Seriously, if you love programming, after you have your undergraduate degree in computer science, go for a masters in applied mathematics. This will position you to do the really interesting stuff in programming -- breaking new ground working with smart folks. A masters in computer science should only be held by PhD candidates who failed their comprehensives. And the MBA/business track stuff is great, if you want to manage people and money, not program. But, if you want to keep your hands on the keyboard, and your head in the interesting computing challenges, get better at math. QED.
P.S. And if you turn out to be good at managing people, you can do that, too, down the road.
This is silly. The URLs, even "long" ones are miniscule compared to the pictures, streaming video, music, javascript etc. on these pages. To worry about them is like worrying about the lint on a suit of clothes making them too hot. This is just absurd.
I wouldn't take Vista for free but I happily paid a $500 'logo tax'
Why can't people just prefer apple, and not be fanatical about it? Oh, right, because then that wouldn't justify the increased expense.
Personally I like the hardware and design of the MacBook Pro, the software is nice too, but for me it's not worth the extra coin.
I use a mac because logic pro is the software I want to use, and that is where it runs. And my mac pro really was competitively priced, relative to similar desktops from others. And I do prefer OS X, but that might just be what I am used to. Oh, and it is nice to find unix underneath when I have to do something hard, since I know unix. *Shrug* I guess that makes me a fanatic in some peoples' eyes.
But even with Kelvin's reasonable starting point, the size of one degree is still 1/100 of the energy required to move h2o from solid to gas...still pretty arbitrary. Better to use the same for hydrogen, for example.
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The zero of Fahrenheit -- the freezing point of saturated brine -- is no less sensible than the Celcius zero of the freezing point of water. Fahrenheit is also more precise with fewer digits in the ranges most people deal with day to day.
Yeah, because I'm always having to deal with saturated brine. I can't tell you how many times I've gone out driving in sub-zero temperatures and nearly skidded on all that saturated brine ice.
It was developed in a port city where knowing if the harbor was frozen over (or not) was in fact of great importance.
It is certainly true that there are super-programmers out there. They are worth not just two or three of the rest of us, but more productive than 100 or so normal humans. A company is really lucky to have some of them.
The thing is, there is zero correlation between being this good, and being an asshat.
Now, sometimes there will be a bad programmer who acts like this, and they just get fired fast. Nobody worries about them.
But when the stars mis-align and you get someone actually talented, who is also a jerk, some inexperienced managers will feel stress about the obvious decision.
But the easy, obvious decision is to fire the asshat. You can go out there and find someone just as talented who is not obnoxious. I promise, you can. Do it.
The rest of the team will have a party when the obnoxious one leaves. Overall morale will increase, people will be only too glad to jump in and fill the gap (until you replace him/her and the replacement comes up to speed). Everyone will respect management more, and they will see that treating coworkers with respect is really important, not just lip service.
By the way, the same holds true for the great salesperson, etc.
When I was in the Army, doing electronic warfare stuff (which is the clear antecedent of cyber warefare), we were treated like sort of semi-soldiers, but well enough for all of that.
I think that the complaint in the article is that officers were feeling like they couldn't advance their careers without doing something actually militaryish. I have limited insight into this, as I was enlisted, but I do know that the Army just created a new career path for EW officers, and they created and EW command a few years ago.
But it might well be hard for officers to grow into positions of general responsibility for military activities, if they only have experience of one narrow specialty, which is indeed pretty different from the mainstream. I am not at all sure that this is a bad thing.
Maybe the roles that were being filled by these junior officers, should have been staffed by warrant officers, who exist exactly to provide technical leadership is specialized roles.
The $100 per month is nothing compared to the personnel expense of trying to keep the beast running with local machines and people.
And as for infrastructure for availability, think uninterruptible power, n+1 cooling, connectivity redundancy, physical security and network security, before you ever even think about redundant servers, storage and load-balancing, failover software.
