His point is that some of the girls in his class preferred the while(true)//exp of why this works over the while(1) because it's more verbal and therefore more explicit. I go for while(whole statement) most of the time too-except when it makes the entire statement so impossible that nothing's gained.
As for the if statements-cool, I'd never seen the 1st way before, and wouldn't have a clue what it was. I figure some of the other girls in his class are either the same or expect other readers of the code to be like me-therefore they again choose the explicit choice.
When writing for yourself, whatever you want is fine-you're the only one who'll get a headache later. This guy was writing code that a)had to be integrated into a badly documented* system b)was going to be part of a code base for a team-both plans ended up scrapped.
*Even worse than writing undocumented code that slots into something well documented because if your stuff is doc'd, then it can be used as a model for other people trying to figure out how to put it all together-otherwise it really doesn't help anyone.
Hi, I'm Hannah and I learned to code like a girl. *dances*
he also required we use informative variable names and write legible code and we'd get dinged heavily if we didn't. i think he was right and so i continue to try to follow his advice every day, and this includes code i write purely for myself, but it goes against my nature. Same here-a lot of my old code is of the int x= variety, but then I started working in a lab with a prof. who stressed good variables. I got into the habit and just had someone say that they could understand what my code was doing just 'cause of the (sometimes long) variable names. The extra time spent typing the variables saves so much tracing time in the long run. And I have to write way less comments.
a) was on many lines and 2) made sense to everyone else who'd have to come by later and figure out what i was doing. oh, and could i please be sure to include comments? I've been on a team that got really badly burned because on of our programmers wrote tight trick code that worked, but not with our system-and 'cause he wouldn't share/comment it was too late to fix it. Someone else on our team may have to work with his code later and I'm seriously considering a rewrite/new algorithm all together 'cause implementing his hack may end up taking longer. Been in lots of situations where other people's code was unusable just 'cause it was more work to understand it than to rewrite.
Totally depends on the person. I have a friend who writes awful, incredibly buggy, code 'cause he only cares about it working. OTOH I think about all the possible uses for my code, exponentially increasing my coding and testing time-but my code is clean, a lot less buggy, and a lot more usable.
laid down to females in programming being a small elite and males are not. Compare the best females and the best males and you will likely not find much difference, in skill, style and numbers. A friend made the observation that the girls who make it through engineering.comp sci tend to be better than the average guy just 'cause girls have to put up with so much to finish it.
There are also other factors. I throw in a lot of comments 'cause I like knowing where my code is going and 'cause I'm not very good-if I don't note it, I won't figure it out later. Also, I'm a student, which means often a professor is going to see it. My mother comments less 'cause she learned it as a vocational skill and does it professionally. A girl in my lab comments less than I do 'cause she's more focused on just getting code that works and another girl I know only comments the bare minimum to appease the professor. Haven't seen a difference with guys-the good programmers write good comments/docs, the bad ones think it's a waste of time.
It costs something like $5,000-$10,000 to prep a patent, once legal fees are thrown in; a patent pricing scale is trivial in comparison.
I'm still wondering how someone in legal vetted it- this doesn't seem remotely patentable as it's not a process, invention, or even an idea. It's just a person acting as go between, which yeah, has been around since the beginning or time or at least since civilizations started having brokers between their artisan classes and the buyers of such goods.
Why do you think she'd want it so much if she really knew what it was all about? The media has made a pretty big deal about war diamonds in the past couple of years, and there are all sorts of new age movements centered around cleaner/greener/simpler lifestyles. *shrugs* Why not try to sell her on the idea that the wedding band is the only ring that really matters anyway?
Their legal and marketing departments must be having so much fun figuring out how to explain bandwidth and file sizes and cappings to the (probably slowly decreasing) set of users who don't really understand any of it. They can't just let the users screw up 'cause the potential lawsuits are frightening, but on the plus they could end releasing all sorts of useful education tools.
(Though really, my mom's youtube kills our network worse than my one torrent-when it's even working at all 'cause verizon just seems that screwy lately.)
is the complete and utter dependance on calculators, especially those fancy, programmable Texas Instruments ones, that can practically do the work for you I think it's a great way to measure teachers-all the best math/science teachers I've ever had only let us use calculators when the exam mandated it or there was no way around it. I've almost never used a calculator in any calculus class, nor have I used one much in any of my physics courses.
