RedHat pretty much did this and much to my surprise, it's worked out pretty well for them. Even when people move to a free alternative, it probably won't be considered a complete mistake.
As a Java programmer, I tried to do a little project in VB - found it bizarre. I recently had to learn some basic Python to help a teacher. TBH it seem more like it was based on Bash than C! I really missed brackets.
Picking up Java is hard for some CS undergrads so can't go straight into that. Javascript is a good choice as students can do fun things with it, tho they'd have to keep it simple and not get too distracted by DOM or CSS.
Better I think is PHP since it's hard to write a PHP project you can't trace through easily.
I get my electricity 'from' wind turbines in Scotland. It was the cheapest on the market when I switched about three years ago and is still cheaper than most other energy companies.
The trouble with that view is that it's clearly not one that Jesus or Paul (for example) held. It's just a bit easier to understand that things are different after. Instead, their view is that the whole of what we know as the Old Testament actually points to Jesus. There's a couple of hundred prophesies about Jesus, some obvious, some you'd never realise without it being pointed out.
If you look at the bible with an open mind, asking the question "is this book the ineffable word of an omnipotent, omniscient and all loving supreme being?"
We wouldn't have those expectations (omnipotent, omnisicient, loving) without the Bible telling us that's what God it like. However I think we like to limit the characteristics to ones we like. The ten commandments bit for example also says he's jealous (and to have no other gods before him etc). He's also described as getting angry and implementing judgements. I guess my point is as C S Lewis put it about the character Aslan - he's not a tame lion, ie God doesn't conform to our expectations or predetermined conclusions.
It's good to wonder. In case it helps you tick a few off:
10 virgin wives?
Wasn't it 10 virgin's waiting for the wedding party to arrive?
Killing lots of people is expected if people in another city believe in another god.
God said they be sent to kill them for their sin 4 generations before it happened (Genesis 15 v16).
Wear a hat or go to hell - Leviticus
Not sure what this is about, but glad that I'm under the new covenant in Jesus' blood instead of the old one.
Zombies - Gospel Matthew, more than Jesus rose from the dead
Apart from the braaaaaaaiins bit, yep.
Women are subservient to men, shouldn't teach or have any authority over men - 1 Timothy
There's lots to be said over this. On the one hand it's like Paul, with his Pharasee background, is annoyed because the less well-educated women kept disrupting services. On the other, there were churches that met in the houses of important business women, and Paul in Galatians 3 v28 says that men and women are all equal in Christ - so there was more respect and equality.
So many bad animals to eat. escargot, pig - life without bacon?
The Israelites were to be "set apart", specifically different.
Slavery is OK as long as they're foreigners. - Leviticus
I was wondering why the furthest the Bible seems to go on slavery is to suggest it's a good idea for slaves to gain their freedom if they can 1 Corinthians 7v21. I suspect it's because it's the Bible's view that we're all slaves anyway, either to God in a joyful relationship based on Jesus' death, or to sin.
Tats bar you from heaven - Leviticus (Just pick a random passage from that book and you can find something everyone is doing wrong)
I think the key to Leviticus is what Jesus said - that he came to fulfill the law. So anything you pick, ask how Jesus fulfilled it. Then a whole lot of it makes a lot more sense. Anyway, new covenant is based on accepting Jesus as lord rather than tats.
Having seen miracles I feel the need to confirm that the spontaneous healing directly after prayer does indeed result in praising the Lord! Usually the person involved is rather joyful and thankful too:)
From similar situations - I agree with using Excel.
To take it further, PHP will read excel spreadsheets so he can do fancy analysis/webpages/reports whilst he's there. Afterwards they can still access the data if they need to.
Once he's done this though they will likely want him to continually produce additional reports. Not a bad way to get some basic programming experience. Doesn't really answer his question admittedly!
As an honest person - I disagree. Belief in God is perfectly rational. And I've seen lots of answers to prayer, particularly when I was involved in production of church events.
