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  1. Realtime on Learning About Enea's Real Time Linux Embedded OS (Video) · · Score: 2

    What kind of realtime is this? Soft, hard, imaginary, wannabe? Sorry, can't be bothered to watch a 10 minute video to find that out and this should be specified, when talking about realtime systems.

  2. Re:Probably not. on Does Learning To Code Outweigh a Degree In Computer Science? · · Score: 1

    Regardless of this digression, that's the gist of what you said, so beat it.

  3. Re:Probably not. on Does Learning To Code Outweigh a Degree In Computer Science? · · Score: 1

    You do realise the purpose of quote marks, no?

    You do realize, that not everything in quotation marks has to be a quote, regardless of your attempted "assault on my credibility?" (See what I did there?)

    Look I can see you're pissed

    I'm not pissed, just providing a counter-weight to your purely anecdotal "wisdom" you're "providing" here. (Oh, he did it again.)

    The fact that it doesn't make you better than people with experience shouldn't upset you

    I'm totally chill, dude, so chill in fact that you may call me Mr. Mellow, if "chill" is too nu-school for you.
    I'll always have an edge over most other self-taught people (except for those, who make a point of studying actual theory), not only due to the fact that I've been constantly acquiring real-world experience over the past 15+ years, sophisticated, (some - very) well-paying and quite demanding projects in terms of knowledge and understanding requirements, but also, because the theoretical foundation (which doesn't change a lot, if you know) will always (on average) allow me to understand concepts better than someone, who only focused on practical applications.

    A degree is certainly good for getting your first job. But after that it becomes less and less useful for work, as experience gives you the real knowledge you use day to day.

    You must have had a shitty experience in higher education, because what I've learned in university and now teach to others helps me every time I work on anything and is a formidable foundation on which to further my studies and expand knowledge.
    As you might have guessed, I went (much) further than just getting a bachelor.

  4. Re:Probably not. on Does Learning To Code Outweigh a Degree In Computer Science? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, in contrast, there's a point in giving advice such as "a CS degree is not worth the effort." A grandmaster of wisdom you are, gramps.
    Should I get off your lawn now, or would you like me to dig you a deeper hole?

  5. Re:piffle on Japanese Firm Showcases "Touchable" 3-D Technology · · Score: 1

    I think this is a valid concern, however, if you think about it, when we're distracted and focus on something else (e.g. visual or auditory stimulation), it doesn't have to be as fast as your nervous system, just close enough to it.
    That's the way pocket thieves work.

  6. Re:This is much cooler on Japanese Firm Showcases "Touchable" 3-D Technology · · Score: 1

    Yes, for me "worth it" means the functionality and abilities, not how much it costs. My time and nerves are worth much more than gold.

  7. Re:Which Invasion? on Kernel Developer Dmitry Monakhov Arrested For Protesting Ukraine Invasion · · Score: 1

    Their alleged "teleporting" to Novoazovsk area is also remarkable.

    The way you put it, makes this tragedy almost seem funny, but we don't know how large their forces, and what their tactics and core stratagems were. So this is just a possibility.

  8. Re:Probably not. on Does Learning To Code Outweigh a Degree In Computer Science? · · Score: 1

    unless you've had more than 3 decades of being a programmer

    So you're one of the people that think with age always comes wisdom, eh?

  9. Re:Probably not. on Does Learning To Code Outweigh a Degree In Computer Science? · · Score: 1
    The post was not about 'endowment' measurements, and my comment about buying a plane was to make it clear that it is quite important to know about the fundamental theory. It just makes it possible to better use your talents.
    We're in the same age range, and I've (unfortunately) not met many people in my line of work that had a really broad and deep understanding of the concepts that make up the work that feeds them, whether autodidacts or graduates. From the ones I did, all had a university degree in CS (or a related area).
    I do my best to teach the people around me and learn whenever I can, mostly it's both at the same time, unless I'm in crunch-mode, and just need to get something done.

    It is highly likely that I possess deeper knowledge

    This is where you're crossing the line as there's no way you can safely assume that.

    my advice to you would be to spend a bit of time in introspection and in furtherance of your interpersonal skills.

    Thanks for the advice. I don't believe I have be politically correct in a forum of (supposedly) my peers and just say straight out what I (and many others) believe is right. If you want to talk about politics, and "communication skills" I suggest you go to your local university and enroll in a couple of related courses. It's much more satisfying talking about a topic with people in a context, where they're set to do so.
    My "arrogance" as you call it, is just years and years of experience. As others have pointed out, it is not necessary to have a degree to be able to perform a function, but for someone who enjoys learning, there's probably no better place than there and the more you know and understand, the better you are. Yes, even you.

