Seems sane to me. When I was an intern (erm, 14 years ago...) I started at $12 an hour and ended at $15 an hour I think. Just barely enough to live off of in my area, if full time, but not if paying for classes at the same time.
I constantly switch between the major C languages (not a major feat), C, C++, Java, C# and my resume has Visual Basic, Ada, Python, Perl, Assembly, FORTRAN, Lab Windows, digital hardware design and a few others I can't remember. I just never got a good handle on the mathematical notation used in algorithms, probably because I only used in in classes, pretty much all my jobs use natural language requirements.
I bought a smart phone because I have an addiction to playing games and develop them in my free time. The trade off of possibly being tracked 24/7 by these companies is particularly annoying but less of a drive relative to my addiction. And my phone is more than a year past its contract end, with a cracked display and running just fine. They want me to buy a new phone but new ones don't add anything my current one can't do. On the other hand, having a car lock the doors on me and not letting my unlock them because the AI deems it safer, kind of scares the crap out of me.
To add to this, I personally much prefer the Boeing autopilot mentality over the Airbus autopilot mentality (I think they are still generally using this approach). The Boeing approach was the autopilot does its thing until the pilot wants to do something else. The Airbus approach was the autopilot will ignore the pilot if they do something dangerous. This is believed to have led to at least one crash when the autopilot prevented the pilot from taking action (there is however controversy over the actual cause ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
Fine if they want to tell me I'm doing something potentially suicidal and resist my attempts but I'm still not ready to have a computer take full control from me when it thinks it knows better. Maybe I need to just stop and trust the AI, but I've tested certified software going into airplanes, I'm not willing to put my full trust into it.
For something on the same type of topics but I found a little more readable, my algorithm design class used this book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...
I've found this to provide some drastic speedups for some methods of searching and sorting I wouldn't have otherwise considered. Many of the methods are really pretty simple once you understand them.
“Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.” - commonly attributed to Edsger Dijkstra, but disputed.
[...] Mastery of the advanced studies of your discipline will make you a better than merely someone who can just get the job done.
The caveat being here that a good portion of what goes for CS at universities is essentially "How to use the vast resources of a supercluster as a glorified pocket calculator". I had the dubious honour of suffering through four semesters of so-called CS at my uni, and I can attest that you can be an incredible computer scientist and still be unable to program even modestly simple applications. And that is said without even touching upon the vast difference between CS and software engineering (and the equally vast difference between software engineering and programming, to be fair).
All three disciplines have their place. But CS is not exactly the 'advanced study' of programming.
I went through 4 years of computer engineering, some classes were shared with the CS students and some were CE specific. I found that the CE classes seemed to do a better job on focusing on making something and forcing us to learn the theory on our own so we could make that thing. In any of the shared classes the CS students were great in tests but struggled in projects, while the CE students rarely had trouble. The CS students were just as smart but I don't think the focus on theory, rather than application, handicapped them.
I've gone back for advanced degrees in CS after working in development for a few years and the theory courses make more sense as I have the background to see how they could be applied. I really wish colleges would focus more on practical work, rather than theory. Though I have noticed somewhat of a shift in that direction over the past 15 years.
Reading those books requires high degree of mathematical sophistication, particularly, knowledge of complex analysis, which I lack.
They're just algorithms textbooks. They're hard to read because of when they were written, and the accompanying style. More like pseudo-assembly than high-level pseudo-code.
I'm taking an algorithm design class and despite acing the programming side of it, still have a fit trying to translate the formulas they like to write them in. It is probably great short hand for people well versed in mathematical notation, I've just never gotten a handle on it.
"The team reverse-engineered the proprietary wireless signalling systems used by the implants which revealed flaws in the way data was broadcast."
From this sentence alone, it is entirely obvious: The signals are not encrypted; there is no security to hack. These aren't flaws at all - they are design decisions. The manufacturers have some command protocol that they developed and use; while this may not be publicly documented, it is hardly secret: monitor the signals used, and you can figure it out. This doesn't take a "security researcher", all it takes is a kid with the right radio kit.
People then rush to ask: Why do these devices not secure their signals? It may be that they never thought about it. However, the answer may also be that they want an open interface. Consider: you have a pacemaker and suddenly have a heart problem, and you are taken to the nearest hospital. With a secure interface, how does that hospital get the private key required to talk to your pacemaker? Which is the lesser risk to the patient's health: leaving the interface open, or securing it?
Not to mention the decision on risk is not decided by the manufacturer but by the FDA (I think that is the right group, I know much of the general details having worked in the field but never worked directly with certification). I believe they tend to focus more on immediate risk to the patient and a secure interface seems like a more immediate and dire risk to the patent in a time of crisis, as you mention, as compared to the lower likelihood of someone trying to hack that specific device.
hate speech is "speech that offends, threatens, or insults groups, based on race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, or other traits.
Everything is hate speech? Awesome.
I am a supporter of the joy of all words! I find your classification of words as hateful and it greatly offends me!
ugh, disgusting partisan. go die a slow death with your country.
