classification, people and personalities

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Fours are all about being unique and creating their own distinct culture. They experience the highs and lows of life more intensely than other types. They take great pride in their aesthetic tastes. Fours often feel like misplaced children, and they long for a sense of real family.

I discovered this on RJL20’s site. I’m trying to figure out if I like what it says or not.
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on learning computer programming

Comments on CSE142 at the UW

But graphics don’t need to be used in a low-level computer science class. We’re supposed to be learning programming fundamentals, not how to use a particular graphics widget library. The equivalent class at Berkeley is taught in Lisp, and from what I can tell focuses way more on building understanding of programming principles and less on “how to program in language X”. I don’t really want to take a java programming class, or a C programming class, or an Ada programming class. Individual languages are just syntax, and I can pick that up as I go along. But understanding of how to think about programming is language-independent. Or it should be, anyway.

The assignments which require that you make a simple animation or reproduce an image given to you by the instructor seem to be exercising your ability to use the graphics toolkit more than anything else. That bugs me. I’m not particularly looking forward to this class. Bah.
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why OS X is worth caring about

netbsd-users: Re: OT: apple’s marketing is just insolent

I’ll also have to admit I really like MacOS X! For the first time, Apple has made me seriously consider getting a Mac. It blends several things I really like in a Personal Computing Worstation: A GUI that’s easy enough for my 3 year old to run (or, more respectfully, most non-computer professionals I know [including my dear bride! ;^) ]), mainstream corporate applications like MS Office and Adobe, as well as several others including off-the-shelf support for my digital camera, a company behind it that has one of the longest histories as a major player in the computer industry (how many are left now < 5? IBM, Microsoft, Apple, ...), and yet this wonderful OS provides me the ability to tinker with stuff like with NetBSD - driver developement, OpenSource Apps, etc.)
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