TheCapn

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by TheCapn 15y ago
I don't like the article because of the fatal flaw I see with novice programmers that this fails to address... tunnel vision. When I say "tunnel vision" though I mean the fact that novice users don't entirely understand what code does or ho
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by TheCapn 15y ago
The issues you address aren't Android specific though and probably shouldn't be addressed by "Android" tutorials since they aren't specific to the platform.
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by TheCapn 15y ago
To fully explain all the physics they try to dabble in would take a show twice its length and less than half of the entertainment it already "provides". The times they touch on topics I have actual experience in makes me cringe yes but its
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by TheCapn 15y ago
From my experience you are correct. STEM programs are about critical thinking, problem solving and planning for undesired outcomes. An Engineer is taught how to constructively deduce the situation so that a beneficial proposal can be genera
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by TheCapn 15y ago
There's too many variables for people to be crunching numbers like this... while I went through university I lived at home and worked at jobs that paid $17/hour minimum. My total take home would probably be comparable to that of a person ma
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by TheCapn 15y ago
Agreed. My area's companies typically offer $50k for entry level developers. You can swindle more out of companies if they've been looking for someone for long enough or you have a special skillset that interests them. I have one friend who
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by TheCapn 15y ago
Where I'm from the real difference between Engineer and Technician is the amount of responsibility that is placed upon the professional's shoulders. I have lots of technician friends who complain about the work they do being the same as eng
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by TheCapn 15y ago
I guess I lied in part... I'm a Systems Engineer with a Software specialization. My work is about the integration of software components into a much larger architecture of devices... in my case I keep the internet backbone alive for my prov
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by TheCapn 15y ago
I agree with you completely. I'm just being pissy and saying "I wish things were different" and I really don't have a productive solution to the problem... My wish is that programmers would take pride in the title and call themselves progra
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by TheCapn 15y ago
I feel that is the wrong way to approach things. Your job as a programmer was to provide that deliverable as set out by your position. You programmed it and it went along. The outcome of that deliverable was the improvement but your job w
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by TheCapn 15y ago
The biggest quarrel I have with this whole debacle is how it all started out. A group of wise asses decided they should fancy their title up and now everyone has to "to stay relevant". The fact is I AM a Software Engineer. I have a degree
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by TheCapn 15y ago
Don't look at things in a negative way. Should this be true I'd prefer to believe that it was because of his alternative vision on life that he was capable of producing such innovative product lines. No "alternative" way of thinking in me
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by TheCapn 15y ago
>Has anybody at Bethesda considered that nobody actually calls their games "Elder Scrolls"? I've seen pretty much all the footage on Skyrim, and I don't recall I've seen the series title once. That is "sort of" the point... when someone
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by TheCapn 15y ago
I'm just surprised there's no PR group talking with legal. This is a nightmare for Bethesda as Minecraft (and by extension Notch) has an extremely loyal and, dare I say, vocal following. Win or lose Bethesda comes out looking like a evil gr
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by TheCapn 15y ago
I know this is only thinly related but I thought I'd post something that I heard from an investor that I met with a few months ago that we decided not to pursue a career with regarding app development for enterprise blackberry stuff... Disc
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by TheCapn 15y ago
That's exactly the point. They pick "victims" that would potentially be able to fight off the lawsuits in court but to do so would cost more than to just settle. A company like McDonalds keeps lawyers on retainer and are paying them regardl
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by TheCapn 15y ago
There's only so much you can do to combat human trickery and for the most part you only have the option to be "reactive" instead of "proactive" on moves because if a human can read the algorithm (Open Source) they can device ways around it.
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by TheCapn 15y ago
About a year ago now I finished writing some cheap code that implemented basically what he details in the blog. (My blog links the code on github: http://pro-graham.com/ ) I wrote it for a small AI class project building on something a fri
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by TheCapn 15y ago
Not sure why, but the site is blocked at my work. Can I get a pastebin of the content or something similar please?
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by TheCapn 15y ago
"Worst case Mojang changes the name of an unreleased game (that I hadn't heard about until now)." I disagree. Worst case is both companies are out $X because legal departments collect their fees post-court for a no good reason. Mojang is
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by TheCapn 15y ago
Consider the majority market of Facebook users, many don't know how to "hide posts" and will often be turned off whent their facebook wall begins to look like their hotmail account. Don't always assume the average user has the know-how you
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by TheCapn 15y ago
You make a good point. Everyone feels that their voice should be heard but forget that the government represents a lot of people. If they personally responded to each letter that was received then I'd gamble they'd be doing their job mu
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by TheCapn 15y ago
I'm sort of interested how you plan to make profit by billing unknown sources for use of your services... A responsible business that wishes to comply with tax law and other important parts of making a living needs to have record of incom
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by TheCapn 15y ago
What pie charts are good at is providing a visual comparison of a series of values that compose a whole. Pie charts work when you're trying to represent a percentage of a total value. The example in the link about "features" is crap becau
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by TheCapn 15y ago
The reason you've been downvoted (not by me though, I'm not popular enough yet) is because your assertation is wrong. In your very first line you state that he is not packaging the CBC content when in all literal meanings of the word Packag
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by TheCapn 15y ago
Ignorance and stupidity are different things though. Hopefully you've positioned yourself in the world where you can avoid the latter but its not always possible. The reason why iterative processes and rapid prototyping work better in model
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by TheCapn 15y ago
From what I gather it sounds like they're trying to redact important info from cables prior to release so they don't get their asses burned any more than they have. They've got a collection of cables they haven't yet processed and are now b
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by TheCapn 15y ago
More of a curious question but are you saying you're incapable of solving the last one without paper or just that its really not worth the time. Any of those example questions I could do without paper (I'm 23 for a reference) but I certai
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by TheCapn 15y ago
I'm going to speak from the role of recent graduate in Software Engineering, a strong focus on math here... 1) Visualization of mathematical concepts is a skill that many students simply lack. When someone asks me to crunch out 1.5 * 3.67 m
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by TheCapn 15y ago
"plague" is a stretch.

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