Dude, this is a chronic problem with east coaster's. They have a shitty job market, they came from an expensive but not necessarily great Ivy league blah blah.
Folks on the west coast simple don't understand nor sympathize with that. We have high caliber University of California schools with their nuke labs and we simply don't feel inferior to folks on the east coast. We have silicon valley, 3 DoE labs, 2 NASA labs. We have great opportunity even in a down economy because the sector with the most potency with regards to technology is largely in Silicon Valley or south San Francisco.
All of you folks are going to the next easiest thing within your particular box. Have you thought about changing the rules of the game by getting out ?
Here's the problem, don't become an academic mathematician. That's a guaranteed dead end job with little mobility. There's biology ? have you thought about those intractable problems that can't be contained in some goofy algebra and other sciences ?
Anonymous coward eh ? After my experience with the financial industry, can't believe anybody that has any real engineering skill would work for complete fuckers like GS and other institutions in those fields. All of that crap is a extension of this Connecticut private school and Ivy league school elitism that has no basis in any of the good American values we'd normally express to other human beings we care for in our community.
Some of it is east coast versus west coast. I went to a UC, we have highly ranked science/engineering schools and we simple do not feel inferior to that east coast mentality while paying 1/3rd the costs for higher education and 1/100th of the attitude problem.
Start looking at the possibility of drug use issues (cocaine) as result of his personality changes. Folks don't just change unless there's something like that driving it. People get better as times goes on as a function of maturity no become more assholes thinking their ego is the only thing that has any effect on the world.
That's bullshit, you look at the bug list and you see all sorts of pointer object mashing bugs. Strong evidence of the ineffectual nature of GObject is how limited the OOP is in that system. Collection classes anybody ?
You should have just eaten it and use one language like Objective C that would have allowed for migration of existing code since it's still C but with a proper dynamic messaging system. I've made this point for years but the nits in GNOME community just don't fucking get it while investing tons of work into a deadend technology like C# for these purposes
They should have built an object glue to GObject into a very mature Objective-C system and called it a day. They'd then have a migration path for existing C code and the ability to use dynamic message passing without shit like CORBA. It's a really simple solution that the GNOME community has completely ignored since development in that organization is stalled. Maybe Ubuntu will be able to pushing some changes with all of this dissent.
Agreed, this show was just too sophisticated for folks to *get*. Depressing ? fuck what are folks thinking about in the US ? You'd be too if you were running out of food and don't know what the hell is going on next.
So many parallels to real life yet the audience for that show just didn't have the self-awareness to get how identifiably the characters are to actual intelligent people. It might have done better in Europe or another audience.
The show was absolutely better than both SG shows and possibly better than BSG in a number of areas regarding per episode human interaction. The problem with the show was the audience. The audience isn't sophisticated enough to *get* the writing for the most part, the depth of the characters and how they're used in the arc.
Keep in mind, instead of watching Charlie Rose for being informed of our of political process folks think that cable news, CNN, FoxNews, etc... is new. That's what the US culturally degraded to, sports and detachment from people and things around them. Same for our own self-awareness. The same crowd complaining probably doesn't have any.
I like SGU better than both previous SG series in general. What folks called 'soap opera' I call psychological which is something that the normally male dork demographic doesn't connect to. The series is a bit of a mind fuck and you can tell it's converging on something a season or so in the future which is a sign of writing that's better than most on SyFy. The writing has been better overall than the SG[A] shows and has had less filler shows as a percentage than BSG overall.
The only problem here is that I'm one of the few defenders of the show and therefore one of few ardent watchers of it.
The law of averages also produced very average results.
There are simply cases where people and the environment their in don't match up. In the valley there's a sufficient amount of start ups with cash out there that can attract those folks suitable for that kind of environment.
They're often highly technical and leaders in their areas of expertise quite often and have that option of staying with a company or leaving. I value the stability of a job, but in general most of the work is of a 'sustaining engineering' capacity and isn't suitable for very senior level engineers that can do principal engineering of various sorts. Your career stagnates and your overall value as an engineer to other companies declines as you become more and more of a bug monkey.
The strategy of moving from company to company is effective if that can be used as fundamental manner to promote yourself upward in the technical food chain. It's difficult for folks that are risk adverse but I find those folks to be pretty fucking boring.
However WebOS has its fair share of nasty bugs that include a system-wide memory that forces you to reboot at some point. The messaging app is barebones and need notifications for when a user comes online.
The cloud aware contact integration is pretty much out of this world at this point. I was able to add a simple Jabber protocol and it was able to 'join' folks I know against all existing contacts intelligently.
