I can only be happy when humans are replaced by machines to do repetitive, menial and hazardous tasks. In the future, nobody will have to do things like that. People will enjoy a comfortable life with lots of leisure and plenty of time to do things that make them fulfilled, instead of slaving for 16 hours a day.
Quite often I get the task of being the mentor of interns or newbies, many of them completely clueless. I also have given basic programming training for college students, usually C/C++ and Java.
I always tell them to code using a text editor with syntax highlighting and then compile using the command line (in Windows, but preferably Linux).
That way they can start building up knowledge about how the whole thing works from the ground up. If people start with a nice and cozy IDE they tend to think it's all magic going on. And then, when they need to solve any problem, they have no idea where the files are, their formats, their contents, etc.
After getting acquainted with the bloody guts of the whole thing, they can start using tools to make it easier and faster. Using a good IDE has nothing wrong about it, if you really know what's going on under the hood. Magical thinking is an enemy of good engineering.
Go home? So more terror attacks can be sponsored more easily?
They have hit American embassies (latest embassy attack not the same organization IIRC), American ships, American buildings, etc. They will not stop of their own accord
The terrorists are the evil fanatic scum you trained, armed and financed. Feed a rattlesnake, it'll bite you back eventually.
Should America just suck it up and withdraw entirely from the international scene? How would that work? Which country would fill the power vacuum? Would that country behave better than America has? They all seem to be rather brutish when they have power, look at England, Spain, Portugal, the Dutch, China, Persia, Mesopotamia, Egypt, any major power at all throughout all of history.
Why should any single nation dominate the world? You mentioned a few empires that existed, and they were all hateful. Maybe the time of empires is gone, at long last.
But the sheriff's feet may be of a different length from the observer's. Who is right, then?
Measuring in dicks may work. The sheriff would mark any arbitrary distance and the observer would be too ashamed of claiming it to be less than the sheriff said it was.
You can keep your counterfeit money. We don't want it. And what other resources are you talking about? Your GMO shit food is illegal here. We import all our oil and gas from Africa.
So, are you talking about Coca Cola? You can keep that too, it tastes like shit and makes people fat.
Please spare me your bullshit. The Communist government in Afghanistan didn't kill millions of people. You just needed to annoy the Russians and then found the perfect allies in a bunch of fanatic cave men that were butt-hurt because the Communists were doing evil things like educating women. I'm not even saying the Commies were good, I'm just saying the Mujaheddin and their consequences (Al Qaeda and the Talibans) were certainly worse, as anyone can obviously see.
The US couldn't care less about the the welfare of Afghanis or anybody else. It was all about pushing for the highest short-term gain disregarding any consequences. A thing the US do repeatedly, with terrible results, and never seem to learn anything. You get in bed with all terrorists and dictators every time it suits you pesky immediate interests. And then complain when they bite you back in the ass. And then use it as an excuse for more wars.
Keep spending all your (loaned) money creating your shiny toys of war instead of caring for your people. Your empire will come crumbling down like all others have done before.
This is public key cryptography we're talking about. 512 bit is not plenty, because it allows you to break the key and then pose as the legitimate private key owner.
It would only be OK if this was a one-time key, and that's not the case.
The problem is that there are organizations dedicated to preventing that from happening. You know, marching into a school, dragging the teacher out into the town square, and shooting her in the head for... teaching. Especially for teaching girls how to read and write. So, you know those guys, half a dozen of them riding around in the back of a pickup truck with AK47s?
You mean the guys that were "freedom fighters" when Afghanistan had a Communist government? The same guys you trained, armed and financed to overthrow said government that the US happened to dislike?
Maybe if you stop giving arms and money to batshit insane fanatics you won't have to spend all that money fighting them a decade or two later.
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Yeah, because guys like you will only mate regardless of species.
I can only be happy when humans are replaced by machines to do repetitive, menial and hazardous tasks. In the future, nobody will have to do things like that. People will enjoy a comfortable life with lots of leisure and plenty of time to do things that make them fulfilled, instead of slaving for 16 hours a day.
If you want everything to be nice and easy all the time, don't be a geek. Go flip burgers, that's pretty easy.
Of course, and wipe their asses too, why not?
WTF?
The round trip time is negligible. Setting up the project is trickier without an IDE, but you only have to do that once.
I train engineers, not artists.
