Average spending per student in the USA is about eleven grand. Right now, we spend that on buildings, teachers' salaries, books, busses, administrators, janitors, etc.
I don't know about anyone else, but when I was a kid, if someone had offered me even a grand to go and find out what I needed to know to pass a set of grade-level qualifying exams, I'd do so with no need for further prompting.
I've always wondered why Microsoft hasn't hired a lot of Google's engineers away from Google.
Because 1) they'd have to move from the center of the industry to a city that might as well be a company town, at least as far as development work is concerned. 2) They'd have to leave an organization with a healthy, young, and vibrant corporate culture and go to one that's rotting from the head, and 3) they'd have to forgo GOOG options for MSFT options, and 4) Google is a much better resume entry than Microsoft.
I know plenty of people who've moved between Google and Apple. There's certainly no reluctance on the part of either company to hire staff away from the other.
If you know C syntax, it takes about the same amount of time to learn Objective C as it would Java.
No, not nearly that long. Objective-C only adds a handful of new keywords, and the method call syntax. Whenever I've taught people Cocoa programming, they're able to get Objective C in a day.
I'd say that judging by the Microsoft engineers i've met (who were nearly all from the Mac Business Unit), they really don't have a shortage of coding talent over there. What they have is a mind-boggling surplus of bad management, starting with Ballmer.
This disastrous update makes it clear Apple is internally shitting bricks over the iPhone losing market-share and Google's Android exploding in sales, userbase, and developer support
No, these were the best legislators we could get that weren't making more money in the private sector.
Read what you just wrote. You can't get better legislators because smarter people are making a living doing real work, which makes them unavailable. The GP was correct, QED.
It's reasonable when you're expected to defend a whole range of nations
Who says we're "expected" to do any such thing? Even if we were morally or legally obligated to do such a thing, maybe it could be accomplished without spending 55% of all the military appropriations in the whole world, don't you think?
I'd prefer crushing military superiority to losing, personally.
Do you enjoy swatting mosquitos with SAM missiles?
I expect Java to gain ground again as developers create apps for Android phones.
I expect Android to be where the lion's share of Java development happens in the next few years, but I also expect Java to continue to decline.
Java's initial popularity was a combination of marketing hype, and the fact that the world desperately needed an alternative to C++. Once people were weaned off of Stroustrup's mistake, they started looking into other languages as well. My picks for the most important languages ten years from now are C, Python, Objective-C, Ruby, and (regrettably) PHP and Javascript.
Yeah, they do keep saying that. I'm also sure that they can point to dozens of people who stopped iPad development and switched to Android. Somehow, the iPhone and iPad will have to get by with the tens of thousands who remain...
Keeping troops deployed in 130 countries around the world is NOT a defensive operation. Spending more than all the other countries on earth combined is absurd. China and Russia together spend about 1/6 of what we do.
They are not an "investment". War production isn't wealth.
Regardless of the morals and ethics, the bottom line is its good skilled and technical jobs for America that include retirement packages and healthcare. Get rid of the nukes and we put 10s of thousands of people out of work.
Let's see... $250 grand per square mile. What's it cost to obtain a silencer from the friendly neighborhood gun dealer?
After a dozen or so people get caught with this technology, I give it about a year before all the gangs in chicago start using silencers as standard equipment.
This may be news to you, but employers have to compete for workers, especially in a growing economy (which we can have again when we quit punishing people for succeeding.)
Not to mention this will cause a shitload of damage on the poor who have to spend every cent they get
Actually, the poor are the ones most damaged by our current system. If we eliminate payroll taxes, that's 12.4% of their earnings that don't get sucked out of their pockets by the federal government for a start.
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Average spending per student in the USA is about eleven grand. Right now, we spend that on buildings, teachers' salaries, books, busses, administrators, janitors, etc.
I don't know about anyone else, but when I was a kid, if someone had offered me even a grand to go and find out what I needed to know to pass a set of grade-level qualifying exams, I'd do so with no need for further prompting.
-jcr
I've always wondered why Microsoft hasn't hired a lot of Google's engineers away from Google.
Because 1) they'd have to move from the center of the industry to a city that might as well be a company town, at least as far as development work is concerned. 2) They'd have to leave an organization with a healthy, young, and vibrant corporate culture and go to one that's rotting from the head, and 3) they'd have to forgo GOOG options for MSFT options, and 4) Google is a much better resume entry than Microsoft.
-jcr
Jon Rubenstein, was hired away from Apple
Incorrect. Rubenstein retired from Apple. Palm convinced him to come out of retirement.
