I only checked out http://www.hackbrightacademy.c... but they don't appear to offer any kind of certification. Just 10 weeks of training for women that ends with a "Career Day".

Maybe if colleges could teach software development there wouldn't be a need for these code bootcamps.

You would have to go way out of your way to get x86 binaries on an arm box. Your package manager certainly won't be giving you pre-built packages for the wrong architecture.

Lol, i was thinking the same thing. Want to listen to texts and perform an action? Or just replace the whole sub-system? Simply not possible on iOS. Side-stepping an issue is not solving it.

A president cannot do what Obama is doing in a "Constitutional Republic with checks-and-balances".
Selective enforcement of law IS the checks and balances.

That is just silly though. I'm sure your state has passed some extremely ass-backward laws. Probably means every citizen in your state is ass-backwards too, right? The government is elected by majority but speaks for all. The implementation and enforcement of laws is itself a check/balance.

You seem to be breaking any bigotry stereotypes though.

What are you doing out here Fred?!

After two weeks you might think you've learned that programming language. To all your friends who don't know any better it looks like you're some kind of cultured genius. But to anyone who actually knows and works with the language you will appear to be a lost tourist constantly checking a guidebook.

JP8 is pretty much used for everything too. Stoves, hmmwvs, tanks, aircraft. Everything except lawn mowers.

Just to add a little to what you said. An old GPU/ASIC can perform certain tasks far faster than modern CPUs. If D-Wave ends up only able to solve that kind of problem faster than a traditional computer then it must also be able to outperform the GPU/ASIC setup as well.

Here are the two propositions that you are comparing:

1. Opinions of regular people are just as valid as those of experts
2. A gross majority of experts are lying to get funding

What would you say is the likelihood of each being true? Just because neither is 0% or 100% doesn't make them equivalent.

Being civilized does not allow a person to control their emotions. If you have ever seen people scared for their lives (for real or imagined) you would never have made that statement. Most people have no idea what they will do in an emergency until it has happened to them. Their idealized self most likely crushed in that moment and they spend the rest of their life trying to forget it or playing "what-if" games during boring meetings.