My professor, who is British, told us last night that a lawyer in the UK who becomes aware of a crime committed by a client is obligated to report it to the police.
I understand that spouting off without the least idea of what you're talking about is par for the course on Slashdot but, if you had made the slightest effort to contaminate your information-free environment by actually looking at the site, you'd see that it has a daily limit you can set.
Some of the most interesting science happening today and there's only 12 comments?
If only we could work climate change or the short-fingered vulgarian into the headline....
This doesn't seem too far-fetched given China's traditional hostility to freely-available information versus the U.S.'s scary degree of dependence on the Internet.
You are correct that the delivery environment is more different than the language used; similarly, different problem domains have far greater differences than do programming languages. In fact, as many have already noticed, most programming languages are extremely similar. From Fortran to Python, there's a very small difference if you're familiar with languages that are outliers: ones like Forth, Lisp, APL, J and K.
This is probably not unrelated to the fact that progress in programming languages has been glacial compared to progress in hardware.
I have pocket-sized notebooks (mostly "neat-bound", not spiral) going back to the '80s but have stopped taking many notes that way for the past couple of years. I use emacs if I'm at a desktop. For my phone, I do have Evernote and have used it a little but mostly I just e-mail myself notes. That way they're automatically "synched" and searchable. The notes in emacs get saved as part of my backups, so are also available and searchable.
Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld overrode the Pentagon's concerns about the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. We were repeatedly told the war would be over very quickly, a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would pay for the reconstruction of their country through oil revenues. We were also told we would be welcomed with open arms by the entire Iraqi community.
And as bad and stupid as all this was, Trump's current recruitment drive for ISIS trumps (ahem) even this. It seems that his demagoguery is an attempt to inflame his fraidy-cat supporters and help radical Islam by pushing the moderates toward them. They're so frightened that they're willing to abandon traditional American ideals like religious tolerance and justice and they're so stupid that they can't figure out that this is exactly the wrong thing to do in terms of the real-life consequences.
This is not to defend Clinton's arrogant refusal to follow the rules but to point out that when there's a choice between bad and worse, we have to choose bad.
A friend of mine was in the American South about 20 years ago with his girlfriend and, when they both ordered the same dish at a restaurant, his portion was much larger than hers. When they asked about it, the waitress told them that "the men around here expect a good-sized meal."
...use external libraries so you're not re-inventing the wheel but keep your own copy of those libraries. So, you end up with your own unique island of code, basically cut-and-paste writ large?
The main people yelling about the sky falling are the ones who think that moving away from a petroleum-based economy will "destroy modern civilization, kill off a large percentage of the world population and send us back to the Stone Age".
Here's a hint: even the start of the Industrial Revolution was a long way from the Stone Age.
Here's another hint: there has been a lot of discussion about how to fix it and several of these ideas - like conservation and alternative energy sources - while difficult, would clearly ameliorate the problem. Others that eschew such pie-in-the-sky ideas - like orbiting big reflecting (pie-tins?) or putting iron into the ocean to increase carbon sequestration by increasing the growth of plankton - are also somewhat plausible though the costs and side-effects may make them untenable.
There is no lack of ideas - what is lacking is political will.
Except that cities have higher productivity than non-urban areas and it seems mostly proportional to size and density: http://www.citylab.com/work/20... .
Not to mention that many of us enjoy the quality of life found in cities compared to suburban or rural areas - YMMV.
A number of fairly simple mathematical problems lend themselves also to visual representation, which many find appealing. For instance, start with building Pascal's triangle, then display it as an image by choosing some way to map numbers to colors. Once you've done this, similarly visualize the triangle modulus some different integers - as shown here: http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki... . Doing this while extending the triangle to very high numbers can lead to discussions about the limitations of floating-point representation and other topics.
Another project that can start simply and become as complex as you want to make it is something like diffusion-limited aggregation - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... - which also lends itself well to visualization and requires non-trivial array-handling.
Of course, the calculation and display of the Mandelbrot set also lends itself to any number of enhancements.
Not to mention his shrewdness in securitizing revenues from his songs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... . He got $55 million up front at the cost of ten years' revenue from his music. The revenues fell short but, based on what he was saying about the music business, he may have anticipated this.
So, you clearly don't understand the language well enough to post a coherent line of it but feel competent to comment on it?
WHOOSH! (The sound of the merits of APL passing well over his head)
So,
two plus three is much more readable than
2+3 ?
Maybe if you never learned basic arithmetic.
For those of us with limited short-term memory - which would be all of us - who have bothered to learn a notation, terseness allows us to hold more complex expressions in our working memory. Clearly you've never progressed beyond very simple thoughts.
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The road to Hell is paved with good intentions...
As long as they hang somehow...
If you don't like the conclusion, attack the study.
I understand that spouting off without the least idea of what you're talking about is par for the course on Slashdot but, if you had made the slightest effort to contaminate your information-free environment by actually looking at the site, you'd see that it has a daily limit you can set.
