If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
ALAN KAYI fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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