>> And I'm not a MS fanboy, just somewhat worried by stagnated state of C++ and ObjC.
dude, where are you looking? Those 2 languages are here for our lifetimes (and C/C++ for the unseeable future). I still see fortran shit.... And I am not trying to bring out the greybeards. I would say I would take the C/C++ programmer over the Java/C# programmer (completely over-generalization and hyperbole to follow), because the C (and some of the C++) guys have already had their senses burned out and won't try to reinvent the whole fucking system. Java people we'll say how they could have done this, that, blah, blah, Yea, I know that. I've learned a lot of languages too, but you are getting a Fortran model(s) with Visual Basic extensions in a C/C++ architecture (pick your network com, lets say CORBA Tao for now. Though I like WCF myself) with a little C# gui controller. Deal with it; cause you only got 2 weeks. And you know what, most Java people do deal, just like the C/C++, and that weird Haskell guy (but he/she is smart.. almost too smart; don't overthink the problem ok?)... because like doing a security exam by asking "How are you? Where are you going?" you don't give a shit about the answers but HOW they answer it.
I am sorry that it also WHO you know too though. And that is where the language you know on the paper matters. Just put them all down, even if you just played around with it a week (but you had to enough to fake it); at least somebody, if they are smart, we weed out the resume inflaters over experimenters who crave new things.
Prefers empirical evidence to hypothesis;
Questions whether the dictionary is right;
If necessary, writes his own damn encyclopedia;
Prefers reasoning to received wisdom;
Is not nearly as susceptible to appeals to authority as others;
And - the sometimes fatal flaw - prefers others to partake of his wisdom than to partake of theirs.
If it can bring itself to say "I don't know."... I would take Watson in a second, and pay triple my copay. Jesus mother fucking christ don't get me started on this...
>> TV has the same problem in the US, because everyone wants a complete problem-resolution cycle in isolated episodes that don't have to be watched in exact order, as opposed to chapter-style episodic progression.
Luckily the tides are slowing turning that way (for now); the strongest starter was back with the Sopranos. Now, HBO,Showtime, Stars, etc. are full "episodic" material. You could argue that reality TV is that way too.
Two problems: 1. Sci-Fi - Film companies have been scared of it historically (read Sci-Fi Ghetto at TvTropes.com; or don't if you have something to do this month). Are exceptions, even going back to the old serial Flash Gordon movies. 2. Pendulm Effect - Meaning history, art, and taste swing back and forth. We could start going back to "situational" and 22 min resolutions.
Yea, too bad everything else was "Oooh the poor corporations and CEOs. If only their hands weren't tied, they would invest all their money in great jobs for everybody. And, they work so hard to get where they are. And it's the dang-blast-it government and socialist ideas that are holding them back - not, pennythin profit margin maximization. Now.. here is John Galt to chunder vitriol over the next 50 pages."
>>Friedman vs Freeman That was their names? Really, wow. Sort of life imitating art (e.g. Dune) or highly suggestive of art anyways. Freeman is even on the appropriate side of the debate!
Double strafing? Man, I never remember trying that. I played it a lot in my CS course in high school. ~1996. Quake was out, but the machines we had couldn't run it. Doom was the first and last LAN game I would ever play:{.
I took a discrete simulation course that used Excel (some). It made you appreciate Excel as another tool in the box. It may not be a good candidate to build the house, but it's great to play around with your ideas.
Or, more likely, consciousness explains quantum theory.
Nah, our consciousness didn't have the time or will to work out the details at that level. So, we jammed in some old lookup tables we had laying around with some circular pointers.
Good point, at today's prices there are better ways to learn for cheap-to-free. And even though degree mills give distanced learning a bad rep, some our better than others (e.g. MIT).
And honestly, it's not like I practiced "go to college to learn" anyways. The learning was incidental; I got my BS in EE since it was such a general field I knew jobs would always be easier to come by - even though I knew I would go straight into CS work. And, EE's get paid more. Then I got my masters in CS... for the money increase.
