He's supposed to learn C++. Which is a widely used and marketable programming language, if I recall correctly.
C++ had the unfortunate problem of hitting its peak popularity in between C and Java. If the answer is "this should be done in C++," then the question is probably wrong. That might have been different 10 years ago, but Java is sufficient in most cases where C itself won't do, and C is good when you really didn't need C++ in the first place.
Recommend that you look more into a Business Degree vice a CS Degree if you want to be eventually become an executive. Having a GEEK engineer degree is admirable but be the person who leads the Geeks is paid more.
The problem is that you'll get much more respect from those below you if you actually have a technical background. Leaders with business degrees and nothing else are typically scorned upon by those who've invested time in significantly difficult fields. Former president of Goldman Sachs and current CEO of Merrill Lynch John Thain holds a Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from Harvard. David Shaw of D.E. Shaw & Co. has a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford. These are people who run financial companies and they have technical backgrounds. I think it's much harder to run a technology company with something like a BA in business and than an MBA from some 2nd or 3rd tier school.
You just exposed a flaw in your own argument. Why is it fair to get an A by getting 95% in a class, when they only have to get a 75% the next semester because those students weren't as bright?
No I didn't. This is based on the underlying assumption that in a class of about 150 people, the distribution of skill level is going to be pretty close to Gaussian. This is the basis of curving. It turns out to be a pretty good assumption in most cases.
As a result the first line of elimination gets rid of most hardcore engineers with no social skills.
As it should. No one works in a bubble. Sorry, but I don't want to deal with a cave troll of an engineer that cannot function in a team. I've done it and it's far from enjoyable. Their ability to solve problems is far outweighed by their inability to listen to others suggestions, appropriately respond to criticism, and work with others in general.
No respectable engineering professor grades on a curve.
Are you nuts? If you're correct, does that mean I should throw out my degree from the Rutgers University School of Engineering? I spent a significant amount of time in both the Mechanical and Electrical Engineering departments and close to 100% of my professors used a curve. The concept of using the median grade in a class as a "C" or so and using standard deviations as incremental grade levels is pretty standard. It also means that when the median is high, it's very hard to get an A. For instance, in one of my classes, the median and distribution necessitated that an "A" grade mean that the score for the class was 95/100 or better. This is an unpopular thing to do, but also the fair thing. Saying no good professors use a curve is a blanket and misinformed statement.
I find it quite amusing that the birth of Jesus is pretty much set in stone (at least if I believe that day to be Christmas), but the date of his death (or resurrection) isn't.
Yes, it's set in stone on the wrong date. Shepherds were living outside with their flocks when Jesus was born, yet they wouldn't be doing this in December. It's too cold in Israel. In addition, Jesus died on Nisan 14 (the first full moon after the vernal equinox)... not on a Friday year after year.
I have no idea why the parent to this post is moderated as troll. It's completely on topic and merely points out the harsh reality of trying to use a one time pad in real life.
If you really want to rip digital media and are prepared to spend time researching and downloading tools to do it, it will always be possible. But that doesn't really matter, because people that are willing to do that are a small minority.
Really? I beg to differ. I've had friends with children who didn't want their kids to ruin originals of a particular DVD that asked me how they can backup their DVDs. Teaching them how to use DVD Shrink was trivial. Now they can stop worrying about what their 4 year old is going to do to a shiny plastic disc. Other 'non-technical" friends of mine have started using Handbrake to put movies on their computer or iPod because it's trivially easy to do so. The demand to backup and shift content is there. The only thing making it a tiny bit hard is the incompetence of the media companies.
Have you ever thought of using a Blu-ray drive on your computer to back up data, and not just to copy stolen movies?
Who said they're stolen? I have an HD-DVD player and while I've rented a bunch of titles through NetFlix, I never bought a single HD-DVD disc. Why? I have no drive to back them up, so my purchasing them is useless to me.
Personally, I'd be willing to bet most people wouldn't like someone else freeloading off their internet connection. For much them same reason they wouldn't like them freeloading of their electricity, cable TV, gas and water connections.
And it's up to them to properly educate themselves about the things they employ in their everyday use (or consult someone who can educate them) before making invalid assumptions.
If I were comcast, I would just completely block P2P uploading as it violates the TOS. Not a popular answer I know, but my terms do say that I cannot run a server on my residential connection.
Well good luck doing anything on the internet. Your argument is ridiculous. Any time you send data out of your computer you could be called a "server." Enjoy trying to browse a web page without being able to send out HTTP requests.
