This person will be making BUSINESS decisions, be it code, purchasing, product development etc. If they do not know the BUSINESS deeply, they will make bad decisions. Ask them about competitors, products, why certain products and strategies succeeded or failed.
This is not a technical interview if it is a VP job - make sure they know they business.
Want a real crime? The crime perpetrated by Bush and US oil and weapons firms. The crime of hiding the facts and lying to the public. The Saudis are our allies? Why, because they sell us oil and buy our F16s? The action on the streets tells us otherwise. You can be damn sure the Saudi royal family could erase this type of activity overnight if they wanted to with their huge US funded secret police...but they won't and can't, because if they do then their public will turn on them.
Lets make it clear for everyone. Major political players from Will Kennard to Frank Carlucci to John Major go to work for the Carlyle Group when they leave office. This group manages weapons sales to the Saudi state. They use their influence in govt to keep the gravy train going. Their corporate backers give the impression that the Saudis our the friends of the US public. Meanwhile the same Saudi family is known to fund terrorism...but hey, whats a little blood between business partners? The US govt is working against its own public here, but remember its who gets paid that counts.
why this is enabled by default in FC2 is beyond me.
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· Score: 2, Interesting
To hell with the "bloat" arguments - Mozilla is the single most important project for the open source invasion of the desktop. Want a "slim" browser?? Run lynx...have fun! Meanwhile I am loading up Moz with a dozen or so web development extensions that have become indispensible (fave: livehttpheaders).
Mozilla Mail - I haven't forgotten you. An excellent client that integrates nicely with the browser.
Kudos to the Mozilla team. Don't worry, marketshare will follow.
Now that same magazine mostly consists of pictures of things you are supposed to buy interspersed with pictures of Sergei Brin and Steve Jobs. Its still mostly toilet paper though.
I love the "patriotic" imagery Boeing puts in its promotional material and commercials. In fact Boeing is more involved in ripping off American taxpayers than most other companies. I'm not talking "alleged", I'm talking about direct claims from the Pentagon, GAO, etc that Boeing does not dispute.
Projects like these are more subjective, but lets face it, Boeing and Lockheed lobby hard for this gravy - these open-ended projects are where they really make their bank.
At some point at VM, be it JVM, Parrot, Mono/CLR runtime will become pervasive and become the de facto meta language, with specific developer-level langs simply being syntactic sugar.
One thing that has always bothered me is the lack of standards for basic syntax. Why not just have a standard for basic operators? For example does anyone really lose flexibility if we say statements are delimited by ';'? Or a standard syntax for if-then-else? e.g. perl's syntax is a pointless departure that adds no value.
Of course we overspend on defense. We fund entire generations of weapons that never get employed usefully in modern conflict scenarios. You have to wonder why the F22 is being funded at all when the military is already moving on to the JSF for the bulk of missions. Oh are we in mortal danger if the Russians can build a prototype of a plane that can outperform the JSF? Get back to me when they can afford to produce ten of these and keep them functioning for four years.
I'm in favor of a strong military, but this is justa gravy train for contractors. Most of this stuff serves no purpose other than to raise the stock price of TRW or Boeing.
If Boeing and Lockheed became interested in biotech or nanotech they wouldn't have to petition the government for further aerospace welfare funding.
The public has turned into a funding arm for aerospace contractors at just the time when they should be figuring out how to make things work in the private sector.
Biotech, proteinomics, genomics, nanotech, clean energy, computing, photonics, networking, etc etc etc are all areas that can provide direct benefits to mankind now and pose more unanswered questions for basic science.
That statement describes two problems with the moon project (I will leave MArs alone, we do not have the tech to make it happen so it is all hypothetical).
First, there is no money to fund a moon program. When asked at a recent discussion on the subject if the military would fund such a venture, the DARPA fund manager simply said "no". He didn't qualify it even with an extra comment. It became quite obvious that there is no funding mandate for another moon landing despite rhetoric.
