How could a printed copy possibly be confused with a painting? Printed copies are dead flat surfaces, while paintings have brush marks all over them and uneven application of paint.
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...by the nose, straight to his own end goal - a larger pool of cheap labour skilled in the basics needed to produce web applications. By increasing the supply, they can take advantage of market economics to vastly reduce the amount of money they need to offer these people.
I'm not saying they shouldn't learn JavaScript, it's a good place to start and is pretty ubiquitous. It's just lucky for Mark that they are pushing JS and Ruby, very lucky.
Honestly though, saying all those people need to code is like saying I need to learn how to write a sonata in order to listen to music.
Most people would be capable of pushing out a few snippets of code, mostly cribbed from some website - but will flail and cause incalculable damage when they think they have 'da mad skillz bro' and start to write hundreds of lines directly running SQL script from the web page. I've seen the results when an accountant decides their use of Access and Excel means they can code big systems. It wasn't pretty, it broke down frequently, it had dozens of manual steps and adjustments to make each month and it took 5 hours to run. I left that job the second I could.
I run transmission on my WD MyBook Live hard drive (it's got a linux variant on it), and connect to it using the desktop client. I cue up whatever I want it to DL, then I can power off my desktop, and let the hard drive (network attached) DL the torrents. My XBMC client(s) just serve the content up from there. No bloatware, no ads, no hassles.
Space 1999 got it more right than any other show on tv since......they would type a question into the keyboard, lights on the mainframe sized machine would flash, and then a paper roll tape would print the answer, which a character would read to everyone...
"Computer says no"
It's still wrong, but not as wrong as screens of information constantly scrolling...often in the wrong direction. Or fingerprint / facial recognition databases that show random fingerprints and faces as they return the answer. They never get anything even remotely right when it comes to computers on these shows.
I haven't watched an episode of NCIS for a while, but don't they all go like this:
2 min intro, a vignette of a body being discovered Cue the show intro Office scene, team assemble - Gibbs might whack the back of Denozzo's head Stand around murder scene, taking turns at exposition
At some point in every episode reinforce the very narrow character definitions:
* Ducky talks to a corpse * Abby gets excited, says she loves someone, and does some stupidly hard science thing in a couple of minutes (least 'gothic' alternative girl on tv) * Denozzo makes a reference to a movie * Zeva, despite flawless English fails to understand the meaning of an idiom or phrase * Probie hacks the NSA / CIA or some other thing or is the butt of a joke * Gibbs makes a gut decision
There is almost always a scene where the main characters stand around a large screen and each deliver a line or two of exposition.
After presenting nothing but misleading information for 20 mins of the show, the person with very little camera time turns out to be the murderer, thanks to evidence that is only revealed in the last 2 mins.
A progress bar makes far more sense than throwing up random faces on the screen as you search. Does it really make sense to you that you load and blit to the screen a full face shot 20 times sec to show progress, rather that updating a little text and a bar? I know it's used in every single movie and tv show ever made, but I cringe every time I see it due to it's stupidity.
You should learn c++ unless your real intent is to write a lot of software for an Apple only environment in a language they are looking at deprecating.
You can get a c++ build chain for pretty much any platform worth working on, and those without it will have a c build chain. There are literally billions of lines of c++ code out there, working in every possible environment. Programmers are churning out millions of more lines every year. You will never be out of work if you are a c++ programmer.
So, this is an announcement for a product that doesn't actually exist, and which wouldn't even work given the two points made on the site! You need the photo to be taken using a flash, and for the camera to not have an IR filter or decent exposure software. I guess that does take out a lot of the crappy photos of people our partying at least.
Personally, I think a better idea for a time when this might actually be useful, say attending an anti--capitalism rally, would be to cut out a mask using the front packaging of some name brand product. Think of how much the manufacturers would hate to see a sea of faces, hidden behind "Coco Pops", "OMO Washing Powder" (stronger whites, lol!) and other brands they've spent billions enforcing into our psyches. Frosty the Tiger is smashing in that store-front! Captain Crunch just got a face full of mace and clubbed by those cops! Oh the humanity! Is that Princess Elsa walking topless down the street!
"Virgos, today you will be waterboarded by the state to facilitate a confession of terrorism charges. Move to your safe house before 10am today. Make sure to switch off your phone and remove the SIM card before leaving the house. Use public transport away from surveillance cameras."
Why is astrology advice never as pointed and useful as that? Instead you get...
"Virgos, today will bring many things. Travel is a possibility, and expect to meet some new people."
