I enjoyed software development and did so full time for six years coming out of my comp. sci. degree, but then tried a couple of web businesses and a consulting gig, all of which didn't pay the bills. Then I got a MBA and did corporate partnerships in the high tech sector for a little while; working with lawyers all day sucked my soul, so I did a PhD. Did a lot of teaching in business schools during my PhD, but I always came back to integrating software development into my teaching and research. Now I'm a tenure track professor in a business and technology management undergraduate program, teaching software development and database management (and other classes) to business/technology students. My research integrates computer vision (OpenCV) and artificial neural networks (Keras) in Python, looking at crowdfunding platform and campaigns. It would be hard to do what I do without my programming background.
To avoid situations like this, I wonder if anyone would be interested in proposing an RFC for a public, distributed social networking system. Much like IRC, that could be made redundant with multiple geographically diverse servers and more importantly couldn't be controlled by any one corporate entity.
Advertising revenue could be made by the "application" writers themselves, and the framework (something like Facebook) would become a commodity just like IRC became.
Facebook-like social networking without the corporate oversight could be a little more chaotic, but no more chaotic than every other distributed system on the Internet.
If religious belief, or faith in a deity, supernatural or something like that, promotes survival. I wonder if the evolutionary advantage produced is in the form of mental health. I would love to hear if there is a correlation between secular societies and increased mental health difficulties like depression, suicide, self esteem issues etc. One could never prove causation, but I've certainly heard that there are high mental health issues issues in North America and Europe, which tend to me more secular than other parts of the world.
I could see the relationship between religion and mental health though. Religion often fosters: 1) Community in the form of churches, and there-by a sense of belonging 2) A sense of doing good for others, and others doing good for you 3) A faith in a higher power (however irrational) could relieve stresses and feelings of fear. 4) Promotion of taking off Sundays (or some time during the week for religious observance)
Anyone have any data to show that secular societies have higher incidences of mental health problems?
On a more micro level, my wife is a mental health councilor and I must point out that neither of us are religious, at all.. But she has found that people who she sees with mental health problems often get better when they find some kind of belief (religious or otherwise) to put their faith into.
Not only is it ignorant to call native populations of any country "Indians" unless they are from India, it is also confusing and inaccurate. I spent about 10 seconds figuring out why people from India were saving the Amazon in South America with google maps. This isn't about political correctness, it's about correctness.
As a consultant, it's not your place to dictate how another company defines it's business strategy.
You've said your bit to promote disclosure (I assume), make sure that there is a paper trail detailing that, then let them run their business how they see fit. Possibly into the ground.
If you're a third party contractor, and you start letting loose about your clients, thats not a good way to give yourself credibility. Remember that the management team for this company has likely spoken to their lawyers, possibly other security experts. There is the remote possibility that they know what they are doing.
My first computer was also a Tandy 1000SL. I spent many long hours playing Willy the Worm 2, Pango and eventually programming in QBasic. Deskmate was an interesting thing, it really didn't help much but was a fun play-thing. I remember when I upgraded to 640K. Then I could finally play Leisure Suit Larry. Awesome. That computer lasted me way longer than it should have. I got an external 14.4 modem and connected it to the first dial-up shell account that anyone I knew had access to. It was my dad's, and I used it to FTP all over the world, and download EGA porn with 'tin' from news groups. I was even able to BBS with it. All my friends had 386's by this point, but I still had my Tandy 1000SL. I once backed up my 40 meg hard drive with 384k 5 1/2 inch disks. That took a long time and really sucked. I miss it.
Grokking.. "Man from Mars" reference?
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The author refers to the Genotype/Phenotype analogue wrt to the cells in the mechanized system they built. But he keeps refering to the Genotype as being the DNA (or code) as well as the behavior of the units. While the Phenotype is the actual unit itself.
The genotype/phenotype analogue is a good one, but his terms are not quite correct. The genotype should refer to only the DNA and genetic information, which in his case is analygous to machine code. The phenotype should be analygous to the behavior of each unit.
A pedantic technicality, but he mentions this a few times, and it's not quite correct.
a few years from now when we have pentabyte hard drives selling for less than the cost of visit to the local grocery store. Look back at this article and say, "I remember when..."
