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Yeah, he is probably using VS Express Web Developer 2010. VS is a terrific IDE, C# is a terrific language, ASP.Net webforms....barf! I hope he is using MVC with the Razor view engine. Webforms totally blows, but MVC easily rivals RoR or Django when you consider the power of the VS and the surrounding.Net platform. I know people love to hate M$, but in the real world where we need to get things done, VS is pretty much the best thing ever. I recently (6 months ago) switched my entire tech stack to open source tools and frameworks, and although I am enjoying just about everything, I really miss VS still.
Visual Studio 2010's designer works decently. If I am working in Webforms, I typically rough it out in the designer with dragndrop, then tweak it in the code. This works pretty well. Every once in awhile the designer craps out on a particularly complex page. In general this "roughing out" stage is only the beginning of a UI anyway though, so it is not like it makes that big of a difference. As far as VS 2010 goes, the designers for Winforms, WPF, and Silverlight are way better than Webforms designer, but it does the job OK to save a bit of time prototyping.
Basically, on any platform, if you know what the fuck you are doing, hand coding is going to be where you end up going anyway. Designers cause more problems than they are worth past the prototyping stage. How could you even make a WWYSIWYG for any sort of dynamic website (aka most stuff these days)? WWYSIWYG is pretty much confined to static small business sites by its very nature. With the advent of tools like Wordpress that are even easier than WWYSIWYG, there just is not much point.
That is not at all what feminism is about. Feminism is about allowing women to have equal footing as men in society. Feminists are much more likely to encourage women to learn DIY craftsmanship than to discourage anyone else from doing it. IF there is any true drop in men "doing manual things" it has a lot more to do with men lacking in drive/curiosity along with basic economics (more knowledge workers that can afford to have someone else fix the sink, etc.). As both a man and a feminist, I find your comment completely brain dead.
Yes. I build wooden boats, build my own effects pedal circuits, build my own furniture, build my own radios and amplifiers, rebuild outboard motors, build my own rc planes and drones, and write my own software (which pays for the other hobbies that happen to be less cost effective). I guess I missed the trend because I was busy doing shit instead of complaining. With the internet booming with nearly limitless free information, we are currently in a golden age for hobbyists.
True True. Nothing beats the almighty trackball! I am hoping Windows 8 drops support at the last minute for mice, touch, stylus, and keyboards that are not the Das Keyboard ultimate. There can only be one....way to operate Windows 8, and that is my way. If you are not using a Das Keyboard with a Kensington trackball, then you are doing it wrong.
Pleeeeeasssseee, drafting table style PCs. This would be insanely cool. A 42" table with a touch screen interface and pressure sensitive stylus support would be awesome. It would have to keep a physical keyboard option so that I can still use my Das Keyboard. I expect a prototype on my desk by Monday.
I was not very clear. It would most certainly need to be replaced, but it has a coating that will keep it in one piece. This will keep you from being impaled by the projectile or inhaling bits of 150mpg glass fragments, both of which most people would like to avoid.
I am a 23 year old software engineer. My mentor is a 73 year old software engineer. Aside from him being a far superior software engineer than me, do you know what the main difference between the two of us is? 50 years of experience. It takes decades to become a true master of anything (and screw Malcolm Gladwell, 10,000 hours is way too conservative). Young people go where the jobs are. Who wants to go into the auto industry right now? If I could make 100k as a mechanic, then I would be one. Until then, I am perfectly fine working with pixels (which happen to have significant real world impact. Not all of us make iphone games for a living).
How is this 5 insightful? This is an unrelated rant that has nothing to do with TFA. Carpentry and craftsmanship skills are not being affected at all by patent law. No one is going to come into your house and check to see if something you did is violating a patent. Sometimes I think people just like to bitch.
If 29 is older than the age group TFA is complaining about, then which group are they referring to? "God damn 12 year olds these days! They don't even know how to manufacture their own code-compliant hurricane-resistant fucking windows these days!! Gafaww!!!"
I am in my mid-20s and know my way around carpentry, however, when I was in my teens this was not the case. The whole "experience" thing comes to mind.
It is not all so bad. I appreciate the fact that I can now get Skil brand power tools for 30-50 bucks at Lowes, instead of Craftsman for 200-300. The Skil stuff is absolute shit, but it works for the 20 times I will use it before deciding that I need to upgrade to the real thing (it is hard to predict which tools you are going to be using all the time. No point in spending 300 on that variable biscuit joiner that I will only use once). Never by any sort of lumber at a box store unless you are completely desperate for a few PT 2x4s in a pinch. Support the local lumber yard for anything you can; better prices and far superior product. The big box places can be convenient, but they are pretty much a joke for many types of materials. For example, their epoxy selection is laughable.
