On page 381, paragraphs 4 and 5, it says that randomness seen in fluid (and gas) movement is almost always generated by the internal system itself and not set by initial conditions. This could have implications on current theories of the big bang which assumes what we see in the universe is based from initial conditions.
Sorry I don't have an exact quote, but wolframscience didn't make it easy to copy the relevant text over and I got too lazy to do anything else about it.
You just need to learn a new muscle memory. If you poke yourself in the eye every time you go back to slashdot, you'll eventually remember not to go there and you'll replace your old habit with the new eye-poking muscle memory . Habitual eye-poking also has the additional benefit of being less painful than reading Slashvertisements like this too!
1) Use Industry Standard Job Titles: Hey! Great idea! Which one should I use? Programmer? Software developer? Software engineer? Software designer? Coder? Thank goodness it's standardized in the I.T. world!
2) Tie Your Your Work to Business Results: What another fantastic idea. Because I know exactly how much my programming earns or saves a multi-million dollar business. I know that because managers always give detailed feedback to peons like me. Also, most of what I do is very interesting. Like "Write a brain-dead GUI that will fire off several database stored procedures in the proper order." Wow! I nailed that business result and business are going to be so impressed with me! I also am appreciative that I can talk openly about what I do in my business. For instance, I [CENSORSED] and [RETRACTED] just the other day using [SOME TECHNOLOGY] and [ANOTHER TECHNOLOGY]. I sleep well knowing my business won't come after me for talking about what they consider business secrets.
3) Have the Key Words Needed to Get Hits From the Software: In other words, I need to be just like everyone else so that I can get picked for a job out of thousands of candidates. What a fantastic idea!
Thank you, DICE! Your article that is nearly two years old that got posted on the front page of Slashdot is the best thing I've read in a long time. I have no doubt these pearls of wisdom you've given me and all of my fellow Slashdotters will help all of us find our next fulfilling job!
Either you werent paying attention or your classes were bad.
I never let school get in the way of my education.
In CS 101, they taught Java and they said it would take 3 semesters to learn what they meant by object oriented programming. I thought they were nuts because I had been doing procedural programming as a hobby (that I taught myself) for years. Unfortunately, they were correct -- it took 3 semesters of Java before I really understood what object oriented programming was. These assholes could not teach. Object oriented programming is not a difficult concept and can be taught in CS 101. The only people left by the end of the third semester of Java were those that had been doing scripting and programming languages for years. All the newbies dropped out.
When people say that want a targeted approach to learning to programming in school, I think they mean better than what the majority of professors can offer at most schools. I learned 90% of the programming concepts on my own. The other 10% that I did learn in school included things like O(N^2) vs O(2^N). I'm glad I learned it. A targeted approach to learning programming in school should include stuff like that. Another example: My database class was a joke. Yes, it was one class... at a school that supposedly centered around programming. It focused on horrible theory that professor didn't even understand. The additional lab attached to that class was also a joke... We created a couple of very simple tables then wrote a select query or two. Insert and delete rounded finished the class.
Let's tackle the well rounded education. I was looked at like some sort of leper by the professors who checked over the courses I was taking every semester. Why? Because I wanted to take choir -- every semester. It was outside of their standard curriculum. I took an extra semester of Spanish one summer -- in Costa Rica -- under a program sponsored by the very same university. More raised eyebrows. Apparently, my definition of well rounded didn't fit theirs.
A lot of Slashdot people are stating how good it is to hang in there. With the cost of schools these days and how employers are screwing everyone over, I would not do it over again. I'd go different route. Universities need to actually teach and their curriculum needs to make sense for today's environment. I'm not seeing it.
I think this is not an "accurate progress bar problem" in as much as it is a "communication problem". Programmers (in general) don't know how to communicate with users. A lot of times, we go with a tried-and-true method (like the progress bar) that falls down on its face in a situation like you propose. The progress bar has its place and is very useful (even if it is not progressing at a uniform rate in time). It's the communication to the user that sucks.
I wear a watch so that I can discretely look at the time. People can wrongfully (or rightfully) assume that I'm bored with them and I don't want to give that impression.
This. I wonder who the grandparent (and everyone else putting Ron Paul down) would have voted for. I don't think there was one candidate that shouldn't have the "loony" stamp applied.
