Obama has what, less than 3 more years in the office? And then all the options will be back on the table again, reinstated by the next president. But even that is beside the point. The reason why this is such a pile of bovine manure is because if push comes to shove, this will be the first thing to fly out of the window. Reminds me of ABM systems in Poland. Suure we're not going to use them against Russia right now, but in case when they step on our toes all of a sudden this becomes a distinct possibility. Otherwise we'd have built those systems in Iraq, where they'd be closer to Iran, strikes from which we're supposedly trying to prevent.
US politicians should understand, first and foremost, that other countries are not stupid, and they've learned their lesson several times already, so they assume the worst. Which most of the time turns out to be the right thing to assume.
I don't know, I practice what I preach. I change jobs every 2-2.5 years. Sometimes stay in the same company, sometimes move to another. So far I have no complaints.
And you're right about having verifiable experience, but there's nothing preventing you from acquiring this experience while doing your current job, if it's not too drastically different, or in a different team within your current company. Lateral moves within the company are always easier.
>> for one of the few companies that can afford large pay increases
What part of "you need to move" did you not understand?:-) There's no way I'd have gotten to my level of compensation had I stayed with just one company. Change jobs every couple of years. Build great reputation along the way. That's all there is to it.
My pay nearly doubled in 2010. Maybe it has something to do with me working on my skills portfolio for over a decade and pent up demand for those skills.
One thing for sure - if you want to make more money, you need to ALWAYS be thinking on what skills you could acquire to achieve that goal. Any retard can poorly code up a web page - why would anyone pay a pretty penny for that?
Another life's lesson - if you want to grow, you need to move. Don't sit on your ass in the same job for a decade. Change teams, companies, industries, roles. If you don't do this, the best you can hope for is a 5% merit raise, and that's in a fat year.
It's not the same size, first of all
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Apple's keyboard is virtual, so they show fewer keys at the same time. As a result, keys are about the same size as on their desktop keyboards, which is to say, comfortably large. In addition, since the key boundaries are not defined by their geometry, they use the same predictive technology as on the iPhone which enlarges or shrinks each key's hit area depending on how likely it is to occur in a given context. The net result is that the keyboard is surprisingly good, if you keep the constraints in mind. I found myself typing at a pretty decent WPM right away, but I do have to look at it every now and then due to a different layout. Once I get used to that, it will be perfectly fine.
Since my iPad is on WiFi and I didn't pay anything for a data plan.
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So far only ePub format is supported in iBooks and I don't know about their further plans, but you most certainly can copy your own books onto the device. You can also use its full blown PDF reader with pinch zoom, full UNICODE support (the reason why I did not buy the Kindle is it's shitty with both of those things), color, international keyboard, and the screen is almost the same resolution.
And yes, this is typed on an iPad. Try that with your kindle sometime.
And I will unload their shares if they go for it. Search business is an EXPENSIVE one to run well, and Apple, as of yet, has not demonstrated they can build an online service worth a damn. And that's fine, as long as they don't bet the farm on something that's clearly not their strength. Microsoft lost billions on search (and counting), and so will Apple if they're stupid enough to get in the game.
But they aren't stupid, which is why I don't believe this rumor. Apple is about doing few things well, not about being everything to everybody.
There are about 180 different peoples living in Russia (and USSR before it). Anyone can (and could back then) get a degree. AFAIK there was an "reverse affirmative action" admission limit to higher education institutions for jews specifically at one point (similar limit existed in the US until the 50's, BTW), but his father obviously did not suffer from it.
I don't know about early 1900's obviously. If anything, the conditions for jews had only improved when communists took over - they were severely and unceremoniously oppressed in Tsarist Russia.
I've been in the industry (software) for a decade and a half now. And at no point have I seen anything even remotely resembling a "glass ceiling" for high performance employees. I'm sure it exists in some companies, but I wouldn't generalize to the countries and industries as a whole. As you climb the corp ladder it is expected that shit would get tough. There are fewer opportunities, and stronger competition. At some point you will stagnate. That point has a political component to it, of course, but you gotta learn how to play the game to play it. Russians sometimes feel they're the "smartest" and they're "discriminated against". In majority of cases that's simply not true (at least here in the US).
I heard in Europe (in Germany in particular) things are a great deal more xenophobic, though.
I don't know. I'm a Russian working in a Western company here in the US, and I don't see any glass ceiling. That was sort of my point. Maybe it's you?
Certainly, my most immediate advice to you would be to take some English courses. Otherwise you will experience the "glass ceiling" because natives can barely understand you, if your written English is any indication.
