This has nothing to do with the subject we're supposed to be discussing.

  OpenSSL is also as you said: "written by a couple of mathematicians" I.e. Not programmers. And it shows [github.com].

Doesn't that code look mostly machine-generated? No self-respecting mathematician, lazy as hell as we all are, would write all that.

This man gives the perfect solution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

"...I'm not going to get a refund so why should I have to pay for others because socialists want to buy votes by giving out "free stuff" using my wallet?..."

To be consistent, you are against bankruptcy laws as well, aren't you? Well, you can't discharge student loans in bankruptcy. Student loans are an unintentional scam. Let's let it die.

As the coders say, go ahead and merge these yourself. Please post your course outlines and release them under a free license.

  People were so desperate to have a female CEO...

Please. Those old fools made a bad investment because of her looks. This should be obvious to most men.

So do you think exponentiation should be right- or left-associative? What should 2^4^2 compute to in Julia?

Many students go to college with 0 programming experience, and end up failing dramatically in their first course. Do you think this "Lite" course will help students perform better in their first "real" college programming course?

C'mon, man. You have to spoof the MAC address if you connect to public Wifi. The prosecutor sees you dumping the laptop in the water, retrieves it, opens it, notices the MAC address label on the Wifi adapter is still intact (damned Thinkpads!), and you're busted. Even state-sponsored hackers get caught--you just can't arrest them. It's fantasy to think you can outplay the US government like this. Even Snowden got caught, and he tried really hard not to.

Fuck that. I have a baby due in August. I'm not washing that shit.

Indian devs? Isn't the majority of the site essentially copied from elsewhere?

"As long as the professor isn't grading on syntax (i.e. use pseudo-code), I'm all for coding on paper..."

I somewhat agree with you, but if you had to constantly grade programs for 50 students for 16 weeks, and you don't bother to force them to adhere to a certain style, you might have to take stress leave before the end of the semester. No student takes you seriously until you deduct points---there is no way around this.

"Face it, most people use keyboards for writing these days, not pens & pencils. So why hasn't University caught up with that notion..."

Because exams require devices which are not networked. This requires capable staff and accommodating administrators, which rules out most schools.

  Would you test a Civil Engineering student by asking him/her to build you a bridge?

Yes, but a properly scaled-down version. I agree with paper-only programming exams, but I have to criticize your imperfect analogy.

I teach at a community college, and all of my exams in programming class have been on paper, except one. Before this exam, I showed students on the overhead that I could see their desktops on my computer. I required them all to leave the IDE maximized (I use the VPL plugin in Moodle). One student did extensive browsing and copying from the net anyway, and I witnessed it. He dropped shortly thereafter, and I returned to paper-only exams forever.

The trick is to condition your students to writing on paper. If you don't, most will fail because going from hours of staring at a computer screen to writing on paper is very unsettling. So I give students a 5-10 minute written quiz every class meeting (twice weekly). It seems to work, and although almost every student fails some quizzes, the exam grades are pretty good, on average, compared to semesters when I didn't give daily quizzes. (Quizzes are weighted 10%, exams 50% (2 during term, 1 final), projects 40%.) Of course, this quadrupled the grading I normally do (50 students), but I think it is very rewarding for myself and the students.