HR will still demand five years of experience in Swift.
There are, RIGHT NOW people with 5 years experience in Swift. Most of them work at Apple. If HR is willing to pay REALLY high wages, they may be able to lure them to work elsewhere.
Now the Firefox team can remove all the developer crap from the regular browser.
Is amazing how most of the browsers, in order to pander to developers, became bloated with developer cruft. Do not get me wrong, getting developers to use your browser as primary is important. Nonetheless, this could have been done using the add-on/plug-in interfaces using an official set of add-ons/plug-ins, instead of bloating the browser.
Here I hope that the offering of a specific browser for developers means that the consumer and ESR browser are streamlined as a result.
I read the linked English article, as well as the article in Spanish that they reference ("Ubuntizando.com"), as well as the original article in Spanish. **
The original article (in Ubuntizando) says NOTHING about the name of the legislator that did the counter-proposal, or anything about any alleged tax breaks. Is mostly derivative and incomplete. From this point onwards, I will reference only the article in "biobiochile"
The second article cites two others which I did not read (I have a limited amount of time). BioBioChile interviews only the "Pro-Free-Software***" (Mirosevic) legislator, and not the other (Farcas) who, as the summary clearly states, was the one who voted against Free Software****. Is only logical that the guy launched a counter-proposal. The only surprising thing is the turn-around time (24h).
Even more, the article (in biobiochile), indicates, in the words of Mirosevic himself***** "Half the people [referring to the other legislators, "diputados", or congressmen for those in the US] had no idea what we were talking about. I do not mean of the concept of Free software, but of software itself, but as we calculated, the rest followed those of us who understood". Is only logical, that they voted on the second initiative again whitout a clear understanding, either folowing party guidelines, or swayed by the 10 legislators that submitted the second motion.
From the way of writing (the subtle nuances are often lost in machine translation), starting with the title of the article itself ("Microsoft Raped Us"), I feel the magazine is "Amarillista" (think tabloid/sensationalist). And Slashdot is just being Slashdot, with the added hurdle of the language barrier.
While I am no big fan (nor am I an enemy) of Microsoft, I am less a fan of tabloids and crappy reporting, hence this comment
* For the record, 296/300 in my ToEFL way back when.
** Is in biobiochile.com, never heard of any of them, here is the link, for what is worth: http://www.biobiochile.cl/2014/08/19/diputado-mirosevic-revela-sabotaje-a-proyecto-que-fomentaba-software-libre-microsoft-nos-violo.shtml
*** Again to recap, the pro-free-software resolution was voted by 64 yes, 1 no and 12 abstentions.
**** Free as in beer, "Libre in Spanish"
***** “La mitad de la gente no tenía idea de qué estábamos hablando. No digo del concepto software libre, más bien de los softwares, pero como habíamos calculado, el resto siguió a los que sí habían entendido”, relató Mirosevic a la publicación.
When my vacation time approached, I loaded a bunch of duplicated emails in the trash folder, and started to operate dangerously close to the mail storage quota.
When I left the office, I left the OutOfOffice reply with the alternate contact. a couple of days after I left, mails would start to bounce.
A couple of days before I was due to return to the office, I connected, just to delete the duplicated email, NOT to check anything.
When I returned, I got fresh email, and the status report from my replacement, go get my up to date/speed.
The internet had, since IPv4, provisions for exactly this, and whole careers have been built by this. It goes by different names, Type of Services, QoS, Traffic Engineering. IPv6 has also provisions for this, so did ATM in its time. MPLS has a HUUUUGE component of this...
Having said that:
Video on Demand traffic from, say comcast, should have the same priority as video on Demand traffic from youtube or netflix (or some future cash strapped start-up). Videoconferencing traffic from skype should have the same priority as videoconferencing trafffic from google+ o Cisco (or some future cash strapped start-up). Web traffic from yahoo should have the same (slighty lower) priority as the web traffic from "mom & pop web server".
You get the drift, not because some big company is willing to pay more, or the ISP wants to double dip you can play with the priorities.
Since the christaline is opaque to UV while some intraocular lenses are not, some people report that after cataract surgery, they can see in augmented colour, probably due to some sensitivity to UV.
