it just sounds like deeper and deeper abstraction or more simply global variables...which im sorry to say in my experience doesn't always solve the "programming problems" except for perhaps the guy who learned enough programming to be able to think at that level.
unfortunately, that type of code tends to be very un-maintainable by anyone other than the original author.
i never said I believe in The Singularity and obviously know that Moore's Law is a misnomer...it's more like a prediction that has so far been quite accurate.
i did say, however, that I believe Ray Kurtzweil is a genius, and knows more about engineering and technology then probably the entire userbase of slashdot combined. a quick look at his long list of serious technical achievements proves this beyond a reasonable doubt, altho i'm sure there are people here who are fantastical engineers. this is fact.
i also said that the rate of change in the Technium is non-linear, which makes it very very easy to underestimate where technology is going. this is fact.
i believe that brain skullcap manipulation is an engineering problem that will one day be solved...not in the name of enslaving humanity but to benefit it, and that an unfortunate unintended consequence will be that someone somewhere in future time and place will use the technology for nefarious purposes...this is conjecture based upon my reading of history.
i guess Moore's law is too, right?...and the fact that you currently have an 80's Cray supercomputer sitting in your pocket says nothing about the rate of change.
very very few people in the 80's could have even begun to predict that.
and you must be trolling...to say Ray Kurtzweil is just some "foolish expert" is to be utterly clueless about the history of technology, and shows how little you know about much of anything.
he probably did more before breakfast this morning then you will achieve in your entire life.
lol...really?? that's exactly what "experts" said about self-driving cars just 6 or 7 year ago...it was an impossible task.
read "The 2nd Machine Age" and "The Singularity Is Near"...the Technium is growing at a non-linear, exponential rate which mean linear approximations of where technology is taking us is radically off target, even projecting just 6-8 years into the future. using simple math and an x^2 growth rate, in 4 years the Technium will be (16 - 4 ) 12 TIMES further along then what most people can predict.
do you have *any* idea how much money is being pumped into neuroscience these days, and how moore's law is really being implemented?
of course its gonna work sooner or later...lol the brain is being deconstructed eleventeen-hundred different ways.
"And if you have your own database of recent photos to trawl through, the article says "The Chinese photo, taken March 18, is focused 90 degrees east and almost 45 degrees south, versus almost 91 degrees east and 44 degrees south for similar items on a March 16 satellite image, putting the object 120 kilometers southwest of that sighting.""
the day of mind-control brain caps that can enslave people is rapidly approaching...i've been talking about this for years and no one takes me seriously.
what happens when leaders of a country (say north korea) decide to REALLY eliminate all subversive ideas and just shoot signals into people's heads?
don't tell me it's not going to happen...even a cursory look at human history pretty much guarantees it will.
seriously, the last time i checked China was a communist country with no rule of law and no true free elections...isn't it then part of the national security interests of the United States to do what they can to keep tabs on all sorts of stuff?
don't we know that Chinese hackers have infiltrated *our* corporations? do you really think microsoft has never been hacked or the windows source code downloaded and sold to players all over the globe?
i mean, really...is what everyone here shooting for is the US just closing up all security agencies and saying to its citizens "well, game over...lets hope we never need protection against bad actors on the world stage....breath mint anyone?"
David Malan, who went to Harvard himself and is a rockstar teacher, teaches the course. I watched a couple of his lectures and found them interesting and engaging, even when he covers some basic concepts that I have long known. If I had him teaching me programming back in the day, I might have stuck with it and become a coder myself.
i'm sure its just me, but isn't this possibly the dumbest excuse for not becoming a programmer around?
almost all programmers i know who really add value to projects learned the stuff mostly on their own...teachers don't teach this stuff, the computer does. for the first six months almost everyone who is trying to write a program is going to be pounding their head on the desk.
only through that struggle will you begin to grok it.
i still thank my first Comp-Sci undergraduate teacher (FORTRAN for those interested) for issuing this offer to his students...
"anyone interested in getting an A and skipping having to come to class, if you write a bowling league manager that does this, this, and that and have it done in 10 weeks, talk to me after class"
I believe i was the only one who took him up on his offer, and to this day i'm thankful for him for the things i "learned" about PROFESSIONAL programming.
i'd have to argue that 95% of all programmers under the age of 28 would never consider using.Net for any web-based stuff, so in there young minds it *is* "legacy"
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amazing insights...i shot milk thru my nose AND pondered deeply.
bravo.
it just sounds like deeper and deeper abstraction or more simply global variables...which im sorry to say in my experience doesn't always solve the "programming problems" except for perhaps the guy who learned enough programming to be able to think at that level.
unfortunately, that type of code tends to be very un-maintainable by anyone other than the original author.
for a $90k car...why not carbon fiber too?
hasn't the tech party line always been "governments can't censor us, the internet sees that as damage and routes around it" or something like that?
it sure looks like governments are doing a pretty good jobs of destroying that meme, be it Turkey or China...or even perhaps the NSA/US.
and of course i *know* vpns and proxies can be set up...i wonder how many typical chinese citizens know how to set those up tho.
well...since you seem to have me dead to rights i might as well confess all my sins to you oh keeper of the /. grammer and style.
in 2nd grade i colored outside the lines. i know i know the horror...THE HORROR!!!
thank you, kind sir, for your virtual wrist slaps and absolution from my sins. i feel much better now.
i never said I believe in The Singularity and obviously know that Moore's Law is a misnomer...it's more like a prediction that has so far been quite accurate.
