Foreigner tech employee here. Can you please explain how Trump can prevent me from taking the good tech jobs, when most of the best jobs are in companies spread around the globe, or in cool startups which allow flexibility in location?
Its not a question of someone expecting entertainment to be educational, but as much of people's physical understanding is intuitive, it gets affected by things that you see often. People start "expecting" space ships to make whooshing sounds even if they know sound cant travel in vacuum.
Thanks, the GnomeLove link is quite interesting. I am a long time XFCE user, and would love to work on any small ways to improve it, in any way that I can. Is there any similiar resource for XFCE?
As an Indian I can say this, India has been the country with perhaps the most lopsided development you could ever hope to see. While there is a liberal mindset among atleast a decent fraction of the educated population, the life of the majority hasn't changed over many years, so what you see is organisations like shiv sena (the ku klux klan of our country) barking at each chance, and actually getting the support of people who feel threatened by this strange development structure.
There are worse forms of censorship taking place here, a film was banned in Gujurat earlier this year because it focussed on the Godhra riots (the major disaster so far in the fascist gujarat government regime). Sites like blogspot are banned in entirety all over the country and (as mentioned) the shiv sena goons seem to take pleasure in destruction on every valentines day.
Half of the country is in the 21'st century, but half is far behind, and untill that changes, these things are not going to go away.
I see that projects like Freedesktop.org and Portland are missing. Is that because they did not apply, or were they rejected? It would have been nice to see them up there as any improvements to them would benefit the entire linux desktop community.
Get back to me when some math guy can use math to help me refactor or debug some broken code.
Aren't you already making the assumption that algorithm's != mathematics? Mathematics is actually a fairly vast and vague topic, and programming algorithms are as much a part of it as calculus or functions.
Maybe a programmer would not have to use calculus or trigonometry to code some stuff, but whether you are programming or solving maths, what you are essentially doing is exercising a bit of logic. Learning maths is all about practising that a bit.
Of course, a person need not be strong in all aspects of mathematics, I personally am good in functions, calculus and geomatry, but positively hate algebra. Nevertheless, I would say that there is a rough correlation between those who do well in mathematics, and those in programming, atleast in my school.
I would agree, while eye candy may be a nice feature, it is not essential at all. Being able to turn it off is not only nice, it enhances the accessiblity of the software by allowing those with the less powerful processors to utilise it.
But I am hopeful the new architecture means more than just eye candy, a few speed improvements will be more than welcome.
I would accept the point of documentation, but does it really hold any longer? Know of the site www.tldp.org ? And there are the man pages which explain the working of nearly all programs in the system.
Yes each distribution will differ in terms of the customisation they provide, each one will produce different wizards to perform tasks, admin the system and such. If one, instead of using these wizards, learns to edit the actual initialisation scripts to modify things, such knowledge carries about whenever you use a unix implementation. Really you can know just as much about the system as you want to, no more no less.
"archane directory structure"
/usr for installed programs /etc for all systemwide configuration files /home for different user's files /boot for stuff related to booting the system /tmp for temporary files
Those are what you are likely to occur, every thing is nice and systematic.
"random placement if configuration files"
System configuration files will all be in/etc, programs generally check the following areas -
1. Home directory for per user config
2./etc for system wide config
3. The installation directory for a default
Again, quite logical.
"unconventional file names."
Conventional file names? What conventional file names?
Come on, half the world's inventions would have been absent if geeks hadn't played about with new toys/ideas. There may not be any practical uses of it yet, but they may just come about later.
Remember that if linux was just restricted to the platform it was originally designed for, there would be no linux for the PowerPC, or for the hundreds of odd handhld devices, or for xyz... zzz.
There is no problem with "compiling things". Actually I end up compiling most of the software I use on Slack.
The problem I have is with compiling everything. I personally do not have the time to spend several days on the installation of my OS. Slackware gives me a great base of precompiled software, over which I can install software whichever way I choose, whether by compiling source or installing binaries.
But we seem to have too many people who think that slackware is outdated, not just for them but for everybody else. So you will keep seeing a "Why not Debian/Gentoo/Fedore/xyz".
