A few months after being hired to my first job, I was out to lunch with a coworker who was also one of my interviewers. It came up that I was the only candidate who had no experience and the only one who came up with answers to: Write a program to do something, anything. And also, write an IP address, any IP address.
From the article:
"Shockingly, most of these errors are not well understood by programmers; their avoidance is not widely taught by computer science programs; and their presence is frequently not tested by organizations developing software for sale."
Shockingly programmers are not all knowing. Programmers are also, oddly, doing very poorly at designing against and testing for things that have not and are still not being identified as major issues within the academic community that produces programmers.
This is a field that has become vital to many businesses in the developed world. It is a field that is very young compared to other scientific and engineering disciplines. It is a field that is undergoing major changes because it isn't working with set rules of nature, but instead is built on top of the changing products of other disciplines.
And the losses the software shops suffer in bad-will when their products fail costs them more.
If everyone is releasing incomplete software there is no cost for bad-will. Worse than that, if there is no cost for bad-will management escalates the problem by compressing the next project's timetable even further.
You shouldn't have said anything but now that I've heard it I'm sure it is true. I will walk in, fill out my usual paperwork, the paperwork will be then typed by a new staffer who was hired just to enter the data as per the new requirements, the staffer will be paid by an increase in my bill and I will have gained nothing from these changes.
"According to Reuters, Potsdam University in Germany is now teaching social skills as part of their IT courses. This is intended to 'ease entry into the world of work'. The 440 students enrolled in the master's degree course will learn how to write flirtatious text messages and emails, impress people at parties and cope with rejection(s)."
Sounds like a good way to get fired especially if they aren't teaching appropriate context, etc. By sterotype (which would be how this seems to have come about) nerds would have more difficulty with understanding appropriate context than figuring out a good template for a romantic message.
My college called a course with similar goals: Public speaking and it worked just fine. Although we probably could have done with a second course.
Ok. There are plenty of abuses of this system but every time I go to a doctor I have to fill out the same information, often for multiple visits to the same doctor. My permanent address does not change once a month every month, thank you. It would also be nice for the hospital to have a digital record of what I'm allergic to, if I'm ever admitted unconconscious.
Why should Portugal fund your trip to find new trade routes to China? Even if such a route were to exist it would be much to expensive to travel that way. Good day Mr. Columbus.
"Throughout our history, the words of the Declaration have inspired immigrants from around the world to set sail to our shores. These immigrants have helped transform 13 small colonies into a great and growing nation of more than 300 people."--Charlottesville, Va., July 4, 2008
Good news is we have discovered a hobby more socially awkward than (almost) anyone's here, and done by women. Bad news is we have discovered a group of women more socially awkward than anyone here.
Actually the movies have profitted quite well during the recession. Escapism is a huge deal when you feel like the world is coming down around you. If you are still employeed enough to be able to regularly afford movie tickets it isn't really that much of a stretch to buy a new TV.
Sorry this is an Apple article. Apple not only gives the consumers what they want but the list of what they are supposed to be wanting in the first place.
Well, the school takes payment in money and your work and gives you employment certification that you exchange for work later. They "need" ownership of your work for things like grading, including in some cases giving your work to other entities to sell as a comparison medium (turnitin.com.) A school sells you its credibility and isn't going to turn over a powerful tool to you without good reason, especially if keeping it could theoretically be profitable by securing patents/copyrights.
Interestingly enough, a couple of semesters ago I had a class on artificial intelligence where the teacher wanted us to become familiar with the ACM standards for articles. The instructor made it very clear that we were to set the price of our papers to $0.00 in the copyright section to avoid any potential problems.
"Tim Alessi, director of product development for LG Electronics USA, said the broadband TVs will sell for roughly $200 to $300 more than a regular HDTV set."
So let me get this straight. I can get a Roku for $99 that I can move between TV sets, offers more than just netflix for $100-200 less than this? I guess not having another box on my entertainment center would make my wife happy, but really what is having another box, especially as small as the Roku?
Because they are going to drop all their other methods of intrusion detection for this? It seems like a reasonable cue for a warning for something that is difficult to pinpoint. Especially if that warning were to kick off an automated task that kicked off a more intensive search/monitoring process.
The best plan is to start reducing what we contribute immediately and if we have to do something to counter the effects of previous emmissions is to build something that can be easily removed in case we have major unintended consequences. Then we work on a plan of cleaning out what we already put in.
