I can guarantee you, without fear of contradiction, that no software engineer will ever have to write a binary search after they are hired.
Your guarantee is broken. I once worked on a project that needed to determine how many call center agents would be required to provide a certain level of service given an approximate call volume. We previously had used a third party dll, but when we moved to x64, that dll failed to work and the guy who developed it responded saying he had no interest in upgrading it. So instead, I learned the math behind it and went to work. The calculation for level of service required a check of whether the number of agents would meet the service requirement. I got an exponential speed up by writing it as an unbounded binary search (first doubling to determine the upper bound, then doing a search between n and n-1 to determine the minimum number of agents that meet the service level).
Tell you what, I'll take a milage tax if you give me a public transit system where I can get frm my home to work (25 miles away) in less than an hour. Until then, this is just an excuse to squeeze more money out of the people who can't afford to live near their workplace.
It's abundantly clear they donot care, as long as they can sell expensive support contracts and bill you by the CPU.
I'd go one step further and say that they intentionally avoid updating their software. The more difficult their software is to use, the more consultants they can charge for. First they get you by the balls, then they squeeze.
Looking at Oracle handling of Sun assets, it makes me wonder, will we see any innovation from Oracle, or are they going to sit tight on their position and only harvest support licenses?
No flame war here, just wondering with their skills and talent could they bring the IT forward instead of delegating to others?
Skills? Talent? Um, have you seen Oracle's offerings? PL/SQL is at least a decade behind even minor competitors' database offerings, and their tie-in development environments make VB6 look good.. The only thing Oracle is talented at is lock-in and convincing governments and corporations that they need Oracle.
Your attitude seems a bit poor too. Some people are task orientated while others are people orientated. It is very difficult for task orientated people to see why they are not more valued than the others who seem to goof off all day and yet get paid at least the same or maybe even more. I have been through this myself and it took a change of job and a couple of good books to realize what was going on. You should be more aware of the different types of people.
I think you're creating a false dichotomy here.. I'm very task-oriented when it comes to work, but yet I still go out with my coworkers every day for lunch (even when I pack a lunch, I take it with me). Why? Because in a good team you need to know your teammates strengths and weaknesses. You might have one guy on a team that you write off as a worthless coder, only to find that he's great with designing UIs. Or you might find out that the smartass senior developer isn't such a smartass when he realizes that you know what you're doing.
Socialists want to replace capitalism, not attempt to stabilize it.
Eh, as a socialist, I disagree. I don't mind capitalism.. What bothers me is corporatism. Government is a necessary evil; Walmart is an unnecessary evil.
Yup!
Seems like an excellent project with lots of value that we shouldn't take on until we can afford it. Of course we appreciate what you do and we want to fund it, but we shouldn't take out another loan when we're already in deficit and carrying too much debt.
The problem is that a a tax break on the wealthiest 2% of Americans added $900,000,000,000 to our tab. Maybe we should repeal that, and then we'll have hit the Republic target for cuts 15 times over.
For some, it just shines a light on the fact that the federal government provides a lot of non-essential services. Some consider this to be the central problem with government.
It's all in what you consider essential. For instance, projects related to developing a GPS infrastructure for flight plans to replace the old navaid/fix system will streamline the airline industry, increase safety, and reduce costs. Most of these workers are considered "non-essential" (myself included) because they do not have a direct *immediate* impact on public safety or property.
Actually? No, it is not a serious issue. 800,000 GOVT employees *not working* is status quo, is it not?
I know plenty of federal workers, and believe me, most of them are not like your local DMV stereotype.
Do people say stuff like the GP to federal workers?
I work for the British government, and we don't have anything like the "DMV stereotype" here. It would be quite dispiriting if there was a general assumption that I was lazy, incompetent and a leech on the rest of society.
No, they don't. In fact, people talk about the laziness of government employees like they talk about the weather. Makes for an awkward conversation when you point out you're a government employee. As a fed, I've noticed most of my fellow feds are quite competent. We tend to be paid a lot less than in the private sector (at least for developers), but we don't have to work the insane 60-hour weeks that you do in private sector right now. If working only 40-45 hours per week (yes, I work overtime sometimes) makes me lazy, then so be it.
Air Traffic Control is considered essential, and will continue to operate, as will essential support. At times I wish they would shut that down with the rest though, just to put a fine point on exactly why funding the government is important.
Yes, my work on automation software flight plan management for the FAA is very oppressive to you. Douchebag.
This function could just as well be performed by the private sector, more efficiently, and by people who do not regard their paymasters as douchebags. Welcome to the real world.
