Who said anything about ranchers? Where do you come up with this presumption about ranchers based on gps simple "poachers are shitty"? This is an article about poachers, thus the comment talking about poachers.
Because elephants and lions and whatnot being poached makes international news and ranching is business as usual. Clearly there is a substantial population that believes the former is wrong while the latter is not.
On the day to day level I'd say certain subjects might be more applicable to this sentiment than others. For instance, sexual education where the results can be life changing.
But as for computer science, like regular science, it will inspire a few kids who go on to learn their follies and produce work in the field and everyone else will either trudge through it or drop it and never have it affect their daily life in any manner so it doesn't particularly matter and is probably better to have those extra inspired children in society.
That being said, a course on the things that will actually effect most every childs life such as what are those TOS things you click away near constantly, where are the privacy settings in facebook and what are the different levels of privacy and what can you do in abusive or threatening situations, how often does personal data get stolen, how to store confidential material in a way minimize potential vectors for attack, etc. That'd be an absolutely useful course and would be best if taught well (as opposed to abstinence only education to continue my thought streams from above).
> On the day to day level I'd say certain subjects might be more applicable to this sentiment than others. For instance, sexual education where the results can be life changing.
I'd argue acquiring skills that could take one out of poverty as pretty life changing.
> But as for computer science, like regular science, it will inspire a few kids who go on to learn their follies and produce work in the field and everyone else will either trudge through it or drop it and never have it affect their daily life in any manner so it doesn't particularly matter and is probably better to have those extra inspired children in society.
It's worth trying for the sake of the kids who do go on to make a difference. And even for the ones who decide not to pursue programming as a profession, it is a net benefit for them to know on a high level how a computer operates.
Regarding privacy, 100% agree. This could be a great sub component to a computer literacy course.
Yea it may be worded odd but I'm all for it and was very happy to see the announcement even if it won't be mandatory for all students (which is nice in some ways for the teachers and students both I think).
Hmm, well I absolutely agree with the hoop jumping, and while yes no one has ever shared an iPhone executable with me (although they could and I could run it without any sort of license without jailbreaking), I've really been pretty content with Apple's walled gardens (hardware and software). Every app runs pretty smooth since there are so few models and screen sizes to accomodate and I never have to worry when I download from the app store, at all! That's a pleasure.
Setting up a development environment is an absolute pain in the ass, for a professional developer. But when I was in middle school on my pops pre G3 apple computer (or maybe it was the G3 at that point I'm not sure) I pretty easily figured out how to use a text editor and a preinstalled language to solve project euler problems. Boy those were fun.
I'd imagine access to the computer is a big issue, and only god knows where I found projecteuler for the first time but those sparks are really whats needed. If it ends up getting taught in some stale way as proofs in highschool were taught with lots of rote memorization and none of the art it'll probably end up producing a similar amount of interest.
Also, I presume, as people get older they're less likely in many cases to spend the time to learn a skill which doesn't offer anywhere near the tangible benefit of speaking and writing. Speaking and writing are practiced near constantly just because they're generally the best tools (along with drawing, gesturing, touch) for a job (communication) which must be performed everyday. I can't imagine the future where programming ever hits that level and see it more like the internals of a car with its standard bellcurve distribution of understanding across society.
Hmm, I don't really think its off by much, especially in Westernized nations where practically every thing is governed by contracts, regulations and legalese. And especially at a management level. You allocate resources to accomplish tasks. If you have a C++ developer, that's a resource. Resource X costs Y and produces Z could be applied to JetBrains licenses or people. Maintence for licenses is quite simple requiring updated payment information, maintence for people is a lot less clear cut and requires communication, and lots of ambiguous judgement calls. It's stale but I'm not sure there's a better word to fit in its place.
Denotation of people on salary as a "resource" is correct, and I'm even OK with including people in a collective set of varied types of resources. "We just don't have the resources to pursue all possible ideas" and the like is fine.
I'm recommending a terminology change to always call people "people" as it biases your leaders to think of them as special and different from licenses, machines, money, and black boxes. (It's not my idea originally, but I've seen it play out at my company and believe it to be helpful.)
Yea I was working for a company for a very short period which was focused on autonomy. The texts, emails, and slack messages as early as 7, as late as midnight, on saturday, on sunday. It drove me crazy to say the least as someone who, ironicly enough, valued his own autonomy very greatly.
I remember liking molokai as well but now I'm using solarized dark at work across terminal, vim, and intellij and php storm which is alright. It took some fiddling to get right though.