It sounds like this could be used rather effectively as a QA tool. Machine 1 running version 1.23 of the software, Machine 2 running 1.24 running on the same data and should produce the same results.
Automated regression testing etc.
Audiobooks/exercising ultimate in geek efficiency
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I do this all the time. There are so many things I'd like to read, but don't have time. If I put the audiobook on my Nomad Muvo2 4GB, and run/bike it makes the time fly by. I also feel as though I'm not wasting my time. I'm increasing my knowledge (listening to informative audiobooks) while I'm exercising. I highly recommend this.
This is a product of the fact that people want to be able to reclaim their time. That is to say, letting a box push information to them at it's own speed is a waste of time and doesn't give them exactly what they want.
TV isn't going anywhere though, as soon as the TV companies get off their collective butts and get more and more on-demand TV then viewers will return to that medium (even if it is through their computer/digital entertainment unit).
The days of people flipping through channels are ending, and the days of people flipping through menus of available media better be coming soon, or else they risk alienating a generation of people who don't have the time/desire to waste their life waiting for a show to start.
Very true. This whole argument is bung. A good programmer will know and use both "types of programming".. although I'm not at all convinced that there really is a difference. In my experience they both compliment each other, and there is a large area of overlap where either can be used.
C++ programmers dislike scripting untill they've used Perl to do complex data gathering across a dynamic distributed system.
Perl programmers dislike C++ untill they've programmed/maintained monolithic client applications.
It originated from when people would "War Dial" with modems looking for remote modems by brute force dialing a block of phone numbers. eg: phone all numbers between 836-0000 and 836-9999, get your computer to log which numbers connected to another modem, then later go back and see if they are hackable.
"War Driving is not a crime" intruding on someone's network is not a crime? I dunno about that.
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I enjoyed software development and did so full time for six years coming out of my comp. sci. degree, but then tried a couple of web businesses and a consulting gig, all of which didn't pay the bills. Then I got a MBA and did corporate partnerships in the high tech sector for a little while; working with lawyers all day sucked my soul, so I did a PhD. Did a lot of teaching in business schools during my PhD, but I always came back to integrating software development into my teaching and research. Now I'm a tenure track professor in a business and technology management undergraduate program, teaching software development and database management (and other classes) to business/technology students. My research integrates computer vision (OpenCV) and artificial neural networks (Keras) in Python, looking at crowdfunding platform and campaigns. It would be hard to do what I do without my programming background.
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada - 43 28'
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - 42 36'
Most people forget that southern Ontario dips well south into the great-lakes basin.
Whoa, that is one low ID. I thought I had bragging rights with mine, but nope.
Yours is about as low as I've seen.
To avoid situations like this, I wonder if anyone would be interested in proposing an RFC for a public, distributed social networking system. Much like IRC, that could be made redundant with multiple geographically diverse servers and more importantly couldn't be controlled by any one corporate entity.
Advertising revenue could be made by the "application" writers themselves, and the framework (something like Facebook) would become a commodity just like IRC became.
Facebook-like social networking without the corporate oversight could be a little more chaotic, but no more chaotic than every other distributed system on the Internet.
If religious belief, or faith in a deity, supernatural or something like that, promotes survival. I wonder if the evolutionary advantage produced is in the form of mental health. I would love to hear if there is a correlation between secular societies and increased mental health difficulties like depression, suicide, self esteem issues etc. One could never prove causation, but I've certainly heard that there are high mental health issues issues in North America and Europe, which tend to me more secular than other parts of the world.
I could see the relationship between religion and mental health though. Religion often fosters:
1) Community in the form of churches, and there-by a sense of belonging
2) A sense of doing good for others, and others doing good for you
3) A faith in a higher power (however irrational) could relieve stresses and feelings of fear.
4) Promotion of taking off Sundays (or some time during the week for religious observance)
Anyone have any data to show that secular societies have higher incidences of mental health problems?
On a more micro level, my wife is a mental health councilor and I must point out that neither of us are religious, at all.. But she has found that people who she sees with mental health problems often get better when they find some kind of belief (religious or otherwise) to put their faith into.
Interesting stuff.
Not only is it ignorant to call native populations of any country "Indians" unless they are from India, it is also confusing and inaccurate. I spent about 10 seconds figuring out why people from India were saving the Amazon in South America with google maps. This isn't about political correctness, it's about correctness.
