One thing about the multiple sub-disciplines and "schools"...they all use English. I don't have to learn a new syntax of English or a new form of mathematical notation in order to learn/work within those different areas.
Since I am not CS person (Business, rather), I won't attempt to to argue with you about that.
However, I think that any reasonable person would recognize that this Tower of Babel approach is holding back software development as a whole, needlessly fragmenting knowledge and impacting the careers of excellent programmers simply because they didn't jump on the latest bandwagon X years ago.
Do you realize that Donald Knuth probably would not be "qualified" for 80% of the job postings on Dice...the man that practically invented programming? How stupid is that?
I would think it is entirely possible to bolt a syntax "UI" onto an underlying language implementation that would preserve the lower level advantages held by some languages while supporting a common syntax and enabling the vast knowledge and experience in the industry to be freely exchangeable. In fact, I know it is because that's essentially what Microsoft did with C#.net and Visual Basic.net
And C+? Yeah, probably something Microsoft did internally I bet. Not sure because I just made it up.
Really...isn't it time to rethink all of these different, but same (except for the whacko Python,PHP stuff) and come up with one standard language? Extend it with different libraries if you want, but this dreaming up a new language that is pretty much the same as all the others except the line ends with ";" or you declare the type first instead of last or assignment is "=" except when it's "==". Or iterative structures that all work the same but all have different syntax? WTF people?
Think of all the talent locked up in someone who has done language A for 10 years but is totally useless to you because your project uses language B? The concepts are the same, yet people's knowledge is arbitrarily walled off in this development environment or that environment. How can this be considered good?
In Search for Spock, there was a convincing argument that the needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many.
We see this in our system of criminal justice (at least in its theoretical form) where letting a guilty man go free is preferable to convicting an innocent man. Theoretically speaking I mean.
I think that with the right approach, appropriate restrictions on the type of investments, strict rules regarding diversification and government guarantees, a private system could work quite well.
Just think what a portfolio would be like if for the last 25 years (at least for me) 15% (Your share and your employers share) of your salary was put away into well diversified, low to medium risk stocks.
Just look at the market today, even with the economy sucking, it's still above 10,000. The people who got screwed in this economy (investment wise) were the ones flipping houses and in high risk investments. For my money, if anyone has to lose, then are the ones who should.
My Parent's portfolio has remain constant over the last 3 years despite their taking income out for themselves and helping out me and my siblings.
So a properly managed portfolio CAN weather times like these.
And of course in the last resort they can just do a TARP, to the people actually pay the taxes instead of the vermin at Wall Street.
SS should be phased out over time in favor of private accounts. Regulate them, restrict them, I don't care, but get the money out of the hands of the Feds.
The application records the votes electronically should print a paper ballot in clear language enumerating the voter's selections. the paper ballot should be tagged with a bar code linking it with the electronic vote (NOT the voter). The voter compares the screen with the paper ballot and when satisfied, submits the electronic vote AND the paper vote.
Paper ballots are counted separately from the electronic votes. There should be the same number of paper ballots as electronic votes AND the selections on each should match when linked via the bar code.
This kind of thing is basic to batch processing environments, count the records, match the records, confirm the counts.
As far as the selections coming up preselected - that is second year CS level programming AND a primary QA metric. They must have idiots creating these things.
Fact...drug costs are too high. Fact...getting a drug approved requires millions of dollars and many years. Fact...regulations contribute to these costs.
Suggestion, someone with the expertise and the authority should look into the millions of regulations to see to what extent they are unnecessary, redundant or not cost effective. Not you, not me.
"I suspect you will find the cost of drugs is related to the extremely high cost of getting the approved"
Suspect and related. That's what I said. The people with the expertise and authority should check it out.
You are operating under the flawed notion that the market can't work. If you take away all the Federal and state regulations that distort the market then it can work.
I can't buy health insurance for myself that does not include pregnancy coverage because state and local laws mandate that. That raises the cost to me and perverts the market for health insurance.
If your car won't start...should you have to diagnose it yourself before the mechanic fixes it? No, the fact that it won't start is defacto evidence it is "broke".
Drugs that cost $100 per pill (or way more) is evidence of a broke system.
Yet until you actually define "better" Better in this context is to be affordable...if you had been paying attention for the last decade or so, you'd know that.
Only a moron would think that the present system is perfect and can't be improved.
A bigger moron would think that someone without expertise in that area can come up with a better solution.
So we, the people that pay for this, have every right to say to the people running the system, "NOT FUCKING GOOD ENOUGH" and demand that they come up with something better.
Because your state has different regulations than your neighboring state....blah blah blha a lot of useless crao words that make no sense.
News for ya Barbie, if the state laws are making things more expensive then they should be on the chopping block too. Conservative believe that you should do what makes sense. ObamaCare does not make sense. Limiting the market for insurance does not make sense.
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"Clojure" and "D"?
Just shoot me now.
One thing about the multiple sub-disciplines and "schools"...they all use English. I don't have to learn a new syntax of English or a new form of mathematical notation in order to learn/work within those different areas.
In fact, I know it is because that's essentially what Microsoft did with C#.net and Visual Basic.net
Well, they did the reverse...one underlying implementation for multiple languages. But would not the principal be the same in the other direction?
Since I am not CS person (Business, rather), I won't attempt to to argue with you about that.
However, I think that any reasonable person would recognize that this Tower of Babel approach is holding back software development as a whole, needlessly fragmenting knowledge and impacting the careers of excellent programmers simply because they didn't jump on the latest bandwagon X years ago.
Do you realize that Donald Knuth probably would not be "qualified" for 80% of the job postings on Dice...the man that practically invented programming? How stupid is that?
