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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Is a B.S. degree necessary for a software engineer? |
| NeantHumain |
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Posted: 03 May 2012, 10:24 pm
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Replies: 22
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| I have a bachelor of arts degree in computer science and am currently work as a software engineer. I would say that, for all practical purposes, a bachelor's degree in computer science or higher is needed to work as a software engineer; there are exceptions, but these are of course exceptions. That ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Calling all anti-marxists |
| NeantHumain |
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Posted: 01 May 2012, 11:30 pm
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Replies: 67
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| If you like a pure Capatalist system so much, why not move to one? Somalia would be perfect for you. I don't know where this meme came from, but Somalia is not a capitalist society. Nor is Somalia a libertarian society. Capitalism has prerequisites like a functioning civil society, a base level of ... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: The Vegan Diet, Asperger's Syndrome, and Courtship Ritual |
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Posted: 01 May 2012, 11:24 pm
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Replies: 37
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| Hypothesis: A sustained vegan diet has an adverse effect on male-to-female courtship ritual in Homo sapiens sapiens ; furthermore, the deficits this diet causes especially impact persons with Asperger's syndrome (AS) and other autism-spectrum disorders (ASD) because of preexisting social-skills def... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Calling all anti-marxists |
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Posted: 30 Apr 2012, 9:14 pm
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Replies: 67
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| Marx was enraged by some of the unjust effects of the capitalistic system. The capitalism you know and prefer is nothing like the capitalist system that existed in Marx time. It produced sweat shops, unsafe working conditions, a certain amount of ill health and even death. The capitalism we now enj... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Calling all anti-marxists |
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Posted: 30 Apr 2012, 4:10 pm
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| Karl Marx was a dirty, long-bearded hippie singing the International instead of Kumbaya, and instead of people all over the world getting all lovey-dovey, it was about revolution and smashing the bourgeois establishment through force of arms if need be. Same thing really. Marx's theory was flawed in... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Happy May Day, Comrades! |
| NeantHumain |
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Posted: 30 Apr 2012, 2:48 pm
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Replies: 17
Views: 10,058
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| You're a little early unless you're in the Pacific Ocean. |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: High systemizers - what are your interests? |
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Posted: 30 Apr 2012, 2:41 pm
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Replies: 20
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| I got a 54/150 on the SQ-R. It seems I'm very systemizing when it comes to things I'm interested in (e.g., computers, language, etc.), but otherwise I show little systemizing tendency. |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Is there still room for another OS to hit it big? |
| NeantHumain |
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Posted: 27 Apr 2012, 1:14 am
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Replies: 86
Views: 9,221
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| The movement is more and more towards web applications and data stored "in the cloud" with clustering, massive parallelism and redundancy, distributed computing, a seamless interface between local and network, etc. supporting a range of applications and form factors from server farms down to tablets... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Package Management and Software Installation |
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Posted: 26 Apr 2012, 12:39 am
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Replies: 1
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| The great thing about most GNU/Linux distributions is package management has made installing new software stupid simple for years before Apple ever imagined its App Store. The problem comes when the software—or the version you want—is either not in the repositories for your version of the distributi... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Ideology, belief and the subjective mind. |
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Posted: 25 Apr 2012, 10:39 pm
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Replies: 14
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| Idealogies, memeplexes, or theories are intellectual abstractions rather than material reality. Many scientific theories attempt to act as a model of reality. The kind of political and sociological idealogies and memeplexes you're talking about, though, are prescriptive rather than descriptive: They... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: What is the programming language of the future? |
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Posted: 24 Apr 2012, 9:21 pm
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Replies: 52
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| C++'s syntax is too unwieldy and its standard library lacking in modern features for it to get much traction outside of its niche. I agree with the second bit, but syntax concerns are not that big a deal if we exclude extremes like BrainF**K and J. I would not say C++'s syntax is unwieldy as much a... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Whence Liberalism |
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Posted: 24 Apr 2012, 9:18 pm
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| Where did liberalism come from? The answer is shockingly simple. First some language-nerd stuff: The original form is not the noun, not the - ism ; it's the adjective: liberal . As a historical document attests: And so ẏe younger generation forsook the ways of her Forefathers, her Land, and &... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: What is the programming language of the future? |
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Posted: 23 Apr 2012, 4:47 pm
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Replies: 52
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| I'd say Java. It doesn't depend on plattform, it's easy to learn and it's intuitive. :) Java is the platform, and Java is ugly and unintuitive if you compare it to most of the other languages that run on top of the Java virtual machine: Groovy, JRuby, Jython, Scala, Clojure, etc. Java's marketing s... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: What is the programming language of the future? |
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Posted: 23 Apr 2012, 3:40 pm
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| I do think eventually we may see a dominant high level and a dominant mixed level language. Actually I think C++ has already emerged as the dominant mixed level language and there are a slew of high level languages (that tend to be interpreted rather than compiled) battling it out. Personally I wou... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Have CAPTCHA's gotten too crazy? |
| NeantHumain |
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Posted: 23 Apr 2012, 3:28 pm
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Replies: 32
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| ...we need to make sure that everyone can be held legally accountable for their online behavior. It is simply not acceptable that someone can anonymously publish libel, for example. We need a reliable identification system for internet users, and all countries that refuse to use this system, as wel... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Are corporations people ? Should they be ? |
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Posted: 16 Apr 2012, 5:09 pm
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Replies: 52
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| Person , as a legal term, has a different meaning from person in the colloquial sense. A legal person acts as a single entity, more or less, as far as the law is concerned. The plural form of the legal sense is persons , never people . Nevertheless, I do not think corporate persons should have the ... |
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