I read this is going to be a HUGE user of bandwidth once they start sending the data around the world to be analyzed. Is it a good time to invest in network providers? I think there will be good plays along with all the cool scientific stuff we'll get out of it. I know the economy is looking poor, but I don't see internet usage shrinking any time soon.
I agree 100% that arbitrary barriers are worthless. More often then not, it's the developers who believe so (I consider myself a SW Engineer not a Developer), who don't get work done, because they can't just evolve around problems as they come up.
Developer -> I've only ever programmed in (Insert Language Here), but I'm really good at it. SW Engineer -> I use C for my embedded projects because of code size and performance, mostly C# for my windows applications because I get to re-use all these great MS libraries, and Frankly pretty much any time I need a quick and dirty tool for generating test scripts, or helping with Cadence I use PERL.
Look for people who evolve themselves to meet a problem, rather than try to make the problem fit their system. I'd say more often then not these people will have excelled time after time in seemingly unrelated jobs, versus the people who continue doing the same thing forever, 'til they become an obsolete commodity and are only good for complaining about outsourcing.
Most of the people I consider superstars are really just regular old problem solving engineers. These people can take any problem, and either find or build components to make it happen. I've known a *FEW* superstars who were ONLY software engineers. I'm sure that even those guys need some variety and support too though.
Honestly I'd say what's harder is retaining people like this, because they CAN always get another great job. It's probably more important that you give these people interesting, and varied work, make sure you don't overload them as they're already the most productive piece of your puzzle, and give them a strong supporting cast they can leverage to be even more productive.
At least that's what I think makes me a superstar, and has exemplified the ones I've worked with before. What makes me feel like I can say these things?
Currently I'm a couple years deep working at a semiconductor startup, where I've done some Digital Blocks for our ASICs, Design and Layout of our basic Electronics, and ALL of the embedded firmware, along with PC Software for in house, and external use. I truly believe, and have yet to be disproved, that I can just about solve any problem. Usually it's the time -vs- desire for elegance that's my weakness. I guess that's what management is for....right?
Well, this is cool, but what does it mean? A startup in San Diego (Luxtera) is already sampling both monolithic multi channel xfp modules made entirely from silicon (minus the laser which is indium phosphate), and also makes a silicon dwdm system as well. There have been a couple of news releases lately.
Personally while I think that response is hilarious and I sent it to quite a few people to share I have serious issues with the actions taken. If you had at least given them a change it before you did it it would've been fine.
If you're really that much more experienced you ought to be helping people. It's guaranteed that if you send the webmaster a comment mentioning how it's improper to do and how devious someone could be they would take it down. As for doing it on the weekend to make it worse I think that just furthers my point. I'm sure you've made a lot of first mistakes, is this how you were always treated?
Has anyone read the stories about the people in korea who get ganged up on by the online masses? What are you advocating by taking these actiosn and glorifying them by publicizing them?
The more hardware knowledge you have the better. It gives you deeper insight into the limitations of your systems, more skills for integrating systems, and a broader range of job opportunities. I personally spent 5 years at semiconductor companies like Qualcomm and Maxim before moving into software and onward, but now have acquired myself a crack job at a research institue (www.nsi.edu) thanks to my diverse history, which also included some bioinformatics work at the Salk Institute. I do recall however that Computer Engineering required me to take more units than most students were allowed at UCSD so it's certainly not for the faint of heart. Our Bioengineering major involved hardware and software, and mechanical and structural fields involved hardware as well. It's probably worthwhile to just accept that circuits and electronics are even more pervasive than software in today's world.
I've found it possible, but only in situations where you have 2-3 project lines going. That is , the ability to move onto something else and relegate something to a background process (your subconscious) rather than stressing out about it. Much like searching for your keys is worthless, eventually you'll go "aha" and remember when the time is right. In addition working in an environment where you can throw questions around the room and brainstorm with people as well as have helpful online forums to vet your ideas. Now as for game programmers, who are simply doing brunt translation of story architects ideas and tuning AI etc. they obviously must be doing something mindless enough that it doesn't matter, something the love enough that it doesn't matter, or are really being abused in which case EA is just a dumb company and doesn't realize how to get maximum productivity out of their employees and certainly won't last. IMHO.
Personally I've found that their products are durable, well priced, and made well. Personally I'd still rather have a Mac or just stick to my good ol CLI, but when I need a PC I think DELL rocks.
