I have a guy who can write the hell out of C# and C++ but the only way you get anything out of him is to give me the most detailed SOW you can possibly provide. You try to get him to talk to any stakeholder, process owner or direct management and he's as useless as tits on a bull.
Which is why you have a Systems Analyst as the go between, or at the very least, a Project Manager. Two shops I have worked in have cordoned off the developers from the users (including and particularly external customers.) Give the coder direction and let him/her go to it.
It's incredibly easy to convert an old VW diesel to run on kitchen grease. The trickiest part is keeping the viscosity down so you can pump it to the engine, but there's plenty of kits out there with in tank heaters for colder regions.
Mechanic on my two previous cars was running a Mercedes diesel on bio fuel. He had some setup outside his house, which processed cooking oil into fuel. Initially he had no trouble finding local restaurants who were happy to give away their used oil (rather than pay for disposal.) Not so available anymore, people are willing to pay for it now.
In other news, there's a flight recently by a jet powered by biofuel - mostly for promotional reasons as the jet requirement came in at about g/$17 as opposed to g/$3 for petrol jet fuel.
Well, Dual Stack Lite is going to be their long term IPv4 availability, which removes NAT from the CPE and shifts it up into the ISP layer. So all of your transactions will be manipulated inside the ISP's AFTR element, which would be a very convenient place to mine your data stream for goodies. But that would be paranoid to think they would do that. Especially when they could do it anywhere else just as easily!
I'm just thinking ahead - perhaps the next box delivered to me for DSL could very well have some memory they could upload instructions to, to sniff on the spot and report back what it spots, rather than requiring the provider to sniff at their end.
With net neutrality going in and out of legislation (or directions to/from FCC) I'm not taking things for remaining status quo.
Disturbing story on the BBC, a while back, regarding recovered grease from disposal, grease traps, drains, etc. being recycled into packaged cooking oil in China. Yum.
Where's there's opportunity, all that's needed is people with the required ethics.
Attach a three atom knife to it with a suture gadget and send right into the heart for a by-pass
While the car may be small, the means to control it may be considerably larger (still no problem for even the tiniest capillary) but what are the body's defences to make of these tiny hoards roving aroun inside you?
> Pharaoh's Curse games Montezuma's Revenge was better =) Ironically, as an Apple ][ fan, I still have a soft spot for C64 Pharaoh's Curse =) http://symlink.dk/nostalgia/c64/montezuma/
Ah, another game I really loved. Got tougher at higher levels with larger pyramids, IIRC.
If I were a recruiter, I would automatically be wary of anyone who seriously refers to themselves as a "guru" of $language. Sure, you may be good at writing code and may know a particular library inside out, but anyone who calls themselves a guru probably has a very overinflated sense of their importance and actual skill level. These also tend to be the people who have the right buzzwords to get past HR filters and then proceed to bullshit their way through interviews.
"It says in your resume you were part of the initial development team and wrote one of the first reference books on $language."
"That is correct, I was also part of a team which worked to ensure cross-platform consistency and stability. I've also written tutorials in $language and developed several application examples which are included in the reference website."
"Anything else you'd like to add?"
"I also have chaired the past two Worldwide $language development conferences and am teaching an Introduction to $language at the local community college."
"That all sounds very good, but what development experience do you have developing $language in $businessEnvironment?"
"None, really. I think this will likely be the first instance of its kind using $language in $businessEnvironment."
"Sorry to hear that. We're looking for someone with more experience. Thank you for your time, there's the door."
Java is one of the most inefficient languages ever? I take it you've never programmed in ruby, python, perl, etc. IIRC, Java benchmarks have shown it outpacing everything except for C/C++, FORTRAN and OCaml.
On first execution (and compile) it's slow. On first creation of an instance it is slow. After that Java makes up for itself rather nicely. If well implemented it's a great way to go, though I wouldn't chose it for my 3D rendering or reconciling a fiscal year's worth of journal entries, it's not that kind of language.
That's OK, it won't stop moron head hunters from stipulating in the coming weeks that they only want Hadoop programmers with at least 5 - 10 years experience. I remember seeing that for Java programmers... in 2000.
