I was a very introverted / dorky type when I was young. Then I began teaching the subjects I knew well. So now I'm just dorky =)
But seriously, teaching had a gradual but permanent influence on the way I communicated. Learing how to teach others helps you more fully communicate your thoughts, and also helps you understand how others think.
Plus, you get to talk for hours about stuff that you find interesting -- things that you want to excite others about. It's rewarding on a personal level, and constructive at a social level.
He only used Morse code to display the output of code that he had written. The output was in plain English. He was free to read the Cryptonomicon in the format he received it.
World Wide Morse Consortium begins a week-long meeting today in Oxford. The distinguished but beleagurered coterie of academics from around the world will discuss the apparently dim future of Morse, its public perception, and paths for its future.
One of the most exciting developments planned for Spring 2005 is the roll-out of Morse Unicode, to accommodate the requirements of the international developer community. Each dot ("dit") or dash ("dah") in the previous scheme will be replaced with four dots or dashes.
"This enhancement is long overdue," says Dr. Davit Dannaugh. "Now we can represent any letter uniquely in any language. With the increasing availability of dedicated broadband Morse lines, there will be no practical impediments."
Also in the limelight for the Oxford meeting are Morse cryptography, Morse security, and Voice over Morse.
I am a web server administrator, and I must say that I was very surprised / disturbed when I saw how easily crackers (mostly from Europe) discovered what kind of shopping cart we were using and then proceeded to brute-force guess administrative passwords. This all showed up in the server logs.
They did a search on "Your cart is empty" or the like. At the same time, I admired how resourceful this was. Needless to say we immediately disallowed client control of passwords =)
- rabs
Where he "worked as an architect of Visual J++"
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How C# Was Made
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I wonder how he dealt with the political climate that surrounded this. I mean, first J++, a dead-end language that would be used to corner Java programmers into Microsoft's plans, then C#, the next step in "embrace and extend."
Slashdot articles about jobs and outsourcing get more vociferous comments than any other topic. More than Microsoft, more than Personal Rights. Why? The reason is fear. The same fear that I feel whenever I think about whether I will still have my job next year.
Outsourcing of blue collar work slipped under the radar of many white collar workers, and was likewise disregarded by college students (my father was in the former group, and I was in the latter -- both of us now fallen on hard times). The reasoning went like this:
"Well, blue collar workers may have brute strength, but I am smarter; Blue collar workers may work more, but I will do more than mere grunt work; Blue collar workers have repetitive jobs, and don't do much training -- I am going to college / earning higher degrees, and I love reading about it on my own. I have earned a measure of success."
Sound familiar? Sound reasonable? For the first time, I think, job security is crumbling due to something completely beyond our control. "If only I were smarter; If only I were more studious; If only I could be more industrious; If only I cared about my job and kept up with new developments." There are so many programmers who can no longer make those laments, because they've already done everything conceivable to secure a good job and a long career. Not a guarantee anymore.
To me, the hard-working programmer is an ideal. Perhaps not a knight in shining armor -- but, damnit, they care about their job, they work long hours, they are smart, and their work matters. To see them devalue themselves as they apply for retail jobs is, in a small way, a strike against idealism, and a point scored for materialism.
I have an old Nikon N6006, and I'd say you'd get a whole lot out of it, even (and especially) when you've become confident with point and shoot. You have a whole range of options that will take you from the world of automatic to manual operation. In addition to point-and-shoot, you have
- continuous focus, focus-and-hold,
- aperature priority, shutter priority
- a variety of metering options (matrix, center-weighted, point)
- fully manual operation
- "change" the film rating so you can do push development
- bracketing
Strangely enough, it does NOT have multiple exposure -- kind of an odd thing to leave out, but I haven't missed it too much.
Plus, great quality Nikon lenses are available, such as zoom lenses that double as a decent macro lenses (sure to give you many months of joy), and other lenses that are cheap on ebay (which is where I got my marvellous 50mm 1.4f).