I have always been critical about that conventional wisdom of "With enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow".
I contend that is inacurate. With enough QUALIFIED AND MOTIVATED eyes, all bugs are shallow, and sometimes, some FOSS project lack enough Qualified eyes.
This bug, the KDE one, or even the Metafile bug in windows (and more importantly in WINE) among many others, show that many eyes are not enough.
Again one needs MOTIVATED AND QUALIFIED eyes AAAAAND good QA and test cases.
I remember when I was a young engineer. I got promoted through the ranks quickly, and at some point faced the same quagmire as you. What I ended up doing was to take a program of marketing management. Two months, Friday all day and Sat mornings for a month and a half to get a taste of the discipline (I was exposed to economy and accounting at the University, 12 weeks each, and lots of reading on economy, administration, etc). After that brief and non compromising stint, I realized that there were more nuances to marketing than what could be anticipated, and that the whole "Business" field was VERY interesting to me. Therefore, I went and did a full time MBA.
If you are gonna learn on your own (which I do not recommend), try to read the classics, Kotler on marketing management, rice & trout for positioning, etc. No Wikipedia or "Business for dummies" for you.
If you are going to take (a) short course(s) on the subject, go to reputable schools (I did the Short stint at IESA, not high in the world rankings, but best in my country, and did my MBA at IE in Madrid), while there are no hard and fast guarantees, going to reputable institutions will raise the possibility of being exposed to great teachers. Try to go for classroom courses, is harder, but you will build your "networking thingie" much better.
There is no guarantee that doing an MBA will improve your situation. But it would be hell to sign up for an MBA and discovering that you HATE "Business", and ALSO it would also be a grave mistake to decide "What you want to do" without at least a glance of what this "Business" thing is all about.
So it seems I can send a telegram inside venezuela, and to belgium at least, but not to indi come next month. Ok, I'll keep that in mind....
From the post operator in Venezuela: http://www.ipostel.gob.ve/servicios.html
Telegrama: Es un escrito destinado a ser transmitido por telegrafía para su entrega al destinatario, con cobertura nacional e internacional.
Modalidades del Telegrama:
Telegrama Ordinario: Son los telegramas cuya aceptación es obligatoria y no lleva ninguna indicación de servicio.
Telegrama Urgente: Son telegramas a los cuales se les da prioridad para su transmisión y entrega al destinatario.
PC (Acuse de Recibo): Confirmación de entrega (Opcional según la necesidad del cliente).
Giros Telegráficos: A través de nuestros Centros de Atención al Cliente autorizados, a escala nacional, usted puede ordenar un pago a favor de personas naturales y/o jurídicas, la cual será cancelada en su totalidad en la oficina de destino, poniendo a disposición de nuestros clientes, nuestra extensa red de oficinas a nivel nacional.
Telefonograma: Al comunicarse con nuestra línea gratuita de Atención al Cliente 0800 IPOSTEL o 405-3078, usted puede enviar un mensaje telegráfico o telegrama a través de una llamada telefónica. El cobro de este servicio será cargado a su factura CANTV.
Anything that is 16:10 aspect ratio, but most important: PIVOT TYPE. that way, If you want to see large swats of code, you put it in portrait mode. If you want to see code side by side, landscape.
Since the monitor is pivoting, you will need IPS, TN will not do.
Resolution and diagonal up to your taste and budget.
From anecdotal experience, Korean screens are OK. Nonetheless, a recomendation (for koreans or brand names alike) is to buy second hand from your favourite (ebay, craiglist), that way, someone else did the quality control for you (dead pixels, infant mortality, etc), just be clear on the conditions before the transaction is done. Of course, caveat emptor.
Nope, the Spanish say Octeto. We, the Latin Americans say Byte.
Since I did not live in any Western European countries other than Spain, Switzerland and France, I'll not go out on a limb about anything except this:
I am guessing that the quality of the education system in Germany (where you probably had GOOD classes of English as a foreign Language while in High School), couple with the proximity of the two languages (one of my dearest English teachers said that English is a highly simplified/primitive German), makes you guys comfortable with the language.
