Wow. I had no idea. Could you please provide references showing where there was the ability in the mid-1970s to send GBytes of data per hour to tens of millions individual users.
10 years ago, the first iPhone was released. The release of the first Android was in 2008. 10 years ago, the majority of computer displays were CRTs. 10 years ago, Netflix was only sending out DVDs. 10 years ago, when "Meet the Robinsons" came out there were only 600 digital movie theatres in the world. 10 years ago, the cost of putting 5 tonnes into orbit was $150M, now it's less than half. 10 years ago, there were no mass-produced electric cars. 10 years ago, the first HIV retrovirus "cocktails" were being tested on human patients.
Personally, I would say the pace of technology is moving along at a pretty good clip and I would argue it's moving and changing the world at a rate that hasn't been seen since World War II.
The problem with modern electronic devices is that the repair shop needs to make a substantial investment in equipment and training for the repair staff as well as documentation/parts approved/authorized by the device's manufacturer.
A $10 soldering iron and a tape of resistors from Radio Shack being wielded by a well meaning amateur (er "professional") ain't gonna cut it, like it did in the '60s, '70s and a good part of the '80s. I'm not being facetious - there were a lot of products (TVs, VCRs, Computers, Microwaves, non-mobile/cell phones) were this was a reasonable option. Right now, not so much.
With this legislation there is a great opportunity for somebody to develop a chain of localized repair shops - and, no, I don't consider "Geek Squad" to be a good start at this.
I never knew Seattle before Microsoft, but through the 90's and 00's, Microsoft (and maybe a bit of Intel, both of whom I was a customer of through this time) was a dominant force there.
Isn't this a case of one artificial culture replacing another?
This is a re-iteration of a reply elsewhere in this thread.
I think a reasonable analog would be in terms of musicians - would you hire a musician based on the work of the band they were in or would you want them to audition for you?
The obvious example would be if you were hiring a musician based on them being an ex-Beatle would you be as happy with a Ringo as a John, Paul or George? How would you feel if you got George based on what you heard in the albums and later found out that Eric Clapton played some of the guitar attributed to George on the albums?
As an employer, I would want to see what the applicant could do as an individual contributor to show that they have the required technical chops and then use the interview process to determine whether or not they fit in with the company/team.
I could see an employer asking this question as a way to ascertain what the applicant's moral character is.
I thought the response by khchung was perfectly worded - you're not going to violate any laws or ethics by providing a previous employer's intellectual property. But, you're happy to provide samples of your own work that you have created on your own.
If a programmer can't provide code they've written on their own, I would tend to doubt their skills in exactly the same way I would doubt the skills of a musician that couldn't provide proof that they practiced their instrument on their own time but wanted to be hired based on the recorded work done with other musicians.
Lots of good points about the possible legal issues of pointing to your existing/previous employer's code from the perspective that a) you don't own the code, b) your disparaging a company's product (which you may not be allowed to do because of past employment agreements) and c) I'm not really sure that you can easily prove that you wrote it in the first place.
Instead, if you think you're a Hotel Sierra coder, create a relatively simple app - it doesn't have to be brilliant in concept but use it as an opportunity to show off your skills. Write it, put it on an (appropriate) app store and reference it in your application and make the GitHub code base available to everyone as part of your resume.
Start with code (text) editor windows that can see all the code by moving your head. Add UI controls that show direct links to their response (press) code. Then do a database program showing how information is to be accessed. Visual debugging of an app.
Yes, you can do all that now - but at five bills, this Samsung VR headset is cheaper than one big 4K monitor.
Could be an interesting product - Add it as an Eclipse plug in and I'd definitely be interested in it.
When he asks for the YouTube people to come in and film him.
You can hope for good advice but in the long run when it comes to security features, you have to know who you are talking to, what their qualifications are and make sure they're there to support you down the road - which means you are going to pay them. "Gr8CdrGrl427" on Stack Overflow might have an interesting approach as to how to position and code a slider control but taking security advice from them is simply dumb - the worst case is they're making a suggestion that will lead to an exploit they work.
A basic rule of the internet is, don't trust somebody that's helping you for the good of their health.
