Since when did I2C and GPIO become marketing buzz?
Judging from the title of the post ("status update") I don't think it was meant to tell you everything about snappy. It linked to an older post with more information, but if you really want to learn about it, you'll need to do some work yourself.
First of all, I get where you're coming from. I've never been as productive as when I'm working from home, and I've never been as happy.
To answer your question: You look for jobs you know involve an incredibly distributed workforce. In my experience, many open-source projects run this way. I applied only to companies I knew had globally distributed teams, and I knew I lived in an area where they didn't have an office. The challenge you'll run into with such companies is that you're no longer competing with people in a city radius-- you're competing with the world.
I trust myself.
Get a plug computer with a few USB3 ports, set up software RAID with external hard drives, and you have a server that can run ownCloud using less power than your desktop when it's off. It's worked for me for years. My family uses ownCloud for shared calendards, uses ownCloud for our contacts, and stores all pictures/music/etc. on ownCloud. Bonus: You can host other websites on there as well (I have a few blogs), keeping even more data to yourself!
Both my wife and I were homeschooled, and we both firmly believe it was one of the best things our parents did for us. You can make it work, but make sure your children continue to socialize (e.g. sports and music did it for us). Do it wrong, and you can screw your kids up. That said, public school gone wrong screws kids up, too. But do it right, and your kids can really flourish in an environment that caters completely to their learning style.
You also need to analyze your reasons. Homeschooling isn't easy-- you need to take your reasons seriously enough to be motivated and organized to make sure your kids stay on track. Reasons that don't truly motivate you as homeschooling parents will cause you to lose your drive, at which point they turn into "those homeschoolers."
I am a computer engineer with a clearance working for the government, and my wages suck. If you're gonna go this route, at least look at contractors instead. Maybe you won't have to put up with quite as much crap, either.
Amen. I'm a guy and I probably would have been uncomfortable with their comments as well. In fact, I'd be just as uncomfortable if a woman made similar jokes. However, I don't look upon either as being sexist, I simply look upon them as being off-color. I think of bad language in the same way.
I'm in the same boat as fearofcarpet-- I use Linux for speed. All I use Windows for is gaming. Other than antivirus, I actually have nothing else installed-- no cygwin, no bash, no perl, etc. And I'm still not surprised that Windows is slow. Linux and Windows are on separate mechanical hard drives with the same model number-- Linux boots in seconds, Windows boots in minutes. Linux logs in in seconds, Windows logs in (and finishes... whatever it's doing) in minutes. "Running in a dream" is a perfect analogy for Windows.
You can't go wrong with OpenEmbedded. BitBake recipes are ideal. It doesn't really sound like you need something as full-blown as Android, but I may be wrong. You say you need app management-- it would be nice to have some more details here, e.g. will the end-user be installing and removing apps on his or her own? I ask because it sounds like it's the only feature specific to Android you would actually use. I bet maintaining a BitBake repo would work just as well in your situation, but I'm just guessing. I would take a look at the Gumstix Overo platform.
"afabbro writes with news that Google is working to follow up its cloud music service with an MP3 store capable of competing with Amazon and Apple and Ubuntu One."
FTFY. I use Ubuntu One more than I use the other two.
If the scientists recommended to the policy-makers that the Earth was in trouble and we needed to increase R&D toward moving to other planets, I'd be all for it. But really? My Hummer?
No problem, in retrospect, I probably would have laughed in your position as well. For what it's worth, I agree that the emails are being misinterpreted. I just dislike "no you're wrong just because" arguments... pet peeve I guess.
I think you just verified his point: "there isn't any particular evidence that people aren't sensitive." Studies which fail to find any such sensitivity doesn't mean such sensitivity doesn't exist, just that the studies can't find it.
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The title is "dozens resign" while the article (and summary) is "one resigned." Everyone else was laid off.
... you mean in a year?
Since when did I2C and GPIO become marketing buzz? Judging from the title of the post ("status update") I don't think it was meant to tell you everything about snappy. It linked to an older post with more information, but if you really want to learn about it, you'll need to do some work yourself.
First of all, I get where you're coming from. I've never been as productive as when I'm working from home, and I've never been as happy. To answer your question: You look for jobs you know involve an incredibly distributed workforce. In my experience, many open-source projects run this way. I applied only to companies I knew had globally distributed teams, and I knew I lived in an area where they didn't have an office. The challenge you'll run into with such companies is that you're no longer competing with people in a city radius-- you're competing with the world.
