Self-taugh means diddly + squat ; unless you are the lead of an extremely popular and useful F/LOSS project.
I've heard of people contributing to an OSS project to land work. It demonstrates ability, and that's all a degree does anyway.
Having said that, I do agree with your sentiment. I lived through the.com bubble and went to college during the aftermath. For a while there, everyone and their brother was saying they could "program". I'm sure that tendency still exists, and not having a CS/IT oriented degree does not help differentiate yourself from the crowd of fakers.
I know I said a degree "only demonstrates ability", but I only partially agree with that sentiment. My background is math. If you call yourself a mathematician because you like reading math books, well, I might half believe your claim. If you have a BS degree in math, I'll still only have so much confidence in you. If, how ever, you let me see your college transcripts and they show you took a full complement of math courses (real analysis, logic, discrete/combinatorics, complex analysis, linear algebra, modern algebra, some differential equations, and some decent proof classes) then I'll actually believe you're a mathematician. You can be competent in a subject, probably any subject, and not have a thorough understanding of that subject. But, for certain tasks, you really need a thorough background before your first day on the job. A degree symbolizes that understanding better than simple claims on a resume'.
Pay for the cheapest web server from a place like linode or elsewhere. Get everything installed, setup, and design yourself a simple "about me" website. Make your resume on that website and direct potential employers there.
There's nothing like demonstrating that you know the content to land you a job.
I don't know how many (old) articles I've read on neutrinnos. They all said "we'll likely never be able to detect them", etc etc. If we can detect them well enough to communicate via them, ever, that'd be slick.
The libertarian hostility to civilisation is very sad.
Nail on the head! Though, I think the hostility comes from naivete. Speeding in residential neighborhoods sounds all fine and good until you realize that's where kids play and people live.
But isnt that irrelevant when (at least a large part of) the issue is that the US is consistently placing low in exams when compared to other countries?
If tests are invalid or inappropriately depended upon, then the standardized tests used to contrast/compare countries' students are just possibly invalid, as well.
Take the GRE, for instance. Some people do nothing but study for the GRE FOR YEARS. Are their scores going to be better, on average, than the average student's? Yes...but their list of abilities might start and end with "getting a good score on the GRE".
A simple, one-three hour test can only quantify certain types of ability. Academia, how ever, use these tests to measure almost every type of ability...and that is incorrect. It HAS to be incorrect, because of the broad nature of human knowledge.
I'm not saying we need to devise ways to make education painless. Life isn't painless, and neither should be education. But, devising accurate ways to measure a student's ability should decrease students' perceptions that tests, and therefore education, aren't worth the hassle.
As for graphics, I'm under the impression that ATI/AMD graphics cards still rely on OSS drivers, that those drivers have historically performed miserably, and that ATI/AMD has never made an attempt to make them better.
Meanwhile, nvidia's released (proprietary) drivers for X for at least a decade. I just hope this isn't nvidia's way of distancing themselves from supporting X...mylaptop depends on their X driver!
It's a difficult topic, because as much as I believe the US is going about things in the wrong way, if there's going to be someone who is the "world police" and the global power, I would prefer the US to any other country. Yet, it is clearly shielding the public from the double-standards it holds. Why does nobody else (general public) notice this? It's weird.
How is it a difficult topic? The US has its incentives (oil, perhaps other/more vague incentives), Israel have theirs (a fight for their very existence), and Iran has theirs (fight for their existence). The US helped create Israel after one of the world wars (IIRC) and, for whatever reason, has managed to keep a decent relationship with Israel across time. The US media are only going to view things from their perspective. Same with Iranian media. The difference is they're in an unwritten law (the two with the one). There have to be double standards in war...that IS what war IS! War is violence and violence is the ultimate double standard. "I'm going to feel fine while you wont, so much."
For that matter, it's easiest to be on the side of the US: -The US is the only superpower in group of 3 countries. -The US obeys it's citizens' basic human rights. Even where time has worn these rights, they are only worn and continue to exist. This is not so in Iran. -Freedom of religion. -I'd argue the US contributes more to worldwide harmony than it detracts. Can you really say the same about Iran? Could Iran allow a site like slashdot to exist?