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Foreigner tech employee here. Can you please explain how Trump can prevent me from taking the good tech jobs, when most of the best jobs are in companies spread around the globe, or in cool startups which allow flexibility in location?
Its not a question of someone expecting entertainment to be educational, but as much of people's physical understanding is intuitive, it gets affected by things that you see often. People start "expecting" space ships to make whooshing sounds even if they know sound cant travel in vacuum.
Thanks, the GnomeLove link is quite interesting. I am a long time XFCE user, and would love to work on any small ways to improve it, in any way that I can. Is there any similiar resource for XFCE?
As an Indian I can say this, India has been the country with perhaps the most lopsided development you could ever hope to see. While there is a liberal mindset among atleast a decent fraction of the educated population, the life of the majority hasn't changed over many years, so what you see is organisations like shiv sena (the ku klux klan of our country) barking at each chance, and actually getting the support of people who feel threatened by this strange development structure. There are worse forms of censorship taking place here, a film was banned in Gujurat earlier this year because it focussed on the Godhra riots (the major disaster so far in the fascist gujarat government regime). Sites like blogspot are banned in entirety all over the country and (as mentioned) the shiv sena goons seem to take pleasure in destruction on every valentines day. Half of the country is in the 21'st century, but half is far behind, and untill that changes, these things are not going to go away.
I see that projects like Freedesktop.org and Portland are missing. Is that because they did not apply, or were they rejected? It would have been nice to see them up there as any improvements to them would benefit the entire linux desktop community.
Those users who want to tinker will be able to download Linux anyway.
Nopes, they will not.
Considering the objective of this laptop to be an educational tool, I think linux is a pretty good choice.
Now I wonder how this person knew you had an x86 PC :)
Aren't you already making the assumption that algorithm's != mathematics? Mathematics is actually a fairly vast and vague topic, and programming algorithms are as much a part of it as calculus or functions.
Maybe a programmer would not have to use calculus or trigonometry to code some stuff, but whether you are programming or solving maths, what you are essentially doing is exercising a bit of logic. Learning maths is all about practising that a bit.
Of course, a person need not be strong in all aspects of mathematics, I personally am good in functions, calculus and geomatry, but positively hate algebra. Nevertheless, I would say that there is a rough correlation between those who do well in mathematics, and those in programming, atleast in my school.
I would agree, while eye candy may be a nice feature, it is not essential at all. Being able to turn it off is not only nice, it enhances the accessiblity of the software by allowing those with the less powerful processors to utilise it.
But I am hopeful the new architecture means more than just eye candy, a few speed improvements will be more than welcome.
I would accept the point of documentation, but does it really hold any longer? Know of the site www.tldp.org ? And there are the man pages which explain the working of nearly all programs in the system.
Yes each distribution will differ in terms of the customisation they provide, each one will produce different wizards to perform tasks, admin the system and such. If one, instead of using these wizards, learns to edit the actual initialisation scripts to modify things, such knowledge carries about whenever you use a unix implementation. Really you can know just as much about the system as you want to, no more no less.
"archane directory structure"
/usr for installed programs
/etc for all systemwide configuration files
/home for different user's files
/boot for stuff related to booting the system
/tmp for temporary files
Those are what you are likely to occur, every thing is nice and systematic.
"random placement if configuration files"
System configuration files will all be in /etc, programs generally check the following areas -
1. Home directory for per user config /etc for system wide config
2.
3. The installation directory for a default
Again, quite logical.
"unconventional file names."
Conventional file names? What conventional file names?
Come on, half the world's inventions would have been absent if geeks hadn't played about with new toys/ideas. There may not be any practical uses of it yet, but they may just come about later. Remember that if linux was just restricted to the platform it was originally designed for, there would be no linux for the PowerPC, or for the hundreds of odd handhld devices, or for xyz ... zzz.
There is no problem with "compiling things". Actually I end up compiling most of the software I use on Slack.
The problem I have is with compiling everything. I personally do not have the time to spend several days on the installation of my OS. Slackware gives me a great base of precompiled software, over which I can install software whichever way I choose, whether by compiling source or installing binaries.
But we seem to have too many people who think that slackware is outdated, not just for them but for everybody else. So you will keep seeing a "Why not Debian/Gentoo/Fedore/xyz".