Well, see, I'm not surprised to know. In fact, that's what had me stumped about his post...
I don't know what the big deal is about 3D printers and guns. Hell, if you could manufacture a gun using a magic wand and sell it, it would be illegal if you don't have a License to Manufacture firearms... Give it up already...
This sounds like total nonsense when you understand that a 3d printed firearm could be used for crimes, including rampages ending in suicide. I wanted to give the benefit of the doubt, but anyone who is only concerned with the licensing and selling of 3d printed firearms is a complete idiot.
Men appear in porn too. Straight porn, even. Have we defined what it is about men that makes them immune to the dangers of porn acting that women have no defense? Or is it that if you ask a guy about porn he just shrugs and says what about it?
Unfortunately for those who've never eaten healthy in their life they don't know they feel like crap. They don't have any other experience to compare it to. A few years ago I started eating a lot healthier, and replaced one meal per week with just a salad. I thought I was going to feel like crap due to what I perceived to be a lack of substance but it turned out I had way more energy and started to feel "good" for the first time since childhood. After I cut out sugar, sodas, and most red meat I find myself feeling much more energetic. Exercising in the morning added to this effect. I didn't know that I felt like crap eating crap food until I experienced something else. I think most people who eat fast food all the time and don't exercise think they feel fine. It's kinda sad.
What model of work is unlike prostitution? Prostitution is like any other service industry, it just has a negative stigma around it. It's even legal; so long as you keep video evidence of your crime it's no longer a crime.
- learn regular expressions
- learn to install and manage version control systems (svn, git)
- learn design patterns, anti patterns, and advanced architecture
- learn how to implement security in your servers and programming languages
- learn unit testing
- learn application development paradigms (waterfall, agile)
- learn how to optimize your sites through caching, cdns, concurrent request tricks (multiple subdomains) and auditing your logic
- learn the next big thing that sprung up while you were teaching yourself the stuff above
Went to a trade school for graphic design, taught myself programming. I have a BA, not a CS, but I spent nearly all my free time working in code and banging my head against the wall over the kinds of problems that are simple to me now, and worked as a programmer while still in school for my BA. I worked for really cheap, but experience got me a better job, where I worked with better programmers and in turn learned to be a better programmer. And that's how everyone I know got into programming. I don't know anyone who knew they wanted to be a programmer before they went to school and decided a CS degree would help them. You have to have a talent and enjoyment for problem solving, and a need that programming can solve. That's about it. Read books, teach yourself, and learn from others. Rinse, repeat. (Oh yeah, almost forgot. A programmer's education is never over. You will constantly teach yourself new tricks or become a manager.)
Also, Photoshop was, and still is, ridiculously intuitive and obvious how to use. Put an inexperienced person in front of Photoshop and then Eclipse (or NetBeans, or insert your favorite IDE here) and see what the person learns to use first. Hell, put them in front of Photoshop and then Flash. Photoshop is easy. Comedy is hard. Programming is impossible (but we still try).
(and also a liar, via the implication that you are not an American yourself)
This is a specious assumption. Being in a group does not mean a person is not willing and able to insult it. This assumption would make the world simpler for you, but the world is not this simple. Anyone with experience dealing with people knows that people do things that don't make logical sense all the time. All the fucking time. Quite often people feel like they are qualified and entitled to insult their own group because they are a part of it. This person is not necessarily a liar (for reasons inferred by your assumption).
LMAO. You haven't been paying attention. Ever heard of the Declaration of Independence? The Revolutionary War, which we won? The United States began in 1776, on July 4th, to be precise. Before that, the land and the people living there belonged to a European colony. After that, not so much. If anything, the UK is an American colony. They don't jump unless we say so, and when we say so, they say, "How high?" How can you breathe with your head so far up your ass?
The land where the US currently exists was a European colony
What Armenian Genocide? Sorry, tasteless joke. I worked with some Turkish girls about 10 years ago, and they swore up and down that it never happened, but complimented me on not being a dumb American ignorant of world events. Go figure.
"Obvious" and "oblivious" are not homonyms. A homonym, in the loosest sense, is a word that shares the same spelling or the same pronunciation as another word. Those two words share neither. In the strictest sense, a homonym shares both spelling and pronunciation. These two words are even farther from that. I'm not sure what, if any, term means a word that looks like another valid word when it's misspelled. It's not homonym, though.
GameStop does this. They don't even bother asking if I have one of their rewards cards to swipe to identify me. Having my phone number on file with GameStop has two advantages for me. When I had preordered games in one state and moved to another, they were able to transfer the preorder from my old location by using my phone number as a unique identifier. They also use my phone number to text me when games I've preordered have arrived. I love video games, but not enough to mentally keep track of their release dates.
On the flip side, I would be extremely pissed off to find out they sold my number to a robocaller. When Facebook started asking for my phone number I said fuck off. They couldn't hear me because I said it to the screen and clicked the No Thanks button or w/e. But I said it again when I had my FB account perma-deleted. Fuck Facebook. Fuck them running til they limp. GameStop is a legit business (insert chuckles here), Facebook is some douchebag Harvard dropout mercenary data miner with no respect for anyone. Zuck You, Fuckerberg.
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I don't know what the big deal is about 3D printers and guns. Hell, if you could manufacture a gun using a magic wand and sell it, it would be illegal if you don't have a License to Manufacture firearms... Give it up already...
