It's terrifying how many good developers are unemployed right now. I don't mean some fresh out of school punk with only 5 years on the job experience (no offense punks,) I mean top senior engineering people.
The only reason you hear the 'lack of people' refrain being repeated over and over is employers don't want to pay an IT salary. It's comical to see people complain about paying a programmer even as much as a plumber ($60/hr.) I'd like to see the plumber who has the equivalent of the _4 feet_ of books & manuals I had to master just for the skills needed for the last 3 years.
If doing challenging work doesn't pay, screw it, I'm going to lay pipe for 6 hours a day and have time to drink beer, scratch my ass and watch football.
Of course, this assumes that university education has anything to do with computer science skills. Which the university would like you to think, of course.;-/
Traditional U expects you to show up in overcrowded classrooms, get most of your education on your own from the books, then pay tons of money for the priviledge and kiss their ring, too. Meanwhile the typical IT tech institute treats students as paying customers, realizes they won't come back if they don't learn, and falls all over themselves to make sure they do.
There's a reason the number of IT training institutes has skyrocketed. There are many paths to CS expertise, but it's in big U's financial interest to sell people idea that they're the only route.
Well, I restarted with it throttled (16k) and while it didn't max it out, it did triple the throughput, with occasional peaks. Apparently it's more the client than the protocol that's the issue. Or just my bad assuming the default install from the official release would work, I guess.;-/
About an hour later, there were over 120 seeds and thousands of leechers. I was getting over 250 k/s.
How many other distribution methods can you say actually get FASTER when the bulk of the slashbots arrive on the scene? Bittorrent, my friends, is a beautiful thing.
What magic is this?
I'm getting a pathetic 8K down, but it's pegged at 25K up - for 2 straight hours now. 1:3 ratio on cable! which is 12:1 asymetric and pulls at 380k/sec from other sites just fine. WTF?!
Checking the torrent logs, there's even some guy that's been screwed to the tune of over 1:7(!) when he's only gotten 88Meg, while at the same time some leeches are being allowed to pull the whole 680+Meg with a 0.022:1 ratio.
This, after the BitTorrent documentation's harping moralism on fairness? Give it a rest; BitTorrent is a broken protocol.
It's been a long time coming. Check out the Firebird III here - http://www.conklinsystems.com/firebird/ - it was one of a series of G.M. turbine-powered cars and it had self-drive in 1959.
The premise that the industry will shrink if we don't see "new" games is patently false. We don't see new games because people don't buy new games. They buy the games they already liked, but different.
Consider that men have been going to bars, drinking too much and going home with ugly women for thousands of years. (The oldest known human recipe is a Mesopotamian recipe for beer) Obviously humans can do what they like indefinately, even if they regret it the next morning.
Ha, I thought everyone had long forgotten this game. I just recently ported and (re)played the classic Unix mini-adventure Paranoia to Linux on my Linksys WRT54g!
If anyone else is up for some truly pointless fun, you can get the binary here
Yeah Open Source is the ticket. Why would you want to be able to choose from some 17,000 PalmOS apps? Too many software choices, it's overwhelming! And PalmOS apps are designed for PalmOS. Why would you want purpose-designed handheld apps when you can get ports of apps designed for a 19" monitor? That's what scrollbars are for anyhow.
I guess I appreciate the fact that he put it online, because I had seriously thought about buying this book. In it I see he found the stuff we were doing 25 years ago. But that's ok, independent work = good! It gets you a cookie, but not my $.
So at what level is Photoshop altering the image? At what point does one decide that using PS introduces error into work?
There is a lot of time spent calibrating monitors and output devices to get as close to exact as possible. But now the image processing tool itself may, based on it's unverifiable algorithmic detection, introduce a whole new class of error.
He can claim all the 'rights' he wants, but not and expect to get any software that we developed.
The shrinkwrap is a contract. If you don't like the terms, don't sign/open/whatever. Writing software is hard work and there's nothing that magically gives you rights over something I built. You don't like it? Write your own.
Note however the recent Dell fiasco of a contract whose terms you can't review is indeed broken.
This is a question the average slashdot reader is painfully unqualified to answer.
Short and sweet. As a _professional_ consultant, your client's best interests ARE your goals. You will fight eloquent, long, hard and do _everything_ possible to ensure your clients the best possible outcome. Ass kissing [implicitly to the point of inaccuracy] is to fail professionally.
Anyone who's been a real consultant for 10 years or more is welcome to reply. Anyone who hasn't lasted 10 years or more is not qualified to. If you haven't walked the walk, shut up.
Why not? LOTS of people have spent hour upon hour mastering gaming skills. Gaming at max speed is physically demanding, intense, and requires enormous skill as well as advanced tactics. Extensive training, special skills, devotion - aren't those the hallmark of any sport?
And they translate to real life as well. I have found repeatedly that having gamer speed (giving it a name) has helped me repeatedly in real life against my sensei in karate, who was a nationally ranked karate competitor. Of course his still kicks my butt (having a 30 year head start,) but he's not really any faster than I am, which I can directly attribute to endless hours of twitch gaming since the TRS-80.
I'm really glad this finally was addressed. Now I'm a parent and was faced with the problem of trying to explain to my kid that he has to lie about his feelings and pretend to go along with the other drones.
I'm amazed to find out that the 'under God' was a hack added on later, but it makes sense now. I hated it as it has been, but take that out, and the Pledge is something I'm proud to express; a pledge to America, not just America the Deist.
I'm sick of the New Christian Inquisition; It's about time America stood for freedom again.
Using the computer as a crutch, i.e. iterative coding, CAN coax good code from adequate people, but if you knew what you were doing, you could write it down.
Yes, I've been coding 28 yrs, doing bleeding-edge work. I use tests like this to help pick out the wheat from the chaff when it's time to hire. There's nothing wrong with the exam. It did everything it needed to.
