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Comment Affirmative (Score 0) 120

Yeah I just wanted to say I agree with this. What a shame that a whole generation will ignore the joy of reading a good book and instead scroll through their social media feed where their attention is short and the subject changes every few seconds oscillating between hatred, laughter, boredom, misinformation, and useful information. Phones should come with ADHD medication.

Comment Context? (Score 0) 79

STEM jobs, yeah. Most other jobs would probably be better served in an apprenticeship. I expect apprenticeship positions to be more competitive in the near future. I still see art school as an important step for that crowd too. What else?

Comment If only ... (Score -1, Troll) 138

we had a better track record of predicting catastrophic consequences of climate change. Its important to be prepared that's for sure. Can anyone be certain of this time frame though? Probably not based on past experience. Based on some predictions from 20 or more years ago many of our coastal cities should be underwater by now.

Comment A real man/woman (Score 1) 160

This idea that coding was a task for a real man or woman who were not lazy and capable of avoiding the pitfalls of the particular language they were using is and was never true. When you release a tool to the world that by its very use has the capacity of compromising security it will, of course, result in compromised security. So any effort to develop tools that prevent security flaws as part of the development process are superior for the general development community. Maybe that's not the case for some particular specialist project but for general development that will always be the case.

Comment A different approach (Score 1) 175

When I was at the University of Delaware we started with C. When my godson started 4 years ago it was scheme. I was never a big fan of scheme/lisp languages personally. I like the idea of using a relatively easy to understand language for fundies so long as its robust enough to cover all the bases. I don't think scheme/lisp is a good choice.

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