The browser could be better as well, fewer bugs. Overclocked kernels running at 720mhz with 24M compcache seems to be the magic sweet spot now for the original Sprint device.
A lot of folks in the homebrew community is pretty hardcore about hacking this device.
Yeah, but I'm willing to bet that the cost of living is also much less where you are. San Francisco and other technological cities in the US are often the most expensive places to live in across the country.
Yes, we're paid a lot of money but in the end the living standard is roughly the same in that you can afford this and that in roughly the same way that we can. Can't comment on the infrastructure of your nation, but having food, housing and healthcare are big pieces that make things so much common between both workforces rather than creating a massive difference in living standard.
There are good plans out there via Google. I made one out of mylar and some left over plastic for a bridging a wifi connection across a canyon. It worked well and it shouldn't be hard to modify it for the cell phone spectrum of your choice.
Yes, that kind of thing happens a lot. It's the "blame game". I've been caught in it more than once. The first time was dealing with a manager that was very politically conservative and really clashed with software engineering types.
The times I've been fired to been put into very bad professional situation were with folks that were either completely nuts managing me or were very judgmental and too narrow minded.
For the sane case, they fail to understand that other folks with very good technical backgrounds can do things completely different than they do can also get important work done. There's a loss of mutual respect there out of their own ignorance.
I left a job because of these circumstances where I was blamed for failing to get stuff done in a manner that an enemy faction would have liked. I eventually showed it to them that I didn't fit that negative image of me that they had, but by then I happily had submitted my notice and moved onto an all our better job, higher paying, more interesting work.:)
Depends on the situation. If you can get a good coding job in a good situation where you can learn a lot, then the master's degree isn't worth it.
I'd continue with education if I couldn't find a decent gig. There's something to be said about doing and open source project as well to get experiences that you can't get in either college or a job situation.
These days, if you have the raw skill, say for kernel development, going through a master's degree program at a University of California minimally would be a waste of time even for Berkeley or something like that.
You can even cut that off sooner than that in that a wide variety of folks drop out of college to do the same thing and just do not suffer from not having either degrees.
Anybody running a 2.4.2 version of the Linux kernel should be shot. Nobody runs 2.4.2 these days and anybody suggesting that is far out of touch with what Linux is doing. Compare it against 2.6.19 with all of the NUMA options turned on (CPU local memory allocators, RCUed algorithms) and you'll see an expected an expected trumping of XP for kernel load hands down because of all of the MP work on it over the 4 years.
>Yes, but adding in RT checks adds a lot of extra processing. Essentially, the system >will have to stop and check to see if it's time for an RT operation when it would >otherwise be doing work. And if the RTOS is doing multiple things in real time, well, >it just gets that much more complicated.
I suggest you look at the -rt patch implementation. It's far from that in that it's mutex based with a irq-threads backing it. The claim it's going to be much slower is ridiculous. That's just flat out ignorance with how concurrency is done in the -rt patch. Fully preemptive doesn't mean "check rescheduling all of the time". I should know. I did a parallel implementation of this patch and was quite successful.
Here's another tidbit of information. Look at the site hosting the information. It's "Aljazeera", the folks that want fundamentalism Muslims to suicide bomb every American interest, along with the Americans, in the middle east by pumping Anti-American propaganda throughout that region.
Those folks are talking about "Dolphins". What the fuck is this ? Fundamentalist religious freaks are talking about Dolphins. Give me a break.
So "reputable news source" my ass, not that I'm conservative, Fox News fan or anything like that. I'm certainly not.
Is a WiFi antenna howto and I build the can-waveguide out of two tomato sauce cans with an N connector. It totaled to about 5 bucks worth of parts and works very well. The tuning for it though might be off and I hand redid with a sheet metal snipper.
Hey, it's Bill. Remember me ? your lone JVM engineer for BSD/OS ? now pissed off former JVM lead for the FreeBSD community ?:)
Yeah, heard about the news, not good. I never like their management layer anyways, they never seem to understand what they had with their product and how incredible and engineering team you folks still are.
Best engineering group I've ever work with and I'm happy to have met and work with you folks for that final year of BSDi, partied at Kirks, and the transition to WRS.
I'll be around via the old email address: billh@gnuppy.monkey.org
Good luck with you folks and drop me a line if you ever get in the San Diego area.
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Clearly you don't know shit about computers and software development in addition to being a blind MS fanboy.
Dude, this is a chronic problem with east coaster's. They have a shitty job market, they came from an expensive but not necessarily great Ivy league blah blah.
