Use the patterns and knowledge we've spend years honing, but use them as tools and not as crutches.
Having just watched this video a few hours ago (sat in my queue for a few days, providence seemingly was on my side to watch it right before this story popped), I can say he argues against this very idea.
He mentions late in the talk about how a generation of programmers learned very specific methods for programming, and in turn taught the next generation of programmers those methods. Because the teaching only involved known working methods and disregarded any outlying ideas, the next generation believes that all programming problems have been solved and therefore they never challenge the status quo.
Much of his talk references the fact that many of the "new" ideas in computing were actually discussed and implemented in the early days of programming. Multiple core processing, visual tools and interactions, and higher level languages are not novel in any way; he's trying to point out that the earliest programmers had these ideas too, but we ignored or forgot them due to circumstances. For example, it is difficult to break out of the single processing pipeline mold when one company is dominating the CPU market by pushing out faster and faster units that excel at exactly that kind of processing.
While TFS hits on the point at hand (don't rest on your laurels), it is worth noting that the talk is trying to emphasize open mindedness towards approaches to programming. While that kind of philosophical take is certainly a bit broad (most employers would rather you produce work than redesign every input system in the office), it is important that innovation still be emphasized. I would direct folks to look at the Etsy "Code as Craft" blog as an example of folks that are taking varying approaches to solving problems by being creative and innovating instead of simply applying all the known "best practices" on the market.
I suppose that final comment better elaborates this talk in my mind: Don't rely on "best practices" as if they are the best solution to all programming problems.
You ignore the fact that many of these centers also exist to move product from Warehouse A to Warehouse B. If you believe these places exist only because of "free shipping," you are poorly informed.
Spot on AC.
This same strategy has permeating movie theaters more and more in the past decade and a half. Media has turned into little more than a method to cram advertisements down your throat before you decide to get up and leave.
Ender's Game will be remembered as a great book. Additionally, anyone who read the follow up books will remember EG as being the last Sci Fi book Card wrote that wasn't garbage.
Mac OS X, since the early version has excellent support for keyboard shortcuts. (Albeit tricky to configure.) And applications are always installed in one single location on Mac OS X - unlike Windows where some are in Program Files, some in Program Files x64, some in Windows, some in system32, etc. And applications on Mac OS are represented with a single user-friendly icon - not a folder with pile of subfolders where you still have to hunt for the proper executable. Bonus: the Dock (now also in Windows since 7) was always there to quickly access often used applications.
The Windows 8 start menu is populated with all newly installed programs and apps, hiding the extraneous bullshit under deeper layers that must be accessed specifically (as opposed to crowding your screen/menu with garbage like help files and uninstallers). Furthermore, it eliminates the need to care about where it is installed (unless you want to configure that, in which case that functionality still exists in normal programs, but not in store apps [at least not that I'm aware of]).
Hence why I love it (especially after using OS X for some time) and find 7 inefficient by comparison.
Meanwhile, a kid with a genuine passion for engineering, who wouldn't have been distracted from his studies by throwing, catching, and hitting a small ball, was denied a spot. I hope your wife's oldest brother is okay with that.
How do you conclude that? The baseball player may have denied some guy who wanted to get a degree in underwater basket-weaving instead.
The Start menu quickly becomes cramped, unreadable and unmanageable. I have left it behind and I am not going back.
Absolutely true. Moving to 8 convinced me of how wrong I was doing it for years with regards to the start menu (apart from easy search, but looks like they are aware of that and will fix it).
Go use OS X for a while then go back to the pre-Windows 8 Start menus and you'll realize how asinine the design is for efficiency. Microsoft moved in the right direction with the Start screen.
A massive problem with colleges is that too many people are getting worthless degrees and can't get work out of college and are slung with hideous crushing debt.
Or, to put it another way: A massive problem with college is that it is now High School Part II: Curse of the Monthly Loan Statement.