However, if I ever go back for a doctorate, this time it will be about the education.;)
Besides the fact that he makes it sound like everybody makes it big... and I thought NPR had a good analogy comparing it to all local bands going on to become rock stars (even considering the 80s/90s), it is the fact the fact he makes college all about ROI. That's the FUCKING problem! You don't always do things for financial reasons, but just to know life, to help others, and try to see the world a little better for what it really is. Don't get me wrong, I support my family alone on my income and understand the power of money. Maybe it's growing up in a pedagogical family (Mom-public school special ed teach; Dad-engineer and part-time University professor), but for me one of the greatest things that can be purchased is an education. I wish that it could be free and equal to all, but that isn't going to happen. The fact is knowledge is the one thing you can possess that is difficult to remove (short of brain injury of some fashion). Knowledge is the flaming torch given from the serpent to the proles to keep their masters in check. Who watches the watchers? An educated public.
So, go on.. chase that lottery. Drink your Victory Gin. You're doing exactly what they want you to do.
>> Pile of rocks = creative genius >> How the hell does wikipedia not represent a work of creative genius while the great wall of china does? So says a bag of water.
... Wiseau, confused about the differences between 35 mm film and high-definition video, decided to shoot the entire film in both formats with two cameras side-by-side on the same mount.
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>> And I'm not a MS fanboy, just somewhat worried by stagnated state of C++ and ObjC.
dude, where are you looking? Those 2 languages are here for our lifetimes (and C/C++ for the unseeable future). I still see fortran shit. ... And I am not trying to bring out the greybeards. I would say I would take the C/C++ programmer over the Java/C# programmer (completely over-generalization and hyperbole to follow), because the C (and some of the C++) guys have already had their senses burned out and won't try to reinvent the whole fucking system. Java people we'll say how they could have done this, that, blah, blah, Yea, I know that. I've learned a lot of languages too, but you are getting a Fortran model(s) with Visual Basic extensions in a C/C++ architecture (pick your network com, lets say CORBA Tao for now. Though I like WCF myself) with a little C# gui controller. Deal with it; cause you only got 2 weeks. And you know what, most Java people do deal, just like the C/C++, and that weird Haskell guy (but he/she is smart .. almost too smart; don't overthink the problem ok?) ... because like doing a security exam by asking "How are you? Where are you going?" you don't give a shit about the answers but HOW they answer it.
I am sorry that it also WHO you know too though. And that is where the language you know on the paper matters. Just put them all down, even if you just played around with it a week (but you had to enough to fake it); at least somebody, if they are smart, we weed out the resume inflaters over experimenters who crave new things.
Prefers empirical evidence to hypothesis;
Questions whether the dictionary is right;
If necessary, writes his own damn encyclopedia;
Prefers reasoning to received wisdom;
Is not nearly as susceptible to appeals to authority as others;
And - the sometimes fatal flaw - prefers others to partake of his wisdom than to partake of theirs.
Spot on [+].
So, even if you make a computer that could graduate in the middle of a class of doctors, it won't be good enough until it can do better than them all.
I for one eagerly await the pilot episode of "Doogie HX9000 Model 101, M.D.".
If you think that show is good, wait till you watch "How I Bridged a Distributed Graph to Consolidate You into a Whole .... 3000"
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If it can bring itself to say "I don't know."... I would take Watson in a second, and pay triple my copay. Jesus mother fucking christ don't get me started on this ...
It's not a real pick-nick if it's in your mom's basement.
I think I threw up a little in my mouth..
>> TV has the same problem in the US, because everyone wants a complete problem-resolution cycle in isolated episodes that don't have to be watched in exact order, as opposed to chapter-style episodic progression.
Luckily the tides are slowing turning that way (for now); the strongest starter was back with the Sopranos. Now, HBO,Showtime, Stars, etc. are full "episodic" material. You could argue that reality TV is that way too.
Two problems:
1. Sci-Fi - Film companies have been scared of it historically (read Sci-Fi Ghetto at TvTropes.com; or don't if you have something to do this month). Are exceptions, even going back to the old serial Flash Gordon movies.
