15 years ago I retrofitted my car in Argentina and drove it for about 3 years. Only lost about 10% power compared to oil gas. Kept the engine cleaner. Was way cheaper and less polluting. But for the retrofit you need to occupy your trunk or cargo with a big tank that takes most space, and with that tank you get about 30% of what you'll do with a full oil gas tank. As a bonus you could switch back and forth from one fuel to the other.
Regrettably you can't buy curiosity, drive and will for under $100 (nor any other amount btw). Fortunately there's plenty of easy learning material on robotics you can compile in few minutes scourging the web. A nice selection of tools to break stuff open and a solder iron might be a good companion
I develop very complex, web based systems for a living, moved to using (mainly) Ruby and RoR a long time ago. To see multimillion projects like this only tells how bad and uninformed the management layer is. (even if they completed it on budget and on time).
A university should have:
1./ Team up their computer science grads 2./ Write the stuff themselves 3./ Open Source it,
The indirect profit comes from:
a) saving the obnoxious, extortive amount of money to pay to a vulture vendor b) giving an interesting job they can brag about to their own students (unless they don't believe in the people they form) c) the popularity of having written a soft any other uni can use for their needs
But of course, what can you expect? It is pointy hair people that takes the decisions.
Reading and writing is not enough for the regular mortal to be defined as literate nowadays. Programming is becoming ubiquitous in all modern activities and jobs. As Douglas Rushkoff puts it, "Program or be programmed".
A good programmer can't aspire for big bucks (>$200k) as a salaried coder.
You'll have to mix entrepreneurial skills to your coding ones.
Examples are: Build your own market playing blackbox and risk your dollars. If a business approaches you with a terrificly good idea, code for less and ask a percentage of the company or a partnership. Build your own idea/product.
If the app runs inside a controlled environment, use Firefox, the only true cross-platform browser (Chrome is there too these days). for totally controlled printed output go LaTeX, buy the books, read the tutorials, invest the time. It is worth it. I didn't use the rTeX plugin due lack of certain features, (double parsing for pagination, etc). I just went wit flat Erb templates evaluated on the fly, yes, using RoR too, and I am very happy with the results (it's used for a medical application that produces thousands of complex documents per month). I got to pick a browser too, the only one that run everywhere was Firefox at that time, thus saving resources in thinking only about compliance with standards.
Until not long ago, it was easy to fake somebody identity by purchasing some bogus password at an undeveloped third world country (some exceptions with first world too). How difficult it would be to fake an identity ten years from now, when anybody drags his social network along? One thing is faking a single identity, another one is faking a whole social network. It's both, a solution and a problem for spookies,
In the small city where I live there's only 5 people on my field. I go the confs so I can have some real face to face time with other peers who have become friends.
1./ pick a city where the local attendees can guaranty some attendance. (LA, SF, NY) 2./ make sure the venue is appropriate 3./ charge as little as possible 4./ let people have fun. Throw some party, have free beer time. 5./... 6./ forget about profit here
I profoundly agree with teaching programming in high school as a mandatory subject.
More and more I (a developer) have to interact with other other professionals at management level that don't have a clue about what software can do.
I consider them somehow illiterate. I don't expect an executive to program, but at least to have an understanding of OOP theory. In a modern world literacy has to be re-defined, and surely besides reading one should know at least the basics of programming.
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Which one gets you more (or any) girls? the Porsche or the Tesla?
15 years ago I retrofitted my car in Argentina and drove it for about 3 years. Only lost about 10% power compared to oil gas. Kept the engine cleaner. Was way cheaper and less polluting. But for the retrofit you need to occupy your trunk or cargo with a big tank that takes most space, and with that tank you get about 30% of what you'll do with a full oil gas tank. As a bonus you could switch back and forth from one fuel to the other.
Gas car = HD
Tesla = SSD
Regrettably you can't buy curiosity, drive and will for under $100 (nor any other amount btw).
Fortunately there's plenty of easy learning material on robotics you can compile in few minutes scourging the web.
A nice selection of tools to break stuff open and a solder iron might be a good companion
I develop very complex, web based systems for a living, moved to using (mainly) Ruby and RoR a long time ago.