I'm of mixed feelings about this because my first thought was that in a free capitalistic society, shouldn't people be able to buy whatever they want and shouldn't companies be allowed make it easier for them so they get the sale?
Thinking about the *real* world however, this is clearly a missed opportunity for law-enforcement/intelligence agencies to get a list of potential terrorists from Amazon. Not only do you have the opportunity to request (hopefully with the approval of a judge) not only the name of somebody you should be aware of, but their address, contact information and credit card.
I suspect that there was a process in place for Amazon to report customers buying these "recommended items" but the NYT has now botched the program.
The obvious answer on how to survive on writing open source is to work for a large company that will pay you to do it. My first thought was: - IBM - Redhat - Oracle
Doing a quick search on who are the biggest corporate contributors to open source software, the first thing that came up was this article: https://www.infoworld.com/arti...
IBM, Redhat and Oracle are also good choices - if you don't want to starve and you understand how the open source ecosystem works, go corporate.
I suspect that this is an email interview (at best) with the sitting down part being introductions and pleasantries after which a list of questions was handed to Ms. Mauldin and answers were returned via "her" email.
Take a look in the Sci-Fi section of Amazon or a local bookstore. Mr. Pournelle made some terrific contributions to the genre. "The Mote in God's Eye" being my favourite, a collaboration between him and Larry Niven (I also really liked "Oath of Fealty") but he wrote a number of very entertaining novels as well as edited a lot of great anthologies - seeing his name on a book meant is was definitely worth reading.
In regards to Byte, I was in university at the time and I remember that other students and, more than a few professors, would go directly to his articles - he gave a different, less hyped, picture of Silicon Valley, the products, some of the people, and what was really happening and what was important. What I found most useful was his (along with family and staff) tribulations in trying out new products and setting them up - a lot of wisdom for what would be later known as "User Experience".
He hasn't written a lot in the last twenty years, but he left his mark in a very positive way.
Look up "Hurricane Andrew" to see why that's a bad idea.
I agree that there should be a backup, but maybe one of the first considerations in having a backup site is selecting a location that is unlikely to be hit by hurricanes because your primary site could get hit by hurricanes.
When you get to the level of working at Mission Control, it should be no surprise that the flight controllers are that beyond dedicated - they also understand the importance of the job as well as the danger to the astronauts so the idea of working overtime where they might make a mistake is anathema to them.
Having been there and knowing that flooding happens every few years in the area, I'm surprised that they don't have backup sites where the controllers can work in the case of a disaster like this. Long term, the Mission Control Center has a lot of required resources, like the training rooms, so keeping everything in one place is the right way to do things.
I'm not sure what the communications (security) requirements are, but I would think there should be the ability to temporarily relocate. Maybe something will be planned after Harvey - although it might be as simple as equipping/converting some rooms as dormitories for the controllers.
I saw this article go up, but there wasn't a link to the actual article in the summary - so I did a quick search and put in the link as a comment. Next thing I know, I'm modded down to zero and the summary has been updated with the (same) link. Then the abuse from ACs comes.
The last time this happened, when I pointed out the link was missing in the summary I was abused by ACs because I was too lazy to look for it on my own.
Could we have a serious discussion about either eliminating ACs all together or making them log in and apply the Karma points they earn/lose as ACs to the account so, if they feel they must post anonymously and they have provided positive posts in the past, people will see their posts with the 1/2 basic points otherwise they have zero and we can ignore them for the assholes they are? Would it be possible to ban AC posting of certain IPs if the AC posts are modded down as "trolls"?
I can see a big need for intra-city hauling of trailers. 100 mile range (with less than 20 minute charge times) would probably be adequate and it would help build the infrastructure for electric vehicles in cities.
It also proves the technology and helps it evolve into longer range tractors. 1,000 miles is 16+ hours of driving, which I don't think is legal in most states/provinces, but 400 to 500 probably is reasonable to allow the driver time to stretch, have a meal, rest, shower while the tractor is recharging. I suspect the 1,000 mile range is to minimize fuel costs which is less of an issue with an electric tractor which should be able to plug in at multiple truck stops.
