Every year more and more people are unable to operate in society due to Humor Impaired Syndrome. Either you or a loved one may have HIS and not even know it until an embarrassing public incident. Won't you help today to alleviate the heartbreak of HIS by donating to the American HIS Foundation? We will send you a free tote bag as a token of our gratitude.
I've got a plastic frame on my HTC One-X, and it looked great new. However the plastic has now cracked at a couple of the corners, and I have never dropped it or otherwise cause any force that would do this. It is likely the results of heating and cooling over time. A metal case would not have this problem. The phone still looks good now, no one can see the cracks unless looking closely, but fashion conscious people might have felt compelled to get a new version.
Part of the deal of the reports to the SEC is to provide enough information so that someone can calculate the company's actual worth, the worth of the stock, and the likelihood the stock will go up and down. Thus, no lying in the annual report. Part of Twitter's value is based upon how many people actually use Twitter, so they must report the number of accounts they have as well as estimate of revenue generation of the accounts. Thus it is in the public's interest to know how many of these accounts are fake.
Ah, I wasn't talking about browsers being involved. Certs are used for much more than browsing. A peer to peer network would have shared root certificates, or devices from the same manufacturer, or can validate that the firmware upgrade is legitimate and provided by the manufacturer.
This could fix things. However the people who refuse to acknowledge that the problem even exists won't be the ones to implement the fix and will probably claim it's a waste of effort, or that it's quotas in the schools.
It is interesting that the Fields Medal is given to 'young' mathematicians, as an encouragement for them to continue doing good work. I think this may mean that more women get awards soon as we don't have to wait for the old guard to move on.
Even when I was in school in the 80s and 90s I knew a professor who felt, and who would say out loud, that women really shouldn't be in the field. People at the time at least thought that was a throwback who was out of touch, but consider that for one professor who said this openly how many other professors felt the same way but kept quiet about it, or those who felt that way subconsciously, or those who had a slight bias, and so on.
Unfortunately, I'm sort of being put into this area now. But this term covers so much stuff, a lot of which has existed before the term existed. The stuff that's eye rolling are bluetooth enabled devices that talk to phones, that's not really the internet of things. But something like a stoplight could be internet of things, if it reports back when a bulb has burned out; it's a thing, it is on some private network, and it is something not traditionally networked in the past. Similarly, smart meters, traffic monitors, and so forth.
Depends on what "self signed" means. Companies can definitely have our own root key and devices have certs that chain back to that, but the devices will not sign themselves. That is no less secure than relying on some third party root cert.
I think SV is just convenient if you lose your job, but is overrated by the media. I'd say one person in ten thousand is an entrepreneur, yet the media thinks that all anyone ever does is think up cool new ideas and every company is still a startup. Most people are just trying to finish the projects they've been assigned to. However because of all the companies here, if you stick to jobs in your core area then you have a good chance of seeing the same people somewhere down the road and there's a lot of networking opportunities.
And SV has lost the "silicon" in some sense. Some silicon companies are still here, some hardware companies, and some serious software companies, but so many people are doing IT and web stuff.
Steve Jobs seems to represent Silicon Valley to the clueless media, but he was unique. The media seems to think that Silicon Valley is overflowing with entrepreneurs when this is not at all the case. Most tech workers here don't come up with new ideas every day, and they most certainly are not thinking about new business paradigms, they're just workers. And media also seems to be confused into thinking that San Francisco is related to Silicon Valley. New York City has more arrogance than Silicon Valley.
Yup. Everyone's amazed at the exciting new worlds of mobile phone apps. And yet, assembler exists underneath that. Someone wrote it. Maybe not the people who responded to the "be a web app developer and earn pennies from your own home!" advertisements. But it exists and those web apps would not exist without it and the people who understand it.
But this is nothing new. Go back 30 years. The vast majority of Unix programmers didn't know assembler either. They were just your 9 to 5 programmers getting the work done on some high level application, leaving the assembler to the mysterious cabal who know the combo to the computer room. However those programmers probably weren't so naive as to claim that no one uses assembler any more merely because no one in their social group did.
