Interestingly, some projects could _really_ use a manager, but open-source projects are often begun by programmers who want to get away from having a manager.
There are a few floating managers disguised as QA people and community liaisons that manage to do a pretty good job at this without being recognized. Some of them read here. You're appreciated.
They'd have to be inside the bubble formed by our first radio transmissions to even have a chance of spotting us using the methods SETI does.
No, SETI is looking for intentional beacons, not accidental leakage.
In your terms, our SETI-style space-time bubble is a very very very thin shell from the one (or was it two?) times we actually beamed out a signal. Actually not a shell, because it was directional. Interestingly the small handful of candidate signals fit this pattern.
Personally, I think until we're unafraid enough to light up a real beacon, any more advanced society won't pay us any attention. We're panicky and prone to irrational behavior, which probably makes us uninteresting peers. It seems none of us will live long enough to see humanity get over itself, though perhaps we can push it a bit in that direction.
Right, the OP says that Python is an accepted language, so it's only sensible to assume that this isn't a sneaky trap set by the Ruby Mafia intending to disqualify testers for using it.
The Navy research showed Python is a good language for learning OOP and if programming contests today are anything like what they were when I was in ACSL, boy would having a scripting language be handy. I wonder how anybody could compete in c (but perhaps that's a built-in test - picking the right language for the job is an important skill).
That little blip of 100 years of analog full-blast will not been seen by anyone else either.
Every time a SETI article comes up somebody posts this problem about detecting radio leakage and then somebody else has to post that SETI isn't looking for accidental leakage - they admit that they're only looking for intentional beacons.
I bet there are a lot of people who would be happy to pay $200 for something as bulky as the smallest bluetooth headset rather than not be able to afford a $1K unit.
This was my thought as well - those companies are well-positioned to make a low-end disruption. Bonus, old people are using cell phones as well now.
What were called "nibblers" for disc copy software couldn't touch it even though those nibblers represented the ultimate in disk copy technology at the time.
What made it impossible to copy the bits from one disk to another (I assume this is what a hardware duplicator you mentioned would do)? I'm familiar with the terminology from the day, but was only beginning to understand computers at the time.
Instead focus on the kinds of things that JPL has been working on with minimal budget on the side and that have really pushed technology and increased our knowledge of the solar system.
Well, this depends on what NASA is for. I think all the solar system exploration is great for science, but NASA's job should be primarily about human flight and that's being de-emphasized. There's a usual argument here that robots are the future of space exploration, but until we learn to move humans off this rock and spread the race it seems premature. Clearly we'd want robots to explore our next homes, but that's a different argument than we should only maximize for gathering interesting data, even if human spaceflight has to be cancelled.
It's only sad if he's the last one to ever land on the moon. I hope that when we do it's for more than to put boots down.
Yeah, and the smart money in space right now is probably in building automatic moondust-to-habitats machines. SpaceX will have a rocket ready by time the robots are perfected. I'm not sure what the commercial value of the Moon will be, but my imagination is limited and I do think we'll need people to run the facilities.
Even at that a seriously good display is $300. Yet you'd be shocked at how hard it is for some programmers to get their employers to buy them a big monitor. I don't even think it's the price - we used to pay non-inflation-adjusted more than that for a crappy $15" CRT. It's that the programmers can't have a bigger display than their managers and their managers don't need a display that big (big displays are a hindrance for normal office work, once you need to turn your neck).
What's even more shocking is that programmers don't quit those jobs en masse.
Except that since umami has nothing to do with protein detection, the third sentence has no relationship to the title.
Has this changed? Not-too-old thinking was that it was a glutamate detector, which is a good signal that amino acids abound in a food. We've learned to abuse this sense to extreme yumminess levels.
Mine is quite similar. And I also offer to alternately quote the project the other way, writing all of my toolkits over for the client. They never want that, but it's an exercise in understanding what they want.
If we leave it "to the market" thanks to the duopolies and cherry picking
You can't have monopolies or duopolies in a free market. Those are evidence that it's not a free market.
If small vendors could get pole access they'd string up rural customers. It's not as profitable as metro customers, but the barriers to entry in metro markets are very high.
But we have a very poorly-regulated government-dictated market, so your Mom has no cable.
but I found the biggest thing slowing me down was reading the text accurately, I probably wasted a good 10% on comprehension speed, so that test has some limitations, but at least it's consistent.