To see multimillion projects like this only tells how bad and uninformed the management layer is. (even if they completed it on budget and on time).
A university should have:
1./ Team up their computer science grads
2./ Write the stuff themselves
3./ Open Source it,
The indirect profit comes from:
a) saving the obnoxious, extortive amount of money to pay to a vulture vendor
b) giving an interesting job they can brag about to their own students (unless they don't believe in the people they form)
c) the popularity of having written a soft any other uni can use for their needs
But of course, what can you expect? It is pointy hair people that takes the decisions.
The definition of what a "programming language" is is wrong by nature and misleading when we are talking about all the variety.
The real problem is that we don't have several "programming languages", but instead, we have a plethora of programming "dialects".
We do need another language. Each time we try, another dialect appears.
Reading and writing is not enough for the regular mortal to be defined as literate nowadays. Programming is becoming ubiquitous in all modern activities and jobs.
As Douglas Rushkoff puts it, "Program or be programmed".
The problem is you, (it's always us).
Yes you are bored, but you are not hungry.
Being hungry is part of the solution as the need to satisfy your hunger is a very primordial passion.
Working something new on the side might not just cut it.
It might get you something fun, but will not make you hungry.
Quit, get hungry, find passion, (or let passion find you)
what's wrong in using dreamhost for email?
Try getting a [girlfriend|boyfriend|spouse] and practice sex regularly. It makes wonders. Even better if you work from home.
it is not a book, it's "the user"
And do have a serious flaw nobody seems to address.
They are totally ineffective against a target with a mirrored surface.
Steve Jobs gets a liver by selling them
A good programmer can't aspire for big bucks (>$200k) as a salaried coder.
You'll have to mix entrepreneurial skills to your coding ones.
Examples are:
Build your own market playing blackbox and risk your dollars.
If a business approaches you with a terrificly good idea, code for less and ask a percentage of the company or a partnership.
Build your own idea/product.
Bottom line, no risk = no money
... it seems I have a CD burner in my laptop and can be used to manufacture CDs
If the app runs inside a controlled environment, use Firefox, the only true cross-platform browser (Chrome is there too these days).
for totally controlled printed output go LaTeX, buy the books, read the tutorials, invest the time. It is worth it.
I didn't use the rTeX plugin due lack of certain features, (double parsing for pagination, etc). I just went wit flat Erb templates evaluated on the fly, yes, using RoR too, and I am very happy with the results (it's used for a medical application that produces thousands of complex documents per month).
I got to pick a browser too, the only one that run everywhere was Firefox at that time, thus saving resources in thinking only about compliance with standards.
Until not long ago, it was easy to fake somebody identity by purchasing some bogus password at an undeveloped third world country (some exceptions with first world too).
How difficult it would be to fake an identity ten years from now, when anybody drags his social network along?
One thing is faking a single identity, another one is faking a whole social network.
It's both, a solution and a problem for spookies,
You are not the Russians trying to counter the counter measures?
...a CEO?
In the small city where I live there's only 5 people on my field.
...
I go the confs so I can have some real face to face time with other peers who have become friends.
1./ pick a city where the local attendees can guaranty some attendance. (LA, SF, NY)
2./ make sure the venue is appropriate
3./ charge as little as possible
4./ let people have fun. Throw some party, have free beer time.
5./
6./ forget about profit here
apply even more while in the US wifi hot spots as well
I profoundly agree with teaching programming in high school as a mandatory subject.
More and more I (a developer) have to interact with other other professionals at management level that don't have a clue about what software can do.
I consider them somehow illiterate. I don't expect an executive to program, but at least to have an understanding of OOP theory. In a modern world literacy has to be re-defined, and surely besides reading one should know at least the basics of programming.
the option was this coop formed by advanced users.
The results on the shared T4, (yes, as in tee-four), are amazing and it's the fastest and most inexpensive, -at $30/month- internet access in town.
You just need to provide your own hardware,
I agree, free mp3s, and lets get back to LPs as paying for something that sounds better.
think about less significant bit, it can be embedded in the picture as well,