I think one thing schools teach is to comment. In schools, comments are generally how you explain to your professor what you were doing. In the work place, comments is how you explain to your co-workers, and predecessors what was going on in your mind. It's also how you learn what your predecessors and co-workers were thinking when they wrote code you are inheriting. Generally speaking , people who learn by them selves don't comment, because they don't expect anyone else to read their code. Personally I find commenting a great way of explaining to myself how I am going to go about solving a problem as well.
The second big topic is efficiency. Anyone can write code that gets the job done, but how efficient is the code you write? Does your code complete in constant time, exponential, or logarithmic? With small, low volume projects this doesn't matter, but how well your application scales to serving large numbers of people or utilizes vast quantities of data it matters immensely. Google Big O for more information on this topic.
Finally at college you learn to use a lot of programming laguages, many of which you will never use again. While you might think this is a wasted effort, it helps you learn how to learn new programming languages. You seem to have a lot of programming languages under your belt, so you probably have this covered.
Remember that you implied some sort of danger, so you cannot possibly be talking about sea level rise: IPCC gives lowball of 19cm and highball of 59cm over 100 years, or between 0.19cm/year and 0.59cm/years. Might happen, but its not a threat to human life. Just walk away, folks.
That is some cool shit. I wouldn't consider a tv i have to wear glasses for, but one that does it without... I can see this quickly scaling up to a depth competition.
No no. I think 20k is great. 70+k over the poverty though... that is why this industry is getting outsourced to other countries. Hell, if anything you can't flip burgers in India for Americans. That almost makes that job more valuable.
My point is that the poverty line in America is well above a good wage in many countries by a factor of 2 or 3. Normalization has to happen at some point, and it is a good wage. ~50k a year can run you a big house in most of the country, a posh apartment with a lavish lifestyle in most of the rest of the country, and a dingy hole in NY like every other NY resident. I'm also talking about the bottom line here.
Also, anyone who says they are making less than minimum wage in the IT sector needs to manage their time better. Either get a business degree, or find someone who has one and work for them until you figure out how to be profitable.
Its true. I've also never seen or known of a unionized IT sector. Up to this point we have been paid too well. The low end IT salaries are above the poverty line by atleast 20k.
Unless it adds value to end users it will not be adopted. Works faster? Great. The US/Iranian/Russian government is now reading my emails in addition to google? Not so great.
What would be incredible, is if the US government could implement OpenID on all of their websites. Taxes are rolling around, couldn't they make a site that lets me file directly with them? Or one that lets me see every outstanding ticket i have in my fair city? These systems don't have to be the same to be integrated.
I am not wrapped up in the flame war, though I do read slashdot thank you very much.
Many people use PC's not out of choice, or trendyness, but because it is the office productivity tool that their boss has picked for their corporation. The mac line of adds effectively insults PC users as a balding, office dweeb with a poorly fitting suit, glasses regardless of whether they are a teenager that wants to play video games, my grandmother that just wants to play bridge online, or a guy who works at an insurance company and really just wants to go home and watch football.
A personification is a type of metaphor. And the apple version of the metaphor was particularly insulting to the demographic that it was not displaying (and probably downright depressing to the demographic that it was displaying).
One of the best pieces of professional advice I have ever received is do not dis your predecessor. I think this advice stands in the marketing arena as well.
Reproduce this. Easily. Stuff like this is the competition. The site will post many new games a week. This is largely due to something akin to the networking effect with the number of developers on hand.
I saw ben joffe's 2-d shooter. Pretty slick. So is doom in flash:
Flash games are the only things you can't easily reproduce in javascript. I know my siblings (ranging from the age of 4-15) are the source of most of my parents computer woes. They play many flash based games, and I assume that is the source of a lot of their issues.
I'm assuming that a P2P update system would be even more vulnerable. Once you hook into it, you could hijack their bread and butter.
The way you really stop this, is by finding the people. And look, all of their servers were in America, with the exception of 2. I'm willing to bet that most of them live in america. With two operatives in foreign countries. If an actual law enforcement agency was doing this, they would be able to issue subpoenas, and follow the paper trail to who owns the domain--or atleast what identity theft persona owns it.
Except that I think many people found the 'Mac' persona to be obnoxious. In terms of marketing, they insulted their target demographic, and stereotyped their current demographic.
To my understanding, many people identified w/ the PC in those ads.
On the topic of slimy apple, I also got a piece of spam from them the day after xmas with the title "Wasn't under the tree? Get it now from the Apple Store"
Aren't unlocked phones more expensive? Shouldn't our monthly rate be cheaper if we pay full cost for the phone, since the cost of the phone is not hidden in the service fees?
Slashdot Mirror
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
where hydrogen is built into helium
at a temperature of millions of degrees
http://www.mudslide.net/TMBG/Albums/tmbg-ws.html
Now if only I could find my cell phone...
Anything for free advertisements that show up on google maps, or their competitors satellite feeds.
I think one thing schools teach is to comment. In schools, comments are generally how you explain to your professor what you were doing. In the work place, comments is how you explain to your co-workers, and predecessors what was going on in your mind. It's also how you learn what your predecessors and co-workers were thinking when they wrote code you are inheriting. Generally speaking , people who learn by them selves don't comment, because they don't expect anyone else to read their code. Personally I find commenting a great way of explaining to myself how I am going to go about solving a problem as well.
