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What are you talking about?

I would support this if you can remove header files. It is hell to manage function prototypes. Let the compiler figure that out with "public/private" keywords.

Thucydides?

So if you disagree with the author, then you're anti-intellectual.

What if I click an unknown link that sends me to a popup page that I didn't consent to going to? They would be getting benefit at my expense.

We are living in a world where resource depletion is a serious concern on the health and well-being of humanity. Advertisement encourages resource depletion. Therefore we shouldn't support advertisement at all.

Your analogy fails too. I use a manual javascript blocking add-on (noscript) instead of an automatic blacklisting one and its not a deal-breaker. Minor effort required.

I understand what/how to do VBO's but I don't know how to link it with game dev. If I have a HUD, entities, effects, terrain, do I have one VBO to handle all that data (and update it in my game loop)? Or should I split the VBO's into HUD/entities/effects/terrain/etc?

The Chrome OS linux variant is not the OS that many want to see dominate. Google is untrustworthy since they treat their users as the product via data mining and information gathering. Their services are suspect.

I wouldn't mind learning how to do this!

Add in corporations?

The issue is that Facebook has control over this technology and gives it more monopoly power. To decentralize the market Oculus shouldn't have sold out. Facebook is an unethical company that data mines its users. Facebook's treatment of its bought companies is irrelavent since it has ownership/control. You are the one without logic.

Take a look at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SuGRgdJA_c.

We will see an increase in automation for jobs that we didn't expect to be so. The speed of this transformation depends on our creative and technical ability.

If you think that work defines you, read up about the Puritans in America. They had an extreme motto that 100% of your waking life must be allocated to work. You could say they are the only religious that had a fear that someone around them was having a good time.

I disagree with your vision of the next 25 years. Enterprises waste money creating new html templates for each web solution (as well as said developers). Imagine if all web pages had minimal layout design (with little or NO usage of images/css). That way developers can spend 100% of their time on the backend (business logic) - not on the front-end. Thus development time could decrease and features can increase. This is because front-end is a waste of time and if only we can culturally accept functional (think Google.com) not creative design, then no developers will rule the web.

The last link was the most useful for people wanting to know a course sequence: http://shanelynn.ie/index.php/online-learning-curriculum-for...

Self-hosted, privacy-friendly alternative: BTSync. Enough said.

C# doesn't have K&R brace formatting... the first brace is placed on a new line (unfortunately).

Yes, yes, and yes!

Auto is useful to reduce the amount of typing and DRY principle. Your arguments are meaningless when you can hover the mouse on the "auto" keyword and have Visual Studio/Eclipse tell you its type.

Have a local common carrier, but make it a coop where customers and employers have 1/n voting right. That way you don't have a company with the benefit of a monopoly and the growth/innovation of the company depends on how much the majority of people want to pay.

Then why are developers paid so well?

Provide better justification rather than "its my opinion".

I'm not going to argue against restraining these rich people. But what I will argue against is the type of answer given and the level of awareness that brought the answer. If people realized that there can be economy without money (i.e. resource-based economy) then all these rich people lose their power. Assuming that an RBE society would be more fairer for the populous.

Technology doesn't live in a bubble - this social event directly affects technology.

Curious - How do you get the ability to downvote articles?

I have been using online courses for a while, here is my pitch:

Most online courses are still under the old mindset of the conservative education model. Why does a course have a start and end date? I learn on my OWN time since I'm constrained by full-time employment. Why does a course have tests/exams? I came here to learn not obtain a badge, degree, or a set of meaningless numbers/grades. Why does a course NOT have a programming/application-centric method of learning? Why does an online course not have GREAT material and resources (i.e. lackluster application tests, labs, programming projects)? All these block me from doing what I want when I join an online course - to learn.

I'd rather use Mozilla's Persona and host my identity provider on my web server.

Quite the opposite, deadlines made me cram and guess the multiple choice since 1/2 weeks per quiz was a ridiculously small amount of time to learn. I was taking both Coursera Computer Cryptography/Networks. If there was no deadline I could absorb the material at my own pace. In regards to marks, fuck 'em. I want to learn, not to get "marks" or a "paper".

Service where you can purchase and download high-quality non-drm products, videos, songs, like bandcamp.com. Is that so hard to comprehend?

Does anybody have a recommendation for a win/linux IDE that supports: c/c++/c#, java, python? I've considered Code::Blocks or one of Jetbrain's IDE products but never had the time to try them out.