The technology won't be perfect from the starting gate, but Tesla will learn and be able to build better tractors down the road.
I see in previous comments that Logo and various other robots are recommended and I heartily agree that it's a practical approach that vividly shows how to program responses to different inputs and how to manage and display data.
Our Jade Robot (shameless plug: https://www.mimetics.ca/ starts with an introduction to robotics using the on board UI and then allows the students to move on to our version of Scratch (which is a subset that tries to maintain basic structured, procedural programming statements). Since you're setting a limit on Grade 6, we follow the Ontario Ministry of Education guidelines for the "Earth and Space Science" strand, with the culminating project being using the Jade Robot to mimic Curiosity on Mars with it's built-in spectrometer to find "Water" on a simulated Martian landscape. Along the way, we do multiple activities and challenges designed to teach basic programming skills and understand different concepts.
Whatever you do, the buzzwords that educators are looking for are "cross-curricular", which means involving other class materials in the program (Math, Art, English is what we strive to hit), and "Inquiry based learning" which we interpret to mean that the students need to think through their own solutions and research how they get there.
Mozilla: something that loads pages quickly, uses minimal system resources, is HTML5 compatible with no incomprehensible options and go with that.
Who cares about screen shots? There are OS functions for providing this.
After just looking at the screen shot in TFA I would say that you should get rid of 10+ icons (I count 17 of them on there) and you might have something.
I was told years ago, when I was in University, that a "Supercomputer" had a clock speed of 200MHz - with the understanding it was really 200 MIPs/FLOPs.
This sounds like a good step forward and a significant improvement on the AP100s that were on the first shuttles and had a clock rate of 480kHz (and, IIRC, 1.5MByte of ROM ("ROS" in IBM-speak) and 500kByte of SRAM).
Slashdot Mirror
Not at all: If you can use the tech - you will never feel old.
Wow. I had no idea. Could you please provide references showing where there was the ability in the mid-1970s to send GBytes of data per hour to tens of millions individual users.
10 years ago, the first iPhone was released. The release of the first Android was in 2008.
10 years ago, the majority of computer displays were CRTs.
10 years ago, Netflix was only sending out DVDs.
10 years ago, when "Meet the Robinsons" came out there were only 600 digital movie theatres in the world.
10 years ago, the cost of putting 5 tonnes into orbit was $150M, now it's less than half.
10 years ago, there were no mass-produced electric cars.
10 years ago, the first HIV retrovirus "cocktails" were being tested on human patients.
Personally, I would say the pace of technology is moving along at a pretty good clip and I would argue it's moving and changing the world at a rate that hasn't been seen since World War II.
The problem with modern electronic devices is that the repair shop needs to make a substantial investment in equipment and training for the repair staff as well as documentation/parts approved/authorized by the device's manufacturer.
A $10 soldering iron and a tape of resistors from Radio Shack being wielded by a well meaning amateur (er "professional") ain't gonna cut it, like it did in the '60s, '70s and a good part of the '80s. I'm not being facetious - there were a lot of products (TVs, VCRs, Computers, Microwaves, non-mobile/cell phones) were this was a reasonable option. Right now, not so much.
With this legislation there is a great opportunity for somebody to develop a chain of localized repair shops - and, no, I don't consider "Geek Squad" to be a good start at this.
I never knew Seattle before Microsoft, but through the 90's and 00's, Microsoft (and maybe a bit of Intel, both of whom I was a customer of through this time) was a dominant force there.
Isn't this a case of one artificial culture replacing another?
Seriously, they're very powerful and want to setup kiosks at every Jetway.
Boarding, return the battery, departing rent a battery.
They're a hegemony, I tells ya, a HEGEMONY.
Often it's with people that are in the same room as I am - no hardware required.
Anybody else tired of huge companies trying to force solutions on us that we don't need?
This is a re-iteration of a reply elsewhere in this thread.
I think a reasonable analog would be in terms of musicians - would you hire a musician based on the work of the band they were in or would you want them to audition for you?