Rackspace is indeed a good choice (and no I don't work for them), and they can offer you HA solutions if you need them and can afford them (a non-profit serving 1000 users a day almost certainly does not need, and can't afford, HA).
I am betting you can live with their very, very good SLAs for just a cheap, standard solution. Add in a RAID array, managed backup and a hardware firewall and you will be golden.
More importantly, do NOT use ftp as you said you plan to in your post. It is totally insecure, and you will very quickly be turned into a distribution center for pornography, stolen software, and instructions to botnets. You can move the files around using HTTP, or SFTP if you must. Don't run FTP.
Given the massive thefts of data from credit card processors, credit reporting agencies, government agencies etc., any thought that you have any privacy is as silly as belief in the tooth fairy.
Unless you are an off-the-grid cash-economy false-ID type a la Claire Wolf outsider (which you are not given your job), then you have nothing to lose and everything to gain from being on linkedin.
This is not to say you can't shoot yourself in the foot with inappropriate postings on myspace of facebook, but a drooling cretin can tell what should and should not go up there. But linkedin is a resume, letters of recommendation and a way to contact folks with warm introductions. No harm, no foul.
* "I am afraid of executives, I don't understand what they do so I assume they are out to screw me." I'll just ignore this one.
* "Get legal advice when dealing with legal documents." This is terribly good advice, you should do so.
* "10% of something big is a lot, 10% of something tiny is not. And stock that can't be sold isn't much use." All true. But it (accepting partial compensation in restricted stock) is certainly a risk that many of us accept, and one which has worked out well (sometimes very well) for many, many people.
The real question to ask yourself, in my opinion, is "do I like coming to work here each day?" If the answer is "no" then leave. If you are worth 10% of your current company, you are worth a comparable amount to someone else -- either in consulting fees or a position elsewhere with equity.
Life is too short to do things that suck. And money is not all that important, as long as you have enough to cover the basics.
The single back wheel does two things, each important:
1. Reduces weight by quite a lot,
2. Allows the vehicle to count as a motorcycle, and thereby ignore all of the safety standards to which cars must comply. So just don't look at crash test results, if any are every published....you won't like them.
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"We choose to go to the moon, and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard"
If all we ever do is the easy stuff, nothing ever changes.
And for all the people saying this is easy, why don't you give it a try then? It isn't just the money, this stuff takes serious engineering and real talent on the part of the driver/pilot.
What amazing stuff have you done in your life?
Hmmm. I thought the Apollo program was a way to get funding for development of ICBM technology. Perhaps I am just cynical.
From what I've read, his "hijacking" was limited to refusing to give the passwords to his boss whom he considered an idiot.
Given that they cannot hunt down a single device on the network, I'd have to agree with that assessment.
MAC address... switch port... it should be easy.
What he said. Perhaps plus a traceroute to establish which router it is closest to..then follow the cable to the switch (if one) and bingo! It is difficult for me to imagine this could take more than four or five hours, even in a city-wide network.
If the server were sending emails with pr0n of the mayor I bet they would find it fast.
Some people here will undoubtedly react in this topic, saying that this family "brought it onto themselves" or "should have read this or that".
I'm saying I'm disgusted, utterly disgusted how these companies treat their customers. Why isn't there a procedure in place that calls the customer upon reaching some limit like $500 or $1000 and warns them?
Why not? I'll tell you why. Because this is how the world works. But I'm still disgusted.
In fact I would say it is a distinct failure of ATT to protect themselves from collections problems. They should indeed have a credit limit set for each account, and stop if it is reached. Not just to keep people from making costly mistakes like this one, but to protect ATT from ending up eating such a bill (which is doubtless where they will end up on this one).
No it wouldn't. Most SPAM are sent from zombie networks, not by computers owned by legitimate individuals. Open relays and trojans are what makes spam possible. All that would result is that grandma would receive a bill for $87,000 for all the "emails" her computer has sent out.
