From the perspective of a single, talented, and experienced developer, this all might seem silly. When one is managing many developers with varying skill levels, and are trying to maximize stability and security against a business ship date, telling everyone to add the if statement is just not going to be effective.
What does this have to do with the creativity of the programmer? I can tell you right now that my creativity hits a brick wall when the code crashes down the line because I corrupted the stack after assuming my destination buffer is large enough to hold the specified number of bytes.
If one doesn't know the size of the dest buffer before copying into it, maybe one should put creativity on hold for 2 minutes while one finds out.
If a Bushie did this, I think I'd be all like "grarwbrblarblab rl! I can't believe glrbalrbalg, stupid politicians grblbr... oil asgerbglajbaeog"
But somehow, the fact the Dr. Chu is saying makes me feel OK with it. Definitely hypocritical of me, but I feel I'd rather have the wrong decision made for the right reasons than the right decision made for the wrong ones. Maybe because the wrong reasons always screws things up in the end.
Maybe the real problem to solve is just how to make everyone immortal. That solves the issue of it taking tens or hundreds of millions of years to go somewhere. If I were a lifeform that had a lifetime of 10 minutes, going from New York to California would seem about as daunting as us going to the nearest star.
Not right now, probably. I'd imagine with the recent belt tightening across the country, businesses have a relatively high inventory that they are getting more and more desparate to unload. More likely, they will choose to cut workforce to compensate.
Ah, the classic model minority argument. Tell you what, let's go back in time and have blacks enslave whites for a dozen generations, emancipate them without compensating them or providing for them amidst deep racism, and let's see how things turn out.
Blacks are absolutely not summarily inferior to any other race, including Asians as you suggest. They just happen to have a huge part of our history working against them.
That's speaking as one of your model minorities.
Sorry, but *you* are nitpicking on racial versus cultural issues, and you can't get straight that I'm talking about Americans, not Japanese? Japanese Americans are Americans, last time I checked.
It's really rare to find a parent who doesn't love their kids and care deeply about their education. One of the problems I see is really bad school districting policy. I believe the people within a district ought to be able to declare on their tax forms that they want the portion of their tax dollars allocated towards public schools to be allocated towards the schools in *their* district. It makes no sense to me that an economically challenged areas should have any of their tax dollars going towards white collar school districts. That deprives them of the opportunity to improve their own situation.
We owe those who have less the ability to target their own resources towards their own quality of life.
Are Japanese-American kids themselves so committed to learning, more so than African-American kids? Sounds to me it's more a parental issue than some kind of racial issue. Let's revisit this in 50 years when socioeconomic status equalizes a bit more, shall we?
I doubt it will "self destruct" - they will likely do the same thing as when Windows currently detects it is unlicensed. That is, it will disable a lot of functionality, but you will still have access to your data.
After 1 year, then what? Well, either buy it or migrate your data of the machine. You're absolutely right, though. There's no real controversy here, so let's move along.
This is more like SP3 for Vista (SP2 is just around the corner). No one is forcing you to use software just because it's free for a year.
I really don't see the fundamental difference between this, and buying stuff with financing with no money down for a year from Best Buy.
There was this dragon that was designed to be invincible via normal combat - the programmers gave it like MAXINT hit points, and the dragon breathed fire that would destroy everyone except the guy in the back. However, they also had a spell that calculates damage by percentage, and a spell that resurrects everyone in the party. So, the guy in the back resurrects everyone, including the other mage. The other mage would ding the dragon for ~5% of its HP, which was a huge number. The dragon would breath, everyone would die except the guy in the back, and the cycle repeats itself until the dragon dies.
They way you were supposed to "kill" the dragon was with some kind of orb, which the dragon would react to somehow and further the storyline. But I killed it and ruined the quest chain and had to start over.
I'm always rolling my eyes when I see someone claim that all X people should do Y. What's the universal consequence of not doing Y? If some Japanese game programmer produces the next great iPhone game and comments all his code in Japanese and doesn't know a lick of English, - what, do we deride him or something?
This has nothing more to do with programming than any other skill or field, so I find the whole premise silly.
