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Don't worry if you haven't been programming as long as the other students, if you invest enough time you'll likely by pass the other students who have been being programming since middle school. A lot of these people are likely amateurs, and I'm willing to bet they've only done a bit of Basic programming here and there. I'm sure there are exceptions to that, but that's just my experience. I switched into my degree from an arts degree with no programming experience, and a year later I'm one of the better students in my classes.

Best of luck with making your decision
Your #2 sort of bothers me. Actually, a lot of these seem like "answers" to a school assignment about what to ask an employer ... Also, would you really ask all this? You put a lot of work into this.

If someone asked me this stuff, I would thank them and probably go on a vacation to forget the whole experience.
Swedish NSA expect g33ks to sell their souls
Just thought this was a bit amusing.
I will no longer allow my obligation as a veteran to
remember those who died in the great wars to be co-opted
by current or former politicians to justify our folly in
Iraq, our morally dubious war on terror and our
elimination of one's right to privacy.

The idea that poppies, Remembrance Day, and general military pageant used to be some kind of non-propaganda event that's recently been co-opted is fantasy. Military nations have been instilling their young men with the glory of war since forever. Circa 23BC we have Horace saying "It's sweet and right to die for your country"[1], then parodied by Wilfred Owen[2] from his experiences in the "Great" war.

This feels a great deal like "we used to fight just wars, and recent wars aren't just", which is so misguided[3], I don't even know where to begin. The whole thing feels like "my war was better than your war".

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulce_et_decorum_est_pro_patria...
[2] http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/owen1.html
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire
I understand if you are fine with it. It has lost most of its meaning with history but I still cringe a little whenever I read it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_names_for_the_Briti...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Brit
I've been cycling for commute for the last 4 years in India, Chennai to be precise. And this is a problem with most car drivers, especially the posh ones.

And the pain... Cornering me into the extreme sides of the road, Honking as if I suddenly have to disappear from the road, Huge lines of cars causing traffic and most of them driving single, Splashing water, etc. I sometimes know some of them, but its as if they're a different person when they get into a car, somewhat inhuman.
Around January this year, my employer was still getting requests for Java 1.4!

Don't ever upgrade a running system until you are forced to do so.
For a young college grad who doesn't know what to do with themselves, banking and consulting are great options if you can get them.
I personally find this deeply offensive. This polemic is featured in the Guardian practically every year and its just more of the same sanctimonious bullshit we're becoming accustomed to from them. There is a lot of good feeling toward the guardian here because of their involvement with the Snowden affair, but I'd warn you all to treat them with the cynicism that you treat any other news agency with. This individual, who by all means is entitled to his view, is no better than the politicians he is complaining about by further politicising d deliberately misrepresenting what the appeal represents. That he served in the WWII is merely an example of an appeal to authority fallacy. The Poppy Appeal is a charitable fund that is operated by the Royal British Legion (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal_British_Legion) and exists to help veterans and the dependants of service men and women that are injured or killed in action. Wear a poppy is showing support for those affected, not existing troops nor the wars that they fight in. It isn't showing any kind of agreement with any kind of foreign policy. Conflating the two is disingenuous to say the least and does nothing other than harming families that care for or have lost members to military action.

EDIT: Not wearing a poppy is an individuals right in the UK. It's a right that I absolutely stand by. I have no issue with anyone choosing not to partake in the act of remembrance. I take issue with it being misrepresented by both sides of the political spectrum. The irony of course is that the people who they are choosing not to remember gave their life for that right.
I wish this could be upvoted so much more.

As someone who hasn't spent much of my time in Lisp world, most of my time when I come across some supposedly elegant implementation of an algorithm in Lisp, what my brain sees is impenetrable parenthesis soup. One incredible win of Python is the resemblance of the syntax to pseudocode, and how easy that has apparently been for new developers to absorb. I'm glad to see your team has taken that to heart for a language that's supposed to be pedagogical. And that is beautifully said about how a misplaced parenthesis can lead to all sorts of errors.

Error reporting, debugging, and documentation are in that "meta" tier of programming ergonomics that few people care to reason about, and yet they are oh so important to allowing actual human beings to learn programming languages and use them to produce rereadable and maintainable code.
> One way of getting it is by donation to the British Legion.