I'm not saying that formatting data is entirely without worth, but there's definitely some improvements to be had WRT efficiency.
This is just a general observation. When did the use of "wrt" take off? I seem to see it everywhere. Wouldn't it be more efficient to just say "there are definitely some efficiency improvements to be had" instead of "there's definitely some improvements to be had WRT efficiency"?
This sounds a lot like a retooled vacuum tube system. While these were very popular years ago, they have gone out of style aside from banks and other niche markets because the number of tubes can easilly get out of control, and the infrastructure is costly compared to other solutions.
The problem with this approach is it lowers the amount of bug reporting you are getting simply for pedantic reasons.
It's not pedantic. It's avoiding a variable that could waste people's time. If the problem isn't the binary blob, remove it and recreate the bug. Problem solved. If you can only reproduce the bug when the blob is loaded... hmm... sounds like it's the blob.
Small buyers, governments, colleges... anyone who doesn't have skilled purchasing managers.
I used to work at a university. We definitely did not play list for our equipment. This is not unique to that university, though we had a particularly good relationship with Cisco (for instance we used to be an IOS "source partner" back in the very early days).
If it's ebay, the other potential buyer had an opportunity to set his max bid at higher than $200k. He didn't. As such, the seller got what the market was willing to bear.
After much work, I have proved that ROT forms a group under functional composition. I shall call it "the rotation group." This comment field, however, is simply too small to contain the proof.
Yea, so um, routers don't know what XML is, let alone a DTD. Their purpose is to move traffic around really fast, and they manage to do that by having custom hardware do their work instead of generic CPUs/code. Unless you'd like to force everyone to use a proxy server, your idea is not feasible.
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He's supposed to learn C++. Which is a widely used and marketable programming language, if I recall correctly.
C++ had the unfortunate problem of hitting its peak popularity in between C and Java. If the answer is "this should be done in C++," then the question is probably wrong. That might have been different 10 years ago, but Java is sufficient in most cases where C itself won't do, and C is good when you really didn't need C++ in the first place.
What is a "fixed-point function" ?
A fixed point of a function is a point such that f(x) = x for some x. They are useful in various things, e.g., numerical analysis.
Recommend that you look more into a Business Degree vice a CS Degree if you want to be eventually become an executive. Having a GEEK engineer degree is admirable but be the person who leads the Geeks is paid more.
The problem is that you'll get much more respect from those below you if you actually have a technical background. Leaders with business degrees and nothing else are typically scorned upon by those who've invested time in significantly difficult fields. Former president of Goldman Sachs and current CEO of Merrill Lynch John Thain holds a Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from Harvard. David Shaw of D.E. Shaw & Co. has a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford. These are people who run financial companies and they have technical backgrounds. I think it's much harder to run a technology company with something like a BA in business and than an MBA from some 2nd or 3rd tier school.
You just exposed a flaw in your own argument. Why is it fair to get an A by getting 95% in a class, when they only have to get a 75% the next semester because those students weren't as bright?
No I didn't. This is based on the underlying assumption that in a class of about 150 people, the distribution of skill level is going to be pretty close to Gaussian. This is the basis of curving. It turns out to be a pretty good assumption in most cases.
A successful salesperson will blow away any engineers compensation.
Says who? Your thoughts are either based on really bad engineers or really good salespersons.
As a result the first line of elimination gets rid of most hardcore engineers with no social skills.
As it should. No one works in a bubble. Sorry, but I don't want to deal with a cave troll of an engineer that cannot function in a team. I've done it and it's far from enjoyable. Their ability to solve problems is far outweighed by their inability to listen to others suggestions, appropriately respond to criticism, and work with others in general.
No respectable engineering professor grades on a curve.
Are you nuts? If you're correct, does that mean I should throw out my degree from the Rutgers University School of Engineering? I spent a significant amount of time in both the Mechanical and Electrical Engineering departments and close to 100% of my professors used a curve. The concept of using the median grade in a class as a "C" or so and using standard deviations as incremental grade levels is pretty standard. It also means that when the median is high, it's very hard to get an A. For instance, in one of my classes, the median and distribution necessitated that an "A" grade mean that the score for the class was 95/100 or better. This is an unpopular thing to do, but also the fair thing. Saying no good professors use a curve is a blanket and misinformed statement.
I find it quite amusing that the birth of Jesus is pretty much set in stone (at least if I believe that day to be Christmas), but the date of his death (or resurrection) isn't.
