I leave at 5PM because my experience has taught me how to avoid many of the problem new coders create for themselves. I get twice as much done in half the time compared to when I first started. Looking back at my first experiences as a programmer, I laugh at all the late nights spent working diligently to complete code only to find that I had checked in something inadvertently or forgotten to check something in that broke the build. This in turn wasted many other people time simple because I was too tired to think. The idea that technology has changed tremendously and older coders experience no longer applies is LOL. First the technology has primarily gotten smaller and faster. And coding techniques have improved in some ways but degraded in others. It all still ends up as binary in the end, something many of my younger colleagues don't deem to get which leads to some extremely sloppy techniques. These arguments are mainly bull similar to memes like out sourcing saves money (usually at the expense of time and quality).
We are talking about joe six pack adoption, not we don't care if they come back alive because we are desperate to win adoption. Moe like where 80% or 90% of the population use it like a telephone or TV. That did not happen even for the airplane for 20 years either. We are still waiting for space private space flight.
It has been known for quite awhile that it takes 20 years for new/radical technology to be adopted. They expected it to take less time because they are Google and when you are Google and have so many geniuses working for you people will just do what you think is great right. The real world works much differently. Although the world may one day yet adopted the Googly way we won't know for another 20.
One way of looking at the problem is by organizing information about the data versus organizing the data itself. One way to do this might be to have a text file describing facts about your data in the same directory as the data. Use something like solr and lucene to index these text files. You can make search queries without the need a uniform schema that describes the meta-data about your experimental data. It would be like "Googling" your data. You could organize it in such a way that you can search for specific info like date etc. Or lookup by search terms that might be found in the text.
The masses have always feared the anal probe even before Roman times. He was correct in not disclosing the massive probe potential that alien civilizations posses. Only when have erected gigantic probe defenses should we contact alien worlds.
" from households making more than $200,000 " - Two earners making a combined $200k in many urban areas where the car will be used are middle class. This might be hard for a writer for Slate to understand given what they pay professional writers at the moment.
But if you must try, start with something simple and solve a particular problem. Don't listen to people who espouse one language versus another. They are idiots and will never be helpful. You might try http://www.processing.org./ It is a well defined environment with a simple editor and tools and will let you do some really fun and interesting things. A lot of artist use it for various projects.
The article doesn't cite any evidence that "scientist don't understand the public." It is filled with pure speculation as to what they believe scientist understand and don't understand. Since I am both a scientist and a member of the public I am certain that I almost always understand myself and therefore understand at least one member of the general public. I believe that I am not unique in that respect. Besides how can you explain things to people without using large words. Those words were created for a purpose, mainly to convey specific meanings of what scientist say. Without large words science would be meaningless.
People crowd onto slash and say the most stupid things. Most of the comments are a crap full of troll bait. The articles are crap. Fark.com is crap. I'm full of crap and wasting a crap load of time just spewing out this crappy comment. Strangely I feel better afterwards.
Sell leases and adopt a standardized modulation/data protocol. If all our carriers were using gsm around the country we would have more competition more bandwidth available, better coverage and service and lower prices. We as a country are getting peanuts for our valuable spectrum that is getting wasted by faux competitive bidding that solves a shorter balance short fall.
As long as your paper passes peer review and you pay the publishing fee the paper will be published. The journal does not try to judge the relative merits of your work with regards to similar work. The results will be an open access paper which anyone and everyone can read.
http://www.plosone.org/
There is no reward for admitting you're wrong.
Politicians are often wrong.
Politicians only do things for rewards.
Therefore Politicians will will never admit they were wrong.
I was shopping for a telescope mount a couple of weeks ago. Suddenly I found an ad following me around the net. I went to/. and saw it. Went to BoingBoing there it was again. Kind of makes me want to purchase it somewhere else. Not only that it seems to me to defeat the purpose of most ads. I had already done my research and found where I wanted to purchase for a good price. The ads were showing up after I made my decision so they were pretty much wasting their money.
