unity to learn the weaknesses of western systems to build better defences against attacks
Why bother? Big countries more readily destroy themselves than they can be attacked from the outside. That's how the US won the Cold War. Truman announced a containment strategy and eventually the USSR just imploded. Takes longer but it gets a lot fewer people killed that a hot war.
The US is happily destroying itself with its short-term self-parasitic thinking. Undoubtedly China will find a way to destroy itself from within (as it has many times in the past).
And everybody chooses to make it look like their attacks are coming from China? Ok, it's trendy now, but how did it get to be that way? Why not the former Soviet countries or something?
Care to defend the idea that there isn't rampant age discrimination in SV?
As for my first sentence, you're the one who cited federal anti-discrimination laws, and "brogrammer" is what's widely called a "joke". Or are you so insecure that one joke really will have you consider a federal anti-discrimination lawsuit?
I assure you there was a time before "Agile" was a buzzword. Of course I also remember NMOS. You may be right about "management buy in" in some places. There are still a few endangered management iconoclasts who think that "good productive way to work" beats a buzzword any day, but you've got to work with what you've got. There are also a few dinosaurs like me who remember when working this way was common practice, but we didn't know it needed a buzzword. I also remember when resources were called people. Would you like to read my first hand account of the American Revolution?
P.S. Since you seem a little touchy on this, I'll remind you that this is a criticism of the buzzword mentality rather than your ideas.
[Ford p]robably paid them a nickel per hour extra as overtime.
You've obviously spent too much time brogramming and not enough reading history. Before he introduced the assembly line, Ford paid the going rate for industrial labor. After, he added a bonus that roughly doubled people's pay. No, he didn't do it out of the goodness of his heart, but as a retention bonus to avoid the high turnover and absenteeism that the boredom of the assembly line caused. Still, not bad for unskilled or semi-skilled workers in an era when dying on the job usually meant not getting paid for the full day.
I think he probably meant white, heterosexual, non-disabled, single, childless males who don't have military experience.
My, my. programmers are obviously very sensitive about challenges to their undeserved high ranking in the white male heterosexual areproductive same-abled refuse-to-serve-their-country hierarchy.
I hope that term doesn't generically start referring to single, male programmers.
Feeling discriminated against, are we? Fear not. I was once a young single white heterosexual male myself, but given a little time at least one of those things will change. Before you start getting too sensitive, note that the criticism is of places that only hire programmers in that category, not of all people in that category. However, if the bias against brogrammers gets bad enough, you can always file a discrimination suit (or dye your hair gray).
A veritable fossil. Has he been preserved through taxidermy? The fact that "has teenage kids" is considered a mark of extreme age says something about this industry. Someday you may even meet an empty nester or someone whose divorced daughter has moved back in with his grandchild. Them little feet keep the old farts spry.
Sarcasm aside, I strongly agree with you. The best places I've worked have had employees from new grads to graybeards. There are pros and cons to different ages, and they make a good mix. But of course this factor is never considered when they talk about diversity in the workplace.
Congratulations, you've passed the Rorschach test! For bonus points, tell us what the "cloud" really is.
BTW, I not only like your ideas, I've followed them as much as possible since long before "Agile" was a buzzword. But while decrying buzzwordism, you've overlooked that "Agile" (capitalized? seriously?) is itself just a buzzword.
Of course it is, but self-fulfilling prophecies are the stock-in-trade of the investment community. Without them people might start to realize that the emperor is naked (or at least very scantily clad). For example, say the investment geniuses decide that companies will only succeed if they do more than half their work in India. Since investment geniuses are famed for their group think (oops, I mean great minds think alike) nobody will invest in a company that doesn't do that. Hence the geniuses are shown to be right. Isn't that a nice organized system? Without it you might have the chaos of different companies pursuing different strategies and seeing which worked best.
Actually it's not an OMAP, but I get confused about the supposed differences between TI's ARM based SoC families (OMAP, da Vinci, etc.) anyway. I think TI does too. However, not all versions of the OMAPs and other families have DSP's on them. I don't see one on the data sheet.