Blame HR departments. They need to spend some time with the internal department which needs the guru. I remember having a good laugh in 1999 when some ads were run, looking for people with at least 10 years Java experience. The sick thing is the HR department or Headhunter will use that as a screening device and only end up with liars applying -- like the contractor we had for 2 weeks, who claimed to be an expert in a staggering number of tools and languages, despite a rather young age -- yeah, he had to borrow my copy K & R to try to puzzle how to write a date verification function and in a week he still didn't have it done, so much for being proficient in c.
If you want a strong userbase, projects with good, easy to use learning resources do better. When you hit the hadoop main page, they tell you what it is, but not what you need to know in order to use it. They don't tell you what languages it supports. They give no examples of usage. Essentially, they don't do you any favours.
I spent some time trying to implement some nice free tools from IBM and Apache. I found I needed to download X and do a build of it, but half way through it wanted Y to complete the build. OK... So I go find Y and try doing a build on it, but need something else from Apache, which doesn't like the vesion of Apache I'm running. So I get the other Apache thing and find I can't get it to start up. I go research it and find conflicting and incomplete information all over the web. I throw in the towel.
One thing needed is One source for information and clear instructions for a basic, default build of a platform. Once that is reliable, then document ways to add foo and bar or even plugh if it suits you.
Yup. Would anyone have installed Silverlight if it hadn't been for Netflix?
Never interested in Netflix, but to watch some videos on the BBC required it. I may have installed it, once. Can't remember the last time I actually used Silverlight for anything. Adoption was pretty limited.
In this case that would be a step in the right direction. Flash is much more widely available than Silverlight is at present.
Flash might be more widely available, but the Silverlight performance is clearly better, so it would be a step in the direction of lower video quality and higher processor and memory utilization.
Wow. That would be about as bad as the VCR market adopting VHS over the vastly superiour quality of Betamax!
I like coding, creating, developing, but work is often just mundane stuff. Once in a while there's a carrot, to develop something new, replace a cruddy old process with something better. Enjoy those rare opportunities.
At home I keep encountering things I'd like to develop, so I do a bit here and there. And I can work in the language I prefer, in the environment I prefer, at home.
So the incentive for people to be creative, finding better ways to increase profit goes from a system of irregular rewards to one of threat? e.g. You don't make $$$ in quarter, you get the sack.
While this may be popular with the people who lost jobs or homes, plus the Occupy movement, banks probably won't go for it as psychology has determined we are more productive with irregular, but predictable (you know you'll get a bonus of you make the money) rewards.
I'd rather the change to banks be that they are not to put more than certain % at risk. I know they don't like that, but better safe and steady than another massive flop like 1929 or 2008.
Can we just agree that Angry Birds is the new "Snake" and move on?
Puts me more in the mind of Castles of Doctor Creep or Pharaoh's Curse games, which involved a certain measure of puzzle solving, on and off screen. Love to see these come back, particular Dr. Creep.
Wonder if Captain America ever used his shield as clipboard (i think he actually did in the movie), if so we have prior art if they try to patent this.
I remember Politeness Man wielding similar devices, perhaps this would be the perfect device for Bureaucrat Man or Safety Inspector Man or any of dozens of new super heroes - the comic book biz really needs them, they've been beating to death the heroes they've got.
It seems unlikely that this tablet will include a spinning hard drive, so I don't think the Thailand flooding has any real relevance. SSD supply was not affected.
A great many other bits and pieces are manufactured in Thailand, aside HDD and support.
Regarding other matters of substance, I sped down to the asian grocery and loaded up on foods I eat, which are from Thailand. Supplies will be drying up because logistics have been hammered as much as manufacturing.
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I have a guy who can write the hell out of C# and C++ but the only way you get anything out of him is to give me the most detailed SOW you can possibly provide. You try to get him to talk to any stakeholder, process owner or direct management and he's as useless as tits on a bull.
Which is why you have a Systems Analyst as the go between, or at the very least, a Project Manager. Two shops I have worked in have cordoned off the developers from the users (including and particularly external customers.) Give the coder direction and let him/her go to it.
Wow, two jokes in one!
In Capitalist Eurozone Greece steals from EU!
Well, only if they default...
