I know it can't reach into the crevices and what not, but would a UV "wand" be effective in eliminating a lot of surface dwelling bacteria? They could make a little roomba on a tether with a UV spot light that slowly goes around exposing surfaces to strong UV.... We have UV filters in aquariums that seem to do a decent job killing pathogens...
I hate to say it but.. because women are smarter. Only low self esteem men put up with the kind of horrible shit the average coder puts up with these days, including being bullied by High Alpha Fratbros and Sorority Sisters that are quickly becoming the "new management" of Silicon Valley. Women? Fuck that. "Oh shit, I got pregnant, I'm outta here, fuck this shit." At least that's my observation. it takes a certain kind of loser to sit there and get shoveled shit to eat with a smile day after day after day.
And remember, recently the most important thing to come out of Silicon Valley is the attitude that we only need you until we don't, so fuck you from management (Netflix). I mean, it's always been there, but before they used to at least pretend that you were valuable and try to move people around, but now? The day the project is done, hope you have your resume ready because your ass is hitting the streets. And that was brought here from Netflix by a woman, who lost her job the same way.
But fuck.. some part of me would love to work at the NSA doing this sort of shit (and getting paid to do it). Yeah, there's the whole "but you're undermining FREEDOM!" angle, but there's a part of me that wants to ignore that and play with amazing shit.
Then again, there's a lot of folks who scoff at the NSA doing it, but hey, if Apple, Google, or FB had done it it'd be some sort of market miracle or some bullshit.:/
In their case, when it detects a cyber attack, it signals the giant mecha robot station in LEO to launch powered cybernetic suits that enter the earths atmosphere and land on top of the attack command and control. These suits then rip the roofs off the houses/offices of the attackers and pulls their pasty, fat asses out of their chairs and slice them to pieces using energy blade weapons. Unless the attackers are female, at which point they are returned to the giant mecha robot station to be brainwashed and trained as cybernetic suit pilots with psychic powers and fucked up emotional issues of identity, purpose, and a weird love 2+n(angle).
Depends. Apparently, in the UK, degree programs aren't as "broad" as they are here in the US. So, you take just the math and computer science courses, but not the history, anthropology, 4 semesters of foreign language, etc etc. I mean, let's think about it (from memory): Calc: 3 courses Discrete: 1 Linear Algebra: 1 Diff Eq: 1 Total Math to get a base: 6 (add in a couple electives for those wishing to go further)
Computer Science: Intro to Comp Sci: 1 Intro to Programming (SICP!): 1 Data Structures + intro to algorithms: 1 Algorithms: 1 Compilers: 1 OS: 1 and you could probably add 3-6 electives on top of this as the student desires. So that's, what, 6 fundamentals courses plus a few specialized courses?
That's 12 courses to cover the minimum. Spread that out to about 4 classes per semester, 3 semesters a year, that's a single year. Now add a second year of electives, about 12 courses. Third year: projects and work study.
Do this online, at my own pace, keep the cost to under $10k for the whole program (for reference, University of London offers a full BSc in Computer Science for ~$7500 USD completed in 3-8 years at your pace. I think we can do better), and I'd sign up.
I ran track in high school and have done C25k a few times (week 7 is where I stop). Your point still stands, though. If I was going to get a runner's high, i'd have gotten one by now. As it is, my "high" is kinda like the Lament Configuration: I'm just so happy when I stop running because I've stopped running.
^This poster gets it. If I find myself in a so-called "toxic community", I will leave. If I find what that toxic community is doing, production wise, valuable, I will do it myself and try to create a community that is less toxic for me. In my case, I was/am a punk rock kid of the 80s/90s. You want to talk about toxic? The entirety of mainstream America was, in my esteem, toxic. Then in the punk scene itself? The straight-edge vegans and the pc punks were both insufferable. Instead of trying to browbeat everyone into what I thought was the "ideal" punk rock scene (inclusive rather than trying to be a cool kid), I did it myself. I started my own bands with my friends and before you know it, we had a rather large following of punks who had the same sort of inclusive, can do attitude I had. Sure, I can complain about how self-righteous cuntbags the sXe/hardline kids were, or how super sensitive idiotic the PC Punks where, but what good does that do? Do it yourself and don't worry about what other people think. Lead by example instead of whinging about every perceived slight. Shut the fuck up and build something.
