Unfortunately, the schools of economics and law at the University of Chicago are packed with hard-right supporters. Much of the `intellectual' backing for the republican right wing policy is backed up by these guys. It is no surprise that this sort of stuff comes from there.
This is no surprise to those of us who have spent time in the networking industry. The root cause of this problem is that the core cellular technology has been completely de-valued in the eyes of customers.
If you look at the high tech industry from an economic POV, it is obvious that the benefits of all the investment at every layer of the protocol stack is accruing to the internet companies like Google, Amazon & Facebook. It takes years of planning, tremendous knowhow and massive investment to create a cellular standard, and creating wireless equipment is still extremely complex. You need to hire engineers with training in electrical engineering and communication theory. But since the end customer places no value to the technology (how much extra would you pay for a phone to use a cellular implementation that does not drop calls?), the companies that build such equipment have collapsed.
10 years ago, 3 of the top 5 telecomm companies in the world were based out of North America (Lucent, Nortel, Motorola). All these companies have been devastated, their carcasses consumed by European companies that themselves went under. So the telecomm arms of Alcatel, Lucent, Nokia & Siemens, Motorola are now (or will shortly be) one combined entity. Ericsson and Huawei, who enjoy extensive support from their respective governments, are #1 and #2 in the world. Ericcson equipment is still nominally decent, but Huawei's is absolutely terrible and 1/10th the price. But guess what... nobody cares.
10 years ago, telecomm equipment was supposed to provide 5 nines reliability. That means that the entire network had to stay up for all but 5 minutes a YEAR, and the downtime had to be scheduled. I have seen senior executives fired summarily due to their organizations failure to do their part to maintain these goals. It is relatively easy to make equipment that can make a few calls and then crash. Much more difficult to make stuff that stays up for years and keeps on ticking. All these experts who knew how to design such systems are mostly unemployed or working for insurance companies.
The demise of the traditional telecomms have been accompanied by the decline in health of core technology companies. Qualcomm, which used to be the Bell Labs of the 90s and 2000s, and who pioneered most of the 3G and 4G technologies that we take for granted these days is struggling and a shadow of its former self. They are facing brutal competition from MediaTek, the Huawei of the communication chip industry. MediaTek is Taiwanese knockoff who has pretty much stolen Qualcomm's IP, refuse to pay royalties and are protected by the Chinese government (a bizarre situation considering China's official political stance on Taiwan). Mediatek's chips are known in the industry to be at least 3 dB worse than Qualcomm's chips, and far less stable. If you have a non-Qualcomm chip in your phone, you are far more likely to experience call drops and overall airlink failures. (Disclaimer: I have never worked for Qualcomm and have no connection with the company, though I do own some Qualcomm stock. I have, however, spent years in the cellular networking industry). There was a time when no phone manufacturer would have even contemplated putting such an inferior chip into even their low end phones. Now, however, Mediatek's chips are available even in high-end products sold in western countries. They pretty much own the third world.
Most folks especially young people do not make voice calls these days. Data is far more tolerant to airlink errors, and web protocols are so overweight and clunky that the efficiencies provided by a more stable implementation are drowned out by the sheer bulk of HTTP. Furthermore, the customer has now been conditioned to experience a poor cellular experience when they use their apps.
The other major factor is the demise of the cellular industry is the ascent of Wifi. Most folks are on Wifi > 60% of their time anyway.
Let us apply the same standard to everything; why even have elections? Most folks are ill-informed and will not make the right choice anyway. Let us let a bunch of smart people make all the decisions. Think of how much money we can save!
Rape is the battle cry of the feminist, the tool that they use to shut down inconvenient discussions. That is why they hate it when their research is questioned, and when scrutiny of their rape stats reveals that "staring" has been equated as "eye rape", which has been quietly equated to cave-man style sexual assault.
If patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, rape is that for the feminist.
The main problem with the whole campus rape situation is that there is a perverse set of incentives at work that `reward' women who claim to be rape victims.