Depending on what you're aiming for, this might be your problem.
When did I exactly said I had a problem?
Please explain to me: In what way I'm throwing them in the deep end and taking away their useful tools?
According to the Wikipedia page: "It is designed to introduce programming to artists and other newcomers unfamiliar with software development".
I train engineers, not artists.
Quite often I get the task of being the mentor of interns or newbies, many of them completely clueless. I also have given basic programming training for college students, usually C/C++ and Java.
I always tell them to code using a text editor with syntax highlighting and then compile using the command line (in Windows, but preferably Linux).
That way they can start building up knowledge about how the whole thing works from the ground up. If people start with a nice and cozy IDE they tend to think it's all magic going on. And then, when they need to solve any problem, they have no idea where the files are, their formats, their contents, etc.
After getting acquainted with the bloody guts of the whole thing, they can start using tools to make it easier and faster. Using a good IDE has nothing wrong about it, if you really know what's going on under the hood. Magical thinking is an enemy of good engineering.
Whooooooooosh!
If not, this is simply a theory and tends to be accepted the most.
Accepted by whom?
Care to back you allegations with some data? I call bullshit.
Godz-eel-a?
Go home? So more terror attacks can be sponsored more easily? They have hit American embassies (latest embassy attack not the same organization IIRC), American ships, American buildings, etc. They will not stop of their own accord
The terrorists are the evil fanatic scum you trained, armed and financed. Feed a rattlesnake, it'll bite you back eventually.
Should America just suck it up and withdraw entirely from the international scene? How would that work? Which country would fill the power vacuum? Would that country behave better than America has? They all seem to be rather brutish when they have power, look at England, Spain, Portugal, the Dutch, China, Persia, Mesopotamia, Egypt, any major power at all throughout all of history.
Why should any single nation dominate the world? You mentioned a few empires that existed, and they were all hateful. Maybe the time of empires is gone, at long last.
The Roman Empire ended more than 5 centuries ago. That unit is soooo 15th century!
don't you have feet? How do you manage to walk?
Well, I use my metres, of course!
I dont see one good solution here.
How about going home?
I was born in February, 12th of –2,147,483,648. At least that's what my tax return web page says.
But the sheriff's feet may be of a different length from the observer's. Who is right, then?
Measuring in dicks may work. The sheriff would mark any arbitrary distance and the observer would be too ashamed of claiming it to be less than the sheriff said it was.
But, but, how will the international observers comply to these demand? They don't know how much 100 feet is!
You can keep your counterfeit money. We don't want it. And what other resources are you talking about? Your GMO shit food is illegal here. We import all our oil and gas from Africa.
So, are you talking about Coca Cola? You can keep that too, it tastes like shit and makes people fat.
Please spare me your bullshit. The Communist government in Afghanistan didn't kill millions of people. You just needed to annoy the Russians and then found the perfect allies in a bunch of fanatic cave men that were butt-hurt because the Communists were doing evil things like educating women. I'm not even saying the Commies were good, I'm just saying the Mujaheddin and their consequences (Al Qaeda and the Talibans) were certainly worse, as anyone can obviously see.
The US couldn't care less about the the welfare of Afghanis or anybody else. It was all about pushing for the highest short-term gain disregarding any consequences. A thing the US do repeatedly, with terrible results, and never seem to learn anything. You get in bed with all terrorists and dictators every time it suits you pesky immediate interests. And then complain when they bite you back in the ass. And then use it as an excuse for more wars.
Keep spending all your (loaned) money creating your shiny toys of war instead of caring for your people. Your empire will come crumbling down like all others have done before.
This is public key cryptography we're talking about. 512 bit is not plenty, because it allows you to break the key and then pose as the legitimate private key owner.
It would only be OK if this was a one-time key, and that's not the case.
The problem is that there are organizations dedicated to preventing that from happening. You know, marching into a school, dragging the teacher out into the town square, and shooting her in the head for ... teaching. Especially for teaching girls how to read and write. So, you know those guys, half a dozen of them riding around in the back of a pickup truck with AK47s?
You mean the guys that were "freedom fighters" when Afghanistan had a Communist government? The same guys you trained, armed and financed to overthrow said government that the US happened to dislike?
Maybe if you stop giving arms and money to batshit insane fanatics you won't have to spend all that money fighting them a decade or two later.