Perhaps what's hard is that faith and trust are not the same as science - not because they are irrational or that science is better (maybe you *believe* it is;) but that the supernatural is 'bigger' (by definition) than the natural. Science only deals with the natural world, not the relationship with God.
I'm really glad about this. I'm sad to say "won't someone think of the children" but that argument makes sense here. We have a watershed to project kids from adult themes on TV, we have encrypted channels so they're not available for those that don't want to see them, we have rules about advertising - the fact that kids can see hard core porn on the internet doesn't fit with the way our culture works.
Sure, parents need to be responsible but when my kid grows up, they're going to have a better smart phone than I have and be in school where those with access to gross things will try to share them. I'm going to want to protect my kid from being confronted with disturbing/adult themes until they're ready to make the choice themselves.
At which point, they can opt out of filtering if they want to. It's not going to change my internet use to have porn filtered. So I'm glad about this.
Today the evidence for Jesus can be seen in people. In lives changed from being ruined to being fixed, in people serving meals at soup kitchens, in caring for others and in answered prayers of Christians.
(The Bible says that the world was made through Jesus hence intelligent creator.)
The normal way in the UK would be to feed into the national grid who pay you for it. You generate during the day and consume electricity from somewhere else at night.
I wonder if this could lead to solar panel roof tiles?
And yet I don't know anyone who likes Hibernate either. I saw an anti-hibernate rant the other day that I think I agree with : "if you don't know SQL you shouldn't be programming with databases". I agree because it's too easy to write really slow systems with Hibernate.
I'm motivated to focus on compassion because of my faith in God expressed most supremely by what Jesus did. Granted that's faith and not 'religion' but Jesus said true religion is looking after orphans and widows and this is what I see a lot of Christian organisations doing. Therefore I'm saddened when people start the whole "religion is bad" discussion because I suspect they're condemning a lot of people like myself who ARE focusing on compassion.
Sure there's a lot of crazy people in the world, but the Christians I've seen going to other countries have gone there to help people.
I've seen a couple of miracles in the last 10 years (and I'm not making a joke either like it's a miracle I got married).
I'd suggest that you just haven't heard about them.
In case you're interested I've seen a friend's back problem (that was caused by one leg being longer than the other) cured by being prayed for in church. The leg grew to the same length as the other. My other best one was with a lighting desk that wasn't working and that the owners wanted us to confirm wasn't working so they could press their case for buying a new one. Well, it wasn't working and we couldn't make it work. We prayed about what to do and then tried it again (not doing anything different than before) and it worked fine. In both cases I talked to the relevant people a year or more after and they were both still fixed:)
Through links with church and other christians I've heard of other miracles and regularly have impressive answers to prayer that could be considered little miracles. Certainly enough to challenge the argument that they could have just been coincidence.
So, sorry that that's another story about miracles for you but it's what I saw.
$100 on ebay and time learning how to use it and get it right etc etc. Considering their target is to advance computer/programming in schools the same way the BBC micro did and that most teachers in UK primary schools don't have time (or money) to photocopy all the resources they want for lessons (and have a life), I'm not at all surprised that it's not going to be available in kit form (at the start).
parent needs to be modded up big time. It answers it from my point of view.
I'd add the following tho :
- always think ahead to how the software may be changed in future (to make it easy on yourself when the specification changes)
- always understand how much work the computer is having to do (ie don't write in-efficient code or the server WILL lock-up)
For my wedding I sent the invites out as pdfs (batch job in open office to populate the name and then shell script to send the emails) which included a password to a website to RSVP (ie say they're coming, dietary requirements etc).
Slashdot Mirror
Yep, I saw one on a Ford Focus about 9 years ago.
Daft concept, meant you couldn't check the door was actually locked.
RedHat pretty much did this and much to my surprise, it's worked out pretty well for them.
Even when people move to a free alternative, it probably won't be considered a complete mistake.
LoL if I had mod points!