No, not really. Basically there are two ways this goes down in government:
1.) Pay Oracle, Boeing, Lockheed, etc. to build it for millions and millions of dollars, then millions more to maintain the godawful piece of VB garbage, or
2.) Retain control of the project with competent leaders, do it right, and save money both on the initial product, as well as on the support that's likely to last decades
Believe it or not, feds are generally the people who used to work in the private sector on the contract side, but were deemed too important to lose and thus offered a federal position.
Also, I do not regard my paymaster (my boss) as a douchebag. I regard you specifically as a douchebag.
Isn't most software for the government written by contractors? As such, isn't that money already allocated? I would expect you would continue to get paid. Now, the air traffic controllers, on the other hand...
It depends on the project. The particular project I work on is a mixed team of contractors and feds, and I happen to be a fed. Regardless, the contractors are being furloughed along with the feds, since the contracting companies won't be able to bill the government during the shutdown. And no, I will not be getting paid unless Congress decides to back-pay. And with the Republicans in power, I doubt that's going to happen.
Sorry bud, but that dollar menu cheeseburger is $1. Also, it's been quite a while since I've seen tuna below $0.79/can. And eating that tuna for every meal is going to cause mercury poisoning.
Cut McRotten out of that and you'll have money to purchase a reasonable amount of low/no-prep fruits and veggies. If you have to eat on the go, try a Subway, Jimmy Johns, or any of a growing number of same price, yet healthier alternatives. There's also nothing horrible with Ramens if you throw something healthy with it, and no one forces you to put half a stick of butter into your Mac and Cheese. Further if you're willing to go through the effort of Mac and Cheese then you have a whole host of very simple, similarly priced healthy alternatives. Believe it or not you can actually eat pretty well on not much money if you put a bit of effort into looking for alternatives. Even if you can't afford that much produce you can generally afford a bottle of multi-vitamins to supplement.
You do know that Subway is at least 5x as expensive as McDonalds, right? But aside from that, the fact is that there are no grocery stores in the ghetto; they just don't have a real option to eat healthy.
Less healthy foods tend to be cheaper than healthier alternatives (as in, not just HFCS vs other sugars, but in general). So any tax on unhealthy foods will be a regressive tax.
Well, unless you use the revenue to subsidize healthy foods, thus lowering the overall health costs for society as a whole.. But that's *SOCIALISM*, and that means you hate *AMERICUH*!
I guess maybe I don't know the answer. I just know that for me, about half the people I see daily are walking horrors, and the message I always got loud and clear was "don't be a lazy glutton or this will be you!". Which is why at age 51 I'm the same exact size and measurements I was at age 19. I set rules for myself, and one of them set decades ago is "I am a size six -- I do not buy other sizes". That always worked, though I love eating just much as anyone. Another good rule is "all food should be fresh, natural, and nutritious". Fortunately, I'm a great cook and tend to prefer real food.:)
Frankly, it always seemed to me that the fat people just don't bother with the business of setting rules for themselves (discipline). Knowing many of them (unavoidable) and having the opportunity to observe their behavior appears to confirm that, though obviously this is all strictly anecdotal.
You forget that most fat people are poor, and often live in neighborhoods where there's no grocery stores, and even if there were, they could not afford meat, fruits, and vegetables. I've definitely noticed my waist getting bigger as my budget got smaller. I can only imagine how hard it is for someone who can only afford Kraft mac and cheese, McDonalds, and ramen noodles.
If we pay less FICA for Medicaid we will benefit. Fatties are the ones whom would pay more. We get more take home pay, they get future health care cost paid for being unwilling to eat a salad every now and then.
I don't know if you've noticed, but obesity is often a symptom of poverty. You're not going to get any more taxes out of someone who's already on welfare, and you haven't fixed the problem that a home-made sandwich costs 3 times as much as a McDonalds cheeseburger.
Do you really vote based on "chance in hell of winning"? That has to be the most irrelevant and stupid metric for deciding if someone should lead that I have ever heard. And if the majority of voters are that stupid to use that as their criteria, then we get the government we deserve.
So I should write in unicorns and rainbows then? I vote for the guy I don't particularly want in office because if I (and others) don't, I'll get the guy I really don't want in office.
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"100MB/s per month" How many MB/s does that equate to per second?
Well that depends on time 't'. It will accelerate by 100 MB/s each month. So by this time next year you should be getting over 1 GB/s.
I can guarantee you, without fear of contradiction, that no software engineer will ever have to write a binary search after they are hired.