Show me where I said that. The fact that you can't comprehend what I said says more about you than it does me. Now, shut the fuck up and build something you fucking idiot.
Amazing yourself. The fact that you are unable to comprehend the big scary ideas in my OP says that YOU are the problem, not I. Shut the fuck up and build something.
One of the things that draws me to Open Source is that the barriers to entry are absolutely fucking zero. You want to build an Open Source app? Do it. Release it. If people want to use it and contribute to it, they will. If not, they won't (see the billions of abandoned/disused apps on sourceforge, github, etc). Run it however the fuck you want.
However, this really smacks of "Oh, but doesn't feel welcome in the community!" that's been going around lately. So the fuck what? DO IT YOURSELF. Don't wait for my approval. Don't wait to look around to see if anyone cares. If you want to do it, DO IT. You don't like how some maintainer is maintaining a project? FORK IT and make SOMETHING BETTER. Show them how YOU would do it. Just SHUT THE FUCK UP AND START DOING instead of WHINING.
I"m in the huge phone camp (note 4), but I'd love to see what they could do with a high density screen on, say, that samsung galaxy alpha? form factor.
Unlike many of my office co-workers, I've done manual/physical labor in warehouses and what not. When I hear about office productivity and reporting, I often wonder just exactly what it is they're measuring because for software development, none of the metrics actually seem to apply. With physical labor, I never felt like I had a moment to breathe. Twenty eight boxes per minute was the standard, the goal, and the basis for all future performance metric evaluations (including raises and bonuses). Clock in. Start. Twenty eight boxes per minute. Small boxes. Big boxes. Heavy boxes. Broken boxes. reach, grab, place. reach, grab, place. No moments to think about life, what I want for dinner, what my professor talked about in my day classes. Box. Box. Box. Box. Box. Box. Twenty eight times per minute (my rate was around 35-40, though. I miss being young, but I don't miss wasting that youth on boxes). As I moved into the "white collar" world, the standards seemed to change. "File X papers/hour. Answer X phone calls per hour." Same sort of goals. I knew exactly where I stood at all times in the grand queue of things.
As a developer.. It's a completely different world. Lines of Code? Bullshit, everyone knows how to game that. Milestones? Same deal. Half the time we're completing projects in 1/8th the allocated time and browsing the web the rest, the other half we're scrambling because they only allocated 1/8th the time it actually requires to get the job done (Try working for the.gov as a software developer.. Estimates aren't really an art as much as a "what can I say to make the guy in charge of my contract happy?", apparently). Etc. Productivity as a measurement in software development is increasingly idiotic. Whenever I hear "agile" and "scrum" I hear "We're trying to make objective measurements on something that really has no objective measurements because we have to check this box right here that says I have to have objective proof I'm actually working and doing my job!" Bleh.
Devil's Advocate: I used to tell my parents I liked shit all the time when it was obvious to me that not liking shit would mean they were disappointed and/or would continue hammering whatever it was in my face all the time. See: piano lessons. So, while she may think her daughter now totally loves programming, it could just be she's going along with it to make mom happy-ish.
Yeah, we have some of those guys in our region, but for the most part, I tend to not hang out with them even if they're in my faction. I'm the lone smurf in my immediate area and battle 5-6 toads on a regular basis, but I've also met all of them in real life, even had drinks/food with some. We all acknowledge that 1) it's a game. 2) it's a game 3) it's a game. We talk shit back and forth, but when it comes right down to it, if they don't take down my fields and portals, then my only mission is to basically recharge portals and that game *sucks*. I just got back from a 4 mile Ingress walk to retake my neighborhood from the weekend travellers and I'm already getting alerts from the usual suspects working on their work portals.
