But that doesn't stop the deniers trying to pretend that this is some problem with the concept of global warming.
Yeah, I pretty much require all predictions to be 100% accurate before I believe any of it at all. For instance, if the weather person says it will rain with 10 mph wind, and there is no wind, do I take an umbrella? Hell no, because once any part of the prediction is wrong I know that all of the prediction will be wrong.
This is for the arcade version which is the version the 933580 human world record was made on. I don't know if the Atari 2600 version has any important differences but if it does the initial comparison between scores was invalid to begin with.
The Atari 2600 versions of Pac-Man and Ms Pac-Man has similar gameplay mechanics, but the limitations of the platform make the 2600 versions notably different from the arcade versions.
My best guess as to why companies keep coming up with sleep trackers in spite of the fact that past sleep trackers worked well and failed in the marketplace is that there's something intrinsically optimistic about the genre. Basically, everyone seems to think the reasons why the previous versions failed does not apply to the new version, even though it totally applies to the new version.
Actually, maybe this is just a software-engineer thing. Like the guy who founded "The Melt", where they eventually found out that in the restaurant business the important variables are location and whether anyone wants to eat your food, not whether you've built optimized delivery systems. [Or maybe a different phrasing is that some variables are just threshold variables, their values have to be "good enough", but there's only limited return to optimizing them too much.]
If the carriers want to make substantive changes, they should feel free to increase backhaul capacity. Otherwise for most of us you're just trading physical transmission speed for time spent in some buffer.
If they kept working after seeing the forged wire transfer, then they were also tricked into working for free. It really can be both.
Eh, once upon a time I had a series of contracts where each one ended with a substantial unpaid amount owed to me. It didn't just start out with non-payment, initially they paid on time, then they got a little behind, then it became a bit to-do to get money out of them because they couldn't meet all their payments. That usually took many months, so, yeah, I could have immediately gotten all huffy and walked, but that would be trading a known work situation with a fuzzy payment situation for an unknown work situation with an unknown payment situation. Would I rather keep working, knowing I'd be paid a couple weeks late, or would I rather not be working at all with no idea when I'd next have an income?
Actually, faking payment would have been helpful to me. With no payment at all, I just was very careful with my spending. But this case could have left me thinking I had the money, and spending money you don't have causes a lot of problems, so I'd have probably walked earlier. It's also a pretty clear case of lying by commission rather than omission, which is harder to ignore.
Sure, it's legal and all. But it sure has a chilling effect - no doubt that's the point. Watch what you say, watch what you think, watch what shows on your face - they're watching you. For your own good, you understand, like a big brother looking out for you.
That assumes that they're doing it because they personally disagree with what was said. Instead, it could be that they simply don't want to be dealing with lawsuits or riots in two or three years because some asshat with a history of posting egregiously racist or sexist jokes continued doing similar things once they matriculated.
Have you seen some of the research on this? The long-term impacts may be catastrophic, and it's already fairly clear to anyone who cares to pay attention that climate change is already started! I find it really hard to believe anyone thought a treaty to cause climate change was a good idea in the first place.
Most of their examples are just consequences of industry growth. As the industry grows, there are new areas which have performance or low-level needs requiring something like C++ expertise, but far more new jobs which simply don't need to be particularly efficient or scalable to solve problems. For those jobs the productivity gains of a scripting language are helpful.
But the absolute number of C++ programmers will only drop insofar as we increase productivity to replace it. Someone has to write those scripting languages, someone has to write those cloud operating systems, etc.
Basically, we probably won't really need more C++ programmers over time, but we almost certainly will need stronger C++ programmers to tackle harder problems, so that everyone else can use that point of leverage.
If you took a math class at some point in the US, there is likely a bulky $100 calculator gathering dust somewhere in your closet.
Back when I was in school, you were expected to know how to do this stuff yourself, and you pretty much weren't allowed crutches like calculators. Including in college.
