My regrettable job here is to point out that aren't they not the jocks and the athletes who get the women and the admiration of the most of the menw while for us techies, who hold the modern world on our shoulders, only craps remain.
Well to be fair, our parents also experienced the economical boom with no match. Yes, when they were kids, they saw the hardships of war-reconstruction, but there were jobs and the wages got better, they could move to a bigger house, buy a refrigerator and maybe some other appliances, even a sensible-sized European car which they then could take to an extended weekend across the border to the nearest country on the same side of the iron curtain.
When they were coming to age, the job market was still good, the message of free love was coming from the America but the old courting system was still intact, so they could experiment with ease and then settle down. Everyone, not just the "alphas".
Have you noticed, at our father's generation such a rule: "older the male is compared to their wife, less popular they were". I think that's the old way how the wold used to work: being older would mean having stabler finances, so one could attract maybe some of the less-popular girls as they were coming to age. The world doesn't really work like that anymore.
True, with the truly obscure ones having an access to the environment to actually train and test one's skills in practice may be the biggest barrier.
Surely, anyone can download Kuka and Hyundai robot manuals (I think with these manufacturers this includes even the maintenance manuals) online, but buing the $20000 robot to get the experience is another thing.
Robot programming is a bad example, as an engineer in that field is mostly expected to pick it up "on the fly", but the guy who truly can shave off seconds from the execution time in a critical application gets paid handsomely.
Do keep in mind that with these niche languages the markets are small, but so are the circles. Many job openings are not public and require previous references, some times some niche language is largely controlled by handful of big software houses.
The truly obscure one aren't even publicly documented, because they are considered business secret. Sadly, even the peer to peer is too busy with music and movies to bother with some ISO/ANSI/JIS standard needed by maybe twenty people in the world. If you have the docs or can pausibly deny having them, you get the job.
I wouldn't learn a language just in case with dollar signs in my eyes, unless I personally knew the place and people who needed the service.
Beyond that, the world is full of little unknown languages. The industrial equipment for example almost all run their own bastardized version of basic.
Well, the modern 7 day interval originates from market days in Roma so its not strictly "day off".
But yeah, as PopeRazzo said, the wealthy probably used their slaves a lot as messengers and to run errands so being physically present at the heart of the city would not have been necessary but for the most important business.
What I'd like to know is if the larger households of the presumably wealthy in the ancient cities were close to the center of the city where most of the commercial, cultural and juridical life took place or if they had huge villas well outside the city from where they "commuted" to work most every day?
But, let's also consider those very early cities where they were all built together and you entered and exited by crossing the roofs of the other dwellings. Did those also fit this same ancient mathematical model?
If they don't, the researchers naturally classify them as "not cities". The secret of impressive results is the carefully choice of initial data.
The key here is probably limit exposure, it cannot be fully prevented no matter what you do if they want to.
The oldest trick in the book is to only allow the youngest kids to access the Internet from a machine that is in public sight, in living room, kitchen etc. In that way, they can only watch the naughty stuff when they are alone at home, and for young kids its not very often. As they grow older, they get more alone time alone and at some point their own personal computer they can use to watch naughty pictures in privacy.
Unless you want to extend the control up until they move out, then it's complicated...
Most developer VCS are overkill for a business environment. Do you really want to have to explain branching/merging or *gasp* rebasing to an office temp? The ideal system would require initial configuration and then create versions automatically.
True. I think what is more, the RCS should operate within their file server, without needing to set up a server on its own. That is, all it need to do is to maintain a hierarchy (or less preferably, a database-blob) in a locally accessible driver.
That's because I have a hunch that what they have for file server is just a NAS-box (everyone uses the same account). All is not lost how ever, as as most NAS-boxes support FTP, so configure a separate user for the RCS and configure the account into the RCS so that people would no longer mess with the hierarchy by hand all the time. (It's not real protection, just a speed bump, but that is not needed in a small office.)
I don't know any system personally, but found by google that GNU Bazaar does exactly that sort of a thing. I have to thank you for this, I'll definitely try to set up Bazaar at the office at some day, because we too have this everyone fucks with the same NAS kind of thing going on.
Interesting, so these people are strangers the wagers a part of the gentleman-agreement?