Stop pissing around with a video camera and video editing software and spend time with your daughter now instead. Don't waste time trying to predict the things she might want to hear about at graduation, on her wedding day, or other events, the truth is she probably doesn't want to spend those happy days crying over a ghost her left her life a decade ago. Stop being selfish and trying to memorialise yourself, your daughter is alive and in need now. Give her the chance to mourn you and put you to rest, without haunting her later years with boxes of tapes labelled "first date", "prom", "graduation" and the like.
You're on a timer, live in the moment. Leave happy memories in your wake.
Here's a hint, they are all trivial. If someone can't be bothered to talk to you in person, it's probably not something that needs your attention immediately, if ever.
The only problem with this is the likelihood of the software being accurate and incorruptible. There would be a massive drop in the amount and type of pills it would prescribe, so big pharma would oppose it every step of the way.
Let's not forget that apps are often needing to pass out Ids now, and are tending toward using 64 bit Ids to deal with big data. That's either 8 bytes in binary or closer to 16 bytes as ASCII, and that's not even counting whitespace that may also need to be around it.
I hate to disappoint you, but what you talk about learning here is covered in the first week or two of a university level computer science degree. in the six months you spent learning the basics of flow control, looping and conditional execution we learnt 3-4 languages (Pascal, C, PDP-11, SQL), database theory (SQL), statistics, flow graphing, how to break problems down into pseudocode, finite state automata, advanced data structures, O notation, and a host of other subjects.
If I had completed the degree (dropped out midway in 2nd year) I would have gone on to write a compiler and text editor and tackled other advanced subjects. They would have added DBase and 8086 assembly code in at that point.
You did learn how to break down problems and to use logic though, and that's something you can apply in all areas of your life.
Le Crueset pots are not cheap by any standard, but they are exceptionally well made. There are knocks off you can buy for a fraction of the price, most of which are designed to look very similar and would do a similar job. I don't know if the enamel coating is quite as good, but it should be comparable.
I've bought video cards that cost more than those pots and last only a few years, so it's really a question of spending on things you love.
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Even art experts can fail at identifying the best fakes, and some paintings that might be originals are branded as fakes due to poor provenance.
I hear they print using plastic.
How could a printed copy possibly be confused with a painting? Printed copies are dead flat surfaces, while paintings have brush marks all over them and uneven application of paint.
...by the nose, straight to his own end goal - a larger pool of cheap labour skilled in the basics needed to produce web applications. By increasing the supply, they can take advantage of market economics to vastly reduce the amount of money they need to offer these people.
I'm not saying they shouldn't learn JavaScript, it's a good place to start and is pretty ubiquitous. It's just lucky for Mark that they are pushing JS and Ruby, very lucky.
Honestly though, saying all those people need to code is like saying I need to learn how to write a sonata in order to listen to music.
Most people would be capable of pushing out a few snippets of code, mostly cribbed from some website - but will flail and cause incalculable damage when they think they have 'da mad skillz bro' and start to write hundreds of lines directly running SQL script from the web page. I've seen the results when an accountant decides their use of Access and Excel means they can code big systems. It wasn't pretty, it broke down frequently, it had dozens of manual steps and adjustments to make each month and it took 5 hours to run. I left that job the second I could.
I run transmission on my WD MyBook Live hard drive (it's got a linux variant on it), and connect to it using the desktop client. I cue up whatever I want it to DL, then I can power off my desktop, and let the hard drive (network attached) DL the torrents. My XBMC client(s) just serve the content up from there. No bloatware, no ads, no hassles.
+1 for Groove Salad. It's usually got a great mix of music suitable for long code sessions.
Vocal trance is my usual cup of tea for programming to. Maybe some Psy Goa Trance, but all too often that becomes a bit distracting.
My guess is most the screens are done in Flash.
Space 1999 got it more right than any other show on tv since... ...they would type a question into the keyboard, lights on the mainframe sized machine would flash, and then a paper roll tape would print the answer, which a character would read to everyone...
"Computer says no"
It's still wrong, but not as wrong as screens of information constantly scrolling...often in the wrong direction. Or fingerprint / facial recognition databases that show random fingerprints and faces as they return the answer. They never get anything even remotely right when it comes to computers on these shows.
I haven't watched an episode of NCIS for a while, but don't they all go like this:
2 min intro, a vignette of a body being discovered
Cue the show intro
Office scene, team assemble - Gibbs might whack the back of Denozzo's head
Stand around murder scene, taking turns at exposition
At some point in every episode reinforce the very narrow character definitions:
* Ducky talks to a corpse
* Abby gets excited, says she loves someone, and does some stupidly hard science thing in a couple of minutes (least 'gothic' alternative girl on tv)
* Denozzo makes a reference to a movie
* Zeva, despite flawless English fails to understand the meaning of an idiom or phrase
* Probie hacks the NSA / CIA or some other thing or is the butt of a joke
* Gibbs makes a gut decision
There is almost always a scene where the main characters stand around a large screen and each deliver a line or two of exposition.
