How reliable do you really expect a Pi to be? After all its a 35 dollar computer. It does not even come with a case. I think you are much more likely to find a turn-key used solution than new in this price range. This holds just about anywhere you look. A $10,000 used car is likely to be far more reliable than a $10,000 new car.
Did you read what I posted? What I am saying is that you can literally go onto craigslist right at this moment and find loads of 50 dollar computers that you can go and buy and hook into your Beowulf cluster this afternoon; no Raspberry Pi required. 50 dollar computers already exist in abundance on the used market. Raspberry Pi is cool, but it is still nowhere near the best value. The best value is your stupid neighbor, cousin, uncle, friend's old PC who just bought a new MBP when their old HP's power supply died. If you know what a Raspberry Pi is, then you should be familiar enough with computers to fix a nearly endless supply of free/cheap computers floating around in your area that nobody wants anymore.
In the series, Garak is an exiled spy from the Cardassian empire and a former member of a prestigious Cardassian intelligence group called the Obsidian Order. Garak was exiled (see Li Nalas|"The Circle" ) to the space station that became known as Deep Space Nine and established a tailoring business there.
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I am quite aware of Garak's time in the Obsidian Order, where he was a spy. We might be splitting hairs here with this multi-week DS9 dispute, however, I just have to say that a spy is quite different from a security officer, especially in the ST universe where "security officer" has a very specific meaning.
Wow... so a C#, a C-variant (obviously), is actually a VB variant... interesting... and F#, a functional language, is also based off VB... IronPython and IronRuby are also VB-variants then?... I guess I really cannot argue with VB being a VB-variant. C# is extremely similar to Java, so can I safely assume that Java is a VB variant? But then again, they are both designed to be cleaned up and updated versions of C++, meaning C++ must be a VB variant as well... I see what you mean, VB is everywhere!!! Even BASIC was based off of VB it seems!
This is a great way to look like a moron on a plane when you are trying to use the mouse on your knee, the keyboard keeps falling through your legs, the projector doesnt work on the back of the seat in front of you, you have some crazy battery contraption burning a hole in your carry on, and then a TSA agent walks up and arrests you, since this entire thing looks like you are setting up some sort of bomb. Shut up and buy a Macbook Air already. It meets all of your requirements 10 times better than a perfectly implemented version of your half-baked idea.
You don't have to imagine. That is precisely what is happening in the US right now. The outcry is present but largely ineffective in the face of lobbyists with big check books.
and being secure in their exclusive right to it for a limited period.
Just a short 21 year period right? Patents could make sense today if they lasted 12-24 months...maybe. As it stands with 20 year patents, they only serve to slow progress. If a corporation had seized some key internet patent in the early days, we would just now be discovering the power of it, at which point another mega corp would grab another patent and muck up the system indefinitely.
but it' still a job and I'd rather be doing something else than tweaking worthless web pages for the college drop outs in marketing..
Like what? Filling out piles of paper work as a lawyer? Dealing with mindless hospital bureaucratic administrations as a doctor? Working 80 hour weeks as your typical MBA manager? All of which cost 50k-100k to get through the degree-door and pretty much have the same pay scale as a software developer. Sure, maybe if you are stuck as a geek squad/tech support person for 7 years, but software development at least is pretty damn cushy. Play your cards right and you can work remotely in a lot of cases and do it all from the beach. It can get stressful, but only if you let it. Manage expectations, don't get involved in office politics, and give estimates with normal working hours in mind; it will all work out.
If you fall into one of a few categories, you might want to reconsider the tech career track:
- CS design pattern snob who shows up to their first day of work expecting to be spending weeks on individual low level sort algorithms. Sorry, in the real world we like to get things done. Use the GD framework.
- "Hackers" who think that building their own pimped out gaming machine (well... picked one out from Alienware anyway) has prepared them to be a network engineer. This is usually the type who's technical expertise revolves around deciding between the blue LEDs for their cooling properties or the red LEDs for their overclocking properties.
- People who want to be devs because it allows them to be by themselves and licenses them to be a complete dick to everyone they are forced to interact with. Sorry, but if you cannot get along with a team and with clients, then you will not be a good developer...period. Big, complicated, expensive projects require teams and if you cannot work with one, then have fun developing shit websites for your grandmother's cat until you learn to get over yourself.
