Sure, it's got a dual-core, dual-threaded Atom, a gig of RAM, Wifi, and Bluetooth, but it's too expensive to just say "Sure, I'll grab one and play around with weekend."
You can grab the Starter Pack at https://www.adafruit.com/produ... for only $65, and look at all the components you get! And a ton of components, including LEDs, power supply, etc.
Technically, it competes with the Raspberry Pi, not the Arduino, but it's got a weird Linux distro (to which the forums are hard to find and use the terrible mailman interface) and a hell of a lot less example projects and much higher power consumption.
I don't understand the difference between the Galileo, Edison, and Joule (and you can't get the Joule on adafruit anyway), which speaks toward poor technical documentation.
In short, too expensive and not enough examples for hobbyists, and professionals are going for lower-power consumption, better software, and something cheaper.
In many states, you need a license to braid hair or install windows. Hell, in many states, it's easier to become licensed to be an EMT (two months of training) than hairdresser (you need to go to cosmetology school for two years)!
It's a not a red vs. blue thing: http://ij.org/report/license-t... Many deep red southern states have very strict licensing requirements too.
It's really an example of regulatory capture which the US of A is a prime example of. And I say that as a very liberal person. The Institute of Justice convincingly shows how the licensing hurts lower-income people the most, mostly cuz they can't afford the lawyers or schooling that licensing usually requires.
There's so much hardware out there... you got Arduino's, lots of clones, Raspberry Pi's, C.H.I.P, etc.
What they don't tell you is how the software is. Is it up to date, or does it still run Linux 3.x? What Linux distros does it run? Can you run stock Ubuntu, or do you need some guy's custom build that's two years old and you can't apt-get upgrade?
My specific beef: It looks like the VoCore2 rans OpenWrt. Which version? Custom build that's updated every six months?
And, thanks to Indiegogo, you can't post a comment (to ask a question) without contributing. What a bunch of bull.
I've been a long-time Linux user, but I'm not religious about it, and I've always been curious about the BSDs.
Can someone give me an elevator pitch, especially about FreeBSD, seemingly the most popular of the BSDs? All the (server) software I use on a regular basis runs on FreeBSD.
Before someone says "just try it," there's sooo much cool stuff to try (currently learning Clojure and Raspberry Pi stuff), so I need a reason to try it.
Comparing this huge ship to others ships isn't exactly accurate either.
If this record-size ship is parked next to the city where you live, it'll be little comfort that it is hyper-efficient when your grandparents head to the hospital for asthma problems.
Efficiency matters, of course, but so do aggregate emissions.
Also, many times, _multiple_ ships are parked at the same time!
LONGER ANSWER: Find a real project, and try to pair with someone. Best way is via the websites above, unless you know someone.
e.g., You find out a local soup kitchen needs a website. They could also use an app to register incoming folks (one soup kitchen I volunteered at asked for name, age, and number of kids). So you build a WordPress site and write an Android tablet app or something.
BENEFITS * You learn the whole SLDC, especially users and requirements gathering * There's so much more to programming than code. Databases, testing, etc. * Might get a job out of it.
Reducing methane emissions would make the greatest impact. In 2014, methane made up about 11% of GHG emissions (https://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/gases.html), but methane traps 20x more heat than CO2.
The only "plus" is that it doesn't survive long in the atmosphere (https://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/gwps.html), so it's effect is muted over time, which also means that if we stop emitting so much methane, we'd see a quick payback period.
N2O is the other huge culprit. It's warming effect is hundreds of times stronger than CO2, and sticks around for 100 years in the atmosphere.
TLDR: STOP EATING BEEF! between cow burps (CH4) and manure (N2O) have huge direct impacts on the environment, not to mention the indirect effects (fertilizer for growing food for cattle, cutting down trees for grazing, etc.).
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I got a job offer from DeVry recently. They wanted me to teach C to their two-year networking students as their first (and only) programming language.
Yes, that's right: C! To community college students studying "network administration".
