Sorry, I meant Jacquard cards. So back off, n00b, before I forward my copper plate etching of me punching out your great-great-great-great-great-ugly-grandpa!
I bet I have used languages with the same frequency as this kind of question comes up on/. -- current favourite is alpasisp+++^21
Seriously, it's all just syntax, convention, and architecture, so I don't bother to track. Off the top of my head, I'm up to 30+ "languages" in 30+ years. Throw in media (yes, starting with punch cards), then it gets worse.
I think a more relevant question is how often does one advance their architecture, paradigms, and most importantly debugging skills. Anyone can write a program that compiles and does something. Building something that is understandable, useful, usable, and maintainable, now that's a discussion.
I think all the other students were too busy writing exams, so no...
Okay, that's mean. To be fair, one author is a Project Manager. However, another is an Associate Professor who teaches "W2014 - SENG 533 - Software Performance Evaluation"... this is a concern for his students.
Most places have a faraday cage in which the classified material and any electronic device accessing the material is houses. If a device leaves the cage, it is handled appropriately and never turned on. Problem solved.
Such measures have been used well before Gene Hackman's cage in Enemy of the State:-)
Of course, a human mistake is much more likely to reveal the information...
Two points:
1) (always made) steep is good if the x-axis is time
2) Cow regurgitate and chew cud... or is that cruft?
There must be more analogies between cows and programmers, but I'll leave that to Gary Larson...
...ah, you remind me of the good old days when vigorous jingling of my keys would change channels on my Zenith:-)
That "exploit" might suggest others, and then Bezos can be named ("Bezos exploit") and blamed...
The BBC article, Downward mobility haunts US education, presents an interesting observation on post-secondary graduation rates and possible causes and consequences. Granted, there are immeasurable depths of innumerable studies and opinions, but the fact is that it may well be that the current generation will be less well educated than past generations. This will have serious consequences.
Since I started university over 30 years ago, the trend that sees more and more graduate degrees going to international students who are increasingly returning home to move their homelands ahead has been going up and up. See, for example, Absurd U.S. Immigration Policies Amount To Economy Sapping Talent Drain
.
All I know is that getting a college/university degree shows one thing -- you can take on a challenge and complete it while working with other people in a collaborative environment with mentors and support people. Sounds a lot like something that would be valuable in a career.
Besides, what has Zuckerberg accomplished besides making money? There is nothing fundamentally new about social media. Its a consequence of the ubiquity of wideband communications...
You're succeeding in an environment that was created by years of post-war investment in infrastructure and education, R&D, and industrialization. Pretty sure that most of that was done by people with post-secondary education.
You might even be able to coast through your career and earn enough to live on once the U.S. OAS is dead.
As a rhetorical question, are you creating anything while you're doing that? Something that will generate wealth? Or are you helping to recycle the diminishing wealth of your nation?
I suggest people read "That Used To Be Us" and then ask yourself if you are a creator or a server. Even with an IT degree, you're a server. Creators will help bring America back.
However, I seriously doubt that North American society has the desire to do what it takes to be great again. Just look at what we throw up for politicians and what we do to them if they try and do something right for our country. We have become narcissistic to a fault .
Please define "reckless".
Did Obama start a war? Or Two? Did he cut taxes for the rich? Did he gut all government support for small and medium business in the U.S.? Did Obama come up with sub-prime mortgages?
Did he try and help out pathetic auto manufacturers who were duped in the 50s and 60s into floating the stock market with a ponzi scheme inflicted on their own employees? Did he help inject a much more stimulus spending into the U.S. economy, all because others had created a recession that saw people take on absurd debt...? Oh, and was that stimulus spending meant to increase consumer confidence so they could take on more debt?
I'm not sure, but I think the Presidents responsible all had a B in their names, and not always the second letter.
I do love watching political revisionism at work. Down south it's all about finger pointing and blame and the last to get blamed gets to lose the next election. The U.S. is run by a bunch of short-sighted narcissists. Bush and other before him made decisions not based on long-term good, but short-term gain secure that they themselves and their friends would never be poor. 2 terms and so long suckers!
why is a year old story being featured on Slashdot ? really this place is going down hill, I will have to only use my ipad to check those up to date websites.