Secondly, the public must weigh the value of going someplace we have already been against funding new work on the frontiers of quantum physics, nanotech, biotech, computing, etc. I find it hard to believe that a moon landing would benefit the public or the scientific community more than a breakthrough in nanotech, for example. The public should be funding science on the frontiers of discovery, not on the explored trails.
In any case I don't know why this topic merits serious discussion any more - regardless of the projections for the costs, it is clear that the government has no plan for providing anywhere near the funds for even the most modest proposal.
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Meet Joe Blog
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· Score: 5, Insightful
...is the sound of ten thousand bloggers blogging. Is it the contradiction of people ranting about privacy while divulging their innermost details to crawlers? Is it the pointless exercise of the bored and unemployed blogging screeds that eventually devolve into pseudo-intellectual angst sessions?
Friendster, Blogging - get on the shelf next to Geocities (everyone will have a webpage by 1998!).
Don't let your email address appear in a public forum of any kind that is or can be crawled. I have employed this technique and can say with a straight face that in six months I have not received ONE piece of spam.
If you can administer and upgrade this type of software in Stanford's neighboorhood, chances are you can get better pay at any of the hundreds of local companies that might employ this type of person. I highly doubt Stanford's salaries are competitive with many local companies.
And why do you think that in a year or two the Si wafer real estate (or, more realistically FPGA real estate, which it is probably right now) will NOT become cheap enough that one who thinks of himself as a 'programmer' now would have to actually write VHDL for the processor part,
Maybe because you have been able to do this for a decade and no one does??
Systollic array research has been happening since the 70s. See any in use by application programmers? In fact the opposite is happening, custom functionality is being virtualized. See: VirtualPC, VMWare, Winmodems.
Even in open source apps, getting something out there ready to play with is key. Actually this may be even more central to open source ecosystems than corporate development. Would you prefer that the Mozilla developers have taken the assembly route? They'd probably be well on their way to rendering the bold tag by now but thats about it.
Build the next layer - semantic web tools, search engines, p2p networks etc. You don't need to rewrite the compiler or the OS - its done. You are free to move forward to the next layer, safely assuming you probably can't do a whole lot to vastly improve what already exists beneath.
Developers smarter than you have spent decades building useful higher-level layers to speed up the development of complex code. You would be wise to leverage this incredible infrastructure for the 99.999% of projects that do not benefit from obsessively tweaking the finest details.
Knowing what assembly is and how it works is beneficial. Mastery of assembly is completely pointless for anyone outside of OS kernel, compiler construcution and embedded development...which probably means you. Your time will be better spent figuring out how to make Java programs 10% faster most of the time.
In San Francisco, the weather varies by neighborhood, but nowhere is the temperature ever higher than 80 degrees F on a regular basis.
SF gets persistant 90+ weather in the summers.
And then there are the Santa Cruz mountains, on the southern edge of Silicon Valley. These might be somewhat like Portland.
Slightly cooler than the South Bay but no wetter.
The only microclimate of note in the Bay Area extends from Pacifica to Sausilito. North of that and it gets even warmer than San Jose, hance the vineyards.
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This is not a technical interview if it is a VP job - make sure they know they business.
Lets make it clear for everyone. Major political players from Will Kennard to Frank Carlucci to John Major go to work for the Carlyle Group when they leave office. This group manages weapons sales to the Saudi state. They use their influence in govt to keep the gravy train going. Their corporate backers give the impression that the Saudis our the friends of the US public. Meanwhile the same Saudi family is known to fund terrorism...but hey, whats a little blood between business partners? The US govt is working against its own public here, but remember its who gets paid that counts.
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/etc/sysconfig/network
add this line to
why this is enabled by default in FC2 is beyond me.
Mozilla Mail - I haven't forgotten you. An excellent client that integrates nicely with the browser.
Kudos to the Mozilla team. Don't worry, marketshare will follow.
Whats interesting is how wrong he got some parts. He totally missed the web...he seemed to be stuck on some vision of uber-TV.
