There's a general agreement that there is a lot of cheating on the online poker sites. There people are playing for real money, sometimes substantial amounts. Any word on how this technology coould be used there? Perhaps it's already being used.
I would *never* accept a counter-offer. When you get one you have to ask "How long have I deserved the extra money?" It's like an employer admitting they've been cheating you by not paying you what you are worth. Perhaps if they would give you all of the appropriate back pay....
A few months ago E-Bay did the same thing to me. They sent me an e-mail saying they had changed all my preferences. If I minded I should let them know. I sent them a nasty note ("I want all my preferences back the way they were, you weasels!!") and surprisingly I got a contrite human-generated note saying "sorry".
I was the manager of a development group. During the development process it wasn't too difficult to go through the necessary steps of requirements, design, etc. The company had a list of documents we had to write and have reviewed and everything progressed smoothly. (If you don't have a list of required documents and what should be in them you should definitely do that as a first step.) However, once coding started all bets were off. About all we were able to accomplish was user documentation and man pages (along with some testing and installatrion procedures) before the developer could declare themselves done. During implementation things change too fast and there is no motivation to go back and make old documentation current. The best thing you can do is to take steps to insure the code itself is maintainable as well as is possible (use code reviews, etc).
Pardon my ignornace, but can't you run Linux directly on IBM mainframe iron without VM between you and the hardware? How is the Linux solution in that case?
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There's a general agreement that there is a lot of cheating on the online poker sites. There people are playing for real money, sometimes substantial amounts. Any word on how this technology coould be used there? Perhaps it's already being used.
Try the math column in Scientific American. The stuff there is usually a little more fun than
actual course work.
I would *never* accept a counter-offer. When you get one you have to ask "How long have I deserved the extra money?" It's like an employer admitting they've been cheating you by not paying you what you are worth. Perhaps if they would give you all of the appropriate back pay ....
A few months ago E-Bay did the same thing to me. They sent me an e-mail saying they had changed all my preferences. If I minded I should let them know. I sent them a nasty note ("I want all my preferences back the way they were, you weasels!!") and surprisingly I got a contrite human-generated note saying "sorry".
Actually, the name of the poem is "On the Antiquity of Fleas" which is much funnier.
I was the manager of a development group. During the development process it wasn't too difficult to go through the necessary steps of requirements, design, etc. The company had a list of documents we had to write and have reviewed and everything progressed smoothly. (If you don't have a list of required documents and what should be in them you should definitely do that as a first step.) However, once coding started all bets were off. About all we were able to accomplish was user documentation and man pages (along with some testing and installatrion procedures) before the developer could declare themselves done. During implementation things change too fast and there is no motivation to go back and make old documentation current. The best thing you can do is to take steps to insure the code itself is maintainable as well as is possible (use code reviews, etc).
Pardon my ignornace, but can't you run Linux directly on IBM mainframe iron without VM between you and the hardware? How is the Linux solution in that case?