Religion/Faith is a human specific mental condition specifically manifest to deal with the unpleasantness of the reality in which the subject finds itself. Basically it's functional insanity.
Yeah.. so the government can fund critical programs. Like war on terror, war on drugs, and medicare and social security. Talk about pissing money down a rat hole.
When coming to the US there is really one criteria above all else... that you will return when your trip is over. Having family (close or other wise) in the US is generally a knock against. Showing roots outside the US is a big plus. Having a history of coming and *going* is a big plus. Over staying is a big NAK.
she was denied on the grounds that she didn't have close family living in the USA.
That specifically is a fabrication. The US emphatically will *never* tell you why your visa was approved or denied.
Yes, the spot gold price is the cost of production (+/- 20%). Want mining to stop? Stop buying gold. Unfortunately you won't get India to cooperate on that. India has gold integrated into their culture so deeply it may take a several generations to unwind from it.
I've been in KL but I have no idea what kind of income you could make doing software there. You would probably be better off getting a paid in Singapore and living in Malaysia. I know Malaysia has been getting some high tech fab work and contact mfg.
I suspect there is more software work in India... where hardware fabrication is pretty rare (I suspect that is changing?)
Seagate is still here... (Bloomington and Shakopee AFAIK).
In exchange for a few bad weeks in winter you get a food and arts scene that is at least competitive with the coasts. A generally heath conscious population and a lot of outdoor activities year round. Cost of living is pretty reasonable.
Did I mention the food scene? Minneapolis' best restaurants don't have Michelin stars but they are aren't far off the mark. Lots of award winning chefs doing interesting stuff here.
Regardless. If the cars in front know where to go... the route is by definition mapped and the data shared into the pool of knowledge about the route change and how to handle it. Done and Done.
The bulk of the sort and search work was pretty well solved by then end of the 1960s.
However due to the massive amounts of data being crunched by the likes of google these algorithms have undergone a bit a renaissance.
In the dawn of computing the data/ram ratio was massive. We didn't have gobs of either but RAM was expensive. In the late 80's through to the early 90's the ratio shifted dramatically. Outside of certain scientific computing domains your typical large data set rarely exceeded ram by an order of magnitude. Heck sorting 30k employees by name while not blinding fast with a poor choice of algorithm is still plenty fast on whatever flavor of qsort shipped with your standard library... and since the entire problem space is in ram there is no reason to know anything more about the details.
Now when you can only hold 1% or less of your primary keys in ram... then sorting it becomes interesting again, sort of, because you have to back digging up those old sorting schemes or re-invent them.
Still experimental but I am happy to do what I can to help in testing it:-)
Indonesia cell coverage for voice and data is pretty spotty. LTE does exist but mostly you get 3G on and off. It is always getting better, but it is a big place with rugged terrain built on volcanoes. In the major metros you do better coverage, but it is far from blanket coverage even when driving through the capitol city of Jakarta much less the smaller villages. The further east you go the less infrastructure there is to be found. Java, Bali and Lombok (the western side anyway) all have spotty coverage. Further east it gets kinda forgotten. Not much in the way of high-speed internet or broadband out there at the moment. Haven't been to Papau or Flores so maybe it gets better far to the east.
So I think project Loon could definitely be a piece of the puzzle there.
Deals make their money from used cars. Always have, always will. New car sales profit: $1000 over invoice at a 'no-haggle' (which is about the average paid when haggling). If you are *really* good you can work it down to oh say $600 or $700 if they dealership is really hurting for sales.
You are *always* getting screwed on your trade-in, *always*. Advice: never bring a car to trade it. But then it's a colossal PITA to do a private party car sale... so YMMV.
Manufacturer makes the money on a lease.. they are doing the financing through their wholly owned subsidiary.
If you by-pass the new car dealerships you still have the used car dealerships so I don't see it as much of a win.
Seriously, $2400 ($200/month) for 2-phone plan? Mine is $70 for two iPhones with unlimited talk, text, and shared 4G of data (we've got wi-fi everywhere so why pay for 10G or more?).