Ya, I picked up on that when I submitted, but the story was/is being reported on CBC radio with updated interviews and such, AFAICT.
So, I thought it was topical for today, a least for those of us listening... hard to get that across into/. , I know.
Anyway,/. pushed the submission through, comments are building, so there must be some relevancy:-)
Ummm, a PhD is about original contribution. Implementing a "feature" that someone else imagines is about algorithm implementation. An original contribution is about recognizing a hard problem and at least coming up with a novel solution. Ideally, the candidate also provides a thorough description of the problem in the language of her/his discipline. For the most part, if someone can describe a "feature" they'd like to see for LTtng, then they know the problem they want to solve. Defining the problem is often most of the work; once you know what you want to do, the rest is easy. Of course, there are problems that are known that don't have solutions, or at least not optimal solutions.
I'd say the poster is better off (and hopefully already doing this) working to become an expert (aka PhD) on the topic, say, by joining the ACM (maybe IEEE, but since they share databases in this area maybe not), and entering the terms "linux unix trace" into the ACM's digital library. I did that and got all kinds of interesting papers and potential topics, none of which are mentioned in this thread.
If soliciting thoughts from/. was enough to get one started on a PhD, then perhaps we ought have a/. category of Ph/.D.;-)
Seriously? You're asking for a crowd-sourced original contribution to (I assume) Computer Science for your PhD? Are you going to defend "our" dissertation live on/. ?
Back when, Bell-Northern Research used to launch 2 or 3 parallel dev teams on a project and select the best result. Obviously they had cash to do that, but the key is that they let the teams run to the end. Each team got to complete a whole project and there were no winners or losers, at least as far as your career went in the company. At least that was the idea.
When budgets were tightened, they went back to a more traditional approach. I wonder if anyone did a study on those days... Might make a good thesis.
I don't know I find these kind of opening phrases amusing/annoying, but saying "Predictions are critical to modern life" seems to imply that somehow they are more important than ever. Aren't most major religions based on "predictions" of some kind and didn't they begin a wee bit before "modern life"?
Crowd-sourcing predictions will undermine all sorts of religions, and we all know what happens when you threaten the monopoly on truth help by religion...
Don't think the source code will help you understand the problem or the solution... no more than seeing DNA helps you understand biochemistry.
If you don't know why someone needs to use a Runge-Kutta algorithm, then you need to try to understand the problem being solved. Then worry about the algorithm. In other words, understanding how a solution works doesn't mean it's right or well-suited to the problem being solved.
My programming rate with 12 years post-secondary mathematics and 25+ years math use and interest is >> your rate without a good math background.
I get some jobs because I have the background no one else (available) possesses. Being able to program is the necessary expression of the problem being solved.
In one of my first jobs, I was asked to learn and apply mathematics to do some satellite orbit modeling. The Chief Scientist of the company was very pleased I was willing to take on the work, but to my surprise mostly because the company had joined the bandwagon of companies in the late 70s and early 80s in their enthusiasm for Comp Sci grads. Only later, he explained, did they realize that most were trained to apply algorithms in problem solutions, not to create solutions (especially those that required some math work). This was driven home when a colleague asked me for the solution to an orbit problem he had been asked to solve. I said sure, it's easy, and here's the mathematical approach you can use -- his problem was for a satellite we had not yet worked with. He totally balked and insisted that I must have a pre-coded subroutine available he could use?
Anyway, I'm happy that (at times) my interest in math has paid off in getting me work that others can't. And I get a premium because of the common feeling that "math is hard". This is especially true of management who can neither program or solve math-related problems and are scared to death and willing to pay:-)
Of course, to be fair, I'm no great whiz at database, client-server, and other more "traditional" programming challenges, so things kind of even out;-)
I have a hammer, and wrenches, and screwdrivers, and many other tools in my shop. I have over 100 books on mathematics and many more on applied mathematics (physics, engineering, comp sci, etc.).
I have TOOLS.
Making an analogy between Mathematics and a hammer is like saying I have only hammers in my shop.
When you have only one analogy in your life, all like looks like your analogy:-)
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Huh?
Sorry, I meant Jacquard cards. So back off, n00b, before I forward my copper plate etching of me punching out your great-great-great-great-great-ugly-grandpa!
