The trouble is, a great deal of CS graduates feel that Computer Science is the fastest way not to being an engineer or scientist, but to becoming a programmer. A disturbing number of my fellow students avoid classes perceived to be lots of work, which is exactly what this guy is asking for. Debugging embedded hardware is not easy or simple, and requires massive amounts of attention to detail to get anything to work at all.
Anderson's question might have been equivalent to "where are all the graphics programmers?" or "where are all the operating systems programmers?" but for one thing: this article presupposes a shortage to convince readers they need embedded skills, because PTR offers training in Linux embedded system programming. Frankly, the more important skill in embedded systems isn't pipeline stalls, but the Chinese language; most of the work has gone to where the embedded hardware is made: East Asia. Case in point: the only work this guy appears to get is defense contracting, where clients can't outsource / offshore the work.
OK, that explains Joel's fame, but what of the likes of Jeff Atwood? Every post seems to be a proof of finding the truth by deliberately placing incorrect information on the internet.
But it's a bit strange -- he's notable for his successes at Microsoft/Juno. Now that he's had a chance to practice what he preaches in his blog, shouldn't Fog Creek be incredibly successful? If not, why does anyone read his blog?
Dave & Busters does the game and alcohol/food thing already, but they really pander to a more general audience than would play Soul Calibar 3 twice. For example, in Kansas City, they built one near the new NASCAR track, and the D&B has ridiculous amounts of redneck games. Turkey shooters, NASCAR racers etc. The problem appears to be that the people who try to cater to redneck fans have terrible ability or attention to quality, making the game's only attraction an initial familiarity.
As for turning arcades into game sales arenas, it's a bit difficult; only Nintendo has the business experience making both consoles and arcade cabinets, and they appear to have decided the arcade is dead to them. They'll license their characters, but none of their consoles are designed with integration in mind. For example, Sega pulled F-Zero and made an arcade counterpart to GX, with new levels, motion seats and game data imports (I've only seen one ever in person, at a Disney hotel of all places). The consoles are alive and well, while the arcades are languishing indeed. I imagine none of the three need the targeted advertising your proposal would allow. And the net is a better data distribution system than any physical place can be. But I can't imagine an arcade splurging for an internet connection to pull data off of XBox Live etc.
Another stupid error: this is not typosquatting. Where's the typo? Nobody ends up at "dellbatterrogram.com" because they mistyped the domain name. This is better described as search engine spamming. Which I actually find much more obnoxious than typosquating, since it's harder to avoid, and a bigger waste of time. Try dellbatteryprogram.com
The Nintendo World Store keeps this Gameboy on display. At least there aren't missing scorches where the hands would be, so maybe this one came back with owner intact?
You've done him one better, you've copied his work into your reply, to better construct a karma-earning post.
Since the cost of you two negotiating an exchange of karma for the use is higher than the possible gain, it rationally diminishes nothing. In this case however, your reply DOES diminish his own post's karma. Copyright could be used to silence your criticism!
So to take this a bit off topic, does the Eclipse CDT still suck? Last I checked, the intellisense was slow and the CDT DOM was somewhere between unfinished and undocumented.
Which is of course stupid if it's a security vulnerability. Security patches are supposed to be as non intrusive and small as possible so as not to train people to do stupid shit like leave attackers a two week window. How many attacks against Windows do you were created because people analyzed the security patches to figure out what the problem was?
[...]that's basically what the C "volatile" keyword approximates: not atomic accesses, but *uncached* accesses!
That's especially as "volatile" really isn't a very good feature of the C language, and is likely to get *less* interesting rather than more (as user space starts to be more and more threaded, "volatile" gets less and less useful. --Linus Torvalds, LKML Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:19:50 -0700 (PDT)
At least for my undergraduate career, the guys teaching Java were probably the most familiar with pointers and the workings of the JVM. This is likely because their research was on compilers, langauge, and computational model proofs. In a lot of ways, Java is actually pretty great. It's the only popular language that was prepared to handle threading from day one. You can try and teach conventional multithreading synchronization in C++, but you wind up lying to students, as the optimizers are typically built with single thread memory model assumptions.