It the only way.
I think Github is great but since when did it become a requirement for validating one's worthiness as a software developer?

I would love to know how relevant being on Github is for most people that are not in SF. I personally think its nice but not really relevant at all.

Sometimes I think its a brilliant marketing move by Github. Get everyone to assume they need a Github account for career advancement, highlight/praise everyone who has one and let them influence their own circle to sign up and repeat the cycle. It's great marketing. I'm not suggesting Github is promoting this but they certainly don't discourage it.

It's nice to have a Github account but it's like LinkedIn. No credible recruiter is going to ignore a candidate because they are not in LinkedIn or they are on it but have a very small number of connections.

Based on a conversation with a highly successful executive recruiter, most people they go after don't even have a resume, let alone a LinkedIn account. Their presence within their peer network plus their work speak for itself.

I guess working in SF and going after start-up jobs, Github account and participation is relevant, but for most of us, the companies we have worked with, the projects we have done will have more relevance. I don't know any company that I have worked with that looks at Github as a barometer (this is with respect to enterprise development).

Another thought in all this is that if I really cared about my Github participation, I could find a bunch of programmers in India, China or somewhere else, or even locally have them go through a few projects and do some work under my account. I would pay them a nice fee and be done with it. This I believe is the elephant in the room with Github that no one talks about. Is this happening? I can't say personally but if anyone seriously believes its not is also likely to take the NSA at their word.
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Feinstein is dishonest. No point.
Additionally, non-facebook users will find that when they go to college, they won't know when any of the parties are (and they won't know about any of the study groups). If you're a person that has that typical human need to belong, university almost forces you to log into facebook.
This is actually a very useful and insightful comment rather than the obligatory "What!? You aren't using tool X that I watched a YouTube vid about!? No way I'm working here!" responses you expect in these kinds of threads.
It's Science as much as any social science is Science.

The only reason we can't transform social sciences into hard sciences is because it would be horrifically cruel and unethical to exert rigid, inflexible rules on thinking, breathing, feeling human beings.

You can't turn human beings into raw predictable numbers without killing them, or throwing them in jail (however intangible such a prison might be, loss of choice and free will is enslavement).
This is what Google employees from China have told me. I'm stating it as fact because from my perspective, with the information I have, it has appeared as almost fact to me.
Never Mark Shuttleworth's fault.

Someone playing politics with an open source project or some unknown staffer who made a "mistake" - never the culture he built or his over the top response to said open source project not adopting the divine direction that he has taken.

Nope, not Mark Shuttleworth's fault.
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The problem with stating that 'economics is science' is the strong underlying ideological and political bias. The human factor is always recursive : the very beliefs of what is natural (aka: science) in a given culture structures the way the society works. The ancient Greeks and Romans considered slavery natural, so they had slaves and you could therefore empirically/scientifically prove the basic laws of slavery... Abandoning the way you see society to science implies the way it works is deterministic and thus cannot be changed. You basically abandon freedom to ideology with a fake science mustache.
Did you know about Elixir? It has a Ruby like syntax, pattern matching, functional, has macros so can build DSLs with it. Also most importantly, runs on BEAM VM (Erlang's VM).

http://elixir-lang.org/
I like the list. Just for me personally there are some differences. From experiences I like chaos more then organization, because I can make more out of the chaos for myself. I don't feel so well today? Well in a chaotic company I can just stay home or answer emails. When I feel energetic I can also convince my coworkers to get a major feature done or an ugly bug fixed that was laying around for months.

Also from some of my colleagues I see that not everybody is really interested in delivering results. Some are just fine with doing what they are told, then going home and caring about their family. When the whole department/company thinks like that, then the life of these people is much better. It's definitely not for every engineer, but I think it's good such spaces are out there!
As a Californian I am never not ashamed to have Senator Feinstein representing me. Is there a "tech lobby"? If there is, why is its number one priority not fielding a decent primary challenger to oust this authoritarian disgrace to our state?
> Questions like "is X a science" looks often like the "True Scotsman" fallacy

True about Scotsmen, false about science. Science is easy to define, therefore easy to detect.

