I argue that a 'liberal education' is the only *academic* tertiary path and a very worthwhile one at that. Everything else, especially much of STEM (particularly the E) and Medicine, Law etc is a trade training and qualification for guild membership.. Maybe Science is okay, no guild but at least a culture of review.
The question must be asked about the purpose of Universities, not only in terms of teaching/research balance, but also in terms of vocation/thinking balance.
If you think focusing narrowly on your field such as compsci MechEng etc is the way to go, history will show that you are wrong and you will be impoverished. Just as one builds solutions differently in OO Vs Proc, one expresses literature differently in German than in Hindi. If you cannot see the overlap between Requirements Management and sociology fieldwork then you are neither a professional nor a master craftsperson. You are a skilled labourer at best.
Thanks for the reference, I hadn't encountered Giedion previously. Another visionary of his generation was Marshall McLuhan (The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man [1951]). Along with Buckminster Fuller and freeman Dyson (and others of course), they anticipated a lot.
For a light, visual read, I recommend Matthew Frederick:
Undergrad was BA in USA History and Peace & Conflict Studies. As a student I worked as a tech at a suburban PC retailer. Started my own business as a tech; a few years later became IT Manager at my largest client. After 5 years of that I moved into contracting as a Business Analyst and moved up through various Architecture roles. Mainly today I do information design.
I don't code, I spec.
A humanities background has helped with soft skills and most importantly the ability to form and test a hypothesis; History is all about trying to reach conclusions based on data that may neither be accurate or complete.
WRT art and architecture, if you're not designing something with a holistic approach to userland and their experience, youâ(TM)re wasting future productivity.
I have a masters degree in Art History and 20 years as an IT architect. You'd be surprised at the lessons which cross over from any field of advanced study.
The AC said it: "normal human interaction REQUIRES anonymity, and the ability to forget / forgive past transgressions. Without them we are unable to take risks, we hold grudges..."
I totally agree; However as anonymity is eroded, there emerges a new normal. Call it evolution, call it the dialectic or progress or the singularity or whatever.
If my productivity is measured only in widgets per hour or any single dimension, then those measuring said productivity will increasingly be relying on an inaccurate picture and suffer for it in anything other than maybe a tactical timeframe.
My point is that the information revolution closes a loop that was previously left open and this is hugely transformative to society and economy. Privacy 1.0 is being deprecated and that means has humans, we must focus more on the forgive/forget side of the equation.
Your treatment of what I talked about 15 years ago on FB is *my* filter for gigs I don't want or should not accept.
Privacy based on anonymity is over. My FB, Linked.in etc are all 100% public. Privacy now is about ownership of your brand(s) for want of a better term.
1) Think of it in positive terms, it's now transparency. Check out your future colleagues and management; "Do I want to work with them?" is just as valid an enquiry.
2) Thinking about networking as "who you know not what you know" completely misses the point. As geeks we recognize thatÂthe network effect (a la Metcalfe or even Beckstrom) is a power law and thus it is more akin to "who do I know who is a valuable *node*?" The smart money is measuring you the same way, so participate.
3) If you FB me and seeÂmy rants against religion for example, perhaps you will be offended or perhaps you will look at my rationale andÂrhetorical capabilities and hostility to dogma. Or not. I don't care. Perhaps you will discover that I donate significantly to charity or that we are already connected.
4)Â Ubiquitous surveillance, big data and facial recognitionÂwhilst they should be rallied against, are only going to expand. They will never recede, so use you fscking brains and findÂwaysÂto surf the paradigm shift.
6) We are at the cusp ofÂphase change in information flow not seen since (and that will exceed the impact of) Gutenberg.Âie geopolitical reconfiguration on continental scale. There is an enormous net benefit to this, but don't kid yourself that there aren't losers on a local scale. Don't be one of them.
7) Opinions are cheaper than ever and yet the ability to measure and tune productivity is enhanced. So any organization vetting me for membership would do to look at exactly that - or my literacy or numeracy and not my opinion on which way the toilet paper roll should be installed or whether I am LGBTQ+Âetc.
8) If you have something to hide and there are many good reasons for this,Âin an age where identities areÂa click away and cost $0.00001, THE SOLUTION OR AT LEAST MITIGATION IS TO OWN SEVERAL.
" would require a warrant for all domestic law enforcement agencies to track the location and movements of individual Americans through GPS technology without their knowledge. It also aims to combat high-tech stalking by creating criminal penalties for secretly using an electronic device to track someone.."
Goody. Make sure those penalties apply to the cops too, per person tracked without a warrant.
Slashdot Mirror
It's not a bad thing.
distributed architecture.
Who knew?
".. and due to their vast density, they..."
Uhhhh, Icebergs are *less* dense that's why they float. I think the author means mass.
Was a terrorist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
this is why in most airports in EU and elsewhere, there are heavily armed troopers in armor patrolling check-in.
Just like cargo, you should pay per kilogram.
https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nuk...
Believe me, this is not an ad in the same way that Clinton did not have sex with that woman.
This.
I argue that a 'liberal education' is the only *academic* tertiary path and a very worthwhile one at that. Everything else, especially much of STEM (particularly the E) and Medicine, Law etc is a trade training and qualification for guild membership.. Maybe Science is okay, no guild but at least a culture of review.
