Dark Matter's effects have been measured with 9 sigmas of confidence, well beyond the requirement to show something is there. And we know of sure that "something" cannot be barionic. We have better measurements of Dark Matter than Relativity.
You have that backwards. They're modifying theory to match the facts. They've tried to ignore darkmatter for nearly 100 years, but they can't get rid of it. The more information we get, the more real it becomes. It has reached a point in science where the numbers are slapping us in the face, saying, "STOP IGNORING ME!"
Nokia was a company that was much more enlightened than Microsoft, and actually had some female employees
They also had a factory. They didn't have more female programmers, just more female factory workers. Microsoft purchased them then fired most of the factory workers.
If we don't bother with leap seconds, then the distance that the sun will be off from being directly overhead at the equinox is about the same as it is now from being a couple of hundred miles away from the meridian.
How is that an issue? How does this affect humans on the other side of the Universe that need to have a unit of time defined as a "day"? We should use a unit of time that is useful for humans yet is not tied down to what is happening on Earth.
I do about 20 hours of work every week, but I'm at work about 40 hours. I have to interleave a lot of mental breaks between actual work. I many times find myself getting stuck on a problem, coming back to it 10 minutes later, still stuck, so I go talk to someone for an hour, come back, and the problem is obvious. Over time I have gotten better at recognizing how much of a break I need to solve a problem.
1Gb fiber is much cheaper than DSL or Cable. And 10Gb fiber is still cheaper than DSL or cable. Going from 1Gb to 10Gb fiber is about 1 year of the extra cost of maintaining a copper network.
10 1Gb ports is more expensive than 1 10Gb port, but 5Gb ports are slightly cheaper than 1 10Gb port. The bigger issue is getting channel bonding that works at Layer 3/4 and not 2. Many implementation of bonding load balance on destination MAC addresses, and your gateway only has on address, so all WAN traffic uses the same link and does not get distributed.
100Mb is not enough unless you like ping spikes while someone is watching YouTube or Netflix. They like to microburst 1gb/s+. Using some tools, I can see this jitter for tens of milliseconds. Sometimes even into the 100ms time range. Of course your ISP may suck so much that they can't pass these bursts on to you because they have bottlenecks in other areas.
I'm seeing about 75GiB per day and during Blizzcon, about 100GiB both days. Netflix alone is about 3.5GiB/hour, and that's mostly for background noise during the day for my wife. By the time I get home, we're easily into the 20GiB range. Later in the day, we both have Netflix running, many times monitoring Twitch streams. Even more fun is when I'm hunting for a new show to watch. Jumping through a timeline can keep my 100Mb connection saturated for nearly 30 seconds as Netflix or YouTube buffer. Click around the timeline again, another 30sec of saturation. It adds up quickly. YouTube also has this nasty habit of buffering entire 5 minute clips of 1080p@60fps videos. By the time I'm 15 seconds into the video and decide I don't want to watch it, too late, already downloaded the entire thing.
But we're so close. Intel's x540 dual 10Gb chips on 45nm are about $500 and their new x710 dual 40Gb chips on 28nm are going for about $350 and consume 1/2 the power. 4x faster, 30% cheaper, 50% more efficient. Once Intel frees up some 22nm production for NICs, they'll be cheap, fast, and efficient. Soon(tm)
I was home schooled in the USA, and there are accredited home schooling programs. They can graduate you. School is mostly a waste of time. I wish I could have just gone strait to college, but I thought college was difficult because of how people talk it all up. Turns out it's easy, just a lot of people seem to have issues with it.
1k application per posting? That's nothing. When I applied for my current job, there were over 3k applications. Nearly all applications are fluff. You do not get "1000 qualified applications per posting". Well, maybe qualified on paper.
There is a talent shortage, not a programmer shortage. If you just want a programmer, that's easy. If you want a talented programmer, that's hard. It's incredibly difficult to find talented programmers.
They're not 10x faster, just 10x more productive. Remember, technical debt is a negative value. And it's not 10x, it's 100x. The research called them 10x programmers as not to sound too elitist, but the actual numbers are closer to 100x.
Deploying everyday? That's nothing. Some companies deploy hundreds of times per day to production. You just need well defined dependencies and strict rules on how current features work.
Both Google, Microsoft, and Facebook have talked about the futile attempt of interviewing for good programmers, and came to the same general conclusion. Assuming at least 6 months of experience, ability and years of experience are completely uncorrelated. Because of this, "20 years specializing" is a meaningless statement.
Programming is one of the few disciplines where experience in a specialization has little benefit and talent always wins.
Project A is 80% "right", then Project B depends on Project A, and Project B is also 80% "right". Multiply them together and Project B is effectively 64% "right. Project C now depends on Project B, and is now 51% "right". Minimum viable product works fine until you have a dependency against that project. Then it goes to crap.
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Dark Matter's effects have been measured with 9 sigmas of confidence, well beyond the requirement to show something is there. And we know of sure that "something" cannot be barionic. We have better measurements of Dark Matter than Relativity.
Nope. PFSense only officially supports x86 and x64, and x86 is on the chopping block in the near future.
The normal state of IPv6 is to never assign IP addresses. If you want network device security, lock down your Layer 1 and 2.