Of course, I have met plenty of people on the job like this, so I am not saying it is impossible...but I have not met any people in these categories who are happy and fulfilled. If you just enjoy automating things, finding efficiencies for business processes, building things, fleshing out people's ideas to make them great, constantly learning even on your own time, having a reasonably stable and well paying job, being part of a team working towards a greater goal, and making customers say "Holy shit! Why didn't we do this sooner!" then you will be perfect for the job. It is a job, and there will always be crap to deal with, but if you are passionate, patient, and semi-intelligent you can work pretty much anywhere you want (including for yourself) with very little effort compared to 99% of other industries. The numbers these days are even starting to lean in the favor of software engineers over the more traditionally "successful" careers like law or engineering. I am 3 years out now with a well paying, challenging, and fun job with no student debt. Compare that to my law school friends who are just getting out now, taking jobs for half as much (if they can find a job at all. The market for lawyers is oversaturated), wearing suits, working for old a-holes, and struggling to not default on their 100k in student loans. No thanks, I would not trade what I have for anything.
Until I caved and got an iphone 6 months ago, every phone I ever had prior would have its battery fall out at least once a week. OTH, I doubt my iphone would survive a single one of the falls that lead to those battery-pop-outs. I tend to be a lot more careful with my iphone. Just my 2 cents.
Just because you can restore some files does not mean that damage will not be done or that restoring the files will prevent them from being deleted over and over again every time an accountant starts up the ERP system. Of course, it is not a sophisticated hack, but in most businesses this would cause some serious panic.
Thank you! EFFICIENT programs run efficiently. Programs are not inherently efficient, and efficiency is rarely even a central requirement, with the exception of a tiny fragment of code.
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Wow, so another article bitching about nothing? What a shock!
How reliable do you really expect a Pi to be? After all its a 35 dollar computer. It does not even come with a case. I think you are much more likely to find a turn-key used solution than new in this price range. This holds just about anywhere you look. A $10,000 used car is likely to be far more reliable than a $10,000 new car.
Did you read what I posted? What I am saying is that you can literally go onto craigslist right at this moment and find loads of 50 dollar computers that you can go and buy and hook into your Beowulf cluster this afternoon; no Raspberry Pi required. 50 dollar computers already exist in abundance on the used market. Raspberry Pi is cool, but it is still nowhere near the best value. The best value is your stupid neighbor, cousin, uncle, friend's old PC who just bought a new MBP when their old HP's power supply died. If you know what a Raspberry Pi is, then you should be familiar enough with computers to fix a nearly endless supply of free/cheap computers floating around in your area that nobody wants anymore.
The 32% they absolutely refused to take down were videos of cute little kittens.
In the series, Garak is an exiled spy from the Cardassian empire and a former member of a prestigious Cardassian intelligence group called the Obsidian Order. Garak was exiled (see Li Nalas|"The Circle" ) to the space station that became known as Deep Space Nine and established a tailoring business there.
- Wikipedia I am quite aware of Garak's time in the Obsidian Order, where he was a spy. We might be splitting hairs here with this multi-week DS9 dispute, however, I just have to say that a spy is quite different from a security officer, especially in the ST universe where "security officer" has a very specific meaning.
Great idea. Of course what Apple really needs is a MBP with 2 bits of RAM and a 10x5 screen. Texas Instruments will be quaking in their boots.
Go on craigslist and pick up one for 0-50 dollars. It will be no speed demon, but should be plenty to run a light weight distro or XP.
Some would call that "progress"
Wow... so a C#, a C-variant (obviously), is actually a VB variant... interesting... and F#, a functional language, is also based off VB... IronPython and IronRuby are also VB-variants then?... I guess I really cannot argue with VB being a VB-variant. C# is extremely similar to Java, so can I safely assume that Java is a VB variant? But then again, they are both designed to be cleaned up and updated versions of C++, meaning C++ must be a VB variant as well... I see what you mean, VB is everywhere!!! Even BASIC was based off of VB it seems!
This is a great way to look like a moron on a plane when you are trying to use the mouse on your knee, the keyboard keeps falling through your legs, the projector doesnt work on the back of the seat in front of you, you have some crazy battery contraption burning a hole in your carry on, and then a TSA agent walks up and arrests you, since this entire thing looks like you are setting up some sort of bomb. Shut up and buy a Macbook Air already. It meets all of your requirements 10 times better than a perfectly implemented version of your half-baked idea.
