This is actually really cool since you can interact with the Plan 9 system and do all kinds of crazy stuff. The big question will be how much can we get into that part. Those of you that are wondering what kind of stuff, you could force the FS to only see files as lowercase, you could have it be case insensitive, you could have if be case sensitive on match and insensitive otherwise, mount remote plan 9 filesystems (good ol' grid computing). It could be a MUCH bigger deal than it seems.
Proof: Linux used all over the place, BSD used for Apple. Anything that falls into the tools category really belongs under GPL. Greater good and all that. If you want your work to be able to be taken improved and sold without any of the benefits coming back to you, fine, but the reason that GNU/Linux won is because anything you wanted to let out of in-house use had to go back out.
CSS 3 Web Fonts is already a done deal, so is there some real reason we need yet another way to get fonts to a user? If the font won't work on their browser, fall back to browser default, wow, it won't look as purdy, boo-hoo.
Check out the current beta for Opera, on 64 bit flash is CPU intensive, but it really doesn't crash anymore (to many pages with flash at once may prove fatal though)
I've got the gf's 3 kids, the middle one is an aspergers kid, he's 13. I have a hard time dealing with people, always have 5'9" 127 lbs. His difficulties are mind boggling. Eric Raymond (The Cathedral and the Bazaar) has a how to on dealing with social interactions for nerds. It's pretty good.
The assholes do get the girls, aggressiveness (not to drastic) is an important trait for males, dealing with other males, and as a show of strength for women, it is ridiculous, but true.
Most of my friends are from high school. I'm ingratiating enough to get social interactions and have buddies in college (I'm 35 going to U of Mich) but picking up women has always been a problem. I have picked them up on occasion, but the normal stories that folks tell, flirting and all are still beyond me. I've found being pleasant and having interesting info (from slashdot and IEEE mags, pravda.ru, etc.) helps to get me into conversations. Traveling and having the ability to tell people about the places I've been is useful too.
On the other hand I have spent weeks and moths without talking to anyone outside of work, and even weeks when I wasn't working not talking to anyone. It never bothered me, but I did have a cat to keep me company.
Watch some T.V. high neilson rated shows, so you can get in the conversation about current events such as they are (most people don't care about the world outside of their own very local interest)
The show House had a brilliant insight in season 1 or 2, House (The head doctor with a aspergers-ish personality) tells the hot assistant doctor that he hired her because she was gorgeous. The after a pause explains it's because she didn't need to do the hard work of becoming a doctor to have the easy life, because she could have been a model, and she did anyway, which shows her drive.
The sad truth is that most good looking people are also fairly smart, good genetics seem to be blessed on some. The slightly smarter are the MBA type folk, and next are engineers, finally the super smart are usually the scientist and the mathematicians. That is why the news stories of the hot math teacher decides to take home the 15 year old boy. She's in the same group, except she is hot, and has had to deal with asshole guys, and doesn't like it. She's just as socially inept.
I don't really know where I'm going with this, but take heart, you are not alone, it's not hopeless, but it's not easy either.
One last thought, if you are in a metro area, take an acting class, learn how to fake confidence and learn some of the social stuff from those people, they will be better at being able to spot and explain those deficiencies than most.
Good luck.
I'm ex military, and one of the first things you are taught is that it is your responsibility to uphold the Constitution first and foremost. There are such things as illegal orders and it is your responsibility to report violations. Tamm is in a situation to know the legality and tried going through the proper channels. He has done nothing criminal. I would have liked to have seen Obama mark him for attorney general, and I hope Obama lets it go to court and get a ruling that protecting the constitution is the most important part of the oath you take when becoming a fed of any sort. And grants a pardon if the judge is a dumb @$$.
Python has all three paradigms built in, for the order; functional programming should be taught first because it's so foreign to how we think naturally, any extra stuff in your brain beforehand will make it harder to learn.
OO next, because it's the method of choice for most companies.
