Yes because a typo and complete ignorance of ---at the very least--- the education systems in a good half of the world are the same thing...

In a context comapring countries, the ignorance displayed by this comment is pretty amazing.

Hmm, so you are the guy that uses the capslock key for something?!

You will need (correct) usage examples, then, on top of the definition...

Please look up the actual meaning of the *per se* thingie you used there.

> I always hated the "show your work" because I could usually do it in my head a lot faster so I never bothered.

The thing is, for most purposes "I did in in my head" turns a solution into uselessness. Solutions to problems are things that you can communicate with others. There is almost as much value in *how* you got to a solution as in the solution itself, because a good *how* actually adds value. No one builds a 100 floor building after an engineer computed something in his head.

Most of what you learn is not useful in itself, but as a way to teach you how to "show your work". The showing of your work is what really counts.

The standard argument I get from [university] students when I fail them for not making their reasoning explicit is that because the problem was easy, it was pointless. The underlying idea is that they can simply skip the communicative part of solving something easy, and magically when they are confronted with the problem of communicating something difficult they'll somehow manage.

Hating-the-"show-your-work" is simply something you have to get over.

Textbook are revised for all sort of reasons. Most of them, quite independent of methodology and what not. Permuting the exercises counts as a 'revision'...

That must be an amazing particle to get you that interested!

Huh? As a mathematician who travels quite frequently I have never ever had any issues with that. I would simply stop going to a place where people have such problems!

SO you are saying that you took CS when you should have taken Software Engineering? Well, everyone makes mistakes.

Hmmm. Have you just been unfrozen?

Gnome2 should be forked and development continued by people with functioning brains.

Well, then: do it.

The ones currently developing are quite free to do the same: exactly what they want.

No, they realized (a long time ago) that writing a desktop targeted at people that do care to personalize their desktops in the sense you have in mind is a pointless exercise: they are far too few in the big picture and way too uninteresting.

Closures has been available in good languages since essentially the egining of time. That it is now a "modern" feature only reflecs the fact that languages mostly suck...

Best slashdot comeback in a few years...