I think you will need to commit to longer than just a summer. Even fresh out of college, with a CS degree, a programmer is typically useless. It takes 6 months to get anything remotely worthwhile from someone who is, please forgive the term as I do not intend to demoralize you, green. Potential employers will want some return on that investment in your training. On the other hand, if you intern for free or for a stipend, that may change the rules of the game. That's how it went for me, and every other fresh programmer I've ever seen hired during my 25 years in this career. The only other advice I have to offer is to be honest about your skill level, don't oversell yourself. You need to come in as a newbie, and allow the more seasoned types teach you the trade. Ok, I lied. Read Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming". Also, C.J. Date's "An Introduction to Database Systems" massively changed my perspective about programming. The title is extremely deceptive, it sounds like "how to get started with MySQL". I say it is more like "Roadmap to design and implement hardcore database server internals".
> The show has such an unrealistic portrayal of the future!
Whether it's a portrayal of the future or not remains to be seen. It *is* a portrayal of a portion of the human race that stayed behind while other humans travelled to a planet called 'Earth'. It goes without saying that the tribe that came to Earth lost all of its technological prowess and is rebuilding it...who is to say the humans of the 12 Colonies did not suffer the same fate. Why then is it impossible to conceive that technology might evolve down a different path in a completely different culture? Maybe they never had a war that drove the development of e-mail, like we did. Necessity is the mother of invention, after all. Besides, I think I would rather have pieces to move around on a war room table than a mouse any day. Perhaps the pieces could have wireless transmitters in them, and I could program flight plans into my fighters by moving pieces on the computing surface, but I still think it would be preferable to move pieces around with my hands than to manipulate them with a mouse and a screen.
Just for the record, I have no idea why this post is getting modded up... I think the mods are reflecting the common sentiment that you're serving jollyreaper one righteous ass whooping.
This will only be of use to the casual gamer, or for games that don't have a lot of high-speed interaction. As a Parallels user myself, I think I'll still reboot into XP for playing BF2. I need every last ounce of my GPU to run my display at 2048x1536 with all rendering settings set to High.
The.com era was the 3rd massive expansion followed by contraction in the computer industry. The previous two contractions seemed to send all the wannabes packin. I guess we didn't quite shake off that last bit of riff-raff that infiltrated our industry.
Nice sig. Proper use of the 'Soviet Russia' construct.
My conclusion is that most programmers are just too dumb to do major mind-bending once they've burned their first couple languages into their ROMs. I think it's more that most programmers are just too dumb to try a different paradigm for designing their code. "WAAAH IT'S TOO HARD!" I dunno. Maybe I'm different. I got my first job as a programmer in 1984, working on multiprocessor machines.
Yeah, it's much better to just ransack our treasury and dole it out to all your buddies, than to spend it on "pork", ya know, things that actually help people who live here.
I resent that.:-P When it comes to resentments, tis better to give than to receive. heh heh
In general I'm not an ageist, I just wasn't gonna stand for Umbrel saying Zork is obscure and insignificant.
The one thing Zork, Adventure, Starcross (my fave) and Planetfall had is they really got your imagination going. Basically, they are non-linear interactive books, and the score is merely a way to tell if you've read the whole story or not. Or in the case of Adventure, whether you were worthy of receiving a copy of the source. Some googling will reveal that someone has made a modernized "player" for the old Infocom games, and I'm sure a little more digging will, ahem, reveal where you can find the data files for any of these games. If you've never played one, I strongly suggest it to anyone. In 10-15 years from now, when they start offering courses in geek culture at various universities, certainly playing one of these games will be part of the curriculum.
One has to wonder if their lack of security practices was limited to their voting products, or perhaps it is SOP for all their computer-based technology like ATMs.
What a bunch of dumb fucks. The people of Boston, their police, etc. ZOMG! WIRES HANGING OUT!!!! AAHHH! AAHHH! AAHHH! Funny thing is there are probably dozens of lamp posts in Boston with wires hanging out, better call the bomb squad.
On an unrelated topic, I feel they should turn Spacecataz into a spin-off series. That would be cool.
They should mandate a retrofit to motion or infrared sensing light switches in all office buildings statewide. Just turning the fricken lights off at night will save a bundle.
In California? Well, we usually wait for the pipes to burst due to freezing before (did you miss the news last month?) we do anything about that since freezing is rarely a problem.
Amen to that brother. I can't tell you how many times I've been working with women who are cold unless it's 80F in the room. Personally, I like it around 64 in the morning, to keep the peak temperature down to about 76 in the afternoon. Maybe I should invest in some more BTUs of A/C.
I'm sure there will be exemptions for professional purposes, and of course, street lights, if you can call sodium or mercury vapor lamps "incandescent". I wouldn't mind seeing just regular old vanilla incandescent lamps banned, but better let me keep my halogen for my desk lamps.
I also think they need to make the local beverage container recycling places take your old CFLs to keep the mercury from leeching into the water tables via the landfills. Maybe even give you a dollar each (of course there would be a CRV-type fee assessed at the time of purchase).
Does kind of make one wonder though, does Lloyd Levine have any friends that own CFL companies. From what I've seen, even though the big guys like GE and Sylvania are starting to enter this space, I more commonly see off-brand companies on display. What a boon it will be for these smaller companies.
