As your post points out, it's obvious that "the Cloud" is a valuable skill. That term means many things, but although I've been hearing the same things for the last 5 years I've only had the chance to mess with running virtual machines on the public cloud for the past couple months. Why? Time didn't permit me the luxury of exploring it myself, and only recently has my employer decided to it's a priority and paid me to work on it. My bet is that a lot of technology professionals feel that way. I know this sounds cliché, but getting laid off may be the best thing that ever happened for your career. Take the skills you know and add on some pretty deep exploration of cloud technologies. Up to you, but since you mentioned Java you might start with Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk (deploy.war files on Tomcat running in the cloud), which has a 1-year free tier:
http://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/#pricing
John Holt and Daniel Greenberg have written about it for about 40 years. The school directory in the article is just not informed on the area, here an example peer-reviewed academic journal article: "Teaching Justice through Experience.
Unschooling is much more closely related to free schooling or democratic schooling as has been practiced successfully since the 1920s at places like Summerhill School. These students are sought after by colleges because they are articulate, self-motivated learners. It is actually much like college because students choose what to learn about (often through classes or workshops), rather than the high school model of everyone taking the same state-required classes. I would bet nearly all Slashdotters learned to code this way.
The biggest drawback to unschooling is that it pretty much requires one parent to stay home (or both to work part time). On the other hand, in areas where the public schools are underfunded, private schools can eat up all the income from a second job anyway.
You don't understand what Sharepoint is, do you? We rolled out MOSS Sharepoint and used it for a few months. Even Windows users preferred email because the interface made it so painful to find things. Sharepoint does not have any of the functionality you list, either. There is an add-on that includes access control, but guess what? Client machines much be logged into the same domain (or have a a trust set up). In other words, Sharepoint has no access control functionality that can be used any differently than a Windows Server fileshare! It also stores documents in a database, and as you get a lot of documents (say, 1000) performance degrades. Maybe Mediawiki is a bad comparison since it has a completely different feature set, but any business would be better served with an actual document management system like Alfresco. (People also seem obsessed with Sharepoint's "blogs" which have much less functionality than Wordpress.)
You could move closer to work and walk. Ideally your workplace is also nearby grocery stores, library, etc. and you can walk there too. It's a little exercise and definitely increases quality of life. If it's in a major city there are often a lot of apartment choices downtown with various amenities like weight room or pool if you're into that.
In the case of a large bank they really should have things configured properly. However, I've also see this in cases of a certs for things like www.some-small-online-business.com and I really wish Firefox would offer to redirect you to the proper domain for the cert.
Summary is wrong. Massachusetts District Court cannot set binding precedents, which are "findings of law made by a higher court" such as Appeals or Supreme Court that must be honored by a lower court. The lowest court on the hierarchy cannot set a precedent even if this had gone to court!
This seems like a case of "pay off the annoying buzz" rather than anything important in a legal sense. (IANAL, etc., etc.)
Guess what? This whole "race" thing dominates the lives of a large percentage of American citizens. Only privileged whites feel like it's not a big deal. This is a monumental occasion for the United States, and for the world. Before today, every single US President has been a white male, and the vast majority from the upper class. Obama's parents' interracial marriage would have been illegal in Virginia (and in 15 other states), and less than 60 years ago blacks were not even allowed in many restaurants.
Barack Obama was raised largely by his white maternal family, but they continually held up black role models and taught him that his race was a positive trait. His grandfather had black friends, he read black authors and listened to music from Harlem. Obama has been immersed in the African-American community since college and seen first hand what racist institutional practices like redlining did in Chicago. He is our first African-American President, and not just on a technicality.
The most inspiring aspect of Obama's campaign and hopefully Presidency is that he is bringing all races and creeds together, which you may remember is the central theme of Dr. King's 1963 speech: "I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. . . in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers."
Hmm, must be an older condo. All the new ones I've seen come wired.
Well, I'm afraid that my suggestions involve spending money or time, but maybe you don't mind. You might also consider whether you might be getting other interference (microwave running, 2.4Ghz phones, etc).
First, you could buy a different WAP. 5.4Ghz is an option, or one that transmits at higher power. Cisco Aironet comes to mind--they've got better radios and transit at 100mw instead of the Linksys 80mw. That's professional level equipment.
