We do Hold Companies Liable:
When they ignore repeated warnings and you get scalded so badly you have to be rushed to the hospital.
When your car's manufacturer repeatedly denies the problem, but its brake pedal makes the car race forward.
But those are sold products, not licenses. There is no similar recompense available for software.
In general, (controled, scheduled) work on makefiles pays off in developer time. Sell it as an improvement right after a release as that is when a kludge is most obvious.
We are using includes in our makefiles to set up for different environments ( not just different OSs ). They are tremendously complex and it takes a while to get a project set up, but it provides a good deal of relief for the average developer on day to day builds.
We also have a dedicated build and release group who maintain the includes. They are a good resource when we have questions either in general or specific to our system.
Using autoconfig adds another set of software to an already complex build system. Invest the time to standardize and fix your Makefiles. It will pay off as you add more systems.
At the last company I worked for we started as "employees", were demoted to "resources", and then demoted to "annual equivalents of a resource". I'm an associate now and though it doesn't mean much, it indicates that the company is interested in what it looks like to us.
I decided I needed to spend more time with my family last year and told my boss that though I didn't have a job waiting I needed to move back home. The next day they asked me if I wanted to telecommute. Give them a break and they may give you one. I've never seen someone lose their job because they said they were leaving and it normally makes things easier all the way around.
I got a BS in Math at a liberal arts school (8 sem Latin) but only 2 CS classes.
The company I worked for paid for Masters classes and counted any time spent in class as training hours, so I was able to take clesses during the day.
When I started my MS, I couldn't get admitted because of prereqs or rather the lack. I got around it by just taking the classes as a Non-Degree student until I had taken the follow-on to all the prereqs I didn't have. At that point they pretty much had to take me (with good GRE and recomendations). I even got a recomendation from one of the department professors.
I don't think this would work if you behaved or did poorly, but you might try it. Also, having an outside source of funding that the school didn't have to mess with seemed to help.
I would like to patent a Business process whereby a representative or representatives of a company or business organization, hereafter known as the company, hereafter refered to as co reps, tell a customer and/or supplier, hereafter known as the sap, one thing, heareafter refered to as the lie, execute an agreement saying another thing, hereafterknownas what the company may be forced to do if our lawyers screw up, and do a completely different thing, HAKA what we think will get us the most money. This process may be applied to the saps as often as possible.
An adjuct to this process is paying protection money ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^ giving campaign contributions to members of the entity responsible for making the saps feeel as though they have recourse under the law.
A review of patents finds no prior patent filings. An examination of prior art finds numerous accounts of this process being used by others against various entities, but no entity that claims prior use.
If I get this patent, I will license it only to nice companies and sue only bad companies for infringement.
Programming for fun or SE for profit? If SE, don't start on programming, start on requirements documents and user focus groups. Perl is a great language for hacking. My son did some guessing games at 8 in perl and is still proud of them. There is mud code in perl called perlmud. That makes good hacking, especially if they have seen a mud before. And speaking of muds, what about mud programming languages? I haven't used them a lot, but they have the archanity ness that makes for a good experience. I think the main goals should be a body of hackable material and a feeling that their system makes sense to them but wouldn't to everyone. Allen Buck --- You can see where I'm comming from, but that doesn't mean I couldn't apreciate your views.
US government controls are becoming looser because of this kind of thing. There is no use in limiting US companies when equivalent technology is sitting on the web. OTOH: The Beowulf cluster is not an optimal architecture for every kind of problem.
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We do Hold Companies Liable:
When they ignore repeated warnings and you get scalded so badly you have to be rushed to the hospital.
When your car's manufacturer repeatedly denies the problem, but its brake pedal makes the car race forward.
But those are sold products, not licenses. There is no similar recompense available for software.
Letting only approved researchers work on systems
that don't have a legal defense fund is a recipe
for disaster.
But then so is the Outlook monoculture.