  10. Re:This is much cooler on Japanese Firm Showcases "Touchable" 3-D Technology · · Score: 1

    Oh... In this case, I stand corrected. I wonder if that "rumbler" is worth it, though.

  11. Re:This is much cooler on Japanese Firm Showcases "Touchable" 3-D Technology · · Score: 1

    The link you provided only has an input device (motion capturing) vs. an output device (haptic feedback). An interesting product, but not directly related to the tech discussed here.
    Their website also doesn't have any haptic feedback devices, so if you could please elaborate on your "this company has a tactile feedback" statement, and show the feedback part, I'd very much appreciate it.

  12. Re:Probably not. on Does Learning To Code Outweigh a Degree In Computer Science? · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the attempt at mentoring. You obviously are much more qualified than me to distinguish what makes a programmer a programmer, a software engineer a software engineer, and a computer scientist a computer scientist. Just stick to your opinion and go wreak some more havoc, so I can clean up after people like you and get myself another house and maybe this time a plane.

  13. Re:Is Coding Computer Science? Of Course! on Does Learning To Code Outweigh a Degree In Computer Science? · · Score: 1

    Premature optimization is terrible.

    So is unmaintainable spaghetti-code. Usually.

  14. Re:Probably not. on Does Learning To Code Outweigh a Degree In Computer Science? · · Score: 2

    There's a few things from CS that programmers would be better for knowing, such as time complexity of algorithms.

    Yeah, there's like absolutely no point at all in learning about distributed systems, concurrency, databases, patterns, functional programming, network and OS fundamentals, graph (i.e. network) theory, agents, model based and/or driven approaches, fault tolerance, streaming systems, ...
    For a programmer, that's totally unnecessary. For a software engineer, though it's a different story.

  15. Re:just for comparison on Does Learning To Code Outweigh a Degree In Computer Science? · · Score: 1

    Absolutely right. Thank you!

  16. Re:Which Invasion? on Kernel Developer Dmitry Monakhov Arrested For Protesting Ukraine Invasion · · Score: 1

    Thus, admit, you are just one nonsense delivering type with a sympathy to Putin, now operating from Germany. That's it.

    Look. I presented my position, in a most clear and concise fashion. You on the other hand are just using polemics to attack anything Russian, or so it seems.
    Much in line with what I hear from my friends in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. There's no threat to your states, but if you continue to repress your ~30% Russian-speaking minority, you'll obviously have problems the reasons for which can be identified in your attitude.
    You seem to just hear what you want to hear. This is called "selective perception." I, on the other hand, do my best on getting as objective a picture as possible, which is difficult if not impossible. And until I see irrefutable evidence, I will not believe what anyone is saying, because I know how media is used to manipulate the population. Mhkey? Good.

  17. Re:Which Invasion? on Kernel Developer Dmitry Monakhov Arrested For Protesting Ukraine Invasion · · Score: 1

    That's my last reply here.

    Yeah, because you're out of arguments, apparently.

  18. Re:Which Invasion? on Kernel Developer Dmitry Monakhov Arrested For Protesting Ukraine Invasion · · Score: 1
    I apologize for the following sarcasm in advance.

    These, and their documents, are promptly collected and stored in safe yet at Rostov base.

    There must have be someone smart enough to stick a phone up his ass or something.
    You know what I mean. No one runs away, no one throws a paper plane with a message to those mothers waiting in front of the gates, ...

    Why you emphasize something unimportant and rather distracting as "gallery dealer and art-manager"?

    I generally check the information I process. Why should I trust an art dealer working for a Kiev-based newspaper with either his analysis (last paragraph), or even that he didn't make all of it up? The "Putin surrounding insider" could be his maid, for all I know.

    Can't get how it turns into "told him everything he knew"

    You wrote in another reply that you're from the former USSR or Poland, so you know what "Desa" is. Especially since it's an ominous, anonymous source that talks to a Kiev based newspaper and is friends with an ex-Yabloko guy. Sure thing!
    It's an interesting take, but it fits too nicely with the Ukrainian narrative.

    So, you didn't see no satellite images with troops moving?

    No, did you? If so, please do send me the links to the images, because all I saw was some blurry shit without geo-location or anything conclusive marked on it from a civilian company in the best, and some photoshop jobs in the worst case.