Nice assumption. I didn't vote for either because I had too many problems with both parties, though if I was forced to pick between the major two candidates I would have voted for Clinton.
Heck, even less blatantly biased news sources are still pretty biased. I had a hard time finding a non Fox news type site not propping up Clinton through the campaign. I would have loved a news source that talked about both good and bad of both candidates. Maybe the problem is nothing good with Trump that Fox isn't coming up with but I have a hard time believing that.
TV shows no longer reflect real life. Every show has to be what libs perceive as PC, a certain number of gays, diverse ethnic backgrounds, even transgenders are showing up. Audiences do not like having this distorted version of reality shoved down their throats.
But how would I understand the gay condition without a TV show to explain it to me? I don't have any openly gay people in my life to explain it to me in the real world. Of course this could be the issue that they don't feel comfortable in an overly christian area with being openly gay, but this isn't the kind of reality reflected in TV shows.
But it is happening to me, therefore it is much worse than something that happened in the past!
Not to mention global news on events that happened a couple minutes ago can make minor events, that happen multiple times a day, seem like major tragedies.
Let the streamers stream and cache ahead in bursts! I would love to see some QoS on the ISP level to bump down Netflix caching downloads so that my cable internet doesnt degrade to useless crap durring the hours of 5 to 10 PM. If you are going to binge watch $Show, start it downloading, then go make your popcorn and come back and start EP1, then the rest of the neighborhood doesn't get its bandwidth nuked by high priority streaming traffic.
Or maybe your ISP could upgrade the lines to handle the bandwidth. No problems in my area, I've never seen less than half the advertised bandwidth during any time of the day.
I can use anything I get my hands on. I have windows servers I can RDP in from just about any device I have. I have Google Drive for my documentation that surpasses anything Microsoft has to offer, and again, I can have access from just about any device I have. I have SSH to manage my Linux Servers, which I have access from just about any device I have.
So, I am not sure what you mean by "actual work";)
I've tried SSH over phone to my servers, works nicely for monitoring, works terrible for writing code. YMMV.
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TIVO brought that feature back for some shows.
how do I permanently disable it?
Want what? Those were the top intern wages in this area, which also has a very low cost of living. I'm doing just fine here thanks.
Seems sane to me. When I was an intern (erm, 14 years ago...) I started at $12 an hour and ended at $15 an hour I think. Just barely enough to live off of in my area, if full time, but not if paying for classes at the same time.
NASCAR has commercials? Hmm, must happen during the times when I fast forward between restarts.
Noted for consideration, thanks!
I constantly switch between the major C languages (not a major feat), C, C++, Java, C# and my resume has Visual Basic, Ada, Python, Perl, Assembly, FORTRAN, Lab Windows, digital hardware design and a few others I can't remember. I just never got a good handle on the mathematical notation used in algorithms, probably because I only used in in classes, pretty much all my jobs use natural language requirements.
I bought a smart phone because I have an addiction to playing games and develop them in my free time. The trade off of possibly being tracked 24/7 by these companies is particularly annoying but less of a drive relative to my addiction. And my phone is more than a year past its contract end, with a cracked display and running just fine. They want me to buy a new phone but new ones don't add anything my current one can't do. On the other hand, having a car lock the doors on me and not letting my unlock them because the AI deems it safer, kind of scares the crap out of me.
So specifically, what was it I DONT want?
Excellent point.
To add to this, I personally much prefer the Boeing autopilot mentality over the Airbus autopilot mentality (I think they are still generally using this approach). The Boeing approach was the autopilot does its thing until the pilot wants to do something else. The Airbus approach was the autopilot will ignore the pilot if they do something dangerous. This is believed to have led to at least one crash when the autopilot prevented the pilot from taking action (there is however controversy over the actual cause ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
Fine if they want to tell me I'm doing something potentially suicidal and resist my attempts but I'm still not ready to have a computer take full control from me when it thinks it knows better. Maybe I need to just stop and trust the AI, but I've tested certified software going into airplanes, I'm not willing to put my full trust into it.
For something on the same type of topics but I found a little more readable, my algorithm design class used this book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...
I've found this to provide some drastic speedups for some methods of searching and sorting I wouldn't have otherwise considered. Many of the methods are really pretty simple once you understand them.
“Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.” - commonly attributed to Edsger Dijkstra, but disputed.
[...] Mastery of the advanced studies of your discipline will make you a better than merely someone who can just get the job done.
The caveat being here that a good portion of what goes for CS at universities is essentially "How to use the vast resources of a supercluster as a glorified pocket calculator". I had the dubious honour of suffering through four semesters of so-called CS at my uni, and I can attest that you can be an incredible computer scientist and still be unable to program even modestly simple applications. And that is said without even touching upon the vast difference between CS and software engineering (and the equally vast difference between software engineering and programming, to be fair).
All three disciplines have their place. But CS is not exactly the 'advanced study' of programming.
