Don't beat the market!! **Chortle, chortle** A have a good friend who works for a programmed trading firm. They make more than 15% year-on-year, some years substantially more, regardless of the direction of the market, consistently--not on average, consistently!--they've never had a down year, EVER. He's been there 15 years now.
While he cannot say the nature of the programmed trading algorithms, he does not that all their best years are when the market goes DOWN, because their algorithms are better picking good times to short than vice versa.
We have an 8 person "lagoon layout" at work. To get it, all we had to do was ask.
That's the beauty of these modular furniture systems. The interesting part, is that it was actually pretty easy to set up, and for the most part only involved the taking away of panels! If you've seen rows and rows of cubes, you'll recall there is an aisle between them. They closed off the isle on one end (the end facing the major hall), and then brought down the walls closing off the cubes. Our 8 person cube is almost the size of a 12. And the entrance is all the way around, the long way, facing the window. Simply no one walks by us who's not on the project.
He was trespassing. And as far as I can tell, those were police officers and not security guards. If not, then I'm mistaken: they cannot shoot you. If so, however, a citizen interfering in such an action does so considerably at his own risk. A police officer, being physically assaulted, can legitimately claim that they had to shoot the perp merely to maintain control of their own weapon. This claim is both real and reasonable, and will be accepted by judge and jury alike.
Finally, did you WTFV? This student is not going to get off. He was behaving belligerently and hostilely, refused to behave the law, and ran into what you'd expect in such a case. There's nothing to remark upon here, other than the sad case of a troublemaking student who is going to very clearly face charges, and possibly be expelled.
The second time they tased him, I would've gotten as many students as I could together, pulled the police off of him and formed a circle around him several layers deep if necessary.
That would be very unwise. You can be shot for that. Quite legally.
But the notary public thing isn't particularly required if your a big corp. Source repository checkin records, and the like, from the time will be admitted in court, most likely. Trust me, enormous quantities of software are produced without doing what you say. Electronic records and and expert witness, and given no better evidence to the contrary... the defendant is completely finished.
Which brings us whole circle to the parent several levels up, wherein it was said that you cannot simply go searching the registration system to get exact measures of copyrighted content: this post was utterly correct.
Not really. Recall that registration is not required for copyright. All they need to do is pull out some record proving the dates, and your ass is grass, so to speak.
On the above page, click "deposit requirements". On it you will find:
"Computer Programs: One copy of identifying portions of the program (first 25 and last 25 pages of source code) reproduced in a visually perceptible form, together with the page containing the copyright notice, For details please see Circular 61, Copyright Registration for Computer Programs."
This is all academic, you understand. You are not required to register copyright to be afforded its protection in the United States. Registration is only necessary if you desire to sue, and said registration can be any time preceding mentioned lawsuit.
Patent not copyright may be applicable in this case, however in both copyrights and patents, there is a record that can be looked up to see if there is an infringment.
I'm sorry. This is emphatically not true. The copyright office does not require that whole programs be submitted for the copyright to be registered.
Nope. Doesn't have to be a collective lawsuit at all. Redhat has contributed plenty to Linux, and as an authorized author of derivative work(s), has first party standing in the courts to all components of their work that are original contributions. This is only addressing copyright and slander of title issues; there are other avenues of attack Redhat could use to pursue a declaratory judgment against Microsoft, effectively saying "your are slandering our business, put up or shut up". The courts would agree with this, I am sure; it's merely a question of whether or not Redhat or the others find business value in going down this route.
This is all simply a parenthetical aside, really. I believe it quite likely that Microsoft has patents (valid or not) that address matters of implementation within the scope of any large Linux distribution. As other posters have rightly pointed out, the Linux community would simply move away from the patents, expose reams of prior art, or do other things harmful to Microsoft's interest if the specific violations were pointed out, so they are preferring to let them lie in stealth is the way I look at it.
It's ironic on many levels. The Feds do have under the constitution the right to ban international gaming, but don't actually have the right to ban it in the States.
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What's really unconscionable is the way they remove all the incriminating evidence from Area 51.
It also happens to not be illegal. It's not being a monopoly that is illegal, but rather, a set of certain behaviors that, for a lack of a better term, are best simply called "monopolizing."
I'd say it's exactly 30% more than most of people are willing to pay. Builders of big objects are big companies, and they don't care, they don't have to.
If you were the owner of a big company, did care, and did go to build something like this, your customers would go to the big company who didn't. Broadly speaking, it's US, the buying public, who are to blame... not these big companies!
