That always got me bad grades. I had already been programming professionally for many years before I decided to try for a CS degree. I already knew everything, and often did things in ways the TA's didn't understand, or that was beyond where we were, and would get marked down for it. The ONLY CLASS IN THE WORLD where you can get marked down for over-achieving.
At the start of every semester, I give my students a survey that goes over their computer & programming experience. None of my copy/paste all-stars have ever had the kind of experience you have.
In my classes, the students are expected to complete the assignments using the techniques covered to date.
That is the worst sort of professorship. Once I had an SQL class that required a right join returning exactly three rows in an arbitrarily large dataset, sorted by specific descending index and date range values all before we were taught how to do right joins, indexes, date ranges, and top selection.
I think you may have misread what I wrote; it sounds like the assignment you're describing is the exact opposite of what I do.
Borrowing, or reusing code, has always been the norm and is the basis for libraries of routines and procedures. Blatant ripoffs should be obvious but smaller scale plagarism (your word) is hard to determine.
In my classes, the students are expected to complete the assignments using the techniques covered to date. That is because what we learn in the next class often relies on understanding what we covered in the previous when. So when they use a solution that is beyond what they have already learned, they are putting themselves even further behind the curve.
You can't imagine how many times I've had students make a hamfisted attempt to insert something they found on Stack Overflow that uses techniques not yet covered in the course. Since they don't understand what that code is supposed to do, it often doesn't work correctly, or crashes because they thought they could copy & paste without even compiling. I have no problem giving those students a 0 on their assignments.
Often it is extremely easy to determine, namely from patterns of mistakes.
It's even easier when it's a direct copy. I've had students who copied homework directly, including the same errors, and the same comments. One time, I had a student use another student's file and they didn't even bother to remove the other student's name out of the comments section. They both got 0's for the assignment, and it was a pretty hefty assignment to get a 0 on.
To those of you foolish enough to believe that US citizen surveillance via FBI/CIA/NSA is a partisan issue; please stop dumbing down the conversation. If you think that the only enemy is the other party and that your party is the steward of rights and liberties, then you haven't paid attention. Both parties have no problem with doubling down on these abuses.
It's not a partisan issue, but that's not the point. The point Scentcone is trying to make is that the press is trying to quash a story that would be front page news for weeks if it happened under a Republican administration.
Getting Podesta's email account? You're kidding right. This counts as a hack to you?
It was a bit of social engineering, which is one of the primary methods used by hackers, but I wouldn't call it a hack, per se. But it's seen as a hack by the unwashed masses, and sounds much better to partisans than "Podesta is an idiot."
Survey after survey after survey shows that older generations care more about their privacy.
Yet older people are more likely to see Snowden as a criminal, and less likely to believe that it is wrong for the NSA to monitor our email and phone calls.
You realize, of course both of these statements can be true, i.e. that 40% of seniors could be concerned about privacy vs. 30% of millennials, and 60% of seniors could see Snowden as a criminal and have no problem with the NSA monitoring email & phone calls vs. only 30% of millennials...
Maybe I'm an old fart but I wil never have something like this in my house, if I want connected thermostat and remote electric blinds, I will do it myself with Arduino.
My boss at my previous job asked me what the "Internet of Things" was. I explained to her "It means your appliances can be connected to the internet, so if you want to preheat your oven or turn up the thermostat before you get home, you can do it from your computer or phone. It also means that a hacker can set your oven to clean and burn your house down, or turn off your thermostat when you're on vacation in Mexico this winter so your pipes freeze." Of course, the second scenario can happen if Nest decided to patch your thermostat software during the winter....
I'm a gen X'er and I *know* I won't have a pension. Even if I retire, the government or the pension providers will default on me - either through inflation, or just because the damn pension providers will flatly announce they just don't have anything left in their coffers. I know this because they've already done it to my dad, who was born in the silent generation. So it's nothing new, but it sure won't get no better.
So, I'm not putting any money in a system that'll shaft me and I'm not saving anything for old age - most likely I'll be working until I die anyway.