Hmm, I learned a bit about something I didn't know I didn't know much about. And then through the comments I learned a bit more. I'd say that's exactly why I come here :)
I'm sure if you do it safely that's fine, but boy does that look dangerous to me. Awesome feat for anyone, really pretty unbelievable for a 14 year old.
Oly lifts are terrifying to look at, but assuming you have proper training most of these lifts are pretty safe as there are usually plenty of ways to "fail safely". I don't do oly lifts, but on occasion do power cleans to get into position to do overhead presses without a rack. That tends to terrify people around me too
Power clean is similar to the first part of the clean and jerk (where he pulls the bar explosively upwards and catches it), but in power clean you drive the bar further up into a near jump, and catch the bar much higher up (in a clean you drop down pretty much in squat position when catching).
In clean type movements you can generally fail by pushing yourself and the bar apart so the bar crashes to the floor. Similarly when putting a bar overhead - your main priority is to ensure the bar clears your head, and frankly that's not all that hard as no matter what grip you use, making the bar clear your hands is likely to get it mostly clear of your head.
My scariest experience - once in 10 years of doing power cleans into press position to do my overhead presses - was on a 1RM attempt where I started feeling dizzy halfway into my press, and felt I had to ditch the bar. Even then, worrying I'd faint, it took just a little nudge to get the bar far enough out from me to crash to the ground without touching me. Only caveat was that my fingers didn't clear totally, so I was pulled down after it and ended up dazed and confused on floor, hands still on the bar, but unhurt other than some slight bruises.
I've failed to complete part of the movement (usually the press at the end - you can usually power clean much more than you'll be able to overhead press) many times, but usually you'll know when it's not going to work and can maintain enough rigidity to put the bar down in a controlled way.
It is dangerous, but also rather safe if done properly, just like say driving (which still kills as many people as 9/11 every month in the US alone, you'd think national security budgets would fund driverless cars... well they do, but more than now).
But yeah there've been some really tragic accidents. If you put your hand on the bottom of your neck and you feel your spine, some people have dropped the bar on there and couldn't walk for the rest of their lives. Which is why there's quite a bit of hate for Crossfit from the oly/powerlifting community because a substantial portion of their activity isn't safe. (where at times, either the exercises, or the guidance are inadequate for safety).
Generally though it's pretty easy to move the bar/body when you fail in the movement, and a proper trainer would let you go through those movements first so you get a feel of how to 'escape' a failed lift. The only danger is if you're inexperienced with this, or if you weren't watching your breathing properly and faint during the exercise. (that kind of training/experience is usually extremely solid if you do olympic lifting or powerlifting under guidance. You'll be hard pressed to find an olympic weightlifting trainer who doesn't know what he's talking about. Crossfit hasn't matured as much and there's just too many trainers out there who are novice lifters and teach lifting, and focus on ridiculous amount of volume, and it's dangerous)
They aren't that well trained either. And most well trained people will never clean and jerk 300+lbs. Even if every single kid who tried a 300lbs+ clean and jerk died from it on the spot, that still wouldn't make enough of a dent to make lifting a high risk sport.
The thing worth keeping in mind that people forget when questioning whether kids should lift, is that kids lift, or try to lift large percentages of their body weight to failure all the time during normal play. They have a training capacity and recovery ability that makes me insanely jealous as someone who's turned 40.
If lifting the weights they are physically able to is dangerous for them, then so is a lot of their regular playing.
I think parent meant the Italian system of goverment and their society. It wouldn't make sense to imbide the intrinsic qualities of something as large as the Italian nation as a whole into their citizens at birth.
So he might expect Linus to listen to his opinions on the end user experience, but maybe not to his opinions on how it should be implemented technically? Would that be fair.
I'm pretty sure giving people the time of day is an admirable trait and can teach you many things regardless of their expertise. It's after the fact that you disregard the cruft.
It's like the Republican debates for me, I can't seem to find any common ground with these candidates but then I find a few nuggets that I do like (such as Jeb Bush's funding of crisis birth centers and increasing the adoption rates in Florida through better funding and education for adoption centers. Even if I'm pro choice I think those are good ideas). Of course, the Republican debates are two to three hours long so it's very thankful they're not very often and you need to find the balance so that you're not just wasting your time.
I think it's fair to say that there is no black and white answer to this issue and you really have to go on a case by case basis to maximise your use of the information contained in the people around you.
