You don't know how to get the length of a string in Python? That's OK, provided you don't claim to know Python.
Some people seem to think that they're a capable engineer if they can look it all up on the internet / stack overflow. Sorry, I'd rather fail your interview and hire the guy who wrote the book or the stack overflow post.
Even if you can get the same results, which I doubt, stopping every 5 minutes to read up on core competencies of your job is going to be way slower than the person who is good enough to know it and apply it in the right place at the right time.
I've worked with folks who've claimed there textbook bad code is fine because "I've been doing it that way for 30 years". That doesn't make you a master of your field, it means you're lucky to have fooled management for that long.
This write-up sounds awfully negative, but if your software is so bad that it can be auto detected to be insecure, you belong in the penalty box until you make it right. Be respectful of users' data.
As having worked in tech in another country, and moved to the US to work in tech, it's 100% to do with the US understanding the value of the engineers. Among my other expat acquaintances, it's not just my old country, either.
A couple of good engineers can pull off the next google, instagram, Facebook etc. Folks in the US know this and harness that power. Other countries see an computer engineering degree like an accounting degree. Until other countries clue in, the US will continue to be a power house.
I love the the post talks Siri, which macOS has, which is a competitor to Windows' Cortana. It opens with talking about how his friend/sister/whatever uses Siri on their phone. But Linux is unequivocally better, despite missing this feature.
Yes, not everyone loves it, it's easy to see as a gimmick but it's really hard to claim Linux is 100% better when it's missing this feature discussed in the article itself. Someone out there thinks it's important, too -- over a year ago it was answering a billion questions a week, just for iPhone users (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-06-08/siri-how-many-questions-do-you-answer-per-minute-). Surely Android + Windows + iPhone + Mac is way more than that now.
Changing the icon is a great solution to what, exactly?
It doesn't prevent customer phones from blowing up. It might imply that any phone that doesn't have the special colored icon is liable to explode, something I'm sure competitors would rather not have happen.
Not only that, but even if customers did want it, computer electronics says it can't work. Power supplies and busses are boring things, but they make advancements every generation. You upgrade your camera to more megapixels and you have to switch out your power supply and bus to something not compatible with the old modules. Or you stagnate these things and you miss out on future throughput and efficiency gains. Now you're lowering frame rates and burning a bunch of power just for compatibilities sake. Integration matters. Ara was always a garbage project.
The summary says "If your phone isn't updated, it will start to feel old, so you're more likely to buy a new phone sooner". If you don't make your users happy by keeping them updated, Android isn't tied to one vendor, they can just as easily be driven to another handset vendor the next time. Better to have all your customers update 50% less often than to lose half of them to the company that cares about its customers.
Was speed ever an actual problem with PostgreSQL? Or was it just that clueless folks wanted a better throughput number without caring about the implications?
So much this. If you think it's a great product, wait until it's all built and buy it on the store shelves. if you think it won't land on store shelves, and you really want it, and it's worth losing your money over it, then chip in on the kickstarter. All kinds of businesses fail, surely the ones that are started by a couple of guys with no experience and only a webcam are going to fail more. I'm not sure why people think these are risk free.
"Why is a high speed data bus so complex?". They evolve to be faster and more efficient each year. What's high speed today isn't in two years from now. So do you want to fast in two years, built on today's tech, so it's underutilised battery life is terrible? Or do you want to limit the efficacy of the new plug-in modules in future by having the bus under spec in two years? Or do you want to build it on something that doesn't exist yet, sooner than two years from now, so it costs a fortune to design and manufacture?
Something as simple as a "high bandwidth data bus" has capacities and costs associated with it. I don't know why it took so long for the Ara team to find this out.
What does this mean for people mining? The hashes are just maths... if you fork the chain, can you start double spending on your mining wins? Does putting them into one system imply a race with someone validating that transaction on getting it into the other?
Even on a power drill, you're not going to move anything very far. So you need to hook it up to something where there's not much power and lots of turns on the input.
Screw it, I'm hooking mine up to the hamster's wheel.
Back when Google was new, I avoided it for the longest time because I'd spent so long with Atavista and friends curating my searches with "+this", "-that" and other modifiers, but Google didn't support them well.
Turns out, Google didn't support them because it didn't need to. It would return the right results by phrasing the query naturally, not like some bastardised SQL incantation.
Give in to querying like a human and you might find Google works much better for you. There are a lot of very smart people that understand how people look for data, including the long tail. Trying to second guess them is a path to failure.
"All the accessibility tools included in Linux are open source, meaning their code is readily available if you want to examine or improve it"
This "it's better because you can fix it yourself" is usually pretty dubious. In this case, it's worthless unless the folks who need the accessibility can work on it. What's the most accessible dev environment? Are its accessibility features usable? Does it support all developing all the tools that need improvement?
How many of the non-manager employees are rated as "great"? Surely not a whole lot more. Managers clearly have a greater influence, but any second-rate employee can be a morale killer that hurts the economy.
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You don't know how to get the length of a string in Python? That's OK, provided you don't claim to know Python.
Some people seem to think that they're a capable engineer if they can look it all up on the internet / stack overflow. Sorry, I'd rather fail your interview and hire the guy who wrote the book or the stack overflow post.
Even if you can get the same results, which I doubt, stopping every 5 minutes to read up on core competencies of your job is going to be way slower than the person who is good enough to know it and apply it in the right place at the right time.
