Face it, smart kids were mercilessly teased in school since a long time before 1994. But being socially awkward, these kids stick to what they ARE good at, like tinkering with computers. This provides an escape for them, since they don't have a clue how to be accepted by others.
Girls tend to mature socially earlier than boys. They DO understand how to relate to others socially, and they don't want any part of the kind of treatment they see their smart male friends enduring. So...they do the smart thing...they stay away.
Is this all a terrible injustice? Probably. But we shouldn't be blaming the men. They are the ones who stuck with their quest despite the pressure. If there is anyone to blame, blame Hollywood, which (at the time) produced movie after movie reinforcing the "nerd" stereotype.
Air gaps aren't what they used to be. These days, even desktop computers have WiFi and Bluetooth. I guess you'd need to work in a Faraday cage as well...nice.
In 25 years, I have yet to see a type of project that couldn't benefit from an agile approach...done correctly, of course. At its core, Agile is about breaking down a big project into manageable pieces. This process can be done logically, and it can be done nonsensically.
Below are the results I got. Really? So I'm the only person who speaks English, running Chrome on Windows 7, in the Central time zone? If that's enough to identify me, then I'm feeling pretty exposed.
Google, on the other hand, can probably tell me my life history, with all the data they have on me.
Yes! (You can be tracked!) 34.59 % of observed browsers are Chrome, as yours. 22.54 % of observed browsers are Chrome 39.0, as yours. 58.71 % of observed browsers run Windows, as yours. 40.04 % of observed browsers run Windows 7, as yours. 26.96 % of observed browsers have set "en"as their primary language, as yours. 1.09 % of observed browsers have UTC-6 as their timezone, as yours. You have the only browser out of 11099 with this fingerprint.
The nature of the Internet will make it impossible for this approach to succeed. Sony may shut down one site, but the files will simply appear somewhere else.
The United States is (or has been) the world leader in many areas of technology, such as computers, Internet, space exploration, and medicine. This happened in part because the government stayed out of the way, at least in the early phases of development. When it starts to clamp down too quickly, that innovation can be stifled, and move to other countries. We are seeing this happen particularly in medicine. Apparently, we aren't all that interested in being the leaders in drone development...at least, other than for purposes of war.
I-10 in Texas, west of San Antonio, also has a speed limit of 85, and there is no toll. That part of Texas is extremely remote, few distractions, so the speed limit seems quite appropriate.
At one level, it is the ability to process input, digest it, and generate useful output. In that sense, we have created intelligent machines long ago.
Bug at another level, the level of "awareness" or "consciousness" we aren't even close.
On one point I agree with the author: machines aren't about to take over the world. People might do awful things with the machines they create, but it is still people who tell the machines what to do.
I Googled Jeff Volek, the author of the study, and immediately noticed that he is all over the Nutrition Express site, which sells nutritional supplements. He also features prominently at True Health Unlimited, a commercial personal trining company.
Good nutrition and personal fitness are good things...but all this commercial involvement makes me wonder just how unbiased Mr. Volek really is.
Microsoft is better at creating IDEs than just about anybody else for desktop applications. But when it comes to Web development. It was only the last version or two when they finally stopped creating mismatched HTML tags, and the Web page designer is still so unusable that you have to hand-code HTML / JavaScript for anything non-trivial. Maybe these problems have to do with Microsoft not owning the Web platform.
I hope they do a better job with Android. I really want them to do better, because I really hate Eclipse and Java!
The original trilogy was awesome, but later books were not the same caliber. But knowing how the entertainment industry works, they'll milk it for all its worth.
I used to not disable ads on Slashdot, you know, a site's got to make money somehow. But lately the ads have gotten SO annoying that I have to disable them, just to make the site usable!
Remember Crystal Reports? This was a tool that came out in 1991, that was supposed to make it possible for ANYONE to create their own business reports. No programming know-how needed. Remember?
For the past three years, I ran a team that created customized Crystal Reports for customers...because they couldn't figure out how to create them for themselves. It wasn't so much that the tool was hard to use, but more that the customers had only a foggy idea of what they wanted their reports to show.
