I think you're mistaken about what the Bible means by "faith". It is not belief contrary to overwhelming or clear evidence. It's the willingness to take a risk that something is true, in cases where the evidence is ambiguous or mixed.
I'm not aware of anywhere in the Bible where irrationality is endorsed.
Agreed. In my experience, physics majors tend to be excellent programmers, better than many CS majors. Perhaps it's because they're mostly just smart a heck, and that matters more than having taken a bunch of CS courses.
Engineering majors, in my experience, tend to be capable enough, but their code is hard to read / maintain. It's kind of like they're would-be CS majors who didn't take the CS courses.
I had a long phase where if I was going to have a nightmare, it typically involved having a xenomorph coming straight at me and my pulse rifle being out of ammo. I'm serious. The nightmares were rare, but seemed to correspond with days when I was feeling impotent to deal with some life problem.
You have to give it to him, his art was effective.
Agreed. I take a dim view of managers that demand I "sell them" on what I think is the right choice.
It's their job to make decisions wisely, not my job to force what I consider wise decisions down their throat. I try to be honest about the pros and cons. If the choice lies within my authority, I try to make the best choice. If it's within their authority, then I hope they make the best choice. If they don't, that's their problem.
I guess this response must reek of someone who has little patience for foolish managers, and other job prospects if necessary. So be it.
In just about every category of politics, I lean more conservative than Slashdot's median. But I respect Al Franken than perhaps any other Congressman out there. Not because I agree with all of his positions, but because he seems to act with real integrity in striving to help the American people.
A problem with multidimensional arrays in C++ is that there's not a single, agreed-upon type for them. Everyone either rolls his own, or uses whichever comes with the various libraries he's working with (Intel Math Kernel Library, Boost, etc.)
Because there's a variety of multi-dimensional array representations, programs which include external libraries can need to translate between different array representations in different parts of the code. This leads not only to greater code complexity, but greater runtime complexity and memory requirements.
Is it hot in here, or is it just the thermal induction?
The wire wound its way around the steel-hard rod. Electrons pulsed their way up the wire, gently feeling their way through each quantum hole in the wire. As each electron pushed through the wire, the rod trembled with tiny Foucault currents. Each electron made the rod hotter...
What the hell is wrong with me tonight??? If this isn't a sign that I need to get some sleep, I don't know what is. Cheers.
Regardless of whether one choses to champion or condemn Snowden's actions, it is apparent that the NSA needs to dramatically rework its security measures.
No, their lax security measures are achieving exactly the right results for our democracy at the moment. I am completely against them reworking them, unless you mean subjecting them all to potential veto by a select group of thoughtful small-government patriots.
Jane felt there were too many cables under her desk so she took her scissors to several of them and cut them back to the floor opening.
Our team successfully ran new cables and got the network up and running in the space of half an hour as well proactively took steps to prevent such an occurrence in the future by tossing Jane out the window.
Wrong approach. I suggest this:
The slow throbbing of the server room A/C barely distracted from the stifling heat. As Jane sat restlessly in her thigh-length, red skirt, a bead of sweat dripped onto the network cables below. Her display, a pitiful 17" CRT from the mid `90's, flickered a 404 error. Jim, the strong but quiet network repair main, soon knocked on her office door. Despite wearing a workman's coveralls, his powerful frame was clearly visible with each move he made. He casually walked up to Jane's desk, leaned in close, and looked at her intensely with his sea-gray eyes. He said casually, but close in, "Cable trouble. I need to get down there."
I agree. And then, the mandatory preaching of "Piracy is not a Victimless Crime", with the threatening seal of the FBI. Presented by the group that not only buys/writes our copyright laws.
I have a normal test for "wrong side of history" that I divised by looking at the arguments made from the wrong side of history. It doesn't work on this for reasons that will become apparent.
1. This only applies to public debates. Debates entirely among elites don't count. 2. Ignore all arguments coming from emotional appeals. There's emotion on both sides of right and wrong, and these arguments just muddy the water. 3. Whoever cites more tradition or "stability" in their arguments (proportionally) is going to be wrong.
It's amazingly good at identifying the people doing terrible things, and will be brushed aside by progress.
I suspect your litmus test depends on particular definitions of what having been on the right side means, and on what constitutes progress.
But I doubt we're all in agreement regarding those definitions.
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I think you're mistaken about what the Bible means by "faith". It is not belief contrary to overwhelming or clear evidence. It's the willingness to take a risk that something is true, in cases where the evidence is ambiguous or mixed.
I'm not aware of anywhere in the Bible where irrationality is endorsed.
There are rational and irrational persons on both sides of this issue.
Agreed. In my experience, physics majors tend to be excellent programmers, better than many CS majors. Perhaps it's because they're mostly just smart a heck, and that matters more than having taken a bunch of CS courses.
Engineering majors, in my experience, tend to be capable enough, but their code is hard to read / maintain. It's kind of like they're would-be CS majors who didn't take the CS courses.
Oh, and... normal disclaimer about me knowing I'll be modded into oblivion, of course.
with a good commentary to explain the historical, cultural context needed to understand certain sections well.
