Time to return to the golden years of discovering new ways of organizing, conveying, and processing information, solving problems with less drudgery and understanding how things work without arcane syntax getting in the way.
No-one complains about word processors stifling the creative process, why should they complain about tools to support advancing CS. Well, I suppose people who think CS is learning how to use excel perhaps
Intel once held a commanding lead and money was rolling in. Did they spend it on innovation or on stock buybacks ?
The camps had hundreds of children's lives in their hands, and were in an area known for flooding.
They should have pro-actively been reaching out to the NWS and getting forecasts, they should have ensured that they could get alerts even if there was excess chatter, and they should have acted upon the earlier warnings even if there was uncertainty.
If negligence played a role in so many young deaths I hope the organizers involved rot in jail
We seem to be blaming the lack of warnings but to my mind it is the lack of will to act, not taking the early warnings seriously enough.It's not as if a 30 minute warning of a flood like that is much use, I saw the video and the roads were submerged with fast-moving water in minutes. The warnings that should have been heeded were days before and I suspect the camp organizers will have been aware of them or at the very least the sheriff could have driven out to the camp and told them first hand. Waiting to act until you get a message that disaster is imminent is not a viable strategy
The judges are part of the game, flaws and all. The whole thing is, or should be imo, a human endeavor. everyone doing their best but accept the occasional error
Even if there is great prestige and wealth involved, doesn't the sign above the players entrance say something about victory being an imposter ?
Biology is the only science in which multiplication means the same thing as division.