The problem is that the people that created the problem are trying to solve it. This rarely works. The system is in flux and will remain so until a clear path is recognized by the consumer. ie I'll pay for NYTIMEs $14/yr but not $14/month. Cable TV is having a similar problem. The consumer wants ale carte but the providers want to maintain the status quo and keep your eyeballs 24/7. Unfortunately it is out of their hands. The market is fragmenting their structure is not sustainable with todays infrastructure providing more choices. Eventually some model will dominate and that will become the new status quo.
Me thinks the real reason is cross platform tools decreases Apple's ability to derive revenue. If you can get Apps that run on iPhone and Android then inter-platform price competition becomes an issue. If developers are stuck developing for one platform then the number of apps Apple derives income from goes up. Developers are locked in because the cost of development for multiple platforms is high while margins are low. Apple wins because the app ecosystem is large even if the chance of success for individual developers is low. A Win no win situation for Apple vs devloper
Verizon's droid does porn advertising campaign is what really hooked me into my purchase. If Jobs hadn't pointed it out to me I probably would have just bought an iPhone.
I guess they would be against my Couch Potato Camp also. A shame since the kids love it and Coke and Frito Lay provide all the snacks for free. This keeps my cost down and allows me to accept children with special needs such as diabetes. I suppose they'll want the gov't to step in and regulate this like so many other intrusive measures. McD's also supplies us with Happy Meals which goes over especially well for Violent Movie Mondays where the kids veg for hours in happy bless. What is the world coming too?
Q: How many Psychologist does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Don't ask until you're seven.
Bad joke.
I guess all the time reading "Principia Mathematica" to my six year old has been a big waste of time. He was really looking forward to page 456 were we get to actually add numbers though.
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I leave at 5PM because my experience has taught me how to avoid many of the problem new coders create for themselves. I get twice as much done in half the time compared to when I first started. Looking back at my first experiences as a programmer, I laugh at all the late nights spent working diligently to complete code only to find that I had checked in something inadvertently or forgotten to check something in that broke the build. This in turn wasted many other people time simple because I was too tired to think. The idea that technology has changed tremendously and older coders experience no longer applies is LOL. First the technology has primarily gotten smaller and faster. And coding techniques have improved in some ways but degraded in others. It all still ends up as binary in the end, something many of my younger colleagues don't deem to get which leads to some extremely sloppy techniques. These arguments are mainly bull similar to memes like out sourcing saves money (usually at the expense of time and quality).
We are talking about joe six pack adoption, not we don't care if they come back alive because we are desperate to win adoption. Moe like where 80% or 90% of the population use it like a telephone or TV. That did not happen even for the airplane for 20 years either. We are still waiting for space private space flight.
It has been known for quite awhile that it takes 20 years for new/radical technology to be adopted. They expected it to take less time because they are Google and when you are Google and have so many geniuses working for you people will just do what you think is great right. The real world works much differently. Although the world may one day yet adopted the Googly way we won't know for another 20.
One way of looking at the problem is by organizing information about the data versus organizing the data itself. One way to do this might be to have a text file describing facts about your data in the same directory as the data. Use something like solr and lucene to index these text files. You can make search queries without the need a uniform schema that describes the meta-data about your experimental data. It would be like "Googling" your data. You could organize it in such a way that you can search for specific info like date etc. Or lookup by search terms that might be found in the text.
Not employees or contractors. That is the first thing you learn in business school.
The masses have always feared the anal probe even before Roman times. He was correct in not disclosing the massive probe potential that alien civilizations posses. Only when have erected gigantic probe defenses should we contact alien worlds.
Let's face it real life isn't as exciting as games. See previous post http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/08/04/0013252
" from households making more than $200,000 " - Two earners making a combined $200k in many urban areas where the car will be used are middle class. This might be hard for a writer for Slate to understand given what they pay professional writers at the moment.
