It must have been a real long time ago as I did wrote win98 vxd in C and in high level assembly (assembly with complex macros, but not more complex than recursive substitutions). My C driver, that did the exact same thing as my HLA one, was bigger and less understandable than other one. It was that way since function pointers get rapidly ugly. A big contrast to assembly where there are no types, only words sizes and alignment.
According to my anecdotal knowledge, C is only an ubiquitous portable assembly language; nothing more, since a good set of macros in assembly can be more terse than C if you target only one type of CPU.
You must be a part of a small team <10 since a loose cannon is essential to unjam a project in a moderately sized team 10<n<50. In a good development shop, requirement gathering flows to design then, to implementation and then finally, to QA.*1 Software development is pretty much like going down a busy high, and like and it was shown that Rude Drivers Reduce Traffic Jams when you have then in a small percentage that is around 15% if I remember correctly.
Most of the time the code I wrote do not to adhere to the coding standard of the company, yet my code is revered as examples of lean encapsulated design. However I must be the only one not following the rule as we are less than 100. But as you says, when I work, I do not let standard violating code into production, I have it entreprisified by a rules following developer.
1- It do not exclude agile methodologies, nor does it excludes cascades like ones, but if you skip any of those steps, except implementation*2, you do so at the projects peril. 2- Where if you do ignore implementation, you get nothing except maybe, if you are incredibly lucky or have/are an awesome project manager, a plan for implementing and testing something that respond to a group of people needs:)
I have another friend who works as a "project troubleshooter"
I plan to do that when I become an old fart !
(I recently had to explain to a computer science major from an Ivy League school with a rep for computer science the significance of "big O" and why an algorithm with O(n!) was a bad idea. He was a smart kid, but apparently that concept was just never hammered home
You must also take a look at each classes grades, Ivy Leagues alone means nothing about capacities, it is about connections. Remember that the guys with the C and the guy with an A in discreet math get the same computer sciences diploma if they graduate.
I could not agree more with your post ! so I will repeat that fundamental part:
Some of us went into CS because we actually had an inherent interesting in coding, not because a parent or guidance councilor told us it was a good career path.
I am employed to do custom visual components, software architecture, developers supports and mentoring, developing developers tools, fixing thurd party library, automating systems and performing root cause analysis. I consider that I use a good part of my CS education. Sure I don't do opengl anymore, but it is not a lack opportunity, it is just that those jobs sucks but those jobs are plentiful (in Canada anyway) and the almost all require deep CS knowledge.
But you are right, I you were not part of the game 5 to 10 years ago it is hard to get into as new jobs like mine are disappearing at an alarming rate, and I find this sad for the future CS grads.
If an expert system, an openGL based implicit 3dregrees of freedom equations solver, an A* chess game, a radiosity+multipath refraction aware ray-tracer, a numeric solver, and a symbolic algebra system that could preform derivation and reduction are considered code that actually does nothing, I would like to know what you did in your IS classes that is considered code that does something as I just listed the major practical works we had to implements in my CS Bachelor's degree?
He has a degree that's what is important to a lot of employer, now he just have to spin the logic part of the philosophy classes, if he took descriptive logic's even more so, emphasize his societal knowledge he should list his relevant experience, then provide a link to a demo. With that he should be quite ahead of the bottom of the classes CS grads, as far as the recruiter is concerned.
For a monetary interesting UNIX admin position, a cert*1, from redhat or from oracle, is a fast-track to a corporate position as he already have the degree.
1- CS major are not good at system administration usually
Ammonium nitrate is the chemical fertilizer by excellence it is also the basis of many explosives devices limited exemple: NH4NO3 + Diesel + fuse == Big bad KaBoom ask the Oklahoma bomber NH4NO3 + Zn + H2SO4 == lot's of heat, dangerous smoke, and fire NH4NO3 + KNO3+ K3[Fe(CN)6]+Al == lot's of heat, dangerous smoke, and non-extinguishable fire...
Most people are full of themselves. Only the unlucky ones need transplants, and then they need all sorts of nasty medicines to keep themselves healthy. Thank you, I'd rather be full of myself than that.
