Long, long, long ago wasn't there actually an exploit for lynx? This was in days of Mosaic, before IE & Mozilla. It was early in college, so I could be totally off, but I thought it had something to do with semi-colons -- that anything after a semi-colon would be automatically executed?
So, to the poster's statement - it could be because you didn't start using it soon enough.:-)
Joel Spolsky recently wrote an *excellent* article on this very topic called How Microsoft Lost the API War. Like almost everything he writes, it's well worth a read.
One of his major points is how MS is breaking with it's past, from when backwards compatibility was a/big/ thing. He cites VB.NET and Longhorn as two examples, but it looks like Microsoft just gave him another big one.
I would define reasonable as anything that you can live off. Seriously, if you're just starting off, salary should be far from the dominating factor in accepting a position. I'd much rather work for a company doing what I love than writing COBOL for an insurance company and getting paid more.
Focus on finding a position that will develop your skill-set, give you the best exposure to technologies you find interesting, and ideally, people you can learn from (hopefully you get a feel of that from the interview). Figure out (roughly) where'd you like to be in a few years, what it's going to take to get their, and then take the job that best helps you accomplish it. I think you'll find that in a few years the money will naturally start to follow.
Hmm. I thought this was a troll on timothy, but I have to admit those articles are significantly better. (I mean, they're not Hemmingway, but you do have a sense that the authors are professional journalists.)
So CmdrTaco is the founder, Cowbody Neal and company are clearly technically savvy. What do timothy and michael bring to the table? I.e., what makes them editors? Not a flame -- an honest, and I think fair, question?
The whole reason why everybody thinks the Linux community is full of elitist is because of usenet! IRC and usenet happen to be the last places with Linux elitists.
I'm far from a champion of Slashdot editors in general, but you're taking all the past history of every editor and lumping it all on to poor simoniker, who is pretty new. One mistake here or there is fine, especially when they're quick to fess up & fix it (as he did).
Considering that Slashdot simply ignores the overwhelming demand to fire the Village Idiots, Timothy and Michael, simoniker is a breath of fresh air. He's actually informed in his area of coverage, he's comments are informed and insightful, rarely innane, and does a good job responding to readers.
If he's the model future editors will be picked on (instead of the friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend model that lead us to Village Idiots), then I think there are bright days ahead.
A great first book is A Random Walk Down Wall Street,.... If Wall Street, etc. seems dark & mysterious (and even if it doesnt) this is a great book. It starts by giving you a background in some of the mania that has surronded stock-markets, going all the way back to the Dutch Tulip bubble of several hundred years ago. If you're wondering how pratical something like that could be, just think of the dot-com boom of the late 90's. It proceeds to explain clearly & elegantly various things such as technical & fundamental analysis, the theory of efficent markets, and ultimetly, the value of index funds like the S&P 500.
After having started a few "HOW TO PICK STOCKS" books, this was probably the first solid financial book I found that made sense, was able to round out of my financial knowledge & give pratical advice at the same time.
If Random Walk seems to weighty, Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach... isn't bad. The author, Robert T. Kiyosaki, has several books in this series, this one being the first. It's written in a non-intimidating way, with much of book conveying ideas easily as converstations between the author & his rich friend's father (aka Rich Dad). He compares his dad's common viewpoint on finacial matters (aka Poor Dad) to Rich Dad's method, and hence the title.
If you're only two years out of school, some of initial steps are just doing good math:
Pay off your credit cards!
Credit cards are great & really convient, but they have an AMAZINGLY high interest rate. They're 2nd only to the QuickCash/PayDay Advance places for screwing over the average joe. Pay those suckers off!
Pay off your other loans (e.g., college loans) & move the most aggresively towards the highest interest ones first. (This is just good math.)
Invest in your 401k. Good for two reasons -- first companies usually match you contributions (or a portion thereof), so hey, free money is always a good thing, and secondly the earnings aren't taxed. If you haven't learned the evils of the taxman yet, you're about to. Hiding from the taxman, with his huge take of the pie, leaves more money in your pocket.
Open an IRA (Roth if possible, Traditional if not). Another great way to hide from the tax man. Basically another way to get free $$ from the government.
If you reach that point -- no debt, regular contributions to 401k, an annual 3k contribution to your IRA, you're going to be in pretty good shape. Best of all, you're starting young, and in a down market, so you'll really give compond interest a chance to work it's magic on your hard earned cash.
Slashdot Mirror
So?
/dev/null and you'd be AMAZED how many tricks a user can still pull off.
Give me root and make my shell
Hint: I use ssh keys. Some commands don't require a shell. If you're an SA, you really need to man ssh asap.
-Bill
Long, long, long ago wasn't there actually an exploit for lynx? This was in days of Mosaic, before IE & Mozilla. It was early in college, so I could be totally off, but I thought it had something to do with semi-colons -- that anything after a semi-colon would be automatically executed?
:-)
So, to the poster's statement - it could be because you didn't start using it soon enough.
-Bill
Joel Spolsky recently wrote an *excellent* article on this very topic called How Microsoft Lost the API War. Like almost everything he writes, it's well worth a read.
/big/ thing. He cites VB.NET and Longhorn as two examples, but it looks like Microsoft just gave him another big one.
