I met Bruce Campbell at a book signing at Borders about a month ago. He stayed there for 4 or 5 hours (even after the store had closed, which he didn't have to do), and made sure everyone got to shake his hand, have a short chat with him, and get his autograph. Not to mention the room was filled with a mob of people with questionable devotion to hygiene.
Along with his autograph, he was writing one-liners drawn from his vast catalog. He seemed like a really cool guy who truly appreciates his fans.
According to his website, the book tour is over, but it's definitely a recommended event if he ever comes to a city near you.
> Only recently has colleges started giving courses that apply to the real world.
Yes, unfortunately some have started doing this (to their detriment), because of pressure from people who listen to people like you. As has been said many times before, college is not about learning practical skills. Vocational/technical schools are for that. It's about acquiring the skills you need to be able to adapt and learn new things in a rapidly changing environment.
Someone with a solid foundation but no house can eventually build a much stronger and sturdier house than someone who has a cardboard house that does the job for now.
If I were hiring people, I would choose someone with zero experience, but a thorough understanding of mathematical logic, the ability to communicate well, and the motivation to teach themselves over any "veteran" with X years experience programming in _INSERT_HOT_LANGUAGE_HERE_ or a list of silly acronym certifications.
In "The Practice of Programming", Kerighan and Pike specifically say that other approaches besides debuggers are necessary for multi-threaded programs. Debuggers encourage laziness anyways. The less you rely on them, the better code you will produce, in my opinion. Code reviews, debugging print statements inside the code, etc. will make you look at the code more, think about it more, and be more defensive in your style. This will always produce more robust code.
> undiscovered holes. Then there's ip spoofing and
> trust based attacks, civil engineering, inside
> attacks, privacy based attacks, etc etc.
yeah those civil engineering attacks are heinous.
why just the other day some script kiddies built a
subway tunnel with a terminal right in my machine
room! i was owned!
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This could make proxies save more than just bandwidth, and it could change people's surfing habits dramatically©
If this happened I could see people mirroring a lot of content on freenet or other peer-to-peer systems©
I met Bruce Campbell at a book signing at Borders about a month ago. He stayed there for 4 or 5 hours (even after the store had closed, which he didn't have to do), and made sure everyone got to shake his hand, have a short chat with him, and get his autograph. Not to mention the room was filled with a mob of people with questionable devotion to hygiene.
Along with his autograph, he was writing one-liners drawn from his vast catalog. He seemed like a really cool guy who truly appreciates his fans.
According to his website, the book tour is over, but it's definitely a recommended event if he ever comes to a city near you.
Yes, unfortunately some have started doing this (to their detriment), because of pressure from people who listen to people like you. As has been said many times before, college is not about learning practical skills. Vocational/technical schools are for that. It's about acquiring the skills you need to be able to adapt and learn new things in a rapidly changing environment.
Someone with a solid foundation but no house can eventually build a much stronger and sturdier house than someone who has a cardboard house that does the job for now.
If I were hiring people, I would choose someone with zero experience, but a thorough understanding of mathematical logic, the ability to communicate well, and the motivation to teach themselves over any "veteran" with X years experience programming in _INSERT_HOT_LANGUAGE_HERE_ or a list of silly acronym certifications.
I heard they were coming out with a real theatrical trailer soon, and thanks for getting my hopes up that this was it, moron.
In "The Practice of Programming", Kerighan and Pike specifically say that other approaches besides debuggers are necessary for multi-threaded programs. Debuggers encourage laziness anyways. The less you rely on them, the better code you will produce, in my opinion. Code reviews, debugging print statements inside the code, etc. will make you look at the code more, think about it more, and be more defensive in your style. This will always produce more robust code.
I actually payed for Tradewars. I wonder if I still have my old registration code around somewhere.
"The Practice of Programming", by Kernighan and Pike, is also good.
> get a vote in the electoral college.
Last I checked, 99.9999% of voting age American citizens don't get a vote in the elctoral college either.
> trust based attacks, civil engineering, inside
> attacks, privacy based attacks, etc etc.
yeah those civil engineering attacks are heinous. why just the other day some script kiddies built a subway tunnel with a terminal right in my machine room! i was owned!