I'm currently in a university course where Minix 3.2.1 is being used to teach OS principles. It's certainly small, and therefore semi-easy to wrap your head around. But I would not agree that its source code is "clean". They have a lot of really old code and suffer from coding guidelines that have changed greatly over time. I've never seen someone mix tabs and spaces so much in a piece of code. And can anyone say "no namespacing"? That said, I don't have much familiarity of the internals of other kernels, but I'm not too impressed by Minix.

It's not all streaming. They'll mail you a DVD if you want to watch the content. The only thing they stream are 30 second clips (which falls under fair-use), so that you can make sure you have the right video.

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They do get to offload a lot of the work to the graphics chip, which undoubtedly helps, but they're also expected to perform compositing now, and typically to include all sorts of extra graphical effects. On top of that, as h111 mentioned, we have all these interpreted languages and VMs (such as Dalvik), and all the work done by modern web browsers to handle fancy interactive websites.

It's the price we (or rather, perhaps, the typical consumers) pay for prettier graphics and easier software development.

It's more-or-less the same approach, the notable thing is that this time it's Java.

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Notably, Bootstrap uses LessCSS heavily, which is similar to SCSS. I'd suggest the OP look into both SCSS and LessCSS if he's/she's looking for a CSS preprocessor.

... rubbing salt in Adobe's wound.

I'm not sure what "credit" you want to receive. Presumably it's to be able to add to your resume to improve your job prospects.
As an employer, I would be extremely impressed by a candidate who put together a self-defined, free, online "degree program" and executed it, with proof.

Calculate the number of hours of "classroom" and "study time" necessary for a degree of your choice. Then proceed to "take each course" by watching the videos, and logging the date and time you watched the video. Also log all the website articles (or books) read, in the study of the particular topic of that course. Then record a video of you explaining the topics in great detail, one "chapter of study at a time" as your final exam.

Creating your own "self-study" degree program would look something like this (for a Bachelor's Degree equivalent):

- First, create a list of about 35 courses that you plan to study exhaustively. You could easily create this list by looking at the graduation requirements of any major university.
- Each course would consist of watching about 60 hours of watching relevant online videos of your choice (analogous to classroom training) and another 100 hours of reading webpages, books, IRC with experts, doing problems, writing code or papers, etc. This amount would be roughly the same as a 4-semester-hour course (although I'd contend that it would likely be far more valuable!) At the end, create a Private YouTube video where you present and explain in detail everything that you learned in that course, and demonstrate mastery in the video. Bonus points if you make it public.

Think about that! A candidate with that sort of initiative and financial sense would be GREAT for my business. Even if you did this for several courses (but not a full degree program), it would show the discipline and creativeness that I would look for in a candidate. Nearly anyone can sit in a classroom for four years and get the piece of paper, but it takes a special person to have the drive and initiative to create their own degree.

Applied Statistics?

Can I assume that the results of this Slashdot "survey" will appear in your dissertation?

So does anyone have the answers to the puzzles posted on here?

SPOILER ALERT

For Problem #2, I would say that all 100 men get killed. I am basing it on the Khan Academy explanation of the Blue Forehead problem

For Problem #3, It seems like the optimal answer is for Pirate #5 to give himself 98 coins, Pirate #4 one coin, and Pirate #2 one coin. (Pirate #1 knows that he can get all the coins if it ever gets down to two pirates. So he'll vote down every proposal. And Pirate #3 knows that he can get 100 coins, if it ever gets down to three pirates (because at that point, pirate #2 will vote for pretty much anything, lest he die!) And Pirate #4 knows that if it ever gets down to four pirates left, he will need to satisfy two out of three, and there's no way he'll be able to do that (since #1 and #3 won't vote his way no matter what). So he'll take whatever he can get. So no sense in giving any to pirates 1 or 3, because you'll never get their vote.

So by giving pirates 2 and 4 one coin each, you are buying their votes.

Oh great, now we're going to have robots trying to sell us car insurance?

As a small businessperson, I can tell you that the overwhelming amount of bullshit required to bid on government contracts (especially Federal government contracts), combined with a low probability of successful bids, means that it's imperative that you inflate the bids to cover costs, or avoid bidding on them.

Want to cut the price? Cut out the red tape.

I'm not disagreeing with you that many people have that issue. Business leaders tend not to have that issue. They separate spending into two buckets - capital spending and operational spending. Typically, capital expenditures will have an expected payback.

Congressmen and women tend not to be business people, and have different measures than business people. While a corporate CEO often has the long term health of the company as a goal, Congressmen are rewarded with re-election, often without regard for fiscal sanity. That's why I tend to give "extra" credit to politicians who are fiscally sane, even if they pass on projects that can benefit me personally; because they are actually using their brains to make decisions, rather than using popular opinion to try to ensure their own job security.

Hard to decipher your meaningless question, but I'll try. How is "one" (historic debt) not related to "the other silly neocon"? Presumably you think that borrowing and spending wastefully is a silly neocon. OK, if you think so.

There's a huge difference between borrowing to spend on projects that have a payback, and borrowing a shitload of money and having a huge party of wasteful spending. If you don't understand that, you probably have reading comprehension issues or other major issues.

Businesses make these decisions all the time. It's really not a hard concept. But neither is a silly neocon, as far as I am concerned.