Pretty sure you're misapplying information theory. The simulation is capable of displaying a complex result, but it doesn't. Likewise, robots are capable of repairing other robots, but they don't. Whether or not the system is able to present a complex result is not the limiting factor here.
The point is, the FOSS project(s) are your portfolio, similar to how a graphic artist, photographer, architect demonstrates their ability with a portfolio.
The difference is, the artist's portfolio is built up with their paid work. Every project they work on gets added to it. A programmer can't simply take company code with them when they go interviewing, so the project has to be a hobby project.
Can't be bothered to do at least one hobby/self-training/benevolent programming project? You don't love programming enough to be that good at it
That logic doesn't follow. Not everyone who's great at programming works on hobby projects, and not every such project will be published on Github. I work with 2 people who don't program after work, and they are just as productive as everyone else. As for myself, I also don't publish my non-work projects, because I can't be bothered to write documentation for them and I've coded them to serve my use case specifically.
Are you saying that sexual harassment is somehow required to be a creative, forward pushing company?
He is not saying that. Read this again:
This seems just another case of a women who has had a lifetime of women's privilege deference and accommodation running into the hard truths of equality in a tough work environment.
He is referring to her complaint that she was being passed over for a promotion, implying she wasn't good enough in a fair competition against her male peers. Stop constructing strawmans just to reinforce your SJW world view.
Not everyone is going to spend months doing work for free just so they can apply to your company. Some of them have better things to do, like actual paid work.
Some people seem to think that they're a capable engineer if they can look it all up on the internet / stack overflow. Sorry, I'd rather fail your interview and hire the guy who wrote the book or the stack overflow post.
Exactly this. The guy might have a 30-year coding experience, but he probably doesn't even write any code in Python and I wouldn't hire him for a Python job. If he really wanted the job, he would've spent a week coding stuff up in Python to get familiar with it, and he'd have no problems at the interview.
Usually when people apply to a big software company with a well-known history of asking hard coding questions, they would spend a week or two reviewing their algorithms knowledge. You obviously weren't all that interested, which is fine. But the question works for everyone else. If even after studying the material, they still couldn't code their way out of a wet paper bag, then maybe they're not really up to par.
Can it [Google Maps] tell you the best days to get in that great kebab shop that doesn't have a website or facebook page, and who there is the best cook? A London black cab driver can.
Really? There are over 27,000 restaurants in London, with 1700 new ones opening just in 2015. Unless London Cabbie's are all the Rain Man in disguise, I don't see this happening.
. . . but as an initial point, what's wrong with requiring drivers in ENGLAND to show mastery of ENGLISH ??
Because the UK as a whole decided to bring in tons of people who don't speak English into their country, and now those people want to make a living. And also because at no point in the "hail the car with an app", "type in destination", "get in the car", "wait" and "leave the car" process do you need to talk to the Uber driver.
But secondly, that's actually a minor hurdle, compared to the "knowledge" required to pass the legendarily hard London Cab Drive License Test
At this point, a test of a person's ability at memorizing locations is entirely pointless. If Google Maps can pass that test, then everyone using it should automatically pass it. In fact, I'll bet for any randomly selected set of destinations, Google Maps will out perform the cab driver average.
If the option is there, I have to assume I'd be an asshole not to tip. The majority of the people I talked to tipped taxis, while the rest are adamant about not doing it. And of those that do tip, none of them give the same amount. For Uber, nobody I know tipped.
Mind you, I don't mind rewarding people for good service. One time I tipped an Uber driver for providing bottled water in the car. But tips should really be something extraordinary, rather than expected.
But both Lyft and traditional taxis want tips, and I can never figure out how much I'm supposed to give. Is it 15%? 20%? $5? Should I tip more based on the ride length? If I'm already paying for service, what do tips do anyways?
The fact that I don't have to worry about these things is enough for me to continue using Uber.