Or codenamed "Project 2501"
Didn't they already reject a decent offer a year or two ago?
Outside their factory was a giant Warhammer figure (maybe 4 metres tall).
Opposite their factory is a large church.
'They' should renamed the road : War and Peace Road.
Wish I hadn't re-watched Gravity last night now!
Mod parent up.
As a Java programmer, I tried to do a little project in VB - found it bizarre.
I recently had to learn some basic Python to help a teacher. TBH it seem more like it was based on Bash than C! I really missed brackets.
Picking up Java is hard for some CS undergrads so can't go straight into that. Javascript is a good choice as students can do fun things with it, tho they'd have to keep it simple and not get too distracted by DOM or CSS.
Better I think is PHP since it's hard to write a PHP project you can't trace through easily.
I get my electricity 'from' wind turbines in Scotland. It was the cheapest on the market when I switched about three years ago and is still cheaper than most other energy companies.
"all the rules change when Jesus shows up"
The trouble with that view is that it's clearly not one that Jesus or Paul (for example) held. It's just a bit easier to understand that things are different after. Instead, their view is that the whole of what we know as the Old Testament actually points to Jesus. There's a couple of hundred prophesies about Jesus, some obvious, some you'd never realise without it being pointed out.
If you look at the bible with an open mind, asking the question "is this book the ineffable word of an omnipotent, omniscient and all loving supreme being?"
We wouldn't have those expectations (omnipotent, omnisicient, loving) without the Bible telling us that's what God it like. However I think we like to limit the characteristics to ones we like. The ten commandments bit for example also says he's jealous (and to have no other gods before him etc). He's also described as getting angry and implementing judgements. I guess my point is as C S Lewis put it about the character Aslan - he's not a tame lion, ie God doesn't conform to our expectations or predetermined conclusions.
It's good to wonder. In case it helps you tick a few off :
10 virgin wives?
Wasn't it 10 virgin's waiting for the wedding party to arrive?
Killing lots of people is expected if people in another city believe in another god.
God said they be sent to kill them for their sin 4 generations before it happened (Genesis 15 v16).
Wear a hat or go to hell - Leviticus
Not sure what this is about, but glad that I'm under the new covenant in Jesus' blood instead of the old one.
Zombies - Gospel Matthew, more than Jesus rose from the dead
Apart from the braaaaaaaiins bit, yep.
Women are subservient to men, shouldn't teach or have any authority over men - 1 Timothy
There's lots to be said over this. On the one hand it's like Paul, with his Pharasee background, is annoyed because the less well-educated women kept disrupting services. On the other, there were churches that met in the houses of important business women, and Paul in Galatians 3 v28 says that men and women are all equal in Christ - so there was more respect and equality.
So many bad animals to eat. escargot, pig - life without bacon?
The Israelites were to be "set apart", specifically different.
Slavery is OK as long as they're foreigners. - Leviticus
I was wondering why the furthest the Bible seems to go on slavery is to suggest it's a good idea for slaves to gain their freedom if they can 1 Corinthians 7v21. I suspect it's because it's the Bible's view that we're all slaves anyway, either to God in a joyful relationship based on Jesus' death, or to sin.
Tats bar you from heaven - Leviticus (Just pick a random passage from that book and you can find something everyone is doing wrong)
I think the key to Leviticus is what Jesus said - that he came to fulfill the law. So anything you pick, ask how Jesus fulfilled it. Then a whole lot of it makes a lot more sense. Anyway, new covenant is based on accepting Jesus as lord rather than tats.
Having seen miracles I feel the need to confirm that the spontaneous healing directly after prayer does indeed result in praising the Lord! Usually the person involved is rather joyful and thankful too :)
I'm inspired! Thank you!
From similar situations - I agree with using Excel.
To take it further, PHP will read excel spreadsheets so he can do fancy analysis/webpages/reports whilst he's there. Afterwards they can still access the data if they need to.