After presenting nothing but misleading information for 20 mins of the show, the person with very little camera time turns out to be the murderer, thanks to evidence that is only revealed in the last 2 mins.
A progress bar makes far more sense than throwing up random faces on the screen as you search. Does it really make sense to you that you load and blit to the screen a full face shot 20 times sec to show progress, rather that updating a little text and a bar? I know it's used in every single movie and tv show ever made, but I cringe every time I see it due to it's stupidity.
How much is that in hogsheads?
That's hysterical, they have Rammstein singing in English instead :D
You should learn c++ unless your real intent is to write a lot of software for an Apple only environment in a language they are looking at deprecating.
You can get a c++ build chain for pretty much any platform worth working on, and those without it will have a c build chain. There are literally billions of lines of c++ code out there, working in every possible environment. Programmers are churning out millions of more lines every year. You will never be out of work if you are a c++ programmer.
So, this is an announcement for a product that doesn't actually exist, and which wouldn't even work given the two points made on the site! You need the photo to be taken using a flash, and for the camera to not have an IR filter or decent exposure software. I guess that does take out a lot of the crappy photos of people our partying at least.
Personally, I think a better idea for a time when this might actually be useful, say attending an anti--capitalism rally, would be to cut out a mask using the front packaging of some name brand product. Think of how much the manufacturers would hate to see a sea of faces, hidden behind "Coco Pops", "OMO Washing Powder" (stronger whites, lol!) and other brands they've spent billions enforcing into our psyches. Frosty the Tiger is smashing in that store-front! Captain Crunch just got a face full of mace and clubbed by those cops! Oh the humanity! Is that Princess Elsa walking topless down the street!
I've switched to using DuckDuckGo. They seem less evil than Google, for now.
"Virgos, today you will be waterboarded by the state to facilitate a confession of terrorism charges. Move to your safe house before 10am today. Make sure to switch off your phone and remove the SIM card before leaving the house. Use public transport away from surveillance cameras."
Why is astrology advice never as pointed and useful as that? Instead you get...
"Virgos, today will bring many things. Travel is a possibility, and expect to meet some new people."
Stop pissing around with a video camera and video editing software and spend time with your daughter now instead. Don't waste time trying to predict the things she might want to hear about at graduation, on her wedding day, or other events, the truth is she probably doesn't want to spend those happy days crying over a ghost her left her life a decade ago. Stop being selfish and trying to memorialise yourself, your daughter is alive and in need now. Give her the chance to mourn you and put you to rest, without haunting her later years with boxes of tapes labelled "first date", "prom", "graduation" and the like.
You're on a timer, live in the moment. Leave happy memories in your wake.
Here's a hint, they are all trivial. If someone can't be bothered to talk to you in person, it's probably not something that needs your attention immediately, if ever.
Yessss, goooood. Let the hate flow through you...
The only problem with this is the likelihood of the software being accurate and incorruptible. There would be a massive drop in the amount and type of pills it would prescribe, so big pharma would oppose it every step of the way.
Let's not forget that apps are often needing to pass out Ids now, and are tending toward using 64 bit Ids to deal with big data. That's either 8 bytes in binary or closer to 16 bytes as ASCII, and that's not even counting whitespace that may also need to be around it.
Couldn't say for sure. Compilers would have been far more interesting and would have taught a lot more to the students.
Some of the older students were busy banging out 8086 assembly code for a project too, but I can't recall what it was they were working on.
I hate to disappoint you, but what you talk about learning here is covered in the first week or two of a university level computer science degree. in the six months you spent learning the basics of flow control, looping and conditional execution we learnt 3-4 languages (Pascal, C, PDP-11, SQL), database theory (SQL), statistics, flow graphing, how to break problems down into pseudocode, finite state automata, advanced data structures, O notation, and a host of other subjects.
If I had completed the degree (dropped out midway in 2nd year) I would have gone on to write a compiler and text editor and tackled other advanced subjects. They would have added DBase and 8086 assembly code in at that point.
You did learn how to break down problems and to use logic though, and that's something you can apply in all areas of your life.
Le Crueset pots are not cheap by any standard, but they are exceptionally well made. There are knocks off you can buy for a fraction of the price, most of which are designed to look very similar and would do a similar job. I don't know if the enamel coating is quite as good, but it should be comparable.
I've bought video cards that cost more than those pots and last only a few years, so it's really a question of spending on things you love.