    Are you able in general to envision what those borders are, and surrounding situation is?

    Quite well, actually.

    Where are you lacking tunnels?

    Oh, so there are tunnels there and nobody reports that the tanks and thousands of troops get to Lugansk and Donetsk through the tunnels...

    Have you looked at the map, that separatists concentrate along the border with Russia?

    Donetsk is quite a march from the border.

    Putin himself explained, when caught, that his troopers "got somewhat lost" (in Ukraine by coincidence).

    Yeah, those 10 paratroopers are a formidable force. Really. They took on a whole division bare-handed! What about the 400+ Ukrainian soldiers that were fed and taken care of by Russia?

    Did you know, key figures of separatists were actually Russian citizen

    Did you know that there are *a lot* of Ukrainians with Russian passports and the other way around. There are also quite a few with both passports.

    If you still did not get, that you are observing principally new kind of hybrid war

    Yes I am observing a hybrid war in the form of destabilizing intervention from all sides: US, EU and RF. An Economo-Ideolo-Info-Cyber-Military war.

    You missed Crimea action

    No I didn't, but I understand the reaction. As pointed out in the article I suggested to read in the other branch of this discussion, imagine China (or Russia for that matter) has a formidable military alliance and makes moves to have Canada and Mexico join. There was virtually no blood spilled on Crimea, the constituency was 60+% Russian-speaking or ethnic Russian population and a few other facts like them being able to vote (and it was not a gunpoint as some keep insisting. There's enough proof for that.)

    Then mister Putin has got your balls very well

    Restating something a thousand times don't make it become more or less true. And the fact of the matter is that there. is. no. evidence. At least not for us common folk.

  19. Re:Which Invasion? on Kernel Developer Dmitry Monakhov Arrested For Protesting Ukraine Invasion · · Score: 1

    Oh, in addition to the other post, regarding the "expansionist policy" of the "evil Putin" I'd highly recommend reading: this articles published by the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations, one of the leading think tanks specializing in FR in the western world http://www.cfr.org/about/).
    The article is behind a registration or paywall (that's nice of them), but you may use a2072188@trbvm.com as login and slashdot as password to access it.

  20. Re:Which Invasion? on Kernel Developer Dmitry Monakhov Arrested For Protesting Ukraine Invasion · · Score: 1

    I've had my fair share of KGB exposure, thank you. That's one of the reasons, why I'm for privacy: we were constantly monitored with every call wiretapped, because of the positions some of my relatives held. (We were also too honest, so when everyone ran to buy an oilfield for a ruble, we were feeding Bosnian refugees instead, thus, unfortunately, I'm not one of the people on the sanctions list.)
    So, as you can guess by now, I was born in the USSR. I have relatives all around that area, the EU, Asia and US.
    What you're saying about needing protection from Russia is utter nonsense. We're not in the 19th century, "expansion" is based on economic principles these days, not military.
    All this FUD about Russia marching onto europe is totally illogical and made up. It costs too much! I'd be more afraid of the USA, who spends more than the entire world on military and is defending the petro-dollar to the end (which is drawing close, it seems).
    In any case, their power projection and interventions are definitely not for altruistic reasons. At the behest of the US, NATO dismisses the UN and the role it is supposed to have. They just do whatever suits their current strategy (which seems to be: don't let Eurasia integrate. At. All. Costs.), for a really good example, you can look up the war in Yugoslavia.

    Grybauskaite is a war mongering hardliner. Tusk et al. are just using this anti-russian rhetoric as populist tools.
    You're talking of Hitler, aren't you ashamed of what went on (and is still happening) in the Baltic states destroying WWII memorials and attempting to rewrite history? I certainly am, as this is a complete disgrace.

    If you're old enough to remember, the different nations lived together in the USSR, quite peacefully too. Maybe it was because there weren't enough luxury goods (and other things) and people had to improvise and thus work together, maybe because of an oppressive government, whatever the cause, we had peace! Well, suddenly it's "everyone for themselves" and you see countries running to become part of NATO and the EU (while totally demolishing their economies on the way by privatizing everything they have to a select few) and enslave their people to the IMF/WTO.
    Divide et impera at its best.
    It's a shame, IMO.
    By now, we should be living in a different society, focusing on what brings us forward as a species, on sustainable economies, medicine, promoting a culture of peace and harmony. Instead look at what's going on in the world: look at Africa, the Middle East, Ukraine, South America... If it's not military, then it's economic aggression all for the well being of a few corporations that gamed the system to transcend above the law, to make the law themselves. I'm fucking afraid of them and the government without cojones that enables them to spread their rule of terror.

    these are superficial, made up statements, they are not even direct reflections of reality events, they are positions.