The question must be asked about the purpose of Universities, not only in terms of teaching/research balance, but also in terms of vocation/thinking balance.
If you think focusing narrowly on your field such as compsci MechEng etc is the way to go, history will show that you are wrong and you will be impoverished. Just as one builds solutions differently in OO Vs Proc, one expresses literature differently in German than in Hindi. If you cannot see the overlap between Requirements Management and sociology fieldwork then you are neither a professional nor a master craftsperson. You are a skilled labourer at best.
My Pr0n collection is > 34 TB (archiving all downloads since ~2006).
It's a great Big(Binary)Dataâ, storage platforms and heterogeneous metadata test environment!
Thanks for the reference, I hadn't encountered Giedion previously. Another visionary of his generation was Marshall McLuhan (The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man [1951]). Along with Buckminster Fuller and freeman Dyson (and others of course), they anticipated a lot.
For a light, visual read, I recommend Matthew Frederick:
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books...
Good perspectives (pun intended) applicable to Ux and information flow.
Undergrad was BA in USA History and Peace & Conflict Studies. As a student I worked as a tech at a suburban PC retailer. Started my own business as a tech; a few years later became IT Manager at my largest client. After 5 years of that I moved into contracting as a Business Analyst and moved up through various Architecture roles. Mainly today I do information design.
I don't code, I spec.
A humanities background has helped with soft skills and most importantly the ability to form and test a hypothesis; History is all about trying to reach conclusions based on data that may neither be accurate or complete.
WRT art and architecture, if you're not designing something with a holistic approach to userland and their experience, youâ(TM)re wasting future productivity.
I have a masters degree in Art History and 20 years as an IT architect. You'd be surprised at the lessons which cross over from any field of advanced study.
I always give my various network SSIDs tags like ASIO_van0178 or NSA_wetteam6 or TVdetectorvan
Society breeds behavior.
Because their initial success was luck not design and now their culture reflects that; no strategy, no design thinking, no coherency.
Totally, I was just being nice to the monkeys. Catwrangling, done well, is hard.
*participating* in meetings or chairing workshops etc, productively are just as exhausting a codemonkey work
up to 3Gigs ram, octacore and two sims +micro SD
http://shopap.lenovo.com/in/en...
Like the church does with pedophile priests?
The AC said it: "normal human interaction REQUIRES anonymity, and the ability to forget / forgive past transgressions. Without them we are unable to take risks, we hold grudges..."
I totally agree; However as anonymity is eroded, there emerges a new normal. Call it evolution, call it the dialectic or progress or the singularity or whatever.
If my productivity is measured only in widgets per hour or any single dimension, then those measuring said productivity will increasingly be relying on an inaccurate picture and suffer for it in anything other than maybe a tactical timeframe.
My point is that the information revolution closes a loop that was previously left open and this is hugely transformative to society and economy. Privacy 1.0 is being deprecated and that means has humans, we must focus more on the forgive/forget side of the equation.
Your treatment of what I talked about 15 years ago on FB is *my* filter for gigs I don't want or should not accept.
Privacy based on anonymity is over. My FB, Linked.in etc are all 100% public. Privacy now is about ownership of your brand(s) for want of a better term.
1) Think of it in positive terms, it's now transparency. Check out your future colleagues and management; "Do I want to work with them?" is just as valid an enquiry.
2) Thinking about networking as "who you know not what you know" completely misses the point. As geeks we recognize thatÂthe network effect (a la Metcalfe or even Beckstrom) is a power law and thus it is more akin to "who do I know who is a valuable *node*?" The smart money is measuring you the same way, so participate.
3) If you FB me and seeÂmy rants against religion for example, perhaps you will be offended or perhaps you will look at my rationale andÂrhetorical capabilities and hostility to dogma. Or not. I don't care. Perhaps you will discover that I donate significantly to charity or that we are already connected.
4)Â Ubiquitous surveillance, big data and facial recognitionÂwhilst they should be rallied against, are only going to expand. They will never recede, so use you fscking brains and findÂwaysÂto surf the paradigm shift.
6) We are at the cusp ofÂphase change in information flow not seen since (and that will exceed the impact of) Gutenberg.Âie geopolitical reconfiguration on continental scale. There is an enormous net benefit to this, but don't kid yourself that there aren't losers on a local scale. Don't be one of them.
7) Opinions are cheaper than ever and yet the ability to measure and tune productivity is enhanced. So any organization vetting me for membership would do to look at exactly that - or my literacy or numeracy and not my opinion on which way the toilet paper roll should be installed or whether I am LGBTQ+Âetc.
8) If you have something to hide and there are many good reasons for this,Âin an age where identities areÂa click away and cost $0.00001, THE SOLUTION OR AT LEAST MITIGATION IS TO OWN SEVERAL.
" would require a warrant for all domestic law enforcement agencies to track the location and movements of individual Americans through GPS technology without their knowledge. It also aims to combat high-tech stalking by creating criminal penalties for secretly using an electronic device to track someone.."
Goody. Make sure those penalties apply to the cops too, per person tracked without a warrant.
Uhhhh... you do realize that the way to deal with landlords who ignore your threats to take them to court. ...is to take them to court?