Nexia Biotechnologies, which was the first to do the spider-goats.
A bit of trivia:
A friend who was in-the-know claimed George W. Bush wore a spider-goat bullet proof vest during at least part of his presidency. FWIW he worked within the security establishment in Washington DC, but I have no way to verify his claim.
So many top scientists did leave that the entire center of science moved from the German world to America.
Which lead to the radar, sonar and atomic bomb and hence victory in WWII. Think about that the next time your friendly republican says that cutting government budgets is always a good thing (particularly to give tax breaks to the wealthy)... but we digress.
Backwards compatibility is a good thing, but too much of it can be bad. There are glaring errors in languages which have not been fixed in the name of some faux backwards compatibility argument.
I'll start with one that was fixed.... thirty years after the fact, all the while arguing that it couldn't be fixed, in the name of backward compatibility. The example? ANSI C gets the right answer for sqrt(2) while the original C didn't.
An example of things that C got wrong and have yet to be fixed? the bug inducing = assignment operator, the lack of arrays bound check and the completely unnecessary and time wasting #include <stdio.h> at the beginning of every program.
Observe that those glitches were blindly copied by most C language derivatives (C++, Java, C#, Scala).
I'm not a big fan of Go, but at least if goes back to the:= assignment operator.
which gets a little harder every year because hardly any new analog meters are being manufactured.
I call BS. Most cars come with analog readouts for speedometers, temperature and gas tanks. Most portable electronics use analog readouts to sow remaining battery power as well as signal strength for WiFi. My expensive air pump readout is also analog.
The volume setting on my laptop and ipod is analog too. My watch is analog, after the short spell in te late 70s and early 80s when we went digital. So is the clock on the wall in all the rooms that have one, both at home and the work place.
Analog readouts are alive and well, contrary to what the summary claims.
The sorts of people that hate electric because it's a "hippie thing" will embrace it because the fact of the matter is that, in the end, it just performs better. Can't have hippies beating your Cudda with a Prius.
You couldn't pay me to drive a Prius. Yet, my next car will be a Tesla.
As best as I understand yes, researchers thought blue couldn't be achieved because of some theoretical limits as opposed to simple engineering of materials required to move up from the infrared to the visible part of the spectrum.
Again, I'm no expert but I understand that pushing existing infrared LEDs into the visible part of the spectrum as done by Nick Holonyak was considered evolutionary engineering, whereas people thought (incorrectly as we know now) that there were theoretical limits forbidding blue LEDs. This is why their work is considered revolutionary and Nobel-prize worthy.
I think experience in places like the McMurdo station in Antarctica is that you need massive supplies. The only realistic plan would be to send literally hundreds of tons of materials together with robots to do prep work before the first permanent resident planted foot on the surface of Mars.
Not impossible by any means, but one or two orders of magnitude harder than the Mars One Colony makes it look like.
But he isn't saying it's impossible. He's saying that the current plan is insufficient, and you can ask the residents of the lost colonies in colonial USA.
Powerplants of every kind take a certain amount of mass, and as they rotate they induce a certain amount of vibration.
Wrong: a free spinning wheel creates no vibration.
Combustion engines create a lot of vibration by their very design with a crankshaft and four strokes pistons. Have you been on an electric car? the reduced vibration is notable. Other readers might have been on a dual diesel/electric train while traveling in Europe? One can tell when they switch to the diesel power plant on the station at the end of the electric line because of the increase in carriage vibration.
Additionally to fluids, electric cars are subject to much less vibration than combustion engines, which is one of the main causes of wear and tear in automotive parts.
If I understand the statistics correctly the average program has 71 lines of code. Those are mickey mouse tests for which scripting languages shine. All the verbosity of imperative languages becomes handy when you have tasks that are a few 100KLC long.
This is a lesson Perl learned the hard way: once your program is long enough you beg in your knees for strong static type checking system.
Fair point, but wouldn't you think that somewhere around 100K deaths from Ebola, people would start to change their customs? It happened before, e.g. during the Spanish flu.
A high mortality rate works against the spread of the disease. Most lethal diseases in terms of epidemics have a long incubation period and a mortality rate below 30%.