I didn't take the job. I think I would have been doing the students a disfavor by teaching them C. Nothing to do with C, but you don't teach networking students C at all, let alone as their first programming language (second, if you could Batch/bash).
No federal student loans at all? Are state-level student loans OK? My state (NJ) has a state-level program, but I doubt any state would be able to fill the vacuum of federal money.
Be careful what you wish for: without federal money, many colleges would close down, foreign students wouldn't find it an attractive place to get educated, and we'd lose our R&D prowess (which means our national security would suffer after a while).
How do you think all those highly-educated individuals designing our next generation weapon systems and defense systems got their educations?
But it was only by accident because of fracking. I'm glad we've lowered our emissions because we burn less coal and more natural gas, but I'm not exactly cheering because it's only by accident, and in 30 years we'll be back where we are today in greenhouse gas emissions. Maybe sooner.
Oil is not the largest source of pollution, here or in most of the world. Coal is.
We are not doing "fairly well". Sweden is doing fairly well. We're continuing to do poorly. We polluted the skies for most of the 20th century, and by a stroke of accident via shale natural gas, are decreasing our CO2 emissions slowly.
I would argue that Assange isn't a journalist, but a fame whore. I highly recommend the document "We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks". Link to Netflix Instant View: http://movies.netflix.com/WiMo...
The documentary is very good, IMHO, and argues that Assange is actually kind of a glutton for media attention. He did a really good thing (started Wikileaks, and perhaps more importantly, gave it name recognition and branding) and and now uses it to empower himself, the bastard. Which doesn't diminish his contribution, but makes him a less trustworthy character at this point.
I feel bad for students studying IT at community colleges, especially in Detroit. Why aren't they be hired, instead of politicians asking to import foreign labor?
It's frustrating, because I want to be able to tell them that because of a shortage of IT workers, big companies are looking to hire and train them.
But they're not... IBM/Accenture/etc. would rather hire foreigners at lower rates than hire local community college students that understand the American language and culture perfectly.
Forget IBM/Accenture/etc.... now the local _politicians_ are saying that those students aren't going to get IT jobs because local foreigners are going to get them.
I understand that the local politicians are in a very tough spot, since the decisions that are dooming Detroit were made decades ago. With a shrinking population, imported high-income (therefore, high tax paying) labor seems like as good a decision as any, but, frankly, it's insulting to the local students.
Tell me that as a 18-year-old impressionable youth in Detroit, after hearing this article, you wouldn't think that a life of drugs and crime would be a better way to get out of poverty than IT.
It's a great article, IMHO. It's short, and definitely worth a read to get past the simplistic analyses of Slashdot posters.;) =========== That's not, however, because Einstein rejected the notion of God, but because he took the idea of God very seriously, elevating it above a religious conception to a mathematical one. To Einstein, the elegance of the phsyics guiding the universe were God's handiwork, the mark not of a humanlike being that maintains control over the world, but of a divine beauty in nature's laws. As Walter Issacson wrote in his biography, following a religious phase in childhood, Einstein retained "a profound reverence for the harmony and beauty of what he called the mind of God as it was expressed in the creation of the universe and its laws."....
The religion of the Bible was too provincial, too small, to contain the God Einstein revered. That God, the one he found in physics and who inspired his science, deserved more. But, nevertheless, Einstein didn't believe that differing views on God should interfere with the development of understanding among men.
And I bet they're not gonna pay a penny of the extra costs to the local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies. We're gonna pay for it, via taxes.
I don't know about the US, but here in the UK, bikes are traffic. Except for motorways, a bike can go anywhere a car can. The highway code explicitly says it's OK to ride bicycles two-abreast. If you're a car behind them, then you should stay behind them until there's room to overtake, just as if they were a slow car.
In the U.S., it's a state thing. I'm most familiar with the Texas driving laws, and in TX, you're basically a vehicle and should be ride like one.
