Have you ever read Shakespeare in Elizabethan English from 500 years ago? Plenty of letters then were missing, as many words were brand new and most words had multiple spellings. It took 500 years to standardized the language, and the British Commonwealth still misspell most of it.
Yes, but the execution environment didn't change much in that time.
Actually, the execution environment has changed quite a bit. When printed books were first published, the spoken language was French for the nobility, Latin for the ministry, and English/German for the commoners. Now printed and electronic books are available in many languages.
I started learning CSS and HTML in 1997 on one of those free websites, Earthlink or something else that didin't survive the dot com bust. I later got a Unix shell account through my ISP and hosted my website from there. Cut my teeth on a text editor and never learned how to use a WYSISWYG editor (most wrote spaghetti HTML).
That's the downside to Python being a teaching language. Like Java before it, many students will have no choice but to take every course in Python without ever being exposed to a different programming language. The last thing we need is a glut of Python programmers who adequately know Python but nothing else.
I've always wondered about Modula-2. Jerry Pournelle mentioned Modula-2 from time to time in his monthly Byte Magazine column in the early 1980's. Back then Pascal was a popular programming and I was stuck with BASIC on the Commodore 64. Whenever I looked at Modula-2 in recent years, I think "meh" and never dived in.
This is a lot of money for an individual, but for a high school science program it's not an impossible amount.
When I took engineering class in the early 1980's, our class had enough money to build hot air balloons from tissue paper that flew two blocks away into the surrounding neighborhoods. My balloon was called a "kludge" for flying higher and further than the others after my mother's cat got to it and I patched 300+ pinpoint holes. Kids today have it too easy.
I usually see that attitude in high school students who think they should be paid big bucks for unboxing and putting together a computer without looking at the manual. I did a Token Ring to Ethernet network conversion project where we had to switch out the network cables and verify that the video application worked on each workstation. The project manager let the high schoolers go home without checking their work. I made an extra four hours in OT pay because they plugged the cables in wrong into the wrong port and didn't verify the video app to catch their own mistake on 200 workstations.
Only Indians can understand the thick accent of some Indian recruiters. Since these recruiters are usually following a script, I can simply say yes to everything until we hit a question that doesn't make sense if yes was the answer. I gotten several interviews and even a job using that technique. Hiring managers sometimes have trouble understanding these recruiters.
One time I tried to explain to a customer service rep that the problem was on Comcast's side of the service box, I went without Internet access for a whole month. Comcast eventually sent a technician who discovered that the last technician installed a bypass filter backwards in the service box. That, neighbors and friends, describes Comcast technical support perfectly: ass-backwards.
My current employment contract allows me to work 40 hours per week, five days a week. I'm not allowed to work 80+ hours per week, if I wanted to. The flip side is I could always quit my current job, don't work at all, and sign up for a free iPhone that the government hands out like candy. Maybe I'm doing something wrong?
Or a nail saloon. Nearly every strip mall has one, two or three nail saloons. It's amazing how many saloons are able to stay in business in a particular geographic area.
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I should get an AMD CPU and put the extra money towards a graphic card since GPUs do math extremely well in parallel.
Have you ever read Shakespeare in Elizabethan English from 500 years ago? Plenty of letters then were missing, as many words were brand new and most words had multiple spellings. It took 500 years to standardized the language, and the British Commonwealth still misspell most of it.
Printed books are dying.
Never mind that printed books outsold ebooks in the first half of 2014.
Yes, but the execution environment didn't change much in that time.
Actually, the execution environment has changed quite a bit. When printed books were first published, the spoken language was French for the nobility, Latin for the ministry, and English/German for the commoners. Now printed and electronic books are available in many languages.
I started learning CSS and HTML in 1997 on one of those free websites, Earthlink or something else that didin't survive the dot com bust. I later got a Unix shell account through my ISP and hosted my website from there. Cut my teeth on a text editor and never learned how to use a WYSISWYG editor (most wrote spaghetti HTML).
Printed books ruled for 500+ years. Scrolls for 1,000+ years before that.
Text files should still be readable in 500 years. Whether C2514 will be backwards compatible with C11 is a different story.
C is still going strong after 40+ years, and may continue for another 50 years. CSS should stick around a little bit longer.
As rare as IBM Basic is these days.
I wondered where all the Jackboots came from. :/
That's the downside to Python being a teaching language. Like Java before it, many students will have no choice but to take every course in Python without ever being exposed to a different programming language. The last thing we need is a glut of Python programmers who adequately know Python but nothing else.
I've always wondered about Modula-2. Jerry Pournelle mentioned Modula-2 from time to time in his monthly Byte Magazine column in the early 1980's. Back then Pascal was a popular programming and I was stuck with BASIC on the Commodore 64. Whenever I looked at Modula-2 in recent years, I think "meh" and never dived in.
then companies hiring programmers will disproportionately demand those languages
Let's not forget the HR requirement of having five years of experience in a technology that just came out six months ago.
The Congress shall have power ... TO PROMOTE THE PROGRESS of science and useful arts
With this Congress, it should read "TO PROMOTE THE REGRESSION of science and useful arts based on fear, ignorance and stupidity."
Living under the steel heel of the jackboot of the homeland is having it easy?
Are you already paranoid in your misbegotten youth?
This is a lot of money for an individual, but for a high school science program it's not an impossible amount.
When I took engineering class in the early 1980's, our class had enough money to build hot air balloons from tissue paper that flew two blocks away into the surrounding neighborhoods. My balloon was called a "kludge" for flying higher and further than the others after my mother's cat got to it and I patched 300+ pinpoint holes. Kids today have it too easy.
Dont' forget having five years of experience in a new technology that came out six months ago.
I usually see that attitude in high school students who think they should be paid big bucks for unboxing and putting together a computer without looking at the manual. I did a Token Ring to Ethernet network conversion project where we had to switch out the network cables and verify that the video application worked on each workstation. The project manager let the high schoolers go home without checking their work. I made an extra four hours in OT pay because they plugged the cables in wrong into the wrong port and didn't verify the video app to catch their own mistake on 200 workstations.
Only Indians can understand the thick accent of some Indian recruiters. Since these recruiters are usually following a script, I can simply say yes to everything until we hit a question that doesn't make sense if yes was the answer. I gotten several interviews and even a job using that technique. Hiring managers sometimes have trouble understanding these recruiters.
Foreign Workers === Obvious
One time I tried to explain to a customer service rep that the problem was on Comcast's side of the service box, I went without Internet access for a whole month. Comcast eventually sent a technician who discovered that the last technician installed a bypass filter backwards in the service box. That, neighbors and friends, describes Comcast technical support perfectly: ass-backwards.
My current employment contract allows me to work 40 hours per week, five days a week. I'm not allowed to work 80+ hours per week, if I wanted to. The flip side is I could always quit my current job, don't work at all, and sign up for a free iPhone that the government hands out like candy. Maybe I'm doing something wrong?
Or a nail saloon. Nearly every strip mall has one, two or three nail saloons. It's amazing how many saloons are able to stay in business in a particular geographic area.
I better change my 15-year-old account password. :/
$30 USD for a web browser... forget about it...