It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
Closed source software stinks. Microsot Windows crawls. Anything good by Microsoft is purchased from a former developer. Adobe is not only slow to fix security holes; it continues to distribute software it knows has holes that are actively being exploited. At work I'm exposed to corporate shit by IBM that is used in every incorrect way possible (arguably IBM is a contributor to this problem). Closed source makes me want to vomit. No privacy. No security.
But then there's Opera: possibly the only closed source project that genuinely competes on quality: accurate, good interface, efficient, and even good security? Who knows.
But then I don't use anything closed source anymore, so perhaps I'm missing some other well deserved programs.
This will be conveniently incomplete, ignoring data identified as contrary to popular political opinion.
But I'm a climate change denier and therefore a conspiracy theory nut and other carefully selected categorising terminologies in the politically correct nomenclature.
And suddenly I'm censored. Because democracy is fine, for a while. We can be trusted to decide things for ourselves. Most things. Until the issue is bigger than any person. Dammit it's our children and our children's children who stand to lose! And we cannot be trusted to make the right decision anymore.
This sounds like a valuable lesson. Next time this happens, simply don't do the job at all, because it's a no-win scenario. Instead, immediately start looking for a new job.
Good advice. I had a similar situation: brought into an already doomed project. I made my disclaimer, did my best (and pretty well) and copped shit at the end. Thanks for nothing.
I'm pretty sure you didn't mean to imply that Firefox is a part of Linux, but you did.
And this is why I have arguments with my Windows admin friends (I'm Faust) about how many security flaws "Linux" has. Arrrrgh! But I don't need to preach this to the/. crowd. Just be careful with this stuff.
People in other fields are geeks too: maths, engineering, arts and letters, even the sexy drama/dance girls. They're different (which is what you want) and they're geeks (so their social skills will be just as poor).
Except for the accounting and commerce people: they're not geeks and yet they are by far the most boring. Stay far away! (*FLAME*)
Profs -- including me, at times -- fall into the lazy trap of wanting to assign rotework that can be endlessly recycled as work for new students, a model that fails when the students treat their work as useful in and of itself and therefore worthy of making public for their peers and other interested parties who find them through search results, links, etc. But the convenience of profs must be secondary to the pedagogical value of the university experience
Your vomit:
The only reason that comes to mind for the teacher wanting the code to be taken down is because he was going to use the same assignments next year (Which is fairly common among teachers). Regardless, in this case it's his code and he has the right to do whatever he wants with it.
This wasn't even in TFA; it was in the posted summary!
Congratulations. You probably just failed a grammar level comprehension test.
I have this friend IRL right and he's so attached his education that his not living life. He sacrifices any bit of fun for it. He gets up around 9am, calls his mum in Denver, and then hits the books until about 3am only leaving his desk to put a piece of cheese on some bread and maybe take a shit. His desk is totally littered with empty energy drink bottles and sometimes he pisses in an empty instead of getting up to go to the bathroom. Once he accidentally drank a recycled one and just vomited in another.
There's this pirate game right, it's awesome! Swashbuckling and harrr! Open seas! Booty! Awesomez!!! and I've tried to bring it up with him every now and again but my suggestions are always met with derision and anger. "You're sleeping your future away with that crap!" he'll yell. He can't see that he's missing out on all this fun with his addiction to success.
I've tried using wake-on-LAN and changing his home page but it just won't work. What can I do to help him?
If everyone was like this man this world would be tyranny free.
The US Federal Government wants us to know that they surveil ordinary citizens. And they want us to know that they torture. How many of us would be so brave?
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Closed source software stinks. Microsot Windows crawls. Anything good by Microsoft is purchased from a former developer. Adobe is not only slow to fix security holes; it continues to distribute software it knows has holes that are actively being exploited. At work I'm exposed to corporate shit by IBM that is used in every incorrect way possible (arguably IBM is a contributor to this problem). Closed source makes me want to vomit. No privacy. No security.
But then there's Opera: possibly the only closed source project that genuinely competes on quality: accurate, good interface, efficient, and even good security? Who knows.
