I seem to remember a lot of language churn at both the university and industry in the 70s through 90s. Now I see some stability in languages and environments.- basically an OOP derivative of C like Java/Scala or C#. And an OS derived from UNIX/Linux which inlcude iOS and Android. The most churn I see now are cloud OSes or web-services.
We've been a Java shop for almost 20 years now.
"The worst offenders take double the amount of time they say they will."
Thats why when I was a consultant I often doubled my best time estimates. And employers loved me if I came in under estimate.
Old trick from Scotty of Star trek.
The biological brain is still very poorly understood. Its about one notch above 19th century phrenology. Instead of geography of skull bumps, it geography of increased metabolic activity. How can you buildsomething you dont understand yet?
Otherwise the brain is the basis of us. We need to understand it since a third of old peole will get dementia. An international coordinated brain research project is a good idea. Just dont consider it brain construction yet.
Counting all uses of power like electricity. Transportation is in the worst stae, with the US importing about 40% of petroleum even have a 50% increase in petroleum production since 2005.
Like hybrids and EVs, natural gas Civic are several thousand more expensive than mass-produced gasoline vehicles. Plus you need to shell out another several thousand for safety-certified home NG compressor to fuel it. Depending on the city there may be several dozen commercial NG filling stations around.
Gasoline is rather fungible, i.e. transportable all around the world. Shortfalls in one part of the worl affect the whole world. thank China and India fro rising demand.
Before the late 1940s "computers" referred to human clerks who did long chains of calculations by hand or adding machine. They were nearly all female except for supervisors. When the first electronic computers some of these ladies migrated to become the programmers. It was very tedious machine language in the beginning. The inventor of COBOL is from this crop.
I dont think HR would be interested in the grades of single course. That is a pipe dream. I probably took 40 courses at MIT and another 25 Stanford. And the only time specific course came up were for summer jobs.
Never modern have there been so few hurricanes by Oct 1 as there were in 2013. Meteorologist blame a "cooler" ocean.
We still have another couple months to the season. nd bad ones have occurred late like Sandy.
They wont take courses, go to seminars or technical meetings unless the company pays full cost and on company time. Unfortunately after a couple of recessions the company has pretty much eliminated train (to the company's detriment). It used to be the past I could consult with a coworker about some new piece of technology, but mist are not very knowledgable anymore. Very sad. I dont know why I am still there.
Seems to be the biggest innovation of the Khan/MOOC style of online education. Otherwise OU and University of Phoenix have been doing online for over a decade, but long-lecture style.
We have been conditioned by commercial TV to accept content in 5-10 minute chunks. Maybe that naturally fits the human attention span.
'In the olden days", i.e. the 70s and 80s, computer accounts were rationed one per user by a central bureaucracy. It was almost always part or all of your real name. I did not have psuedonomy on uset then. Even though I would make "what if" arguments, people would still infer my known background had something to do with my argument. Many fewer trolls then too. the in 90s it went the other way and you could have as many accounts as you wanted in whatever handle you wanted. This caused account-remembering problems and well as poor troll behavior. Still you are only one level away from having your true identity known, either from clever detective work or a search warrant. I would not be totally boorish online.
Observation fo graity and magnetics to obey inverse square laws from atomic to galactic scales. Some deviances such fast galactic rotation can be explained by a inverse law devience or hidden matter. Some of these hyperdimensional brane theories predict a deviance of gravity at microscopic scales.
He wasnt complaining so much about the quality of modern audio technology as the economics. Artist cant make money off of selling music if its all free on the net. Jaron is both a famous computer scientist and musician.
Said pre-recorded lectures would revolutionize education. Every home should have one. Hwever his competitors discovered that entertainment was more commercially viable.
Every new media invention in the past 140 years has been promoted as an education aid with varying success.
P.S. Edison originally invented the phonograph as a means of cramming more information onto a telegraph. You'd record message on a phonograph, send them at high speed across the wire, record them at the other end, and play back at human readable speeds. Wires were a precious resource in those days.
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I wonder if this typical for large classroom tablet projects.
I seem to remember a lot of language churn at both the university and industry in the 70s through 90s. Now I see some stability in languages and environments.- basically an OOP derivative of C like Java/Scala or C#. And an OS derived from UNIX/Linux which inlcude iOS and Android. The most churn I see now are cloud OSes or web-services.
