The other poster is correct. Many universities have started glossing that sort of stuff over. It's a shame really. It all dates back to the.COM era, where the universities accepted industry opinion that they should be churning out Java "just a programmers". While I don't disagree with this, really, it went a bit too far in the glossing. Where'd all the computer scientists go?
I suppose I can accept a programmer that knows the specific purpose of each container in the container classes library, even if the skill of implementing them properly is forgotten. But that's not computer science, and I'd just as soon have more computer scientists -cum- software engineers than boiler plate workers.
BTW, you're going to find that when you look into the most recent generation of computer people, the true "black belts" are not where you'd expect. They are not the computer scientists, but the mashers. These are the kids who born into the net, and are Zen masters of the process of rip, burn and play in coding. While their answer "I'd just look that up" happens to coincide with an old stodgy lame interview defense, they take this to an entirely new level. You might want to probe around there and see what you can turn up.
As for your graphics programmers who can't handle trig, linear algebra, and quats, well. Not sure what to say about that.
Finally. You've gotta have employees. So. Use this approach:
1. Try to determine their work ethic. 2. Try to determine their IQ. 3. Train where needed.
By and large a highly intelligent hard worker won't need much of #3.
I have known a lot of very competent software people in the six figure range. Very few of them would respond to a game company job ad, even if the pay was advertised as something that they would accept, on the grounds that there is a perception that the games business would be a poor overall career choice for them. True or not true, the industry has a perception of paying peanuts, demanding long hours of work, and being hard particularly on the older worker. While this perception may not be your fault, you are nevertheless a cog in this overall machine. See to thine own house.
Well. It's not that simple. It's fairly routine practice for large organizations to summarily terminate employees in situations like this, putting an enormous legal burden on the employee for suing for wrongful termination. You're talking six figures to press a case like this. Do you have that lying around?
In the risk-versus-reward equation, the employer has a very high reward return through the suppression of similar activity by other employees, even if the specific employee wins their case. Fired is fired, and most people are rightly frightened of that, when a many-years-off reward of winning the lawsuit is their only recourse.
The difference is still enormous, and it's still not in the favor of 10k drives like you suggested.
Didn't suggest that, no. You're confusing me for some other poster.
I think these are neat little units. If they merely MATCHED the read/write times of ordinary hard drives, they'd have some interesting applications for other reasons (random access, shock resistance). As it is, this specific type of unit comes with the integrated performance of a highly-striped RAID array of flash drives, so it's pretty cool. As it happens, I represent one of those use cases where large amounts of money seeks to solve specialized problems. Perhaps I'll get one of these babies to try out.:)
There is also a sort of community maturity that is lacking in the Linux developer world.
Consider: one community calls their product "Photo Shop". The other "the GIMP".
One name communicates a professional tool for a purpose. The other, a big fat grinning retard with an orange ball in his mouth, ready for some submissive anal action.
While amusing, I admit, such things act to prevent larger scale uptake.
It's been a while; the study I am thinking of was one of those meta studies, collecting data from like a bazillion other studies. The question this studied asked was... "is the placebo effect different than the impact of time, for some short definition of time"? A couple days or so. The conclusion: not particularly.
Mind, this factors out particular types of symptomology, and takes them all as a whole. I.e., "on a whole, there really isn't a placebo effect."
You have to really appreciate the implications of statistical methods to understand what I mean here.
For example, a study can conclude, "on a whole, this medicine did not work for these patients," but few studies ever so much as attempt to conclude "this medicine will not work for this patient".
Said medicine just might, given sufficient genetic variation in the population, work for this one human and this one human only. One never knows.
You misapprehend the nature of the court. Matters of law are decided previous to a jury trial. Getting to a jury trial in a civil case is a very big hurdle. I.e., the judge has decided that the situation merits the jury before you get to the jury, in a civil case.
Really what they need to do is pull off a big merger with just about any other very large company. Samsung would be a good one. Sun wouldn't be half bad, considering Sun's vested interest in Opteron. Although I'd say Sun isn't big enough, even. IBM?
The version we got in the US is much more "Hollywood-like": It has romance, a love circle, heroes fighting to save the country/planet/whatever, and nearly-stereotypical villains.
Presumably in Japan, they get the same things, except the villain gets the love circle, where upon he (or it, as the case may be) engages in non consensual tentacle sex with many underage girls each with strangely large innocent eyes. Lollipops and cute pink dresses are optional. The villain entity, being unsure which human orifice is proper for the circumstances, decides that thoroughness is best, and uses them all. At the same time.