It's incredibly easy to convert an old VW diesel to run on kitchen grease. The trickiest part is keeping the viscosity down so you can pump it to the engine, but there's plenty of kits out there with in tank heaters for colder regions.
Mechanic on my two previous cars was running a Mercedes diesel on bio fuel. He had some setup outside his house, which processed cooking oil into fuel. Initially he had no trouble finding local restaurants who were happy to give away their used oil (rather than pay for disposal.) Not so available anymore, people are willing to pay for it now.
In other news, there's a flight recently by a jet powered by biofuel - mostly for promotional reasons as the jet requirement came in at about g/$17 as opposed to g/$3 for petrol jet fuel.
Well, Dual Stack Lite is going to be their long term IPv4 availability, which removes NAT from the CPE and shifts it up into the ISP layer. So all of your transactions will be manipulated inside the ISP's AFTR element, which would be a very convenient place to mine your data stream for goodies. But that would be paranoid to think they would do that. Especially when they could do it anywhere else just as easily!
I'm just thinking ahead - perhaps the next box delivered to me for DSL could very well have some memory they could upload instructions to, to sniff on the spot and report back what it spots, rather than requiring the provider to sniff at their end.
With net neutrality going in and out of legislation (or directions to/from FCC) I'm not taking things for remaining status quo.
Disturbing story on the BBC, a while back, regarding recovered grease from disposal, grease traps, drains, etc. being recycled into packaged cooking oil in China. Yum.
Where's there's opportunity, all that's needed is people with the required ethics.
That's like claiming the interception of one bale of weed at the Mexican Border is a Major Interdiction.
Still, glad they're doing something. Every little bit helps.
Attach a three atom knife to it with a suture gadget and send right into the heart for a by-pass
While the car may be small, the means to control it may be considerably larger (still no problem for even the tiniest capillary) but what are the body's defences to make of these tiny hoards roving aroun inside you?
> Pharaoh's Curse games
Montezuma's Revenge was better =) Ironically, as an Apple ][ fan, I still have a soft spot for C64 Pharaoh's Curse =)
http://symlink.dk/nostalgia/c64/montezuma/
Ah, another game I really loved. Got tougher at higher levels with larger pyramids, IIRC.
...for really short people.
Expecting the Monday follow-up "Nano People" article? That woule really excite some people.
Tuft's University also introduced the first nano car program for public safety - the Nano Tufty Club
Single molecule nano hover car?
If I were a recruiter, I would automatically be wary of anyone who seriously refers to themselves as a "guru" of $language. Sure, you may be good at writing code and may know a particular library inside out, but anyone who calls themselves a guru probably has a very overinflated sense of their importance and actual skill level. These also tend to be the people who have the right buzzwords to get past HR filters and then proceed to bullshit their way through interviews.
"It says in your resume you were part of the initial development team and wrote one of the first reference books on $language."
"That is correct, I was also part of a team which worked to ensure cross-platform consistency and stability. I've also written tutorials in $language and developed several application examples which are included in the reference website."
"Anything else you'd like to add?"
"I also have chaired the past two Worldwide $language development conferences and am teaching an Introduction to $language at the local community college."
"That all sounds very good, but what development experience do you have developing $language in $businessEnvironment?"
"None, really. I think this will likely be the first instance of its kind using $language in $businessEnvironment."
"Sorry to hear that. We're looking for someone with more experience. Thank you for your time, there's the door."
Java is one of the most inefficient languages ever? I take it you've never programmed in ruby, python, perl, etc. IIRC, Java benchmarks have shown it outpacing everything except for C/C++, FORTRAN and OCaml.
On first execution (and compile) it's slow. On first creation of an instance it is slow. After that Java makes up for itself rather nicely. If well implemented it's a great way to go, though I wouldn't chose it for my 3D rendering or reconciling a fiscal year's worth of journal entries, it's not that kind of language.
"a decision would come in the next three to four weeks".. and then a reverse decision every three to four weeks thereafter.
I wonder if the decision process will outlast Meg's tenure at HP.
That's OK, it won't stop moron head hunters from stipulating in the coming weeks that they only want Hadoop programmers with at least 5 - 10 years experience. I remember seeing that for Java programmers... in 2000.
