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So You Want to Be a Programmer? | Worthless Genius - Mozilla Fir
I was sitting and typing up another blog post earlier today, and I was interrupted rudely by a fellow student who decided it was completely up to me to fix her (or his) specific problem in their code. Being the pushover that I am, I lent a hand, only to find that this person was way over her (or his) head. I don’t want to call names, or cite specific examples, so I’ll talk in really broad terms about why some people may need to rethink their career path when they make it to college, and find the work to be way over their heads. I’ve talked before about how the higher education system is becoming a joke , and how the value of a Computer Science degree is ever decreasing.
I’ve been kicking back and forth whether or not to write this article, but this concept has been weighing on my conscience for far too long. Being a student in Computer Science, I am beginning to notice the students around me more, and their level of competency when it comes to the narrow topics that are being discussed in class. For the most part, everyone tries their best and gets things done, and as adults tend to actually attempt to understand all of the material. But there are a select few students that either are just not getting it, or are relying on the “ No Child Left Behind ” mentality to simply skate through the college experience and earn their degrees. One problem with this set of students is that they are going to be completely shocked and overwhelmed when they reach a real work environment, and not all requirements and steps are set in stone and handed to them on a silver plate.
The Value of a Higher Education | Worthless Genius
I’m a serial book writer and over the last few years my writing has focused on a book on Domain-Specific Languages . DSLs are small languages targetted at a particular task. Most programmers will come across many of them (examples include regular expressions and CSS).
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Coding Horror: How Not to Conduct an Online Poll
April 20, 2009 Inside the Precision Hack is a great read. It's all about how the Time Magazine World's Most Influential People poll was gamed. But the actual hack itself is somewhat less impressive when you start digging into the details.The Internet has different rules. The folks at Time just learned about it in a very amusing way, as their third annual poll for the world’s most influential person was topped by moot A.K.A. Christopher Poole, founder of the legendary memebreeding forum 4chan .
The Beauty of Internet: 4Chan Founder Sweeps Time's Most Influen
There’s a scene toward the end of the book Contact by Carl Sagan, where the protagonist Ellie Arroway finds a Message embedded deep in the digits of PI. The Message is perhaps an artifact of an extremely advanced intelligence that apparently manipulated one of the fundamental constants of the universe as a testament to their power as they wove space and time. I’m reminded of this scene by the Time.com 100 Poll where millions have voted on who are the world’s most influential people in government, science, technology and the arts.
Inside the precision hack « Music Machinery
Coding Horror
A given hash uniquely represents a file, or any arbitrary collection of data. At least in theory . This is a 128-bit MD5 hash you're looking at above, so it can represent at most 2 128 unique items, or 340 trillion trillion trillion .
The byte order mark ( BOM ) is a Unicode character used to signal the endianness (byte order) of a text file or stream. Its code point is U+FEFF . BOM use is optional, and, if used, should appear at the start of the text stream. Beyond its specific use as a byte-order indicator, the BOM character may also indicate which of the several Unicode representations the text is encoded in. [ 1 ] Because Unicode can be encoded as 16-bit or 32-bit integers, a computer receiving these encodings from arbitrary sources needs to know which byte order the integers are encoded in.
Byte-order mark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
