Nothing is to say they would succeed or change. A number of them would.
There's also a last process of maturing that happens in the 2-3 years after university, as they need to apply the ideas they learned there to specific situations. That's an important step.
I think what you're saying is true, but I've often felt like college would be more meaningful if those 2-3 years happened before, rather than after.
I think the stupidest part of the article is in hiring guys fresh out of high school.
I certainly believe that a college dropout can become a talented software engineer given enough real world experience, but no one is going to be able to plan and architect a complex system before it has been implemented without a lot of experience.
Having a PhD no doubt increases your likelihood of being a brilliant engineer, but there are also statistical outliers that have the same gift with no paper to show for it.
I think that companies should have a "must have a degree, or else be able to demonstrate that they're really freaking good." That would be my approach, personally.
Some people manage to make up some or all of the loss on their own. Many people do not. Knowing people in many smaller towns, the ones who didn't get a college degree almost all ended up staying in their home towns, believing almost the same as their parents did, and failing to really understand the world. Among those who went to university, far more (but not all) journeyed in mind and/or body and had a lot more personal growth. Sure, it's possible to waste one's time in university, but many people do not, and those people are not the sort you'll see drawing attention to themselves with alcohol and misbehaviour.
I don't buy it. Who's to say those people would actually succeed at college? Who's to say they would change their belief structure if they attended college?
I find that recent college graduates almost always share the mutually reinforced views of their social clique, and have no ability to relate to anyone who is of a different age group or has a different worldview.
I've grown personally so much since I quit school. I look at the whole world and its issues way differently. It's very sobering to see how the real world works, and I think that the very insulated and imaginary environment that a classroom creates hinders growth as much as it develops it.
Rush is highly factually accurate. That doesn't mean he's right.
He, like many people educated in a day and age where truth is no longer held to the rigorous standards it once was, simply begins his line of thinking with his beliefs, and find the facts that best support those beliefs. Even if that means extracting them from their surrounding context entirely.
But, oh yes, many of the facts he uses are technically true. He's downright wrong on occasion, for sure, the point is that he's not wrong because his facts are wrong, rather, he's wrong because a comprehensive, holistic look at the facts does not influence his opinion at all. They're just a tool to him to propagate his beliefs.
Who modded this down? ZFS+Fuse is not something I'd recommend anyone put into production unless they really, really knew what they were doing.
There is a difference between, "ooh the mount command just let me mount a ZFS partition on my Linux box" and "I have the ability to take reliable snapshots on my high traffic, high load production system."
"Some real server operating systems"... I'm detecting just a tad bit of elitism there.
Honestly, every production deployment I've seen has dedicated database servers that do not use snapshots for backup.. dumping the database itself to a backup is just fine.
I agree that it is a cool feature, but you can be a real server operating system without it.
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If the ads are pay per click, you're not doing anything wrong by disabling them.
A sign of the times is that posts like this and Fnkmaster's would attract intelligent posters to rebut and engage in intelligent, fruitful discourse. Now, people steer clear of responding to posts they disagree with, and the people that disagree are stuck writing "me too" posts in the "BP must burn in Hell" threads.
Does anyone else notice the trend towards people only engaging in discussions with people they agree with?
Given that they've been at the "warmer, fuzzier, more baby-seal-loving, oil company" PR game for something like a decade now(I'm guessing that they might be doing a little less advertising in National Geographic in the near future; but they were all over the place with their "Beyond Petroleum" spin) I'd assume that they have an entrenched internal culture that is convinced of exactly that.
Given the public's relatively short attention span, and the fervor of the ostensibly-libertarian-but-basically-authoritarian-corporatist wing, which blithely asserts that any state interference in the sovereign right of corporations to do whatever the fuck they want, or even say mean things when the inevitable consequences occur, is socialist fascism; they may well be correct.
This problem isn't about any conservative belief that corporations should be allowed to do as they wish, it's about Americans unwillingness to care about where their gas comes from, and how "they" go about getting it.
You really can't fix this problem without reducing demand for oil, and neither political party seems willing to stand up to big oil companies.
Are you aware of how the HTML5 spec is going to become a standard? Two independent browser implementations are required for any particular feature to be put in the standard.
Every browser maker is free to implement whatever new features they want to propose become standard. In CSS, these features will get prepended with attributes like -webkit-* or -moz-*.
Often times browsers differ in how they implement proposed features such as border-image. A lot of this stuff does not at all behave the same way in different browsers, and that's okay!
Safari is doing nothing wrong here, and while I am personally very angry at Apple for the app store, this isn't evil, it's just the nature of how HTML5 is being developed.
What if I need to write a script that iterates through all references to addFloatAndInt? What if the script doesn't know it's looking for references to addFloatAndInt until runtime?
I don't think you read commodore's post thoroughly, and actually he has some replies elsewhere that clarify what he's saying further.