I would think it is entirely possible to bolt a syntax "UI" onto an underlying language implementation that would preserve the lower level advantages held by some languages while supporting a common syntax and enabling the vast knowledge and experience in the industry to be freely exchangeable. In fact, I know it is because that's essentially what Microsoft did with C#.net and Visual Basic.net
And C+? Yeah, probably something Microsoft did internally I bet. Not sure because I just made it up.
Gawd, my grammar sucks.
Just stop with the new (but just rearranged) same old languages:
Basic,
C,
C#,
C+,
C++,
COBOL,
Dyalog APL,
Eiffel,
F#,
Java,
Javascript,
Jscript,
Mercury,
Mondrian,
Oberon,
Pascal,
Perl,
Python,
Salford,
SmallTalk,
Standard ML,
VBscript,
Visual Basic,
VisualJ++,
Really...isn't it time to rethink all of these different, but same (except for the whacko Python,PHP stuff) and come up with one standard language? Extend it with different libraries if you want, but this dreaming up a new language that is pretty much the same as all the others except the line ends with ";" or you declare the type first instead of last or assignment is "=" except when it's "==". Or iterative structures that all work the same but all have different syntax? WTF people?
Think of all the talent locked up in someone who has done language A for 10 years but is totally useless to you because your project uses language B? The concepts are the same, yet people's knowledge is arbitrarily walled off in this development environment or that environment. How can this be considered good?
Innovation doesn't mean re-inventing the wheel.
Sounds pretty stupid to me.
That's because it's a FAILED analogy. A stupid analogy too.
And here is our first political supporter.
Embryonic Stem Cell Research has yet another nail pounded into its coffin.
Of course people will still support it as some kind of political statement.
Find them.
Shoot them.
Put it on eBay and find out what it's worth,
Doesn't Google scrub sites that are contrary to it's views and sometime disappear a site altogether?
In Search for Spock, there was a convincing argument that the needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many.
We see this in our system of criminal justice (at least in its theoretical form) where letting a guilty man go free is preferable to convicting an innocent man. Theoretically speaking I mean.
I think that with the right approach, appropriate restrictions on the type of investments, strict rules regarding diversification and government guarantees, a private system could work quite well.
Just think what a portfolio would be like if for the last 25 years (at least for me) 15% (Your share and your employers share) of your salary was put away into well diversified, low to medium risk stocks.
Just look at the market today, even with the economy sucking, it's still above 10,000. The people who got screwed in this economy (investment wise) were the ones flipping houses and in high risk investments. For my money, if anyone has to lose, then are the ones who should.
My Parent's portfolio has remain constant over the last 3 years despite their taking income out for themselves and helping out me and my siblings.
So a properly managed portfolio CAN weather times like these.
And of course in the last resort they can just do a TARP, to the people actually pay the taxes instead of the vermin at Wall Street.
SS should be phased out over time in favor of private accounts. Regulate them, restrict them, I don't care, but get the money out of the hands of the Feds.
Just like you look back at Vietnam and see how wrong headed JFK and Johnson were?
Repeat after me:
Congress has the power of the purse. The President does not spend money, Congress does. Look it up.
Who was running Congress for the Balanced budgets in the 90s? You guess it! Republicans.
Who ran Congress since we added nearly 5 trillion dollars in debt since 2006? Right Again! The Democrats!
Here's what they should do:
The application records the votes electronically should print a paper ballot in clear language enumerating the voter's selections. the paper ballot should be tagged with a bar code linking it with the electronic vote (NOT the voter). The voter compares the screen with the paper ballot and when satisfied, submits the electronic vote AND the paper vote.
Paper ballots are counted separately from the electronic votes. There should be the same number of paper ballots as electronic votes AND the selections on each should match when linked via the bar code.
This kind of thing is basic to batch processing environments, count the records, match the records, confirm the counts.
As far as the selections coming up preselected - that is second year CS level programming AND a primary QA metric. They must have idiots creating these things.
Not until they release an update.
Never, EVER go with version 1 of anything.
Fact...drug costs are too high.
Fact...getting a drug approved requires millions of dollars and many years.
Fact...regulations contribute to these costs.
Suggestion, someone with the expertise and the authority should look into the millions of regulations to see to what extent they are unnecessary, redundant or not cost effective. Not you, not me.
"I suspect you will find the cost of drugs is related to the extremely high cost of getting the approved"
Suspect and related. That's what I said. The people with the expertise and authority should check it out.
Is that clear enough for you?
You are operating under the flawed notion that the market can't work. If you take away all the Federal and state regulations that distort the market then it can work.
I can't buy health insurance for myself that does not include pregnancy coverage because state and local laws mandate that. That raises the cost to me and perverts the market for health insurance.
If your car won't start...should you have to diagnose it yourself before the mechanic fixes it? No, the fact that it won't start is defacto evidence it is "broke".
Drugs that cost $100 per pill (or way more) is evidence of a broke system.
Yet until you actually define "better"
Better in this context is to be affordable...if you had been paying attention for the last decade or so, you'd know that.
Seriously, STFU.
Only a moron would think that the present system is perfect and can't be improved.
A bigger moron would think that someone without expertise in that area can come up with a better solution.
So we, the people that pay for this, have every right to say to the people running the system, "NOT FUCKING GOOD ENOUGH" and demand that they come up with something better.
California: Dumbing the nation down for hundreds of years.
Don't let the door hit you on the way out, asshole.
Because your state has different regulations than your neighboring state. ...blah blah blha a lot of useless crao words that make no sense.
News for ya Barbie, if the state laws are making things more expensive then they should be on the chopping block too. Conservative believe that you should do what makes sense. ObamaCare does not make sense. Limiting the market for insurance does not make sense.