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Years ago, when Windows was dominant and the smartphone era had yet to arrive, Microsoft was often the epitome of all that is wrong with a powerful company. Still?
or: Again?
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What tends to get overlooked when discussing STEM skills is that we need to teach algorithmic thought in the same way as needing to teach math, not just arithmetic. "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don’t teach a man to fish and you feed yourself. He’s a grown man, fishing’s not that hard."
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Computer programming is highly specialized work; it can't be effectively taught in an intensive program. You can't learn how to program in two weeks?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: You can't learn how to program in two weeks? Of course...
you need 21 days.
M.D.V.
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No, it requires 21 days.
Don't you remember books like "Teach yourself C in 21 Days"?
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A new study by IT staffing company Modis reveals that people still aren't taking their privacy seriously. "I'd buy that for a dollar!"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: 30 percent of Americans would leak private data for $1,000 Bullshit...
They already do it for free (and not only Americans)
M.D.V.
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Just give them some fake coins on some game for it
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The site uses data related to searches made by users about “How To” do things, which represents a massive amount of activity on Google, it turns out. Now we just need this for Q&A
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Is that link broken or is it just me?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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The link works fine for me, so it's just you.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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wonderful...
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Computer science boffin Norbert Blum has acknowledged that his P≠NP proof is incorrect, as a number of experts anticipated. Missed a 'carry the naught'?
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We been trolled! I never would'a looked at this p ≠ np had I known it wouldn'ta been proofed.
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Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) are presenting a new system for data center caching that instead uses flash memory, the kind of memory used in most smartphones. "Flash, ah, he'll save every one of us"
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The wear leveling algorithms should be a blast to write.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Flash, ah, he'll save every one of us As far as it is not the flash from adobe...
M.D.V.
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Granted, "never" may be a stretch, but there are ways to make users happy without going nuts. "Alone again, naturally"
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Good choice
Quote: Those are good articles. They're nice articles.
This isn't one of those articles.
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Here’s a rule I’m postulating* for software engineering projects: you need at least 3 examples before you solve the right problem. Shouldn't there be three rules then?
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Several years back, one of the CP members had a signature about not generalizing until you have three examples.
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Kaspersky Labs found itself in a situation familiar to many tech companies: it was sued by a do-nothing patent holder in East Texas who demanded a cash settlement before it would go away. Now we just need that to happen a few more times
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