Procedural next because it will be applicable to their next few courses (Data structures, assembley)
Make sure you teach the Computer SCIENCE part during it all, not just "Here's list comprehensions and lambda functions and this is how you use them"
They need to know wht they are for, how to get them to do something useful, and when it's really the worst tool for the job (It's really good to identify the best tool, but it's imperative to recognize when your using the worst)
If the schools had more time for teching the programming part and didn't have requirements that suck up all of the CS time with exteranious bull, I'd say do LISP, Earlang, Prolog, C/C++, Java, Python,in that order.Get datastructures after they can program (second year) and assmebler. Work on the stuff that is uncomfortable first, otherwise they will want to stay with what they learned first. I taught myself Python first, and I love the language (I did BASIC back in the 80's). But I Taught mysef C next because I couldn't grock the functional languages, I can get them to do stuff, but I'll never reach for them first for anything because they aren't taught and they aren't something you can just apply to any problem at hand.
Java and C# are painful for me, and I need a refrence next to me to do anything useful (Hell, I keep my Bjarn book handy so I can get strings to do what I want), but the libraries are huge, and not the first thing you want the students to work with.
Datastructures should be taught concurrently with the OO languages, because the basic job of programming should be understood beforehand. They compliment nicely and you need both before you start on the design patterns stuff.
That is just the oppinion of a humble self-taught 34 year old student at a fairly prestigious UofM (I'll leave the M as a guess) that is rather dissapointed with the curriculum at that school.
More theory and branching out past what the job market is looking for is necassary for a well rounded education in CS. Networking is important, but not moreso than learning how to solve a problem in different ways and being able to come at a problem from a different angle when you get stuck.
Damnit, I couldn't figure it out so I ran it. Now I can't use my computer til I get home to hard reboot.
For those that don't get it (if I'm wrong someone correct me)
make a function called ":"
the body of the function is, call the function, and then run the function it the background.
so recursivly opens shells till out of memory. I thought killall bash was a good idea, not so much, couldn't figure out how to get it to stop and now can't ssh into the box.:-(
very slick, should have put up a warning though.
It's a lot lighter weight than FF and has everything built in including IRC and BT, spell check uses gnu-aspell, and the email client rocks.
Tabs and mouse getures came from it, so whats not to love.
If you haven't used it check it out. If you have, but not for a while, do yourself a favor and see how it is now.
Editpadpro would be a good place to start, it has Multi backup optins, and hidden history (creates a hidden __history folder and puts backup there), you can add a tool like svn/cvs with no pain. It has a tool option where you can make your own, very simple.
If your looking at buying some kind of bulk, I'm willing to bet that Jan would add some kind of version control to the binary (database, cvs interface, local server, roll his own), or add the tool to your build.
Download EditPadLight and open help, go to the index tab, and double click.bak (the first thing), it will take you to the page you want to see if it does what you want.
Just a happy EditPadPro owner (for when I have to be on windows)
Not only Asimov, but I have to belive that this falls out of Gineva convention teritory, but we have stopped worring about that with Git'mo anyway, aww hell Zieg heil Bush.
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No, the hack part comes in for using it in non-intuitive ways and tools you may not of heard of and probly never used, such as using knoppix to download Windows patches, collecting forensic dadta (how often have you used grave-robber?), and cloning a hard drive? The most unfortunate thing about the book is the name, this is the book that should have been titled "Linux Hacks". Granted, the book isn't really a hack book, but unless you are a *nix guru and have had to do every sysy admin task in existance, there are probly a few things in here you never thought of, and some you may have thought of but didn't know how to do and they wern't quite worth doing the research for. I'd say buy it for anyone other than the folks who have been using *nix since '90
Time for some OLD trivia, from a question asked on the Nickelodion gameshow Double Dare.
"Which are the only two characters that will be in all 7 Star Wars Movies?"
Ans: R2D2 and C3P0
So yes there has always been an expectation of 7 movise, just long lost trivia.
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This is actually really cool since you can interact with the Plan 9 system and do all kinds of crazy stuff. The big question will be how much can we get into that part.
