in my 30+ years of experience in "coding" 80 - 90% of my time is spent debugging/maintaining code. any idiot can string lines of code together to complete a narrow well defined task. as soon as you give it to a real user, they try to use it in ways you never thought of and voila, bugs... in addition, i have yet to work on a project where the requirements were even close to correct the first time (or the second, third...).
schleprock
when i interview for developers (we are a C++ shop, mostly), i certainly expect people to understand the syntax of the language, but more importantly to me, to understand what the language is providing. what is OO, what does OO provide over functional...
in addition what is class hierarchy? what does it provide to the developer? what are templates? when are templates useful, and when should templates not be used, for example they should not be used to provide hierarchy (which i have seen done). what is overloading (other than syntactic sugar!), these questions can be answered for any OO type language.
another huge concept that most interviewees do NOT understand is exceptions. even the basic "throw and get out of the way" concept is lost on them. and they truly don't understand that exceptions decouple normal program flow from error recovery. i'll have them write a method that generates an error and they'll start by returning an error code!! that will pretty much end the interview at that point.
another area is order of construction of objects that contain members that also have constructors, as well as order of destruction of objects and what happens when a base class's destructor is not virtual.
and lastly, how do they hold up when trying to design an algorithm for a difficult problem. i don't even expect the interviewee to complete the algorithm, what i'm looking for is how they attack the problem, do they ask me questions to help themselves out, do they use the whiteboard to get an understanding of the problem... the individuals in our group do not work in a bubble and if you're not willing to ask for help when you're stuck, then i have no use for you...
exactly my thought. so the webcam is going to slow the train down????? no, but we can watch the train run off the tracks and if we're REALLY lucky, the lead car will be thrown 180 degrees around and we can watch all the passengers be ripped apart as the rest of the cars are thrown from the track.. as long as they get those youtube hits....
schleprock
i laughed my ass off when i read this comment, so TRUE. as i sit there and listen to some idiot read their slide TO ME, i think, does this person really think that i cannot read???? i just don't get it. all i can do is sit there and shake my head....
but i went and googled it and low and behold, there's the bogus creationalist CRAP as the first link. so i sent my feedback detailing how i just sat there and shook my head in disbelief...
i very much agree with GroeFaz, when the ads completely drown out everything else on my machine (whether it's a pc, tablet or phone) they have to be blocked. this is especially true of ads with annoying audio. on my pc if it's just a visual ad i can switch to another desktop and not be bothered, but when the ad contains audio, game over. someday enough people will be using ad blocking technology to where the the people paying for the ads will not see any return on their money. at that point, advertisers will begin to go away (or at least in my dreams they'll go away!)
unbelievably this is actually true. in 2012 the texas republican party opposed teaching critical thinking skills to kids http://www.washingtonpost.com/.... right from the horse's mouth: "Knowledge-Based Education – We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority."
and texas sets the standards for public school books as they buy the most books and schools throughout the nation follow their lead to get lower costs.
the republicans say they want to "create jobs" but fail in preparing our kids for jobs.
schleprock
"Comey cited child-kidnapping and terrorism cases as two examples of situations where quick access by authorities to information on cellphones can save lives. Comey did not cite specific past cases that would have been more difficult for the FBI to investigate"
of course he didn't cite specific cases because there are NONE. this is the same pathetic unsupported excuse that law enforcement has been rolling out to put fear in the lemmings of the USA. the founders of this country knew, from past experience with Britain, that the worst enemy of the public is their own government. they put in the constitution and amendments to the constitution laws that "should" prevent the government from persecuting the public. now that the public is finally getting the technology to combat an out of control law enforcement, these clowns are whining that it make their jobs harder. and then make up unsubstantiated stories about how this will "hurt" the general public.
get off your butts and get a warrant if you want to invade someone's privacy. warrant-less invasion of privacy is unconstitutional, period.
exactly my point in the post. the ruling was very specific to the C block spectrum. 3g and 1x are different spectrum under different rules. i can see tethering when i'm in a 4g area, move to the 3g area and get completely screwed in fees!
schleprock
i encouraged collaboration in my programming assignments, but i was very clear in that the final work was an individual effort. in programming, it was rather easy to find people that were cheating, even if they tried to mask it by changing variable names. when the blocks of code line up, the formatting is identical, it's not hard to find the cheater. in the real world (of which i am now a part of) programmers do collaborate, but in the end, some individual needs to produce the end product, and if all they learned in school was to copy their friends work, they will be useless, IMHO.
schleprock
under the sunshine act, one would think they have no choice but must, by law, open their e-mails and any other correspondence to the public. we paid for for them, then we should have full access. and the excuse that this would make them less competitive is total BS.
i would expand on the note by moodyloner, living room, kitchen. basically don't let your daughter have a computer in her room. keep the computer in an open area.
also, i use only use firefox as my browser and extensively use adblock. i've also found that the popup blocker in the newest firefox is very effective.
i use thunderbird as my e-mail app. i use the junk mail setting set on highest, which seems to pick off most offensive e-mails. i suggest looking at all of your kids e-mails. and tell them that you are monitoring their e-mail for scams, viruses, trojans... don't monitor their e-mail for "unflattering" talk about you. and if you see something that doesn't portray you in your best light, DON'T bring it up to your kids. let it go. but, keep abreast of what your kids are looking at. talk to them about it. and above all, be open and honest.
schleprock
so now people can go and buy a 2009 gas-guzzling POS big 3 FUV and immediately get money to trade in the POS and get a fuel efficient foreign car!!
can't wait until the big 3 are finally buried.
