If this same study had come out saying White Europeans are smarter than Black Africans because of some genetic reason the authors would be shot.
This whole PC-speak is something that should become a thing of the past ASAP. IMO it's incredibly racistic. If a white person doesn't like, let say Germans, not many people would give a damn about it (other than Germans ofcourse), but if said person would say he doesn't like Jews, all hell breaks loose. Makes me wonder what's so special about jews. Why should they be treathed any differend from all the other people? Because they claim to be the chosen people? Plenty of other people who claim the same thing. IMO such a view ranges quite high on the scale of arrogance. Yet they get away with it. What I want to say is, if I ever get sued I want a jewish lawyer.
Just a cut-and-paste troll. Probably the worste kind of trolling there is (well, since goatse.cx dissappeared). OTOH it's pretty normal on/. as all the dubs create the impression this is a forum for people with extreem short memory spans.
9 years experience with codeing? Nice. How about cooperating within a team of coders? How about writing accurate requirements? Putting together an architecture that can handle changing requirements? Documenting your code (not just comments)? Writing test cases? Using debuggers, profilers, CVS and other CASE tools? Do you know UML? How about PDL? Can you make an estimation on time, memory consumption, other hardware requirements? Can you approximate a mathematical algorithm in an efficient manner?
Point is software development is more than just typing code. If you can answer yes on all of the above, then you're good on your way to become a professional programmer. (diving in a stack of books and answering in 6 months is acceptable too.)
Sheesh, visiting 3 times for this? I just leave a fake computer magazine open on the article "how to speed up your PC". Especially the part on switching that little switch on the back of the power supply from 230 (slow) to 130 (fast!) is definitly a killer.
IMHO We should track them down and beat them to death with a teaspoon. Or giving them The Eternal Wedgie (superglue in underpants, then perform regular wedgie, hold until dry) is acceptable too.
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Neo died at the end of the third movie
Well, thank you mister ruin-a-movie!
(ob. Simpson qoute)
Simple: if you aren't a client, you aren't a real fan, are you? You bank account reaching a large negative number after registration is pure coincidence.
Similarly, I think that one of the reasons OO programming has not delivered the productivity benefits it was supposed to is that OO somehow encourages people to embed a lot of duplicated knowledge of the application into the class structure. This duplicated information makes it hard to change the system. I have seen this again and again. In contrast, before OO a lot of this information ended up in data or in a database, where it could be easily changed.
IMO the big problem with OOP lays in the way it is taught. It's always put forward in a all or nothing point of view: either you write an OO program or you don't. I think they should teach OOP (and any other programming paradigm) as being a tool, not as The One True Magical Solution.
Using other paradigms could deal with redundant code far more easely than OOP can.
OOP works wonderful on ADT, but ordinary functions and procedures beat OOP easely on reducing repeated code. IMO OOP combined with procedural and functional programming could provide the promised productivity benifits.
With databases it's pretty much the same. Instead of trying to get one technic to work, perhaps they should be looking in new combination of technics, borrowing from other sciences. Perhaps the information available on how the brain works or AI technics can be adapted for large databases.
easy:
1) Expose spider to plutonium.
2) Allow spider to grow to airplane-size.
3) Extract spider silk cables.
To feed it:
1) expose flies to plutonium
2) Allow fly to grow to airplane-size.
3) Feed fly to spider
To keep it under control:
1) expose person with boots to plutonium.
2) Let said person grow to huge size.
3) said person can squat the spider if it escapes.
To feed the gaint person:
1) expose cow to plutonium.
2) let it grow to extra-large size.
3) extract megahamburgers.
4) diner time!
To feed the cow:
1) expose grass to plutonium.
2) let it grow.
3) cow will take care of it.
See, the only issue to solve is to provide enough plutonium. All the rest is easy.
IIRC the purpose of the neutron bomb wasn't about killing all the people and leaving the buildings intact, it was about turing a large group of attacking tanks into radioactive steel. The idea behind this was that if the USSR would invade europe it had superior numbers of tanks however at some places in europe these would have to pass through narrow places were they would have to drive close to eachother and if a neutron bomb would be detonated over there, it'll create a massive radioactive traffic jam.
Instead of using a comparator, use an optocoupler (with ofcourse the necessary components to protect the led). That way you get a nice pulse (TTL or any other voltage levels you want) during every positive flank of the AC. this is pretty simple to do and much smaller than using a transformer.
This requires only a small number of components (none of which need very accurate values).
Or commercials. Ok, that would be bad, considering how long it would take to go from ground floor to second floor (space), you'd have a 1% chance of getting out of it with your sanity (more or less) intact.
I wold prov I cam from the futur, problm is I cant fint a stor that sell botles of presurizd tritium and accept a Marsian Mastercard.
(I hop I speled thse worts corect, Im nod used to writing anciend Englis)
Software design is still a pretty young field of construction. Building construction has had more than 2 millenia to develop, while software design had about century (give or take a decade). In the early days (read: centuries) buildings were designed by rules of thumb. Only the last few centuries the real science of contruction was developed. (The metalurgical properties of steel wasn't researched until after WW2 when they figured out that welded ships couldn't handle the extreme cold of northern seas very well) In software design we're at the point where we're trying to come up with the science, but are still mostly using rules of thumb.
Given time software will reach a point where it's about as reliable as concrete buildings, but in the mean time we'll be stuck with the many kinds of blue screens.
I would be more impressed if he had come up with a way to get rid of the parroting and got his students to write some original stuff. But I'm not a college professor so what do I know about education.
