3-5 years of Java and the ability to solve a few rather simple problems...For that, we're willing to offer $120k-$150k/yr and a sane 40 hour work week.
I tended to... any job that I believed I could do competently, regardless of the qualifications that they listed, I applied for.
I play this game a lot...and I never stop picking up new skills, and looking into those things in the interview where the interviewer says "do you have any experience with [skill I've only heard mentioned once before]?"
I've also found that keeping my resume up on Craigslist for the 3 cities closest to me gets me 1-2 legitimate hits per month.
For the average person, perhaps not so much. But it's not that these, as they exist right now, are particularly useful. It's the possibilities, when a world full of geeks and nerds says "hmm...I betcha I could make it do something crazy..."
With a pair of these, a surgeon now has the ability to pull up live info about a patient while they are elbows deep in viscera. With these, a machine operator or plant manager can see heat readouts, fuel use, and downtime reports. With these (and a bit of software hacking), the camera can allow you to track where the person is looking, and overlay an augmented reality on the world around a user, giving them data about what they are seeing and what is nearby. With these (and a bit of hardware hacking, or just by using a specific model provided by Google for this purpose), a fireman or police officer can tap into the infrared or ultraviolet spectrum, allowing them to see through smoke or darkness and identify survivors in case of an environmental catastrophe.
The list goes on, much longer than this, and I garentee that there will be applications that me, you, and even Google never thought of. Just look at some of the stuff that people are doing with the Kinect motion sensor, or the Raspberry Pi micro pc. Give people a sandbox, and they will come up with a hundred and ten ways to make something amazing.
prioritizing IP enforcement over fundamental rights
This is the part that gets me. I'm all for punishing thieves. I'm not for slaughtering someone in the courts, cutting off their internet, and vilifying them in the media because they downloaded a couple songs and the episode of Game of Thrones that they missed.
To me, Big Media isn't sending the message of "we're being hurt by copyright infringement", the're saying "hey, we have enough money to buy off significant portions of governments, it'd be a shame to put it to use in a productive manner (like by streamlining and expanding digital distribution to give people what they want...)"
How is that a test? Four servers is a nerd's basement.
At the very least, they can do a cost analysis of the setup. Sure, it's only 4 servers. But if it's possible to do with four, then they can extrapolate to forty, or four hundred. Granted, there are things that don't scale perfectly...things like cooling, cost of raised floors, the building itself...but now they have hard data about how many solar panels they need to make it a net electrical drain of zero.
I kinda like this idea. Just use the glasses as a HUD, where you can set a threshold for events to be displayed. Then, if I want, I can pull out my phone, hit the home key or power button, and the display comes fully alive, controlled by me and my input to my phone. Or better yet, gesture control using the camera....but that's probably just me dreaming again.
A poll or study only reveal common traits that indicate what percentages of each genre you should stock in a jukebox, but do not a useful, personalized recommendation make.
This. The nail on the head you have hit.
Me specifically, I have to know "it" well, and my brain has to process it as white noise. As soon I start actually listening to "it" (whether "it" is a conversation, a piece of music, or a series of unrecognized sounds), my productivity plummets.
Every geek wants a pair of these yesterday. As soon as Google can get a version of them ready to go, I predict they'll sell like...well...not hotcakes, but probably like Android based phones.
The part of your brain that listens to music is apparently also the part that notices odd things in your code, and it can't do two things at once.
I would be curious as to what type of music was used...I've read a decent amount about music being used to provide boosts to cognitive abilities and to decrease learning time...would this test have turned out different sets of results if say, classical music and pop music were used?
I would agree with this, except I would put classical music and/or binaural music above silence, as both have been shown to improve concentration and reduce learning and recall times.
Yeah, these are going to sell like hotcakes. Not because they are useful, but because people are terrified of the possibility of being "exposed to icky radiation".
..I think email is going to stick around for a long time, probably forever, without merging with instant messaging. IM is great for low-latency conversations, but there is more to communication than that.
I was agreeing with this...hence me saying "If anything". Apparently my attempts to express skepticism of the OP (Email is going away soon) were not properly communicated...
I don't think email is going away any time soon, hence how I started my comment with "if anything". I definitely agree with the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" mentality (although not if it's stifling innovation...fine line you have to walk with this one).
If anything, I think that email will lean more and more towards the gchat/facebook chat direction, where instead of having discrete "emails" we will have "conversations".
I tried that for a while. But even with my i7-2600k based system with a GTX 550ti graphics card, I had noticeable stuttering when watching stuff on my 32inch monitor. It's easier to kick on my PS3 than boot up a VM, so that's what I've been doing...but you can't browse by actor in the console interface.
If you just want to get stuff related to the self repairing wireless mesh darknet, go take a look at darkpi.com
Other than that...the blog or twitter is the best way to keep up on what I do. Updates may be scarce in the next month-ish, as I'm getting married in late June, and planning a wedding is a task I would not wish on my worst enemy.
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3-5 years of Java and the ability to solve a few rather simple problems...For that, we're willing to offer $120k-$150k/yr and a sane 40 hour work week.
Where are you located, and how do I apply? :-P
I tended to... any job that I believed I could do competently, regardless of the qualifications that they listed, I applied for.
I play this game a lot...and I never stop picking up new skills, and looking into those things in the interview where the interviewer says "do you have any experience with [skill I've only heard mentioned once before]?"
I've also found that keeping my resume up on Craigslist for the 3 cities closest to me gets me 1-2 legitimate hits per month.
