The faster the technology rises, the faster it falls. Things like Flash become sensations for fickle reasons. Then the next thing comes along and everybody who's anybody switches. Yet all the crap dumped into the tech upon demand of the fickle people remains, weighing it down.
Technologies which mature more slowly (if you're willing to wait for them to mature) tend to have better staying power.
That's not the worst of it. The ideologues chase newbies out of the core topics... and then delete their remaining articles for lack of "notability." What person with any knowledge worth sharing would bother fighting against that for the opportunity to not be paid to share his knowledge?
Questions 2 and 4 pretend to be yes/no questions, but if you pay attention the answer to both is "sometimes." Yet the supposed test requires those questions to be answered yes or no.
Don't use a programming language. Use a tool like Matlab or Mathematica instead. These tools are well designed for scientific computing and have sufficient scripting built in to support the programming-language-like functionality you're probably looking for.
You won't be able to call yourself a programmer. But you're not a programmer, you're a scientist.
Not so you can do it yourself: by now you know what work you like to do. Why rob yourself of what makes you happy?
Learn so you can understand the folks you work with for whom the business side is their source of joy. They'll notice. And enough of them will repay the favor to expand your opportunities to do the work *you* enjoy.
What health insurance industry? We haven't had a health INSURANCE industry for decades. We've had a health CARE industry which we insist pay us for every little sniffle and then get mad when they won't cover the The Pill.
Once upon a time we had a health insurance industry... It didn't pay for visits to the family doctor but when you had a major hospital stay it kept the cost from wiping out your life's savings. That was actual insurance. But then the government got involved with what tax deductible "insurance" plans had to cover and regulated genuine insurance out of existence.
I said government should do things which private organizations have historically failed to do effectively.
Basic scientific research rarely has a short-term monetary impact. Nor are the results generally protectable as intellectual property. How could they be? The results are little bits of new knowledge about the nature of the world around us. You have to put many of these bits together to make any money, and the bits you find are as likely as not to have no relevance whatsoever to the business in which you engage.
The government has to fund it because outside of what's achievable by hobbyists no one else will... and if we don't advance science then the next decade's engineers won't have a foundation on which to build your new iPhone Uber Deluxe.
The constitution has nothing to do with the matter.
Because everything the government does it does badly. That's the nature of government. If you want "good" government, you whittle it down to just those activities which history has shown aren't credibly done outside government -- military, justice system (police and courts), funding basic scientific research (not technology research!), and so on.
The government was no longer interested because Levison defied the court's order and stalled the FBI for months. When you act to eliminate the presumption of willingness to cooperate with the Feds, neither they nor the court tend to afford you leeway when setting the terms of that cooperation.
RTFA. That's basically what did happen. At first. Then the FBI went to court and got an actual lawful court order. Lavabit still refused. After months of obstructing the court's lawful order the disgusted court said: you've been uncooperative and defied our order, so now you must turn over the keys. And by the way, this is your last chance to stay out of jail.
Lavabit should have hired a lawyer and followed his advice.
We need to stop rewarding folks for high-speed trading. It basically steals money from the folks genuinely invested in the companies whose stock is traded and adds no value to the system at all.
Well, yes, yes it would. Did the fed time their release for exactly 2:00 and slave their clocks to the naval observatory (as many modern computer systems do)? Does the financial community know this? The financial community has hyper-accurate knowledge of timing in their own systems as well as exactly how many milliseconds it takes to complete a trade.
Suppose you have information leaked an hour ahead of time. You can't act on it then because it'd be obvious that you had leaked information and you know they're looking for that. So, you have to wait until everybody else has it. But if you wait until everybody else starts to react to the news, your leaked information is worthless.
You also only have an hour to think about what to do, so you can't change your IT system and whatever plan you come up with you have to either act immediately or not. So, you tell your existing IT system that is already capable of hyper-accurate timing to execute a trade just after the announcement.
Later on you realize that everybody has hyper-accurate timing, not just you.
Seriously, I've been contacted by maybe a dozen financial company recruiters who want me to squeeze another quarter millisecond out of their trading network. I'd sooner flip burgers. Millisecond trading is theft. Period. Even when it happens enough milliseconds after receiving information to have broken no law.
It's not his job to set up at a traffic light explicitly looking for harmless technical violations. He has discretion where he sets up and which traffic violations he focuses on. He's abusing that discretion. That makes him an ass hat.
