I went back to school to learn computer programming on a $3,000 tax credit that George W. signed into law after 9/11. The cost of my A.S. degree was entirely FREE. I went from working 80 hours as a video game tester to making more money working 40 hours in IT support. Now I pay more in taxes than I ever did before.
At my son's campus, the school is pretty much deserted after 3PM.
That's fairly typically for most schools. If night classes are taught, classes are between 6PM and 10PM. The time between 3PM and 5PM is when most teachers and administrators are having meetings.
The US already de-facto has this, the better you do in K-12, the better the options presented to you for post-secondary school choices. Class rank and standardized-test scores are weighed.
Not necessarily. I was misdiagnosed as being mentally retarded and spent eight years in special ed classes. I graduated the eighth grade with a college-level reading comprehension and fifth grade skills in everything else. I never went to high school. After two years in the construction trades, I enrolled in the community college as an adult and took four years to get my A.A. degree in General Education. Although I transferred to the university, I got kicked out the following year because I was tired of school and played too much Magic: The Gathering card game.
A decade later I went back to community college to learn computer programming, taking two classes per semester and working 80 hours a week as a video game tester. Five years later I got my A.S. degree and made the president's list for maintaining a 4.0 GPA in my major.
C++ is C++. You can learn the majority of the language using any compiler.
True. If the dean had his way, he would have taught C/C++ using Linux. But the administration said no because the surveys of local Silicon Valley companies reported that they wanted graduates who knew Visual Studio C++ — or Java.
You should never use the special Sun classes so really there's only one flavor of Java.
"All flavors of Java" is my joke regarding the IDEs available for Sun Java after the dot com bust: Notepad, Eclipse or Net Beans.
I don't know what you thought you learned.
Programming. Not software development, software design or computer science. Six years as a professional video game tester and five years of programming classes had made me an effective troubleshooter in my IT support career.
Your school was a really shitty school.
Community colleges are responsive to the needs of the community. I went back to school at a shitty time after the dot com bust. When I started in 2002, I couldn't get classes because they were too many students. When I graduated in 2007, I couldn't get classes because they weren't enough students. Healthcare became the new money major. Everyone and their grandparents had to enroll in healthcare.
You're going to need to do a lot of reading to replace your failed education.
I'm working my way through an old compiler textbook, translating Borland C into modern C and learning Pascal at the same time.
Did you really just say that make is arcane, but XML is straightforward?
Yes. I wrote an XML parser (reader) for a college class. Any idiot can write XML tags. Parsing XML tags without the assistance of any XML APIs made for a challenging project. The Ant build.xml file isn't that complicated to learn.
Why not just use the fucking built-in Fabric or Make automation?
Fabric is compatible with Python 2: "Fabric is a Python (2.5-2.7) library and command-line tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks."
Make will run under Cygwin but not under PowerShell on Windows.
Jesus christ, talk about reinventing the wheel and not bothering to learn your toolset.
It took 30 minutes to create the Ant build.xml file and five minutes to modify the build.properites file for a half dozen websites. That's not reinventing the wheel. It's using the right tool for the job.
Make looks too arcane to learn. Ant XML was more straight forward to learn. Not surprise there since I wrote an XML parser in Java for my independent programming project prior to graduation.
Why the hell did you have to use Ant of all things to automate some Python programming tasks?!
Needed something to automate the generation (Pelican), archiving (zip) and publishing (rsync) of my static websites.
Why didn't you just use Python?!
Python automation tools don't work with Python 3 and/or imposed a file structure that doesn't work with the Pelican static website generator. All Ant required was a build.xml file to do what I wanted it to do. That was faster than creating a Python script to do the same thing.
Not surprising. An editor told me it wasn't his job to edit the stories that appear in his magazine if the author didn't do a thorough job in editing before submission. An editor no longer edits anymore. That was during the transition from snail mail submissions to emails submissions.
This week I had to install Ant to automate some Python programming tasks. Of course, Ant requires Java. I haven't touched Java since I graduated from community college 10 years with an A.S. degree in computer programming and had to learn all flavors of Java because the CIS department couldn't afford to renew the Microsoft site license for Visual Studio, and, when the site license got renewed, none of the computers could run VS.NET. I really wanted to learn C++ instead of Java, but industry surveys showed that local employers wanted VS C++ and not GNU C++.
Anyway, Ant renewed my interest in Java. Any good O'Reilly book to get back into that language?
Programmers in school today have problems with pointers because SJW nimwits teach them to believe that "men's room" is a pointer that can be interpreted in two ways
The ordinary prick vs. the overloaded prick. After all these years, you would think the latest version of C++ would have settled this problem.
It is telling that you only heard about the Deep State once Trump came along.
Not even my lily white, tea party-loving relatives in Idaho knew what the "Deep State" was. They send me all kinds of clippings from the right wing echo chamber. If they had heard about the "Deep State" I would have known — and laughed. Thank God I live in California!
