OK, you should blame me for this, not the guy since I am quoting from the memory of years back. It is quite possible that he had done this the right way. The point of my comment were the names of the variables, not the implementation thereof. Jeez, I did not expect a code review here. Anyway, since the guy's implementation stood the test of time and earned the company several 10s of millions of dollars in sales, you have to assume that he knew what he was doing.
Worked for a company several years ago, where the lead programmer in a project (a superstar by all accounts and someone who was responsible for pretty much 25% of the company's codebase) was discovered to have used non-PC names for all his local variables. They were surprisingly apt, and hilarious, but definitely questionable in the current political environment.
For example, he would have code like this to represent the most significant and least significant words of a 32-byte unsigned int:
hungLo = word & 0xFFFF;
hungHi = (word & 0xFFFF0000) >> 16;
wellHungLo = word & 0xFF;
The problems started happening when the company grew and and some women were added to the team and took over the responsibility for the code; you can imagine the sort of complaints we got; ultimately we had to have a semi-major release whose only purpose was to sanitize the codebase.
Identification at airports is a giveaway to the Airlines to kill the second hand ticket market. Airlines don't want an entire industry propping up to buy tickets way in advance at cheap rates, and resell them to travelers.
This. The modem performance of the latest Qualcomm chips are pretty close to channel capacity and at least 3dB better than the best from either Intel's or MediaTeks according to reports I've seen. That means roughtly that the modem part of the phone spends double the energy to attain the same speeds, and under power-limited conditions would provide far less throughput.
It is pretty difficult to get perfect performance out of a cell modem, the underlying theory is pretty complex, and translating these complex algorithms into a practical working implementation is incredibly difficult. Neither Intel nor Mediatek know how to close the gap.
Qualcomm is probably the only company in the world that has the knowhow and brainpower to do this.
But here is the thing: there was a time before the advent of the iPhone when consumers actually cared about the quality of the modem or underlying wireless technology. They don't any more. Or at least, not enough to vote with their wallets and do anything that the phone-makers care about. No-one who likes the iPhone will ever switch away to Samsung or similar because the cell modem is better... especially since they are on Wifi more than 50% of the time.
This is why Mediatek has become a unbelievable success in Asia and now biting into Qualcomm's profit at the high end. This is also why Intel (after struggling to make a viable cell modem for years and years) is finally getting a shot at the big time. And this spells really bad news for Qualcomm... another case of the market picking a demonstrably inferior product.
-> Chances are if VLC won't play it, the video is corrupt.
I'm sorry, but this is not the case; there are numerous formats that VLC does not support well, which other open source media players handle just fine. For example, mplayer supports real formats reasonably well. VLC has only partial support. VLC does not work well with files that have been spliced/joined with ffmpeg (stuttering, pausing, time-jumping). Mplayer works fine.
I'm a big fan of VLC, but saying that it is perfect helps nobody.
Any reason why you think that the divorce & child support pillage is limited to white men? I know quite a few Indian and Asian men who are paying through the nose to keep their exes in the styles to which they have become accustomed.
This seems like a perfect use of parallel construction: figure out who he is by using illegal/secret technologies, and develop a plausible narrative of how legal methods were actually used. Maybe we are jumping too quickly to the "He was stupid" conclusion.
Last week, I saw a guy in line at the supermarket being punched in the mouth for trying to get an abusive customer to back off.
Don't do this. Not worth the hassle. The guy who is being an asshole may also be malicious or violent.
It looks like they support encrypting all the stored messages using your security keys, so there is that.
From the description:
"Stored Data Encryption – Data at rest (messages, contacts, attachments, and metadata) is encrypted using keys supplied and managed by KMS."
Democrats are trying to avoid a worse alternative of everything getting outsourced, and jobs in the US disappearing.
Take a look at the US networking industry for an illustrative example.
I would not call myself a fan of Meyer, and her use of her relationship with Page to screw over her contemporaries (read this book) has really left a bad taste in my mouth. However this article reads like a hit piece. It looks like some activist investors are trying to get her to do things she does not want to do (the article suggests returning the money back to shareholders and firing all the engineers). They are attacking her personally and that stinks.
