I remember the first time I came across a shrew in the wild. I was deer hunting, trying to sit still in my blind and could hear something scurrying about in the leaves. Eventually I felt something on my foot, so I looked down, and there was a shrew gnawing on the tip of one of my boot laces. I gave it a little shake, which seemed to discourage it temporarily, but it came back a few times. They don't seem to frighten very easily.
But I'll get really excited and piss in my pants with giddiness if we learn that the transpermia theory has been confirmed and that life on Earth started on Mars.
What will you do if it's the other way around (life on Mars started on Earth)?
Programming does not require a lot of math, but Computer Science is a branch of Math. If you wanted programing without the math, you took the right path.
Some programming does not require a lot of math, but you need math to be able to do the really interesting things with programming, like simulations, graphics or games. Also, a good understanding of discrete math & logic will help you even with the programming for which you don't need a lot of math by helping you write better algorithms.
People say the game industry needs fixing, but there's tons of great games coming out from both the big boys and the indie scene. Sure, you can complain about Madden 20xx and "Gears of Halo Battlefield Combat" remakes, but then there are other choices you can make. You just need to realize that you're not the person those churned sequels are being made for.
It seems to me that Spector could have fronted the money himself if he thought the ideas were so good. They probably would have been if he was working on them, DX was one of the all-time greats. Unless he had some sort of no-compete contract, he should have gone indie.
Clearly then the NDA I signed on my first day of work is unconstitutional as it violates my first amendment rights as I clearly have the right to go to the local media and spill my guts as to what my employer is building in secret (all legal projects, just not yet publically known).
Wrong. The first amendment only protects you from the government, not from private parties, so signing an NDA has nothing to do with your constitutional rights. Furthermore, the first amendment only prevents prior restraint on freedom of speech and the press. It does not necessarily protect you from the consequences of that speech. The classic example is shouting "fire" in a crowded theater. Slander/libel are also not protected.
If this page can swell up with well thought out objections within the matter of minutes, something tells me preventing thefts is not the real motivation for something like this...
I thought the conventional wisdom on this is that we shouldn't be sending them messages, but we should be listening? At least that's what Stephen Hawking says.
You people keep lying about libertarianism is, trying to conflate it with its opposite. What is your motivation in doing this?
Was that a rhetorical question? I think it's fairly obvious what motivation is: Muddy the waters by using the BIG LIE technique. The left has a fear that liberty might appeal to some people, so they introduce a faux boogeyman ("Teh Corparashunz!") to compete with tyrannical government. The problem they (willingly?) fail to realize is that most of the abusive powers corporations wield over the masses are enabled by tyrannical government. Agricorps (ADM, Monsanto, et al.) can sue farmers whose crops get cross-contaminated by their GMOs, but farmers can't sue them for the same cross-contamination. Telecom corps get the government to make it illegal to "jail break" your phone so you can switch service providers, so-on and so-forth.
IANAL, but is there any reason the officer cannot decide to turn it into a full-blown arrest? After all, you are being charged with having committed a crime, right?
Agreed. JavaScript and HTML5 is the way to go. Lightweight, capable, and ubiquitous. And it's probably going to be the most generally useful language for what people want to do these days.
Unfortunately, JavaScript itself has some major warts. You might want to read Crockford's JavaScript: The Good Parts and avoid some of the worst of the language.
Every programming language I've encountered has its warts. However, I believe JavaScript is the best language for beginning programmers, precisely for the reasons you outlined above. I don't think that they should ONLY learn JavaScript though.
Moodle is a very good suggestion. Each user can experiment with their own local copy on a flash drive. There are a ton of different things that can be done, like updating the styling with CSS, create new blocks with HTML & Javascript, etc. You can make all sorts of improvements with a few lines of PHP & MySQL code as well, if your students want to get REALLY adventurous.
Hi Alex, thanks for the info. Based on your experience with Kickstarter, do you think a Kickstarter to get a subscription to Slashdot would be successful? I don't seem to be able to disable ads anymore based on my karma, and I'm finding them highly annoying.
Can't remember if it was an Apple c/g/gs, but it was one of the earlier models. I had been playing Zork, Wizardry & The Bards Tale, and thought it would be fun to write my own games. They were all basically of the endless quest variety, with letters in front of the options. Nothing too difficult, just basic GOTO type stuff. If only I had the knowledge I have now back then, or the motivation I had back then now...
someone will copyright it, then nobody else can do it for about 100 years. Situation solved.
