You'll get things done more slowly, because GUI configs suck, but that's your choice.
That's his point, more or less. Most of the linux distro's (even Ubuntu to some extent) pour so little resources into their GUI config development, because of the lack of perceived need for it, that command line becomes the defacto solution in many situations where windows would have a GUI. Most of the solutions to newbie problems in Ubuntu are bash oriented 'cause even if the GUI's exist, so few people are familiar enough with them to give adequate directions. Microsoft trouble shooting sometimes also involves command line (I've done it) but it's usually deep in the troubleshooting chain, unlike in Ubuntu where it's often the 1st suggestion. This is something that scares off potential users, no way around that. (And bad GUI's are worse than no GUI's 'cause they leave the user confused, frustrated, and wanting to walk away from the program without ever using it again.)
This is because the shell is the best, fastest way to fix problems in Linux, even when other options are available, and we won't suggest an inferior solution unless pressed for it.
Even if the inferior solution is more user (newbie) friendly and therefore a good thing to have if trying to obtain a wider linux market share? It's awfully hard to kill MS/Apple dominance by making things more difficult for their core users.
Monroe (her school) is a step up from a degree mill here in NY. Seriously, the ads all over the subway practically say as much, and just look at the FAQ. 2.7 is just plain sad in this case, and 'specially from a school that's not all that respected.
Sean John is pretty respected in the fashion world, so that rebranding seems to have worked.
FedEx is fine after it rebranded itself as FedEx (previously it was Federal Express or something) but that's more a case of just changing it's name to what everyone else was already calling it.
they actually made a decent profit in 2Q 2009 despite slight declines in gross revenue. So someone must shop there.
Old ladies, judging by the last one I went to. And desperate students can rack up decently high purchases around project due dates if the store has a half decent selection.
It's true. Unless you end up pairing two students who think they can program better than their counterpart.
Then you get 2 students handing in seperate Code, both amazing in their own right, saying that they wrote it themselves and had no help from their partners, insisting they get a better grade in the class.
And then the consequences of the pair of students with NO programming experience, and are having trouble learning, and end up handing you a page that is well documented but not at all functional.
So you switch the pairs after the first assignment, or better yet use a combination of survey and quiz to figure out who's at what level and assign the pairs based on that. And give quizzes/exams based in the material, so that the weaker student still needs to learn it. One professor let us pick our final partners based on a survey, and it seemed to work out well for all the teams involved. And sometimes there is awesome karma: I had a friend who got a D in a course when his team wouldn't put his name on the final project 'cause he didn't contribute to it.
(coveting a neighbours ass is bad, but no mention of coveting anything else? his wfie would be ok to covet?)
Her and slaves and all his stuff are part of the 10th commandment, and she's folded into the one on adultery. (At least the Hebrew version, but then again they're sort of subject headings for all the laws covered in the Old Testament/Talmud/commentaries/etc., so I agree with your main point.)
Your point does NOT stand, primarily because one leg is an urban legend and the other (Gettysburg Address) is a speech, not a piece of legislation.
Even the other two are sketchy 'cause while the initial documents are short, they don't mean much of anything without all the clarifications, explanations, technicalities, and details codified in the old testament and tons of legal codes and cases.
A geek like you, but who doesn't get the respect you do because I wear a skirt and you wear pants.
As much as I agree that she's totally over-reacting about the whole dude thing (I use it to refer to everyone and anyone within a ten mile radius), sexism in the sciences/engineering/tech world is incredibly well documented.
It seems that you have self-esteem issues you need to sort out.
You may be right in a totally unintended way. A friend once said the key to getting respect in the tech field is answering a question sounding like your %100 sure it's the right answer, and the more traditionally feminine diplomatic communication style usually lacks that assertiveness.
He's just using parenthesis instead of parenthetical commas, so maybe he wants the stylistic effect of parenthesis, and sometimes those parenthesis save a sentence from having a host of commas and therefore being really hard to follow.
There's great stuff going on in machine learning. Game AIs could get much better. Robotics is finally starting to work. Computer vision is getting very good. There's a whole world of interesting technology associated with semiconductor design automation. But 99% of working programmers won't get into those areas. They'll be stuck doing e-commerce sites forever. And the other 1% needs a phd (oka, maybe.95-I could see game AI jobs having looser requirements) so this guy would still have to be a lot more interested in comp sci then he probably is. (And a math or electrical engineering major may suit him better anyway for those kinds of fields.)
New school teaches every language + programmming concepts and our poster complains - maybe the new gen kids are unteachable.