Money isn't really a problem either way. Wall Street will fund anything they think will make big bucks. The big Silicon Valley companies have been making huge profits, so if they needed money for an auto plant, plenty of investors would jump at the chance.
I mean, we don't even have to talk about hypotheticals. There's a real example of a Silicon Valley big shot going into the auto industry: Elon Musk. He made it big with PayPal, and now he's building building billion-dollar factories and making cars that people are lining up to buy. He's also pretty far ahead of the pack in terms of self-driving cars that you can actually use.
The GPL prevents a company from taking open source software developed by enthusiasts, making a few small changes, then charging for it. But here, the government developed the software by charging (in the form of taxes) both individuals and businesses. It makes sense that the code they create should be free to use by everyone. Attaching something like the GPL to it would mean lots of businesses can't use the code without also open-sourcing their own proprietary code.
The main problem is the curvature not being adjustable. I would like a 50 inch UHDTV as a monitor instead of two 20 inch ones next to each other, but even for a curved one, if I sit 2 feet away from it, it'll be hard to see the edges.
Size matters. Those 520 tests includes many multi-megaton weapons. The 800 puny 0.03 kilo-ton weapons add up to less power than Little Boy and Fat Man combined. And since they're thermonuclear weapons, they're much cleaner than either of them.
Everything nuclear pulse propulsion does, we have already done a thousand times much worse with atmospheric tests. And keeping them safe is much easier than our current stock of nuclear weapons, which for military reasons must be placed all across the globe at many different locations.
Well why shouldn't we be worried about nuclear fallout?
Because eating a banana will give you more cancer risk than this launch.
Freeman Dyson was doing small scale engineering/testing for an interplanetary mission not an interstellar one.
No. They planned for Mars, but also did the calculations for crafts up to 8 million tons.
... even if it could be launched from the ground I don't think that would be a very efficient way to do it and would require a lot more nuclear bombs detonating in the atmosphere.
It needs 800 nukes to get into orbit. Again, if we assume $2 million per warhead, this come out to $1.6 billion, or $0.20 per kg. Compare that to Falcon 9's $5,500 per kg price. This is very cost-efficient.
This is a much more sensible definition of planets. Not perfect, since many moons would become planets, which is confusing. But it's miles better than the current IAU definition, because a planet's planetary status wouldn't depend on where it is, and potentially where other planets are.
Imagine a planet orbiting a star, that due to gravitational influence of other planets (or another passing star) was kicked out of the system. Under the current definition, it's suddenly no longer a planet. Likewise, if two planets share a part of their orbit, even though they're in a stable resonance that prevents them from ever colliding, neither are planets because neither has "cleared its neighboring region". In fact, Neptune and Pluto are in such a configuration, so neither are planets (except they also arbitrarily declared Neptune a planet and Pluto a dwarf planet). Oh and it's only a planet if it's in the Solar System. Exoplanets be damned.
The ships could not be launched from earth and so would have to be constructed either from orbit
Orion was actually designed to take off from the ground, so no, you don't need to build it in space unless you're worried about radioactive fallout, which could potentially kill a handful of people across the globe by ever so slightly increasing cancer rates.
Orion can launch several hundred tons to orbit using very tiny nuclear bombs (0.03 kt). It wouldn't be too hard to scale up the ship by scaling up the bombs. It'll take a few tries before we're launching millions of tons, but we'll get there pretty quickly. At that point, everything is easy, because lots of problems (and expenses) of space travel basically goes away. Radiation for example, isn't a problem if you can have a 20-foot thick wall of water containers surrounding the ship. Energy is easy because you can run a full-scale nuclear power plant onboard. Living space is no problem, nor food and oxygen production.
Now, I'm sure that building so many nuclear bombs would cost a lot of money. About $2 million each. But even building the 20,000 you'll need for the trip is still in the same price range as the ISS, which costed $150 billion.
If s = 'H' actually compiled, it would be very bad, because s is a pointer, and 'H', being a char, can be converted to an int value of 72. What this code would do is to set the pointer s to a memory address of 72.