I'm almost 4 years into an engineering program and I still have peers who just fail to grasp basic math concepts. Part of the problem is in how engineering is taught, at least in my schools. There are so many old exams floating around and so many teachers teaching straight from the formula that I'm pretty sure half these guys just memorize the method/paper/exam and spit it right back out for the exam (plenty of stories of kids not even using the proper #'s 'cause that's the one thing the professor changed on his new exam.) That's not even counting the ones who cheat their way through the exam.
The founding fathers did the right thing in separation of church and state, and religious people need to "get" that. Lots do. I know plenty of religious (especially non-Christian) people who want their religion and state separate 'cause they feel religion is just not a matter of public policy.
Though really, I think the major opposition to Perry is that it's really hard to see what a Texas governor has to do with E3. If he'd also had a career in tech ('specially gaming) or been instrumental in getting some tech policy passed, then maybe-but it doesn't seem that way. Googling him, he seems to have done some pretty minor tech things, aside from giving money. Not sure that makes him keynote worthy.
Vex kits are expensive, but will teach your kids about everything. A cheaper option is just going to radio shack and buying a bit of everything (breadboard, LED, resistor kit, some wire). I'm at IGVC (Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition) and well that's what everyones robot mostly is anyway.
Seconding lego mindstorms, and get your kids into lego league-it's a great, fun experience for younger kids and a nice intro to robotics. I'd especially push that if you've got girls-get them into it early and get them comfortable around boys and a machine shop or they'll end up stuck with the pr and painting (maybe software if they're good) jobs even if they get into robotics.
Also, have them build their own box to run computer code-lego and microsoft are options to explore, pyro if you're dead set on FOSS. Once they've built it, they'll have a lot of fun testing it, plus they learn a lot of coding fundamentals.
Kind of kidding-at least in my uni the engineering and science depts. seem to use matlab for all their computational needs. It's sort of integrated into the curriculum as part of calculus 3, so invariably all the science/engr. kids take it-plus it gets thrown into other courses too, so a student's almost forced to pick it up if you want to do well.
The psychology dept. likes me more for the science/programming background than any psych courses I've taken. Experiments have to be coded, data processed, etc. and having a student who has some background in coding is a big plus. I rec python 'cause it's an easy language that can handle pretty much anything a psychology student needs-but really any language would work, and I know some people in the dept. who like working in C/C++.
Love it or hate it, the bible has influenced most every major piece of art and literature 'til about the modern period. Just about every art museum's collection-everything from Byzantium right up until the impressionist's is full of biblical references. Literature is just the same-and hell there's plenty of modern stuff that's either influenced by it or a rebellion against it. So yeah, how ever little merit you think it has, it's git some just by being part of so many other pieces of work.
"the earth is 6000 years old" out of the bible. Well they get it from the hebrew calender, which technically speaking is supposed to be calculated from creation.(Kind of, sort of-I keep trying to explain to my brother that the bible doesn't say the world is only approx. 6000 years old.)
To be fair to the parent, plenty of the more fundamentalist/hard line Jews and Christians do make the 6000 year claim-even though there's plenty of scientific evidence and a decent amount of biblical commentary (pick an approach or mix and match) to contradict 'em.
To be more fair, NASA's also about a lot more than just space exploration these days. It's spawned/pays for all sorts of research in weather and climate that's got very real applications, and it's shiny satellites are used by tons of universities/researchers.
(disclaimer: I play with NASA images for a stipend.)
I don't see what influencing western culture has to do with it. Well, when trying to compare someone to Disney, I think that's the whole point-I mean Disney changed American culture (and arguably had a large effect on other western cultures) and some global influence, but less. I think Miyazaki's work is absolutely fabulous, but I don't think his influence is comparable to Disney or Nintendo (and I think that realm of influence is mostly western culture.)
Oops, I know, its possessive and it's contraction-should have been former, I used the latter (and pc's should really be PCs). As for everything else? I speak in contractions, so why not write that way?
You may want to rephrase that to "his American audience" (I'd even accept "international") Honestly I should rephrase altogether 'cause there are plenty of American film buffs who love his stuff who won't go near other anime (and I figure it's not so different worldwide.) I made the mistake of writing my entire comment in reference to American's 'cause when I think Disney, I think primarily of his influence on American media.
