I think you missed my point. I'm not against them learning to use Powerpoint. I'm saying, they're being taught to use Powerpoint, but up through their senior year, I've seen *no* grading done on the quality of their presentation's logic. In any paper or presentation whatsoever.
(1) Reading comprehension (2) Household economics then Coding. Everyone thinks that their profession is the most important in the world. But making everyone a programmer is not the most important task.
This, a million times over. I'm a good computer scientist, but I haven't been careful or thoughtful about household economics. I suspect that if I'd had some instruction in these matters, I would have been more disciplined. Now I find myself only being able to consider jobs which are high-paying, because I've financially boxed myself into a corner. This limits where I can live, on which projects/products I can work, and how much time I can have with my family. It turns out that spending one's mental energy only on computer science isn't always a winning strategy.
If you're at the beginning or your career or still in college/high school, I implore you to find the knowledge and discipline to create a budget and to live within it. Even though your salary can rise quickly as you gain work experience in software development, it will never outpace your ability to over-spend it.
I do have kids in school. The school places decently in national rankings, and I'm often alarmed by the quality of the kids' instruction. I think the GP is somewhat on the mark. For example, I've seen the kids taught to develop powerpoint presentations, where the emphasis was on the visual aspects of the presentation, rather than on the soundness or validity of their arguments. I've seen this even at the highschool level.
I don't have a good sense as to whether it's better or worse than when I went to school, because I'm not viewing both from the same perspective. But I do see a big gap between the education my kids are getting, and the education I wish they have.
Perhaps my expectations regarding kids' teachability are unrealistic (e.g., that they have longer attention spans and more interest than they really do). But I am sad that my employment situation hasn't allowed me the time to home-school them. I know they're capable of far more than is being asked of them.
I'm just going to guess that you're a male who isn't responsible for a family yet. You don't sound like someone who's balanced difficult moral trade-offs yet. Here's my take on it:
For the most part, a given region doesn't produce enough food, medicine, or fuel for itself.
If we revolted, there would be a major disruption in our commerce and transportation networks. Without fuel, we'd run out of electricity, and then not have clean water nor proper sewage disposal. We'd possibly see dysentery and malnutrition in just months. The first winter would be as deadly as what the Pilgrims experienced. There would be mass attempted exodus, but we might find Canada and/or Mexico forcibly stopping us from entering their countries. My wife, who's a Type 1 diabetic, would probably get very sick and perhaps die form the disruption in insulin supply.
I think that's a pretty big price to pay in exchange for heightened privacy. I'm sure the calculation would change if our government became more authoritarian, but that hasn't clearly happened yet.
First, equality of outcome tends to be a liberal vs. conservative, not a feminist vs. non-feminist, division in my experience.
Secondly, I think just about every group afflicted with envy faces a temptation to use tactics and logic that, on their better days, they would eschew.
On the serious side, though, I would like to point out that there are some professions that are gender-biased for no good physiological cause. Women as nurses, flight attendants or hairstylists, for example, or men as engineers, surgeons or STEM trades. These divisions have been established due to cultural biases, not physical ones, and sometimes those biases are the more subtly influential of the two.
I don't think you're going to resolve a nature/nurture debate just by asserting "nurture!"
If women make up the minority in one field, then they make the majority in another.
That logic only holds if you consider every occupation a person has to be "a field". (And if you assume there's about the same # of women and men, which I'd say is close enough for the sake of discussion.)
For example, consider a population where there are three groups of people: carpenters, plumbers, and stay-at-home parents. If you consider stay-at-home parenting to not be a "field", and the vast vast majority of women are stay at home parents, then each of the two "fields" (carpentry and plumbing) could be majority male.
It's well-known that the U.S. tax code is bat-shit insanely complex.
If he's not already using an account, he'd probably need to hire one just to figure out how he's supposed to disclose that $136 in his federal and state taxes.
Given that accountants aren't free, and finding a decent one takes times, it's probably just not worth it.
I see your point, and I'm inclined to agree, mostly. But here's possible counterpoint.
Consider a country like North Korea. It's not really at war with anyone (unlike the U.S.), but it does plenty of saber-rattling (like the U.S.) It's also an authoritarian police state. Suppose one of its citizens pulled a Snowden, in a way that damaged the NK government's ability to be a police state, but also damaged its ability to conduct foreign espionage. Would it be reasonable for that NK citizen to receive the Peace Prize for that action?
If you say yes, than I would argue that in several important ways, his actions are similar to Snowden's.
Well, part of it is theater, for sure. Sometimes, if the budget cuts come very late in a fiscal year and apply to that year, a 5% reduction (annual) is close to a 50% reduction (for that month).
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It just takes micromanagement to an entirely new level.
Considering the chip die sizes involved, it's probably better to call to call it nano-management.
I think Hitachi goofed up their translation. "Perfect" is not the correct word.
I think you missed my point. I'm not against them learning to use Powerpoint. I'm saying, they're being taught to use Powerpoint, but up through their senior year, I've seen *no* grading done on the quality of their presentation's logic. In any paper or presentation whatsoever.
(1) Reading comprehension
(2) Household economics
then Coding.
