The truth is that programming isn't a passion or a talent, says Edge, it is just a bunch of skills that can be learned.
Competent, basic programming may be, but there is also an aspect of art and talent to it that can't be taught no matter how much the "we don't fail kids here" people might wish it weren't the case. Companies aren't looking for competent programmers -- they offshore those jobs. They're looking for the exceptional talent that can drive the whole process from top to bottom, including issuing the designs and models those "competent" programmers are expected to work from.
I may not believe in the "10x programmer", but I most certainly do not believe that just "anybody" can be taught to be good programmer. I don't believe that of anything except the most basic of manual labour jobs.
One does not edit anywhere near the number of configuration files and install enough software to justify running as root all the time by a long shot. This isn't the Windows world where over half the software requires running as Administrator just to function.
I spend months at a time never touching the root account on my systems after they've been set up. I haven't seen a box that enabled root logins in over a decade, from any vendor or Unix flavour.
So I call "bullshit" on the theory that there are users out there logging in as "root" for the sake of "convenience."
So by your logic, the police should never be bothered with "busting" street-level drug dealers, pick-pockets, or muggers because they aren't the "big fish" in their criminal organization.
I don't give a damn if you're some greedy schmuck who bought into Uber's lies. You are providing the end service, and your activity is illegal, so why shouldn't the book be thrown at you?
It's not like you're innocent. Even if you are ignorant of the law, that has never been held as an excuse in court.
Were it not for the janitor removing the old papers from his garbage can, his cube/office would have been inundated shortly, causing the whole project to fail. I guess we should credit that janitor with creating a computer revolution, too.
Seriously. The guy was one engineer on a computer system and not part of the BASIC team. How the HELL does anyone conclude from that that we "owe him" credit for anything except participating in the design of an obsolete piece of hardware?
8 point font on *any* display is unreadable, yet a lot of websites use it to cram more crap on the page. Except for the ads, of course. Those banner print with 24 and 32 dpi fonts.:(
It's fast enough. It renders properly. It lets me override font settings.
Chrome's big "death knell" in my books is the inability to override font settings. I don't know why so many web designers use magnifying glasses when testing their pages.:(
NIMBY's suck farts off dead chickens in August. And if you've ever smelt a rotting chicken in the August heat, you know how revolting that is.
The job of a NIMBY is to do whatever they can to obstruct progress. Whether they do it to "protect property values", "save the children", or "stand up for our (religious) rights", they all do the same thing in the end: Say "No" without providing any options.
Every nation in this world is full of conquered peoples. There are more "sacred places" than you can shake a stick at, and I challenge you to pick a direction and walk twenty miles without running into someone's "sacred" place. Yet when is the last time you ever saw them worshipping there?
The funny thing about paranoia is while you're in the throws of it, no one can convince you you're over-reacting. As someone who suffers from bi-polar, I know this first hand.
If you think a satellite TV provider filling in the coverage gap for a land/fiber line based provider is a "bad thing", you need to go see a shrink, get diagnosed, and start taking your meds. Especially considering how long these two companies have already had a service-provider partnership in place.
Hey! Stop being rational! You're supposed to rant and scream about the potential for abuse by big corporations -- this IS Slashdot, after all, land of the paranoid schizophrenics...
You burn an EEPROM so I was using the same terminology. It's still usually called "burning" even though you can re-burn the same device with different code.
Isn't the whole point of an FPGA being able to "burn" a design into a chip rather than "building" it? Are they saying you can only run your modifications through a simulator instead of burning an FPGA to test it?
If so, what's the point of the exercise? Wouldn't it make more sense to have students play with an open sourced or freeware design that they can actually implement and test?
I'm stunned at how many sports channels I had to block even with basic IPTV from SaskTel here in Saskatchewan, Canada. I have ZERO interest in sports, and I'm kind of pissed off that some of the money I pay is going to support that crap, which I do not and will never watch.
I'd much rather have something like BBC News or BBC1 than a bazillion sports channels.
You are incorrect. At the time of the Amiga, the Apple II, the Commodore 64, and other such machines, only the IBM PC was a "Personal Computer." It was a brand, not a generic term. The "generic" term was "micro computer".