You are completely right about that, I was prescribe amphetamine to treat my ADD, I became a douche as a side effect and learned that being full of oneself rocks. I got more promotion in the last year of medicinal amphetamine than I got in that interval : [started working, started taking l-lysine-d-amphetamine], I got to assfuck my gf for the first time in 5 year, bought a sport car and renovated my house. Yeah being a douche, full of myself, rocks !
In a manner HIGHLY atypical for them given their corporate history, Sony seems to be the only company in the Android ecosystem that isn't paying lip service to open source. They provided ICS alphas and betas (INCLUDING kernel source) to the community, have provided technical documentation and assistance to the Cyanogenmod team that has been greatly instrumental in bringup of Cyanogenmod on Sony devices, have open-sourced their sensor HAL even when they didn't have to, and actually have a developer relations guy (Karl-Johan Dahlström) that does his job. (As opposed to Samsung's developer relations guy, who just cross-posts to XDA teasing of "awesome things to come" and completely failing to deliver, and tweeting source code release announcements for source code releases that have already been out for a week or more.) It's enough that there's a good chance my next phone will be a Sony despite a historical hatred of them for their past bad behavior in other business areas.
Damm NDA, I could explain a lot's of things about that had I not naively signed that useless document... I will just remind you that the phone from Sony are not really from SONY the ass-raping company, they are from Sony-Ericsson. It is a joint venture between the two. It's corporate governance is setted up pretty much like ST-Ericsson and LG-Ericsson...
they both are reification of the Publish-Subscribe pattern. Patterns are use mostly to discus about code in a general way after the fact. It is quite rare to you go on choosing a mediator or a flyweight but looking back at a code base it is easy to find instances of patterns, whatever the language as they are implementation independent. The other use of pattern is to give a distilled experienced to a beginning programmer.
Yeah I am a knee-jerk Wikipedialoler, with it is treated as anything other than a good breadth first search in math*1, physic, chemistry, biology, so I clicked on some of the link provided.
The first link I check that was not a 404*1 was a link to a book about the violence problem in Russia I could not read the book but here is the abstract:
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child states the right of children for information, but also for protection from information that might threaten their well-being and personal development. In societies that heavily expose children to media, the healthy development of democratic institutions and civil society can be greatly influenced by the impact of media violence on children's behavior and perception of society. An emphasis on this particular aspect of societal regulation of children's media viewing is strongly recommended by UN and UNESCO. Unfortunately, The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has not succeeded in modern Russian society with regard to the media (television, cinema, video, PC-games) because scenes of hard violence persist on all Russian cinema and television screens. The infringement of the Rights of the Child on the Russian screen is a very important problem and Russian pedagogues should not only attract societal and governmental attention to it, but should also provide training and education about children and media violence.
the second was to a pdf that I was able to read, here is the abstract:
Over the past 50 years, the average news report has changed from claims of a weak link to a moderate link and then back to a weak link between media violence and aggression. However, since 1975, the scientific confidence and statistical magnitude of this link have been clearly positive and have consistently increased over time. Reasons for this discontinuity between news reports and the actual state of scientific knowledge include the vested interests of the news, a misapplied fairness doctrine in news reporting, and the failure of the research community to effectively argue the scientific case.
1- there is a great deal of bad link*2 in the source of that pages, please someone fix that as I am lazy when unpaid or not arguing! 2- 302 redirecting from a GET $[paper].pdf to a generic error page served with a response code of 200 when it should be set to 404
show me the data" is fine when it comes to something where the data exists. It's intellectually lazy when it comes to a discussion like this.
Not it's not, it only means that we have to produce that data as anecdotal evidence like yours and mine are not properly quantified. It would be hard to finance*1 but it would be relatively easy to randomly select about 10000 adults between [20 and 40]*2, ask them when were they exposed to porn for the first time and was it self-initiated, caused by peer-pressure or an abuser and have them pass tests on depression, sexual dependency, substances abuse and compile sociology-economics data. We should also repeat the test in other countries to account for the cultural context. After those studies we would exactly know when porn is harmful and when it's not.
