A basic familiarity with C syntax and simple code examples.
(In general, the beard-and-suspenders set's insistence upon K&R specifically as an introductory programming text does students a disservice. It's a beloved historical artifact, but it's hardly the best current text for new programmers to start with. I doubt if K&R themselves would argue otherwise.)
And given this article, you can see why they set the policy they did!
Anyway, it's not as if the "ordinary Linux desktop user" doesn't have any other opportunities to loudly voice his opinion. (If nothing else, he can just write Linus an email!) It doesn't seem surprising that a meeting focused on high-end servers doesn't want to open the floor to a bunch of Ubuntu fanboys to squabble about WiFi driver configuration.
...and the fact that most employers in said industry want a college degree?
For some reason, there's this prevalent myth that you become a game developer by being a particularly hardcore gamer. ("We just finished level 3 and need to tighten the graphics a little bit.")
No one thinks that using spreadsheets qualifies you to write Excel, but people don't understand that you become qualified to code on Madden by taking lots of math, not by playing lots of Madden.
Actually, the Boston practice is to use that interval to "bang a left" if you're the first car at the red light. Sometimes even if you're the second car, and the first one is going straight. (Yes, that's as insanely dangerous to out-of-towners as it sounds, especially since the distance from Boston within which suburbs share that custom is unpredictable.)
1) " Psychologists Don't Know Math" is a rather inflammatory, inaccurate, braindead headline, even by local standards.
2) The issue seems easy enough to settle empirically, given a few monkeys and a bag of M&Ms, besides the fact that it seems to have been empirically settled decades ago anyway.
3) This is, though, a good opportunity to ridicule "21" for completely botching the Monty Hall problem, along with pretty much everything else relating to math, gambling and Boston-area geography.
Stewart and others at SecureWorks believe Damballa has simply rebranded the older Bobax, which has several other nicknames besides Kraken, including "Bobic," "Oderoor," "Cotmonger" and Hacktool.Spammer."
Be that as it may, "Kraken" is a superb name (as is "Damballa" itself.). "Bobic", "Oderoor" and "Bobax" sound like open-source CMSs. "Cotmonger" sounds like a word Bart Simpson would use when suddenly breaking into a unfunny Cockney accent for no reason.
What part of "instant" isn't mutually exclusive with "all future"?
The part of "instant" where you bar all future purchases, effective today, as opposed to effective on some date in the future.
Honestly, if I'd known I was going to land a -1 while the "carabon foot print" guy gets a +5 for "correcting" me, I would have been less circumspect about how utterly moronic you morons would have to be to believe this could happen.
they are not talking of banning ALL Microsoft products! They are talking about barring Microsoft from Future tenders.
Yes, that's precisely why I said "future".
As for the "Green" Aspect: how much of the worlds carabon foot print is caused by Tech support running around trying to Fix Windows BSoD's? and general buggines?
Given the gut on the typical Unix administrator, I think you'd really have to cut back on support calls to reduce total energy use if they're waddling down the hall instead of a Windows admin. It's an interesting theory, though.
This is not going to happen because a) they can't instantly move all future EU IT to Gentoo, b) it would result in massive US retaliation against European companies and c) it would create an unworkable precedent for purchasing from all European and foreign companies, given that the Spitzer-ish head of anti-trust there is currently leveling charges against pretty much everyone.
In short, only a Green Party legislator or a Slashbot would imagine such a thing to be possible.
So, what is the possibility of Google taking down google docs, in response to complaints from MS, or some other online office software provider?
As best I understand, the Ruby on Rails cultists are one of the main developer groups they're counting on as App Engine customers, so they don't want to offend its leader. Annoying Microsoft doesn't cost them anyone they want to work with, and might help.
Also, anyone who puts a dev OS on their daily phone is additionally just plain stupid.
To the degree that real developers are getting hit with enforced downtime (which I don't know enough about this SDK to know if that's the case) they have a legitimate gripe. But, yeah, enthusiasts who play with developer releases deserve what they get.
Apple users are just happy and content they spent $800 bucks it would seem for a phone and the company just turned it off, with no recourse.
These aren't users whose phones are gone forever, they're developers (or "developers") whose platform (or phone) is down temporarily. Apple screwed up here, but "It would be funny if it wasn't so tragic" might be overstating it a bit.
Apparently "RepRap also allows people to build circuits in 3D". I don't think the article is claiming that it *can* copy itself, though (if it could, they'd have more than seven in existence), just that that's their eventual goal.
I think the idea is that since we can only examine such a small fraction of the universe, anything we find must be reasonably "common". (Earth itself being exempt from that logic because of the anthropic principle.)
Exactly. People seem to have missed the point that this is an interesting innovation in expert systems, not a request to hold forth on how whatever dreary, droning indie crap they listen to makes them superior to everyone around them.
Um...P.Z. Meyers, Phil Plait (the Bad Astronomer), Dr. Steven Novella (NeuroLogica)...Those three exceptions just came to mind.
I can't evaluate an astronomer's productivity, but a look at PubMed certainly suggests that "useless in their fields" is a pretty good description of the other two. (As far as research goes, anyway, although Novella's location would imply that he's at least a good physician.) What makes you think otherwise?
You most certainly can, as long as you own your own home (no rent or mortgage to pay)...
