Amazon created and dominated the cloud as we know it before Microsoft even knew it existed. To this day, Microsoft's prices on Azure are about twice that of AWS, and Microsoft doesn't have a prayer in taking that market. All Microsoft has ever done is a half-assed attempt to buy their way into yet-another-market. If Amazon wasn't so laser focused on defining what the cloud means and pouring in R&D dollars, sure they could make a little more money. If Amazon wasn't pushing boundaries like same-day delivery, sure they could make a little more money. Put another way, if Ballmer wasn't so focused on making a little more money, and could be laser focused on R&D and pushing boundaries, maybe he could dominate a market like Amazon - but he left that post years ago.
"the extent to which government policy creates a framework necessary for economic development"
TechnologicalInnovation != PolicyInnovation
Denmark is one of the most beurocratic countries on earth. Anyone know of any startups going public from Denmark this year? Anyone?... Beuller? Beuller?
Does IE7 intend to fix how document.fileSize checks a file (it breaks because of how it checks the cache), or will you continue to force people to use ActiveX instead of javascript?
You can look forward to these types of stories getting more coverage. Mainly because the major media outlets stand to lose from non-television entertainment.
I feel like I'm reading an article from 1950 about the dangers of Rock and Roll.
Post in bin mode only, please. Posts that contain any raw XML will confuse the XML DOM interpreter that runs the forum. All use of interpolated greater than or less than signs is strictly prohibited.
That's exactly where I'm at right now. I'm young just like the author and I do a lot of the same types of work that the author describes, the pay is also good, especially when you become appreciated for prompt reliable data from senior management.
Although I feel this work isn't as cutting edge as it could be, I know I don't have to stop at impressing my manager. So I take every opportunity to do extra side-projects that help me maintain and build my skills in other languages like ASP.NET, perl, python, and javascript.
It's VERY important to incubate your skills at all times.
I'm a huge fan of startups though. If you really think you can get mega wealthy at a young age, I highly recommend taking the risk. Just make sure you get excellent referrals, already have funding lined up, and you're ready to work your ass off.
First of all, Rob, thank you for responding to my, and many others' e-mails by posting.
I think link-karma is a great idea. Although, I don't know how karma is weighed, and similarly if the spammers would try to play the karma system.
In theory, someone who the community supports/enjoys/respects should get more clout when they submit a story than an outsider who wants to claw his way to the top for nothing more than PageRank money.
Look at it this way: Why do nerds read the articles they do? Because they respect where the information is coming from - a fellow nerd/scientist/hacker who loves what they are doing so much that they want to share their sincere passion with the world. The same rule of thumb applies for submissions.
If it came down to choosing one or the other (because of external constrains on time, money, development resources etc.), I think the 'no-follow' option is the most assured way to keep this community intact for the foreseeable future.
Slashdot has been a part of my life for a long time - years before I formally registered. And like many others, I believe that the most unique part of it is the insightful comments.
We are truly part of one of the most cutting edge, knowlegable communities on the net. Thank you, Rob.
AFAICT, a byte denotes 8 identifiable positions (not to be confused with states). Each position has traditionally had 2 possible states. If quantum theory allows 4 states per position a qubyte can have 65536 permutation states.
I believe the quote is: "If you put the laziest man on the hardest job, he'll find an easier way to do it."
I'm a programmer and sometimes I wonder if I really am lazy. On one hand someone could randomly walk by and watch me reading Slashdot, on the other hand, the only reason I *can* read Slashdot is because I've already invested the time in building an infrastructure that doesn't have to be micro-managed. It e-mails me about different things, or at most I fill in a few blanks, and it pretty much runs itself. And I get a reputation for being available and prompt when new problems need to be solved.
I like to call that the Efficiency Paradox. The more efficiently you work, the less efficient you seem to an observer.
That's a great analogy except he didn't win any lottery. He simply knew how to perform without sitting in a class room.
In fact Paul Graham tells us that if you look at the top Fortune 500 companies, you won't find a founder with an MBA until you reach number 22, and even after that they're relatively scarce.
You may see excel on the desktop of some mid-level folks in the sector, but claiming that 'the entire financial sector bases it's existance[sic] on Excel' is ludicrous in the extreme.
You've obviously never worked at a bank, or anywhere else that uses real-time market data. Bloomberg machines have direct macro support for Excel.
Excel breaks your data into digestable pieces. Not everything that's useful requires compiler directives.
One of my previous managers was a geek. His degree was in English, but he was pretty incredible when he got in front of the terminal.
He used to balance many projects for many different departments and he was very helpful to everyone. He told me that his method was MBWAT "managing by walking around and talking". Of course he got real work done, and he never came off as someone who wanted to micro-manage everybody. I think he genuinely made people feel comfortable with their projects, but was also great at laying out guidelines when they were needed.
He used everyone's name and they all loved working with/for him.
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Amazon created and dominated the cloud as we know it before Microsoft even knew it existed. To this day, Microsoft's prices on Azure are about twice that of AWS, and Microsoft doesn't have a prayer in taking that market. All Microsoft has ever done is a half-assed attempt to buy their way into yet-another-market. If Amazon wasn't so laser focused on defining what the cloud means and pouring in R&D dollars, sure they could make a little more money. If Amazon wasn't pushing boundaries like same-day delivery, sure they could make a little more money. Put another way, if Ballmer wasn't so focused on making a little more money, and could be laser focused on R&D and pushing boundaries, maybe he could dominate a market like Amazon - but he left that post years ago.