-jcr
I know plenty of people who've moved between Google and Apple. There's certainly no reluctance on the part of either company to hire staff away from the other.
-jcr
If you know C syntax, it takes about the same amount of time to learn Objective C as it would Java.
No, not nearly that long. Objective-C only adds a handful of new keywords, and the method call syntax. Whenever I've taught people Cocoa programming, they're able to get Objective C in a day.
-jcr
Every C coder worth their salt knows that C++ is just one better than C.
Better?
-jcr
Microsoft full of bad programmers?
I'd say that judging by the Microsoft engineers i've met (who were nearly all from the Mac Business Unit), they really don't have a shortage of coding talent over there. What they have is a mind-boggling surplus of bad management, starting with Ballmer.
-jcr
Chief among those is not being taken from the people who earned it in the first place.
Bingo. I'd mod you up if I had the points.
-jcr
This disastrous update makes it clear Apple is internally shitting bricks over the iPhone losing market-share and Google's Android exploding in sales, userbase, and developer support
What color is the sky on your planet?
-jcr
Our defense treaties with Britain, Poland, Japan, Kosovo, South Korea, Norway, Taiwan, etc.
Yes, those treaties which we can bow out of by giving notice. The ones that George Washington warned us about.
But yeah, the less fair the war the better in my opinion.
The country's broke. How much further do you want to go into debt for this dick-waving habit of yours?
-jcr
No, these were the best legislators we could get that weren't making more money in the private sector.
Read what you just wrote. You can't get better legislators because smarter people are making a living doing real work, which makes them unavailable. The GP was correct, QED.
-jcr
It's reasonable when you're expected to defend a whole range of nations
Who says we're "expected" to do any such thing? Even if we were morally or legally obligated to do such a thing, maybe it could be accomplished without spending 55% of all the military appropriations in the whole world, don't you think?
I'd prefer crushing military superiority to losing, personally.
Do you enjoy swatting mosquitos with SAM missiles?
-jcr
I expect Java to gain ground again as developers create apps for Android phones.
I expect Android to be where the lion's share of Java development happens in the next few years, but I also expect Java to continue to decline.
Java's initial popularity was a combination of marketing hype, and the fact that the world desperately needed an alternative to C++. Once people were weaned off of Stroustrup's mistake, they started looking into other languages as well. My picks for the most important languages ten years from now are C, Python, Objective-C, Ruby, and (regrettably) PHP and Javascript.
-jcr
Yeah, they do keep saying that. I'm also sure that they can point to dozens of people who stopped iPad development and switched to Android. Somehow, the iPhone and iPad will have to get by with the tens of thousands who remain...
-jcr
Keeping troops deployed in 130 countries around the world is NOT a defensive operation. Spending more than all the other countries on earth combined is absurd. China and Russia together spend about 1/6 of what we do.
-jcr
Oh, get serious.
-jcr
defense is vital to any country,
Defense is, yes. Maintaining a military on the scale that the USA does isn't defense.
-jcr
I don't care if my neighbor plays poker. I do care if I have to pay money because my neighbor plays poker.
What do you think this is, a free country?
-jcr
They are not an "investment". War production isn't wealth.
Regardless of the morals and ethics, the bottom line is its good skilled and technical jobs for America that include retirement packages and healthcare. Get rid of the nukes and we put 10s of thousands of people out of work.
Oh, jesus christ. read and learn
(This is definitely putting my dad out of work.)
Your dad is an example of a misallocated worker.
-jcr
This raises a question I've been wondering about for a while, which is whether it would make sense to make a 64-bit ARM?
-jcr
I use it to define a "jump page" that's crammed full of all the hotlinks I normally use, organized to find them easily
Yeah, I used to do that, back before bookmarks became a standard feature of every browser.
-jcr
Let's see... $250 grand per square mile. What's it cost to obtain a silencer from the friendly neighborhood gun dealer?
After a dozen or so people get caught with this technology, I give it about a year before all the gangs in chicago start using silencers as standard equipment.
-jcr
they have to spend it at some point
Not necessarily, but whatever they're saving is typically available to capitalize businesses.
-jcr
This may be news to you, but employers have to compete for workers, especially in a growing economy (which we can have again when we quit punishing people for succeeding.)
-jcr
Not to mention this will cause a shitload of damage on the poor who have to spend every cent they get
Actually, the poor are the ones most damaged by our current system. If we eliminate payroll taxes, that's 12.4% of their earnings that don't get sucked out of their pockets by the federal government for a start.
-jcr