I'm a furry fan. At every job that I've
worked in a cubicle, I've brought in
(tasteful) artwork that I've gotten from
science fiction, fantasy, or furry conventions.
The color breaks up the walls, and it adds
a lot of personalization to the cubicle.
Mass-produced posters ("Hang in there!"),
to me, are tacky. If you're living in a place
eight to twelve hours a day, get something
better, and more personal.
I very politely disagree with Berke Breathed
on this point.
Some internet 'furry' comics have strong,
main female characters:
In alphabetical order:
Academy Vale
is a strip about Kinkos life with two lady
rabbits as the main characters.
Adventures of Fifine
is a lushly-drawn comic of a fox lady,
very much in the tradition of Herge.
Dela the Hooda
is about an extraterrestrial fox lady who
came to Earth.
A Doemain of Our Own
by Susan Parkin is about Susan Deer. Until
recently in the plot, her husband, Eric,
was just a minor character.
Felicia
is a well-plotted comic book about a
female mage cat.
Kevin and Kell
is about a married couple. He's a stay-
at-home rabbit; she's a corporate wolf.
Kell gets about as much screentime as
Kevin, and is far, far more than a
girlfriend.
Ozy and Millie
has two main characters; and Millie (a fox)
is far more active as a character than Ozy.
In my opinion, it is the best comic strip
currently being produced, on or off the
Internet.
Sabrina Online
is about a very nice and innocent skunk
girl... with a lot of un-innocent friends
and coworkers.
Satin and Silk
by Tiffany Ross is a pair of skunk
furries. Her other comics have strong,
female characters.
The Suburban Jungle
's main character is 'Tiffany Tiger'.
She has fleshed out greatly from being
just a model.
If low taxes were important to creating a tech region, Silicon Valley would not have been created in California.
In the 1970's, Boston was the center of technology. Currently, Silicon Valley is. In my opinion, the most important factor to generating an excellent technical area is having excellent colleges. (Harvard and M.I.T. supplied many electrical engineers to the Boston area; Stanford and Berkeley provide them to Silicon Valley.)
Without excellent colleges, a place may be incredibly pleasant to live in, but it will have to import all of its technical talent. Although I have nothing against either Carleton University or the University of Ottawa, neither is a world-caliber university.
That's an absolutely superb technique. No one can know everything about system administration. How to find information, both primary and secondary sources, is vital in any technical field.
People forget: A job interview isn't a test. The person with the most correct answers isn't necessarily the one that gets hired. The one who can do the job best should be.
Not knowing the answer, but knowing how and where to get the answer.
Not knowing the answer, but admitting it.
Not knowing the answer, but not admitting it.
Complaining about the question.
Only the last two of those is a failure.
In this field, no one can or will know everything. Period. It's really important to me to know how people will respond to situations that they're not familiar with.
Damn... who cares about THAT shit. Operating systems? The title of the article made me think it was going to be about the
movie
! I am actually interested in that...
It really sounds like your 'alpha geek' interviewer didn't know what the purpose of asking very odd and obscure questions is.
I'll be blunt. If you interview with me, you will get a set of (usually four or five) very obscure questions. They usually come from obscure mathematics (one of my favorites comes from fractional graph theory), though none of them require any more math than a typical programmer has to understand. They've been printed up (everyone gets exactly the same questions), and I hand them to you one at a time.
If you give up or get frustrated at me asking the questions, you fail. I've never had the opportunity to pick and choose my problems when I'm working.
On the other hand, I want to see how they respond to the questions. I ask them to talk aloud, to explain how they think through problems that they've (likely) never seen before. If they need a reference to look things up, I provide it. I want to see how far along paths they go, whether they try two or three different solutions at the same time, and what tools they apply to solving the problem. I want to see whether they stop at the first answer that 'looks right', or whether they're willing to go deeper. I want to see whether they can question their initial assumptions.
Good luck if you hit another 'alpha programmer' like me.
Apple has always been a hardware vendor more than a software vendor.
Macintosh OS, including Mac OS X, works well because Macintosh hardware is very restricted. Intel hardware is far less standardized. Although creating a full operating system for Intel hardware is possible, it would be a lot harder than what Apple has done... and generally without much reward.
Remember that Microsoft Office for Macintosh is one of the biggest-selling products for Macintosh.
All charities in the U.S, by law, must make
their books (income and expenses)
available. If you're making a serious
donation to any charity, I strongly
recommend that you check them out.
On the other hand, I feel that almost all
charities are open and honest and are
truly dedicated to doing good. And I also
strongly recommend that you volunteer
your time and money for causes that you
support.
Believe it or not Microsoft has got to actually
SELL copies of Windows XP.
True enough, in its fashion. But the end
consumer isn't who Microsoft is really
selling to. Microsoft is selling to
computer manufacturers.
Few people who had Windows 95 installed on
their machines would upgrade the software
on their machines. In the same way, I expect
that few people with either Windows 95 or
98 on their machines will upgrade to Windows
XP.
I was a TA from 1993 until 1997. I'm very glad to hear that the profs at RPI have changed their tune.
Say "Hello" to Drs. Goldberg, Krishnamorthy, and Musser from me (Brent Edwards).
