I learned programming in BASIC way before I learned English (my mother tongue is German). It didn't pose a problem at all, you have to learn the keywords character-by-character anyways, since you aren't allowed to make any stylistic modifications to the text. I don't quite see the point in this exercise, especially for languages that use the same writing system.
Additionally, programming nowadays is also about getting more information and help online. When you don't know English, most of the information online is inaccessible to you, and you can't even ask any questions.
Almost every purported author of the Bible was at the lowest strung of society
Are you sure? Being able to read and even write long, coherent texts isn't something I'd associate with the lowest strung of society, especially at the time the stories contained in the bible were written.
I once read a great explanation in a book for nonprogrammers:
Imagine a procedural program being a stack of bricks. When you're not careful, the stack falls over, and the whole program breaks down. Programmers have the task to keep this stack stable.
When you're using OO properly, you split this stack into multiple smaller ones. So it's easier to balance them, and when one of them does fall over, the others stay intact.
I once had a temp job where I was forced to do exactly that, because they didn't have a license for Access, and command line-based free databases were out, because it had to be maintainable by them. It really hurt, but it worked quite well in the end,
On what grounds do you assume that? Jurassic Park-style 20m tall high voltage barriers around them and a ground-to-air missile defense systems?
Even then, I guess that some humans are allowed to enter the buildings without deathly harm. As soon as the human element is involved, security cannot be guaranteed.
* Smarter circles are more tolerant, so more people are willing to declare themselves in public.
In my country, there was a far-right gay politician who refused to declare himself (despite many people secretly knowing about it), because that would have been very bad for his career. Only after he killed himself in a DUI car accident after having visited a gay bar, his party officially admitted that he was bisexual.
Most common excuse for don't open the source for drivers is IP. But most part of times, the real reason is users will see there is no difference in hardware between standard and platinum cards.
Well, there's one that's not visible in software: The RAM is tested to be less error-prone. If one pixel in a game isn't correct for 1/60 of a second, it doesn't matter. However, it does matter (potentially literally making the difference between life and death) when your CUDA calculation returns incorrect values.
Yes, they work in limited scenarios, but that doesn't mean people are going to give up full tactile respone and 27" monitors when doing long typing sessions.
There's a (slightly thicker) keyboard cover with tactile feedback, and you can connect a 27" monitor via DisplayPort to the x86 version.
Personally, I'd suggest zero-write to anyone who caught this bug. I wouldn't count on the malware authors not putting incriminating evidence on infected systems and even putting spiteful logic bombs which trigger when you clean the infection.
Technically, that stands true for every kind of unwanted software (any worm, virus, etc). As soon as you run untrusted code without any restrictions, your whole system is not to be trusted any more.
That's why I consider virus removal software to be a flawed concept in itself.
My wife [...] IQ approaches a mensa measured 200 and she used to be far better at maths than I ever was, but she couldn't care less for maths or computers.
Apparently she doesn't care about statistics at all, since then she would know about generalization and how a single data point is meaningless for constructing a general rule.
women can relax in highly social work, while men are more able to relax in loner work. The ability to relax and enjoy doing something is the biggest indicator of how we are wired, as opposed to conditioned, to behave.
That's actually defined by the introvert/extrovert scale, which is orthogonal to the gender. If you want to know more about that and how to cope with it, read the book The Introvert Advantage. This book is actually written by a female introvert, which shouldn't exist by your explanation.
Analytic solutions are far superior to computed approximations. They are far easier to calculate--computers have made computed approximations far easier, but most of the time that doesn't mean that they're *easy*--only that they're now possible. Being able to obtain the answer in a small fraction of the time is still a big advantage.
Have fun with solving the Navier-Stokes equations then;)
Watching and listening to the lunar landing sends shivers down my spine. For all our cool tech these days, nothing compares to that moment, and I can't help but wonder if our generation will have such a defining moment.
Oh, I think 9/11 perfectly qualifies for that. It was the beginning of the end of the free and open society as we knew it.
Gauteng runs on AC, Cahora Bassa generates AC - but the line between them is DC. It gets rectified at the dam site and then reconverted to AC when it gets to the local grid.
There's another reason for doing that: you can't just stick two AC lines from non-synchronized generators together and expect it to work. They will actually work against each other, and you get a huge mess. This is a problem when combining two power sources from different countries. What's usually done in this case is to do an internal AC/DC/AC conversion to synchronize them.
I just think its a bit of a shame they went with objective-C which is a bit strange, they might have been better off with C++ which has as many quirks as obj-C but is more widely known and is just as performant.
C++ doesn't support the dynamic dispatching needed for what makes Cocoa so great to write. Apple tried to switch to Java (which has reflecrion), but it was too slow, so they abandoned that attempt.
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I learned programming in BASIC way before I learned English (my mother tongue is German). It didn't pose a problem at all, you have to learn the keywords character-by-character anyways, since you aren't allowed to make any stylistic modifications to the text. I don't quite see the point in this exercise, especially for languages that use the same writing system.
Additionally, programming nowadays is also about getting more information and help online. When you don't know English, most of the information online is inaccessible to you, and you can't even ask any questions.
Almost every purported author of the Bible was at the lowest strung of society
Are you sure? Being able to read and even write long, coherent texts isn't something I'd associate with the lowest strung of society, especially at the time the stories contained in the bible were written.