1- Pro and anti porn groups are both afraid of the results. They both prefer not to know as long as we are in the dark they both have theirs existence justified. 2- Porn must have been easily available else the context is not the same; in social studies context is extremely important.
There is hard data on the harm that exposure to violence create to the mental development of the kids, yet we allow them to watch Rambo, GI Joe and cie.... The donkey part is a bit heavy, and force me to argue for something I do not endorse, of for completely different reasons, but for this argument sake. I claim that until at least a retrospective studies on voluntary the exposure to bestiality in kids is made we can't know how it impact the development of the brain and as shocking as it sound it is factually less risky to fuck donkeys (or get fucked by) than it is to have unprotected sex with random strangers...
Exposure to porn (real porn, not just nudity) is a form of sexual abuse in children (real children.
The discussion here is about porn on Wikipedia, I thought that it was evident that those "child" who saw it where actively seeking it as before this I never saw porn on Wikipedia. The context is not the same and yet you treat it as if it were.
and I'll see your story and point do a dozen others where kids (especially girls) found their dad's porn and turned into raging whores by 12 years old.
This is a clear problem of sexual education on the behalf of the kids parents. Were the girls*1 would have been properly educated as to force protection against STD and pregnancy, there would be no problems as long as they fucked other highschoolers...
1-When sex is involved Girls now have the power, if theirs parent teach them that concept correctly they should know it. Sure it must be awkward as hell to have to teach your child (it was for me as a child, I assume it was reciprocal) about those things but my parents did; therefore my sister and I, are better persons since ours parent have taken our education seriously even when it was unpleasant for them.
Whatever politician currently electable in the world is corrupted*1 with regards to his nation to some degree. Whatever politician currently in office via any other ways than randomocraty*2, democracy and general nomination*3.
1-I do not talk about any others morals standards than using the money of the people with due diligence and trying to attain an ideal economy of mechanism. 2-The jury system applied in a recursive ways to forms 12 designational committees, to form at 144 decisions committee, 1728 bids committees and 1728 bid review committees; randomize every 6 month. 3-general nomination never happened in real life and probably never will but theoretically someone so great could arise that he could rally everyone to his cause peacefully...yeah right
at started looking at porn at 10, I am rightfully employed and technically married with regard to the law based on how long we have resided together*1, I am happier than the average as long as my generalized anxiety*2 is under medical control, I do not plan to have kids but it is unrelated to my porn watching habits, I have friends and I am generally a well adjusted adult*3 .
So unless you have peer reviewed data on the effect of porn on kids mental development, it is as preposterous to suppose that porn harm child than it is to suppose that it does not. If you have please reply with a link.
On a tangentially related subject, here is my definition of common sense: A set of culturally dependent heuristics that enable one to make a quick socially acceptable decision that is usually sub-optimal or completely wrong when you evaluate it using statistics and formal logic...
1- 6 years and 8 month and we both do not give a fuck about marriage , neither do I have to hide when I watch porn. 2- That started way before I started looking at porn, as I remember starting stealing antihistamine in my father medicine cabinet for the calm it brought me at about 5. 3- Except when I post to slashdot;)
You pretty much sum up why I enjoy a DINK life of lust and luxury. I do not agree with that premise : humans are worth creating, for their own sake but I happens to follow the Ten Commandments of the cosa nostra with regard to my extended family as I find them sounds:
No one can present himself directly to another of our friends. There must be a third person to do it.
Never look at the wives of friends.
Never be seen with cops.
Don't go to pubs and clubs, unless it is your owns.
Always being available for the family is a duty.
Appointments must be respected unless the family called.
Wives must be treated with respect.
When asked for any information, the answer must be the truth.
Money cannot be appropriated if it belongs to others or to other families.
Do not befriend anyone who has a close relative in the police, anyone with a two-timing relative in the family, anyone who behaves badly.
Slashdot Mirror
It must have been a real long time ago as I did wrote win98 vxd in C and in high level assembly (assembly with complex macros, but not more complex than recursive substitutions). My C driver, that did the exact same thing as my HLA one, was bigger and less understandable than other one. It was that way since function pointers get rapidly ugly. A big contrast to assembly where there are no types, only words sizes and alignment.