I've worked with folks who've claimed there textbook bad code is fine because "I've been doing it that way for 30 years". That doesn't make you a master of your field, it means you're lucky to have fooled management for that long.
This write-up sounds awfully negative, but if your software is so bad that it can be auto detected to be insecure, you belong in the penalty box until you make it right. Be respectful of users' data.
As having worked in tech in another country, and moved to the US to work in tech, it's 100% to do with the US understanding the value of the engineers. Among my other expat acquaintances, it's not just my old country, either.
A couple of good engineers can pull off the next google, instagram, Facebook etc. Folks in the US know this and harness that power. Other countries see an computer engineering degree like an accounting degree. Until other countries clue in, the US will continue to be a power house.
I love the the post talks Siri, which macOS has, which is a competitor to Windows' Cortana. It opens with talking about how his friend/sister/whatever uses Siri on their phone. But Linux is unequivocally better, despite missing this feature.
Yes, not everyone loves it, it's easy to see as a gimmick but it's really hard to claim Linux is 100% better when it's missing this feature discussed in the article itself. Someone out there thinks it's important, too -- over a year ago it was answering a billion questions a week, just for iPhone users (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-06-08/siri-how-many-questions-do-you-answer-per-minute-). Surely Android + Windows + iPhone + Mac is way more than that now.
... until you realize it's Google and they're going to steal all your personal information off the wire and send it to home base. sigh.
Changing the icon is a great solution to what, exactly?
It doesn't prevent customer phones from blowing up. It might imply that any phone that doesn't have the special colored icon is liable to explode, something I'm sure competitors would rather not have happen.
Not only that, but even if customers did want it, computer electronics says it can't work. Power supplies and busses are boring things, but they make advancements every generation. You upgrade your camera to more megapixels and you have to switch out your power supply and bus to something not compatible with the old modules. Or you stagnate these things and you miss out on future throughput and efficiency gains. Now you're lowering frame rates and burning a bunch of power just for compatibilities sake. Integration matters. Ara was always a garbage project.
The summary says "If your phone isn't updated, it will start to feel old, so you're more likely to buy a new phone sooner". If you don't make your users happy by keeping them updated, Android isn't tied to one vendor, they can just as easily be driven to another handset vendor the next time. Better to have all your customers update 50% less often than to lose half of them to the company that cares about its customers.
... but at least they're going after a real cause of a real problem this time. As others have pointed out, it's just one of many holes, though...
Clearly he's in on it. He's just telling us what they want us to believe.
This seems fine on a tiny island like Cuba, but good luck making this work for developing countries over wider geographical areas.
Was speed ever an actual problem with PostgreSQL? Or was it just that clueless folks wanted a better throughput number without caring about the implications?
When encryption is outlawed, only the terrorists will have encryption. We can't unlearn the maths. Banning it serves no purpose.
So much this. If you think it's a great product, wait until it's all built and buy it on the store shelves. if you think it won't land on store shelves, and you really want it, and it's worth losing your money over it, then chip in on the kickstarter. All kinds of businesses fail, surely the ones that are started by a couple of guys with no experience and only a webcam are going to fail more. I'm not sure why people think these are risk free.
There, fixed it...
Fill all the forums with macho bravado. I hear that works every time.
What this guy said.
"Why is a high speed data bus so complex?". They evolve to be faster and more efficient each year. What's high speed today isn't in two years from now. So do you want to fast in two years, built on today's tech, so it's underutilised battery life is terrible? Or do you want to limit the efficacy of the new plug-in modules in future by having the bus under spec in two years? Or do you want to build it on something that doesn't exist yet, sooner than two years from now, so it costs a fortune to design and manufacture?
Something as simple as a "high bandwidth data bus" has capacities and costs associated with it. I don't know why it took so long for the Ara team to find this out.
This seems fine. We know for a fact that the government has use the utmost restraint when snooping on communications so far.
What does this mean for people mining? The hashes are just maths... if you fork the chain, can you start double spending on your mining wins? Does putting them into one system imply a race with someone validating that transaction on getting it into the other?
I'm glad someone is exercising their 2nd amendment rights this way. This is exactly what the founding fathers had in mind.
Even on a power drill, you're not going to move anything very far. So you need to hook it up to something where there's not much power and lots of turns on the input.
Screw it, I'm hooking mine up to the hamster's wheel.
I see someone just found an explanation for why the flyover states vote republican.
Back when Google was new, I avoided it for the longest time because I'd spent so long with Atavista and friends curating my searches with "+this", "-that" and other modifiers, but Google didn't support them well.
Turns out, Google didn't support them because it didn't need to. It would return the right results by phrasing the query naturally, not like some bastardised SQL incantation.
Give in to querying like a human and you might find Google works much better for you. There are a lot of very smart people that understand how people look for data, including the long tail. Trying to second guess them is a path to failure.
How accessible is the best open source dev suite?
"All the accessibility tools included in Linux are open source, meaning their code is readily available if you want to examine or improve it"
This "it's better because you can fix it yourself" is usually pretty dubious. In this case, it's worthless unless the folks who need the accessibility can work on it. What's the most accessible dev environment? Are its accessibility features usable? Does it support all developing all the tools that need improvement?
How many of the non-manager employees are rated as "great"? Surely not a whole lot more. Managers clearly have a greater influence, but any second-rate employee can be a morale killer that hurts the economy.