For most people, writing better means writing more succinctly.
My history professor gave me some excellent writing training. He gave us strict page lengths. The assignments had to be no longer than 1 page, no smaller than 10-point font, and double-spaced. We had to take a position on hard issues and defend them, all within the limits of 1 page.
Turned in 2-page assignment? He'd rip off the second and read only the first.
Two things he said stick out in my mind:
"2 reports are given to a manager. One is 1 page, the other is 10 pages. The 1-page report gets read, the 10-page report gets skimmed and thrown away".
"All students have practice padding their papers with filler. What you need is practice presenting your opinion succinctly".
It was great practice, endlessly cutting my paper down to its essentials.
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NT does not have a true microkernel architecture like Tanenbaum would like. Microsoft started out with their initial papers about NT paying lip service to the microkernel idea, but then realized during development that the microkernel was ridiculously slow for some of the most important operations. For instance, Graphics and Hardware drivers bypass the microkernel. I/O Management, network drivers, disk cache, and the window manager all get directly at the hardware, and don't use the microkernel. Want to know why? Because the microkernel was too damn slow. And don't give me that shit about throwing more hardware at the problem. Moving from a $2000 PC to a $5000 PC is a big fucking deal. This kind of attitude is precisely why academics have their reputation for being generally useless. "Oh its just an implementation detail." "Oh just throw more hardware at the problem." They get to say that because they don't have to deal with it.
Linus is the crown prince of pragmatic engineering, and to imply that he doesn't care about correctness is pure bullshit. In fact, he stated once that "Any rewrite that gives a cleaner or more understandable codebase is always worth the effort". Don't have the source, its on Kernel Traffic.
throw out any classist preconceptions you have; which would you rather associate yourself with, a construction worker who's more than willing to get their hands dirty and get some work done, or some manager in an expensive suit that reads email all day and pays for luxury trips on the company credit card?
What fucking manifesto did you read? Lenin, Engels, Marx, they all knew and expected a bloody and violent revolution to overthrow the burgeois. In fact, that was the only way they foresaw the proletariat to destroy their oppressing classes and get rid of the state. In fact, if you read Lenin you will see he happily advocates extermination of everyone but the proletariat. To paraphrase Lenin in an attack against the Mensheviks: "How can we have a revolution if we aren't going to kill anybody?" (1)
And to say that the Russian Revolution had nothing to do with "scientific" Marxism is a weak copout. The Russian Revolution certainly wasn't pure doctrinaire Marxism, but believe me it was Marxist all the way (Marxist-Leninist hello?) Admittedly, it was not the ideal Marxist experiment, but it certainly throws out the idea that economic condition is the sole determinant of personal values (They had three generations under socialism, and they're problems never disappeared). Not to mention the idea of "the withering away of the state" is now laughable.
Its time to file Marxism and Leninism into the dustbin of history.
When all of academia thought RISC, microkernels, functional languages, and Java were the greatest things since canned beer. And guess what? They weren't. All academic research must be taken with a huge grain of salt. This includes GC.
Boys are wilder and more aggressive. So when there is computer time available, they will push the girls off. If teachers and parents don't do something about that, the girls won't fight back.
Oooo, I can just feel the understanding oozing out of every orifice of the interview. You can find half the solution by looking in the mirror.
Regardless of whether or not you think women and men are different because of nature or nurture, shallow generalizations do not help. I guess its too much to ask for humanity to learn from mistakes?
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For most people, writing better means writing more succinctly.
My history professor gave me some excellent writing training. He gave us strict page lengths. The assignments had to be no longer than 1 page, no smaller than 10-point font, and double-spaced. We had to take a position on hard issues and defend them, all within the limits of 1 page.
Turned in 2-page assignment? He'd rip off the second and read only the first.
Two things he said stick out in my mind:
"2 reports are given to a manager. One is 1 page, the other is 10 pages. The 1-page report gets read, the 10-page report gets skimmed and thrown away".
"All students have practice padding their papers with filler. What you need is practice presenting your opinion succinctly".
It was great practice, endlessly cutting my paper down to its essentials.
NT does not have a true microkernel architecture like Tanenbaum would like. Microsoft started out with their initial papers about NT paying lip service to the microkernel idea, but then realized during development that the microkernel was ridiculously slow for some of the most important operations. For instance, Graphics and Hardware drivers bypass the microkernel. I/O Management, network drivers, disk cache, and the window manager all get directly at the hardware, and don't use the microkernel. Want to know why? Because the microkernel was too damn slow. And don't give me that shit about throwing more hardware at the problem. Moving from a $2000 PC to a $5000 PC is a big fucking deal. This kind of attitude is precisely why academics have their reputation for being generally useless. "Oh its just an implementation detail." "Oh just throw more hardware at the problem." They get to say that because they don't have to deal with it.
Linus is the crown prince of pragmatic engineering, and to imply that he doesn't care about correctness is pure bullshit. In fact, he stated once that "Any rewrite that gives a cleaner or more understandable codebase is always worth the effort". Don't have the source, its on Kernel Traffic.
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throw out any classist preconceptions you have; which would you rather associate yourself with, a construction worker who's more than willing to get their hands dirty and get some work done, or some manager in an expensive suit that reads email all day and pays for luxury trips on the company credit card?
I can't believe he got a 3 for this
What fucking manifesto did you read? Lenin, Engels, Marx, they all knew and expected a bloody and violent revolution to overthrow the burgeois. In fact, that was the only way they foresaw the proletariat to destroy their oppressing classes and get rid of the state. In fact, if you read Lenin you will see he happily advocates extermination of everyone but the proletariat. To paraphrase Lenin in an attack against the Mensheviks: "How can we have a revolution if we aren't going to kill anybody?" (1)
And to say that the Russian Revolution had nothing to do with "scientific" Marxism is a weak copout. The Russian Revolution certainly wasn't pure doctrinaire Marxism, but believe me it was Marxist all the way (Marxist-Leninist hello?) Admittedly, it was not the ideal Marxist experiment, but it certainly throws out the idea that economic condition is the sole determinant of personal values (They had three generations under socialism, and they're problems never disappeared). Not to mention the idea of "the withering away of the state" is now laughable.
Its time to file Marxism and Leninism into the dustbin of history.
[1] "The Russian Revolution" by Sheila Fitzgerald
When all of academia thought RISC, microkernels, functional languages, and Java were the greatest things since canned beer. And guess what? They weren't. All academic research must be taken with a huge grain of salt. This includes GC.
Amen. Barbara Walters puts up harder questions than this sorry lot.
Boys are wilder and more aggressive. So when there is computer time available, they will push the girls off. If teachers and parents don't do something about that, the girls won't fight back.
Oooo, I can just feel the understanding oozing out of every orifice of the interview. You can find half the solution by looking in the mirror.
Regardless of whether or not you think women and men are different because of nature or nurture, shallow generalizations do not help. I guess its too much to ask for humanity to learn from mistakes?