I trust myself. Get a plug computer with a few USB3 ports, set up software RAID with external hard drives, and you have a server that can run ownCloud using less power than your desktop when it's off. It's worked for me for years. My family uses ownCloud for shared calendards, uses ownCloud for our contacts, and stores all pictures/music/etc. on ownCloud. Bonus: You can host other websites on there as well (I have a few blogs), keeping even more data to yourself!
Both my wife and I were homeschooled, and we both firmly believe it was one of the best things our parents did for us. You can make it work, but make sure your children continue to socialize (e.g. sports and music did it for us). Do it wrong, and you can screw your kids up. That said, public school gone wrong screws kids up, too. But do it right, and your kids can really flourish in an environment that caters completely to their learning style.
You also need to analyze your reasons. Homeschooling isn't easy-- you need to take your reasons seriously enough to be motivated and organized to make sure your kids stay on track. Reasons that don't truly motivate you as homeschooling parents will cause you to lose your drive, at which point they turn into "those homeschoolers."
And learn to charge your batteries without the power grid. I think that's what you're looking for here-- POTS won't last long during a catastrophe.
Hit the nail on the head. Wish I read this post before I started sitting in an office all day almost not even allowed to work...
I am a computer engineer with a clearance working for the government, and my wages suck. If you're gonna go this route, at least look at contractors instead. Maybe you won't have to put up with quite as much crap, either.
Amen. I'm a guy and I probably would have been uncomfortable with their comments as well. In fact, I'd be just as uncomfortable if a woman made similar jokes. However, I don't look upon either as being sexist, I simply look upon them as being off-color. I think of bad language in the same way.
I'm in the same boat as fearofcarpet-- I use Linux for speed. All I use Windows for is gaming. Other than antivirus, I actually have nothing else installed-- no cygwin, no bash, no perl, etc. And I'm still not surprised that Windows is slow. Linux and Windows are on separate mechanical hard drives with the same model number-- Linux boots in seconds, Windows boots in minutes. Linux logs in in seconds, Windows logs in (and finishes... whatever it's doing) in minutes. "Running in a dream" is a perfect analogy for Windows.
You can't go wrong with OpenEmbedded. BitBake recipes are ideal. It doesn't really sound like you need something as full-blown as Android, but I may be wrong. You say you need app management-- it would be nice to have some more details here, e.g. will the end-user be installing and removing apps on his or her own? I ask because it sounds like it's the only feature specific to Android you would actually use. I bet maintaining a BitBake repo would work just as well in your situation, but I'm just guessing. I would take a look at the Gumstix Overo platform.
"afabbro writes with news that Google is working to follow up its cloud music service with an MP3 store capable of competing with Amazon and Apple and Ubuntu One."
FTFY. I use Ubuntu One more than I use the other two.
I would love to mount this on the side of my car, having all bikes around me lock up entirely, with hilarious results.
Agreed. Similarly, it would be hilarious to jam the frequency and watch them sail through red lights.
"Java can be ~50 times the speed of PHP or Ruby."
That would matter if it was anywhere near as cool as Ruby.
I'm jealous that you have one of those. I never got a chance to get my hands on one. Can you run Flash on there with Ubuntu?
Haha, I don't disagree with you-- I think it's ridiculous. I just wanted to point out that that was his *point*.
If the scientists recommended to the policy-makers that the Earth was in trouble and we needed to increase R&D toward moving to other planets, I'd be all for it. But really? My Hummer?
No problem, in retrospect, I probably would have laughed in your position as well. For what it's worth, I agree that the emails are being misinterpreted. I just dislike "no you're wrong just because" arguments... pet peeve I guess.
If you meant your "no, that's bullshit" to be taken as regarding the interpretation of the emails rather than the fact it happened (as I took it), you could have specified. You could have also given a counter-argument, perhaps taken from the following: http://scienceblogs.com/islandofdoubt/2009/11/the_hacked_climate_science_ema.php or maybe http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/11/the-cru-hack/ . Do I need to do all your work for you?
The hack actually happened: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/21/science/earth/21climate.html . While what the emails imply may be in contention, his claim that it happened is not bullshit.
Great explanation. I'd mod you up, but I never have any points when I need them.
I think you just verified his point: "there isn't any particular evidence that people aren't sensitive." Studies which fail to find any such sensitivity doesn't mean such sensitivity doesn't exist, just that the studies can't find it.
They existed in the 80s?
And if anything can be learned from Spamhaus, whoever updates the list will likely be sued. Even though they only ended up paying three dollars ( http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/03/1413213/Court-Renders-3-Judgment-Against-Spamhaus ), that must have cost a fortune. Feel like volunteering?