I'm probably new gen (ripe old age of 21) and I think new school rocks. My school attempts a theory/practical balance by giving classes in basically one or the other and just putting an about equal amount of each in the core and fails miserably at teaching anyone not already interested in comp sci anything 'cause most of the ones just in school for a job take the practical courses where they can cut+paste their way to a half decent grade. (The best were the guys who've worked in industry but don't know any concepts.) This guy's just a newbie if he doesn't get that buy learning the concepts, a lot of the more complicated parts of any language become more accessible. I've seen the "language for resume" attitude from plenty of guys in my classes 10/20 years my senior (public school and all that) and complaints about the lack of conceptual knowledge from guys my age and younger. Interest to actually learn comp sci has to do with attitude, not age.
There are plenty of toys for adults, and you don't even need an Xbox for that. Just pick up a FPGA development board, and start coding stuff in VHDL or Verilog or something. Throw in a microcontroller, buy an oscilloscope and logic analyser, and you're good to go!
If you already have an xbox, the added cost would be the cost of the game. If you don't have an xbox and want this, you also get a gaming platform/dvd player out of it. FPGA dev board+oscilloscope+logic analyzer+pic+VHDL/Verilog is at least twice as much (probably more for decent equipment) as xbox+game (hell I think the modelsim license alone is over $100) and can't be used for anything else.
On stage one, if this works for you, try thinking about the people who will use the code once it's written.
It also makes it easier to write the test cases-and if those are written first it can become a game of breaking the code and fixing it. It also breaks down the problem set-my productivity shoots up a ton the more well defined the problem set and the better the specs 'cause I can just start out with the stubs (which of course change) and work out from there. (I'm usually about as bad/worse than the OP.) Seriously though, making it a game of constantly tweaking the code-improving the modularity or readability or something-while blocked forces me to pay attention to the code, so it's always sitting in the back of my head. Finding the bits I like also makes the rest manageable, 'cause the fun stuff becomes dependent on the important stuff and therefore there's a motivator for getting the boring stuff out of the way.
These guys are excellently prepared for becoming academics but the schools they came from don't seem to be very concerned with giving them the basic skills they need to get a job outside of academia.
I've learned more about coding working in a compsci research lab than I ever have in classes 'cause my professor/adviser stresses all sorts of good coding practices and I have to write code that can't break ('cause it'll mess up all the calculations) so lots of test cases, has to be readable 'cause other people may have to use it, and has to be efficient 'cause I work with large data sets. The stuff I write for class can be absolute dreck so long as it compiles and passes whatever test a professor may throw together if he's not lazy, but my research code gets reviewed and is my headache if it's lousy. I've also learned all about sql,svn,tracs, putty, linux, and all that other stuff coders take for granted by working in a lab and hell it's the reason why I can answer the gp's 5 questions (in a line each 'cause python's my language of choice.)
And if there is a girl, she will be assumed to be somebody's girlfriend and get props for "supporting him", as happened to a friend of mine when she went to one. Though jumping off that, look for meetups of things you like to do, as girls do occasionally go to those (with friends so there may even be more than one.)
- 15 to 10 years ago, you had to be careful when installing drives, or RAM. You could almost slice your hand on a cheap case that had unfinished and sharp edges.
I got cut up 2 or 3 years ago, and I'm sure cases of equally bad quality are still on the market.
And while we're on the subject, does anyone use Num Lock or Pause anymore?
Num lock, 'cause most of the linux boxes in my school default to no locks (scrolling functions) so the only way to get a normally functioning numeric keypad is to press num lock.
Say what? I've never seen anyone do any sort of scientific research programming with Python
My research lab (satellite data processing) is all python and the psychology department in my school is thinking of switching over to python. There are tons of great scientific computing libraries either written or wrapped in python. It's a great language for social science research because it's so simple and clean, and the libraries make it easily extensible to the hard science crowd. I'm working with pretty big data sets at the moment and don't find python that slow in comparison, plus it simplifies so much of the data organization/sorting/filtering tasks.
The offerings are lousy and the requests are kind of demanding.* Seriously, you're gonna have to get your friends or the local linux group or whatever to actually do some stuff, get that reflected in the website, and build out from there. (Basically, get known in the community first, become sustainable, and let the web reflect that. If it means you're going door to door asking people if they want to volunteer for stuff/need stuff-well I guess that's what it takes. High school kids and younger are really good for this kind of thing.) You've got work harder to sell that this is really beneficial for everyone involved and not just a "dude, do this for me" scheme. I'm actually interested, but I'm in New York and therefore can't participate.
