There is the alternative of doing a slowdown, i.e., showing up and looking busy, but not really doing much. Also, you should take advantage of every sick day and vacation day that you've got. You read Dilbert. don't you. Be like that guy who just drinks coffee all day.
Also, because your company has committed to a fixed date, you and the other programmers might have quite a bit of leverage. Find out what the penalty is for being late and use that as a guideline of what your additional compensation should be.
As always, the company might fire you for not being a good slave, so be prepared.
That's a good list. The one thing I would add is a book on formal languages and automata. The Dragon book has a lot of what you need, but not Turing machines, for example.
I hate using = for assignment. It causes no end of confusion for teaching analysis. Please, let = just mean equality.
I also hate being forced to have 0 as the 1st index. It causes no end of off-by-1 errors. When I learned to count, I started at 1, not 0!
"Fix" was too strong a word. I should have said "workaround". I'm sure Office works perfectly fine without a registration test. Certainly, they could find some "easy" way to make it not pop up in this case.
And neither Oracle nor DB2 are standing still, they are continually adding new features.
Many, if not most, of these "features" are designed to lock you in to their product. The more you rely on these "features" of Oracle, the most difficult it will be to switch to another vendor.
SQL has not changed for a long time. Any DB admin/programmer worth his/her salary should be writing code as vendor-neutral as possible.
I would include the following:
1) Understanding the logic of programs. You need to be able to understand and state what is true about your program and its intermediate states. I think we should probably teach more program verification, not because automated verification will work in general, but just to get programmers to think about their program is doing.
2) Analysis of algorithms. Read and understand the Cormen book.
3) Numerical analysis/discrete simulation. You want this to understand how mathematics connect the real world to programs.
I can agree that all abstractions are leaky (imperfect). Even a Turing machine assumes that you have infinite memory.
However, the best abstractions are those that plug the leaks or at least keep them to a drip rather than a stream. Automatic garbage collection for plugging memory leaks is a good example. Perhaps this is the main reason why I like Perl and Java. Of course, you still get into trouble, but the programs are much easier to debug without all the code tracking and freeing up storage.
Having naming rights is essentially an indirect way to own or have authority over something. This is like trademarks in our legal system, where you get to own the name, too. This is also like parents naming their children, which indicates that the parents have authority over their children. So I think that the FSF and RMS believes that they "own" Linux, not in any legal sense, but perhaps moral ownership or moral authority.
Perhaps parental authority is closer to the mark, with the incessant claim that without GNU tools, Linux wouldn't exist (compare "without your parents, you wouldn't exist").
Another element is prophetic authority (I don't have a better name). The FSF and RMS feel that they conceived and dreamed of a free OS first (maybe more precisely, thought of a GPLed OS first). Linux fulfilled their dream, and because the FSF and RMS were the prophets, they get a kind of mystical authority over it.
Despite all talk about freedom, the FSF and RMS think that Linux is bound to them. Part of freedom, I think, is letting things go free. If you deliberately give up ownership, I think naming rights or naming obligations are part of what you have given up. At least that is what I and a lot of other people think.
This is a great topic for the grammar police, but maybe "you" will become "u" and "are" will become "r" in the future. Old English used all sorts of spelling that look ridiculous today. A language is determined by its users, not by grammarians.
That said, standard (but always changing) English is still the standard. Teachers just need to be flexible. The flexibility by one teacher (u and r ok in rough drafts, but not in the final draft) was nice to see.
It is probably not just lookup, but lookup plus some kind of pattern matching. If phrase X is close to phrase Y, then a translation of phrase X is probably a good start for translating phrase Y.
You see one group of people beating up another group of people that you identify with, and then you get angry. To solve this obviously unjustified anger, you need "context". What a farce!
The real problem is that the powers-that-be have always maintained their power by brutality. Whether or not the brutality is justified, the Internet/satellite TV and any amount of openness in your country ensures that the world will see it. Maybe "context" will help people understand it better. Maybe the recipients of the brutality deserved it. But it will always make the recipients and anybody who identifies with them angry and hungry for revenge. It would be stupid to expect anything else.
In the US, this machine is a national security threat, and anyone who buys or uses one is a terrorist, and anyone who suggests that we legalize them a terrorist sympathizer.
One of the people we interviewed had a power point presentation that didn't display correctly, and he said it was because he was using Star Office.
Don't hire him unless he brought his own laptop to display his presentation and his laptop didn't work. Otherwise, it is very unprofessional to expect your college to have Staroffice around when relatively few people use it.
My C++ teacher actually said that if we used anything beside Visual C++ he wouldn't even try to help us compile.