What's can you find at byte #72 in memory? Who knows! But it's probably not the character "H".
I think what bothers me, despite not being a Trump supporter, is how they spin even the positive things he did in the negative direction. Remember when he strengthened rules against lobbying? Well, NYT put their spin on it:
While the title is technically true, the parts he strengthened is much more significant than the ones he weakened. Even the critics they interviewed conclude that this is a big step in the right direction. But if you only read the title, you'd think it didn't do much at all. So if NYT was reporting in earnest, the title should've been "Trump Strengthens Lobbying Ban with new Executive Order".
I looked at one example at random, but I'm sure there are others like his ending the TPP or the jobs that he kept from moving to Mexico by literally calling the CEO of the company. And that's not getting into controversial topics like his deporting of illegal immigrants, which if you think about it, is just enforcing existing immigration laws created by congress, something that any president should've been doing. This is neutral in my book, but I guarantee you, every NYT article on it is going to be negative.
He does plenty of stupid stuff worthy of being called out on, so there's absolutely no need to try to make him look bad elsewhere. He does it all to himself.
he'll pay you 2.99 for each item you box/wrap, print and stick on an address label, and take to post office and put on postage
But let's assume I'm paying for the shipping too: I can ship CD's in large envelopes for $0.98 each. The envelope itself is $0.20. Labels cost $0.40 per sheet, each of which fits about 10 labels, so $0.04 per envelope. Ink is maybe 1 cent. Or I can just write the address with a pen instead. And since I'm using envelopes that come with an adhesive strip, I don't need packing tape.
After subtracting the costs, I'm still making $1.70 each, for a total of $128 per hour.
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Pretty sure you're misapplying information theory. The simulation is capable of displaying a complex result, but it doesn't. Likewise, robots are capable of repairing other robots, but they don't. Whether or not the system is able to present a complex result is not the limiting factor here.
Enough skin and organs and they make babies with us. Creepy. And so lonely.
Women would love that, no more carrying around a meat sack for 9 months.
Let's start at the top with the president.
The point is, the FOSS project(s) are your portfolio, similar to how a graphic artist, photographer, architect demonstrates their ability with a portfolio.
The difference is, the artist's portfolio is built up with their paid work. Every project they work on gets added to it. A programmer can't simply take company code with them when they go interviewing, so the project has to be a hobby project.
Can't be bothered to do at least one hobby/self-training/benevolent programming project? You don't love programming enough to be that good at it
That logic doesn't follow. Not everyone who's great at programming works on hobby projects, and not every such project will be published on Github. I work with 2 people who don't program after work, and they are just as productive as everyone else. As for myself, I also don't publish my non-work projects, because I can't be bothered to write documentation for them and I've coded them to serve my use case specifically.
Are you saying that sexual harassment is somehow required to be a creative, forward pushing company?
He is not saying that. Read this again:
This seems just another case of a women who has had a lifetime of women's privilege deference and accommodation running into the hard truths of equality in a tough work environment.
He is referring to her complaint that she was being passed over for a promotion, implying she wasn't good enough in a fair competition against her male peers. Stop constructing strawmans just to reinforce your SJW world view.
No FOSS projects? Ask them to re-apply later.
Not everyone is going to spend months doing work for free just so they can apply to your company. Some of them have better things to do, like actual paid work.
Some people seem to think that they're a capable engineer if they can look it all up on the internet / stack overflow. Sorry, I'd rather fail your interview and hire the guy who wrote the book or the stack overflow post.
Exactly this. The guy might have a 30-year coding experience, but he probably doesn't even write any code in Python and I wouldn't hire him for a Python job. If he really wanted the job, he would've spent a week coding stuff up in Python to get familiar with it, and he'd have no problems at the interview.
Usually when people apply to a big software company with a well-known history of asking hard coding questions, they would spend a week or two reviewing their algorithms knowledge. You obviously weren't all that interested, which is fine. But the question works for everyone else. If even after studying the material, they still couldn't code their way out of a wet paper bag, then maybe they're not really up to par.