For example, a doctor's office would call saying "I want a report that shows a list of patients who haven't had a mammogram in the last two years." Sounds easy enough. Then we would start asking questions: Do you want only active patients, or all? Do you want only those within a given date or age range? What patient information do you want in the report? Do you need totals or counts? Then, after we delivered the first draft, there would always be changes: "Yes, I like this, but can you change this filter or that column?" They needed to have experts guide them to a report that made sense for them.
Yes, software is getting better, but it will never replace the need for understanding.
I am both a programmer and a plumber, and I can tell you that plumbing isn't as bug-free as you make it out to be. For example, if you stuff too many potato peels down your garbage disposal too quickly, your sink will back up, requiring you to take apart the drain plumbing to get all the peels out. I know, I've had to do this in multiple houses. That's the equivalent of a page crashing when you put in bad data. If you put food down the disposal at a rate it can handle, it will work fine, and if you put reasonably good data into a given Web page, it usually works.
There is an entire industry devoted to fixing "bugs" in plumbing, from drain cleaners to root-removal services. How many bathroom sinks have drain stoppers that don't quite hold the water in the sink? How many shower drains get clogged? How many old pipes leak due to corrosion?
Yes, programming is a trade, like plumbing and electrical work. And like the other trades, programmers have to often fix issues due to problems that either weren't anticipated during construction. In my view, programmers in general don't create code that is particularly more shoddy than craftsmen of any other trade. With each trade, there is a trade-off between quality and cost.
that schools don't teach coding. Schools might give people with coding talent a jump start, but as with art, you either get it or you don't.
"Learning the skills" just means that you can type in some lines of code, and make it do something. That's a far cry from learning what it takes to create quality software.
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Or Yahoo, Microsoft, Twitter...pretty much EVERY email provider scans messages for the purpose of advertising.
I'm not sure whether 1) this judge is stupid, or 2) there are a whole lot of tech companies in a lot of trouble!
...than as a sorting algorithm!
Face it, smart kids were mercilessly teased in school since a long time before 1994. But being socially awkward, these kids stick to what they ARE good at, like tinkering with computers. This provides an escape for them, since they don't have a clue how to be accepted by others.
Girls tend to mature socially earlier than boys. They DO understand how to relate to others socially, and they don't want any part of the kind of treatment they see their smart male friends enduring. So...they do the smart thing...they stay away.
Is this all a terrible injustice? Probably. But we shouldn't be blaming the men. They are the ones who stuck with their quest despite the pressure. If there is anyone to blame, blame Hollywood, which (at the time) produced movie after movie reinforcing the "nerd" stereotype.
Air gaps aren't what they used to be. These days, even desktop computers have WiFi and Bluetooth. I guess you'd need to work in a Faraday cage as well...nice.
Nor do many people who profess to use it.
In 25 years, I have yet to see a type of project that couldn't benefit from an agile approach...done correctly, of course. At its core, Agile is about breaking down a big project into manageable pieces. This process can be done logically, and it can be done nonsensically.
Below are the results I got. Really? So I'm the only person who speaks English, running Chrome on Windows 7, in the Central time zone? If that's enough to identify me, then I'm feeling pretty exposed.
Google, on the other hand, can probably tell me my life history, with all the data they have on me.
Yes! (You can be tracked!)
34.59 % of observed browsers are Chrome, as yours.
22.54 % of observed browsers are Chrome 39.0, as yours.
58.71 % of observed browsers run Windows, as yours.
40.04 % of observed browsers run Windows 7, as yours.
26.96 % of observed browsers have set "en"as their primary language, as yours.
1.09 % of observed browsers have UTC-6 as their timezone, as yours.
You have the only browser out of 11099 with this fingerprint.
The nature of the Internet will make it impossible for this approach to succeed. Sony may shut down one site, but the files will simply appear somewhere else.
It would have been nice for the article to elaborate.
The United States is (or has been) the world leader in many areas of technology, such as computers, Internet, space exploration, and medicine. This happened in part because the government stayed out of the way, at least in the early phases of development. When it starts to clamp down too quickly, that innovation can be stifled, and move to other countries. We are seeing this happen particularly in medicine. Apparently, we aren't all that interested in being the leaders in drone development...at least, other than for purposes of war.
the government is out there looking out for us.