I had been a T.A. in Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. And, indeed, many people were handing in programs that were either exactly the same, or with very slight changes (substituting the variable names, for instance.) On at least two memorable occasions, students handed in programs that had someone else's name on them.
What's shocking to me is not that people are handing in papers with long portions taken from other papers, but that the school is doing something about it. Even when I pointed out that a student had handed in a paper with a different name, the student got no formal reprimands.
Universities know where money comes from. I'd be very interested to see any followups to this article.
Before I came to Silicon Valley, I studied hard. I got a Master's degree in Computer Science from a top engineering school. I got several years of study toward a Ph. D.
I worked my way up from the bottom of Silicon Valley. When I started as a programmer here, I was making a salary below the poverty line, because it was the only company that would hire me. (I didn't have experience.)
After a year and a half of that, I finally got my first 'break': a major company wanted me. I moved to them for a year, and I was miserable. Better salary, but a lot more bullshit on the job.
I got my second, and what I thought was my greatest 'break'. A small company would hire me for the same salary that the major company was giving me. I didn't change over for the money. I did it for the chance to do something more intesting, less boring, and with bosses that didn't have Redwoods up their asses. (The business was a consulting business. No one expected to get super-rich from any stock options, even if the company ever went public.)
For eight months, the small business thrived. It was the best time of my life. I was creating software that was helping people. I was working with creative, intelligent people. Then the dot-com crunch hit everything.
I was renting a house with two other geeks. The owners were relocated back to the Bay Area, and they needed to move back into their home.
The small business had a 15% layoff. Then an 80% layoff.
I'm now crashing at my girlfriend's house. All that I own, except my car and my computer, is in storage, and I'm living off my savings. The crash is keeping me from getting a job, even though I'm writing more than twenty companies every week.
Now listen to me. I fucking studied hard, I fucking worked hard, I fucking kept on learning, and now I'm on unemployment insurance.
What the fuck justice is this, you asshole?
It's easy enough to design a language. But
your real question should be...
What is so insanely great about this
language that would convince a
programmer to use it?
From my brief reading of the webpage,
the language seems to be a mish-mash
between Pascal, Perl, C, and Python.
Those are all good languages... but
I didn't see any reason why Pascal, Perl,
C, or Python users should switch to your
language.
Remember that getting in a language is
hard. Right now,
many
programming
tools already support the major languages.
Unless you have a large corporation
behind your language,
it's hard to get enough mindshare to get all
the tools that programmers want. Are
you really willing to do the compiler,
debugger, profiler, editor, and all yourself?
Across all platforms?
Before you create a new language, I
recommend that you do two things:
Find out why Perl, a language that has
mostly accumulated its present form,
rather than was designed, has become
so popular.
Find out why Eiffel, an incredibly well-
designed language that has multi-
platform support, excellent tools, and
a company behind it, has only remained
a niche language.
In a rather twisted mockery of open source spirit, the original virus code is then stored at
the end of the ELF executable.
Of course, the next question is whether a
virus could fall under the GPL. According
to the
GPL
, it seems to only miss -one- detail:
Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of
running the Program is not restricted, and the output from the Program is covered only if its contents constitute a work based on
the Program (independent of having been made by running the Program). Whether that is true depends on what the Program does.
1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you
conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the
notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this
License along with the Program.
Since the virus comes with its own source
code, and it includes its copyright notice,
and it has a notice that refers to the
GPL license... I'd say it comes very close
to fulfilling the GPL. If it contained
a copy of the GPL as part of its payload,
in my opinion, it would fully be part of the
GPL.
Unfortunately, pi turns out not to be
random.
A simple formula
can give you any digit of pi that you want.
(That page has a link to others which have
formulae for other than base 16.)
Slashdot Mirror
I can see it now... when someone wants directions to my house, I just tell them that it's at 53279153631. Then hang up.
All of the problems that programmers have with pointers would immediately jump into the real world.
Mass-produced posters ("Hang in there!"), to me, are tacky. If you're living in a place eight to twelve hours a day, get something better, and more personal.
In alphabetical order:
In the 1970's, Boston was the center of technology. Currently, Silicon Valley is. In my opinion, the most important factor to generating an excellent technical area is having excellent colleges. (Harvard and M.I.T. supplied many electrical engineers to the Boston area; Stanford and Berkeley provide them to Silicon Valley.)
Without excellent colleges, a place may be incredibly pleasant to live in, but it will have to import all of its technical talent. Although I have nothing against either Carleton University or the University of Ottawa, neither is a world-caliber university.
That's an absolutely superb technique. No one can know everything about system administration. How to find information, both primary and secondary sources, is vital in any technical field.
People forget: A job interview isn't a test. The person with the most correct answers isn't necessarily the one that gets hired. The one who can do the job best should be.
In my book, the answers from best to worst are:
Only the last two of those is a failure.
In this field, no one can or will know everything. Period. It's really important to me to know how people will respond to situations that they're not familiar with.
Damn... who cares about THAT shit. Operating systems? The title of the article made me think it was going to be about the movie ! I am actually interested in that...