This all said, I think they've abandoned Java for Python. They did recently redo the curriculum so that Formal Language theory and so on are electives rather than requirements, but on the plus side, Software Engineering is also no longer required.
In 1980 the average CEO made about 42 times the amount of it's average (AVG) worker. Now it is about 300 times more. The problem here isn't a matter of corporate America unfairly exploiting worker peons. It's executives exploiting shareholders through a club effect. A group of 20 people serve on 20 boards, each the CEO of one of the companies. The amount of chicanery going on in selecting a CEO and negotiating salary is so massive it deserves its own documentary.
Isn't this information more likely to be capitalized upon by those who already dominate the commercialization of research? Can't it be both? It's not like by subscribing you're depriving others. And the data uploaded will be made freely available.
You cannot patent mere data, or interpretations of data. Patents are for machines, processes, and the like. Of course, the publication of data doesn't preclude people from patenting a chemical process that results in a specific gene, but this is already happening elsewhere.
In fact, I suspect the entire point of this is for Google to take over maintenance of the Genomic Databases and create new such databases. Many times the academic databases are.. poorly maintained, and certainly not compatible, despite the very similar contents. There's already efforts to make them more compatible, but Google appears to be able to offer some very neat stuff on top of it all. The silliness about shipping RAID arrays mostly seems to be for unis not already hooked up to I2.
No, no. It's even more simple than that. All you have to do is put the liquid in the straw before takeoff, then you don't have to chase the globule down with a straw!
You and I may prefer to run something like Debian testing, but I think for servers, computer labs / offices I'd appreciate the stable cycle. Professionally, it makes sense to run the same distro at both home and office, at which point the lack of a stable and usable testing version strikes such things as Arch and Gentoo off. I've seen Gentoo in places, and it bites them regularly. What Gentoo does have is a massive amount of documentation on how to build packages, which attracts some people who expect to have to do this no matter what distro they pick. And clearly, they've let their personal experience and bias lead them to putting Gentoo into production.
I wasn't in attendance, but I saw the recorded video, and someone else who claimed to be there stated that he Garnered some ill will over it. I'm glad to hear that may well not be true.
But seriously, I'm glad people are finally, actually updating their distros with newer stuff. More people should do that. Well, uh, Ubuntu's been running 2.20 since October. It's mostly a matter of timing releases; I think Shuttleworth tried to get KDE to make that sort of commitment at the last KDE meeting, but I think proposing it when everyone knew KDE 4 wasn't the sort of thing you can do on a six month schedule was a mistake. Now there's a bit of ill will from the KDE devs about Ubuntu leaning hard to make Ubuntu's job easier.
It's an interesting approach to the end of distro wars, where a set of slowly re-arranging releases on a universal schedule places distro that aren't with the schedule at a huge disadvantage. So far, I don't think anyone's tied their releases to KDE's schedule. Not sure if that invalidates the theory or simply slates KDE for destruction ^_^
The difference here is that the concept of the firm is slowly eroding. The internet makes it possible for you to sell software without working for Microsoft or impressing a Wal-Mart purchasing agent. All sorts of new independent businesses are flourishing, and they mostly aren't growing into massive employee farms.
Sure most jobs suck. But the deal is, employees are facing more and more choice in the workplace, and keeping them around means paying attention and competing. Because we know they are, or they wouldn't be leaving for new jobs. How we spend half (or more) of our waking lives is not "pointless."
So now that you don't have to extra work hard to provide for your children's future, we're blaming these people's upbringings as lazy? The problem isn't stated as "hiring", or "bad workers", but of "retention". Newsflash: less and less now, young people don't need you, but you need them. They're starting their own websites, their own companies, while you're losing employees to retirement, and they're coming in with new skills and technologies that will drive your company to compete.