Sharepoint is your best bet here.
The only alternative I can think of is checking your docs into your source control.
Tokyo's reaction is justified. How else will the people know wether or not the reports of giant robot attacks are real or not?
stop the presses...
... Beuller? Beuller?
Their key metric is
"the extent to which government policy creates a framework necessary for economic development"
TechnologicalInnovation != PolicyInnovation
Denmark is one of the most beurocratic countries on earth. Anyone know of any startups going public from Denmark this year? Anyone?
So Hu is on the First?
Does IE7 intend to fix how document.fileSize checks a file (it breaks because of how it checks the cache), or will you continue to force people to use ActiveX instead of javascript?
Which standard is most worth supporting, Themes or CSS?
To this entire thread:
BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ROTFLMAO!!!
You can look forward to these types of stories getting more coverage. Mainly because the major media outlets stand to lose from non-television entertainment.
I feel like I'm reading an article from 1950 about the dangers of Rock and Roll.
"Four cores should be enough for anyone" -Intel, 2006
I'll believe it when they stop using binary XML.
They've known how to solve this for a LONG time - their lack of compatibility is a very conscious choice.
Post in bin mode only, please. Posts that contain any raw XML will confuse the XML DOM interpreter that runs the forum. All use of interpolated greater than or less than signs is strictly prohibited.
That's exactly where I'm at right now. I'm young just like the author and I do a lot of the same types of work that the author describes, the pay is also good, especially when you become appreciated for prompt reliable data from senior management.
Although I feel this work isn't as cutting edge as it could be, I know I don't have to stop at impressing my manager. So I take every opportunity to do extra side-projects that help me maintain and build my skills in other languages like ASP.NET, perl, python, and javascript.
It's VERY important to incubate your skills at all times.
I'm a huge fan of startups though. If you really think you can get mega wealthy at a young age, I highly recommend taking the risk. Just make sure you get excellent referrals, already have funding lined up, and you're ready to work your ass off.
First of all, Rob, thank you for responding to my, and many others' e-mails by posting.
I think link-karma is a great idea. Although, I don't know how karma is weighed, and similarly if the spammers would try to play the karma system.
In theory, someone who the community supports/enjoys/respects should get more clout when they submit a story than an outsider who wants to claw his way to the top for nothing more than PageRank money.
Look at it this way: Why do nerds read the articles they do? Because they respect where the information is coming from - a fellow nerd/scientist/hacker who loves what they are doing so much that they want to share their sincere passion with the world. The same rule of thumb applies for submissions.
If it came down to choosing one or the other (because of external constrains on time, money, development resources etc.), I think the 'no-follow' option is the most assured way to keep this community intact for the foreseeable future.
Slashdot has been a part of my life for a long time - years before I formally registered. And like many others, I believe that the most unique part of it is the insightful comments.
We are truly part of one of the most cutting edge, knowlegable communities on the net. Thank you, Rob.
AFAICT, a byte denotes 8 identifiable positions (not to be confused with states). Each position has traditionally had 2 possible states. If quantum theory allows 4 states per position a qubyte can have 65536 permutation states.
Is it really possible to use SCO's hot-air to carry their products to new markets in other countries?
I would suggest fitting a face-mold of Darl McBride with a snorkle of some kind.
Digg is cool, but /. has better karma :)
I believe the quote is:
"If you put the laziest man on the hardest job, he'll find an easier way to do it."
I'm a programmer and sometimes I wonder if I really am lazy. On one hand someone could randomly walk by and watch me reading Slashdot, on the other hand, the only reason I *can* read Slashdot is because I've already invested the time in building an infrastructure that doesn't have to be micro-managed. It e-mails me about different things, or at most I fill in a few blanks, and it pretty much runs itself. And I get a reputation for being available and prompt when new problems need to be solved.
I like to call that the Efficiency Paradox. The more efficiently you work, the less efficient you seem to an observer.
If an anonymous executable was posted on Digg I might be worried.
CmdrTaco is my hero.
That's a great analogy except he didn't win any lottery. He simply knew how to perform without sitting in a class room.
In fact Paul Graham tells us that if you look at the top Fortune 500 companies, you won't find a founder with an MBA until you reach number 22, and even after that they're relatively scarce.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, sit in class.
You've obviously never worked at a bank, or anywhere else that uses real-time market data. Bloomberg machines have direct macro support for Excel.
Excel breaks your data into digestable pieces. Not everything that's useful requires compiler directives.
Here's the Google cache (text only):: www.jellyslab.com/~bteo/hacker.htm+elch+hacker+fun ny&hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&strip=1
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:SIuztravpJIJ
It's not that DRM is inherently evil, just inherently flawed.
If you want DRM you can't have a Turing Machine. If you can't have a Turing Machine you can't have DRM... or any else computable.
The only reason I like computers is that they're "Universal Computing Machines", so DRM is not only asinine, but very boring.
For God sakes, Mono is on the way!!!
.NET has a pretty good object model and should not be confused with MSVC++. Take it from a guy who has written in Java and Perl.
too late now I guess.
Seriously though,
-2 cents
One of my previous managers was a geek. His degree was in English, but he was pretty incredible when he got in front of the terminal.
He used to balance many projects for many different departments and he was very helpful to everyone. He told me that his method was MBWAT "managing by walking around and talking". Of course he got real work done, and he never came off as someone who wanted to micro-manage everybody. I think he genuinely made people feel comfortable with their projects, but was also great at laying out guidelines when they were needed.
He used everyone's name and they all loved working with/for him.