"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra
Knock it all you want, but it's simply not true. And it wasn't true 30 years ago either. One of the lessons BASIC teaches is that you better be rigorous about what you type in - even a small error will screw you. Especially the buggy code that actually runs but doesn't do what you think it does.
The "B" in BASIC stands for "Beginners" for a reason. It was never supposed to be the be-all and end-all of languages, just a way to get your feet wet (and addicted) to making a computer do what we tell it to.
Try being blind for a few months. Your senses of touch, of spatial orientation, of proprioception, of hearing will all help fill in the blanks rather quickly. However, studies have shown that blind people also learn how to use the visual cortex to process data from their other senses, so they can be taught to echo-locate (if they haven't already learned themselves) quite impressively.
Nobody has thought for decades that evolution is a slow continuous process. Rather that it has periods where nothing much happens, then there's a spurt of changes, then another period of calm.
Pick the right time interval and duration and you can see either one or the other, as you want. Great way to make data fit your favorite theory:-)
No, because I also pointed out that it has never been used on any local or national TV or local or national print media that I've seen (and I've seen a lot of that), nor on anything from the US. YOU are the one living in a bubble - or in India or the UK. As I pointed out, North Americans do not advertise offering to make "bespoke software" on coding sites on the cheap.
Go look at the mobile site. There's no excuse having something THAT bad, and that non-functional. What are you going to do in a meeting - decamp everyone to their various cubbies to look at the site when they need to check something that comes up in the meeting?
As long as they use the pseudonym, all is good - it just reinforces the existence of the bogus identity as "real." Check your texts - how many times has someone who has sent you a text referred to you by name in the body of the text? Mine is zero. Same for outgoing texts - each party already knows who they're communicating with.
Serving ads? Ghostery, adblock, hosts, etc. Even grandmothers can use these with no difficulty.
You miss the point - all that data matches a non-existent person, since you can give a bogus name and address when you pay full price for a smartphone.
So what are they going to do with that bogus profile? It's worthless.
All that still only points to an unknown person, unless you (1) live in a deserted neighborhood like parts of Detroit, (2) are the only one working at your place of employment, (3) only shop at stores when they are otherwise deserted (though the cops will want to talk to you about breaking into an empty store and seeing you on video) , etc.
Using bogus data won't elevate YOUR profile, because it's bogus data. Until they can connect it to you, who cares? Give your new number to people you know IN PERSON and you're all good. And if you don't know them in person, why talk to them? Just ignore it, same as other phone spam.
Nonsense. The first time I built one of these was when I was 11. I had already figured out that you needed a resistance in the circuit, due to other experiments.
I had figured that all I needed to cook hotdogs was an extension cord, two long nails, and a piece of wood. I banged the nails through the wood, cut off the end of the cord, wired the two wires to the nails, put a hotdog across it, and plugged it in. Sure enough, the hotdog cooked due to its' own internal resistance. Showed it off to everyone and cooked a bunch of hotdogs with it - no microwave, no pot of boiling water - no problemo!
The problem came when I tried to cook bacon the next morning - it sagged too much and wouldn't stay in contact with the nails. So I used a can opener to remove the top of a 48-oz apple juice can and put it across the two "terminals, " and put the bacon on it. Plugged it in and knocked out the power for 12 families for half a day.
I had also been fooling around with direct-current transformers to collect hydrogen using electricity in a salt bath (pure water wouldn't conduct electricity at the low voltages I was using). So, when I decided to see if I could make an electrical arc, it was natural to incorporate the salt bath into one side of the circuit to make sure that there would always be sufficient resistance in the circuit to prevent blowing the power again. Like the hotdog cooker, it worked first time.
On another note, I also figured that if I took a piece of aluminium foil and cut a notch in it, it would act like a fuse when put across the hotdog coorer's nails, causing the aluminium to burn - it was very sudden, very pretty, and we spent some time "blowing up" aluminium strips. It was all perfectly safe, provided you didn't do something stupid like touch bare contacts.
You wouldn't have to exchange new contact info every month. Once is enough. Just pay for the renewal in cash at the corner store or any other place that supports pre-paid plans. No ID required. And since the information in your client profile is false, browse anything you want - it isn't tied to the real-life you. And "social network"? You exchange the info off-line. Seriously, if you're that dependent on facebook and twitter to have a social life, you need to get out more anyway.
Use a prepaid burner smartphone. Pay for the phone and each month's activation using cash. Give bogus contact information (here, the retailer can't ask to see ID).
