So last year SoC students were in 90 countries encompassing some 73 currencies, and for some , your tactic might work, but in many, it would simply mean that they could not ever use the money. We have to do things legally and right, not just the expedient. An example: To pay someone in Brazil we have to accompany each of the 3 payments to any student with a document detailing why we want the reals and what they are being paid for. Then the student must take the docs to a local bank to receive the wire, and there are often fees.
It's easy to come down on the accountants and bureaucrats and everything, but when you get down into it, many of the countries make it difficult to interact financially with their citizens. What you are recommending, in some countries, is illegal and could put our students in danger of being arrested. I'd rather a payment be slow.
Yep, I know which one this was. I apologize for the mixup. I did route you to someone else after that because I was heading out of town and honestly I thought I wasn't the right person to interview you.
That is indeed what we do, send the confirmation email to the blah@sourceforge.net alias. We do -not- have the translated email addresses and thus the only information we are using is that which is displayed on the project home on SF.
The dnepr costs about #11.7m USD to launch, and it can lift a whole whack of weight to leo, so people like using it (it's cheap compared to other options) and there is often weight allowance left over. Its really cool that they opened this up to students.
I gotta agree with you, ignoring the dell 24" monitors is like doing a review of Peter Jackson movies and focusing only on "The Frighteners" and "Heavenly Creatures".
We test interface tweaks all the time to see how people 'like' them. Doesn't mean we will or will not deploy them. So....Nothing (much) to see here, move along:-)
The really funny thing about your comment is that in early versions, the js code we cribbed was from Google maps and you could overlay earth highways and directions on the mars map. It was pretty entertaining, if wildly inaccurate.
Goobuntu is our internal desktop distribution. It's awesome, but we're not going to be releasing it. Unless you work here it wouldn't work anyway. If you haven't tried ubuntu, you should, I have the regular one running on my laptop and it really is fantastic. I'd say it was debian done right if I wanted to start a debian flame war. Also, know that Google getting into the Red Hat business would be kind of dumb, and it would distract from our moon teleporter and cold fusion projects
So I'd like to preface my response to your question by saying that I don't want to sound like we are showing off here, but Google has invested a lot of time and resources into making this kind of thing somewhat trivial to do. From a computer science and cpu-time perspective, not so trivial, but we do have the available spare facilities to do this kind of thing as we like within a reasonable amount of time.
And use the education discounts to get more advanced degrees for yourself and your family. Of course you could be talking about a school that doesn't offer advanced degrees. Well, so long as the school offers a degree that you or your wife'd be interested in getting, I'd do that.
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We ended up buying a bunch of these to ship the arrays around in. Cardboard == bad :-)
So last year SoC students were in 90 countries encompassing some 73 currencies, and for some , your tactic might work, but in many, it would simply mean that they could not ever use the money. We have to do things legally and right, not just the expedient. An example: To pay someone in Brazil we have to accompany each of the 3 payments to any student with a document detailing why we want the reals and what they are being paid for. Then the student must take the docs to a local bank to receive the wire, and there are often fees. It's easy to come down on the accountants and bureaucrats and everything, but when you get down into it, many of the countries make it difficult to interact financially with their citizens. What you are recommending, in some countries, is illegal and could put our students in danger of being arrested. I'd rather a payment be slow.
Datacenters are very carefully controlled places. Your friend is doing the right thing :-)
That said, Will was amazing and is missed. He had left before I had a chance to work for him and he is admired like crazy.
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Yep, I know which one this was. I apologize for the mixup. I did route you to someone else after that because I was heading out of town and honestly I thought I wasn't the right person to interview you.
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I got to try one out recently, it was light as hell, which I thought was a good thing, responsive too..
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We use Java, C++, Python and a smattering of other languages for user facing stuff.
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Actually, we just had so many mentors apply and among them quite a few operating systems were accepted. Maybe next year.
We're trying to come up with a high school program for next year. We couldn't figure one out for this year.
Thanks! That's a really great conference.
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I gotta agree with you, ignoring the dell 24" monitors is like doing a review of Peter Jackson movies and focusing only on "The Frighteners" and "Heavenly Creatures".
We test interface tweaks all the time to see how people 'like' them. Doesn't mean we will or will not deploy them. So....Nothing (much) to see here, move along :-)
The really funny thing about your comment is that in early versions, the js code we cribbed was from Google maps and you could overlay earth highways and directions on the mars map. It was pretty entertaining, if wildly inaccurate.
Thanks! :-)
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