Those crappy Washington D. C. schools are spending about $30,000 per year per student. Lots of ordinary not-well-off places are in the $10,000 to $20,000 range.
Since student/parent motivation is the #1 most important success factor, the majority of that budget should be going to incentives. Weekly cash payouts would be highly effective. Nothing, with the possible exception of weird social rules (such as "minimum class rank average for prom couple is 50th percentile" or "the lower your rank the more patdowns and drug testing you face"), can beat large immediate cash payments.
The point is to get them studying so that worrying about college funding is even an issue. Cross a bridge when you come to it, if you do come to it.
Saying "Top 5%" is only helpful to students right near the cutoff. The top 1% won't try any harder, because they are in no danger of not being top 5%. Somebody at the 70th percentile won't try any harder, because he knows he can't reach the 95th percentile.
You need to turn class rank percentile into dollars, payable on a short term horizon. For example, multiply the class rank percentile by $10 and pay this out every week. Recompute class rank very frequently, using a running average (possibly exponential decay) that tends to consider the most recent couple months.
Note that it is OK if the parents confiscate this to cover family expenses. In that case, they will apply pressure to succeed as only parents have the ability to do. The kid might even gain better nutrition, full-time parenting, tutoring, etc.
The TLAs (NSA, CIA, NRO, FBI...) are not about to ship their programming jobs off to India. The same goes for UAV control software, fire-control radar, etc.
First Amendment rights would mean that I can throw bricks at a cow to make a political statement or to engage in my religion.
First Amendment rights would mean that I can protest the failure to protect ground-nesting Hawaiian birds from invasive species by burning a cat. Remember that political speech is allegedly our most protected form of free speech.
If you open enough browser windows and enough tabs in each window, you'll exceed what a 32-bit program can handle.
Depending on the OS, 32-bit programs get 2 or 3 GB of address space. I've seen my browser using more than 4 GB.
Hard numbers on what a zero day ends up paying off would be really interesting to look at, and is what the vendors need to be considering when setting their bounties.
OK, look at the size of the US government's black budget. This is what they need to outbid. Oh, but the budget will change as required.
In case you can deliver the goods, my gmail address is doubleplusgoodalbert. We're hiring.
They pay pretty well if they trust you. They sure won't seize back what they just payed you.
Email doubleplusgoodalbert at my gmail account if you'd like a job doing this. US citizens only, sorry.
Five round points will do very well. A star will work OK. Even a flathead screwdriver will work OK.
For one-time use, a regular bolt (bonus points if reverse threaded) and some epoxy will do the job. Pick a bolt small enough to fit into the weird head, glue it in place, and then use a regular tool to remove it with the evil screw attached.
If you aren't getting paid extra, then your job sucks.
If you are comfortable with low-level hacking, maybe I could get you a job that doesn't suck. It's probably in Florida, though we have other offices too.
reply below or email doubleplusgoodalbert at gmail
Not games, but lots of assembly. If you work any extra hours, you get paid for it. If you wanted to work 100 hours instead of 40, you'd be getting 2.5 times your nominal salary.
It's probably in Florida, but we have other offices too and might be opening more.
doubleplusgoodalbert at gmail or reply below
That's what they want. We can name the new shuttles after senators from Utah, Louisiana, etc.
For the overall program name, Space Habitat Interim Transport sounds like it could provide the needed hint.
Most countries more-or-less run a certificate authority that every browser is willing to trust. Look at the list some time, bearing in mind that businesses and universities often do government work. Worse yet, some that you see in the list have delegated their authority.
China has at least **two** that they can use. (see previous Slashdot story, including comments)
What's wrong with overloading "()" and "->"? That's indispensable for smart pointers and function-like objects (callable things with optional state... i.e. closures).
Exactly.
I've seen some pretty horrible resource leaks and reentrancy problems because of allegedly smart pointers that are neither smart nor pointers. I've seen function-like objects become a witch's brew of nasty bugs.
Beginners love that shit, but then they get themselves into a mess and need somebody like me to rescue them. I do, once I get past my "WTF!!!" reaction to whatever wild feature it is that they are using.
BTW, in most cases this holds true for threads as well. Use fork() and ppoll() if you want to do the job without bugs.
The moment Microsoft confirmed the zero-day, it was no longer a zero-day.
Microsoft can never become aware of a zero-day, because by doing so they make it a one-day.
Anything touching hardware has major potential for disaster. If the graphics drivers DMA to the wrong place or hard lock a bus, you're screwed.
Either you have the kernel alone touching hardware, or you have the kernel plus the X server doing that. The former is less code.
You could help produce numerous bright and healthy people. Instead, people of inferior quality will be created.
Hopefully you will at least go the natural route. You can consider it to be a career option that contributes more to society than anything else you could possibly do. You can produce at least a dozen wonderful children.
If that's not your thing, please reconsider the egg donation. Never mind the money; this is something you can do to benefit the world.
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Those crappy Washington D. C. schools are spending about $30,000 per year per student. Lots of ordinary not-well-off places are in the $10,000 to $20,000 range.