So when it comes around for performance reviews a year later, everyone looks back at what they've gone through, and realized that their time is being wasted. Too many meetings, too much cost micromanagement, over goals that they simply don't care about. And so new hires are now looking elsewhere, for some place where their work might matter to people they meet around town. Employers might talk about managing unreasonable expectations, but I've seen many dog and pony shows telling potential software engineers that they have great retention rates, they have great benefits, but when you talk to friends who took the job there, it's radically different than the people they trotted out to tell you about the Corporate Experience.
Basically, stop telling me you have a great workplace while I overhear two people who interned there talking about working 45 hour weeks on a project that wound up getting canned.
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The trouble is, a great deal of CS graduates feel that Computer Science is the fastest way not to being an engineer or scientist, but to becoming a programmer. A disturbing number of my fellow students avoid classes perceived to be lots of work, which is exactly what this guy is asking for. Debugging embedded hardware is not easy or simple, and requires massive amounts of attention to detail to get anything to work at all.
Anderson's question might have been equivalent to "where are all the graphics programmers?" or "where are all the operating systems programmers?" but for one thing: this article presupposes a shortage to convince readers they need embedded skills, because PTR offers training in Linux embedded system programming. Frankly, the more important skill in embedded systems isn't pipeline stalls, but the Chinese language; most of the work has gone to where the embedded hardware is made: East Asia. Case in point: the only work this guy appears to get is defense contracting, where clients can't outsource / offshore the work.
OK, that explains Joel's fame, but what of the likes of Jeff Atwood? Every post seems to be a proof of finding the truth by deliberately placing incorrect information on the internet.
But it's a bit strange -- he's notable for his successes at Microsoft/Juno. Now that he's had a chance to practice what he preaches in his blog, shouldn't Fog Creek be incredibly successful? If not, why does anyone read his blog?
I donno about Japan only, but I know I saw an Fzero AX system. I didn't think to bring or look for my card (stupid american, I guess).
Dave & Busters does the game and alcohol/food thing already, but they really pander to a more general audience than would play Soul Calibar 3 twice. For example, in Kansas City, they built one near the new NASCAR track, and the D&B has ridiculous amounts of redneck games. Turkey shooters, NASCAR racers etc. The problem appears to be that the people who try to cater to redneck fans have terrible ability or attention to quality, making the game's only attraction an initial familiarity.
As for turning arcades into game sales arenas, it's a bit difficult; only Nintendo has the business experience making both consoles and arcade cabinets, and they appear to have decided the arcade is dead to them. They'll license their characters, but none of their consoles are designed with integration in mind. For example, Sega pulled F-Zero and made an arcade counterpart to GX, with new levels, motion seats and game data imports (I've only seen one ever in person, at a Disney hotel of all places). The consoles are alive and well, while the arcades are languishing indeed. I imagine none of the three need the targeted advertising your proposal would allow. And the net is a better data distribution system than any physical place can be. But I can't imagine an arcade splurging for an internet connection to pull data off of XBox Live etc.
The Nintendo World Store keeps this Gameboy on display. At least there aren't missing scorches where the hands would be, so maybe this one came back with owner intact?
You've done him one better, you've copied his work into your reply, to better construct a karma-earning post.
Since the cost of you two negotiating an exchange of karma for the use is higher than the possible gain, it rationally diminishes nothing. In this case however, your reply DOES diminish his own post's karma. Copyright could be used to silence your criticism!
So to take this a bit off topic, does the Eclipse CDT still suck? Last I checked, the intellisense was slow and the CDT DOM was somewhere between unfinished and undocumented.
Oh wow. I didn't even notice. I simply read 7.10 into the headline =/
Which is of course stupid if it's a security vulnerability. Security patches are supposed to be as non intrusive and small as possible so as not to train people to do stupid shit like leave attackers a two week window. How many attacks against Windows do you were created because people analyzed the security patches to figure out what the problem was?