According to my anecdotal knowledge, C is only an ubiquitous portable assembly language; nothing more, since a good set of macros in assembly can be more terse than C if you target only one type of CPU.
That is how bad the side effect is !
steam->restart offline
Oh shit: 40% is optimal, when can be to and a half ;)
You must be a part of a small team <10 since a loose cannon is essential to unjam a project in a moderately sized team 10<n<50. In a good development shop, requirement gathering flows to design then, to implementation and then finally, to QA.*1 Software development is pretty much like going down a busy high, and like and it was shown that Rude Drivers Reduce Traffic Jams when you have then in a small percentage that is around 15% if I remember correctly.
Most of the time the code I wrote do not to adhere to the coding standard of the company, yet my code is revered as examples of lean encapsulated design. However I must be the only one not following the rule as we are less than 100. But as you says, when I work, I do not let standard violating code into production, I have it entreprisified by a rules following developer.
1- It do not exclude agile methodologies, nor does it excludes cascades like ones, but if you skip any of those steps, except implementation*2, you do so at the projects peril. :)
2- Where if you do ignore implementation, you get nothing except maybe, if you are incredibly lucky or have/are an awesome project manager, a plan for implementing and testing something that respond to a group of people needs
Mine are templated*1 API and static code analysis tools configured to reduce false positive as it increase the effectiveness of code reviews.
1- The pattern, not "the static at run-time dynamic, up to Turing complete at compile time (depending on the implementation)" Typing system
I have another friend who works as a "project troubleshooter"
I plan to do that when I become an old fart !
(I recently had to explain to a computer science major from an Ivy League school with a rep for computer science the significance of "big O" and why an algorithm with O(n!) was a bad idea. He was a smart kid, but apparently that concept was just never hammered home
You must also take a look at each classes grades, Ivy Leagues alone means nothing about capacities, it is about connections. Remember that the guys with the C and the guy with an A in discreet math get the same computer sciences diploma if they graduate.
I could not agree more with your post ! so I will repeat that fundamental part :
Some of us went into CS because we actually had an inherent interesting in coding, not because a parent or guidance councilor told us it was a good career path.
I am employed to do custom visual components, software architecture, developers supports and mentoring, developing developers tools, fixing thurd party library, automating systems and performing root cause analysis. I consider that I use a good part of my CS education. Sure I don't do opengl anymore, but it is not a lack opportunity, it is just that those jobs sucks but those jobs are plentiful (in Canada anyway) and the almost all require deep CS knowledge.
But you are right, I you were not part of the game 5 to 10 years ago it is hard to get into as new jobs like mine are disappearing at an alarming rate, and I find this sad for the future CS grads.
If an expert system, an openGL based implicit 3dregrees of freedom equations solver, an A* chess game, a radiosity+multipath refraction aware ray-tracer, a numeric solver, and a symbolic algebra system that could preform derivation and reduction are considered code that actually does nothing, I would like to know what you did in your IS classes that is considered code that does something as I just listed the major practical works we had to implements in my CS Bachelor's degree?
He has a degree that's what is important to a lot of employer, now he just have to spin the logic part of the philosophy classes, if he took descriptive logic's even more so, emphasize his societal knowledge he should list his relevant experience, then provide a link to a demo. With that he should be quite ahead of the bottom of the classes CS grads, as far as the recruiter is concerned.
For a monetary interesting UNIX admin position, a cert*1, from redhat or from oracle, is a fast-track to a corporate position as he already have the degree.
1- CS major are not good at system administration usually
Ammonium nitrate is the chemical fertilizer by excellence it is also the basis of many explosives devices limited exemple: ...
NH4NO3 + Diesel + fuse == Big bad KaBoom ask the Oklahoma bomber
NH4NO3 + Zn + H2SO4 == lot's of heat, dangerous smoke, and fire
NH4NO3 + KNO3+ K3[Fe(CN)6]+Al == lot's of heat, dangerous smoke, and non-extinguishable fire
Most people are full of themselves. Only the unlucky ones need transplants, and then they need all sorts of nasty medicines to keep themselves healthy. Thank you, I'd rather be full of myself than that.
