Huh? If you are someone with a deep knowledge of Unix and thus know better that an answer can be found in the man page for bash, why are you asking people who don't know to look there? Are you saying you're trying to teach them to fish, and they don't get it?
I started my STEM career as a technical writing intern (I was an English major at the time). I shifted into full time programming before quitting school completely. It's a little harder to get a foot in the door on technical writing gigs these days, but marketing yourself as a tech writer/product support person to a small or midsize firm, and taking on intern level programming tasks might get you on the path to a software engineering degree. With a microbiology background (even without the degree), a small biopharma firm might take an interest in you. Be creative.
That's funny. One of the people I deal with is a professor in the humanities and regularly posts stereotypical and atrociously biased criticisms of STEM people. To be fair, as a literature professor, his ad hominem attacks are much better written, even if trivially proven to be based on false premises.
A lot of times, what it comes down to is that a fad is simply a popularization of a particular approach to a problem "x". Solving "x" has value to the company. If you can reasonably get buy in to solving "x" (i.e. scalability, richness of user experience, flexibility of deployment), then you can use misplaced faith in the fad (respectively: cloud, Web 2.0, virtualization) to get the executive buy-in to solve that problem, whether the implementation makes use of the fad or not.
I guess I'm looking for him to respond in much the way you did. Everybody's got a different definition, and I'd like to hear his. Case in point, my wife wasn't allowed to enter her glasswork in an art exhibit, because stained glass was defined as a craft by that body. Funny, huh? But I see tiny machine generated sculpture, and I'm thinking more along the lines of exquisitely carved furniture, than, say, the Mona Lisa. But that's just me.
Yeah. I mean war is the health of the state. And really that's all driven by the military-industrial complex. Surely, Lockheed, Northrop-Grumman, etc., are not going to let war policy hurt business. Why, in this time of transferring warmaking to the digital landscape, would we think that the government policy will be detrimental to those who are best positioned to take advantage of government contracts for digital warfare (covert or otherwise)?
Would you consider these microsculptures works of art, or a craft? We usually consider replication or fabrication of predefined forms (with challenging technique) a craft. If you believe it's art, what distinguishes it as such? Or, does the distinction not matter to you?
Part of my point is that you can exclude something from a policy, but recognize risks and thus make it possible for other policies to be formed that could cover them. In the USA we have a bad habit of subsidizing people doing dumb things like building houses where every 15 years a hurricane destroys them. That is done by our federal government. I don't think that's appropriate; price the risk in insurance, or don't cover it, and don't bail people out for building at risk structures and not taking steps to insure them.
Well, that seems like a calculable risk that shouldn't be excluded. I mean, there's flood insurance for people in flood zones. Why not earthquake insurance for people in earthquake zones? Wildfire insurance for the same, etc., etc.?
Not surprising. That kind of IT work is increasingly in less demand. Desktop support is increasingly outsourced (one guy on site to change hard drives and take shipments). It sounds a little odd that you do both desktop support and built a data center; either you're exaggerating the extent to which you were building the data center (helping assemble racks and establishing a physical and logical network layout are both under that umbrella but are differently in demand) or you may need to look at your overall job hunting approach. It comes off questionable the way you describe it here - not criticizing you, hoping you can use that feedback to your advantage.
So long as the corporations don't get special legal protections from the government, I'm not sure that's a problem. If Wal-Mart agents come to my house to force me to buy their stuff, I shoot them. I can't do that with government agents - whether those government agents are acting on the corporation's orders, or mine.
I think it has helped, though I have no proof. But there's no scientific way I could get proof. IQ tests are pretty useless for this kind of thing, and there's no control group. Small sample size and all...
I started studying piano 7 years ago (I'd previously been a semi-pro woodwind player). One of the things I noticed was that I was i/o bound reading the highly parallelized piano input stream (two staves w/ multinotes on each) and this interfered with my proprioception (perception of where my limbs and philangeas are in space). Over time,it's gotten a lot easier to read and perceive muscle motion through space. This process started at age 33, and I'm pretty sure it's been more difficult because of that, but I can't help suspecting the forced rewiring of my brain hasn't helped my general learning capacity. You're simultaneously stimulating the visual, aural, and kinesthetic senses in concert for a sustained period during practice.
Just like the Amazon AWS failure that took down Netflix, architecting your cloud infrastructure for geographic diversity can significantly reduce the likelihood of these kinds of outages.
Music is more than just notes. A lifetime dedicated to mastering control and technique brings with it a lot of taste, subtlety, and nuance. You may not care about that nuance, but that actually disqualifies you from having an informed opinion on fine arts.
I don't think people generally see a problem with liberal arts taught well. I think many people rightly see "liberal arts education" as an intellectual wasteland where little is asked of students in return for tuition money. If standards were kept high, that simply wouldn't be the case. But they haven't been kept high.
Yes and no. While the law does address that problem, it was very charged language in TFS that also attracted my attention about "predatory for-profit colleges". It's reasonable to offer a counterpoint to that. Even a waiter with a degree in critical theory could see it.
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Huh? If you are someone with a deep knowledge of Unix and thus know better that an answer can be found in the man page for bash, why are you asking people who don't know to look there? Are you saying you're trying to teach them to fish, and they don't get it?