I have unlimited data, my wife has 3G / month; we are paying $25 / month each for our phones until we pay them off; then we pay extra for an international plan to call her family in Brazil. Our phone bill varies between $180 and $235 per month.
Use google voice for Brazil (any android phone works great). Voice for international call is pretty seamless so a very minimal behavior change to save a ton money. With all the cash you save you can buy you next phones for cash and save the financing, even switch to Fi (or other MVNO) save even more.
And $100/month for the triple play is not bad, but that adds up to only $1200, not the $5200 you deducted for it.
That's what I get for trying to do math before my caffeine.
And if you can't afford all the expenses of having a kid on top of the other things you're spending on, perhaps you ought rethink the decision to have one. Or maybe you could cut the TV and landline if you need to buy diapers.
Excessive sodium is completely harmless, provided it comes with the requisite fluids. Too little sodium is however quite deadly. Only control for sodium if you are in fact suffering from hyper tension. Otherwise err on the side of more rather than less sodium in your diet.
Selecting only for sugar, regardless of calorie intake, makes for a massive shift in health indicators.
Humans simply have not evolved to handle the amount of sugar that is available in our diets today. Modern diets and processed foods, even honey and fresh juices, just have far more bio-available sugars that can be metabolized for an extended period of time. Add fat to the sugar it because a deadly combo so controlling for fat will extend the amount of time you can maintain a high sugar diet. Kill the sugar and you can basically have all the fat you want because you body will go back to burning it for energy.
The news here isn't that it is a new revelation which it is not. The news here is that this is mainstream media publicity. It means that something will be done. Of course the first thing something will be the sugar lobby maligning the study and spinning it every direction. If the sugar lobby is successful this will be forgotten and never brought up again. If the sugar lobby fails then several things may happen. Such as public support for sugar subsidies could finally fall. Processed foods could reduce sugar (from the 'bliss point') and/or FDA regulation adding sugar content to the existing packaging nutritional details.
Before 'computer science' was a thing people were being recruited to work on computers out of primarily mathematics and engineering schools. Ideally you had a degree in both math and engineering (or physics). As the computer industry and software businesses bloomed colleges and universities designed computer oriented curriculum that included some math and engineering pre-requisites. Later when the software business exploded the demand for CS degrees pushed universities to find ways to get more student through the CS programs and the requirements for mathematics and engineer have been reduced to almost nothing.
Don't get me wrong, there are good schools that have kept standards higher (fewer every year) but that is the overall trend. If you went to a good school and CS was held to a high standard you will see the CS degree as a meaningful indicator of skill and background. If you were around when the CS degree/curriculum was still being thought out you may be of the opinion that CS is just a watered down discipline not worthy of being considered a hard science.
CS today, for the vast majority getting these degrees, is as much an engineering degree as, say, Finance. Real STEM degrees think of CS as a joke but CS has a lot of money behind it. Think of this as the honorary degree bestowed by educational institutions. Rather than underpin the CS degree with a deeper engineering and math background a group used wealth and influence to just decree that CS is a hard science. So legally you can't say CS isn't as hard as CE, ME, EE, Physics,...
No wonder the field is literally loaded with [incompetent] SJWs. You have a whole generation doing less rigorous work believing that they are operating as the same (or high?!?) level as the real hard sciences. The whole field is being discriminated against, omg, put those mean engineers in jail.
Either SVN/Trac for a small team and a moderate size code base. SVN and Trac for bug handling works really well and Subversion is pretty easy to pickup if you don't already have any version control experience.
Otherwise go with Git/GitLab if your people prefer it. I find working with git to be more arcane but then I kind grew up on CVS/SVN. If you like the distributed model but have issues with Git then Mercurial is you best next option.
I would strongly advise against:
Perforce, ClearCase, Team Foundation Server, AccuRev on cost alone.