Of course, everyone's all "Wah wah, why do we have to learn to do things that computers can easily do for us?" Well, for one, because you only get answers to questions you know how to ask. If you don't understand the math, you aren't going to be able to phrase the question, and, unfortunately, the vast majority of interesting questions weren't created by a professor trying to avoid flunking all of their students. If all you know how to do is enter the questions into the computing device, then you are an easily-replaced commodity.
Basically, by the time you're done figuring out the question to ask, I've already discarded that line of reasoning, and the next one, and the next one. Your competition isn't going to wait for you to apply your device, they're just going to move on without you.
At this point, Americans have fetishized the U.S. Constitution like it's an appendix to the Bible, and they quote the Founding Fathers like they were apostles. When amending it is now considered sacrilege, it has completely lost its usefulness.
People who believe the bible is the literal truth are *exactly* the people you would expect to take a literalist interpretation of the US Constitution. This is just a reflection of the political currents in our country.
My experience with successful products is that they get a ton of suggestions which fall into one of two buckets:
1) The suggestion is just plain dumb, either completely unrelated to the project, or showing a gross misunderstanding of the goals of the project. 2) The suggestion is obvious, but very hard to implement.
The reason this is the case is because with a successfully project, all of the obvious and easy suggestions have already been implemented. All that's left are the impossible ones and the ones which don't make sense.
[Here I use "successful" to mean "Enough people use it and work on it that people constantly volunteer suggestions without volunteering patches."]
"And the thing is that if you start regulating the Internet like a utility, if we did that right at the beginning, we would have no Internet..."
In the beginning, the Internet was an educational system and commercial activity was HEAVILY proscribed. It worked fine. Admittedly, it wasn't the Internet we all know and love today. But IMHO his above statement is simply random ignorant speculation.
I want to embark on an epic rant about how in the real world we get up at 6am and we LIKE IT, but... eh, as a software engineer, I get up and roll into work when I roll into work, sometimes earlier, sometimes later. Sometimes I'm hacking something out at 1am, etc. My schedule is about as reliable as it was in college, I'd say. So I guess someone else will have to welcome you to the real world.
I know that _I_ have been quite impressed that the Wii U and PS3 games still have to have a little interstitial screen to say "When you see this animation, for dog's sake do not power down your system!", just like the NES had. So this doesn't surprise me in the slightest.
Honestly, go read textbooks. This isn't some big cover-up, increasing performance is _hard_, it takes hard work, there's not some Slashdot poster who knows the magical answer. If you literally can't spend the hour and a half to read Ars Technica articles about the complicated GPU or CPU pipelines, then it's not like a pithy three-sentence Slashdot post is going to enlighten you.
Back during the first bubble, particularly around the time that Redhat went public, I was fascinated at how many IPOs were priced in the $15 to $30/share range regardless of what that implied about their total value.
These folks have figured out how to game the uninformed investor looking to make a quick buck on IPOs. $5 makes people think the company is a dog, $50 to $100 makes them think it's overpriced. The fact that neither number says anything about valuation is immaterial.
So sure, $24 looks like a great price for a piece of stock, who cares if it implies a grossly overvalued stock.
I'm not sure where you're going, here. If people are more comfortable buying a $15 stock than a $150 or $1500 stock, regardless of the share multiplier, then the industry is going to figure that out and target it. They aren't "gaming" the uninformed investor, if the uninformed investor is out there throwing money at random stuff, it is not the job of investment banks to step aside and avoid that money.
My experience with tech IPOs is that there are probably a bunch of brokerages who finagled "friends and family" type access and locked clients into purchases which are inappropriate to their portfolio. _That_ is bad, but it's not really specific to tech IPOs (if you're letting a full-service broker tell you what to do, you're already in a world of hurt).
It's not like Apple needs this to happen to create a critical mass of no-jack support - Apple doesn't share such things with other companies anyhow, they create their own ecosystem, and that ecosystem is generally stronger than the random chaos of Android add-ons.
