I think a distinction should be made between a programmer and a *good* programmer.
My CS program had a number of *really* smart kids - 1600 SAT scores and the like - but many of them really struggled at the concepts and barely made it through the curriculum.
I think a good programmer takes
1. Creativity to think about problems from different angles
2. Drive to hunker down and get through hard problems (be it starting a new language, that pesky compile error, starting a large project from scratch).
3. I'm sure fellow slashdotters can think of many more
my school, UIC, used aix unix with its own mail setup (no Exchange) when i was there. the admins never had problems like this (i know them personally).
Bad programmers move on to do other things. A guy may suck at programming and be perfectly fine in IT doing maintenance, managerial duties, or in an over priced big box electronics store selling some new electronic pieces of shit.
I was in this same dilemma and I chose to stay for an M.S. in CS. I was near the top of my undergrad class but felt I could get a 'leg up' on even experienced people out there with the higher degree. What I found was that even with a little bump in pay the loss of 2 years of work experience was near detrimental and humbling.
The professional work environment is a much stricter and difficult place to fit in. Learning how the business works *besides* just knowing how to code means more.
I recommend he go into the workforce as soon as possible. If he has time after work to finish an MS then that could be an option. But don't discount real-work experience for a few more advanced classes and another 10k starting salary. It won't mean much when your peers have 2 years on you and already covered that 10k in bonuses and salary (and now real experience).
I'm sure the board of ed will love the cost of a Lego Mindstorms set for every student in the school. Also, if you need Legos to teach programming then you're doing something wrong.
Lenovo charges for the downgrade as well. But they justify it by letting you 'upgrade' back to Vista after you've downgraded, if you should choose to upgrade at a later time. Them giving you that 'option' will cost you $70 a pop.
Doubt it. But that reminds me of the time my freshmen year when I leaned over to the indian fella next to me with lastname Patel and said "would you happen to be related to so-and-so Patel from my highschool?".
China on top of the USA economically? The amount of poverty in urban and rural areas in China is astounding. And with the looming recession and intake of chinese exports already drying up I highly doubt their economy will look like anything other than "developing nation" status for a long time.
You only read about the rich in china and the communist govt's facade of "how good things have become" to the rest of the world.
Did you watch too much of the farce of an olympics this year to think that everything is fine and dandy in China? Probably. Wake up.
See? The United States censors just as much information as China. Us working Americans are all slaves, wake up and realize it.
This was an act of private entities (the IOC, Google), not from the US Gov't.
China is an authoritarian state suppressing its people through media, speech, protest crack-downs, mobility, and any other means to keep Mao's dream in power.
Maybe they shouldn't have named the video "Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony".
Its possible they just flagged the video purely on the name and not content.
Its not so much the disposing of bags i'm concerned of, rather the materials and process and the overall hit on the environment for producing the bags.
I was once on an interview where the interviewer showed me some stuff in OpenVMS. Apparently the file system has built-in change tracking of files. Whenever you saved a file the previous versioin got 'versioned'.
I'm not an openvms export so I can't verify it. Seemed interesting.
If you've RTFA you'd notice that the expected application is for recommendations to potential buyers of books. But i'm also skeptical on that front too...
can't remember airline it was but I do remember seeing structured lines with signs for each row outside of the gate door. Kinda looked like cattle pens. It was at O'Hare Aiport. I've found that the easiest way for me to get on (without people trying to get by me or hitting me with their bags, no rushing me) is to get to the back of the line and then stand at the main plane door until they're about to close. Then i just comfortably walk to my seat without people behind me rushing me. Its very calming.
Once all the greed comes out, how will the EFF get that information into Joe-citizen's hands in time for elections and voting (and not just the tech-community and other usual suspects).
I set up a domain and website for my father's small business. Immediately after the domain went 'live' and propogated he received all sorts of spam to the email address listed in WHOIS. It essentially turned him off from the whole idea of this 'email thing' that he was being introduced to at the same time. After removing the information he still gets spam from all sorts sites even though he never used the email address (no signups, no subscriptions anywhere).
I'm all for this proposal.
This is certainly relevant and i'm sure everyone has these thoughts too especially with the whole net neutrality thing. But lets consider the scenario that most everything goes online.. all merchants of all types move into the online market place.
This is where I think taxing internet goods may come in handy. The government will see ISPs as a roadblock for consumers to get into the market place and ability to pay sales tax. Hopefully they'll be in their right mind and regulate ISP pricing (good or bad considering history of state-regulated utilities). Or possibly offer tax-free payment of ISP charges (still probably need to regulate here so ISPs don't artificially bump prices up with consumer's having new cash lying around).
Obviously we're weighing the cost of paying ISPs more money with the cost of paying sales tax on everything we buy on the net. But if the govt' doesn't get its sales tax from goods then they're going to raise it somewhere else (income tax, gas, importing, etc).
I'm certainly no economist and i'm sure there are holes here. What do you think?
Any trained economist will tell you that markets that rise fast fall fast. Its the same thing thats going on in China right now. The economy is exploding at a rate that investors feel is too risky and too volatile. Investors will begin to scale back their positions in the market and this will drive others to scale back as well.
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I think a distinction should be made between a programmer and a *good* programmer. My CS program had a number of *really* smart kids - 1600 SAT scores and the like - but many of them really struggled at the concepts and barely made it through the curriculum. I think a good programmer takes 1. Creativity to think about problems from different angles 2. Drive to hunker down and get through hard problems (be it starting a new language, that pesky compile error, starting a large project from scratch). 3. I'm sure fellow slashdotters can think of many more
my school, UIC, used aix unix with its own mail setup (no Exchange) when i was there. the admins never had problems like this (i know them personally).
