Look at it this way: the Chinese may feel rich enough to pay $2.3 billion for server business, but only Americans feel rich enough to pay $3.2 billion for a thermostat business. So, who has the bigger Nest egg?
Good point, Tom. I've thought about that also. I haven't analyzed it carefully, but It seems like requiring punctuation also increases security only minimally because that just increases the size of the symbol set by a small percentage and probably also has predictable placement. I guess it would be more effective to increase the minimum password length than to do either of those.
Probably gonna be justly modded down for offtopic, but I'm tired of these speculative bitcoin stories.
Generally speaking, I agree. However, in this case, I read both the Andressen article and the rebuttal from top to bottom and found them both interesting. More so, in fact, than the inevitable rehash of all the old Bitcoin comments above and below.
When a poster posts a comment to get a reaction from the crowd, it's called "Trolling". When Slashdot posts an article to get a reaction from the crowd, it's called "News for Nerds". Now that today's Bitcoin article has been posted, we can look forward to today's "News for Nerds" (euphemistically speaking) about NSA. Or did they already post that earlier today?
You're already good at a low-level language, C. Now, add a high-level language (aka "scripting language") like Python. The two are complementary. Low-level is best when computer time is more valuable than programmer time, and high-level is best when programmer time is more valuable than computer time.
Python is fairly easy for C programmers to learn because it imitates C as much as it can while still being Python. It's also a nice way to learn OOP, if you don't already know that. It's also very pleasant and fun.
Some people don't like Python's lack of braces, but I think they're mostly being paid off by orthodontists. However, if you appreciate the minimalism of C, you should appreciate the minimalism of Python even more.
there are many minor languages where adjectives and adverbs are prefixes or suffixes, leading to very long words.
Holy Fahrvergnügen, Batman!
Try comparing it our knowledge of remaining centam indigenous languages.
Or, as Eric Idle once put it, "Ham sandwich, bucket and water plastic duralex rubber McFisheries' underwear." (Or was that from the Voynich Manuscript?)
It wasn't widely reported at the time, but Apple acquired their Itty Bitty Machines division several years ago. So, they don't even make phones and MP3 players anymore.
As this article illustrates, protecting our automotive software freedom is more important now than ever. As our cars grow more dependent on computers, the software they run is of critical importance to securing the future of a free society. Free automobile software is about having control over the technology we use while travelling to our homes, schools and businesses, where automotive computers work for our individual and communal benefit, not for proprietary automobile companies or governments who might seek to restrict and monitor us.
Although the Free Software Foundation has been a leader in protecting our freedoms in many areas of computing, I have not heard of them doing much in the automotive software area. So, perhaps we have to do it ourselves. To that end, I propose the foundation of a Free AuTomobile Software Organization (FATSO) which would be a nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote automotive computer user freedom and to defend the rights of all free automotive software users.
With the efforts of FATSO--and you--we all can regain fundamental automotive freedoms, including the freedom to drive and ride in heated seats.
(Note to the humor-impaired: the preceding was satire, not trolling or flamebaiting. Most of the text was adapted from the FSF website. As satire, adaptation of FSF's copyrighted text is believed by the author to be fair use, even in the likely event that the FSF doesn't get the joke.)
Glad I'm not the only one who hadn't heard that one. I Googled it ASAP and got a page full of "Conjugated Linoleic Acid". Then, I went to TFA (Teach For America) and found the TLA (Title-Leading Acronym) PDQ.
Or, to paraphrase Pogo, "We have met the enemy and they is us."
And we don't get to change text, just rate it...
So even the Slashgods don't have the power to fix summaries? If so, I guess that explains a lot. But surely if they don't already have that power, at least they have the power to grant that new power to themselves. Or am I overestimating them again?
That's fine, thanks. I was only funning you anyway.
My actual answer was along the lines of "I have lots of strongly held opinions." The interviewer answered with "Well, respect is very important to us here." That's what I took as a bad sign.
Strongly held opinions aren't all bad because they indicate a certain passion for the work. But they aren't always a great thing in a team environment because compromise often is required in order to move forward. I think the interviewer took my comment too seriously. Paradoxically, if I understood that strongly held opinions were a weakness, I also must have recognized that compromise was required - which I did.