Well, yes. If someone gave me a free house, I definitely could live on $50K. And if it had a river of money flowing through the yard, I wouldn't have to work at all.
You can't defend outsourcing by redefining it. Nobody concerned about outsourcing is referring to domestic trade, that's a total straw man!
Use "offshoring" to refer to "foreign trade, especially between vastly unequal economies". That's not what "outsourcing" means, and it's silly to accuse people of redefining a word they're using correctly.
Microsoft has always been obsessive about providing this kind of backwards compatibility. I would be astonished if this "exclusive" about them doing completely the opposite this time turns out to be accurate.
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(In general, the beard-and-suspenders set's insistence upon K&R specifically as an introductory programming text does students a disservice. It's a beloved historical artifact, but it's hardly the best current text for new programmers to start with. I doubt if K&R themselves would argue otherwise.)
Anyway, it's not as if the "ordinary Linux desktop user" doesn't have any other opportunities to loudly voice his opinion. (If nothing else, he can just write Linus an email!) It doesn't seem surprising that a meeting focused on high-end servers doesn't want to open the floor to a bunch of Ubuntu fanboys to squabble about WiFi driver configuration.
For some reason, there's this prevalent myth that you become a game developer by being a particularly hardcore gamer. ("We just finished level 3 and need to tighten the graphics a little bit.")
No one thinks that using spreadsheets qualifies you to write Excel, but people don't understand that you become qualified to code on Madden by taking lots of math, not by playing lots of Madden.
Actually, the Boston practice is to use that interval to "bang a left" if you're the first car at the red light. Sometimes even if you're the second car, and the first one is going straight. (Yes, that's as insanely dangerous to out-of-towners as it sounds, especially since the distance from Boston within which suburbs share that custom is unpredictable.)
My impression is that this is a regional difference in the US: it's the norm in the East and a rarity in the West.
2) The issue seems easy enough to settle empirically, given a few monkeys and a bag of M&Ms, besides the fact that it seems to have been empirically settled decades ago anyway.
3) This is, though, a good opportunity to ridicule "21" for completely botching the Monty Hall problem, along with pretty much everything else relating to math, gambling and Boston-area geography.
Be that as it may, "Kraken" is a superb name (as is "Damballa" itself.). "Bobic", "Oderoor" and "Bobax" sound like open-source CMSs. "Cotmonger" sounds like a word Bart Simpson would use when suddenly breaking into a unfunny Cockney accent for no reason.
The part of "instant" where you bar all future purchases, effective today, as opposed to effective on some date in the future.
Honestly, if I'd known I was going to land a -1 while the "carabon foot print" guy gets a +5 for "correcting" me, I would have been less circumspect about how utterly moronic you morons would have to be to believe this could happen.
Yes, that's precisely why I said "future".
As for the "Green" Aspect: how much of the worlds carabon foot print is caused by Tech support running around trying to Fix Windows BSoD's? and general buggines?
Given the gut on the typical Unix administrator, I think you'd really have to cut back on support calls to reduce total energy use if they're waddling down the hall instead of a Windows admin. It's an interesting theory, though.
In short, only a Green Party legislator or a Slashbot would imagine such a thing to be possible.
Is the second half of that simply made up by the submitter? It's certainly not in the link and I don't see it in the link's link.
Take that out and this basically comes down to "Parents don't think children should have candy for breakfast; children disagree".
As best I understand, the Ruby on Rails cultists are one of the main developer groups they're counting on as App Engine customers, so they don't want to offend its leader. Annoying Microsoft doesn't cost them anyone they want to work with, and might help.
To the degree that real developers are getting hit with enforced downtime (which I don't know enough about this SDK to know if that's the case) they have a legitimate gripe. But, yeah, enthusiasts who play with developer releases deserve what they get.
These aren't users whose phones are gone forever, they're developers (or "developers") whose platform (or phone) is down temporarily. Apple screwed up here, but "It would be funny if it wasn't so tragic" might be overstating it a bit.
The irony of completely fact-free scaremongering about a "whisper campaign seems to have been missed by all parties...
I don't think that's close to being the case, though.
Apparently "RepRap also allows people to build circuits in 3D". I don't think the article is claiming that it *can* copy itself, though (if it could, they'd have more than seven in existence), just that that's their eventual goal.
I think the idea is that since we can only examine such a small fraction of the universe, anything we find must be reasonably "common". (Earth itself being exempt from that logic because of the anthropic principle.)
That, you autistic dorks, was what normal people call a "joke".
Exactly. People seem to have missed the point that this is an interesting innovation in expert systems, not a request to hold forth on how whatever dreary, droning indie crap they listen to makes them superior to everyone around them.
I think Google is still on Web 2.0 (beta).
I can't evaluate an astronomer's productivity, but a look at PubMed certainly suggests that "useless in their fields" is a pretty good description of the other two. (As far as research goes, anyway, although Novella's location would imply that he's at least a good physician.) What makes you think otherwise?
Well, yes. If someone gave me a free house, I definitely could live on $50K. And if it had a river of money flowing through the yard, I wouldn't have to work at all.
Use "offshoring" to refer to "foreign trade, especially between vastly unequal economies". That's not what "outsourcing" means, and it's silly to accuse people of redefining a word they're using correctly.
Microsoft has always been obsessive about providing this kind of backwards compatibility. I would be astonished if this "exclusive" about them doing completely the opposite this time turns out to be accurate.