Actually, where I come from, software engineering technical universities are inferior to computer science which is taught in proper universities along with math and physics as science. Not as a practical engineering discipline. So for me, based on my educational background being called engineer is sort of an insult. Engineers are guys who learn how stuff works, but not why. They are capable of executing, but not of complex individual effort.
Clearly different countries view the term differently. But since I don't have an engineering degree, I prefer the words 'software developer' or 'software architect' for the work I am doing. But it is quite clear that here on slashdot many equate software developer with some kind of code monkey.
The water is muddled even further because I studied software engineering as a subdiscipline of computer science. Meaning the process and methodology of developing software programs.
Why would anyone be so stupid and vote if you are an immigrant. Let's assume that you will want to become a citizen as immigrant and one day you do. Now they find out you have voted before you became a citizen. That means you are in for at least 3 consecutive 5 year minimum sentences. Based on the way the citizenship interviews are setup. If I really wanted to risk 15 years in federal prison, I'll go and rob a bank. That is a better way to improve your standard of living than voting could ever be. Risk/reward.
Well, to make a bad analogy. If you kill a man, thats bad. If you torture, mutilate, killl and eat what remains of a man afterwards, its indeed worse. But if you kill millions of people, that in fact is worse than anything you could have possibly done to a single man.
And thus USA is the biggest hypocrite around. Not because of the measure of each individual act, but because the scale on which it happens.
This survey must be only talking about companies above certain size. Our Sillicon Valley startup has about 50 employees and the average engineering salaries are north of $150,000. Large companies like Google actually don't have to pay that much, because the hours are more reasonable. I know there are other companies too that pay more than Google in the area.
US will fingerprint and photograph every single person crossing its borders. Either all the travel is done by a small group of people, or more likely their database is much, much larger than UAE. Definitely the facial recognition records, but very likely also on the fingerprints.
It's such stupidity and grievous censorship of thoughts and ideas that tipped the balance in favour of staying in Germany rather than moving back to the UK.
Germany has anti-free speech laws as well. Try to say anything positive about the nazis, hitler or deny holocaust and to the jail you go. Any "hate speech" and in the jail you go. If the free-speech is at issue, I would not stay in Germany:D
80% of those controllers are from LSI (Sandforce) and the VCs fired very early the CTO and with him went the chief chip designer and most of the senior engineering staff. They are just coasting on what they had 3 years ago. So there. A bit of insider news.
Exactly. Shipped the iMac 27" in its original box twice in ship (three times when you count its original trip from manufacture). Works just fine. Didn't remove anything.
Not only that, but there are also MLC-E and MLC-C flash chips. The enterprise MLC are done to higher spec with higher number of cycles and lower latency. The consumer level MLC chips sometimes only have 1000 cycles and are generally what is used to build the sub $1 per GB drives.
Look at skyera.com. They are going to offer SSD at the price of HDD and with some compression and deduplication it might go under $1 per GB enterprise as well.
I don't think you get it. It's not about iPhone. Steven Jobs was one of the first people to recognize computers as something that everyone should have and a thing that will transform the society at the time when the conventional wisdom was that the entire humanity will maybe need like 10 of them total.:) And he recognized the moment when we outgrown computers and had to move beyond to smaller more personal devices (iPhone/iPad) and he showed us how.
But beside that, he showed everyone that focus on your products, on every single detail of them is more important to a CEO than a constant focus on the bottom line of the company. His achievement in this arena is probably going to equal that of Ford's assembly line in the long term.
At the time of Edison and Ford, it was easy to be ahead of other by decade. Beating everyone else by a year or two at our current pace of technology progress is much harder in my opinion.
You can avoid it? You make me laugh. If I start looking into you, I am 100% sure I will find at least 10 years worth of jail time offenses you are guilty of and the government could safely charge you with today if they so chose and they would follow the due process to the dot.
It's propaganda you react to. US state dept pays for a lot of this: "Look they are bad guys" journalism. It is a continuation of the narrative that Americans are the good guys and whatever they do is obviously right.
