I don't know about you, but I've never seen Settlers of Catan at any party also featuring beer pong. (I have seen D&D played, in fact enhanced by beer pong...before you ask.)
I remember covering BASIC in multiple subjects, during multiple years, in elementary school...and that was a pretty common occurrence. If the "hour of code" counts...I'm not sure how it you be anything more than 1.5-2x larger than US education's sustained BASIC pitch in the 1980s.
Not sure why people blindly accept government "trade-offs" like this like well-trained sheep.
On the one hand, we have a large number of able-bodied, sometimes well-educated people unable to find work, and often receiving government checks (for unemployment, etc.) On the other hand, we are announcing that we don't have the manpower to walk packages to doors.
Why can't we say something like, "OK, so you're unemployed, but you're also a high school graduate who can walk at least three miles a day. If you want a check, food stamps, health care, whatever, could you please get off your ass for two hours a day and deliver mail to everyone on these six blocks?"
>> democracy has actually done more harm than good
Was this posted from the white house?:)
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The best 50th anniversary coverage I've seen by far is over the The Register. (Yes, the same publication you read to find out what will be on SlashDot tomorrow.)
I live in an area where there are a lot of road-crossing deer. I can't wait for the day when there are driverless cars so we can retire the idea of using a huge piece of glass to protect us from road hazards. Looks like they're on the right track with this gizmo. (However, if they deploy it on a UK campus, it'll only take about a day before someone covers the bottom with black half-sphere and slaps on an eye-stalk.)
>> indie developers (including the creator of Super Mario Bros. Crossover)
How is a guy who writes "Super Mario Brothers Crossover" an "independent developer"? Seems like he's a leech on the core brand: Mario and the extended Nintendo world. Furthermore, as long as the core brand is compelling enough and has enough followers to inspire leeches, I don't think it's in any danger of fading away.
>> Hadoop isn't extremely useful, but for a student who managed to scrounge up a single Xeon machine, it's entirely ill suited
Go back and read the problem again: "would like to be able to make use of all four CPU cores"
Here's a guy seeking parallelization...and may not know that you don't have to throw big (potentially expensive) multicore processors against the problem - he could throw multiple (cheaper?) computers against it.
>> when an entity (whether public or private, corporation or federal government) has keen minds and millions of dollars at its disposal
Not sure there's any evidence of "keen minds" here, but I'd suspect that the root of the problem is that there were millions of dollars allocated to the project. With that kind of money, the incentive is probably to put as many billable bodies on the thing, regardless of qualifications or result.
>> While it is true that Java certainly can be verbose, several scripting languages have sprung up which are purpose-designed to spare developers from long syntactical passages to communicate a simple action
1) Research is good - every other large technology company does it 2) An R&D department is relatively cheap compared to the money you might waste building the wrong things 3) Let's set up a typical R&D department to do typical R&D things
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I don't know about you, but I've never seen Settlers of Catan at any party also featuring beer pong. (I have seen D&D played, in fact enhanced by beer pong...before you ask.)
>> When working at home, Snowden covered his head and screen with a hood so that his girlfriend couldn't see what he was doing.
Did I read correctly that the NSA allows WFH? Maybe I can suggest a solution...
I remember covering BASIC in multiple subjects, during multiple years, in elementary school...and that was a pretty common occurrence. If the "hour of code" counts...I'm not sure how it you be anything more than 1.5-2x larger than US education's sustained BASIC pitch in the 1980s.
Not sure why people blindly accept government "trade-offs" like this like well-trained sheep.
On the one hand, we have a large number of able-bodied, sometimes well-educated people unable to find work, and often receiving government checks (for unemployment, etc.) On the other hand, we are announcing that we don't have the manpower to walk packages to doors.
Why can't we say something like, "OK, so you're unemployed, but you're also a high school graduate who can walk at least three miles a day. If you want a check, food stamps, health care, whatever, could you please get off your ass for two hours a day and deliver mail to everyone on these six blocks?"
