Listen to Slashdot

[Mr. Analog]

http://feeds.feedburner.com/slashdot/audio

Kinda neat!

[Lazybones]

Interesting

[Darren Dirt]

Cool, pretty decent voice synthesis.


Interesting discussion/debate here:

http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/21/2139219

The original post asks if Assembly is still relevant today. I'll ask some rhetorical questions (the only kind in a blog) and see how they apply:

* Would you want an astronaut to understand physics and math?
* Would you want a doctor to understand chemistry and biology?
* Should somebody studying to be a Literature teacher take their full set of liberal arts courses, including history?
* Should somebody earning a business degree take music appreciation?

You should learn IT two ways -- deeply and broadly. You should deeply learn specific skills (Java/C#/Linux/Windows/scripting in Ruby/whatever) and you should learn broad skills (computing theory/relational databases/networking/troubleshooting/programming/a nalysis/architecture/whatever). The difference is training vs. education.

^ above eventually got me to this Wikipage... interesting how many "paradigms" are listed.