ECB has not been updated since 2009... and it was very slow & buggy when I used it last. It is based on cscope which has little support for C++/Java.
What I don't get is: commercial text editors like Visual Slickedit have had fabulous source browsing capabilities for more than 15 years. Another example is sublime text. Why is this not a priority for the emacs devs, whom I would assume are hardcore programmers?
I've used Emacs for more than 20 years, but cannot justify that any more; the source browsing integration of modern IDEs is just too nice and the editing goodness that is Emacs is just not enough.
I used to work as a dev manager at a software company a few years ago. A young Asian woman was hired as a developer, fresh out of school. She did not seem to have any idea of the dress norms in the US and would come to work dressed in cocktail dresses and high heels. During the first 3 months, she reported two of our long-time developers for sexual harassment. Top management was so sensitive to the issue that they fired the guys pretty much immediately. This despite the fact that there had been no complaints about them from anybody till then, and the one other woman in the group claimed that they had never said or done anything that was even remotely questionable in her presence.
The woman in question resigned about 6 months after she had been hired; she had an offer at another company for a 50% bump in salary which we could not match.
We don't know whether the two guys really did anything bad or whether she was over-sensitive. But look at the cost to the company; over the period of 6 months, she contributed nothing to the company (was mostly ramping up) and was at least indirectly responsible for us losing two valuable developers who had a blemish-less record until then.
I disagree. Since Melissa took over, I've lost months worth of mail multiple times on two yahoo accounts that I have. (Not saying that this is Melissa's fault). Tech support responded with a shrug. I've been slowly moving my mail off Yahoo.
You say that as if this is a good thing. Care to elaborate why it is a great idea why trade treaties (as opposed to defense & military) should be negotiated in secret? Seems to me (and many others who are experts on this subject matter) is that secrecy is a wonderful thing for the lobbyists and other corrupt bureaucrats and sucks for the people whom it would ultimately affect (i.e., all of us).
As for it being debated on the senate floor... what a joke. By the time it gets to the senate, the issue has already been framed, and the range of acceptable options narrowly defined. The fact is that many of the ideas should never be allowed to even get that level of legitimacy.
Most organizations run by disciples of Jack Welch practice the 20-70-10 philosophy, where the `bottom' 10% are sacked each year.
Microsoft, Google, Amazon and most other high-tech companies adhere closely to this principle. Of course they have large amounts of eager applicants, so they can afford to do this.
There are two sides to this issue. On the one hand, it is callous and heartless. On the other hand, it is hard to argue that replacing poor performers with better ones does not improve the team's productivity.
Here is something I've found: most team members do not like under-performers. They have to work harder to compensate. Also, if the poor performer is not penalized somehow, it destroys the motivation of excellent performers. "He gets away with doing nothing, why should I kill myself?"
The phrase Media Distribution Mafia is somewhat redundant.
If you look closely at the executives of the movie/music industries, you will find a surprisingly large percentage of Italian/Sicilian descent, or folks who are very closely affiliated with such. If you look a bit more closely, you'll find that those are the sons, grandsons or great grandsons of folks who ran around exterminating their competition with Tommy guns, or guys who hid out in the mountains of Sicily, attacked travelers and raped their daughters.
It is no surprise that such individuals bring their psychopathic sensibilities to their `legitimate' businesses.
No. Originally the Netflix' intent of a "like" button was that they could assess the sort of movies you like and provide better recommendations.
Like == sharing is a new concept in world of video rentals. I absolutely positively do not want the likes and positive reviews I've written on my account at Neflix or Imdb to be associated with the real me, used to catalog me and sold to possibly hostile third parties.
The original article sounds like an industry shill trying to spin a good, useful law as something that `harms innovation'.
I wish circumstances allowed my parents to live with me. I cannot imagine a happier circumstance than the opportunity to care for them in their winter years.
Sorry, I did not make a clear distinction in my post. I was not suggesting that Google did behavioral interviewing, merely that the candidate should familiarize himself/herself with the particular interviewing philosophies of the organizations that they are targeting.