I have a home-grown typing form, probably optimized for programming on a C=64. I use all 10 fingers, but left pinkie is left-shift only and right-pinkie is return-only. I'm mostly unaware of it too.
I've never had trouble with my carpal tunnels, so I'm sufficiently content. Sometimes I do find myself typing the thing I'm thinking of four words ahead, so typing faster would be nice, but not if it means injury.
The last building I worked in had a keypad. It was a pain in the ass. A physical key is much better. The building I'm in now has RFID cards, and I love them - just wave the card at the reader and the door unlocks. From my perspective it's far better than a key.
1) Something you have 2) Something you know 3) Something you are
The keypad is 2). The RFID is 1). This Apple thing is 1) and 2). The more factors, the more secure and the bigger pain in the ass.
That's not new. The Foundation for Law and Goverment [wikipedia.org] had such a system in place almost thirty years ago. We've seen rehashed stories in/. before, but really, guys, 30 years?
That was Bonnie and Michael (yeah, we saw those furtive glances). This article is about Alice and Bob. Try to keep up.
You think nothing bad ever came from letting banks do whatever they want?
No, bad things do happen, but they're made much worse when the government emboldens them with corporate protections and then bails them out when they fail.
The correct response to the house-of-cards banks was, "please report to bankruptcy court at 8AM on Tuesday." Anything beyond that, including god-knows-how-many-trillions of dollars, is a government problem, not a bank problem.
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Interestingly, some projects could _really_ use a manager, but open-source projects are often begun by programmers who want to get away from having a manager.
There are a few floating managers disguised as QA people and community liaisons that manage to do a pretty good job at this without being recognized. Some of them read here. You're appreciated.
contributing.
You got modded funny, but the statistics show that your post represents the 95th percentile view.
They'd have to be inside the bubble formed by our first radio transmissions to even have a chance of spotting us using the methods SETI does.
No, SETI is looking for intentional beacons, not accidental leakage.
In your terms, our SETI-style space-time bubble is a very very very thin shell from the one (or was it two?) times we actually beamed out a signal. Actually not a shell, because it was directional. Interestingly the small handful of candidate signals fit this pattern.
Personally, I think until we're unafraid enough to light up a real beacon, any more advanced society won't pay us any attention. We're panicky and prone to irrational behavior, which probably makes us uninteresting peers. It seems none of us will live long enough to see humanity get over itself, though perhaps we can push it a bit in that direction.
Right, the OP says that Python is an accepted language, so it's only sensible to assume that this isn't a sneaky trap set by the Ruby Mafia intending to disqualify testers for using it.
The Navy research showed Python is a good language for learning OOP and if programming contests today are anything like what they were when I was in ACSL, boy would having a scripting language be handy. I wonder how anybody could compete in c (but perhaps that's a built-in test - picking the right language for the job is an important skill).
That little blip of 100 years of analog full-blast will not been seen by anyone else either.
Every time a SETI article comes up somebody posts this problem about detecting radio leakage and then somebody else has to post that SETI isn't looking for accidental leakage - they admit that they're only looking for intentional beacons.
I guess it's my turn.
I wonder what they're going to put in that 7 foot by 4 foot cargo hold?
Well, 7 feet tall leaves open the option to put humans in there, probably two in space suits.
I bet there are a lot of people who would be happy to pay $200 for something as bulky as the smallest bluetooth headset rather than not be able to afford a $1K unit.
This was my thought as well - those companies are well-positioned to make a low-end disruption. Bonus, old people are using cell phones as well now.
What were called "nibblers" for disc copy software couldn't touch it even though those nibblers represented the ultimate in disk copy technology at the time.
What made it impossible to copy the bits from one disk to another (I assume this is what a hardware duplicator you mentioned would do)? I'm familiar with the terminology from the day, but was only beginning to understand computers at the time.
Instead focus on the kinds of things that JPL has been working on with minimal budget on the side and that have really pushed technology and increased our knowledge of the solar system.
Well, this depends on what NASA is for. I think all the solar system exploration is great for science, but NASA's job should be primarily about human flight and that's being de-emphasized. There's a usual argument here that robots are the future of space exploration, but until we learn to move humans off this rock and spread the race it seems premature. Clearly we'd want robots to explore our next homes, but that's a different argument than we should only maximize for gathering interesting data, even if human spaceflight has to be cancelled.