The psychos.. I dunno. We found out one of our faction guys was a registered pedophile and was actually trying to recruit school aged kids when he was busted again. that's kinda chilling for an all-ages style game.
Weird, I grew up in TN and in my rural high school (450 students, 7-12th grade), we had a nice discussion about evolution. Our teacher did start with "We're going to talk about evolution and I know some of you have religious exemptions from learning this, if so, please go to the library for the next few weeks while we get through the material. I remember only one person left the classroom and was really confused as to how anyone could actually be offended by evolution or science in general (this is also about the time I discovered atheism and had already left my fundamentalist church a year or two prior).
I'll give a self aware drone about 5 minutes before someone hacks their bios to load Cyanogen Drone OS because fuck you don't tell me what to do with my property even if it's violating someone else's property.
Seriously. This person makes me hate working in tech. I bet that asshole makes decent money to google "HEX CODE FOR RED", as well. Fuck this. Fuck this industry.
I can't speak for anyone else, but most "tech jobs" I've held were with companies whose futures and business I had no stake in, nor interest in having stake in, and the work to be routinely uninteresting where creativity was actively discouraged (for good reasons, many times), individuality was suppressed, and I was treated as a replaceable cog (and I was). I'm fortunate in that I have many other outlets for my creative needs, but dealing with corporate bureaucracy, idiot bosses, etc does take its toll. The paychecks are nice and allow me to have a comfortable life outside of work, but I will say that after 2 decades, I'm ready to throw in the towel and do something else, even if it means downsizing again.
I find it extremely weird that people whom otherwise demand empirical, scientifically validated (or at least, the potential for scientifically validated) proofs for everything in their lives latch on to the Religion of von Mises. "Proof! Proof! Proof! Except for my pet theory of economics..."
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I know it can't reach into the crevices and what not, but would a UV "wand" be effective in eliminating a lot of surface dwelling bacteria? They could make a little roomba on a tether with a UV spot light that slowly goes around exposing surfaces to strong UV.... We have UV filters in aquariums that seem to do a decent job killing pathogens...
(Norvig's Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming is a classic in the field, if not a little outdated)
I hate to say it but.. because women are smarter. Only low self esteem men put up with the kind of horrible shit the average coder puts up with these days, including being bullied by High Alpha Fratbros and Sorority Sisters that are quickly becoming the "new management" of Silicon Valley. Women? Fuck that. "Oh shit, I got pregnant, I'm outta here, fuck this shit." At least that's my observation. it takes a certain kind of loser to sit there and get shoveled shit to eat with a smile day after day after day.
And remember, recently the most important thing to come out of Silicon Valley is the attitude that we only need you until we don't, so fuck you from management (Netflix). I mean, it's always been there, but before they used to at least pretend that you were valuable and try to move people around, but now? The day the project is done, hope you have your resume ready because your ass is hitting the streets. And that was brought here from Netflix by a woman, who lost her job the same way.
But fuck.. some part of me would love to work at the NSA doing this sort of shit (and getting paid to do it). Yeah, there's the whole "but you're undermining FREEDOM!" angle, but there's a part of me that wants to ignore that and play with amazing shit.
Then again, there's a lot of folks who scoff at the NSA doing it, but hey, if Apple, Google, or FB had done it it'd be some sort of market miracle or some bullshit. :/
In their case, when it detects a cyber attack, it signals the giant mecha robot station in LEO to launch powered cybernetic suits that enter the earths atmosphere and land on top of the attack command and control. These suits then rip the roofs off the houses/offices of the attackers and pulls their pasty, fat asses out of their chairs and slice them to pieces using energy blade weapons. Unless the attackers are female, at which point they are returned to the giant mecha robot station to be brainwashed and trained as cybernetic suit pilots with psychic powers and fucked up emotional issues of identity, purpose, and a weird love 2+n(angle).