PC only became a generic term when there was a flood of PC-compatible machines from other vendors on the market. And in response to the genericization of that brand, IBM tried to rebrand their next iteration of machines "Personal System/2", or PS/2, and this time lock things down to prevent competition.
You kids really need to read some old Byte magazines from the period before you go opening your bullshit-spewing mouths.
Yes, because doing something along the lines of "apt-get install kde-full" is such an onerous task that I couldn't even think of using an OS that would force me to do that.:P
Some people see everything in life as being politics, and Slashdot has enough of a population that there will always be a few such people showing up to post on every article/topic, so, yes, every story has to be a political trollfest.
Myself, I find it sad that this one person is being singled out for discussion while 1799 equally worthy human beings are being ignored and forgotten because they weren't "in tech."
The EU is holding Google to task on competition issues. They've done the same to Microsoft in the past.
Every company doing business with Canadians is required to follow Canada's CANSPAM permission-collection process for sending business emails.
Google had to bend over on European privacy laws.
Companies are required to obey the law where their customers are. No amount of whining and bleating by "cloud providers" from the US or elsewhere is going to change that.
Hell, even the USG is demanding that Microsoft services hosted in Ireland be subject to US law for US customers.
And so it should be. It is the responsibility of a corporation to obey the law in the consumer market and in it's home/server nation.
I mean, seriously, are you trying to tell me that CloudFlare should be exempt from following UK law when servicing UK customers?
Give your head a serious fucking shake, man. The only companies even trying to fight that regimen any more are piracy sites and smaller American companies that claim they have a "moral obligation" to "fight for freedom" or that it's "too expensive" to meet the needs of their customer's legal systems. If it's too damned "expensive" to service a market legally, then you have NO business expecting to serve those customers at all.
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Competent, basic programming may be, but there is also an aspect of art and talent to it that can't be taught no matter how much the "we don't fail kids here" people might wish it weren't the case. Companies aren't looking for competent programmers -- they offshore those jobs. They're looking for the exceptional talent that can drive the whole process from top to bottom, including issuing the designs and models those "competent" programmers are expected to work from.
I may not believe in the "10x programmer", but I most certainly do not believe that just "anybody" can be taught to be good programmer. I don't believe that of anything except the most basic of manual labour jobs.
One does not edit anywhere near the number of configuration files and install enough software to justify running as root all the time by a long shot. This isn't the Windows world where over half the software requires running as Administrator just to function.
I spend months at a time never touching the root account on my systems after they've been set up. I haven't seen a box that enabled root logins in over a decade, from any vendor or Unix flavour.
So I call "bullshit" on the theory that there are users out there logging in as "root" for the sake of "convenience."
So by your logic, the police should never be bothered with "busting" street-level drug dealers, pick-pockets, or muggers because they aren't the "big fish" in their criminal organization.
I don't give a damn if you're some greedy schmuck who bought into Uber's lies. You are providing the end service, and your activity is illegal, so why shouldn't the book be thrown at you?
It's not like you're innocent. Even if you are ignorant of the law, that has never been held as an excuse in court.
Were it not for the janitor removing the old papers from his garbage can, his cube/office would have been inundated shortly, causing the whole project to fail. I guess we should credit that janitor with creating a computer revolution, too.
Seriously. The guy was one engineer on a computer system and not part of the BASIC team. How the HELL does anyone conclude from that that we "owe him" credit for anything except participating in the design of an obsolete piece of hardware?
Cue the Monty Python skits, 'cause it's all about the spam spam spam spam spam.
Not the content. Not keeping articles current. Not making sure you can share links *outside* Facebook if you so choose.
But spam. Unending, unyielding, inflexible barrages of "advertising".
If they sent out leaflets instead of banner ads, my house would be ceiling deep in the shit, even with AdBlock Plus running.
8 point font on *any* display is unreadable, yet a lot of websites use it to cram more crap on the page. Except for the ads, of course. Those banner print with 24 and 32 dpi fonts. :(
It's fast enough. It renders properly. It lets me override font settings.
Chrome's big "death knell" in my books is the inability to override font settings. I don't know why so many web designers use magnifying glasses when testing their pages. :(
Man, she SUCKS!!! :P
NIMBY's suck farts off dead chickens in August. And if you've ever smelt a rotting chicken in the August heat, you know how revolting that is.
