I was a junior in college studying physics. I was putting myself through school so I bought the kit. I dumpster dived a TV and got a tape recorder at Goodwill. I coded solutions to numerical analysis problems on it before going to the lab to punch the code onto cards. It lasted just under a year and I really missed it when it was gone.
Completely disagree... I find this question interesting because it challenges the concepts of free will and consciousness. If we discovered that we were living in a simulation everyone;s 'woo-woo thinking' would be shot to hell (pardon the pun).
Computability has a couple of slightly different meanings in the literature depending on certain assumptions, but in general terms it means that the results of a computation can be done with a) a computer, b) using finite memory, and c) in a finite amount of time(*).
A Turing machine use an infinitely long tape, so I would limit the definition of computability to just a) and c). It might make a difference when talking about simulating the universe:-).
OK, so somebody took down thousands of servers, shit happens.
Once the mistake was recognized why does it take so long to start up those servers again?
It comes from a supreme court case in 1910 when a corporation decided to pay it's workers a decent living wage, and cut margins a bit to afford that.
There is no legal duty to maximize corporate profits and 'shareholder value'.
And what supreme court case are you talking about? Dodge v. Ford Motor Co?
That was a Michigan Supreme Court case, not a US Supreme Court case. And even that case really has nothing to do with shareholder value.
Stimulus money gets spent and, well, stimulates the economy.
Money spent waging war produces, well, a lot of dead bodies and more war.
The money spent on the Iraq war would have been used better if we had used it to wipe our asses.
I frickin hate javascript but I've been playing with TypeScript and it's palatable.
I'm ready to use TypeScript and node for writing server code that'll I'll eventually run on a RPi or C.H.I.P..
I've been a Java developer for quite a while but Java isn't handy to use on these small embedded chips.
TypeScript and node can give me a decent server platform that I could use everywhere, even at work maybe.
The author challenged the readers to make a single change that would have an immediate effect without writing a single line of code. I can only think of one... immediately stop implementing new features. That would keep the open/close ratio from getting much larger without any coding. But how to make the business case for doing so? My argument would be that the graph shows that their current systems are broken and worthless. The business can recover their investment in the current systems by taking the time to fix the open issues and removing broken functionally that's not needed.
I don't think you should be insulted by this. All humans, not just women, are irrational and emotional. We prefer that our detergent come in orange boxes instead of green boxes. We're attracted to people with symmetrical faces. We'll buy that fake diamond if the seller tells us it'll make our life complete. It's just the way we are..
Baby steps. Young people would be much better served by learning to brainstorm, reason, and think abstractly.
And those basic skills will server them whatever they do.
At most, teach coding as a way to obtain these basic skills, but not as an end to itself.
Yes, but I took mostly drawing, painting, printmaking and design classes, only two classes in art history.
My degree was in Art History because it required the fewest credits.
90% of the time my work was being "critiqued" I could give a completely ridiculous explanation and it would be more acceptable than a well thought-out answer from the analytical side of my mind.
Sure, but you have to learn to have a civil conversation with people that spout complete bullshit while critiquing your work.
I couldn't count the number of times I've had to listen to an engineer or manager barf up some complete crap while arguing their position.
There's no less bullshit in software 'engineering' than in Art:-).
I have two degrees, one in Art History and one in Theoretical Physics.
I dropped Art in my junior year because it was TOO HARD.
Physics was way easier... read the book, take the test, done.
Art required creativity, research, brainstorming, craftsmanship, and a tough skin (because your work gets critiqued).
Today I'm a software engineer.
Everything useful I learned in college I learned in art class.
Good Point. If you make $6,500,000.00 in one year and spend all of it on hookers and blow, then a $56,000 ticket might indeed wipe out all your savings from the previous thirty years. Hardly seems fair.
If cars are electric then we can use whatever we got to generate electricity, coal, natural gas, solar, wind, nuclear, all of the above.... and be able to switch to whatever as better electricity generating technologies come online
The unbelievable part is that the Tamarian's were advanced enough to built interstellar spacecraft and transporters but somehow they weren't smart enough to say to themselves "hmm, you know what, I bet they can't understand us because we only speak in metaphors".
As someone that has had problems with depression and anxiety I want to say that this is extremely bad advice, and it bothers me that it's tagged as insightful .
For one, alcohol disrupts your sleep and good sleep is extremely important.
Sex is beneficial but only in the context of a healthy relationship.
Please don't try to simply mask your symptoms, see a doctor and get proper meds for the short term and therapy for the long term.
Exactly this. I'm a 'devote' atheist but I went to a catholic high school. I've read the entire Bible and had four years of religion class. I even signed up for pre-seminary training while in high school. Here's what I learned from the Catholic brothers and nuns at my school... lesson number one, THE most important thing about a church, is that it's about building and serving the COMMUNITY, actual religious beliefs are secondary.
Atheists need to understand this, and I would like to see atheist 'churches' that fulfill this important human need.
