Who said anything about sacrificing everything? I simply noted that if you can't learn something from a technical book, a technical career is not for you.
I'm glad I got you all hot and bothered though. Cheers.
Why do I get the impression your technical background consists of having read titles such as: HTML Engineering for Dummies, Teach Yourself Javascript in 45 Minutes, Get your MCSE and Get a Nicer Car, HTML Unleashed,
The Complete Idiot's Guide to the World Wide Web, and Computers for Fun and Profit? If you need to be spoon fed "so that your brain can swallow it easier" maybe you should get out of the industry.
Oh. By the way, books don't have "skill retention". You do.
They do. It appears to be on by default, and works pretty good as far as those things go. I searched for "cunt" and didn't see too much pr0n. Turn it off and you see some *cough* interesting stuff.
OSDN is switching to win2k due to it's superior reliability and Microsoft's strong market share. "Meltdowns" and other network sluggishness on all OSDN sites should disappear. Also, slashcode will soon be released under a shared-source licensing.
we elect others to make decisions for us within the boundaries of the Constitution
You mean "we" choose 1 of a handful of preselected individuals to make decisions for us. Freedom of choice, bah! There is no freedom of choice for the important things. It's all an illusion. 31 flavors of ice cream, 2 parties. 100 types of toilet paper, 3 nominees.
No, the worst drivers have all moved to St. Louis because crack is much cheaper here. Apparently all these rock smoking dimwits buy from the engineers who designed the world's finest highway feature: dual entrance/exit ramps hidden behind hills and intersecting other streets at accute angles.
"Daddy only sends me 500 bucks a month for my allowance" vs. "My intestines are bleeding from eating ramen, the only food I've eaten in the last 3 years"
Technology advances in small steps, not giant leaps.
Precisely. That's why I'm busy modifying the design to run on hamster power.
Run my little children, run, run!
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I had a star in a jar in my dorm room years ago, but had to get rid of it. Its gravitational pull was preventing me from moving around much. I did grow some nice muscles, but I'm also horribly disfigured. It was pretty cool though.
Yeah especially if you're teaching newbies. I think C is a good choice because it teaches you how things work on a lower level, without having to delve into assembly. Once they have a pretty good grasp of C, I'd say 80x86 assembly so they can get their hands dirty and get a much deeper appreciation for C (or anything other language for that matter). After that move on to a higher level language of your choice.
Another thing I see great about C is that by the time they finish school they'll have some knowledge of a language used in production environments for tough jobs that java, perl, lisp, python, etc., etc. are just too high level (and/or too sluggish) for. And if you know C pretty well it doesn't much time to pick up other languages.
Heh. Reminds me of a thing in Bruce Shneier's Applied Cryptography:
"One of the consequences of the second law of thermodynamics is that a certain amount of energy is necessary to represent information."
"An ideal computer running at 3.2 degrees Kelvin [temperature of the cosmic background radiation of the universe] would consume 4.4*10^-16 ergs every time it set or cleared a bit."
"If we built a Dyson sphere around the sun and captured all of its energy for 32 years, without any loss, we could power a computer to count up to 2^192."
"These numbers have nothing to do with the technology of the devices; they are the maximums that thermodynamics will allow. And they strongly imply that
brute-force attacks against 256-bit keys will be infeasible until computers are built from something other than mattter and occupy something other than space."
Damn I love that. Bring on the cryptanalytic algae!
I mean damn. I mean...cut off your eyelashes and burn them in spite of the earwax. I mean censorship....I mean...uh...like that.
You know what I'm sayin'? Right? Right?
I mean...like...come on right? Right!
Tokyo electronics company, NEC, released a huge 61-inch plasma monitor today. NEC spokesman, Keiichiro "Ketchup" Fujiwara, says it will alleviate much tension and feelings of inferiority among the workers at NEC. "We have long felt our NASDAQ symbol, NIPNY, is a racial slur and it has caused many employees to feel unmotivated," said Fujiwara. Then, while destroying an intricate model of New York City, he added, "This new monitor will force people to look at us differently, like Gojira rising from the deep to destroy Mosura." [ed: "Gojira" and "Mosura" are known in the western hemisphere as "Godzilla" and "Mothra", respectively]
Yeah, no kidding. I was thinking I'd buy a couple of the vibrating vests, some of the latex hand puppets, a neutra plaque battery powered toothbrush, and a few pizza cutters. Then my girlfriend and I could roll around in an olive oil filled inflatable pool while staring at Mickey Mantle posters.