There is a very tiny overlap between software developers and journalists. And yet the number of software development journalists greatly exceeds the size of that overlap. The only explanation is that there are people who don't know what they're talking about who write these articles.
What about reading assembler? How do you deal with core dumps? These still exist, and they still exist on new and modern projects. Apparently you don't do systems software or you'd be hiring someone who knows assembler, someone who can write a run time library, someone who can do board bring up, someone who can modify the OS, etc.
C, assembler, VHDL, it still all gets done. But the people who do that sort of work does not have much overlap with the sorts of people who write blogs or articles about how programming has changed over the years.
Reading this article, it's just stupid. Ie, some of these "new" technologies changing how we program: libraries, APIs, virtual machines, developing tools to help development, and performance monitoring. That stuff has existed since the first decade of programming. "New"s stuff includes social media portals. Wow, I don't even know what that is, but it sounds web-ish.
The early eugenics supporters also had clear biases, such as attributing positive values to their own racial features and negative values to racial features of others. Even within social groups such ideas held; murderers were said to have certain physical characteristics such as heavy brows, lower classes had a degraded breeding stock, and so forth.
The claim of the book is that economic differences may be attributed to genetics, and you don't need any political correctness to see how much bullshit that idea contains.
I am amazed sometimes when I just need to make a throwaway password for some innocuous site, and it refused my password for have extra characters. I've seen one that only accepted alphanumeric character plus '$' and nothing else, and I've seen one that rejected passwords longer than 8 characters. I don't think it was the underlying security requiring this but the junior intern they got to design the web site
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So it's a synonym for blind people who dress themselves?
Every year more and more people are unable to operate in society due to Humor Impaired Syndrome. Either you or a loved one may have HIS and not even know it until an embarrassing public incident. Won't you help today to alleviate the heartbreak of HIS by donating to the American HIS Foundation? We will send you a free tote bag as a token of our gratitude.
I've got a plastic frame on my HTC One-X, and it looked great new. However the plastic has now cracked at a couple of the corners, and I have never dropped it or otherwise cause any force that would do this. It is likely the results of heating and cooling over time. A metal case would not have this problem. The phone still looks good now, no one can see the cracks unless looking closely, but fashion conscious people might have felt compelled to get a new version.
Part of the deal of the reports to the SEC is to provide enough information so that someone can calculate the company's actual worth, the worth of the stock, and the likelihood the stock will go up and down. Thus, no lying in the annual report. Part of Twitter's value is based upon how many people actually use Twitter, so they must report the number of accounts they have as well as estimate of revenue generation of the accounts. Thus it is in the public's interest to know how many of these accounts are fake.
Twitter tells me I should say "yes".
But isn't RSS more convenient than twitter?
Ah, I wasn't talking about browsers being involved. Certs are used for much more than browsing. A peer to peer network would have shared root certificates, or devices from the same manufacturer, or can validate that the firmware upgrade is legitimate and provided by the manufacturer.
This could fix things. However the people who refuse to acknowledge that the problem even exists won't be the ones to implement the fix and will probably claim it's a waste of effort, or that it's quotas in the schools.
It is interesting that the Fields Medal is given to 'young' mathematicians, as an encouragement for them to continue doing good work. I think this may mean that more women get awards soon as we don't have to wait for the old guard to move on.
Even when I was in school in the 80s and 90s I knew a professor who felt, and who would say out loud, that women really shouldn't be in the field. People at the time at least thought that was a throwback who was out of touch, but consider that for one professor who said this openly how many other professors felt the same way but kept quiet about it, or those who felt that way subconsciously, or those who had a slight bias, and so on.