Either a field has testable, falsifiable ideas -- ideas that can be compared to reality in practical tests, indeed are compared to reality, and are promptly discarded if they fail the test -- or they do not. End of story, fini, full stop.

> Biology? No.

Biology, yes. Either DNA is the source of heredity or it isn't. It's testable and falsifiable. Either natural selection produces new species or it doesn't. Again, testable and falsifiable. Biology can make and test empirical claims, and it does, and it discards those ideas that fail the test. That's science.

Look at prions. At first no one knew what was going on, so they did some research. They took body fluid from one victim and passed it through a filter that would have stopped a virus, but the prions got through. This forced the explanation that something smaller than a virus was reproducing and causing fatal illnesses. This led to a much better assessment of what prions are. A falsifiable test was performed, the test succeeded, prions are real. Mad cow disease, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and a handful of other diseases would have remained unexplained, except for the science.

> An electron suffers a force inside an electrical field, 100% (exactly) of the time.

It's easy to describe physics as a science, for the reason that it is very much a science. What's hard is comparing physics to other endeavors that might or might not be sciences. But there's no reason to use physics as a science yardstick -- all one needs to do is ask, "what theories have you tested, falsified, and discarded?"

http://xkcd.com/435/
Well you can just put your comments. No need to upvote. Not intentional.
The university where I graduated from in 1999, still has lots of CS lectures, including lots of compiler design lectures.

We never used Lisp based languages on our lectures, rather Caml Light (nowadays OCaml) and Prolog.
It's worth pointing out that Kiplin lost his only son, Jack, to the Great War.
Maybe in your mind but in reality this could just tell you that the person interviewing saw one if the same YouTube ideas you d and started using LESS, big whoop.
It is a social science with assumptions on how things works.
A lot of economic theories are just that assumptions, assumptions on how the market works.

If you have the time watch Professor Steve Keens one of the economists who predicted the 2008 subprime bubble criticize
main stream economics.

Especially the Federal reserve system which is privately owned by the biggest banks. Read on Edward Griffins google the creature from Jekyll island. In that information you will find that the FED was created by a among others senator Aldrich who's daughter was married to one of the banks who created the FED.

Thus private banks create debt out of thin air more now so than ever they are backed up by central banks. In the European central bank, the head of the bank comes from Goldman Sachs. There is a documentary called 97% owned which states 97% of all money in circulation are now debt just 3% is cash.

Ever wonder how the rich gets richer?
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Mistakes? For who?

Sure, from a general population "pleb" POV, yes, mistakes. Plebs die, get tortured, imprisoned with out due process, and so on. But for those making these mistakes? Do they lose out? Or do they gain? Recently, Bush had his two terms. Obama has his two terms. Even the "plebs" didn't punish them. I take is Bush, family, and friends are doing fine right now, and I bet Obama doesn't fare too badly either after he's done. I take it that all their political and business friends are and will do fine too.

Im struggling to see the mistake from the POV of the powers that be.

Not just wart and so on, look at the banking collapse. Same thing. Same with any disaster that hits the mass population.

Right now, dont I see a younger generation making any head way in to politics based on any historical knowledge of the past mistakes. No. What I see right now is so much weight of imposed responsibility loaded on them that they simple cant. And, in the case of the UK, when students take to the streets in protest the authorities treat them like rioters and abuse them, legally. And that's leaving out the people who think such protesters should face the military on the streets. See, protesting causes poor business people to lose money, some how. Disruption costs. And that is apparently really, really important.

All we ever get is scraps thrown at us in the sure knowledge that most people dont want to make any real effort and are happy to accept any thing that they can cling to that means they can say the government did something and they can get on with their loaded stressful lives. But over all, it'll just be the same old, same old.

Mean while, most are missing a fundamental ruling class mentality that exists in both the US and UK, and probably many, many other "democracies". Namely that they can and will do what ever they like until caught out. And when they are caught out, they face little consequence of any worth, let alone consequence that ensures nobody after them do it again. Oh, and of course they blame the people who expose them, rather than take responsibility for their own actions.

We can muck around all we like, but until the people in power face real consequence, nothing fundamental will chance.