If everyone did this all "they" would have is a bunch of calls and texts from one anonymous number to another, and anonymous browser history. Throw in a bogus Facebook account, throwaway email account, and encrypted texts and emails, you're done.
You don't need the flyback transformer - just the graphite rods from pencils, an extension cord, a styrofoam cup of salt water, three popsicle sticks, some tape (optional) and paper clips (optional) and you can make an electric arc.
Cut one side of the two-wire extension cord in half and expose the wires.
Tape (or use bits of wire or paperclips) to attach the bare ends to the popsicle sticks.
Put the popsicle sticks in the cup so that the wires are immersed but not touching. You can use paper clips to hold the sticks in place.
Cut the end of the extension cord that you don't plug into the wall off.
take the now headless end of the extension cord and separate it in two.
Expose an inch or two of bare wire on both leads.
attach one end to the metal object of interest.
take the last popsicle stick and wire the graphite rod to it with the other wire lead and optionally another paperclip.
plug into wall outlet.
using the popsicle stick as a handle, touch and slightly pull back the graphite rod from the metal object, completing the circuit
enjoy your new arc torch.
The salt water acts as a resistor on one side of the circuit, preventing a short circuit when you touch the metal with the graphite.
Of course, better results are obtained using carbon rods from new zinc-carbon batteries and higher voltages.
First, why in the world would *I* own a suit? Seriously?
Second, nobody in Canada asks for a developer to write "bespoke software" - not once in the last 30 years have I had a customer or co-worker use the term.
Custom software, custom hardware, custom cars, custom itineraries, custom furniture, custom-built homes, bridges, subway cars, meal and exercise plans, in-ground swimming pools, golf courses, landscaping, skyscrapers, parks, public-commissioned artworks, etc. Not "bespoke." "Bespoke" sounds like an Indian vendor copying a blurb off a UK vendor to try to look higher-class, which doesn't work in an egalitarian society (US or Canada) where the Constitution makes everyone equal.
So some engineer sends a link to their boss to show them what they are proposing and ask for a P.O., and the boss clicks on a mobile tablet/smartphone - approval denied because it looks like a cheap scam site on mobile devices.
I have a friend who is triple-citizenship (France, Canada, United States) - his English is a bit tortured, and I have to correct his French on occasion. And he was born in France. There are plenty of Canadians who can't get by in either of the two official languages, so citizenship is a poor metric, same as the USA.
So, a suit place uses "bespoke" in their name because they want to invoke the aura of the fabrics they import from the UK... not really...
It is NOT used in Canadian literature, not in any newspaper or magazine or book I've ever seen. I've never heard anyone use it in conversation. Or on Canadian TV or radio. The only place I've encountered it is the BOfH, a UK entity. Definitely not North American. Only poseurs, as well as Brits and Indians looking for coding contracts on software bidding sites use "bespoke", and leave the North American readers struggling to figure out what they mean by the context.
It's "The One Easy Trick" to spot that the person advertising their coding services is probably in India:-)
I see the same things here with these people. They don't interact much with real people in the real world, and so don't get to develop the thicker skin needed to be happy in social situations.
You'll see it in every group that feels the need to isolate themselves and have "safe spaces" so that they can "live authentic lives" rather than just live within society as a whole. You don't "live an authentic life" by closeting yourself away from the rest of society in your own little echo chamber ghetto. Stop acting like they've had a double funnybone-ectomy.
If you have a problem with a certain group, hiding from them is the least effective way of changing anything. All that does is wreck your own self-esteem.
The advice completely misses the hard stuff - like spending shoe leather banging on doors to business that most nerds are too afraid (shy) to do. If you can't get out there on your "down" days and see at least 20 different potential customers each day, you probably won't last. But of course, people are thinking "This is the internet - I'll just offer my services on my web site". You and every other too-afraid-of-talking-to-strangers geek. It says "know your worth" without getting into the practical details of how you can beat out the low-ball bidders (and there are lots of them).
Contractors live in two states - either working, in which case they're not bringing in new customers, or not working, in which case they're out looking for new customers. Better that they read some of Weinberg'sbooks..
Their element14 custom pi web site needs to move to the 21st century - it's absolute crap on mobile, and the majority of people on the web use mobile devices.
Q. What's the difference between an "Official" customized Raspberry Pi and any other customized Raspberry Pi?
A1. Price.
A2. Who gives a damn.
A3. An "Official T-Shirt"?