Gen X'er here too. I figure that I'll probably end up working until I die, even though I have a decent amount of money set aside in my 401k account. I have over 20 years until I reach normal retirement age (67), but I have absolutely no faith that Socialist Insecurity will be around when I get that old. I'm saving for my wife's sake, so she'll have enough when I'm gone. She also has a pretty good amount set aside in her 401k.
Why would he care if people used a machine or their hands to squeeze a $6+ per 8 oz serving juice pack? It's razors and blades - the profit is in the packs.
From what I understand, they only sell the juice packs to people who own the juicer. Because stupidity, I guess.
"With so much focus in politics, the world is in danger of forgetting that so much of what really changes the future happens outside completely of politics. It happens inside the mind of dreamers, designers, inventors, technologists, entrepreneurs," he said.
Until the politicians ban, mandate or regulate the science, technology or business.
Agreed. Cell phones are too prolific... hands free tech should be in all modern vehicles. I will say that dialing should be made better. In my car, I click a button the steering wheel then with another button on the wheel I scroll and pick one of my 6 main contacts. If they aren't on that list, I can't be bothered with it. Voice activation is nice in theory, but never works for phone calls in my car the way it should. Strangely enough voice navigation works well enough to use.
What kind of car do you have? Hands free voice calling works great in my 2015 Ford Explorer, even with the cruddy Sync system.
The argument that we should be happy because our taxes are lower than other countries is a bit like telling Mary that she should be happy that her husband only beats her twice a week, because Jane's husband beats her three times a week.
And what do we get for those taxes? Soaring education & medical costs with reduced quality, dilapidated bridges & roads, wars against countries that pose no threat to our national security, agricorps that get subsidies to not grow food, etc.
Now I'm just waiting for some wise-cracker to say "If you hate government so much, you should move to Somalia." I don't hate government, but I do hate corruption, waste and bureaucratic red tape. Apparently, being against those things makes you some sort of anarchist with Somalia being your only option, instead of returning your federal government back to a limited, constitutionally defined role.
And overthrowing "the bad guy(tm)" sounds like a great idea. But it did NOT work out last time.
We supported Hussein in order to fight the Iranians. Then he turned against us. We supported bin Laden in order to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan. Then he turned against us. What are the chances that we're going to end up having whoever we support in this whole dust-up turn against us after they get what they want?
You want something like retirement and healthcare, budget and pay for it like an adult instead of working looking for a nanny.
The original poster did say you save AND BUY INSURANCE like an adult.
No, no he did not. That all-caps assertion was just something you imagined.
Or maybe it was something you failed to comprehend. It certainly seems to be implied, even though it's not explicitly stated. With such poor critical thinking skills among the masses, it's no wonder they turn to the government to be their nanny.
There isn't any "cord cutting" TV service I can get that lets me only select the channels I want. Every single one (DirectTV Now, PS Vue, Sling TV) forces me to get a bunch of channels I don't want to get the channels I do want. The closest one comes for me is PS Vue's Core Slim package, but I can count 41 out of 61 channels on that package that I have absolutely no interest in, and probably another dozen or so I wouldn't pay for on their own. I'd gladly pay $25/month in order to get the 10 channels or so that I'm actually interested in.
Same as the old boss. Selling bundles is exactly what the Cable-Mafia does, and exactly what cord cutters don't want.... But its apple, so iGuess the iSheep will buy it, and claim its the greatest thing since sliced bread...
If they offer them in a bundle for a reduced price, but still offer them individually as well, who cares?
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That always got me bad grades. I had already been programming professionally for many years before I decided to try for a CS degree. I already knew everything, and often did things in ways the TA's didn't understand, or that was beyond where we were, and would get marked down for it. The ONLY CLASS IN THE WORLD where you can get marked down for over-achieving.
At the start of every semester, I give my students a survey that goes over their computer & programming experience. None of my copy/paste all-stars have ever had the kind of experience you have.
In my classes, the students are expected to complete the assignments using the techniques covered to date.
