That is why I only take part in contests, where my work is not usable in any production environment. Contests for the contest sake. Google CodeJam, Project Euler, ACM ICPC, you name it.
But what if the company supposed to hire this winner just starts a TopCoder Contest, too? This example shows quite clearly that there are people out there selling their souls for bragging rights. Why do you think, this will not be exploited? Remember: That contest yielded 2,684 hours of development time with an overwhelming result for just 6k USD, there is no way to get cheaper. You can brag, that's it. I think those competitions ruin the income of software developers in the long run. Not to mention that someone has to maintain the code.
Simply get a bread board and the components you wanna mess with. Be warned you will need a programmer if you are using Cs. They can be bought, some can be built quite easily. I prefer the Atmel family. IIRC there is a do-it-yourself programmer for Atmels.
And who was it who opened pandoras box? Who attacked infrastructure to destroy it? Who attacked a nation and said it with a straight face to the rest of the world? Tit for tat I would say.
If you are learning martial arts, you first learn how to fall without hurting yourself.;) I think it is important to learn how to code robustly. Most of CS students should already know how broken many systems are. As others stated: Don't scan systems without consent but feel free to hack your own boxes and programs.
I was talking about games like Go and Chess and I really doubt, they are called arcade games.;) The optimal strategy may involve statistics if the game has a part with some chance. You may know this from card games, where you weight the likelihood of events with your gain. As in most games, you can't change the conditions aka. rules and past actions you have to adapt, as you have written. Only because a strategy is optimal it doesn't mean you will win every time, but that there is no strategy with an higher expectancy of a win (if we are talking about games that consist of chance). As mark-t wrote: Chance is by no means the opposite of strategy, but sometimes you may have to account for it.
Even for computers it is really hard to find an optimal strategy for Go. To my knowledge it's still a research topic. No surprise it's even harder for humans. Concerning how much effort was needed to research and program software, that beats a human in chess, I thought it would have been well known, that humans can't find an optimal strategy in this game either.
If those gifted students are discouraged by downloading and installing java sdk + eclipse (just unpack), then how on earth are they supposed to be not discouraged by learning a language, (anti-)patterns, libraries and what legacy code does. If they are so mildly interested in the topic, that installing 2 things is too complicated / too much work, I don't see them finishing their journey either way.
In Germany the official sequel to "Daemon" is called "Dark Net" not "Freedom", if you are interested in a read.;) I don't now why they changed the name, though.
Yes they would. Walking, cycling, going by bus / train / tube / tram. Maybe this would even end people driving 2 hours a day from A to B whilst the same number of people drives 2 hours from B to A each day just to work.
I hope Google delists these webpages (only the specific pages that correlate to the films) and any other (free?) advertisements. Maybe then the film studios get to feel, how it is not having ads in the internet. Just let them shoot in their own feet.
Or go LAPP and use PostgreSQL instead of MySQL.;) But either way: Try to automate all recurring tasks, try to make all information necessary for one job visible from one spot.
How about just encrypting your mails in your client? If the mail service de- and encrypts your mail, they have the keys. So there is no improved security.
Where is the rationality behind not openly stand by his (non-)believes when questioned and no risk of harm is involved? You will find people who you disagree with in allmost every group of people. It's like saying "I am not going to university, because i don't want to be associated with lazy, drunk students." This just doesn't make sense to me. You are you, and not any other member of a given group.
At first, please try to test your code. At least if you can't formally proof it's right testing is the only way to get the most bugs out of the code. Working test first can improve code quality substancially in function and in form, as you can refactor safely with tests in place. Try writing some mock-ups for things outside your own code.
I would choose some distributed versioning system. Not so much because it's distributed, but the most known ones (git, mercurial, bazar) behave way better than svn. The merging algorithms are better and checking out/in on svn with many small files is really, really slow, as it transfers one file after another. Bonus point: working on a local "copy" is fast as no network is going to slow you down.
Could it be Joe and Jane Somebody don't need a quad core CPU with 8 gigs of RAM, 3 tb HDD and a 3 tflops CPU to read mails, facebook, or use office tools? People seem to be okay with their PC hardware? You don't say...
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That is why I only take part in contests, where my work is not usable in any production environment. Contests for the contest sake. Google CodeJam, Project Euler, ACM ICPC, you name it.
