Bias isn't necessarily what annoys me. I would like to see more stories which foster discussion as opposed to sensational bullshit. Isn't their an interesting or nerdy or thought provoking or geeky news item that we can discuss? For fuck's sake, we know Microsoft sucks, we know 80% of slashdot's traffic is from IE, we know we don't like.NET, we know Ballmer is a monkey, come on, let's talk about something (ANYTHING) else.
If you have "Programming Windows 95", you know how thorough Petzold is. "Programming Windows" is basically the same but with an emphasis on Windows 98 and Windows 2k. That said, whenever you come across something strange, you can just hit MSDN to figure out what went wrong, so I'm gonna go out on a limb and say you're ok.
Only the MFC book is C++, the other two are C. Pablo mentioned 'Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment', which means he should have no problem at all with C.
If you're doing gui work, you need Programming Windows by Charles Petzold. Anyone who tells you otherwise, I would love to hear from.
If you don't mind a slow ass gui that gobbles memory and will leave you crying early in the morning, then get Programming Windows with MFC by Jeffrey Prosise.
If you require operating systems services like threads, processes, jobs/fibers, dlls, Unicode, etc., you need Programming Applications for Microsoft Windows by Jeffrey Richter. No ifs, ands, or buts.
That tree they have on their admissions pamphlet cover? It's the only tree on campus! Don't believe the happy thoughts hype, everything in Columbia is far more fucked up then you'd believe. NYU isn't that far away, and much better.
The circle has to be cut somewhere. I love my country, but goddamn, we have to stop this oppression of other people for the sake of our personal glory bullshit.
Columbia: 2 billion dollars to fight leftist guerillas who are trying to win better conditions for the poor while the right wing wealthy landowners who they're opposing pump drugs into America and bullets into peasants.
Middle East: Immeasurable amounts of money to support the ghettoification of a large number of Arabs. It's as if the Israeli government is taking all their cues from the third reich (who got their cues from our excellent eradication of Native Americans).
Here's a suggestion: if you don't like the system and don't feel like changing the system, take your bombs and move to Columbia or the middle east.
Nonono, tell them to move, but don't let them bring their bombs with them, they'll just end up getting pointed right back at us.
Bush has screwed Russia before (ABM Treaty). If they brought up the 'Well, Russian Law permits it' argument, I'm sure the administration would be happy to smack it down.
Under normal circumstances. Actually, with this whole Enron mess going on, they could probably sneak anything by.
What was our reaction to MS disabling access to the MSN sites? Blazing anger.
And this is different exactly how? When a Linux person does it, it's 'funny' (+1).
This is immature and childish. True that.
I hope he comes to his senses and refrains from this kind of petty vendettas. When people start ignoring his email (message->block sender), maybe then he'll get the idea: being a jackass to other people might be funny for roughly two seconds, but no longer than that.
We have a co-op program that's pretty widely regarded (at least in Manhattan...) but I've yet to see a job for students of Physics. The only jobs for Physics majors I've seen with degrees are the school hiring people back to do research. We're an engineering school, and I've seen more job offers for people with Humanities degrees than for people with Physics degrees.
Physics apparently doens't apply to the Manhattan area =) I meant no insult, that's just been my experience so far.
when a habit interferes with a growing, active life, it should be taken seriously.
What's the definition of interferring with a growing active life? Instead of hitting the pub after work, I usually go straight home and work on one of my many silly projects. On weekends I take a break from my projects and play video games. I hang out with my friends maybe once a week, maybe less. My hobbies are programming (silly projects) and video games. I'm happy. Does that mean I'm addicted and should be weaned off? Says who?
Minor in humanities & a language and major in Electrical Engineering.
You'll be all set for a career in telecom, computers, power industry, physics, applied research, math, & I'm sure there's other stuff. Plus you won't be a boring know nothing and knowing another language helps you have adventures (job, career, contract, etc.) in other countries.
Physics is too damn narrow, and the goal of computer science is to eliminate computer scientists. With an engineering degree you can't go wrong.
"deduction and reasoning skills that can't be learnt through academic study"
Just curious, isn't that what the Euclidean Geometry class is for? You know, where you learn about points and lines and planes and triangles and etc. and you have to prove theorems and stuff?
Deduction & reasoning skills have to be taught somehow, I don't buy that students are born ready for cs.
"(As a Troll-y sidenote, I'd like to mention with some degree of bitterness that I submitted this story, except when I did it, I got the facts right. Apparently this warrants a rejection, and irrelevant whining about the DMCA warrants approval. Do you ever wonder why/. gets a bad reputation from time to time?)"
Now if you want to complain about the implementation details of how the programming language is attached to the word processor, then we can talk, but come on...
A google search would require me to interface with a database. A slashdot post allows me to interface with people. I tend to get far more interesting responses by posting to slashdot, and they're all prefiltered too!
Slashdot Mirror
Bias isn't necessarily what annoys me. I would like to see more stories which foster discussion as opposed to sensational bullshit. Isn't their an interesting or nerdy or thought provoking or geeky news item that we can discuss? For fuck's sake, we know Microsoft sucks, we know 80% of slashdot's traffic is from IE, we know we don't like .NET, we know Ballmer is a monkey, come on, let's talk about something (ANYTHING) else.
