True, girls are far more attracted to asperger/loner computer types then they are to say the dashing hunks on the soccer or football team. What girl won't want to hang with a bunch of scrawny/overweight neruotics in a dark computer room!!
Learned basic on a VAX cluster at Babson College circa 1980. First program was on a green bar paper terminal (no CRT). About the same time did basic on a Trash 80 w/a cassette drive.
I'd also consider working on circuitry on bread boards a type of programming. Did that circa 1974 in middle school electronics class.
Two hallmarks of an extreme narcissist is that they lack "empathy", even if they speak of empathy, and they are self congratulatory. A person saying they write "excellent" specs is clearly an egomaniac and someone asks for bug free code in no way has empathy.
Right, and the trick here is knowing that the customer will inevitably not include something they really need in then specifications. Only a terrific egomaniac thinks he writes "excellent" specifications. I work at a bank where we have so many stake holders with conflicting specifications that we inevitably do things on a cost-plus basis with external vendors.
Don't "don't pay for bugs"!?? Code of sufficient complexity will ALWAYS have "bugs" especially when deadlines are tight and it inevitably uses third party libraries/frameworks. Nothing in the universe is bug free. You're either an incredible egomaniac or you don't understand basic engineering. You're both asking developers to work for free and you don't want to pay market rates, how does that provide "empathy"???? If you want cheap coding then outsource to a developing country where coders w/poor communication skills will write obfuscated code to guarantee their employment, then you won't be able to get rid of them so you might as well make them employees.
As a software engineer working in a UNIX/LINUX environment, and part-time pianist, I appreciate the superior ergonomics of battleship keyboards. The tactile sense of a mechanical keyboard doubles my productivity when using Emacs or composing emails. In the olde days I used a Gateway keyboard with programmable keys. Now I've got a Razer Black Widow mechanical gamers keyboard (great feel and light keys but difficult to get the keyboard drivers to work via Citrix). One should not assume everything old is substandard - JS Bach is still the greatest composer after 300 years!
Feel good you've NOT gone to chiclet keyboards. As a software engineer working in a UNIX/LINUX environment, and part-time pianist, I appreciate the superior ergonomics of battleship keyboards. The tactile sense of a mechanical keyboard doubles my productivity when using Emacs or composing emails. In the olde days I used a Gateway keyboard with programmable keys. Now I've got a Razer Black Widow mechanical gamers keyboard (great feel and light keys but difficult to get the keyboard drivers to work via Citrix). Don't assume everything old is substandard - JS Bach is still the greatest composer after 300 years.
Merely summing up the number of switches and connections ignores the fact that the brain is a special purpose machine. It has a physical, and logical, organization which fits its purpose to its environment. So it is far more powerful than a general purpose quantum machine might be, just like the Bletchley Park Mark 2 Colossus decrypting machine was more powerful than the binary sum of its thermionic valves.
Granted revamping the grid to go to solar is big. But revamping to go to methane from oil is not a big deal. Both use the same concept - super heat water until it become high pressure steam which then drives turbines. Only the burners need to be changed. My dad worked for Boston Gas as an engineers for 40 years and I remember him talking about industrial sites which had the ability to switch back-n-forth between oil/gas depending which was cheaper.
An old myth was that COBOL killed developers brains - somehow programming a structured language killed people's ability to learn anything else. I've known COBOL developers who actually DID have difficulty learning anything else in older years. But that may have more related to corporate conformity and how they were trained. Back in the 60s & 70s IBM men only wore a dark suit, white shirt, and red tie. IBM wasn't exactly recruiting Berkeley hippie types. And they were forced into training courses to learn COBOL at work, like it or not, sometimes for months at a time. So the non-conformist, innovative self-starter who today learns say Linux, Perl or Ruby on their own was not exactly prized decades ago.
I read mindless periodicals such as People, Shape or the NY Post when at certain locations. If I'm getting my hair done I don't want want to be carrying around electronics so I read People. If I'm in the subway then digital devices can be stolen or damaged so I read the NY Post. For more intelligent periodicals, sometimes it just feels good at the diner in the morning to spread the Boston Globe out on the table. When on an airplane I'll read Wired or the Economist (since there is no WiFi).
Yes, I do run marathons and have been involved w/their organization.