Since student/parent motivation is the #1 most important success factor, the majority of that budget should be going to incentives. Weekly cash payouts would be highly effective. Nothing, with the possible exception of weird social rules (such as "minimum class rank average for prom couple is 50th percentile" or "the lower your rank the more patdowns and drug testing you face"), can beat large immediate cash payments.
The point is to get them studying so that worrying about college funding is even an issue. Cross a bridge when you come to it, if you do come to it.
Saying "Top 5%" is only helpful to students right near the cutoff. The top 1% won't try any harder, because they are in no danger of not being top 5%. Somebody at the 70th percentile won't try any harder, because he knows he can't reach the 95th percentile.
You need to turn class rank percentile into dollars, payable on a short term horizon. For example, multiply the class rank percentile by $10 and pay this out every week. Recompute class rank very frequently, using a running average (possibly exponential decay) that tends to consider the most recent couple months.
Note that it is OK if the parents confiscate this to cover family expenses. In that case, they will apply pressure to succeed as only parents have the ability to do. The kid might even gain better nutrition, full-time parenting, tutoring, etc.
The TLAs (NSA, CIA, NRO, FBI...) are not about to ship their programming jobs off to India. The same goes for UAV control software, fire-control radar, etc.
First Amendment rights would mean that I can throw bricks at a cow to make a political statement or to engage in my religion. First Amendment rights would mean that I can protest the failure to protect ground-nesting Hawaiian birds from invasive species by burning a cat. Remember that political speech is allegedly our most protected form of free speech.
If you open enough browser windows and enough tabs in each window, you'll exceed what a 32-bit program can handle. Depending on the OS, 32-bit programs get 2 or 3 GB of address space. I've seen my browser using more than 4 GB.
Hard numbers on what a zero day ends up paying off would be really interesting to look at, and is what the vendors need to be considering when setting their bounties.
OK, look at the size of the US government's black budget. This is what they need to outbid. Oh, but the budget will change as required.
In case you can deliver the goods, my gmail address is doubleplusgoodalbert. We're hiring.
They pay pretty well if they trust you. They sure won't seize back what they just payed you. Email doubleplusgoodalbert at my gmail account if you'd like a job doing this. US citizens only, sorry.
You said "large collection". Thumbnailing that is too damn slow. (and always will be, because images get bigger) I want a responsive UI.
Five round points will do very well. A star will work OK. Even a flathead screwdriver will work OK. For one-time use, a regular bolt (bonus points if reverse threaded) and some epoxy will do the job. Pick a bolt small enough to fit into the weird head, glue it in place, and then use a regular tool to remove it with the evil screw attached.
If you are comfortable with low-level hacking, maybe I could get you a job that doesn't suck. It's probably in Florida, though we have other offices too.
reply below or email doubleplusgoodalbert at gmail
Not games, but lots of assembly. If you work any extra hours, you get paid for it. If you wanted to work 100 hours instead of 40, you'd be getting 2.5 times your nominal salary. It's probably in Florida, but we have other offices too and might be opening more. doubleplusgoodalbert at gmail or reply below
That's what they want. We can name the new shuttles after senators from Utah, Louisiana, etc. For the overall program name, Space Habitat Interim Transport sounds like it could provide the needed hint.
Most countries more-or-less run a certificate authority that every browser is willing to trust. Look at the list some time, bearing in mind that businesses and universities often do government work. Worse yet, some that you see in the list have delegated their authority. China has at least **two** that they can use. (see previous Slashdot story, including comments)
What's wrong with overloading "()" and "->"? That's indispensable for smart pointers and function-like objects (callable things with optional state... i.e. closures).
Exactly.
I've seen some pretty horrible resource leaks and reentrancy problems because of allegedly smart pointers that are neither smart nor pointers. I've seen function-like objects become a witch's brew of nasty bugs.
Beginners love that shit, but then they get themselves into a mess and need somebody like me to rescue them. I do, once I get past my "WTF!!!" reaction to whatever wild feature it is that they are using.
BTW, in most cases this holds true for threads as well. Use fork() and ppoll() if you want to do the job without bugs.
Overloading '=' is nothing. People overload '()' even. (yes, the parentheses) People overload ',' and '->' and worse.
The moment Microsoft confirmed the zero-day, it was no longer a zero-day. Microsoft can never become aware of a zero-day, because by doing so they make it a one-day.
Anything touching hardware has major potential for disaster. If the graphics drivers DMA to the wrong place or hard lock a bus, you're screwed. Either you have the kernel alone touching hardware, or you have the kernel plus the X server doing that. The former is less code.
You could help produce numerous bright and healthy people. Instead, people of inferior quality will be created.
Hopefully you will at least go the natural route. You can consider it to be a career option that contributes more to society than anything else you could possibly do. You can produce at least a dozen wonderful children.
If that's not your thing, please reconsider the egg donation. Never mind the money; this is something you can do to benefit the world.
BTW, an informal "resume" beats nothing. Say a bit about when/where are you willing to move, how broad/deep your hacking experience is, etc.
I remember being 13-14 years old, spent every day and night reading and learning about computer security.
Nice.
The line in the sand is so broad and sharp; you're either an advanced black hat, an advanced white hat, script kiddie, or nothing.
Really? What if you pwn an evildoer? Send a resume to doubleplusgoodalbert@gmail.com if that sounds really cool.