Also, behavioral interviewing does not have to be touchy-feely/non-technical at all. It can in fact be the opposite. The style can be very different though.
Typical programming question: how do you traverse a binary tree?
Behavioral question: Describe a situation when you had to deal with and organize a large volume of data. What was the strategy you adopted? Why?
Note that the whys don't stop. The interviewer keeps asking why? why? why? until the candidate's technical limits are reached.
Likeable is good, but complaining about past employers is a TERRIBLE idea. It is very very hard to do this without coming across as a whiner. Most interviewers immediately pick up on the implied negativity. `You are complaining about them today, you will surely complain about us tomorrow'.
Project positivity. You are not running away from anything. You are running towards something... the new job. Employers don't necessarily want to pick up and be saddled with orphans, refugees or the weak. They want healthy, well-adjusted individuals who can stand on their own feet and be productive.
Also, note that interviewing has changed over the past few years. Behavioral interviewing is all the rage, led by a few large, successful companies. In this situation, candidates are asked to describe specific things that happened to them in past jobs (or specific problems they have worked on), and the interviewer tries to get a feel for how the candidate behaved in that situation (overcoming adversity, dealing with ambiguity, working on seemingly intractable problems), and to extrapolate to how the candidate would behave in similar situations in future. If you really are experienced, you probably have a number of examples like this from your past. Research a few large companies (Google, MSFT, Amazon), they are very open about their interviewing strategies and the qualities they expect from an employee. Keep a few examples of behavior polished and ready.
Women obsess over sports and sports stars, but American sports in particular is steeped in outright, overt, blatant sexism and hostility to women at at a level that is unimaginable in tech circles.
Do you know what the average college jock/NFL athelete thinks about and how they treat women?
Do you know what the term `fuck truck' means?
What about the entire concept of cheerleading, where women in skimpy outfits parade and cheer the achievements of male atheletes?
Do you really think tech is more sexist than all this?
Yet women as a whole seem to have no problem with organized sports; so I have to conclude that whatever is keeping them away from tech, it is not sexism.
And BTW, this is purely an American phenomenon. Asian/Indian and European women don't seem to be fazed by tech.
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OK, you should blame me for this, not the guy since I am quoting from the memory of years back. It is quite possible that he had done this the right way. The point of my comment were the names of the variables, not the implementation thereof. Jeez, I did not expect a code review here. Anyway, since the guy's implementation stood the test of time and earned the company several 10s of millions of dollars in sales, you have to assume that he knew what he was doing.
For example, he would have code like this to represent the most significant and least significant words of a 32-byte unsigned int:
hungLo = word & 0xFFFF;
hungHi = (word & 0xFFFF0000) >> 16;
wellHungLo = word & 0xFF;
The problems started happening when the company grew and and some women were added to the team and took over the responsibility for the code; you can imagine the sort of complaints we got; ultimately we had to have a semi-major release whose only purpose was to sanitize the codebase.
Identification at airports is a giveaway to the Airlines to kill the second hand ticket market. Airlines don't want an entire industry propping up to buy tickets way in advance at cheap rates, and resell them to travelers.
This. The modem performance of the latest Qualcomm chips are pretty close to channel capacity and at least 3dB better than the best from either Intel's or MediaTeks according to reports I've seen. That means roughtly that the modem part of the phone spends double the energy to attain the same speeds, and under power-limited conditions would provide far less throughput.
It is pretty difficult to get perfect performance out of a cell modem, the underlying theory is pretty complex, and translating these complex algorithms into a practical working implementation is incredibly difficult. Neither Intel nor Mediatek know how to close the gap. Qualcomm is probably the only company in the world that has the knowhow and brainpower to do this.
But here is the thing: there was a time before the advent of the iPhone when consumers actually cared about the quality of the modem or underlying wireless technology. They don't any more. Or at least, not enough to vote with their wallets and do anything that the phone-makers care about. No-one who likes the iPhone will ever switch away to Samsung or similar because the cell modem is better... especially since they are on Wifi more than 50% of the time.