Man. Remember when people wanted to use Credit Card numbers as proof of age for adult materials? Glad that never happened!
Dear people,
Volatile does not mean what you think it does. That is all.
Sanity
At least for my undergraduate career, the guys teaching Java were probably the most familiar with pointers and the workings of the JVM. This is likely because their research was on compilers, langauge, and computational model proofs. In a lot of ways, Java is actually pretty great. It's the only popular language that was prepared to handle threading from day one. You can try and teach conventional multithreading synchronization in C++, but you wind up lying to students, as the optimizers are typically built with single thread memory model assumptions.
This all said, I think they've abandoned Java for Python. They did recently redo the curriculum so that Formal Language theory and so on are electives rather than requirements, but on the plus side, Software Engineering is also no longer required.
You cannot patent mere data, or interpretations of data. Patents are for machines, processes, and the like. Of course, the publication of data doesn't preclude people from patenting a chemical process that results in a specific gene, but this is already happening elsewhere.
In fact, I suspect the entire point of this is for Google to take over maintenance of the Genomic Databases and create new such databases. Many times the academic databases are.. poorly maintained, and certainly not compatible, despite the very similar contents. There's already efforts to make them more compatible, but Google appears to be able to offer some very neat stuff on top of it all. The silliness about shipping RAID arrays mostly seems to be for unis not already hooked up to I2.
No, no. It's even more simple than that. All you have to do is put the liquid in the straw before takeoff, then you don't have to chase the globule down with a straw!
You and I may prefer to run something like Debian testing, but I think for servers, computer labs / offices I'd appreciate the stable cycle. Professionally, it makes sense to run the same distro at both home and office, at which point the lack of a stable and usable testing version strikes such things as Arch and Gentoo off. I've seen Gentoo in places, and it bites them regularly. What Gentoo does have is a massive amount of documentation on how to build packages, which attracts some people who expect to have to do this no matter what distro they pick. And clearly, they've let their personal experience and bias lead them to putting Gentoo into production.
I wasn't in attendance, but I saw the recorded video, and someone else who claimed to be there stated that he Garnered some ill will over it. I'm glad to hear that may well not be true.
It's an interesting approach to the end of distro wars, where a set of slowly re-arranging releases on a universal schedule places distro that aren't with the schedule at a huge disadvantage. So far, I don't think anyone's tied their releases to KDE's schedule. Not sure if that invalidates the theory or simply slates KDE for destruction ^_^
Edison was a massive firm!
The difference here is that the concept of the firm is slowly eroding. The internet makes it possible for you to sell software without working for Microsoft or impressing a Wal-Mart purchasing agent. All sorts of new independent businesses are flourishing, and they mostly aren't growing into massive employee farms.
Sure most jobs suck. But the deal is, employees are facing more and more choice in the workplace, and keeping them around means paying attention and competing. Because we know they are, or they wouldn't be leaving for new jobs. How we spend half (or more) of our waking lives is not "pointless."
The glycerides are what keep icecream from freezing into a solid...
So now that you don't have to extra work hard to provide for your children's future, we're blaming these people's upbringings as lazy? The problem isn't stated as "hiring", or "bad workers", but of "retention". Newsflash: less and less now, young people don't need you, but you need them. They're starting their own websites, their own companies, while you're losing employees to retirement, and they're coming in with new skills and technologies that will drive your company to compete.
So when it comes around for performance reviews a year later, everyone looks back at what they've gone through, and realized that their time is being wasted. Too many meetings, too much cost micromanagement, over goals that they simply don't care about. And so new hires are now looking elsewhere, for some place where their work might matter to people they meet around town. Employers might talk about managing unreasonable expectations, but I've seen many dog and pony shows telling potential software engineers that they have great retention rates, they have great benefits, but when you talk to friends who took the job there, it's radically different than the people they trotted out to tell you about the Corporate Experience.
Basically, stop telling me you have a great workplace while I overhear two people who interned there talking about working 45 hour weeks on a project that wound up getting canned.