HoppedUpMenace

Its been my experience that a non-degree developer can crank out CRUD apps quickly whereas a developer with a CS or engineering degree will struggle with the idea of a CRUD app since its never taught in school from a modern perspective. That being said, the theory learned in school can help a developer see the bigger picture and provide them with tools for creating solid code with few performance issues while those that are self-taught or went through the boot camp will probably have to Youtube and Google their way out of trivial or ambiguous problems, such as null-pointer exceptions and data type mismatches.

Isn't this article purely an opinion piece? I don't mind, but if it is, it should be labeled as such and not passed off as investigative journalism. That being said, you could argue that its both or any number of things, for example:

news supression/distortion -> Orwell

class system of superiors/inferiors -> Brave New World

Could even possibly throw Citizen Kane into the mix but that may be a stretch.

Successful is purely subjective. They were "successful" at suppressing free speech is another way to look at it as well. I definitely would not agree with the rhetoric that was going to be spouted by the speaker and protesters have a right to protest. That being said, I believe the protesters are not aware of how their actions have greater implications on future policies that dictate what is fair to say and what isn't to a crowd of listeners.

"These people are out of control"

Are you referring to the people in masks or the protesters?

Not to sound cliche but I believe the bigger problem in this country is education, which apparently has failed many in this country on both sides of the political spectrum, if the past couple of years are any indication. I guarantee you fix people's problems with English, Math, and History in the classroom, you will have no need for machines or algorithms to filter junk that influences people online.

Why not show a statement like they do with copyright removal requests and indicate to the user that there are flagged results in the search query, but give the option to view the results anyway? At least in that respect, they don't re-enforce the notion that news is being censored at the request of some third party or that Google is taking the vigilante route to culling fake news.

I remember a friend of mine and I did co-op in Turok 2: Seeds of Evil with the help of a Gameshark. The only problem was that the portals in the game that teleported you to different areas would cause the player's screen who used it to freeze. The exciting part though was being able to go straight to the last boss in co-op mode and have that work without any issue.

Their single origin Sweet Tooth espresso was pretty amazing when I had it last year, you could really taste the cantaloupe in that particular version. Their Seasonal Espresso was not bad either but I did make both at home as opposed to drinking them inside a Ritual shop.

My first machine to make espresso was a espresso/drip coffee combo. Not knowing any better, I was merely pulling strong coffee and not espresso shots. Then I got a stand alone espresso machine, much closer to the real deal but still a far cry from what a coffee roaster like Temple Coffee could make in their store. Finally, invested in a Breville BES870XL and after many trials and errors, my espresso shots are fairly indistinguishable from what the pros at the coffee roasting shops make.

Getting the beans from a roasting store like Temple or Verve or Ritual (Sac/San Fran area) makes all the difference in the world for taste and crema IMO.

The amount of crema is definitely tied to air exposure so the quicker you can use up your beans the better (under 2 weeks or so from exposure to air). Additionally, its been my experience that I have to adjust the grind setting to 1 step finer if the beans have been sitting for a very long time, past the 2 week mark or so. I do this because at original setting, the extraction begins at a much lower pressure threshold than usual, leading to under-extraction and weak, watered-down espresso with little to no crema. It'd be nice to know if anyone has studied this particular aspect of coffee beans needing to be ground finer to compensate for age to maintain consistency.

The older aesthetics reflected an OS that could get everyone excited about its potential, kind of like back in the day when people would look at the graphics depicted on records, VHS covers, video game boxes, ect... Now, nobody draws quite a connection with that sort of art or media so you have something with no soul that conveys the idea that people are just happy with whatever you give them cause they could care less about people making a connection, just that it works and does, at a minimum, what its supposed to do.

A bit off topic... Same idea could be applied to what happened in video games in the past, like Super Mario RPG style transforming into Paper Mario or Ocarina of Time/Majora's Mask style being dropped for Wind Waker cartoon like aesthetic, both examples devoid of any human connection built up to that point in previous iterations but it gets the job done as its still the same kind of game.

California was the 5th largest economy at one point in the 90's and early 2000's.

Something wicked this way comes... Mark Zuckerberg and his Facebook, hiding under the guise of altruism, gives Mr. Dark and his circus a run for its money.

My point was that this is just another story about a guy from a wealthy family who goes on to become very wealthy himself. Reminds me of the cliche where someone who is definitely not poor goes to a prestigious university, has an idea, creates a startup, drops out, becomes rich.

Would've made for a more interesting story if the guy hadn't come from money and actually worked his way up from nothing.

Only one I've come across is Dead Code Detector plugin for Netbeans, which worked really well for me when looking for unused anything anywhere.

Any site online providing news will be behind a Paywall at some point in the future, its inevitable.

It would appear random thoughts are not entertained here lol.

Just a random thought: Isn't it quite an interesting coincidence that they found a way into the iPhone just as people were reporting problems with iOS 9.3?

So basically the web design work that anyone could do with little to no training now has to be done by people with degrees and a deep understanding for how the web operates and that can adapt to shifting web design paradigms without significant retooling of skills.

Location: Sacramento, CA

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes, within California

Technologies: C#, .NET, WPF, Silverlight, MVVM light, MVC, XAML, SQL Server, Java, Javascript(learning on the side), Scala(learning on the side), x86 Assembly, MIPS, Verilog, VHDL

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/acvgbm613fi4bhr/Resume.pdf?dl=0

Email: ricoandres31@gmail.com