Is that what it's like to go to a private school?

From the article: "I taught myself some coding and computer repair in probably the most painstaking ways possible, but my experiences growing up put me at a disadvantage that I am still working to overcome. Throughout college, I was secretly fighting tooth and nail to understand concepts, references, and information that my classmates knew from young ages. From what I can tell, this is not uncommon."

I was a TA in college for intro CS classes, and I can tell you that not many kids understand this stuff right off the bat. Very few understood it by the end of the first semester. Most were just blindly typing and eventually, the monkeys typed Shakespeare. So, this woman not special. Nor is she special because she is a woman. In fact, I see nothing about her in this article that makes her any different from the thousands of others in the field.

Of all of the days to be without mod points!

Since Bitcoins have no intrinsic value, and no government is willing to go to war over their value, then they are worth about as much as Beanie Babies. At one time, Beanie Babies fetched a premium, but now people are just stuck with a room full of toys they spent thousands on.

So every time I hear someone talk about Bitcoins, I immediately think to that episode of South Park where Cartman thinks that pubes have value. "So, how much is that in pubes?"

That's all well and good, if you have a society of engineers. But what happens to those that can't graduate university?

Can you site a source for this that would explain it to me? I don't understand how eliminating the shitty jobs you don't want to do will magically make more awesome jobs available to everyone else.

It does look like I missed the point of the article, but I was talking about the idea that a "shortage" of the traditional stock is becoming a problem, when you are only talking about a few dozen cases annually. You mean to tell me that you can't find something else to use that doesn't "threaten millions of patients"?

According to http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/ 2013 thus far has seen 32 executions, and 2012 saw 43 executions. How in the world could less than 50 a year cause a problem for millions of patients? I'd think it would be the other way around...

Nobody drinks water anymore. That's what's in toilets. It doesn't have electrolytes. It doesn't have what plants crave.

I don't know why this is a surprise to anyone out there. The internet was never a secure place to store any information, or discuss anything. Putting something in "the cloud" is like putting on your front porch. When is the general public going to realize this? Google is giving you email for free, do you really think no one is reading it?

That would be an awesome idea...if it actually worked.

My place uses a lot of research equipment that runs on specialty hardware/software, which is not compatible with anything other than what it's running now (which in some cases is NT), but also doesn't work with VMs because the hardware interface doesn't recognize it. One of the scientists just purchased a 6 figure machine that came with XP on it. The manufacturer claims it's not compatible with anything else. How awesome is that?

If, if, if....there are a lot of ifs there.

All he's saying is that it's a shitty form of currency right now. And that's the truth.

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Probably because the only way to fight the espionage charges would be to claim that you disobeyed standing orders for the greater good of the country, and things like the Geneva Convention for treatment of prisoners. If he wants to claim the high moral ground, he has to plead guilty to what he actually is guilty of.

Of all the days to not have mod points!!!! Please someone mod this post up!!!!!

Tell him to stop worrying about college and just enjoy the summer. Once you go to college, it's all about studying and doing well, then summers are for working jobs to pay off some debt and have spending cash during the school year, then back to school....and once your graduate and get a job, all of your freedom is gone!

Have him enjoy his last moments of freedom from responsibility and have fun with his friends.

Besides, if I had a dime for every kid in Intro to CS that thought he knew how to program but couldn't grasp the idea of simple design patterns...I wouldn't have had to be a TA.