(Though technically Miyazaki's stuff is anime, and I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the kid's who like his stuff do like other animes.)
Uh, 'cause it's modding a Wii and modding console's supposed to automatically equal modding hardware 'cause a console is tied to it's hardware in a way pc's aren't? *shrugs* Not that I think it should be modded hardhack-I just think that's the thinking process that lead to the tag.
I'm just sad that my bro basically stole my wii, so it'd take too much work to get it back to play with the hacks.
Miyazaki has been compared to Disney plenty of times, but his audience is still primarily limited to anime fans (who even then tend to know only his most popular works). Even his biggest American releases (Howl's Moving Castle, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke) don't have the appeal or audience base that anything put out by Nintendo has, nor has his worked influenced western culture the way Disney or Nintendo has.
Sure-I use azureus on my desktop, but refuse to throw it on my laptop 'cause it keeps freezing up my poor desktop. But I'll switch CPU for memory usage (just 'cause I can't get anything good on clock cycles)
using task manager: uTorrent- 3,984K (and the actual program is only.54MB-important on a storage starved system) Azureus-about 4/5 cycles, approx 55k memory(11.31mb)
Slashdot Mirror
His point is that some of the girls in his class preferred the while(true)//exp of why this works over the while(1) because it's more verbal and therefore more explicit. I go for while(whole statement) most of the time too-except when it makes the entire statement so impossible that nothing's gained.
As for the if statements-cool, I'd never seen the 1st way before, and wouldn't have a clue what it was. I figure some of the other girls in his class are either the same or expect other readers of the code to be like me-therefore they again choose the explicit choice.
When writing for yourself, whatever you want is fine-you're the only one who'll get a headache later. This guy was writing code that a)had to be integrated into a badly documented* system b)was going to be part of a code base for a team-both plans ended up scrapped.
*Even worse than writing undocumented code that slots into something well documented because if your stuff is doc'd, then it can be used as a model for other people trying to figure out how to put it all together-otherwise it really doesn't help anyone.
Hi, I'm Hannah and I learned to code like a girl. *dances*
Totally depends on the person. I have a friend who writes awful, incredibly buggy, code 'cause he only cares about it working. OTOH I think about all the possible uses for my code, exponentially increasing my coding and testing time-but my code is clean, a lot less buggy, and a lot more usable.
There are also other factors. I throw in a lot of comments 'cause I like knowing where my code is going and 'cause I'm not very good-if I don't note it, I won't figure it out later. Also, I'm a student, which means often a professor is going to see it. My mother comments less 'cause she learned it as a vocational skill and does it professionally. A girl in my lab comments less than I do 'cause she's more focused on just getting code that works and another girl I know only comments the bare minimum to appease the professor. Haven't seen a difference with guys-the good programmers write good comments/docs, the bad ones think it's a waste of time.
Applied theory? What's that? Most of my EE courses seem to be about solving some specific type of problem, maybe occasionally wiring something up.
It costs something like $5,000-$10,000 to prep a patent, once legal fees are thrown in; a patent pricing scale is trivial in comparison.
I'm still wondering how someone in legal vetted it- this doesn't seem remotely patentable as it's not a process, invention, or even an idea. It's just a person acting as go between, which yeah, has been around since the beginning or time or at least since civilizations started having brokers between their artisan classes and the buyers of such goods.
Forget that-it's called life.
Why do you think she'd want it so much if she really knew what it was all about? The media has made a pretty big deal about war diamonds in the past couple of years, and there are all sorts of new age movements centered around cleaner/greener/simpler lifestyles. *shrugs* Why not try to sell her on the idea that the wedding band is the only ring that really matters anyway?
Their legal and marketing departments must be having so much fun figuring out how to explain bandwidth and file sizes and cappings to the (probably slowly decreasing) set of users who don't really understand any of it. They can't just let the users screw up 'cause the potential lawsuits are frightening, but on the plus they could end releasing all sorts of useful education tools.
(Though really, my mom's youtube kills our network worse than my one torrent-when it's even working at all 'cause verizon just seems that screwy lately.)
