Sounds like maybe he wasn't getting the one-on-one help and extra support teaching staff should be giving him. Just a thought.
Bullshit. This is a class in a top university with a fairly well ranked CS department. If he needed help he could have hired a tutor or went to see the prof or TA during office hours. No one is under obligation to seek him out and give him special attention - all that does is waste time on people with no initiative to understand the material, and degrade the quality of the class for everyone else. If he can't cut it he needs to change majors or switch universities.
I graduated from a top ranked CS program and the work was brutal, but that how I learned and I wouldn't have had it any other way.
This doesn't have anything to do with getting broadband access. If the electrical company (assuming you have electricity) can find you to hook you up, why wouldn't the broadband company be able to do the same?
My "address" translated to English is "100 meters north and 50 meters west of Bar Renur" or I could use any other variation that allows people to find me based on landmarks they are likely to know: "400 meters north and 50 meters west of the town center." And yes I have broadband.
And I live in a rural non-tourist area. Prices will often be double in a tourist beach town or in and around San Jose.
Also anyone taking an upper management position at $2,000 / month is getting screwed. I've had programmers asking for anywhere between $3,000 to $5,000 / month.
TFA spends a lot of time talking about how few women there are on the list, without digging any deeper than that. I find that verging on morally reprehensible.
Actually, only a third of the article talks about the men vs. women thing. And it certainly wasn't my intention to do anything morally reprehensible.
Looking into it myself, I see he used the list here as his starting basis, with only a few changes. The problem I have with that list is that it includes oodles of people who I've never heard of. Since I've been a professional software developer for 20 years, and an ameteur for 10 years before that, I think in my case "people with names I recognize" is a good filter for famous.
I won't argue that using Wikipedia's list is the best possible source for famous programmers, but it was the best I could come up with at the time. If someone comes up with a better, quantifiable way to decide who is famous I would be happy to use it when / if I write a follow-up article.
Theoretically, you can't get a Wikipedia page without being "notable" and having your name mentioned in print media. This is definitely a condition for being a "famous programmer", although certainly not a sufficient one.
And I would argue that "people with names recognized by X," where X is any single person, is a bit silly to use a filter. Perhaps taking a bunch of programmers, asking them who is famous, and then choosing people on multiple lists is a better criteria, but this is essentially what the Wikipedia page does anyway. I will be the first to admit that Wikipedia is a dubious resource, but it does at least have the advantage that the end result is the opinion of many people.
As a side note there have already been comments on the article from people who want to add themselves to the Wikipedia list, and the Wikipedia page has had around 40 edits since it was slashdoted. I believe the version used for the article was this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_programmers&oldid=223902373
The Apache Foundation also has the POI Java API for reading and writing MS Office Documents. Some of the subprojects are HSSF (Horrible Spreadsheet Format) for Excel 97 formats, HWPF (Horrible Word Processing Format) for Word 97 Documents, and HSLF for Powerpoint. I use HSSF for writing documents, and while it's a bit clunky it works pretty well. There are a few annoyances like trying to prevent an embedded image from skewing, but this is more a limitation of the excel format than the POI API. Write support is pretty mature, although reading could use some work. Much better solution than excel automation, and the APIs have sweet names. 'Nuff said.
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Sounds like maybe he wasn't getting the one-on-one help and extra support teaching staff should be giving him. Just a thought.
Bullshit. This is a class in a top university with a fairly well ranked CS department. If he needed help he could have hired a tutor or went to see the prof or TA during office hours. No one is under obligation to seek him out and give him special attention - all that does is waste time on people with no initiative to understand the material, and degrade the quality of the class for everyone else. If he can't cut it he needs to change majors or switch universities.
I graduated from a top ranked CS program and the work was brutal, but that how I learned and I wouldn't have had it any other way.
This doesn't have anything to do with getting broadband access. If the electrical company (assuming you have electricity) can find you to hook you up, why wouldn't the broadband company be able to do the same?
My "address" translated to English is "100 meters north and 50 meters west of Bar Renur" or I could use any other variation that allows people to find me based on landmarks they are likely to know: "400 meters north and 50 meters west of the town center." And yes I have broadband.
The information for Costa Rica is pretty far off base as well.
Coke: $1.10 (not 66 cents)
Beer: $1.50 (not 34 cents)
Cell Phone: $200-$600 (not $79)
Shoes: $4 flip flops to $175+ for brand names (not $9.50)
And I live in a rural non-tourist area. Prices will often be double in a tourist beach town or in and around San Jose.
Also anyone taking an upper management position at $2,000 / month is getting screwed. I've had programmers asking for anywhere between $3,000 to $5,000 / month.
TFA spends a lot of time talking about how few women there are on the list, without digging any deeper than that. I find that verging on morally reprehensible.
Actually, only a third of the article talks about the men vs. women thing. And it certainly wasn't my intention to do anything morally reprehensible.
Looking into it myself, I see he used the list here as his starting basis, with only a few changes. The problem I have with that list is that it includes oodles of people who I've never heard of. Since I've been a professional software developer for 20 years, and an ameteur for 10 years before that, I think in my case "people with names I recognize" is a good filter for famous.
I won't argue that using Wikipedia's list is the best possible source for famous programmers, but it was the best I could come up with at the time. If someone comes up with a better, quantifiable way to decide who is famous I would be happy to use it when / if I write a follow-up article.
Theoretically, you can't get a Wikipedia page without being "notable" and having your name mentioned in print media. This is definitely a condition for being a "famous programmer", although certainly not a sufficient one.
And I would argue that "people with names recognized by X," where X is any single person, is a bit silly to use a filter. Perhaps taking a bunch of programmers, asking them who is famous, and then choosing people on multiple lists is a better criteria, but this is essentially what the Wikipedia page does anyway. I will be the first to admit that Wikipedia is a dubious resource, but it does at least have the advantage that the end result is the opinion of many people.
As a side note there have already been comments on the article from people who want to add themselves to the Wikipedia list, and the Wikipedia page has had around 40 edits since it was slashdoted. I believe the version used for the article was this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_programmers&oldid=223902373
The Apache Foundation also has the POI Java API for reading and writing MS Office Documents. Some of the subprojects are HSSF (Horrible Spreadsheet Format) for Excel 97 formats, HWPF (Horrible Word Processing Format) for Word 97 Documents, and HSLF for Powerpoint. I use HSSF for writing documents, and while it's a bit clunky it works pretty well. There are a few annoyances like trying to prevent an embedded image from skewing, but this is more a limitation of the excel format than the POI API. Write support is pretty mature, although reading could use some work. Much better solution than excel automation, and the APIs have sweet names. 'Nuff said.