i did say, however, that I believe Ray Kurtzweil is a genius, and knows more about engineering and technology then probably the entire userbase of slashdot combined. a quick look at his long list of serious technical achievements proves this beyond a reasonable doubt, altho i'm sure there are people here who are fantastical engineers. this is fact.
i also said that the rate of change in the Technium is non-linear, which makes it very very easy to underestimate where technology is going. this is fact.
i believe that brain skullcap manipulation is an engineering problem that will one day be solved...not in the name of enslaving humanity but to benefit it, and that an unfortunate unintended consequence will be that someone somewhere in future time and place will use the technology for nefarious purposes...this is conjecture based upon my reading of history.
i guess Moore's law is too, right? ...and the fact that you currently have an 80's Cray supercomputer sitting in your pocket says nothing about the rate of change.
very very few people in the 80's could have even begun to predict that.
and you must be trolling...to say Ray Kurtzweil is just some "foolish expert" is to be utterly clueless about the history of technology, and shows how little you know about much of anything.
he probably did more before breakfast this morning then you will achieve in your entire life.
ahhh...the ad hominem attacks cometh. ...preparing for nazi reference in 5....4....3....
i dunno...3d print it with polymers?
lol...really?? that's exactly what "experts" said about self-driving cars just 6 or 7 year ago...it was an impossible task.
read "The 2nd Machine Age" and "The Singularity Is Near"...the Technium is growing at a non-linear, exponential rate which mean linear approximations of where technology is taking us is radically off target, even projecting just 6-8 years into the future. using simple math and an x^2 growth rate, in 4 years the Technium will be (16 - 4 ) 12 TIMES further along then what most people can predict.
do you have *any* idea how much money is being pumped into neuroscience these days, and how moore's law is really being implemented?
of course its gonna work sooner or later...lol the brain is being deconstructed eleventeen-hundred different ways.
"And if you have your own database of recent photos to trawl through, the article says "The Chinese photo, taken March 18, is focused 90 degrees east and almost 45 degrees south, versus almost 91 degrees east and 44 degrees south for similar items on a March 16 satellite image, putting the object 120 kilometers southwest of that sighting.""
what?? a database??
I'M BEHIND SEVEN DATABASES BIOTCHS!
the day of mind-control brain caps that can enslave people is rapidly approaching...i've been talking about this for years and no one takes me seriously.
what happens when leaders of a country (say north korea) decide to REALLY eliminate all subversive ideas and just shoot signals into people's heads?
don't tell me it's not going to happen...even a cursory look at human history pretty much guarantees it will.
...isn't that kinda what we pay them to do?
seriously, the last time i checked China was a communist country with no rule of law and no true free elections...isn't it then part of the national security interests of the United States to do what they can to keep tabs on all sorts of stuff?
don't we know that Chinese hackers have infiltrated *our* corporations? do you really think microsoft has never been hacked or the windows source code downloaded and sold to players all over the globe?
i mean, really...is what everyone here shooting for is the US just closing up all security agencies and saying to its citizens "well, game over...lets hope we never need protection against bad actors on the world stage....breath mint anyone?"
evolution isn't real, right? adaptation to environmental stresses just a theory...
tell that to these farmers.
of yeah...becuz of course most junkie pickpockets are looking for nerdy thumb drives and not cold hard cash and credit cards.
and on top of it, of course my thumb drive..in the pocket...with my bitcoin wallet...is going to be nicely encrypted with a 1024-bit key
it would be pretty hard to steal from my BC wallet if it was on a thumb drive in my pocket all the time...
really?
yeah i dont know anythinga bout that stuff
its just pure ignorance that i dont follow convention
David Malan, who went to Harvard himself and is a rockstar teacher, teaches the course. I watched a couple of his lectures and found them interesting and engaging, even when he covers some basic concepts that I have long known. If I had him teaching me programming back in the day, I might have stuck with it and become a coder myself.
i'm sure its just me, but isn't this possibly the dumbest excuse for not becoming a programmer around?
almost all programmers i know who really add value to projects learned the stuff mostly on their own...teachers don't teach this stuff, the computer does. for the first six months almost everyone who is trying to write a program is going to be pounding their head on the desk.
only through that struggle will you begin to grok it.
i still thank my first Comp-Sci undergraduate teacher (FORTRAN for those interested) for issuing this offer to his students...
"anyone interested in getting an A and skipping having to come to class, if you write a bowling league manager that does this, this, and that and have it done in 10 weeks, talk to me after class"
I believe i was the only one who took him up on his offer, and to this day i'm thankful for him for the things i "learned" about PROFESSIONAL programming.
it's a lot harder to actually steal money online then people think.
" Comcast threatening to de-prioritize content delivery from websites that don't pay them a fee,"
last i heard...wasn't Nexflix *trying* to pay them a fee for better delivery?
i think its an important distinction. with all the kerfluffle about net neutrality, shouldn't we make sure the players are well identified?
...unless, of course, they ask kinda nicely for it.
then we just hand it over.
my good man...your confusing what's trendy with what's tried and true.
with 15 years C++/OOP/SQL experience under your belt, you would no NONE problems finding a tons of really well paying jobs in your city of choice.
i'd have to argue that 95% of all programmers under the age of 28 would never consider using .Net for any web-based stuff, so in there young minds it *is* "legacy"
fantastic comment...why in the world would you post as AC?
+3 awesome