Not to say that there wasn't antisemitism in the USSR, but if you look at the Russian scientific elite, a significant fraction of them (if not the majority) are Jewish. In Russia (and the USSR before it), getting a doctoral degree is a HUGE deal. What they call PhD here is merely a "candidate" degree over there. As a matter of fact you are _NOT GUARANTEED_ to ever become a doctor, whether you're Jewish, Russian or any other nationality. It requires a decade of work (oftentimes more) and significant scientific achievement.
So it could be that his father just didn't have what it took to become a doctor, and blamed it on antisemitism. If I were to guess, I'd give that course of events a 90% probability. I also find it funny that Sergey's world view could be severely affected by something like that. Life wasn't bad in the USSR, particularly in 79. Worse in some ways than it is in Russia right now, but far from bad in absolute terms.
It's not the first maneuverable supersonic CM either. Russian P-500 Bazalt missile was both supersonic and maneuverable and it entered service in 1973 (!). Brahmos is an adaptation of previous generation Russian missile technology, and not even the most advanced variant of that. Russians don't export their latest stuff, particularly the kind of stuff that if push came to shove could be efficiently used against them.
I can (and do) install Chrome on my Ubuntu workstations. They pay a flat licensing fee to MPEG LA, so it doesn't matter how many installs of Chrome are out in the wild, and whether it gets redistributed.
Both Windows 7 and Mac OS X ship with h264 codecs preinstalled, and in the grand scheme of things, the (capped) $5M/year MPEG LA licensing fee would not really cripple Mozilla Corp (which gets $85M a year from Google for search box placement), so even if using built in h264 codecs is not an option for whatever reason, they could still ship ffmpeg.
Now let's assume they don't want to pay $5M. Even then there's an option which they deliberately declined to provide - have a plugin architecture in place which would allow third party codecs.
I'm not sure why they think Theora will win in the end, but at this point I'm fairly certain this isn't going to happen, no matter how hard Mozilla pushes Theora. With Chrome nibbling at Firefox's marketshare from one end, and IE9 offering h264 support on the other end, the lack of de facto compatible HTML5 video is a crippling disadvantage.
They're diversifying their portfolio, which is a normal part of being billionaires. Look up Bill Gates for instance - the guy has been selling shares of Microsoft for decades now, on a schedule.
And yes, they do care about profit, but I challenge you to find a single other company who would have the balls to leave $500M on the table and walk away with ethics being the sole major driving force behind the decision. For that, Google has my deep respect, and I hope others would appreciate this move too.
I contend that for your average ACPI non-expert (99.999% of the population), it seems to be the other way around. I don't care who's wrong, I just want to my laptop to fucking wake up when I open the lid, like it does in Mac OS X and Windows.
Believe it or not, Microsoft is a pretty tolerant company on the inside. You're not required to drink the kool-aid, and using non-Microosft products and services is not frowned upon. Almost everyone (at least in Redmond) uses Google for search, for instance. A lot of smartphone users use iPhone. Some use Android even (even though corp discounts obviously don't apply to either iPhone or Android plans or phones). It is not uncommon to see a Mac running Mac OS X, even though the corp network doesn't really support it. I haven't seen any Linux use on laptops, but that's probably because ACPI support in Linux sucks ass.
There are folks who proudly drink the Kool-Aid, and refuse to use anything non-Microsoft, of course, but they're in minority.
Having worked elsewhere after Microsoft, I've gained a lot of respect for this aspect of Microsoft corporate culture that I had taken for granted. I think at least someone at Microsoft understands that Microsoft has a lot to learn from the rest of the world, and corporate inbreeding is its worst possible enemy.
So much horseshit in just one slide deck. No matter what you do, unless you have at least a hundred machines at your disposal, Hadoop won't be faster than a single box grep from SSDs. LucidDB is excruciatingly slow for all but tiniest datasets. I've tried a good half dozen "solutions" from this slide deck (including Aster), and other than Postgres all of them suck ass, more or less. If you see ANYTHING other than Nutch with Hadoop as a backend, head for the hills right away.
>> "the product manager who finally got Windows 1.0 out the door"
Yeah, I'm sure Microsoft engineers had nothing to do with it. He wrote it all by himself and shipped it.
The quoted phrase pretty much sums up what's wrong with the vast majority of tech companies (including Microsoft) -- they're no longer engineer-centric.
Show me text only ads relevant to what I read. That's all I ask. Don't bombard me with BS I never click on. It's POINTLESS to show me those ads, and I'm pretty sure I'm saving at least someone money by not downloading them.
Research costs Microsoft about $700M a year, probably less now after the recent belt tightening and layoffs.
R&D means everything that's involved in creating products, including developers, testers, program management, management, non-sales executive pay, etc, etc., and yes, research as well.
