On Thu, 24 May 2012 02:31:14 +0200, Kevin Wright
wrote:
Ahh, yes. The inimitable Douglas Adams :)
I was caught until "collapse, ruin and famine" :-)
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On Thu, 24 May 2012 01:46:20 +0200, Kevin Wright
wrote:
it cheaper). This is a thorny problem, but I believe the situation would
be best improved by giving more control back to *teachers* and by
In my experience, putting everything in control of teachers would be a
disaster - but this i
The math you describe is EE type math which includes stuff like signals &
systems, frequency analysis, and fourier transforms. In software, this type
of math is the basis for lossy compression and many data analysis
techniques. This stuff is great, but Dick's specific interest in Scala and
adva
Ahh, yes. The inimitable Douglas Adams :)
Sorely missed...
On May 24, 2012 1:16 AM, "Ricky Clarkson" wrote:
> In the UK at least, we seem to have an excess of hairdressers and beauty
>> spas and nail polishers. Perhaps we'd be better off by offering
>> encouragement for more people to enter en
>
> In the UK at least, we seem to have an excess of hairdressers and beauty
> spas and nail polishers. Perhaps we'd be better off by offering
> encouragement for more people to enter engineering fields?
Many years ago this was a thriving, happy planet - people, cities, shops, a
normal world. Ex
On 23 May 2012 22:06, clay wrote:
> To summarize some viewpoints:
>
> Tor - Advocates benefits of a broad education.
> Dick - Advocates importance of applied math. Also advocates individual
> choice of education.
> Ido Ran (Thread OP) - Advocates more emphasis on applied skills rather
> than broa
My experience in a UK university was that the lecturers taught whatever
they were good at unless they were useless in which case something was
chosen for them and they had to learn it to teach it.
Most of them came from a maths department that got closed down but they had
no computer science backg
On Wed, 23 May 2012 23:16:51 +0200, Ido Ran wrote:
My first point was that high education (college and univ.) in
Israel emphasize the math to much. They also lack teaching
of theoretical things like principles of OO, design methods and work
methods.
This point makes me smile. I could write th
On Wed, 23 May 2012 22:53:14 +0200, Cédric Beust ♔
wrote:
Indeed. This part should be cause for mild concern, though:
The jury concluded that Google infringed on 37 copyrighted APIs but it
also
agreed that Google demonstrated that it was led to believe it did not
need
a license for usin
Hi, thank you for the to-the-point summary.
I'm all for expand your horizon by learning new stuff. I never said I think
people should learn only the small bits they need for their job, be it
programming, hair cutting or farming.
My first point was that high education (college and univ.) in
Israel
To summarize some viewpoints:
Tor - Advocates benefits of a broad education.
Dick - Advocates importance of applied math. Also advocates individual
choice of education.
Ido Ran (Thread OP) - Advocates more emphasis on applied skills rather than
broad academic skills.
Question for Java Posse: Wh
Indeed. This part should be cause for mild concern, though:
The jury concluded that Google infringed on 37 copyrighted APIs but it also
agreed that Google demonstrated that it was led to believe it did not need
a license for using Java.
There still hasn't been a ruling as a matter of law about t
It's great news, I hope Alsup's common sense becomes more common.
On May 23, 2012 5:15 PM, "Matthew Farwell"
wrote:
> From http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18184079
>
> > Google did not infringe patents owned by software developer Oracle, a
> jury in a California court found on Wednesday.
> >
>From http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18184079
> Google did not infringe patents owned by software developer Oracle, a
jury in a California court found on Wednesday.
> The Silicon Valley giants had fought over whether Google used Oracle's
Java programming language in its Android mobile opera
I'm waiting for the Cotton Candy - http://www.fxitech.com/products/ -
I can see some great use cases for these devices.
Use any spare HDMI monitor alongside your TV when watching sports to
provide additional information like, for example, the live timing data
from Formula One.
Prepare a presentat
I think there's a spectrum of career opportunities here, and whether or not
you need math depends on where you fit in that spectrum. As others have
said, at one end you have web developers, whose primary focus is creating
pages. They can make do with JavaScript, HTML, etc. And mid-tier
developer
"The point of IDE's (and tools in general) is not to be used as a
substitute for thinking but to make sure that humans can focus on things
that computers can't do while letting the computer take care of tasks that
they can do without the intervention of humans."
Trouble is, if you spend a little w
I agree. I saw the problem from the perspective of the teacher in that I ask a
candidate for job how the build process of C# works. I expect him to explain
about csc, msbuild, msil, assembly and such but I was very supposed when he
reply "you press F7".
Tools are need to be used and student must
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 7:13 AM, Casper Bang wrote:
> One classic example that still makes me laugh/cry, is at Tech-Ed 2004, a
> teacher asks Anders Hejlsberg (chief architect of C#) how to make Visual
> Studio loose code completion, so that he would be more able to test the
> skills of his stud
On 23 May 2012 13:42, Jan Goyvaerts I❤© wrote:
> I've heard you can pre-order though. And get it somewhere for the summer
> holidays.