I think anyone who puts Ron Paul down without putting down Romney and Obama at the same time isn't seeing things clearly. I'm not saying we shouldn't mock Ron Paul and call him out when he fails his own ideologies. We very much should... but I get pretty tired of people mocking him and then going back to supporting the usual Republican and Democratic candidates. Ron Paul actually had detailed plans and suggestions. Neither Romney nor Obama had anything close to the amount of detail that Ron Paul presented. Despite Ron Paul's failings, he sounded a hell of a lot better and more logical than Romney and Obama did IMHO.
No one at Google is actually looking at your private data.
Not to be a troll, but do you have proof that it never happens? What about if they change their minds sometime in the future about all this data they are collecting? It is unlikely that anyone at Google looks at stuff, but... never say never.
On one hand, I'd prefer to see authentication in the hands of someone I consider more reliable (like Google) than someone programmer of questionable ability at (Insert Random Dying Newspaper here).
I question what we are doing wrong in the computer world where we need a 3rd party just so that our users can securely login to a simple system that we create. I get that there are a lot of attack vectors. Why? What did we do wrong? Can we improve it so that it is simple to do a login?
4) if I just want to stand up a quick little site that is nothing more than CRUD associated to users then all that login stuff can be offloaded to facebook or whomever.
You touch upon something that has bothered me for a long time. It is pretty complicated to securely "log in" to a system on the web. I'm not a website developer, but it seems to be coming to a point where website developers require 3rd party APIs for a simple CRUD system. Aren't we doing something wrong in the computer world?
Couchslug just pointed out to me that Microsoft is selling Windows 7 at the Microsoft Store. Either something has changed or both Microsoft and I were both being morons a few weeks ago. (I wouldn't exclude the latter possibility.) I thought I'd repost here just to correct my previous statement.
I stand corrected. (It doesn't change what Microsoft said to me, but it does highlight my incompetence and Microsoft's incompetence. I was speaking directly to their sales department. Maybe they changed something in the past 4 weeks since I talked to them?)
And having two interfaces (Metro and Desktop). More options are limited from the Metro unless you run something directly from the command line. Geez. I'd hate to see what your definition of a major change is.
I'm trying to get this information out there: Microsoft told me they are not selling Windows 7 anymore to consumers. Period. End of story. Anything you see right now (like a retail copy of Windows 7) is simply overstock by that store. Very shortly, consumers really will have no choice but to get Windows 8. To grandparent: As others have said, install classic shell: http://www.classicshell.net/. I have been using Windows 8 for several weeks on my main computer and it is so much better with it. Among many great things it does is gets rid of the charm stuff unless you specifically want to go back there. You choose to go there, not the computer.
I've spoken to Microsoft. They are not making Windows 7 anymore. Period. End of story. They told me that anything we see with Windows 7 (such as a retail copy) is overstock by that store. I know this because I just had to replace my laptop and I just went through the game of 20 questions with them. They are ramming Windows 8 down consumers' throats.
Note that one-size-fits-all is not appropriate, and that different durations may be appropriate for different technologies and industries.
I don't know. I keep coming back to ten years for patents and copyrights. It seems to work pretty well across the board -- at leas in my twisted little my mind. If it takes a bunch of years in R&D with bazzillions of dollars that can't be recouped in ten years, then it sounds like other technologies to support whatever was being worked on wasn't mature enough. One of the keys to making it work, though is that everyone can make whatever a patent covers and anyone can sell what was copyrighted -- as long as everyone pays the exact same amount to the person / business who patented / copyrighted. Hoarding is such a waste and against what the original intent was.
I'm open to debating that ten year thing, though. I could be wrong. I just like to keep things really simple and a flat ten seems really simple. (Which also means it easier to deal with and therefore cheaper for society.)
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That depends. What if you're paying for something virtual... say like a movie that you can download?
On page 381, paragraphs 4 and 5, it says that randomness seen in fluid (and gas) movement is almost always generated by the internal system itself and not set by initial conditions. This could have implications on current theories of the big bang which assumes what we see in the universe is based from initial conditions.
Sorry I don't have an exact quote, but wolframscience didn't make it easy to copy the relevant text over and I got too lazy to do anything else about it.
