Comment Re:Stigma (Score 1) 836
If you are correct, you should be able to start such an institute and make a mountain of money.
It's not quite so simple as I don't have the heap of money to get started, nor the political lobbying power.
If you are correct, you should be able to start such an institute and make a mountain of money.
It's not quite so simple as I don't have the heap of money to get started, nor the political lobbying power.
You mean grad school?
No, I mean something you can go directly after high school (or local equivalent).
and yeah if u did your job properly in a good school , 4 years does matter in the way u approach a problem.
Are you using "u" as sarcasm in this context?
They do not have as expansive of knowledge in data structures and sorting algorithms and the like. There are many jobs where optimizing is important and knowing which algorithm has the best run time in O() notation can be important.
That's something you learn by reading a book. No need for a "degree".
It's about the stigma about the other degree being harder to get, and subsequent implication that people carrying the longer degree could be smarter.
There really needs to be a standardized & respected degree for programming, and programming alone - with zero bullshit. Something that you can't even *apply to* until you know at least 3 programming languages fluently.
Firefox was a lie from the very beginning...
It got massively popular as the smaller, lighter, faster browser. It went viral and overtook the Mozilla suite. Problem was, it was NEVER smaller, faster, or lighter, in either CPU time or memory footprint. The difference was absolutely trivial.
You have a narrow sense of "smaller". If you ditch 70% of the features without anyone noticing (mail, composer...), you have a conceptually smaller program, even if execution speed was the same.
The big deal with FF was that they explicitly wanted people to use it, as opposed to Mozilla developers that wanted people to use Netscape for business/unknown reasons.
Yes, and having full control of the way the player behaves, such as being able to show ads during playback or having a button for embedding the video along with the player on one's blog has absolutely nothing to do with it.
Embedding video with video tag on your blog is trivial.
So that basically just leaves the annoying stuff to flash (ads, custom player on embedded control..).
Or HTML5
Which basically means "Javascript".
Now *this* explains the somewhat surprising move of pushing Javascript (that everybody hates) for Gnome shell. I think HP was one of the guys promoting this move.
I figure it's not that bad in the end, javascript is becoming a viable scripting language (whether we like or not). Too bad the development tools (and ecosystem, and culture) for Javascript suck badly. Hopefully this will change soon, as the community is gradually accepting the fact that Javascript just won't die, and we are better of biting the bullet and learning to hack it properly.
The Maemo looks good. It's the first smartphone that I'm actually excited about!
That's because it's the first "phone" that's actually a real computer, not a locked down piece of plastic.
I just got an N810, and I'm loving it. As a double-plus, you can actually get a used one cheap now that everybody is buying an N900.
Surely NASA shouldn't be showing favouritism to Apple in this way, by only releasing the app on one platform?
Don't count out the possibility of "marketing money" exchanging hands.
Everyone - Use this mish-mash of open source libraries and/or reinvent the wheel when you have to with interfaces and separate code files for OS specifics.
You don't need "mish mash" if libs if you use Qt.
Get with the program. Java isn't "special" anymore.
Use Qt.
Seconded.
Note: you can also use just QtCore, without QtGui, if you don't need the gui parts.
Intel doesn't want OEMs using nVidia's "ION platform", either. But they can't stop it. Anyone can go buy Atom processors from a distributor, and put them in whatever they want.
They can make the cpu more expensive than the "discount" version that comes with chipset. They are doing this to undercut Ion.
...you insensitive clods.
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