However, that solution moves the problem to someone else or puts you at the mercy of the next guy doing the same thing. Do you have a condo association? You could organize a co-op or partner with a company like Meraki that does this sort of thing for a living. In the long run that will save all residents hassle and, if you get enough buy-in, money.
I guess that was a joke, but the thing most recent graduates I run across are actually missing is software lifecycle skills. So what you can do is drop a pile of fairly well written code on them and tell them to add features x and y. That's probably the sort of thing their first job will require, and it will help them learn to really use a debugger, source control and such. You could probably use an open source project for this and (if they're any good) contribute the features they add.
Of course, this is assuming your members actually do know how to use a debugger.
The Simpsons is actually a good suggestion since discussion is the point.
The Magic School Bus Inside the Solar System mentions a couple things about formation of planets.
Also, just watch the "adult" PBS specials... they're usually at a roughly 6th grade level anyway, and your child will ignore or ask questions about what she or he doesn't understand.
Perhaps something like a public study-and-discussion place, with refreshments and internet access?
An alternate good description of "Seattle's Starbucks-meets-mega-bookstore central library" might be "public study-and-discussion place, with refreshments and internet access."
This is not a new thing related to terrorists.
Japanese newspapers have been heavily regulated since after World War II, mostly to supress overly nationalistic editorials (or, during the Cold War, Communist).
Parent is right-on. And if you have a university in town, post a want ad in the art department, students are cheap and often very good. Otherwise, try a high school but be careful of under-18 hour restrictions. Most of them probably have "their own" copies of Dreamweaver and Photoshop, you probably want to buy or give them legit copies to use.
You're joking, but our Digital Anatomist project (1997 "Best of the Web" winner) is CGI programs in C that read LISP data files. You can download the code and see how hard it really is, but that's all there was in the early days of the web.
I think UW made the wrong decision, but in their defense they're not releasing any student information, just forwarding the settlement letters. If the RIAA did sue and ask for the info, they very well might fight it.
We have no problems with the ReadyNAS we have, either, though performance is not great. I'd go with 3ware with LVM on top if you can afford it, or maybe even Starfish or ZFS with a bunch of SATA drives on a couple cheap machines.
If you've read the news articles on the subject you'll find that SPL's budget comes with lots of strings attached--the building was funded by a special levy that could only be used for construction projects, staff salaries are part of a complicated City of Seattle schedule, etc. It's not a big suprise that suburbs have better selection in many cases--they've got better and more flexible funding and more homogenous communities to reach.
If you like that, you might also enjoy the 1989 Time-Life Understanding Computers series. They actually have very good explanations and in-depth essays about the state of computers at that time. You can pick them up cheap on eBay.
I was just looking into this, and I decided that the best idea was probably
Streamload.
They offer unlimited storage but you pay to download more than a certain amount a month--but if you have hardware failure that leads you to really need it, you probably won't mind paying, or spacing out your downloads.
Abstract
Search is one of the most important applications used on the internet, but it also poses some of the most interesting challenges in computer science. Providing high-quality search requires understanding across a wide range of computer science disciplines, from lower-level systems issues like computer architecture and distributed systems to applied areas like information retrieval, machine learning, data mining, and user interface design. I'll describe some of the challenges in these areas, discuss some of the applications that Google has developed over the past few years. I'll also highlight some of the systems that we've built at Google, including GFS, a large-scale distributed file system, and MapReduce, a library for automatic parallelization and distribution of large-scale computation. Along the way, I'll share some interesting observations derived from Google's web data. Jeff Dean joined Google in 1999 and is currently a Distinguished Engineer in Google's Systems Lab. While at Google he has worked on Google's crawling, indexing, query serving, and advertising systems, implemented several search quality improvements, and built various pieces of Google's distributed computing infrastructure. Prior to joining Google, he was at DEC/Compaq's Western Research Laboratory. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1996 working with Craig Chambers on compiler optimization techniques for object-oriented languages.