Most people are in hotels in the area or have cars parked nearby. Almost all runners like to do a walking cool down after a marathon so even if a friend/relative is waiting they'd be a hundred meters or more away. There are first aid stations throughout the route and finish. Drinks are provided through the route (if you've ever been to a marathon), often by official sponsrs.
It is ridiculous to think they're going to eat snacks. No one is going to munch on Doritos after running 26 miles. No athlete ever eats snacks right after an event, let alone a marathon runner. The most they'd consume is pocket size carbo gels.
Again, there is absolutely no reason why someone needs to be walking around near the finish line with a bag large enough to hold a pressure cooker.
P.S. there like is the occasional nut that brings anti-fungal spray or massage roller to the finish line but they're obviously the sort of obsessive who should be searched anyway.
Well, there's not a lot of kit for running, other than what they're wearing. It is not like ice hockey or football. What might a runner be carrying in a bulky duffel bag? An extra ten pairs of shoes?
The thing that gets me is how incompetent the Boston PD were in policing the finish line. First, it's inexpensive nowadays to setup lots of cheap digital cameras for video capture of area. Second, how could they not have dogs about sniffing the crowd? Third, they didn't notice someone walking around with a freaking duffel bag!??
Google Glass would be great for all kinds of sports. From providing biometric stats to a bicyclist to a rear view and strategy collaboration for hockey players.
Maybe Velcro could help. If the couple wore Velcro armbands and leg bands then they'd have some anchoring. Or perhaps the armbands might have magnets in them. Thing it is hard to be completely naked under water or in space without some sort of anchoring garment.
If they can play Barry White over the space craft's public address system then everything should go smoothly.
But it seems rather cruel to raise a child 34,000,000 miles from the nearest playground.
Problem with keyboards is they stink compared to the old battleship sort. I loved the tactile feedback of the orignal boards.
As a software engineer price doesn't matter to me, quality does. I'd happily pay $200+ for a quality keyboard. I loved the old programmable Gateway keyboard from the late 80s/early 90s.
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Yes, good one. And it is nice and flashy in a web browsers right off. Lots of codes snippets around the web for fun stuff too.
True, girls are far more attracted to asperger/loner computer types then they are to say the dashing hunks on the soccer or football team. What girl won't want to hang with a bunch of scrawny/overweight neruotics in a dark computer room!!
Heavy languages like Java/C++ are tedious for kids/adolescents. Program in something fun and lite like Python/Ruby/Perl.
Learned basic on a VAX cluster at Babson College circa 1980. First program was on a green bar paper terminal (no CRT). About the same time did basic on a Trash 80 w/a cassette drive. I'd also consider working on circuitry on bread boards a type of programming. Did that circa 1974 in middle school electronics class.
Two hallmarks of an extreme narcissist is that they lack "empathy", even if they speak of empathy, and they are self congratulatory. A person saying they write "excellent" specs is clearly an egomaniac and someone asks for bug free code in no way has empathy.
Right, and the trick here is knowing that the customer will inevitably not include something they really need in then specifications. Only a terrific egomaniac thinks he writes "excellent" specifications. I work at a bank where we have so many stake holders with conflicting specifications that we inevitably do things on a cost-plus basis with external vendors.
Don't "don't pay for bugs"!?? Code of sufficient complexity will ALWAYS have "bugs" especially when deadlines are tight and it inevitably uses third party libraries/frameworks. Nothing in the universe is bug free. You're either an incredible egomaniac or you don't understand basic engineering. You're both asking developers to work for free and you don't want to pay market rates, how does that provide "empathy"???? If you want cheap coding then outsource to a developing country where coders w/poor communication skills will write obfuscated code to guarantee their employment, then you won't be able to get rid of them so you might as well make them employees.
As a software engineer working in a UNIX/LINUX environment, and part-time pianist, I appreciate the superior ergonomics of battleship keyboards. The tactile sense of a mechanical keyboard doubles my productivity when using Emacs or composing emails. In the olde days I used a Gateway keyboard with programmable keys. Now I've got a Razer Black Widow mechanical gamers keyboard (great feel and light keys but difficult to get the keyboard drivers to work via Citrix). One should not assume everything old is substandard - JS Bach is still the greatest composer after 300 years!