You are completely right about that, I was prescribe amphetamine to treat my ADD, I became a douche as a side effect and learned that being full of oneself rocks. I got more promotion in the last year of medicinal amphetamine than I got in that interval : [started working, started taking l-lysine-d-amphetamine], I got to assfuck my gf for the first time in 5 year, bought a sport car and renovated my house. Yeah being a douche, full of myself, rocks !
In a manner HIGHLY atypical for them given their corporate history, Sony seems to be the only company in the Android ecosystem that isn't paying lip service to open source. They provided ICS alphas and betas (INCLUDING kernel source) to the community, have provided technical documentation and assistance to the Cyanogenmod team that has been greatly instrumental in bringup of Cyanogenmod on Sony devices, have open-sourced their sensor HAL even when they didn't have to, and actually have a developer relations guy (Karl-Johan Dahlström) that does his job. (As opposed to Samsung's developer relations guy, who just cross-posts to XDA teasing of "awesome things to come" and completely failing to deliver, and tweeting source code release announcements for source code releases that have already been out for a week or more.) It's enough that there's a good chance my next phone will be a Sony despite a historical hatred of them for their past bad behavior in other business areas.
Damm NDA, I could explain a lot's of things about that had I not naively signed that useless document... I will just remind you that the phone from Sony are not really from SONY the ass-raping company, they are from Sony-Ericsson. It is a joint venture between the two. It's corporate governance is setted up pretty much like ST-Ericsson and LG-Ericsson...
they both are reification of the Publish-Subscribe pattern. Patterns are use mostly to discus about code in a general way after the fact. It is quite rare to you go on choosing a mediator or a flyweight but looking back at a code base it is easy to find instances of patterns, whatever the language as they are implementation independent. The other use of pattern is to give a distilled experienced to a beginning programmer.
Yeah I am a knee-jerk Wikipedialoler, with it is treated as anything other than a good breadth first search in math*1, physic, chemistry, biology, so I clicked on some of the link provided.
The first link I check that was not a 404*1 was a link to a book about the violence problem in Russia I could not read the book but here is the abstract:
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child states the right of children for information, but also for protection from information that might threaten their well-being and personal development. In societies that heavily expose children to media, the healthy development of democratic institutions and civil society can be greatly influenced by the impact of media violence on children's behavior and perception of society. An emphasis on this particular aspect of societal regulation of children's media viewing is strongly recommended by UN and UNESCO. Unfortunately, The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has not succeeded in modern Russian society with regard to the media (television, cinema, video, PC-games) because scenes of hard violence persist on all Russian cinema and television screens. The infringement of the Rights of the Child on the Russian screen is a very important problem and Russian pedagogues should not only attract societal and governmental attention to it, but should also provide training and education about children and media violence.
the second was to a pdf that I was able to read, here is the abstract :
Over the past 50 years, the average news report has changed from claims of a weak link to a moderate link and then back to a weak link between media violence and aggression. However, since 1975, the scientific confidence and statistical magnitude of this link have been clearly positive and have consistently increased over time. Reasons for this discontinuity between news reports and the actual state of scientific knowledge include the vested interests of the news, a misapplied fairness doctrine in news reporting, and the failure of the research community to effectively argue the scientific case.
1- there is a great deal of bad link*2 in the source of that pages, please someone fix that as I am lazy when unpaid or not arguing!
2- 302 redirecting from a GET $[paper].pdf to a generic error page served with a response code of 200 when it should be set to 404
No there are studies that shows that exposure to violence in young age is bad here are a small collection of recent abstracts :
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22481072
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22308762
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21827218
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21708803
But if correct education is provided exposure to televised violence is neutral :
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20876180
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21161351
thank you, I hope that my broken English did not obfuscate the meaning of my post to much.
another tangential note:
show me the data" is fine when it comes to something where the data exists. It's intellectually lazy when it comes to a discussion like this.
Not it's not, it only means that we have to produce that data as anecdotal evidence like yours and mine are not properly quantified. It would be hard to finance*1 but it would be relatively easy to randomly select about 10000 adults between [20 and 40]*2, ask them when were they exposed to porn for the first time and was it self-initiated, caused by peer-pressure or an abuser and have them pass tests on depression, sexual dependency, substances abuse and compile sociology-economics data. We should also repeat the test in other countries to account for the cultural context. After those studies we would exactly know when porn is harmful and when it's not.