I'll be blunt. If you interview with me, you will get a set of (usually four or five) very obscure questions. They usually come from obscure mathematics (one of my favorites comes from fractional graph theory), though none of them require any more math than a typical programmer has to understand. They've been printed up (everyone gets exactly the same questions), and I hand them to you one at a time.
If you give up or get frustrated at me asking the questions, you fail. I've never had the opportunity to pick and choose my problems when I'm working.
On the other hand, I want to see how they respond to the questions. I ask them to talk aloud, to explain how they think through problems that they've (likely) never seen before. If they need a reference to look things up, I provide it. I want to see how far along paths they go, whether they try two or three different solutions at the same time, and what tools they apply to solving the problem. I want to see whether they stop at the first answer that 'looks right', or whether they're willing to go deeper. I want to see whether they can question their initial assumptions.
Good luck if you hit another 'alpha programmer' like me.
Reading the stats made me feel ancient. I'm thirty years old, and I didn't think that I was that much older than the average...
It's real.
Apple has always been a hardware vendor more than a software vendor.
Macintosh OS, including Mac OS X, works well because Macintosh hardware is very restricted. Intel hardware is far less standardized. Although creating a full operating system for Intel hardware is possible, it would be a lot harder than what Apple has done... and generally without much reward.
Remember that Microsoft Office for Macintosh is one of the biggest-selling products for Macintosh.
Take a look at L. Ron Hubbard, for instance...
All charities in the U.S, by law, must make their books (income and expenses) available. If you're making a serious donation to any charity, I strongly recommend that you check them out.
On the other hand, I feel that almost all charities are open and honest and are truly dedicated to doing good. And I also strongly recommend that you volunteer your time and money for causes that you support.
True enough, in its fashion. But the end consumer isn't who Microsoft is really selling to. Microsoft is selling to computer manufacturers.
Few people who had Windows 95 installed on their machines would upgrade the software on their machines. In the same way, I expect that few people with either Windows 95 or 98 on their machines will upgrade to Windows XP.
Good luck!
I was a TA from 1993 until 1997. I'm very glad to hear that the profs at RPI have changed their tune. Say "Hello" to Drs. Goldberg, Krishnamorthy, and Musser from me (Brent Edwards).
What's shocking to me is not that people are handing in papers with long portions taken from other papers, but that the school is doing something about it. Even when I pointed out that a student had handed in a paper with a different name, the student got no formal reprimands.
Universities know where money comes from. I'd be very interested to see any followups to this article.
I worked my way up from the bottom of Silicon Valley. When I started as a programmer here, I was making a salary below the poverty line, because it was the only company that would hire me. (I didn't have experience.)
After a year and a half of that, I finally got my first 'break': a major company wanted me. I moved to them for a year, and I was miserable. Better salary, but a lot more bullshit on the job.
I got my second, and what I thought was my greatest 'break'. A small company would hire me for the same salary that the major company was giving me. I didn't change over for the money. I did it for the chance to do something more intesting, less boring, and with bosses that didn't have Redwoods up their asses. (The business was a consulting business. No one expected to get super-rich from any stock options, even if the company ever went public.)
For eight months, the small business thrived. It was the best time of my life. I was creating software that was helping people. I was working with creative, intelligent people. Then the dot-com crunch hit everything.
I was renting a house with two other geeks. The owners were relocated back to the Bay Area, and they needed to move back into their home.
The small business had a 15% layoff. Then an 80% layoff.
I'm now crashing at my girlfriend's house. All that I own, except my car and my computer, is in storage, and I'm living off my savings. The crash is keeping me from getting a job, even though I'm writing more than twenty companies every week.
Now listen to me. I fucking studied hard, I fucking worked hard, I fucking kept on learning, and now I'm on unemployment insurance. What the fuck justice is this, you asshole?
What is so insanely great about this language that would convince a programmer to use it?
From my brief reading of the webpage, the language seems to be a mish-mash between Pascal, Perl, C, and Python. Those are all good languages... but I didn't see any reason why Pascal, Perl, C, or Python users should switch to your language.
Remember that getting in a language is hard. Right now, many programming tools already support the major languages. Unless you have a large corporation behind your language, it's hard to get enough mindshare to get all the tools that programmers want. Are you really willing to do the compiler, debugger, profiler, editor, and all yourself? Across all platforms?
Before you create a new language, I recommend that you do two things:
The game Furcadia also predates the 1996 date of the patent.
No one uses scripting languages to display static text. The comparisons were meaningless.
A really good article comparing any server- side technology would compare:
Of course, the next question is whether a virus could fall under the GPL. According to the GPL , it seems to only miss -one- detail:
Since the virus comes with its own source code, and it includes its copyright notice, and it has a notice that refers to the GPL license... I'd say it comes very close to fulfilling the GPL. If it contained a copy of the GPL as part of its payload, in my opinion, it would fully be part of the GPL.
Unfortunately, pi turns out not to be random. A simple formula can give you any digit of pi that you want. (That page has a link to others which have formulae for other than base 16.)
The two that I like for their RL bookstores are digitalguru.com and fatbrain.com . However, if you're just looking for online bookstores, you can find a list in the usual place .