That is the worst sort of professorship. Once I had an SQL class that required a right join returning exactly three rows in an arbitrarily large dataset, sorted by specific descending index and date range values all before we were taught how to do right joins, indexes, date ranges, and top selection.
I think you may have misread what I wrote; it sounds like the assignment you're describing is the exact opposite of what I do.
Borrowing, or reusing code, has always been the norm and is the basis for libraries of routines and procedures. Blatant ripoffs should be obvious but smaller scale plagarism (your word) is hard to determine.
In my classes, the students are expected to complete the assignments using the techniques covered to date. That is because what we learn in the next class often relies on understanding what we covered in the previous when. So when they use a solution that is beyond what they have already learned, they are putting themselves even further behind the curve.
You can't imagine how many times I've had students make a hamfisted attempt to insert something they found on Stack Overflow that uses techniques not yet covered in the course. Since they don't understand what that code is supposed to do, it often doesn't work correctly, or crashes because they thought they could copy & paste without even compiling. I have no problem giving those students a 0 on their assignments.
Often it is extremely easy to determine, namely from patterns of mistakes.
It's even easier when it's a direct copy. I've had students who copied homework directly, including the same errors, and the same comments. One time, I had a student use another student's file and they didn't even bother to remove the other student's name out of the comments section. They both got 0's for the assignment, and it was a pretty hefty assignment to get a 0 on.
I can't tell if this is some kind of sick joke, twisted irony, or if they're just pissed that someone might be muscling in on their revenue streams.
The difference is using Facebook or Amazon is voluntary. Try opting out of the government.
To those of you foolish enough to believe that US citizen surveillance via FBI/CIA/NSA is a partisan issue; please stop dumbing down the conversation. If you think that the only enemy is the other party and that your party is the steward of rights and liberties, then you haven't paid attention. Both parties have no problem with doubling down on these abuses.
It's not a partisan issue, but that's not the point. The point Scentcone is trying to make is that the press is trying to quash a story that would be front page news for weeks if it happened under a Republican administration.
Well done, Microsoft!
Getting Podesta's email account? You're kidding right. This counts as a hack to you?
It was a bit of social engineering, which is one of the primary methods used by hackers, but I wouldn't call it a hack, per se. But it's seen as a hack by the unwashed masses, and sounds much better to partisans than "Podesta is an idiot."
Socialist A beat Socialist (with touches of nationalism) B. If Socialist B had won, France would continue being France, but with fewer refugees.
Survey after survey after survey shows that older generations care more about their privacy.
Yet older people are more likely to see Snowden as a criminal, and less likely to believe that it is wrong for the NSA to monitor our email and phone calls.
You realize, of course both of these statements can be true, i.e. that 40% of seniors could be concerned about privacy vs. 30% of millennials, and 60% of seniors could see Snowden as a criminal and have no problem with the NSA monitoring email & phone calls vs. only 30% of millennials...
Maybe I'm an old fart but I wil never have something like this in my house, if I want connected thermostat and remote electric blinds, I will do it myself with Arduino.
My boss at my previous job asked me what the "Internet of Things" was. I explained to her "It means your appliances can be connected to the internet, so if you want to preheat your oven or turn up the thermostat before you get home, you can do it from your computer or phone. It also means that a hacker can set your oven to clean and burn your house down, or turn off your thermostat when you're on vacation in Mexico this winter so your pipes freeze." Of course, the second scenario can happen if Nest decided to patch your thermostat software during the winter....
I'm a gen X'er and I *know* I won't have a pension. Even if I retire, the government or the pension providers will default on me - either through inflation, or just because the damn pension providers will flatly announce they just don't have anything left in their coffers. I know this because they've already done it to my dad, who was born in the silent generation. So it's nothing new, but it sure won't get no better.
So, I'm not putting any money in a system that'll shaft me and I'm not saving anything for old age - most likely I'll be working until I die anyway.
Gen X'er here too. I figure that I'll probably end up working until I die, even though I have a decent amount of money set aside in my 401k account. I have over 20 years until I reach normal retirement age (67), but I have absolutely no faith that Socialist Insecurity will be around when I get that old. I'm saving for my wife's sake, so she'll have enough when I'm gone. She also has a pretty good amount set aside in her 401k.