1- Pro and anti porn groups are both afraid of the results. They both prefer not to know as long as we are in the dark they both have theirs existence justified.
2- Porn must have been easily available else the context is not the same; in social studies context is extremely important.
There is hard data on the harm that exposure to violence create to the mental development of the kids, yet we allow them to watch Rambo, GI Joe and cie.... The donkey part is a bit heavy, and force me to argue for something I do not endorse, of for completely different reasons, but for this argument sake. I claim that until at least a retrospective studies on voluntary the exposure to bestiality in kids is made we can't know how it impact the development of the brain and as shocking as it sound it is factually less risky to fuck donkeys (or get fucked by) than it is to have unprotected sex with random strangers...
Exposure to porn (real porn, not just nudity) is a form of sexual abuse in children (real children.
The discussion here is about porn on Wikipedia, I thought that it was evident that those "child" who saw it where actively seeking it as before this I never saw porn on Wikipedia. The context is not the same and yet you treat it as if it were.
and I'll see your story and point do a dozen others where kids (especially girls) found their dad's porn and turned into raging whores by 12 years old.
This is a clear problem of sexual education on the behalf of the kids parents. Were the girls*1 would have been properly educated as to force protection against STD and pregnancy, there would be no problems as long as they fucked other highschoolers ...
1-When sex is involved Girls now have the power, if theirs parent teach them that concept correctly they should know it. Sure it must be awkward as hell to have to teach your child (it was for me as a child, I assume it was reciprocal) about those things but my parents did; therefore my sister and I, are better persons since ours parent have taken our education seriously even when it was unpleasant for them.
equal to what I make in it's equivalent running time.
I don't understand, don't you find going to movies expensive enough ?
Whatever politician currently electable in the world is corrupted*1 with regards to his nation to some degree.
Whatever politician currently in office via any other ways than randomocraty*2, democracy and general nomination*3.
1-I do not talk about any others morals standards than using the money of the people with due diligence and trying to attain an ideal economy of mechanism.
2-The jury system applied in a recursive ways to forms 12 designational committees, to form at 144 decisions committee, 1728 bids committees and 1728 bid review committees; randomize every 6 month.
3-general nomination never happened in real life and probably never will but theoretically someone so great could arise that he could rally everyone to his cause peacefully...yeah right
at started looking at porn at 10, I am rightfully employed and technically married with regard to the law based on how long we have resided together*1, I am happier than the average as long as my generalized anxiety*2 is under medical control, I do not plan to have kids but it is unrelated to my porn watching habits, I have friends and I am generally a well adjusted adult*3 .
So unless you have peer reviewed data on the effect of porn on kids mental development, it is as preposterous to suppose that porn harm child than it is to suppose that it does not. If you have please reply with a link.
On a tangentially related subject, here is my definition of common sense:
A set of culturally dependent heuristics that enable one to make a quick socially acceptable decision that is usually sub-optimal or completely wrong when you evaluate it using statistics and formal logic...
1- 6 years and 8 month and we both do not give a fuck about marriage , neither do I have to hide when I watch porn. ;)
2- That started way before I started looking at porn, as I remember starting stealing antihistamine in my father medicine cabinet for the calm it brought me at about 5.
3- Except when I post to slashdot
You pretty much sum up why I enjoy a DINK life of lust and luxury. I do not agree with that premise : humans are worth creating, for their own sake but I happens to follow the Ten Commandments of the cosa nostra with regard to my extended family as I find them sounds:
No one can present himself directly to another of our friends. There must be a third person to do it.
Never look at the wives of friends.
Never be seen with cops.
Don't go to pubs and clubs, unless it is your owns.
Always being available for the family is a duty.
Appointments must be respected unless the family called.
Wives must be treated with respect.
When asked for any information, the answer must be the truth.
Money cannot be appropriated if it belongs to others or to other families.
Do not befriend anyone who has a close relative in the police, anyone with a two-timing relative in the family, anyone who behaves badly.