Except that of course grandma would have a monthly credit limit of $25 on her account.
Simply having it cost one cent per addressee to send an email, the funds to be used for upgrades to the MAEs, would end it right away. And I don't really imagine it would bother any of us to pay a penny per email.
I used bunker.com for email from 1994 until last year. Then I got such an unsolicited email offer. I decided to reply and see what the offer was. Well, after successful use of escrow.com I am 10,000 euros richer! I say found money is great money, but do recommend the escrow path.
Mostly by the sponsoring company saying it is so and hiring a decent lawyer...just like the H1 visas that tons of my Indian co-workers have to work here in the US.
My guess for colleges around me (PA) would be, for computer science, something like:
1st Tier: Princeton et al
2nd Tier: Lehigh and the like
3rd Tier: Penn State main campus
So third tier seems like it is pretty good to my eyes.
Actually most countries, even the strictest on immigration, have work visa programs specifically for skilled positions that are difficult to fill locally. In Switzerland, for example (a notoriously tough place to get the right to stay permanently), you can get a Permis-B to work for 18 months with very little hassle at all, with the sponsorship of your employer, as long as you have skills. MS in Computer Science from a US University makes this a perfectly simple matter of paperwork and about $3000 in legal expenses (that the company will pay).
I think that you will be delighted to find that many EU companies have adopted English as their work language. This is especially true in Switzerland and Germany. Of course the UK, Ireland and (I know it isn't in Europe) Australia are good picks, too.
Germany or Switzerland would afford you the chance to pick up another language, which is a really wonderful experience (I studied Russian for years, worked in Germany so learned some German, and worked in Geneva so ended up with a little bit of French too -- it is life changing).
You can find web sites with jobs listed, monster.de for example...but in the local language so you might need to bablefish the sites.
Last but not least, US-based international companies are a great route to doing this (this is the path I took). Search for the HR pages on web sites of major international corporations and you are sure to find job listings around the world. Apply and be sure your cover letter expresses your excitement about overseas work.
Best of luck!
Rick.
It seems to me that putting it on Amazon's S3 system might be the best route. They don't seem likely to be going out of business, and will be constantly updating their technology, migrating the data to new drives etc. over time.
I was amused by an NPR commentator who opined that Microsoft hiring Seinfeld was certain to let the world know that Microsoft is the hip company of the 1990's.
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P.S. And if you turn out to be good at managing people, you can do that, too, down the road.
This is silly. The URLs, even "long" ones are miniscule compared to the pictures, streaming video, music, javascript etc. on these pages. To worry about them is like worrying about the lint on a suit of clothes making them too hot. This is just absurd.
I wouldn't take Vista for free but I happily paid a $500 'logo tax'
Why can't people just prefer apple, and not be fanatical about it? Oh, right, because then that wouldn't justify the increased expense.
Personally I like the hardware and design of the MacBook Pro, the software is nice too, but for me it's not worth the extra coin.
I use a mac because logic pro is the software I want to use, and that is where it runs. And my mac pro really was competitively priced, relative to similar desktops from others. And I do prefer OS X, but that might just be what I am used to. Oh, and it is nice to find unix underneath when I have to do something hard, since I know unix. *Shrug* I guess that makes me a fanatic in some peoples' eyes.
But even with Kelvin's reasonable starting point, the size of one degree is still 1/100 of the energy required to move h2o from solid to gas...still pretty arbitrary. Better to use the same for hydrogen, for example.
The zero of Fahrenheit -- the freezing point of saturated brine -- is no less sensible than the Celcius zero of the freezing point of water. Fahrenheit is also more precise with fewer digits in the ranges most people deal with day to day.
Yeah, because I'm always having to deal with saturated brine. I can't tell you how many times I've gone out driving in sub-zero temperatures and nearly skidded on all that saturated brine ice.
It was developed in a port city where knowing if the harbor was frozen over (or not) was in fact of great importance.