Your guarantee is broken. I once worked on a project that needed to determine how many call center agents would be required to provide a certain level of service given an approximate call volume. We previously had used a third party dll, but when we moved to x64, that dll failed to work and the guy who developed it responded saying he had no interest in upgrading it. So instead, I learned the math behind it and went to work. The calculation for level of service required a check of whether the number of agents would meet the service requirement. I got an exponential speed up by writing it as an unbounded binary search (first doubling to determine the upper bound, then doing a search between n and n-1 to determine the minimum number of agents that meet the service level).
Tell you what, I'll take a milage tax if you give me a public transit system where I can get frm my home to work (25 miles away) in less than an hour. Until then, this is just an excuse to squeeze more money out of the people who can't afford to live near their workplace.
It's abundantly clear they donot care, as long as they can sell expensive support contracts and bill you by the CPU.
I'd go one step further and say that they intentionally avoid updating their software. The more difficult their software is to use, the more consultants they can charge for. First they get you by the balls, then they squeeze.
Looking at Oracle handling of Sun assets, it makes me wonder, will we see any innovation from Oracle, or are they going to sit tight on their position and only harvest support licenses?
No flame war here, just wondering with their skills and talent could they bring the IT forward instead of delegating to others?
Skills? Talent? Um, have you seen Oracle's offerings? PL/SQL is at least a decade behind even minor competitors' database offerings, and their tie-in development environments make VB6 look good.. The only thing Oracle is talented at is lock-in and convincing governments and corporations that they need Oracle.
Your attitude seems a bit poor too. Some people are task orientated while others are people orientated. It is very difficult for task orientated people to see why they are not more valued than the others who seem to goof off all day and yet get paid at least the same or maybe even more. I have been through this myself and it took a change of job and a couple of good books to realize what was going on. You should be more aware of the different types of people.
I think you're creating a false dichotomy here.. I'm very task-oriented when it comes to work, but yet I still go out with my coworkers every day for lunch (even when I pack a lunch, I take it with me). Why? Because in a good team you need to know your teammates strengths and weaknesses. You might have one guy on a team that you write off as a worthless coder, only to find that he's great with designing UIs. Or you might find out that the smartass senior developer isn't such a smartass when he realizes that you know what you're doing.
Socialists want to replace capitalism, not attempt to stabilize it.
Eh, as a socialist, I disagree. I don't mind capitalism.. What bothers me is corporatism. Government is a necessary evil; Walmart is an unnecessary evil.
When did Rockstar ever have interest in the PC? I thought they were primarily a console developer? Perhaps you are thinking of Crytek?
GTA1 was PC only for a number of years. I'm not sure GTA2 ever had a console port.
Yup! Seems like an excellent project with lots of value that we shouldn't take on until we can afford it. Of course we appreciate what you do and we want to fund it, but we shouldn't take out another loan when we're already in deficit and carrying too much debt.
The problem is that a a tax break on the wealthiest 2% of Americans added $900,000,000,000 to our tab. Maybe we should repeal that, and then we'll have hit the Republic target for cuts 15 times over.
Probably some of them will be, but they are mostly considered essential personnel.
For some, it just shines a light on the fact that the federal government provides a lot of non-essential services. Some consider this to be the central problem with government.
It's all in what you consider essential. For instance, projects related to developing a GPS infrastructure for flight plans to replace the old navaid/fix system will streamline the airline industry, increase safety, and reduce costs. Most of these workers are considered "non-essential" (myself included) because they do not have a direct *immediate* impact on public safety or property.
We (feds) are not allowed to work during a furlough. If you show up anyway, the guards turn you around and tell you to go home.
Er, wait, yes they do say the negative things to the federal workers.. They do not say the positive things that the other poster responded with.
I know plenty of federal workers, and believe me, most of them are not like your local DMV stereotype.
Do people say stuff like the GP to federal workers?
I work for the British government, and we don't have anything like the "DMV stereotype" here. It would be quite dispiriting if there was a general assumption that I was lazy, incompetent and a leech on the rest of society.
No, they don't. In fact, people talk about the laziness of government employees like they talk about the weather. Makes for an awkward conversation when you point out you're a government employee. As a fed, I've noticed most of my fellow feds are quite competent. We tend to be paid a lot less than in the private sector (at least for developers), but we don't have to work the insane 60-hour weeks that you do in private sector right now. If working only 40-45 hours per week (yes, I work overtime sometimes) makes me lazy, then so be it.
Air Traffic Control is considered essential, and will continue to operate, as will essential support. At times I wish they would shut that down with the rest though, just to put a fine point on exactly why funding the government is important.
You think your DMV of the sky is so great only because you are not capable of imagining an alternative.
As a taxpayer, I am paying you. I am your boss. Call me a douchebag if you wish.