It's not enough to know it with the computer's help. You need to Know It(tm).
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It's terrifying how many good developers are unemployed right now. I don't mean some fresh out of school punk with only 5 years on the job experience (no offense punks,) I mean top senior engineering people.
The only reason you hear the 'lack of people' refrain being repeated over and over is employers don't want to pay an IT salary. It's comical to see people complain about paying a programmer even as much as a plumber ($60/hr.) I'd like to see the plumber who has the equivalent of the _4 feet_ of books & manuals I had to master just for the skills needed for the last 3 years.
If doing challenging work doesn't pay, screw it, I'm going to lay pipe for 6 hours a day and have time to drink beer, scratch my ass and watch football.
Of course, this assumes that university education has anything to do with computer science skills. Which the university would like you to think, of course. ;-/
Traditional U expects you to show up in overcrowded classrooms, get most of your education on your own from the books, then pay tons of money for the priviledge and kiss their ring, too. Meanwhile the typical IT tech institute treats students as paying customers, realizes they won't come back if they don't learn, and falls all over themselves to make sure they do.
There's a reason the number of IT training institutes has skyrocketed. There are many paths to CS expertise, but it's in big U's financial interest to sell people idea that they're the only route.
Apparently no other browser ever has had a security flaw. Ever. Mozilla and Opera bugtraqs are empty files.
Well, I restarted with it throttled (16k) and while it didn't max it out, it did triple the throughput, with occasional peaks. Apparently it's more the client than the protocol that's the issue. Or just my bad assuming the default install from the official release would work, I guess. ;-/
How many other distribution methods can you say actually get FASTER when the bulk of the slashbots arrive on the scene? Bittorrent, my friends, is a beautiful thing.
What magic is this?
I'm getting a pathetic 8K down, but it's pegged at 25K up - for 2 straight hours now. 1:3 ratio on cable! which is 12:1 asymetric and pulls at 380k/sec from other sites just fine. WTF?!
Checking the torrent logs, there's even some guy that's been screwed to the tune of over 1:7(!) when he's only gotten 88Meg, while at the same time some leeches are being allowed to pull the whole 680+Meg with a 0.022:1 ratio.
This, after the BitTorrent documentation's harping moralism on fairness? Give it a rest; BitTorrent is a broken protocol.
Typical GPL. Free as in not.
GPL - Free as in 'Not'
It's been a long time coming. Check out the Firebird III here - http://www.conklinsystems.com/firebird/ - it was one of a series of G.M. turbine-powered cars and it had self-drive in 1959.
Consider that men have been going to bars, drinking too much and going home with ugly women for thousands of years. (The oldest known human recipe is a Mesopotamian recipe for beer) Obviously humans can do what they like indefinately, even if they regret it the next morning.
If anyone else is up for some truly pointless fun, you can get the binary here
Yeah Open Source is the ticket. Why would you want to be able to choose from some 17,000 PalmOS apps? Too many software choices, it's overwhelming! And PalmOS apps are designed for PalmOS. Why would you want purpose-designed handheld apps when you can get ports of apps designed for a 19" monitor? That's what scrollbars are for anyhow.
I guess I appreciate the fact that he put it online, because I had seriously thought about buying this book. In it I see he found the stuff we were doing 25 years ago. But that's ok, independent work = good! It gets you a cookie, but not my $.
Is Wired part owned by the Indian Lobbyists Association or what?
So at what level is Photoshop altering the image? At what point does one decide that using PS introduces error into work?
There is a lot of time spent calibrating monitors and output devices to get as close to exact as possible. But now the image processing tool itself may, based on it's unverifiable algorithmic detection, introduce a whole new class of error.
The shrinkwrap is a contract. If you don't like the terms, don't sign/open/whatever. Writing software is hard work and there's nothing that magically gives you rights over something I built. You don't like it? Write your own.
Note however the recent Dell fiasco of a contract whose terms you can't review is indeed broken.
Obviously whoever made this decision for GM never actually wrote an app on the Nextel platform! Compared to a PDA, they're borderline useless.
Short and sweet. As a _professional_ consultant, your client's best interests ARE your goals. You will fight eloquent, long, hard and do _everything_ possible to ensure your clients the best possible outcome. Ass kissing [implicitly to the point of inaccuracy] is to fail professionally.
Anyone who's been a real consultant for 10 years or more is welcome to reply. Anyone who hasn't lasted 10 years or more is not qualified to. If you haven't walked the walk, shut up.
And they translate to real life as well. I have found repeatedly that having gamer speed (giving it a name) has helped me repeatedly in real life against my sensei in karate, who was a nationally ranked karate competitor. Of course his still kicks my butt (having a 30 year head start,) but he's not really any faster than I am, which I can directly attribute to endless hours of twitch gaming since the TRS-80.
It's about time. Big tournaments are cool, but more regular dollars are needed if it's going to be a viable profession.
I'm really glad this finally was addressed. Now I'm a parent and was faced with the problem of trying to explain to my kid that he has to lie about his feelings and pretend to go along with the other drones. I'm amazed to find out that the 'under God' was a hack added on later, but it makes sense now. I hated it as it has been, but take that out, and the Pledge is something I'm proud to express; a pledge to America, not just America the Deist. I'm sick of the New Christian Inquisition; It's about time America stood for freedom again.
Using the computer as a crutch, i.e. iterative coding, CAN coax good code from adequate people, but if you knew what you were doing, you could write it down.
Yes, I've been coding 28 yrs, doing bleeding-edge work. I use tests like this to help pick out the wheat from the chaff when it's time to hire. There's nothing wrong with the exam. It did everything it needed to.
It's not enough to know it with the computer's help. You need to Know It(tm).