But I'll try not to generalize too much, and I do agree with many of your points. I will accept that many self-taught programmers are superior to the mindless drones schools are now turning out (including some I graduated with). However I suspect that if you compare the best of each you will find there's lots of things that schools do teach that you might have missed out on. (And probably vice versa...)
As you point out, the superior developers are superior because they are:
1) Smart 2) Motivated
If you take a smart and motivated person and then put them through a halfway decent school system you get something even better than the smart and motivated self-taught types.
Therefore, my counter statement would be:
Smart and motivated self-taught developers may be superior to unmotivated cookie cutter drones.
That must have been a long time ago, or you must have a lot of money. In order to get a good education today, you have to be rich. Not only does a college education cost at least $20,000 a year, but in the U.S. you usually have to live in an expensive neighborhood to go to a good K-12 education.
No, we just live in a civilized country.
She never has to work? Even to make her living expenses? What does she have, a trust fund? She is rich.
Well
A) Forced, are you forced to work?
B) She was 12, I was talking about child labor.
Sometime around the age of 12 one of my children commented "I wish we were rich."
I stopped the car and turned around, "We are rich." I said
"Both your mother and I both earn enough money to have a house and a car. You are always clothed and fed, you never go to bed hungry and cold. You get to travel, play sports and get a good education. Nobody forces you to work, ever. You don't have to fetch water just to survive, morning noon and night"
"Remember that there are tens of millions of people around the world who have none of these things, and you have them all."
I turned around and continued driving.
Years later my daughter reminded me of the conversation and how it had triggered a kind of awakening.
I am not skeptical about the future of these technologies, I am skeptical about their present.
One day, maybe 10 or 20 or 50 years from now, 3D printing and home fabrication will be playing major roles in our economy and technology development, at the industrial level that has already started for prototyping.
Right now, like script kiddies and regular expressions and the nosql crowd, there are people out there who have a hammer and every problem looks like a nail.
Buy typical cable trays, and 3D print some sort of fancy colorful casings for them. You can use a variety of designs and colors for aesthetic appeal. Plus even if it doesn't look all that great it will still be "cutting edge" technology in use, which will likely appeal to your business folks. Plus you can throw a 3D printer in your budget...
Interesting idea, but given that it takes the average 3D printer hours to create something only a few inches across it's not terribly practical.
It would be more practical to hire a basket weaver... ooh... woven trays...
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Of what use is an UTF-8 string constant with invalid UTF-8 in it?
They're really awesome for generating bugs, it's called coding for job security.
Yes... I'm kidding. (Or am I.... )
Self-taught programmers are superior
First reaction: Bullshit.
But I'll try not to generalize too much, and I do agree with many of your points. I will accept that many self-taught programmers are superior to the mindless drones schools are now turning out (including some I graduated with). However I suspect that if you compare the best of each you will find there's lots of things that schools do teach that you might have missed out on. (And probably vice versa...)
As you point out, the superior developers are superior because they are:
1) Smart
2) Motivated
If you take a smart and motivated person and then put them through a halfway decent school system you get something even better than the smart and motivated self-taught types.
Therefore, my counter statement would be:
Smart and motivated self-taught developers may be superior to unmotivated cookie cutter drones.
Looks like the intention is to make more efficient supercomputers.
While only tangentially referenced in that article, Knights Landing may be orders of magnitude more power efficient than current supercomputer cores.
Because you can never have too many cores that you aren't using most of the time.
How about more speed? Or is that too hard?
Pretty sure it wasn't meant for you (or me).
However, for servers, including hypervisors, it would be very interesting. There are lots of client/server products that scale better with more cores.
So Github isn't the Eclipse repository?
Eclipse moved from CVS to git, but is still hosted by eclipse.org
That must have been a long time ago, or you must have a lot of money. In order to get a good education today, you have to be rich. Not only does a college education cost at least $20,000 a year, but in the U.S. you usually have to live in an expensive neighborhood to go to a good K-12 education.
No, we just live in a civilized country.
She never has to work? Even to make her living expenses? What does she have, a trust fund? She is rich.
Well
A) Forced, are you forced to work?
B) She was 12, I was talking about child labor.
Sometime around the age of 12 one of my children commented "I wish we were rich."
I stopped the car and turned around, "We are rich." I said
"Both your mother and I both earn enough money to have a house and a car. You are always clothed and fed, you never go to bed hungry and cold. You get to travel, play sports and get a good education. Nobody forces you to work, ever. You don't have to fetch water just to survive, morning noon and night"
"Remember that there are tens of millions of people around the world who have none of these things, and you have them all."
I turned around and continued driving.
Years later my daughter reminded me of the conversation and how it had triggered a kind of awakening.
Belling the cat
No disagreements, but would you honestly recommend Arch to lessor mortals?
I've been using Linux since 0.9 and even I can't be bothered with it.
Not nearly enough said to even get more than "I don't like Microsoft" from it.
I'm pretty sure that was his whole point... though perhaps point is stretching it bit. How about, yes, that's what he's whining about.
Was any part of that incorrect or misleading?
Package management is possibly a Debian based distributions greatest strength, however if you want to be on the bleeding edge it does handcuff you.
Similarly, try getting up to date versions of boost and ogre actually installed and be sure to report back so we can drink your tears.
Yes... I know, [citation needed]
*cough* Cambodia *cough*
It's called "smart dust", and the idea is anything but new.
Are they going to ban them in restaurants next? Movie theaters?
That would be nice. We already know there's a special hell reserved for those who talk at the theater.
CCOHS: Canadian Center On How-to Survive?
Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety, so yes more or less.
Sure enough
Trust the Canadian government to have a web page devoted to how not to freeze to death.
My understanding is that's the "core" temperature, and that extremities drop below that all the time, but I have not researched this at all.
... because what we always need is another standard.
I'm not saying that hobbyist 3D printers are useless, but like any tool their use should be selected against the other available tools.
I am not skeptical about the future of these technologies, I am skeptical about their present.
One day, maybe 10 or 20 or 50 years from now, 3D printing and home fabrication will be playing major roles in our economy and technology development, at the industrial level that has already started for prototyping.
Right now, like script kiddies and regular expressions and the nosql crowd, there are people out there who have a hammer and every problem looks like a nail.
Is that a 3D printed gun in your pocket or are you just feeling suicidal and have a weak grasp on the economics of mass production?
Buy typical cable trays, and 3D print some sort of fancy colorful casings for them. You can use a variety of designs and colors for aesthetic appeal. Plus even if it doesn't look all that great it will still be "cutting edge" technology in use, which will likely appeal to your business folks. Plus you can throw a 3D printer in your budget...
Interesting idea, but given that it takes the average 3D printer hours to create something only a few inches across it's not terribly practical.
It would be more practical to hire a basket weaver... ooh... woven trays...
Put it all together and security is usually a bad joke.
Always act and behave as if there is no security for any device with a network connection, everything else is just some form of wishful thinking.
We don't go to Ravenholm anymore.