I started my STEM career as a technical writing intern (I was an English major at the time). I shifted into full time programming before quitting school completely. It's a little harder to get a foot in the door on technical writing gigs these days, but marketing yourself as a tech writer/product support person to a small or midsize firm, and taking on intern level programming tasks might get you on the path to a software engineering degree. With a microbiology background (even without the degree), a small biopharma firm might take an interest in you. Be creative.
That's funny. One of the people I deal with is a professor in the humanities and regularly posts stereotypical and atrociously biased criticisms of STEM people. To be fair, as a literature professor, his ad hominem attacks are much better written, even if trivially proven to be based on false premises.
A lot of times, what it comes down to is that a fad is simply a popularization of a particular approach to a problem "x". Solving "x" has value to the company. If you can reasonably get buy in to solving "x" (i.e. scalability, richness of user experience, flexibility of deployment), then you can use misplaced faith in the fad (respectively: cloud, Web 2.0, virtualization) to get the executive buy-in to solve that problem, whether the implementation makes use of the fad or not.
I guess I'm looking for him to respond in much the way you did. Everybody's got a different definition, and I'd like to hear his. Case in point, my wife wasn't allowed to enter her glasswork in an art exhibit, because stained glass was defined as a craft by that body. Funny, huh? But I see tiny machine generated sculpture, and I'm thinking more along the lines of exquisitely carved furniture, than, say, the Mona Lisa. But that's just me.
Yeah. I mean war is the health of the state. And really that's all driven by the military-industrial complex. Surely, Lockheed, Northrop-Grumman, etc., are not going to let war policy hurt business. Why, in this time of transferring warmaking to the digital landscape, would we think that the government policy will be detrimental to those who are best positioned to take advantage of government contracts for digital warfare (covert or otherwise)?
Would you consider these microsculptures works of art, or a craft? We usually consider replication or fabrication of predefined forms (with challenging technique) a craft. If you believe it's art, what distinguishes it as such? Or, does the distinction not matter to you?
Except for the fact that the government works for the corporations.
Part of my point is that you can exclude something from a policy, but recognize risks and thus make it possible for other policies to be formed that could cover them. In the USA we have a bad habit of subsidizing people doing dumb things like building houses where every 15 years a hurricane destroys them. That is done by our federal government. I don't think that's appropriate; price the risk in insurance, or don't cover it, and don't bail people out for building at risk structures and not taking steps to insure them.
Natural disasters are usually excluded.
Well, that seems like a calculable risk that shouldn't be excluded. I mean, there's flood insurance for people in flood zones. Why not earthquake insurance for people in earthquake zones? Wildfire insurance for the same, etc., etc.?
Seems like a place where insurance costs could provide help. Lower insurance liability costs and premiums for upgraded buildings. No?
Not surprising. That kind of IT work is increasingly in less demand. Desktop support is increasingly outsourced (one guy on site to change hard drives and take shipments). It sounds a little odd that you do both desktop support and built a data center; either you're exaggerating the extent to which you were building the data center (helping assemble racks and establishing a physical and logical network layout are both under that umbrella but are differently in demand) or you may need to look at your overall job hunting approach. It comes off questionable the way you describe it here - not criticizing you, hoping you can use that feedback to your advantage.
So long as the corporations don't get special legal protections from the government, I'm not sure that's a problem. If Wal-Mart agents come to my house to force me to buy their stuff, I shoot them. I can't do that with government agents - whether those government agents are acting on the corporation's orders, or mine.
I think it has helped, though I have no proof. But there's no scientific way I could get proof. IQ tests are pretty useless for this kind of thing, and there's no control group. Small sample size and all...
Plan 9.
Oh. You meant a drug?
I started studying piano 7 years ago (I'd previously been a semi-pro woodwind player). One of the things I noticed was that I was i/o bound reading the highly parallelized piano input stream (two staves w/ multinotes on each) and this interfered with my proprioception (perception of where my limbs and philangeas are in space). Over time,it's gotten a lot easier to read and perceive muscle motion through space. This process started at age 33, and I'm pretty sure it's been more difficult because of that, but I can't help suspecting the forced rewiring of my brain hasn't helped my general learning capacity. You're simultaneously stimulating the visual, aural, and kinesthetic senses in concert for a sustained period during practice.
1/5 of the systems on Azure are running Linux. There is not a specific hard link between Azure and Windows or other MS software stacks.
Just like the Amazon AWS failure that took down Netflix, architecting your cloud infrastructure for geographic diversity can significantly reduce the likelihood of these kinds of outages.
Once you oversimplify things enough, you get broad support from either brainless socialists or xenophobic evangelicals. Take your pick.
Where do you think there's an honest government?
Music is more than just notes. A lifetime dedicated to mastering control and technique brings with it a lot of taste, subtlety, and nuance. You may not care about that nuance, but that actually disqualifies you from having an informed opinion on fine arts.
Dude, I know you were trying to make a point here, but fucking seriously. The example of grammar here seriously questions your initial claim.
Not really. A lot of the posters on /. have terrible spelling and grammar.
I don't think people generally see a problem with liberal arts taught well. I think many people rightly see "liberal arts education" as an intellectual wasteland where little is asked of students in return for tuition money. If standards were kept high, that simply wouldn't be the case. But they haven't been kept high.
Yes and no. While the law does address that problem, it was very charged language in TFS that also attracted my attention about "predatory for-profit colleges". It's reasonable to offer a counterpoint to that. Even a waiter with a degree in critical theory could see it.
Nah. He's been referring to Kruger-Dunning. Different thing entirely.