I-10 in Texas, west of San Antonio, also has a speed limit of 85, and there is no toll. That part of Texas is extremely remote, few distractions, so the speed limit seems quite appropriate.
What exactly is intelligence?
At one level, it is the ability to process input, digest it, and generate useful output. In that sense, we have created intelligent machines long ago.
Bug at another level, the level of "awareness" or "consciousness" we aren't even close.
On one point I agree with the author: machines aren't about to take over the world. People might do awful things with the machines they create, but it is still people who tell the machines what to do.
I Googled Jeff Volek, the author of the study, and immediately noticed that he is all over the Nutrition Express site, which sells nutritional supplements. He also features prominently at True Health Unlimited, a commercial personal trining company.
Good nutrition and personal fitness are good things...but all this commercial involvement makes me wonder just how unbiased Mr. Volek really is.
But Qt has NO Web support. And you either have to use an old version, or go full GPL, or pay.
Microsoft is better at creating IDEs than just about anybody else for desktop applications. But when it comes to Web development. It was only the last version or two when they finally stopped creating mismatched HTML tags, and the Web page designer is still so unusable that you have to hand-code HTML / JavaScript for anything non-trivial. Maybe these problems have to do with Microsoft not owning the Web platform.
I hope they do a better job with Android. I really want them to do better, because I really hate Eclipse and Java!
Maybe Microsoft should sue Anderson for infringement of the term "windows" to refer to glass panels for your house!
The original trilogy was awesome, but later books were not the same caliber. But knowing how the entertainment industry works, they'll milk it for all its worth.
Kind of like Slashdot.
I used to not disable ads on Slashdot, you know, a site's got to make money somehow. But lately the ads have gotten SO annoying that I have to disable them, just to make the site usable!
Remember Crystal Reports? This was a tool that came out in 1991, that was supposed to make it possible for ANYONE to create their own business reports. No programming know-how needed. Remember?
For the past three years, I ran a team that created customized Crystal Reports for customers...because they couldn't figure out how to create them for themselves. It wasn't so much that the tool was hard to use, but more that the customers had only a foggy idea of what they wanted their reports to show.
For example, a doctor's office would call saying "I want a report that shows a list of patients who haven't had a mammogram in the last two years." Sounds easy enough. Then we would start asking questions: Do you want only active patients, or all? Do you want only those within a given date or age range? What patient information do you want in the report? Do you need totals or counts? Then, after we delivered the first draft, there would always be changes: "Yes, I like this, but can you change this filter or that column?" They needed to have experts guide them to a report that made sense for them.
Yes, software is getting better, but it will never replace the need for understanding.
They added two new features:
1. A "Forget" button for your privacy, and
2. Ads, that remember everything forever.
Sounds like a case of giving with one hand, and taking with the other!
(I don't need a button to help me forget things!)
I am both a programmer and a plumber, and I can tell you that plumbing isn't as bug-free as you make it out to be. For example, if you stuff too many potato peels down your garbage disposal too quickly, your sink will back up, requiring you to take apart the drain plumbing to get all the peels out. I know, I've had to do this in multiple houses. That's the equivalent of a page crashing when you put in bad data. If you put food down the disposal at a rate it can handle, it will work fine, and if you put reasonably good data into a given Web page, it usually works.
There is an entire industry devoted to fixing "bugs" in plumbing, from drain cleaners to root-removal services. How many bathroom sinks have drain stoppers that don't quite hold the water in the sink? How many shower drains get clogged? How many old pipes leak due to corrosion?
Yes, programming is a trade, like plumbing and electrical work. And like the other trades, programmers have to often fix issues due to problems that either weren't anticipated during construction. In my view, programmers in general don't create code that is particularly more shoddy than craftsmen of any other trade. With each trade, there is a trade-off between quality and cost.
Because H-1Bs are cheaper.
that schools don't teach coding. Schools might give people with coding talent a jump start, but as with art, you either get it or you don't.
"Learning the skills" just means that you can type in some lines of code, and make it do something. That's a far cry from learning what it takes to create quality software.
They are sometimes referred to as "teenagers."