast Islamic empires a few centuries ago. Russia and Britain bought and traded them, and the United States has continued the tradition of arbitrary regime change.
I saw an image caption the other day, you know the type. Flag and gun waving, text read something like "I'll die before I let myself or any of my family submit to Islam." Not only is this pretty well described by the word "jihad", but it's also the case here that we hate most those we have most injured.
Your logo is pretty illegible. The overall look is not great, but it kinda has a hacker lack-of-aesthetic. How do you feel about something a little more graphic?
The initial value of the cryptocurrency is its use in illegal transactions, yes. It will get legitimacy with volume. I'm resigned to the idea that BitCoin or some rival will eventually be real money in pretty much every sense of the word. Variances are dropping slowly but steadily. I'd give it five or ten more years just to be sure, but don't I think we can bottle this particular genie.
Feel free to discriminate between protocols or even to some degree applications. You should not be allowed to prioritize (e.g.) HTTP traffic based on whether the client is requesting netflix.com or comcast.net. Apparently you are unclear on what is being discussed on many levels.
The other thing that this educational effort did was convince people that University is a job training organization. Gender studies, angel-pinhead-counting, and other speculation are exactly what universities are for -- where else? Those sorts of people are even best kept in academia: otherwise they might form part of the public debate.
If you insist on muddying the waters, yes, conversation is difficult. The definition in common use however would be "don't prioritize traffic based on endpoint".
I actually can't imagine downloading a two-hour lecture and needing data from it. It sounds like a poor way to transmit data. And frankly I don't know who is even making two hour lectures these days; if it won't fit into the YouTube attention span, why bother? And in no case would you be required to watch the entire two hours.
I think you should let someone who actually does use this feature explain why rather than trying to invent something out of whole cloth.
The onus is on you, cretin, and will remain that way so long as social democracies exist. There's no real need to argue with you, your beliefs won't outlive you. Do feel free to hasten that day, however.
WordPress is a fork of a project written in PHP 3. It's purely procedural, as PHP did not support classes or object-oriented programming at that time. There are lots of over-engineered piles of crap in the world, and the ones written in PHP are a special hell indeed, but at least from an architectural standpoint I sincerely hope that WordPress stands in a category of its own.
I'm going to go ahead and say that you're a moron and a rationalist. Things like ideals are more real to you thank actual observed reality. If your economics God says one thing, well then that's true even if the actual supporting evidence has yet to come around. In this case, I assume that you're waiting on the imminent collapse of western social democracies, based on the idea that all collectivism is bad.
Keep arguing exactly like this. You and APK make a great team.
It's almost like the rest of us are more interested in the future of systems programming than casting decisions on some television show. If this bothers you, maybe you're on the wrong site.
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they are an indicator that the person is interested in computers
A weak indicator, sure. At minimum it's a sign that someone sat in a chair for four years. A better indicator would be if they picked up programming on their own outside of a work or school environment (which I did not, as it happens).
If they're the sort of people who've learnt some noddy scripting language at home and think they're ready for prime time corporate development on the 24/7 systems written in C++ here they wouldn't get an interview in the first place so you don't need to worry.
Self-taught yes, but I'm more of an FP snob these days and have no interest in bit-twiddling. If academia paid more I'd probably just go get lost in Lisp or APL or some other ivory tower language and end up treating the real world as a special case. Programming is interesting as puzzle-solving and as a general intellectual pursuit; when you start talking about making money off it I lose interest. However, my merits are really neither here nor there; the issue at stake is that your employer seems to hire assholes, which means that no one should consider working there regardless of ability.
Non sequitur.
Yes, but you're retarded, so...
Electricity is completely incidental to computation. You know better than to say something so fucking stupid.
Degrees aren't useless, but let's not pretend like they're an indicator of whether someone can program. You should post where you work so that people know to avoid it.