It is definitely weird in the Americas. Here in Canada if you used it, nobody would know what the hell you were talking about - even though we know that Brits use boot is a car trunk and bonnet for a car hood, and a lorry is a large delivery truck.
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Not everything has to (or should) run in a web browser. That is probably one of the more important lessons kids (and many adults) need to learn.
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra
Knock it all you want, but it's simply not true. And it wasn't true 30 years ago either. One of the lessons BASIC teaches is that you better be rigorous about what you type in - even a small error will screw you. Especially the buggy code that actually runs but doesn't do what you think it does.
The "B" in BASIC stands for "Beginners" for a reason. It was never supposed to be the be-all and end-all of languages, just a way to get your feet wet (and addicted) to making a computer do what we tell it to.
Try being blind for a few months. Your senses of touch, of spatial orientation, of proprioception, of hearing will all help fill in the blanks rather quickly. However, studies have shown that blind people also learn how to use the visual cortex to process data from their other senses, so they can be taught to echo-locate (if they haven't already learned themselves) quite impressively.
The "newscaster" should have still said it properly. Or maybe he's just one of those nuke-you-lear folks.
Nobody has thought for decades that evolution is a slow continuous process. Rather that it has periods where nothing much happens, then there's a spurt of changes, then another period of calm.
Pick the right time interval and duration and you can see either one or the other, as you want. Great way to make data fit your favorite theory :-)
No, because I also pointed out that it has never been used on any local or national TV or local or national print media that I've seen (and I've seen a lot of that), nor on anything from the US. YOU are the one living in a bubble - or in India or the UK. As I pointed out, North Americans do not advertise offering to make "bespoke software" on coding sites on the cheap.
Go look at the mobile site. There's no excuse having something THAT bad, and that non-functional. What are you going to do in a meeting - decamp everyone to their various cubbies to look at the site when they need to check something that comes up in the meeting?
As long as they use the pseudonym, all is good - it just reinforces the existence of the bogus identity as "real." Check your texts - how many times has someone who has sent you a text referred to you by name in the body of the text? Mine is zero. Same for outgoing texts - each party already knows who they're communicating with.
Serving ads? Ghostery, adblock, hosts, etc. Even grandmothers can use these with no difficulty.
You create a new reddit account, duh! As for Netflix, don't need it, don't want it, never used it.
You miss the point - all that data matches a non-existent person, since you can give a bogus name and address when you pay full price for a smartphone.
So what are they going to do with that bogus profile? It's worthless.
All that still only points to an unknown person, unless you (1) live in a deserted neighborhood like parts of Detroit, (2) are the only one working at your place of employment, (3) only shop at stores when they are otherwise deserted (though the cops will want to talk to you about breaking into an empty store and seeing you on video) , etc.
Using bogus data won't elevate YOUR profile, because it's bogus data. Until they can connect it to you, who cares? Give your new number to people you know IN PERSON and you're all good. And if you don't know them in person, why talk to them? Just ignore it, same as other phone spam.
Nonsense. The first time I built one of these was when I was 11. I had already figured out that you needed a resistance in the circuit, due to other experiments.
I had figured that all I needed to cook hotdogs was an extension cord, two long nails, and a piece of wood. I banged the nails through the wood, cut off the end of the cord, wired the two wires to the nails, put a hotdog across it, and plugged it in. Sure enough, the hotdog cooked due to its' own internal resistance. Showed it off to everyone and cooked a bunch of hotdogs with it - no microwave, no pot of boiling water - no problemo!
The problem came when I tried to cook bacon the next morning - it sagged too much and wouldn't stay in contact with the nails. So I used a can opener to remove the top of a 48-oz apple juice can and put it across the two "terminals, " and put the bacon on it. Plugged it in and knocked out the power for 12 families for half a day.
I had also been fooling around with direct-current transformers to collect hydrogen using electricity in a salt bath (pure water wouldn't conduct electricity at the low voltages I was using). So, when I decided to see if I could make an electrical arc, it was natural to incorporate the salt bath into one side of the circuit to make sure that there would always be sufficient resistance in the circuit to prevent blowing the power again. Like the hotdog cooker, it worked first time.
On another note, I also figured that if I took a piece of aluminium foil and cut a notch in it, it would act like a fuse when put across the hotdog coorer's nails, causing the aluminium to burn - it was very sudden, very pretty, and we spent some time "blowing up" aluminium strips. It was all perfectly safe, provided you didn't do something stupid like touch bare contacts.
A burner phone comes with a real phone number.