Not in terms of taking the proper legal recourse, but he did betray his principles by trying to force someone to give up their legally owned domain. He didn't like the rules of the DNS game, and rather than make a simple financial deal he decided to try and manipulate the game to his favor. Thankfully the system took the proper course and told him he's shit out of luck and that he should play by the same rules as everyone else.
Card's demonization is the Left Wings version of the Dixie Chicks [non]controversy: Public person makes statement unrelated to their artistic works, and an idiotic public punishes them for it.
More like DC has a recent history of punishing creators for voicing unpopular opinions publicly, and some readers/shop owners felt that Card was getting special treatment.
LOL! Payroll taxes were decreased, then... went up. But let's call the "went up" something other than "increase". Yeah, that's good. Words only mean what you say they mean.
GP is still correct. Raising taxes requires a bill and vote. Letting something expire is NOT the same as voting to increase taxes. Just because the result is the same doesn't mean the terminology is.
While I certainly fear the eventual potential for that becoming mandatory by the big insurers, I think we'll likely see it as mandatory for certain groups first (elderly, teenagers) before it hits everyone. Which I still feel is bullsh, to be perfectly honest.
In a sense, this practice is already taking place via certain insurance vendors that are offering in-car devices for tracking driving data. That's strictly opt-in. So the current mentality seems to respect your point.
Consumers would do well to pressure the manufacturers to adopt a similar practice.
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Use the patterns and knowledge we've spend years honing, but use them as tools and not as crutches.
Having just watched this video a few hours ago (sat in my queue for a few days, providence seemingly was on my side to watch it right before this story popped), I can say he argues against this very idea.
He mentions late in the talk about how a generation of programmers learned very specific methods for programming, and in turn taught the next generation of programmers those methods. Because the teaching only involved known working methods and disregarded any outlying ideas, the next generation believes that all programming problems have been solved and therefore they never challenge the status quo.
Much of his talk references the fact that many of the "new" ideas in computing were actually discussed and implemented in the early days of programming. Multiple core processing, visual tools and interactions, and higher level languages are not novel in any way; he's trying to point out that the earliest programmers had these ideas too, but we ignored or forgot them due to circumstances. For example, it is difficult to break out of the single processing pipeline mold when one company is dominating the CPU market by pushing out faster and faster units that excel at exactly that kind of processing.
While TFS hits on the point at hand (don't rest on your laurels), it is worth noting that the talk is trying to emphasize open mindedness towards approaches to programming. While that kind of philosophical take is certainly a bit broad (most employers would rather you produce work than redesign every input system in the office), it is important that innovation still be emphasized. I would direct folks to look at the Etsy "Code as Craft" blog as an example of folks that are taking varying approaches to solving problems by being creative and innovating instead of simply applying all the known "best practices" on the market.
I suppose that final comment better elaborates this talk in my mind: Don't rely on "best practices" as if they are the best solution to all programming problems.
I take it this is all a suck-up smoke and mirrors after that iphone theft debacle?
You give them way too much credit. No way that much forethought was put into this article.
After all, there's "free shipping", right?
You ignore the fact that many of these centers also exist to move product from Warehouse A to Warehouse B. If you believe these places exist only because of "free shipping," you are poorly informed.
Spot on AC. This same strategy has permeating movie theaters more and more in the past decade and a half. Media has turned into little more than a method to cram advertisements down your throat before you decide to get up and leave.
Ender's Game will be remembered as a great book. Additionally, anyone who read the follow up books will remember EG as being the last Sci Fi book Card wrote that wasn't garbage.
Are they teaching Comp Sci or Java? There's a difference, after all.
Yes there is, just like there is a difference between mathematics and engineering. One is theory the other is practical.
Correct. In theory Java is great. In practice, Comp Sci will teach you how to be a good programmer.
Are they teaching Comp Sci or Java? There's a difference, after all.
I guess that leaves Chevy to grab an exclusive agreement with AOL. The Camaro just got better!