Makes his chief an ass hat too, for not telling him to go look for actual dangerous behavior.
Yes, and look how *few* citizens are detained as enemy combatants. No piece of paper can prevent all abuse. There are always individuals willing to decide that the end justifies the means. Yet look how effectively the fifth amendment *reduces* such misbehavior.
So yes, I would expect the "enhanced interrogation" of a U.S. citizen captured on U.S. soil to be obstructed by the 5th amendment. As in fact it appears to be - our government shows vastly less restraint when interrogating non-citizens captured in a battle zone.
The point of the amendment, its spirit, was to do everything the written word could reasonably do to prevent the authorities from torturing a false confession out of someone. And they were wise about it. Penalties for torture were known to be ineffective -- authorities figured the ends justified the means and that they could get away with it. And they were right.. So the founders came at it from another direction: make the torture self-defeating.
It wasn't even the crown they were worried about -- the notorious Salem witch trials were a fresh part of the founders' history,.
They didn't extend the protection to witnesses because witnesses weren't being tortured to get them to lie -- only defendants were.
The simple fact is that you need to lock your user account if you want to protect your information. If you don't do that, nothing else really matters because it's all just theater and won't actually stop anyone willing to invest minimal effort.
And there it is. The bottom line. Kember demands that Chrome engage in security theater and the Chrome authors said no. As they should.
Or a couple of minutes considering most capchas are illegible.
Hear hear! Captchas were fine when they started but lately they do this weird wavy thing. I have to hit reload a few times before I get one where I can make out all the letters... and my vision is just fine.
If he's leaving happy, ask him (and your boss) to work out an hourly consulting rate so you can reach out to him for the next few months and he'll be properly compensated for it.
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The faster the technology rises, the faster it falls. Things like Flash become sensations for fickle reasons. Then the next thing comes along and everybody who's anybody switches. Yet all the crap dumped into the tech upon demand of the fickle people remains, weighing it down.
Technologies which mature more slowly (if you're willing to wait for them to mature) tend to have better staying power.
That's not the worst of it. The ideologues chase newbies out of the core topics... and then delete their remaining articles for lack of "notability." What person with any knowledge worth sharing would bother fighting against that for the opportunity to not be paid to share his knowledge?
Questions 2 and 4 pretend to be yes/no questions, but if you pay attention the answer to both is "sometimes." Yet the supposed test requires those questions to be answered yes or no.
Garbage in, garbage out.
Don't use a programming language. Use a tool like Matlab or Mathematica instead. These tools are well designed for scientific computing and have sufficient scripting built in to support the programming-language-like functionality you're probably looking for.
You won't be able to call yourself a programmer. But you're not a programmer, you're a scientist.
Yes! You absolutely should learn business!
Not so you can do it yourself: by now you know what work you like to do. Why rob yourself of what makes you happy?
Learn so you can understand the folks you work with for whom the business side is their source of joy. They'll notice. And enough of them will repay the favor to expand your opportunities to do the work *you* enjoy.
What health insurance industry? We haven't had a health INSURANCE industry for decades. We've had a health CARE industry which we insist pay us for every little sniffle and then get mad when they won't cover the The Pill.
Once upon a time we had a health insurance industry... It didn't pay for visits to the family doctor but when you had a major hospital stay it kept the cost from wiping out your life's savings. That was actual insurance. But then the government got involved with what tax deductible "insurance" plans had to cover and regulated genuine insurance out of existence.
Wut?
I said government should do things which private organizations have historically failed to do effectively.
Basic scientific research rarely has a short-term monetary impact. Nor are the results generally protectable as intellectual property. How could they be? The results are little bits of new knowledge about the nature of the world around us. You have to put many of these bits together to make any money, and the bits you find are as likely as not to have no relevance whatsoever to the business in which you engage.
The government has to fund it because outside of what's achievable by hobbyists no one else will... and if we don't advance science then the next decade's engineers won't have a foundation on which to build your new iPhone Uber Deluxe.
The constitution has nothing to do with the matter.
Because everything the government does it does badly. That's the nature of government. If you want "good" government, you whittle it down to just those activities which history has shown aren't credibly done outside government -- military, justice system (police and courts), funding basic scientific research (not technology research!), and so on.
I considered buying one of these, but the mandatory use of a third party server in "the cloud" was a real turn off.