The comment wasn't ventured as a specific theory, just a possibility that could be plausible based on what we know about human nature. The question, "are we alone" may sound profound, but only in context of the current human condition. Change the human condition, and the importance of that question might change.
Additionally, the more we learn about the universe, the more obvious the actual answer will become. We're not very interested in whether extraterrestrial planets are round. We don't really care - in fact we'd be shocked if they weren't. That's because we understand the nature of matter and gravity, and while we can't prove that they are round, it's not a question we're particularly concerned with.
Life on other planets may turn out to be just such a situation should human knowledge and intelligence reach that relative point.
It's possible that our technological advances will sufficiently alter our thinking to the point that the question of ET's will fade away to the point of being boring and moot. It sounds silly, but what if, for example, we discover that there is a God, and we get his telephone number the next morning? Speculative, but perhaps other civilizations simply transcend their curiosity at some point well before they travel beyond that horizon.
Define "backstabber" and define "nice."
Yeah, a lot of "nice" engineers get canned. Some nice engineers are often also lacking in some major skill, which is why they have to be nice. And backstabbing is almost always misinterpreted by the person who gets the short stick.
I think the vast majority of the time, an engineer who is smart and competent, is tough when s/he needs to be and respectful at other times, will rarely get the pink slip unfairly.
But then again, sh*t happens, but probably not a good idea to assume sh*t always happens.
The school has no business giving kids laptops. First, there's no credible evidence it accelerates learning any more than, say, a really engaged teacher, or well produced educational videos, or just sticking with locked-down desktop computers in a classroom (bolted down, behind a firewall, reimaged every night).
The idea of vulnerable kids walking around with $1200 shiny macbooks just so they can type their essay - that's just not a good idea.
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From the perspective of a single, talented, and experienced developer, this all might seem silly. When one is managing many developers with varying skill levels, and are trying to maximize stability and security against a business ship date, telling everyone to add the if statement is just not going to be effective.
What does this have to do with the creativity of the programmer? I can tell you right now that my creativity hits a brick wall when the code crashes down the line because I corrupted the stack after assuming my destination buffer is large enough to hold the specified number of bytes. If one doesn't know the size of the dest buffer before copying into it, maybe one should put creativity on hold for 2 minutes while one finds out.
If a Bushie did this, I think I'd be all like "grarwbrblarblab rl! I can't believe glrbalrbalg, stupid politicians grblbr ... oil asgerbglajbaeog"
But somehow, the fact the Dr. Chu is saying makes me feel OK with it. Definitely hypocritical of me, but I feel I'd rather have the wrong decision made for the right reasons than the right decision made for the wrong ones. Maybe because the wrong reasons always screws things up in the end.
Maybe. Maybe not. How would you find out?
Maybe the real problem to solve is just how to make everyone immortal. That solves the issue of it taking tens or hundreds of millions of years to go somewhere. If I were a lifeform that had a lifetime of 10 minutes, going from New York to California would seem about as daunting as us going to the nearest star.
Somewhat off-topic, but Amazon's about to announce the Kindle DX with a 9.7" screen, maybe tomorrow: http://www.slashgear.com/amazon-kindle-dx-images-leak-97-inch-e-ink-screen-0542772/ This is almost the size of the printable part of an 8.5x11 page, so this is pretty cool. I hope the resolution and refresh speed are up to par.
The universe is the fluid in the pimple of God. I'm waiting for the Big Pop and the Big Wipe Off The Bathroom Mirror.
Not right now, probably. I'd imagine with the recent belt tightening across the country, businesses have a relatively high inventory that they are getting more and more desparate to unload. More likely, they will choose to cut workforce to compensate.
Ah, the classic model minority argument. Tell you what, let's go back in time and have blacks enslave whites for a dozen generations, emancipate them without compensating them or providing for them amidst deep racism, and let's see how things turn out. Blacks are absolutely not summarily inferior to any other race, including Asians as you suggest. They just happen to have a huge part of our history working against them. That's speaking as one of your model minorities.
I think you misread and misunderstood the poster. Get a clue.
Sorry, but *you* are nitpicking on racial versus cultural issues, and you can't get straight that I'm talking about Americans, not Japanese? Japanese Americans are Americans, last time I checked.