Now if we could code a program to write those essays, the whole process would be automated. Press enter for another A.
If you know how the program grades the essays, it should be possible to write a program that generates essays that comply perfectly to those rules, right?
IMHO we could learn a lesson from The World Jones Made (Philip K. Dick). If someone claims to be the new messiah, let him prove it. If he fails send him off to jail for a very long time.
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Just a cut-and-paste troll. Probably the worste kind of trolling there is (well, since goatse.cx dissappeared). OTOH it's pretty normal on /. as all the dubs create the impression this is a forum for people with extreem short memory spans.
Sjee, thanks for pointing that out, otherwise I wouldn't have clicked that link.
Perhaps if the grandparent can post a few more of this kind of links, because I'm, euh, doing a study on illegal IP infringment. Yes, that's it.
9 years experience with codeing? Nice. How about cooperating within a team of coders? How about writing accurate requirements? Putting together an architecture that can handle changing requirements? Documenting your code (not just comments)? Writing test cases? Using debuggers, profilers, CVS and other CASE tools? Do you know UML? How about PDL? Can you make an estimation on time, memory consumption, other hardware requirements? Can you approximate a mathematical algorithm in an efficient manner?
Point is software development is more than just typing code. If you can answer yes on all of the above, then you're good on your way to become a professional programmer. (diving in a stack of books and answering in 6 months is acceptable too.)
Legalized weed? you're just jealous.
Depends on your taste for sarcasme.
Simple: we just borrow a SMG from our local drug dealer.
Sheesh, visiting 3 times for this? I just leave a fake computer magazine open on the article "how to speed up your PC". Especially the part on switching that little switch on the back of the power supply from 230 (slow) to 130 (fast!) is definitly a killer.
IMHO We should track them down and beat them to death with a teaspoon. Or giving them The Eternal Wedgie (superglue in underpants, then perform regular wedgie, hold until dry) is acceptable too.
Simple: if you aren't a client, you aren't a real fan, are you? You bank account reaching a large negative number after registration is pure coincidence.
Using other paradigms could deal with redundant code far more easely than OOP can.
OOP works wonderful on ADT, but ordinary functions and procedures beat OOP easely on reducing repeated code. IMO OOP combined with procedural and functional programming could provide the promised productivity benifits.
With databases it's pretty much the same. Instead of trying to get one technic to work, perhaps they should be looking in new combination of technics, borrowing from other sciences. Perhaps the information available on how the brain works or AI technics can be adapted for large databases.
easy:
1) Expose spider to plutonium.
2) Allow spider to grow to airplane-size.
3) Extract spider silk cables.
To feed it:
1) expose flies to plutonium
2) Allow fly to grow to airplane-size.
3) Feed fly to spider
To keep it under control:
1) expose person with boots to plutonium.
2) Let said person grow to huge size.
3) said person can squat the spider if it escapes.
To feed the gaint person:
1) expose cow to plutonium.
2) let it grow to extra-large size.
3) extract megahamburgers.
4) diner time!
To feed the cow:
1) expose grass to plutonium.
2) let it grow.
3) cow will take care of it.
See, the only issue to solve is to provide enough plutonium. All the rest is easy.
IIRC the purpose of the neutron bomb wasn't about killing all the people and leaving the buildings intact, it was about turing a large group of attacking tanks into radioactive steel. The idea behind this was that if the USSR would invade europe it had superior numbers of tanks however at some places in europe these would have to pass through narrow places were they would have to drive close to eachother and if a neutron bomb would be detonated over there, it'll create a massive radioactive traffic jam.
Instead of using a comparator, use an optocoupler (with ofcourse the necessary components to protect the led). That way you get a nice pulse (TTL or any other voltage levels you want) during every positive flank of the AC. this is pretty simple to do and much smaller than using a transformer.
This requires only a small number of components (none of which need very accurate values).
Or commercials. Ok, that would be bad, considering how long it would take to go from ground floor to second floor (space), you'd have a 1% chance of getting out of it with your sanity (more or less) intact.
I wold prov I cam from the futur, problm is I cant fint a stor that sell botles of presurizd tritium and accept a Marsian Mastercard.
(I hop I speled thse worts corect, Im nod used to writing anciend Englis)
Software design is still a pretty young field of construction. Building construction has had more than 2 millenia to develop, while software design had about century (give or take a decade). In the early days (read: centuries) buildings were designed by rules of thumb. Only the last few centuries the real science of contruction was developed. (The metalurgical properties of steel wasn't researched until after WW2 when they figured out that welded ships couldn't handle the extreme cold of northern seas very well) In software design we're at the point where we're trying to come up with the science, but are still mostly using rules of thumb.
Given time software will reach a point where it's about as reliable as concrete buildings, but in the mean time we'll be stuck with the many kinds of blue screens.
Or they'll think you're trekkie
So your grade depends on how close you get to writing the essay he would write? Never tought creativity would be something to lose a grade over.
I would be more impressed if he had come up with a way to get rid of the parroting and got his students to write some original stuff. But I'm not a college professor so what do I know about education.
Now if we could code a program to write those essays, the whole process would be automated. Press enter for another A. If you know how the program grades the essays, it should be possible to write a program that generates essays that comply perfectly to those rules, right?
Easy to calculate:
dates: 4x month: ~200
gifts: once/month: ~50
clothing: once/month ~100
Flowers: twice/month: 10
Misc.: 75
Add and multiply by the number of girlfriends.
IMHO we could learn a lesson from The World Jones Made (Philip K. Dick). If someone claims to be the new messiah, let him prove it. If he fails send him off to jail for a very long time.