It does with me. I think JS is the future. Databases (see couch map/reduce), web apps (node.js) and front end (pure JS) will all be written in JS soon. One language to bind them all. If I had my pick I would have chosen another language but that's the one we're stuck with so better get used to it..
My main objection to semantic indent can be summarized in this psuedo code example: class fubu
function foo(bar)
start function
more code
all's well console.log("debug message")
more real code//end foo//end fubu
Having that debug console statement out of band with the rest of the functional indents makes it easy to notice when scanning code. Now you might say one should never debug that way, which is fine, but I do sometimes (and know others who do), and so I don't like semantic ident languages b/c they prevent me from doing something in a way that is helpful/useful in my workstream. Sure I can solve this with search/replace etc, but I like the visual cue sometimes.
It's a minor point but at least for me significant.
What's really hard (and maybe not unreasonably so) is to get an extraordinary claim through a peer reviewed journal as an non-credentialed academic. The faster-than-light example was from credible people with a track record working on a well regarded long-running experimental setup, and I'm sure that has something to do with the peer acceptance. Random people outside the university/research system trying to publish extraordinary claims have a higher bar. Reputation and not just results come into it, I think. I'm not saying it's wrong just observing that I think it's very common.
You charge it twice a day?! That seems like a total deal killer for me! It's like a long lived laptop, and I guess I'll have to start thinking about 4g phones that way? Thanks for the advice about nexus prime. I'm using a droid eris right now with few complaints so sluggish probably not something I'm going to be complaining about..
That can work in some cases but why do it that way? Why not just use source control? It's not like SVN or git is harder to master than rsync? You will get more features than your current method too.
Yeah - exactly. Ralph Kimball (data warehouse guru) wrote something along the lines: when I show the customer my data schema, if they can't see their business in it, I'm doing it wrong.
He wasn't saying all the details of the fact tables, and lookups and everything should be designed by the user. But the user should be able to understand how you're modeling their business.
That said blockbuster users didn't bang on Reed Hastings door one night and tell him to build Netflix. He figured out what the users *really* wanted rather than what they were living with. Ditto Steve Jobs on many products.
The fact that users themselves know don't know what they want, doesn't make the user an idiot. It makes them normal. A good designer can help make the users' lives better. A good architect/programmer can help the designer make that idea work. My opinion is that without good, recurring information flow between designers, users and programmers, any product is going to be pretty stinky.
I'd suggest being thoughtful in terms of how you ask those questions. If I'm interviewing someone and they give me the third degree on process stuff, I start worrying that they are a "process fanatic." Now don't get me wrong - I'm all for good dev process but there are some people who are fanatical and irritating and not nice to work with, and getting a lot of questions about it would be a small red flag. Just making this point to add nuance to your point.
I absolutely think you should inquire into what the technical and process aspects of the job look like (among others). Just be thoughtful about how you ask..
If I recall this event correctly, didn't they try to hang this on another guy first, and then laid on Ivins doorstep when that didn't fly? Then Ivins killed himself so that was all fine and tidy, case closed, for the FBI?
I believe it is possible to assert copyright on the formats in which the facts are presented, which may be the problem in this case. I don't know enough to say, but if they aren't just copying facts but structures containing the facts (and what fact doesn't have a structure?) there could be grounds..
Tn the constitution there's something called the inter-state commerce clause. Among many (many!) other things it has been interpreted to mean that states can't levy taxes across state lines.
Granted with Amazon operating affiliates in CA, so there's some question as to whether they are in fact doing business in CA, but in general if a web site or catalog is operating outside of a state and shipping to inside of the state, the state can't lay a sales tax on that transaction. Brick and mortar business obviously operate inside a state and so get taxed by the state for sales.
The ability to type-to-find apps, utils, emails, docs, etc on my computer quickly and easily from the start menu is the single best interface feature of Windows 7 in my opinion (granted it exists in Vista but it actually works well in 7). I guess you'd prefer to use Yahoo's "graphical interface" to Google's search box too?
The FCC's national broadband plan developed a pretty interesting auction model for capturing wasted spectrum resulting from the DTV conversion. It will re-pack the used spectrum and auction the remainder. This is grade-a prime spectrum for wireless data. This repacking+auction would have been impossible to do with old VHF signal (why many channels in many areas were static), but is possible with the new tech. The auction model itself is quite clever IMO and so I would dispute that FCC isn't showing good judgment. Recognize that there are larger forces at work -- to get that auction model implemented, FCC needs White House support and authorization from Congress (I think as of this date the White House is on board but not Congress yet if ever).
