This is the fundamental problem. When interviewing a senior developer, the hardest thing to do is determine if the candidate has 10 years of experience like it says on their resume, or do they have 1 year of experience ten times.
Here's my list of desires from a new employee: 1. enthusiasm (younger people often win here) 2. experience (older people often win here, caveated by the statement above) 3. humility (depends on the person) 4. work ethic (also depends on the person)
So, 50% of the criteria for a new employee is not age related.
The War on Hacking is the War on Drugs for the 21st Century. A never ending siphon of money into the hands of a few well-connected companies and politicians. There will be some collateral damage, of course, but it will be deemed to be worth it by those who matter. Actually, the collateral damage (loss of privacy, a "locked down" internet) will be considered a feature not a bug.
However the taps are a derivative work; one that is neither a satire nor used for educational purposes. The taps, therefore, are not within the bounds of fair use and thus all your foot are belong to Lars.
Last time I looked into this it seemed like CCR (continuity of care record) was becoming the document standard for these records but the VA already had a system that did not use that document format. Has the industry / government settled on a document standard for (textual) medical records yet?
Scanning through the threads, I've read at least a half-dozen cowards all spouting the same nonsense: politicians are all corrupt, don't bother to do anything, being cynical is cool, corporations are a monolith that all believe the same thing and have an iron grip on our democracy. If you really believe this, why not sign your name? Afraid the corporate interests are going to track you down and give you an award for successful promotion of FUD?
Innovation has turned into one of the biggest weasel-words in the English-language. Innovation: slapping a "spring-fresh" banner on a box of laundry detergent. Invention: new, non-obvious advancements in the art. Patents were supposed to be about protecting invention. If software patents actually protected new inventions but ignored obvious "innovations" then I think a lot of us would be less likely to want to throw out the entire system.
> Did you know that the president of China is a scientist? President Hu Jintao was trained as a hydraulic engineer.
So, he's not a scientist, he's an engineer. That's not a slam against engineers (or scientists) but I believe that the two outlooks are very different.
Isn't copyright what implementation protection is about?
Yes, in that Frankenstein, for example, is Mary Shelly's "implementation" of a story about a the hubris of man and man's inhumanity to man. I don't think Microsoft is accusing Google (by proxy through companies with less resources to defend themselves.... I think Microsoft learned this tactic from Darl) of literally copying code or artistic elements so they have to rely on the U.S. broken system of software patents.
Agreed. But, lacking specific domain knowledge, in the real world, I've had about 20 times where I wished I had a design and/or art degree for every time I wished I knew higher level math. Sure, I'm never going to refine a sort algorithm or build an unbreakable cryptographic algorithm but my users are more likely to appreciate a UI that is intuitive and appealing.
Yes, there is lots an lots of profit to be made on post-9/11 hysteria. This is one of the few times you don't need to put "???" in the underwear gnome's business plan.
Your armchair punditry is completely on target.
Can you imagine the outcry if congress passed a bill to invest in Facebook? But, pass through $12.9B from AIG to Goldman Sachs so they can invest in Facebook... that's okay.
This is just an awful idea: the company that owns congress is investing in the company that knows everything about you.
When it was first announced (5 years ago now?), I thought the Optimus Maximus keyboard was going to solve this problem. With a little smarts built into the keyboard I wouldn't mind esoteric key combinations if the result was displayed directly on the keyboard. Something like this might, someday, be the solution but at $1500 dollars it's going to be a while and assuming a direct-brain interface doesn't come first.
The fact that there's still people there is just another example of the extreme cowardice of the right wing. When we actually tried to get some of those guys in front of a real court of law all the tough Republicans started crying about the danger. Republicans, man up! Stand up for the Constitution; all of it, not just the 2nd Amendment. Stop pissing your pants.
And tomorrow they'll advertise "up to 100 mbit/s". That's the awesome thing about this gimmick, Comcast can double their advertised speed every year without actually spending any money on infrastructure.
"A stock is a portion of ownership of the company."