Unfortunately, I'm sort of being put into this area now. But this term covers so much stuff, a lot of which has existed before the term existed. The stuff that's eye rolling are bluetooth enabled devices that talk to phones, that's not really the internet of things. But something like a stoplight could be internet of things, if it reports back when a bulb has burned out; it's a thing, it is on some private network, and it is something not traditionally networked in the past. Similarly, smart meters, traffic monitors, and so forth.
Depends on what "self signed" means. Companies can definitely have our own root key and devices have certs that chain back to that, but the devices will not sign themselves. That is no less secure than relying on some third party root cert.
Core dumps aren't ideal, but often it is the only possible debugging tool. Embedded systems, dump memory to flash and reboot.
I think SV is just convenient if you lose your job, but is overrated by the media. I'd say one person in ten thousand is an entrepreneur, yet the media thinks that all anyone ever does is think up cool new ideas and every company is still a startup. Most people are just trying to finish the projects they've been assigned to. However because of all the companies here, if you stick to jobs in your core area then you have a good chance of seeing the same people somewhere down the road and there's a lot of networking opportunities.
And SV has lost the "silicon" in some sense. Some silicon companies are still here, some hardware companies, and some serious software companies, but so many people are doing IT and web stuff.
Steve Jobs seems to represent Silicon Valley to the clueless media, but he was unique. The media seems to think that Silicon Valley is overflowing with entrepreneurs when this is not at all the case. Most tech workers here don't come up with new ideas every day, and they most certainly are not thinking about new business paradigms, they're just workers. And media also seems to be confused into thinking that San Francisco is related to Silicon Valley. New York City has more arrogance than Silicon Valley.
Yup. Everyone's amazed at the exciting new worlds of mobile phone apps. And yet, assembler exists underneath that. Someone wrote it. Maybe not the people who responded to the "be a web app developer and earn pennies from your own home!" advertisements. But it exists and those web apps would not exist without it and the people who understand it.
But this is nothing new. Go back 30 years. The vast majority of Unix programmers didn't know assembler either. They were just your 9 to 5 programmers getting the work done on some high level application, leaving the assembler to the mysterious cabal who know the combo to the computer room. However those programmers probably weren't so naive as to claim that no one uses assembler any more merely because no one in their social group did.
I even remember the days before the word "paradigm" existed.
(yes it's sarcasm you annoying downmodders!)
There is a very tiny overlap between software developers and journalists. And yet the number of software development journalists greatly exceeds the size of that overlap. The only explanation is that there are people who don't know what they're talking about who write these articles.
What about reading assembler? How do you deal with core dumps? These still exist, and they still exist on new and modern projects. Apparently you don't do systems software or you'd be hiring someone who knows assembler, someone who can write a run time library, someone who can do board bring up, someone who can modify the OS, etc.
C, assembler, VHDL, it still all gets done. But the people who do that sort of work does not have much overlap with the sorts of people who write blogs or articles about how programming has changed over the years.
Reading this article, it's just stupid. Ie, some of these "new" technologies changing how we program: libraries, APIs, virtual machines, developing tools to help development, and performance monitoring. That stuff has existed since the first decade of programming. "New"s stuff includes social media portals. Wow, I don't even know what that is, but it sounds web-ish.
Be a shame of paralysis cuts short a vandalism career. If the "artist" got permission first before painting the wall then it's not graffiti anymore.
The early eugenics supporters also had clear biases, such as attributing positive values to their own racial features and negative values to racial features of others. Even within social groups such ideas held; murderers were said to have certain physical characteristics such as heavy brows, lower classes had a degraded breeding stock, and so forth.
The claim of the book is that economic differences may be attributed to genetics, and you don't need any political correctness to see how much bullshit that idea contains.
I am amazed sometimes when I just need to make a throwaway password for some innocuous site, and it refused my password for have extra characters. I've seen one that only accepted alphanumeric character plus '$' and nothing else, and I've seen one that rejected passwords longer than 8 characters. I don't think it was the underlying security requiring this but the junior intern they got to design the web site
It puts the lotion on the skin or it gets the hose again.
Trying to regain dominance through a misguided effort.