The job of a NIMBY is to do whatever they can to obstruct progress. Whether they do it to "protect property values", "save the children", or "stand up for our (religious) rights", they all do the same thing in the end: Say "No" without providing any options.
Every nation in this world is full of conquered peoples. There are more "sacred places" than you can shake a stick at, and I challenge you to pick a direction and walk twenty miles without running into someone's "sacred" place. Yet when is the last time you ever saw them worshipping there?
Yeah. Right.
Never.
*LOL*
The funny thing about paranoia is while you're in the throws of it, no one can convince you you're over-reacting. As someone who suffers from bi-polar, I know this first hand.
If you think a satellite TV provider filling in the coverage gap for a land/fiber line based provider is a "bad thing", you need to go see a shrink, get diagnosed, and start taking your meds. Especially considering how long these two companies have already had a service-provider partnership in place.
Hey! Stop being rational! You're supposed to rant and scream about the potential for abuse by big corporations -- this IS Slashdot, after all, land of the paranoid schizophrenics...
In the SuperNES era, a game also used to provide several days worth of play-through, not 10-12 hours of content.
But I was under the mistaken impression that one could only burn an FPGA once. Thanks for clarifying that they can be reused.
You burn an EEPROM so I was using the same terminology. It's still usually called "burning" even though you can re-burn the same device with different code.
Isn't the whole point of an FPGA being able to "burn" a design into a chip rather than "building" it? Are they saying you can only run your modifications through a simulator instead of burning an FPGA to test it?
If so, what's the point of the exercise? Wouldn't it make more sense to have students play with an open sourced or freeware design that they can actually implement and test?
I'm stunned at how many sports channels I had to block even with basic IPTV from SaskTel here in Saskatchewan, Canada. I have ZERO interest in sports, and I'm kind of pissed off that some of the money I pay is going to support that crap, which I do not and will never watch.
I'd much rather have something like BBC News or BBC1 than a bazillion sports channels.
It also happens to give me a wicked case of the shits.
"Searching and reading are left as an exercise for the extremely fucking lazy student."
What's the matter? You too fucking stupid to Google for yourself?
You are incorrect. At the time of the Amiga, the Apple II, the Commodore 64, and other such machines, only the IBM PC was a "Personal Computer." It was a brand, not a generic term. The "generic" term was "micro computer".
PC only became a generic term when there was a flood of PC-compatible machines from other vendors on the market. And in response to the genericization of that brand, IBM tried to rebrand their next iteration of machines "Personal System/2", or PS/2, and this time lock things down to prevent competition.
You kids really need to read some old Byte magazines from the period before you go opening your bullshit-spewing mouths.
Yes, because doing something along the lines of "apt-get install kde-full" is such an onerous task that I couldn't even think of using an OS that would force me to do that. :P
Some people see everything in life as being politics, and Slashdot has enough of a population that there will always be a few such people showing up to post on every article/topic, so, yes, every story has to be a political trollfest.
Myself, I find it sad that this one person is being singled out for discussion while 1799 equally worthy human beings are being ignored and forgotten because they weren't "in tech."
Ah. I get it. You're not allowed to notice how Apple is ripping everyone off unless you buy Apple products and have yourself been ripped off.
Fuck you fanbois.
The EU is holding Google to task on competition issues. They've done the same to Microsoft in the past.
Every company doing business with Canadians is required to follow Canada's CANSPAM permission-collection process for sending business emails.
Google had to bend over on European privacy laws.
Companies are required to obey the law where their customers are. No amount of whining and bleating by "cloud providers" from the US or elsewhere is going to change that.
Hell, even the USG is demanding that Microsoft services hosted in Ireland be subject to US law for US customers.
And so it should be. It is the responsibility of a corporation to obey the law in the consumer market and in it's home/server nation.
I mean, seriously, are you trying to tell me that CloudFlare should be exempt from following UK law when servicing UK customers?
Give your head a serious fucking shake, man. The only companies even trying to fight that regimen any more are piracy sites and smaller American companies that claim they have a "moral obligation" to "fight for freedom" or that it's "too expensive" to meet the needs of their customer's legal systems. If it's too damned "expensive" to service a market legally, then you have NO business expecting to serve those customers at all.