No, "the Cofficient", is nicht der Koeffizient, hoping that switching languages will help draw attention to the rather typical/. non-command of spelling.
I guess back in his KGB days, Vladimir spent enough time in Germany that he's fluent and doesn't even need subtitles on German TV.
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There isn't much need to accuse anyone of being "wrong" in a Turing-complete context; we can fix most wrongness with a sufficiently big hammer.
I'm actually preaching the anti-zealot gospel: languages are means, not ends.
Props to you, dwye, for picking up the sardonic intent. Must friend you.
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Can we please stop bashing C++ memory management?
No.
If we don't insist on treating the tools themselves as the end product, then how will we perpetuate mis-information, and sell "new" products, which are, dared we look at them objectively, just re-shufflings of what has come before?
Wasn't really intended as a joke.
By the same token, there is massive irony in the notion that the "Bible Belt" portion of the US has shown some massive evidence of racism, for all that racism and the New Testament are antithetical.
I graduated from Franklin High School down there, actually.
This experience helped me to understand that education is something you pursue on your own.
Really can't rely on the state to do more than provide a few basics.
The irony of the number of MLK streets (roughly 1 per any city of size in the US) is that, if MLK himself was terribly serious about the faith he proclaimed as a Baptist minister (and all the evidence seems to indicate that) he might be more than a tiny bit embarrassed at all the attention lavished on him, rather than the Christ.
In a programming context, when we forget the difference between the pointer and the object, ++ungood things often follow.
You left off the "...and the words of the politician support the agenda of the newspaper".
What we've got to do is get past the assertion that we can automatically delegate thought to other people based upon criteria such as age, office, net worth, attractiveness, eloquence, etc.
most of the open-source proponents I've read on this thread seem to be more interested in evangelizing open source than they are assessing what will actually work.
Ah, the tradeoff between idealism/pragmatism, strategy/tactics.
Sure, the context of school forces one into a low-common-denominator approach, but the really good teachers hit the mean while throwing out some tidbits for the inquisitive.
As for the left tail, well, sometimes you have to default to sheer love.
If you have a unit test that produces, say, an image of a Union Jack, and show how to verify that against a desired stock image of a Union Jack, you shall have taught a fistful of valuable analytic skills.
Guess I'm recalling my undergraduate machine vision course, and how the lack of rigorous thought about how we approached the coding aspects of things really (IMHO) fell short of helping us.
Fa(ir|re) is what you pay to ride a bus.
Happiness is inversely proportional to one's expectation of fairness from the universe.
Conversely, one should export fairness in all directions.
OOXML itself might be the bastard mutant stepchild of DIVx, but there is some room for open source projects to pose for themselves that eternal question:
You ever dance with the devil by the pale moonlight?--The Joker
Past performance is certainly no guarantee of future actions, but, looking at MicroSoft's behavior patterns with respect to, oh, Java and Samba, to name a couple of tools at random, I would trust Redmond about as far as I could throw Ballmer when seated in a chair.
Really, it's a variation on the old theme: Oderint Dum Metuant--Lucius Accius
"Let them hate, so long as they fear."
Now it's: "Let them pirate, so long as they remain locked in to our crappy architecture", which I'm not really Latin scholar enough to mangle into the classic tongue.:(
Look, they can trot out lousy policy after lousy policy, but so long as they own the file formats, all else is moot.
Hence the ramrodding of OOXML, which, while painfully boring, is really under-reported in the geek press, like most imortant issues.
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Concur. The point was that, after finishing WoT, have this guy go finish up Martin's interesting, yet still dangling...
Head over to http://www.georgerrmartin.com/
You know what to do.
In Soviet Russia, the ballots are shallots cast by car lots of harlots.
No, "the Cofficient", is nicht der Koeffizient , hoping that switching languages will help draw attention to the rather typical /. non-command of spelling.
I guess back in his KGB days, Vladimir spent enough time in Germany that he's fluent and doesn't even need subtitles on German TV.
There isn't much need to accuse anyone of being "wrong" in a Turing-complete context; we can fix most wrongness with a sufficiently big hammer.
I'm actually preaching the anti-zealot gospel: languages are means, not ends.
Props to you, dwye, for picking up the sardonic intent. Must friend you.
If we don't insist on treating the tools themselves as the end product, then how will we perpetuate mis-information, and sell "new" products, which are, dared we look at them objectively, just re-shufflings of what has come before?
Wasn't really intended as a joke.
By the same token, there is massive irony in the notion that the "Bible Belt" portion of the US has shown some massive evidence of racism, for all that racism and the New Testament are antithetical.
I graduated from Franklin High School down there, actually.
This experience helped me to understand that education is something you pursue on your own.
Really can't rely on the state to do more than provide a few basics.
The irony of the number of MLK streets (roughly 1 per any city of size in the US) is that, if MLK himself was terribly serious about the faith he proclaimed as a Baptist minister (and all the evidence seems to indicate that) he might be more than a tiny bit embarrassed at all the attention lavished on him, rather than the Christ.
In a programming context, when we forget the difference between the pointer and the object, ++ungood things often follow.
ls /. -Fail
You left off the "...and the words of the politician support the agenda of the newspaper".
What we've got to do is get past the assertion that we can automatically delegate thought to other people based upon criteria such as age, office, net worth, attractiveness, eloquence, etc.
...for Shem and Japeth, either.
Sure, the context of school forces one into a low-common-denominator approach, but the really good teachers hit the mean while throwing out some tidbits for the inquisitive.
As for the left tail, well, sometimes you have to default to sheer love.
For this splendid work I must Friend you, sir.
If you have a unit test that produces, say, an image of a Union Jack, and show how to verify that against a desired stock image of a Union Jack, you shall have taught a fistful of valuable analytic skills.
Guess I'm recalling my undergraduate machine vision course, and how the lack of rigorous thought about how we approached the coding aspects of things really (IMHO) fell short of helping us.
Fa(ir|re) is what you pay to ride a bus.
Happiness is inversely proportional to one's expectation of fairness from the universe.
Conversely, one should export fairness in all directions.
What ever happened to the Sporks, and SpanishInquisition?
"Those were the days..."
Why not teach students how
- to think along procedural and functional lines
- to consider the information in the abstract
- to decompose the system and troubleshoot the gazintas and the gazoutas
- to RTFM and search the web when the politician hits the fan
- to calmly view ideas that one finds objectionable (Creationism, proprietary licensing)
- to implement sound practices (version control, unit testing)
Binding the conversation to specific software versions seems a cop-out.Past performance is certainly no guarantee of future actions, but, looking at MicroSoft's behavior patterns with respect to, oh, Java and Samba, to name a couple of tools at random, I would trust Redmond about as far as I could throw Ballmer when seated in a chair.
What he said!
Gentoo uber goober!
They forgot the "Chula" in front of "Vista"!
Really, it's a variation on the old theme: :(
Oderint Dum Metuant--Lucius Accius
"Let them hate, so long as they fear."
Now it's: "Let them pirate, so long as they remain locked in to our crappy architecture", which I'm not really Latin scholar enough to mangle into the classic tongue.
Look, they can trot out lousy policy after lousy policy, but so long as they own the file formats, all else is moot.
Hence the ramrodding of OOXML, which, while painfully boring, is really under-reported in the geek press, like most imortant issues.