Yes, it's set in stone on the wrong date. Shepherds were living outside with their flocks when Jesus was born, yet they wouldn't be doing this in December. It's too cold in Israel. In addition, Jesus died on Nisan 14 (the first full moon after the vernal equinox)... not on a Friday year after year.
I have no idea why the parent to this post is moderated as troll. It's completely on topic and merely points out the harsh reality of trying to use a one time pad in real life.
If you really want to rip digital media and are prepared to spend time researching and downloading tools to do it, it will always be possible. But that doesn't really matter, because people that are willing to do that are a small minority.
Really? I beg to differ. I've had friends with children who didn't want their kids to ruin originals of a particular DVD that asked me how they can backup their DVDs. Teaching them how to use DVD Shrink was trivial. Now they can stop worrying about what their 4 year old is going to do to a shiny plastic disc. Other 'non-technical" friends of mine have started using Handbrake to put movies on their computer or iPod because it's trivially easy to do so. The demand to backup and shift content is there. The only thing making it a tiny bit hard is the incompetence of the media companies.
Have you ever thought of using a Blu-ray drive on your computer to back up data, and not just to copy stolen movies?
Who said they're stolen? I have an HD-DVD player and while I've rented a bunch of titles through NetFlix, I never bought a single HD-DVD disc. Why? I have no drive to back them up, so my purchasing them is useless to me.
Personally, I'd be willing to bet most people wouldn't like someone else freeloading off their internet connection. For much them same reason they wouldn't like them freeloading of their electricity, cable TV, gas and water connections.
And it's up to them to properly educate themselves about the things they employ in their everyday use (or consult someone who can educate them) before making invalid assumptions.
If I were comcast, I would just completely block P2P uploading as it violates the TOS. Not a popular answer I know, but my terms do say that I cannot run a server on my residential connection.
Well good luck doing anything on the internet. Your argument is ridiculous. Any time you send data out of your computer you could be called a "server." Enjoy trying to browse a web page without being able to send out HTTP requests.
I'm not saying that formatting data is entirely without worth, but there's definitely some improvements to be had WRT efficiency.
This is just a general observation. When did the use of "wrt" take off? I seem to see it everywhere. Wouldn't it be more efficient to just say "there are definitely some efficiency improvements to be had" instead of "there's definitely some improvements to be had WRT efficiency"?
This sounds a lot like a retooled vacuum tube system. While these were very popular years ago, they have gone out of style aside from banks and other niche markets because the number of tubes can easilly get out of control, and the infrastructure is costly compared to other solutions.
And because of transistors.
The problem with this approach is it lowers the amount of bug reporting you are getting simply for pedantic reasons.
It's not pedantic. It's avoiding a variable that could waste people's time. If the problem isn't the binary blob, remove it and recreate the bug. Problem solved. If you can only reproduce the bug when the blob is loaded... hmm... sounds like it's the blob.
Small buyers, governments, colleges... anyone who doesn't have skilled purchasing managers.
I used to work at a university. We definitely did not play list for our equipment. This is not unique to that university, though we had a particularly good relationship with Cisco (for instance we used to be an IOS "source partner" back in the very early days).
If it's ebay, the other potential buyer had an opportunity to set his max bid at higher than $200k. He didn't. As such, the seller got what the market was willing to bear.
Anyway, if Cisco gear was not priced at 80% gross margin at list price we might see less of that kind of stuff happening.
And who pays list for Cisco?
Unix compatibility and mainstream Application compatibility. It would ROCK SO HARD.
If only this existed already... Ah, one can dream.
Google is hiring someone to fix and Adobe product? Isn't there some kind of rights infringement here?
Apparently... you... don't... read.
Is ROT13 a group? We may never know...
After much work, I have proved that ROT forms a group under functional composition. I shall call it "the rotation group." This comment field, however, is simply too small to contain the proof.
Or the routers.
Yea, so um, routers don't know what XML is, let alone a DTD. Their purpose is to move traffic around really fast, and they manage to do that by having custom hardware do their work instead of generic CPUs/code. Unless you'd like to force everyone to use a proxy server, your idea is not feasible.
sometimes they steal ideas and never credit original authors (Dashboard).
Who would you like them to credit? The idea has been around for a very long time.
Misspelling the name of a desperate singer in search of publicity has no repercussions.
Except exposing poor editing and the resulting incredulity of anything said thereafter.