His claim is that it's commonly claimed in American universities that many founders were not Christians, but since studying Jefferson himself he has found this to be untrue. You seemed to respond to his post by dogmatically pasting exactly what American universities are teaching.
You may incidentally be correct, but it's going to take more than that to refute commodore's claim.
I chalk it up to people not distinguishing between me using my brain and fingers to spring code into existence, and me putting the code I write up on an FTP site.
Hint to orlanz and WindBourne: One is called "writing code," and the other is called "distributing code." When a company hires you to write code, they own the code you write. The company has a choice to distribute code to other people or not. If it never decides to distribute the code to other people, then the GPL never comes in to play.
Other licenses do not work this way; a proprietary per-seat software license cannot be handed out to an arbitrary number of employees and used internally however the client company sees fit. It is because the GPL explicitly attaches itself to the act of distribution that a company can do whatever they want with GPL'ed code as long as they do not share it with anyone outside the company.
... unless there's a convincing reason to believe that viewing child pornography increases ones' likelihood in sexually engaging children.
I remember hearing a quote from a child sex offender in prison-- something to the tune of "not a single fellow child sex offender here in prison did not first begin with child porn."
Maybe that's a wad of nonsense; after all, I'm not providing a credible source. But if it could be successfully argued that viewing child porn creates material desire to abuse children sexually then the position to ban child pornography would no longer need to rest solely on the idea that children are being abused.
Bit error rates affect different compression schemes differently. Specifically, the more you compress the data in general, the more single bit errors will start to destroy the signal completely, especially if the framing scheme was designed around running over a lossless connection.
Wrong, there is signal loss in digital. However, you are also right. Once you lose enough signal that you can no longer decode the digital data, your video becomes instantly unwatchable.
Therefore, if you needed a long enough HDMI cable, as the voltage drops enough from the transmitter to the receiver, you'd start seeing the difference between low quality and high quality cables in that the good cables would work and the others would cut out frequently or not work at all.
Not picking on you per se, but as long as we're going to educate people on why they shouldn't waste money on expensive snake oil, we should explain it correctly.
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... of course those stuffy liberal academic types at Penn St. cleared him. They're liberals! They're protecting their own!
Nothing is to say they would succeed or change. A number of them would.
There's also a last process of maturing that happens in the 2-3 years after university, as they need to apply the ideas they learned there to specific situations. That's an important step.
I think what you're saying is true, but I've often felt like college would be more meaningful if those 2-3 years happened before, rather than after.
I think the stupidest part of the article is in hiring guys fresh out of high school.
I certainly believe that a college dropout can become a talented software engineer given enough real world experience, but no one is going to be able to plan and architect a complex system before it has been implemented without a lot of experience.
Having a PhD no doubt increases your likelihood of being a brilliant engineer, but there are also statistical outliers that have the same gift with no paper to show for it.
I think that companies should have a "must have a degree, or else be able to demonstrate that they're really freaking good." That would be my approach, personally.
I knew a guy with a PhD in computer science that once wrote a function in C++ that spanned over 10,000 lines of code.
Some people manage to make up some or all of the loss on their own. Many people do not. Knowing people in many smaller towns, the ones who didn't get a college degree almost all ended up staying in their home towns, believing almost the same as their parents did, and failing to really understand the world. Among those who went to university, far more (but not all) journeyed in mind and/or body and had a lot more personal growth. Sure, it's possible to waste one's time in university, but many people do not, and those people are not the sort you'll see drawing attention to themselves with alcohol and misbehaviour.
I don't buy it. Who's to say those people would actually succeed at college? Who's to say they would change their belief structure if they attended college?
I find that recent college graduates almost always share the mutually reinforced views of their social clique, and have no ability to relate to anyone who is of a different age group or has a different worldview.
Graduate of the school of hard knocks here.
I've grown personally so much since I quit school. I look at the whole world and its issues way differently. It's very sobering to see how the real world works, and I think that the very insulated and imaginary environment that a classroom creates hinders growth as much as it develops it.
I tell you what, if any politician stands a chance at actually delivering some sort of change, it's got to be the Antichrist.
Thank you for that brilliant response that totally missed the guys point.
Rush is highly factually accurate. That doesn't mean he's right.
He, like many people educated in a day and age where truth is no longer held to the rigorous standards it once was, simply begins his line of thinking with his beliefs, and find the facts that best support those beliefs. Even if that means extracting them from their surrounding context entirely.
But, oh yes, many of the facts he uses are technically true. He's downright wrong on occasion, for sure, the point is that he's not wrong because his facts are wrong, rather, he's wrong because a comprehensive, holistic look at the facts does not influence his opinion at all. They're just a tool to him to propagate his beliefs.
Who modded this down? ZFS+Fuse is not something I'd recommend anyone put into production unless they really, really knew what they were doing.