Except in edge cases, videos don't stutter because they take slightly more bandwidth than you have available. They stutter because the buffers aren't deep enough to overcome network jank, and my understanding is that streaming providers use shallow buffers for content-protection reasons (it's not like you're going to suddenly switch streams 45 minutes into a movie).
Put another way, the difference between a 500 kbps stream and a 250 kpbs stream isn't going to improve your rebuffering experience on a link with 25mbps of bandwidth available, because the problem is an artificial barrier between you and Netflix.
Why does my browser open up 6 TCP connections to try to download six images at once when I'm on a slow satellite connection? That just guarantees that all six images will time out!
The problem is not opening 6 connections, or failure to retry, but a timeout that's too short.
The problem is having 279 sub-resources on a page, which makes serializing the requests unreasonable.
So, if you look at the foreign language requirement for what it is (an "expand your mind" requirement), then it is plainly obvious that coding achieves the same objective.
Isn't that the entire point of school, though? So pretty much anything goes, as long as it's taught in the school system?
Software engineering can substitute for a foreign language in much the same way that home economics can substitute for economics.
The best thing about npm is that it can re-create the Ruby experience where the first step of running some trivial app is to install 230 packages! It's a real language!
And god help you if you actually decide to use the app for the long term, because in twelve months half its dependencies will no longer be maintained, and the other half will require updates after you do an OS upgrade, so you'll be in there debugging errors yourself. This will help train you for a 21st century job!
But ok, let's assume for the sake of argument that it's determined that the exact diet described here as the "Mediterranean diet" prevents "brain shrinkage". Ok. Now what? What is "brain shrinkage"? Is brain shrinkage bad? What are the negative effects of it? Are their positive effects of brain shrinkage? Oh, and are there other negative effects of the Mediterranean diet that outweigh the benefits of preventing brain shrinkage?
Maybe it's like the "brain cloud" from "Joe Versus The Volcano"?
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But that doesn't stop the deniers trying to pretend that this is some problem with the concept of global warming.
Yeah, I pretty much require all predictions to be 100% accurate before I believe any of it at all. For instance, if the weather person says it will rain with 10 mph wind, and there is no wind, do I take an umbrella? Hell no, because once any part of the prediction is wrong I know that all of the prediction will be wrong.
This is for the arcade version which is the version the 933580 human world record was made on. I don't know if the Atari 2600 version has any important differences but if it does the initial comparison between scores was invalid to begin with.
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The Atari 2600 versions of Pac-Man and Ms Pac-Man has similar gameplay mechanics, but the limitations of the platform make the 2600 versions notably different from the arcade versions.
My best guess as to why companies keep coming up with sleep trackers in spite of the fact that past sleep trackers worked well and failed in the marketplace is that there's something intrinsically optimistic about the genre. Basically, everyone seems to think the reasons why the previous versions failed does not apply to the new version, even though it totally applies to the new version.
Actually, maybe this is just a software-engineer thing. Like the guy who founded "The Melt", where they eventually found out that in the restaurant business the important variables are location and whether anyone wants to eat your food, not whether you've built optimized delivery systems. [Or maybe a different phrasing is that some variables are just threshold variables, their values have to be "good enough", but there's only limited return to optimizing them too much.]
If the carriers want to make substantive changes, they should feel free to increase backhaul capacity. Otherwise for most of us you're just trading physical transmission speed for time spent in some buffer.
If they kept working after seeing the forged wire transfer, then they were also tricked into working for free. It really can be both.
Eh, once upon a time I had a series of contracts where each one ended with a substantial unpaid amount owed to me. It didn't just start out with non-payment, initially they paid on time, then they got a little behind, then it became a bit to-do to get money out of them because they couldn't meet all their payments. That usually took many months, so, yeah, I could have immediately gotten all huffy and walked, but that would be trading a known work situation with a fuzzy payment situation for an unknown work situation with an unknown payment situation. Would I rather keep working, knowing I'd be paid a couple weeks late, or would I rather not be working at all with no idea when I'd next have an income?