2. Pendulm Effect - Meaning history, art, and taste swing back and forth. We could start going back to "situational" and 22 min resolutions.
And dialog. And they leave out 1:30 hours worth of CSPAN (in Space!!!)
Yea, too bad everything else was .. here is John Galt to chunder vitriol over the next 50 pages."
"Oooh the poor corporations and CEOs. If only their hands weren't tied, they would invest all their money in great jobs for everybody. And, they work so hard to get where they are. And it's the dang-blast-it government and socialist ideas that are holding them back - not, pennythin profit margin maximization. Now
>>Friedman vs Freeman
That was their names? Really, wow. Sort of life imitating art (e.g. Dune) or highly suggestive of art anyways. Freeman is even on the appropriate side of the debate!
Double strafing? Man, I never remember trying that. I played it a lot in my CS course in high school. ~1996. Quake was out, but the machines we had couldn't run it. Doom was the first and last LAN game I would ever play :{.
I took a discrete simulation course that used Excel (some). It made you appreciate Excel as another tool in the box. It may not be a good candidate to build the house, but it's great to play around with your ideas.
>> pure kinetic energy
Am I the only one that hears 80's syth with that?
>> ... the occupation of carpentry and joinery ...
I'll take a job in joinery. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge. Though, I can see how it would be more infectious than most jobs.
Probably some others, but this will do ... pig.
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2189#comic
Or, more likely, consciousness explains quantum theory.
Nah, our consciousness didn't have the time or will to work out the details at that level. So, we jammed in some old lookup tables we had laying around with some circular pointers.
In the same sense those initial conditions to that simulation you brought up are nothing and when you stop it is becomes nothing again.
>> We are biological computers experiencing itself subjectively.
Close, not quite.
"We are all one biological network experiencing ourselves subjectively."
Then it goes on,
"There's no such thing as EOF, life is only a simulation, and we're the model of our own construction. Here's Tom with a tornado."
Good point, at today's prices there are better ways to learn for cheap-to-free. And even though degree mills give distanced learning a bad rep, some our better than others (e.g. MIT).
And honestly, it's not like I practiced "go to college to learn" anyways. The learning was incidental; I got my BS in EE since it was such a general field I knew jobs would always be easier to come by - even though I knew I would go straight into CS work. And, EE's get paid more. Then I got my masters in CS ... for the money increase.
However, if I ever go back for a doctorate, this time it will be about the education. ;)
Besides the fact that he makes it sound like everybody makes it big ... and I thought NPR had a good analogy comparing it to all local bands going on to become rock stars (even considering the 80s/90s), it is the fact the fact he makes college all about ROI. That's the FUCKING problem! You don't always do things for financial reasons, but just to know life, to help others, and try to see the world a little better for what it really is.
Don't get me wrong, I support my family alone on my income and understand the power of money. Maybe it's growing up in a pedagogical family (Mom-public school special ed teach; Dad-engineer and part-time University professor), but for me one of the greatest things that can be purchased is an education. I wish that it could be free and equal to all, but that isn't going to happen. The fact is knowledge is the one thing you can possess that is difficult to remove (short of brain injury of some fashion). Knowledge is the flaming torch given from the serpent to the proles to keep their masters in check. Who watches the watchers? An educated public.
So, go on .. chase that lottery. Drink your Victory Gin. You're doing exactly what they want you to do.
>> Pile of rocks = creative genius
>> How the hell does wikipedia not represent a work of creative genius while the great wall of china does?
So says a bag of water.
I meant "I'm [a] bit disappointed [nobody on slashdot posted it yet]". I'll just shutup now.
I'm bit disappointed, it's the current one even ..
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>> It's also fairly common to use both on a show.
O, hi Tommy. .
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Wiseau, confused about the differences between 35 mm film and high-definition video, decided to shoot the entire film in both formats with two cameras side-by-side on the same mount.
Hah! You got a addition and multiplication? ALL we got was one flip-flop and a lookup-table book written in cuneiform.