Comment May I suggest an alternative... (Score 1) 190
Nevada County..Grass Valley, Nevada City..
Reasonable housing prices
GREAT quality of life!
60 miles from Sacramento
Nevada County..Grass Valley, Nevada City..
Reasonable housing prices
GREAT quality of life!
60 miles from Sacramento
It's fast and secure
Anonymous if you want, although I think most people really don't care
Totally free of any and all censorship..of any kind..absolutely..no exceptions
I don't care how compelling your argument is..no censorship..ever..for anything..ever
Reality may be ugly..but truth is good, no exceptions
Teach them something they don't know
Solve a problem they can't solve
Become the go-to guy when stuff goes wrong
Do this, and the rest won't matter
..as part of an engineering degree
No, a degree in English literature will not help you find a job
Although my main profession is software, I also do circuit design, construction, metalworking, carpentry and most of the other building trades
I find that even though the specifics are different, the fundamental skill is the same..problem solving
Software, circuit design, carpentry or any of the other disciplines seem more similar than different
The steps are the same..clearly identify the problem, look at the tools and materials that are available, then find a solution using what you have to work with
than a $39 Raspberry Pi?
Today, the digital world is young and new
The managers are young, the employees are young, the customers are young
Once upon a time, the railroad was the hot new tech, then radio was, then tv..etc
Someday, software will be as mature, professional and boring as ball-bearing engineering
I suspect that ball-bearing engineers suffer no age discrimination
BTW..I am a 60 year old programmer who is turning away work. I work in the totally non-sexy world of embedded systems and industrial equipment
..Alan Kay's educationally oriented programming language
They said...
Most kids who take math don't learn math
Most kids who take French don't learn French
But, kids who grow up in France, have no problem learning French
We want to create "Mathland" where learning math is natural
Whenever I hear the term "muscle memory" it reminds me of learning to play a musical instrument
That thing looks as baffling and intimidating as a saxophone to a new user
Sure..once you learn it, it might be cool, but how many people have the physical talent and time to learn it
I tried for years to learn piano, practiced a lot, and just never could get it
The articles were filled with very optimistic visions of a VR future that was "coming soon"
I worked for Disney Imagineering R&D at the time, so money was available to buy some stuff and play with it
We bought the "state of the art" system, and hooked it up..it was not super impressive
When we showed it to the President of WDI, he said "don't show this to anybody else, it makes us look bad"
Years, and many millions of dollars later, we managed to create our own VR headmount display and opened "Imagineering VR Lab" at Epcot
It was better, but still nowhere near lived up to the hype
..of software development, and even the best of us aren't very good at it
If there was a foolproof procedure to guarantee bug-free code, and only the lazy or incompetent produced bugs, things would be different
Unfortunately today, a talented, competent developer, using best practices, always produces bugs
..it uses Windows system calls which then call the sound driver
If the damage was caused by software, it's clearly the fault of the driver
VLC is too far up the stack to cause anything abnormal
..text vs "something-else-that-isn't-text"
The problem is complexity
Programs are getting too complex for humans to understand
We need more powerful tools to manage the complexity
And no, I don't mean another java framework
The cost of feathers has risen, even down is up!