Not sure how many have been on a college campus recently. The amount of feminist propaganda and anti-male posturing is bordering on the comical. There are so many SJWs and other activists who are waiting for any male/female incident to happen, to blow up out of proportion, get on the news and ultimately enhance their own careers. A `victim' who comes out is immediately elevated to the status of feminist heroine. Her opinion is sought. There is often press coverage. There is talk of lawsuits and large financial compensation. A regular woman whom no-one would have looked at twice is suddenly enjoying the sort of fame and prestige usually enjoyed by cheerleaders. Even if her accusations ultimately prove false, she suffers no consequences whatsoever, and in fact her prestige among the feminist crowd actually increases. Look at that woman who is dragging a mattress all around campus, drawing attention to her `raped' status.
There are a few major downsides to working in a "Tier-2" or "undiscovered" city if you are a tech guy.
1. You are very unlikely to find high-quality or cutting edge work. Like it or not the movers and shakers of tech are in the bay are these days. They may have remote offices elsewhere, but the work that is parcelled out to these areas is mostly "non-criticial". This is due to both political and practical reasons. This will severely limit your ability to `move up' in the world and is a serious consideration if you are an ambitious type. Unfortunately this has become true even for formerly Tier-1 cities like Boston, and there are so many folks who have been forced to move to the bay area just to find interesting work.
2. There are not too many potential acquirers in Tier-2 cities. So even if you do join a start-up and make a successful product, it would be hard to get to a remunerative exit, and the value of your exit is likely to be much lower than it would be if your company was located in the valley. This very real "exit cost" is well known to VCs and accounts for why they don't invest much outside major cities. Locating in a Tier-2 also makes it very hard for your company to change direction or pivot, because your options will be severely limited by the talent pool in the area.
3. The number of employers is likely to be small. If you are affected by a layoff, it would be very difficult to find another job in the area, especially if you are a bit on the older side. Of course the lower cost of living may mean you can potentially survive for longer during a job hunt.
4. Frankly, if you are not white, Christian and conservative, you are unlikely to have a pleasant time in Tier-2 cities, especially those in the South. Even if the local schools are good, your kids are not likely to have a great time of it, what with being surrounded by peers coming from homes where Fox News and Rush Limbaugh are the primary sources of information, and who think that being informed about other parts of the world immediately makes you a potential terrorist. Being mocked and insulted about your culture & heritage would be fact of life for your kids. I know many folks who have moved to the bay area explicitly to save their kids from roving bands of teenage proselitizers and culture bullies.
You have no evidence of this. This is just a right-wing talking point your side has conjured up to distract attention from the egg on your face.
Nothing that I have read has indicated that his father set this up in any way, shape or form.
Why does the fact that they have chosen not to remain in a country where a significant fraction (the wilfully ignorant and hate-filled part) is out for their blood seem surprising to you?
When I was doing my Ph. D. too many years ago to count at a large public university, I TAd an introductory math course (undergraduate, 101). Thsi was a course that was required for a good number of majors, and a large percentage of the student population (both male & female) had no interest whatsoever in the subject beyond scraping together the required passing grade. I have been subject to advances and come-ons that even a creator of T&A teen flicks would reject as unrealistic. These were from women who were very aware of their sexuality and the effect it had on men, and were willing to use it to the full extent of their abilities to get what they want. Anyway, my experiences have made me rather skeptical of feminine claims that they are traumatized by dick jokes.
Daughters (at least American-raised girls) in particular instinctively rebel against what they perceive as their parents pushing stuff down their throats. Logic & Reason have nothing to do with it.
You would be better of trying reverse psychology... say something to the effect of "you girls will never cut in in a man's world". Voila... you'll have 4 engineers on your hands:) Now they get societal props for overcoming adversity as well.
Why can't they make it opt-in then? You can choose to have 2-factor enabled... or not. That will protect the responsible at least... and as someone has already pointed out, this is standard for ATM cards anyway.
So... a 14 year old did not actually build electronic integrated circuits with his own 2 hands. He either assembled or repackaged something commercially available. How is that even relevant? That changes this situation how exactly?
And how does this in any way excuse or even mitigate the behavior of the teachers, administrators & police involved in the situation?
Why don't you come out and admit your reasons... you have too much invested emotionally in the hard right narrative and cannot bear the thought that your side fucked up, and you are now doubling down and rolling around in the mud trying to save face. The though of offering up a simple apology would never occur to your lot.