What about some non-poker card games without too much visible money on the table? Say, gin rummy, skat, schnapsen, sheepshead and so on including all the thousands of games that can be played with a bid of some kind? All card games banned?
You know, in most civilized places that sort of friends gathering into park for wine and few rounds bourre type of thing gets willfully looked away no matter the exact written law.
I don't know any place where one could play go or chess for money but not poker so what practical good does this make? Because practical definitions of the gambling are sufficiently wide rather than narrow to discourage loophole seeking in everywhere but few counties here and there.
You seem to have a little wrong idea about how the reparations worked. If I get it right you seem to think that USSR took something it needed, namely heavy metal industry products to complement the output of its own war-ruined industry but in its never-ending kindness it paid back with something it had plenty of, namely timber. As far as I am aware, though I may be wrong (after all, I've heard only the opposite propaganda version of the story), the USSR didn't directly give anything in return.
If you did mean it by face value, I see it hard to believe as we have and had plenty of wood on our own, also plenty in the state forests. "A train load per week" seems a minor amount, surely there are and were several trainloads of wood traveling in the Finnish rail network in any given moment (mainly for the needs of the paper industry). Maybe you mix that up with the prefabricated wooden houses that also were delivered?
About teaching Russian in public schools: I might have been a little harsh on that matter. I don't know why but a very few school districts offered it. Maybe there weren't suitable teachers available, maybe there were not enough demand to make the classes available, maybe German and French were genuinely seen more useful. To make it absolutely clear, there was no public policy against it. Just everyone's little reservations against the former enemy.
It's not 120V vs 230V, but the whole philosophy between European and American distribution system is little different. (Basically Americans need a neutral conductor on their medium voltage regional distribution network for having so many singly phase loads.)
That's basically RMS power equivalent of the Edisonian DC distribution system, a lovely hack on its own right, but fast forward hundred years, and the Americans still see three phase power as some sort of premium, needing its own fitters and costing a premium tariff.
I can only speak for Nordic countries, but here German was for a long time the second language, English only won in the 70s.
In Finland it was a matter of catchment area for some time, some taught German first, some English first. Then came the school reform and it become English first, Swedish second because two national languages (even if only 5% of the people speak the second) for everyone with voluntary "second first" language, which was usually German (see history), in bigger cities also French and never Russian, because everyone who speaks the language of the enemy is a potential deceiter.
Such is life, sometimes whole nations row into counter current, waste millions in time and effort and lose business opportunities for shady at least political reasons.
>Is this like nerd, where everyone is calling themselves that?
Someday they will claim "obese shut-in", what is there then left for me? Go out and exercise?
That's free market, baby.
Besides, it is also pretty much a matter of national interest to cause brain drain to the competing countries and strengthen the influence of currently US based mega corporations that hold the majority of the public side of the internet. So "boo hoo, why do you hate US?" Can't help but sneer a little, no such problems on the little IT everyguy on side of the pond. (Now, nationalized colleges pushing out too many masters and bachelors of CS compared to the actual demand is another story...)
Also, in C it is the norm that the operating system's own call and linking conventions are used. Of course it does help that all the major operating systems have been written in C itself, but still.
For example, Delphi in contraction comes with pretty much with its own library ecosystems and linker, while native libraries need a wrapper around them, whereas in C the compiler is the only thing that is needed, and it can also be a cross compiler to bootstrap the minimalistic C ecosystem. Very few languages even have cross compilers. I'm trying to say, C's flexible build system is also a huge and often overlooked asset in low level system stuff.
"C is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use C itself a lot."
Surely there the money is in private automobiles, but before we start jumping ecstatically about this thing, shouldn't there first be a proof of concept in a streetcar system or something?
This would be ideal environment for beta testing this, because unlike undergrounds that are essentially closed systems, streetcars are not, but the system wouldn't need to care about actually steering just yet, only stay in schedule and not hitting anything.
Buy a petrol heater, you know the kind that doesn't have a chimney.
With this device you can emergency heat your apartment with wide variety of liquid fuels, thus drastically reducing the number of solar panels required.
Real 70s countryside vibes with this one, and really bad room air. Of course the air quality improves with the quality of fuel. Coleman fuel > jet A > unleaded petrol.