There have been plenty of outrageous phone/cell-phone bill stories in the past year. The problem with these stories is that one month everything is $40-150 and the next month is more than I make in a year (much less take home) without any warning from the phone company in what is obviously abnormal usage. While the circumstances of this it is pretty clear the man is liable for his own equipment, but if my phone bill passes my monthly income without my provider alerting me then I'm screwed. Phone isn't a credit card, if I don't pay I don't get to roll over my bill to the next month; they cut me off from the world. Ever tried to get a job without a phone number? Conduct business? Apply for any type of credit?
Top it all off some criminal just walked away scot free with $56000 worth of phone service and the phone company won't do anything about it. Whoever that is now is free to do it again.
Not debating that there isn't any active ingredient in the product described. However, depending on the rules and regulations of the label (if any), the precision of the numbers, and the ratio of the active ingredients to the 1 gram of inactive ingredients, it is possible that there would still be room. I find it highly unlikely that every pill has precisely.15 grams of some ingredient without any deviation at any precision measurable... Micrograms could very well be insignifigant in such a listing in the eyes of the manufacturer.
0.4 milligrams is the RDA of folic acid. If this were a folic acid pill would you list it as 0.1498 grams and 0.8498 grams? How about if it were a 3 times daily pill? Would you list it as 0.149934 grams and 0.849934 grams? At some point it reaches absurdity and if you are churning out alot of bottles there is an ink cost even miniscule that will add up.
A better argument would be about the actual dilution values but apparently the author needed filler material because it looks like he discusses that elsewhere.
RIAA:
"The courts are no longer putting up with our BS illegal extortion of our "customers." The risk has gotten far too high to continue our litigations against innocent people. It has come to the point where we are likely to be countersued by someone competant enough to level real damages against us and cut into our winnings...I mean profit...I mean proper and honest settlements against evil thieves. Time to move on somewhere we are less likely to lose by blackmailing ISPs into dropping users."
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A few months after being hired to my first job, I was out to lunch with a coworker who was also one of my interviewers. It came up that I was the only candidate who had no experience and the only one who came up with answers to: Write a program to do something, anything. And also, write an IP address, any IP address.
From the article:
"Shockingly, most of these errors are not well understood by programmers; their avoidance is not widely taught by computer science programs; and their presence is frequently not tested by organizations developing software for sale."
Shockingly programmers are not all knowing. Programmers are also, oddly, doing very poorly at designing against and testing for things that have not and are still not being identified as major issues within the academic community that produces programmers.
This is a field that has become vital to many businesses in the developed world. It is a field that is very young compared to other scientific and engineering disciplines. It is a field that is undergoing major changes because it isn't working with set rules of nature, but instead is built on top of the changing products of other disciplines.
And the losses the software shops suffer in bad-will when their products fail costs them more.
If everyone is releasing incomplete software there is no cost for bad-will. Worse than that, if there is no cost for bad-will management escalates the problem by compressing the next project's timetable even further.
You shouldn't have said anything but now that I've heard it I'm sure it is true. I will walk in, fill out my usual paperwork, the paperwork will be then typed by a new staffer who was hired just to enter the data as per the new requirements, the staffer will be paid by an increase in my bill and I will have gained nothing from these changes.
"According to Reuters, Potsdam University in Germany is now teaching social skills as part of their IT courses. This is intended to 'ease entry into the world of work'. The 440 students enrolled in the master's degree course will learn how to write flirtatious text messages and emails, impress people at parties and cope with rejection(s)."
Sounds like a good way to get fired especially if they aren't teaching appropriate context, etc. By sterotype (which would be how this seems to have come about) nerds would have more difficulty with understanding appropriate context than figuring out a good template for a romantic message.
My college called a course with similar goals: Public speaking and it worked just fine. Although we probably could have done with a second course.
Ok. There are plenty of abuses of this system but every time I go to a doctor I have to fill out the same information, often for multiple visits to the same doctor. My permanent address does not change once a month every month, thank you. It would also be nice for the hospital to have a digital record of what I'm allergic to, if I'm ever admitted unconconscious.
Can they use ad revenue to drop the price? I can always replace the stereo...
Why should Portugal fund your trip to find new trade routes to China? Even if such a route were to exist it would be much to expensive to travel that way. Good day Mr. Columbus.