Yeah, this is a joke. My father runs a large windows business and I can pretty much say without a doubt that nobody, including him is going to be "making" their own windows without a few million dollars worth of equipment and several engineers.
Windows are generally one thing in your house that you do not want to be too "original" with. They ensure that your house stays energy efficient. When they are not done correctly, you almost certainly will get mold, many varieties of which can KILL you. If you do have money to burn, then this is a custom job for a professional. A DIYer is not going to be able to build safe, energy efficient, and reliable windows period. Where I live (east coast US), windows also have to be hurricane rated by law. This basically means that they will not break when a 8ft 2x4 is shot at 150 mph directly at them. Good luck with that, if you just threw it together yourself.
There would never be any repercussions to begin with.
Have you read a single youtube "conversation" before. Almost every one of them could get somebody fired if they ended up in the hands of that person's boss. The principle of a school really does not want their kindergarten teacher on the net spewing racism or gay bashing in public forum for anyone to see. It might not matter for many jobs, but I have seen people get fired over this stuff for people in sensitive positions. I am all for the anonymous option in every circumstance...except for youtube. For some reason, youtube comments have become the lowest point on the internet, and as such, should be irradiated using any means necessary. There is so much trolling going on that it might cause a black hole.
Both statements are equally wrong. In science, we try to make precise claims. If we do not know, then we do not guess or approximate without stating that as a stipulation to a claim. Whether or not any particular claim is right or wrong is a binary truth value. There is no "more" or "less".
All drastically less useful if you cannot communicate M and S to others. You are talking about nothing but basic M anyway. The S in making soda bread seems a bit reaching to me. People without one lick of proper S can bake bread just fine. Of course, you need to be able to add, subtract, multiply, divide, and perform basic algebra. Of course, you need to have enough S to be able to navigate the world of reality without being scammed and blinded by superstition. These are the basics that should all be present by the start of high school (along with basic reading, writing, and speaking). The question is, whether E or S & M (lolz) give you the most bang for your buck after the foundation is laid. Balancing your checkbook is not going to get you a job as a statistician. The debate over STEM is largely about which direction the later high school classes go in.
Kids who lack a supportive family structure would be quickly identified in this scenario and could then be helped.
Basically none of the kids who are getting expelled have a supportive family structure. That is kind of the point. So basically nobody is going to fall into the scenario mentioned above. Also, throwing kids into jail for not being in the school that they are not allowed to go to seems a little insane. Anyways, ruining a kids life (kicking them out of school then sending them to jail) for being disruptive is about as 1984 as it gets. A kids life should not be derailed because Mrs. Clark the English teacher missed her coffee this morning and could not handle talkative Timmy.
We would have them in lockup in fear for their arrogant, self-serving little lives
Kids with behavioral problems do not "choose" to have them. Acting out is what kids do when they do not get dinner or breakfast at home, daddy is beating mommy, and mommy is on crack. You clearly have your arrogance glasses on backwards, because you have absolutely no fucking clue what many kids go through when they are not in school. Sure, talking out of turn and acting like an little twit are annoying and inconvenient, but do not for one second put all the blame on the problem children. They have not even begun to make choices about who they are yet. When you are a kid you are basically a sum of genes, parenting, peer-pressure (which the "good kids" seem to dole out more of than the more courageous bad kids), and crazy hormones. These kids are not arrogant. They are a bit insecure, they are physically or emotionally hurt, and they are getting by the only way they know how. Knocking other people for their misfortune is about as low as it gets. Even worse when its children.
Think about this. One of these tablets cost about the same amount as 1 or 2 textbooks. Textbooks have to be updated anyway. Put the content of all of the 8 or 9 books the average kid has on to their tablet and you just got the best deal of books of all time. Throw in Wikipedia and the rest of the entire internet and these kids now have access to nearly limitless information...all for ~$100. We need to start doing this in the US, where we spend ~5-10k per year on each kid, but still have 4 of them huddled over one shared book that happens to be 30 years old. Cheap content readers are the future of education.
