The Soviet Union showed that a planned economy is workable.....it just doesn't grow as quickly.
Laughable. The Soviet Union ended up dirt poor after decades of lying to each other about what was actually being accomplished. Lost the cold war simply by running out of money. Classic quote from the era: "we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us." What definition of "workable" is that?
Another success without college article, usually writen by someone who did not go to college. Sure, there are auto didacts able to learn good software engineering principles on their own, but few possess the necessary self discipline. To learn to think you need to hang out with thinkers. To learn a subject well it helps enormously to have good teachers. To learn discipline it helps to have structure. Nothing beats college for that, it's an opportunity you should seize if you possibly can.
Never mind the parities, networking and abundant supply of premium specimens of the opposite sex.
The problem with computers for normal people, is that computers force you to specify and make clear your thoughts and most peoples thoughts are hopelessly vague.
That's it, precisely. Just imagine... somebody processed their available input and concluded that voting for Trump would improve their life and make America a better place. Do you want that person to write the software your business depends on? How about some medical software for your upcoming heart surgery?
It would appear we triggered a Russian with mod points.
You said "Assembler is "modularized" just like C." You just convincingly answered the question "why should anybody ever let you anywhere near their code?"
Haha, no. The redirect link is to enhance Google's ability to spy on you and to monitor the traffic they send to sites so they can squeeze more money out of the site operator. Nice try.
I didn't write this one and it's not even the one I happened to install. But you will benefit from it or one of its kin, trust me. Say, you don't have a vested interest do you?
Another essential one: Google link cleaner. Why spend all that latency and net traffic informing Google what you actually clicked on so they can sell your thoughts to the highest bidder?
> No it isn't. Write a swtich statement in assembler then get back to us.
A switch statement is just a series of gotos. Any macro assembler can handle it.
You said "Assembler is "modularized" just like C." You just convincingly answered the question "why should anybody ever let you anywhere near their code?"
If you can pull your head out of your ass for a minute, then write a structure assignment in assembly. How about a function call with expression parameters and structure return. Oh sorry, you have never written a line of assembly in your life so don't bother.
The problem with computers for normal people, is that computers force you to specify and make clear your thoughts and most peoples thoughts are hopelessly vague.
That's it, precisely. Just imagine... somebody processed their available input and concluded that voting for Trump would improve their life and make America a better place. Do you want that person to write the software your business depends on? How about some medical software for your upcoming heart surgery?
He proposes the programming equivalent of "trade school" education - which was pretty common 30-40 years ago.
Trade school education might be fine for trade school problems, but which master practitionser is going to decide whether a problem is a trade school problem or not?
what they get now is people practicing to be college professors, trying to have "profound thoughts" instead of actually doing the work.
Right. As everybody knows, all the programming work at Google is done by interns while the tenured smart people head to offsites and take time off for Burning Man.
Google used to have really talented people. Unfortunately a mix of Peter Principle and encroaching red tape (aka corporate talent rot) eventually caught up to them.
What do you mean, "eventually"? Only thing I can say is, not as bad as Facebook, but that is damning with faint praise.
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You graduate by having the discipline to get your work done, or you cheat. Which one were you?
The drone in this case was most likely a propaganda-level device carrying a sympathy bomb.
The Soviet Union showed that a planned economy is workable.....it just doesn't grow as quickly.
Laughable. The Soviet Union ended up dirt poor after decades of lying to each other about what was actually being accomplished. Lost the cold war simply by running out of money. Classic quote from the era: "we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us." What definition of "workable" is that?
Never mind the police state.
The self-taught usually don't know what they don't know, the recent PHP thread comes to mind. There are exceptions of course, but they are rare.
Let the physics major debug it, thereby proving themselves.
The vast majority of CS grads will not go into research, they will be developers, usually upper tier.
"It's not that CS degrees are bad, it's just that they're not going to speak to the problems that most of us need to solve."
What is that problem you need to solve? How to appear to be doing your job when you are actually laying waste to your company's future?
Another success without college article, usually writen by someone who did not go to college. Sure, there are auto didacts able to learn good software engineering principles on their own, but few possess the necessary self discipline. To learn to think you need to hang out with thinkers. To learn a subject well it helps enormously to have good teachers. To learn discipline it helps to have structure. Nothing beats college for that, it's an opportunity you should seize if you possibly can.
Never mind the parities, networking and abundant supply of premium specimens of the opposite sex.
The problem with computers for normal people, is that computers force you to specify and make clear your thoughts and most peoples thoughts are hopelessly vague.
That's it, precisely. Just imagine... somebody processed their available input and concluded that voting for Trump would improve their life and make America a better place. Do you want that person to write the software your business depends on? How about some medical software for your upcoming heart surgery?
It would appear we triggered a Russian with mod points.
That joke was self-neutering. Got anything to say about posting a joke to a serious thread, thus hijacking it? Didn't think so.
You said "Assembler is "modularized" just like C." You just convincingly answered the question "why should anybody ever let you anywhere near their code?"
No he did not say that, I did
You said that? Go to your room.
The redirect link exists to protect your privacy.
Haha, no. The redirect link is to enhance Google's ability to spy on you and to monitor the traffic they send to sites so they can squeeze more money out of the site operator. Nice try.
I didn't write this one and it's not even the one I happened to install. But you will benefit from it or one of its kin, trust me. Say, you don't have a vested interest do you?
Sorry for exceeding your coding ability, I hope your neck isn't smoking. I will try not to do it again.
For the rest of us... this particular link cleaner works fine and a bunch of other nice ones are available.
Another essential one: Google link cleaner. Why spend all that latency and net traffic informing Google what you actually clicked on so they can sell your thoughts to the highest bidder?
> No it isn't. Write a swtich statement in assembler then get back to us.
A switch statement is just a series of gotos. Any macro assembler can handle it.
You said "Assembler is "modularized" just like C." You just convincingly answered the question "why should anybody ever let you anywhere near their code?"
If you can pull your head out of your ass for a minute, then write a structure assignment in assembly. How about a function call with expression parameters and structure return. Oh sorry, you have never written a line of assembly in your life so don't bother.
Assembler is "modularized" just like C.
No it isn't. Write a swtich statement in assember then get back to us.
Still no integers? Come on guys, why put all that work into it and leave that bleeding wound still bleeding? Pass.
Somebody downmodded this. Somebody who writes web software?? Lord help us.
Please tell us you just left out the sarcasm tag. Please.
The problem with computers for normal people, is that computers force you to specify and make clear your thoughts and most peoples thoughts are hopelessly vague.
That's it, precisely. Just imagine... somebody processed their available input and concluded that voting for Trump would improve their life and make America a better place. Do you want that person to write the software your business depends on? How about some medical software for your upcoming heart surgery?
Congratulations, you've just reinvented the compiler.
4GL, actually. RIP.
Or don't understand what smart quotes are and why you should disable them.
He proposes the programming equivalent of "trade school" education - which was pretty common 30-40 years ago.
Trade school education might be fine for trade school problems, but which master practitionser is going to decide whether a problem is a trade school problem or not?
what they get now is people practicing to be college professors, trying to have "profound thoughts" instead of actually doing the work.
Right. As everybody knows, all the programming work at Google is done by interns while the tenured smart people head to offsites and take time off for Burning Man.
Google used to have really talented people. Unfortunately a mix of Peter Principle and encroaching red tape (aka corporate talent rot) eventually caught up to them.
What do you mean, "eventually"? Only thing I can say is, not as bad as Facebook, but that is damning with faint praise.