While that may be technically true, if there's no dividend the value of their ownership is your yearly vote in your various shareholder meetings (you do vote, don't you?). Stocks are at the bottom of the barrel if the company goes belly up -- behind bonds, creditors and just about everyone else.
And, there is no inherent problem with this on face value. Stocks are stocks. More volatile and therefore more risk but also more potential rewards than bonds or your FDIC-insured savings account.
The problem comes from how this statement has distorted politics. Politicians have convinced the masses that we are all part of an ownership society, to own a stock is to be as good as a CEO and that the rules that are good for Murdoch or Fuld or Paulson are also good for factory workers, computer programmers and waiters. That's how we got a country where taxes on income from useful, productive work are higher than taxes on idle non-productive wealth. We have an entire political party organized around protecting millionaires estates and dividends and a second political party that is afraid to stand up to them.
Yes; at least in the macro sense. If you limited the set of potential programmers to only those high school students who are inclined to pick a programming book at random from a bookstore and teach themselves -- without help from family, friends or the school -- to be programmers then you are going to end up with a very small number of programmers.
Exactly. In a slightly more perfect world the government of Afghanistan would try to implement a version of the Alaska Permanent Fund. But, that didn't happen in Iraq, why would it happen in there. Instead the profits are going to go to foreign corporations and local corruption, just like in Africa.
This is probably more of a hardware problem than an OS problem (Android, iPad or whatever) but what I would like to see in a tablet is Wacom-quality inputs. All the tablets appear to be platforms for consuming entertainment (music, movies, social networks, apps and books) that other people have created for you. I would like to be able to create on a tablet by painting, handwriting, or sketching directly on the screen.
I've only used an iPad for 10 minutes and I've never had a chance to work with an android tablet so I'm curious, how far away is that technology?
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It would be different if I could ride a polar bear to work, though.
Or keep the name but claim it's an acronym:
Disney Is a Completely Evil Asshole Greedhead Enterprise
This is the fundamental problem. When interviewing a senior developer, the hardest thing to do is determine if the candidate has 10 years of experience like it says on their resume, or do they have 1 year of experience ten times.
Here's my list of desires from a new employee:
1. enthusiasm (younger people often win here)
2. experience (older people often win here, caveated by the statement above)
3. humility (depends on the person)
4. work ethic (also depends on the person)
So, 50% of the criteria for a new employee is not age related.
The War on Hacking is the War on Drugs for the 21st Century. A never ending siphon of money into the hands of a few well-connected companies and politicians. There will be some collateral damage, of course, but it will be deemed to be worth it by those who matter. Actually, the collateral damage (loss of privacy, a "locked down" internet) will be considered a feature not a bug.
However the taps are a derivative work; one that is neither a satire nor used for educational purposes. The taps, therefore, are not within the bounds of fair use and thus all your foot are belong to Lars.
Wait, what was the question again?
Designers are to artists as engineers are to scientists or as innovation is to invention.
Last time I looked into this it seemed like CCR (continuity of care record) was becoming the document standard for these records but the VA already had a system that did not use that document format. Has the industry / government settled on a document standard for (textual) medical records yet?
"Reagan proved deficits don't matter," said Dick. I believe he was one of your guys.
Scanning through the threads, I've read at least a half-dozen cowards all spouting the same nonsense: politicians are all corrupt, don't bother to do anything, being cynical is cool, corporations are a monolith that all believe the same thing and have an iron grip on our democracy. If you really believe this, why not sign your name? Afraid the corporate interests are going to track you down and give you an award for successful promotion of FUD?
Innovation has turned into one of the biggest weasel-words in the English-language. Innovation: slapping a "spring-fresh" banner on a box of laundry detergent. Invention: new, non-obvious advancements in the art. Patents were supposed to be about protecting invention. If software patents actually protected new inventions but ignored obvious "innovations" then I think a lot of us would be less likely to want to throw out the entire system.
> Did you know that the president of China is a scientist? President Hu Jintao was trained as a hydraulic engineer.
So, he's not a scientist, he's an engineer. That's not a slam against engineers (or scientists) but I believe that the two outlooks are very different.