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Yeah, he is probably using VS Express Web Developer 2010. VS is a terrific IDE, C# is a terrific language, ASP.Net webforms....barf! I hope he is using MVC with the Razor view engine. Webforms totally blows, but MVC easily rivals RoR or Django when you consider the power of the VS and the surrounding .Net platform. I know people love to hate M$, but in the real world where we need to get things done, VS is pretty much the best thing ever. I recently (6 months ago) switched my entire tech stack to open source tools and frameworks, and although I am enjoying just about everything, I really miss VS still.
Visual Studio 2010's designer works decently. If I am working in Webforms, I typically rough it out in the designer with dragndrop, then tweak it in the code. This works pretty well. Every once in awhile the designer craps out on a particularly complex page. In general this "roughing out" stage is only the beginning of a UI anyway though, so it is not like it makes that big of a difference. As far as VS 2010 goes, the designers for Winforms, WPF, and Silverlight are way better than Webforms designer, but it does the job OK to save a bit of time prototyping.
Basically, on any platform, if you know what the fuck you are doing, hand coding is going to be where you end up going anyway. Designers cause more problems than they are worth past the prototyping stage. How could you even make a WWYSIWYG for any sort of dynamic website (aka most stuff these days)? WWYSIWYG is pretty much confined to static small business sites by its very nature. With the advent of tools like Wordpress that are even easier than WWYSIWYG, there just is not much point.
That is not at all what feminism is about. Feminism is about allowing women to have equal footing as men in society. Feminists are much more likely to encourage women to learn DIY craftsmanship than to discourage anyone else from doing it. IF there is any true drop in men "doing manual things" it has a lot more to do with men lacking in drive/curiosity along with basic economics (more knowledge workers that can afford to have someone else fix the sink, etc.). As both a man and a feminist, I find your comment completely brain dead.
Yes. I build wooden boats, build my own effects pedal circuits, build my own furniture, build my own radios and amplifiers, rebuild outboard motors, build my own rc planes and drones, and write my own software (which pays for the other hobbies that happen to be less cost effective). I guess I missed the trend because I was busy doing shit instead of complaining. With the internet booming with nearly limitless free information, we are currently in a golden age for hobbyists.
True True. Nothing beats the almighty trackball! I am hoping Windows 8 drops support at the last minute for mice, touch, stylus, and keyboards that are not the Das Keyboard ultimate. There can only be one....way to operate Windows 8, and that is my way. If you are not using a Das Keyboard with a Kensington trackball, then you are doing it wrong.
Pleeeeeasssseee, drafting table style PCs. This would be insanely cool. A 42" table with a touch screen interface and pressure sensitive stylus support would be awesome. It would have to keep a physical keyboard option so that I can still use my Das Keyboard. I expect a prototype on my desk by Monday.
I was not very clear. It would most certainly need to be replaced, but it has a coating that will keep it in one piece. This will keep you from being impaled by the projectile or inhaling bits of 150mpg glass fragments, both of which most people would like to avoid.
I am a 23 year old software engineer. My mentor is a 73 year old software engineer. Aside from him being a far superior software engineer than me, do you know what the main difference between the two of us is? 50 years of experience. It takes decades to become a true master of anything (and screw Malcolm Gladwell, 10,000 hours is way too conservative). Young people go where the jobs are. Who wants to go into the auto industry right now? If I could make 100k as a mechanic, then I would be one. Until then, I am perfectly fine working with pixels (which happen to have significant real world impact. Not all of us make iphone games for a living).
People have been saying this for decades (minus the iPad/iPhone part).
Nice quality products with high price tags.
If anything, there is a craftsmanship revival going on. Even in programming, "craftsmanship" has been the big buzz word for going on 10 years now.
How is this 5 insightful? This is an unrelated rant that has nothing to do with TFA. Carpentry and craftsmanship skills are not being affected at all by patent law. No one is going to come into your house and check to see if something you did is violating a patent. Sometimes I think people just like to bitch.
If 29 is older than the age group TFA is complaining about, then which group are they referring to? "God damn 12 year olds these days! They don't even know how to manufacture their own code-compliant hurricane-resistant fucking windows these days!! Gafaww!!!"
I am in my mid-20s and know my way around carpentry, however, when I was in my teens this was not the case. The whole "experience" thing comes to mind.