I can attest to this: Texas, 2004. I had never driven a car before in my life. I took and passed the state driving exam to get a permit. I took private driving lessons for six hours total: one of them was the driving test itself. I started on a Monday, by Thursday afternoon I had passed the driving test and got my license. Passed on the first try. =)
Actually, one of the reasons I got it in TX is because I heard it was so much easier than up north. I heard of people who flew down to one of the Southern states just to take the driving test, and then transferred the license to their home state.
I think there's not enough quotes from Miguel, and I also think he's wrong that web apps hurt the Linux desktop. They/should/ have helped, but they didn't, and I think I have a pretty good understanding why:
- lack of binary compatibility between distros
I was an RPM maintainer for a major distro in the early 2000s. I compiled lots of apps that I felt were cool but didn't get binary RPMs out there fast enough. Then I realized the sheer waste of resources devoted to compiling source code for different versions of different distros, usually because of stupid reasons like lack of a C++ ABI or because the icons are stored in a different location. Lack of compatibility between distros (the FHS/LSB isn't as strong or strict as it should be) sucks for open source apps, but at least you can recompile it. This same issue is a total killer for closed-source apps. The Autopackage/ZeroInstall folks have tried pretty hard, but the problems run deeper.
That's why there will never be a "Linux App Store"; at best, it'll be segregated by distro, and then by distro version.
- lack of standardized DE (Desktop Environment)
I don't care much about the DE; it just needs to get out of the way. I don't use the DE; I use apps. In the interests of innovation, KDE/GNOME both changed stuff that didn't need to be changed. Changing stuff just kills productivity. Like Linus said, changing the standard font size shouldn't a difficult task. Look at the Windows Display portion of the Control Panel: hasn't changed much since Windows 95.
So even if I'm using the same apps in Windows and Linux, I'm more productive in Windows because I know all the shortcuts, and they haven't changed in 15 years! Minimize, maximize, Run, Start Menu, etc.
This lack of standardization is even harder for closed-source app developers, as they may need to develop twice and definitely test twice. Can you imagine writing and testing software to make sure that you can print properly in GNOME2, Unity, GNOME3, and KDE4?
- lack of good configuration utils
Every distro has their own utilities to configure stuff (SuSE has YaST), and they're not even very good. Forget something like Group Policy; are you installing software? That's YaST. Do you want to change your screen resolution? That's YaST too. Change font size? That's KDE or GNOME settings. What about screensaver, user account control, firewall settings, network preferences, keyboard layout, etc.? Every distro has its own set of utilities, and then the DE's have their own too. And they're not even that great!
In the hunt for innovation, the Linux world has duplicated too much.
Now that I'm a developer, I can see why it's hard to write apps for Linux: lack of good APIs. Think of how you would answer things like: - I'm writing a CD cover printing program, and I need to find out what printers are available and what trays they have. - I'm making a video game. What resolutions are supported? How do I change the resolution? - I'm making a file sharing or backup program, and I want to make sure the firewall isn't set to block my port. - What versions of Java are available on this machine? - I'm making a video chat program. Does this machine have a microphone or webcam?
All these things have different APIs, that may or may not be backwards compatible with the best distro release, which may or may not even exist.
I'm not trying to hate on Calligra, but LibreOffice is the standard in the FOSS world. Why the seemingly duplicate effort?
I'm not saying that seemingly duplicate effort is bad; it's a balancing act. The dominant player can become stagnant (e.g., gcc back in the day, XFree86, etc.) and sometimes you need a new player to shake things up. But when both players seem to be in the same area, or one is way behind the others, I don't see the point.
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Check it: Intel Edison w/ Mini Breakout board at https://www.adafruit.com/produ...: $75!
Sure, it's got a dual-core, dual-threaded Atom, a gig of RAM, Wifi, and Bluetooth, but it's too expensive to just say "Sure, I'll grab one and play around with weekend."
You can grab the Starter Pack at https://www.adafruit.com/produ... for only $65, and look at all the components you get! And a ton of components, including LEDs, power supply, etc.