Folks on the west coast simple don't understand nor sympathize with that. We have high caliber University of California schools with their nuke labs and we simply don't feel inferior to folks on the east coast. We have silicon valley, 3 DoE labs, 2 NASA labs. We have great opportunity even in a down economy because the sector with the most potency with regards to technology is largely in Silicon Valley or south San Francisco.
All of you folks are going to the next easiest thing within your particular box. Have you thought about changing the rules of the game by getting out ?
Here's the problem, don't become an academic mathematician. That's a guaranteed dead end job with little mobility. There's biology ? have you thought about those intractable problems that can't be contained in some goofy algebra and other sciences ?
Anonymous coward eh ? After my experience with the financial industry, can't believe anybody that has any real engineering skill would work for complete fuckers like GS and other institutions in those fields. All of that crap is a extension of this Connecticut private school and Ivy league school elitism that has no basis in any of the good American values we'd normally express to other human beings we care for in our community.
Some of it is east coast versus west coast. I went to a UC, we have highly ranked science/engineering schools and we simple do not feel inferior to that east coast mentality while paying 1/3rd the costs for higher education and 1/100th of the attitude problem.
Oh, btw we have Silicon Valley
Start looking at the possibility of drug use issues (cocaine) as result of his personality changes. Folks don't just change unless there's something like that driving it. People get better as times goes on as a function of maturity no become more assholes thinking their ego is the only thing that has any effect on the world.
That's bullshit, you look at the bug list and you see all sorts of pointer object mashing bugs. Strong evidence of the ineffectual nature of GObject is how limited the OOP is in that system. Collection classes anybody ?
You should have just eaten it and use one language like Objective C that would have allowed for migration of existing code since it's still C but with a proper dynamic messaging system. I've made this point for years but the nits in GNOME community just don't fucking get it while investing tons of work into a deadend technology like C# for these purposes
They should have built an object glue to GObject into a very mature Objective-C system and called it a day. They'd then have a migration path for existing C code and the ability to use dynamic message passing without shit like CORBA. It's a really simple solution that the GNOME community has completely ignored since development in that organization is stalled. Maybe Ubuntu will be able to pushing some changes with all of this dissent.
Agreed, this show was just too sophisticated for folks to *get*. Depressing ? fuck what are folks thinking about in the US ? You'd be too if you were running out of food and don't know what the hell is going on next.
So many parallels to real life yet the audience for that show just didn't have the self-awareness to get how identifiably the characters are to actual intelligent people. It might have done better in Europe or another audience.
The show was absolutely better than both SG shows and possibly better than BSG in a number of areas regarding per episode human interaction. The problem with the show was the audience. The audience isn't sophisticated enough to *get* the writing for the most part, the depth of the characters and how they're used in the arc.
Keep in mind, instead of watching Charlie Rose for being informed of our of political process folks think that cable news, CNN, FoxNews, etc... is new. That's what the US culturally degraded to, sports and detachment from people and things around them. Same for our own self-awareness. The same crowd complaining probably doesn't have any.
I like SGU better than both previous SG series in general. What folks called 'soap opera' I call psychological which is something that the normally male dork demographic doesn't connect to. The series is a bit of a mind fuck and you can tell it's converging on something a season or so in the future which is a sign of writing that's better than most on SyFy. The writing has been better overall than the SG[A] shows and has had less filler shows as a percentage than BSG overall.
The only problem here is that I'm one of the few defenders of the show and therefore one of few ardent watchers of it.
Title says it all.
The law of averages also produced very average results.
There are simply cases where people and the environment their in don't match up. In the valley there's a sufficient amount of start ups with cash out there that can attract those folks suitable for that kind of environment.
They're often highly technical and leaders in their areas of expertise quite often and have that option of staying with a company or leaving. I value the stability of a job, but in general most of the work is of a 'sustaining engineering' capacity and isn't suitable for very senior level engineers that can do principal engineering of various sorts. Your career stagnates and your overall value as an engineer to other companies declines as you become more and more of a bug monkey.
The strategy of moving from company to company is effective if that can be used as fundamental manner to promote yourself upward in the technical food chain. It's difficult for folks that are risk adverse but I find those folks to be pretty fucking boring.
My two cents
Yes, iPhone & Android fanboys just don't know.
However WebOS has its fair share of nasty bugs that include a system-wide memory that forces you to reboot at some point. The messaging app is barebones and need notifications for when a user comes online.
The cloud aware contact integration is pretty much out of this world at this point. I was able to add a simple Jabber protocol and it was able to 'join' folks I know against all existing contacts intelligently.