That's quite unlikely. Facebook's biggest threats are as a monopoly or for "unfair business practices." Doing something like you describe would just open them up to tremendous liability. Google is being scrutinized right now for the same behaviors: are they unfairly favoring their own links against competitors. Just b/c they can do something technically doesn't mean they can do it legally. I think it is highly unlikely that FB's spam link protection tech would ever be used for anything other than spam protection. I see this action by FB as actually good for consumers and an important recognition that link spam is getting out of control just like email spam.
Yeah good points. I'll add Nginx to the list. Jeez - that webserver software has been killing it in terms of capabilities (and market growth) for about 4 years. All thanks to a solid Russian OSS developer named Igor Sysoev.
And if you want to dig a little deeper, the GiST index system for Postgres which enables GIS, spherical projections (for astronomy) and all kinds of other amazing solutions in Postgres - thanks to two great (and amazingly smart) guys also in Russia. http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/ (note the ".su" badass domain still).:)
Real engineers by and large design things to be built. Construction crews or fab plants (or whoever) build them. Software "engineers" design and build things, generally speaking. I'd say that is an important distinction in this conversation.
Exactly. Such an important point. For HA or critical systems, put your RFP out with requirements and you'll get bids that include that cost. Nuclear power reactors do this -- their software can't fail so they pay enough to be sure it doesn't (or if it does nothing bad happens). Medical equipment also gets firmware with these guarantees - but that's one part of the reason why electronic medical gear is so expensive. Not that I want a cheap pacemaker - I want one that once it goes in, stays in and keeps working as designed.
Actually you might be surprised on that last point. I was briefed a while back on some non-classified work DARPA is funding and some amazingly low tech and interesting ideas are in the pipe. During that meeting if they had mentioned a live mule research program, it wouldn't have seemed out of place.
When I just upgraded to FF7 it disabled a bunch of plugins from virus companies + java that I hadn't been able to figure out how to remove myself. All the tools I use were compatible. So progress!
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That part of your comment really needs a little more emphasis! :)
It does with me. I think JS is the future. Databases (see couch map/reduce), web apps (node.js) and front end (pure JS) will all be written in JS soon. One language to bind them all. If I had my pick I would have chosen another language but that's the one we're stuck with so better get used to it..
This is a pedantic point. We all know that we're talking about semantic idents.
My main objection to semantic indent can be summarized in this psuedo code example:
//end foo //end fubu
class fubu
function foo(bar)
start function
more code
all's well
console.log("debug message")
more real code
Having that debug console statement out of band with the rest of the functional indents makes it easy to notice when scanning code. Now you might say one should never debug that way, which is fine, but I do sometimes (and know others who do), and so I don't like semantic ident languages b/c they prevent me from doing something in a way that is helpful/useful in my workstream. Sure I can solve this with search/replace etc, but I like the visual cue sometimes.
It's a minor point but at least for me significant.
What's really hard (and maybe not unreasonably so) is to get an extraordinary claim through a peer reviewed journal as an non-credentialed academic. The faster-than-light example was from credible people with a track record working on a well regarded long-running experimental setup, and I'm sure that has something to do with the peer acceptance. Random people outside the university/research system trying to publish extraordinary claims have a higher bar. Reputation and not just results come into it, I think. I'm not saying it's wrong just observing that I think it's very common.
You charge it twice a day?! That seems like a total deal killer for me! It's like a long lived laptop, and I guess I'll have to start thinking about 4g phones that way? Thanks for the advice about nexus prime. I'm using a droid eris right now with few complaints so sluggish probably not something I'm going to be complaining about..
That can work in some cases but why do it that way? Why not just use source control? It's not like SVN or git is harder to master than rsync? You will get more features than your current method too.
Yeah - exactly. Ralph Kimball (data warehouse guru) wrote something along the lines: when I show the customer my data schema, if they can't see their business in it, I'm doing it wrong.
He wasn't saying all the details of the fact tables, and lookups and everything should be designed by the user. But the user should be able to understand how you're modeling their business.
That said blockbuster users didn't bang on Reed Hastings door one night and tell him to build Netflix. He figured out what the users *really* wanted rather than what they were living with. Ditto Steve Jobs on many products.
The fact that users themselves know don't know what they want, doesn't make the user an idiot. It makes them normal. A good designer can help make the users' lives better. A good architect/programmer can help the designer make that idea work. My opinion is that without good, recurring information flow between designers, users and programmers, any product is going to be pretty stinky.
How's the Bionic working for you? Was eying the Thunderbolt and the Bionic recently..