This sounds like total nonsense when you understand that a 3d printed firearm could be used for crimes, including rampages ending in suicide. I wanted to give the benefit of the doubt, but anyone who is only concerned with the licensing and selling of 3d printed firearms is a complete idiot.
Are you being sarcastic?
Men appear in porn too. Straight porn, even. Have we defined what it is about men that makes them immune to the dangers of porn acting that women have no defense? Or is it that if you ask a guy about porn he just shrugs and says what about it?
Unfortunately for those who've never eaten healthy in their life they don't know they feel like crap. They don't have any other experience to compare it to. A few years ago I started eating a lot healthier, and replaced one meal per week with just a salad. I thought I was going to feel like crap due to what I perceived to be a lack of substance but it turned out I had way more energy and started to feel "good" for the first time since childhood. After I cut out sugar, sodas, and most red meat I find myself feeling much more energetic. Exercising in the morning added to this effect. I didn't know that I felt like crap eating crap food until I experienced something else. I think most people who eat fast food all the time and don't exercise think they feel fine. It's kinda sad.
What model of work is unlike prostitution? Prostitution is like any other service industry, it just has a negative stigma around it. It's even legal; so long as you keep video evidence of your crime it's no longer a crime.
Year 2:
- learn regular expressions
- learn to install and manage version control systems (svn, git)
- learn design patterns, anti patterns, and advanced architecture
- learn how to implement security in your servers and programming languages
- learn unit testing
- learn application development paradigms (waterfall, agile)
- learn how to optimize your sites through caching, cdns, concurrent request tricks (multiple subdomains) and auditing your logic
- learn the next big thing that sprung up while you were teaching yourself the stuff above
Yep. True, from experience.
Went to a trade school for graphic design, taught myself programming. I have a BA, not a CS, but I spent nearly all my free time working in code and banging my head against the wall over the kinds of problems that are simple to me now, and worked as a programmer while still in school for my BA. I worked for really cheap, but experience got me a better job, where I worked with better programmers and in turn learned to be a better programmer. And that's how everyone I know got into programming. I don't know anyone who knew they wanted to be a programmer before they went to school and decided a CS degree would help them. You have to have a talent and enjoyment for problem solving, and a need that programming can solve. That's about it. Read books, teach yourself, and learn from others. Rinse, repeat. (Oh yeah, almost forgot. A programmer's education is never over. You will constantly teach yourself new tricks or become a manager.)
I'm going to apply for a patent for the process of applying for patents for processes. I don't have to worry about prior art, obviously.
Also, Photoshop was, and still is, ridiculously intuitive and obvious how to use. Put an inexperienced person in front of Photoshop and then Eclipse (or NetBeans, or insert your favorite IDE here) and see what the person learns to use first. Hell, put them in front of Photoshop and then Flash. Photoshop is easy. Comedy is hard. Programming is impossible (but we still try).
Nobody who throws out the term "first world problems" has ever experienced any other kind.
5. Mod this AC up!
(and also a liar, via the implication that you are not an American yourself)
This is a specious assumption. Being in a group does not mean a person is not willing and able to insult it. This assumption would make the world simpler for you, but the world is not this simple. Anyone with experience dealing with people knows that people do things that don't make logical sense all the time. All the fucking time. Quite often people feel like they are qualified and entitled to insult their own group because they are a part of it. This person is not necessarily a liar (for reasons inferred by your assumption).
It's JUST like it, but DIFFERENT!!!!
It's true. There is a large population of female gamers in EVE too. Relatively speaking, of course.
This describes slashdot as well.
Economics is nerd territory.
The land where the US currently exists was a European colony
FTFY
What Armenian Genocide? Sorry, tasteless joke. I worked with some Turkish girls about 10 years ago, and they swore up and down that it never happened, but complimented me on not being a dumb American ignorant of world events. Go figure.
The US is European?
"Obvious" and "oblivious" are not homonyms. A homonym, in the loosest sense, is a word that shares the same spelling or the same pronunciation as another word. Those two words share neither. In the strictest sense, a homonym shares both spelling and pronunciation. These two words are even farther from that. I'm not sure what, if any, term means a word that looks like another valid word when it's misspelled. It's not homonym, though.
Evil will always triumph over good, because good is dumb.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic. That's the stupidest thing I've heard all week.
When you post anything to or about your friends, anything at all, you're informing on them. The only winning move is not to play.
GameStop does this. They don't even bother asking if I have one of their rewards cards to swipe to identify me. Having my phone number on file with GameStop has two advantages for me. When I had preordered games in one state and moved to another, they were able to transfer the preorder from my old location by using my phone number as a unique identifier. They also use my phone number to text me when games I've preordered have arrived. I love video games, but not enough to mentally keep track of their release dates.
On the flip side, I would be extremely pissed off to find out they sold my number to a robocaller. When Facebook started asking for my phone number I said fuck off. They couldn't hear me because I said it to the screen and clicked the No Thanks button or w/e. But I said it again when I had my FB account perma-deleted. Fuck Facebook. Fuck them running til they limp. GameStop is a legit business (insert chuckles here), Facebook is some douchebag Harvard dropout mercenary data miner with no respect for anyone. Zuck You, Fuckerberg.