The browser could be better as well, fewer bugs. Overclocked kernels running at 720mhz with 24M compcache seems to be the magic sweet spot now for the original Sprint device.
A lot of folks in the homebrew community is pretty hardcore about hacking this device.
Yeah, but I'm willing to bet that the cost of living is also much less where you are. San Francisco and other technological cities in the US are often the most expensive places to live in across the country.
Yes, we're paid a lot of money but in the end the living standard is roughly the same in that you can afford this and that in roughly the same way that we can. Can't comment on the infrastructure of your nation, but having food, housing and healthcare are big pieces that make things so much common between both workforces rather than creating a massive difference in living standard.
There are good plans out there via Google. I made one out of mylar and some left over plastic for a bridging a wifi connection across a canyon. It worked well and it shouldn't be hard to modify it for the cell phone spectrum of your choice.
...and then use a hands free headset. DUH ! (grin)
Just a build a parabolic reflector. There's plans online for doing that in the 2.4ghz spectrum that can be adapted for cell phones.
Yes, that kind of thing happens a lot. It's the "blame game". I've been caught in it more than once. The first time was dealing with a manager that was very politically conservative and really clashed with software engineering types.
The times I've been fired to been put into very bad professional situation were with folks that were either completely nuts managing me or were very judgmental and too narrow minded.
For the sane case, they fail to understand that other folks with very good technical backgrounds can do things completely different than they do can also get important work done. There's a loss of mutual respect there out of their own ignorance.
I left a job because of these circumstances where I was blamed for failing to get stuff done in a manner that an enemy faction would have liked. I eventually showed it to them that I didn't fit that negative image of me that they had, but by then I happily had submitted my notice and moved onto an all our better job, higher paying, more interesting work. :)
Depends on the situation. If you can get a good coding job in a good situation where you can learn a lot, then the master's degree isn't worth it.
I'd continue with education if I couldn't find a decent gig. There's something to be said about doing and open source project as well to get experiences that you can't get in either college or a job situation.
These days, if you have the raw skill, say for kernel development, going through a master's degree program at a University of California minimally would be a waste of time even for Berkeley or something like that.
You can even cut that off sooner than that in that a wide variety of folks drop out of college to do the same thing and just do not suffer from not having either degrees.
It's situation sensitive however.
For all of the comments in this article, I see nothing mention about the mispelling of "Research" in the title of the article.
Anybody running a 2.4.2 version of the Linux kernel should be shot. Nobody runs 2.4.2 these days and anybody suggesting that is far out of touch with what Linux is doing. Compare it against 2.6.19 with all of the NUMA options turned on (CPU local memory allocators, RCUed algorithms) and you'll see an expected an expected trumping of XP for kernel load hands down because of all of the MP work on it over the 4 years.
>Yes, but adding in RT checks adds a lot of extra processing. Essentially, the system >will have to stop and check to see if it's time for an RT operation when it would >otherwise be doing work. And if the RTOS is doing multiple things in real time, well, >it just gets that much more complicated.
I suggest you look at the -rt patch implementation. It's far from that in that it's mutex based with a irq-threads backing it. The claim it's going to be much slower is ridiculous. That's just flat out ignorance with how concurrency is done in the -rt patch. Fully preemptive doesn't mean "check rescheduling all of the time". I should know. I did a parallel implementation of this patch and was quite successful.
Here's another tidbit of information. Look at the site hosting the information. It's "Aljazeera", the folks that want fundamentalism Muslims to suicide bomb every American interest, along with the Americans, in the middle east by pumping Anti-American propaganda throughout that region.
Those folks are talking about "Dolphins". What the fuck is this ? Fundamentalist religious freaks are talking about Dolphins. Give me a break.
So "reputable news source" my ass, not that I'm conservative, Fox News fan or anything like that. I'm certainly not.
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Is a WiFi antenna howto and I build the can-waveguide out of two tomato sauce cans with an N connector. It totaled to about 5 bucks worth of parts and works very well. The tuning for it though might be off and I hand redid with a sheet metal snipper.
Hey, it's Bill. Remember me ? your lone JVM engineer for BSD/OS ? now pissed off former JVM lead for the FreeBSD community ? :)
Yeah, heard about the news, not good. I never like their management layer anyways, they never seem to understand what they had with their product and how incredible and engineering team you folks still are.
Best engineering group I've ever work with and I'm happy to have met and work with you folks for that final year of BSDi, partied at Kirks, and the transition to WRS.
I'll be around via the old email address: billh@gnuppy.monkey.org
Good luck with you folks and drop me a line if you ever get in the San Diego area.
bill