Their proprietary server based setups just make them horribly less functional than their open counterparts.
Rolling out CVS in the age of SVN is just silly. RCS and PVCS is just that much more ludicrous.
My information *may* be outdated as I did the work over a year ago.
Google and Apple both *want* a similar (small) set of data, neither actually *require* much of the data to operate. Car companies are really weird about providing the access (although the Head Unit either as a vendor, the common case, or the company itself, need the data anyway). IIRC Google's version wants to know if you are in reverse, and compass heading. Apple will infer. The biggest difference as an integrator for the systems is that Apple call audio used the same USB channel as entertainment / navigation audio. Google's call audio requires the Bluetooth HFP 1.5 which most head units already support.
Each solution had it's own challenges, Apple with it's USB wackiness that severely the hardware options[1] and Google with the Bluetooth adding to the audio mux logic.
Personally I find it *MUCH* more likely that Porsche vendor has CarPlay(tm) working and has a USB hardware issue with using the same port for both systems and/or dropped the Bluetooth from the CarPlay(tm) head unit to save cost.
Basically most vendors had over a year longer to get CarPlay(tm) working before they had access to AndroidAuto but getting AndroidAuto working once you have done the work to get CarPlay(tm) to work was pretty trivial. As always getting things into production quality takes time and effort and for many of these head units it may only require a software update to get either/both systems working. In my initial prototype I supported the use case of AA for navigation and ACP for playing music handling phone calls [in part because my initial HFP work kinda stank, damn you Broadcom:-)].
[1] Original described as variation of USB-OTG but it really isn't... any chip with hardware/firmware OTG is unlikely to work.
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Religion/Faith is a human specific mental condition specifically manifest to deal with the unpleasantness of the reality in which the subject finds itself.
Basically it's functional insanity.
Yeah .. so the government can fund critical programs. Like war on terror, war on drugs, and medicare and social security.
Talk about pissing money down a rat hole.
So how would you charge the phone and listen to music at the same time?
When coming to the US there is really one criteria above all else ... that you will return when your trip is over.
Having family (close or other wise) in the US is generally a knock against.
Showing roots outside the US is a big plus.
Having a history of coming and *going* is a big plus.
Over staying is a big NAK.
she was denied on the grounds that she didn't have close family living in the USA.
That specifically is a fabrication. The US emphatically will *never* tell you why your visa was approved or denied.
Hope this helps.
Yes, the spot gold price is the cost of production (+/- 20%).
Want mining to stop?
Stop buying gold. Unfortunately you won't get India to cooperate on that.
India has gold integrated into their culture so deeply it may take a several generations to unwind from it.
I've been in KL but I have no idea what kind of income you could make doing software there.
You would probably be better off getting a paid in Singapore and living in Malaysia.
I know Malaysia has been getting some high tech fab work and contact mfg.
I suspect there is more software work in India ... where hardware fabrication is pretty rare (I suspect that is changing?)
Seagate is still here ... (Bloomington and Shakopee AFAIK).
In exchange for a few bad weeks in winter you get a food and arts scene that is at least competitive with the coasts. A generally heath conscious population and a lot of outdoor activities year round. Cost of living is pretty reasonable.
Did I mention the food scene? Minneapolis' best restaurants don't have Michelin stars but they are aren't far off the mark. Lots of award winning chefs doing interesting stuff here.
Because you can lie about the prevailing wage.
You can't fudge your way around a flat fee.
Regardless. If the cars in front know where to go ... the route is by definition mapped and the data shared into the pool of knowledge about the route change and how to handle it.
Done and Done.
death in CS for half a decade .
I think you mean century.
The bulk of the sort and search work was pretty well solved by then end of the 1960s.
However due to the massive amounts of data being crunched by the likes of google these algorithms have undergone a bit a renaissance.