Article is wrong about Austin. It's very expensive. And there are no jobs for tech workers. And it's dirty. With marauding gangs of looters. Many reports of paranormal activity. High risk of pandemic or terrorist attack. No housing supply.
Ahhh so now the condition is you want an upper class cinema with alcohol.
Upper class cinema was your comment. I just pointed out that my local AMC is not as nice as the AMC in San Francisco (which I've been to on a few occasions) or Newark (which I haven't been to).
That's quite a different statement from your original specification:
It now cost $35 per person for ticket and popcorn to see a late night movie.
Let's do the math. The average ticket price is $17.99 and the concession combo is $17. Hence, $35 per person. My statement still stands.
I'm not hijacking anything. You made a comment about the so called "Deep State" and I replied to that comment with the most obvious reference that I know of. The only "Deep State"
that exist is in the minds of delusional people in the White House. Until the Trump Administration came along, I've never heard of the term "Deep State" before.
[...] because the Deep State is not telling and refuses oversight [...]
You mean the "Deep State" that Trump accused of wiretapping his personal communications at Trump Tower? Let's think about... If the wiretap was true, the FBI was doing it illegally on Obama's orders or Trump implicated himself in a criminal investigation authorized by the courts. Everyone is denying that the wiretap and Trump is refusing to provide evidence. That's quite a pickle barrel for Trump to put himself in. Eight weeks into his administration, he's already on his tenth golf game for the year.
You can literally go to a large chain cinema with popcorn for half the price you quoted.
According to my AMC Stubs account, my average ticket price is $17.99. The local AMC doesn't compare to the Metreon or the newer AMC in Newark with reserved seating and alcohol drinks.
Tell him you need a new sewing partner, you're not gay but have been *really* into this design book you bought and if he's not afraid of his masculinity he should join you.
I do own a sewing machine and quilting design book.
Several of my male coworkers are also into quilting.
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I went back to school to learn computer programming on a $3,000 tax credit that George W. signed into law after 9/11. The cost of my A.S. degree was entirely FREE. I went from working 80 hours as a video game tester to making more money working 40 hours in IT support. Now I pay more in taxes than I ever did before.
At my son's campus, the school is pretty much deserted after 3PM.
That's fairly typically for most schools. If night classes are taught, classes are between 6PM and 10PM. The time between 3PM and 5PM is when most teachers and administrators are having meetings.
The US already de-facto has this, the better you do in K-12, the better the options presented to you for post-secondary school choices. Class rank and standardized-test scores are weighed.
Not necessarily. I was misdiagnosed as being mentally retarded and spent eight years in special ed classes. I graduated the eighth grade with a college-level reading comprehension and fifth grade skills in everything else. I never went to high school. After two years in the construction trades, I enrolled in the community college as an adult and took four years to get my A.A. degree in General Education. Although I transferred to the university, I got kicked out the following year because I was tired of school and played too much Magic: The Gathering card game.
A decade later I went back to community college to learn computer programming, taking two classes per semester and working 80 hours a week as a video game tester. Five years later I got my A.S. degree and made the president's list for maintaining a 4.0 GPA in my major.
C++ is C++. You can learn the majority of the language using any compiler.
True. If the dean had his way, he would have taught C/C++ using Linux. But the administration said no because the surveys of local Silicon Valley companies reported that they wanted graduates who knew Visual Studio C++ — or Java.
You should never use the special Sun classes so really there's only one flavor of Java.
"All flavors of Java" is my joke regarding the IDEs available for Sun Java after the dot com bust: Notepad, Eclipse or Net Beans.
I don't know what you thought you learned.
Programming. Not software development, software design or computer science. Six years as a professional video game tester and five years of programming classes had made me an effective troubleshooter in my IT support career.
Your school was a really shitty school.
Community colleges are responsive to the needs of the community. I went back to school at a shitty time after the dot com bust. When I started in 2002, I couldn't get classes because they were too many students. When I graduated in 2007, I couldn't get classes because they weren't enough students. Healthcare became the new money major. Everyone and their grandparents had to enroll in healthcare.
You're going to need to do a lot of reading to replace your failed education.
I'm working my way through an old compiler textbook, translating Borland C into modern C and learning Pascal at the same time.
Did you really just say that make is arcane, but XML is straightforward?
Yes. I wrote an XML parser (reader) for a college class. Any idiot can write XML tags. Parsing XML tags without the assistance of any XML APIs made for a challenging project. The Ant build.xml file isn't that complicated to learn.
Why not just use the fucking built-in Fabric or Make automation?
Fabric is compatible with Python 2: "Fabric is a Python (2.5-2.7) library and command-line tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks."
http://www.fabfile.org/
Make will run under Cygwin but not under PowerShell on Windows.