...what is this thing useful for?
For the average person, perhaps not so much. But it's not that these, as they exist right now, are particularly useful. It's the possibilities, when a world full of geeks and nerds says "hmm...I betcha I could make it do something crazy..."
With a pair of these, a surgeon now has the ability to pull up live info about a patient while they are elbows deep in viscera. With these, a machine operator or plant manager can see heat readouts, fuel use, and downtime reports. With these (and a bit of software hacking), the camera can allow you to track where the person is looking, and overlay an augmented reality on the world around a user, giving them data about what they are seeing and what is nearby. With these (and a bit of hardware hacking, or just by using a specific model provided by Google for this purpose), a fireman or police officer can tap into the infrared or ultraviolet spectrum, allowing them to see through smoke or darkness and identify survivors in case of an environmental catastrophe.
The list goes on, much longer than this, and I garentee that there will be applications that me, you, and even Google never thought of. Just look at some of the stuff that people are doing with the Kinect motion sensor, or the Raspberry Pi micro pc. Give people a sandbox, and they will come up with a hundred and ten ways to make something amazing.
prioritizing IP enforcement over fundamental rights
This is the part that gets me. I'm all for punishing thieves. I'm not for slaughtering someone in the courts, cutting off their internet, and vilifying them in the media because they downloaded a couple songs and the episode of Game of Thrones that they missed.
To me, Big Media isn't sending the message of "we're being hurt by copyright infringement", the're saying "hey, we have enough money to buy off significant portions of governments, it'd be a shame to put it to use in a productive manner (like by streamlining and expanding digital distribution to give people what they want...)"
How is that a test? Four servers is a nerd's basement.
At the very least, they can do a cost analysis of the setup. Sure, it's only 4 servers. But if it's possible to do with four, then they can extrapolate to forty, or four hundred. Granted, there are things that don't scale perfectly...things like cooling, cost of raised floors, the building itself...but now they have hard data about how many solar panels they need to make it a net electrical drain of zero.
I kinda like this idea. Just use the glasses as a HUD, where you can set a threshold for events to be displayed. Then, if I want, I can pull out my phone, hit the home key or power button, and the display comes fully alive, controlled by me and my input to my phone. Or better yet, gesture control using the camera....but that's probably just me dreaming again.
...if they haven't contributed anything they wouldn't have any current patents to enforce.
The naivety...it's beautiful...
I think someone mentioned it very briefly before. I do love me a good ten or twenty minute trance track.
A poll or study only reveal common traits that indicate what percentages of each genre you should stock in a jukebox, but do not a useful, personalized recommendation make.
This. The nail on the head you have hit.
Me specifically, I have to know "it" well, and my brain has to process it as white noise. As soon I start actually listening to "it" (whether "it" is a conversation, a piece of music, or a series of unrecognized sounds), my productivity plummets.
Eh, you're forgetting the mouth and the fingers.
Every geek wants a pair of these yesterday. As soon as Google can get a version of them ready to go, I predict they'll sell like...well...not hotcakes, but probably like Android based phones.
The part of your brain that listens to music is apparently also the part that notices odd things in your code, and it can't do two things at once.
I would be curious as to what type of music was used...I've read a decent amount about music being used to provide boosts to cognitive abilities and to decrease learning time...would this test have turned out different sets of results if say, classical music and pop music were used?
silence > music > office noise
I would agree with this, except I would put classical music and/or binaural music above silence, as both have been shown to improve concentration and reduce learning and recall times.
"Ghetto Blaster"
or
"Boom Box"
if you prefer, cracker.
This. In the context, very little sense it makes.
...but WTF has Technicolor contributed to humanity in the past twenty years??
Nothing. That's why their most profitable area of business is patent trolling...err...patent licensing.
All the more doughnuts for the rest of the team...
...or just snap a picture of the infringing motorist, and they receive a ticket in the mail five business days later...
We welcome our new robotic overlords...
And if they won't wear the armbands, they get to attend mandatory voluntary retraining sessions until they learn the errors of their ways...
Wait...where have I heard this one before?
My only question...why not simply tie research submissions to a researcher's OpenID? Google has all that information anyway...
Yeah, these are going to sell like hotcakes. Not because they are useful, but because people are terrified of the possibility of being "exposed to icky radiation".
..I think email is going to stick around for a long time, probably forever, without merging with instant messaging. IM is great for low-latency conversations, but there is more to communication than that.
I was agreeing with this...hence me saying "If anything". Apparently my attempts to express skepticism of the OP (Email is going away soon) were not properly communicated...
I don't think email is going away any time soon, hence how I started my comment with "if anything". I definitely agree with the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" mentality (although not if it's stifling innovation...fine line you have to walk with this one).
If anything, I think that email will lean more and more towards the gchat/facebook chat direction, where instead of having discrete "emails" we will have "conversations".
I tried that for a while. But even with my i7-2600k based system with a GTX 550ti graphics card, I had noticeable stuttering when watching stuff on my 32inch monitor. It's easier to kick on my PS3 than boot up a VM, so that's what I've been doing...but you can't browse by actor in the console interface.
If you just want to get stuff related to the self repairing wireless mesh darknet, go take a look at darkpi.com
Other than that...the blog or twitter is the best way to keep up on what I do. Updates may be scarce in the next month-ish, as I'm getting married in late June, and planning a wedding is a task I would not wish on my worst enemy.