In the cases where coding experience alone makes someone better than someone who has education and coding experience, that would lead me to suspect a high level of innate coding talent in the person without formal education in the field. Certainly could happen. If you could take the same person and measure their talent with and without formal education, what would you expect to find?
Question should be rephrased: Does learning to code outweigh learning to code _better_? It also ignores the other things you learn while getting your degree, and learning to cope with pressure which isn't present when you're learning to code whenever you feel like it.
Just a guess, but probably would require too many changes to their build infrastructure and associated tooling to be worth the while, since version numbers aren't surfaced that much to the average user anyway.
Have you tried creating a new profile and comparing speed? There have been a number of Firefox issues caused by certain profile data. How about disabling all addons and trying again? Do both of those things and see how that compares, then narrow down the options.
This recent quote from President Obama (re: illegal torture) comes to mind: "And my hope is that this report reminds us once again that the character of our country has to be measured in part not by what we do when things are easy but what we do when things are hard."
Ever stop to think that maybe it was just a simple statement of fact and not meant to take all credit for being the first goddam person to get a Linux desktop install working? Chill out.
If I'm driving a simulated vehicle, I doubt I'd act the same way in the simulation as I would in real life. For one thing, I have no skin in the game in the simulation.
I stopped watching Mythbusters last year when I found myself fast forwarding every episode to the end to see what happens. Too much fluff, and in some cases not enough rigor in their tests for my liking. I don't blame the hosts, though - they put a ton of effort into making the show and tried to make it entertaining.
My top Internet Explorer annoyances: * secure browsing. Trying to download a file with that enabled is frustrating. * startup delay. IE shows the UI and lets you start typing in the location bar but shortly after loads startup pages over top of what you may have just typed.
Agreed, a very impressive trailer, maybe the best one yet. I've only got an hour or two per week to spend on games these days - I'd probably play if they had a usage-based subscription option instead of a fixed monthly rate.
I agree that Slashdot's commenting system is good but it could be better. For example, I spent half my mod points a week ago on very long copy/paste spam touting someone's antivirus software. And there were many more copies that others had already downmodded. A couple possible ways to combat this: a) If someone posts something that's mostly a repeat of something else they've already posted, it should get automatically downmodded. b) if they are getting lots of downmods in succession, stop them from posting for awhile.
Men don't lament about not having power. If they want power, they _take it_. By force if necessary. Until women understand that asking for power does not result in _real_ power, they will play second fiddle to men.
What constitutes sexual assault and sexual harassment in this study? Sorry to be cynical, but phrases like these are too often used as weasel words trying to get a shock out of people (or in this case, more grant money).
I'm waiting until there's a smart watch that functions as a feature-rich health monitor. Tell me about my white blood cell count, blood pressure, vitamin deficiencies, and so on.
We need to make life multiplanetary - exactly my thinking. Where can I direct a donation to this effort? It's an investment in the future that I'm concerned about, not getting a monetary return.
In my opinion, we should be _populating_ planets, not keeping them sterile. We can do worthwhile science, watching low level life forms adapt to martian life.
If I put on my I-want-your-data hat for a second, I think giving a data set is the wrong approach. Give Politico a search interface to perform research on. Then I get to collect data on the things that Politico cares about and do my own tertiary data mining. Maybe that's a bad idea, I don't know. I'm not very good at being evil.;)
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In the cases where coding experience alone makes someone better than someone who has education and coding experience, that would lead me to suspect a high level of innate coding talent in the person without formal education in the field. Certainly could happen. If you could take the same person and measure their talent with and without formal education, what would you expect to find?
Question should be rephrased: Does learning to code outweigh learning to code _better_?
It also ignores the other things you learn while getting your degree, and learning to cope with pressure which isn't present when you're learning to code whenever you feel like it.
Just a guess, but probably would require too many changes to their build infrastructure and associated tooling to be worth the while, since version numbers aren't surfaced that much to the average user anyway.
Have you tried creating a new profile and comparing speed? There have been a number of Firefox issues caused by certain profile data. How about disabling all addons and trying again? Do both of those things and see how that compares, then narrow down the options.
Just installed the latest Firefox and did a bit of random surfing. First impression: noticeably faster than before, probably even on par with Chrome.
PDF, and the source that was used to generate the HTML (FLP LaTeX according to the thank you section)
This recent quote from President Obama (re: illegal torture) comes to mind: "And my hope is that this report reminds us once again that the character of our country has to be measured in part not by what we do when things are easy but what we do when things are hard."
Ever stop to think that maybe it was just a simple statement of fact and not meant to take all credit for being the first goddam person to get a Linux desktop install working? Chill out.
If I'm driving a simulated vehicle, I doubt I'd act the same way in the simulation as I would in real life. For one thing, I have no skin in the game in the simulation.
I stopped watching Mythbusters last year when I found myself fast forwarding every episode to the end to see what happens. Too much fluff, and in some cases not enough rigor in their tests for my liking. I don't blame the hosts, though - they put a ton of effort into making the show and tried to make it entertaining.
My top Internet Explorer annoyances:
* secure browsing. Trying to download a file with that enabled is frustrating.
* startup delay. IE shows the UI and lets you start typing in the location bar but shortly after loads startup pages over top of what you may have just typed.
Agreed, a very impressive trailer, maybe the best one yet. I've only got an hour or two per week to spend on games these days - I'd probably play if they had a usage-based subscription option instead of a fixed monthly rate.
I agree that Slashdot's commenting system is good but it could be better. For example, I spent half my mod points a week ago on very long copy/paste spam touting someone's antivirus software. And there were many more copies that others had already downmodded. A couple possible ways to combat this: a) If someone posts something that's mostly a repeat of something else they've already posted, it should get automatically downmodded. b) if they are getting lots of downmods in succession, stop them from posting for awhile.
I've heard worse recordings, although I'd prefer a transcript.
Sorry, return type is boolean, not floating point.
Men don't lament about not having power. If they want power, they _take it_. By force if necessary. Until women understand that asking for power does not result in _real_ power, they will play second fiddle to men.
What constitutes sexual assault and sexual harassment in this study? Sorry to be cynical, but phrases like these are too often used as weasel words trying to get a shock out of people (or in this case, more grant money).
I'm waiting until there's a smart watch that functions as a feature-rich health monitor. Tell me about my white blood cell count, blood pressure, vitamin deficiencies, and so on.
Commoditizing certain human labour. It's been happening for decades - you don't see gangs of people digging ditches anymore.
We need to make life multiplanetary - exactly my thinking. Where can I direct a donation to this effort? It's an investment in the future that I'm concerned about, not getting a monetary return.
I receive more parcels now than ever before. Most of my shopping is done online. How is that not good for the postal service?
Could humans survive on a planet with 17x the gravity of Earth's? Not very effectively, I would guess.
... the NSA has just freed up a bunch of server capacity for spying on _you_.
In my opinion, we should be _populating_ planets, not keeping them sterile. We can do worthwhile science, watching low level life forms adapt to martian life.
If I put on my I-want-your-data hat for a second, I think giving a data set is the wrong approach. Give Politico a search interface to perform research on. Then I get to collect data on the things that Politico cares about and do my own tertiary data mining. Maybe that's a bad idea, I don't know. I'm not very good at being evil. ;)