Technically, it competes with the Raspberry Pi, not the Arduino, but it's got a weird Linux distro (to which the forums are hard to find and use the terrible mailman interface) and a hell of a lot less example projects and much higher power consumption.
I don't understand the difference between the Galileo, Edison, and Joule (and you can't get the Joule on adafruit anyway), which speaks toward poor technical documentation.
In short, too expensive and not enough examples for hobbyists, and professionals are going for lower-power consumption, better software, and something cheaper.
For the interested, the Institute of Justice does a lot of stuff like this. (I don't work for them, I just like their work).
They do a lot of anti-licensing work, and they seem to be very successful at it: http://ij.org/report/license-t...
In many states, you need a license to braid hair or install windows. Hell, in many states, it's easier to become licensed to be an EMT (two months of training) than hairdresser (you need to go to cosmetology school for two years)!
It's a not a red vs. blue thing: http://ij.org/report/license-t... Many deep red southern states have very strict licensing requirements too.
It's really an example of regulatory capture which the US of A is a prime example of. And I say that as a very liberal person. The Institute of Justice convincingly shows how the licensing hurts lower-income people the most, mostly cuz they can't afford the lawyers or schooling that licensing usually requires.
There's so much hardware out there... you got Arduino's, lots of clones, Raspberry Pi's, C.H.I.P, etc.
What they don't tell you is how the software is. Is it up to date, or does it still run Linux 3.x? What Linux distros does it run? Can you run stock Ubuntu, or do you need some guy's custom build that's two years old and you can't apt-get upgrade?
My specific beef: It looks like the VoCore2 rans OpenWrt. Which version? Custom build that's updated every six months?
And, thanks to Indiegogo, you can't post a comment (to ask a question) without contributing. What a bunch of bull.
I've been a long-time Linux user, but I'm not religious about it, and I've always been curious about the BSDs.
Can someone give me an elevator pitch, especially about FreeBSD, seemingly the most popular of the BSDs? All the (server) software I use on a regular basis runs on FreeBSD.
Before someone says "just try it," there's sooo much cool stuff to try (currently learning Clojure and Raspberry Pi stuff), so I need a reason to try it.
Gimme some.
Where do you order from? Any advice on which overseas pharmacies are legit?? I have trouble separating the good from the bad. :(
[Warning: I actually read the article.]
Comparing this huge ship to others ships isn't exactly accurate either.
If this record-size ship is parked next to the city where you live, it'll be little comfort that it is hyper-efficient when your grandparents head to the hospital for asthma problems.
Efficiency matters, of course, but so do aggregate emissions.
Also, many times, _multiple_ ships are parked at the same time!
Some of the advice here seems pretty bad. Download a CS paper and implement the algorithm??
SHORT ANSWERS:
* https://www.freecodecamp.com/
* http://thecommunitycorps.org/
* meet-ups
* internships / apprenticeships
LONGER ANSWER:
Find a real project, and try to pair with someone. Best way is via the websites above, unless you know someone.
e.g., You find out a local soup kitchen needs a website. They could also use an app to register incoming folks (one soup kitchen I volunteered at asked for name, age, and number of kids). So you build a WordPress site and write an Android tablet app or something.
BENEFITS
* You learn the whole SLDC, especially users and requirements gathering
* There's so much more to programming than code. Databases, testing, etc.
* Might get a job out of it.
Reducing methane emissions would make the greatest impact. In 2014, methane made up about 11% of GHG emissions (https://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/gases.html), but methane traps 20x more heat than CO2.
The only "plus" is that it doesn't survive long in the atmosphere (https://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/gwps.html), so it's effect is muted over time, which also means that if we stop emitting so much methane, we'd see a quick payback period.
N2O is the other huge culprit. It's warming effect is hundreds of times stronger than CO2, and sticks around for 100 years in the atmosphere.
TLDR: STOP EATING BEEF! between cow burps (CH4) and manure (N2O) have huge direct impacts on the environment, not to mention the indirect effects (fertilizer for growing food for cattle, cutting down trees for grazing, etc.).