The judge sided with the media companies ahead of trial, saying Cox should have terminated the repeat offenders accused by Rightscorp
The judge seems to think that someone should be able to be kicked off the Internet by accusations alone. Assumed guilty much?
You have that backwards. They're modifying theory to match the facts. They've tried to ignore darkmatter for nearly 100 years, but they can't get rid of it. The more information we get, the more real it becomes. It has reached a point in science where the numbers are slapping us in the face, saying, "STOP IGNORING ME!"
I must have put a decimal point in the wrong place or something. Shit! I always do that. I always mess up some mundane detail.
Nokia was a company that was much more enlightened than Microsoft, and actually had some female employees
They also had a factory. They didn't have more female programmers, just more female factory workers. Microsoft purchased them then fired most of the factory workers.
I avoid doing illegal things by not being in society with all of their stupid rules.
It is illegal to ask someone to violate a contract unless ordered by a judge.
If we don't bother with leap seconds, then the distance that the sun will be off from being directly overhead at the equinox is about the same as it is now from being a couple of hundred miles away from the meridian.
How is that an issue? How does this affect humans on the other side of the Universe that need to have a unit of time defined as a "day"? We should use a unit of time that is useful for humans yet is not tied down to what is happening on Earth.
I do about 20 hours of work every week, but I'm at work about 40 hours. I have to interleave a lot of mental breaks between actual work. I many times find myself getting stuck on a problem, coming back to it 10 minutes later, still stuck, so I go talk to someone for an hour, come back, and the problem is obvious. Over time I have gotten better at recognizing how much of a break I need to solve a problem.
Tungsten. Cheap material, extremely difficult to machine. You pay for the effort, not the materials. And a mirror finish that never tarnishes.
1Gb fiber is much cheaper than DSL or Cable. And 10Gb fiber is still cheaper than DSL or cable. Going from 1Gb to 10Gb fiber is about 1 year of the extra cost of maintaining a copper network.
10 1Gb ports is more expensive than 1 10Gb port, but 5Gb ports are slightly cheaper than 1 10Gb port. The bigger issue is getting channel bonding that works at Layer 3/4 and not 2. Many implementation of bonding load balance on destination MAC addresses, and your gateway only has on address, so all WAN traffic uses the same link and does not get distributed.
100Mb is not enough unless you like ping spikes while someone is watching YouTube or Netflix. They like to microburst 1gb/s+. Using some tools, I can see this jitter for tens of milliseconds. Sometimes even into the 100ms time range. Of course your ISP may suck so much that they can't pass these bursts on to you because they have bottlenecks in other areas.
I'm seeing about 75GiB per day and during Blizzcon, about 100GiB both days. Netflix alone is about 3.5GiB/hour, and that's mostly for background noise during the day for my wife. By the time I get home, we're easily into the 20GiB range. Later in the day, we both have Netflix running, many times monitoring Twitch streams. Even more fun is when I'm hunting for a new show to watch. Jumping through a timeline can keep my 100Mb connection saturated for nearly 30 seconds as Netflix or YouTube buffer. Click around the timeline again, another 30sec of saturation. It adds up quickly. YouTube also has this nasty habit of buffering entire 5 minute clips of 1080p@60fps videos. By the time I'm 15 seconds into the video and decide I don't want to watch it, too late, already downloaded the entire thing.
But we're so close. Intel's x540 dual 10Gb chips on 45nm are about $500 and their new x710 dual 40Gb chips on 28nm are going for about $350 and consume 1/2 the power. 4x faster, 30% cheaper, 50% more efficient. Once Intel frees up some 22nm production for NICs, they'll be cheap, fast, and efficient. Soon(tm)
I was home schooled in the USA, and there are accredited home schooling programs. They can graduate you. School is mostly a waste of time. I wish I could have just gone strait to college, but I thought college was difficult because of how people talk it all up. Turns out it's easy, just a lot of people seem to have issues with it.
1k application per posting? That's nothing. When I applied for my current job, there were over 3k applications. Nearly all applications are fluff. You do not get "1000 qualified applications per posting". Well, maybe qualified on paper.
There is a talent shortage, not a programmer shortage. If you just want a programmer, that's easy. If you want a talented programmer, that's hard. It's incredibly difficult to find talented programmers.
They're not 10x faster, just 10x more productive. Remember, technical debt is a negative value. And it's not 10x, it's 100x. The research called them 10x programmers as not to sound too elitist, but the actual numbers are closer to 100x.
Deploying everyday? That's nothing. Some companies deploy hundreds of times per day to production. You just need well defined dependencies and strict rules on how current features work.
Both Google, Microsoft, and Facebook have talked about the futile attempt of interviewing for good programmers, and came to the same general conclusion. Assuming at least 6 months of experience, ability and years of experience are completely uncorrelated. Because of this, "20 years specializing" is a meaningless statement.
Programming is one of the few disciplines where experience in a specialization has little benefit and talent always wins.
Internal deliverables should be broken down into sprints, but customer deliverables cannot always be.
Project A is 80% "right", then Project B depends on Project A, and Project B is also 80% "right". Multiply them together and Project B is effectively 64% "right. Project C now depends on Project B, and is now 51% "right". Minimum viable product works fine until you have a dependency against that project. Then it goes to crap.
Being a talented developer does not mean you have business vision.