Jesus christ, talk about reinventing the wheel and not bothering to learn your toolset.
It took 30 minutes to create the Ant build.xml file and five minutes to modify the build.properites file for a half dozen websites. That's not reinventing the wheel. It's using the right tool for the job.
Use make.
Make looks too arcane to learn. Ant XML was more straight forward to learn. Not surprise there since I wrote an XML parser in Java for my independent programming project prior to graduation.
Why the hell did you have to use Ant of all things to automate some Python programming tasks?!
Needed something to automate the generation (Pelican), archiving (zip) and publishing (rsync) of my static websites.
Why didn't you just use Python?!
Python automation tools don't work with Python 3 and/or imposed a file structure that doesn't work with the Pelican static website generator. All Ant required was a build.xml file to do what I wanted it to do. That was faster than creating a Python script to do the same thing.
Not surprising. An editor told me it wasn't his job to edit the stories that appear in his magazine if the author didn't do a thorough job in editing before submission. An editor no longer edits anymore. That was during the transition from snail mail submissions to emails submissions.
Pair programming works better when you have the opposite sex sitting on your lap.
This week I had to install Ant to automate some Python programming tasks. Of course, Ant requires Java. I haven't touched Java since I graduated from community college 10 years with an A.S. degree in computer programming and had to learn all flavors of Java because the CIS department couldn't afford to renew the Microsoft site license for Visual Studio, and, when the site license got renewed, none of the computers could run VS .NET. I really wanted to learn C++ instead of Java, but industry surveys showed that local employers wanted VS C++ and not GNU C++.
Anyway, Ant renewed my interest in Java. Any good O'Reilly book to get back into that language?
Programmers in school today have problems with pointers because SJW nimwits teach them to believe that "men's room" is a pointer that can be interpreted in two ways
The ordinary prick vs. the overloaded prick. After all these years, you would think the latest version of C++ would have settled this problem.
That's a problem when teaching pre-schoolers programming concepts.
FDA is less pertinent to a discussion of food than is the USDA
The USDA doesn't look like it's on the chopping block for FY 2018.
I sincerely hope you recognize that you also live in an echo chamber.
So say we all.
It is telling that you only heard about the Deep State once Trump came along.
Not even my lily white, tea party-loving relatives in Idaho knew what the "Deep State" was. They send me all kinds of clippings from the right wing echo chamber. If they had heard about the "Deep State" I would have known — and laughed. Thank God I live in California!
Just one of the many, many advantages Texas has over California [battleswarmblog.com].
That blog post is a load of bullshit. But, hey, what do you expect from a low reg, low tax state.
http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/RTSHf.Xl_.4.jpeg
Article is wrong about Austin. It's very expensive. And there are no jobs for tech workers. And it's dirty. With marauding gangs of looters. Many reports of paranormal activity. High risk of pandemic or terrorist attack. No housing supply.
I thought South by Southwest was over already.
Ahhh so now the condition is you want an upper class cinema with alcohol.
Upper class cinema was your comment. I just pointed out that my local AMC is not as nice as the AMC in San Francisco (which I've been to on a few occasions) or Newark (which I haven't been to).
That's quite a different statement from your original specification:
It now cost $35 per person for ticket and popcorn to see a late night movie.
Let's do the math. The average ticket price is $17.99 and the concession combo is $17. Hence, $35 per person. My statement still stands.
Good work with the goalpost moving.
What goalpost moving?
I'm not hijacking anything. You made a comment about the so called "Deep State" and I replied to that comment with the most obvious reference that I know of. The only "Deep State" that exist is in the minds of delusional people in the White House. Until the Trump Administration came along, I've never heard of the term "Deep State" before.
[...] because the Deep State is not telling and refuses oversight [...]
You mean the "Deep State" that Trump accused of wiretapping his personal communications at Trump Tower? Let's think about... If the wiretap was true, the FBI was doing it illegally on Obama's orders or Trump implicated himself in a criminal investigation authorized by the courts. Everyone is denying that the wiretap and Trump is refusing to provide evidence. That's quite a pickle barrel for Trump to put himself in. Eight weeks into his administration, he's already on his tenth golf game for the year.
Hyperbole doesn't help your case.
What hyperbole?
You can literally go to a large chain cinema with popcorn for half the price you quoted.
According to my AMC Stubs account, my average ticket price is $17.99. The local AMC doesn't compare to the Metreon or the newer AMC in Newark with reserved seating and alcohol drinks.
Nope. Late night IMAX in Silicon Valley.
Where do you live that you're paying that much for a trip to a cinema?
Silicon Valley.
Tell him you need a new sewing partner, you're not gay but have been *really* into this design book you bought and if he's not afraid of his masculinity he should join you.
I do own a sewing machine and quilting design book. Several of my male coworkers are also into quilting.