>
>
Well... I finally got to order mine yesterday, delivery expected in 3 weeks
:)
If I recall correctly from the forums, then by the end of next month
everybody
>
> ...even though it actually does support graph structure of strong/hard
> link...
>
Yep, even NTFS supports this. What's holding us back, are those pesky
legacy FileOpen/FileSave UI dialogs. I am not an iOS guy, but if Apple ever
chose to push the state-of-art forward in this aspect, I'd p
Wow! I didnt see this. That really expands its potential use cases for
it. Thank you for pointing that out!
I'll look into this tonight...now I'm excited.
On May 23, 2012 9:53 AM, "Kevin Wright" wrote:
>
>
> On 23 May 2012 14:16, Steven Siebert wrote:
>
>> Indeed, you are correct.
>>
>> I was
On 23 May 2012 14:16, Steven Siebert wrote:
> Indeed, you are correct.
>
> I was responding to the use cases Casper put forth. Not only would the
> Arduino be a cheaper platform, but the sensors themselves would be as well
> (RP doesn't have analog/digital IO pins exposed, as I see, so you would
Indeed, you are correct.
I was responding to the use cases Casper put forth. Not only would the
Arduino be a cheaper platform, but the sensors themselves would be as well
(RP doesn't have analog/digital IO pins exposed, as I see, so you would
have to purchase much more expensive sensors with USB)
To my knowledge the RP is not a kit, but rather a computer.
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Steven Siebert wrote:
> Arduino [1] would be cheaper for this stuff =)
>
> [1] http://www.arduino.cc/
>
> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Casper Bang wrote:
>
>> I'm just trying to think to an excuse^H^
Arduino [1] would be cheaper for this stuff =)
[1] http://www.arduino.cc/
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Casper Bang wrote:
> I'm just trying to think to an excuse^H^H^H^H^H^H a smart idea about what
>>
>> to do with that stuff so I buy one :-)
>>
>
> Phase 1) Make your own process historian
I've heard you can pre-order though. And get it somewhere for the summer
holidays.
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Joey Gibson wrote:
> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 6:55 AM, Fabrizio Giudici <
> fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 23 May 2012 12:48:59 +0200, Jan Goyvaerts I❤© <
>> jav
I agree with Casper.
Taking the file system as an example is great, even though it actually does
support graph structure of strong/hard link we, the technical people, fail
to find a way to present the graph side to the general public. We expect
people to learn about file system hierarchy.
Another
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 6:55 AM, Fabrizio Giudici <
fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 May 2012 12:48:59 +0200, Jan Goyvaerts I❤© <
> java.arti...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> That's not too bad either, is it ? :-)
>>
>
> I'm just trying to think to an excuse^H^H^H^H^H^H a smart idea abo
>
> I'm just trying to think to an excuse^H^H^H^H^H^H a smart idea about what
>
> to do with that stuff so I buy one :-)
>
Phase 1) Make your own process historian and hook up sensors for electricy
consumption, water consumption, heat consumption, temperatures, mailbox
arrivals etc. Phase
On Wednesday, May 23, 2012 11:45:48 AM UTC+2, Ido Ran wrote:
>
> Interesting. I hope we will also see someone who think different.
> One thing that is very important in today's world is to be able to
> understand complex system. We are far away from the days you could actually
> calculate big O
Well, once a decent JVM is available for the ARM platforms, you could use
the pi or other such machines to build a local private java-based cloud for
pretty much nothing - $350 for 10 machines, plus the infrastructure you'd
need and the SD cards, and you'd be rocking. :)
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 6:
On Wed, 23 May 2012 12:48:59 +0200, Jan Goyvaerts I❤©
wrote:
That's not too bad either, is it ? :-)
I'm just trying to think to an excuse^H^H^H^H^H^H a smart idea about what
to do with that stuff so I buy one :-)
--
Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager
Tidalwave s.a.s. -
That's not too bad either, is it ? :-)
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Fabrizio Giudici <
fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 May 2012 11:51:45 +0200, Jan Goyvaerts I❤© <
> java.arti...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The final Raspberry pi is slightly bigger than the original version
>>
On Wed, 23 May 2012 11:51:45 +0200, Jan Goyvaerts I❤©
wrote:
The final Raspberry pi is slightly bigger than the original version
mentioned in the episode.
[image: Inline image 1]
http://www.raspberrypi.org/quick-start-guide
Did you see also this?
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/05/ne
Interesting. I hope we will also see someone who think different.
One thing that is very important in today's world is to be able to
understand complex system. We are far away from the days you could actually
calculate big O notation of a function because most of the systems today
run on virtual ma
On Wed, 23 May 2012 10:39:47 +0200, Casper Bang
wrote:
I do think that as our abstraction levels increases, CS should probably
matter less and less. What do I care if Java7 now uses TimSort rather
than
MergeSort? All I really need to know is the basic trade-offs made within
the facilities
My view on this is that while programming != CS, backend/full-stack
professionals need to know both more or less. Front-end developers however,
can get by on very little CS, having no clue about big-Oh, memory models,
instruction sets etc. For all practical purposes, this latter category
would
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