I've since taken on the approach of agreeing with coworkers if I possibly can, and only disagreeing on the few things that are really important, aka "picking your battles". That's been a very good thing. I now work at that same place I got turned down from but in a different job. It all worked out well for me because I have a different - and much better - boss than the one who asked that silly question.
Right. "I'm not a good liar" would have been much better than my actual answer, which was along the lines of "I have an irresistible compulsion to apply for positions which I am not remotely capable of filling."
I once was asked the old job interview chestnut, "What is your greatest weakness?" I knew that you were supposed to lie and answer that one with a strength such as "I'm just too honest and hard-working." However, that technique always seemed too transparent to me, and I'm not a good liar. So, on the spur of the moment, I decided to answer it honestly. After that, the interviewer took a breath and said, "I appreciate your honest answer."
I took that as a bad sign at the time, but everything else went well so I was hopeful overall. Ultimately, though, I got turned down for the job. I've always suspected that my honest answer was the reason. Maybe they were looking for a gifted liar. But the job opening was for a software engineer, not a used car salesman, so that seems an odd qualification.
System and Method for Motivating Customers to Pay for Expedited Shipping
The present invention is for a system and method to motivate customers to pay for expedited shipping by not shipping any non-expedited purchase until after the time that the customer would have received the purchase if he/she had paid for expedited shipping. Said system and method is distinct from ordinary delays which may occur naturally due to simply giving priority to expedited shipments over non-expedited shipments. Rather, the present invention is for a system and method of deliberately inflicting punishment on frugal customers in order to motivate them to pay exorbitant prices for one-time expedition of a purchase, and/or to pay for a special expedited-shipping subscription program. Said subscription program may include additional benefits such as free rental of worthless films, though that is not within the scope of the present invention.
Beyond the aforementioned method of implementing unnecessary shipment delays, the present invention would include a system for notifying customers of the progress of their orders, including non-shipment thereof, so that said customers would be able to distinguish reasonable delays from senseless delays, thereby maximizing their motivation to pay for or subscribe to expedited shipping in the future.
Disclaimer: I recognize that the above constitutes a software patent. I apologize in advance to those of you who, in the interest of humor, I have thereby offended by disclosure of the present invention. Be comforted, at least, that I am establishing prior art to prevent Amazon from actually patenting this.
Though I found TFA interesting, it seemed like actually doing what it suggested would be equivalent to learning a large new cross-platform API. Compared to the familiar wxWidgets, QT, and GTK+, the Chrome API may have some advantages in terms of features, but I doubt it would be nearly as well documented. It would probably be a pretty big mountain to climb.
Regardless of which of these things you adopt (or even Java), you always have the basic problem of learning a large API, so it's hard to commit to more than one of them. So, although the idea of using the Chrome source as a cross-platform API is interesting, I wouldn't actually get involved unless it offered something that I actually needed which the other cross-platform toolkits didn't already provide.
Sad, isn't it? Google now feels they need to buy another company for $3.2 billion rather than scale technical and business mountains of this magnitude themselves.
That's the cynical view, anyway. The charitable view is that Larry and Sergei have a lot of cash burning a hole in their pockets, and rather than return it to shareholders via stock buybacks or dividends as good corporate stewards should, they spend it on a shiny new toy - much like the ordinary folks who had extra cash in their pockets and paid $249 for a shiny new Nest thermostat (or smoke detector).
Here's my vision...I see a vision of...Larry and Sergei needing "adult supervision" again from Eric so they don't pay way too much for The Next Cool thing.
It's not about buying Nest (though you'd think Larry and Sergei could invent cool stuff themselves...) but it's about paying way too much for it.
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Right. Just the top management.
As we continue to work on Google Wallet...we have no current plans regarding Bitcoin.
Translation: "We're ignoring the new monetary system that no one controls so we can push onto you the new monetary system that we control."
Look at it this way: the Chinese may feel rich enough to pay $2.3 billion for server business, but only Americans feel rich enough to pay $3.2 billion for a thermostat business. So, who has the bigger Nest egg?