(Also, a lot of people do NOT recommend the N8008, which is supposed to be the next generation. It has multiple exposure, but is not as fast.)
I had a friend at [a large university] who had a summer job at the Department of Neuroscience. Neuroscience! How glamorous and cutting-edge! Then he showed me where he worked and what he did. His job -- day in and day out -- was to remove mouse and rat brains. He worked in a barren room whose centerpiece was a steel table that had gutters.
this software would be perfect for students majoring in comp sci or engineering who have to take a composition / writing class...
Course:
College of Liberal Arts / Sci: Rhetoric 105
- or -
College of Engineering: Pattern Analysis 202
Objective:
To teach the principles of essay-writing skills. Liberal Arts students will be encouraged to follow boiler-plate styles and formats, while Engineering students will be graded on their ability to analyze and defeat pattern recognition software.
sure, you save space by stacking bits on top of each other -- but the way i figure, you lose stability because they're that much more likely to topple over, leaving your poor bits scattered all over the place.
Slashdot Mirror
Nothing like good old ASCII art porn.
I agree. However, you should try to stay current and look into Unicode art porn.
- rabs
(or perhaps XML porn?)
I was a very introverted / dorky type when I was young. Then I began teaching the subjects I knew well. So now I'm just dorky =)
But seriously, teaching had a gradual but permanent influence on the way I communicated. Learing how to teach others helps you more fully communicate your thoughts, and also helps you understand how others think.
Plus, you get to talk for hours about stuff that you find interesting -- things that you want to excite others about. It's rewarding on a personal level, and constructive at a social level.
- rabs
For example, http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?cid=5724251&sid=6
For those who don't know where "I do not think it means what you think it means" is from, it's "The Princess Bride."
- rabs
... and the complete set of rules to Brockian Ultra-Cricket ...
- rabs
*** Slight Spoiler Warning ****
He only used Morse code to display the output of code that he had written. The output was in plain English. He was free to read the Cryptonomicon in the format he received it.
-rabs
Breaking news from www.telegraph.co.uk:
World Wide Morse Conference in Oxford
By Harold Banfry in Oxford
Filed 19 February 2004
World Wide Morse Consortium begins a week-long meeting today in Oxford. The distinguished but beleagurered coterie of academics from around the world will discuss the apparently dim future of Morse, its public perception, and paths for its future.
One of the most exciting developments planned for Spring 2005 is the roll-out of Morse Unicode, to accommodate the requirements of the international developer community. Each dot ("dit") or dash ("dah") in the previous scheme will be replaced with four dots or dashes.
"This enhancement is long overdue," says Dr. Davit Dannaugh. "Now we can represent any letter uniquely in any language. With the increasing availability of dedicated broadband Morse lines, there will be no practical impediments."
Also in the limelight for the Oxford meeting are Morse cryptography, Morse security, and Voice over Morse.
- rabs
XML is the best thing since the partitioning of head-induced leavening of yeast-based comestibles!
- rabs
I am a web server administrator, and I must say that I was very surprised / disturbed when I saw how easily crackers (mostly from Europe) discovered what kind of shopping cart we were using and then proceeded to brute-force guess administrative passwords. This all showed up in the server logs.
They did a search on "Your cart is empty" or the like. At the same time, I admired how resourceful this was. Needless to say we immediately disallowed client control of passwords =)
- rabs
I wonder how he dealt with the political climate that surrounded this. I mean, first J++, a dead-end language that would be used to corner Java programmers into Microsoft's plans, then C#, the next step in "embrace and extend."
- rabs
Seems like people have a lot to say about the quality of Real Player. My company ia about to purchase their Helix server. Bad move?
- rabs
Just curious, is there any outcome to any situation that will not cause mass hysteria among the /. community?
How about this outcome: "US economy doing great, IT workers satisfied that they can support themselves and their families."