Why would he care if people used a machine or their hands to squeeze a $6+ per 8 oz serving juice pack? It's razors and blades - the profit is in the packs.
From what I understand, they only sell the juice packs to people who own the juicer. Because stupidity, I guess.
Be sure to drink your Ovaltine!
"With so much focus in politics, the world is in danger of forgetting that so much of what really changes the future happens outside completely of politics. It happens inside the mind of dreamers, designers, inventors, technologists, entrepreneurs," he said.
Until the politicians ban, mandate or regulate the science, technology or business.
Agreed. Cell phones are too prolific... hands free tech should be in all modern vehicles. I will say that dialing should be made better. In my car, I click a button the steering wheel then with another button on the wheel I scroll and pick one of my 6 main contacts. If they aren't on that list, I can't be bothered with it. Voice activation is nice in theory, but never works for phone calls in my car the way it should. Strangely enough voice navigation works well enough to use.
What kind of car do you have? Hands free voice calling works great in my 2015 Ford Explorer, even with the cruddy Sync system.
As I've mentioned upthread, comparing taxes to things like murder, rape, and in your case, domestic abuse, does not make you look like a crank.
Taxes are collected under threat of violence. If you don't believe me, stop paying your taxes and see what happens.
The argument that we should be happy because our taxes are lower than other countries is a bit like telling Mary that she should be happy that her husband only beats her twice a week, because Jane's husband beats her three times a week.
And what do we get for those taxes? Soaring education & medical costs with reduced quality, dilapidated bridges & roads, wars against countries that pose no threat to our national security, agricorps that get subsidies to not grow food, etc.
Now I'm just waiting for some wise-cracker to say "If you hate government so much, you should move to Somalia." I don't hate government, but I do hate corruption, waste and bureaucratic red tape. Apparently, being against those things makes you some sort of anarchist with Somalia being your only option, instead of returning your federal government back to a limited, constitutionally defined role.
The humity, exuded by these leaders, can be contagious.
That's exactly the problem! Nobody wants to catch humity; it will lead to poor editing skills that will spread to the entire organization!
And overthrowing "the bad guy(tm)" sounds like a great idea. But it did NOT work out last time.
We supported Hussein in order to fight the Iranians. Then he turned against us. We supported bin Laden in order to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan. Then he turned against us. What are the chances that we're going to end up having whoever we support in this whole dust-up turn against us after they get what they want?
You want something like retirement and healthcare, budget and pay for it like an adult instead of working looking for a nanny.
The original poster did say you save AND BUY INSURANCE like an adult.
No, no he did not. That all-caps assertion was just something you imagined.
Or maybe it was something you failed to comprehend. It certainly seems to be implied, even though it's not explicitly stated. With such poor critical thinking skills among the masses, it's no wonder they turn to the government to be their nanny.
There isn't any "cord cutting" TV service I can get that lets me only select the channels I want. Every single one (DirectTV Now, PS Vue, Sling TV) forces me to get a bunch of channels I don't want to get the channels I do want. The closest one comes for me is PS Vue's Core Slim package, but I can count 41 out of 61 channels on that package that I have absolutely no interest in, and probably another dozen or so I wouldn't pay for on their own. I'd gladly pay $25/month in order to get the 10 channels or so that I'm actually interested in.
Or better, pick our movies/series and lose the channel system completely. That way the creators hopefully get more of the money.
There's an app for that...
Same as the old boss. Selling bundles is exactly what the Cable-Mafia does, and exactly what cord cutters don't want.... But its apple, so iGuess the iSheep will buy it, and claim its the greatest thing since sliced bread...
If they offer them in a bundle for a reduced price, but still offer them individually as well, who cares?
Are there big pushes elsewhere to get more men into female-dominated professions?
I've never seen those. Also, there are no big pushes to get more women in male-dominated dangerous and/or low wage jobs either.
I wonder why there isn't a push to get more women into plumbing and electrical? Women make up only 1.5% of those occupations, but those occupations can make really good money.