It is not all so bad. I appreciate the fact that I can now get Skil brand power tools for 30-50 bucks at Lowes, instead of Craftsman for 200-300. The Skil stuff is absolute shit, but it works for the 20 times I will use it before deciding that I need to upgrade to the real thing (it is hard to predict which tools you are going to be using all the time. No point in spending 300 on that variable biscuit joiner that I will only use once). Never by any sort of lumber at a box store unless you are completely desperate for a few PT 2x4s in a pinch. Support the local lumber yard for anything you can; better prices and far superior product. The big box places can be convenient, but they are pretty much a joke for many types of materials. For example, their epoxy selection is laughable.
Yeah, this is a joke. My father runs a large windows business and I can pretty much say without a doubt that nobody, including him is going to be "making" their own windows without a few million dollars worth of equipment and several engineers.
Windows are generally one thing in your house that you do not want to be too "original" with. They ensure that your house stays energy efficient. When they are not done correctly, you almost certainly will get mold, many varieties of which can KILL you. If you do have money to burn, then this is a custom job for a professional. A DIYer is not going to be able to build safe, energy efficient, and reliable windows period. Where I live (east coast US), windows also have to be hurricane rated by law. This basically means that they will not break when a 8ft 2x4 is shot at 150 mph directly at them. Good luck with that, if you just threw it together yourself.
There would never be any repercussions to begin with.
Have you read a single youtube "conversation" before. Almost every one of them could get somebody fired if they ended up in the hands of that person's boss. The principle of a school really does not want their kindergarten teacher on the net spewing racism or gay bashing in public forum for anyone to see. It might not matter for many jobs, but I have seen people get fired over this stuff for people in sensitive positions. I am all for the anonymous option in every circumstance...except for youtube. For some reason, youtube comments have become the lowest point on the internet, and as such, should be irradiated using any means necessary. There is so much trolling going on that it might cause a black hole.
Both statements are equally wrong. In science, we try to make precise claims. If we do not know, then we do not guess or approximate without stating that as a stipulation to a claim. Whether or not any particular claim is right or wrong is a binary truth value. There is no "more" or "less".
All drastically less useful if you cannot communicate M and S to others. You are talking about nothing but basic M anyway. The S in making soda bread seems a bit reaching to me. People without one lick of proper S can bake bread just fine. Of course, you need to be able to add, subtract, multiply, divide, and perform basic algebra. Of course, you need to have enough S to be able to navigate the world of reality without being scammed and blinded by superstition. These are the basics that should all be present by the start of high school (along with basic reading, writing, and speaking). The question is, whether E or S & M (lolz) give you the most bang for your buck after the foundation is laid. Balancing your checkbook is not going to get you a job as a statistician. The debate over STEM is largely about which direction the later high school classes go in.
Kids who lack a supportive family structure would be quickly identified in this scenario and could then be helped.
Basically none of the kids who are getting expelled have a supportive family structure. That is kind of the point. So basically nobody is going to fall into the scenario mentioned above. Also, throwing kids into jail for not being in the school that they are not allowed to go to seems a little insane. Anyways, ruining a kids life (kicking them out of school then sending them to jail) for being disruptive is about as 1984 as it gets. A kids life should not be derailed because Mrs. Clark the English teacher missed her coffee this morning and could not handle talkative Timmy.
We would have them in lockup in fear for their arrogant, self-serving little lives
Kids with behavioral problems do not "choose" to have them. Acting out is what kids do when they do not get dinner or breakfast at home, daddy is beating mommy, and mommy is on crack. You clearly have your arrogance glasses on backwards, because you have absolutely no fucking clue what many kids go through when they are not in school. Sure, talking out of turn and acting like an little twit are annoying and inconvenient, but do not for one second put all the blame on the problem children. They have not even begun to make choices about who they are yet. When you are a kid you are basically a sum of genes, parenting, peer-pressure (which the "good kids" seem to dole out more of than the more courageous bad kids), and crazy hormones. These kids are not arrogant. They are a bit insecure, they are physically or emotionally hurt, and they are getting by the only way they know how. Knocking other people for their misfortune is about as low as it gets. Even worse when its children.
cardboard box + bubble wrap == perfect user experience
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Think about this. One of these tablets cost about the same amount as 1 or 2 textbooks. Textbooks have to be updated anyway. Put the content of all of the 8 or 9 books the average kid has on to their tablet and you just got the best deal of books of all time. Throw in Wikipedia and the rest of the entire internet and these kids now have access to nearly limitless information...all for ~$100. We need to start doing this in the US, where we spend ~5-10k per year on each kid, but still have 4 of them huddled over one shared book that happens to be 30 years old. Cheap content readers are the future of education.
The amount is about the same they would spend on a new history textbook or two for each student...