- rabs
Wow. That is disgusting. Thank you, ziggy_zero -- I guess I know what stations *I'll* be boycotting!
- hbz
so. how long did it take you to come up with (6!-5!-4!-3!-2!-1!-0!)*(1^4+2^4)? or was it reverse engineering?
- rabs
Dang. Looks like it's already slashdotted -- I can't even bring up the website.
- rabs
Slashdot articles about jobs and outsourcing get more vociferous comments than any other topic. More than Microsoft, more than Personal Rights. Why? The reason is fear. The same fear that I feel whenever I think about whether I will still have my job next year.
Outsourcing of blue collar work slipped under the radar of many white collar workers, and was likewise disregarded by college students (my father was in the former group, and I was in the latter -- both of us now fallen on hard times). The reasoning went like this:
"Well, blue collar workers may have brute strength, but I am smarter; Blue collar workers may work more, but I will do more than mere grunt work; Blue collar workers have repetitive jobs, and don't do much training -- I am going to college / earning higher degrees, and I love reading about it on my own. I have earned a measure of success."
Sound familiar? Sound reasonable? For the first time, I think, job security is crumbling due to something completely beyond our control. "If only I were smarter; If only I were more studious; If only I could be more industrious; If only I cared about my job and kept up with new developments." There are so many programmers who can no longer make those laments, because they've already done everything conceivable to secure a good job and a long career. Not a guarantee anymore.
To me, the hard-working programmer is an ideal. Perhaps not a knight in shining armor -- but, damnit, they care about their job, they work long hours, they are smart, and their work matters. To see them devalue themselves as they apply for retail jobs is, in a small way, a strike against idealism, and a point scored for materialism.
- rabs
I was gonng say that using quotes wouldn't give you a single hit. But give it a little while and guess what?
Great.
rabs
(insert 'insert into' joke here)
I have an old Nikon N6006, and I'd say you'd get a whole lot out of it, even (and especially) when you've become confident with point and shoot. You have a whole range of options that will take you from the world of automatic to manual operation. In addition to point-and-shoot, you have
- continuous focus, focus-and-hold,
- aperature priority, shutter priority
- a variety of metering options (matrix, center-weighted, point)
- fully manual operation
- "change" the film rating so you can do push development
- bracketing
Strangely enough, it does NOT have multiple exposure -- kind of an odd thing to leave out, but I haven't missed it too much.
Plus, great quality Nikon lenses are available, such as zoom lenses that double as a decent macro lenses (sure to give you many months of joy), and other lenses that are cheap on ebay (which is where I got my marvellous 50mm 1.4f).
(Also, a lot of people do NOT recommend the N8008, which is supposed to be the next generation. It has multiple exposure, but is not as fast.)
- rabs
I had a friend at [a large university] who had a summer job at the Department of Neuroscience. Neuroscience! How glamorous and cutting-edge! Then he showed me where he worked and what he did. His job -- day in and day out -- was to remove mouse and rat brains. He worked in a barren room whose centerpiece was a steel table that had gutters.
* shiver *
- rabs
this software would be perfect for students majoring in comp sci or engineering who have to take a composition / writing class...
Course:
College of Liberal Arts / Sci: Rhetoric 105
- or -
College of Engineering: Pattern Analysis 202
Objective:
To teach the principles of essay-writing skills. Liberal Arts students will be encouraged to follow boiler-plate styles and formats, while Engineering students will be graded on their ability to analyze and defeat pattern recognition software.
- rabs
What's so funny about Quantuum Mechanics?
Taken from the Tucker Max site, oddly enough!
- hbz
well, as a member of the asian contingent, i say we should go with 'frava.'
- rabs
sure, you save space by stacking bits on top of each other -- but the way i figure, you lose stability because they're that much more likely to topple over, leaving your poor bits scattered all over the place.
- rabs
and the first word that came to mind is 'certifiably...'
- rabs