Apparently, by mom.
Some of the most interesting science happening today and there's only 12 comments? If only we could work climate change or the short-fingered vulgarian into the headline....
This doesn't seem too far-fetched given China's traditional hostility to freely-available information versus the U.S.'s scary degree of dependence on the Internet.
wget -O NYPost20160731_front9.jpg https://thenypost.files.wordpr...
You are correct that the delivery environment is more different than the language used; similarly, different problem domains have far greater differences than do programming languages. In fact, as many have already noticed, most programming languages are extremely similar. From Fortran to Python, there's a very small difference if you're familiar with languages that are outliers: ones like Forth, Lisp, APL, J and K.
This is probably not unrelated to the fact that progress in programming languages has been glacial compared to progress in hardware.
I have pocket-sized notebooks (mostly "neat-bound", not spiral) going back to the '80s but have stopped taking many notes that way for the past couple of years. I use emacs if I'm at a desktop. For my phone, I do have Evernote and have used it a little but mostly I just e-mail myself notes. That way they're automatically "synched" and searchable. The notes in emacs get saved as part of my backups, so are also available and searchable.
Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld overrode the Pentagon's concerns about the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. We were repeatedly told the war would be over very quickly, a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would pay for the reconstruction of their country through oil revenues. We were also told we would be welcomed with open arms by the entire Iraqi community.
And as bad and stupid as all this was, Trump's current recruitment drive for ISIS trumps (ahem) even this. It seems that his demagoguery is an attempt to inflame his fraidy-cat supporters and help radical Islam by pushing the moderates toward them. They're so frightened that they're willing to abandon traditional American ideals like religious tolerance and justice and they're so stupid that they can't figure out that this is exactly the wrong thing to do in terms of the real-life consequences.
This is not to defend Clinton's arrogant refusal to follow the rules but to point out that when there's a choice between bad and worse, we have to choose bad.
4 years ago I could buy a lbs of beef for $1.99, it's around $5.99-7.30lbs these days.
Maybe you're not a very good shopper. The actual data - http://www.indexmundi.com/comm... or http://www.ers.usda.gov/datafi... - disagrees with your personal experience.
$10 would be their "street value" after the thief chopped them up and "extended" them with some non-sandwich material.
A friend of mine was in the American South about 20 years ago with his girlfriend and, when they both ordered the same dish at a restaurant, his portion was much larger than hers. When they asked about it, the waitress told them that "the men around here expect a good-sized meal."
...use external libraries so you're not re-inventing the wheel but keep your own copy of those libraries. So, you end up with your own unique island of code, basically cut-and-paste writ large?
Here's a hint: even the start of the Industrial Revolution was a long way from the Stone Age.
Here's another hint: there has been a lot of discussion about how to fix it and several of these ideas - like conservation and alternative energy sources - while difficult, would clearly ameliorate the problem. Others that eschew such pie-in-the-sky ideas - like orbiting big reflecting (pie-tins?) or putting iron into the ocean to increase carbon sequestration by increasing the growth of plankton - are also somewhat plausible though the costs and side-effects may make them untenable.
There is no lack of ideas - what is lacking is political will.
"..I am fluent in more then 1 language and an engineer..." Evidently not.
Except that cities have higher productivity than non-urban areas and it seems mostly proportional to size and density: http://www.citylab.com/work/20... . Not to mention that many of us enjoy the quality of life found in cities compared to suburban or rural areas - YMMV.
A number of fairly simple mathematical problems lend themselves also to visual representation, which many find appealing. For instance, start with building Pascal's triangle, then display it as an image by choosing some way to map numbers to colors. Once you've done this, similarly visualize the triangle modulus some different integers - as shown here: http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki... . Doing this while extending the triangle to very high numbers can lead to discussions about the limitations of floating-point representation and other topics.
Another project that can start simply and become as complex as you want to make it is something like diffusion-limited aggregation - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... - which also lends itself well to visualization and requires non-trivial array-handling.
Of course, the calculation and display of the Mandelbrot set also lends itself to any number of enhancements.
Not to mention his shrewdness in securitizing revenues from his songs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... . He got $55 million up front at the cost of ten years' revenue from his music. The revenues fell short but, based on what he was saying about the music business, he may have anticipated this.
You should always choose a carpenter for working with wood.
So, you clearly don't understand the language well enough to post a coherent line of it but feel competent to comment on it? WHOOSH! (The sound of the merits of APL passing well over his head)
I particularly liked Anoint Yourself with Oil - For Radiant Health and The Diamond Color Meditation - Color Pathway to the Soul.
So,
two plus three
is much more readable than
2+3
?
Maybe if you never learned basic arithmetic.
For those of us with limited short-term memory - which would be all of us - who have bothered to learn a notation, terseness allows us to hold more complex expressions in our working memory. Clearly you've never progressed beyond very simple thoughts.
Thank you. Now that we've seen the full quote, we know who's looney.