Not exactly new... David Rees wrote, in 2002, in Get Your War On:
As I was finishing this book, someone sent me a link to the DARPA website. (DARPA stands for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. It's part of the U.S. Department of Defense.)
DARPA is working on a new project called the "Self-Healing Minefield." I love that phrase. I assumed that it meant that after being deployed for a certain time, the minefield would "heal" itself by becoming inoperable. You know--so little kids don't get accidentally blown up?
It wasn't until I watched the explanatory video on DARPA's website that I realized--the minefield heals itself by automatically repositioning its landmines after some explode. The mines literally fucking hop into position to fill gaps in the field.
I have both male and female characters, and I have been told on multiple occasions, after someone broached the question of my RL gender, that they had been CERTAIN I was really female.
I think my mistakes were speaking in complete words and sentences, saying please and thank you, and expressing sympathy.
As in, companies/consultants/individual developers who have a financial stake in perpetuating the broken status quo. At my evil dead former employer, I got charged out at some $150/hour for writing JavaScript/DHTML that would work all the way back to Netscape 4 on a Mac.
Now that I'm a teacher, I do tell my students all about standards and forwards compatibility and separation of content from presentation. I'm going to have them read this article -- the first 3/4 of it, anyway.
He's right that versioning is dirty dirty voodoo. For a good discussion of how it can be much cleaner and more forward compatible, see http://www.xs4all.nl/~ppk/js/support.html .
Very well, I shan't argue with the following assumptions: C# sucks, Microsoft is evil, universities can be money-grubbing.
However, I have to wonder what makes people think that the instructors of these courses have neither discretion in how they teach a course, nor well-formed opinions of their own.
I am an instructor. I teach web development for one of the trade schools, which is heavily Microsoft-oriented. You think I don't tell them what I really think? Please.
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I think my mistakes were speaking in complete words and sentences, saying please and thank you, and expressing sympathy.
Now that I'm a teacher, I do tell my students all about standards and forwards compatibility and separation of content from presentation. I'm going to have them read this article -- the first 3/4 of it, anyway.
He's right that versioning is dirty dirty voodoo. For a good discussion of how it can be much cleaner and more forward compatible, see http://www.xs4all.nl/~ppk/js/support.html .
However, I have to wonder what makes people think that the instructors of these courses have neither discretion in how they teach a course, nor well-formed opinions of their own.
I am an instructor. I teach web development for one of the trade schools, which is heavily Microsoft-oriented. You think I don't tell them what I really think? Please.
On a related note, one of the faculty volunteers leading a discussion group for the much-debated freshman reading assignment on the Quran at the University of North Carolina is a guy you may have heard of.