The government was no longer interested because Levison defied the court's order and stalled the FBI for months. When you act to eliminate the presumption of willingness to cooperate with the Feds, neither they nor the court tend to afford you leeway when setting the terms of that cooperation.
RTFA. That's basically what did happen. At first. Then the FBI went to court and got an actual lawful court order. Lavabit still refused. After months of obstructing the court's lawful order the disgusted court said: you've been uncooperative and defied our order, so now you must turn over the keys. And by the way, this is your last chance to stay out of jail.
Lavabit should have hired a lawyer and followed his advice.
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I hate this and I hate every web site that does this. Get it through your thick skulls: my web browser width is different than your preferred width.
When they were done ripping me off for my trade, they didn't continue to sap value from the company whose shares I owned.
HFT's rake it in. Where do you think that money comes from?
I'll take the dark ages. The market makers were more transparent and, well, honest about ripping me off. And ultimately they ripped me off for less.
Hear hear! All it would take is one law: you may not both buy and sell a stock or option in the same 24-hour period.
We need to stop rewarding folks for high-speed trading. It basically steals money from the folks genuinely invested in the companies whose stock is traded and adds no value to the system at all.
Well, yes, yes it would. Did the fed time their release for exactly 2:00 and slave their clocks to the naval observatory (as many modern computer systems do)? Does the financial community know this? The financial community has hyper-accurate knowledge of timing in their own systems as well as exactly how many milliseconds it takes to complete a trade.
Suppose you have information leaked an hour ahead of time. You can't act on it then because it'd be obvious that you had leaked information and you know they're looking for that. So, you have to wait until everybody else has it. But if you wait until everybody else starts to react to the news, your leaked information is worthless.
You also only have an hour to think about what to do, so you can't change your IT system and whatever plan you come up with you have to either act immediately or not. So, you tell your existing IT system that is already capable of hyper-accurate timing to execute a trade just after the announcement.
Later on you realize that everybody has hyper-accurate timing, not just you.
Seriously, I've been contacted by maybe a dozen financial company recruiters who want me to squeeze another quarter millisecond out of their trading network. I'd sooner flip burgers. Millisecond trading is theft. Period. Even when it happens enough milliseconds after receiving information to have broken no law.
It's not his job to set up at a traffic light explicitly looking for harmless technical violations. He has discretion where he sets up and which traffic violations he focuses on. He's abusing that discretion. That makes him an ass hat.
Makes his chief an ass hat too, for not telling him to go look for actual dangerous behavior.
What an ass hat. Bunch of people harming no one stopped at a light and he screws up their day.
Yes, and look how *few* citizens are detained as enemy combatants. No piece of paper can prevent all abuse. There are always individuals willing to decide that the end justifies the means. Yet look how effectively the fifth amendment *reduces* such misbehavior.
For the purpose of my statements:
suspect = defendant.
suspect != witness.
"enhanced interrogation" = torture.
So yes, I would expect the "enhanced interrogation" of a U.S. citizen captured on U.S. soil to be obstructed by the 5th amendment. As in fact it appears to be - our government shows vastly less restraint when interrogating non-citizens captured in a battle zone.
The point of the amendment, its spirit, was to do everything the written word could reasonably do to prevent the authorities from torturing a false confession out of someone. And they were wise about it. Penalties for torture were known to be ineffective -- authorities figured the ends justified the means and that they could get away with it. And they were right.. So the founders came at it from another direction: make the torture self-defeating.
It wasn't even the crown they were worried about -- the notorious Salem witch trials were a fresh part of the founders' history,.
They didn't extend the protection to witnesses because witnesses weren't being tortured to get them to lie -- only defendants were.
From TFA:
The simple fact is that you need to lock your user account if you want to protect your information. If you don't do that, nothing else really matters because it's all just theater and won't actually stop anyone willing to invest minimal effort.
And there it is. The bottom line. Kember demands that Chrome engage in security theater and the Chrome authors said no. As they should.
Or a couple of minutes considering most capchas are illegible.
Hear hear! Captchas were fine when they started but lately they do this weird wavy thing. I have to hit reload a few times before I get one where I can make out all the letters... and my vision is just fine.
If he's leaving happy, ask him (and your boss) to work out an hourly consulting rate so you can reach out to him for the next few months and he'll be properly compensated for it.