The obvious example would be if you were hiring a musician based on them being an ex-Beatle would you be as happy with a Ringo as a John, Paul or George? How would you feel if you got George based on what you heard in the albums and later found out that Eric Clapton played some of the guitar attributed to George on the albums?
As an employer, I would want to see what the applicant could do as an individual contributor to show that they have the required technical chops and then use the interview process to determine whether or not they fit in with the company/team.
Doesn't matter if it's a musician or coder.
dgatwood,
I could see an employer asking this question as a way to ascertain what the applicant's moral character is.
I thought the response by khchung was perfectly worded - you're not going to violate any laws or ethics by providing a previous employer's intellectual property. But, you're happy to provide samples of your own work that you have created on your own.
If a programmer can't provide code they've written on their own, I would tend to doubt their skills in exactly the same way I would doubt the skills of a musician that couldn't provide proof that they practiced their instrument on their own time but wanted to be hired based on the recorded work done with other musicians.
Lots of good points about the possible legal issues of pointing to your existing/previous employer's code from the perspective that a) you don't own the code, b) your disparaging a company's product (which you may not be allowed to do because of past employment agreements) and c) I'm not really sure that you can easily prove that you wrote it in the first place.
Instead, if you think you're a Hotel Sierra coder, create a relatively simple app - it doesn't have to be brilliant in concept but use it as an opportunity to show off your skills. Write it, put it on an (appropriate) app store and reference it in your application and make the GitHub code base available to everyone as part of your resume.
Start with code (text) editor windows that can see all the code by moving your head. Add UI controls that show direct links to their response (press) code. Then do a database program showing how information is to be accessed. Visual debugging of an app.
Yes, you can do all that now - but at five bills, this Samsung VR headset is cheaper than one big 4K monitor.
Could be an interesting product - Add it as an Eclipse plug in and I'd definitely be interested in it.
Yeah seriously - This is a case where using AC tag is warranted.
It protects the original poster the shame in being labeled a frickin' moron.
When he asks for the YouTube people to come in and film him.
You can hope for good advice but in the long run when it comes to security features, you have to know who you are talking to, what their qualifications are and make sure they're there to support you down the road - which means you are going to pay them. "Gr8CdrGrl427" on Stack Overflow might have an interesting approach as to how to position and code a slider control but taking security advice from them is simply dumb - the worst case is they're making a suggestion that will lead to an exploit they work.
A basic rule of the internet is, don't trust somebody that's helping you for the good of their health.
I'm of mixed feelings about this because my first thought was that in a free capitalistic society, shouldn't people be able to buy whatever they want and shouldn't companies be allowed make it easier for them so they get the sale?
Thinking about the *real* world however, this is clearly a missed opportunity for law-enforcement/intelligence agencies to get a list of potential terrorists from Amazon. Not only do you have the opportunity to request (hopefully with the approval of a judge) not only the name of somebody you should be aware of, but their address, contact information and credit card.
I suspect that there was a process in place for Amazon to report customers buying these "recommended items" but the NYT has now botched the program.
The obvious answer on how to survive on writing open source is to work for a large company that will pay you to do it. My first thought was:
- IBM
- Redhat
- Oracle
Doing a quick search on who are the biggest corporate contributors to open source software, the first thing that came up was this article: https://www.infoworld.com/arti...
IBM, Redhat and Oracle are also good choices - if you don't want to starve and you understand how the open source ecosystem works, go corporate.
I suspect that this is an email interview (at best) with the sitting down part being introductions and pleasantries after which a list of questions was handed to Ms. Mauldin and answers were returned via "her" email.
Take a look in the Sci-Fi section of Amazon or a local bookstore. Mr. Pournelle made some terrific contributions to the genre. "The Mote in God's Eye" being my favourite, a collaboration between him and Larry Niven (I also really liked "Oath of Fealty") but he wrote a number of very entertaining novels as well as edited a lot of great anthologies - seeing his name on a book meant is was definitely worth reading.
In regards to Byte, I was in university at the time and I remember that other students and, more than a few professors, would go directly to his articles - he gave a different, less hyped, picture of Silicon Valley, the products, some of the people, and what was really happening and what was important. What I found most useful was his (along with family and staff) tribulations in trying out new products and setting them up - a lot of wisdom for what would be later known as "User Experience".