Feel good you've NOT gone to chiclet keyboards. As a software engineer working in a UNIX/LINUX environment, and part-time pianist, I appreciate the superior ergonomics of battleship keyboards. The tactile sense of a mechanical keyboard doubles my productivity when using Emacs or composing emails. In the olde days I used a Gateway keyboard with programmable keys. Now I've got a Razer Black Widow mechanical gamers keyboard (great feel and light keys but difficult to get the keyboard drivers to work via Citrix). Don't assume everything old is substandard - JS Bach is still the greatest composer after 300 years.
Merely summing up the number of switches and connections ignores the fact that the brain is a special purpose machine. It has a physical, and logical, organization which fits its purpose to its environment. So it is far more powerful than a general purpose quantum machine might be, just like the Bletchley Park Mark 2 Colossus decrypting machine was more powerful than the binary sum of its thermionic valves.
Granted revamping the grid to go to solar is big. But revamping to go to methane from oil is not a big deal. Both use the same concept - super heat water until it become high pressure steam which then drives turbines. Only the burners need to be changed. My dad worked for Boston Gas as an engineers for 40 years and I remember him talking about industrial sites which had the ability to switch back-n-forth between oil/gas depending which was cheaper.
An old myth was that COBOL killed developers brains - somehow programming a structured language killed people's ability to learn anything else. I've known COBOL developers who actually DID have difficulty learning anything else in older years. But that may have more related to corporate conformity and how they were trained. Back in the 60s & 70s IBM men only wore a dark suit, white shirt, and red tie. IBM wasn't exactly recruiting Berkeley hippie types. And they were forced into training courses to learn COBOL at work, like it or not, sometimes for months at a time. So the non-conformist, innovative self-starter who today learns say Linux, Perl or Ruby on their own was not exactly prized decades ago.
I read mindless periodicals such as People, Shape or the NY Post when at certain locations. If I'm getting my hair done I don't want want to be carrying around electronics so I read People. If I'm in the subway then digital devices can be stolen or damaged so I read the NY Post. For more intelligent periodicals, sometimes it just feels good at the diner in the morning to spread the Boston Globe out on the table. When on an airplane I'll read Wired or the Economist (since there is no WiFi).
Yes, I do run marathons and have been involved w/their organization. Most people are in hotels in the area or have cars parked nearby. Almost all runners like to do a walking cool down after a marathon so even if a friend/relative is waiting they'd be a hundred meters or more away. There are first aid stations throughout the route and finish. Drinks are provided through the route (if you've ever been to a marathon), often by official sponsrs. It is ridiculous to think they're going to eat snacks. No one is going to munch on Doritos after running 26 miles. No athlete ever eats snacks right after an event, let alone a marathon runner. The most they'd consume is pocket size carbo gels. Again, there is absolutely no reason why someone needs to be walking around near the finish line with a bag large enough to hold a pressure cooker. P.S. there like is the occasional nut that brings anti-fungal spray or massage roller to the finish line but they're obviously the sort of obsessive who should be searched anyway.
Well, there's not a lot of kit for running, other than what they're wearing. It is not like ice hockey or football. What might a runner be carrying in a bulky duffel bag? An extra ten pairs of shoes?
The thing that gets me is how incompetent the Boston PD were in policing the finish line. First, it's inexpensive nowadays to setup lots of cheap digital cameras for video capture of area. Second, how could they not have dogs about sniffing the crowd? Third, they didn't notice someone walking around with a freaking duffel bag!??
Google Glass would be great for all kinds of sports. From providing biometric stats to a bicyclist to a rear view and strategy collaboration for hockey players.
Maybe Velcro could help. If the couple wore Velcro armbands and leg bands then they'd have some anchoring. Or perhaps the armbands might have magnets in them. Thing it is hard to be completely naked under water or in space without some sort of anchoring garment.
If they can play Barry White over the space craft's public address system then everything should go smoothly. But it seems rather cruel to raise a child 34,000,000 miles from the nearest playground.
Problem with keyboards is they stink compared to the old battleship sort. I loved the tactile feedback of the orignal boards. As a software engineer price doesn't matter to me, quality does. I'd happily pay $200+ for a quality keyboard. I loved the old programmable Gateway keyboard from the late 80s/early 90s.