If you have "Programming Windows 95", you know how thorough Petzold is. "Programming Windows" is basically the same but with an emphasis on Windows 98 and Windows 2k. That said, whenever you come across something strange, you can just hit MSDN to figure out what went wrong, so I'm gonna go out on a limb and say you're ok.
Only the MFC book is C++, the other two are C. Pablo mentioned 'Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment', which means he should have no problem at all with C.
I send you this file in order to have your advice.
MSDN. It's free, it's updated often.
If you're doing gui work, you need Programming Windows by Charles Petzold. Anyone who tells you otherwise, I would love to hear from.
If you don't mind a slow ass gui that gobbles memory and will leave you crying early in the morning, then get Programming Windows with MFC by Jeffrey Prosise.
If you require operating systems services like threads, processes, jobs/fibers, dlls, Unicode, etc., you need Programming Applications for Microsoft Windows by Jeffrey Richter. No ifs, ands, or buts.
Then (maybe before?) hit codeguru and codeproject.
That tree they have on their admissions pamphlet cover? It's the only tree on campus! Don't believe the happy thoughts hype, everything in Columbia is far more fucked up then you'd believe. NYU isn't that far away, and much better.
The circle has to be cut somewhere. I love my country, but goddamn, we have to stop this oppression of other people for the sake of our personal glory bullshit.
Columbia: 2 billion dollars to fight leftist guerillas who are trying to win better conditions for the poor while the right wing wealthy landowners who they're opposing pump drugs into America and bullets into peasants.
Middle East: Immeasurable amounts of money to support the ghettoification of a large number of Arabs. It's as if the Israeli government is taking all their cues from the third reich (who got their cues from our excellent eradication of Native Americans).
Here's a suggestion: if you don't like the system and don't feel like changing the system, take your bombs and move to Columbia or the middle east.
Nonono, tell them to move, but don't let them bring their bombs with them, they'll just end up getting pointed right back at us.
mirror the poor brick before you slashdot it.
Bush has screwed Russia before (ABM Treaty). If they brought up the 'Well, Russian Law permits it' argument, I'm sure the administration would be happy to smack it down.
Under normal circumstances. Actually, with this whole Enron mess going on, they could probably sneak anything by.
What was our reaction to MS disabling access to the MSN sites?
Blazing anger.
And this is different exactly how?
When a Linux person does it, it's 'funny' (+1).
This is immature and childish.
True that.
I hope he comes to his senses and refrains from this kind of petty vendettas.
When people start ignoring his email (message->block sender), maybe then he'll get the idea: being a jackass to other people might be funny for roughly two seconds, but no longer than that.
Good eye =) Maybe I should be hanging with more physics majors...
Ooooooooooooh, ok...
thanks for the clarification.
We have a co-op program that's pretty widely regarded (at least in Manhattan...) but I've yet to see a job for students of Physics. The only jobs for Physics majors I've seen with degrees are the school hiring people back to do research. We're an engineering school, and I've seen more job offers for people with Humanities degrees than for people with Physics degrees.
Physics apparently doens't apply to the Manhattan area =) I meant no insult, that's just been my experience so far.
What's the definition of interferring with a growing active life? Instead of hitting the pub after work, I usually go straight home and work on one of my many silly projects. On weekends I take a break from my projects and play video games. I hang out with my friends maybe once a week, maybe less. My hobbies are programming (silly projects) and video games. I'm happy. Does that mean I'm addicted and should be weaned off? Says who?
Minor in humanities & a language and major in Electrical Engineering.
You'll be all set for a career in telecom, computers, power industry, physics, applied research, math, & I'm sure there's other stuff. Plus you won't be a boring know nothing and knowing another language helps you have adventures (job, career, contract, etc.) in other countries.
Physics is too damn narrow, and the goal of computer science is to eliminate computer scientists. With an engineering degree you can't go wrong.
Ok...
Then if a time limit must be placed on document life, what about tying it to the statute of limitation on fraud?
Why should corporations have privacy when they have the potential to ruin so many lives?
2002-01-22 16:04:18 Amazon.com Turns a Profit! (articles,news) (rejected)
Make the submission queue a wiki for God's sake. 100,000 readers and you fucks can't be bothered with journalistic integrity of any kind.
nifty
"deduction and reasoning skills that can't be learnt through academic study"
Just curious, isn't that what the Euclidean Geometry class is for? You know, where you learn about points and lines and planes and triangles and etc. and you have to prove theorems and stuff?
Deduction & reasoning skills have to be taught somehow, I don't buy that students are born ready for cs.
"Linux is only free if your time is worthless"
I'm curious, is that your quote or someone else's? Thanks in advance
"(As a Troll-y sidenote, I'd like to mention with some degree of bitterness that I submitted this story, except when I did it, I got the facts right. Apparently this warrants a rejection, and irrelevant whining about the DMCA warrants approval. Do you ever wonder why /. gets a bad reputation from time to time?)"
Preach on brother.
Emacs & Lisp? Anyone? Anyone?
Now if you want to complain about the implementation details of how the programming language is attached to the word processor, then we can talk, but come on...
"Perhaps MCCain was our last chance."
Do we know for sure that he's not going to run again?
A google search would require me to interface with a database. A slashdot post allows me to interface with people. I tend to get far more interesting responses by posting to slashdot, and they're all prefiltered too!