Comment Re:News? (Score 1) 425
I'm one of the good ones! Oops, I meant cout "I'm the best!" endl;
\ Let me fix that for you
cout << "No, I'm the best!" << endl;
I'm one of the good ones! Oops, I meant cout "I'm the best!" endl;
\ Let me fix that for you
cout << "No, I'm the best!" << endl;
Hell, you wouldn't ask a psychiatrist to give you an appendectomy, would you?
The only thing I'd ask a psychiatrist is "please leave."
It depends on the circumstances. If I were stuck in this situation I'd trust anyone with some medical training as being better than do-it-yourself.
On academic programming courses - of which I've taught on many - the grade distribution is definitely bimodal and there is a clear gap between those who can and those who can't. Of course, there is variance among those who can but the difference is largely that those who can largely get better whilst those who can't never get even get it.
Those who can, do...and those that can't, teach?
Good programmers make themselves available to help (teach) their cube-mates - not get into pissing contests by withholding information.
"there is a myth that programming skill is somehow distributed on a U-shaped curve"
Never heard of this "myth." I always thought it was a slope - a lot of bad ones, a fair amount of decent ones, and some really good ones - and that it was in many ways dependent upon experience - the more experience you have, the better you get - or you go into something else after a few years.
The original design was not faulty - it worked fine for years, until people's habits changed to carrying so much junk on their keychains. It would be the same as if people, instead of just hanging a pair of fuzzy dice from their interior rear-view mirror started hanging their purse or pack-sack from it and complaining that it broke off after a bump.
We have way too many common-sense fails nowadays, such as "This plastic bag is not a toy" and "Objects in mirror are closer than they seem" and "6PCS Precision screwdriver set not to be inserted into penis" and "Do not eat Ipod shuffle" (found on apple's website) and "Do not use for personal hygiene" (on Scrubbing Bubbles Fresh Brush) and many many more.
That would presume that every writer actually read Tolkien - a very dubious assumption, since (a) there were plenty of writers who wrote fantasy before Tolkien wrote LotR, and (b) that many modern writers would even bother reading it. I bought the series on sale because of the hype, and after 50 pages put it down because it sucks pretty much on the same level as C. S. Lewis.
Have I seen the movie? I walked into a relative's basement and after a minute I asked "What the heck is this anyway?" "Lord of the Rings." "No wonder it's so f-ed up. Bye!"
Tolkien was a poor second-rate wannabe of HG Wells and Jules Verne, or if you want to go back a few centuries, Johnathan Swift.
Honestly though, you don't have to like Tolkien, but you also can't say anything about the modern fantasy genre without in some way referencing him
A pity that Tolkien didn't invent any of those - then his estate could sue the modern fantasy genre into non-existence, and nothing of value would be lost except Anne McCaffrey's works.
Just because most of the fans of lord of the rings are (claimed to be) scientists (no actual study was done) does not mean that most scientists are fans of lord of the rings.
And honestly, lord of the rings stinks as a piece of literature. Give me a good sci-fi (or even not-so-good) any day.
Yes it is; she was trans long before she was publicly identified as trans, and you can be sure that she did not maintain a male appearance 100% of the time. Once someone transitions, they want to move on to what is their real life.
Once Bruce Jenner is done transitioning, do you think it would not be considered both insulting and exploitative to make a statue of how he used to look?
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