Obviously you don't come out of school as a senior engineer... it takes experience, and I think everybody realizes that. ==================
My perspective: junior and senior talent can be bought in various ways. Good mid-tier talent: the people who will be trained up, gain organic knowledge of your enterprise, and become your next generation leaders: these are the ones that truly harm you when they leave. Why? Because alot of the senior talent at an organization represent pontificators and knowledge sources, while your middle to senior-middle tier are your chief doers.
And a large number answered the question "How do you stop a running thread?" by saying "call Thread.stop()" which is totally wrong.
Interesting stuff. I have two patents in network related material (for two things written in java), have written a lot of java, but just haven't lately. My answer would have been, "check the JDK docs and google." I've even written a specialized thread scheduler to handles tens of thousands of threads. All the programming languages vary so much... easy to lose track. At most I would have been able to say to you, "you have to be very careful with stuff like that when you need and expect deterministic behavior."
*shrug*
Superficially, it seems that this interview question isn't quite right. Give them the tools they say they're expert with. That would INCLUDE the JDK, and google, too. Have them give them the answer to you in 15 minutes. Maybe you should go look up the "programmer archaeologists" article that was on slash two or three days back. It really is getting that way, you know.
From that list of "one wonders why they study this" studies, I recall a study that took a large group of people, and divided them into sub groups. They then TOLD each group that they used a random process to divide everyone up. They then asked each subgroup to interact with the other subgroups, and decide what their relative intelligence was to the other subgroups. The lionshare of the subgroups reported that they were "more intelligent" than the other subgroups. A statistical impossibility, of course.
Anyway, of course you are right. I think every company likes to say it has the best people. That's fine for morale purposes, if you want to you use it that way. But if you start drinking your own coolaid, expect your competitors to teach you a lesson, because they surely will, and you pretending that you are smarter than they are is a well-tried and certain way of learning that lesson good and proper.
I sometimes think that down market cycles are about injecting humility into the larger market place, I really do.
In light of your failure to elect a competent President of the USA thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately. Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states,...
LOL! Problem is, while we may indeed be a former colony of England, England is a current one of ours. You know, George bush, and his boy, Tony Blair? England is well and truly leashed. Thank you for the all the bowing and scraping, and all that.
Well. That's why the other half of the world wants to work there.:)
Don't kick yourself. I know someone who has an IQ of, like, maybe 180 who got turned down. I figure if the geniuses of the world aren't getting in, in must just be a crap shoot.:)
I would suspect the engineering community has become saavy to the idea that working somewhere for the mere "prestigiousness" of the position isn't what it's cracked up to be. I think cool factor is about as worn out as stock options are at this point. Candidates are looking for something real.
There's also the issue of organizational self importance: most organizations think that they are better than their competitors, even though statistically that simply cannot be true. I.e., I'm sure that VA Software thinks it's "the best," but they need to rethink this. Obviously their candidates aren't buying it.
Seems to me that VA software should reconsider what it is they are doing to attract top talent. If they cannot do it with salaries, they will have to give in other areas. Work week, benefits, perhaps work environment, perhaps something to make the daily grind more interesting.
Google's mandatory side projects come to mind. I think half the tech world wants to work at Google for that reason alone.
I disagree with this. There are major sections of the country, including Texas, that are extraordinarily prejudicial, and where such allegations are libellous per se, and damaging per se. Not to mention the stress the recipient of this "prank" underwent. Powerlessness. Malice from anonymous sources. Theft of identity. This was a digital rape.
A good month of hard labor might be the right thing for these kids. Breaking rocks at a quarry perhaps? And yes, the parents should exhibit oversight of their kids. Since they weren't, they should get a little punishment, too. A week breaking rocks?
As far as the lawsuit... well. I disagree there, too. This is a textbook case of why we have libel laws. Open and shut.
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Don't beat the market!! **Chortle, chortle** A have a good friend who works for a programmed trading firm. They make more than 15% year-on-year, some years substantially more, regardless of the direction of the market, consistently--not on average, consistently!--they've never had a down year, EVER. He's been there 15 years now.
While he cannot say the nature of the programmed trading algorithms, he does not that all their best years are when the market goes DOWN, because their algorithms are better picking good times to short than vice versa.
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We have an 8 person "lagoon layout" at work. To get it, all we had to do was ask.