But let me ask you this. You know there is corruption in US courts, you know that people are being locked without trial (Guantanamo and other places), tortured, the constitution is being totally abused, redistricting done to manipulate elections, people are locked on possession of weed for mandatory year long sentences, because police is to lazy to collect evidence for the real crime they want to charge them with.... So knowing all this... why isn't that news to be outraged about?
Because it is not news anymore, it is so commonplace. In Russia, these lone cases are still worth reporting as news.
I'm not sure if the book available to Oracle employees on PL/SQL is the same as the one available externally, I assume so. The books by Oracle are generally not so good, I'd agree, but the PL/SQL one is a rare gem. It sounds like you read a bunch of Oracle books, but not this one and you recommend what you did read on the subject, which is fine. But in this case... Anyway....
What the point was not a good Postgres book, there are some. The point was a comparison book taking you from MySQL to PostgreSQL and I was explaining why there aren't any.
If you look for a good SQL programming book, the PL/SQL book from Oracle is the best book written in this area, IMHO. As for the MySQL to PostgreSQL book, there was no incentive to write it for PostgreSQL power users. We mostly looked over the time at MySQL as toy database and it's users as at best misguided and at worst, not caring about data integrity (cardinal sin in my book). So writing such book would be sort of like "Black Hat Hacking for Script Kiddies". Sure it could be done, but who wants a bunch of amateurs crowding their field? Next thing you know, they will ask for bugfix to treat NULL like zero.:)
And neither did anyone from San Francisco. That thing wouldn't be even considered a real city in Europe. Manhattan, Boston, maybe Washington. That's it for citiies in US.
18 hours is nothing special in Europe. In Czech Republic the standard time for your 4 year - bachelor - degree is 2.5 years and graduate - masters- degree is 4.5 years at 20 credits per semester and I did 66 credits in two semesters studying at full throttle, which was probably a little extreme. If you want to be casual about it 20 is ok, but 12? That is downright ridiculous. And caping at 18 credits per semester seems like just forced waste of time.
What about not showing me yet another Geico advertisement when I get angry every time I see their logo, reinforcing my negative feelings from years back when they ripped me off, which I am reminded of every time I watch their commercials and which I would likely forget about otherwise after those 11 years. Good job Geico. Same goes for other companies.
If you got a tech to judge my emotional state, don't judge it before the ad, judge the way I react to it and if its a strongly negative one (annoyed, angry, frustrated), just stop the ad right away. If its bored, I'd probably seen it and still remember so no need to watch more than 5s spot, since you already reminded me of the product, so safe to stop that as well, but maybe not remove from circulation like in the former case.
Also, ad delivery networks should understand that they are damaging their own brand by consistently showing me ads from companies I hate with passion. They get to share the feelings by association. So since every other ad on Hulu is from Geico, they managed to change their image from a favorite service to a place I dread to go and would rather pay for the content if available than to watch it on Hulu with stupid Geico ads. Good job on ignoring my 250 nos on the "Is this ad relevant?" question, Hulu. Bravo.
I don't understand, what good technologies did Oracle fuck up? They buy something its because they use it. Sun was a shitty company and they would die badly in a year or two and Oracle rescued it and used most of it, even saved the failing HW part in a way. That they got beef with Google for trying to destroy Java? Of course. You know at all how Java works? It is killed by fragmentation. What Google does with Android is same stuff Microsoft used to do with its incompatible JavaVM. But now it is suddenly cool.
On the other hand, HP is like a graveyard where cool companies go to die. The list is huge, including the original HP, which was murdered internally starting with Carly Fiorina. But hey, why check facts, right?
Now Google,... it has produced 3 relatively cool products: Maps, Mail and Search, but the rest is shitty and they are so deep into violating any sense of privacy that its incredible. Google+ is forced upon you like crazy. They use profits from advertising to basically offer stuff free or at huge loss, which is destroying technology markets and any chance some startups could be funded to compete. They are killing technology potential left and right.
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I vote for: "Please, can you take Kansas with you? Thanks. B.O."