I'm actually curious a to why that profession is on the list. Not trolling, just wondering. I had suspected you had an office job, read/write papers and do anylisys for whatever organization hired you. But I am surprised that it's so time consuming you can get 8 hours.
Well, as for the list, it's separating professions by the exact minute spent sleeping. Is there a difference between 6h1m and 6h10m of sleep? No...Her numbers are bizarre and her use of them all the more questionable.
Frankly, I don't believe the premise. People are people before they're economists, managers, programmers, engineers, or 'administrators'. What I've read suggests different people require different amounts of sleep to feel rested and those differences are biologically based. I'll leave it for a biologist to discuss the relationship between biology and professional work...I strongly doubt there is one.
As an economist, you're expected to be able to: -communicate well (You have to be able to read, write, and speak effectively.) -actually know something about some area of economics. You had better be 'current', meaning reading peer-reviewed journal articles on a daily basis. (If you're good, you don't *just* read economics articles.) -have more than the average bear's understanding of statistics -solid, general math background (sadly, most skip this, but I believe it to be crucial) -some exposure/proficiency with scientific programming (excel and vba are often abused examples, but you wont get far without running into SQL) -properly work with, input, and maintain data -tackle complex projects that require all of the above (to various extents), but without direction/overview.
Sometimes you have to do all of that in the same day in addition to teaching class and grading classwork.
Personally, I would love to know why economists are on this list. Economists in academia, at least, seem to have flexible schedules that should let them get lots of sleep. Maybe a lot of them are grad students scrambling to publish, publish, publish. Or maybe there are a lot of folks like Larry Summers who prefer allocating more hours for work
I'm not going to lecture you on what an economist is and does (I could, I am one). But, I'd prefer if you just kept your prejudiced notions to yourself.
Well, information is free, now. Further, labor and goods are readily replaceable or transportable. At a world stage, we've entered a world where countries' standards and costs of living are "integrated".
One way to combat this would be to make it more difficult to cross borders with information and goods. Or, we could specialize in what is rare: identifying and utilizing *good knowledge*. See, the internet is a great thing. It will tell you anything and everything that you want to hear and don't want to hear. if you lack expertise, you'll never know which is which. But the skillful minds of our educated *can* identify worthwhile information.
All that we need is a way to market our expertise, and we'll see job growth where there's demand for correct knowledge.
What does this have to news for nerds whatsoever? I'll tell you the answer: nothing.
Actually, many of us nerds were bullied in school. I, for one, was bullied and appreciate hearing society put some pressure on bullies. This very egregious example of bullying deserves the light of day.
Judging by the comments it would seem that there is a bit of confusion about what is meant by maximising windows by default, so let me try and clarify:
1.) Not all applications will use this behaviour – only those that have been designed to do so. If an app won’t work being maximised, it won’t be. 2.) Although these applications will maximise by default, it will still be possible to unmaximise them. If you want to be able to view more than one window at once you will still be able to do so. 3.) There will be mechanisms put in place that will adjust the behaviour to compensate for large screens. We are currently investigating a number of options here, including not automatically maximising windows on these large screens or adjusting their layout to make best use of the extra space. Everyone involved is well aware of the need to work well with large screens!
i.e. "Yeah, we know this wont work in every case, you ninnies who are going to nit pick at the corner cases like they're the only things that exist."
I, for one, like gnome3. I use it when I reboot this machine and it works great.
If you have to rely on removing all of my resources to 'test me', then your test is invalid. Unless you're training fighter pilots or some other 'split second decision' job, my ability to perform has less and less to do with my ability to memorize.
But, seriously, if you use someone's work, then you should be willing to pay for their work. That can take any number of routes, but the emphasis is on 'being fair'. (This implies that work not be overpriced.)
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Self-taugh means diddly + squat ; unless you are the lead of an extremely popular and useful F/LOSS project.
I've heard of people contributing to an OSS project to land work. It demonstrates ability, and that's all a degree does anyway.
Having said that, I do agree with your sentiment. I lived through the .com bubble and went to college during the aftermath. For a while there, everyone and their brother was saying they could "program". I'm sure that tendency still exists, and not having a CS/IT oriented degree does not help differentiate yourself from the crowd of fakers.