Mac OS X, since the early version has excellent support for keyboard shortcuts. (Albeit tricky to configure.) And applications are always installed in one single location on Mac OS X - unlike Windows where some are in Program Files, some in Program Files x64, some in Windows, some in system32, etc. And applications on Mac OS are represented with a single user-friendly icon - not a folder with pile of subfolders where you still have to hunt for the proper executable. Bonus: the Dock (now also in Windows since 7) was always there to quickly access often used applications.
The Windows 8 start menu is populated with all newly installed programs and apps, hiding the extraneous bullshit under deeper layers that must be accessed specifically (as opposed to crowding your screen/menu with garbage like help files and uninstallers). Furthermore, it eliminates the need to care about where it is installed (unless you want to configure that, in which case that functionality still exists in normal programs, but not in store apps [at least not that I'm aware of]).
Hence why I love it (especially after using OS X for some time) and find 7 inefficient by comparison.
Can't imagine why, but to each their own. Every time I go back to my Win7 box these days, cringe over using the start menu and its terrible layout.
Presuming the person making them isn't driving up the cost of your baskets with his fancy degree.
Meanwhile, a kid with a genuine passion for engineering, who wouldn't have been distracted from his studies by throwing, catching, and hitting a small ball, was denied a spot. I hope your wife's oldest brother is okay with that.
How do you conclude that? The baseball player may have denied some guy who wanted to get a degree in underwater basket-weaving instead.
The Start menu quickly becomes cramped, unreadable and unmanageable. I have left it behind and I am not going back.
Absolutely true. Moving to 8 convinced me of how wrong I was doing it for years with regards to the start menu (apart from easy search, but looks like they are aware of that and will fix it).
Go use OS X for a while then go back to the pre-Windows 8 Start menus and you'll realize how asinine the design is for efficiency. Microsoft moved in the right direction with the Start screen.
A massive problem with colleges is that too many people are getting worthless degrees and can't get work out of college and are slung with hideous crushing debt.
Or, to put it another way: A massive problem with college is that it is now High School Part II: Curse of the Monthly Loan Statement.
Our domain name system is totally fucked.
Ok. Don't use it. It isn't a requirement of connecting to other computer systems. If you don't like convenience, you don't have to make use of it.
But he didn't cross his stated principles.
Not in terms of taking the proper legal recourse, but he did betray his principles by trying to force someone to give up their legally owned domain. He didn't like the rules of the DNS game, and rather than make a simple financial deal he decided to try and manipulate the game to his favor. Thankfully the system took the proper course and told him he's shit out of luck and that he should play by the same rules as everyone else.
Going subsciption only would turn them from one of the 'Big 4' networks to just another cable channel, like TNT or Discovery.
Fox's network channel would get stomped in a cable lineup.
Maybe your professors should know if there are better options available.
People who took risks generally prefer to be rewarded when those risks pay off.
And if they are a bank circa 2008, they prefer to push the losses on the taxpayer when the risks don't pay off.
Card's demonization is the Left Wings version of the Dixie Chicks [non]controversy: Public person makes statement unrelated to their artistic works, and an idiotic public punishes them for it.
More like DC has a recent history of punishing creators for voicing unpopular opinions publicly, and some readers/shop owners felt that Card was getting special treatment.
He's probably permanently tuned into Channel 9. That exam will be on again soon.
LOL! Payroll taxes were decreased, then ... went up. But let's call the "went up" something other than "increase". Yeah, that's good. Words only mean what you say they mean.
GP is still correct. Raising taxes requires a bill and vote. Letting something expire is NOT the same as voting to increase taxes. Just because the result is the same doesn't mean the terminology is.
the end user must pay $35 to challenge "strikes" against them
Any chance they'll find a way to refund the time wasted appealing this garbage too? Or am I asking too much?
While I certainly fear the eventual potential for that becoming mandatory by the big insurers, I think we'll likely see it as mandatory for certain groups first (elderly, teenagers) before it hits everyone. Which I still feel is bullsh, to be perfectly honest.
In a sense, this practice is already taking place via certain insurance vendors that are offering in-car devices for tracking driving data. That's strictly opt-in. So the current mentality seems to respect your point.
Consumers would do well to pressure the manufacturers to adopt a similar practice.