One of his major points is how MS is breaking with it's past, from when backwards compatibility was a
-Bill
I agree, Mr. Miyamoto was much more influential. You'd have to be stoned to think... oh, well, that explains it.
I would define reasonable as anything that you can live off. Seriously, if you're just starting off, salary should be far from the dominating factor in accepting a position. I'd much rather work for a company doing what I love than writing COBOL for an insurance company and getting paid more.
Focus on finding a position that will develop your skill-set, give you the best exposure to technologies you find interesting, and ideally, people you can learn from (hopefully you get a feel of that from the interview). Figure out (roughly) where'd you like to be in a few years, what it's going to take to get their, and then take the job that best helps you accomplish it. I think you'll find that in a few years the money will naturally start to follow.
Best of luck!
-Bill
Actually I would conjecture that it is highly derivative of VMS, rather than UNIX.
After all, why else would they they shift the VMS letters forward one to get WNT (Windows NT)?
-Bill
Hmm. I thought this was a troll on timothy, but I have to admit those articles are significantly better. (I mean, they're not Hemmingway, but you do have a sense that the authors are professional journalists.)
So CmdrTaco is the founder, Cowbody Neal and company are clearly technically savvy. What do timothy and michael bring to the table? I.e., what makes them editors? Not a flame -- an honest, and I think fair, question?
-Bill
Google around and you'll find that driving while wearing headphones is illegal in most states.
-Bill
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by 'boot of their network', but if you're wondering if you can use linux, I'm pretty sure the answer is yes.
-Bill
Starbucks is a good option for step 3. In a lot of locations they have wireless for pretty reasonable rates to boot.
-Bill
CowbyNeal does a good job, IMHO. Much better to opt of two slashdot village idiots: timothy & michael. ugh.
-Bill
Dude!-Bill
Why melt your modem. Ctrl-C...Ctrl-V
Wait... Why do you want me to page down? And you don't need to use ^C before it since it's not a user-space command.
-Bill
What does it take for a reviewer to come out and declare "THIS BOOK ISN'T WORTH THE PAPER IT IS PRINTED ON"??
I thought that was why Slashdot was only offered online?
-Bill
The whole reason why everybody thinks the Linux community is full of elitist is because of usenet! IRC and usenet happen to be the last places with Linux elitists.
*cough* *cough* SLASHDOT *cough* *cough*
-Bill
There may be more than one winner if there are several good entries! I have permission to select as many as 3 winners if there are many good entries!
How about a Slashdot poll to pick the 3rd shirt?
-Bill
ava achieves close to C/C++ performance on low-level code (for loops, arrays, etc.); Python doesn't even get close.
;-)
Wait, now Java people are saying other languages are too slow??
-Bill
'nuff said.
work on the language, then write the book.
Wiki would save it??
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Wiki is awful
-Bill
Right now anyone can have commits (all or some) emailed to them. This goes to an irc channel. Frankly, I find it idiotic.
Timothy strikes again!
-Bill
Feh.
I'm far from a champion of Slashdot editors in general, but you're taking all the past history of every editor and lumping it all on to poor simoniker, who is pretty new. One mistake here or there is fine, especially when they're quick to fess up & fix it (as he did).
Considering that Slashdot simply ignores the overwhelming demand to fire the Village Idiots, Timothy and Michael, simoniker is a breath of fresh air. He's actually informed in his area of coverage, he's comments are informed and insightful, rarely innane, and does a good job responding to readers.
If he's the model future editors will be picked on (instead of the friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend model that lead us to Village Idiots), then I think there are bright days ahead.
My two cents,
-Bill
c) CowboyNeal!
A great first book is A Random Walk Down Wall Street,... . If Wall Street, etc. seems dark & mysterious (and even if it doesnt) this is a great book. It starts by giving you a background in some of the mania that has surronded stock-markets, going all the way back to the Dutch Tulip bubble of several hundred years ago. If you're wondering how pratical something like that could be, just think of the dot-com boom of the late 90's. It proceeds to explain clearly & elegantly various things such as technical & fundamental analysis, the theory of efficent markets, and ultimetly, the value of index funds like the S&P 500.
After having started a few "HOW TO PICK STOCKS" books, this was probably the first solid financial book I found that made sense, was able to round out of my financial knowledge & give pratical advice at the same time.
If Random Walk seems to weighty, Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach... isn't bad. The author, Robert T. Kiyosaki, has several books in this series, this one being the first. It's written in a non-intimidating way, with much of book conveying ideas easily as converstations between the author & his rich friend's father (aka Rich Dad). He compares his dad's common viewpoint on finacial matters (aka Poor Dad) to Rich Dad's method, and hence the title.
If you're only two years out of school, some of initial steps are just doing good math:
Credit cards are great & really convient, but they have an AMAZINGLY high interest rate. They're 2nd only to the QuickCash/PayDay Advance places for screwing over the average joe. Pay those suckers off!
If you reach that point -- no debt, regular contributions to 401k, an annual 3k contribution to your IRA, you're going to be in pretty good shape. Best of all, you're starting young, and in a down market, so you'll really give compond interest a chance to work it's magic on your hard earned cash.
-Bill
Sure:
4 22 9
http://www.scriptarchive.com/
*grin*
for full details:
http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/122
-Bill
Notice that NOWHERE in the list is Slashdot's April 1st editions?
Take the hint guys. Please.
-Bill