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in my 30+ years of experience in "coding" 80 - 90% of my time is spent debugging/maintaining code. any idiot can string lines of code together to complete a narrow well defined task. as soon as you give it to a real user, they try to use it in ways you never thought of and voila, bugs... in addition, i have yet to work on a project where the requirements were even close to correct the first time (or the second, third...). schleprock
not true. light moves at c in a vacuum. light can be slowed down, even stopped. so no, light does not always move at c...
when i interview for developers (we are a C++ shop, mostly), i certainly expect people to understand the syntax of the language, but more importantly to me, to understand what the language is providing. what is OO, what does OO provide over functional... in addition what is class hierarchy? what does it provide to the developer? what are templates? when are templates useful, and when should templates not be used, for example they should not be used to provide hierarchy (which i have seen done). what is overloading (other than syntactic sugar!), these questions can be answered for any OO type language. another huge concept that most interviewees do NOT understand is exceptions. even the basic "throw and get out of the way" concept is lost on them. and they truly don't understand that exceptions decouple normal program flow from error recovery. i'll have them write a method that generates an error and they'll start by returning an error code!! that will pretty much end the interview at that point. another area is order of construction of objects that contain members that also have constructors, as well as order of destruction of objects and what happens when a base class's destructor is not virtual. and lastly, how do they hold up when trying to design an algorithm for a difficult problem. i don't even expect the interviewee to complete the algorithm, what i'm looking for is how they attack the problem, do they ask me questions to help themselves out, do they use the whiteboard to get an understanding of the problem... the individuals in our group do not work in a bubble and if you're not willing to ask for help when you're stuck, then i have no use for you...
exactly my thought. so the webcam is going to slow the train down????? no, but we can watch the train run off the tracks and if we're REALLY lucky, the lead car will be thrown 180 degrees around and we can watch all the passengers be ripped apart as the rest of the cars are thrown from the track.. as long as they get those youtube hits.... schleprock
i laughed my ass off when i read this comment, so TRUE. as i sit there and listen to some idiot read their slide TO ME, i think, does this person really think that i cannot read???? i just don't get it. all i can do is sit there and shake my head....
but i went and googled it and low and behold, there's the bogus creationalist CRAP as the first link. so i sent my feedback detailing how i just sat there and shook my head in disbelief ...
i very much agree with GroeFaz, when the ads completely drown out everything else on my machine (whether it's a pc, tablet or phone) they have to be blocked. this is especially true of ads with annoying audio. on my pc if it's just a visual ad i can switch to another desktop and not be bothered, but when the ad contains audio, game over. someday enough people will be using ad blocking technology to where the the people paying for the ads will not see any return on their money. at that point, advertisers will begin to go away (or at least in my dreams they'll go away!)
unbelievably this is actually true. in 2012 the texas republican party opposed teaching critical thinking skills to kids http://www.washingtonpost.com/.... right from the horse's mouth: "Knowledge-Based Education – We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority." and texas sets the standards for public school books as they buy the most books and schools throughout the nation follow their lead to get lower costs. the republicans say they want to "create jobs" but fail in preparing our kids for jobs. schleprock
"Comey cited child-kidnapping and terrorism cases as two examples of situations where quick access by authorities to information on cellphones can save lives. Comey did not cite specific past cases that would have been more difficult for the FBI to investigate" of course he didn't cite specific cases because there are NONE. this is the same pathetic unsupported excuse that law enforcement has been rolling out to put fear in the lemmings of the USA. the founders of this country knew, from past experience with Britain, that the worst enemy of the public is their own government. they put in the constitution and amendments to the constitution laws that "should" prevent the government from persecuting the public. now that the public is finally getting the technology to combat an out of control law enforcement, these clowns are whining that it make their jobs harder. and then make up unsubstantiated stories about how this will "hurt" the general public. get off your butts and get a warrant if you want to invade someone's privacy. warrant-less invasion of privacy is unconstitutional, period.
exactly my point in the post. the ruling was very specific to the C block spectrum. 3g and 1x are different spectrum under different rules. i can see tethering when i'm in a 4g area, move to the 3g area and get completely screwed in fees! schleprock
not that i needed another reason to use firefox, but thanks MS, for putting another nail in the coffin of IE.
i encouraged collaboration in my programming assignments, but i was very clear in that the final work was an individual effort. in programming, it was rather easy to find people that were cheating, even if they tried to mask it by changing variable names. when the blocks of code line up, the formatting is identical, it's not hard to find the cheater. in the real world (of which i am now a part of) programmers do collaborate, but in the end, some individual needs to produce the end product, and if all they learned in school was to copy their friends work, they will be useless, IMHO. schleprock
under the sunshine act, one would think they have no choice but must, by law, open their e-mails and any other correspondence to the public. we paid for for them, then we should have full access. and the excuse that this would make them less competitive is total BS.
i would expand on the note by moodyloner, living room, kitchen. basically don't let your daughter have a computer in her room. keep the computer in an open area. also, i use only use firefox as my browser and extensively use adblock. i've also found that the popup blocker in the newest firefox is very effective. i use thunderbird as my e-mail app. i use the junk mail setting set on highest, which seems to pick off most offensive e-mails. i suggest looking at all of your kids e-mails. and tell them that you are monitoring their e-mail for scams, viruses, trojans ... don't monitor their e-mail for "unflattering" talk about you. and if you see something that doesn't portray you in your best light, DON'T bring it up to your kids. let it go. but, keep abreast of what your kids are looking at. talk to them about it. and above all, be open and honest.
schleprock
so now people can go and buy a 2009 gas-guzzling POS big 3 FUV and immediately get money to trade in the POS and get a fuel efficient foreign car!! can't wait until the big 3 are finally buried.