Actually, faking payment would have been helpful to me. With no payment at all, I just was very careful with my spending. But this case could have left me thinking I had the money, and spending money you don't have causes a lot of problems, so I'd have probably walked earlier. It's also a pretty clear case of lying by commission rather than omission, which is harder to ignore.
Sure, it's legal and all. But it sure has a chilling effect - no doubt that's the point. Watch what you say, watch what you think, watch what shows on your face - they're watching you. For your own good, you understand, like a big brother looking out for you.
That assumes that they're doing it because they personally disagree with what was said. Instead, it could be that they simply don't want to be dealing with lawsuits or riots in two or three years because some asshat with a history of posting egregiously racist or sexist jokes continued doing similar things once they matriculated.
Have you seen some of the research on this? The long-term impacts may be catastrophic, and it's already fairly clear to anyone who cares to pay attention that climate change is already started! I find it really hard to believe anyone thought a treaty to cause climate change was a good idea in the first place.
Most of their examples are just consequences of industry growth. As the industry grows, there are new areas which have performance or low-level needs requiring something like C++ expertise, but far more new jobs which simply don't need to be particularly efficient or scalable to solve problems. For those jobs the productivity gains of a scripting language are helpful.
But the absolute number of C++ programmers will only drop insofar as we increase productivity to replace it. Someone has to write those scripting languages, someone has to write those cloud operating systems, etc.
Basically, we probably won't really need more C++ programmers over time, but we almost certainly will need stronger C++ programmers to tackle harder problems, so that everyone else can use that point of leverage.
If you took a math class at some point in the US, there is likely a bulky $100 calculator gathering dust somewhere in your closet.
Back when I was in school, you were expected to know how to do this stuff yourself, and you pretty much weren't allowed crutches like calculators. Including in college.
Of course, everyone's all "Wah wah, why do we have to learn to do things that computers can easily do for us?" Well, for one, because you only get answers to questions you know how to ask. If you don't understand the math, you aren't going to be able to phrase the question, and, unfortunately, the vast majority of interesting questions weren't created by a professor trying to avoid flunking all of their students. If all you know how to do is enter the questions into the computing device, then you are an easily-replaced commodity.
Basically, by the time you're done figuring out the question to ask, I've already discarded that line of reasoning, and the next one, and the next one. Your competition isn't going to wait for you to apply your device, they're just going to move on without you.
At this point, Americans have fetishized the U.S. Constitution like it's an appendix to the Bible, and they quote the Founding Fathers like they were apostles. When amending it is now considered sacrilege, it has completely lost its usefulness.
People who believe the bible is the literal truth are *exactly* the people you would expect to take a literalist interpretation of the US Constitution. This is just a reflection of the political currents in our country.
My experience with successful products is that they get a ton of suggestions which fall into one of two buckets:
1) The suggestion is just plain dumb, either completely unrelated to the project, or showing a gross misunderstanding of the goals of the project.
2) The suggestion is obvious, but very hard to implement.
The reason this is the case is because with a successfully project, all of the obvious and easy suggestions have already been implemented. All that's left are the impossible ones and the ones which don't make sense.
[Here I use "successful" to mean "Enough people use it and work on it that people constantly volunteer suggestions without volunteering patches."]
"And the thing is that if you start regulating the Internet like a utility, if we did that right at the beginning, we would have no Internet..."
In the beginning, the Internet was an educational system and commercial activity was HEAVILY proscribed. It worked fine. Admittedly, it wasn't the Internet we all know and love today. But IMHO his above statement is simply random ignorant speculation.
I want to embark on an epic rant about how in the real world we get up at 6am and we LIKE IT, but ... eh, as a software engineer, I get up and roll into work when I roll into work, sometimes earlier, sometimes later. Sometimes I'm hacking something out at 1am, etc. My schedule is about as reliable as it was in college, I'd say. So I guess someone else will have to welcome you to the real world.