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Obama has what, less than 3 more years in the office? And then all the options will be back on the table again, reinstated by the next president. But even that is beside the point. The reason why this is such a pile of bovine manure is because if push comes to shove, this will be the first thing to fly out of the window. Reminds me of ABM systems in Poland. Suure we're not going to use them against Russia right now, but in case when they step on our toes all of a sudden this becomes a distinct possibility. Otherwise we'd have built those systems in Iraq, where they'd be closer to Iran, strikes from which we're supposedly trying to prevent.
US politicians should understand, first and foremost, that other countries are not stupid, and they've learned their lesson several times already, so they assume the worst. Which most of the time turns out to be the right thing to assume.
I don't know, I practice what I preach. I change jobs every 2-2.5 years. Sometimes stay in the same company, sometimes move to another. So far I have no complaints.
And you're right about having verifiable experience, but there's nothing preventing you from acquiring this experience while doing your current job, if it's not too drastically different, or in a different team within your current company. Lateral moves within the company are always easier.
>> for one of the few companies that can afford large pay increases
What part of "you need to move" did you not understand? :-) There's no way I'd have gotten to my level of compensation had I stayed with just one company. Change jobs every couple of years. Build great reputation along the way. That's all there is to it.
My pay nearly doubled in 2010. Maybe it has something to do with me working on my skills portfolio for over a decade and pent up demand for those skills.
One thing for sure - if you want to make more money, you need to ALWAYS be thinking on what skills you could acquire to achieve that goal. Any retard can poorly code up a web page - why would anyone pay a pretty penny for that?
Another life's lesson - if you want to grow, you need to move. Don't sit on your ass in the same job for a decade. Change teams, companies, industries, roles. If you don't do this, the best you can hope for is a 5% merit raise, and that's in a fat year.
Apple's keyboard is virtual, so they show fewer keys at the same time. As a result, keys are about the same size as on their desktop keyboards, which is to say, comfortably large. In addition, since the key boundaries are not defined by their geometry, they use the same predictive technology as on the iPhone which enlarges or shrinks each key's hit area depending on how likely it is to occur in a given context. The net result is that the keyboard is surprisingly good, if you keep the constraints in mind. I found myself typing at a pretty decent WPM right away, but I do have to look at it every now and then due to a different layout. Once I get used to that, it will be perfectly fine.
Since my iPad is on WiFi and I didn't pay anything for a data plan.
So far only ePub format is supported in iBooks and I don't know about their further plans, but you most certainly can copy your own books onto the device. You can also use its full blown PDF reader with pinch zoom, full UNICODE support (the reason why I did not buy the Kindle is it's shitty with both of those things), color, international keyboard, and the screen is almost the same resolution.
And yes, this is typed on an iPad. Try that with your kindle sometime.
And I will unload their shares if they go for it. Search business is an EXPENSIVE one to run well, and Apple, as of yet, has not demonstrated they can build an online service worth a damn. And that's fine, as long as they don't bet the farm on something that's clearly not their strength. Microsoft lost billions on search (and counting), and so will Apple if they're stupid enough to get in the game.
But they aren't stupid, which is why I don't believe this rumor. Apple is about doing few things well, not about being everything to everybody.
Contrary to popular belief, Google is mostly a C++ shop.
There are about 180 different peoples living in Russia (and USSR before it). Anyone can (and could back then) get a degree. AFAIK there was an "reverse affirmative action" admission limit to higher education institutions for jews specifically at one point (similar limit existed in the US until the 50's, BTW), but his father obviously did not suffer from it.
I don't know about early 1900's obviously. If anything, the conditions for jews had only improved when communists took over - they were severely and unceremoniously oppressed in Tsarist Russia.
I've been in the industry (software) for a decade and a half now. And at no point have I seen anything even remotely resembling a "glass ceiling" for high performance employees. I'm sure it exists in some companies, but I wouldn't generalize to the countries and industries as a whole. As you climb the corp ladder it is expected that shit would get tough. There are fewer opportunities, and stronger competition. At some point you will stagnate. That point has a political component to it, of course, but you gotta learn how to play the game to play it. Russians sometimes feel they're the "smartest" and they're "discriminated against". In majority of cases that's simply not true (at least here in the US).
I heard in Europe (in Germany in particular) things are a great deal more xenophobic, though.
I don't know. I'm a Russian working in a Western company here in the US, and I don't see any glass ceiling. That was sort of my point. Maybe it's you?
Certainly, my most immediate advice to you would be to take some English courses. Otherwise you will experience the "glass ceiling" because natives can barely understand you, if your written English is any indication.
Not to say that there wasn't antisemitism in the USSR, but if you look at the Russian scientific elite, a significant fraction of them (if not the majority) are Jewish. In Russia (and the USSR before it), getting a doctoral degree is a HUGE deal. What they call PhD here is merely a "candidate" degree over there. As a matter of fact you are _NOT GUARANTEED_ to ever become a doctor, whether you're Jewish, Russian or any other nationality. It requires a decade of work (oftentimes more) and significant scientific achievement.
