Not a single gadget nor piece of software has made education more effective. It's expensive and schools are running out of money. Bring back the chalkboards and teach math, reading, writing, and the basics. Without those, you definitely can't code.

Basic coding is a worthless and unmarketable skill. Itâ(TM)s a prerequisite and easily self taught, like basic typing. It has no place in modern education. Letâ(TM)s instead focus on teaching math and science. Academia canâ(TM)t even teach those areas effectively today, anywhere in the world, Iâ(TM)d strongly and emphatically argue. Letâ(TM)s worry about the failure to teach the foundations for successful technical careers in general... not adding yet one more ineffective curriculum, but fixing what weâ(TM)re currently failing at.

No. Humans are not born with the same potential. I will never be a professional singer. I can hum a tune and sing a little off key. There are genetic limits to my capabilities. I will never have the patience to be a successful accountant. I can do basic finance, but will never be able to brainwash interest. I will never be a professional athlete. I can lose more one one one games than I win, get decent, but thereâ(TM)s a physical ceiling. Programming, well and professionally, requires a multitude of skills, disciplines, and temperament. You canâ(TM)t just force it on someone or even yourself. You can get okay at it with sheer willpower, but without a natural predilection, you will always be subpar. The only way that this myth of equivalent capabilities can work, is if we relax the standards to the lowest bare minimum requirement. If youâ(TM)re the type of person that canâ(TM)t work well with abstract concepts, because your natural talents lie elsewhere, youâ(TM)ll only really be able to master HTML and very basic USAGE of libraries. Thatâ(TM)s not programming or software engineering, like guitar hero isnâ(TM)t playing actual music.

The Google Play store did the same fucking thing. 64-bit only either right now or very soon. I got the notice months ago. The point is that there are a lot of technical reasons, like not having to build both 32 & 64 bit binaries, shipping system libraries & shims to support old 32-bit tech. Itâ(TM)s a waste is space, time, and effort to support old address modes. Do you cry yourself to sleep at night because Microsoft dropped 16-bit support for Windows apps?

It would have to be airgapped to not just be The Internet. They could also just cut routes and filter. Itâ(TM)s the same thing. This is only politics.

Look like youâ(TM)re incompetent and go after harmless content, so you have plausible deniability for when you take down speech that is incongruent with political ideology.

Iâ(TM)ve never even considered fixing headphones unless itâ(TM)s just the foam, and replacement pads arenâ(TM)t easy to find for most models. Even if the battery never wore out, people would still complain these arenâ(TM)t serviceable.

Mathematics too. As a software engineer, shit is relevant. Pretty much every aspect where public education fails are the most important aspects relevant to software. I fear the dumbing down of tech rather than the emphasis that the next generation step up. Learning to "code" is monkey work. Far more valuable are problem solving skills.

Once upon a time, an employer of mine attempted to license a few $100,000 worth of their software. It wasn't a high enough amount for Oracle to speak with us, so we ported off of it. They and their partner networks wouldn't even return our calls to accept our money in hand.

Serialization isn't inherently bad. It's bad practices and misuse, which won't change. It'll just be replaced by many developers with XML, JSON, Protobuf, YAML, or other. Then, someone will inevitably sprinkle on some reflection or code generation, and you've almost done a 360... but with a lot more code and even more that could go wrong. I don't agree that adding more training wheels and/or removing features is always the best way to fix bad developer habits.

It's the forcing of night owls into early morning schedules that's killing them. The assholes that say night owls are just being lazy for not aligning to morning hours. I have a suspicion that night owls tend to be more creative and disruptive. In response, there's a sociatal effort to stunt their growth and effect: Sleep deprivation. They start early in public schooling. Reprimand students for their biologically induced tardiness. The sleep deprivation affects studies, lowering grades, and again they're punished. By the time they exit schooling, they believe they're a lazy incompetent failure. Now, they accept that job at Subway making sandwiches without a fuss.

I have to give Microsoft credit. They've ported Windows to lots of hardware. Over the years they've supported x86, x64, Itanium, DEC Alpha, MIPS, PowerPC, ARM, and now ARM64. If you include Windows CE, even devices powered by Hitachi chips like the SH2. Their efforts have never really caught on, but they do keep trying. I'd pay good money for Windows Mobile running on an iPhone, just to piss people off.

IIRC, Visa has an entire department devoted to what kind of porn you can buy with a credit card. For instance: There are literally paragraphs of credit card regulations solely about pee. A woman can pee on another woman, and a woman or man can pee on a man or themselves, but a man can never pee on a woman. This includes a man peeing on the ground and a woman rolling around in it, using jars & other containers for transporting the pee, etc, etc. It's all written in legalese and closes just about every loophole that might result in a drop of man pee landing on a woman's skin from being payed for with a Visa. All other forms are 100% okay!

An action like this is enough to prevent me from ever considering building another project atop CUDA. It's not that I plan on rolling out consumer grade hardware into the datacenter. It's the principal that they can suddenly and arbitrarily lock customers into terms they didn't agree to when they set out and committed to a platform. Fuck Nvidia. Seriously. Fuck them.

I'm not the biggest Intel fanboy, but this isn't a problem limited to only Intel. It affects IBM's Power architecture, ARM, older AMD chips, and probably SPARC too. The most vocal people upset by this aren't the ones deeply concerned about the security implications, but are the ones pissed off that their frame rates in the latest MMORPG might suffer with a patch. I propose letting those people run without a fix, so they can bitch later when their unpatched machines leak their entire identity & finances to some Nigerian website.