In the dawn of computing the data/ram ratio was massive. We didn't have gobs of either but RAM was expensive. In the late 80's through to the early 90's the ratio shifted dramatically. Outside of certain scientific computing domains your typical large data set rarely exceeded ram by an order of magnitude. Heck sorting 30k employees by name while not blinding fast with a poor choice of algorithm is still plenty fast on whatever flavor of qsort shipped with your standard library ... and since the entire problem space is in ram there is no reason to know anything more about the details.
Now when you can only hold 1% or less of your primary keys in ram ... then sorting it becomes interesting again, sort of, because you have to back digging up those old sorting schemes or re-invent them.
Still experimental but I am happy to do what I can to help in testing it :-)
Indonesia cell coverage for voice and data is pretty spotty. LTE does exist but mostly you get 3G on and off. It is always getting better, but it is a big place with rugged terrain built on volcanoes.
In the major metros you do better coverage, but it is far from blanket coverage even when driving through the capitol city of Jakarta much less the smaller villages. The further east you go the less infrastructure there is to be found. Java, Bali and Lombok (the western side anyway) all have spotty coverage. Further east it gets kinda forgotten. Not much in the way of high-speed internet or broadband out there at the moment.
Haven't been to Papau or Flores so maybe it gets better far to the east.
So I think project Loon could definitely be a piece of the puzzle there.
Deals make their money from used cars. Always have, always will.
New car sales profit: $1000 over invoice at a 'no-haggle' (which is about the average paid when haggling).
If you are *really* good you can work it down to oh say $600 or $700 if they dealership is really hurting for sales.
You are *always* getting screwed on your trade-in, *always*. ... so YMMV.
Advice: never bring a car to trade it. But then it's a colossal PITA to do a private party car sale
Manufacturer makes the money on a lease .. they are doing the financing through their wholly owned subsidiary.
If you by-pass the new car dealerships you still have the used car dealerships so I don't see it as much of a win.
It's no wonder you have problems.
Seriously, $2400 ($200/month) for 2-phone plan? Mine is $70 for two iPhones with unlimited talk, text, and shared 4G of data (we've got wi-fi everywhere so why pay for 10G or more?).
I have unlimited data, my wife has 3G / month; we are paying $25 / month each for our phones until we pay them off; then we pay extra for an international plan to call her family in Brazil. Our phone bill varies between $180 and $235 per month.
Use google voice for Brazil (any android phone works great). Voice for international call is pretty seamless so a very minimal behavior change to save a ton money.
With all the cash you save you can buy you next phones for cash and save the financing, even switch to Fi (or other MVNO) save even more.
And $100/month for the triple play is not bad, but that adds up to only $1200, not the $5200 you deducted for it.
That's what I get for trying to do math before my caffeine.
And if you can't afford all the expenses of having a kid on top of the other things you're spending on, perhaps you ought rethink the decision to have one. Or maybe you could cut the TV and landline if you need to buy diapers.
I know, allergies right?
Excessive sodium is completely harmless, provided it comes with the requisite fluids.
Too little sodium is however quite deadly. Only control for sodium if you are in fact suffering from hyper tension. Otherwise err on the side of more rather than less sodium in your diet.
Selecting only for sugar, regardless of calorie intake, makes for a massive shift in health indicators.
Humans simply have not evolved to handle the amount of sugar that is available in our diets today. Modern diets and processed foods, even honey and fresh juices, just have far more bio-available sugars that can be metabolized for an extended period of time. Add fat to the sugar it because a deadly combo so controlling for fat will extend the amount of time you can maintain a high sugar diet. Kill the sugar and you can basically have all the fat you want because you body will go back to burning it for energy.
The news here isn't that it is a new revelation which it is not. The news here is that this is mainstream media publicity. It means that something will be done. Of course the first thing something will be the sugar lobby maligning the study and spinning it every direction. If the sugar lobby is successful this will be forgotten and never brought up again. If the sugar lobby fails then several things may happen. Such as public support for sugar subsidies could finally fall. Processed foods could reduce sugar (from the 'bliss point') and/or FDA regulation adding sugar content to the existing packaging nutritional details.