'clean' energy is an entirely contrived, laterally-motivated concept (ie not driven by customer demand, but by tangential forces like a 'desire' for a clean environment contrived by the eco-lobby) whose existence relies almost entirely on government subsidy, regulatory 'sticks', and accounting sleight-of-hand? Face it, as much as eco-nuts 'demand' we be cleaner, and legislators 'believe' we should be cleaner, Joe Public *generally* is uninterested in paying 2x the price for power if it comes from 'clean' sources. Maybe if Joe lived in 1870 London...
Wow man, it's either a flashback or I fell into a time warp. It's the sixties! Wanna catch a Jimi Hendrix concert?
You're talking exactly the way many people did in the 60's and 70's, complaining about "eco-nuts", how people aren't willing to pay for a cleaner environment, how it will stifle the economy, blah, blah, blah. And yes, I am old enough to remember that era. Now the 1870's are a little before my time, but you'll see the same rhetoric from back then. "A little pollution is the price of progress", blah, blah, blah. But they did some things to clean even back then and guess what, the economy didn't collapse. It was mostly moving the pollution elsewhere, for example requiring tall smokestacks or not dumping the shit from whence you got your drinking water, but it was nevertheless an early and (for the time) effective cleanup effort. It was also a dramatic improvement, and was an early example of making fools of the non-visionaries that always insist that it can't be done or will destroy the economy.
Perhaps university research is the best alternative investment.
University (or any kind of ivory tower lab) research is great stuff, but there is only so far it will take you. At some point you have to start building the stuff in quantity, as the only way to find out how hard it is to produce in volume, how it works in the field, and how to improve it.
Failure of many companies is a normal part of any up and coming industry. If you look at any major industry, like cars, semiconductors, software, whatever, you'll find loads of companies that failed. Those are teething pains - not a sign that an industry is failing.
Libertarians are a thoughtful and open minded bunch. They divide the world into them and statists. Since I think Medicare is a good thing, there's apparently not much difference between me and Trotsky.
What DSP's? They're in the summary, but I don't see them on either the board or the chip.
The biggest barrier we run into on these kinds of devices is lack of industrial-rated parts and designs. Our products run in a variety of environments
Aye, there's the rub. I've run into the same problem. It'd be nice if they offered an industrial temp version, but considering the small size of the potential market I doubt they will. That $45 price is obviously the result of big volumes. Still, even if they had to jack up the price a few times, they could offer the industrial temp version as a specialty item. In this day and age industrial temp is really not that hard to achieve.
I think you're right, but the PRU's, while very nice for I/O, are not even close to DSP's. I find the lack of understanding in the summary disturbing (yes, I know this is/.).
What's the "pair of 32-bit DSPs" in the summary? The NEON unit is nice, but it's not exactly a separate processor (as I understand the architecture) and there is only one. There are 2 PRU-ICSS units, but they're I/O processors, not DSP's.
Unfortunately, the interpretation of the Constitution has gone from the original "The government is empowered to act only where specifically granted authority" to "The government is empowered to act whenever not specifically denied authority...
Blame Jefferson and Madison. They were the original "strict constructionists", but knowingly threw away that philosophy in order to make the Louisiana Purchase. It was never universally shared by the authors and signers of the Constitution (Washington and Hamilton never believed in it), and even its proponents killed it 210 years ago. Time to accept that.
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unity to learn the weaknesses of western systems to build better defences against attacks
Why bother? Big countries more readily destroy themselves than they can be attacked from the outside. That's how the US won the Cold War. Truman announced a containment strategy and eventually the USSR just imploded. Takes longer but it gets a lot fewer people killed that a hot war.
The US is happily destroying itself with its short-term self-parasitic thinking. Undoubtedly China will find a way to destroy itself from within (as it has many times in the past).
And everybody chooses to make it look like their attacks are coming from China? Ok, it's trendy now, but how did it get to be that way? Why not the former Soviet countries or something?