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I'm glad I got you all hot and bothered though. Cheers.
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Oh. By the way, books don't have "skill retention". You do.
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The cunt coloring book was my favorite.
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OSDN is switching to win2k due to it's superior reliability and Microsoft's strong market share. "Meltdowns" and other network sluggishness on all OSDN sites should disappear. Also, slashcode will soon be released under a shared-source licensing.
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taco: "We would all benefit"
What do you mean "we"?
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This is undoubtedly the leanest, meanest hack I've ever seen. It's a fun project, and if you have kids they'll love it.
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you know...the Society for the Prevention of Incessantly Repeating Annoying Crap.
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You mean "we" choose 1 of a handful of preselected individuals to make decisions for us. Freedom of choice, bah! There is no freedom of choice for the important things. It's all an illusion. 31 flavors of ice cream, 2 parties. 100 types of toilet paper, 3 nominees.
America sucks.
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Amen.
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But if you slide this over here like so, and pull on this like this. Ah, there. Now you're free to compare them. They're no longer parallel.
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Congranulations! You just won a pound of sugar.
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No, the worst drivers have all moved to St. Louis because crack is much cheaper here. Apparently all these rock smoking dimwits buy from the engineers who designed the world's finest highway feature: dual entrance/exit ramps hidden behind hills and intersecting other streets at accute angles.
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"Daddy only sends me 500 bucks a month for my allowance" vs. "My intestines are bleeding from eating ramen, the only food I've eaten in the last 3 years"
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Precisely. That's why I'm busy modifying the design to run on hamster power.
Run my little children, run, run!
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I had a star in a jar in my dorm room years ago, but had to get rid of it. Its gravitational pull was preventing me from moving around much. I did grow some nice muscles, but I'm also horribly disfigured. It was pretty cool though.
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printf("value is: %d\n", ((techie_t *)mba)->value); /*prints -1!*/
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Another thing I see great about C is that by the time they finish school they'll have some knowledge of a language used in production environments for tough jobs that java, perl, lisp, python, etc., etc. are just too high level (and/or too sluggish) for. And if you know C pretty well it doesn't much time to pick up other languages.
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"One of the consequences of the second law of thermodynamics is that a certain amount of energy is necessary to represent information."
"An ideal computer running at 3.2 degrees Kelvin [temperature of the cosmic background radiation of the universe] would consume 4.4*10^-16 ergs every time it set or cleared a bit."
"If we built a Dyson sphere around the sun and captured all of its energy for 32 years, without any loss, we could power a computer to count up to 2^192."
"These numbers have nothing to do with the technology of the devices; they are the maximums that thermodynamics will allow. And they strongly imply that brute-force attacks against 256-bit keys will be infeasible until computers are built from something other than mattter and occupy something other than space."
Damn I love that. Bring on the cryptanalytic algae!
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I mean damn. I mean...cut off your eyelashes and burn them in spite of the earwax. I mean censorship....I mean...uh...like that. You know what I'm sayin'? Right? Right? I mean...like...come on right? Right!
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No kidding, Timothy. I really don't want to drink anything called 'bawls'. Please remove the banner ads so we can all troll in peace.
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Tokyo electronics company, NEC, released a huge 61-inch plasma monitor today. NEC spokesman, Keiichiro "Ketchup" Fujiwara, says it will alleviate much tension and feelings of inferiority among the workers at NEC. "We have long felt our NASDAQ symbol, NIPNY, is a racial slur and it has caused many employees to feel unmotivated," said Fujiwara. Then, while destroying an intricate model of New York City, he added, "This new monitor will force people to look at us differently, like Gojira rising from the deep to destroy Mosura." [ed: "Gojira" and "Mosura" are known in the western hemisphere as "Godzilla" and "Mothra", respectively]
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"Order by 2:00, and our team of child cave zombies will ensure your merchandise ships today!"
That's some creepy shit.
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You know. For fun.
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And the cluster fits conveniently in a hamper, a closet, or wadded up on the floor.
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And odds are they'd be right.
Assuming of course that these police are in Zimbabwe.
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