First my advice: 1.) Leave everything in the code ready for localization. 2.) If you have competent people to do the localization do as many as you can. DO NOT, i repeat DO NOT use Google translate or similar tools to do your localization. 3.) If you can not do a good localization, deffer the work to volunteers.
Now, the reality. I am a Spanish speaker, fluent in English as a second language (For What Is Worth, long time ago, my ToEFL score was 293/300, but I am quite rusty now). I was a manager in telecoms for a long time, now a Teacher (Comp Networks II, mainly Layer 3 Stuff) for Comp Scy and Telecom Engineers in a Jesuit University here.
But my level of English is an exception around here, not the rule. Our university demands an English sufficiency test in order to graduate. And yet, most of the students are incapable of reading in English. Something as simple as reading a paper (for example: "OSI Systems and Network Management" Lakshmi Raman, ADC Telecommunications IEEE Communications Magazine, March 1998) my students will not do in English. They will rather OCR it, then use Google Translate, and will not even refer to the original article when the machine translation gets "wonky".
The fact that the documentation is written in English is of little concern, anything that is remotely interesting will have translations, or books written by native speakers within weeks/months.
*** As some other poster wrote: Non native English speaking programmers will treat the foreign syntax like a black box (in some cases, having to program in English as opposed to Spanish actually helps, in Spanish "Yes" and "If" both map to "Si", and you have to infer which is which from context:-S ). So, an effort to localize is well worth it.
*** And as some other posters wrote: Localize ALSO to show respect to the culture of the other person(s). And remember that part of that respect is to localize correctly, not taking shortcuts like using Google Translate to translate your strings.
So who are the Indian equivalents of Cisco, Avaya, Juniper, Brocade, et al? Yeah, they do have domestic Telecom companies like Airtel, Reliance Communications, but others?
Of the back of my head, I can recall Tejas Semiconductor. There are others, google should serve you well.
It's too early for panic, but those of us in the early parts of their careers will be the ones who have to deal with the problem.
I dealt with the Y2K issue in a Telco environment. When the problem is looming closer, take me out of retirement and offer to pay me a small fortune, and I may consider showing you young lings how it's done.;-)
After RTFA (I know, broke the rules), it appears it wasn't a documented or tracked bug. It was noticed and fixed more than a decade after it was created. Pretty much non-news. If no one ever noticed or cared that their cookies were getting lost on a kde restart then how can you expect it to get fixed? If no one calls it a bug, is it actually a bug?
"With enough eyeballs all bugs are shallow" Right? Well, the theory of the many eyes say that someone somewhere should have noticed/reported/tracked this bug sooner rather than later. this comes to prove that many eyes are NOT enough. First you need more than merely many eyes, you need many QUALIFIED eyes. Second, you need to complement your (many) eyes with systematic test cases to so some QA, trying ad a modicum of rigor, instead of, you know, letting the QA become an ad-hoc subjective process...
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HR will still demand five years of experience in Swift.
There are, RIGHT NOW people with 5 years experience in Swift. Most of them work at Apple. If HR is willing to pay REALLY high wages, they may be able to lure them to work elsewhere.
Now the Firefox team can remove all the developer crap from the regular browser.
Is amazing how most of the browsers, in order to pander to developers, became bloated with developer cruft. Do not get me wrong, getting developers to use your browser as primary is important. Nonetheless, this could have been done using the add-on/plug-in interfaces using an official set of add-ons/plug-ins, instead of bloating the browser.
Here I hope that the offering of a specific browser for developers means that the consumer and ESR browser are streamlined as a result.
My two cents here:
I read the linked English article, as well as the article in Spanish that they reference ("Ubuntizando.com"), as well as the original article in Spanish. **
The original article (in Ubuntizando) says NOTHING about the name of the legislator that did the counter-proposal, or anything about any alleged tax breaks. Is mostly derivative and incomplete. From this point onwards, I will reference only the article in "biobiochile"
The second article cites two others which I did not read (I have a limited amount of time). BioBioChile interviews only the "Pro-Free-Software***" (Mirosevic) legislator, and not the other (Farcas) who, as the summary clearly states, was the one who voted against Free Software****. Is only logical that the guy launched a counter-proposal. The only surprising thing is the turn-around time (24h).
