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  1. Maybe... on Why Transitivity Violations Can Be Rational · · Score: 1

    Without it, humans would have a heck of a time with rock, paper, scissors.

  2. Re:How does this account for those who change part on Is "Left" Vs. "Right" Hard-coded Into Your Brain? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There is a whole bunch of evidence for Neuroplasticity (your brain rewiring itself due to input, behaviour changes and illness), so it is possible.

  3. Re:Language is hardly relevant on Java Vs. C#: Which Performs Better In the 'Real World'? · · Score: 1

    Have you actually not bothered to read about the feature or are you just trolling? The whole point is to avoid explicitly having to write closures or callback functions.

  4. Re:Language is hardly relevant on Java Vs. C#: Which Performs Better In the 'Real World'? · · Score: 1

    No, the features are actually completely different. The C# await doesn't block, it creates a continuation that will be called as a callback when the asynchronous task is complete (and the asynchronous task maybe a processing task, or it maybe I/O, or it maybe an event happening later on the same thread). This means that the current thread can continue processing (not block).

  5. Hax on World's First Linux Powered Rifle Announced · · Score: 2

    Goddam aimbots.

  6. Re:Can't America get its acts together ? on Congressman Introduces Bill To Ban Minting of Trillion-Dollar Coin · · Score: 1

    Not only that, current interest rates for US government debt over 5 years are at rates lower than inflation, so with 5 year refinancing they would actually be paying back less than they borrowed.

  7. Re:Not another one... on Breakthrough Promises Smartphones that Use Half the Power · · Score: 1

    The word "battery" never appears in the headline, so maybe you didn't read that either.

  8. Whatever you do... on Ask Slashdot: Rectifying Nerd Arrogance? · · Score: 1

    Whatever you do, don't read comments on YouTube.

  9. Coal mining? on Pennsylvania Fracking Law Opens Up Drilling On College Campuses · · Score: 1

    Drilling is one thing, but actual coal mining on campus? How would that even work?

  10. Re:Programming is applied Math on The Case For the Blue Collar Coder · · Score: 1

    I never said it was, a lot of the basics of set theory can be (and are) taught in elementary school.

  11. I don't think apprenticeships are it... on The Case For the Blue Collar Coder · · Score: 2

    Part of the reason I don't think an apprenticeship model works for teaching programming is that by its nature it is a scholarly profession. I don't mean that in the ivory tower way, I mean that programming is largely research based and requires an active mind. You need meta-skills of the kind that allow you to assess, filter and process a lot of information, but be able to focus in on and find the particular bits that are relevant to you. Doing an university degree often teaches this skill indirectly and some people develop it themselves though natural dedication (autodidacts). I don't think an apprenticeship style of learning gives people the time or inclination to do this. More practical experience and mentoring is definitely valuable, but it shouldn't be the sum total of a programming education.

    I also think that there is also a defensive thinking mindset required to properly produce robust software that requires a certain level of formal knowledge as well as practical experience. Degrees at the moment don't necessarily teach this, but you do see a lot of software written without this knowledge and quite often it becomes obvious that it's only going to work *some* of the time and quite a lot of this software comes from people with a weak formal education (but not all of it).

  12. Re:Programming is applied Math on The Case For the Blue Collar Coder · · Score: 1

    Programmers might not know set theory in a formal sense, but as a programmer you pretty much have to use set theory in some way (even a boolean expression on integers expresses a set).

  13. Re:You Tell Me If You're Too Old; What Is Your Goa on Ask Slashdot: Am I Too Old To Retrain? · · Score: 1

    No, my argument would be that those students made a creative contribution to the piece. It's not some sort of zero sum game, it doesn't make Michelangelo's contribution any less creative. Just because other parts of developing software take creativity, it doesn't mean that programming does not.

  14. Re:You Tell Me If You're Too Old; What Is Your Goa on Ask Slashdot: Am I Too Old To Retrain? · · Score: 1

    Saying that about programming is like saying that painting is turning a concept into a picture, through obvious and necessary applications of the brush. The *goal* of programming is to turn requirements into code. Programming itself is the creative process of building that code; it's obviously creative, as my code to achieve a goal will be different to your code to achieve a goal (even if we start with the same design and architecture), because we think differently. Design and architecture are also creative, but they're done at a conceptual level. This isn't just my opinion, programming is legally recognized as a creative work, which is why source code has copyright.

  15. This will bring changes at Monsanto! on Roundup Tolerant GM Maize Linked To Tumor Development · · Score: 1

    They'll add the following to their marketing:

    * Now shown in studies to control rodents and other pests!

  16. Re:But did you find Waldo? on xkcd's 13-Gigapixel Webcomic · · Score: 1

    As is his cane.

  17. Re:Australia the Internet Police State on Australian Attorney General Pushes Ahead With Gov't Web Snooping · · Score: 1

    Also note, "not safe" in this context also means that Indonesia wouldn't accept them as legal residents (in that they couldn't legally stay in the country).

  18. Re:Australia the Internet Police State on Australian Attorney General Pushes Ahead With Gov't Web Snooping · · Score: 1

    Technically they don't have to prove they weren't safe in Indonesia, if they have fled at least 3 countries in the last 18 months.

  19. Upon reading the comments section... on Creating a School Computer Lab With Ubuntu For $0 · · Score: 1

    Can't tell if RMS in comments or troll.

  20. Re:Why convert DC to AC and back to DC? on Tokelau Becomes First Country To Go 100% Solar · · Score: 2

    There are actually a fair number of boats that have TVs running off DC.

  21. It should be obvious... on Ask Slashdot: How Best To Teach Programming To Salespeople? · · Score: 1

    Have your programmers with the best communications skills tutor your sales staff. After all, your programmers not only know how to program, they know the context in which the sales people will be using the knowledge.

  22. Re:Ok then! on John Carmack Is Building a Virtual Reality Headset · · Score: 1

    Is that you, Buffalo Bill?

  23. Re:Why 2 sides on Classroom Clashes Over Science Education · · Score: 1

    My kingdom for some mod points!

  24. Re:God's experiment in free will on Debate Over Evolution Will Soon Be History, Says Leakey · · Score: 1

    Of course, the purpose could be to do something, then you would be screwed.

  25. Re:A week? on Who's Pirating Game of Thrones, and Why? · · Score: 1

    There are shows on VODO that follow a model like this, where by you donate so they can make the next episode.