Doesn't Superman get cats out of trees sometimes when he's not busy fighting crime? Seems similar enough if the topic is the behavior of superheroes?
Great point!
I'd suggest being thoughtful in terms of how you ask those questions. If I'm interviewing someone and they give me the third degree on process stuff, I start worrying that they are a "process fanatic." Now don't get me wrong - I'm all for good dev process but there are some people who are fanatical and irritating and not nice to work with, and getting a lot of questions about it would be a small red flag. Just making this point to add nuance to your point.
I absolutely think you should inquire into what the technical and process aspects of the job look like (among others). Just be thoughtful about how you ask..
If I recall this event correctly, didn't they try to hang this on another guy first, and then laid on Ivins doorstep when that didn't fly? Then Ivins killed himself so that was all fine and tidy, case closed, for the FBI?
Might be a shakedown.. IETF probably has deeper pockets than ado and may have motivation to make this go away so they can keep the thing running.
That's a good point, and I would case the whole case will center around that issue.. Thanks for pointing it out so clearly.
I believe it is possible to assert copyright on the formats in which the facts are presented, which may be the problem in this case. I don't know enough to say, but if they aren't just copying facts but structures containing the facts (and what fact doesn't have a structure?) there could be grounds..
Tn the constitution there's something called the inter-state commerce clause. Among many (many!) other things it has been interpreted to mean that states can't levy taxes across state lines.
Granted with Amazon operating affiliates in CA, so there's some question as to whether they are in fact doing business in CA, but in general if a web site or catalog is operating outside of a state and shipping to inside of the state, the state can't lay a sales tax on that transaction. Brick and mortar business obviously operate inside a state and so get taxed by the state for sales.
The ability to type-to-find apps, utils, emails, docs, etc on my computer quickly and easily from the start menu is the single best interface feature of Windows 7 in my opinion (granted it exists in Vista but it actually works well in 7). I guess you'd prefer to use Yahoo's "graphical interface" to Google's search box too?
The FCC's national broadband plan developed a pretty interesting auction model for capturing wasted spectrum resulting from the DTV conversion. It will re-pack the used spectrum and auction the remainder. This is grade-a prime spectrum for wireless data. This repacking+auction would have been impossible to do with old VHF signal (why many channels in many areas were static), but is possible with the new tech. The auction model itself is quite clever IMO and so I would dispute that FCC isn't showing good judgment. Recognize that there are larger forces at work -- to get that auction model implemented, FCC needs White House support and authorization from Congress (I think as of this date the White House is on board but not Congress yet if ever).
That's quite unlikely. Facebook's biggest threats are as a monopoly or for "unfair business practices." Doing something like you describe would just open them up to tremendous liability. Google is being scrutinized right now for the same behaviors: are they unfairly favoring their own links against competitors. Just b/c they can do something technically doesn't mean they can do it legally. I think it is highly unlikely that FB's spam link protection tech would ever be used for anything other than spam protection. I see this action by FB as actually good for consumers and an important recognition that link spam is getting out of control just like email spam.
Yeah good points. I'll add Nginx to the list. Jeez - that webserver software has been killing it in terms of capabilities (and market growth) for about 4 years. All thanks to a solid Russian OSS developer named Igor Sysoev.
And if you want to dig a little deeper, the GiST index system for Postgres which enables GIS, spherical projections (for astronomy) and all kinds of other amazing solutions in Postgres - thanks to two great (and amazingly smart) guys also in Russia. http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/ (note the ".su" badass domain still). :)
Real engineers by and large design things to be built. Construction crews or fab plants (or whoever) build them. Software "engineers" design and build things, generally speaking. I'd say that is an important distinction in this conversation.
Exactly. Such an important point. For HA or critical systems, put your RFP out with requirements and you'll get bids that include that cost. Nuclear power reactors do this -- their software can't fail so they pay enough to be sure it doesn't (or if it does nothing bad happens). Medical equipment also gets firmware with these guarantees - but that's one part of the reason why electronic medical gear is so expensive. Not that I want a cheap pacemaker - I want one that once it goes in, stays in and keeps working as designed.
Actually you might be surprised on that last point. I was briefed a while back on some non-classified work DARPA is funding and some amazingly low tech and interesting ideas are in the pipe. During that meeting if they had mentioned a live mule research program, it wouldn't have seemed out of place.
When I just upgraded to FF7 it disabled a bunch of plugins from virus companies + java that I hadn't been able to figure out how to remove myself. All the tools I use were compatible. So progress!