The thing is, there is zero correlation between being this good, and being an asshat.
Now, sometimes there will be a bad programmer who acts like this, and they just get fired fast. Nobody worries about them.
But when the stars mis-align and you get someone actually talented, who is also a jerk, some inexperienced managers will feel stress about the obvious decision.
But the easy, obvious decision is to fire the asshat. You can go out there and find someone just as talented who is not obnoxious. I promise, you can. Do it.
The rest of the team will have a party when the obnoxious one leaves. Overall morale will increase, people will be only too glad to jump in and fill the gap (until you replace him/her and the replacement comes up to speed). Everyone will respect management more, and they will see that treating coworkers with respect is really important, not just lip service.
By the way, the same holds true for the great salesperson, etc.
I think that the complaint in the article is that officers were feeling like they couldn't advance their careers without doing something actually militaryish. I have limited insight into this, as I was enlisted, but I do know that the Army just created a new career path for EW officers, and they created and EW command a few years ago.
But it might well be hard for officers to grow into positions of general responsibility for military activities, if they only have experience of one narrow specialty, which is indeed pretty different from the mainstream. I am not at all sure that this is a bad thing.
Maybe the roles that were being filled by these junior officers, should have been staffed by warrant officers, who exist exactly to provide technical leadership is specialized roles.
The $100 per month is nothing compared to the personnel expense of trying to keep the beast running with local machines and people.
And as for infrastructure for availability, think uninterruptible power, n+1 cooling, connectivity redundancy, physical security and network security, before you ever even think about redundant servers, storage and load-balancing, failover software.
Rackspace is indeed a good choice (and no I don't work for them), and they can offer you HA solutions if you need them and can afford them (a non-profit serving 1000 users a day almost certainly does not need, and can't afford, HA).
I am betting you can live with their very, very good SLAs for just a cheap, standard solution. Add in a RAID array, managed backup and a hardware firewall and you will be golden.
More importantly, do NOT use ftp as you said you plan to in your post. It is totally insecure, and you will very quickly be turned into a distribution center for pornography, stolen software, and instructions to botnets. You can move the files around using HTTP, or SFTP if you must. Don't run FTP.
Rick.
Unless you are an off-the-grid cash-economy false-ID type a la Claire Wolf outsider (which you are not given your job), then you have nothing to lose and everything to gain from being on linkedin.
This is not to say you can't shoot yourself in the foot with inappropriate postings on myspace of facebook, but a drooling cretin can tell what should and should not go up there. But linkedin is a resume, letters of recommendation and a way to contact folks with warm introductions. No harm, no foul.
Wikipedia now creates the truth. If they say 2+2=5, then 2+2=5. You will learn to love Big Wiki.
As long as they get Julia's name wrong, and not mine, I am ok with this.
* "I am afraid of executives, I don't understand what they do so I assume they are out to screw me." I'll just ignore this one.
* "Get legal advice when dealing with legal documents." This is terribly good advice, you should do so.
* "10% of something big is a lot, 10% of something tiny is not. And stock that can't be sold isn't much use." All true. But it (accepting partial compensation in restricted stock) is certainly a risk that many of us accept, and one which has worked out well (sometimes very well) for many, many people.
The real question to ask yourself, in my opinion, is "do I like coming to work here each day?" If the answer is "no" then leave. If you are worth 10% of your current company, you are worth a comparable amount to someone else -- either in consulting fees or a position elsewhere with equity.
Life is too short to do things that suck. And money is not all that important, as long as you have enough to cover the basics.
1. Reduces weight by quite a lot,
2. Allows the vehicle to count as a motorcycle, and thereby ignore all of the safety standards to which cars must comply. So just don't look at crash test results, if any are every published....you won't like them.
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As JFK once put it very succinctly...
"We choose to go to the moon, and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard"
If all we ever do is the easy stuff, nothing ever changes.
And for all the people saying this is easy, why don't you give it a try then? It isn't just the money, this stuff takes serious engineering and real talent on the part of the driver/pilot.