The second big topic is efficiency. Anyone can write code that gets the job done, but how efficient is the code you write? Does your code complete in constant time, exponential, or logarithmic? With small, low volume projects this doesn't matter, but how well your application scales to serving large numbers of people or utilizes vast quantities of data it matters immensely. Google Big O for more information on this topic.
Finally at college you learn to use a lot of programming laguages, many of which you will never use again. While you might think this is a wasted effort, it helps you learn how to learn new programming languages. You seem to have a lot of programming languages under your belt, so you probably have this covered.
I hope TN gets the interweb soon so those citizens can enjoy the wonder of netflix.
Remember that you implied some sort of danger, so you cannot possibly be talking about sea level rise: IPCC gives lowball of 19cm and highball of 59cm over 100 years, or between 0.19cm/year and 0.59cm/years. Might happen, but its not a threat to human life. Just walk away, folks.
That's enough to sink most of the Maldives.
That is some cool shit. I wouldn't consider a tv i have to wear glasses for, but one that does it without... I can see this quickly scaling up to a depth competition.
No no. I think 20k is great. 70+k over the poverty though... that is why this industry is getting outsourced to other countries. Hell, if anything you can't flip burgers in India for Americans. That almost makes that job more valuable.
My point is that the poverty line in America is well above a good wage in many countries by a factor of 2 or 3. Normalization has to happen at some point, and it is a good wage. ~50k a year can run you a big house in most of the country, a posh apartment with a lavish lifestyle in most of the rest of the country, and a dingy hole in NY like every other NY resident. I'm also talking about the bottom line here.
Also, anyone who says they are making less than minimum wage in the IT sector needs to manage their time better. Either get a business degree, or find someone who has one and work for them until you figure out how to be profitable.
Its true. I've also never seen or known of a unionized IT sector. Up to this point we have been paid too well. The low end IT salaries are above the poverty line by atleast 20k.
PSI Implants were great.
Why ally with the planet when you could imitate it?
Sometimes I wish MySQL had less cheese in it.
Unless it adds value to end users it will not be adopted. Works faster? Great. The US/Iranian/Russian government is now reading my emails in addition to google? Not so great.
What would be incredible, is if the US government could implement OpenID on all of their websites. Taxes are rolling around, couldn't they make a site that lets me file directly with them? Or one that lets me see every outstanding ticket i have in my fair city? These systems don't have to be the same to be integrated.
Native fauna that has a collective consciousness... haven't we seen this somewhere else in a popular video game called Alpha Centauri?
For the record science beat the native wildlife in that game.
If you like to watch buildings burn, being a fireman is a good fit.
If you like watching towers fall, building them first is a good fit.
How many of you were kids who built towers only to knock them down?
I am not wrapped up in the flame war, though I do read slashdot thank you very much.
Many people use PC's not out of choice, or trendyness, but because it is the office productivity tool that their boss has picked for their corporation. The mac line of adds effectively insults PC users as a balding, office dweeb with a poorly fitting suit, glasses regardless of whether they are a teenager that wants to play video games, my grandmother that just wants to play bridge online, or a guy who works at an insurance company and really just wants to go home and watch football.
A personification is a type of metaphor. And the apple version of the metaphor was particularly insulting to the demographic that it was not displaying (and probably downright depressing to the demographic that it was displaying).
One of the best pieces of professional advice I have ever received is do not dis your predecessor. I think this advice stands in the marketing arena as well.
http://www.addictinggames.com/
Reproduce this. Easily. Stuff like this is the competition. The site will post many new games a week. This is largely due to something akin to the networking effect with the number of developers on hand.
I saw ben joffe's 2-d shooter. Pretty slick. So is doom in flash:
http://www.kongregate.com/games/mike_id/doom-1
The frame rate is a bit better in flash on my crappy laptop.
HTML 5 is getting there, but it is not there yet.
Not saying it's not going to happen. What I am saying is that it is that its not mainstream yet.
Flash games are the only things you can't easily reproduce in javascript. I know my siblings (ranging from the age of 4-15) are the source of most of my parents computer woes. They play many flash based games, and I assume that is the source of a lot of their issues.
I'm assuming that a P2P update system would be even more vulnerable. Once you hook into it, you could hijack their bread and butter.
The way you really stop this, is by finding the people. And look, all of their servers were in America, with the exception of 2. I'm willing to bet that most of them live in america. With two operatives in foreign countries. If an actual law enforcement agency was doing this, they would be able to issue subpoenas, and follow the paper trail to who owns the domain--or atleast what identity theft persona owns it.
Well yes.
Except that I think many people found the 'Mac' persona to be obnoxious. In terms of marketing, they insulted their target demographic, and stereotyped their current demographic.
To my understanding, many people identified w/ the PC in those ads.
On the topic of slimy apple, I also got a piece of spam from them the day after xmas with the title "Wasn't under the tree? Get it now from the Apple Store"
I got a copy if you want it...
I would bump this for humor if I could.
Aren't unlocked phones more expensive? Shouldn't our monthly rate be cheaper if we pay full cost for the phone, since the cost of the phone is not hidden in the service fees?