The English language has so much character and personality, largely because of its "flaws". I wouldn't want it any other way. Most every language that people have used has character as a result of being used by humans and evolving over many, many years.
Then we will move on to something else, but meanwhile we will have improved significantly over Comcast. Same thing happened 10 years ago when the cell phone companies ate the land-line companies' lunch. Now cell service providers suck, but we're still way better off than we were.
Fighter jets can pull a few G's of acceleration. Missiles being shot at fighter jets can pull 30+ G's. Missiles are cheap and even if it takes a few tries to take out a jet, you're still way ahead.
As others have said, this is awful advice. Pursue internships, if you are a "self-starter" (feel free to slap me for using that phrase), you will learn FAR more at an internship than you will in class. Computer Science these days is too often not that rigorous and is taught to the lowest common denominator.
When I interviewed with Google, they cared not how good I was at critical thinking, problem solving and architecting good software systems. They did however care A LOT about my Big O notation and CS1 skills. Additionally, the only reason I even got an interview with Google was because of my previous internship experience at two different companies that hire from the same pool Google hires from. I didn't make it past the first interview because I stumbled on my basic CS1 material - which was completely my own fault. Two weeks later I had offers from the two Google competitors I had interned with.
In summary, Google doesn't care at all about 'B' CS students. Maybe I'm just bitter though.
Not only are you a pedant, but you are also wrong. The rule against ending a sentence with a preposition in english is bullshit. It's a "rule" invented by Latinists who wanted to impose latin rules on english. Unsurprisingly, since english is a germanic language, this "romanticizing" didn't stick.
From the Chicago Manual of Style (16th edition): “The ‘rule’ prohibiting terminal prepositions was an ill-founded superstition. Today many grammarians use the dismissive term pied-piping for this phenomenon.” (Page 249.)
Baloney. Here's a list of the biggest companies with very significant presences or headquarters in Silicon Valley, from Wikipedia. I think you'll find that only one company on this list is solely in the business of "social cloud blog web 2.0"-ness. Silicon Valley has a huge amount of real engineering talent as well as a huge amount of media hype over sexting apps built by a small minority of the tech workers who call the Bay Area home.
The reason Porsche's are known for it is as follows: With the engine in the rear, traditional Porsches typically run much wider rear tires than front tires (to a greater degree than in mid or front-engined performance cars.) This has a number of advantages, including being better suited to hard braking up to the start of (and even into) the corner, as well as massive corner exit grip under power. However, with lots of rear grip available, and even more available under power, it's easy to get into a situation where letting off the throttle reduces the amount of grip available to the rear of the car to a level below what is required to maintain the current turning pattern. This means that the rear of the car can let go, since the back tires will lose some grip when "weight" transfers to the front of the car resulting in more front grip and less rear grip.
Model S fires are extremely photogenic, but as far as I can tell, all three of these fires involved debris (or firefighters) puncturing the battery shield and hitting the battery, rather than something spontaneous. I'm not an expert by any means, but I'd hazard a guess that the results would have been similar with a gasoline powered car.
Just kidding.:)
But seriously, I think Ruby on Rails will be around for a very long time since it already has a lot of momentum, and isn't entirely subject to becoming stagnant when a single company loses interest in it. For better or for worse, Rails has a lot of fanatics that are utterly devoted to the project, which can be annoying, but it also lends an air of longevity to the project.
Also, there is no such thing as a good front-end framework that does everything you want it to do, but that said I would recommend checking out backbone.js. You'll spend more time and money trying to shoehorn a UI framework into working for a large application than you would having a few good developers build and maintain your own internal framework.
A technical solution to a moral/ethical problem is doomed to failure, as someone will always be able to work around the technical "solution". Stiff penalties for abusing personal information is actually a good idea, however.
"The 55 miles from Campbell to San Francisco make for one of the nicest commutes anywhere. The journey mostly zips along the Junipero Serra Freeway, a grand and remarkably empty highway"
Spend some time commuting on I-280 (the Junipero Serra Freeway) and you'll soon realize that it's clogged with people doing 5 mph under the speed limit in the fast lane...
I really dislike StackOverflow now because very useful questions are discouraged, simply because they are open ended. I've been on SA since it was in closed beta, and I really do miss the discussion-oriented questions and answers that used to be the norm, rather than the exception.
This is a great idea, and I hope trains/planes/etc start using things like this. Building beam forming devices is something of a hobby for me. (I built a simple microphone array for "steering" audio recording.)
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Can't wait to send this to my vegan friends who switched to being veganese after watching some netflix documentaries...
The English language has so much character and personality, largely because of its "flaws". I wouldn't want it any other way. Most every language that people have used has character as a result of being used by humans and evolving over many, many years.
Then we will move on to something else, but meanwhile we will have improved significantly over Comcast. Same thing happened 10 years ago when the cell phone companies ate the land-line companies' lunch. Now cell service providers suck, but we're still way better off than we were.