This is why Mediatek has become a unbelievable success in Asia and now biting into Qualcomm's profit at the high end. This is also why Intel (after struggling to make a viable cell modem for years and years) is finally getting a shot at the big time. And this spells really bad news for Qualcomm... another case of the market picking a demonstrably inferior product.
-> Chances are if VLC won't play it, the video is corrupt.
I'm sorry, but this is not the case; there are numerous formats that VLC does not support well, which other open source media players handle just fine. For example, mplayer supports real formats reasonably well. VLC has only partial support. VLC does not work well with files that have been spliced/joined with ffmpeg (stuttering, pausing, time-jumping). Mplayer works fine.
I'm a big fan of VLC, but saying that it is perfect helps nobody.
Any reason why you think that the divorce & child support pillage is limited to white men? I know quite a few Indian and Asian men who are paying through the nose to keep their exes in the styles to which they have become accustomed.
This seems like a perfect use of parallel construction: figure out who he is by using illegal/secret technologies, and develop a plausible narrative of how legal methods were actually used. Maybe we are jumping too quickly to the "He was stupid" conclusion.
Last week, I saw a guy in line at the supermarket being punched in the mouth for trying to get an abusive customer to back off. Don't do this. Not worth the hassle. The guy who is being an asshole may also be malicious or violent.
It looks like they support encrypting all the stored messages using your security keys, so there is that. From the description: "Stored Data Encryption – Data at rest (messages, contacts, attachments, and metadata) is encrypted using keys supplied and managed by KMS."
Breaks the "download" functionality supported by by various plugins.
Democrats are trying to avoid a worse alternative of everything getting outsourced, and jobs in the US disappearing. Take a look at the US networking industry for an illustrative example.
I would not call myself a fan of Meyer, and her use of her relationship with Page to screw over her contemporaries (read this book) has really left a bad taste in my mouth. However this article reads like a hit piece. It looks like some activist investors are trying to get her to do things she does not want to do (the article suggests returning the money back to shareholders and firing all the engineers). They are attacking her personally and that stinks.
Something to keep in mind when dumping on `the enemy'. Unethical assholes are part of every group/ethnicity.
ECB has not been updated since 2009... and it was very slow & buggy when I used it last. It is based on cscope which has little support for C++/Java.
What I don't get is: commercial text editors like Visual Slickedit have had fabulous source browsing capabilities for more than 15 years. Another example is sublime text. Why is this not a priority for the emacs devs, whom I would assume are hardcore programmers?
I've used Emacs for more than 20 years, but cannot justify that any more; the source browsing integration of modern IDEs is just too nice and the editing goodness that is Emacs is just not enough.
I used to work as a dev manager at a software company a few years ago. A young Asian woman was hired as a developer, fresh out of school. She did not seem to have any idea of the dress norms in the US and would come to work dressed in cocktail dresses and high heels. During the first 3 months, she reported two of our long-time developers for sexual harassment. Top management was so sensitive to the issue that they fired the guys pretty much immediately. This despite the fact that there had been no complaints about them from anybody till then, and the one other woman in the group claimed that they had never said or done anything that was even remotely questionable in her presence.
The woman in question resigned about 6 months after she had been hired; she had an offer at another company for a 50% bump in salary which we could not match.
We don't know whether the two guys really did anything bad or whether she was over-sensitive. But look at the cost to the company; over the period of 6 months, she contributed nothing to the company (was mostly ramping up) and was at least indirectly responsible for us losing two valuable developers who had a blemish-less record until then.
I disagree. Since Melissa took over, I've lost months worth of mail multiple times on two yahoo accounts that I have. (Not saying that this is Melissa's fault). Tech support responded with a shrug. I've been slowly moving my mail off Yahoo.
You say that as if this is a good thing. Care to elaborate why it is a great idea why trade treaties (as opposed to defense & military) should be negotiated in secret? Seems to me (and many others who are experts on this subject matter) is that secrecy is a wonderful thing for the lobbyists and other corrupt bureaucrats and sucks for the people whom it would ultimately affect (i.e., all of us).
As for it being debated on the senate floor... what a joke. By the time it gets to the senate, the issue has already been framed, and the range of acceptable options narrowly defined. The fact is that many of the ideas should never be allowed to even get that level of legitimacy.
