The last thing young people in school need is more information. In seconds someone can lookup almost any information they will ever need on the interwebs.
Students need to learn how to analayze and make sense of all the information they have been given. What do people do once they work in the "real world"? Certainly not memorize everything they need to do their jobs. Lookup information, narrow it down to what you need to accomplish a task, and solve the problem.
That's what schools should teach.
the vast majority of programming jobs require the ability to code, and no further domain specific knowledge
However, the theory of Computer Science and the history of it is still important to teach an aspiring programmer/computer scientist (still don't even know what that really means.) I think that the CS curriculum needs to teach more practical applications of things, including pure programming, but also necessary skills like using a version control system. Or how to download and install packages on different platform or using continuous integration servers/databases and other commonly used technologies. Learning the theory of SQL databases from 50 years ago is certainly not as helpful as learning how to set up and actually run a local database.
More practical/hands on work, less theory and reading text books.
But that means I managed to destroy twenty-two pounds of them in one month
You skipped eating lunch for a month? And only ate 2 meals of 1000 calories, and lost weight? No wonder.
In the article it mentioned muscle mass. I would be very skeptical if you told me you lost 22 pounds without sacrificing muscle mass.
I personally think that how you look in the mirror is a much better indicator than your actual weight loss. But hey, if you lost 22 pounds and you think you look better, then great!
"Retired" and "Unemployed" are two words that may mean the same thing, or may not. If you're unemployed by choice, then you are what most people would refer to as "retired". If you are unemployed not by choice, then that makes people think you're unemployed because you can't find a job.
Oh, and I'm also stupidly wealthy, which is why I haven't had to work since 2000
Obviously you fall into the category of "retired".
It will also still include the ever popular 130 decibel klaxon for informing you of Amber alerts at 5 AM on a saturday.
There's nothing worse than the 130 decibel Amber alerts or "severe weather" alerts during a quiet meeting, and everyone's phone goes off at different times letting everyone know it's raining!
But seriously though. Is the risk worth the reward? $83k is a pretty average annual salary, some would say.
Is that really worth going to jail for the rest of your life (if they get caught)?
and the other is requiring you by law to be a responsible adult and not partake in activities that have been proven to kill people while driving and to perform those activities at a safe time
Sounds like drinking and driving. True vehicular manslaughter.
In 2010, 10,228 people were killed in alcohol-impaired driving crashes, accounting for nearly one-third (31%) of all traffic-related deaths in the United States.1
Back to my original point, Just having a law to tell people to stop doing something, even if it's enforced like DUI's, still won't prevent everyone from doing it. I think having a safer alternative, like this HUD display, is optimal to solve the problem. That's what technology is for, solving problems. Grumbling and complaing about people being on their phones won't solve anything.
Who drives with two hands? You only really need one to operate a steering wheel. Waving your hand left or right is significantly less distracting than typing on a keyboard. Not only that, but keeping your eyes on the road, as opposed to looking down, is much safer.
Here's a suggestion, save your damned text messages and social media updates for when you're not bloody well driving.
That worked out really well with prohibition. It is a great suggestion, but hoping people will not send texts/emails/answer phone calls while driving is simply naive. I think an invention like this that hopes to make it safer for people to use their phone while driving is a much better alternative than scolding people who use their phone. I completely agree that it is dangerous to use your phone. It's 2014, there are better/smarter ways to use a phone than holding it and typing on it.
how much does this picture of a hyper-connected, distracted, wants-to-be-advertised-to-24/7 Millenial match with actual people?
As for the millenials as a whole generation, it matches up pretty well. 24/7 access to information on smartphones. We (yes, I said we, as in millenials) don't need to ask people for information when we can get it right away. Which leads to impatience and wanting everything now.
I'm just not sure _everyone_ under 30 is like that.
You are absoloutely right. Not everyone under 30 wears fedoras and is a tech hipster. But,
a hyper-connected, distracted, wants-to-be-advertised-to-24/7 Millenial match with actual people
lines up almost exactly with every millenial because we all grew up with the internet and smart phones (for the most part). If we do everything else automated on our cell phones, it makes sense to have automated hotel check ins.
But like you said, the security implications will be interesting! We'll see if it will be easier or not to break into a hotel with a smartphone vs. traditional hotel room break ins.