I invite anybody to explain that to me. What do they mean by a "30-35% increase in patient outcomes"?
Hey... if you don't like their stats, then go through the same process they did and make up your own!
post a comment saying how shitty this is
The "article" posted is shitty.
Which is ironic... because in the long run, doing it right is fast.
You just need to learn a new muscle memory. If you poke yourself in the eye every time you go back to slashdot, you'll eventually remember not to go there and you'll replace your old habit with the new eye-poking muscle memory . Habitual eye-poking also has the additional benefit of being less painful than reading Slashvertisements like this too!
TFA is really "very helpful". Let's review:
1) Use Industry Standard Job Titles: Hey! Great idea! Which one should I use? Programmer? Software developer? Software engineer? Software designer? Coder? Thank goodness it's standardized in the I.T. world!
2) Tie Your Your Work to Business Results: What another fantastic idea. Because I know exactly how much my programming earns or saves a multi-million dollar business. I know that because managers always give detailed feedback to peons like me. Also, most of what I do is very interesting. Like "Write a brain-dead GUI that will fire off several database stored procedures in the proper order." Wow! I nailed that business result and business are going to be so impressed with me! I also am appreciative that I can talk openly about what I do in my business. For instance, I [CENSORSED] and [RETRACTED] just the other day using [SOME TECHNOLOGY] and [ANOTHER TECHNOLOGY]. I sleep well knowing my business won't come after me for talking about what they consider business secrets.
3) Have the Key Words Needed to Get Hits From the Software: In other words, I need to be just like everyone else so that I can get picked for a job out of thousands of candidates. What a fantastic idea!
Thank you, DICE! Your article that is nearly two years old that got posted on the front page of Slashdot is the best thing I've read in a long time. I have no doubt these pearls of wisdom you've given me and all of my fellow Slashdotters will help all of us find our next fulfilling job!
Either you werent paying attention or your classes were bad.
I never let school get in the way of my education.
In CS 101, they taught Java and they said it would take 3 semesters to learn what they meant by object oriented programming. I thought they were nuts because I had been doing procedural programming as a hobby (that I taught myself) for years. Unfortunately, they were correct -- it took 3 semesters of Java before I really understood what object oriented programming was. These assholes could not teach. Object oriented programming is not a difficult concept and can be taught in CS 101. The only people left by the end of the third semester of Java were those that had been doing scripting and programming languages for years. All the newbies dropped out.
When people say that want a targeted approach to learning to programming in school, I think they mean better than what the majority of professors can offer at most schools. I learned 90% of the programming concepts on my own. The other 10% that I did learn in school included things like O(N^2) vs O(2^N). I'm glad I learned it. A targeted approach to learning programming in school should include stuff like that. Another example: My database class was a joke. Yes, it was one class... at a school that supposedly centered around programming. It focused on horrible theory that professor didn't even understand. The additional lab attached to that class was also a joke... We created a couple of very simple tables then wrote a select query or two. Insert and delete rounded finished the class.
Let's tackle the well rounded education. I was looked at like some sort of leper by the professors who checked over the courses I was taking every semester. Why? Because I wanted to take choir -- every semester. It was outside of their standard curriculum. I took an extra semester of Spanish one summer -- in Costa Rica -- under a program sponsored by the very same university. More raised eyebrows. Apparently, my definition of well rounded didn't fit theirs.
A lot of Slashdot people are stating how good it is to hang in there. With the cost of schools these days and how employers are screwing everyone over, I would not do it over again. I'd go different route. Universities need to actually teach and their curriculum needs to make sense for today's environment. I'm not seeing it.
US citizens aren't going into STEM (except maybe medicine)
Not for long. Medicine is discouraging doctors too. We've got all the bases covered.
I think this is not an "accurate progress bar problem" in as much as it is a "communication problem". Programmers (in general) don't know how to communicate with users. A lot of times, we go with a tried-and-true method (like the progress bar) that falls down on its face in a situation like you propose. The progress bar has its place and is very useful (even if it is not progressing at a uniform rate in time). It's the communication to the user that sucks.
Hey... I bet that'll work for the Australians too! Then they can buy from someone else besides Apple, Adobe, Microsoft, etc!
I wear a watch so that I can discretely look at the time. People can wrongfully (or rightfully) assume that I'm bored with them and I don't want to give that impression.