What's your background. There's lots of different ways to solve every problem. I think it's much more of an assessment of what kind of problems you're good at solving. If you think you can conceptualize what your system needs to do, and evaluate different components objectively do it.
Coming from someone who's implemented some massive testing infrastrucutres and custom tools, worked on computational biology frameworks, as well as well as currently working on fault tolerant scalable SIP based telephony systems and protocol development it's really just like any other massive project. Go incrementally and solve one problem at a time. If you're good with databases and know where they excel do it, otherwise use data structures. If you are strong with PERL and apache base it on linux(perhaps with MySQL), versus otherwise go to a bookstore, pick up books on a couple easy components and stick with what you're good at. I personally also recommend actually getting maintinence on open source products you're not incredibly familiar with as a little help goes a long way.
So anyway, again, above all, go with what you're good at. If you give some more details perhaps people can make some more concrete recomendations.
Obviously competing on a closed source basis with microsoft is hopeless. The market brought out a viable competitor to windows in linux despite the governments hapless efforts. hopefully we'll see some legitamte copmetition that will better the market and people won't wine too much.
ARE YOU NUTS? Obviously they left out a dot on the frequency. The frequency your phone transmits on has nothing to do with speed like a processor. Get out of here.....
well.....I was doing a little microsoft bashing myself.... but just check this if you search for free and 86 as separate words....it's the first one that comes up....shady yes....worth anything..... nope
Slashdot Mirror
BTW the thread is at http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg31751.html
Do you still feel that you are an accurate and complete proxy for the linux community? You stated as such about 10 years ago...
And if so why have you thought so over time? If not....what changed?
You many years ago claimed you were a proxy for the web community and I disagreed in public with the IETF. Just a curiosity.
I have changed over the years...perhaps you have grown a bit as well...
-Tom
At the point you stop getting a tax CREDIT is certainly one way.
There are other tax threshold issues as well across the boards based on things the government deems "appropriate" but certainly not basic tax rates.
I read this is going to be a HUGE user of bandwidth once they start sending the data around the world to be analyzed. Is it a good time to invest in network providers? I think there will be good plays along with all the cool scientific stuff we'll get out of it. I know the economy is looking poor, but I don't see internet usage shrinking any time soon.
I'll be sleeping soundly tonite.
Yeah. They protest over everything there. It's not gonna last.
I agree 100% that arbitrary barriers are worthless. More often then not, it's the developers who believe so (I consider myself a SW Engineer not a Developer), who don't get work done, because they can't just evolve around problems as they come up.
Developer -> I've only ever programmed in (Insert Language Here), but I'm really good at it.
SW Engineer -> I use C for my embedded projects because of code size and performance, mostly C# for my windows applications because I get to re-use all these great MS libraries, and Frankly pretty much any time I need a quick and dirty tool for generating test scripts, or helping with Cadence I use PERL.
Look for people who evolve themselves to meet a problem, rather than try to make the problem fit their system. I'd say more often then not these people will have excelled time after time in seemingly unrelated jobs, versus the people who continue doing the same thing forever, 'til they become an obsolete commodity and are only good for complaining about outsourcing.
Most of the people I consider superstars are really just regular old problem solving engineers. These people can take any problem, and either find or build components to make it happen. I've known a *FEW* superstars who were ONLY software engineers. I'm sure that even those guys need some variety and support too though.
Honestly I'd say what's harder is retaining people like this, because they CAN always get another great job. It's probably more important that you give these people interesting, and varied work, make sure you don't overload them as they're already the most productive piece of your puzzle, and give them a strong supporting cast they can leverage to be even more productive.
At least that's what I think makes me a superstar, and has exemplified the ones I've worked with before. What makes me feel like I can say these things?
Some of my background:
Started at AMCC as an intern, basically a lab tech.
4 years at Qualcomm in my early days doing test.
http://vesicle.nsi.edu/nomad/segway/ -> Neural Simulation/Segway based Soccer Playing Platform
http://natural.uchicago.edu/~tgal/ -> Parsing and Analysis Tools for Affymetrix Gene Array Arabadopsis Sequencing
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-speechsc-mrcpv2-15.txt -> IETF Speech Recognition Protocol
Development from scratch and evolution of a couple of medical devices (Triage Wireless/Dexcom)
Currently I'm a couple years deep working at a semiconductor startup, where I've done some Digital Blocks for our ASICs, Design and Layout of our basic Electronics, and ALL of the embedded firmware, along with PC Software for in house, and external use. I truly believe, and have yet to be disproved, that I can just about solve any problem. Usually it's the time -vs- desire for elegance that's my weakness. I guess that's what management is for....right?