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I was a junior in college studying physics. I was putting myself through school so I bought the kit. I dumpster dived a TV and got a tape recorder at Goodwill. I coded solutions to numerical analysis problems on it before going to the lab to punch the code onto cards.
It lasted just under a year and I really missed it when it was gone.
Completely disagree... I find this question interesting because it challenges the concepts of free will and consciousness.
If we discovered that we were living in a simulation everyone;s 'woo-woo thinking' would be shot to hell (pardon the pun).
Computability has a couple of slightly different meanings in the literature depending on certain assumptions, but in general terms it means that the results of a computation can be done with a) a computer, b) using finite memory, and c) in a finite amount of time(*).
A Turing machine use an infinitely long tape, so I would limit the definition of computability to just a) and c). It might make a difference when talking about simulating the universe :-).
I'm no chemist but I'm guessing that the byproduct of burning said hydrocarbons is probably carbon dioxide.
OK, so somebody took down thousands of servers, shit happens. Once the mistake was recognized why does it take so long to start up those servers again?
The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy
The Constitution of the United States does not grant any rights to non-US citizens.
It comes from a supreme court case in 1910 when a corporation decided to pay it's workers a decent living wage, and cut margins a bit to afford that.
There is no legal duty to maximize corporate profits and 'shareholder value'.
And what supreme court case are you talking about? Dodge v. Ford Motor Co?
That was a Michigan Supreme Court case, not a US Supreme Court case. And even that case really has nothing to do with shareholder value.
Stimulus money gets spent and, well, stimulates the economy. Money spent waging war produces, well, a lot of dead bodies and more war. The money spent on the Iraq war would have been used better if we had used it to wipe our asses.
I had never heard of Espruino, thanks...
I frickin hate javascript but I've been playing with TypeScript and it's palatable. I'm ready to use TypeScript and node for writing server code that'll I'll eventually run on a RPi or C.H.I.P.. I've been a Java developer for quite a while but Java isn't handy to use on these small embedded chips. TypeScript and node can give me a decent server platform that I could use everywhere, even at work maybe.
The author challenged the readers to make a single change that would have an immediate effect without writing a single line of code. I can only think of one... immediately stop implementing new features. That would keep the open/close ratio from getting much larger without any coding. But how to make the business case for doing so? My argument would be that the graph shows that their current systems are broken and worthless. The business can recover their investment in the current systems by taking the time to fix the open issues and removing broken functionally that's not needed.
I don't think you should be insulted by this. All humans, not just women, are irrational and emotional. We prefer that our detergent come in orange boxes instead of green boxes. We're attracted to people with symmetrical faces. We'll buy that fake diamond if the seller tells us it'll make our life complete. It's just the way we are..
Baby steps. Young people would be much better served by learning to brainstorm, reason, and think abstractly. And those basic skills will server them whatever they do. At most, teach coding as a way to obtain these basic skills, but not as an end to itself.
They should have also included a dial that goes to 11.
...when pot was legalized
Art History != Art.
Yes, but I took mostly drawing, painting, printmaking and design classes, only two classes in art history.
My degree was in Art History because it required the fewest credits.
90% of the time my work was being "critiqued" I could give a completely ridiculous explanation and it would be more acceptable than a well thought-out answer from the analytical side of my mind.
Sure, but you have to learn to have a civil conversation with people that spout complete bullshit while critiquing your work. :-).
I couldn't count the number of times I've had to listen to an engineer or manager barf up some complete crap while arguing their position.
There's no less bullshit in software 'engineering' than in Art
I have two degrees, one in Art History and one in Theoretical Physics.
I dropped Art in my junior year because it was TOO HARD.
Physics was way easier... read the book, take the test, done.
Art required creativity, research, brainstorming, craftsmanship, and a tough skin (because your work gets critiqued).
Today I'm a software engineer.
Everything useful I learned in college I learned in art class.
Good Point. If you make $6,500,000.00 in one year and spend all of it on hookers and blow, then a $56,000 ticket might indeed wipe out all your savings from the previous thirty years. Hardly seems fair.
One of the reasons, "Windows 9" could be detected by some soft as "Windows 95" or "Windows 98" to be safe they skip the 9 and jumps to 10.
I think MS made up that excuse. The real reason is that it's way too fun to shout Windows! Nine! while clicking your boot heels together.
If cars are electric then we can use whatever we got to generate electricity, coal, natural gas, solar, wind, nuclear, all of the above.... and be able to switch to whatever as better electricity generating technologies come online
If that were the case then they wouldn't have gotten so pissed off when when they were not understood.
The unbelievable part is that the Tamarian's were advanced enough to built interstellar spacecraft and transporters but somehow they weren't smart enough to say to themselves "hmm, you know what, I bet they can't understand us because we only speak in metaphors".
For one, alcohol disrupts your sleep and good sleep is extremely important.
Sex is beneficial but only in the context of a healthy relationship.
Please don't try to simply mask your symptoms, see a doctor and get proper meds for the short term and therapy for the long term.
Atheists need to understand this, and I would like to see atheist 'churches' that fulfill this important human need.