Can it [Google Maps] tell you the best days to get in that great kebab shop that doesn't have a website or facebook page, and who there is the best cook? A London black cab driver can.
Really? There are over 27,000 restaurants in London, with 1700 new ones opening just in 2015. Unless London Cabbie's are all the Rain Man in disguise, I don't see this happening.
. . . but as an initial point, what's wrong with requiring drivers in ENGLAND to show mastery of ENGLISH ??
Because the UK as a whole decided to bring in tons of people who don't speak English into their country, and now those people want to make a living. And also because at no point in the "hail the car with an app", "type in destination", "get in the car", "wait" and "leave the car" process do you need to talk to the Uber driver.
But secondly, that's actually a minor hurdle, compared to the "knowledge" required to pass the legendarily hard London Cab Drive License Test
At this point, a test of a person's ability at memorizing locations is entirely pointless. If Google Maps can pass that test, then everyone using it should automatically pass it. In fact, I'll bet for any randomly selected set of destinations, Google Maps will out perform the cab driver average.
Also why the hell aren't you tipping Uber Drivers?
Because I don't feel the need to. I'd give the driver fewer stars if they give me poor service, but that's never happened.
Also, I've never been in an Uber car that smelled, or in a taxi that didn't. Tips have nothing to do with the service quality.
If the option is there, I have to assume I'd be an asshole not to tip. The majority of the people I talked to tipped taxis, while the rest are adamant about not doing it. And of those that do tip, none of them give the same amount. For Uber, nobody I know tipped.
Mind you, I don't mind rewarding people for good service. One time I tipped an Uber driver for providing bottled water in the car. But tips should really be something extraordinary, rather than expected.
But both Lyft and traditional taxis want tips, and I can never figure out how much I'm supposed to give. Is it 15%? 20%? $5? Should I tip more based on the ride length? If I'm already paying for service, what do tips do anyways?
The fact that I don't have to worry about these things is enough for me to continue using Uber.
Money isn't really a problem either way. Wall Street will fund anything they think will make big bucks. The big Silicon Valley companies have been making huge profits, so if they needed money for an auto plant, plenty of investors would jump at the chance.
I mean, we don't even have to talk about hypotheticals. There's a real example of a Silicon Valley big shot going into the auto industry: Elon Musk. He made it big with PayPal, and now he's building building billion-dollar factories and making cars that people are lining up to buy. He's also pretty far ahead of the pack in terms of self-driving cars that you can actually use.
This.
The GPL prevents a company from taking open source software developed by enthusiasts, making a few small changes, then charging for it. But here, the government developed the software by charging (in the form of taxes) both individuals and businesses. It makes sense that the code they create should be free to use by everyone. Attaching something like the GPL to it would mean lots of businesses can't use the code without also open-sourcing their own proprietary code.
The main problem is the curvature not being adjustable. I would like a 50 inch UHDTV as a monitor instead of two 20 inch ones next to each other, but even for a curved one, if I sit 2 feet away from it, it'll be hard to see the edges.
Size matters. Those 520 tests includes many multi-megaton weapons. The 800 puny 0.03 kilo-ton weapons add up to less power than Little Boy and Fat Man combined. And since they're thermonuclear weapons, they're much cleaner than either of them.
Everything nuclear pulse propulsion does, we have already done a thousand times much worse with atmospheric tests. And keeping them safe is much easier than our current stock of nuclear weapons, which for military reasons must be placed all across the globe at many different locations.
Well why shouldn't we be worried about nuclear fallout?
Because eating a banana will give you more cancer risk than this launch.
Freeman Dyson was doing small scale engineering/testing for an interplanetary mission not an interstellar one.
No. They planned for Mars, but also did the calculations for crafts up to 8 million tons.
