Someone's God lied to them......

No, your responsibility as a father is to support and love your daughter. Help guide her to making good decisions and let her make bad ones then be there when she needs you. I have two girls, if they want to be strippers or some other kind of sex worker I'll support them the same as if they wanted to be biologists, programmers, physicists, janitors, artists, or teachers. It's their life to live, not mine.

I think they have to be updated pretty much constantly. Their orbits aren't perfect and they have to be adjusted for relativity in their orbits.

Some servers do have video cards. We have them in lots of our servers for GPU compute tasks.

It's been in the kernel for a few months and it's constantly being updated and fixed. They're actually doing a pretty good job of it honestly. The catalyst driver still doesn't use it, but they will soonish. Mesa uses it and it works really well actually. This is the earliest article I could find, more recent ones have mesa 11 benchmarks where the Radeon driver has almost caught up to the catalyst in some areas. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.p...

I know I'm responding to AC here, but I think you don't hang out in the same circles as Go developers. You're comparing apples to oranges, go is primarily an infrastructure language whereas Swift is generally a frontend language. But since you asked: Docker - you might have heard of it Kubernetes Comcast BBC Cloudflare Rackspace Cloudfoundry Dailymotion DigitalOcean Dropbox Ebay EMC The Economist Flipboard GE Heroku Imagefly Imgur Shutterfly Tumblr The list goes on and on and on. Just because you don't personally know anyone that uses it doesn't mean it's not being used. It's just used by highly skilled and highly paid neckbeards making all the backend shit app developers need to make their toys.

It's pretty easy actually, better to keep tabs on the enemy by letting them continue to use accounts that we know about rather than drive them to ones that we don't.

Virtual desktops, scientific computing, big render farms. There's all kinds of things, they're not really for home users though. I mean, you could buy one but you're unlikely to be able to use it effectively. This is targeted at a market and computation scale that's much much larger than most people work with. People who buy these don't buy one at a time, they buy them by the dozens.

Not necessarily, in scientific computing cards like this are important. The biggest problem with GPU computing in general is the time it takes to copy from main memory to GPU memory and back. It really makes GPU difficult to work with and generally the gains in parallelization don't really pay off considering the amount of time it takes to make those memory copies. Being able to load more into memory and have it stay there is a big deal.

I agree with everything you just said. Before I moved jobs I was working at a place where I was making 30-40K less than everyone in my shop. I knew the systems better than anyone in there because I had worked my way up the company from lowly technician to a senior engineering position. When I went to my boss and brought up that I needed a raise to stay he agreed, but HR said that due to me not having a degree they weren't going to give me one. This despite being top ranked in every metric within the company from performance reviews to actually getting shit done. So I went out and interviewed for a few jobs, brought back an offer letter that was more reasonable. HR said "Ok, we'll give you a 5% raise", my response was to tell them to fuck off and I left forcing them to hire someone that didn't know the systems inside and out at market rate. Where I'm at now I'm being paid a little above market average, but my co-workers are excellent, my boss is cool, and climate science is a lot of fun. Honestly, I'd work here for a little under market average but my boss is pushing for a serious promotion/pay upgrade.

If you have weeks long running jobs on your desktop you're doing it wrong. There's a reason servers exist in datacenters. I work in scientific computing and people running jobs on their desktop is a huge problem, they spend ridiculous amounts of money for something like a Mac Prol to run this stuff on when they should be buying actual servers instead. Then complain when their desktop is running like shit or their job fails because the building took an intermittent power hit. You can even put GPU compute in servers and have a lot less concern for your systems going down.

I fail to see the problem here. My kids have dozens of sets of those branded Lego kits and you'd be hard pressed to find a single one of them intact. The tie-ins make the kids interested in the sets themselves which is fine because they immediately tear them apart and make new things with them which is a good thing. So if marketing sells a toy to that interests a kid which can then set that kid's imagination free then I fail to see a problem with it.

I'll tell you this, it's way more difficult and far more expensive/time consuming than you might imagine. You should also be very clear about your reasons for doing this, keeping the kid at home is not one of those reasons. I know several homeschooled kids like that and they're a bit stunted, you have to make sure to get out and be active a lot more as well. Look around in your area for enrichment programs, for instance our kids go to public school 1 day per week. It's fantastic, and they make a lot of friends plus get that more structured school environment. Make sure that you're doing this for the right reasons. Finally, it takes an unbelievable amount of discipline from you both as parents. My wife and I are up late hours every week making sure that we have lessons ready, making tests, basically doing the things normal teachers do. If you're still reading and serious about this, it's also very rewarding. Seriously, if you do this right your kid will be light years ahead. You do it wrong and you'll really fuck up your kid's future.

I have a CC3200 and it works pretty well. I'm using it with the Energia IDE and for the most part it's not too bad. I agree that they should do more to embrace the community, but at the moment I don't find developing for these boards that much more onerous than Arduino.

Are you upset? You seem upset.