That's the beauty of these modular furniture systems. The interesting part, is that it was actually pretty easy to set up, and for the most part only involved the taking away of panels! If you've seen rows and rows of cubes, you'll recall there is an aisle between them. They closed off the isle on one end (the end facing the major hall), and then brought down the walls closing off the cubes. Our 8 person cube is almost the size of a 12. And the entrance is all the way around, the long way, facing the window. Simply no one walks by us who's not on the project.
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He was trespassing. And as far as I can tell, those were police officers and not security guards. If not, then I'm mistaken: they cannot shoot you. If so, however, a citizen interfering in such an action does so considerably at his own risk. A police officer, being physically assaulted, can legitimately claim that they had to shoot the perp merely to maintain control of their own weapon. This claim is both real and reasonable, and will be accepted by judge and jury alike.
Finally, did you WTFV? This student is not going to get off. He was behaving belligerently and hostilely, refused to behave the law, and ran into what you'd expect in such a case. There's nothing to remark upon here, other than the sad case of a troublemaking student who is going to very clearly face charges, and possibly be expelled.
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The second time they tased him, I would've gotten as many students as I could together, pulled the police off of him and formed a circle around him several layers deep if necessary.
That would be very unwise. You can be shot for that. Quite legally.
C//
This is a fair enough point, all well and good.
But the notary public thing isn't particularly required if your a big corp. Source repository checkin records, and the like, from the time will be admitted in court, most likely. Trust me, enormous quantities of software are produced without doing what you say. Electronic records and and expert witness, and given no better evidence to the contrary... the defendant is completely finished.
Which brings us whole circle to the parent several levels up, wherein it was said that you cannot simply go searching the registration system to get exact measures of copyrighted content: this post was utterly correct.
C//
Not really. Recall that registration is not required for copyright. All they need to do is pull out some record proving the dates, and your ass is grass, so to speak.
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Are you sure?
YES.
http://www.copyright.gov/register/literary.html
On the above page, click "deposit requirements". On it you will find:
"Computer Programs: One copy of identifying portions of the program (first 25 and last 25 pages of source code) reproduced in a visually perceptible form, together with the page containing the copyright notice, For details please see Circular 61, Copyright Registration for Computer Programs."
This is all academic, you understand. You are not required to register copyright to be afforded its protection in the United States. Registration is only necessary if you desire to sue, and said registration can be any time preceding mentioned lawsuit.
C//
Patent not copyright may be applicable in this case, however in both copyrights and patents, there is a record that can be looked up to see if there is an infringment.
I'm sorry. This is emphatically not true. The copyright office does not require that whole programs be submitted for the copyright to be registered.
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Not to mention that the term "Doctor" was borrowed by Medicine from Academia....
Nope. Doesn't have to be a collective lawsuit at all. Redhat has contributed plenty to Linux, and as an authorized author of derivative work(s), has first party standing in the courts to all components of their work that are original contributions. This is only addressing copyright and slander of title issues; there are other avenues of attack Redhat could use to pursue a declaratory judgment against Microsoft, effectively saying "your are slandering our business, put up or shut up". The courts would agree with this, I am sure; it's merely a question of whether or not Redhat or the others find business value in going down this route.
This is all simply a parenthetical aside, really. I believe it quite likely that Microsoft has patents (valid or not) that address matters of implementation within the scope of any large Linux distribution. As other posters have rightly pointed out, the Linux community would simply move away from the patents, expose reams of prior art, or do other things harmful to Microsoft's interest if the specific violations were pointed out, so they are preferring to let them lie in stealth is the way I look at it.
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I wonder if it would be possible to "force the deal" by suing MS for some sort of slander?
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Yes. That's quite possible. Redhat could do it, although they may not have the stomach for it.
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It's ironic on many levels. The Feds do have under the constitution the right to ban international gaming, but don't actually have the right to ban it in the States.
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It's going to be interesting how the usual historical inaccuracies are dealt with...
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What's really unconscionable is the way they remove all the incriminating evidence from Area 51.
*blink blink*
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Being a monopoly is not unethical or immoral.
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It also happens to not be illegal. It's not being a monopoly that is illegal, but rather, a set of certain behaviors that, for a lack of a better term, are best simply called "monopolizing."
C//
I'd say it's exactly 30% more than most of people are willing to pay. Builders of big objects are big companies, and they don't care, they don't have to.
If you were the owner of a big company, did care, and did go to build something like this, your customers would go to the big company who didn't. Broadly speaking, it's US, the buying public, who are to blame... not these big companies!