... even if it could be launched from the ground I don't think that would be a very efficient way to do it and would require a lot more nuclear bombs detonating in the atmosphere.
It needs 800 nukes to get into orbit. Again, if we assume $2 million per warhead, this come out to $1.6 billion, or $0.20 per kg. Compare that to Falcon 9's $5,500 per kg price. This is very cost-efficient.
I feel like almost all reporting is negative nowadays. Tech and science are the two categories that still have good news being reported.
This is a much more sensible definition of planets. Not perfect, since many moons would become planets, which is confusing. But it's miles better than the current IAU definition, because a planet's planetary status wouldn't depend on where it is, and potentially where other planets are.
Imagine a planet orbiting a star, that due to gravitational influence of other planets (or another passing star) was kicked out of the system. Under the current definition, it's suddenly no longer a planet. Likewise, if two planets share a part of their orbit, even though they're in a stable resonance that prevents them from ever colliding, neither are planets because neither has "cleared its neighboring region". In fact, Neptune and Pluto are in such a configuration, so neither are planets (except they also arbitrarily declared Neptune a planet and Pluto a dwarf planet). Oh and it's only a planet if it's in the Solar System. Exoplanets be damned.
The ships could not be launched from earth and so would have to be constructed either from orbit
Orion was actually designed to take off from the ground, so no, you don't need to build it in space unless you're worried about radioactive fallout, which could potentially kill a handful of people across the globe by ever so slightly increasing cancer rates.
Orion can launch several hundred tons to orbit using very tiny nuclear bombs (0.03 kt). It wouldn't be too hard to scale up the ship by scaling up the bombs. It'll take a few tries before we're launching millions of tons, but we'll get there pretty quickly. At that point, everything is easy, because lots of problems (and expenses) of space travel basically goes away. Radiation for example, isn't a problem if you can have a 20-foot thick wall of water containers surrounding the ship. Energy is easy because you can run a full-scale nuclear power plant onboard. Living space is no problem, nor food and oxygen production.
Now, I'm sure that building so many nuclear bombs would cost a lot of money. About $2 million each. But even building the 20,000 you'll need for the trip is still in the same price range as the ISS, which costed $150 billion.
If s = 'H' actually compiled, it would be very bad, because s is a pointer, and 'H', being a char, can be converted to an int value of 72. What this code would do is to set the pointer s to a memory address of 72.
What's can you find at byte #72 in memory? Who knows! But it's probably not the character "H".
Trump Toughens Some Facets of Lobbying Ban and Weakens Others
While the title is technically true, the parts he strengthened is much more significant than the ones he weakened. Even the critics they interviewed conclude that this is a big step in the right direction. But if you only read the title, you'd think it didn't do much at all. So if NYT was reporting in earnest, the title should've been "Trump Strengthens Lobbying Ban with new Executive Order".
I looked at one example at random, but I'm sure there are others like his ending the TPP or the jobs that he kept from moving to Mexico by literally calling the CEO of the company. And that's not getting into controversial topics like his deporting of illegal immigrants, which if you think about it, is just enforcing existing immigration laws created by congress, something that any president should've been doing. This is neutral in my book, but I guarantee you, every NYT article on it is going to be negative.
He does plenty of stupid stuff worthy of being called out on, so there's absolutely no need to try to make him look bad elsewhere. He does it all to himself.
Yes, just kill everybody. We're all equal when we're dead. Might put a stopper on that global warming thing too.
he'll pay you 2.99 for each item you box/wrap, print and stick on an address label, and take to post office and put on postage
But let's assume I'm paying for the shipping too: I can ship CD's in large envelopes for $0.98 each. The envelope itself is $0.20. Labels cost $0.40 per sheet, each of which fits about 10 labels, so $0.04 per envelope. Ink is maybe 1 cent. Or I can just write the address with a pen instead. And since I'm using envelopes that come with an adhesive strip, I don't need packing tape.
After subtracting the costs, I'm still making $1.70 each, for a total of $128 per hour.