"Throughout our history, the words of the Declaration have inspired immigrants from around the world to set sail to our shores. These immigrants have helped transform 13 small colonies into a great and growing nation of more than 300 people."--Charlottesville, Va., July 4, 2008
Good news is we have discovered a hobby more socially awkward than (almost) anyone's here, and done by women. Bad news is we have discovered a group of women more socially awkward than anyone here.
Actually the movies have profitted quite well during the recession. Escapism is a huge deal when you feel like the world is coming down around you. If you are still employeed enough to be able to regularly afford movie tickets it isn't really that much of a stretch to buy a new TV.
Sorry this is an Apple article. Apple not only gives the consumers what they want but the list of what they are supposed to be wanting in the first place.
Well, the school takes payment in money and your work and gives you employment certification that you exchange for work later. They "need" ownership of your work for things like grading, including in some cases giving your work to other entities to sell as a comparison medium (turnitin.com.) A school sells you its credibility and isn't going to turn over a powerful tool to you without good reason, especially if keeping it could theoretically be profitable by securing patents/copyrights.
Interestingly enough, a couple of semesters ago I had a class on artificial intelligence where the teacher wanted us to become familiar with the ACM standards for articles. The instructor made it very clear that we were to set the price of our papers to $0.00 in the copyright section to avoid any potential problems.
Oddly the interesting things to do when you are in Salt Lake City are to leave the city and find something to do in contact with nature.
"Tim Alessi, director of product development for LG Electronics USA, said the broadband TVs will sell for roughly $200 to $300 more than a regular HDTV set."
So let me get this straight. I can get a Roku for $99 that I can move between TV sets, offers more than just netflix for $100-200 less than this? I guess not having another box on my entertainment center would make my wife happy, but really what is having another box, especially as small as the Roku?
I learned C and C++ from the 21 days books back in high school. They aren't much use now, but I still have them on my desk.
What do you mean pay you? Everyone is our private police force, it is in the constitition... Don't you know anything?
Because they are going to drop all their other methods of intrusion detection for this? It seems like a reasonable cue for a warning for something that is difficult to pinpoint. Especially if that warning were to kick off an automated task that kicked off a more intensive search/monitoring process.
The best plan is to start reducing what we contribute immediately and if we have to do something to counter the effects of previous emmissions is to build something that can be easily removed in case we have major unintended consequences. Then we work on a plan of cleaning out what we already put in.
What like the plan to cover the ocean with little reflective particles that seems to be almost as popular as the giant space mirror?
if he wasn't public till now...
There have been plenty of outrageous phone/cell-phone bill stories in the past year. The problem with these stories is that one month everything is $40-150 and the next month is more than I make in a year (much less take home) without any warning from the phone company in what is obviously abnormal usage. While the circumstances of this it is pretty clear the man is liable for his own equipment, but if my phone bill passes my monthly income without my provider alerting me then I'm screwed. Phone isn't a credit card, if I don't pay I don't get to roll over my bill to the next month; they cut me off from the world. Ever tried to get a job without a phone number? Conduct business? Apply for any type of credit?
Top it all off some criminal just walked away scot free with $56000 worth of phone service and the phone company won't do anything about it. Whoever that is now is free to do it again.
I know a guy who for a small fee will make sure you never see your fingers again, or say someone else if they owe you money.
Not debating that there isn't any active ingredient in the product described. However, depending on the rules and regulations of the label (if any), the precision of the numbers, and the ratio of the active ingredients to the 1 gram of inactive ingredients, it is possible that there would still be room. I find it highly unlikely that every pill has precisely .15 grams of some ingredient without any deviation at any precision measurable... Micrograms could very well be insignifigant in such a listing in the eyes of the manufacturer.
0.4 milligrams is the RDA of folic acid. If this were a folic acid pill would you list it as 0.1498 grams and 0.8498 grams? How about if it were a 3 times daily pill? Would you list it as 0.149934 grams and 0.849934 grams? At some point it reaches absurdity and if you are churning out alot of bottles there is an ink cost even miniscule that will add up.
A better argument would be about the actual dilution values but apparently the author needed filler material because it looks like he discusses that elsewhere.
RIAA: "The courts are no longer putting up with our BS illegal extortion of our "customers." The risk has gotten far too high to continue our litigations against innocent people. It has come to the point where we are likely to be countersued by someone competant enough to level real damages against us and cut into our winnings...I mean profit...I mean proper and honest settlements against evil thieves. Time to move on somewhere we are less likely to lose by blackmailing ISPs into dropping users."