Isn't copyright what implementation protection is about?
Yes, in that Frankenstein, for example, is Mary Shelly's "implementation" of a story about a the hubris of man and man's inhumanity to man. I don't think Microsoft is accusing Google (by proxy through companies with less resources to defend themselves.... I think Microsoft learned this tactic from Darl) of literally copying code or artistic elements so they have to rely on the U.S. broken system of software patents.
Agreed. But, lacking specific domain knowledge, in the real world, I've had about 20 times where I wished I had a design and/or art degree for every time I wished I knew higher level math. Sure, I'm never going to refine a sort algorithm or build an unbreakable cryptographic algorithm but my users are more likely to appreciate a UI that is intuitive and appealing.
Yes, there is lots an lots of profit to be made on post-9/11 hysteria. This is one of the few times you don't need to put "???" in the underwear gnome's business plan.
Your armchair punditry is completely on target. Can you imagine the outcry if congress passed a bill to invest in Facebook? But, pass through $12.9B from AIG to Goldman Sachs so they can invest in Facebook... that's okay. This is just an awful idea: the company that owns congress is investing in the company that knows everything about you.
When it was first announced (5 years ago now?), I thought the Optimus Maximus keyboard was going to solve this problem. With a little smarts built into the keyboard I wouldn't mind esoteric key combinations if the result was displayed directly on the keyboard. Something like this might, someday, be the solution but at $1500 dollars it's going to be a while and assuming a direct-brain interface doesn't come first.
The fact that there's still people there is just another example of the extreme cowardice of the right wing. When we actually tried to get some of those guys in front of a real court of law all the tough Republicans started crying about the danger. Republicans, man up! Stand up for the Constitution; all of it, not just the 2nd Amendment. Stop pissing your pants.
And tomorrow they'll advertise "up to 100 mbit/s". That's the awesome thing about this gimmick, Comcast can double their advertised speed every year without actually spending any money on infrastructure.
I can hear the tea baggers screaming from here, "Obama's socializin' the interwebs!"
What I want is a blog post that actually explains all the various mapping licenses. Preferably in a simple table format. I don't like to read.
"A stock is a portion of ownership of the company."
While that may be technically true, if there's no dividend the value of their ownership is your yearly vote in your various shareholder meetings (you do vote, don't you?). Stocks are at the bottom of the barrel if the company goes belly up -- behind bonds, creditors and just about everyone else.
And, there is no inherent problem with this on face value. Stocks are stocks. More volatile and therefore more risk but also more potential rewards than bonds or your FDIC-insured savings account.
The problem comes from how this statement has distorted politics. Politicians have convinced the masses that we are all part of an ownership society, to own a stock is to be as good as a CEO and that the rules that are good for Murdoch or Fuld or Paulson are also good for factory workers, computer programmers and waiters. That's how we got a country where taxes on income from useful, productive work are higher than taxes on idle non-productive wealth. We have an entire political party organized around protecting millionaires estates and dividends and a second political party that is afraid to stand up to them.
Yes; at least in the macro sense. If you limited the set of potential programmers to only those high school students who are inclined to pick a programming book at random from a bookstore and teach themselves -- without help from family, friends or the school -- to be programmers then you are going to end up with a very small number of programmers.
Exactly. In a slightly more perfect world the government of Afghanistan would try to implement a version of the Alaska Permanent Fund. But, that didn't happen in Iraq, why would it happen in there. Instead the profits are going to go to foreign corporations and local corruption, just like in Africa.
This is probably more of a hardware problem than an OS problem (Android, iPad or whatever) but what I would like to see in a tablet is Wacom-quality inputs. All the tablets appear to be platforms for consuming entertainment (music, movies, social networks, apps and books) that other people have created for you. I would like to be able to create on a tablet by painting, handwriting, or sketching directly on the screen.
I've only used an iPad for 10 minutes and I've never had a chance to work with an android tablet so I'm curious, how far away is that technology?
Don't most states have a Lemon Law?