Actually that might not even work- it looks like La Nina may not last past Feb, and El Nino could be back by the ned of the year. For example see http://www.weathernationtv.com...
In my opinion, JavaScript is Lisp reinvented very badly. That it is so popular and important as a programming language says something interesting about how standards emerge. I was starting to feel that this opinion just showed how out of touch I was with things, but the recent issues with NPM seem to show a serious lack of insight or experience in the communities pushing js on the server side. I can't believe there are so many seemingly competent developers advocating that it is a good thing to have packages that consist of a single line function, and that's before even looking at the security and governance issues with NPM itself.
What difference would that make? If 40 years of business rules are encoded in configuration files how is that any easier to work with than COBOL or whatever language was used?
I find in most business cultures I've had contact with that actually spending time to think about a problem is actively discouraged. Problems get bounced from one person to the next, and the actual work performed by any one person on something is so limited that often no-one understands the full problem. The always connected culture described in the article is part of the problem, but more fundamentally it is that there is such the constant stream of email with so little thought put into it
I had to dig for direct connections between Codenomicon and Microsoft, but the chairman of the board seems a fairly strong link. The way Codenomicon have behaved in this has seemed reckless, I've never seen a bug so heavily marketed. The stats floating around initially seem to be way off the mark - to begin with quotes were of 66% of web servers being affected, later revised to 17% running affected versions. Both these numbers look too round to be anything other than made up.
If you have 14 years experience, and are in a reasonably strong job market, you should know what you want in a position and what you have to offer. Just because you are asked questions about leadership skills doesn't mean they are a requirement for the position, but companies want to know what they are getting when they take someone on. If you have a valuable skill they need they will probably want to build a role around you, and while you may want to be hands one providing technical leadership but not supervising a team, someone else with the same skills may want to delegate much of their less challenging tasks.The interview should be a two way conversation - if you dont like a particular line of questions ask if they are core to the role.
If you are looking for a senior position though you will need to be a leader in some way, this may be thought leadership or more direct,
They have come such a long way that by the time they reach the Earth, the Parkes telescope would have to operate for 1 million years to collect enough to have the equivalent energy of a flying mosquito
That depends on whether there is a managed or unmanaged breakup of the euro. "Your euros don't actually exist anymore" may not be that far from what happens in some scenarios.
I think the biggest problem with forums, chats, mailing lists etc is the linear format where all the focus is on the most recent topics, jumping from topic to another but not getting into depth on much. Quora seems to be the most succesful I've seen so far at breaking this.
Based on the fuss there was in Ireland when the wrong type of oil was used when milling animal feed http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/1207/pork.html, I can't imagine this is a good idea. Combustion is exactly the process that generates dioxins, and they build up in animals that cosume them, so if these crops end up used for plant feed, or the process becomes more widespread, eventully even traces of dioxins in the fumes would cause problems.
Interesting to see the latest blog entry of the econo-girl. She claims she went public to make it harder for her former employees to take any further action against her. I'm sure the original (internal) blog was not meant to cause harm, but I'd say at this stage she should stop digging a deeper hole for herself, find a good lawyer, and maybe take a trip out of the country for a while.
One thing Microsoft are doing though is sponsoring user organisation and handing out titles like MVP to people who do answer queries in the right newsgroups. There is even monetary benefits with some of the titles - not a bad way to get some cheap support engineers.
I was expecting a lawsuit from Opus Dei, or maybe the Catholic church itself. I even thought there was an outside chance of a Fatwa from some Islamic cleric, but the last thing I expected was a suit from anyone connected with Holy Blood, Holy Grail. The whole book is practically an advertisement: "Go and buy Holy Blood, Holy Grail, only really clever people who can see through the lies read it, it's really good and everything in it is true!". I reckon they just want too get both book's names back in the papers now that the publicity has died down at last.
Ok, it'll be a soft go-live - we'll flick the switch over the weekend and that'll give us time to iron out any bugs or costly political errors, then if everything is ok we'll announce... wait, NO! Someones posted to Slashdot!
Moore's law has become a law of marketing rather than computer science, and as such it will never be broken, even if it means the definition of "transistor", "chip", "month" or even "double" has to be changed.