Even more, the article (in biobiochile), indicates, in the words of Mirosevic himself***** "Half the people [referring to the other legislators, "diputados", or congressmen for those in the US] had no idea what we were talking about. I do not mean of the concept of Free software, but of software itself, but as we calculated, the rest followed those of us who understood". Is only logical, that they voted on the second initiative again whitout a clear understanding, either folowing party guidelines, or swayed by the 10 legislators that submitted the second motion.
From the way of writing (the subtle nuances are often lost in machine translation), starting with the title of the article itself ("Microsoft Raped Us"), I feel the magazine is "Amarillista" (think tabloid/sensationalist). And Slashdot is just being Slashdot, with the added hurdle of the language barrier.
While I am no big fan (nor am I an enemy) of Microsoft, I am less a fan of tabloids and crappy reporting, hence this comment
* For the record, 296/300 in my ToEFL way back when.
** Is in biobiochile.com, never heard of any of them, here is the link, for what is worth:
http://www.biobiochile.cl/2014/08/19/diputado-mirosevic-revela-sabotaje-a-proyecto-que-fomentaba-software-libre-microsoft-nos-violo.shtml
*** Again to recap, the pro-free-software resolution was voted by 64 yes, 1 no and 12 abstentions.
**** Free as in beer, "Libre in Spanish"
***** “La mitad de la gente no tenía idea de qué estábamos hablando. No digo del concepto software libre, más bien de los softwares, pero como habíamos calculado, el resto siguió a los que sí habían entendido”, relató Mirosevic a la publicación.
When my vacation time approached, I loaded a bunch of duplicated emails in the trash folder, and started to operate dangerously close to the mail storage quota.
When I left the office, I left the OutOfOffice reply with the alternate contact. a couple of days after I left, mails would start to bounce.
A couple of days before I was due to return to the office, I connected, just to delete the duplicated email, NOT to check anything.
When I returned, I got fresh email, and the status report from my replacement, go get my up to date/speed.
My two cents, YMMV
640 employees ought to be enough.
Nope, in any case, 640k Employees ought to be enough
There, fixed that for you
The internet had, since IPv4, provisions for exactly this, and whole careers have been built by this. It goes by different names, Type of Services, QoS, Traffic Engineering. IPv6 has also provisions for this, so did ATM in its time. MPLS has a HUUUUGE component of this...
Having said that:
Video on Demand traffic from, say comcast, should have the same priority as video on Demand traffic from youtube or netflix (or some future cash strapped start-up).
Videoconferencing traffic from skype should have the same priority as videoconferencing trafffic from google+ o Cisco (or some future cash strapped start-up).
Web traffic from yahoo should have the same (slighty lower) priority as the web traffic from "mom & pop web server".
You get the drift, not because some big company is willing to pay more, or the ISP wants to double dip you can play with the priorities.
And THAT is net neutrality for y'all!
As things stand, the POS editions have a lot of components that will not be fixed (because they are not there) that the main version has/needs.
Wake me up if/when a hack is released to make an XP install pose a a server 2003R2. That will buy me/us a full year of patches., nost likey illegal.
Since the christaline is opaque to UV while some intraocular lenses are not, some people report that after cataract surgery, they can see in augmented colour, probably due to some sensitivity to UV.
slashdot talked about it a while back
http://ask-beta.slashdot.org/story/11/10/02/1937232/ask-slashdot-how-to-exploit-post-cataract-ultraviolet-vision
http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/14/165202/followup-ultraviolet-vision-after-cataract-surgery
So if/when the time comes to replace your christaline, make sure to go for the UV transparent lenses
I have always been critical about that conventional wisdom of "With enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow".
I contend that is inacurate. With enough QUALIFIED AND MOTIVATED eyes, all bugs are shallow, and sometimes, some FOSS project lack enough Qualified eyes.