*Which actually brings me on topic, 'cause it's exactly the problem the article raises when advising companies to already have brownie points with open source projects and to pitch the project as a really good thing for the project.
And that's the way it should be as far as decision time. Should one take the college path or the vocational path? BTW there's a lot of skill involved in vocational jobs. Now as far as funding I believe one can get equal financing for either one.
I know there's a ton of skill involved in vocational stuff, had to do enough of the stuff to know it's better left to someone trained for it. Personally I hate the whole "stick everyone in college" mentality 'cause I think it leads to a whole lot of people going to college who'd be much better off working/learning a trade.
Now as far as funding I believe one can get equal financing for either one.
Dunno, maybe if the vocational school is accredited? (and therefore technically a college of sorts.?) Though they are listed on FAFSA's website, so I assume they at best are treated the same as a college, at worst have their own formula.
Also, why doesn't the U.S. fully fund tertiary education? Why is it not seen as a right?
Because it would be prohibitively expensive? I go to a dirt cheap uni (~4000 a year, 5000 after next years tuition hikes, and it's a public school so it's only that low 'cause of the massive tax funding the school gets, though it's getting hit with budget cuts right and left) and even that kind of tuition would be a massive funding issue for everyone who wanted to go to college here in the states, mostly because it's so standard/expected that a person gets a degree. (though there's tons of financial aid available for anyone below middle class. Being middle class, I lucked out and got a good merit scholarship.) There's also the long standing idea, not limited to the US, that a college education should be limited to a select few who are actually suited for it.(A person used to go to college 'cause they were smart enough, and high school's had college and vocational tracks.) This idea is changing 'cause the global economy is now so skills based, but policy takes longer (and again, coming up the money for it would be difficult.)
What we do want, and I'm sure lots of my fellow CS students will agree with me on this, is females that are equally attractive and smart as we are. Oh and they have to be into geek stuff, like Star Trek and RPG games:) I would give my left testicle for a girl like that.
As a girl who probably meets all those criteria, I've gotta ask if that's really true. Sure, you say you want a girl like that, but in my experience I get relegated to the "just friends" bin as fast as guys do with their female friends. (Maybe it's the crazy religious thing that's killing me?)
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You'll get things done more slowly, because GUI configs suck, but that's your choice.
That's his point, more or less. Most of the linux distro's (even Ubuntu to some extent) pour so little resources into their GUI config development, because of the lack of perceived need for it, that command line becomes the defacto solution in many situations where windows would have a GUI. Most of the solutions to newbie problems in Ubuntu are bash oriented 'cause even if the GUI's exist, so few people are familiar enough with them to give adequate directions. Microsoft trouble shooting sometimes also involves command line (I've done it) but it's usually deep in the troubleshooting chain, unlike in Ubuntu where it's often the 1st suggestion. This is something that scares off potential users, no way around that. (And bad GUI's are worse than no GUI's 'cause they leave the user confused, frustrated, and wanting to walk away from the program without ever using it again.)
This is because the shell is the best, fastest way to fix problems in Linux, even when other options are available, and we won't suggest an inferior solution unless pressed for it.
Even if the inferior solution is more user (newbie) friendly and therefore a good thing to have if trying to obtain a wider linux market share? It's awfully hard to kill MS/Apple dominance by making things more difficult for their core users.
Monroe (her school) is a step up from a degree mill here in NY. Seriously, the ads all over the subway practically say as much, and just look at the FAQ. 2.7 is just plain sad in this case, and 'specially from a school that's not all that respected.
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Sean John is pretty respected in the fashion world, so that rebranding seems to have worked.
FedEx is fine after it rebranded itself as FedEx (previously it was Federal Express or something) but that's more a case of just changing it's name to what everyone else was already calling it.
they actually made a decent profit in 2Q 2009 despite slight declines in gross revenue. So someone must shop there.
Old ladies, judging by the last one I went to. And desperate students can rack up decently high purchases around project due dates if the store has a half decent selection.
It's true. Unless you end up pairing two students who think they can program better than their counterpart.
Then you get 2 students handing in seperate Code, both amazing in their own right, saying that they wrote it themselves and had no help from their partners, insisting they get a better grade in the class.
And then the consequences of the pair of students with NO programming experience, and are having trouble learning, and end up handing you a page that is well documented but not at all functional.
So you switch the pairs after the first assignment, or better yet use a combination of survey and quiz to figure out who's at what level and assign the pairs based on that. And give quizzes/exams based in the material, so that the weaker student still needs to learn it. One professor let us pick our final partners based on a survey, and it seemed to work out well for all the teams involved. And sometimes there is awesome karma: I had a friend who got a D in a course when his team wouldn't put his name on the final project 'cause he didn't contribute to it.