The buzzword mentality isn't going away ...
Damn, buzzwords are the one resource I wouldn't mind a shortage of.
Care to defend the idea that there isn't rampant age discrimination in SV?
As for my first sentence, you're the one who cited federal anti-discrimination laws, and "brogrammer" is what's widely called a "joke". Or are you so insecure that one joke really will have you consider a federal anti-discrimination lawsuit?
Slashdot is now for angry older people in their 30s and 40s.
Who keeps moding this guy down? The comic relief is great! And no, I don't mean that as a joke.
I assure you there was a time before "Agile" was a buzzword. Of course I also remember NMOS. You may be right about "management buy in" in some places. There are still a few endangered management iconoclasts who think that "good productive way to work" beats a buzzword any day, but you've got to work with what you've got. There are also a few dinosaurs like me who remember when working this way was common practice, but we didn't know it needed a buzzword. I also remember when resources were called people. Would you like to read my first hand account of the American Revolution?
P.S. Since you seem a little touchy on this, I'll remind you that this is a criticism of the buzzword mentality rather than your ideas.
My understanding of federal anti-discrimination laws, is that this is illegal.
Brogrammers are quick to cite federal anti-discrimination laws. Thank heavens no company in SV would engage in say age discrimination.
[Ford p]robably paid them a nickel per hour extra as overtime.
You've obviously spent too much time brogramming and not enough reading history. Before he introduced the assembly line, Ford paid the going rate for industrial labor. After, he added a bonus that roughly doubled people's pay. No, he didn't do it out of the goodness of his heart, but as a retention bonus to avoid the high turnover and absenteeism that the boredom of the assembly line caused. Still, not bad for unskilled or semi-skilled workers in an era when dying on the job usually meant not getting paid for the full day.
Wow, are you people touchy! This is funny. I've heard fewer complaints at a lesbians of color left-handed veterans conference.
I think he probably meant white, heterosexual, non-disabled, single, childless males who don't have military experience.
My, my. programmers are obviously very sensitive about challenges to their undeserved high ranking in the white male heterosexual areproductive same-abled refuse-to-serve-their-country hierarchy.
silicon valley is undergoing an epidemic of age-ism
Do you think that it's worse than it used to be? And if so, why do you think that? I ask this out of curiosity more than skepticism.
I hope that term doesn't generically start referring to single, male programmers.
Feeling discriminated against, are we? Fear not. I was once a young single white heterosexual male myself, but given a little time at least one of those things will change. Before you start getting too sensitive, note that the criticism is of places that only hire programmers in that category, not of all people in that category. However, if the bias against brogrammers gets bad enough, you can always file a discrimination suit (or dye your hair gray).
One has teenage kids.
A veritable fossil. Has he been preserved through taxidermy? The fact that "has teenage kids" is considered a mark of extreme age says something about this industry. Someday you may even meet an empty nester or someone whose divorced daughter has moved back in with his grandchild. Them little feet keep the old farts spry.
Sarcasm aside, I strongly agree with you. The best places I've worked have had employees from new grads to graybeards. There are pros and cons to different ages, and they make a good mix. But of course this factor is never considered when they talk about diversity in the workplace.
Agile is 4 ideas ...
Congratulations, you've passed the Rorschach test! For bonus points, tell us what the "cloud" really is.
BTW, I not only like your ideas, I've followed them as much as possible since long before "Agile" was a buzzword. But while decrying buzzwordism, you've overlooked that "Agile" (capitalized? seriously?) is itself just a buzzword.
Isn't that a self-fulfilling prophecy?
Of course it is, but self-fulfilling prophecies are the stock-in-trade of the investment community. Without them people might start to realize that the emperor is naked (or at least very scantily clad). For example, say the investment geniuses decide that companies will only succeed if they do more than half their work in India. Since investment geniuses are famed for their group think (oops, I mean great minds think alike) nobody will invest in a company that doesn't do that. Hence the geniuses are shown to be right. Isn't that a nice organized system? Without it you might have the chaos of different companies pursuing different strategies and seeing which worked best.
