No. This is a terrible practice, it's anti-competitive and needs to be stopped. A customer should not have to justify his actions to leave, particularly when the reasons are usually blatantly obvious.
I think if we agree on what critical thinking is, we probably would accept that it's not very easily taught. The best you can do is give students a database of knowledge, it's up to life, upbringing and circumstance to compel them use it correctly.
It's funny too, the people doing the hiring are frequently complaining about opposites: On one hand: Schools don't teach the right technical skills (i.e. practical skills). They're too focused on thinking, research, pure science. On the other: Schools don't teach enough thinking skills, they are too focused on practical concerns and memorization
If I were a school I'd just tune out and tell them to shove it.
Yes, you can also be: - a full time MBA humping a cube - a full time HR drone humping a cubicle - a full time financial analyst humping a cubicle - a full time scientist being humped by a cubicle - a full time engineer being humped by a soldering iron
All paths to which coding is the solution involves being on the wrong end of a bizarre sexual act.
What is lost in the article is that a Mathematics PhD or at least information science as part of a CS or EE course, is probably the ACTUAL skill that google would like. You can pick up Matlab if you have been using other tools to do the function, but it's a shitload harder to pick up the math and relevant algorithms, research and hive knowledge.
"Civilization" means being able to make death threats from the comfort of mom's basement, without fear of any serious retribution. Yes it's illegal and I have seen someone charged with a crime for it, but it ended up being a slap on the wrist. I'm not sure how "civilized" that is really.
I think there's a difference between using strong language on a person who demonstrably done something you don't agree with, versus death threats, continuous abuse, stalking or directing said vitriol against large groups people only related by race, gender, etc.
The wild west had a lot of advantages over "civilization", you did not have to suffer fools.
Hopefully (probably?) what he means is that the only taxes are on consumption.
The problem is still there. If you make $30k/yr almost all of your income goes to consumption. If you make $500k/yr, a good amount of your income is going to various forms of investment, savings and trust funds. You aren't "consuming". You will surely consume more, and more of that is luxury, but you hit a point where the incremental return on luxury items starts to wash compared to long term security.
They may have been amongst the highest paying in their discipline. I'm confident that $5k would have been a drop in the bucket for some of these guys.
This sort of thing needs to be punished as heavily as possible, if it is not, it will be seen as in the best fiduciary interests of shareholders TO do it, and risk being found out.
No, they're pretty consistent that they just don't want people to affect animals
I'd have more sympathy for them if they were PETP - People for the Ethical Treatment of People. A cause I can get behind is the "leave me the fuck alone" cause.
Well they would if the shooter was designed to apply, say, the character rotation as a delta versus as an absolute. That operation uses a lot of sin/cos, most games are designed such that the angle is stored, the delta updates the angle, and the rotation reapplied on update. Versus rotating the vertices based on the delta from the update, and saving the result (until the next update). You do the latter too much and eventually your object looks like poo. Mathematically, it's perfectly acceptable, but practically wrong.
I would test that theory first. I have a hunch some GPUs are going to take shortcuts with math that someone like the guy who wrote this article will object to.
It's just the usual groupthink that cliques like to propagate. There are tens of thousands of lines of new perl and ruby (not to mention python, tcl and javascript) being created in the engineering world every day. There's been no shift away from them, and in many cases they are integral parts of CAD tools. I have yet to work in a place where Perl wasn't an institution. I keep hearing that C is dying, obsolete, ancient, yet I would advise any child who wants to pursue CS to learn it first, and learn it well, that if you knew only one language that it should be C. It isn't going to "die" in my lifetime, and probably not my children's. It's an excellent language where pragmatism is advantageous (read everywhere, but primarily OS/Systems/embedded) .
The key thing here is that these languages are tools we use, but we do not define ourselves as "C Programmers" or "Perl Programmers". My title has something like "design verification" or "design engineer" or something in it, my resume lists C, perl, python and (gasp!) various assembly languages. I'm not hired because of those skills, but those skills definitely increase my chances of being looked at. I think if you say looking for a "Perl Programming" job, you'll strike out. But there's tons of jobs out there for which perl programming is a hugely valuable skill.
But if you want to chase trends, and you want to chase job req's... well I have no advice for you except that you're doing something fundamentally wrong anyway.
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No. This is a terrible practice, it's anti-competitive and needs to be stopped. A customer should not have to justify his actions to leave, particularly when the reasons are usually blatantly obvious.
I think if we agree on what critical thinking is, we probably would accept that it's not very easily taught. The best you can do is give students a database of knowledge, it's up to life, upbringing and circumstance to compel them use it correctly.
It's funny too, the people doing the hiring are frequently complaining about opposites:
On one hand: Schools don't teach the right technical skills (i.e. practical skills). They're too focused on thinking, research, pure science.
On the other: Schools don't teach enough thinking skills, they are too focused on practical concerns and memorization
If I were a school I'd just tune out and tell them to shove it.
