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by cantankerous 14y ago
:-) I think another important thing to note is that both software engineers and computer scientists reinforce and add value to each other's work. CS can improve and verify the methods employed by those in SE and those in SE can provide di
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by cantankerous 14y ago
I'm not sure whether to be upset or take it as a complement that my idle random thoughts would be called propaganda. Rest assured, I'm not trying to denigrate atheists, or Sweden for that matter. The observation was that in less developed
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by cantankerous 14y ago
That's a pretty strong statement. Care to provide some examples?
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I think the integration of software engineering as the core of a computer science program essentially destroys the computer science program. Sure, many people with CS degrees wind up doing software engineering, but comparing CS to SE is li
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by cantankerous 14y ago
Metaphysical beliefs notwithstanding, there is a decent amount of convergence on interpersonal interaction between the world's major religions (i.e. mutual respect, Golden Rule). From a non-religious standpoint, this could be because these
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I was about to say "Java!!!" then realized how misplaced that statement was given the circumstances. Oracle really is shooting themselves in the foot here.
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That's a really good way of framing it. It's good to get insight from people who are in the thick of it (I'm not). Thanks!
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Maybe it's not that they pay more that makes them more likely to work with you, but rather there's something about people who have more money to spend (ex Enterprise-level customers) that changes their awareness of the realities of the solu
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by cantankerous 14y ago
Thanks, yeah I'll have to check that out. It seems like people sure can be nuts about their money.
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Just tossing it out there, but isn't the price point of a product also a big director in consumer expectations? Not that I support making a crappy product, but consumers who pay a lot more generally have higher expectations about what they
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I'd like to throw in there that, even in 2010, it took me all of 20 minutes to get GHC going on a fresh machine. Perhaps he's using hyperbole?
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You know, encryption and a decently strong password pretty much seals the deal on somebody physically stealing your data. There is no reason to not encrypt your home computer if you are so concerned.
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I can't say with any certainty about how much you could automate the job of a featured journalist or editorialist for a big journalistic institution like the Economist or maybe the Times, but I'd say at the current quality network and cable
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Nah, consider it "supporting-commentary" to you. It was more about the original post referring to the shelf-life of programs.
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CS != IT. I think a lot of people have begun to think that it is. The core difference is that the foundations of CS change at about the same pace as a discipline like Formal Logic from Philosophy/Mathematics (that's where CS has a lot of
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This article DOES NOT PROVIDE ENOUGH INFORMATION on why this restructuring has taken place. Is it really just a ham-fisted budget cutting move or is there something more subtle going on? It looks like the university also had an ECE depart
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by cantankerous 15y ago
Conflating FOSS to socialism is patently absurd (FOSS is very monetizable and comes in many different forms that you can incorporate into many different business models) and an attempt to co-opt a very negative "red baiting" sentiment in ot
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I find it intriguing that, in the Sci-Fi genre, for so long nobody has really taken issue with the idea of inter-species romantic relationships, but yet when homosexuality is thrown into the mix, some people who probably wouldn't care about
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by cantankerous 15y ago
Be that as it may, the invention of the printing press wasn't a watershed moment for writers everywhere. Getting a book published in print even now is quite an undertaking when you consider all the individuals, money, and infrastructure in
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How to Keep Your Organization Mediocre(zacharyernst.blogspot.com)
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Objective-C's outlook will be about as strong as the Apple platform will continue to be for better or for worse. Yes, it does exist outside of the Apple ecosystem, but only really in nominal form. What's more, Objective-C work pretty much
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by cantankerous 15y ago
Boom! I can't agree with you more on the proponents of "no job" degrees. I've lost count of the number of students pursuing degrees in philo, comm, psych, sociology, and to some extent even undergraduate business degrees who give little o
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I think it probably just boils down to keeping a paper trail and policies to employees explicitly stating that such behavior will make you criminally and civilly liable. When a violation occurs, throw the malefactors under the bus like and
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So I take it you're placing the blame with the SEC, and not the notion of financial regulations in general? I think a lot of people do believe that the financial sector has a lot to answer for that it still hasn't answered since 2008. The
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by cantankerous 15y ago
I think that Shacham paper is the best primer on ROP of all the papers I've read, including the paper mentioned by the parent commentor: http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~hovav/dist/geometry.pdf