I'm almost 4 years into an engineering program and I still have peers who just fail to grasp basic math concepts. Part of the problem is in how engineering is taught, at least in my schools. There are so many old exams floating around and so many teachers teaching straight from the formula that I'm pretty sure half these guys just memorize the method/paper/exam and spit it right back out for the exam (plenty of stories of kids not even using the proper #'s 'cause that's the one thing the professor changed on his new exam.) That's not even counting the ones who cheat their way through the exam.
MS also has a free iso mounting tool that worked just fine when I needed to make a live linux usb.
link
Though really, I think the major opposition to Perry is that it's really hard to see what a Texas governor has to do with E3. If he'd also had a career in tech ('specially gaming) or been instrumental in getting some tech policy passed, then maybe-but it doesn't seem that way. Googling him, he seems to have done some pretty minor tech things, aside from giving money. Not sure that makes him keynote worthy.
Vex kits are expensive, but will teach your kids about everything. A cheaper option is just going to radio shack and buying a bit of everything (breadboard, LED, resistor kit, some wire). I'm at IGVC (Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition) and well that's what everyones robot mostly is anyway.
Seconding lego mindstorms, and get your kids into lego league-it's a great, fun experience for younger kids and a nice intro to robotics. I'd especially push that if you've got girls-get them into it early and get them comfortable around boys and a machine shop or they'll end up stuck with the pr and painting (maybe software if they're good) jobs even if they get into robotics.
Also, have them build their own box to run computer code-lego and microsoft are options to explore, pyro if you're dead set on FOSS. Once they've built it, they'll have a lot of fun testing it, plus they learn a lot of coding fundamentals.
Kind of kidding-at least in my uni the engineering and science depts. seem to use matlab for all their computational needs. It's sort of integrated into the curriculum as part of calculus 3, so invariably all the science/engr. kids take it-plus it gets thrown into other courses too, so a student's almost forced to pick it up if you want to do well.
The psychology dept. likes me more for the science/programming background than any psych courses I've taken. Experiments have to be coded, data processed, etc. and having a student who has some background in coding is a big plus. I rec python 'cause it's an easy language that can handle pretty much anything a psychology student needs-but really any language would work, and I know some people in the dept. who like working in C/C++.
Love it or hate it, the bible has influenced most every major piece of art and literature 'til about the modern period. Just about every art museum's collection-everything from Byzantium right up until the impressionist's is full of biblical references. Literature is just the same-and hell there's plenty of modern stuff that's either influenced by it or a rebellion against it. So yeah, how ever little merit you think it has, it's git some just by being part of so many other pieces of work.
To be fair to the parent, plenty of the more fundamentalist/hard line Jews and Christians do make the 6000 year claim-even though there's plenty of scientific evidence and a decent amount of biblical commentary (pick an approach or mix and match) to contradict 'em.
To be more fair, NASA's also about a lot more than just space exploration these days. It's spawned/pays for all sorts of research in weather and climate that's got very real applications, and it's shiny satellites are used by tons of universities/researchers.
(disclaimer: I play with NASA images for a stipend.)
daughter (it's even in my sig)
Oops, I know, its possessive and it's contraction-should have been former, I used the latter (and pc's should really be PCs). As for everything else? I speak in contractions, so why not write that way?
(Though technically Miyazaki's stuff is anime, and I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the kid's who like his stuff do like other animes.)
Uh, 'cause it's modding a Wii and modding console's supposed to automatically equal modding hardware 'cause a console is tied to it's hardware in a way pc's aren't? *shrugs* Not that I think it should be modded hardhack-I just think that's the thinking process that lead to the tag.
I'm just sad that my bro basically stole my wii, so it'd take too much work to get it back to play with the hacks.
Miyazaki has been compared to Disney plenty of times, but his audience is still primarily limited to anime fans (who even then tend to know only his most popular works). Even his biggest American releases (Howl's Moving Castle, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke) don't have the appeal or audience base that anything put out by Nintendo has, nor has his worked influenced western culture the way Disney or Nintendo has.
Sure-I use azureus on my desktop, but refuse to throw it on my laptop 'cause it keeps freezing up my poor desktop. But I'll switch CPU for memory usage (just 'cause I can't get anything good on clock cycles)
.54MB-important on a storage starved system)
using task manager:
uTorrent- 3,984K (and the actual program is only
Azureus-about 4/5 cycles, approx 55k memory(11.31mb)