Didn't you see big brother UK? Ok so it was only one week, there were two in the room, and they were both prone to gibbering beforehand but they were much worse at the end.
Well I never thought they would go that far
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I know many manufacturers do their best to stop third party parts or consumables from working, but I've never heard of a product that attempts to set the unauthorized parts on fire..
Looking at this little dispute, the only real risk that strikes me is if IBM decide to support SCO/Caldera's interpretation of the copyright, licenses and patents involved. They would not have to just give in, but could end up with ownership of some of the software in question, on condition they demand license fees or just stop their support of OS development. It just occurred to me they might be trying to get IBM to score some sort of own-goal. Is there any way that either by defeating the SCO suits, or winning their own, that IBM could impair their own property rights in some way? Possibly not against SCO, but maybe in some seemingly unrelated matter against Microsoft.
Of course I have no evidence that even suggests anything along these lines, just that historically IBM have been one of the main "big evil corporations", and I'm not sure if they have changed completely. And the conspiracy theorist in me can't accept this whole fiasco is just a case of securities fraud.
Fact is there are two main drivers in which technologies are going to be succesful - what businesses want and what consumers want. What businesses want to do is the same old boring stuff but faster, and maybe with more bells and whistles. Consumers want games, aything else comes under business.
For business WINE is very important - no-one wants to do anything from scratch (or reinvent the wheel as they say). But no-one cares where the bells and whistles come from. When a new project starts in a company the technology is usually a year or two out of date, so it doesnt matter if wine is this far behind. Its the new stuff that will decide what platform the company will use going forward. Of course there needs to be cutting edge apps coming out for Linux, and someone selling the whole package for a high enough price.
And as for games - they tend to run so close to the hardware that the OS is just an inconvenience. And gamers are fickle, they are often happy to give up their old games if the next generation is good enough.
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Actually that might not even work- it looks like La Nina may not last past Feb, and El Nino could be back by the ned of the year. For example see
http://www.weathernationtv.com...
In my opinion, JavaScript is Lisp reinvented very badly. That it is so popular and important as a programming language says something interesting about how standards emerge. I was starting to feel that this opinion just showed how out of touch I was with things, but the recent issues with NPM seem to show a serious lack of insight or experience in the communities pushing js on the server side. I can't believe there are so many seemingly competent developers advocating that it is a good thing to have packages that consist of a single line function, and that's before even looking at the security and governance issues with NPM itself.
What difference would that make? If 40 years of business rules are encoded in configuration files how is that any easier to work with than COBOL or whatever language was used?
I find in most business cultures I've had contact with that actually spending time to think about a problem is actively discouraged. Problems get bounced from one person to the next, and the actual work performed by any one person on something is so limited that often no-one understands the full problem. The always connected culture described in the article is part of the problem, but more fundamentally it is that there is such the constant stream of email with so little thought put into it
I had to dig for direct connections between Codenomicon and Microsoft, but the chairman of the board seems a fairly strong link. The way Codenomicon have behaved in this has seemed reckless, I've never seen a bug so heavily marketed. The stats floating around initially seem to be way off the mark - to begin with quotes were of 66% of web servers being affected, later revised to 17% running affected versions. Both these numbers look too round to be anything other than made up.
What does OpenBSD use for SSL by default - does it have it's own implementation or is it affected by the OpenSSL bug?
If you have 14 years experience, and are in a reasonably strong job market, you should know what you want in a position and what you have to offer. Just because you are asked questions about leadership skills doesn't mean they are a requirement for the position, but companies want to know what they are getting when they take someone on. If you have a valuable skill they need they will probably want to build a role around you, and while you may want to be hands one providing technical leadership but not supervising a team, someone else with the same skills may want to delegate much of their less challenging tasks.The interview should be a two way conversation - if you dont like a particular line of questions ask if they are core to the role.
If you are looking for a senior position though you will need to be a leader in some way, this may be thought leadership or more direct,
That depends on whether there is a managed or unmanaged breakup of the euro. "Your euros don't actually exist anymore" may not be that far from what happens in some scenarios.