But what if the company supposed to hire this winner just starts a TopCoder Contest, too? This example shows quite clearly that there are people out there selling their souls for bragging rights. Why do you think, this will not be exploited? Remember: That contest yielded 2,684 hours of development time with an overwhelming result for just 6k USD, there is no way to get cheaper. You can brag, that's it. I think those competitions ruin the income of software developers in the long run. Not to mention that someone has to maintain the code.
Simply get a bread board and the components you wanna mess with. Be warned you will need a programmer if you are using Cs. They can be bought, some can be built quite easily. I prefer the Atmel family. IIRC there is a do-it-yourself programmer for Atmels.
And who was it who opened pandoras box? Who attacked infrastructure to destroy it? Who attacked a nation and said it with a straight face to the rest of the world? Tit for tat I would say.
If you are learning martial arts, you first learn how to fall without hurting yourself. ;) I think it is important to learn how to code robustly. Most of CS students should already know how broken many systems are. As others stated: Don't scan systems without consent but feel free to hack your own boxes and programs.
I was talking about games like Go and Chess and I really doubt, they are called arcade games. ;)
The optimal strategy may involve statistics if the game has a part with some chance. You may know this from card games, where you weight the likelihood of events with your gain. As in most games, you can't change the conditions aka. rules and past actions you have to adapt, as you have written. Only because a strategy is optimal it doesn't mean you will win every time, but that there is no strategy with an higher expectancy of a win (if we are talking about games that consist of chance).
As mark-t wrote: Chance is by no means the opposite of strategy, but sometimes you may have to account for it.
Wrong. There is an optimal strategy, but most likely you will find it only by chance.
Even for computers it is really hard to find an optimal strategy for Go. To my knowledge it's still a research topic. No surprise it's even harder for humans. Concerning how much effort was needed to research and program software, that beats a human in chess, I thought it would have been well known, that humans can't find an optimal strategy in this game either.
Those good old 12 o'clock flashers. :)
If those gifted students are discouraged by downloading and installing java sdk + eclipse (just unpack), then how on earth are they supposed to be not discouraged by learning a language, (anti-)patterns, libraries and what legacy code does. If they are so mildly interested in the topic, that installing 2 things is too complicated / too much work, I don't see them finishing their journey either way.
In Germany the official sequel to "Daemon" is called "Dark Net" not "Freedom", if you are interested in a read. ;) I don't now why they changed the name, though.
Yes they would. Walking, cycling, going by bus / train / tube / tram. Maybe this would even end people driving 2 hours a day from A to B whilst the same number of people drives 2 hours from B to A each day just to work.
What is 50% warmer supposed to be? This makes no sense in physics. Only maybe if you refer to temperatures in kelvin.
I hope Google delists these webpages (only the specific pages that correlate to the films) and any other (free?) advertisements. Maybe then the film studios get to feel, how it is not having ads in the internet. Just let them shoot in their own feet.
...but if they really manage to make circuits I am really impressed.
Okay, then LAPC(GI)? or LAPT(omcat)? ;)
Or go LAPP and use PostgreSQL instead of MySQL. ;)
But either way: Try to automate all recurring tasks, try to make all information necessary for one job visible from one spot.
How about just encrypting your mails in your client? If the mail service de- and encrypts your mail, they have the keys. So there is no improved security.
I would never have thought the RIAA could ever do this. It was the last bastion of integrity.
Where is the rationality behind not openly stand by his (non-)believes when questioned and no risk of harm is involved? You will find people who you disagree with in allmost every group of people. It's like saying "I am not going to university, because i don't want to be associated with lazy, drunk students." This just doesn't make sense to me. You are you, and not any other member of a given group.
You can switch lead on-the-fly.
At first, please try to test your code. At least if you can't formally proof it's right testing is the only way to get the most bugs out of the code. Working test first can improve code quality substancially in function and in form, as you can refactor safely with tests in place. Try writing some mock-ups for things outside your own code.
I would choose some distributed versioning system. Not so much because it's distributed, but the most known ones (git, mercurial, bazar) behave way better than svn. The merging algorithms are better and checking out/in on svn with many small files is really, really slow, as it transfers one file after another. Bonus point: working on a local "copy" is fast as no network is going to slow you down.
Could it be Joe and Jane Somebody don't need a quad core CPU with 8 gigs of RAM, 3 tb HDD and a 3 tflops CPU to read mails, facebook, or use office tools?
People seem to be okay with their PC hardware? You don't say...