Mostly the fact that I know those people have no real grievances with Windoze; they're just OSS mujahadeen out to flame Windows for anything and everything they can.
I've always wondered why a bunch of comp sci geeks have such strong opinions on things like the nature of free will...
Because they're compsci geeks. The mere observation that everyone asked says they have free will is too experimental for them. They need a mathematical proof: free will or determinism.
Wow, yeah. And if you turn the six around 180 degrees (because this is a 180 degree reversal of views on free will), cut off the nose of the 4 (because these new views of free will cut off the nose to spite the face), and then have two of them (because there's a 2 in forty-two) you get... 911! ADAMS IS RESPONSIBLE FOR 911!
Shut up ya bitter atheist. There is no science behind miracles; that's what makes them miracles. You can never scientifically prove that water cannot turn into wine; science can never prove universal negative statements. You can only show that you ran a very large number of trials in which it failed to do so.
And taking school funding and class time to run large numbers of trials that will only show that an utterly unexpected event fails to happen due to lack of any rational cause isn't really productive science of any sort.
OK, I'm going to summarize the data for you; read my damn journal piece. Most H1-Bs actually go to outsourcing firms to bring in foreigners who work for low wages on shitty jobs with long hours. Those that remain go to high-powered tech firms who need extremely intelligent, highly-trained experts.
Wow. Now I'm actually glad I didn't take the admission offer they sent me a month after I enrolled in UMass.
That is, I was admitted to Arizona but they didn't bother to get the offer to me until a month and a half after all the other offers, with the result that I'd already enrolled in UMass. When I called them about it they said it was fine because they kept class registration open until the first day of classes.
Where do you go? I must stick up for my school, here at UMass Amherst they do actually require that students learn Java, C, C++, some form of assembly, discrete math, derivative and integral calculus, multivariable calculus or statistics, probability and some other stuff to earn a CompSci degree. It's just that the students bitch to no end about it.
The problem with new CS/IT grads is that they mostly do not know how to design software or even how a computer works at a basic level. In the last ten or more years most of these computer science majors are familiar with Java but know no assembly and very little C and have more training in Web design than in systems analysis.
We have a winner!
I'm currently in my second year of CS undergrad, and the sheer number of people who bitch constantly about having to use pointers, manual memory allocation, C, and assembly in our school's "Architecture and Assembly" class absolutely astounds me. People seem to figure that if they know Java they're a programmer and that if they know discrete mathematics on top of Java it makes them a computer scientist. For someone who spent his early years messing about with pointers and in-line assembly to make his graphics demos run, it creates that nasty frustrating feeling of having extraordinary expertise that nobody acknowledges.
Yeah, actually when I say "hundreds of miles away" I mean "at home". Both our homes are equidistant from our university, and the distances add up to a three-digit number.
Wellesley College is an all-female liberal-arts college. Given that roughly 90% of computer science majors are male, that link has no relevance or impact on the real world that the rest of us live in.
And yes, if my girlfriend were not hundreds of miles away on Spring Break, I would not be posting on Slashdot.
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Notice how most of those open-source projects that actually innovated came from universities and research labs.
Mostly the fact that I know those people have no real grievances with Windoze; they're just OSS mujahadeen out to flame Windows for anything and everything they can.
If by "deep" you mean "preachy and without logic" then yeah, that's our reaction.
Hey, Muad'dib, what's going on? How's the Jihad going?
You've never heard of Lysenkoism?
Except that you deduced the laws themselves by a method that assumes determinism and/or randomness.
I've always wondered why a bunch of comp sci geeks have such strong opinions on things like the nature of free will...
Because they're compsci geeks. The mere observation that everyone asked says they have free will is too experimental for them. They need a mathematical proof: free will or determinism.
There's no such thing as race memory.
Wow, yeah. And if you turn the six around 180 degrees (because this is a 180 degree reversal of views on free will), cut off the nose of the 4 (because these new views of free will cut off the nose to spite the face), and then have two of them (because there's a 2 in forty-two) you get... 911! ADAMS IS RESPONSIBLE FOR 911!
WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!!
I'm applying with a group of students from UMass to write Java bindings for the LLVM intermediate-code generation libraries. Anyone want to help?
Shut up ya bitter atheist. There is no science behind miracles; that's what makes them miracles. You can never scientifically prove that water cannot turn into wine; science can never prove universal negative statements. You can only show that you ran a very large number of trials in which it failed to do so.
And taking school funding and class time to run large numbers of trials that will only show that an utterly unexpected event fails to happen due to lack of any rational cause isn't really productive science of any sort.
OK, I'm going to summarize the data for you; read my damn journal piece. Most H1-Bs actually go to outsourcing firms to bring in foreigners who work for low wages on shitty jobs with long hours. Those that remain go to high-powered tech firms who need extremely intelligent, highly-trained experts.
Or it may make you seem like a pretentious hipster who only appreciates "high art" or "irony" to those who didn't take your art specialization.
Wow. Now I'm actually glad I didn't take the admission offer they sent me a month after I enrolled in UMass.
That is, I was admitted to Arizona but they didn't bother to get the offer to me until a month and a half after all the other offers, with the result that I'd already enrolled in UMass. When I called them about it they said it was fine because they kept class registration open until the first day of classes.
Where do you go? I must stick up for my school, here at UMass Amherst they do actually require that students learn Java, C, C++, some form of assembly, discrete math, derivative and integral calculus, multivariable calculus or statistics, probability and some other stuff to earn a CompSci degree. It's just that the students bitch to no end about it.
You asshole! That guy wasn't wearing Bluetooth headsets, he was being controlled by Cybermen!
Damn right. The rest of the time we're just hot.
The problem with new CS/IT grads is that they mostly do not know how to design software or even how a computer works at a basic level. In the last ten or more years most of these computer science majors are familiar with Java but know no assembly and very little C and have more training in Web design than in systems analysis.
We have a winner!
I'm currently in my second year of CS undergrad, and the sheer number of people who bitch constantly about having to use pointers, manual memory allocation, C, and assembly in our school's "Architecture and Assembly" class absolutely astounds me. People seem to figure that if they know Java they're a programmer and that if they know discrete mathematics on top of Java it makes them a computer scientist. For someone who spent his early years messing about with pointers and in-line assembly to make his graphics demos run, it creates that nasty frustrating feeling of having extraordinary expertise that nobody acknowledges.
Discrete math is complicated? What do they have you doing?
How do they do that?
Yeah, actually when I say "hundreds of miles away" I mean "at home". Both our homes are equidistant from our university, and the distances add up to a three-digit number.
Wellesley College is an all-female liberal-arts college. Given that roughly 90% of computer science majors are male, that link has no relevance or impact on the real world that the rest of us live in.
And yes, if my girlfriend were not hundreds of miles away on Spring Break, I would not be posting on Slashdot.
Data mining is not a basic principle, and programming is to computer science what algebra is to mathematics.
No, no, wearing a Bluetooth headset outside of your car still makes you look like a douchebag.
Naw, they'll just cause the Butlerian Jihad.