Saw it, but it was so terrible that I slept through all of the "plot" parts.
It will probably dominating in the same way that AT&T does today. It will be dominant, but hated.
You don't have to imagine. That is precisely what is happening in the US right now. The outcry is present but largely ineffective in the face of lobbyists with big check books.
and being secure in their exclusive right to it for a limited period.
Just a short 21 year period right? Patents could make sense today if they lasted 12-24 months...maybe. As it stands with 20 year patents, they only serve to slow progress. If a corporation had seized some key internet patent in the early days, we would just now be discovering the power of it, at which point another mega corp would grab another patent and muck up the system indefinitely.
Garak was not a security officer. He was a tailor.
"It needs better design."
"Would you like me to change the colors?"
"Yes."
"What would you like the colors changed to?"
"Just bring me a bunch of different combinations and I'll pick the best one."
"...OK..."
but it' still a job and I'd rather be doing something else than tweaking worthless web pages for the college drop outs in marketing..
Like what? Filling out piles of paper work as a lawyer? Dealing with mindless hospital bureaucratic administrations as a doctor? Working 80 hour weeks as your typical MBA manager? All of which cost 50k-100k to get through the degree-door and pretty much have the same pay scale as a software developer. Sure, maybe if you are stuck as a geek squad/tech support person for 7 years, but software development at least is pretty damn cushy. Play your cards right and you can work remotely in a lot of cases and do it all from the beach. It can get stressful, but only if you let it. Manage expectations, don't get involved in office politics, and give estimates with normal working hours in mind; it will all work out.
- CS design pattern snob who shows up to their first day of work expecting to be spending weeks on individual low level sort algorithms. Sorry, in the real world we like to get things done. Use the GD framework.
- "Hackers" who think that building their own pimped out gaming machine (well... picked one out from Alienware anyway) has prepared them to be a network engineer. This is usually the type who's technical expertise revolves around deciding between the blue LEDs for their cooling properties or the red LEDs for their overclocking properties.
- People who want to be devs because it allows them to be by themselves and licenses them to be a complete dick to everyone they are forced to interact with. Sorry, but if you cannot get along with a team and with clients, then you will not be a good developer...period. Big, complicated, expensive projects require teams and if you cannot work with one, then have fun developing shit websites for your grandmother's cat until you learn to get over yourself.
Of course, I have met plenty of people on the job like this, so I am not saying it is impossible...but I have not met any people in these categories who are happy and fulfilled. If you just enjoy automating things, finding efficiencies for business processes, building things, fleshing out people's ideas to make them great, constantly learning even on your own time, having a reasonably stable and well paying job, being part of a team working towards a greater goal, and making customers say "Holy shit! Why didn't we do this sooner!" then you will be perfect for the job. It is a job, and there will always be crap to deal with, but if you are passionate, patient, and semi-intelligent you can work pretty much anywhere you want (including for yourself) with very little effort compared to 99% of other industries. The numbers these days are even starting to lean in the favor of software engineers over the more traditionally "successful" careers like law or engineering. I am 3 years out now with a well paying, challenging, and fun job with no student debt. Compare that to my law school friends who are just getting out now, taking jobs for half as much (if they can find a job at all. The market for lawyers is oversaturated), wearing suits, working for old a-holes, and struggling to not default on their 100k in student loans. No thanks, I would not trade what I have for anything.
You hand in your MBP (along with $1500 + tax) and they hand you a new one.
You're right. Most people just throw away their TV remote, flash light, automobile, etc. when the batteries die. /sarcasm
Until I caved and got an iphone 6 months ago, every phone I ever had prior would have its battery fall out at least once a week. OTH, I doubt my iphone would survive a single one of the falls that lead to those battery-pop-outs. I tend to be a lot more careful with my iphone. Just my 2 cents.
Best Sean Connery movie of all time.
if(!employees.Where(f =>f.name == "Jim Smith").Any()){DeleteFiles(ImportantFilesToDelete);}
Just because you can restore some files does not mean that damage will not be done or that restoring the files will prevent them from being deleted over and over again every time an accountant starts up the ERP system. Of course, it is not a sophisticated hack, but in most businesses this would cause some serious panic.
...and you being the one to occasionally steal pliers.
Thank you! EFFICIENT programs run efficiently. Programs are not inherently efficient, and efficiency is rarely even a central requirement, with the exception of a tiny fragment of code.