Yes, surprised how few cities were listed. Washington DC isn't Silicon Valley but there's a lot of software developers here working on a lot of different things.
How is it that from such a huge number that these are the best people you could come up with???
Because the people who were better never even considered running. I know people who would take the job if you gave it to them, but RUN for the job? They're not crazy.
If I were president i would pardon him and fix the problem.
Rand Paul had some interesting comments this weekend. He said that this would not have come to light had Snowden not broken the law, but at the same time the law has to apply to everybody and you can't have it both ways: It's ridiculous that people want to throw the book at Snowden (even calling for his death) but we completely ignore that Clapper straight out lied to congress, which carries a 5 year jail penalty.
The concept of ownership, title, and property are themselves products of having a state.
Our founding fathers wholly rejected this. Ownership of property was God given, not state (human) granted. Rather, it is the state's obligation to safeguard that right. States that cannot or will not do that are then illegitimate.
Also, when the current king knows sonny will inherit the throne in 20 years, he has a motivation to think long term and not just about the next couple years.
But, the government isnt forcing me use Apple or Amazon or Google or Netflix or Whatever. So if you pass a law that makes me pay an extra tax if i dont use it when i can't get insurance elsewhere, then make the web site work, NO excuses, I dont care if the technical problems are insurmountable, NO excuses, it better work or don't pass that law.
"Specifically, if it is accepted that algorithmic complexity is an appropriate definition of the complexity of a programming project, then claims of purely objective estimation of project complexity, development time, and programmer productivity are necessarily incorrect"
Would you become a theist if tomorrow you observed the second coming of Christ playing out more or less as Christians generally say it will? It seems to me by your own arguments an invasion by a naturally evolved advanced alien intelligence is far more probable than God. Once their forward agents noticed widespread belief in the Bible, their generals would proclaim "Easiest planetary takeover ever!" Your subsequent experience in heaven/hell is clearly just you being plugged into the Matrix. (My point being I strongly suspect that even in principle there is no possible evidence anyone could present to you that would convince you of theism.)
I don't know any infants that can survive on their own. The ancient Greeks used this fact to kill unwanted children, sometimes because they were deformed, or not the father's or the wrong sex, or various other reasons. I think that maybe if I'm sick and tired of dealing with my kid and she can't survive on her own, maybe it's ok for me to dispose of her, and your moral beliefs otherwise shouldn't get to interfere with my behavior...
What do I do if the idiot in 2C parks his tank^H^H^H^H SUV in my spot (and the two on either side of it), refuses to move it and thus ensures I can't charge my car?
Have his car towed away? I've done that a bunch of times, they never park in my spot again. I also live near DC, so there's no shortage of lawyers to try to sue me but it's never happened.
Let's see... there are no reactors remotely designed like Chernobyl's. Because even back in the 50s we were aware (cf Edward Teller) this design was a disaster waiting to happen.
Hmm, lets see now... the "next" US disaster... well, the last disaster would be Three Mile Island. Where no one died. But never mind that, pay no attention, because Japan just had a big disaster. Right. Where no one died.
Yeah, nuclear power plants outside of the Soviet Union have been such a nightmare. I mean, its like people slagging on nuclear power have no concept of right and wrong. But hey, you can't expect them to. But you should hold them accountable when they can't get their facts right.
yes, as a "teabagger" (and props for using that derogatory term, thanks for tipping your hand -- much appreciated), I can assure you the Tea Party is not a giant fan of the iraq war or the extended afghanistan war, and I'm guessing the Nobel Peace Prize committee is just as thrilled as we are about the Libya war. Thank gods we elected "The One" because if we had McCain in there, man, we might be involved in some third war that made so sense whatsoever.
Neither the military, nor government agencies have been able to make major infrastructural changes in our country. It's always been industry.
Not true. Our entire interstate highway system was built in large part because the military wanted to be able to move an army around the country easily. I'd say that was a pretty significant change.
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MS's only big software innovation has been integration. They realised that people don't want programs. They want a computer. One thing that does everything in a consistent joined up manner.
This was one of the ideas behind the Macintosh. Gates saw it and Windows followed.
I would also say that ASP pages were innovative - not so much the idea of templates, but the idea of creating a proper web SDK
NeXT's WebObjects predated ASP by about a year I believe.
I bought my iPod the first day it was available because it was the first MP3 player that had two crucial
qualities:
1) small and light enough to conveniently take anywhere.
2) enough storage space to make it worth taking anywhere.
Additional benefits are the UI that makes other player UIs look like they
were designed by monkeys, firewire connector that let me upload a whole
album in a couple seconds, itunes makes managing playlists and contents
of the ipod trivial, and it doubles as a hard drive for carrying files
around.
$400 dollars was a lot of money, but I still use my first generation
model every day and it's some of the best $400 I've ever spent.
So, does not the recent 600 some odd millions dollar fine by the EU suggest anything to these guys?
$600 million is about 1% of their cash reserve, from what I understand. So, no, it wouldn't suggest anything to me at all if I was them. Just part of the cost of doing business, trivially affordable.
gah, seriously, in the a new hope book, han DOES shoot in self defense
I don't know how this got moderated 5:Informative, but my copy of The Star Wars Trilogy, Special 10th Anniversary Omnibus Edition (ISBN 0-345-34806-0) printed in 1987
clearly has Han shooting first on page 87, just as in the original release of the movie. George Lucas is credited as the author of this section of the book. (yeah, i know this should be obvious, but 5:Informative?!?!?!?!?)
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Yes, surprised how few cities were listed. Washington DC isn't Silicon Valley but there's a lot of software developers here working on a lot of different things.