He hasn't written a lot in the last twenty years, but he left his mark in a very positive way.
Look up "Hurricane Andrew" to see why that's a bad idea.
I agree that there should be a backup, but maybe one of the first considerations in having a backup site is selecting a location that is unlikely to be hit by hurricanes because your primary site could get hit by hurricanes.
When you get to the level of working at Mission Control, it should be no surprise that the flight controllers are that beyond dedicated - they also understand the importance of the job as well as the danger to the astronauts so the idea of working overtime where they might make a mistake is anathema to them.
Having been there and knowing that flooding happens every few years in the area, I'm surprised that they don't have backup sites where the controllers can work in the case of a disaster like this. Long term, the Mission Control Center has a lot of required resources, like the training rooms, so keeping everything in one place is the right way to do things.
I'm not sure what the communications (security) requirements are, but I would think there should be the ability to temporarily relocate. Maybe something will be planned after Harvey - although it might be as simple as equipping/converting some rooms as dormitories for the controllers.
I saw this article go up, but there wasn't a link to the actual article in the summary - so I did a quick search and put in the link as a comment. Next thing I know, I'm modded down to zero and the summary has been updated with the (same) link. Then the abuse from ACs comes.
The last time this happened, when I pointed out the link was missing in the summary I was abused by ACs because I was too lazy to look for it on my own.
Could we have a serious discussion about either eliminating ACs all together or making them log in and apply the Karma points they earn/lose as ACs to the account so, if they feel they must post anonymously and they have provided positive posts in the past, people will see their posts with the 1/2 basic points otherwise they have zero and we can ignore them for the assholes they are? Would it be possible to ban AC posting of certain IPs if the AC posts are modded down as "trolls"?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...
I can see a big need for intra-city hauling of trailers. 100 mile range (with less than 20 minute charge times) would probably be adequate and it would help build the infrastructure for electric vehicles in cities.
It also proves the technology and helps it evolve into longer range tractors. 1,000 miles is 16+ hours of driving, which I don't think is legal in most states/provinces, but 400 to 500 probably is reasonable to allow the driver time to stretch, have a meal, rest, shower while the tractor is recharging. I suspect the 1,000 mile range is to minimize fuel costs which is less of an issue with an electric tractor which should be able to plug in at multiple truck stops.
The technology won't be perfect from the starting gate, but Tesla will learn and be able to build better tractors down the road.
I see in previous comments that Logo and various other robots are recommended and I heartily agree that it's a practical approach that vividly shows how to program responses to different inputs and how to manage and display data.
Our Jade Robot (shameless plug: https://www.mimetics.ca/ starts with an introduction to robotics using the on board UI and then allows the students to move on to our version of Scratch (which is a subset that tries to maintain basic structured, procedural programming statements). Since you're setting a limit on Grade 6, we follow the Ontario Ministry of Education guidelines for the "Earth and Space Science" strand, with the culminating project being using the Jade Robot to mimic Curiosity on Mars with it's built-in spectrometer to find "Water" on a simulated Martian landscape. Along the way, we do multiple activities and challenges designed to teach basic programming skills and understand different concepts.
Whatever you do, the buzzwords that educators are looking for are "cross-curricular", which means involving other class materials in the program (Math, Art, English is what we strive to hit), and "Inquiry based learning" which we interpret to mean that the students need to think through their own solutions and research how they get there.
Mozilla: something that loads pages quickly, uses minimal system resources, is HTML5 compatible with no incomprehensible options and go with that.
Who cares about screen shots? There are OS functions for providing this.
After just looking at the screen shot in TFA I would say that you should get rid of 10+ icons (I count 17 of them on there) and you might have something.
I was told years ago, when I was in University, that a "Supercomputer" had a clock speed of 200MHz - with the understanding it was really 200 MIPs/FLOPs.
This sounds like a good step forward and a significant improvement on the AP100s that were on the first shuttles and had a clock rate of 480kHz (and, IIRC, 1.5MByte of ROM ("ROS" in IBM-speak) and 500kByte of SRAM).