Natural monopolies are academically interesting, but they aren't a huge problem in practice unless they are government reinforced. Cable Television, for example, may or may not have been a natural monopoly at any given point in the past - but today it's the government granted monopolies that are keeping competitors out of that market.
I wish this were true. But it's not.
In my area (California), cable is not a government granted monopoly. It is a tacit one. Each new cable vendor, were they to want to compete with the other, would have to dig up the streets and lab new cable, at enormous expense. This simply make no sense. So they just do not do that.
Cable is not just an "academic" natural monopoly. It is one as a matter of reduction to practice, as in: it really behave like one, as concluded from the observable data.
This is the reality of many franchises in many states.
Sure they would. Because modern desktop Java is perceived as "slow" primarily because of slow VM launch.
Well. You're right about that; as soon as you have a core JVM going and brokering everything you are basically fine.
But way back then, Swing was really slow. I.e., there were not one but two reasons for the perception of Java's slowness: 1) JVM startup, and 2) a VERY slow GUI. There were some issues with I/O as well (not unrelated), that have since been solved with the nio "new io" library.
Even today, Swing is not the fastest thing, it's just that modern computers have caught up. I.e., tis "fast enough".
I'm certain this will be settled out of court, but the predatory patent trolling done by the big boys does not bode well for our industry.
While I'm sure I agree (I don't like software patents), given my read on this Net App pretty much has a fiduciary responsibility to its shareholders to do what they're doing at this point. I'm sorry to say.
Sun should have known better to both copy WAFL, and declare to the public they were inspired by it. Seems to me someone at Sun missed a pretty important due diligence step on that one.
Demanded cross-licensing fees? What does that even mean? Licensing fees perhaps, but it seems like Sun was after a cross-licensing agreement; not seeking to drag NetApp into court like some patent troll.
Well. Not sure of the timeline of events, but the open sourcing of a cross licensed thing is often directly at odds with what the cross license is envisioned to do: create a cartel.
I suppose if they have the staff for it they could physically detain you and have a citizen's arrest,...
They could, but. Citizen's arrests are very dangerous, from a civil litigation viewpoint. I.e., they ought not ever do this unless they have directly witnessed the crime, with probable discovery of strongly corroborating evidence, like stolen goods. The financial consequences for being wrong in a citizen's arrest situation are quite bracing.
Decline to submit to search is absolutely not sufficient evidence to warrant a citizen's arrest.
WalMart also doesn't have the right to staple or tape up your bags received from other stores before you enter their store either.
I think you're a little confused about this. What they have the right to do is to tell you to not bring the bag in, or not let you enter their store at all. Their offer to staple or tape bags is a courtesy.
I'm not 100% sure about whether you can post terms of entry that allow searching once you have entered (including about to leave), but it is likely....
That one can "post" said terms is very likely indeed, but that one can enforce them is not likely at all.
Even at places like COSTCO, where they have your written agreement, they have no lawful basis to physically stop and apprehend you unless they have directly witnessed you committing a crime.
They can certainly terminate your membership, and in the case of a non membership store, ask you to never come back.
I would agree. The current standing of the Viacom work is "unauthorized derivative work," and as such it is subject to injunction. Their ownership of this work is in question, as congress solely authorize the original creator the rights to create subsequent derivative works.
I'd say Viacom is in for a great deal of embarrassment here.
I am skeptical that this will have much of an effect. Any second cable provider would have to dig up the streets to run the line. This is very costly, and has already been amortized/paid for by the first cable provider's customers.
I too have satellite. It is dismayingly similar to cable. A chip of the old block. Between cable and satellite, they show very little signs of behaving like a competitive market, and much more like a tacitly collusive one.
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The other poster is correct. Many universities have started glossing that sort of stuff over. It's a shame really. It all dates back to the .COM era, where the universities accepted industry opinion that they should be churning out Java "just a programmers". While I don't disagree with this, really, it went a bit too far in the glossing. Where'd all the computer scientists go?
I suppose I can accept a programmer that knows the specific purpose of each container in the container classes library, even if the skill of implementing them properly is forgotten. But that's not computer science, and I'd just as soon have more computer scientists -cum- software engineers than boiler plate workers.