Is it just me, or does LinkedIn do an amazing amount of engineering for a website that's basically a simplified Facebook + job board?
Do they really need this amount of engineering? Or are they doing it just for the sake of doing it?
It's been resurrected as http://freshcode.club/ . I've been visiting for > six months now. Check it out!
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I got a job offer from DeVry recently. They wanted me to teach C to their two-year networking students as their first (and only) programming language.
Yes, that's right: C! To community college students studying "network administration".
I didn't take the job. I think I would have been doing the students a disfavor by teaching them C. Nothing to do with C, but you don't teach networking students C at all, let alone as their first programming language (second, if you could Batch/bash).
No federal student loans at all? Are state-level student loans OK? My state (NJ) has a state-level program, but I doubt any state would be able to fill the vacuum of federal money.
Be careful what you wish for: without federal money, many colleges would close down, foreign students wouldn't find it an attractive place to get educated, and we'd lose our R&D prowess (which means our national security would suffer after a while).
How do you think all those highly-educated individuals designing our next generation weapon systems and defense systems got their educations?
But it was only by accident because of fracking. I'm glad we've lowered our emissions because we burn less coal and more natural gas, but I'm not exactly cheering because it's only by accident, and in 30 years we'll be back where we are today in greenhouse gas emissions. Maybe sooner.
There's so many things wrong with your post.
I would argue that Assange isn't a journalist, but a fame whore. I highly recommend the document "We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks". Link to Netflix Instant View: http://movies.netflix.com/WiMo...
The documentary is very good, IMHO, and argues that Assange is actually kind of a glutton for media attention. He did a really good thing (started Wikileaks, and perhaps more importantly, gave it name recognition and branding) and and now uses it to empower himself, the bastard. Which doesn't diminish his contribution, but makes him a less trustworthy character at this point.
I feel bad for students studying IT at community colleges, especially in Detroit. Why aren't they be hired, instead of politicians asking to import foreign labor?
It's frustrating, because I want to be able to tell them that because of a shortage of IT workers, big companies are looking to hire and train them.
But they're not... IBM/Accenture/etc. would rather hire foreigners at lower rates than hire local community college students that understand the American language and culture perfectly.
Forget IBM/Accenture/etc.... now the local _politicians_ are saying that those students aren't going to get IT jobs because local foreigners are going to get them.
I understand that the local politicians are in a very tough spot, since the decisions that are dooming Detroit were made decades ago. With a shrinking population, imported high-income (therefore, high tax paying) labor seems like as good a decision as any, but, frankly, it's insulting to the local students.
Tell me that as a 18-year-old impressionable youth in Detroit, after hearing this article, you wouldn't think that a life of drugs and crime would be a better way to get out of poverty than IT.
It's a false dichotomy.
Look at what the Ogg folks did: encoder is GPL, decoder is BSD. Very smart.
I agree with your general post, but I've never seen a job posting like you describe: 20 years of Java experience and $30K/yr salary.
I understand you may have meant it as hyperbole, but can someone post a link to a job like this?
It's a great article, IMHO. It's short, and definitely worth a read to get past the simplistic analyses of Slashdot posters. ;) ....
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That's not, however, because Einstein rejected the notion of God, but because he took the idea of God very seriously, elevating it above a religious conception to a mathematical one. To Einstein, the elegance of the phsyics guiding the universe were God's handiwork, the mark not of a humanlike being that maintains control over the world, but of a divine beauty in nature's laws. As Walter Issacson wrote in his biography, following a religious phase in childhood, Einstein retained "a profound reverence for the harmony and beauty of what he called the mind of God as it was expressed in the creation of the universe and its laws."
The religion of the Bible was too provincial, too small, to contain the God Einstein revered. That God, the one he found in physics and who inspired his science, deserved more. But, nevertheless, Einstein didn't believe that differing views on God should interfere with the development of understanding among men.
And I bet they're not gonna pay a penny of the extra costs to the local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies. We're gonna pay for it, via taxes.