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My regrettable job here is to point out that aren't they not the jocks and the athletes who get the women and the admiration of the most of the menw while for us techies, who hold the modern world on our shoulders, only craps remain.
I don't see this completely fair.
Well to be fair, our parents also experienced the economical boom with no match. Yes, when they were kids, they saw the hardships of war-reconstruction, but there were jobs and the wages got better, they could move to a bigger house, buy a refrigerator and maybe some other appliances, even a sensible-sized European car which they then could take to an extended weekend across the border to the nearest country on the same side of the iron curtain.
When they were coming to age, the job market was still good, the message of free love was coming from the America but the old courting system was still intact, so they could experiment with ease and then settle down. Everyone, not just the "alphas".
Have you noticed, at our father's generation such a rule: "older the male is compared to their wife, less popular they were". I think that's the old way how the wold used to work: being older would mean having stabler finances, so one could attract maybe some of the less-popular girls as they were coming to age. The world doesn't really work like that anymore.
True, with the truly obscure ones having an access to the environment to actually train and test one's skills in practice may be the biggest barrier.
Surely, anyone can download Kuka and Hyundai robot manuals (I think with these manufacturers this includes even the maintenance manuals) online, but buing the $20000 robot to get the experience is another thing.
Robot programming is a bad example, as an engineer in that field is mostly expected to pick it up "on the fly", but the guy who truly can shave off seconds from the execution time in a critical application gets paid handsomely.
Do keep in mind that with these niche languages the markets are small, but so are the circles. Many job openings are not public and require previous references, some times some niche language is largely controlled by handful of big software houses.
The truly obscure one aren't even publicly documented, because they are considered business secret. Sadly, even the peer to peer is too busy with music and movies to bother with some ISO/ANSI/JIS standard needed by maybe twenty people in the world. If you have the docs or can pausibly deny having them, you get the job.
I wouldn't learn a language just in case with dollar signs in my eyes, unless I personally knew the place and people who needed the service.
Beyond that, the world is full of little unknown languages. The industrial equipment for example almost all run their own bastardized version of basic.
By definition. A baby gazelle can run an hour after its birth, then it is running at a baby gazelle's maximum speed.
Well, the modern 7 day interval originates from market days in Roma so its not strictly "day off".
But yeah, as PopeRazzo said, the wealthy probably used their slaves a lot as messengers and to run errands so being physically present at the heart of the city would not have been necessary but for the most important business.
What I'd like to know is if the larger households of the presumably wealthy in the ancient cities were close to the center of the city where most of the commercial, cultural and juridical life took place or if they had huge villas well outside the city from where they "commuted" to work most every day?
If they don't, the researchers naturally classify them as "not cities". The secret of impressive results is the carefully choice of initial data.
I think its beneficial to set up parental controls, as bypassing it serves as a useful learning experience.
The key here is probably limit exposure, it cannot be fully prevented no matter what you do if they want to.
The oldest trick in the book is to only allow the youngest kids to access the Internet from a machine that is in public sight, in living room, kitchen etc. In that way, they can only watch the naughty stuff when they are alone at home, and for young kids its not very often. As they grow older, they get more alone time alone and at some point their own personal computer they can use to watch naughty pictures in privacy.
Unless you want to extend the control up until they move out, then it's complicated...
A cheap home router with SSH enabled...
Where can I buy this?
Most developer VCS are overkill for a business environment. Do you really want to have to explain branching/merging or *gasp* rebasing to an office temp? The ideal system would require initial configuration and then create versions automatically.
True. I think what is more, the RCS should operate within their file server, without needing to set up a server on its own. That is, all it need to do is to maintain a hierarchy (or less preferably, a database-blob) in a locally accessible driver.
That's because I have a hunch that what they have for file server is just a NAS-box (everyone uses the same account). All is not lost how ever, as as most NAS-boxes support FTP, so configure a separate user for the RCS and configure the account into the RCS so that people would no longer mess with the hierarchy by hand all the time. (It's not real protection, just a speed bump, but that is not needed in a small office.)
I don't know any system personally, but found by google that GNU Bazaar does exactly that sort of a thing. I have to thank you for this, I'll definitely try to set up Bazaar at the office at some day, because we too have this everyone fucks with the same NAS kind of thing going on.
Interesting, so these people are strangers the wagers a part of the gentleman-agreement?