C//
Obviously you don't come out of school as a senior engineer... it takes experience, and I think everybody realizes that.
==================
My perspective: junior and senior talent can be bought in various ways. Good mid-tier talent: the people who will be trained up, gain organic knowledge of your enterprise, and become your next generation leaders: these are the ones that truly harm you when they leave. Why? Because alot of the senior talent at an organization represent pontificators and knowledge sources, while your middle to senior-middle tier are your chief doers.
C//
And a large number answered the question "How do you stop a running thread?" by saying "call Thread.stop()" which is totally wrong.
Interesting stuff. I have two patents in network related material (for two things written in java), have written a lot of java, but just haven't lately. My answer would have been, "check the JDK docs and google." I've even written a specialized thread scheduler to handles tens of thousands of threads. All the programming languages vary so much... easy to lose track. At most I would have been able to say to you, "you have to be very careful with stuff like that when you need and expect deterministic behavior."
*shrug*
Superficially, it seems that this interview question isn't quite right. Give them the tools they say they're expert with. That would INCLUDE the JDK, and google, too. Have them give them the answer to you in 15 minutes. Maybe you should go look up the "programmer archaeologists" article that was on slash two or three days back. It really is getting that way, you know.
C//
I'm going to rape you, then kill you while your family watches. Then I will kill them.
Just words. Doesn't mean a thing. Not a crime, right?
You're a fool if you think so. And I'd advise you not to use this conversational gambit in person. You're certain to get very, very hurt.
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them to come out with a Google branded Linux with full indemnity against any patent(s) that Microsoft may allege to be infringed by Linux...
You mean you think Google should buy Suse?
ba-da-ding
ba-da-boom
cha-cha-cha
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From that list of "one wonders why they study this" studies, I recall a study that took a large group of people, and divided them into sub groups. They then TOLD each group that they used a random process to divide everyone up. They then asked each subgroup to interact with the other subgroups, and decide what their relative intelligence was to the other subgroups. The lionshare of the subgroups reported that they were "more intelligent" than the other subgroups. A statistical impossibility, of course.
Anyway, of course you are right. I think every company likes to say it has the best people. That's fine for morale purposes, if you want to you use it that way. But if you start drinking your own coolaid, expect your competitors to teach you a lesson, because they surely will, and you pretending that you are smarter than they are is a well-tried and certain way of learning that lesson good and proper.
I sometimes think that down market cycles are about injecting humility into the larger market place, I really do.
C//
LOL! Problem is, while we may indeed be a former colony of England, England is a current one of ours. You know, George bush, and his boy, Tony Blair? England is well and truly leashed. Thank you for the all the bowing and scraping, and all that.
Well. That's why the other half of the world wants to work there. :)
:)
Don't kick yourself. I know someone who has an IQ of, like, maybe 180 who got turned down. I figure if the geniuses of the world aren't getting in, in must just be a crap shoot.
C//
I would suspect the engineering community has become saavy to the idea that working somewhere for the mere "prestigiousness" of the position isn't what it's cracked up to be. I think cool factor is about as worn out as stock options are at this point. Candidates are looking for something real.
There's also the issue of organizational self importance: most organizations think that they are better than their competitors, even though statistically that simply cannot be true. I.e., I'm sure that VA Software thinks it's "the best," but they need to rethink this. Obviously their candidates aren't buying it.
Seems to me that VA software should reconsider what it is they are doing to attract top talent. If they cannot do it with salaries, they will have to give in other areas. Work week, benefits, perhaps work environment, perhaps something to make the daily grind more interesting.
Google's mandatory side projects come to mind. I think half the tech world wants to work at Google for that reason alone.
C//
Are you looking for a steganographic file system?
http://www.mcdonald.org.uk/StegFS/
At all times, it's deniable that the files exists, even deniable that there are files.
At most, an investigator could determine that you have the stegfs software, but that's all really.
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I disagree with this. There are major sections of the country, including Texas, that are extraordinarily prejudicial, and where such allegations are libellous per se, and damaging per se. Not to mention the stress the recipient of this "prank" underwent. Powerlessness. Malice from anonymous sources. Theft of identity. This was a digital rape.
A good month of hard labor might be the right thing for these kids. Breaking rocks at a quarry perhaps? And yes, the parents should exhibit oversight of their kids. Since they weren't, they should get a little punishment, too. A week breaking rocks?
As far as the lawsuit... well. I disagree there, too. This is a textbook case of why we have libel laws. Open and shut.
C//