Sad truth is, "we" accept it.
You can't apply the scientific method and when coming back in the real world leaving models and presumptions aside you see that economists never play an important role. They easily justify their failures no matter how big. You can't even trust history books to tell you if the X policy was a success or failure.

In order to understand economics in my view, you have to know how politics work. Politicians and nations or people in power at any given time can turn a debt to 0 or to a war. Of course in a democracy it's more complicated, but generally that's the main idea. The their puppets try to justify the move.

It is what is happening in Greece, in the USA, in Italy and in other parts of world.

Rationality and math has little to do with economics. So since economists never predict anything really (when they do they get a Nobel), I hardly see this as a science.

As for the argument that physics or biology is not a science, I can know this: the same experiment can done time and again giving the same result. Try it in real-life economics...
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So here's the thing that happens to me... When I eat certain foods, I tend to wake up in the middle of the night feeling hot, and it feels like I've got elevated blood pressure and my mind is racing a bit and it keeps me up at night. This is a very particular effect and it seems to be food linked. I get it after eating Chinese food, I get it after eating Pizza, I get it after eating a pile of spaghetti with red sauce. I used to gorge on Triscuits and Cheese and I'd get the same effects. I thought it was the carbs at first since those seem to be bad for me with weight gain and thought it was all related. But, there's another link there which is that all of that has MSG or glutamate in it (and also lots of sodium of course). So if i stay away from those foods I don't get the horrible sweaty middle insomnia symptoms.

I can eat carbs if I stay away from glutamate/sodium, so my first guess that it was the white rice, pizza crust and spaghetti noodles was incorrect. But the MSG is always correlated with the symptoms. Is it the MSG or is it that the MSG comes with the salt? I dunno. I'm not really certain that it matters either.

(I've also had my BP taken by a cardiologist the day after eating Chinese food and it spiked enough to cross the line between normal and high blood pressure the next morning after the meal...)
I agree. I had a "Oh, here we go" reaction.
550 Euros a month down here in the Landes region of France, with high speed internet, 5 minute walk from the beach and world class surf (depending on the season).

Probably going to migrate south to the Algarve in Portugal for the winter -- northern european rain, wind, cold are not my cup of tea...
I didn't downvote you, but I feel I should. You're suggesting making a magical change to a language because you seem to have failed to grasp the way it works.

If the best use case you can come up with is the one you've given then we've got real issues. If my team were ever iterating over a list to find the index of an item I would be very upset. That is categorically not the right way to do it.

Regarding the ethos - zen, ethos, call it what you will. Explicit is better. Maybe English isn't your first language but your idea is less explicit than the way it works T te moment.
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Definitely, theres always room for wild speculation and armchair psychology.
Right, but in this case, one of the points being questioned is whether we can assume that crimes committed by black people and non-black people are reported with the same frequency.
"the eff isn't accomplishing anything significantly useful by this, just making themselves look good and recieving donations."

"what would they have to do for you to consider them to be worth donating to?"

"something other than having people send forms. They haven't since a legal battle a decade ago. They also are making bad legislation sound good."

["they help, and you haven't been paying attention to them during the last decade."

"they haven't done anything (groundbraking) in the last decade. "]

"What would the eff have to do for you to consider them to have earned your donation? Also I think you are trolling"

"you have yet to prove that the eff has done enough to warrant my donation. We are not talking about what they would have to do to be deserving of donations, we are talking about whether they have done useful things. Also calling me a troll is an ad hominem. Also you are deceptive"

The initial comment for this sub conversation essentially stated that they had not done anything sufficient (lately) to deserve donations.

Afterwards, the person claimed that asking what would be sufficient action to justify donations.

So, "x has not y!" "how can you tell/what do you mean/[something] that x has not y?" "don't change the subject!"

What parts of this post I am making are innaccurate?

Edit 1:

Ok, first comment rather says that they take donations and do nothing useful, which isn't neccisarily exactly the same as saying that they haven't done enough to warrant donations.
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I doubt you really mean untyped languages. Untyped languages includes many assembly languages, BCPL and some Forths. It does not include typical scripting languages like Perl, Ruby or Python - all of which are strongly typed.