But if you must try, start with something simple and solve a particular problem. Don't listen to people who espouse one language versus another. They are idiots and will never be helpful. You might try http://www.processing.org./ It is a well defined environment with a simple editor and tools and will let you do some really fun and interesting things. A lot of artist use it for various projects.
Was plenty for my needs and boots Ubuntu in 20 seconds. Barely uses power when not in use. I'm a believer.
The article doesn't cite any evidence that "scientist don't understand the public." It is filled with pure speculation as to what they believe scientist understand and don't understand. Since I am both a scientist and a member of the public I am certain that I almost always understand myself and therefore understand at least one member of the general public. I believe that I am not unique in that respect. Besides how can you explain things to people without using large words. Those words were created for a purpose, mainly to convey specific meanings of what scientist say. Without large words science would be meaningless.
People crowd onto slash and say the most stupid things. Most of the comments are a crap full of troll bait. The articles are crap. Fark.com is crap. I'm full of crap and wasting a crap load of time just spewing out this crappy comment. Strangely I feel better afterwards.
Sell leases and adopt a standardized modulation/data protocol. If all our carriers were using gsm around the country we would have more competition more bandwidth available, better coverage and service and lower prices. We as a country are getting peanuts for our valuable spectrum that is getting wasted by faux competitive bidding that solves a shorter balance short fall.
Slash should get paid for this. These packages have always been available. Where is the news?
As long as your paper passes peer review and you pay the publishing fee the paper will be published. The journal does not try to judge the relative merits of your work with regards to similar work. The results will be an open access paper which anyone and everyone can read. http://www.plosone.org/
There is no reward for admitting you're wrong. Politicians are often wrong. Politicians only do things for rewards. Therefore Politicians will will never admit they were wrong.
I was shopping for a telescope mount a couple of weeks ago. Suddenly I found an ad following me around the net. I went to /. and saw it. Went to BoingBoing there it was again. Kind of makes me want to purchase it somewhere else. Not only that it seems to me to defeat the purpose of most ads. I had already done my research and found where I wanted to purchase for a good price. The ads were showing up after I made my decision so they were pretty much wasting their money.
The problem is that the people that created the problem are trying to solve it. This rarely works. The system is in flux and will remain so until a clear path is recognized by the consumer. ie I'll pay for NYTIMEs $14/yr but not $14/month. Cable TV is having a similar problem. The consumer wants ale carte but the providers want to maintain the status quo and keep your eyeballs 24/7. Unfortunately it is out of their hands. The market is fragmenting their structure is not sustainable with todays infrastructure providing more choices. Eventually some model will dominate and that will become the new status quo.
Me thinks the real reason is cross platform tools decreases Apple's ability to derive revenue. If you can get Apps that run on iPhone and Android then inter-platform price competition becomes an issue. If developers are stuck developing for one platform then the number of apps Apple derives income from goes up. Developers are locked in because the cost of development for multiple platforms is high while margins are low. Apple wins because the app ecosystem is large even if the chance of success for individual developers is low. A Win no win situation for Apple vs devloper
Let's survey these same economist etc and find out how many would not send their kid to college based on this evidence.
Verizon's droid does porn advertising campaign is what really hooked me into my purchase. If Jobs hadn't pointed it out to me I probably would have just bought an iPhone.
I guess they would be against my Couch Potato Camp also. A shame since the kids love it and Coke and Frito Lay provide all the snacks for free. This keeps my cost down and allows me to accept children with special needs such as diabetes. I suppose they'll want the gov't to step in and regulate this like so many other intrusive measures. McD's also supplies us with Happy Meals which goes over especially well for Violent Movie Mondays where the kids veg for hours in happy bless. What is the world coming too?
A lot of Porn is in Flash:) Gotta keep the porn off mobile vices errr devices. Droid does Porn. No more Porn
Why should UFO believers excluded. Why people believe weird and irrational things should be studied.
Q: How many Psychologist does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: Don't ask until you're seven. Bad joke. I guess all the time reading "Principia Mathematica" to my six year old has been a big waste of time. He was really looking forward to page 456 were we get to actually add numbers though.