You're arguing for some sort of union or guild style of organization and instruction. That's not what university is for. University is not there to teach the practical state of the art, it's there to teach the academic state of the art. The tech stack is incidental to that end, and Microsoft has absolutely nothing to do with this topic. There are a lot of people who confuse university with a job training program, and the US government and culture at large has done nothing to discourage this. Computer Science is Turing, McKay, Shannon, Knuth, Dijkstra -- and note how only one of those people ever owned a computer. Both the theoretical and practical are important scopes of knowledge for a programmer, but the university's purview should only be the former.
My kingdom for mod points.
If you think of speed as distance per unit of time, then you could view that as the photon not having any speed at all, since it does not experience time. `c` is not special at all, it just happens to be the speed at which certain massless effects propagate in the universe. It's a limiting condition, sort of inherent to the idea that space and time can be traversed. You might also think of it as the "clock rate" of the universe.
I'm glad peoples in different countries can show signs of unity on such important topics. /s
This is awesome. This is exactly what the Internet should be :)
Thanks for doing this, and thanks for doing this in this way. I appreciate especially the idea that this place has any currency :)
I mean, think about it, if you support Western civilization in its jihad, that makes you a stupid tribalist.
FTFY. The ironic thing is that the West already won. There were vast Islamic empires a few centuries ago. Russia and Britain bought and traded them, and the United States has continued the tradition of arbitrary regime change.
I saw an image caption the other day, you know the type. Flag and gun waving, text read something like "I'll die before I let myself or any of my family submit to Islam." Not only is this pretty well described by the word "jihad", but it's also the case here that we hate most those we have most injured.
Don't we have enough people in jail already? Why is it necessary to find some scapegoat?
Your logo is pretty illegible. The overall look is not great, but it kinda has a hacker lack-of-aesthetic. How do you feel about something a little more graphic?
The initial value of the cryptocurrency is its use in illegal transactions, yes. It will get legitimacy with volume. I'm resigned to the idea that BitCoin or some rival will eventually be real money in pretty much every sense of the word. Variances are dropping slowly but steadily. I'd give it five or ten more years just to be sure, but don't I think we can bottle this particular genie.
Feel free to discriminate between protocols or even to some degree applications. You should not be allowed to prioritize (e.g.) HTTP traffic based on whether the client is requesting netflix.com or comcast.net. Apparently you are unclear on what is being discussed on many levels.
I would leave the carcass of any animal that had been run to death, too. It's definitely not going to taste great after that.
The other thing that this educational effort did was convince people that University is a job training organization. Gender studies, angel-pinhead-counting, and other speculation are exactly what universities are for -- where else? Those sorts of people are even best kept in academia: otherwise they might form part of the public debate.
If you insist on muddying the waters, yes, conversation is difficult. The definition in common use however would be "don't prioritize traffic based on endpoint".
What exactly do you get without net neutrality except rent-seeking?
I actually can't imagine downloading a two-hour lecture and needing data from it. It sounds like a poor way to transmit data. And frankly I don't know who is even making two hour lectures these days; if it won't fit into the YouTube attention span, why bother? And in no case would you be required to watch the entire two hours.
I think you should let someone who actually does use this feature explain why rather than trying to invent something out of whole cloth.
The onus is on you, cretin, and will remain that way so long as social democracies exist. There's no real need to argue with you, your beliefs won't outlive you. Do feel free to hasten that day, however.
WordPress is a fork of a project written in PHP 3. It's purely procedural, as PHP did not support classes or object-oriented programming at that time. There are lots of over-engineered piles of crap in the world, and the ones written in PHP are a special hell indeed, but at least from an architectural standpoint I sincerely hope that WordPress stands in a category of its own.
I'm going to go ahead and say that you're a moron and a rationalist. Things like ideals are more real to you thank actual observed reality. If your economics God says one thing, well then that's true even if the actual supporting evidence has yet to come around. In this case, I assume that you're waiting on the imminent collapse of western social democracies, based on the idea that all collectivism is bad.
Keep arguing exactly like this. You and APK make a great team.
It's almost like the rest of us are more interested in the future of systems programming than casting decisions on some television show. If this bothers you, maybe you're on the wrong site.
Weren't you responsible for both of those first two things? Aren't you basically complaining about your own behavior?