This. I wonder who the grandparent (and everyone else putting Ron Paul down) would have voted for. I don't think there was one candidate that shouldn't have the "loony" stamp applied.
I think anyone who puts Ron Paul down without putting down Romney and Obama at the same time isn't seeing things clearly. I'm not saying we shouldn't mock Ron Paul and call him out when he fails his own ideologies. We very much should... but I get pretty tired of people mocking him and then going back to supporting the usual Republican and Democratic candidates. Ron Paul actually had detailed plans and suggestions. Neither Romney nor Obama had anything close to the amount of detail that Ron Paul presented. Despite Ron Paul's failings, he sounded a hell of a lot better and more logical than Romney and Obama did IMHO.
No one at Google is actually looking at your private data.
Not to be a troll, but do you have proof that it never happens? What about if they change their minds sometime in the future about all this data they are collecting? It is unlikely that anyone at Google looks at stuff, but... never say never.
On one hand, I'd prefer to see authentication in the hands of someone I consider more reliable (like Google) than someone programmer of questionable ability at (Insert Random Dying Newspaper here).
I question what we are doing wrong in the computer world where we need a 3rd party just so that our users can securely login to a simple system that we create. I get that there are a lot of attack vectors. Why? What did we do wrong? Can we improve it so that it is simple to do a login?
4) if I just want to stand up a quick little site that is nothing more than CRUD associated to users then all that login stuff can be offloaded to facebook or whomever.
You touch upon something that has bothered me for a long time. It is pretty complicated to securely "log in" to a system on the web. I'm not a website developer, but it seems to be coming to a point where website developers require 3rd party APIs for a simple CRUD system. Aren't we doing something wrong in the computer world?
I heard there are lightsabers involved. It'll probably be a hit.
Couchslug just pointed out to me that Microsoft is selling Windows 7 at the Microsoft Store. Either something has changed or both Microsoft and I were both being morons a few weeks ago. (I wouldn't exclude the latter possibility.) I thought I'd repost here just to correct my previous statement.
I stand corrected. (It doesn't change what Microsoft said to me, but it does highlight my incompetence and Microsoft's incompetence. I was speaking directly to their sales department. Maybe they changed something in the past 4 weeks since I talked to them?)
And having two interfaces (Metro and Desktop). More options are limited from the Metro unless you run something directly from the command line. Geez. I'd hate to see what your definition of a major change is.
I'm trying to get this information out there: Microsoft told me they are not selling Windows 7 anymore to consumers. Period. End of story. Anything you see right now (like a retail copy of Windows 7) is simply overstock by that store. Very shortly, consumers really will have no choice but to get Windows 8. To grandparent: As others have said, install classic shell: http://www.classicshell.net/. I have been using Windows 8 for several weeks on my main computer and it is so much better with it. Among many great things it does is gets rid of the charm stuff unless you specifically want to go back there. You choose to go there, not the computer.
I've spoken to Microsoft. They are not making Windows 7 anymore. Period. End of story. They told me that anything we see with Windows 7 (such as a retail copy) is overstock by that store. I know this because I just had to replace my laptop and I just went through the game of 20 questions with them. They are ramming Windows 8 down consumers' throats.
I dunno. Does AT&T qualify?
Not really surprising if you've lived there. There have been funny things happening in the police department for a loooong time... take that 1994 case where New Orleans police were taking out hits on other people. http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/gangsters_outlaws/cops_others/len_davis/index.html
Note that one-size-fits-all is not appropriate, and that different durations may be appropriate for different technologies and industries.
I don't know. I keep coming back to ten years for patents and copyrights. It seems to work pretty well across the board -- at leas in my twisted little my mind. If it takes a bunch of years in R&D with bazzillions of dollars that can't be recouped in ten years, then it sounds like other technologies to support whatever was being worked on wasn't mature enough. One of the keys to making it work, though is that everyone can make whatever a patent covers and anyone can sell what was copyrighted -- as long as everyone pays the exact same amount to the person / business who patented / copyrighted. Hoarding is such a waste and against what the original intent was.
I'm open to debating that ten year thing, though. I could be wrong. I just like to keep things really simple and a flat ten seems really simple. (Which also means it easier to deal with and therefore cheaper for society.)