What about some non-poker card games without too much visible money on the table? Say, gin rummy, skat, schnapsen, sheepshead and so on including all the thousands of games that can be played with a bid of some kind? All card games banned?
You know, in most civilized places that sort of friends gathering into park for wine and few rounds bourre type of thing gets willfully looked away no matter the exact written law.
I don't know any place where one could play go or chess for money but not poker so what practical good does this make? Because practical definitions of the gambling are sufficiently wide rather than narrow to discourage loophole seeking in everywhere but few counties here and there.
You seem to have a little wrong idea about how the reparations worked. If I get it right you seem to think that USSR took something it needed, namely heavy metal industry products to complement the output of its own war-ruined industry but in its never-ending kindness it paid back with something it had plenty of, namely timber. As far as I am aware, though I may be wrong (after all, I've heard only the opposite propaganda version of the story), the USSR didn't directly give anything in return.
If you did mean it by face value, I see it hard to believe as we have and had plenty of wood on our own, also plenty in the state forests. "A train load per week" seems a minor amount, surely there are and were several trainloads of wood traveling in the Finnish rail network in any given moment (mainly for the needs of the paper industry). Maybe you mix that up with the prefabricated wooden houses that also were delivered?
About teaching Russian in public schools: I might have been a little harsh on that matter. I don't know why but a very few school districts offered it. Maybe there weren't suitable teachers available, maybe there were not enough demand to make the classes available, maybe German and French were genuinely seen more useful. To make it absolutely clear, there was no public policy against it. Just everyone's little reservations against the former enemy.
It's not 120V vs 230V, but the whole philosophy between European and American distribution system is little different. (Basically Americans need a neutral conductor on their medium voltage regional distribution network for having so many singly phase loads.)
Look up "split phase" AC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-phase_electric_power
That's basically RMS power equivalent of the Edisonian DC distribution system, a lovely hack on its own right, but fast forward hundred years, and the Americans still see three phase power as some sort of premium, needing its own fitters and costing a premium tariff.
I can only speak for Nordic countries, but here German was for a long time the second language, English only won in the 70s.
In Finland it was a matter of catchment area for some time, some taught German first, some English first. Then came the school reform and it become English first, Swedish second because two national languages (even if only 5% of the people speak the second) for everyone with voluntary "second first" language, which was usually German (see history), in bigger cities also French and never Russian, because everyone who speaks the language of the enemy is a potential deceiter.
Such is life, sometimes whole nations row into counter current, waste millions in time and effort and lose business opportunities for shady at least political reasons.
>Is this like nerd, where everyone is calling themselves that? Someday they will claim "obese shut-in", what is there then left for me? Go out and exercise?
That's free market, baby.
Besides, it is also pretty much a matter of national interest to cause brain drain to the competing countries and strengthen the influence of currently US based mega corporations that hold the majority of the public side of the internet. So "boo hoo, why do you hate US?" Can't help but sneer a little, no such problems on the little IT everyguy on side of the pond. (Now, nationalized colleges pushing out too many masters and bachelors of CS compared to the actual demand is another story...)
Also, in C it is the norm that the operating system's own call and linking conventions are used. Of course it does help that all the major operating systems have been written in C itself, but still. For example, Delphi in contraction comes with pretty much with its own library ecosystems and linker, while native libraries need a wrapper around them, whereas in C the compiler is the only thing that is needed, and it can also be a cross compiler to bootstrap the minimalistic C ecosystem. Very few languages even have cross compilers. I'm trying to say, C's flexible build system is also a huge and often overlooked asset in low level system stuff.
"C is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use C itself a lot."
Surely there the money is in private automobiles, but before we start jumping ecstatically about this thing, shouldn't there first be a proof of concept in a streetcar system or something? This would be ideal environment for beta testing this, because unlike undergrounds that are essentially closed systems, streetcars are not, but the system wouldn't need to care about actually steering just yet, only stay in schedule and not hitting anything.
Buy a petrol heater, you know the kind that doesn't have a chimney.
With this device you can emergency heat your apartment with wide variety of liquid fuels, thus drastically reducing the number of solar panels required.
Real 70s countryside vibes with this one, and really bad room air. Of course the air quality improves with the quality of fuel. Coleman fuel > jet A > unleaded petrol.