Actually a lot of it is. HP is still paying the price for Fiorina's actions. As with most CEOs these days, she borrowed against the future. She optimized for her self-aggrandizement and pay package. HP will continue to pay the price for a long time to come.
Anyone who has spent any time at all in a Graduate program knows that academics is rife with buzzwords as well. This is particularly true in liberal arts and the so-called `soft sciences', but you can find plenty of examples in engineering & CS as well. What are words like `Hadoop', `Scala' and `Wavelets' if not buzzwords? No you say? They refer to specific technologies and processes you say? Guess what, that is what the marketer says about phrases they use as well.
Every professor dreams of when the acronym given to his/her pet algorithm or idea becomes a standard buzzword.
When I was in grad school, I used to play a `count the buzzwords' game with my lab-mates. We'd pick a paper at random from the latest IEEE transactions and count the buzzwords, loser was the one who picked the paper with the most buzzwords and had to buy lunch that day.
Just to clarify: were you able to link an app compiled with CLANG with libstdc++ compiled with g++,,and another C++ lib compiled with g++, like say libqt4? And it ran without any problems?
If this is true I apologize to the CLANG community. But the fact is our team has not been able to get this to work on RHEL and I admit we did not dig too much deeper into that since anecdotal info on the web indicated that this is not possible. Our code did not even link, and the same code compiled with g++ linked and ran without any problems.
For all practical purposes, CLANG is useless if you want to develop C++.
CLANG is incompatible with libstdc++ or microsoft's c++ library. Which means you have to use the libc++ that they supply. Unfortunately libc++ is not available on windows, so any app that uses C++ features is out.
On linux, if you want to use the C++ features, it is pretty much impossible to cross-link against libc++ and the other libs on your distribution that may be complied with g++, so you have to compile every library you want with with CLANG to use and ship a static binary (or ship the libs and have your startup script setup library paths etc).
Of course, many of the common open source C++ libs do not compile with CLANG anyway so you are screwed.
In summary, unless you are writing console only apps and do not need to link to any c++ library other than libc++, CLANG is not even an option for you.
You are so wrong about the Telephony business. If anything, it is an even worse business than handsets. Chinese competition has killed the profit margins. 10 years ago, 3 of the top 5 telco vendors were based out of North America. Lucent, Nortel & Motorola. They have all gone bust and their carcasses have been subsumed by European companies. Similar consolidation has happened in other markets.
What is now the `Nokia' company is the amalgamation of Alcatel, Lucent & Nokia. The big dogs who have any clout left whatsoever are Ericcsson and Hauwei.
I used to work in the industry. Till the late 90s/early 2000s, Telecomm Infrastructure was superhot, and some of the best brains in the world joined these companies. Those days are long gone, the pond has shrunk dramatically and anyone who is halfway decent and motivated has long flown to other companies. The best brains these days are going to Google, Amazon, Facebook etc.
The telecomm industry is now full of former big fish jockeying for position in the ever-shrinking pond. There are several categories of people: the politicians, the option-less and the clueless. The percentage of idiots &/or assholes is very high. As much of the technical work as possible is outsourced to India and China, and the work ethic is mostly `sweatshop'. Engineers in the industry have no bargaining power, salaries are flat or shrinking, and it is brutually hard (if not impossible) to find a job at least in the developed world. Most folks who have had to leave are having to retrain and take jobs in `sister' industries like storage and having their careers reset.
Nowadays, telecomm companies give away the equipment at cost or lower, hoping to make money on support contracts.
I would not wish a career in Telecomm on my worst enemy.
Exactly. Expatriate Sikhs, especially those based in Canada & the US, are the equivalent of 1st generation Cubans in Florida who collaborated with the CIA and tried to overthrow Castro, or the New York Irish Catholic folks who funded most of the `troubles' on the old country in the 70s & 80s. These guys may have their grievances, but the shrillness of their current efforts and the veracity of their message is completely divorced from reality and their causes are not in line with US interests. They are not heroes struggling with oppression, they are middle aged or older rich `Colonel Blimps', trying to find meaning in their boring & pointless lives by fighting yesterdays' wars and fomenting trouble in the lands they have abandoned.
