Maybe it's that ol' Software Crisis or thar Pleasantness Problem
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- Inside, the apps are Cordova and ~1500 lines of vanilla ES5 and CSS
- Behind that are some build/preprocess steps which basically flow: img scraping and resize scripts -> [content] + ~100 line yaml config -> build scripts -> apk
- Prototype app includes diagnostic controls for the game/passtime itself and various DOM event/property logging used to construct/refine things
- The "finished" apps are intended as a boring-as-possible, feature-minimum case
- Thinking about whether it's worth developing this or similar toward 99¢ apps, custom versions, an SaaS approach or something else
According to gsmarena.com iPhone 8 is 4.7" and SE is 4.0"
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rather to the contrary, i think. Or you haven't had occasion to attempt teaching enough?
> There's been research to show that there is correlation between the incidence of schizophrenia and the domestication of cats.
As I recall, this was more recently debunked, largely on the basis of correlation/causation confusion. ... Unfortunately, I failed in googling the counterpoint. Don't take my word for it, obviously. But consider: the popularity of cat-themes, and of mental-health quackery, especially on the internet.
OTOH, my grandmother, who was paranoid schizophrenic, refused to spay/neuter her cats because she had, to her, important conversations with them. So maybe you/they are correct.
Also note, the fluoridation of the public water supply may be sapping our precious bodily fluids[1].
> ...as parasties, viruses and bacteria (or even the lack thereof) may be far more immportant than currently realized, possibly even causal in many cases.
Agreed. Eg: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1298621...
Me: ... but, in the future, everyone will learn how to program. Neal: no, in the future, no one will need to know how to program.
I suspect Neal was right, though I dislike the idea strongly.
Anyhow, machines will probably prove to be smarter with such details. So accountants can likely just shift the cost to another column. (Sorry to anyone who can conceivably be replaced by a robot.)
Not to sound like such a douche: parallelism, concurrency, distributed process; can raw human "wet" computing ever pretend to compete with clean binary process in such gambles?
I think the article's author's central premise (to paraphrase: that Ada Lovelace is a phony promoted by other rank phonies for [unexplained, mostly inscrutable but surely, somehow base] political and/or emotional warm-fuzzies) is 110%, really pretty low-grade, claptrap.
Consider the question of Lovelace's role in CS ...
From the perspective of the author of the Ada language[1], call him Jean: he probably must have had some kind of psychic crush on her, right? Any of us (males, I mean) might assume.
From the perspective of later 20th century CS historians, who presumably bestowed the title "first programmer": Babbage was a hardware engineer; of course he designed the assembly language, in tandem with designing the machine; but since the dawn of computing, and still today, there exists a decided, if fuzzy line, between hardware and software "engineers'. And Lovelace owns the innovation of considering numbers as representations of any possible discrete item beyond mere numbers (hm, maybe Leibnitz did this earlier, but that really doesn't count, does it?[2]), which is /key/. So, call them, respectively, first hardware architect, first software programmer. Fair enough?
I think we can definitively settle the question with a time machine - I presume that Charles and Ada would be quite pleased to discuss all such trivia over tea with an esteemed time-traveller. -- Now you have a new, better project that trolling HN threads (jk ;-P).
And no, he referenced nowhere near enough original sources to seem even vaguely credible on such a complex, controversial topic. (See also the first reply in this thread, from jgrahamc - who does give the sense of having actually researched the labyrinthian topic.) And yes, Admiral Hopper. What is with white girls? And how many feminists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
No offense.
[1] "Ada was originally designed by a team led by Jean Ichbiah of CII Honeywell Bull under contract to the United States Department of Defense (DoD) from 1977 to 1983 to supersede the hundreds of programming languages then used by the DoD." [wikipedia:Ada (programming language)] [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Wilhelm_Leibniz#Symbo...
Gender is a construct. It is /tethered/, but not mapped, to sex. They are in no way identical, and often, in so many ways, orthogonal. Sex (ie, sex difference) has a finite number of dimensions, and the ones we can identify with confidence are physiological (currently, we understand neither the connection between neural function and behavior, nor the mechanics of culture, in enough detail enough to draw clear conclusions about what might really be "male" vs "female" characteristics in the realm of culture or behavior). Gender, OTOH, has unlimited, fluid dimensions. The prospect of discovering or creating a simple mapping between sex and gender, begets a vain project. [Similar to the project of mapping Jewishness to thrift, ethnicity to ability, sexual orientation to morality, etc.]
Moreover, the process of peeling away the layers of what may be constructed / learned, or may be more-or-less dictated by genetics -- to varying degrees depending on an individual and a set of circumstance -- is /exactly/ the process of dismantling gender, which we can also hope will lead to a more equitable distribution of power.
So if one is sincerely curious about the underlying realities, keeping at chipping away the presumptions, is the way to go.
Volume one of Simone de B's epic "Second Sex" covers your points in depth. Worth reading - some of its 1953 English translation is online at : http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/de-beauvoir...
[1] Interesting, to me, because I think of it as starting in the late 1980s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_correctness [2] Credit to Vonnegut