BTW, you're going to find that when you look into the most recent generation of computer people, the true "black belts" are not where you'd expect. They are not the computer scientists, but the mashers. These are the kids who born into the net, and are Zen masters of the process of rip, burn and play in coding. While their answer "I'd just look that up" happens to coincide with an old stodgy lame interview defense, they take this to an entirely new level. You might want to probe around there and see what you can turn up.
As for your graphics programmers who can't handle trig, linear algebra, and quats, well. Not sure what to say about that.
Finally. You've gotta have employees. So. Use this approach:
1. Try to determine their work ethic.
2. Try to determine their IQ.
3. Train where needed.
By and large a highly intelligent hard worker won't need much of #3.
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One word: residency.
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Doctors and lawyers are protected by guilds, with barriers to entry and such, requiring local certification to practice, ad nauseum, ad nauseum.
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I have known a lot of very competent software people in the six figure range. Very few of them would respond to a game company job ad, even if the pay was advertised as something that they would accept, on the grounds that there is a perception that the games business would be a poor overall career choice for them. True or not true, the industry has a perception of paying peanuts, demanding long hours of work, and being hard particularly on the older worker. While this perception may not be your fault, you are nevertheless a cog in this overall machine. See to thine own house.
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Besides that fact, US GDP per capita is several times that of India
13X India, 5.3X China
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Why no mention of Hydrogen Boraxate?
It has its own problems, but explosive and/or highly poisonous aren't among them.
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Well. It's not that simple. It's fairly routine practice for large organizations to summarily terminate employees in situations like this, putting an enormous legal burden on the employee for suing for wrongful termination. You're talking six figures to press a case like this. Do you have that lying around?
In the risk-versus-reward equation, the employer has a very high reward return through the suppression of similar activity by other employees, even if the specific employee wins their case. Fired is fired, and most people are rightly frightened of that, when a many-years-off reward of winning the lawsuit is their only recourse.
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The difference is still enormous, and it's still not in the favor of 10k drives like you suggested.
:)
Didn't suggest that, no. You're confusing me for some other poster.
I think these are neat little units. If they merely MATCHED the read/write times of ordinary hard drives, they'd have some interesting applications for other reasons (random access, shock resistance). As it is, this specific type of unit comes with the integrated performance of a highly-striped RAID array of flash drives, so it's pretty cool. As it happens, I represent one of those use cases where large amounts of money seeks to solve specialized problems. Perhaps I'll get one of these babies to try out.
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Well, somebody upstream made a units error. The capability is 800Mbytes/s with 100K IOPS.
According to their specs, that's not "per stream," but total. No "EACH," as you put it, in all caps.
BTW, that would be impossible; 800mb x 160 is 8 times greater than the bw of the PCI-4 bus this card runs on.
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There is also a sort of community maturity that is lacking in the Linux developer world.
Consider: one community calls their product "Photo Shop". The other "the GIMP".
One name communicates a professional tool for a purpose. The other, a big fat grinning retard with an orange ball in his mouth, ready for some submissive anal action.
While amusing, I admit, such things act to prevent larger scale uptake.
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It's been a while; the study I am thinking of was one of those meta studies, collecting data from like a bazillion other studies. The question this studied asked was... "is the placebo effect different than the impact of time, for some short definition of time"? A couple days or so. The conclusion: not particularly.
Mind, this factors out particular types of symptomology, and takes them all as a whole. I.e., "on a whole, there really isn't a placebo effect."
You have to really appreciate the implications of statistical methods to understand what I mean here.
For example, a study can conclude, "on a whole, this medicine did not work for these patients," but few studies ever so much as
attempt to conclude "this medicine will not work for this patient".
Said medicine just might, given sufficient genetic variation in the population, work for this one human and this one human
only. One never knows.
Anyway, nice chatting,
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...and the placebo effect is undeniable...
I think you may find that there are those who do deny the placebo effect.
You will, in fact, find one or two rather large studies that discount it.
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You misapprehend the nature of the court. Matters of law are decided previous to a jury trial. Getting to a jury trial in a civil case is a very big hurdle. I.e., the judge has decided that the situation merits the jury before you get to the jury, in a civil case.
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Really what they need to do is pull off a big merger with just about any other very large company. Samsung would be a good one. Sun wouldn't be half bad, considering Sun's vested interest in Opteron. Although I'd say Sun isn't big enough, even. IBM?
