Readit NewsOf course it's important and it's inevitable but calling it an "emergency" would by hyperbole and cause it to be taken less seriously.
Perl is still my go-to language when I need to write something quickly.
I have so many purpose driven utilities that I have written in Perl, that it saves me several man-hours of work every month.
Do you have any idea? Or are you just going with your gut on this one?
I am unabashedly pro gun. I have testified at hearings on behalf of gun owners.
Still, the point I'm making here is that there is something especially troubling about those cops who see themselves as the protagonist from an 80s action movie.
Yes there were the cops who really did believe in/want to protect people. This was possibly even most of them. Then there were the cops who were downright scary. Talking about want to drag people into the street and beat them up. Or idolizing Jason Statham in the transformer movies as some kind of "supercop" (their words). Or the guy who refused to tell the teenagers skateboarding in the parking garage they had to leave because he wasn't allowed his gun. A gun, seriously, to confront a few tell a few teenagers with skateboards to leave.
Should I ever have to interact with the cops again it honestly scares me which of these groups I'll get.
I would run from them without hesitation if they ever pulled me over. They're not the right type to be cops. And I'm relatively confident that many, many cops are like them. It's chilling.
I had one high school classmate who wanted to become a cop. He was a runt who discovered weightlifting and steroids. The thing that kept him from becoming a cop was that he got caught stealing from vending machines when we were teenagers.
It's fantastic that he didn't get to carry a badge and gun.
Hiring more police is not the simple solution, there needs to be a fundamental cultural shift among American police away from militarization.
With a decent response time and hierarchical menus, it's easy to make a system that is navigable without looking. Throw in some (hopefully non-annoying) audio feedback, and it is extremely accessible--even by a blind passenger! In fact, that's a good benchmark. If a blind passenger could operate the thing, then the driver should be able to as well.
They're thinking about making their vehicles look differently than everyone else's instead of thinking about what would work the best?
While normally I would applaud work in this area, the sheer arrogance to claim in your article you have the experience to build curriculum’s or indeed that you can build a better education platform for teaching kids to code with this experience is insulting to the teaching profession as well as those building existing platforms in collaboration with teachers and schools alike.
My parents taught for decades. In the same way an experienced programmer takes decades to hone there craft to the point where others should really take note of how and what they have to say, the same can be said for teachers.
Sorry but I just can’t take this seriously and maybe it’s wrong but it just feels… disrespectful to teachers in a way as if 2 years is somehow enough to have mastered the profession and impart knowledge and wisdom to the education world or indeed students.. as if after 2 years you know better than everyone else, you’ve seen enough.
Like many others here, I work in IT and that's the kind of thinking that led to every new project being "Ruby On Rails" about 12-15 years ago and every time a new underlying library gets updated, a bunch of code breaks. Meanwhile, C/C++, COBOL and FORTRAN programs from 30-50 years ago are still running the infrastructure of the world.
Newer doesn't always mean better.