Depends. Apparently, in the UK, degree programs aren't as "broad" as they are here in the US. So, you take just the math and computer science courses, but not the history, anthropology, 4 semesters of foreign language, etc etc. I mean, let's think about it (from memory):
Calc: 3 courses
Discrete: 1
Linear Algebra: 1
Diff Eq: 1
Total Math to get a base: 6 (add in a couple electives for those wishing to go further)
Computer Science:
Intro to Comp Sci: 1
Intro to Programming (SICP!): 1
Data Structures + intro to algorithms: 1
Algorithms: 1
Compilers: 1
OS: 1
and you could probably add 3-6 electives on top of this as the student desires.
So that's, what, 6 fundamentals courses plus a few specialized courses?
That's 12 courses to cover the minimum. Spread that out to about 4 classes per semester, 3 semesters a year, that's a single year. Now add a second year of electives, about 12 courses. Third year: projects and work study.
Do this online, at my own pace, keep the cost to under $10k for the whole program (for reference, University of London offers a full BSc in Computer Science for ~$7500 USD completed in 3-8 years at your pace. I think we can do better), and I'd sign up.
I ran track in high school and have done C25k a few times (week 7 is where I stop). Your point still stands, though. If I was going to get a runner's high, i'd have gotten one by now. As it is, my "high" is kinda like the Lament Configuration: I'm just so happy when I stop running because I've stopped running.
^This poster gets it. If I find myself in a so-called "toxic community", I will leave. If I find what that toxic community is doing, production wise, valuable, I will do it myself and try to create a community that is less toxic for me. In my case, I was/am a punk rock kid of the 80s/90s. You want to talk about toxic? The entirety of mainstream America was, in my esteem, toxic. Then in the punk scene itself? The straight-edge vegans and the pc punks were both insufferable. Instead of trying to browbeat everyone into what I thought was the "ideal" punk rock scene (inclusive rather than trying to be a cool kid), I did it myself. I started my own bands with my friends and before you know it, we had a rather large following of punks who had the same sort of inclusive, can do attitude I had. Sure, I can complain about how self-righteous cuntbags the sXe/hardline kids were, or how super sensitive idiotic the PC Punks where, but what good does that do? Do it yourself and don't worry about what other people think. Lead by example instead of whinging about every perceived slight. Shut the fuck up and build something.
Show me where I said that. The fact that you can't comprehend what I said says more about you than it does me. Now, shut the fuck up and build something you fucking idiot.
Amazing yourself. The fact that you are unable to comprehend the big scary ideas in my OP says that YOU are the problem, not I. Shut the fuck up and build something.
It's almost as if you're fucking retarded and should shut the fuck up and build something.
Build your own fucking community, run by your rules. Shut the fuck up and build something.
One of the things that draws me to Open Source is that the barriers to entry are absolutely fucking zero. You want to build an Open Source app? Do it. Release it. If people want to use it and contribute to it, they will. If not, they won't (see the billions of abandoned/disused apps on sourceforge, github, etc). Run it however the fuck you want.
However, this really smacks of "Oh, but doesn't feel welcome in the community!" that's been going around lately. So the fuck what? DO IT YOURSELF. Don't wait for my approval. Don't wait to look around to see if anyone cares. If you want to do it, DO IT. You don't like how some maintainer is maintaining a project? FORK IT and make SOMETHING BETTER. Show them how YOU would do it. Just SHUT THE FUCK UP AND START DOING instead of WHINING.
I tried doing this, but the cops seem to disagree that a 40+ year old man beating up 3rd graders is an effective way of dealing with bullies...
I"m in the huge phone camp (note 4), but I'd love to see what they could do with a high density screen on, say, that samsung galaxy alpha? form factor.
