Comment: Re:What? said Mr Pot To Mr Kettle (Score 2) 450
You need some work on the proper use of American (you're not your).
Comment: Re:Awesome (Score 0) 147
Comment: Re:Awesome (Score -1, Troll) 147
Comment: Re:Um, why? (Score 1) 252
I have a 90 line
Comment: Re:Um, why? (Score 1) 252
Maybe 20 years ago, but I just opened a file in Emacs and it loaded in about a half a second.
Comment: My Theory (Score 5, Funny) 264
Comment: Re:OB CN (Score 1) 441
Comment: Re:Professional languages (Score 1) 182
There are business applications, and what I would call technical applications such as image processing, geographic information systems, numerical analysis, etc. I work for a large company that does the latter, and every project that I am aware of uses C++.
Comment: Re:Does Microsoft make bad versions deliberately? (Score 4, Insightful) 610
You make it sound like Windows 8 is a stroke of marketing genius instead of a case of user interface design stupidity. I’ll put my money on stupidity.
Comment: Re:Are you an engineer? (Score 1) 333
Comment: Re:Nah (Score 1) 550
Right. How are the lawyers going to make any money if everything is well defined?
Comment: Re:My Experience (Score 1) 265
- 1. The good test scores were primariy made by the math and science majors.
- 2. The good test scores were primariy made by the psyc majors.
- 3. The good test scores were evenly distributed among the various majors.
- 4.I'm delusional and I just imagined this whole thing.
I'm putting all my money on hypothesis one.
Comment: My Experience (Score 1) 265
I don’t mean for this to sound arrogant, but it probably will. I was a physics major who took a statistics course that was taught in the Psychology Department and meant for psychology students. A lot of science and math majors took the course as a way to pad their GPA’s. I could see from the books the other students brought to class that about one forth of the students were science or math majors. I think I made about a 96 on the first test and was embarrassed at the thing I missed. The class average was 48 or something. The grad student teaching the course said that maybe the test was too hard, but “there were a lot of very good grades”. I have a feeling that not many of the good grades were made by the psych majors.
If I were teaching the course, I would probably emphasize the purpose of the various statistical techniques for behavioral evaluation, and not make the math portion too detailed or rigorous.
Comment: Re:C was the game-changer but C++ was too dense (Score 1) 201
It helped manage complexity, but it increased the skill level needed to program effectively.