I know that _I_ have been quite impressed that the Wii U and PS3 games still have to have a little interstitial screen to say "When you see this animation, for dog's sake do not power down your system!", just like the NES had. So this doesn't surprise me in the slightest.
Honestly, go read textbooks. This isn't some big cover-up, increasing performance is _hard_, it takes hard work, there's not some Slashdot poster who knows the magical answer. If you literally can't spend the hour and a half to read Ars Technica articles about the complicated GPU or CPU pipelines, then it's not like a pithy three-sentence Slashdot post is going to enlighten you.
Back during the first bubble, particularly around the time that Redhat went public, I was fascinated at how many IPOs were priced in the $15 to $30/share range regardless of what that implied about their total value.
These folks have figured out how to game the uninformed investor looking to make a quick buck on IPOs. $5 makes people think the company is a dog, $50 to $100 makes them think it's overpriced. The fact that neither number says anything about valuation is immaterial.
So sure, $24 looks like a great price for a piece of stock, who cares if it implies a grossly overvalued stock.
I'm not sure where you're going, here. If people are more comfortable buying a $15 stock than a $150 or $1500 stock, regardless of the share multiplier, then the industry is going to figure that out and target it. They aren't "gaming" the uninformed investor, if the uninformed investor is out there throwing money at random stuff, it is not the job of investment banks to step aside and avoid that money.
My experience with tech IPOs is that there are probably a bunch of brokerages who finagled "friends and family" type access and locked clients into purchases which are inappropriate to their portfolio. _That_ is bad, but it's not really specific to tech IPOs (if you're letting a full-service broker tell you what to do, you're already in a world of hurt).
It's not like Apple needs this to happen to create a critical mass of no-jack support - Apple doesn't share such things with other companies anyhow, they create their own ecosystem, and that ecosystem is generally stronger than the random chaos of Android add-ons.
Except in edge cases, videos don't stutter because they take slightly more bandwidth than you have available. They stutter because the buffers aren't deep enough to overcome network jank, and my understanding is that streaming providers use shallow buffers for content-protection reasons (it's not like you're going to suddenly switch streams 45 minutes into a movie).
Put another way, the difference between a 500 kbps stream and a 250 kpbs stream isn't going to improve your rebuffering experience on a link with 25mbps of bandwidth available, because the problem is an artificial barrier between you and Netflix.
Why does my browser open up 6 TCP connections to try to download six images at once when I'm on a slow satellite connection? That just guarantees that all six images will time out!
The problem is not opening 6 connections, or failure to retry, but a timeout that's too short.
The problem is having 279 sub-resources on a page, which makes serializing the requests unreasonable.
So, if you look at the foreign language requirement for what it is (an "expand your mind" requirement), then it is plainly obvious that coding achieves the same objective.
Isn't that the entire point of school, though? So pretty much anything goes, as long as it's taught in the school system?
Software engineering can substitute for a foreign language in much the same way that home economics can substitute for economics.
Here on Slashdot, "male" and "female" refer to types of plugs, not biology.
I wonder how they got that label?
Southern Poverty Law Center
This is not a credible source.
When did you stop beating your wife?
The best thing about npm is that it can re-create the Ruby experience where the first step of running some trivial app is to install 230 packages! It's a real language!
And god help you if you actually decide to use the app for the long term, because in twelve months half its dependencies will no longer be maintained, and the other half will require updates after you do an OS upgrade, so you'll be in there debugging errors yourself. This will help train you for a 21st century job!
But ok, let's assume for the sake of argument that it's determined that the exact diet described here as the "Mediterranean diet" prevents "brain shrinkage". Ok. Now what? What is "brain shrinkage"? Is brain shrinkage bad? What are the negative effects of it? Are their positive effects of brain shrinkage? Oh, and are there other negative effects of the Mediterranean diet that outweigh the benefits of preventing brain shrinkage?
Maybe it's like the "brain cloud" from "Joe Versus The Volcano"?
The first thing I thought about the "Oracle is going to start shaking down developers" article from yesterday was that it was a boon to C#.
-scott