Programming is a fun and rewarding way to earn a living. But it's not the most important thing.
You're thinking of "dogma". Religion isn't necessarily dogmatic.
I had a long phase where if I was going to have a nightmare, it typically involved having a xenomorph coming straight at me and my pulse rifle being out of ammo. I'm serious. The nightmares were rare, but seemed to correspond with days when I was feeling impotent to deal with some life problem.
You have to give it to him, his art was effective.
exactly lay out the facts:
product A is owned by commercial company with billions of dollars and developers backing the product
product B is written by some really smart people in their free time that may help you on a forum or in an IRC chat room if they can
You hit the nail on the head. That is one of the big problems indeed.
There is sometimes overlap between the two groups. For example, Linux.
Agreed. I take a dim view of managers that demand I "sell them" on what I think is the right choice.
It's their job to make decisions wisely, not my job to force what I consider wise decisions down their throat. I try to be honest about the pros and cons. If the choice lies within my authority, I try to make the best choice. If it's within their authority, then I hope they make the best choice. If they don't, that's their problem.
I guess this response must reek of someone who has little patience for foolish managers, and other job prospects if necessary. So be it.
Unions have pros and cons. You don't get one without the other. Careful analysis should be done before assuming that unionization would be a net gain.
How about, "But is she hot?"
In just about every category of politics, I lean more conservative than Slashdot's median. But I respect Al Franken than perhaps any other Congressman out there. Not because I agree with all of his positions, but because he seems to act with real integrity in striving to help the American people.
A problem with multidimensional arrays in C++ is that there's not a single, agreed-upon type for them. Everyone either rolls his own, or uses whichever comes with the various libraries he's working with (Intel Math Kernel Library, Boost, etc.)
Because there's a variety of multi-dimensional array representations, programs which include external libraries can need to translate between different array representations in different parts of the code. This leads not only to greater code complexity, but greater runtime complexity and memory requirements.
Is it hot in here, or is it just the thermal induction?
The wire wound its way around the steel-hard rod. Electrons pulsed their way up the wire, gently feeling their way through each quantum hole in the wire. As each electron pushed through the wire, the rod trembled with tiny Foucault currents. Each electron made the rod hotter...
What the hell is wrong with me tonight??? If this isn't a sign that I need to get some sleep, I don't know what is. Cheers.
No, their lax security measures are achieving exactly the right results for our democracy at the moment. I am completely against them reworking them, unless you mean subjecting them all to potential veto by a select group of thoughtful small-government patriots.
Universities were places of teaching and learning, rather than patent-generating sporting-team franchises?
Try this one:
Jane felt there were too many cables under her desk so she took her scissors to several of them and cut them back to the floor opening.
Our team successfully ran new cables and got the network up and running in the space of half an hour as well proactively took steps to prevent such an occurrence in the future by tossing Jane out the window.
Wrong approach. I suggest this:
The slow throbbing of the server room A/C barely distracted from the stifling heat. As Jane sat restlessly in her thigh-length, red skirt, a bead of sweat dripped onto the network cables below. Her display, a pitiful 17" CRT from the mid `90's, flickered a 404 error. Jim, the strong but quiet network repair main, soon knocked on her office door. Despite wearing a workman's coveralls, his powerful frame was clearly visible with each move he made. He casually walked up to Jane's desk, leaned in close, and looked at her intensely with his sea-gray eyes. He said casually, but close in, "Cable trouble. I need to get down there."
Geez, how many times did you fire the guy before wising up?
Don't forget another factor: the government is too well armed to fail.
That this will create a generation of lawyers and judges who have a fundamental hatred of DRM.
This assumes that lawyers (and the judges some of them often become) will be driven by something other than money. Sucker bet, that one.
In the U.S., my impression is that few judges are driven by money. I hope I'm right.
That this will create a generation of lawyers and judges who have a fundamental hatred of DRM.
It seems strange to specifically ask for experts that know no SQL.
It's a ploy to get more H1B's into the country. "We can't find any database experts in the U.S. who know no SQL!"
I agree. And then, the mandatory preaching of "Piracy is not a Victimless Crime", with the threatening seal of the FBI. Presented by the group that not only buys/writes our copyright laws.
I have a normal test for "wrong side of history" that I divised by looking at the arguments made from the wrong side of history. It doesn't work on this for reasons that will become apparent.
1. This only applies to public debates. Debates entirely among elites don't count.
2. Ignore all arguments coming from emotional appeals. There's emotion on both sides of right and wrong, and these arguments just muddy the water.
3. Whoever cites more tradition or "stability" in their arguments (proportionally) is going to be wrong.
It's amazingly good at identifying the people doing terrible things, and will be brushed aside by progress.
I suspect your litmus test depends on particular definitions of what having been on the right side means, and on what constitutes progress.
But I doubt we're all in agreement regarding those definitions.
Slightly off-topic, but for anyone who hasn't seen Dr. Strangelove, see it. It's hilarious! Peter Sellers is amazing.