There is a difference between, "ooh the mount command just let me mount a ZFS partition on my Linux box" and "I have the ability to take reliable snapshots on my high traffic, high load production system."
"Some real server operating systems"... I'm detecting just a tad bit of elitism there.
Honestly, every production deployment I've seen has dedicated database servers that do not use snapshots for backup.. dumping the database itself to a backup is just fine.
I agree that it is a cool feature, but you can be a real server operating system without it.
If the ads are pay per click, you're not doing anything wrong by disabling them.
A sign of the times is that posts like this and Fnkmaster's would attract intelligent posters to rebut and engage in intelligent, fruitful discourse. Now, people steer clear of responding to posts they disagree with, and the people that disagree are stuck writing "me too" posts in the "BP must burn in Hell" threads.
Does anyone else notice the trend towards people only engaging in discussions with people they agree with?
Given that they've been at the "warmer, fuzzier, more baby-seal-loving, oil company" PR game for something like a decade now(I'm guessing that they might be doing a little less advertising in National Geographic in the near future; but they were all over the place with their "Beyond Petroleum" spin) I'd assume that they have an entrenched internal culture that is convinced of exactly that.
Given the public's relatively short attention span, and the fervor of the ostensibly-libertarian-but-basically-authoritarian-corporatist wing, which blithely asserts that any state interference in the sovereign right of corporations to do whatever the fuck they want, or even say mean things when the inevitable consequences occur, is socialist fascism; they may well be correct.
This problem isn't about any conservative belief that corporations should be allowed to do as they wish, it's about Americans unwillingness to care about where their gas comes from, and how "they" go about getting it.
You really can't fix this problem without reducing demand for oil, and neither political party seems willing to stand up to big oil companies.
Are you aware of how the HTML5 spec is going to become a standard? Two independent browser implementations are required for any particular feature to be put in the standard.
Every browser maker is free to implement whatever new features they want to propose become standard. In CSS, these features will get prepended with attributes like -webkit-* or -moz-*.
Often times browsers differ in how they implement proposed features such as border-image. A lot of this stuff does not at all behave the same way in different browsers, and that's okay!
Safari is doing nothing wrong here, and while I am personally very angry at Apple for the app store, this isn't evil, it's just the nature of how HTML5 is being developed.
What if I need to write a script that iterates through all references to addFloatAndInt? What if the script doesn't know it's looking for references to addFloatAndInt until runtime?
I don't think you read commodore's post thoroughly, and actually he has some replies elsewhere that clarify what he's saying further.
His claim is that it's commonly claimed in American universities that many founders were not Christians, but since studying Jefferson himself he has found this to be untrue. You seemed to respond to his post by dogmatically pasting exactly what American universities are teaching.
You may incidentally be correct, but it's going to take more than that to refute commodore's claim.
I chalk it up to people not distinguishing between me using my brain and fingers to spring code into existence, and me putting the code I write up on an FTP site.
Hint to orlanz and WindBourne: One is called "writing code," and the other is called "distributing code." When a company hires you to write code, they own the code you write. The company has a choice to distribute code to other people or not. If it never decides to distribute the code to other people, then the GPL never comes in to play.
Other licenses do not work this way; a proprietary per-seat software license cannot be handed out to an arbitrary number of employees and used internally however the client company sees fit. It is because the GPL explicitly attaches itself to the act of distribution that a company can do whatever they want with GPL'ed code as long as they do not share it with anyone outside the company.
Wait.. so what is it trying to say?
No one has figured out a way to restart services without interrupting the user?
... unless there's a convincing reason to believe that viewing child pornography increases ones' likelihood in sexually engaging children.
I remember hearing a quote from a child sex offender in prison-- something to the tune of "not a single fellow child sex offender here in prison did not first begin with child porn."
Maybe that's a wad of nonsense; after all, I'm not providing a credible source. But if it could be successfully argued that viewing child porn creates material desire to abuse children sexually then the position to ban child pornography would no longer need to rest solely on the idea that children are being abused.
Bit error rates affect different compression schemes differently. Specifically, the more you compress the data in general, the more single bit errors will start to destroy the signal completely, especially if the framing scheme was designed around running over a lossless connection.
Wrong, there is signal loss in digital. However, you are also right. Once you lose enough signal that you can no longer decode the digital data, your video becomes instantly unwatchable.
Therefore, if you needed a long enough HDMI cable, as the voltage drops enough from the transmitter to the receiver, you'd start seeing the difference between low quality and high quality cables in that the good cables would work and the others would cut out frequently or not work at all.
Not picking on you per se, but as long as we're going to educate people on why they shouldn't waste money on expensive snake oil, we should explain it correctly.
Good web developers package their sites correctly and avoid too many separate assets. They also put different assets on different domains.
I suppose Opera's caching technology really only significantly speeds up pages that are slow by design.