Since it's a tech, it can't be copyrighted, only patented. However, I think anyone who receives taxpayer money to develop a technology should lose any patent rights to the technology. It's paid for by the public, it should be open to the public.
(My previous post somehow got truncated, continuing here). There may indeed be better coffees out there, but the cost of them is more than I am willing to pay, so my preference is based partly on quality, partly based on price. K-cups may be significantly more expensive than using a drip coffee maker, but the coffee is much better quality, so I am willing to pay the extra cost for it.
I don't think anyone who really appreciates coffee prefers pod coffee. I was drinking a cup of it as I wrote that, so I'm not trying to be condescending. Its not bad, just not great.
Unless you have some sort of magic way of judging if someone really appreciates coffee, it is being condescending, just like audiophiles or wine snobs in their respective fields of "expertise". I really appreciate coffee, and I prefer k-cups because of cost, convenience and variety.
Yes, there are many sub-standard k-cups out there, but there are some really excellent ones as well. My personal favorite is Jet Fuel. It is a very strong, rich-bodied coffee. It is better than anything I can get at Bigby, Starbucks, Seattle's Best, Caribou, etc., for a small fraction of the price. Most people I've shared it with really like it. There may indeed be better coffees out there, but the
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Hey, she's a dog, they look like rodents to her.
The look like rodents to me too. ;-)
I remember the first time I came across a shrew in the wild. I was deer hunting, trying to sit still in my blind and could hear something scurrying about in the leaves. Eventually I felt something on my foot, so I looked down, and there was a shrew gnawing on the tip of one of my boot laces. I gave it a little shake, which seemed to discourage it temporarily, but it came back a few times. They don't seem to frighten very easily.
I'm sure if it passes, Deer Trail, Colorado will be the site of a horrific chemical spill, forest fire, or other such catastrophe shortly thereafter.
But I'll get really excited and piss in my pants with giddiness if we learn that the transpermia theory has been confirmed and that life on Earth started on Mars.
What will you do if it's the other way around (life on Mars started on Earth)?
Programming does not require a lot of math, but Computer Science is a branch of Math. If you wanted programing without the math, you took the right path.
Some programming does not require a lot of math, but you need math to be able to do the really interesting things with programming, like simulations, graphics or games. Also, a good understanding of discrete math & logic will help you even with the programming for which you don't need a lot of math by helping you write better algorithms.
So people here can stop guessing:
Mosquitos prefer blood type O
Most people secrete substances that allow mosquitoes to identify blood type before they bite.
Beer drinkers beware
Swigging just one bottle of beer can significantly boost your risk of being bitten
Watch out for the full moon
The tiny bloodsuckers are 500 times more active when the moon is full
Keep your socks on
The pungent aroma of dirty feet is apparently irresistible to mosquitoes
Mosquitos know if you're expecting
Moms-to-be get bitten about twice as often as women who aren't pregnant
Running won't help you
Both the carbon dioxide we exhale and substances in sweat, such as lactic acid, help mosquitoes home in on their prey.
Dark-colored clothing can increase your risk of falling victim
Like vampires, they prefer dark clothes
People say the game industry needs fixing, but there's tons of great games coming out from both the big boys and the indie scene. Sure, you can complain about Madden 20xx and "Gears of Halo Battlefield Combat" remakes, but then there are other choices you can make. You just need to realize that you're not the person those churned sequels are being made for.
It seems to me that Spector could have fronted the money himself if he thought the ideas were so good. They probably would have been if he was working on them, DX was one of the all-time greats. Unless he had some sort of no-compete contract, he should have gone indie.
They dug in the wrong spot, he's really burie
Haven't you heard? Nobody cares where Jimmy Hoffa is buried anymore.
Clearly then the NDA I signed on my first day of work is unconstitutional as it violates my first amendment rights as I clearly have the right to go to the local media and spill my guts as to what my employer is building in secret (all legal projects, just not yet publically known).
Wrong. The first amendment only protects you from the government, not from private parties, so signing an NDA has nothing to do with your constitutional rights. Furthermore, the first amendment only prevents prior restraint on freedom of speech and the press. It does not necessarily protect you from the consequences of that speech. The classic example is shouting "fire" in a crowded theater. Slander/libel are also not protected.
If this page can swell up with well thought out objections within the matter of minutes, something tells me preventing thefts is not the real motivation for something like this...
I thought the conventional wisdom on this is that we shouldn't be sending them messages, but we should be listening? At least that's what Stephen Hawking says.