This guy comes across as an archetypical `mangina', bleating and fawning over "women's causes" in the desperate hope that one of them would give him a pity fuck. Why on earth are we giving this bilge coverage on Slashdot?
I don't even know where to begin addressing the pseudo-feminist assertions and hypocrisies in this article:
1. I've already got mine, Jack, from Microsoft of all places. I've retired from tech life and am now looking for a way to remain relevant to the world.
2. Amazon's offices are sparsely furnished. Patriarchy!!!!
3. The new buildings are mostly occupied by men! Oh the humanity!!
4. Amazon's workforce is 75% men! There are so many women with Women's studies degrees who can do as good a job of developing cloud infrastructure if it wasn't for all the discrimination. (Ladies, I am a really nice guy, so if you want someone who is not like these younger competitors...)
5. Seattle is White! And getting whiter! Of course, the throngs of Indians who occupy the Amazon & MSFT offices are invisible to me, they are just cyber-coolies after all.
6. The poor ladies of Seattle can't find a date because the men that Amazon hires are of such low quality!!! (Refer to my comment earlier about my availability to pick up the slack...)
Pakistan exists because of the machinations of the British & nothing else. It is the standard "sting in the tail" that the British employed when they had to give up a colony... sow dissent and divide the populace as much as possible so that they would focus on tearing each other apart instead of trying to unite against their former masters and to demand justice and reparations for the 2 centuries of economic stagnation & outright theft.
This may be true in the third world, but is absolutely not the case in the west and an absurd proposition in the United States.
Have you ever had to associate with teenage girls in the US? A more aggressive, foul-mouthed, in-for-the-money attitude is hard to find even in the most hard-charging of CEOs. Utterly casual attitude to sex, language that would make a sailor blush. And we are talking upper middle class.
These are the ones who get jobs in their twenties and suddenly turn into 1800-style wilting violets, claiming `harassment' because a colleague made a dick joke.
I think the whole `oh women are dainty, easily discouraged special snowflakes' meme is just a facade that the female sex adopts for competitive advantage. After all, sex & guilt are the two tools women have used to gain power in society for tens of thousands of years.
Absolutely this. I have friends who moved from the valley to the South/Midwest areas and are either unhappy or have moved back. The thing is this: even though you, as a professional working for a corp can avoid the fanatics and bible thumpers without too much effort. Your kids don't have that luxury. In school, they are surrounded by roving bands of teenage proselytizers, or kids whose attitude towards the world have been so shaped by their hard-right parents. If they are not white & the right kind of Christian, they are relentlessly harassed, bullied and taunted... and there is no escape.
The daughter of an Indian colleague of mine who relocated to RTP, North Caroliana would come back in tears every day; she was Hindu and accused of being a `rat-worshipper'. The school did absolutely nothing about this. Discussions of other religions in history class were colored with the viewpoint 'how can we make these heathen see the light?' She ultimately tried to commit suicide & that motivated her parents to GTFO and move back to India.
I wonder at the parents from non-traditional faiths & backgrounds who have (for whatever reason) made homes in edeep South. They must be either uniquely clueless, or resorting to extreme levels of self-delusion about what their kids are going through.
This is very interesting, I never knew this. I thought she had graduated from Princeton with a degree in EECS. If she was a lawyer, it is interesting to understand why Kleiner hired her in the first place. She was not hired as a lawyer, but as an entrepreneur.
The one other thing that boggles my mind is why the following obvious consideration has not been widely debated. To put it charitably, no-one would mistake Ellen Pao for a movie star or underwear model. She is a decidedly un-attractive woman whose brittle edge is obvious even in video snippets. How likely it is that men who have such a lot to lose would risk everything to have an affair with her? We are not talking about junior programmers, but guys with serious money and hardnosed business skills. The whole thing is completely bogus, and I am glad that the jury saw through her.
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Unfortunately, the schools of economics and law at the University of Chicago are packed with hard-right supporters. Much of the `intellectual' backing for the republican right wing policy is backed up by these guys. It is no surprise that this sort of stuff comes from there.