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The version we got in the US is much more "Hollywood-like": It has romance, a love circle, heroes fighting to save the country/planet/whatever, and nearly-stereotypical villains.
Presumably in Japan, they get the same things, except the villain gets the love circle, where upon he (or it, as the case may be) engages in non consensual tentacle sex with many underage girls each with strangely large innocent eyes. Lollipops and cute pink dresses are optional. The villain entity, being unsure which human orifice is proper for the circumstances, decides that thoroughness is best, and uses them all. At the same time.
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Natural monopolies are academically interesting, but they aren't a huge problem in practice unless they are government reinforced. Cable Television, for example, may or may not have been a natural monopoly at any given point in the past - but today it's the government granted monopolies that are keeping competitors out of that market.
I wish this were true. But it's not.
In my area (California), cable is not a government granted monopoly. It is a tacit one. Each new cable vendor, were they to want to compete with the other, would have to dig up the streets and lab new cable, at enormous expense. This simply make no sense. So they just do not do that.
Cable is not just an "academic" natural monopoly. It is one as a matter of reduction to practice, as in: it really behave like one, as concluded from the observable data.
This is the reality of many franchises in many states.
I'm sorry to say.
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Sure they would. Because modern desktop Java is perceived as "slow" primarily because of slow VM launch.
Well. You're right about that; as soon as you have a core JVM going and brokering everything you are basically fine.
But way back then, Swing was really slow. I.e., there were not one but two reasons for the perception of Java's slowness: 1) JVM startup, and 2) a VERY slow GUI. There were some issues with I/O as well (not unrelated), that have since been solved with the nio "new io" library.
Even today, Swing is not the fastest thing, it's just that modern computers have caught up. I.e., tis "fast enough".
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I'm certain this will be settled out of court, but the predatory patent trolling done by the big boys does not bode well for our industry.
While I'm sure I agree (I don't like software patents), given my read on this Net App pretty much has a fiduciary responsibility to its shareholders to do what they're doing at this point. I'm sorry to say.
Sun should have known better to both copy WAFL, and declare to the public they were inspired by it. Seems to me someone at Sun missed a pretty important due diligence step on that one.
C//
Demanded cross-licensing fees? What does that even mean? Licensing fees perhaps, but it seems like Sun was after a cross-licensing agreement; not seeking to drag NetApp into court like some patent troll.
Well. Not sure of the timeline of events, but the open sourcing of a cross licensed thing is often directly at odds with what the cross license is envisioned to do: create a cartel.
C//
I suppose if they have the staff for it they could physically detain you and have a citizen's arrest,...
They could, but. Citizen's arrests are very dangerous, from a civil litigation viewpoint. I.e., they ought not ever do this unless they have directly witnessed the crime, with probable discovery of strongly corroborating evidence, like stolen goods. The financial consequences for being wrong in a citizen's arrest situation are quite bracing.
Decline to submit to search is absolutely not sufficient evidence to warrant a citizen's arrest.
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WalMart also doesn't have the right to staple or tape up your bags received from other stores before you enter their store either.
I think you're a little confused about this. What they have the right to do is to tell you to not bring the bag in, or not let you enter their store at all. Their offer to staple or tape bags is a courtesy.
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I'm not 100% sure about whether you can post terms of entry that allow searching once you have entered (including about to leave), but it is likely....
That one can "post" said terms is very likely indeed, but that one can enforce them is not likely at all.
Even at places like COSTCO, where they have your written agreement, they have no lawful basis to physically stop and apprehend you unless they have directly witnessed you committing a crime.
They can certainly terminate your membership, and in the case of a non membership store, ask you to never come back.
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On his own scale, he's the zero point, and CNN is right of him, ...
You'd have to be Marx to be "left" of Chomsky.
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I would agree. The current standing of the Viacom work is "unauthorized derivative work," and as such it is subject to injunction. Their ownership of this work is in question, as congress solely authorize the original creator the rights to create subsequent derivative works.
I'd say Viacom is in for a great deal of embarrassment here.
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I am skeptical that this will have much of an effect. Any second cable provider would have to dig up the streets to run the line. This is very costly, and has already been amortized/paid for by the first cable provider's customers.
I too have satellite. It is dismayingly similar to cable. A chip of the old block. Between cable and satellite, they show very little signs of behaving like a competitive market, and much more like a tacitly collusive one.
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