Fighter jets can pull a few G's of acceleration. Missiles being shot at fighter jets can pull 30+ G's. Missiles are cheap and even if it takes a few tries to take out a jet, you're still way ahead.
Because you had to hold the ignition/power BUTTON (not turn the key) for several seconds continually to turn the engine off on these cars...
As others have said, this is awful advice. Pursue internships, if you are a "self-starter" (feel free to slap me for using that phrase), you will learn FAR more at an internship than you will in class. Computer Science these days is too often not that rigorous and is taught to the lowest common denominator.
You have to be a paid Unreal Engine 4 developer to access the source on GitHub...
DSLRs have lenses...
Ah, my apologies, good sire. Sarcasm travels well over text!
When I interviewed with Google, they cared not how good I was at critical thinking, problem solving and architecting good software systems. They did however care A LOT about my Big O notation and CS1 skills. Additionally, the only reason I even got an interview with Google was because of my previous internship experience at two different companies that hire from the same pool Google hires from. I didn't make it past the first interview because I stumbled on my basic CS1 material - which was completely my own fault. Two weeks later I had offers from the two Google competitors I had interned with.
In summary, Google doesn't care at all about 'B' CS students. Maybe I'm just bitter though.
Not only are you a pedant, but you are also wrong. The rule against ending a sentence with a preposition in english is bullshit. It's a "rule" invented by Latinists who wanted to impose latin rules on english. Unsurprisingly, since english is a germanic language, this "romanticizing" didn't stick.
From the Chicago Manual of Style (16th edition): “The ‘rule’ prohibiting terminal prepositions was an ill-founded superstition. Today many grammarians use the dismissive term pied-piping for this phenomenon.” (Page 249.)
Because raising 100 children per person at the same time sounds awfully like work
Baloney. Here's a list of the biggest companies with very significant presences or headquarters in Silicon Valley, from Wikipedia. I think you'll find that only one company on this list is solely in the business of "social cloud blog web 2.0"-ness. Silicon Valley has a huge amount of real engineering talent as well as a huge amount of media hype over sexting apps built by a small minority of the tech workers who call the Bay Area home.
Compared to Curtis's helicopter videos that are readily available on youtube... Interesting interview though.
" Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
The reason Porsche's are known for it is as follows: With the engine in the rear, traditional Porsches typically run much wider rear tires than front tires (to a greater degree than in mid or front-engined performance cars.) This has a number of advantages, including being better suited to hard braking up to the start of (and even into) the corner, as well as massive corner exit grip under power. However, with lots of rear grip available, and even more available under power, it's easy to get into a situation where letting off the throttle reduces the amount of grip available to the rear of the car to a level below what is required to maintain the current turning pattern. This means that the rear of the car can let go, since the back tires will lose some grip when "weight" transfers to the front of the car resulting in more front grip and less rear grip.
Model S fires are extremely photogenic, but as far as I can tell, all three of these fires involved debris (or firefighters) puncturing the battery shield and hitting the battery, rather than something spontaneous. I'm not an expert by any means, but I'd hazard a guess that the results would have been similar with a gasoline powered car.
Just kidding. :)
But seriously, I think Ruby on Rails will be around for a very long time since it already has a lot of momentum, and isn't entirely subject to becoming stagnant when a single company loses interest in it. For better or for worse, Rails has a lot of fanatics that are utterly devoted to the project, which can be annoying, but it also lends an air of longevity to the project.
Also, there is no such thing as a good front-end framework that does everything you want it to do, but that said I would recommend checking out backbone.js. You'll spend more time and money trying to shoehorn a UI framework into working for a large application than you would having a few good developers build and maintain your own internal framework.
A technical solution to a moral/ethical problem is doomed to failure, as someone will always be able to work around the technical "solution". Stiff penalties for abusing personal information is actually a good idea, however.
"The 55 miles from Campbell to San Francisco make for one of the nicest commutes anywhere. The journey mostly zips along the Junipero Serra Freeway, a grand and remarkably empty highway" Spend some time commuting on I-280 (the Junipero Serra Freeway) and you'll soon realize that it's clogged with people doing 5 mph under the speed limit in the fast lane...
I really dislike StackOverflow now because very useful questions are discouraged, simply because they are open ended. I've been on SA since it was in closed beta, and I really do miss the discussion-oriented questions and answers that used to be the norm, rather than the exception.
... most news agencies are for-profit entertainment businesses, rather than public service organizations.
The line between "arming" and providing cheaply for sale on ebay is pretty thin
... as long as your government isn't powerful enough to force Skype to let them in the back door...
This is a great idea, and I hope trains/planes/etc start using things like this. Building beam forming devices is something of a hobby for me. (I built a simple microphone array for "steering" audio recording.)