Now that same magazine mostly consists of pictures of things you are supposed to buy interspersed with pictures of Sergei Brin and Steve Jobs. Its still mostly toilet paper though.
What happened to Negroponte? He used to be everywhere, then he disappeared as the web seemed to totally subsume the Media Lab's vision of the future.
Projects like these are more subjective, but lets face it, Boeing and Lockheed lobby hard for this gravy - these open-ended projects are where they really make their bank.
One thing that has always bothered me is the lack of standards for basic syntax. Why not just have a standard for basic operators? For example does anyone really lose flexibility if we say statements are delimited by ';'? Or a standard syntax for if-then-else? e.g. perl's syntax is a pointless departure that adds no value.
I'm in favor of a strong military, but this is justa gravy train for contractors. Most of this stuff serves no purpose other than to raise the stock price of TRW or Boeing.
The public has turned into a funding arm for aerospace contractors at just the time when they should be figuring out how to make things work in the private sector.
Biotech, proteinomics, genomics, nanotech, clean energy, computing, photonics, networking, etc etc etc are all areas that can provide direct benefits to mankind now and pose more unanswered questions for basic science.
First, there is no money to fund a moon program. When asked at a recent discussion on the subject if the military would fund such a venture, the DARPA fund manager simply said "no". He didn't qualify it even with an extra comment. It became quite obvious that there is no funding mandate for another moon landing despite rhetoric.
Secondly, the public must weigh the value of going someplace we have already been against funding new work on the frontiers of quantum physics, nanotech, biotech, computing, etc. I find it hard to believe that a moon landing would benefit the public or the scientific community more than a breakthrough in nanotech, for example. The public should be funding science on the frontiers of discovery, not on the explored trails.
In any case I don't know why this topic merits serious discussion any more - regardless of the projections for the costs, it is clear that the government has no plan for providing anywhere near the funds for even the most modest proposal.
The 2GB option for paying users features search.
Friendster, Blogging - get on the shelf next to Geocities (everyone will have a webpage by 1998!).
Don't let your email address appear in a public forum of any kind that is or can be crawled. I have employed this technique and can say with a straight face that in six months I have not received ONE piece of spam.
If you can administer and upgrade this type of software in Stanford's neighboorhood, chances are you can get better pay at any of the hundreds of local companies that might employ this type of person. I highly doubt Stanford's salaries are competitive with many local companies.
Okay expert, write quicksort for me in assembler.
Maybe because you have been able to do this for a decade and no one does??
Systollic array research has been happening since the 70s. See any in use by application programmers? In fact the opposite is happening, custom functionality is being virtualized. See: VirtualPC, VMWare, Winmodems.
No, its just the realistic understanding that I cannot write a kernel demonstrably superior to FreeBSD, Linux, etc.
That doesn't mean I can't read the source.
Even in open source apps, getting something out there ready to play with is key. Actually this may be even more central to open source ecosystems than corporate development. Would you prefer that the Mozilla developers have taken the assembly route? They'd probably be well on their way to rendering the bold tag by now but thats about it.
Build the next layer - semantic web tools, search engines, p2p networks etc. You don't need to rewrite the compiler or the OS - its done. You are free to move forward to the next layer, safely assuming you probably can't do a whole lot to vastly improve what already exists beneath.
Knowing what assembly is and how it works is beneficial. Mastery of assembly is completely pointless for anyone outside of OS kernel, compiler construcution and embedded development...which probably means you. Your time will be better spent figuring out how to make Java programs 10% faster most of the time.
Uh, no its not, and I have spent a decade+ in both areas.
SF gets persistant 90+ weather in the summers.
And then there are the Santa Cruz mountains, on the southern edge of Silicon Valley. These might be somewhat like Portland.
Slightly cooler than the South Bay but no wetter.
The only microclimate of note in the Bay Area extends from Pacifica to Sausilito. North of that and it gets even warmer than San Jose, hance the vineyards.
We get 200+ days of zero clouds a year here at a minimum, every year. Portland gets 200+ days of the opposite.