I know I said a degree "only demonstrates ability", but I only partially agree with that sentiment. My background is math. If you call yourself a mathematician because you like reading math books, well, I might half believe your claim. If you have a BS degree in math, I'll still only have so much confidence in you. If, how ever, you let me see your college transcripts and they show you took a full complement of math courses (real analysis, logic, discrete/combinatorics, complex analysis, linear algebra, modern algebra, some differential equations, and some decent proof classes) then I'll actually believe you're a mathematician. You can be competent in a subject, probably any subject, and not have a thorough understanding of that subject. But, for certain tasks, you really need a thorough background before your first day on the job. A degree symbolizes that understanding better than simple claims on a resume'.
Pay for the cheapest web server from a place like linode or elsewhere. Get everything installed, setup, and design yourself a simple "about me" website. Make your resume on that website and direct potential employers there.
There's nothing like demonstrating that you know the content to land you a job.
This can only end well.
I don't know how many (old) articles I've read on neutrinnos. They all said "we'll likely never be able to detect them", etc etc. If we can detect them well enough to communicate via them, ever, that'd be slick.
The libertarian hostility to civilisation is very sad.
Nail on the head! Though, I think the hostility comes from naivete. Speeding in residential neighborhoods sounds all fine and good until you realize that's where kids play and people live.
But isnt that irrelevant when (at least a large part of) the issue is that the US is consistently placing low in exams when compared to other countries?
If tests are invalid or inappropriately depended upon, then the standardized tests used to contrast/compare countries' students are just possibly invalid, as well.
Take the GRE, for instance. Some people do nothing but study for the GRE FOR YEARS. Are their scores going to be better, on average, than the average student's? Yes...but their list of abilities might start and end with "getting a good score on the GRE".
A simple, one-three hour test can only quantify certain types of ability. Academia, how ever, use these tests to measure almost every type of ability...and that is incorrect. It HAS to be incorrect, because of the broad nature of human knowledge.
I'm not saying we need to devise ways to make education painless. Life isn't painless, and neither should be education. But, devising accurate ways to measure a student's ability should decrease students' perceptions that tests, and therefore education, aren't worth the hassle.
You're dead, obviously.
As for graphics, I'm under the impression that ATI/AMD graphics cards still rely on OSS drivers, that those drivers have historically performed miserably, and that ATI/AMD has never made an attempt to make them better.
Meanwhile, nvidia's released (proprietary) drivers for X for at least a decade. I just hope this isn't nvidia's way of distancing themselves from supporting X...mylaptop depends on their X driver!
It's a difficult topic, because as much as I believe the US is going about things in the wrong way, if there's going to be someone who is the "world police" and the global power, I would prefer the US to any other country. Yet, it is clearly shielding the public from the double-standards it holds. Why does nobody else (general public) notice this? It's weird.
How is it a difficult topic? The US has its incentives (oil, perhaps other/more vague incentives), Israel have theirs (a fight for their very existence), and Iran has theirs (fight for their existence). The US helped create Israel after one of the world wars (IIRC) and, for whatever reason, has managed to keep a decent relationship with Israel across time. The US media are only going to view things from their perspective. Same with Iranian media. The difference is they're in an unwritten law (the two with the one). There have to be double standards in war...that IS what war IS! War is violence and violence is the ultimate double standard. "I'm going to feel fine while you wont, so much."
For that matter, it's easiest to be on the side of the US:
-The US is the only superpower in group of 3 countries.
-The US obeys it's citizens' basic human rights. Even where time has worn these rights, they are only worn and continue to exist. This is not so in Iran.
-Freedom of religion.
-I'd argue the US contributes more to worldwide harmony than it detracts. Can you really say the same about Iran? Could Iran allow a site like slashdot to exist?
The list goes on.
Couldn't care less about the features of a smartphone.
I'm actually curious a to why that profession is on the list. Not trolling, just wondering. I had suspected you had an office job, read/write papers and do anylisys for whatever organization hired you. But I am surprised that it's so time consuming you can get 8 hours.
Well, as for the list, it's separating professions by the exact minute spent sleeping. Is there a difference between 6h1m and 6h10m of sleep? No...Her numbers are bizarre and her use of them all the more questionable.
Frankly, I don't believe the premise. People are people before they're economists, managers, programmers, engineers, or 'administrators'. What I've read suggests different people require different amounts of sleep to feel rested and those differences are biologically based. I'll leave it for a biologist to discuss the relationship between biology and professional work...I strongly doubt there is one.