What amazing stuff have you done in your life?
Hmmm. I thought the Apollo program was a way to get funding for development of ICBM technology. Perhaps I am just cynical.
From what I've read, his "hijacking" was limited to refusing to give the passwords to his boss whom he considered an idiot.
Given that they cannot hunt down a single device on the network, I'd have to agree with that assessment.
MAC address ... switch port ... it should be easy.
What he said. Perhaps plus a traceroute to establish which router it is closest to..then follow the cable to the switch (if one) and bingo! It is difficult for me to imagine this could take more than four or five hours, even in a city-wide network. If the server were sending emails with pr0n of the mayor I bet they would find it fast.
Some people here will undoubtedly react in this topic, saying that this family "brought it onto themselves" or "should have read this or that".
I'm saying I'm disgusted, utterly disgusted how these companies treat their customers. Why isn't there a procedure in place that calls the customer upon reaching some limit like $500 or $1000 and warns them?
Why not? I'll tell you why. Because this is how the world works. But I'm still disgusted.
In fact I would say it is a distinct failure of ATT to protect themselves from collections problems. They should indeed have a credit limit set for each account, and stop if it is reached. Not just to keep people from making costly mistakes like this one, but to protect ATT from ending up eating such a bill (which is doubtless where they will end up on this one).
No it wouldn't. Most SPAM are sent from zombie networks, not by computers owned by legitimate individuals. Open relays and trojans are what makes spam possible. All that would result is that grandma would receive a bill for $87,000 for all the "emails" her computer has sent out.
Except that of course grandma would have a monthly credit limit of $25 on her account.
Simply having it cost one cent per addressee to send an email, the funds to be used for upgrades to the MAEs, would end it right away. And I don't really imagine it would bother any of us to pay a penny per email.
I used bunker.com for email from 1994 until last year. Then I got such an unsolicited email offer. I decided to reply and see what the offer was. Well, after successful use of escrow.com I am 10,000 euros richer! I say found money is great money, but do recommend the escrow path.
Mostly by the sponsoring company saying it is so and hiring a decent lawyer...just like the H1 visas that tons of my Indian co-workers have to work here in the US.
My guess for colleges around me (PA) would be, for computer science, something like: 1st Tier: Princeton et al 2nd Tier: Lehigh and the like 3rd Tier: Penn State main campus So third tier seems like it is pretty good to my eyes.
Actually most countries, even the strictest on immigration, have work visa programs specifically for skilled positions that are difficult to fill locally. In Switzerland, for example (a notoriously tough place to get the right to stay permanently), you can get a Permis-B to work for 18 months with very little hassle at all, with the sponsorship of your employer, as long as you have skills. MS in Computer Science from a US University makes this a perfectly simple matter of paperwork and about $3000 in legal expenses (that the company will pay).
I think that you will be delighted to find that many EU companies have adopted English as their work language. This is especially true in Switzerland and Germany. Of course the UK, Ireland and (I know it isn't in Europe) Australia are good picks, too. Germany or Switzerland would afford you the chance to pick up another language, which is a really wonderful experience (I studied Russian for years, worked in Germany so learned some German, and worked in Geneva so ended up with a little bit of French too -- it is life changing). You can find web sites with jobs listed, monster.de for example...but in the local language so you might need to bablefish the sites. Last but not least, US-based international companies are a great route to doing this (this is the path I took). Search for the HR pages on web sites of major international corporations and you are sure to find job listings around the world. Apply and be sure your cover letter expresses your excitement about overseas work. Best of luck! Rick.
It seems to me that putting it on Amazon's S3 system might be the best route. They don't seem likely to be going out of business, and will be constantly updating their technology, migrating the data to new drives etc. over time.
I was amused by an NPR commentator who opined that Microsoft hiring Seinfeld was certain to let the world know that Microsoft is the hip company of the 1990's.