The E6-B is a rotary slide rule that pilots use for calculating wind correction angles, time/speed/distance problems, conversion between units (i.e. weight of a certain number of gallons of fuel), and fuel consumption.
It's preferred over digital devices because they still work when the batteries go flat, they are easy to use with one hand, and some models are actually smaller.
Bear in mind that your requirements will be written in English. English is the second language in india. Can you successfully order a Soy non-fat double latte in French/Indian/Japanese? That's nowhere near as sophisticated as a software project requirements.
IMHO it's these kinds of issues that make it hard. The time difference is just annoying. Are you ready for all your variable names and code comments to be in another language?
IMHO you will get better value for money in the US. I would be interested in contracting with you.
However, if you must hire offshore, look to Austrailia and New Zealand. Both english speaking countries where the language barrier is much less of an issue. You also will get good value for your american dollar.
CPAN is a great thing. It provides an archive of consistently packaged perl modules for doing all kinds of things.
It is truly great that this is also being provided for Java. Code reuse is the true path forward.
In the Java vs Perl debate? Java is not self-obfuscating. Java is type-safe, and conequently can be made much more robust. Teams of people can collaboratively develop Java code and are supported by functionality such as Javadoc, and a host of tools from many vendors.
Not that all these things are impossible in perl! You can do anything in perl, and generally quite quickly, but trying to figure out what you did 6 months later is much harder.
I think that Emacs is possibly one of the greatest software hacks of all time.
I think it is possibly one of the oldest and still in wide use pieces of application software there is. It is still featureful, and I in fact still use it on a daily basis.
I have been using Linux on the desktop at work and at home (and taking $#!+ for it) for about 6 years now.
I think what we really need is plugin support for all the fancy stuff that works on windows.
The other thing that I hate about browsing in Linux is the fact that the Motif widgets are much larger than their Windows counterparts, which messes a lot of pages up, as well as the fact that pulldown lists cannot scroll. I'm kinda tired of chasing huge pulldown lists accross the screen.
On the other hand, web developers shouldn't put 400 - 500 items in a pulldown anyway, but thats another story.
This is very good, but not there yet. I live just outside of Washington DC, and I still have only one company that I can pay for local phone service. To be honest I would pay more to get Bell out of the loop. Bring on the competition!!!!!
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How about incorporating the "cheats" into the final design and making a legitemate 25-50% increase in economy.
The E6-B is a rotary slide rule that pilots use for calculating wind correction angles, time/speed/distance problems, conversion between units (i.e. weight of a certain number of gallons of fuel), and fuel consumption.
It's preferred over digital devices because they still work when the batteries go flat, they are easy to use with one hand, and some models are actually smaller.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E6B
100lbs of Magnesium wire will bring an entirely new meaning to the word "CAR-B-Q".
It will never work without underpants!
Shouldn't it be renamed IHA (insecure hashing algorithm) or maybe NQSSNIIHA (not quite so secure now, is it? hashing algorithm.)
Bear in mind that your requirements will be written in English. English is the second language in india. Can you successfully order a Soy non-fat double latte in French/Indian/Japanese? That's nowhere near as sophisticated as a software project requirements.
IMHO it's these kinds of issues that make it hard. The time difference is just annoying. Are you ready for all your variable names and code comments to be in another language?
IMHO you will get better value for money in the US. I would be interested in contracting with you.
However, if you must hire offshore, look to Austrailia and New Zealand. Both english speaking countries where the language barrier is much less of an issue. You also will get good value for your american dollar.
I have some limited experience using SAIC for security audits and penetration testing.
They seemed to have their shit well and truly together.
CPAN is a great thing. It provides an archive of consistently packaged perl modules for doing all kinds of things.
It is truly great that this is also being provided for Java. Code reuse is the true path forward.
In the Java vs Perl debate? Java is not self-obfuscating. Java is type-safe, and conequently can be made much more robust. Teams of people can collaboratively develop Java code and are supported by functionality such as Javadoc, and a host of tools from many vendors.
Not that all these things are impossible in perl! You can do anything in perl, and generally quite quickly, but trying to figure out what you did 6 months later is much harder.
So does this mean Napster users that got prohibited can sue Metallica for using their computers resources?
Just a thought.
I think that Emacs is possibly one of the greatest software hacks of all time.
;-) )
I think it is possibly one of the oldest and still in wide use pieces of application software there is. It is still featureful, and I in fact still use it on a daily basis.
Just my 1.25p (2 cents
I have been using Linux on the desktop at work and at home (and taking $#!+ for it) for about 6 years now.
I think what we really need is plugin support for all the fancy stuff that works on windows.
The other thing that I hate about browsing in Linux is the fact that the Motif widgets are much larger than their Windows counterparts, which messes a lot of pages up, as well as the fact that pulldown lists cannot scroll. I'm kinda tired of chasing huge pulldown lists accross the screen.
On the other hand, web developers shouldn't put 400 - 500 items in a pulldown anyway, but thats another story.
Thanks,
Fiid.
This is very good, but not there yet. I live just outside of Washington DC, and I still have only one company that I can pay for local phone service. To be honest I would pay more to get Bell out of the loop. Bring on the competition!!!!!
Screw that, you just get a well overstuffed windows machine and write your file as HAL.DLL.
Microsoft will gladly contribute a well stuffed and non-heirarchical namesppace!
What the hell? Stick it in the Registry!
Congrats Dudes,
Seems like a very nice play on your part, I look forward to a slicker faster slashdot.
Definately a necessary evolution!
Maybe you should promote yourself to CommanderBurrito?
l8r,
Fiid.
I keep seeing this damned phenomenon all over the net.
I should have known Micro$loth would have something to do with it.