In Soviet Russia, wearable technology covers you!
>> which means he covers wearable technology every day
A significant portion of the prizes are "5 year access to Goo Create Pro ($2900 value)".
Mixed feelings on the "Goo Engine," but I will check this out.
Remember when people burned the books and pamphlets of their political opponents? How well did that work?
If you're annoyed at someone, please don't (D)DOS their site - it just strengthens their point and conviction.
>> addressing European concerns in the on-going U.S. reform process
Really, we have an active privacy reform process in the US? I haven't heard much about that since Obamacare finally went off the rails.
>> If Congress can't handle a simple friggin website project, it's time to clean house
Replace "Congress" with "the current president" (you know, the one in charge of IMPLEMENTING the law - http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html) and I'll agree with you,
>> a culture that prefers deluding the boss over delivering bad news
I'm pretty sure the guy at the top was in on the ruse too.
>> no one who understood the problems was able to tell the President
Isn't there a petition system for that? :)
>> democracy has actually done more harm than good
Was this posted from the white house? :)
The best 50th anniversary coverage I've seen by far is over the The Register. (Yes, the same publication you read to find out what will be on SlashDot tomorrow.)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/23/doctor_who_is_50/
Er...2 and 3. What do I win?
>> encrypt all data flowing to and from Yahoo
BFD - since all the data is still sitting on servers somewhere, why would this offer any protection at all?
>> introducing this sort of security does add to infrastructure and engineering costs
BFW - welcome to 2008, Yahoo.
>> more harsh environment than your desktop
Ya' mean like my server room?
Gotta remember...some of us do work in IT for a living. :)
>> hard drives actually have a surprisingly low failure rate.
You call a 20% failure rate in 3 years LOW? My career rate is closer to 5% over 5 years - who keeps buying all those crappy hard drives?
Manbearpig in 5...4...3...
I live in an area where there are a lot of road-crossing deer. I can't wait for the day when there are driverless cars so we can retire the idea of using a huge piece of glass to protect us from road hazards. Looks like they're on the right track with this gizmo. (However, if they deploy it on a UK campus, it'll only take about a day before someone covers the bottom with black half-sphere and slaps on an eye-stalk.)
>> indie developers (including the creator of Super Mario Bros. Crossover)
How is a guy who writes "Super Mario Brothers Crossover" an "independent developer"? Seems like he's a leech on the core brand: Mario and the extended Nintendo world. Furthermore, as long as the core brand is compelling enough and has enough followers to inspire leeches, I don't think it's in any danger of fading away.
>> Hadoop isn't extremely useful, but for a student who managed to scrounge up a single Xeon machine, it's entirely ill suited
Go back and read the problem again: "would like to be able to make use of all four CPU cores"
Here's a guy seeking parallelization...and may not know that you don't have to throw big (potentially expensive) multicore processors against the problem - he could throw multiple (cheaper?) computers against it.
>> I initially coded all of my routines in VBA because it 'was there'.
Are you in Access? Or Excel?
If your routines work but are just slow, I'd first look at moving the data to SQL Server and porting your VBA routines to VB.NET.
If you have more time, you may want to learn what the "Hadoop" world is all about.
>> when an entity (whether public or private, corporation or federal government) has keen minds and millions of dollars at its disposal
Not sure there's any evidence of "keen minds" here, but I'd suspect that the root of the problem is that there were millions of dollars allocated to the project. With that kind of money, the incentive is probably to put as many billable bodies on the thing, regardless of qualifications or result.
Obligitory: "We have to code it before we know what's in it."
>> While it is true that Java certainly can be verbose, several scripting languages have sprung up which are purpose-designed to spare developers from long syntactical passages to communicate a simple action
Keep it up - you might just invent assembly...
1) Research is good - every other large technology company does it
2) An R&D department is relatively cheap compared to the money you might waste building the wrong things
3) Let's set up a typical R&D department to do typical R&D things
Zzzzzzzzzzzz....