It's really rare to find a parent who doesn't love their kids and care deeply about their education. One of the problems I see is really bad school districting policy. I believe the people within a district ought to be able to declare on their tax forms that they want the portion of their tax dollars allocated towards public schools to be allocated towards the schools in *their* district. It makes no sense to me that an economically challenged areas should have any of their tax dollars going towards white collar school districts. That deprives them of the opportunity to improve their own situation. We owe those who have less the ability to target their own resources towards their own quality of life.
Are Japanese-American kids themselves so committed to learning, more so than African-American kids? Sounds to me it's more a parental issue than some kind of racial issue. Let's revisit this in 50 years when socioeconomic status equalizes a bit more, shall we?
Are you talking about the Papyrus or the Kindle?
I doubt it will "self destruct" - they will likely do the same thing as when Windows currently detects it is unlicensed. That is, it will disable a lot of functionality, but you will still have access to your data. After 1 year, then what? Well, either buy it or migrate your data of the machine. You're absolutely right, though. There's no real controversy here, so let's move along.
This is more like SP3 for Vista (SP2 is just around the corner). No one is forcing you to use software just because it's free for a year. I really don't see the fundamental difference between this, and buying stuff with financing with no money down for a year from Best Buy.
Sounds very much like an article from Cracked.com.
There was this dragon that was designed to be invincible via normal combat - the programmers gave it like MAXINT hit points, and the dragon breathed fire that would destroy everyone except the guy in the back. However, they also had a spell that calculates damage by percentage, and a spell that resurrects everyone in the party. So, the guy in the back resurrects everyone, including the other mage. The other mage would ding the dragon for ~5% of its HP, which was a huge number. The dragon would breath, everyone would die except the guy in the back, and the cycle repeats itself until the dragon dies.
They way you were supposed to "kill" the dragon was with some kind of orb, which the dragon would react to somehow and further the storyline. But I killed it and ruined the quest chain and had to start over.
I'm always rolling my eyes when I see someone claim that all X people should do Y. What's the universal consequence of not doing Y? If some Japanese game programmer produces the next great iPhone game and comments all his code in Japanese and doesn't know a lick of English, - what, do we deride him or something? This has nothing more to do with programming than any other skill or field, so I find the whole premise silly.
The comment wasn't ventured as a specific theory, just a possibility that could be plausible based on what we know about human nature. The question, "are we alone" may sound profound, but only in context of the current human condition. Change the human condition, and the importance of that question might change. Additionally, the more we learn about the universe, the more obvious the actual answer will become. We're not very interested in whether extraterrestrial planets are round. We don't really care - in fact we'd be shocked if they weren't. That's because we understand the nature of matter and gravity, and while we can't prove that they are round, it's not a question we're particularly concerned with. Life on other planets may turn out to be just such a situation should human knowledge and intelligence reach that relative point.
It's possible that our technological advances will sufficiently alter our thinking to the point that the question of ET's will fade away to the point of being boring and moot. It sounds silly, but what if, for example, we discover that there is a God, and we get his telephone number the next morning? Speculative, but perhaps other civilizations simply transcend their curiosity at some point well before they travel beyond that horizon.
Define "backstabber" and define "nice." Yeah, a lot of "nice" engineers get canned. Some nice engineers are often also lacking in some major skill, which is why they have to be nice. And backstabbing is almost always misinterpreted by the person who gets the short stick. I think the vast majority of the time, an engineer who is smart and competent, is tough when s/he needs to be and respectful at other times, will rarely get the pink slip unfairly. But then again, sh*t happens, but probably not a good idea to assume sh*t always happens.
Get the frame buffer, draw a few bitmaps in, and put in a few bodily noises. You'll be rich in no time.
The next experiment is to try to create a hologram that generates another hologram. Because a 3-level hologram would be awesome.
The school has no business giving kids laptops. First, there's no credible evidence it accelerates learning any more than, say, a really engaged teacher, or well produced educational videos, or just sticking with locked-down desktop computers in a classroom (bolted down, behind a firewall, reimaged every night). The idea of vulnerable kids walking around with $1200 shiny macbooks just so they can type their essay - that's just not a good idea.