Bad programmers move on to do other things. A guy may suck at programming and be perfectly fine in IT doing maintenance, managerial duties, or in an over priced big box electronics store selling some new electronic pieces of shit.
There, fixed that for you.
I was in this same dilemma and I chose to stay for an M.S. in CS. I was near the top of my undergrad class but felt I could get a 'leg up' on even experienced people out there with the higher degree. What I found was that even with a little bump in pay the loss of 2 years of work experience was near detrimental and humbling.
The professional work environment is a much stricter and difficult place to fit in. Learning how the business works *besides* just knowing how to code means more.
I recommend he go into the workforce as soon as possible. If he has time after work to finish an MS then that could be an option. But don't discount real-work experience for a few more advanced classes and another 10k starting salary. It won't mean much when your peers have 2 years on you and already covered that 10k in bonuses and salary (and now real experience).
I'm sure the board of ed will love the cost of a Lego Mindstorms set for every student in the school.
Also, if you need Legos to teach programming then you're doing something wrong.
had to be said.
This one from a guy who left Bloomberg L.P. has been getting office attention for the better part of a year
Corporate Rapper Jerel Smith Quits Bloomberg, Cuts Down Enemies
http://www.blog.joelx.com/corporate-rapper-jerel-smith-quits/1033/
Lenovo charges for the downgrade as well. But they justify it by letting you 'upgrade' back to Vista after you've downgraded, if you should choose to upgrade at a later time. Them giving you that 'option' will cost you $70 a pop.
You should put your description on the Wikipedia page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profile-guided_optimization .
The current one is kind of lacking
I doubt you'll find any such reports as Bush leaves and Obama's staffers come in.
Thats probably due to the fact that Obama didn't steal the election, and Bush did.
most of the albums i've downloaded lately are ones i bought years ago and lost
Doubt it. But that reminds me of the time my freshmen year when I leaned over to the indian fella next to me with lastname Patel and said "would you happen to be related to so-and-so Patel from my highschool?".
He got a good laugh, and me a quick lesson.
China on top of the USA economically? The amount of poverty in urban and rural areas in China is astounding. And with the looming recession and intake of chinese exports already drying up I highly doubt their economy will look like anything other than "developing nation" status for a long time.
You only read about the rich in china and the communist govt's facade of "how good things have become" to the rest of the world.
Did you watch too much of the farce of an olympics this year to think that everything is fine and dandy in China? Probably. Wake up.
Bending over backwards for the Chinese since 2004. Or whenever it was. I'm not looking it up.
Google it, shouldn't take that long..
See? The United States censors just as much information as China. Us working Americans are all slaves, wake up and realize it.
This was an act of private entities (the IOC, Google), not from the US Gov't.
China is an authoritarian state suppressing its people through media, speech, protest crack-downs, mobility, and any other means to keep Mao's dream in power.
Maybe they shouldn't have named the video "Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony". Its possible they just flagged the video purely on the name and not content.
Its not so much the disposing of bags i'm concerned of, rather the materials and process and the overall hit on the environment for producing the bags.
goatse!
I was once on an interview where the interviewer showed me some stuff in OpenVMS. Apparently the file system has built-in change tracking of files. Whenever you saved a file the previous versioin got 'versioned'. I'm not an openvms export so I can't verify it. Seemed interesting.
If you've RTFA you'd notice that the expected application is for recommendations to potential buyers of books. But i'm also skeptical on that front too...
can't remember airline it was but I do remember seeing structured lines with signs for each row outside of the gate door. Kinda looked like cattle pens. It was at O'Hare Aiport. I've found that the easiest way for me to get on (without people trying to get by me or hitting me with their bags, no rushing me) is to get to the back of the line and then stand at the main plane door until they're about to close. Then i just comfortably walk to my seat without people behind me rushing me. Its very calming.
Once all the greed comes out, how will the EFF get that information into Joe-citizen's hands in time for elections and voting (and not just the tech-community and other usual suspects).
I set up a domain and website for my father's small business. Immediately after the domain went 'live' and propogated he received all sorts of spam to the email address listed in WHOIS. It essentially turned him off from the whole idea of this 'email thing' that he was being introduced to at the same time. After removing the information he still gets spam from all sorts sites even though he never used the email address (no signups, no subscriptions anywhere).
I'm all for this proposal.
This is certainly relevant and i'm sure everyone has these thoughts too especially with the whole net neutrality thing. But lets consider the scenario that most everything goes online.. all merchants of all types move into the online market place.
This is where I think taxing internet goods may come in handy. The government will see ISPs as a roadblock for consumers to get into the market place and ability to pay sales tax. Hopefully they'll be in their right mind and regulate ISP pricing (good or bad considering history of state-regulated utilities). Or possibly offer tax-free payment of ISP charges (still probably need to regulate here so ISPs don't artificially bump prices up with consumer's having new cash lying around).
Obviously we're weighing the cost of paying ISPs more money with the cost of paying sales tax on everything we buy on the net. But if the govt' doesn't get its sales tax from goods then they're going to raise it somewhere else (income tax, gas, importing, etc).
I'm certainly no economist and i'm sure there are holes here. What do you think?
Any trained economist will tell you that markets that rise fast fall fast.
Its the same thing thats going on in China right now. The economy is exploding at a rate that investors feel is too risky and too volatile. Investors will begin to scale back their positions in the market and this will drive others to scale back as well.