"I can put my fingers on the actual keys just like a typewriter and know they won't slip off and hit the wrong key. I was heartbroken when then got rid of almost all qwerty keyboards in the new phones. They are now almost impossible to find."
I'll never be able to type as fast as I could using the T9 System. That's the last keyboard I could actually type on without looking, very quickly and very accurately.
Then I jumped right onto a smart phone touchscreen keyboard. For me, it really doesn't make a difference if I have to look at the keys and the screen, because they're so close together anyway.
My final point: slide-out keyboards are just one more physical moving part that can break on a cell phone. Don't need it.
sorry, old school here. But a sport involves the combo of physical exertion, and skill.
Exactly. Professional Sports athletes put in countless hours of blood, sweat, and tears to become the best at what they do. They need to practice and better themselves physically in order to become the best at what they do. They risk their bodies (from injuries) when playing sports. Sitting in a chair with a controller behind a TV/Computer screen is nothing compared to what "old school" sports athletes go through. 2 a day practices, 6am practices, etc. You just won't find that kind of sacrifice in esports -- at least not right now.
> the surgery is fairly inexpensive [even for a programmer:) ]
Oh you programmers have it so hard.
With your three thousand dollar a month apartments.
Actually, I bought a house when I was 22.
And that Honda Fit you drive just to show the world that you don't need the finer things in life.
I drive a Honda Accord, not a Fit, but close.
You should be required to work a year in retail in the same way some countries require a minimum of military service.
I worked at Best Buy (Doing Retail) for 3 years while I was in high school and college. It was a huge motivator for me to get my comp sci degree.
And your three hundred dollar bottle of scotch that you sample alone in your newly remodeled kitchen so you can tell the Internet about what a beverage snob you are.
And I've never drank scotch.
If you're so envious of programmers, there's still time to learn the skills to become a programmer. Heck, you can even teach yourself online.
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The last thing young people in school need is more information. In seconds someone can lookup almost any information they will ever need on the interwebs. Students need to learn how to analayze and make sense of all the information they have been given. What do people do once they work in the "real world"? Certainly not memorize everything they need to do their jobs. Lookup information, narrow it down to what you need to accomplish a task, and solve the problem. That's what schools should teach.
"Yeah! Science Bitch!" -Jesse Pinkman
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which they keep with the band-aids and aspirin
*which they keep wth the band-aids and aleve©
the vast majority of programming jobs require the ability to code, and no further domain specific knowledge
However, the theory of Computer Science and the history of it is still important to teach an aspiring programmer/computer scientist (still don't even know what that really means.) I think that the CS curriculum needs to teach more practical applications of things, including pure programming, but also necessary skills like using a version control system. Or how to download and install packages on different platform or using continuous integration servers/databases and other commonly used technologies. Learning the theory of SQL databases from 50 years ago is certainly not as helpful as learning how to set up and actually run a local database. More practical/hands on work, less theory and reading text books.
But that means I managed to destroy twenty-two pounds of them in one month
You skipped eating lunch for a month? And only ate 2 meals of 1000 calories, and lost weight? No wonder. In the article it mentioned muscle mass. I would be very skeptical if you told me you lost 22 pounds without sacrificing muscle mass. I personally think that how you look in the mirror is a much better indicator than your actual weight loss. But hey, if you lost 22 pounds and you think you look better, then great!
Oh, and I'm also stupidly wealthy, which is why I haven't had to work since 2000
Obviously you fall into the category of "retired".
Well, not yet. Move along.
Look at the screenshots! The text is in chinese! It's clearly different!
It just looks like an Android phone with a makeshift iOS theme on it. If that's what the demand is for, why not supply it?
Are there any future plans to gear c++ more towards the increasingly popular web development, or will that depend on 3rd party libraries, etc.?
It will also still include the ever popular 130 decibel klaxon for informing you of Amber alerts at 5 AM on a saturday.
There's nothing worse than the 130 decibel Amber alerts or "severe weather" alerts during a quiet meeting, and everyone's phone goes off at different times letting everyone know it's raining!