You wouldn't have to exchange new contact info every month. Once is enough. Just pay for the renewal in cash at the corner store or any other place that supports pre-paid plans. No ID required. And since the information in your client profile is false, browse anything you want - it isn't tied to the real-life you. And "social network"? You exchange the info off-line. Seriously, if you're that dependent on facebook and twitter to have a social life, you need to get out more anyway.
If everyone did this all "they" would have is a bunch of calls and texts from one anonymous number to another, and anonymous browser history. Throw in a bogus Facebook account, throwaway email account, and encrypted texts and emails, you're done.
You don't need the flyback transformer - just the graphite rods from pencils, an extension cord, a styrofoam cup of salt water, three popsicle sticks, some tape (optional) and paper clips (optional) and you can make an electric arc.
Cut one side of the two-wire extension cord in half and expose the wires.
Tape (or use bits of wire or paperclips) to attach the bare ends to the popsicle sticks.
Put the popsicle sticks in the cup so that the wires are immersed but not touching. You can use paper clips to hold the sticks in place.
Cut the end of the extension cord that you don't plug into the wall off.
take the now headless end of the extension cord and separate it in two.
Expose an inch or two of bare wire on both leads.
attach one end to the metal object of interest.
take the last popsicle stick and wire the graphite rod to it with the other wire lead and optionally another paperclip.
plug into wall outlet.
using the popsicle stick as a handle, touch and slightly pull back the graphite rod from the metal object, completing the circuit
enjoy your new arc torch.
The salt water acts as a resistor on one side of the circuit, preventing a short circuit when you touch the metal with the graphite.
Of course, better results are obtained using carbon rods from new zinc-carbon batteries and higher voltages.
First, why in the world would *I* own a suit? Seriously?
Second, nobody in Canada asks for a developer to write "bespoke software" - not once in the last 30 years have I had a customer or co-worker use the term.
Custom software, custom hardware, custom cars, custom itineraries, custom furniture, custom-built homes, bridges, subway cars, meal and exercise plans, in-ground swimming pools, golf courses, landscaping, skyscrapers, parks, public-commissioned artworks, etc. Not "bespoke." "Bespoke" sounds like an Indian vendor copying a blurb off a UK vendor to try to look higher-class, which doesn't work in an egalitarian society (US or Canada) where the Constitution makes everyone equal.
So some engineer sends a link to their boss to show them what they are proposing and ask for a P.O., and the boss clicks on a mobile tablet/smartphone - approval denied because it looks like a cheap scam site on mobile devices.
I have a friend who is triple-citizenship (France, Canada, United States) - his English is a bit tortured, and I have to correct his French on occasion. And he was born in France. There are plenty of Canadians who can't get by in either of the two official languages, so citizenship is a poor metric, same as the USA.
So, a suit place uses "bespoke" in their name because they want to invoke the aura of the fabrics they import from the UK ... not really ...
It is NOT used in Canadian literature, not in any newspaper or magazine or book I've ever seen. I've never heard anyone use it in conversation. Or on Canadian TV or radio. The only place I've encountered it is the BOfH, a UK entity. Definitely not North American. Only poseurs, as well as Brits and Indians looking for coding contracts on software bidding sites use "bespoke", and leave the North American readers struggling to figure out what they mean by the context.
It's "The One Easy Trick" to spot that the person advertising their coding services is probably in India :-)
I see the same things here with these people. They don't interact much with real people in the real world, and so don't get to develop the thicker skin needed to be happy in social situations.
You'll see it in every group that feels the need to isolate themselves and have "safe spaces" so that they can "live authentic lives" rather than just live within society as a whole. You don't "live an authentic life" by closeting yourself away from the rest of society in your own little echo chamber ghetto. Stop acting like they've had a double funnybone-ectomy.
If you have a problem with a certain group, hiding from them is the least effective way of changing anything. All that does is wreck your own self-esteem.
Contractors live in two states - either working, in which case they're not bringing in new customers, or not working, in which case they're out looking for new customers. Better that they read some of Weinberg's books..
Their element14 custom pi web site needs to move to the 21st century - it's absolute crap on mobile, and the majority of people on the web use mobile devices.
Q. What's the difference between an "Official" customized Raspberry Pi and any other customized Raspberry Pi?
A1. Price.
A2. Who gives a damn.
A3. An "Official T-Shirt"?
It is definitely weird in the Americas. Here in Canada if you used it, nobody would know what the hell you were talking about - even though we know that Brits use boot is a car trunk and bonnet for a car hood, and a lorry is a large delivery truck.