I went through 4 years of computer engineering, some classes were shared with the CS students and some were CE specific. I found that the CE classes seemed to do a better job on focusing on making something and forcing us to learn the theory on our own so we could make that thing. In any of the shared classes the CS students were great in tests but struggled in projects, while the CE students rarely had trouble. The CS students were just as smart but I don't think the focus on theory, rather than application, handicapped them.
I've gone back for advanced degrees in CS after working in development for a few years and the theory courses make more sense as I have the background to see how they could be applied. I really wish colleges would focus more on practical work, rather than theory. Though I have noticed somewhat of a shift in that direction over the past 15 years.
Reading those books requires high degree of mathematical sophistication, particularly, knowledge of complex analysis, which I lack.
They're just algorithms textbooks. They're hard to read because of when they were written, and the accompanying style. More like pseudo-assembly than high-level pseudo-code.
I'm taking an algorithm design class and despite acing the programming side of it, still have a fit trying to translate the formulas they like to write them in. It is probably great short hand for people well versed in mathematical notation, I've just never gotten a handle on it.
who are you going to trust. have to trust some.
I'll trust the company that leaves the decisions in my hands, rather than taking them away from me.
"The team reverse-engineered the proprietary wireless signalling systems used by the implants which revealed flaws in the way data was broadcast."
From this sentence alone, it is entirely obvious: The signals are not encrypted; there is no security to hack. These aren't flaws at all - they are design decisions. The manufacturers have some command protocol that they developed and use; while this may not be publicly documented, it is hardly secret: monitor the signals used, and you can figure it out. This doesn't take a "security researcher", all it takes is a kid with the right radio kit.
People then rush to ask: Why do these devices not secure their signals? It may be that they never thought about it. However, the answer may also be that they want an open interface. Consider: you have a pacemaker and suddenly have a heart problem, and you are taken to the nearest hospital. With a secure interface, how does that hospital get the private key required to talk to your pacemaker? Which is the lesser risk to the patient's health: leaving the interface open, or securing it?
Not to mention the decision on risk is not decided by the manufacturer but by the FDA (I think that is the right group, I know much of the general details having worked in the field but never worked directly with certification). I believe they tend to focus more on immediate risk to the patient and a secure interface seems like a more immediate and dire risk to the patent in a time of crisis, as you mention, as compared to the lower likelihood of someone trying to hack that specific device.
hate speech is "speech that offends, threatens, or insults groups, based on race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, or other traits.
Everything is hate speech? Awesome.
I am a supporter of the joy of all words! I find your classification of words as hateful and it greatly offends me!
ugh, disgusting partisan. go die a slow death with your country.
Nice assumption. I didn't vote for either because I had too many problems with both parties, though if I was forced to pick between the major two candidates I would have voted for Clinton.
I've never needed even half of my bandwidth to be honest but that response is rather interesting.
Heck, even less blatantly biased news sources are still pretty biased. I had a hard time finding a non Fox news type site not propping up Clinton through the campaign. I would have loved a news source that talked about both good and bad of both candidates. Maybe the problem is nothing good with Trump that Fox isn't coming up with but I have a hard time believing that.
TV shows no longer reflect real life. Every show has to be what libs perceive as PC, a certain number of gays, diverse ethnic backgrounds, even transgenders are showing up. Audiences do not like having this distorted version of reality shoved down their throats.
But how would I understand the gay condition without a TV show to explain it to me? I don't have any openly gay people in my life to explain it to me in the real world. Of course this could be the issue that they don't feel comfortable in an overly christian area with being openly gay, but this isn't the kind of reality reflected in TV shows.
But it is happening to me, therefore it is much worse than something that happened in the past!
Not to mention global news on events that happened a couple minutes ago can make minor events, that happen multiple times a day, seem like major tragedies.
That summary reads like an article. Since I rarely RTFA, why would I want to read the summary?
I read the summary and think I still need someone to summarize it for me.
Let the streamers stream and cache ahead in bursts! I would love to see some QoS on the ISP level to bump down Netflix caching downloads so that my cable internet doesnt degrade to useless crap durring the hours of 5 to 10 PM. If you are going to binge watch $Show, start it downloading, then go make your popcorn and come back and start EP1, then the rest of the neighborhood doesn't get its bandwidth nuked by high priority streaming traffic.
Or maybe your ISP could upgrade the lines to handle the bandwidth. No problems in my area, I've never seen less than half the advertised bandwidth during any time of the day.
I can use anything I get my hands on. I have windows servers I can RDP in from just about any device I have. I have Google Drive for my documentation that surpasses anything Microsoft has to offer, and again, I can have access from just about any device I have. I have SSH to manage my Linux Servers, which I have access from just about any device I have.
So, I am not sure what you mean by "actual work" ;)
I've tried SSH over phone to my servers, works nicely for monitoring, works terrible for writing code. YMMV.
My iPhone had a curved screen. It wasn't intentional, though.
Yes but the curve isn't smooth enough, Apple seeks to remedy this.