(coveting a neighbours ass is bad, but no mention of coveting anything else? his wfie would be ok to covet?)
Her and slaves and all his stuff are part of the 10th commandment, and she's folded into the one on adultery. (At least the Hebrew version, but then again they're sort of subject headings for all the laws covered in the Old Testament/Talmud/commentaries/etc., so I agree with your main point.)
Your point does NOT stand, primarily because one leg is an urban legend and the other (Gettysburg Address) is a speech, not a piece of legislation.
Even the other two are sketchy 'cause while the initial documents are short, they don't mean much of anything without all the clarifications, explanations, technicalities, and details codified in the old testament and tons of legal codes and cases.
A geek like you, but who doesn't get the respect you do because I wear a skirt and you wear pants.
As much as I agree that she's totally over-reacting about the whole dude thing (I use it to refer to everyone and anyone within a ten mile radius), sexism in the sciences/engineering/tech world is incredibly well documented.
It seems that you have self-esteem issues you need to sort out.
You may be right in a totally unintended way. A friend once said the key to getting respect in the tech field is answering a question sounding like your %100 sure it's the right answer, and the more traditionally feminine diplomatic communication style usually lacks that assertiveness.
He's just using parenthesis instead of parenthetical commas, so maybe he wants the stylistic effect of parenthesis, and sometimes those parenthesis save a sentence from having a host of commas and therefore being really hard to follow.
There's great stuff going on in machine learning. Game AIs could get much better. Robotics is finally starting to work. Computer vision is getting very good. There's a whole world of interesting technology associated with semiconductor design automation. But 99% of working programmers won't get into those areas. They'll be stuck doing e-commerce sites forever. .95-I could see game AI jobs having looser requirements) so this guy would still have to be a lot more interested in comp sci then he probably is. (And a math or electrical engineering major may suit him better anyway for those kinds of fields.)
And the other 1% needs a phd (oka, maybe
New school teaches every language + programmming concepts and our poster complains - maybe the new gen kids are unteachable.
I'm probably new gen (ripe old age of 21) and I think new school rocks. My school attempts a theory/practical balance by giving classes in basically one or the other and just putting an about equal amount of each in the core and fails miserably at teaching anyone not already interested in comp sci anything 'cause most of the ones just in school for a job take the practical courses where they can cut+paste their way to a half decent grade. (The best were the guys who've worked in industry but don't know any concepts.) This guy's just a newbie if he doesn't get that buy learning the concepts, a lot of the more complicated parts of any language become more accessible. I've seen the "language for resume" attitude from plenty of guys in my classes 10/20 years my senior (public school and all that) and complaints about the lack of conceptual knowledge from guys my age and younger. Interest to actually learn comp sci has to do with attitude, not age.
There are plenty of toys for adults, and you don't even need an Xbox for that. Just pick up a FPGA development board, and start coding stuff in VHDL or Verilog or something. Throw in a microcontroller, buy an oscilloscope and logic analyser, and you're good to go!
If you already have an xbox, the added cost would be the cost of the game. If you don't have an xbox and want this, you also get a gaming platform/dvd player out of it. FPGA dev board+oscilloscope+logic analyzer+pic+VHDL/Verilog is at least twice as much (probably more for decent equipment) as xbox+game (hell I think the modelsim license alone is over $100) and can't be used for anything else.
On stage one, if this works for you, try thinking about the people who will use the code once it's written.
It also makes it easier to write the test cases-and if those are written first it can become a game of breaking the code and fixing it. It also breaks down the problem set-my productivity shoots up a ton the more well defined the problem set and the better the specs 'cause I can just start out with the stubs (which of course change) and work out from there. (I'm usually about as bad/worse than the OP.) Seriously though, making it a game of constantly tweaking the code-improving the modularity or readability or something-while blocked forces me to pay attention to the code, so it's always sitting in the back of my head. Finding the bits I like also makes the rest manageable, 'cause the fun stuff becomes dependent on the important stuff and therefore there's a motivator for getting the boring stuff out of the way.
These guys are excellently prepared for becoming academics but the schools they came from don't seem to be very concerned with giving them the basic skills they need to get a job outside of academia.