This bug, the KDE one, or even the Metafile bug in windows (and more importantly in WINE) among many others, show that many eyes are not enough.
Again one needs MOTIVATED AND QUALIFIED eyes AAAAAND good QA and test cases.
Cheers
Not supercaps, no, electrolytics.
What happens if your superduper SSD develops bad cap syndrome?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
I am stil finding equipment with those sorts of failures today...
Not recomending, even having two of them in parallel...
Nope, not for me, sorry
Or, the CLAs are the Slashdot Beta of OSS Communities?
I do not know, just keeping the flame alive... ;-)
I remember when I was a young engineer. I got promoted through the ranks quickly, and at some point faced the same quagmire as you. What I ended up doing was to take a program of marketing management. Two months, Friday all day and Sat mornings for a month and a half to get a taste of the discipline (I was exposed to economy and accounting at the University, 12 weeks each, and lots of reading on economy, administration, etc). After that brief and non compromising stint, I realized that there were more nuances to marketing than what could be anticipated, and that the whole "Business" field was VERY interesting to me. Therefore, I went and did a full time MBA.
If you are gonna learn on your own (which I do not recommend), try to read the classics, Kotler on marketing management, rice & trout for positioning, etc. No Wikipedia or "Business for dummies" for you.
If you are going to take (a) short course(s) on the subject, go to reputable schools (I did the Short stint at IESA, not high in the world rankings, but best in my country, and did my MBA at IE in Madrid), while there are no hard and fast guarantees, going to reputable institutions will raise the possibility of being exposed to great teachers. Try to go for classroom courses, is harder, but you will build your "networking thingie" much better.
There is no guarantee that doing an MBA will improve your situation. But it would be hell to sign up for an MBA and discovering that you HATE "Business", and ALSO it would also be a grave mistake to decide "What you want to do" without at least a glance of what this "Business" thing is all about.
only fittingly, the first content you should watch on netflix after setting this up is a marathon of rube goldberg cartoons.
So it seems I can send a telegram inside venezuela, and to belgium at least, but not to indi come next month. Ok, I'll keep that in mind....
From the post operator in Venezuela:
http://www.ipostel.gob.ve/servicios.html
Telegrama: Es un escrito destinado a ser transmitido por telegrafía para su entrega al destinatario, con cobertura nacional e internacional.
Modalidades del Telegrama:
Telegrama Ordinario: Son los telegramas cuya aceptación es obligatoria y no lleva ninguna indicación de servicio.
Telegrama Urgente: Son telegramas a los cuales se les da prioridad para su transmisión y entrega al destinatario.
PC (Acuse de Recibo): Confirmación de entrega (Opcional según la necesidad del cliente).
Giros Telegráficos: A través de nuestros Centros de Atención al Cliente autorizados, a escala nacional, usted puede ordenar un pago a favor de personas naturales y/o jurídicas, la cual será cancelada en su totalidad en la oficina de destino, poniendo a disposición de nuestros clientes, nuestra extensa red de oficinas a nivel nacional.
Telefonograma: Al comunicarse con nuestra línea gratuita de Atención al Cliente 0800 IPOSTEL o 405-3078, usted puede enviar un mensaje telegráfico o telegrama a través de una llamada telefónica. El cobro de este servicio será cargado a su factura CANTV.
In the Diamond Age, the "premier" teaches logic, programming and nanotechnology in a similar fashion.
While it is good to see the concept taken to practice.....
Nothing new to see here, move along. ;-)
They can not do the plastination.... A while ago chavez expeled the "Bodies revealed" expo from venezuela, and denounced it as inmoral.
Embalming him using that procedure would be an about face that his supporters could not aford...
They have been doing it for ages.
I has exposed to their style as a case stud durng my MBA. I do not have the files handy, but you can research them on the ionternet.
I leave you this link to get you all started:
http://www.co-intelligence.org/S-Semco.html
Anything that is 16:10 aspect ratio, but most important: PIVOT TYPE. that way, If you want to see large swats of code, you put it in portrait mode. If you want to see code side by side, landscape.
Since the monitor is pivoting, you will need IPS, TN will not do.
Resolution and diagonal up to your taste and budget.
