For reference, recreational diving is usually limited to 30 to 40 meters (90 to 120 feet). I've only been past 90 feet a couple of times myself, so this is pretty hard core.
You may have seen "Out of order" signs on button that were not working as labeled, but have you ever seen a warning "Caution: Button works as labeled"? Probably followed by a "The above sign is meant literally" and a "Yes, that's true"
Followed by "Or maybe not, I'm a sign, not a cop."
They just need to call it what it really is: a "Feels" button.
This started way before Aaron. Back when Lessig was pushing for copyright reform, the thing he ran up against again and again was the disproportionate influence of moneyed corporations. Recent events may have increased is velocity, but he has been headed in this direction for a very long time.
2) Some kind of well studied instant run off voting system.
I am a fan of instant runoff voting, but it will never fly in the US for one simple reason. Only the first round of counting can happen while the polls are still open. You have to wait until all votes are in before you can make the first elimination, and start the second round of counting. In a country spread across six time zones, that puts you into the second or third day before you have a result. A system like that will not be able to deliver the Instant Gratification that Americans demand.
Applying math skills to programming is all about problem solving. CRUD apps are a solved problem, and can (and should) be done with little or no programming required. In fact, there are entire development suites devoted to cranking out CRUD with as little programming as possible. There are legions of IT professionals that make their living that way.
But knowing how to use those kinds of tools to generate those kinds of apps is not knowing how to code.
There may be people who get significant success in real programming because they are good at decomposing tasks and classifying responsibilities, good at naming things, and good at getting to the heart of "what needs to be done".
Exactly my point. Those same skills can be applied to learning math, or for that matter auto mechanics. Your brother got the concepts of calculus once they were broken down (abstracted) into terms he was familiar with. He could have learned calculus, but he just never had an effective teacher.
Ok, so you can do a lot of coding without knowing math.
But being able to understand code and coding requires a lot of the same skills that are required to understand math. Ergo, if you can get good at math, there is a high likelihood that you can also get good at programming. And vice versa. You can do long division without knowing a lot of math, but that doesn't make you a mathematician.
I became a UNIX bigot in college in the late 80's. I remember following William and Lynn Jolitz's series "Porting UNIX to the 386" in Dr. Dobb's in the late 80's/early 90's. My first experiences with DOS PC's were disappointing, as I saw them as a big step backwards. My first download was something called Monkey Linux. A zip file that spanned 5 floppy disks, that when extracted to a DOS directory was bootable as a UMSDOS FS running a derivative of Slackware. I followed a pointer to the official Slackware package mirrors, and never went back.
On a keyboard that follows the Windows 104 key layout, it is the key that activates the same menu that is activated by a right-click of the mouse. One of the ancestor posts mentioned the Apple key and OSX that corresponds to the Windows logo key, but I'm not familiar enough with Apple keyboards to comment on them.
Toxic vaporware is tried and true Microsoft strategy. The fact that this time it is being deployed against a product that is still mostly vapor is noteworthy, but the fact that the actual name of the product is vapor is just too much irony too ignore.
You will not take my context menu key until you pry it from my cold dead fingers. I use that thing constantly. Maybe I use applications that hide an inordinate amount of functionality under the context menu (including my own). I really try to avoid moving my hands from the keyboard to the mouse (and back) until I absolutely have to, so I'm all about keyboard shortcuts. The context menu key is a handy one, for me at least.
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For reference, recreational diving is usually limited to 30 to 40 meters (90 to 120 feet). I've only been past 90 feet a couple of times myself, so this is pretty hard core.
Until you get arrested for 'hugging' a post made by a teenager ...
So call it a "Feels" button.
Oh, wait ...
You may have seen "Out of order" signs on button that were not working as labeled, but have you ever seen a warning "Caution: Button works as labeled"? Probably followed by a "The above sign is meant literally" and a "Yes, that's true"
Followed by "Or maybe not, I'm a sign, not a cop."
They just need to call it what it really is: a "Feels" button.
After all, D&D was really an interactive version of Tolkein's world to begin with, wasn't it?
Are you unable to read hand writing?
Clearly, you have not tried to read anything handwritten by a middle schooler lately.
This started way before Aaron. Back when Lessig was pushing for copyright reform, the thing he ran up against again and again was the disproportionate influence of moneyed corporations. Recent events may have increased is velocity, but he has been headed in this direction for a very long time.
"Occasionally" might be a strong word.
Nah, he could have pulled that off any time he wanted. Dude has an honorary doctorate from the University of Amsterdam after all. He's been around.
2) Some kind of well studied instant run off voting system.
I am a fan of instant runoff voting, but it will never fly in the US for one simple reason. Only the first round of counting can happen while the polls are still open. You have to wait until all votes are in before you can make the first elimination, and start the second round of counting. In a country spread across six time zones, that puts you into the second or third day before you have a result. A system like that will not be able to deliver the Instant Gratification that Americans demand.
Applying math skills to programming is all about problem solving. CRUD apps are a solved problem, and can (and should) be done with little or no programming required. In fact, there are entire development suites devoted to cranking out CRUD with as little programming as possible. There are legions of IT professionals that make their living that way.
But knowing how to use those kinds of tools to generate those kinds of apps is not knowing how to code.
There may be people who get significant success in real programming because they are good at decomposing tasks and classifying responsibilities, good at naming things, and good at getting to the heart of "what needs to be done".
Exactly my point. Those same skills can be applied to learning math, or for that matter auto mechanics. Your brother got the concepts of calculus once they were broken down (abstracted) into terms he was familiar with. He could have learned calculus, but he just never had an effective teacher.
Ok, so you can do a lot of coding without knowing math.
But being able to understand code and coding requires a lot of the same skills that are required to understand math. Ergo, if you can get good at math, there is a high likelihood that you can also get good at programming. And vice versa. You can do long division without knowing a lot of math, but that doesn't make you a mathematician.
I became a UNIX bigot in college in the late 80's. I remember following William and Lynn Jolitz's series "Porting UNIX to the 386" in Dr. Dobb's in the late 80's/early 90's. My first experiences with DOS PC's were disappointing, as I saw them as a big step backwards. My first download was something called Monkey Linux. A zip file that spanned 5 floppy disks, that when extracted to a DOS directory was bootable as a UMSDOS FS running a derivative of Slackware. I followed a pointer to the official Slackware package mirrors, and never went back.
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On a keyboard that follows the Windows 104 key layout, it is the key that activates the same menu that is activated by a right-click of the mouse. One of the ancestor posts mentioned the Apple key and OSX that corresponds to the Windows logo key, but I'm not familiar enough with Apple keyboards to comment on them.
Toxic vaporware is tried and true Microsoft strategy. The fact that this time it is being deployed against a product that is still mostly vapor is noteworthy, but the fact that the actual name of the product is vapor is just too much irony too ignore.
Those vapors could be bad for you.
Windows+L sounds pretty handy. I didn't know that one. You can also lock with Ctrl-Alt-Del and then Alt-K, to avoid having to grab the mouse.
You will not take my context menu key until you pry it from my cold dead fingers. I use that thing constantly. Maybe I use applications that hide an inordinate amount of functionality under the context menu (including my own). I really try to avoid moving my hands from the keyboard to the mouse (and back) until I absolutely have to, so I'm all about keyboard shortcuts. The context menu key is a handy one, for me at least.
Summary also says "a new strain". So two things, one that is new and developed, and one that is naturally occurring and centuries old.
It's been a while since we've done that, too.
V*GER? I hardly know her!
All my liberal friends think I'm a conservative, all my conservative friends think I'm a liberal.
Then you're doing it right.
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