Good point, Tom. I've thought about that also. I haven't analyzed it carefully, but It seems like requiring punctuation also increases security only minimally because that just increases the size of the symbol set by a small percentage and probably also has predictable placement. I guess it would be more effective to increase the minimum password length than to do either of those.
Here's what you need to do, IMNSHO:
"IMNSHO" isn't a bad password if that's what you need to do, but how about at least mixing the case up a little?
I don't understand what it being 2014 has to do with anything. Do we expect humanity to get smarter about passwords every year?
No, we expect people to be using "2014" in passwords.
Probably gonna be justly modded down for offtopic, but I'm tired of these speculative bitcoin stories.
Generally speaking, I agree. However, in this case, I read both the Andressen article and the rebuttal from top to bottom and found them both interesting. More so, in fact, than the inevitable rehash of all the old Bitcoin comments above and below.
When a poster posts a comment to get a reaction from the crowd, it's called "Trolling". When Slashdot posts an article to get a reaction from the crowd, it's called "News for Nerds". Now that today's Bitcoin article has been posted, we can look forward to today's "News for Nerds" (euphemistically speaking) about NSA. Or did they already post that earlier today?
You're already good at a low-level language, C. Now, add a high-level language (aka "scripting language") like Python. The two are complementary. Low-level is best when computer time is more valuable than programmer time, and high-level is best when programmer time is more valuable than computer time.
Python is fairly easy for C programmers to learn because it imitates C as much as it can while still being Python. It's also a nice way to learn OOP, if you don't already know that. It's also very pleasant and fun.
Some people don't like Python's lack of braces, but I think they're mostly being paid off by orthodontists. However, if you appreciate the minimalism of C, you should appreciate the minimalism of Python even more.
Judging by the technology and the timeline, it can only be the work of Dr. Who.
there are many minor languages where adjectives and adverbs are prefixes or suffixes, leading to very long words.
Holy Fahrvergnügen, Batman!
Try comparing it our knowledge of remaining centam indigenous languages.
Or, as Eric Idle once put it, "Ham sandwich, bucket and water plastic duralex rubber McFisheries' underwear." (Or was that from the Voynich Manuscript?)
It wasn't widely reported at the time, but Apple acquired their Itty Bitty Machines division several years ago. So, they don't even make phones and MP3 players anymore.
Call collect.
As this article illustrates, protecting our automotive software freedom is more important now than ever. As our cars grow more dependent on computers, the software they run is of critical importance to securing the future of a free society. Free automobile software is about having control over the technology we use while travelling to our homes, schools and businesses, where automotive computers work for our individual and communal benefit, not for proprietary automobile companies or governments who might seek to restrict and monitor us.
Although the Free Software Foundation has been a leader in protecting our freedoms in many areas of computing, I have not heard of them doing much in the automotive software area. So, perhaps we have to do it ourselves. To that end, I propose the foundation of a Free AuTomobile Software Organization (FATSO) which would be a nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote automotive computer user freedom and to defend the rights of all free automotive software users.
With the efforts of FATSO--and you--we all can regain fundamental automotive freedoms, including the freedom to drive and ride in heated seats.
(Note to the humor-impaired: the preceding was satire, not trolling or flamebaiting. Most of the text was adapted from the FSF website. As satire, adaptation of FSF's copyrighted text is believed by the author to be fair use, even in the likely event that the FSF doesn't get the joke.)
odnetniN.
Glad I'm not the only one who hadn't heard that one. I Googled it ASAP and got a page full of "Conjugated Linoleic Acid". Then, I went to TFA (Teach For America) and found the TLA (Title-Leading Acronym) PDQ.
On slashdot, "they" is us.
Or, to paraphrase Pogo, "We have met the enemy and they is us."
And we don't get to change text, just rate it...
So even the Slashgods don't have the power to fix summaries? If so, I guess that explains a lot. But surely if they don't already have that power, at least they have the power to grant that new power to themselves. Or am I overestimating them again?
I had to chuckle at the thought that the D Wave is nothing more than a desktop hidden inside a large case full of magic quantum gizmos.
I hear the D-Wave folks also have been developing a new Retro Encabulator.
That's fine, thanks. I was only funning you anyway.