As an economist, you're expected to be able to:
-communicate well (You have to be able to read, write, and speak effectively.)
-actually know something about some area of economics. You had better be 'current', meaning reading peer-reviewed journal articles on a daily basis. (If you're good, you don't *just* read economics articles.)
-have more than the average bear's understanding of statistics
-solid, general math background (sadly, most skip this, but I believe it to be crucial)
-some exposure/proficiency with scientific programming (excel and vba are often abused examples, but you wont get far without running into SQL)
-properly work with, input, and maintain data
-tackle complex projects that require all of the above (to various extents), but without direction/overview.
Sometimes you have to do all of that in the same day in addition to teaching class and grading classwork.
Personally, I would love to know why economists are on this list. Economists in academia, at least, seem to have flexible schedules that should let them get lots of sleep. Maybe a lot of them are grad students scrambling to publish, publish, publish. Or maybe there are a lot of folks like Larry Summers who prefer allocating more hours for work
I'm not going to lecture you on what an economist is and does (I could, I am one). But, I'd prefer if you just kept your prejudiced notions to yourself.
Well, information is free, now. Further, labor and goods are readily replaceable or transportable. At a world stage, we've entered a world where countries' standards and costs of living are "integrated".
One way to combat this would be to make it more difficult to cross borders with information and goods. Or, we could specialize in what is rare: identifying and utilizing *good knowledge*. See, the internet is a great thing. It will tell you anything and everything that you want to hear and don't want to hear. if you lack expertise, you'll never know which is which. But the skillful minds of our educated *can* identify worthwhile information.
All that we need is a way to market our expertise, and we'll see job growth where there's demand for correct knowledge.
I was bullied, too. I'm still 100% against political correctness and am for freedom of speech.
This is the furthest thing from simple political incorrectness/speech.
He posted the video of Tyler having gay sex on a website "for all to see and mock", and did (in fact) see and mock the video himself.
What does this have to news for nerds whatsoever? I'll tell you the answer: nothing.
Actually, many of us nerds were bullied in school. I, for one, was bullied and appreciate hearing society put some pressure on bullies. This very egregious example of bullying deserves the light of day.
From the article:
Judging by the comments it would seem that there is a bit of confusion about what is meant by maximising windows by default, so let me try and clarify:
1.) Not all applications will use this behaviour – only those that have been designed to do so. If an app won’t work being maximised, it won’t be.
2.) Although these applications will maximise by default, it will still be possible to unmaximise them. If you want to be able to view more than one window at once you will still be able to do so.
3.) There will be mechanisms put in place that will adjust the behaviour to compensate for large screens. We are currently investigating a number of options here, including not automatically maximising windows on these large screens or adjusting their layout to make best use of the extra space. Everyone involved is well aware of the need to work well with large screens!
i.e. "Yeah, we know this wont work in every case, you ninnies who are going to nit pick at the corner cases like they're the only things that exist."
I, for one, like gnome3. I use it when I reboot this machine and it works great.
I made an exception for those professions. Most professions aren't that way, anymore.
You had better believe I want all the books consulted before they christen a new mile-high bridge.
If you have to rely on removing all of my resources to 'test me', then your test is invalid. Unless you're training fighter pilots or some other 'split second decision' job, my ability to perform has less and less to do with my ability to memorize.
Or, name all of your mundane files things that are totally not-mundane.
woops forgot we were talking about pirate bay...but I'm still not far off.
(good thing this is the internet where aliens probe nightly and ghosts roam free)
Megaupload was not a search engine. It provided a way to share *anything* by uploading/downloading from shared links.
That's miles away from a search engine.
Well ... you just left the content cartels out right there. "Fair" really isn't in their vocabulary.
That I did, and I agree. The bands that I've seen all *seem* to prefer your going to their concerts. Album revenues just don't 'trickle down'.
Chock it up as yet another market that, under current conditions, doesn't operate optimally.
Just like sex, I believe in paying for it. (joke)
But, seriously, if you use someone's work, then you should be willing to pay for their work. That can take any number of routes, but the emphasis is on 'being fair'. (This implies that work not be overpriced.)