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As your post points out, it's obvious that "the Cloud" is a valuable skill. That term means many things, but although I've been hearing the same things for the last 5 years I've only had the chance to mess with running virtual machines on the public cloud for the past couple months. Why? Time didn't permit me the luxury of exploring it myself, and only recently has my employer decided to it's a priority and paid me to work on it. My bet is that a lot of technology professionals feel that way. I know this sounds cliché, but getting laid off may be the best thing that ever happened for your career. Take the skills you know and add on some pretty deep exploration of cloud technologies. Up to you, but since you mentioned Java you might start with Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk (deploy .war files on Tomcat running in the cloud), which has a 1-year free tier:
http://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/#pricing
If you want to be really hip, we've used JRuby to deploy Rails applications to beanstalk, there's a "Hello World" tutorial from Amazon here: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/02/rack-and-the-beanstalk.html
I'm sure there are other free or low cost options out there as well. Even unemployed, your time is very valuable so use it to your advantage.
Sound like that's because you should be able to graduate to a higher level software develpment role by then.
Unschooling is much more closely related to free schooling or democratic schooling as has been practiced successfully since the 1920s at places like Summerhill School. These students are sought after by colleges because they are articulate, self-motivated learners. It is actually much like college because students choose what to learn about (often through classes or workshops), rather than the high school model of everyone taking the same state-required classes. I would bet nearly all Slashdotters learned to code this way.
The biggest drawback to unschooling is that it pretty much requires one parent to stay home (or both to work part time). On the other hand, in areas where the public schools are underfunded, private schools can eat up all the income from a second job anyway.
John Gottman. He does actual research on what works: http://www.kuow.org/program.php?id=17294
You don't understand what Sharepoint is, do you? We rolled out MOSS Sharepoint and used it for a few months. Even Windows users preferred email because the interface made it so painful to find things. Sharepoint does not have any of the functionality you list, either. There is an add-on that includes access control, but guess what? Client machines much be logged into the same domain (or have a a trust set up). In other words, Sharepoint has no access control functionality that can be used any differently than a Windows Server fileshare! It also stores documents in a database, and as you get a lot of documents (say, 1000) performance degrades. Maybe Mediawiki is a bad comparison since it has a completely different feature set, but any business would be better served with an actual document management system like Alfresco. (People also seem obsessed with Sharepoint's "blogs" which have much less functionality than Wordpress.)
You could move closer to work and walk. Ideally your workplace is also nearby grocery stores, library, etc. and you can walk there too. It's a little exercise and definitely increases quality of life. If it's in a major city there are often a lot of apartment choices downtown with various amenities like weight room or pool if you're into that.
Nice, but MapJack only has a couple dozen places, mostly in the Bay Area. Google is talking about worldwide.
In the case of a large bank they really should have things configured properly. However, I've also see this in cases of a certs for things like www.some-small-online-business.com and I really wish Firefox would offer to redirect you to the proper domain for the cert.
Summary is wrong. Massachusetts District Court cannot set binding precedents, which are "findings of law made by a higher court" such as Appeals or Supreme Court that must be honored by a lower court. The lowest court on the hierarchy cannot set a precedent even if this had gone to court!
This seems like a case of "pay off the annoying buzz" rather than anything important in a legal sense. (IANAL, etc., etc.)
Guess what? This whole "race" thing dominates the lives of a large percentage of American citizens. Only privileged whites feel like it's not a big deal. This is a monumental occasion for the United States, and for the world. Before today, every single US President has been a white male, and the vast majority from the upper class. Obama's parents' interracial marriage would have been illegal in Virginia (and in 15 other states), and less than 60 years ago blacks were not even allowed in many restaurants.
Barack Obama was raised largely by his white maternal family, but they continually held up black role models and taught him that his race was a positive trait. His grandfather had black friends, he read black authors and listened to music from Harlem. Obama has been immersed in the African-American community since college and seen first hand what racist institutional practices like redlining did in Chicago. He is our first African-American President, and not just on a technicality.
The most inspiring aspect of Obama's campaign and hopefully Presidency is that he is bringing all races and creeds together, which you may remember is the central theme of Dr. King's 1963 speech: "I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. . . in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers."
Hmm, must be an older condo. All the new ones I've seen come wired.
Well, I'm afraid that my suggestions involve spending money or time, but maybe you don't mind. You might also consider whether you might be getting other interference (microwave running, 2.4Ghz phones, etc).