    There's a lot to be read between the lines, if you know what they are talking about. You don't think you're getting "direct reflections of reality events" in the media, do you?

    Russia's official position is lie - so what do you do with that?!

    Nothing, I'm used to that. In fact, I don't know a single country, except maybe Finland, that is honest on the global arena.
    Just have a listen to Psaki from the US department of state... You think she's telling the truth? Miss "Oh yeah, we have conclusive evidence, but we can't show you." WTF?!; )

  21. Re:Which Invasion? on Kernel Developer Dmitry Monakhov Arrested For Protesting Ukraine Invasion · · Score: 1

    but I happen to live in the country, expressing strong support to Ukraine due to own historical lessons, received from the same imperial aggressor

    So either one of the Baltic states or Poland, I figure? I'm in Germany and German media carbon-copies Ukraine's press releases. I have quite an array of outlets and sources I compare, and all I see is that most either leave out facts, contradict each other, use vague, suggestive terms and formulations, etc. Recently I started preferring to watch and read the actual primary sources, like statements of foreign ministries, UNSC meetings, etc. Still sucks.
    My conclusion is that we should be mining minerals on the moon and exploring the stars, instead of waging wars against each other. That's just utterly stupid.
    Oh, and the US should keep to themselves, NATO disbanded, lawyers chained to the bottom of the sea, lobbyists sent to work in sweatshops and neo-cons and other war mongers sent to death matches for the amusement of the population.

  22. Re:Which Invasion? on Kernel Developer Dmitry Monakhov Arrested For Protesting Ukraine Invasion · · Score: 1

    You do know [...]?

    No, as a matter of fact, I don't know. I've successfully avoided being drafted 1.5 times (had to undergo basic training once and was then "released").
    Do you know? Do all these soldiers miraculously also loose their cell phones?

    And NVUA is probably really objective and stuff, being a Kiev-based newspaper. And with their financiers and editorial team... Hmm...
    The submission is from a Mr. Gelman, who's a "gallery dealer and art-manager." I'm sure Mr. Lukin (former Yabloko member) and the mysterious "other person" told him everything he knew.

    Seriously, did the thousands of soldiers, tanks and other heavy machinery move through underground tunnels over the border, or why is it so hard to find satellite imagery that unambiguously, conclusively proves troop movements?

  23. Re:Which Invasion? on Kernel Developer Dmitry Monakhov Arrested For Protesting Ukraine Invasion · · Score: 1

    eager to deliver picture

    You must be talking about RT, because I don't see pictures of the war zone in any western outlets.

  24. Re:Which Invasion? on Kernel Developer Dmitry Monakhov Arrested For Protesting Ukraine Invasion · · Score: 1

    should have proof-read a bit. Sorry : )

  25. Re:Which Invasion? on Kernel Developer Dmitry Monakhov Arrested For Protesting Ukraine Invasion · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Nothing you have said about the current conflict (which does not include Crimea, that's a different can of worms, however "suddenly decided to proceed with Russia" is wrong) has been provided proof for.
    "massive amounts of messages" - mostly from the Ukrainian state media and ministries, copy-pasted to western outlets and some alleged satellite imagery, which doesn't really show or proof anything.
    "shooting from Russia side" - no proof whatsoever, except for the same "reports" from Ukraine and some imagery without crucial information and wrongly placed shadows. Ukraine, however, was shooting the border posts, while the OSCE was there.
    "troopers from Kostroma captured on territory of Ukraine" - those 10 guys? That's a massive invasion. First it was 10 km, then it was 20, next day it was 50 km from the border. What about the 400-something Ukrainian troops that were on Russian territory?
    "There's even Malaysia airliner, shot down from BUK-M system" [citation needed], "that was supplied to terrorists by nobody else, but helpful Russia" [citation needed]. Btw, did you know that BUK missiles are from the soviet era and are (also) produced by a Ukrainian company?

    Even many clues don't create a single piece of evidence, which is still missing. I'd like to see it, so I can form an educated opinion about what's happening, but until I do (and I doubt that will happen), I'll just form my opinion on the basis that I know: media outlets are manipulating public opinion everywhere, not just Russia.