Yeah, my first reaction to the headline was "You don't have to wait, you can already do that today, it's called being poor."
How is it that from such a huge number that these are the best people you could come up with???
Because the people who were better never even considered running. I know people who would take the job if you gave it to them, but RUN for the job? They're not crazy.
If I were president i would pardon him and fix the problem.
Rand Paul had some interesting comments this weekend. He said that this would not have come to light had Snowden not broken the law, but at the same time the law has to apply to everybody and you can't have it both ways: It's ridiculous that people want to throw the book at Snowden (even calling for his death) but we completely ignore that Clapper straight out lied to congress, which carries a 5 year jail penalty.
The concept of ownership, title, and property are themselves products of having a state.
Our founding fathers wholly rejected this. Ownership of property was God given, not state (human) granted. Rather, it is the state's obligation to safeguard that right. States that cannot or will not do that are then illegitimate.
Oregon taxpayers on the hook for this?
No problem. Oregon went for Obama. They broke it they bought it. Live and learn.
Also, when the current king knows sonny will inherit the throne in 20 years, he has a motivation to think long term and not just about the next couple years.
But yeah, the system does have it's downsides...
Yeah, that was a good article.
But, the government isnt forcing me use Apple or Amazon or Google or Netflix or Whatever. So if you pass a law that makes me pay an extra tax if i dont use it when i can't get insurance elsewhere, then make the web site work, NO excuses, I dont care if the technical problems are insurmountable, NO excuses, it better work or don't pass that law.
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.19.344
"Specifically, if it is accepted that algorithmic complexity is an appropriate definition of the complexity of a programming project, then claims of purely objective estimation of project complexity, development time, and programmer productivity are necessarily incorrect"
Would you become a theist if tomorrow you observed the second coming of Christ playing out more or less as Christians generally say it will? It seems to me by your own arguments an invasion by a naturally evolved advanced alien intelligence is far more probable than God. Once their forward agents noticed widespread belief in the Bible, their generals would proclaim "Easiest planetary takeover ever!" Your subsequent experience in heaven/hell is clearly just you being plugged into the Matrix. (My point being I strongly suspect that even in principle there is no possible evidence anyone could present to you that would convince you of theism.)
I don't know any infants that can survive on their own. The ancient Greeks used this fact to kill unwanted children, sometimes because they were deformed, or not the father's or the wrong sex, or various other reasons. I think that maybe if I'm sick and tired of dealing with my kid and she can't survive on her own, maybe it's ok for me to dispose of her, and your moral beliefs otherwise shouldn't get to interfere with my behavior...
Have his car towed away? I've done that a bunch of times, they never park in my spot again. I also live near DC, so there's no shortage of lawyers to try to sue me but it's never happened.
OMG, hilarious!
Let's see... there are no reactors remotely designed like Chernobyl's. Because even back in the 50s we were aware (cf Edward Teller) this design was a disaster waiting to happen.
Hmm, lets see now... the "next" US disaster... well, the last disaster would be Three Mile Island. Where no one died. But never mind that, pay no attention, because Japan just had a big disaster. Right. Where no one died.
Yeah, nuclear power plants outside of the Soviet Union have been such a nightmare. I mean, its like people slagging on nuclear power have no concept of right and wrong. But hey, you can't expect them to. But you should hold them accountable when they can't get their facts right.
yes, as a "teabagger" (and props for using that derogatory term, thanks for tipping your hand -- much appreciated), I can assure you the Tea Party is not a giant fan of the iraq war or the extended afghanistan war, and I'm guessing the Nobel Peace Prize committee is just as thrilled as we are about the Libya war. Thank gods we elected "The One" because if we had McCain in there, man, we might be involved in some third war that made so sense whatsoever.
Already got it:
http://qik.com/
http://openwatch.net/apps/
LOL, yes, just like in 1914, this will be the war to end all wars.
Douglas Adams descibed people doing this sort of thing with elevators as I recall. I think it worked out less well than the designers anticipated...
Reason Magazine talked about this a few years ago.
The NYC version:
http://oldsite.reason.com/0610/howtofireanincompetentteacher.pdf
Paul Graham makes this interesting case:
http://paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html
Not true. Our entire interstate highway system was built in large part because the military wanted to be able to move an army around the country easily. I'd say that was a pretty significant change.
This was one of the ideas behind the Macintosh. Gates saw it and Windows followed.
I would also say that ASP pages were innovative - not so much the idea of templates, but the idea of creating a proper web SDK
NeXT's WebObjects predated ASP by about a year I believe.
1) small and light enough to conveniently take anywhere.
2) enough storage space to make it worth taking anywhere.
Additional benefits are the UI that makes other player UIs look like they were designed by monkeys, firewire connector that let me upload a whole album in a couple seconds, itunes makes managing playlists and contents of the ipod trivial, and it doubles as a hard drive for carrying files around.
$400 dollars was a lot of money, but I still use my first generation model every day and it's some of the best $400 I've ever spent.
$600 million is about 1% of their cash reserve, from what I understand. So, no, it wouldn't suggest anything to me at all if I was them. Just part of the cost of doing business, trivially affordable.
I don't know how this got moderated 5:Informative, but my copy of The Star Wars Trilogy, Special 10th Anniversary Omnibus Edition (ISBN 0-345-34806-0) printed in 1987 clearly has Han shooting first on page 87, just as in the original release of the movie. George Lucas is credited as the author of this section of the book. (yeah, i know this should be obvious, but 5:Informative?!?!?!?!?)