I don't have answers, but in many Asian schools, it's all about rote memorization, and has been for a very long time. In many Asian cultures, conformity is encouraged, so whether creativity is valued at all depends on the society.
I've worked with South Koreans once, and over three months, I couldn't find any correlation between their actions and common sense. For example, when a brand new $100 million piece of equipment malfunctions, my first thought would be to get the on-site American engineer they flew in to assemble it, and not a hammer and some duct tape.
Also, they almost fired me on my first day because I didn't wear the uniform they didn't give me yet.
The US really isn't that far behind when compared to other continent-spanning federations:
Except, you're behind Russia, and you just showed that Romania is better equipped than New York. Considering the respective living standards, I can't say I agree with your conclusion.
Not to mention how misguided it is to correlate physical distances and connectivity. You're behind Russia. Who won the cold war, again?
but are those implications so negative to counter the benefits that could be obtained?
Yes, they are, because we don't even understand what those implications are yet. For all we know, your DNA could encode your weaknesses to advertising, your political inclinations, etc. That's on top of what we already know, of course.
And all those benefits, who will obtain them? Those who give out the information about themselves, or those who figure out what it means?
Win32 makes me want to gouge my eyes out where as.NET libraries cause no such adverse reaction.
Told you C# was a cleaner language:)
But seriously, try coding a week in Qt/C++. You'll learn what a decent library should look like. As for Qt's worst weakness: you'll have to deal with templates and the resulting error messages your compiler generates. (And $DEITY help you if you mess up in something 'moc' will generate code from).
Interestingly, Qt may be for most cases actually better than managed environments: `deleteLater()` only fires when the event loop finishes: implicitly, when the CPU is idle (of course the.NET gc may do the same thing, but it's not guaranteed). Of course this requires you know what you're doing, but that's C++ for you.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's when they actually lost all the "young, hip developers".
Not really. C# is the cleanest language I've ever coded in. It's the libraries that are fucked up: the.NET base libraries are basically the managed versions of the Win32 platform.
Compare Qt, which is built on C++ (their greatest flaw), but actually do magic along the nice library to make manual garbage collection look easy, and have an event system which is multithreaded by default. With Qt, C++ looks more like a scripting language (with the byte-level stuff available if you need it), which is exactly what.NET would have needed to do.
Instead of allowing them to constantly add new programs and new spending, how about electing some folks on the platform to reduce spending until you have a balanced budget (which means you won't need any new taxes), and then reduce spending, which means you'll need less taxes.
If the idea of electing smarter people would work, it would've worked for the last 50 years too. People don't give a shit until the economy collapses. The people you're asking to vote against debt are themselves neck deep in mortgages, and would vote to ban water if the question is phrased right.
No woman I know would allow such a thing to happen.
Of course not. "Why don't you just use your laptop?"
Anyway, I don't understand this. If fun == sex + coding, and honeymoon == fun, why not? I don't know about you guys, but I'm not marrying anyone who either can't figure out that I like computers, or doesn't want me to be completely happy with her.
While my initial reaction was along the lines of "Fuck Farmville", on second thought I want it to work.
If it doesn't, then the hordes of zombies playing it go back to IE, and that particular nightmare will never end. Imagine your favorite corporate internal system not getting upgraded just because some middle manager couldn't grow virtual corn anymore.
I realize you're joking, but Win7 is shiny too, at least compared to free alternatives. After using all sorts of OSes over the last couple of years including Gentoo, Ubuntu, FreeBSD and Vista, 7 was nice. After Vista, I didn't expect much, but there's all sorts of tiny little things you run into that made me think "Hey, it works!".
The biggest example was probably how they handle multiple size screens on an extended desktop: click through the dialog once, and it remembers. The next time you connect that particular screen, you get your nice big desktop back. The Linux equivalent is a full workday worth of xorg research, and God help you if you want two different profiles (like laptop+big screen and laptop+projector).
I can actually predict what the machine is going to do when I write a line of code!
Ah, the good old popular misconception. For most practical purposes,
- you don't know what code the compiler will emit, especially if you're optimizing. Given the bajillion optimization flags most compilers have, and the fact that they change across versions (for example gcc 4.4 has the graphite framework, gcc 4.5 has link-time optimization), you're either very smart and brave to take a guess, or just ignorant. You can look at the output of course, but that's hardly "predicting", and we're lazy anyway. - at any given point in time, you don't know how long it will take to execute the next instruction (hint: scheduling, possibly powersave) - you don't know the state of RAM, with regards to swap - you don't know the state of the CPU cache - you don't know what microcode the CPU has, or what it's actually doing under the hood
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I don't have answers, but in many Asian schools, it's all about rote memorization, and has been for a very long time. In many Asian cultures, conformity is encouraged, so whether creativity is valued at all depends on the society.
I've worked with South Koreans once, and over three months, I couldn't find any correlation between their actions and common sense. For example, when a brand new $100 million piece of equipment malfunctions, my first thought would be to get the on-site American engineer they flew in to assemble it, and not a hammer and some duct tape.
Also, they almost fired me on my first day because I didn't wear the uniform they didn't give me yet.
Unsupervised 'play' is far too dangerous for little snowflake.
Yeah, what if they actually learn something by accident?
The US really isn't that far behind when compared to other continent-spanning federations:
Except, you're behind Russia, and you just showed that Romania is better equipped than New York. Considering the respective living standards, I can't say I agree with your conclusion.