Sure, people Bunny Suits will pick them up, put them in trucks and bury them. So now instead of requiring the entire population to be in bunny suits you only need the funeral brigade to do so.
Your post, while true, is orthogonal to whether companies use linkedin for hiring or not. My sources tell me is presently the channel of choice. Do you have any relevant evidence to the contrary?
Do not hide the PhD rather you need to find the right job match for you.
Additionally make sure you join an open source project to show you are not afraid to get your hands dirty.
Let's face it, if you apply for a job writing HTML you are going to hate it and quit within a month which is why employers hesitate to hire you in the first place. On the other hand if you can prove you can code and you apply to a company where the product is sufficiently non-trivial every company can use one thinking head for every 20 straight-out-of-undergrad programmers.
Make sure you go to the interview with some new developments (last 5-10 years) from academia that the company can use to improve their product. You should have no problem getting hired.
1.2 million? I call BS. When things start to look really bad people will voluntarily stay at home, dramatically reducing transmission. And this is before we consider government action. This already happened during the swine flu scare in Mexico where everyone stayed home for a week and then on top of that the government ordered restaurants, schools and other businesses closed.
A long long time ago Microsoft was able to compete in the open marketplace. Then Digital Research DR-DOS happened, which was technically superior to MS DOS. In a panic upper management authorized the insertion of codes disabling aps from running on DR-DOS.
Microsoft has never looked back from that key moment. Since then the entire game for MS has all been about leveraging market share rather than quality applications. This is why they can't turn the XBox into profitable division, because as successful as it is in terms of market share, it has not yet become a monopoly. Any other half alive company (no Sony doesn't count) would be raking in the billions with this type of market share. Not so Microsoft
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Nexia Biotechnologies, which was the first to do the spider-goats.
A bit of trivia:
A friend who was in-the-know claimed George W. Bush wore a spider-goat bullet proof vest during at least part of his presidency. FWIW he worked within the security establishment in Washington DC, but I have no way to verify his claim.
So many top scientists did leave that the entire center of science moved from the German world to America.
Which lead to the radar, sonar and atomic bomb and hence victory in WWII. Think about that the next time your friendly republican says that cutting government budgets is always a good thing (particularly to give tax breaks to the wealthy)... but we digress.
Backwards compatibility is a good thing, but too much of it can be bad. There are glaring errors in languages which have not been fixed in the name of some faux backwards compatibility argument.
I'll start with one that was fixed.... thirty years after the fact, all the while arguing that it couldn't be fixed, in the name of backward compatibility. The example? ANSI C gets the right answer for sqrt(2) while the original C didn't.
An example of things that C got wrong and have yet to be fixed? the bug inducing = assignment operator, the lack of arrays bound check and the completely unnecessary and time wasting #include <stdio.h> at the beginning of every program.
Observe that those glitches were blindly copied by most C language derivatives (C++, Java, C#, Scala).
I'm not a big fan of Go, but at least if goes back to the := assignment operator.
which gets a little harder every year because hardly any new analog meters are being manufactured.
I call BS. Most cars come with analog readouts for speedometers, temperature and gas tanks. Most portable electronics use analog readouts to sow remaining battery power as well as signal strength for WiFi. My expensive air pump readout is also analog.
The volume setting on my laptop and ipod is analog too. My watch is analog, after the short spell in te late 70s and early 80s when we went digital. So is the clock on the wall in all the rooms that have one, both at home and the work place.
Analog readouts are alive and well, contrary to what the summary claims.
Ebola has already gone from outbreaks in communities to outbreaks that threaten whole countries.
No it hasn't. Liberia which is one of the worst affected areas has reported 4,000 cases. Population is 4.3 million.
No matter how you look at it, we're all in trouble.
The sky is falling, the sky is falling.
The sorts of people that hate electric because it's a "hippie thing" will embrace it because the fact of the matter is that, in the end, it just performs better. Can't have hippies beating your Cudda with a Prius.
You couldn't pay me to drive a Prius. Yet, my next car will be a Tesla.
As best as I understand yes, researchers thought blue couldn't be achieved because of some theoretical limits as opposed to simple engineering of materials required to move up from the infrared to the visible part of the spectrum.