From anecdotal experience, Korean screens are OK. Nonetheless, a recomendation (for koreans or brand names alike) is to buy second hand from your favourite (ebay, craiglist), that way, someone else did the quality control for you (dead pixels, infant mortality, etc), just be clear on the conditions before the transaction is done. Of course, caveat emptor.
Would have killed you to provide a link to the Wikipedia article where you Copy&Pasted that pearl of wisdom?
Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language#Significance
Or, if you wanted to pass that pearl of wisdom as your own creation, was it so difficult to remove the reference numbers in brackets? [22].
My god, talk about self absorption.
Nope, the Spanish say Octeto. We, the Latin Americans say Byte.
Since I did not live in any Western European countries other than Spain, Switzerland and France, I'll not go out on a limb about anything except this:
I am guessing that the quality of the education system in Germany (where you probably had GOOD classes of English as a foreign Language while in High School), couple with the proximity of the two languages (one of my dearest English teachers said that English is a highly simplified/primitive German), makes you guys comfortable with the language.
First my advice:
1.) Leave everything in the code ready for localization.
2.) If you have competent people to do the localization do as many as you can. DO NOT, i repeat DO NOT use Google translate or similar tools to do your localization.
3.) If you can not do a good localization, deffer the work to volunteers.
Now, the reality. I am a Spanish speaker, fluent in English as a second language (For What Is Worth, long time ago, my ToEFL score was 293/300, but I am quite rusty now). I was a manager in telecoms for a long time, now a Teacher (Comp Networks II, mainly Layer 3 Stuff) for Comp Scy and Telecom Engineers in a Jesuit University here.
But my level of English is an exception around here, not the rule. Our university demands an English sufficiency test in order to graduate. And yet, most of the students are incapable of reading in English. Something as simple as reading a paper (for example: "OSI Systems and Network Management" Lakshmi Raman, ADC Telecommunications IEEE Communications Magazine, March 1998) my students will not do in English. They will rather OCR it, then use Google Translate, and will not even refer to the original article when the machine translation gets "wonky".
The fact that the documentation is written in English is of little concern, anything that is remotely interesting will have translations, or books written by native speakers within weeks/months.
*** As some other poster wrote: Non native English speaking programmers will treat the foreign syntax like a black box (in some cases, having to program in English as opposed to Spanish actually helps, in Spanish "Yes" and "If" both map to "Si", and you have to infer which is which from context :-S ). So, an effort to localize is well worth it.
*** And as some other posters wrote: Localize ALSO to show respect to the culture of the other person(s). And remember that part of that respect is to localize correctly, not taking shortcuts like using Google Translate to translate your strings.
So who are the Indian equivalents of Cisco, Avaya, Juniper, Brocade, et al? Yeah, they do have domestic Telecom companies like Airtel, Reliance Communications, but others?
Of the back of my head, I can recall Tejas Semiconductor. There are others, google should serve you well.
The summary says:
It's too early for panic, but those of us in the early parts of their careers will be the ones who have to deal with the problem.
I dealt with the Y2K issue in a Telco environment. When the problem is looming closer, take me out of retirement and offer to pay me a small fortune, and I may consider showing you young lings how it's done. ;-)
After RTFA (I know, broke the rules), it appears it wasn't a documented or tracked bug. It was noticed and fixed more than a decade after it was created. Pretty much non-news. If no one ever noticed or cared that their cookies were getting lost on a kde restart then how can you expect it to get fixed? If no one calls it a bug, is it actually a bug?
"With enough eyeballs all bugs are shallow" Right?
Well, the theory of the many eyes say that someone somewhere should have noticed/reported/tracked this bug sooner rather than later.
this comes to prove that many eyes are NOT enough. First you need more than merely many eyes, you need many QUALIFIED eyes.
Second, you need to complement your (many) eyes with systematic test cases to so some QA, trying ad a modicum of rigor, instead of, you know, letting the QA become an ad-hoc subjective process...
You could start as follows:
10 Print "Hello World"
20 goto 10
30 ???
40 rem profit
[said with nick burns tone] you're welcome!!