Not to mention how misguided it is to correlate physical distances and connectivity. You're behind Russia. Who won the cold war, again?
Does a tight Noscript setup block the attempts of malicious plugins to communicate with malicious sites?
but are those implications so negative to counter the benefits that could be obtained?
Yes, they are, because we don't even understand what those implications are yet. For all we know, your DNA could encode your weaknesses to advertising, your political inclinations, etc. That's on top of what we already know, of course.
And all those benefits, who will obtain them? Those who give out the information about themselves, or those who figure out what it means?
As a US tourist, couldn't I just poke the cop in the chest and say "Back off Ivan, we won the cold war!" ?
Smart people don't insult people with weapons, especially not in countries where human life has never been a priority.
How does a snarky comment about Ballmer's on-stage antics turn into anything regarding C#/.NET/C++/Qt?
I was drunk last night, that's how.
Win32 makes me want to gouge my eyes out where as .NET libraries cause no such adverse reaction.
Told you C# was a cleaner language :)
But seriously, try coding a week in Qt/C++. You'll learn what a decent library should look like. As for Qt's worst weakness: you'll have to deal with templates and the resulting error messages your compiler generates. (And $DEITY help you if you mess up in something 'moc' will generate code from).
Interestingly, Qt may be for most cases actually better than managed environments: `deleteLater()` only fires when the event loop finishes: implicitly, when the CPU is idle (of course the .NET gc may do the same thing, but it's not guaranteed). Of course this requires you know what you're doing, but that's C++ for you.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's when they actually lost all the "young, hip developers".
Not really. C# is the cleanest language I've ever coded in. It's the libraries that are fucked up: the .NET base libraries are basically the managed versions of the Win32 platform.
Compare Qt, which is built on C++ (their greatest flaw), but actually do magic along the nice library to make manual garbage collection look easy, and have an event system which is multithreaded by default. With Qt, C++ looks more like a scripting language (with the byte-level stuff available if you need it), which is exactly what .NET would have needed to do.
If you truly believe in the model of genetics (and implicitly evolution) you just presented, do a favor to mankind, and kill yourself.
No, karma whoring is to post something completely obvious you know will be modded up and not add anything to the discussion. Like this comment.
Surely you mean phishing.
In other news, an interesting moving thing ahead of you might be worth following.
But this is not curiosity, it's pack behavior. In other words, the machine convinced these fish that it was one of them.
Someone is standing a bit to the left of Lenin. Oh, and as far as cyber wars go, the one between 4chan and Youtube seems to be heating up!
Shhhh! You don't want Barack to shut down the internet, do you?
Instead of allowing them to constantly add new programs and new spending, how about electing some folks on the platform to reduce spending until you have a balanced budget (which means you won't need any new taxes), and then reduce spending, which means you'll need less taxes.
If the idea of electing smarter people would work, it would've worked for the last 50 years too. People don't give a shit until the economy collapses. The people you're asking to vote against debt are themselves neck deep in mortgages, and would vote to ban water if the question is phrased right.
Shame it's such a blatant advertisement.
No woman I know would allow such a thing to happen.
Of course not. "Why don't you just use your laptop?"
Anyway, I don't understand this. If fun == sex + coding, and honeymoon == fun, why not? I don't know about you guys, but I'm not marrying anyone who either can't figure out that I like computers, or doesn't want me to be completely happy with her.
4 years in computing is "way older".
What is this "think" you mentioned?
While my initial reaction was along the lines of "Fuck Farmville", on second thought I want it to work.
If it doesn't, then the hordes of zombies playing it go back to IE, and that particular nightmare will never end. Imagine your favorite corporate internal system not getting upgraded just because some middle manager couldn't grow virtual corn anymore.
The only example.
Okay, how many Free operating systems have a utility to set the volume persistently per application?
Yes, but Apple's products are shiny.
I realize you're joking, but Win7 is shiny too, at least compared to free alternatives. After using all sorts of OSes over the last couple of years including Gentoo, Ubuntu, FreeBSD and Vista, 7 was nice. After Vista, I didn't expect much, but there's all sorts of tiny little things you run into that made me think "Hey, it works!".
The biggest example was probably how they handle multiple size screens on an extended desktop: click through the dialog once, and it remembers. The next time you connect that particular screen, you get your nice big desktop back. The Linux equivalent is a full workday worth of xorg research, and God help you if you want two different profiles (like laptop+big screen and laptop+projector).
I can actually predict what the machine is going to do when I write a line of code!
Ah, the good old popular misconception. For most practical purposes,
- you don't know what code the compiler will emit, especially if you're optimizing. Given the bajillion optimization flags most compilers have, and the fact that they change across versions (for example gcc 4.4 has the graphite framework, gcc 4.5 has link-time optimization), you're either very smart and brave to take a guess, or just ignorant. You can look at the output of course, but that's hardly "predicting", and we're lazy anyway.
- at any given point in time, you don't know how long it will take to execute the next instruction (hint: scheduling, possibly powersave)
- you don't know the state of RAM, with regards to swap
- you don't know the state of the CPU cache
- you don't know what microcode the CPU has, or what it's actually doing under the hood
Wow, if only this applied to programming.
It works in science because everyone wants to fix existing theories, not spew out new crap as fast as they can. Except string theorists.
You forgot your trailing slash. And you want us to think you actually use sed. Come on.
Congratulations, you just pointed out a syntax error in pseudocode.