Everyone thinks that their profession is the most important in the world. But making everyone a programmer is not the most important task.
This, a million times over. I'm a good computer scientist, but I haven't been careful or thoughtful about household economics. I suspect that if I'd had some instruction in these matters, I would have been more disciplined. Now I find myself only being able to consider jobs which are high-paying, because I've financially boxed myself into a corner. This limits where I can live, on which projects/products I can work, and how much time I can have with my family. It turns out that spending one's mental energy only on computer science isn't always a winning strategy.
If you're at the beginning or your career or still in college/high school, I implore you to find the knowledge and discipline to create a budget and to live within it. Even though your salary can rise quickly as you gain work experience in software development, it will never outpace your ability to over-spend it.
I do have kids in school. The school places decently in national rankings, and I'm often alarmed by the quality of the kids' instruction. I think the GP is somewhat on the mark. For example, I've seen the kids taught to develop powerpoint presentations, where the emphasis was on the visual aspects of the presentation, rather than on the soundness or validity of their arguments. I've seen this even at the highschool level.
I don't have a good sense as to whether it's better or worse than when I went to school, because I'm not viewing both from the same perspective. But I do see a big gap between the education my kids are getting, and the education I wish they have.
Perhaps my expectations regarding kids' teachability are unrealistic (e.g., that they have longer attention spans and more interest than they really do). But I am sad that my employment situation hasn't allowed me the time to home-school them. I know they're capable of far more than is being asked of them.
Leave it up to a financial analyst to wreck workers' lives using derivatives!
To be fair, I've got a phd in cs, and I still think of macs as magical devil machines.
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You are the most interesting programmer in the world.
Wouldn't false advertising or fraud laws already cover that?
I'm just going to guess that you're a male who isn't responsible for a family yet. You don't sound like someone who's balanced difficult moral trade-offs yet. Here's my take on it:
For the most part, a given region doesn't produce enough food, medicine, or fuel for itself.
If we revolted, there would be a major disruption in our commerce and transportation networks. Without fuel, we'd run out of electricity, and then not have clean water nor proper sewage disposal. We'd possibly see dysentery and malnutrition in just months. The first winter would be as deadly as what the Pilgrims experienced. There would be mass attempted exodus, but we might find Canada and/or Mexico forcibly stopping us from entering their countries. My wife, who's a Type 1 diabetic, would probably get very sick and perhaps die form the disruption in insulin supply.
I think that's a pretty big price to pay in exchange for heightened privacy. I'm sure the calculation would change if our government became more authoritarian, but that hasn't clearly happened yet.
... and then get them to shun you.
It's like getting slapped with silence.
- D. K. Schrute.
I partially disagree with you.
First, equality of outcome tends to be a liberal vs. conservative, not a feminist vs. non-feminist, division in my experience.
Secondly, I think just about every group afflicted with envy faces a temptation to use tactics and logic that, on their better days, they would eschew.
I don't think you're going to resolve a nature/nurture debate just by asserting "nurture!"
The universal claim was "EVERY geek who is interested in programming taught themselves."
That's equivalent to saying that of all the geeks interested in programming, not a single one of them (didn't teach him/herself).
Demonstrating that there exist at least one geek who taught himself programming does not prove the universal claim originally stated.
That logic only holds if you consider every occupation a person has to be "a field". (And if you assume there's about the same # of women and men, which I'd say is close enough for the sake of discussion.)
For example, consider a population where there are three groups of people: carpenters, plumbers, and stay-at-home parents. If you consider stay-at-home parenting to not be a "field", and the vast vast majority of women are stay at home parents, then each of the two "fields" (carpentry and plumbing) could be majority male.
Holy crap. I didn't realize it was THAT cold.
It's well-known that the U.S. tax code is bat-shit insanely complex.
If he's not already using an account, he'd probably need to hire one just to figure out how he's supposed to disclose that $136 in his federal and state taxes.
Given that accountants aren't free, and finding a decent one takes times, it's probably just not worth it.
-15F in PA? Are you sure about that? I live a good bit north of you, and the coldest we saw this week was about +5F.
Yeah, but you have to receive it to know if you deserve it.
I see your point, and I'm inclined to agree, mostly. But here's possible counterpoint.
Consider a country like North Korea. It's not really at war with anyone (unlike the U.S.), but it does plenty of saber-rattling (like the U.S.) It's also an authoritarian police state. Suppose one of its citizens pulled a Snowden, in a way that damaged the NK government's ability to be a police state, but also damaged its ability to conduct foreign espionage. Would it be reasonable for that NK citizen to receive the Peace Prize for that action?
If you say yes, than I would argue that in several important ways, his actions are similar to Snowden's.
If he wins, then we'll have one Peace Prize winner being honored for resisting the authoritarianism of another Peace Price winner.
The Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Shoot, he deserves it 100x more than the FEMA directory to whom W. awarded it in response to Hurricane Katrina.
The U.S. intelligence agencies torture people. That's a disincentive to hacking them.
Well, part of it is theater, for sure. Sometimes, if the budget cuts come very late in a fiscal year and apply to that year, a 5% reduction (annual) is close to a 50% reduction (for that month).