First, you could buy a different WAP. 5.4Ghz is an option, or one that transmits at higher power. Cisco Aironet comes to mind--they've got better radios and transit at 100mw instead of the Linksys 80mw. That's professional level equipment.
However, that solution moves the problem to someone else or puts you at the mercy of the next guy doing the same thing. Do you have a condo association? You could organize a co-op or partner with a company like Meraki that does this sort of thing for a living. In the long run that will save all residents hassle and, if you get enough buy-in, money.
I guess that was a joke, but the thing most recent graduates I run across are actually missing is software lifecycle skills. So what you can do is drop a pile of fairly well written code on them and tell them to add features x and y. That's probably the sort of thing their first job will require, and it will help them learn to really use a debugger, source control and such. You could probably use an open source project for this and (if they're any good) contribute the features they add. Of course, this is assuming your members actually do know how to use a debugger.
If you have to use Outlook and can install things on your machine, I heartily recommend Xobni. It almost makes life with Outlook worth living.
The Simpsons is actually a good suggestion since discussion is the point.
The Magic School Bus Inside the Solar System mentions a couple things about formation of planets.
Also, just watch the "adult" PBS specials... they're usually at a roughly 6th grade level anyway, and your child will ignore or ask questions about what she or he doesn't understand.
An alternate good description of "Seattle's Starbucks-meets-mega-bookstore central library" might be "public study-and-discussion place, with refreshments and internet access."
This is not a new thing related to terrorists. Japanese newspapers have been heavily regulated since after World War II, mostly to supress overly nationalistic editorials (or, during the Cold War, Communist).
Parent is right-on. And if you have a university in town, post a want ad in the art department, students are cheap and often very good. Otherwise, try a high school but be careful of under-18 hour restrictions. Most of them probably have "their own" copies of Dreamweaver and Photoshop, you probably want to buy or give them legit copies to use.
http://da.biostr.washington.edu/da.html
http://sig.biostr.washington.edu/share/downloads/DA-5_2_5.tar.gz
I think UW made the wrong decision, but in their defense they're not releasing any student information, just forwarding the settlement letters. If the RIAA did sue and ask for the info, they very well might fight it.
We have no problems with the ReadyNAS we have, either, though performance is not great. I'd go with 3ware with LVM on top if you can afford it, or maybe even Starfish or ZFS with a bunch of SATA drives on a couple cheap machines.
If you've read the news articles on the subject you'll find that SPL's budget comes with lots of strings attached--the building was funded by a special levy that could only be used for construction projects, staff salaries are part of a complicated City of Seattle schedule, etc. It's not a big suprise that suburbs have better selection in many cases--they've got better and more flexible funding and more homogenous communities to reach.
If you like that, you might also enjoy the 1989 Time-Life Understanding Computers series. They actually have very good explanations and in-depth essays about the state of computers at that time. You can pick them up cheap on eBay.
They offer unlimited storage but you pay to download more than a certain amount a month--but if you have hardware failure that leads you to really need it, you probably won't mind paying, or spacing out your downloads.
http://norfolk.cs.washington.edu/htbin-post/unrest ricted/colloq/details.cgi?id=274
Jeff Dean
Abstract Search is one of the most important applications used on the internet, but it also poses some of the most interesting challenges in computer science. Providing high-quality search requires understanding across a wide range of computer science disciplines, from lower-level systems issues like computer architecture and distributed systems to applied areas like information retrieval, machine learning, data mining, and user interface design. I'll describe some of the challenges in these areas, discuss some of the applications that Google has developed over the past few years. I'll also highlight some of the systems that we've built at Google, including GFS, a large-scale distributed file system, and MapReduce, a library for automatic parallelization and distribution of large-scale computation. Along the way, I'll share some interesting observations derived from Google's web data. Jeff Dean joined Google in 1999 and is currently a Distinguished Engineer in Google's Systems Lab. While at Google he has worked on Google's crawling, indexing, query serving, and advertising systems, implemented several search quality improvements, and built various pieces of Google's distributed computing infrastructure. Prior to joining Google, he was at DEC/Compaq's Western Research Laboratory. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1996 working with Craig Chambers on compiler optimization techniques for object-oriented languages.
No actors, poor ratings. But then again, who would use it just for the ratings?