This is no surprise to those of us who have spent time in the networking industry. The root cause of this problem is that the core cellular technology has been completely de-valued in the eyes of customers.
If you look at the high tech industry from an economic POV, it is obvious that the benefits of all the investment at every layer of the protocol stack is accruing to the internet companies like Google, Amazon & Facebook. It takes years of planning, tremendous knowhow and massive investment to create a cellular standard, and creating wireless equipment is still extremely complex. You need to hire engineers with training in electrical engineering and communication theory. But since the end customer places no value to the technology (how much extra would you pay for a phone to use a cellular implementation that does not drop calls?), the companies that build such equipment have collapsed.
10 years ago, 3 of the top 5 telecomm companies in the world were based out of North America (Lucent, Nortel, Motorola). All these companies have been devastated, their carcasses consumed by European companies that themselves went under. So the telecomm arms of Alcatel, Lucent, Nokia & Siemens, Motorola are now (or will shortly be) one combined entity. Ericsson and Huawei, who enjoy extensive support from their respective governments, are #1 and #2 in the world. Ericcson equipment is still nominally decent, but Huawei's is absolutely terrible and 1/10th the price. But guess what... nobody cares.
10 years ago, telecomm equipment was supposed to provide 5 nines reliability. That means that the entire network had to stay up for all but 5 minutes a YEAR, and the downtime had to be scheduled. I have seen senior executives fired summarily due to their organizations failure to do their part to maintain these goals. It is relatively easy to make equipment that can make a few calls and then crash. Much more difficult to make stuff that stays up for years and keeps on ticking. All these experts who knew how to design such systems are mostly unemployed or working for insurance companies.
The demise of the traditional telecomms have been accompanied by the decline in health of core technology companies. Qualcomm, which used to be the Bell Labs of the 90s and 2000s, and who pioneered most of the 3G and 4G technologies that we take for granted these days is struggling and a shadow of its former self. They are facing brutal competition from MediaTek, the Huawei of the communication chip industry. MediaTek is Taiwanese knockoff who has pretty much stolen Qualcomm's IP, refuse to pay royalties and are protected by the Chinese government (a bizarre situation considering China's official political stance on Taiwan). Mediatek's chips are known in the industry to be at least 3 dB worse than Qualcomm's chips, and far less stable. If you have a non-Qualcomm chip in your phone, you are far more likely to experience call drops and overall airlink failures. (Disclaimer: I have never worked for Qualcomm and have no connection with the company, though I do own some Qualcomm stock. I have, however, spent years in the cellular networking industry). There was a time when no phone manufacturer would have even contemplated putting such an inferior chip into even their low end phones. Now, however, Mediatek's chips are available even in high-end products sold in western countries. They pretty much own the third world.
Most folks especially young people do not make voice calls these days. Data is far more tolerant to airlink errors, and web protocols are so overweight and clunky that the efficiencies provided by a more stable implementation are drowned out by the sheer bulk of HTTP. Furthermore, the customer has now been conditioned to experience a poor cellular experience when they use their apps.
The other major factor is the demise of the cellular industry is the ascent of Wifi. Most folks are on Wifi > 60% of their time anyway.
Let us apply the same standard to everything; why even have elections? Most folks are ill-informed and will not make the right choice anyway. Let us let a bunch of smart people make all the decisions. Think of how much money we can save!
Rape is the battle cry of the feminist, the tool that they use to shut down inconvenient discussions. That is why they hate it when their research is questioned, and when scrutiny of their rape stats reveals that "staring" has been equated as "eye rape", which has been quietly equated to cave-man style sexual assault.
If patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, rape is that for the feminist.
The main problem with the whole campus rape situation is that there is a perverse set of incentives at work that `reward' women who claim to be rape victims.