I think the biggest problem with forums, chats, mailing lists etc is the linear format where all the focus is on the most recent topics, jumping from topic to another but not getting into depth on much. Quora seems to be the most succesful I've seen so far at breaking this.
A solar flare is physical matter, not light, or else how would we see it coming?
A better analogy would be the wind affecting a cannonballs trajectory.
When were the subsequent tests? The article says they have yet to retest since finding the problem, and I haven't heard any results from MINOS.
Not provably secure - maybe not, but sometimes you have to settle for more provably secure than readily available alternatives.
Do not attribute to quantum mechanical affects that which can be explained by incompetence or malice.
Based on the fuss there was in Ireland when the wrong type of oil was used when milling animal feed http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/1207/pork.html, I can't imagine this is a good idea. Combustion is exactly the process that generates dioxins, and they build up in animals that cosume them, so if these crops end up used for plant feed, or the process becomes more widespread, eventully even traces of dioxins in the fumes would cause problems.
Interesting to see the latest blog entry of the econo-girl. She claims she went public to make it harder for her former employees to take any further action against her. I'm sure the original (internal) blog was not meant to cause harm, but I'd say at this stage she should stop digging a deeper hole for herself, find a good lawyer, and maybe take a trip out of the country for a while.
One thing Microsoft are doing though is sponsoring user organisation and handing out titles like MVP to people who do answer queries in the right newsgroups. There is even monetary benefits with some of the titles - not a bad way to get some cheap support engineers.
But how do you trigger a thermal alarm on a virtual machine (without access to the "real" OS)?
I was expecting a lawsuit from Opus Dei, or maybe the Catholic church itself. I even thought there was an outside chance of a Fatwa from some Islamic cleric, but the last thing I expected was a suit from anyone connected with Holy Blood, Holy Grail. The whole book is practically an advertisement: "Go and buy Holy Blood, Holy Grail, only really clever people who can see through the lies read it, it's really good and everything in it is true!". I reckon they just want too get both book's names back in the papers now that the publicity has died down at last.
Ok, it'll be a soft go-live - we'll flick the switch over the weekend and that'll give us time to iron out any bugs or costly political errors, then if everything is ok we'll announce... wait, NO! Someones posted to Slashdot!
Moore's law has become a law of marketing rather than computer science, and as such it will never be broken, even if it means the definition of "transistor", "chip", "month" or even "double" has to be changed.
Didn't you see big brother UK? Ok so it was only one week, there were two in the room, and they were both prone to gibbering beforehand but they were much worse at the end.
I know many manufacturers do their best to stop third party parts or consumables from working, but I've never heard of a product that attempts to set the unauthorized parts on fire..
Looking at this little dispute, the only real risk that strikes me is if IBM decide to support SCO/Caldera's interpretation of the copyright, licenses and patents involved. They would not have to just give in, but could end up with ownership of some of the software in question, on condition they demand license fees or just stop their support of OS development. It just occurred to me they might be trying to get IBM to score some sort of own-goal. Is there any way that either by defeating the SCO suits, or winning their own, that IBM could impair their own property rights in some way? Possibly not against SCO, but maybe in some seemingly unrelated matter against Microsoft.
Of course I have no evidence that even suggests anything along these lines, just that historically IBM have been one of the main "big evil corporations", and I'm not sure if they have changed completely. And the conspiracy theorist in me can't accept this whole fiasco is just a case of securities fraud.
Fact is there are two main drivers in which technologies are going to be succesful - what businesses want and what consumers want. What businesses want to do is the same old boring stuff but faster, and maybe with more bells and whistles. Consumers want games, aything else comes under business.
For business WINE is very important - no-one wants to do anything from scratch (or reinvent the wheel as they say). But no-one cares where the bells and whistles come from. When a new project starts in a company the technology is usually a year or two out of date, so it doesnt matter if wine is this far behind. Its the new stuff that will decide what platform the company will use going forward. Of course there needs to be cutting edge apps coming out for Linux, and someone selling the whole package for a high enough price.
And as for games - they tend to run so close to the hardware that the OS is just an inconvenience. And gamers are fickle, they are often happy to give up their old games if the next generation is good enough.