"hater"
But seriously though. Is the risk worth the reward? $83k is a pretty average annual salary, some would say. Is that really worth going to jail for the rest of your life (if they get caught)?
and the other is requiring you by law to be a responsible adult and not partake in activities that have been proven to kill people while driving and to perform those activities at a safe time
Sounds like drinking and driving. True vehicular manslaughter.
In 2010, 10,228 people were killed in alcohol-impaired driving crashes, accounting for nearly one-third (31%) of all traffic-related deaths in the United States.1
source: http://www.cdc.gov/motorvehicl...
Back to my original point, Just having a law to tell people to stop doing something, even if it's enforced like DUI's, still won't prevent everyone from doing it. I think having a safer alternative, like this HUD display, is optimal to solve the problem. That's what technology is for, solving problems. Grumbling and complaing about people being on their phones won't solve anything.
Is this any different from a dash mount for a smartphone?
Did you watch the video?
Here's a suggestion, save your damned text messages and social media updates for when you're not bloody well driving.
That worked out really well with prohibition. It is a great suggestion, but hoping people will not send texts/emails/answer phone calls while driving is simply naive. I think an invention like this that hopes to make it safer for people to use their phone while driving is a much better alternative than scolding people who use their phone. I completely agree that it is dangerous to use your phone. It's 2014, there are better/smarter ways to use a phone than holding it and typing on it.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=internet+...
Thank you! That took much less time then me digging through the internet myself!
Citation please?
how much does this picture of a hyper-connected, distracted, wants-to-be-advertised-to-24/7 Millenial match with actual people?
As for the millenials as a whole generation, it matches up pretty well. 24/7 access to information on smartphones. We (yes, I said we, as in millenials) don't need to ask people for information when we can get it right away. Which leads to impatience and wanting everything now.
I'm just not sure _everyone_ under 30 is like that.
You are absoloutely right. Not everyone under 30 wears fedoras and is a tech hipster. But,
a hyper-connected, distracted, wants-to-be-advertised-to-24/7 Millenial match with actual people
lines up almost exactly with every millenial because we all grew up with the internet and smart phones (for the most part). If we do everything else automated on our cell phones, it makes sense to have automated hotel check ins.
But like you said, the security implications will be interesting! We'll see if it will be easier or not to break into a hotel with a smartphone vs. traditional hotel room break ins.
Totally just did the same thing! You learn something new every day! Thanks wikipedia!
"I can put my fingers on the actual keys just like a typewriter and know they won't slip off and hit the wrong key. I was heartbroken when then got rid of almost all qwerty keyboards in the new phones. They are now almost impossible to find."
What is a "typewriter"?
I'll never be able to type as fast as I could using the T9 System. That's the last keyboard I could actually type on without looking, very quickly and very accurately. Then I jumped right onto a smart phone touchscreen keyboard. For me, it really doesn't make a difference if I have to look at the keys and the screen, because they're so close together anyway.
My final point: slide-out keyboards are just one more physical moving part that can break on a cell phone. Don't need it.
sorry, old school here. But a sport involves the combo of physical exertion, and skill.
Exactly. Professional Sports athletes put in countless hours of blood, sweat, and tears to become the best at what they do. They need to practice and better themselves physically in order to become the best at what they do. They risk their bodies (from injuries) when playing sports. Sitting in a chair with a controller behind a TV/Computer screen is nothing compared to what "old school" sports athletes go through. 2 a day practices, 6am practices, etc. You just won't find that kind of sacrifice in esports -- at least not right now.
> the surgery is fairly inexpensive [even for a programmer :) ]
Oh you programmers have it so hard.
With your three thousand dollar a month apartments.
Actually, I bought a house when I was 22.
And that Honda Fit you drive just to show the world that you don't need the finer things in life.
I drive a Honda Accord, not a Fit, but close.
You should be required to work a year in retail in the same way some countries require a minimum of military service.
I worked at Best Buy (Doing Retail) for 3 years while I was in high school and college. It was a huge motivator for me to get my comp sci degree.
And your three hundred dollar bottle of scotch that you sample alone in your newly remodeled kitchen so you can tell the Internet about what a beverage snob you are.
And I've never drank scotch.
If you're so envious of programmers, there's still time to learn the skills to become a programmer. Heck, you can even teach yourself online.