Does OSX Mavericks come with a Sarah Palin or a Tom Cruise doll?
Just so long as they don't include a Grumpy Old Man McCain doll.
You people keep lying about libertarianism is, trying to conflate it with its opposite. What is your motivation in doing this?
Was that a rhetorical question? I think it's fairly obvious what motivation is: Muddy the waters by using the BIG LIE technique. The left has a fear that liberty might appeal to some people, so they introduce a faux boogeyman ("Teh Corparashunz!") to compete with tyrannical government. The problem they (willingly?) fail to realize is that most of the abusive powers corporations wield over the masses are enabled by tyrannical government. Agricorps (ADM, Monsanto, et al.) can sue farmers whose crops get cross-contaminated by their GMOs, but farmers can't sue them for the same cross-contamination. Telecom corps get the government to make it illegal to "jail break" your phone so you can switch service providers, so-on and so-forth.
And you think everybody running to the press every 5 minutes is going to get things done any better?
If it slowed them down an extraordinary amount so they were able to pass fewer bad laws, then yes.
just look at Congress and ask yourself why a lot of the stuff that *does* get done is primarily negotiated in closed rooms.
That's exactly the problem.
How far off are we from drinking in the car again?
Today. It's called a limousine.
IANAL, but is there any reason the officer cannot decide to turn it into a full-blown arrest? After all, you are being charged with having committed a crime, right?
"Arrest this man, he's resisting arrest!"
Agreed. JavaScript and HTML5 is the way to go. Lightweight, capable, and ubiquitous. And it's probably going to be the most generally useful language for what people want to do these days.
Unfortunately, JavaScript itself has some major warts. You might want to read Crockford's JavaScript: The Good Parts and avoid some of the worst of the language.
Every programming language I've encountered has its warts. However, I believe JavaScript is the best language for beginning programmers, precisely for the reasons you outlined above. I don't think that they should ONLY learn JavaScript though.
Moodle is a very good suggestion. Each user can experiment with their own local copy on a flash drive. There are a ton of different things that can be done, like updating the styling with CSS, create new blocks with HTML & Javascript, etc. You can make all sorts of improvements with a few lines of PHP & MySQL code as well, if your students want to get REALLY adventurous.
Heavy languages like Java/C++ are tedious for kids/adolescents. Program in something fun and lite like Python/Ruby/Perl.
Javascript is better still. No compiler, near instant results. You just need a text editor & browser.
Hi Alex, thanks for the info. Based on your experience with Kickstarter, do you think a Kickstarter to get a subscription to Slashdot would be successful? I don't seem to be able to disable ads anymore based on my karma, and I'm finding them highly annoying.
Can't remember if it was an Apple c/g/gs, but it was one of the earlier models. I had been playing Zork, Wizardry & The Bards Tale, and thought it would be fun to write my own games. They were all basically of the endless quest variety, with letters in front of the options. Nothing too difficult, just basic GOTO type stuff. If only I had the knowledge I have now back then, or the motivation I had back then now...
someone will copyright it, then nobody else can do it for about 100 years. Situation solved.
Since it's a tech, it can't be copyrighted, only patented. However, I think anyone who receives taxpayer money to develop a technology should lose any patent rights to the technology. It's paid for by the public, it should be open to the public.
(My previous post somehow got truncated, continuing here). There may indeed be better coffees out there, but the cost of them is more than I am willing to pay, so my preference is based partly on quality, partly based on price. K-cups may be significantly more expensive than using a drip coffee maker, but the coffee is much better quality, so I am willing to pay the extra cost for it.
I don't think anyone who really appreciates coffee prefers pod coffee. I was drinking a cup of it as I wrote that, so I'm not trying to be condescending. Its not bad, just not great.
Unless you have some sort of magic way of judging if someone really appreciates coffee, it is being condescending, just like audiophiles or wine snobs in their respective fields of "expertise". I really appreciate coffee, and I prefer k-cups because of cost, convenience and variety.
Yes, there are many sub-standard k-cups out there, but there are some really excellent ones as well. My personal favorite is Jet Fuel. It is a very strong, rich-bodied coffee. It is better than anything I can get at Bigby, Starbucks, Seattle's Best, Caribou, etc., for a small fraction of the price. Most people I've shared it with really like it. There may indeed be better coffees out there, but the
I'm not very fond of eels, and I'm afraid my hovercraft might get full of them.