This is just sad

Apparently IT students can't be bothered to do their own homework anymore.

UK IT students are hiring coders in India to complete their coursework for as little as £5 a go.

A-level and university pupils are logging onto computer coding websites and farming out their work to foreign IT graduates.

I imagine if it's happening in the UK, it's happening in the US.

I can't decide if this is the utmost in laziness, or the utmost in intelligence - assuming you have the money to burn.  But, I think that they are going to come to a point in their career where they will actually wish they had put the work into actually learning to code instead of how to pay someone to code.

Of course, coding is something that people tend to either love or hate.  And if you love it, then why pay someone else to do it?  And if you hate it enough to pay someone else to do it, why are you in that major anyway?

via Slashdot

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A Family Portrait

Scientists working with the Spitzer Space Telescope have created a 800,000 image mural of the Milky Way galaxy.  That's pretty impressive, and certainly helps give us a sense of scale.

Here is a viewer that allows you to zoom in on parts of the picture. 

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