Those of you that are wondering what kind of stuff, you could force the FS to only see files as lowercase, you could have it be case insensitive, you could have if be case sensitive on match and insensitive otherwise, mount remote plan 9 filesystems (good ol' grid computing). It could be a MUCH bigger deal than it seems.
https://dev.opera.com/articles...
Proof: Linux used all over the place, BSD used for Apple.
Anything that falls into the tools category really belongs under GPL. Greater good and all that. If you want your work to be able to be taken improved and sold without any of the benefits coming back to you, fine, but the reason that GNU/Linux won is because anything you wanted to let out of in-house use had to go back out.
So a toy company is the number 2 company because people want to be different, just like everyone else.
Introducing Opera Face Gestures
CSS 3 Web Fonts is already a done deal, so is there some real reason we need yet another way to get fonts to a user? If the font won't work on their browser, fall back to browser default, wow, it won't look as purdy, boo-hoo.
Check out the current beta for Opera, on 64 bit flash is CPU intensive, but it really doesn't crash anymore (to many pages with flash at once may prove fatal though)
http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2009/08/07/whats-with-the-red-dots-on-the-tabs
Ever heard of Haliburton?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10168642-38.html RIAA, MPAA, Time Warner, et al.
I've got the gf's 3 kids, the middle one is an aspergers kid, he's 13. I have a hard time dealing with people, always have 5'9" 127 lbs. His difficulties are mind boggling. Eric Raymond (The Cathedral and the Bazaar) has a how to on dealing with social interactions for nerds. It's pretty good.
The assholes do get the girls, aggressiveness (not to drastic) is an important trait for males, dealing with other males, and as a show of strength for women, it is ridiculous, but true. Most of my friends are from high school. I'm ingratiating enough to get social interactions and have buddies in college (I'm 35 going to U of Mich) but picking up women has always been a problem. I have picked them up on occasion, but the normal stories that folks tell, flirting and all are still beyond me. I've found being pleasant and having interesting info (from slashdot and IEEE mags, pravda.ru, etc.) helps to get me into conversations. Traveling and having the ability to tell people about the places I've been is useful too. On the other hand I have spent weeks and moths without talking to anyone outside of work, and even weeks when I wasn't working not talking to anyone. It never bothered me, but I did have a cat to keep me company.
Watch some T.V. high neilson rated shows, so you can get in the conversation about current events such as they are (most people don't care about the world outside of their own very local interest)
The show House had a brilliant insight in season 1 or 2, House (The head doctor with a aspergers-ish personality) tells the hot assistant doctor that he hired her because she was gorgeous. The after a pause explains it's because she didn't need to do the hard work of becoming a doctor to have the easy life, because she could have been a model, and she did anyway, which shows her drive.
The sad truth is that most good looking people are also fairly smart, good genetics seem to be blessed on some. The slightly smarter are the MBA type folk, and next are engineers, finally the super smart are usually the scientist and the mathematicians. That is why the news stories of the hot math teacher decides to take home the 15 year old boy. She's in the same group, except she is hot, and has had to deal with asshole guys, and doesn't like it. She's just as socially inept.
I don't really know where I'm going with this, but take heart, you are not alone, it's not hopeless, but it's not easy either.
One last thought, if you are in a metro area, take an acting class, learn how to fake confidence and learn some of the social stuff from those people, they will be better at being able to spot and explain those deficiencies than most.
Good luck.
I'm ex military, and one of the first things you are taught is that it is your responsibility to uphold the Constitution first and foremost. There are such things as illegal orders and it is your responsibility to report violations. Tamm is in a situation to know the legality and tried going through the proper channels. He has done nothing criminal. I would have liked to have seen Obama mark him for attorney general, and I hope Obama lets it go to court and get a ruling that protecting the constitution is the most important part of the oath you take when becoming a fed of any sort. And grants a pardon if the judge is a dumb @$$.