Not sure how many have been on a college campus recently. The amount of feminist propaganda and anti-male posturing is bordering on the comical. There are so many SJWs and other activists who are waiting for any male/female incident to happen, to blow up out of proportion, get on the news and ultimately enhance their own careers. A `victim' who comes out is immediately elevated to the status of feminist heroine. Her opinion is sought. There is often press coverage. There is talk of lawsuits and large financial compensation. A regular woman whom no-one would have looked at twice is suddenly enjoying the sort of fame and prestige usually enjoyed by cheerleaders. Even if her accusations ultimately prove false, she suffers no consequences whatsoever, and in fact her prestige among the feminist crowd actually increases. Look at that woman who is dragging a mattress all around campus, drawing attention to her `raped' status.
There are a few major downsides to working in a "Tier-2" or "undiscovered" city if you are a tech guy.
1. You are very unlikely to find high-quality or cutting edge work. Like it or not the movers and shakers of tech are in the bay are these days. They may have remote offices elsewhere, but the work that is parcelled out to these areas is mostly "non-criticial". This is due to both political and practical reasons. This will severely limit your ability to `move up' in the world and is a serious consideration if you are an ambitious type. Unfortunately this has become true even for formerly Tier-1 cities like Boston, and there are so many folks who have been forced to move to the bay area just to find interesting work.
2. There are not too many potential acquirers in Tier-2 cities. So even if you do join a start-up and make a successful product, it would be hard to get to a remunerative exit, and the value of your exit is likely to be much lower than it would be if your company was located in the valley. This very real "exit cost" is well known to VCs and accounts for why they don't invest much outside major cities. Locating in a Tier-2 also makes it very hard for your company to change direction or pivot, because your options will be severely limited by the talent pool in the area.
3. The number of employers is likely to be small. If you are affected by a layoff, it would be very difficult to find another job in the area, especially if you are a bit on the older side. Of course the lower cost of living may mean you can potentially survive for longer during a job hunt.
4. Frankly, if you are not white, Christian and conservative, you are unlikely to have a pleasant time in Tier-2 cities, especially those in the South. Even if the local schools are good, your kids are not likely to have a great time of it, what with being surrounded by peers coming from homes where Fox News and Rush Limbaugh are the primary sources of information, and who think that being informed about other parts of the world immediately makes you a potential terrorist. Being mocked and insulted about your culture & heritage would be fact of life for your kids. I know many folks who have moved to the bay area explicitly to save their kids from roving bands of teenage proselitizers and culture bullies.
By imposing tariffs on the products you are hoping to sell in the US so that the advantages you accrue by not employing American workers is nullified.
You have no evidence of this. This is just a right-wing talking point your side has conjured up to distract attention from the egg on your face.
Nothing that I have read has indicated that his father set this up in any way, shape or form.
Why does the fact that they have chosen not to remain in a country where a significant fraction (the wilfully ignorant and hate-filled part) is out for their blood seem surprising to you?
It was not about undeserved praise for Ahmed.
It was well-deserved embarrassment and public humiliation for the ignorant and vindictive school officials and police department.
When I was doing my Ph. D. too many years ago to count at a large public university, I TAd an introductory math course (undergraduate, 101). Thsi was a course that was required for a good number of majors, and a large percentage of the student population (both male & female) had no interest whatsoever in the subject beyond scraping together the required passing grade. I have been subject to advances and come-ons that even a creator of T&A teen flicks would reject as unrealistic. These were from women who were very aware of their sexuality and the effect it had on men, and were willing to use it to the full extent of their abilities to get what they want. Anyway, my experiences have made me rather skeptical of feminine claims that they are traumatized by dick jokes.
Daughters (at least American-raised girls) in particular instinctively rebel against what they perceive as their parents pushing stuff down their throats. Logic & Reason have nothing to do with it.
You would be better of trying reverse psychology... say something to the effect of "you girls will never cut in in a man's world". Voila... you'll have 4 engineers on your hands :) Now they get societal props for overcoming adversity as well.
Why can't they make it opt-in then? You can choose to have 2-factor enabled... or not. That will protect the responsible at least... and as someone has already pointed out, this is standard for ATM cards anyway.
So... a 14 year old did not actually build electronic integrated circuits with his own 2 hands. He either assembled or repackaged something commercially available. How is that even relevant? That changes this situation how exactly?
And how does this in any way excuse or even mitigate the behavior of the teachers, administrators & police involved in the situation?