Actually, where I come from, software engineering technical universities are inferior to computer science which is taught in proper universities along with math and physics as science. Not as a practical engineering discipline. So for me, based on my educational background being called engineer is sort of an insult. Engineers are guys who learn how stuff works, but not why. They are capable of executing, but not of complex individual effort.
Clearly different countries view the term differently. But since I don't have an engineering degree, I prefer the words 'software developer' or 'software architect' for the work I am doing. But it is quite clear that here on slashdot many equate software developer with some kind of code monkey.
The water is muddled even further because I studied software engineering as a subdiscipline of computer science. Meaning the process and methodology of developing software programs.
bipartisanship: partisanship by two parties
Why would anyone be so stupid and vote if you are an immigrant. Let's assume that you will want to become a citizen as immigrant and one day you do. Now they find out you have voted before you became a citizen. That means you are in for at least 3 consecutive 5 year minimum sentences. Based on the way the citizenship interviews are setup. If I really wanted to risk 15 years in federal prison, I'll go and rob a bank. That is a better way to improve your standard of living than voting could ever be. Risk/reward.
Well, to make a bad analogy. If you kill a man, thats bad. If you torture, mutilate, killl and eat what remains of a man afterwards, its indeed worse. But if you kill millions of people, that in fact is worse than anything you could have possibly done to a single man.
And thus USA is the biggest hypocrite around. Not because of the measure of each individual act, but because the scale on which it happens.
You might be joking, but seriously, there are about 5 universities in the world that are a step above the MIT/Stanford/Berkley holy trinity.
This survey must be only talking about companies above certain size. Our Sillicon Valley startup has about 50 employees and the average engineering salaries are north of $150,000. Large companies like Google actually don't have to pay that much, because the hours are more reasonable. I know there are other companies too that pay more than Google in the area.
With the frequency of those news, if every 10th ends up in the disaster predicted, we are severely fucked.
US will fingerprint and photograph every single person crossing its borders. Either all the travel is done by a small group of people, or more likely their database is much, much larger than UAE. Definitely the facial recognition records, but very likely also on the fingerprints.
It's such stupidity and grievous censorship of thoughts and ideas that tipped the balance in favour of staying in Germany rather than moving back to the UK.
Germany has anti-free speech laws as well. Try to say anything positive about the nazis, hitler or deny holocaust and to the jail you go. Any "hate speech" and in the jail you go. If the free-speech is at issue, I would not stay in Germany :D
80% of those controllers are from LSI (Sandforce) and the VCs fired very early the CTO and with him went the chief chip designer and most of the senior engineering staff. They are just coasting on what they had 3 years ago. So there. A bit of insider news.
Exactly. Shipped the iMac 27" in its original box twice in ship (three times when you count its original trip from manufacture). Works just fine. Didn't remove anything.
Not only that, but there are also MLC-E and MLC-C flash chips. The enterprise MLC are done to higher spec with higher number of cycles and lower latency. The consumer level MLC chips sometimes only have 1000 cycles and are generally what is used to build the sub $1 per GB drives.
Look at skyera.com. They are going to offer SSD at the price of HDD and with some compression and deduplication it might go under $1 per GB enterprise as well.
I don't think you get it. It's not about iPhone. Steven Jobs was one of the first people to recognize computers as something that everyone should have and a thing that will transform the society at the time when the conventional wisdom was that the entire humanity will maybe need like 10 of them total. :) And he recognized the moment when we outgrown computers and had to move beyond to smaller more personal devices (iPhone/iPad) and he showed us how.
But beside that, he showed everyone that focus on your products, on every single detail of them is more important to a CEO than a constant focus on the bottom line of the company. His achievement in this arena is probably going to equal that of Ford's assembly line in the long term.
At the time of Edison and Ford, it was easy to be ahead of other by decade. Beating everyone else by a year or two at our current pace of technology progress is much harder in my opinion.
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You can avoid it? You make me laugh. If I start looking into you, I am 100% sure I will find at least 10 years worth of jail time offenses you are guilty of and the government could safely charge you with today if they so chose and they would follow the due process to the dot.
It's propaganda you react to. US state dept pays for a lot of this: "Look they are bad guys" journalism. It is a continuation of the narrative that Americans are the good guys and whatever they do is obviously right.