Well, this is cool, but what does it mean? A startup in San Diego (Luxtera) is already sampling both monolithic multi channel xfp modules made entirely from silicon (minus the laser which is indium phosphate), and also makes a silicon dwdm system as well. There have been a couple of news releases lately.
n dex.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20061017005207& newsLang=en
p ?ID=19886
News about DWDM
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/i
Darpa Grant Continues
http://www.convergedigest.com/DWDM/DWDMarticle.as
If you're really that much more experienced you ought to be helping people. It's guaranteed that if you send the webmaster a comment mentioning how it's improper to do and how devious someone could be they would take it down. As for doing it on the weekend to make it worse I think that just furthers my point. I'm sure you've made a lot of first mistakes, is this how you were always treated?
Has anyone read the stories about the people in korea who get ganged up on by the online masses? What are you advocating by taking these actiosn and glorifying them by publicizing them?
The more hardware knowledge you have the better. It gives you deeper insight into the limitations of your systems, more skills for integrating systems, and a broader range of job opportunities. I personally spent 5 years at semiconductor companies like Qualcomm and Maxim before moving into software and onward, but now have acquired myself a crack job at a research institue (www.nsi.edu) thanks to my diverse history, which also included some bioinformatics work at the Salk Institute. I do recall however that Computer Engineering required me to take more units than most students were allowed at UCSD so it's certainly not for the faint of heart. Our Bioengineering major involved hardware and software, and mechanical and structural fields involved hardware as well. It's probably worthwhile to just accept that circuits and electronics are even more pervasive than software in today's world.
I've found it possible, but only in situations where you have 2-3 project lines going. That is , the ability to move onto something else and relegate something to a background process (your subconscious) rather than stressing out about it. Much like searching for your keys is worthless, eventually you'll go "aha" and remember when the time is right. In addition working in an environment where you can throw questions around the room and brainstorm with people as well as have helpful online forums to vet your ideas. Now as for game programmers, who are simply doing brunt translation of story architects ideas and tuning AI etc. they obviously must be doing something mindless enough that it doesn't matter, something the love enough that it doesn't matter, or are really being abused in which case EA is just a dumb company and doesn't realize how to get maximum productivity out of their employees and certainly won't last. IMHO.
I don't even understand how this is possible. It wreaks of movie stars stealing for a rush (no names).
Obviously you've had some bad experiences.
Personally I've found that their products are durable, well priced, and made well. Personally I'd still rather have a Mac or just stick to my good ol CLI, but when I need a PC I think DELL rocks.
Everyone has to start somewhere right?
What's your background. There's lots of different ways to solve every problem. I think it's much more of an assessment of what kind of problems you're good at solving. If you think you can conceptualize what your system needs to do, and evaluate different components objectively do it.
Coming from someone who's implemented some massive testing infrastrucutres and custom tools, worked on computational biology frameworks, as well as well as currently working on fault tolerant scalable SIP based telephony systems and protocol development it's really just like any other massive project. Go incrementally and solve one problem at a time. If you're good with databases and know where they excel do it, otherwise use data structures. If you are strong with PERL and apache base it on linux(perhaps with MySQL), versus otherwise go to a bookstore, pick up books on a couple easy components and stick with what you're good at. I personally also recommend actually getting maintinence on open source products you're not incredibly familiar with as a little help goes a long way.
So anyway, again, above all, go with what you're good at. If you give some more details perhaps people can make some more concrete recomendations.
now it seems viruses are being relaced to confound microsofts patch schedule, AND botnets are communicating. What will we see next.
Obviously competing on a closed source basis with microsoft is hopeless. The market brought out a viable competitor to windows in linux despite the governments hapless efforts. hopefully we'll see some legitamte copmetition that will better the market and people won't wine too much.
ARE YOU NUTS? Obviously they left out a dot on the frequency. The frequency your phone transmits on has nothing to do with speed like a processor. Get out of here.....
try free and 86....what comes up first? Either it's really a mistake.....or they didn't try very hard....which sounds more like mister softie?
well.....I was doing a little microsoft bashing myself.... but just check this if you search for free and 86 as separate words....it's the first one that comes up....shady yes....worth anything..... nope