:-)
I bet I have used languages with the same frequency as this kind of question comes up on /. -- current favourite is alpasisp+++^21
Seriously, it's all just syntax, convention, and architecture, so I don't bother to track. Off the top of my head, I'm up to 30+ "languages" in 30+ years. Throw in media (yes, starting with punch cards), then it gets worse.
I think a more relevant question is how often does one advance their architecture, paradigms, and most importantly debugging skills. Anyone can write a program that compiles and does something. Building something that is understandable, useful, usable, and maintainable, now that's a discussion.
"Was their paper peer reviewed?"
I think all the other students were too busy writing exams, so no...
Okay, that's mean. To be fair, one author is a Project Manager. However, another is an Associate Professor who teaches "W2014 - SENG 533 - Software Performance Evaluation"... this is a concern for his students.
herbicide?
[11] W. van Eck, "Electromagnetic Radiation from Video Display Units: An Eavesdropping Risk?," Computers and Security 4, pp. 269-286, 1985.
Most places have a faraday cage in which the classified material and any electronic device accessing the material is houses. If a device leaves the cage, it is handled appropriately and never turned on. Problem solved. Such measures have been used well before Gene Hackman's cage in Enemy of the State :-)
Of course, a human mistake is much more likely to reveal the information...
Two points: 1) (always made) steep is good if the x-axis is time 2) Cow regurgitate and chew cud... or is that cruft? There must be more analogies between cows and programmers, but I'll leave that to Gary Larson...
Just to add to this a bit, we pay tax on gas (in Canada, a lot!) so that roads and similar "gas-related" infrastructure is built and maintained.
Just what does the State of Mass. do to built and maintain any aspect of the "cloud"?
...ah, you remind me of the good old days when vigorous jingling of my keys would change channels on my Zenith :-)
That "exploit" might suggest others, and then Bezos can be named ("Bezos exploit") and blamed...
AC and smart person == Terrorist!
The BBC article, Downward mobility haunts US education, presents an interesting observation on post-secondary graduation rates and possible causes and consequences. Granted, there are immeasurable depths of innumerable studies and opinions, but the fact is that it may well be that the current generation will be less well educated than past generations. This will have serious consequences.
Since I started university over 30 years ago, the trend that sees more and more graduate degrees going to international students who are increasingly returning home to move their homelands ahead has been going up and up. See, for example, Absurd U.S. Immigration Policies Amount To Economy Sapping Talent Drain .
All I know is that getting a college/university degree shows one thing -- you can take on a challenge and complete it while working with other people in a collaborative environment with mentors and support people. Sounds a lot like something that would be valuable in a career.
Besides, what has Zuckerberg accomplished besides making money? There is nothing fundamentally new about social media. Its a consequence of the ubiquity of wideband communications...
Good for you.
You're succeeding in an environment that was created by years of post-war investment in infrastructure and education, R&D, and industrialization. Pretty sure that most of that was done by people with post-secondary education.
You might even be able to coast through your career and earn enough to live on once the U.S. OAS is dead.
As a rhetorical question, are you creating anything while you're doing that? Something that will generate wealth? Or are you helping to recycle the diminishing wealth of your nation?
I suggest people read "That Used To Be Us" and then ask yourself if you are a creator or a server. Even with an IT degree, you're a server. Creators will help bring America back.
However, I seriously doubt that North American society has the desire to do what it takes to be great again. Just look at what we throw up for politicians and what we do to them if they try and do something right for our country. We have become narcissistic to a fault .
Asking such a question about anything shows that you are too old. Whether you are 12 or 52, you are too old when you ask such a question.
Do I want to learn a new and for what reason?
That is the question.
Did he try and help out pathetic auto manufacturers who were duped in the 50s and 60s into floating the stock market with a ponzi scheme inflicted on their own employees? Did he help inject a much more stimulus spending into the U.S. economy, all because others had created a recession that saw people take on absurd debt...? Oh, and was that stimulus spending meant to increase consumer confidence so they could take on more debt?
I'm not sure, but I think the Presidents responsible all had a B in their names, and not always the second letter.
I do love watching political revisionism at work. Down south it's all about finger pointing and blame and the last to get blamed gets to lose the next election. The U.S. is run by a bunch of short-sighted narcissists. Bush and other before him made decisions not based on long-term good, but short-term gain secure that they themselves and their friends would never be poor. 2 terms and so long suckers!
why is a year old story being featured on Slashdot ? really this place is going down hill, I will have to only use my ipad to check those up to date websites.