Python has all three paradigms built in, for the order; functional programming should be taught first because it's so foreign to how we think naturally, any extra stuff in your brain beforehand will make it harder to learn. OO next, because it's the method of choice for most companies. Procedural next because it will be applicable to their next few courses (Data structures, assembley) Make sure you teach the Computer SCIENCE part during it all, not just "Here's list comprehensions and lambda functions and this is how you use them" They need to know wht they are for, how to get them to do something useful, and when it's really the worst tool for the job (It's really good to identify the best tool, but it's imperative to recognize when your using the worst) If the schools had more time for teching the programming part and didn't have requirements that suck up all of the CS time with exteranious bull, I'd say do LISP, Earlang, Prolog, C/C++, Java, Python,in that order.Get datastructures after they can program (second year) and assmebler. Work on the stuff that is uncomfortable first, otherwise they will want to stay with what they learned first. I taught myself Python first, and I love the language (I did BASIC back in the 80's). But I Taught mysef C next because I couldn't grock the functional languages, I can get them to do stuff, but I'll never reach for them first for anything because they aren't taught and they aren't something you can just apply to any problem at hand. Java and C# are painful for me, and I need a refrence next to me to do anything useful (Hell, I keep my Bjarn book handy so I can get strings to do what I want), but the libraries are huge, and not the first thing you want the students to work with. Datastructures should be taught concurrently with the OO languages, because the basic job of programming should be understood beforehand. They compliment nicely and you need both before you start on the design patterns stuff. That is just the oppinion of a humble self-taught 34 year old student at a fairly prestigious UofM (I'll leave the M as a guess) that is rather dissapointed with the curriculum at that school. More theory and branching out past what the job market is looking for is necassary for a well rounded education in CS. Networking is important, but not moreso than learning how to solve a problem in different ways and being able to come at a problem from a different angle when you get stuck.
Damnit, I couldn't figure it out so I ran it. Now I can't use my computer til I get home to hard reboot. For those that don't get it (if I'm wrong someone correct me) make a function called ":" the body of the function is, call the function, and then run the function it the background. so recursivly opens shells till out of memory. I thought killall bash was a good idea, not so much, couldn't figure out how to get it to stop and now can't ssh into the box. :-(
very slick, should have put up a warning though.
It's a lot lighter weight than FF and has everything built in including IRC and BT, spell check uses gnu-aspell, and the email client rocks. Tabs and mouse getures came from it, so whats not to love. If you haven't used it check it out. If you have, but not for a while, do yourself a favor and see how it is now.
Editpadpro would be a good place to start, it has Multi backup optins, and hidden history (creates a hidden __history folder and puts backup there), you can add a tool like svn/cvs with no pain. It has a tool option where you can make your own, very simple. If your looking at buying some kind of bulk, I'm willing to bet that Jan would add some kind of version control to the binary (database, cvs interface, local server, roll his own), or add the tool to your build. Download EditPadLight and open help, go to the index tab, and double click .bak (the first thing), it will take you to the page you want to see if it does what you want.
Just a happy EditPadPro owner (for when I have to be on windows)
Not only Asimov, but I have to belive that this falls out of Gineva convention teritory, but we have stopped worring about that with Git'mo anyway, aww hell Zieg heil Bush.
No, the hack part comes in for using it in non-intuitive ways and tools you may not of heard of and probly never used, such as using knoppix to download Windows patches, collecting forensic dadta (how often have you used grave-robber?), and cloning a hard drive?
The most unfortunate thing about the book is the name, this is the book that should have been titled "Linux Hacks". Granted, the book isn't really a hack book, but unless you are a *nix guru and have had to do every sysy admin task in existance, there are probly a few things in here you never thought of, and some you may have thought of but didn't know how to do and they wern't quite worth doing the research for.
I'd say buy it for anyone other than the folks who have been using *nix since '90
Time for some OLD trivia, from a question asked on the Nickelodion gameshow Double Dare. "Which are the only two characters that will be in all 7 Star Wars Movies?" Ans: R2D2 and C3P0 So yes there has always been an expectation of 7 movise, just long lost trivia.