I once read a great explanation in a book for nonprogrammers:
Imagine a procedural program being a stack of bricks. When you're not careful, the stack falls over, and the whole program breaks down. Programmers have the task to keep this stack stable.
When you're using OO properly, you split this stack into multiple smaller ones. So it's easier to balance them, and when one of them does fall over, the others stay intact.
Unfortunately, this printer seems to be in the "if you have to ask, you can't afford it" price category. Not really the home-made category right now.
More like harvested to be use for the killing of brown people around the world.
Guess who owns the the companies profiting from those endeavors.
Where is the $$ for change?
Harvested by the already rich?
I once had a temp job where I was forced to do exactly that, because they didn't have a license for Access, and command line-based free databases were out, because it had to be maintainable by them. It really hurt, but it worked quite well in the end,
I assume the buildings are secure, right?
On what grounds do you assume that? Jurassic Park-style 20m tall high voltage barriers around them and a ground-to-air missile defense systems?
Even then, I guess that some humans are allowed to enter the buildings without deathly harm. As soon as the human element is involved, security cannot be guaranteed.
... when you saw someone standing alone and talking, sometimes even getting animated and agitated, you thought they were crazy.
Now you look and hope they're wearing a bluetooth headset before making a judgement.
That's still not decisive... The headset might not be on.
The original iPod didn't run iOS, they licensed a third party OS and added their own UI on top of it.
One more:
* Smarter circles are more tolerant, so more people are willing to declare themselves in public.
In my country, there was a far-right gay politician who refused to declare himself (despite many people secretly knowing about it), because that would have been very bad for his career. Only after he killed himself in a DUI car accident after having visited a gay bar, his party officially admitted that he was bisexual.
Having talked to a female soon-to-be-vet, my personal guess is that it's mostly the cute little kitties and horses they flock to.
Unlike iOS devices, Macs aren't configured (yet) to require a signed bootloader. This is only an optional feature of EFI.
Most common excuse for don't open the source for drivers is IP. But most part of times, the real reason is users will see there is no difference in hardware between standard and platinum cards.
Well, there's one that's not visible in software: The RAM is tested to be less error-prone. If one pixel in a game isn't correct for 1/60 of a second, it doesn't matter. However, it does matter (potentially literally making the difference between life and death) when your CUDA calculation returns incorrect values.
Yes, they work in limited scenarios, but that doesn't mean people are going to give up full tactile respone and 27" monitors when doing long typing sessions.
There's a (slightly thicker) keyboard cover with tactile feedback, and you can connect a 27" monitor via DisplayPort to the x86 version.
Personally, I'd suggest zero-write to anyone who caught this bug. I wouldn't count on the malware authors not putting incriminating evidence on infected systems and even putting spiteful logic bombs which trigger when you clean the infection.
Technically, that stands true for every kind of unwanted software (any worm, virus, etc). As soon as you run untrusted code without any restrictions, your whole system is not to be trusted any more.
That's why I consider virus removal software to be a flawed concept in itself.
You can't please all of the people. (Well, you can. Offer legal downloads for free, but I doubt that will happen.)
That's exactly what South Park did (well, it's a stream instead of a download, but close enough). Guess how much piracy they get?
My wife [...] IQ approaches a mensa measured 200 and she used to be far better at maths than I ever was, but she couldn't care less for maths or computers.
Apparently she doesn't care about statistics at all, since then she would know about generalization and how a single data point is meaningless for constructing a general rule.
women can relax in highly social work, while men are more able to relax in loner work. The ability to relax and enjoy doing something is the biggest indicator of how we are wired, as opposed to conditioned, to behave.
That's actually defined by the introvert/extrovert scale, which is orthogonal to the gender. If you want to know more about that and how to cope with it, read the book The Introvert Advantage. This book is actually written by a female introvert, which shouldn't exist by your explanation.
Analytic solutions are far superior to computed approximations. They are far easier to calculate--computers have made computed approximations far easier, but most of the time that doesn't mean that they're *easy*--only that they're now possible. Being able to obtain the answer in a small fraction of the time is still a big advantage.
Have fun with solving the Navier-Stokes equations then ;)
Watching and listening to the lunar landing sends shivers down my spine. For all our cool tech these days, nothing compares to that moment, and I can't help but wonder if our generation will have such a defining moment.
Oh, I think 9/11 perfectly qualifies for that. It was the beginning of the end of the free and open society as we knew it.
Gauteng runs on AC, Cahora Bassa generates AC - but the line between them is DC. It gets rectified at the dam site and then reconverted to AC when it gets to the local grid.
There's another reason for doing that: you can't just stick two AC lines from non-synchronized generators together and expect it to work. They will actually work against each other, and you get a huge mess. This is a problem when combining two power sources from different countries. What's usually done in this case is to do an internal AC/DC/AC conversion to synchronize them.
And you didn't bother to figure out who it was and tell her? Or file a complaint with management?
Yeah, he might even have managed to make the superior glare in a very annoying way at the people controlling the camera!
Yes, I'd go for a Defiant class star ship. That should also be way cheaper.
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I just think its a bit of a shame they went with objective-C which is a bit strange, they might have been better off with C++ which has as many quirks as obj-C but is more widely known and is just as performant.
C++ doesn't support the dynamic dispatching needed for what makes Cocoa so great to write. Apple tried to switch to Java (which has reflecrion), but it was too slow, so they abandoned that attempt.