Imagining a thing does not make it so
Yes, my work on automation software flight plan management for the FAA is very oppressive to you. Douchebag.
This function could just as well be performed by the private sector, more efficiently, and by people who do not regard their paymasters as douchebags. Welcome to the real world.
No, not really. Basically there are two ways this goes down in government:
1.) Pay Oracle, Boeing, Lockheed, etc. to build it for millions and millions of dollars, then millions more to maintain the godawful piece of VB garbage, or
2.) Retain control of the project with competent leaders, do it right, and save money both on the initial product, as well as on the support that's likely to last decades
Believe it or not, feds are generally the people who used to work in the private sector on the contract side, but were deemed too important to lose and thus offered a federal position.
Also, I do not regard my paymaster (my boss) as a douchebag. I regard you specifically as a douchebag.
Isn't most software for the government written by contractors? As such, isn't that money already allocated? I would expect you would continue to get paid. Now, the air traffic controllers, on the other hand...
It depends on the project. The particular project I work on is a mixed team of contractors and feds, and I happen to be a fed. Regardless, the contractors are being furloughed along with the feds, since the contracting companies won't be able to bill the government during the shutdown. And no, I will not be getting paid unless Congress decides to back-pay. And with the Republicans in power, I doubt that's going to happen.
it was permanent. This shutdown only brings a temporary respite to the oppression the American people suffer at the hands of it's own government.
Yes, my work on automation software flight plan management for the FAA is very oppressive to you. Douchebag.
Sorry bud, but that dollar menu cheeseburger is $1. Also, it's been quite a while since I've seen tuna below $0.79/can. And eating that tuna for every meal is going to cause mercury poisoning.
Cut McRotten out of that and you'll have money to purchase a reasonable amount of low/no-prep fruits and veggies. If you have to eat on the go, try a Subway, Jimmy Johns, or any of a growing number of same price, yet healthier alternatives. There's also nothing horrible with Ramens if you throw something healthy with it, and no one forces you to put half a stick of butter into your Mac and Cheese. Further if you're willing to go through the effort of Mac and Cheese then you have a whole host of very simple, similarly priced healthy alternatives. Believe it or not you can actually eat pretty well on not much money if you put a bit of effort into looking for alternatives. Even if you can't afford that much produce you can generally afford a bottle of multi-vitamins to supplement.
You do know that Subway is at least 5x as expensive as McDonalds, right? But aside from that, the fact is that there are no grocery stores in the ghetto; they just don't have a real option to eat healthy.
Less healthy foods tend to be cheaper than healthier alternatives (as in, not just HFCS vs other sugars, but in general). So any tax on unhealthy foods will be a regressive tax.
Well, unless you use the revenue to subsidize healthy foods, thus lowering the overall health costs for society as a whole.. But that's *SOCIALISM*, and that means you hate *AMERICUH*!
I guess maybe I don't know the answer. I just know that for me, about half the people I see daily are walking horrors, and the message I always got loud and clear was "don't be a lazy glutton or this will be you!". Which is why at age 51 I'm the same exact size and measurements I was at age 19. I set rules for myself, and one of them set decades ago is "I am a size six -- I do not buy other sizes". That always worked, though I love eating just much as anyone. Another good rule is "all food should be fresh, natural, and nutritious". Fortunately, I'm a great cook and tend to prefer real food. :)
Frankly, it always seemed to me that the fat people just don't bother with the business of setting rules for themselves (discipline). Knowing many of them (unavoidable) and having the opportunity to observe their behavior appears to confirm that, though obviously this is all strictly anecdotal.
You forget that most fat people are poor, and often live in neighborhoods where there's no grocery stores, and even if there were, they could not afford meat, fruits, and vegetables. I've definitely noticed my waist getting bigger as my budget got smaller. I can only imagine how hard it is for someone who can only afford Kraft mac and cheese, McDonalds, and ramen noodles.
If we pay less FICA for Medicaid we will benefit. Fatties are the ones whom would pay more. We get more take home pay, they get future health care cost paid for being unwilling to eat a salad every now and then.
I don't know if you've noticed, but obesity is often a symptom of poverty. You're not going to get any more taxes out of someone who's already on welfare, and you haven't fixed the problem that a home-made sandwich costs 3 times as much as a McDonalds cheeseburger.
Do you really vote based on "chance in hell of winning"? That has to be the most irrelevant and stupid metric for deciding if someone should lead that I have ever heard. And if the majority of voters are that stupid to use that as their criteria, then we get the government we deserve.
So I should write in unicorns and rainbows then? I vote for the guy I don't particularly want in office because if I (and others) don't, I'll get the guy I really don't want in office.