So it could be that his father just didn't have what it took to become a doctor, and blamed it on antisemitism. If I were to guess, I'd give that course of events a 90% probability. I also find it funny that Sergey's world view could be severely affected by something like that. Life wasn't bad in the USSR, particularly in 79. Worse in some ways than it is in Russia right now, but far from bad in absolute terms.
It's not the first maneuverable supersonic CM either. Russian P-500 Bazalt missile was both supersonic and maneuverable and it entered service in 1973 (!). Brahmos is an adaptation of previous generation Russian missile technology, and not even the most advanced variant of that. Russians don't export their latest stuff, particularly the kind of stuff that if push came to shove could be efficiently used against them.
I can (and do) install Chrome on my Ubuntu workstations. They pay a flat licensing fee to MPEG LA, so it doesn't matter how many installs of Chrome are out in the wild, and whether it gets redistributed.
Both Windows 7 and Mac OS X ship with h264 codecs preinstalled, and in the grand scheme of things, the (capped) $5M/year MPEG LA licensing fee would not really cripple Mozilla Corp (which gets $85M a year from Google for search box placement), so even if using built in h264 codecs is not an option for whatever reason, they could still ship ffmpeg.
Now let's assume they don't want to pay $5M. Even then there's an option which they deliberately declined to provide - have a plugin architecture in place which would allow third party codecs.
I'm not sure why they think Theora will win in the end, but at this point I'm fairly certain this isn't going to happen, no matter how hard Mozilla pushes Theora. With Chrome nibbling at Firefox's marketshare from one end, and IE9 offering h264 support on the other end, the lack of de facto compatible HTML5 video is a crippling disadvantage.
They're diversifying their portfolio, which is a normal part of being billionaires. Look up Bill Gates for instance - the guy has been selling shares of Microsoft for decades now, on a schedule.
And yes, they do care about profit, but I challenge you to find a single other company who would have the balls to leave $500M on the table and walk away with ethics being the sole major driving force behind the decision. For that, Google has my deep respect, and I hope others would appreciate this move too.
>> phantomcircuit (938963): ACPI support in linux is near perfect
You two need to debate this further. :-)
See above.
I contend that for your average ACPI non-expert (99.999% of the population), it seems to be the other way around. I don't care who's wrong, I just want to my laptop to fucking wake up when I open the lid, like it does in Mac OS X and Windows.
Believe it or not, Microsoft is a pretty tolerant company on the inside. You're not required to drink the kool-aid, and using non-Microosft products and services is not frowned upon. Almost everyone (at least in Redmond) uses Google for search, for instance. A lot of smartphone users use iPhone. Some use Android even (even though corp discounts obviously don't apply to either iPhone or Android plans or phones). It is not uncommon to see a Mac running Mac OS X, even though the corp network doesn't really support it. I haven't seen any Linux use on laptops, but that's probably because ACPI support in Linux sucks ass.
There are folks who proudly drink the Kool-Aid, and refuse to use anything non-Microsoft, of course, but they're in minority.
Having worked elsewhere after Microsoft, I've gained a lot of respect for this aspect of Microsoft corporate culture that I had taken for granted. I think at least someone at Microsoft understands that Microsoft has a lot to learn from the rest of the world, and corporate inbreeding is its worst possible enemy.
So much horseshit in just one slide deck. No matter what you do, unless you have at least a hundred machines at your disposal, Hadoop won't be faster than a single box grep from SSDs. LucidDB is excruciatingly slow for all but tiniest datasets. I've tried a good half dozen "solutions" from this slide deck (including Aster), and other than Postgres all of them suck ass, more or less. If you see ANYTHING other than Nutch with Hadoop as a backend, head for the hills right away.
>> "the product manager who finally got Windows 1.0 out the door"
Yeah, I'm sure Microsoft engineers had nothing to do with it. He wrote it all by himself and shipped it.
The quoted phrase pretty much sums up what's wrong with the vast majority of tech companies (including Microsoft) -- they're no longer engineer-centric.
Legalize euthanasia for terminally ill patients. It would make so many of these edge cases go away that the rest would not matter.
Show me text only ads relevant to what I read. That's all I ask. Don't bombard me with BS I never click on. It's POINTLESS to show me those ads, and I'm pretty sure I'm saving at least someone money by not downloading them.
Research costs Microsoft about $700M a year, probably less now after the recent belt tightening and layoffs.
R&D means everything that's involved in creating products, including developers, testers, program management, management, non-sales executive pay, etc, etc., and yes, research as well.