Ya, I picked up on that when I submitted, but the story was/is being reported on CBC radio with updated interviews and such, AFAICT.
So, I thought it was topical for today, a least for those of us listening... hard to get that across into /. , I know.
Anyway, /. pushed the submission through, comments are building, so there must be some relevancy :-)
So you're the guy Dad surprised at home last night. Shame on you...
I really have nothing to add other than to say I'm not saying I had anything to do with this.
Of course, there's a clause in my contract saying my new R8 license plate has to be NYTPYWLL
:-)
My grade one teacher had nothing good to say about my doodles, so I know that I'll never entice anyone to view my site.
(yes, I'm old enough not to have gone to kindergarten... maybe that would have changed me into a taget for the "murder" of Google lawyers).
Ummm, a PhD is about original contribution. Implementing a "feature" that someone else imagines is about algorithm implementation. An original contribution is about recognizing a hard problem and at least coming up with a novel solution. Ideally, the candidate also provides a thorough description of the problem in the language of her/his discipline. For the most part, if someone can describe a "feature" they'd like to see for LTtng, then they know the problem they want to solve. Defining the problem is often most of the work; once you know what you want to do, the rest is easy. Of course, there are problems that are known that don't have solutions, or at least not optimal solutions.
I'd say the poster is better off (and hopefully already doing this) working to become an expert (aka PhD) on the topic, say, by joining the ACM (maybe IEEE, but since they share databases in this area maybe not), and entering the terms "linux unix trace" into the ACM's digital library. I did that and got all kinds of interesting papers and potential topics, none of which are mentioned in this thread.
If soliciting thoughts from /. was enough to get one started on a PhD, then perhaps we ought have a /. category of Ph/.D. ;-)
Good luck!
When budgets were tightened, they went back to a more traditional approach. I wonder if anyone did a study on those days... Might make a good thesis.
Anyone from those days care to comment?
I don't know I find these kind of opening phrases amusing/annoying, but saying "Predictions are critical to modern life" seems to imply that somehow they are more important than ever. Aren't most major religions based on "predictions" of some kind and didn't they begin a wee bit before "modern life"?
Crowd-sourcing predictions will undermine all sorts of religions, and we all know what happens when you threaten the monopoly on truth help by religion...
If you don't know why someone needs to use a Runge-Kutta algorithm, then you need to try to understand the problem being solved. Then worry about the algorithm. In other words, understanding how a solution works doesn't mean it's right or well-suited to the problem being solved.
The "math" is easy.
My programming rate with 12 years post-secondary mathematics and 25+ years math use and interest is >> your rate without a good math background.
I get some jobs because I have the background no one else (available) possesses. Being able to program is the necessary expression of the problem being solved.
In one of my first jobs, I was asked to learn and apply mathematics to do some satellite orbit modeling. The Chief Scientist of the company was very pleased I was willing to take on the work, but to my surprise mostly because the company had joined the bandwagon of companies in the late 70s and early 80s in their enthusiasm for Comp Sci grads. Only later, he explained, did they realize that most were trained to apply algorithms in problem solutions, not to create solutions (especially those that required some math work). This was driven home when a colleague asked me for the solution to an orbit problem he had been asked to solve. I said sure, it's easy, and here's the mathematical approach you can use -- his problem was for a satellite we had not yet worked with. He totally balked and insisted that I must have a pre-coded subroutine available he could use?
Anyway, I'm happy that (at times) my interest in math has paid off in getting me work that others can't. And I get a premium because of the common feeling that "math is hard". This is especially true of management who can neither program or solve math-related problems and are scared to death and willing to pay :-)
Of course, to be fair, I'm no great whiz at database, client-server, and other more "traditional" programming challenges, so things kind of even out ;-)
I have a hammer, and wrenches, and screwdrivers, and many other tools in my shop. I have over 100 books on mathematics and many more on applied mathematics (physics, engineering, comp sci, etc.).
I have TOOLS.
Making an analogy between Mathematics and a hammer is like saying I have only hammers in my shop.
When you have only one analogy in your life, all like looks like your analogy :-)