Once he's done this though they will likely want him to continually produce additional reports. Not a bad way to get some basic programming experience. Doesn't really answer his question admittedly!
As an honest person - I disagree. Belief in God is perfectly rational. And I've seen lots of answers to prayer, particularly when I was involved in production of church events.
Perhaps what's hard is that faith and trust are not the same as science - not because they are irrational or that science is better (maybe you *believe* it is ;) but that the supernatural is 'bigger' (by definition) than the natural. Science only deals with the natural world, not the relationship with God.
That and normalisation based on keys to design out duplication of data and remove years of developer pain!
I'm really glad about this. I'm sad to say "won't someone think of the children" but that argument makes sense here. We have a watershed to project kids from adult themes on TV, we have encrypted channels so they're not available for those that don't want to see them, we have rules about advertising - the fact that kids can see hard core porn on the internet doesn't fit with the way our culture works.
Sure, parents need to be responsible but when my kid grows up, they're going to have a better smart phone than I have and be in school where those with access to gross things will try to share them. I'm going to want to protect my kid from being confronted with disturbing/adult themes until they're ready to make the choice themselves.
At which point, they can opt out of filtering if they want to. It's not going to change my internet use to have porn filtered. So I'm glad about this.
Today the evidence for Jesus can be seen in people. In lives changed from being ruined to being fixed, in people serving meals at soup kitchens, in caring for others and in answered prayers of Christians.
(The Bible says that the world was made through Jesus hence intelligent creator.)
The normal way in the UK would be to feed into the national grid who pay you for it. You generate during the day and consume electricity from somewhere else at night.
I wonder if this could lead to solar panel roof tiles?
And yet I don't know anyone who likes Hibernate either.
I saw an anti-hibernate rant the other day that I think I agree with : "if you don't know SQL you shouldn't be programming with databases". I agree because it's too easy to write really slow systems with Hibernate.
I'm motivated to focus on compassion because of my faith in God expressed most supremely by what Jesus did. Granted that's faith and not 'religion' but Jesus said true religion is looking after orphans and widows and this is what I see a lot of Christian organisations doing. Therefore I'm saddened when people start the whole "religion is bad" discussion because I suspect they're condemning a lot of people like myself who ARE focusing on compassion.
Sure there's a lot of crazy people in the world, but the Christians I've seen going to other countries have gone there to help people.
I've seen a couple of miracles in the last 10 years (and I'm not making a joke either like it's a miracle I got married).
I'd suggest that you just haven't heard about them.
In case you're interested I've seen a friend's back problem (that was caused by one leg being longer than the other) cured by being prayed for in church. The leg grew to the same length as the other. My other best one was with a lighting desk that wasn't working and that the owners wanted us to confirm wasn't working so they could press their case for buying a new one. Well, it wasn't working and we couldn't make it work. We prayed about what to do and then tried it again (not doing anything different than before) and it worked fine. In both cases I talked to the relevant people a year or more after and they were both still fixed :)
Through links with church and other christians I've heard of other miracles and regularly have impressive answers to prayer that could be considered little miracles. Certainly enough to challenge the argument that they could have just been coincidence.
So, sorry that that's another story about miracles for you but it's what I saw.
$100 on ebay and time learning how to use it and get it right etc etc. Considering their target is to advance computer/programming in schools the same way the BBC micro did and that most teachers in UK primary schools don't have time (or money) to photocopy all the resources they want for lessons (and have a life), I'm not at all surprised that it's not going to be available in kit form (at the start).
parent needs to be modded up big time. It answers it from my point of view.
I'd add the following tho :
- always think ahead to how the software may be changed in future (to make it easy on yourself when the specification changes)
- always understand how much work the computer is having to do (ie don't write in-efficient code or the server WILL lock-up)
I agree.
For my wedding I sent the invites out as pdfs (batch job in open office to populate the name and then shell script to send the emails) which included a password to a website to RSVP (ie say they're coming, dietary requirements etc).