It's only sad if he's the last one to ever land on the moon. I hope that when we do it's for more than to put boots down.
Yeah, and the smart money in space right now is probably in building automatic moondust-to-habitats machines. SpaceX will have a rocket ready by time the robots are perfected. I'm not sure what the commercial value of the Moon will be, but my imagination is limited and I do think we'll need people to run the facilities.
Even at that a seriously good display is $300. Yet you'd be shocked at how hard it is for some programmers to get their employers to buy them a big monitor. I don't even think it's the price - we used to pay non-inflation-adjusted more than that for a crappy $15" CRT. It's that the programmers can't have a bigger display than their managers and their managers don't need a display that big (big displays are a hindrance for normal office work, once you need to turn your neck).
What's even more shocking is that programmers don't quit those jobs en masse.
Except that since umami has nothing to do with protein detection, the third sentence has no relationship to the title.
Has this changed? Not-too-old thinking was that it was a glutamate detector, which is a good signal that amino acids abound in a food. We've learned to abuse this sense to extreme yumminess levels.
I'm... I'm going straight to hell when I die, aren't I?
Reductio ad absurdum is a valid technique of argument.
yeah. And over time a factory clean install would fill up the disk trying to run updates to get current. Only 2GB or so on those. UNR to the rescue.
My kids have some absurdly large inflatable balls in the yard. Our yard has terrain. They always wind up in the bottom of a ditch somewhere.
Mine is quite similar. And I also offer to alternately quote the project the other way, writing all of my toolkits over for the client. They never want that, but it's an exercise in understanding what they want.
If we leave it "to the market" thanks to the duopolies and cherry picking
You can't have monopolies or duopolies in a free market. Those are evidence that it's not a free market.
If small vendors could get pole access they'd string up rural customers. It's not as profitable as metro customers, but the barriers to entry in metro markets are very high.
But we have a very poorly-regulated government-dictated market, so your Mom has no cable.
How about casual proximity-based Bluetooth pairing and key exchange?
So is fiberglass. And cotton.
My corrected speed is 65wpm according to typingtest.com calculating for speed and deducting for errors.
Interesting. Mine was:
Net Speed: 80 WPM (words/minute)
Accuracy: 93%
Gross Speed: 86 WPM (words/minute)
but I found the biggest thing slowing me down was reading the text accurately, I probably wasted a good 10% on comprehension speed, so that test has some limitations, but at least it's consistent.
I have a home-grown typing form, probably optimized for programming on a C=64. I use all 10 fingers, but left pinkie is left-shift only and right-pinkie is return-only. I'm mostly unaware of it too.
I've never had trouble with my carpal tunnels, so I'm sufficiently content. Sometimes I do find myself typing the thing I'm thinking of four words ahead, so typing faster would be nice, but not if it means injury.
They're adding a bit of steel or another entanglement to make it more usable.
Didn't IBM do that already in the 90's?
I prefer to stay awake for ~18 hours, but 6 hours sleep isn't enough for me. (9 is about perfect) Usually I compromise on 17/7.
Me too. Maybe we're from the same planet.
Seriously, chopping firewood all day helps. My job precludes that most days, though.
The last building I worked in had a keypad. It was a pain in the ass. A physical key is much better. The building I'm in now has RFID cards, and I love them - just wave the card at the reader and the door unlocks. From my perspective it's far better than a key.
1) Something you have
2) Something you know
3) Something you are
The keypad is 2). The RFID is 1). This Apple thing is 1) and 2). The more factors, the more secure and the bigger pain in the ass.
I use the Earth for similar purposes.
Nobody seems to care about my "I do it at 365km/s relative to the Virgo Supercluster" bumper sticker though.
That's not new. The Foundation for Law and Goverment [wikipedia.org] had such a system in place almost thirty years ago. We've seen rehashed stories in /. before, but really, guys, 30 years?
That was Bonnie and Michael (yeah, we saw those furtive glances). This article is about Alice and Bob. Try to keep up.
You think nothing bad ever came from letting banks do whatever they want?
No, bad things do happen, but they're made much worse when the government emboldens them with corporate protections and then bails them out when they fail.
The correct response to the house-of-cards banks was, "please report to bankruptcy court at 8AM on Tuesday." Anything beyond that, including god-knows-how-many-trillions of dollars, is a government problem, not a bank problem.