I call BS.
We negotiated 1-800 rates at 2.5/min cents over 6 years ago.
Doesn't the NSA already do most of this for free*?
* free in the sense that tax payers are forced to pay for something that has no public benefit whatsoever, so why not get something out of it?
Objectives and Key Results (OKR). (I assume)
Before 'computer science' was a thing people were being recruited to work on computers out of primarily mathematics and engineering schools. Ideally you had a degree in both math and engineering (or physics). As the computer industry and software businesses bloomed colleges and universities designed computer oriented curriculum that included some math and engineering pre-requisites. Later when the software business exploded the demand for CS degrees pushed universities to find ways to get more student through the CS programs and the requirements for mathematics and engineer have been reduced to almost nothing.
Don't get me wrong, there are good schools that have kept standards higher (fewer every year) but that is the overall trend. If you went to a good school and CS was held to a high standard you will see the CS degree as a meaningful indicator of skill and background. If you were around when the CS degree/curriculum was still being thought out you may be of the opinion that CS is just a watered down discipline not worthy of being considered a hard science.
CS today, for the vast majority getting these degrees, is as much an engineering degree as, say, Finance. Real STEM degrees think of CS as a joke but CS has a lot of money behind it. Think of this as the honorary degree bestowed by educational institutions. Rather than underpin the CS degree with a deeper engineering and math background a group used wealth and influence to just decree that CS is a hard science. So legally you can't say CS isn't as hard as CE, ME, EE, Physics, ...
No wonder the field is literally loaded with [incompetent] SJWs. You have a whole generation doing less rigorous work believing that they are operating as the same (or high?!?) level as the real hard sciences. The whole field is being discriminated against, omg, put those mean engineers in jail.
Either SVN/Trac for a small team and a moderate size code base.
SVN and Trac for bug handling works really well and Subversion is pretty easy to pickup if you don't already have any version control experience.
Otherwise go with Git/GitLab if your people prefer it. I find working with git to be more arcane but then I kind grew up on CVS/SVN.
If you like the distributed model but have issues with Git then Mercurial is you best next option.
I would strongly advise against:
Perforce, ClearCase, Team Foundation Server, AccuRev on cost alone.
Their proprietary server based setups just make them horribly less functional than their open counterparts.
Rolling out CVS in the age of SVN is just silly. RCS and PVCS is just that much more ludicrous.
Please don't suggest anyone use that crap. The Cypress IDE is a hideous mindf**k.
My information *may* be outdated as I did the work over a year ago.
Google and Apple both *want* a similar (small) set of data, neither actually *require* much of the data to operate. Car companies are really weird about providing the access (although the Head Unit either as a vendor, the common case, or the company itself, need the data anyway).
IIRC Google's version wants to know if you are in reverse, and compass heading. Apple will infer.
The biggest difference as an integrator for the systems is that Apple call audio used the same USB channel as entertainment / navigation audio.
Google's call audio requires the Bluetooth HFP 1.5 which most head units already support.
Each solution had it's own challenges, Apple with it's USB wackiness that severely the hardware options[1] and Google with the Bluetooth adding to the audio mux logic.
Personally I find it *MUCH* more likely that Porsche vendor has CarPlay(tm) working and has a USB hardware issue with using the same port for both systems and/or dropped the Bluetooth from the CarPlay(tm) head unit to save cost.
Basically most vendors had over a year longer to get CarPlay(tm) working before they had access to AndroidAuto but getting AndroidAuto working once you have done the work to get CarPlay(tm) to work was pretty trivial. As always getting things into production quality takes time and effort and for many of these head units it may only require a software update to get either/both systems working. In my initial prototype I supported the use case of AA for navigation and ACP for playing music handling phone calls [in part because my initial HFP work kinda stank, damn you Broadcom :-)].
[1] Original described as variation of USB-OTG but it really isn't ... any chip with hardware/firmware OTG is unlikely to work.
Only if you ever though he was a visionary.