In general, (controled, scheduled) work on makefiles pays off in developer time. Sell it as an improvement right after a release as that is when a kludge is most obvious.
We are using includes in our makefiles to set up for different environments ( not just different OSs ). They are tremendously complex and it takes a while to get a project set up, but it provides a good deal of relief for the average developer on day to day builds.
We also have a dedicated build and release group who maintain the includes. They are a good resource when we have questions either in general or specific to our system.
Using autoconfig adds another set of software to an already complex build system. Invest the time to standardize and fix your Makefiles. It will pay off as you add more systems.
Good luck,
Allen
Microsoft kills it's competition. How can that help the consumer. It is now beginning to see it's customers as competitors.
The real question is how much damage can it do before it self-destructs? We've been asking that question since the '80s.
At the last company I worked for we started as "employees", were demoted to "resources", and then demoted to "annual equivalents of a resource". I'm an associate now and though it doesn't mean much, it indicates that the company is interested in what it looks like to us.
I decided I needed to spend more time with my family last year and told my boss that though I didn't have a job waiting I needed to move back home. The next day they asked me if I wanted to telecommute. Give them a break and they may give you one. I've never seen someone lose their job because they said they were leaving and it normally makes things easier all the way around.
Now if you work for a real jerk YMMV.
YOU ARE THIRSTY!!!
YOU NEED A NEW CREDIT CARD
Or more sophisticated data manipulation?
Examination of the exact bits displayed is the only method that would give an idea of added information.
I got a BS in Math at a liberal arts school (8 sem Latin) but only 2 CS classes.
The company I worked for paid for Masters classes and counted any time spent in class as training hours, so I was able to take clesses during the day.
When I started my MS, I couldn't get admitted because of prereqs or rather the lack. I got around it by just taking the classes as a Non-Degree student until I had taken the follow-on to all the prereqs I didn't have. At that point they pretty much had to take me (with good GRE and recomendations). I even got a recomendation from one of the department professors.
I don't think this would work if you behaved or did poorly, but you might try it. Also, having an outside source of funding that the school didn't have to mess with seemed to help.
Good Luck,
I would like to patent a Business process whereby a representative or representatives of a company or business organization, hereafter known as the company, hereafter refered to as co reps, tell a customer and/or supplier, hereafter known as the sap, one thing, heareafter refered to as the lie, execute an agreement saying another thing, hereafterknownas what the company may be forced to do if our lawyers screw up, and do a completely different thing, HAKA what we think will get us the most money. This process may be applied to the saps as often as possible.
An adjuct to this process is paying protection money ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^ giving campaign contributions to members of the entity responsible for making the saps feeel as though they have recourse under the law.
A review of patents finds no prior patent filings. An examination of prior art finds numerous accounts of this process being used by others against various entities, but no entity that claims prior use.
If I get this patent, I will license it only to nice companies and sue only bad companies for infringement.
Allen Buck
The browser as a salable product is dead. It is a marketing tool now.
In psychohistory spelling is important as well as the fact that others are concerned about it.
Programming for fun or SE for profit? If SE, don't start on programming, start on requirements documents and user focus groups. Perl is a great language for hacking. My son did some guessing games at 8 in perl and is still proud of them. There is mud code in perl called perlmud. That makes good hacking, especially if they have seen a mud before. And speaking of muds, what about mud programming languages? I haven't used them a lot, but they have the archanity ness that makes for a good experience. I think the main goals should be a body of hackable material and a feeling that their system makes sense to them but wouldn't to everyone. Allen Buck --- You can see where I'm comming from, but that doesn't mean I couldn't apreciate your views.
US government controls are becoming looser because of this kind of thing. There is no use in limiting US companies when equivalent technology is sitting on the web. OTOH: The Beowulf cluster is not an optimal architecture for every kind of problem.
Most will like we did. It just takes time and pain on the part of the others who have to participate.
;-)
Fortunately most of the world can use common sense to filter the worst. I don't even notice the grits remarks anymore ( I also set my score higher