My actual answer was along the lines of "I have lots of strongly held opinions." The interviewer answered with "Well, respect is very important to us here." That's what I took as a bad sign.
Strongly held opinions aren't all bad because they indicate a certain passion for the work. But they aren't always a great thing in a team environment because compromise often is required in order to move forward. I think the interviewer took my comment too seriously. Paradoxically, if I understood that strongly held opinions were a weakness, I also must have recognized that compromise was required - which I did.
I've since taken on the approach of agreeing with coworkers if I possibly can, and only disagreeing on the few things that are really important, aka "picking your battles". That's been a very good thing. I now work at that same place I got turned down from but in a different job. It all worked out well for me because I have a different - and much better - boss than the one who asked that silly question.
Right. "I'm not a good liar" would have been much better than my actual answer, which was along the lines of "I have an irresistible compulsion to apply for positions which I am not remotely capable of filling."
(or maybe I'm a better liar than I thought.)
I once was asked the old job interview chestnut, "What is your greatest weakness?" I knew that you were supposed to lie and answer that one with a strength such as "I'm just too honest and hard-working." However, that technique always seemed too transparent to me, and I'm not a good liar. So, on the spur of the moment, I decided to answer it honestly. After that, the interviewer took a breath and said, "I appreciate your honest answer."
I took that as a bad sign at the time, but everything else went well so I was hopeful overall. Ultimately, though, I got turned down for the job. I've always suspected that my honest answer was the reason. Maybe they were looking for a gifted liar. But the job opening was for a software engineer, not a used car salesman, so that seems an odd qualification.
How about this one:
System and Method for Motivating Customers to Pay for Expedited Shipping
The present invention is for a system and method to motivate customers to pay for expedited shipping by not shipping any non-expedited purchase until after the time that the customer would have received the purchase if he/she had paid for expedited shipping. Said system and method is distinct from ordinary delays which may occur naturally due to simply giving priority to expedited shipments over non-expedited shipments. Rather, the present invention is for a system and method of deliberately inflicting punishment on frugal customers in order to motivate them to pay exorbitant prices for one-time expedition of a purchase, and/or to pay for a special expedited-shipping subscription program. Said subscription program may include additional benefits such as free rental of worthless films, though that is not within the scope of the present invention.
Beyond the aforementioned method of implementing unnecessary shipment delays, the present invention would include a system for notifying customers of the progress of their orders, including non-shipment thereof, so that said customers would be able to distinguish reasonable delays from senseless delays, thereby maximizing their motivation to pay for or subscribe to expedited shipping in the future.
Disclaimer: I recognize that the above constitutes a software patent. I apologize in advance to those of you who, in the interest of humor, I have thereby offended by disclosure of the present invention. Be comforted, at least, that I am establishing prior art to prevent Amazon from actually patenting this.
Though I found TFA interesting, it seemed like actually doing what it suggested would be equivalent to learning a large new cross-platform API. Compared to the familiar wxWidgets, QT, and GTK+, the Chrome API may have some advantages in terms of features, but I doubt it would be nearly as well documented. It would probably be a pretty big mountain to climb.
Regardless of which of these things you adopt (or even Java), you always have the basic problem of learning a large API, so it's hard to commit to more than one of them. So, although the idea of using the Chrome source as a cross-platform API is interesting, I wouldn't actually get involved unless it offered something that I actually needed which the other cross-platform toolkits didn't already provide.
Sad, isn't it? Google now feels they need to buy another company for $3.2 billion rather than scale technical and business mountains of this magnitude themselves.
That's the cynical view, anyway. The charitable view is that Larry and Sergei have a lot of cash burning a hole in their pockets, and rather than return it to shareholders via stock buybacks or dividends as good corporate stewards should, they spend it on a shiny new toy - much like the ordinary folks who had extra cash in their pockets and paid $249 for a shiny new Nest thermostat (or smoke detector).
Yes. Have you been tea-bagging Scalia again?
(sorry, couldn't resist. ;-)
Here's my vision...I see a vision of...Larry and Sergei needing "adult supervision" again from Eric so they don't pay way too much for The Next Cool thing.
It's not about buying Nest (though you'd think Larry and Sergei could invent cool stuff themselves...) but it's about paying way too much for it.