Unlike many of my office co-workers, I've done manual/physical labor in warehouses and what not. When I hear about office productivity and reporting, I often wonder just exactly what it is they're measuring because for software development, none of the metrics actually seem to apply. With physical labor, I never felt like I had a moment to breathe. Twenty eight boxes per minute was the standard, the goal, and the basis for all future performance metric evaluations (including raises and bonuses). Clock in. Start. Twenty eight boxes per minute. Small boxes. Big boxes. Heavy boxes. Broken boxes. reach, grab, place. reach, grab, place. No moments to think about life, what I want for dinner, what my professor talked about in my day classes. Box. Box. Box. Box. Box. Box. Twenty eight times per minute (my rate was around 35-40, though. I miss being young, but I don't miss wasting that youth on boxes). As I moved into the "white collar" world, the standards seemed to change. "File X papers/hour. Answer X phone calls per hour." Same sort of goals. I knew exactly where I stood at all times in the grand queue of things.
As a developer.. It's a completely different world. Lines of Code? Bullshit, everyone knows how to game that. Milestones? Same deal. Half the time we're completing projects in 1/8th the allocated time and browsing the web the rest, the other half we're scrambling because they only allocated 1/8th the time it actually requires to get the job done (Try working for the .gov as a software developer.. Estimates aren't really an art as much as a "what can I say to make the guy in charge of my contract happy?", apparently). Etc. Productivity as a measurement in software development is increasingly idiotic. Whenever I hear "agile" and "scrum" I hear "We're trying to make objective measurements on something that really has no objective measurements because we have to check this box right here that says I have to have objective proof I'm actually working and doing my job!" Bleh.
Devil's Advocate: I used to tell my parents I liked shit all the time when it was obvious to me that not liking shit would mean they were disappointed and/or would continue hammering whatever it was in my face all the time. See: piano lessons. So, while she may think her daughter now totally loves programming, it could just be she's going along with it to make mom happy-ish.
Yeah, we have some of those guys in our region, but for the most part, I tend to not hang out with them even if they're in my faction. I'm the lone smurf in my immediate area and battle 5-6 toads on a regular basis, but I've also met all of them in real life, even had drinks/food with some. We all acknowledge that 1) it's a game. 2) it's a game 3) it's a game. We talk shit back and forth, but when it comes right down to it, if they don't take down my fields and portals, then my only mission is to basically recharge portals and that game *sucks*. I just got back from a 4 mile Ingress walk to retake my neighborhood from the weekend travellers and I'm already getting alerts from the usual suspects working on their work portals.
The psychos.. I dunno. We found out one of our faction guys was a registered pedophile and was actually trying to recruit school aged kids when he was busted again. that's kinda chilling for an all-ages style game.
Weird, I grew up in TN and in my rural high school (450 students, 7-12th grade), we had a nice discussion about evolution. Our teacher did start with "We're going to talk about evolution and I know some of you have religious exemptions from learning this, if so, please go to the library for the next few weeks while we get through the material. I remember only one person left the classroom and was really confused as to how anyone could actually be offended by evolution or science in general (this is also about the time I discovered atheism and had already left my fundamentalist church a year or two prior).
I'll give a self aware drone about 5 minutes before someone hacks their bios to load Cyanogen Drone OS because fuck you don't tell me what to do with my property even if it's violating someone else's property.
Luggage cams! Every time your luggage is opened, built-in cameras start rolling to capture who/what/how/when.
Because the /. editors think you're all gay and at risk of AIDS.
Seriously. This person makes me hate working in tech. I bet that asshole makes decent money to google "HEX CODE FOR RED", as well. Fuck this. Fuck this industry.
I can't speak for anyone else, but most "tech jobs" I've held were with companies whose futures and business I had no stake in, nor interest in having stake in, and the work to be routinely uninteresting where creativity was actively discouraged (for good reasons, many times), individuality was suppressed, and I was treated as a replaceable cog (and I was). I'm fortunate in that I have many other outlets for my creative needs, but dealing with corporate bureaucracy, idiot bosses, etc does take its toll. The paychecks are nice and allow me to have a comfortable life outside of work, but I will say that after 2 decades, I'm ready to throw in the towel and do something else, even if it means downsizing again.
I find it extremely weird that people whom otherwise demand empirical, scientifically validated (or at least, the potential for scientifically validated) proofs for everything in their lives latch on to the Religion of von Mises. "Proof! Proof! Proof! Except for my pet theory of economics..."