Why don't you come out and admit your reasons... you have too much invested emotionally in the hard right narrative and cannot bear the thought that your side fucked up, and you are now doubling down and rolling around in the mud trying to save face. The though of offering up a simple apology would never occur to your lot.
Actually a lot of it is. HP is still paying the price for Fiorina's actions. As with most CEOs these days, she borrowed against the future. She optimized for her self-aggrandizement and pay package. HP will continue to pay the price for a long time to come.
Anyone who has spent any time at all in a Graduate program knows that academics is rife with buzzwords as well. This is particularly true in liberal arts and the so-called `soft sciences', but you can find plenty of examples in engineering & CS as well. What are words like `Hadoop', `Scala' and `Wavelets' if not buzzwords? No you say? They refer to specific technologies and processes you say? Guess what, that is what the marketer says about phrases they use as well.
Every professor dreams of when the acronym given to his/her pet algorithm or idea becomes a standard buzzword.
When I was in grad school, I used to play a `count the buzzwords' game with my lab-mates. We'd pick a paper at random from the latest IEEE transactions and count the buzzwords, loser was the one who picked the paper with the most buzzwords and had to buy lunch that day.
Just to clarify: were you able to link an app compiled with CLANG with libstdc++ compiled with g++, ,and another C++ lib compiled with g++, like say libqt4? And it ran without any problems?
If this is true I apologize to the CLANG community. But the fact is our team has not been able to get this to work on RHEL and I admit we did not dig too much deeper into that since anecdotal info on the web indicated that this is not possible. Our code did not even link, and the same code compiled with g++ linked and ran without any problems.
For all practical purposes, CLANG is useless if you want to develop C++.
CLANG is incompatible with libstdc++ or microsoft's c++ library. Which means you have to use the libc++ that they supply. Unfortunately libc++ is not available on windows, so any app that uses C++ features is out. On linux, if you want to use the C++ features, it is pretty much impossible to cross-link against libc++ and the other libs on your distribution that may be complied with g++, so you have to compile every library you want with with CLANG to use and ship a static binary (or ship the libs and have your startup script setup library paths etc).
Of course, many of the common open source C++ libs do not compile with CLANG anyway so you are screwed.
In summary, unless you are writing console only apps and do not need to link to any c++ library other than libc++, CLANG is not even an option for you.
You are so wrong about the Telephony business. If anything, it is an even worse business than handsets. Chinese competition has killed the profit margins. 10 years ago, 3 of the top 5 telco vendors were based out of North America. Lucent, Nortel & Motorola. They have all gone bust and their carcasses have been subsumed by European companies. Similar consolidation has happened in other markets.
What is now the `Nokia' company is the amalgamation of Alcatel, Lucent & Nokia. The big dogs who have any clout left whatsoever are Ericcsson and Hauwei.
I used to work in the industry. Till the late 90s/early 2000s, Telecomm Infrastructure was superhot, and some of the best brains in the world joined these companies. Those days are long gone, the pond has shrunk dramatically and anyone who is halfway decent and motivated has long flown to other companies. The best brains these days are going to Google, Amazon, Facebook etc.
The telecomm industry is now full of former big fish jockeying for position in the ever-shrinking pond. There are several categories of people: the politicians, the option-less and the clueless. The percentage of idiots &/or assholes is very high. As much of the technical work as possible is outsourced to India and China, and the work ethic is mostly `sweatshop'. Engineers in the industry have no bargaining power, salaries are flat or shrinking, and it is brutually hard (if not impossible) to find a job at least in the developed world. Most folks who have had to leave are having to retrain and take jobs in `sister' industries like storage and having their careers reset.
Nowadays, telecomm companies give away the equipment at cost or lower, hoping to make money on support contracts.
I would not wish a career in Telecomm on my worst enemy.
Exactly. Expatriate Sikhs, especially those based in Canada & the US, are the equivalent of 1st generation Cubans in Florida who collaborated with the CIA and tried to overthrow Castro, or the New York Irish Catholic folks who funded most of the `troubles' on the old country in the 70s & 80s. These guys may have their grievances, but the shrillness of their current efforts and the veracity of their message is completely divorced from reality and their causes are not in line with US interests. They are not heroes struggling with oppression, they are middle aged or older rich `Colonel Blimps', trying to find meaning in their boring & pointless lives by fighting yesterdays' wars and fomenting trouble in the lands they have abandoned.