"Cowboys and Indians" are not of this century.
As a consultant, it's not your place to dictate how another company defines it's business strategy.
You've said your bit to promote disclosure (I assume), make sure that there is a paper trail detailing that, then let them run their business how they see fit. Possibly into the ground.
If you're a third party contractor, and you start letting loose about your clients, thats not a good way to give yourself credibility. Remember that the management team for this company has likely spoken to their lawyers, possibly other security experts. There is the remote possibility that they know what they are doing.
My first computer was also a Tandy 1000SL. I spent many long hours playing Willy the Worm 2, Pango and eventually programming in QBasic.
Deskmate was an interesting thing, it really didn't help much but was a fun play-thing. I remember when I upgraded to 640K. Then I could finally play Leisure Suit Larry. Awesome.
That computer lasted me way longer than it should have. I got an external 14.4 modem and connected it to the first dial-up shell account that anyone I knew had access to. It was my dad's, and I used it to FTP all over the world, and download EGA porn with 'tin' from news groups. I was even able to BBS with it. All my friends had 386's by this point, but I still had my Tandy 1000SL. I once backed up my 40 meg hard drive with 384k 5 1/2 inch disks. That took a long time and really sucked.
I miss it.
That was a Robert Heinlen classic.
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom
It requires that you log in as a valid gmail user before accessing it.
Only until Microsoft includes this feature into Excel. Seriously, it seems like a glorified Graphing feature.
Certainly not something that can be used by hundreds of millions of internet users.
Has anyone else noticed a lot of automated (presumably) login attempts for the users 'root', 'test' and 'guest' over SSH?
I never used to get this, and now I seem to get dozens of them every day.
I wonder if this is related to the so called "dooms-day" tomorrow.
I thought the owner of IKEA was now worth more than Gates.
The author refers to the Genotype/Phenotype analogue wrt to the cells in the mechanized system they built. But he keeps refering to the Genotype as being the DNA (or code) as well as the behavior of the units. While the Phenotype is the actual unit itself.
The genotype/phenotype analogue is a good one, but his terms are not quite correct. The genotype should refer to only the DNA and genetic information, which in his case is analygous to machine code. The phenotype should be analygous to the behavior of each unit.
A pedantic technicality, but he mentions this a few times, and it's not quite correct.
Neat stuff regarless!
Seems like a rather obvious issue, I'm suprised nobody noticed this before.
a few years from now when we have pentabyte hard drives selling for less than the cost of visit to the local grocery store. Look back at this article and say, "I remember when..."
It sounds like this could be used rather effectively as a QA tool. Machine 1 running version 1.23 of the software, Machine 2 running 1.24 running on the same data and should produce the same results.
Automated regression testing etc.
I do this all the time. There are so many things I'd like to read, but don't have time.
If I put the audiobook on my Nomad Muvo2 4GB, and run/bike it makes the time fly by. I also feel as though I'm not wasting my time. I'm increasing my knowledge (listening to informative audiobooks) while I'm exercising.
I highly recommend this.
This is a product of the fact that people want to be able to reclaim their time. That is to say, letting a box push information to them at it's own speed is a waste of time and doesn't give them exactly what they want.
TV isn't going anywhere though, as soon as the TV companies get off their collective butts and get more and more on-demand TV then viewers will return to that medium (even if it is through their computer/digital entertainment unit).
The days of people flipping through channels are ending, and the days of people flipping through menus of available media better be coming soon, or else they risk alienating a generation of people who don't have the time/desire to waste their life waiting for a show to start.
Here's a detailed guide on how to do just that.
I think Slashdot'ers should organize such things!
I'd go.
chickenpox
A very politically savey response, given the audience.
C++ programmers dislike scripting untill they've used Perl to do complex data gathering across a dynamic distributed system.
Perl programmers dislike C++ untill they've programmed/maintained monolithic client applications.
It originated from when people would "War Dial" with modems looking for remote modems by brute force dialing a block of phone numbers. eg: phone all numbers between 836-0000 and 836-9999, get your computer to log which numbers connected to another modem, then later go back and see if they are hackable.
"War Driving is not a crime" intruding on someone's network is not a crime? I dunno about that.