Your teacher has probably gone to a lot of effort to get his course working with Visual C++. It is not his problem if you want to use something different. In some of my classes, I depend on gcc C, and my standard policy is that students can use something different, but that they can only expect help if they follow the class "standard".
I was just curious to know if people who really are very tech-savvy desire to be teachers at all. Oh, one more thing: they tried hiring for this position 2 years ago and got 3 applicants, and none of them qualified for the job.
Faculty hiring is better this year after the dot-com boom has gone bust. Student retention is better too because companies aren't grabbing students the instant they are semi-competent.
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Also, because your company has committed to a fixed date, you and the other programmers might have quite a bit of leverage. Find out what the penalty is for being late and use that as a guideline of what your additional compensation should be.
As always, the company might fire you for not being a good slave, so be prepared.
Maybe this is a bad idea, but one solution is to have a protocol where the emailer must get a connection to the emailee. Don't allow any relays.
I don't doubt that your group worked hard to make Caldera a great product. Life is unfair that way.
That's a good list. The one thing I would add is a book on formal languages and automata. The Dragon book has a lot of what you need, but not Turing machines, for example.
I hate using = for assignment. It causes no end of confusion for teaching analysis. Please, let = just mean equality. I also hate being forced to have 0 as the 1st index. It causes no end of off-by-1 errors. When I learned to count, I started at 1, not 0!
"Fix" was too strong a word. I should have said "workaround". I'm sure Office works perfectly fine without a registration test. Certainly, they could find some "easy" way to make it not pop up in this case.
You would think that all Microsoft needs to do is to twiddle a bit or two to change the value of the comparison or calculation that misuses the date.
Long live Unix!
I would include the following: 1) Understanding the logic of programs. You need to be able to understand and state what is true about your program and its intermediate states. I think we should probably teach more program verification, not because automated verification will work in general, but just to get programmers to think about their program is doing. 2) Analysis of algorithms. Read and understand the Cormen book. 3) Numerical analysis/discrete simulation. You want this to understand how mathematics connect the real world to programs.
Do you have a broadband connection? Do you have a wireless network?
Do you think RMS is the messiah or a Communist? Do you spell Linux "GNU/Linux"?
Do you prefer the GPL or BSD license?
Do you think Microsoft is evil? Do you think Bill Gates is the devil personified?
BTW, the correct answer to all of the above questions is yes.
However, the best abstractions are those that plug the leaks or at least keep them to a drip rather than a stream. Automatic garbage collection for plugging memory leaks is a good example. Perhaps this is the main reason why I like Perl and Java. Of course, you still get into trouble, but the programs are much easier to debug without all the code tracking and freeing up storage.
Someone should mention the UCI Machine Learning Repository and the UCI Knowledge Discovery in Databases Archive.
If you want to think about the very latest, you should learn Quantum Computing. I don't know the best books though.
The internet hasn't been working for me all day.
Perhaps parental authority is closer to the mark, with the incessant claim that without GNU tools, Linux wouldn't exist (compare "without your parents, you wouldn't exist").
Another element is prophetic authority (I don't have a better name). The FSF and RMS feel that they conceived and dreamed of a free OS first (maybe more precisely, thought of a GPLed OS first). Linux fulfilled their dream, and because the FSF and RMS were the prophets, they get a kind of mystical authority over it.
Despite all talk about freedom, the FSF and RMS think that Linux is bound to them. Part of freedom, I think, is letting things go free. If you deliberately give up ownership, I think naming rights or naming obligations are part of what you have given up. At least that is what I and a lot of other people think.
If it's a dot-bomb, you better get what you can while you can.
That said, standard (but always changing) English is still the standard. Teachers just need to be flexible. The flexibility by one teacher (u and r ok in rough drafts, but not in the final draft) was nice to see.
Hello, world!
It is probably not just lookup, but lookup plus some kind of pattern matching. If phrase X is close to phrase Y, then a translation of phrase X is probably a good start for translating phrase Y.
Should have been Porn Fair Use
How about one for limited copyright once, please?
The real problem is that the powers-that-be have always maintained their power by brutality. Whether or not the brutality is justified, the Internet/satellite TV and any amount of openness in your country ensures that the world will see it. Maybe "context" will help people understand it better. Maybe the recipients of the brutality deserved it. But it will always make the recipients and anybody who identifies with them angry and hungry for revenge. It would be stupid to expect anything else.
In the US, this machine is a national security threat, and anyone who buys or uses one is a terrorist, and anyone who suggests that we legalize them a terrorist sympathizer.