I've learned more about coding working in a compsci research lab than I ever have in classes 'cause my professor/adviser stresses all sorts of good coding practices and I have to write code that can't break ('cause it'll mess up all the calculations) so lots of test cases, has to be readable 'cause other people may have to use it, and has to be efficient 'cause I work with large data sets. The stuff I write for class can be absolute dreck so long as it compiles and passes whatever test a professor may throw together if he's not lazy, but my research code gets reviewed and is my headache if it's lousy. I've also learned all about sql,svn,tracs, putty, linux, and all that other stuff coders take for granted by working in a lab and hell it's the reason why I can answer the gp's 5 questions (in a line each 'cause python's my language of choice.)
there is not one female in the bunch
And if there is a girl, she will be assumed to be somebody's girlfriend and get props for "supporting him", as happened to a friend of mine when she went to one. Though jumping off that, look for meetups of things you like to do, as girls do occasionally go to those (with friends so there may even be more than one.)
- 15 to 10 years ago, you had to be careful when installing drives, or RAM. You could almost slice your hand on a cheap case that had unfinished and sharp edges.
I got cut up 2 or 3 years ago, and I'm sure cases of equally bad quality are still on the market.
And while we're on the subject, does anyone use Num Lock or Pause anymore?
Num lock, 'cause most of the linux boxes in my school default to no locks (scrolling functions) so the only way to get a normally functioning numeric keypad is to press num lock.
Say what? I've never seen anyone do any sort of scientific research programming with Python
My research lab (satellite data processing) is all python and the psychology department in my school is thinking of switching over to python. There are tons of great scientific computing libraries either written or wrapped in python. It's a great language for social science research because it's so simple and clean, and the libraries make it easily extensible to the hard science crowd. I'm working with pretty big data sets at the moment and don't find python that slow in comparison, plus it simplifies so much of the data organization/sorting/filtering tasks.
The offerings are lousy and the requests are kind of demanding.* Seriously, you're gonna have to get your friends or the local linux group or whatever to actually do some stuff, get that reflected in the website, and build out from there. (Basically, get known in the community first, become sustainable, and let the web reflect that. If it means you're going door to door asking people if they want to volunteer for stuff/need stuff-well I guess that's what it takes. High school kids and younger are really good for this kind of thing.) You've got work harder to sell that this is really beneficial for everyone involved and not just a "dude, do this for me" scheme. I'm actually interested, but I'm in New York and therefore can't participate.
*Which actually brings me on topic, 'cause it's exactly the problem the article raises when advising companies to already have brownie points with open source projects and to pitch the project as a really good thing for the project.
Researcher Says Social Networks Link Terrorists and I remember something about intelligence organizations looking at social networks for coded messages.
And that's the way it should be as far as decision time. Should one take the college path or the vocational path? BTW there's a lot of skill involved in vocational jobs. Now as far as funding I believe one can get equal financing for either one.
I know there's a ton of skill involved in vocational stuff, had to do enough of the stuff to know it's better left to someone trained for it. Personally I hate the whole "stick everyone in college" mentality 'cause I think it leads to a whole lot of people going to college who'd be much better off working/learning a trade.
Now as far as funding I believe one can get equal financing for either one.
Dunno, maybe if the vocational school is accredited? (and therefore technically a college of sorts.?) Though they are listed on FAFSA's website, so I assume they at best are treated the same as a college, at worst have their own formula.
Also, why doesn't the U.S. fully fund tertiary education? Why is it not seen as a right?
Because it would be prohibitively expensive? I go to a dirt cheap uni (~4000 a year, 5000 after next years tuition hikes, and it's a public school so it's only that low 'cause of the massive tax funding the school gets, though it's getting hit with budget cuts right and left) and even that kind of tuition would be a massive funding issue for everyone who wanted to go to college here in the states, mostly because it's so standard/expected that a person gets a degree. (though there's tons of financial aid available for anyone below middle class. Being middle class, I lucked out and got a good merit scholarship.) There's also the long standing idea, not limited to the US, that a college education should be limited to a select few who are actually suited for it.(A person used to go to college 'cause they were smart enough, and high school's had college and vocational tracks.) This idea is changing 'cause the global economy is now so skills based, but policy takes longer (and again, coming up the money for it would be difficult.)
People kill themselves after they reproduce. Not very difficult.
What we do want, and I'm sure lots of my fellow CS students will agree with me on this, is females that are equally attractive and smart as we are. Oh and they have to be into geek stuff, like Star Trek and RPG games :) I would give my left testicle for a girl like that.
As a girl who probably meets all those criteria, I've gotta ask if that's really true. Sure, you say you want a girl like that, but in my experience I get relegated to the "just friends" bin as fast as guys do with their female friends. (Maybe it's the crazy religious thing that's killing me?)
NSF stats for all levels in science and engineering, broken down by gender and race for 2006.