Actually it's not an OMAP, but I get confused about the supposed differences between TI's ARM based SoC families (OMAP, da Vinci, etc.) anyway. I think TI does too. However, not all versions of the OMAPs and other families have DSP's on them. I don't see one on the data sheet.
'clean' energy is an entirely contrived, laterally-motivated concept (ie not driven by customer demand, but by tangential forces like a 'desire' for a clean environment contrived by the eco-lobby) whose existence relies almost entirely on government subsidy, regulatory 'sticks', and accounting sleight-of-hand? Face it, as much as eco-nuts 'demand' we be cleaner, and legislators 'believe' we should be cleaner, Joe Public *generally* is uninterested in paying 2x the price for power if it comes from 'clean' sources. Maybe if Joe lived in 1870 London ...
Wow man, it's either a flashback or I fell into a time warp. It's the sixties! Wanna catch a Jimi Hendrix concert?
You're talking exactly the way many people did in the 60's and 70's, complaining about "eco-nuts", how people aren't willing to pay for a cleaner environment, how it will stifle the economy, blah, blah, blah. And yes, I am old enough to remember that era. Now the 1870's are a little before my time, but you'll see the same rhetoric from back then. "A little pollution is the price of progress", blah, blah, blah. But they did some things to clean even back then and guess what, the economy didn't collapse. It was mostly moving the pollution elsewhere, for example requiring tall smokestacks or not dumping the shit from whence you got your drinking water, but it was nevertheless an early and (for the time) effective cleanup effort. It was also a dramatic improvement, and was an early example of making fools of the non-visionaries that always insist that it can't be done or will destroy the economy.
Perhaps university research is the best alternative investment.
University (or any kind of ivory tower lab) research is great stuff, but there is only so far it will take you. At some point you have to start building the stuff in quantity, as the only way to find out how hard it is to produce in volume, how it works in the field, and how to improve it.
Failure of many companies is a normal part of any up and coming industry. If you look at any major industry, like cars, semiconductors, software, whatever, you'll find loads of companies that failed. Those are teething pains - not a sign that an industry is failing.
led me to embrace libertarianism with open arms
Libertarians are a thoughtful and open minded bunch. They divide the world into them and statists. Since I think Medicare is a good thing, there's apparently not much difference between me and Trotsky.
If you consider "not from Texas" a race
I don't consider it a race, but it is a blessing.
They can have Texas.
We already offered to give it back to Mexico, but they said it was our problem now.
on-board DSPs
What DSP's? They're in the summary, but I don't see them on either the board or the chip.
The biggest barrier we run into on these kinds of devices is lack of industrial-rated parts and designs. Our products run in a variety of environments
Aye, there's the rub. I've run into the same problem. It'd be nice if they offered an industrial temp version, but considering the small size of the potential market I doubt they will. That $45 price is obviously the result of big volumes. Still, even if they had to jack up the price a few times, they could offer the industrial temp version as a specialty item. In this day and age industrial temp is really not that hard to achieve.
I think you're right, but the PRU's, while very nice for I/O, are not even close to DSP's. I find the lack of understanding in the summary disturbing (yes, I know this is /.).
What's the "pair of 32-bit DSPs" in the summary? The NEON unit is nice, but it's not exactly a separate processor (as I understand the architecture) and there is only one. There are 2 PRU-ICSS units, but they're I/O processors, not DSP's.
Unfortunately, the interpretation of the Constitution has gone from the original "The government is empowered to act only where specifically granted authority" to "The government is empowered to act whenever not specifically denied authority ...
Blame Jefferson and Madison. They were the original "strict constructionists", but knowingly threw away that philosophy in order to make the Louisiana Purchase. It was never universally shared by the authors and signers of the Constitution (Washington and Hamilton never believed in it), and even its proponents killed it 210 years ago. Time to accept that.