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I think you will need to commit to longer than just a summer. Even fresh out of college, with a CS degree, a programmer is typically useless. It takes 6 months to get anything remotely worthwhile from someone who is, please forgive the term as I do not intend to demoralize you, green. Potential employers will want some return on that investment in your training. On the other hand, if you intern for free or for a stipend, that may change the rules of the game. That's how it went for me, and every other fresh programmer I've ever seen hired during my 25 years in this career. The only other advice I have to offer is to be honest about your skill level, don't oversell yourself. You need to come in as a newbie, and allow the more seasoned types teach you the trade. Ok, I lied. Read Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming". Also, C.J. Date's "An Introduction to Database Systems" massively changed my perspective about programming. The title is extremely deceptive, it sounds like "how to get started with MySQL". I say it is more like "Roadmap to design and implement hardcore database server internals".
> The show has such an unrealistic portrayal of the future!
Whether it's a portrayal of the future or not remains to be seen. It *is* a portrayal of a portion of the human race that stayed behind while other humans travelled to a planet called 'Earth'. It goes without saying that the tribe that came to Earth lost all of its technological prowess and is rebuilding it...who is to say the humans of the 12 Colonies did not suffer the same fate. Why then is it impossible to conceive that technology might evolve down a different path in a completely different culture? Maybe they never had a war that drove the development of e-mail, like we did. Necessity is the mother of invention, after all. Besides, I think I would rather have pieces to move around on a war room table than a mouse any day. Perhaps the pieces could have wireless transmitters in them, and I could program flight plans into my fighters by moving pieces on the computing surface, but I still think it would be preferable to move pieces around with my hands than to manipulate them with a mouse and a screen.
This will only be of use to the casual gamer, or for games that don't have a lot of high-speed interaction. As a Parallels user myself, I think I'll still reboot into XP for playing BF2. I need every last ounce of my GPU to run my display at 2048x1536 with all rendering settings set to High.
The .com era was the 3rd massive expansion followed by contraction in the computer industry. The previous two contractions seemed to send all the wannabes packin. I guess we didn't quite shake off that last bit of riff-raff that infiltrated our industry.
Nice sig. Proper use of the 'Soviet Russia' construct.
Still, it's pretty fucking funny. Brings up images of those "mass-erasers" that used to be around in the mid-80's.
Yeah, it's much better to just ransack our treasury and dole it out to all your buddies, than to spend it on "pork", ya know, things that actually help people who live here.
Idiot.
Thanks, you just reminded me of what I think is one of the most stupid technical features ever:
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Just hold the light button the first time, stop pressing repeatedly.
Make sure to click the "slashdotit" link to get the full effect...
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Really, I think some people need to get a First Life [tm].
In general I'm not an ageist, I just wasn't gonna stand for Umbrel saying Zork is obscure and insignificant.
The one thing Zork, Adventure, Starcross (my fave) and Planetfall had is they really got your imagination going. Basically, they are non-linear interactive books, and the score is merely a way to tell if you've read the whole story or not. Or in the case of Adventure, whether you were worthy of receiving a copy of the source. Some googling will reveal that someone has made a modernized "player" for the old Infocom games, and I'm sure a little more digging will, ahem, reveal where you can find the data files for any of these games. If you've never played one, I strongly suggest it to anyone. In 10-15 years from now, when they start offering courses in geek culture at various universities, certainly playing one of these games will be part of the curriculum.
What point? Your point that you're 25-years old or younger? Because anyone who was gaming on a computer pre-1988 knows about Zork.
Funny that Zork somehow trumps Adventure on this list. But what do I know.
One has to wonder if their lack of security practices was limited to their voting products, or perhaps it is SOP for all their computer-based technology like ATMs.
Fascist America is the new Soviet Russia
Quite a coincidence...or is it?
Is Oklahoma a state with Anti-SLAPP laws? If so, she can also file a motion for punitive damages. That would be sweet.
What a bunch of dumb fucks. The people of Boston, their police, etc. ZOMG! WIRES HANGING OUT!!!! AAHHH! AAHHH! AAHHH!
Funny thing is there are probably dozens of lamp posts in Boston with wires hanging out, better call the bomb squad.
On an unrelated topic, I feel they should turn Spacecataz into a spin-off series. That would be cool.
They should mandate a retrofit to motion or infrared sensing light switches in all office buildings statewide. Just turning the fricken lights off at night will save a bundle.
In California? Well, we usually wait for the pipes to burst due to freezing before (did you miss the news last month?) we do anything about that since freezing is rarely a problem.
Amen to that brother. I can't tell you how many times I've been working with women who are cold unless it's 80F in the room. Personally, I like it around 64 in the morning, to keep the peak temperature down to about 76 in the afternoon. Maybe I should invest in some more BTUs of A/C.
I'm sure there will be exemptions for professional purposes, and of course, street lights, if you can call sodium or mercury vapor lamps "incandescent". I wouldn't mind seeing just regular old vanilla incandescent lamps banned, but better let me keep my halogen for my desk lamps.
I also think they need to make the local beverage container recycling places take your old CFLs to keep the mercury from leeching into the water tables via the landfills. Maybe even give you a dollar each (of course there would be a CRV-type fee assessed at the time of purchase).
Does kind of make one wonder though, does Lloyd Levine have any friends that own CFL companies. From what I've seen, even though the big guys like GE and Sylvania are starting to enter this space, I more commonly see off-brand companies on display. What a boon it will be for these smaller companies.