Blame HR departments. They need to spend some time with the internal department which needs the guru. I remember having a good laugh in 1999 when some ads were run, looking for people with at least 10 years Java experience. The sick thing is the HR department or Headhunter will use that as a screening device and only end up with liars applying -- like the contractor we had for 2 weeks, who claimed to be an expert in a staggering number of tools and languages, despite a rather young age -- yeah, he had to borrow my copy K & R to try to puzzle how to write a date verification function and in a week he still didn't have it done, so much for being proficient in c.
After all, every other framework of the month has lasted for 30 years, Hadoop will have at least as much staying power as Ruby on Rails!
I wonder if you can learn how to create and maintain security in less than a week.
If you want a strong userbase, projects with good, easy to use learning resources do better. When you hit the hadoop main page, they tell you what it is, but not what you need to know in order to use it. They don't tell you what languages it supports. They give no examples of usage. Essentially, they don't do you any favours.
I spent some time trying to implement some nice free tools from IBM and Apache. I found I needed to download X and do a build of it, but half way through it wanted Y to complete the build. OK... So I go find Y and try doing a build on it, but need something else from Apache, which doesn't like the vesion of Apache I'm running. So I get the other Apache thing and find I can't get it to start up. I go research it and find conflicting and incomplete information all over the web. I throw in the towel.
One thing needed is One source for information and clear instructions for a basic, default build of a platform. Once that is reliable, then document ways to add foo and bar or even plugh if it suits you.
Yup. Would anyone have installed Silverlight if it hadn't been for Netflix?
Never interested in Netflix, but to watch some videos on the BBC required it. I may have installed it, once. Can't remember the last time I actually used Silverlight for anything. Adoption was pretty limited.
In this case that would be a step in the right direction. Flash is much more widely available than Silverlight is at present.
Flash might be more widely available, but the Silverlight performance is clearly better, so it would be a step in the direction of lower video quality and higher processor and memory utilization.
Wow. That would be about as bad as the VCR market adopting VHS over the vastly superiour quality of Betamax!
I like coding, creating, developing, but work is often just mundane stuff. Once in a while there's a carrot, to develop something new, replace a cruddy old process with something better. Enjoy those rare opportunities.
At home I keep encountering things I'd like to develop, so I do a bit here and there. And I can work in the language I prefer, in the environment I prefer, at home.
So the incentive for people to be creative, finding better ways to increase profit goes from a system of irregular rewards to one of threat? e.g. You don't make $$$ in quarter, you get the sack.
While this may be popular with the people who lost jobs or homes, plus the Occupy movement, banks probably won't go for it as psychology has determined we are more productive with irregular, but predictable (you know you'll get a bonus of you make the money) rewards.
I'd rather the change to banks be that they are not to put more than certain % at risk. I know they don't like that, but better safe and steady than another massive flop like 1929 or 2008.
Can we just agree that Angry Birds is the new "Snake" and move on?
Puts me more in the mind of Castles of Doctor Creep or Pharaoh's Curse games, which involved a certain measure of puzzle solving, on and off screen. Love to see these come back, particular Dr. Creep.
Wonder if Captain America ever used his shield as clipboard (i think he actually did in the movie), if so we have prior art if they try to patent this.
I remember Politeness Man wielding similar devices, perhaps this would be the perfect device for Bureaucrat Man or Safety Inspector Man or any of dozens of new super heroes - the comic book biz really needs them, they've been beating to death the heroes they've got.
And it stops bullets, which means it can probably stop rock too.
But what about scissors?
In Soviet Russia Clipboard stops YOU!
So you get a new box .. does it have anything sponsored by *IAA or DHS to keep tabs on your traffic?
Of course I'm paranoid - I read Slasdot!
It seems unlikely that this tablet will include a spinning hard drive, so I don't think the Thailand flooding has any real relevance. SSD supply was not affected.
A great many other bits and pieces are manufactured in Thailand, aside HDD and support.
Regarding other matters of substance, I sped down to the asian grocery and loaded up on foods I eat, which are from Thailand. Supplies will be drying up because logistics have been hammered as much as manufacturing.