We've been a Java shop for almost 20 years now.
"The worst offenders take double the amount of time they say they will."
Thats why when I was a consultant I often doubled my best time estimates. And employers loved me if I came in under estimate.
Old trick from Scotty of Star trek.
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That STEM school is about a mile from where I am typing this. But I dont know much about it.
The biological brain is still very poorly understood. Its about one notch above 19th century phrenology. Instead of geography of skull bumps, it geography of increased metabolic activity. How can you buildsomething you dont understand yet?
Otherwise the brain is the basis of us. We need to understand it since a third of old peole will get dementia. An international coordinated brain research project is a good idea. Just dont consider it brain construction yet.
Counting all uses of power like electricity. Transportation is in the worst stae, with the US importing about 40% of petroleum even have a 50% increase in petroleum production since 2005.
Like hybrids and EVs, natural gas Civic are several thousand more expensive than mass-produced gasoline vehicles. Plus you need to shell out another several thousand for safety-certified home NG compressor to fuel it. Depending on the city there may be several dozen commercial NG filling stations around.
Gasoline is rather fungible, i.e. transportable all around the world. Shortfalls in one part of the worl affect the whole world. thank China and India fro rising demand.
Soem animal science experiemnts have been terminated this week due to lack of constant care.
The new Eggers book is interesting and relavant.
They might catch on fire too.
Before the late 1940s "computers" referred to human clerks who did long chains of calculations by hand or adding machine. They were nearly all female except for supervisors. When the first electronic computers some of these ladies migrated to become the programmers. It was very tedious machine language in the beginning. The inventor of COBOL is from this crop.
I dont think HR would be interested in the grades of single course. That is a pipe dream. I probably took 40 courses at MIT and another 25 Stanford. And the only time specific course came up were for summer jobs.
How do the VCs plan to make back their investments? That was not clear to me.
Never modern have there been so few hurricanes by Oct 1 as there were in 2013. Meteorologist blame a "cooler" ocean. We still have another couple months to the season. nd bad ones have occurred late like Sandy.
It is a non-essential skill. Some may want to as soon as they can read. Some may never want to.
This is usually the limiting factor in the monthly "I can replace silicon" article.
Most VCs would pull the plug in a year or two. It refreshing to see some companies think long term.
They wont take courses, go to seminars or technical meetings unless the company pays full cost and on company time. Unfortunately after a couple of recessions the company has pretty much eliminated train (to the company's detriment). It used to be the past I could consult with a coworker about some new piece of technology, but mist are not very knowledgable anymore. Very sad. I dont know why I am still there.
Seems to be the biggest innovation of the Khan/MOOC style of online education. Otherwise OU and University of Phoenix have been doing online for over a decade, but long-lecture style.
We have been conditioned by commercial TV to accept content in 5-10 minute chunks. Maybe that naturally fits the human attention span.
'In the olden days", i.e. the 70s and 80s, computer accounts were rationed one per user by a central bureaucracy. It was almost always part or all of your real name. I did not have psuedonomy on uset then. Even though I would make "what if" arguments, people would still infer my known background had something to do with my argument. Many fewer trolls then too. the in 90s it went the other way and you could have as many accounts as you wanted in whatever handle you wanted. This caused account-remembering problems and well as poor troll behavior. Still you are only one level away from having your true identity known, either from clever detective work or a search warrant. I would not be totally boorish online.
You think the Luddites originated on the continent instead of England form the anti-technology whines of some Europeans.
Observation fo graity and magnetics to obey inverse square laws from atomic to galactic scales. Some deviances such fast galactic rotation can be explained by a inverse law devience or hidden matter. Some of these hyperdimensional brane theories predict a deviance of gravity at microscopic scales.
He wasnt complaining so much about the quality of modern audio technology as the economics. Artist cant make money off of selling music if its all free on the net. Jaron is both a famous computer scientist and musician.
Said pre-recorded lectures would revolutionize education. Every home should have one. Hwever his competitors discovered that entertainment was more commercially viable.
Every new media invention in the past 140 years has been promoted as an education aid with varying success.
P.S. Edison originally invented the phonograph as a means of cramming more information onto a telegraph. You'd record message on a phonograph, send them at high speed across the wire, record them at the other end, and play back at human readable speeds. Wires were a precious resource in those days.