But let me ask you this. You know there is corruption in US courts, you know that people are being locked without trial (Guantanamo and other places), tortured, the constitution is being totally abused, redistricting done to manipulate elections, people are locked on possession of weed for mandatory year long sentences, because police is to lazy to collect evidence for the real crime they want to charge them with.... So knowing all this... why isn't that news to be outraged about?
Because it is not news anymore, it is so commonplace. In Russia, these lone cases are still worth reporting as news.
I'm not sure if the book available to Oracle employees on PL/SQL is the same as the one available externally, I assume so. The books by Oracle are generally not so good, I'd agree, but the PL/SQL one is a rare gem. It sounds like you read a bunch of Oracle books, but not this one and you recommend what you did read on the subject, which is fine. But in this case ... Anyway....
What the point was not a good Postgres book, there are some. The point was a comparison book taking you from MySQL to PostgreSQL and I was explaining why there aren't any.
If you look for a good SQL programming book, the PL/SQL book from Oracle is the best book written in this area, IMHO. As for the MySQL to PostgreSQL book, there was no incentive to write it for PostgreSQL power users. We mostly looked over the time at MySQL as toy database and it's users as at best misguided and at worst, not caring about data integrity (cardinal sin in my book). So writing such book would be sort of like "Black Hat Hacking for Script Kiddies". Sure it could be done, but who wants a bunch of amateurs crowding their field? Next thing you know, they will ask for bugfix to treat NULL like zero. :)
And neither did anyone from San Francisco. That thing wouldn't be even considered a real city in Europe. Manhattan, Boston, maybe Washington. That's it for citiies in US.
18 hours is nothing special in Europe. In Czech Republic the standard time for your 4 year - bachelor - degree is 2.5 years and graduate - masters- degree is 4.5 years at 20 credits per semester and I did 66 credits in two semesters studying at full throttle, which was probably a little extreme. If you want to be casual about it 20 is ok, but 12? That is downright ridiculous. And caping at 18 credits per semester seems like just forced waste of time.
Experimental physics, chemistry, biology and medicine are VERY dangerous when drunk or hung over. That's the only reason. :)
What about not showing me yet another Geico advertisement when I get angry every time I see their logo, reinforcing my negative feelings from years back when they ripped me off, which I am reminded of every time I watch their commercials and which I would likely forget about otherwise after those 11 years. Good job Geico. Same goes for other companies.
If you got a tech to judge my emotional state, don't judge it before the ad, judge the way I react to it and if its a strongly negative one (annoyed, angry, frustrated), just stop the ad right away. If its bored, I'd probably seen it and still remember so no need to watch more than 5s spot, since you already reminded me of the product, so safe to stop that as well, but maybe not remove from circulation like in the former case.
Also, ad delivery networks should understand that they are damaging their own brand by consistently showing me ads from companies I hate with passion. They get to share the feelings by association. So since every other ad on Hulu is from Geico, they managed to change their image from a favorite service to a place I dread to go and would rather pay for the content if available than to watch it on Hulu with stupid Geico ads. Good job on ignoring my 250 nos on the "Is this ad relevant?" question, Hulu. Bravo.
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I don't understand, what good technologies did Oracle fuck up? They buy something its because they use it. Sun was a shitty company and they would die badly in a year or two and Oracle rescued it and used most of it, even saved the failing HW part in a way. That they got beef with Google for trying to destroy Java? Of course. You know at all how Java works? It is killed by fragmentation. What Google does with Android is same stuff Microsoft used to do with its incompatible JavaVM. But now it is suddenly cool.
On the other hand, HP is like a graveyard where cool companies go to die. The list is huge, including the original HP, which was murdered internally starting with Carly Fiorina. But hey, why check facts, right?
Now Google,... it has produced 3 relatively cool products: Maps, Mail and Search, but the rest is shitty and they are so deep into violating any sense of privacy that its incredible. Google+ is forced upon you like crazy. They use profits from advertising to basically offer stuff free or at huge loss, which is destroying technology markets and any chance some startups could be funded to compete. They are killing technology potential left and right.