Consumers are becoming aware that FTDI is breaking their stuff and will hopefully be replacing it for free...
Ironically isn't CBS the one that just launched the streaming service that you pay for, and still shows you ads?
+1 internets
Yes, you can also be:
- a full time MBA humping a cube
- a full time HR drone humping a cubicle
- a full time financial analyst humping a cubicle
- a full time scientist being humped by a cubicle
- a full time engineer being humped by a soldering iron
All paths to which coding is the solution involves being on the wrong end of a bizarre sexual act.
Also, easier to buy Sudafed (or Meth) from drug dealers than to get Sudafed from a pharmacy.
You should have no trouble getting a job that requires 5 years of Swift experience or 25 years of Java experience then.
What is lost in the article is that a Mathematics PhD or at least information science as part of a CS or EE course, is probably the ACTUAL skill that google would like. You can pick up Matlab if you have been using other tools to do the function, but it's a shitload harder to pick up the math and relevant algorithms, research and hive knowledge.
"Civilization" means being able to make death threats from the comfort of mom's basement, without fear of any serious retribution. Yes it's illegal and I have seen someone charged with a crime for it, but it ended up being a slap on the wrist. I'm not sure how "civilized" that is really.
Linus uses death threats?
I have seen him wish harm/death upon certain hardware designers at ARM (http://lkml.iu.edu//hypermail/linux/kernel/1309.1/00905.html).
That was probably a little over the top, although the problem he was referring to is infuriating.
I think there's a difference between using strong language on a person who demonstrably done something you don't agree with, versus death threats, continuous abuse, stalking or directing said vitriol against large groups people only related by race, gender, etc.
The wild west had a lot of advantages over "civilization", you did not have to suffer fools.
Hopefully (probably?) what he means is that the only taxes are on consumption.
The problem is still there. If you make $30k/yr almost all of your income goes to consumption. If you make $500k/yr, a good amount of your income is going to various forms of investment, savings and trust funds. You aren't "consuming". You will surely consume more, and more of that is luxury, but you hit a point where the incremental return on luxury items starts to wash compared to long term security.
Really? I think they lost far less than that.
They may have been amongst the highest paying in their discipline. I'm confident that $5k would have been a drop in the bucket for some of these guys.
This sort of thing needs to be punished as heavily as possible, if it is not, it will be seen as in the best fiduciary interests of shareholders TO do it, and risk being found out.
Hey now, market forces only work for the rich. They're not supposed to work for their employees!
There goes my massive MMO spider silk horde. Leave it to science to devalue my investments.
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Now to be honest that was something I yanked out of my ass, but I googled it and it's a real damn thing.
No, they're pretty consistent that they just don't want people to affect animals
I'd have more sympathy for them if they were PETP - People for the Ethical Treatment of People. A cause I can get behind is the "leave me the fuck alone" cause.
The standards are pretty low... you may as well.
Oh, and I am Young Earth Creationist.
In that case I think you confused your IQ with your SAT score?
This is a good thing. Pretty soon there will be no FBI. The office may exist, but they won't be able to STAFF it.
Well they would if the shooter was designed to apply, say, the character rotation as a delta versus as an absolute. That operation uses a lot of sin/cos, most games are designed such that the angle is stored, the delta updates the angle, and the rotation reapplied on update. Versus rotating the vertices based on the delta from the update, and saving the result (until the next update). You do the latter too much and eventually your object looks like poo. Mathematically, it's perfectly acceptable, but practically wrong.
I would test that theory first. I have a hunch some GPUs are going to take shortcuts with math that someone like the guy who wrote this article will object to.
I suspect those viewers are watching Ghost Hunters and happy with it. This is a show whose niche market is mostly disgusted with it.
It's just the usual groupthink that cliques like to propagate. There are tens of thousands of lines of new perl and ruby (not to mention python, tcl and javascript) being created in the engineering world every day. There's been no shift away from them, and in many cases they are integral parts of CAD tools. I have yet to work in a place where Perl wasn't an institution. I keep hearing that C is dying, obsolete, ancient, yet I would advise any child who wants to pursue CS to learn it first, and learn it well, that if you knew only one language that it should be C. It isn't going to "die" in my lifetime, and probably not my children's. It's an excellent language where pragmatism is advantageous (read everywhere, but primarily OS/Systems/embedded) .
The key thing here is that these languages are tools we use, but we do not define ourselves as "C Programmers" or "Perl Programmers". My title has something like "design verification" or "design engineer" or something in it, my resume lists C, perl, python and (gasp!) various assembly languages. I'm not hired because of those skills, but those skills definitely increase my chances of being looked at. I think if you say looking for a "Perl Programming" job, you'll strike out. But there's tons of jobs out there for which perl programming is a hugely valuable skill.
But if you want to chase trends, and you want to chase job req's... well I have no advice for you except that you're doing something fundamentally wrong anyway.