Again, I'm no expert but I understand that pushing existing infrared LEDs into the visible part of the spectrum as done by Nick Holonyak was considered evolutionary engineering, whereas people thought (incorrectly as we know now) that there were theoretical limits forbidding blue LEDs. This is why their work is considered revolutionary and Nobel-prize worthy.
Sure, but what if a red LED is a natural evolution while blue LED, once thought impossible is the true revolutionary idea?
I think experience in places like the McMurdo station in Antarctica is that you need massive supplies. The only realistic plan would be to send literally hundreds of tons of materials together with robots to do prep work before the first permanent resident planted foot on the surface of Mars.
Not impossible by any means, but one or two orders of magnitude harder than the Mars One Colony makes it look like.
But he isn't saying it's impossible. He's saying that the current plan is insufficient, and you can ask the residents of the lost colonies in colonial USA.
Powerplants of every kind take a certain amount of mass, and as they rotate they induce a certain amount of vibration.
Wrong: a free spinning wheel creates no vibration.
Combustion engines create a lot of vibration by their very design with a crankshaft and four strokes pistons. Have you been on an electric car? the reduced vibration is notable. Other readers might have been on a dual diesel/electric train while traveling in Europe? One can tell when they switch to the diesel power plant on the station at the end of the electric line because of the increase in carriage vibration.
Additionally to fluids, electric cars are subject to much less vibration than combustion engines, which is one of the main causes of wear and tear in automotive parts.
Nope, battery warranty is eight years, so you are far off the mark.
If I understand the statistics correctly the average program has 71 lines of code. Those are mickey mouse tests for which scripting languages shine. All the verbosity of imperative languages becomes handy when you have tasks that are a few 100KLC long.
This is a lesson Perl learned the hard way: once your program is long enough you beg in your knees for strong static type checking system.
Fair point, but wouldn't you think that somewhere around 100K deaths from Ebola, people would start to change their customs? It happened before, e.g. during the Spanish flu.
Well just as we write this this came over the news wire:
No new cases have been recorded in either Nigeria or Senegal in the last three weeks,
A high mortality rate works against the spread of the disease. Most lethal diseases in terms of epidemics have a long incubation period and a mortality rate below 30%.
Sure, people Bunny Suits will pick them up, put them in trucks and bury them. So now instead of requiring the entire population to be in bunny suits you only need the funeral brigade to do so.
Your post, while true, is orthogonal to whether companies use linkedin for hiring or not. My sources tell me is presently the channel of choice. Do you have any relevant evidence to the contrary?
don't bother with crapola like linkedIn
Seriously? I've heard several HR people from large companies say that nowadays they almost exclusively hire from linkedin.
...and you think people are going to be handling corpses once the dead toll exceeds the tens of thousands?
Do not hide the PhD rather you need to find the right job match for you.
Additionally make sure you join an open source project to show you are not afraid to get your hands dirty.
Let's face it, if you apply for a job writing HTML you are going to hate it and quit within a month which is why employers hesitate to hire you in the first place. On the other hand if you can prove you can code and you apply to a company where the product is sufficiently non-trivial every company can use one thinking head for every 20 straight-out-of-undergrad programmers.
Make sure you go to the interview with some new developments (last 5-10 years) from academia that the company can use to improve their product. You should have no problem getting hired.
1.2 million? I call BS. When things start to look really bad people will voluntarily stay at home, dramatically reducing transmission. And this is before we consider government action. This already happened during the swine flu scare in Mexico where everyone stayed home for a week and then on top of that the government ordered restaurants, schools and other businesses closed.
A long long time ago Microsoft was able to compete in the open marketplace. Then Digital Research DR-DOS happened, which was technically superior to MS DOS. In a panic upper management authorized the insertion of codes disabling aps from running on DR-DOS.
Microsoft has never looked back from that key moment. Since then the entire game for MS has all been about leveraging market share rather than quality applications. This is why they can't turn the XBox into profitable division, because as successful as it is in terms of market share, it has not yet become a monopoly. Any other half alive company (no Sony doesn't count) would be raking in the billions with this type of market share. Not so Microsoft