Women in Africa are subject to cliterectomy. I am a woman. So I must be promoted. QED.
This guy comes across as an archetypical `mangina', bleating and fawning over "women's causes" in the desperate hope that one of them would give him a pity fuck. Why on earth are we giving this bilge coverage on Slashdot?
I don't even know where to begin addressing the pseudo-feminist assertions and hypocrisies in this article:
1. I've already got mine, Jack, from Microsoft of all places. I've retired from tech life and am now looking for a way to remain relevant to the world.
2. Amazon's offices are sparsely furnished. Patriarchy!!!!
3. The new buildings are mostly occupied by men! Oh the humanity!!
4. Amazon's workforce is 75% men! There are so many women with Women's studies degrees who can do as good a job of developing cloud infrastructure if it wasn't for all the discrimination. (Ladies, I am a really nice guy, so if you want someone who is not like these younger competitors...)
5. Seattle is White! And getting whiter! Of course, the throngs of Indians who occupy the Amazon & MSFT offices are invisible to me, they are just cyber-coolies after all.
6. The poor ladies of Seattle can't find a date because the men that Amazon hires are of such low quality!!! (Refer to my comment earlier about my availability to pick up the slack...)
Pakistan exists because of the machinations of the British & nothing else. It is the standard "sting in the tail" that the British employed when they had to give up a colony... sow dissent and divide the populace as much as possible so that they would focus on tearing each other apart instead of trying to unite against their former masters and to demand justice and reparations for the 2 centuries of economic stagnation & outright theft.
This may be true in the third world, but is absolutely not the case in the west and an absurd proposition in the United States. Have you ever had to associate with teenage girls in the US? A more aggressive, foul-mouthed, in-for-the-money attitude is hard to find even in the most hard-charging of CEOs. Utterly casual attitude to sex, language that would make a sailor blush. And we are talking upper middle class. These are the ones who get jobs in their twenties and suddenly turn into 1800-style wilting violets, claiming `harassment' because a colleague made a dick joke. I think the whole `oh women are dainty, easily discouraged special snowflakes' meme is just a facade that the female sex adopts for competitive advantage. After all, sex & guilt are the two tools women have used to gain power in society for tens of thousands of years.
Absolutely this. I have friends who moved from the valley to the South/Midwest areas and are either unhappy or have moved back. The thing is this: even though you, as a professional working for a corp can avoid the fanatics and bible thumpers without too much effort. Your kids don't have that luxury. In school, they are surrounded by roving bands of teenage proselytizers, or kids whose attitude towards the world have been so shaped by their hard-right parents. If they are not white & the right kind of Christian, they are relentlessly harassed, bullied and taunted... and there is no escape.
The daughter of an Indian colleague of mine who relocated to RTP, North Caroliana would come back in tears every day; she was Hindu and accused of being a `rat-worshipper'. The school did absolutely nothing about this. Discussions of other religions in history class were colored with the viewpoint 'how can we make these heathen see the light?' She ultimately tried to commit suicide & that motivated her parents to GTFO and move back to India.
I wonder at the parents from non-traditional faiths & backgrounds who have (for whatever reason) made homes in edeep South. They must be either uniquely clueless, or resorting to extreme levels of self-delusion about what their kids are going through.
This is very interesting, I never knew this. I thought she had graduated from Princeton with a degree in EECS. If she was a lawyer, it is interesting to understand why Kleiner hired her in the first place. She was not hired as a lawyer, but as an entrepreneur.
The one other thing that boggles my mind is why the following obvious consideration has not been widely debated. To put it charitably, no-one would mistake Ellen Pao for a movie star or underwear model. She is a decidedly un-attractive woman whose brittle edge is obvious even in video snippets. How likely it is that men who have such a lot to lose would risk everything to have an affair with her? We are not talking about junior programmers, but guys with serious money and hardnosed business skills. The whole thing is completely bogus, and I am glad that the jury saw through her.