Most organizations run by disciples of Jack Welch practice the 20-70-10 philosophy, where the `bottom' 10% are sacked each year.
Microsoft, Google, Amazon and most other high-tech companies adhere closely to this principle. Of course they have large amounts of eager applicants, so they can afford to do this.
There are two sides to this issue. On the one hand, it is callous and heartless. On the other hand, it is hard to argue that replacing poor performers with better ones does not improve the team's productivity.
Here is something I've found: most team members do not like under-performers. They have to work harder to compensate. Also, if the poor performer is not penalized somehow, it destroys the motivation of excellent performers. "He gets away with doing nothing, why should I kill myself?"
The phrase Media Distribution Mafia is somewhat redundant.
If you look closely at the executives of the movie/music industries, you will find a surprisingly large percentage of Italian/Sicilian descent, or folks who are very closely affiliated with such. If you look a bit more closely, you'll find that those are the sons, grandsons or great grandsons of folks who ran around exterminating their competition with Tommy guns, or guys who hid out in the mountains of Sicily, attacked travelers and raped their daughters.
It is no surprise that such individuals bring their psychopathic sensibilities to their `legitimate' businesses.
No. Originally the Netflix' intent of a "like" button was that they could assess the sort of movies you like and provide better recommendations.
Like == sharing is a new concept in world of video rentals. I absolutely positively do not want the likes and positive reviews I've written on my account at Neflix or Imdb to be associated with the real me, used to catalog me and sold to possibly hostile third parties.
The original article sounds like an industry shill trying to spin a good, useful law as something that `harms innovation'.
I wish circumstances allowed my parents to live with me. I cannot imagine a happier circumstance than the opportunity to care for them in their winter years.
Sorry, I did not make a clear distinction in my post. I was not suggesting that Google did behavioral interviewing, merely that the candidate should familiarize himself/herself with the particular interviewing philosophies of the organizations that they are targeting.
Also, behavioral interviewing does not have to be touchy-feely/non-technical at all. It can in fact be the opposite. The style can be very different though.
Typical programming question: how do you traverse a binary tree?
Behavioral question: Describe a situation when you had to deal with and organize a large volume of data. What was the strategy you adopted? Why?
Note that the whys don't stop. The interviewer keeps asking why? why? why? until the candidate's technical limits are reached.
Likeable is good, but complaining about past employers is a TERRIBLE idea. It is very very hard to do this without coming across as a whiner. Most interviewers immediately pick up on the implied negativity. `You are complaining about them today, you will surely complain about us tomorrow'.
Project positivity. You are not running away from anything. You are running towards something... the new job. Employers don't necessarily want to pick up and be saddled with orphans, refugees or the weak. They want healthy, well-adjusted individuals who can stand on their own feet and be productive.
Also, note that interviewing has changed over the past few years. Behavioral interviewing is all the rage, led by a few large, successful companies. In this situation, candidates are asked to describe specific things that happened to them in past jobs (or specific problems they have worked on), and the interviewer tries to get a feel for how the candidate behaved in that situation (overcoming adversity, dealing with ambiguity, working on seemingly intractable problems), and to extrapolate to how the candidate would behave in similar situations in future. If you really are experienced, you probably have a number of examples like this from your past. Research a few large companies (Google, MSFT, Amazon), they are very open about their interviewing strategies and the qualities they expect from an employee. Keep a few examples of behavior polished and ready.
And good luck!
More than in Sports?
Women obsess over sports and sports stars, but American sports in particular is steeped in outright, overt, blatant sexism and hostility to women at at a level that is unimaginable in tech circles.
Do you know what the average college jock/NFL athelete thinks about and how they treat women?
Do you know what the term `fuck truck' means?
What about the entire concept of cheerleading, where women in skimpy outfits parade and cheer the achievements of male atheletes?
Do you really think tech is more sexist than all this?
Yet women as a whole seem to have no problem with organized sports; so I have to conclude that whatever is keeping them away from tech, it is not sexism.
And BTW, this is purely an American phenomenon. Asian/Indian and European women don't seem to be fazed by tech.