I don't know about the US, but here in the UK, bikes are traffic. Except for motorways, a bike can go anywhere a car can. The highway code explicitly says it's OK to ride bicycles two-abreast. If you're a car behind them, then you should stay behind them until there's room to overtake, just as if they were a slow car.
In the U.S., it's a state thing. I'm most familiar with the Texas driving laws, and in TX, you're basically a vehicle and should be ride like one.
I can attest to this: Texas, 2004. I had never driven a car before in my life. I took and passed the state driving exam to get a permit. I took private driving lessons for six hours total: one of them was the driving test itself. I started on a Monday, by Thursday afternoon I had passed the driving test and got my license. Passed on the first try. =)
Actually, one of the reasons I got it in TX is because I heard it was so much easier than up north. I heard of people who flew down to one of the Southern states just to take the driving test, and then transferred the license to their home state.
I think there's not enough quotes from Miguel, and I also think he's wrong that web apps hurt the Linux desktop. They /should/ have helped, but they didn't, and I think I have a pretty good understanding why:
- lack of binary compatibility between distros
I was an RPM maintainer for a major distro in the early 2000s. I compiled lots of apps that I felt were cool but didn't get binary RPMs out there fast enough. Then I realized the sheer waste of resources devoted to compiling source code for different versions of different distros, usually because of stupid reasons like lack of a C++ ABI or because the icons are stored in a different location. Lack of compatibility between distros (the FHS/LSB isn't as strong or strict as it should be) sucks for open source apps, but at least you can recompile it. This same issue is a total killer for closed-source apps. The Autopackage/ZeroInstall folks have tried pretty hard, but the problems run deeper.
That's why there will never be a "Linux App Store"; at best, it'll be segregated by distro, and then by distro version.
- lack of standardized DE (Desktop Environment)
I don't care much about the DE; it just needs to get out of the way. I don't use the DE; I use apps. In the interests of innovation, KDE/GNOME both changed stuff that didn't need to be changed. Changing stuff just kills productivity. Like Linus said, changing the standard font size shouldn't a difficult task. Look at the Windows Display portion of the Control Panel: hasn't changed much since Windows 95.
So even if I'm using the same apps in Windows and Linux, I'm more productive in Windows because I know all the shortcuts, and they haven't changed in 15 years! Minimize, maximize, Run, Start Menu, etc.
This lack of standardization is even harder for closed-source app developers, as they may need to develop twice and definitely test twice. Can you imagine writing and testing software to make sure that you can print properly in GNOME2, Unity, GNOME3, and KDE4?
- lack of good configuration utils
Every distro has their own utilities to configure stuff (SuSE has YaST), and they're not even very good. Forget something like Group Policy; are you installing software? That's YaST. Do you want to change your screen resolution? That's YaST too. Change font size? That's KDE or GNOME settings. What about screensaver, user account control, firewall settings, network preferences, keyboard layout, etc.? Every distro has its own set of utilities, and then the DE's have their own too. And they're not even that great!
In the hunt for innovation, the Linux world has duplicated too much.
Now that I'm a developer, I can see why it's hard to write apps for Linux: lack of good APIs. Think of how you would answer things like:
- I'm writing a CD cover printing program, and I need to find out what printers are available and what trays they have.
- I'm making a video game. What resolutions are supported? How do I change the resolution?
- I'm making a file sharing or backup program, and I want to make sure the firewall isn't set to block my port.
- What versions of Java are available on this machine?
- I'm making a video chat program. Does this machine have a microphone or webcam?
All these things have different APIs, that may or may not be backwards compatible with the best distro release, which may or may not even exist.
I'm not trying to hate on Calligra, but LibreOffice is the standard in the FOSS world. Why the seemingly duplicate effort?
I'm not saying that seemingly duplicate effort is bad; it's a balancing act. The dominant player can become stagnant (e.g., gcc back in the day, XFree86, etc.) and sometimes you need a new player to shake things up. But when both players seem to be in the same area, or one is way behind the others, I don't see the point.