But then I don't use anything closed source anymore, so perhaps I'm missing some other well deserved programs.
This will be conveniently incomplete, ignoring data identified as contrary to popular political opinion.
But I'm a climate change denier and therefore a conspiracy theory nut and other carefully selected categorising terminologies in the politically correct nomenclature.
And suddenly I'm censored. Because democracy is fine, for a while. We can be trusted to decide things for ourselves. Most things. Until the issue is bigger than any person. Dammit it's our children and our children's children who stand to lose! And we cannot be trusted to make the right decision anymore.
Good advice. I had a similar situation: brought into an already doomed project. I made my disclaimer, did my best (and pretty well) and copped shit at the end. Thanks for nothing.
Is laws that make it difficult to violate existing laws.
Child pornography: illegal. But let's make it more difficult to break this law. Oh, and btw, here are some freedoms you used to have.
Apparently there are still early light bulbs in museums that still work.
They fail not too quickly, but quickly enough to create a false economy.
... Because 51% can oppress the other 49%. This is why we need protected freedoms outside the reach of Government.
Microkernels provde:
L4 checks these boxes. Nanokernel and picokernel are poorly defined, emotive terms. Not reasonable criticism.
It came crippled. Sony sucks.
I had to boot a DOS disk and change a single flag in the address space mapped to flash for BIOS options.
That was easy. It took weeks to find the correct flag however. NEVER buy Sony (though I'm sure most nerds knew this already).
They're all sitting down watching like zombies at a Hypnotoad exhibition. What's to monitor?
I'm pretty sure you didn't mean to imply that Firefox is a part of Linux, but you did.
And this is why I have arguments with my Windows admin friends (I'm Faust) about how many security flaws "Linux" has. Arrrrgh! /. crowd. Just be careful with this stuff.
But I don't need to preach this to the
I use PostgreSQL daily and I love it. The window functions are an enormous boon! It's still the best.
We need some distribution happening a la Netezza, Greenplum, etc:
Anyone know better?
It's because FREEDOM and MINIMAL FOREIGN INTERVENTION used to be prized amongst your people, and some of your brothers still care for this.
The difference here is that IBM supported an enemy Government in time of war.
Or the bar on your nearest university campus.
People in other fields are geeks too: maths, engineering, arts and letters, even the sexy drama/dance girls. They're different (which is what you want) and they're geeks (so their social skills will be just as poor).
Except for the accounting and commerce people: they're not geeks and yet they are by far the most boring. Stay far away! (*FLAME*)
It's as good as a holiday. :P
From the summary:
Your vomit:
This wasn't even in TFA; it was in the posted summary!
Congratulations. You probably just failed a grammar level comprehension test.
xRank: when all else fails, put an "x" in front of the name.
I have this friend IRL right and he's so attached his education that his not living life. He sacrifices any bit of fun for it. He gets up around 9am, calls his mum in Denver, and then hits the books until about 3am only leaving his desk to put a piece of cheese on some bread and maybe take a shit. His desk is totally littered with empty energy drink bottles and sometimes he pisses in an empty instead of getting up to go to the bathroom. Once he accidentally drank a recycled one and just vomited in another.
There's this pirate game right, it's awesome! Swashbuckling and harrr! Open seas! Booty! Awesomez!!! and I've tried to bring it up with him every now and again but my suggestions are always met with derision and anger. "You're sleeping your future away with that crap!" he'll yell. He can't see that he's missing out on all this fun with his addiction to success.
I've tried using wake-on-LAN and changing his home page but it just won't work. What can I do to help him?
From the YouTube comments:
The US Federal Government wants us to know that they surveil ordinary citizens. And they want us to know that they torture. How many of us would be so brave?
Sorry.
Attempt to influence regulation/attitude or adapt. Sink or swim.
1st post?
You should be paying more attention to the frequency of articles tagged `!freedom' and `!liberty'.
Changing democratic preferences is not a subversion of democracy. Many would argue it would make for a more robust democracy.