Comment Oldies but goodies (Score 1) 247
The Psychology of Computer Programming by Gerald Weinburg
The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks
The Psychology of Computer Programming by Gerald Weinburg
The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks
A Programming Language
(by Ken Iverson)
So, you mean a state like Texas - loose gun control - with a 2012 murder rate of 4.4 (per 100,000 people) versus a state like New York - tight gun control - with a rate of 3.5? Which is the lower number? See http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.or... . Better yet, look at the ranking by murder rate -
and tell me if you think the top of the list - the high murder-rate states - Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Michigan, South Carolina, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware, Tennessee, and Arkansas - sounds like a bunch of states with tight gun control laws?
...know about surveillance?
In fact, APL is the epitome of elegance in computer programming languages: http://sharonhines.com/interne... (one random, recent example of many).
One simple example: some languages have a way to do matrix multiplication but it's often a clunky function call or an odd, non-standard piece of notation (I'm looking at you, Matlab). APL doesn't just do matrix multiply but generalizes the very concept of it so that you can do a generalized inner product that reduces to matrix multiply when the functions supplied to it are multiplication and addition.
Ignorance of the language, common and widespread though it is, is not the same as an actual reason for dismissing it.
These laws against recording in public are an early step toward curtailing freedom of speech. The recent popularity of variations on this, particularly with regard toward laws against recording police officers should be a tip-off.
We already have laws that differentiate between what's acceptable in public versus private space: walking around naked, for instance. Blurring this line looks like something that favors those who would erode and limit the public space.
Most of the essays like this one here: http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki... .
You're right as far as I'm concerned but we may not be in the majority.
Sorry, slop and rigor don't really combine well.
...the government funds medical research that suppresses "natural cures" by exposing them as ineffective frauds.
Not enough of this given the giant loopholes opened by our clueless congresscritters, e.g. the DSHEA - http://www.wholefoodsmagazine.... .
As long as the quality of work continues to be an imponderable - not sure why this still is the case, unless management continues to remain clueless - decisions will be made only based on how much money someone costs, and older people want more money. Perhaps they imagine that experience is valuable.
This only holds if there's no awareness of the difference in work quality...oh, wait.
But I call BS on this tired old argument anyway. If it were true, the 50-something w/the kids in college and flexibility would be sought after - we're not.
In a new study that tracked a large sample of adults for nearly two decades, researchers have found that eating a diet rich in animal proteins during middle age makes you four times more likely to die of cancer than someone with a low-protein diet—a mortality risk factor comparable to smoking.
Uh-oh, not only should I be a vegetarian, maybe I should be vegan.
If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.
