Somehow nearly every topic seems to be magically connected to his plans for tax lowering and the Obama government spending money to stabilize the economy.
It seems his answers were generated by dadadodo from the party program.
Moreover, not taking a unique standpoint on climate change is cowardish. Blaming that to a "lack of consensus" in the scientific community is ridiculous. In the scientific community always some people may disagree. However, the scientific community pretty much knows what thet know and what they dont know. To let oil-indudtry financed thinka tanks shuffle up singluar scientists "opinions" doe not sound like one would be interested in making science a base for sound decisions.
And yes, the calculation *that* emissions from Humans will severly affect Climate *severly* can be done on a single A4 (or letter) page using only a pencil and the knowledge about the suns surface temperature, the infrared absorbtion rate of CO2 and the Oil//Coal/Gas usage, and the current CO2 content in the atmosphere.
Yes. i have coded against other things than documented apis. However when i did so i made sure i have a plan b and isolated these parts very strongly in the code (usually creating a layer of abstraction i want to see).
I also only do so as a desperate last-resort measure. Not because i can get some service without thinking or paying. And i only do so on products which have a history of being workaround-friendly.
so after all, in the last 10 years i guess it maybe happened three or four times i used something undocumented (typically in matlab). And i have the policy that any software environment or interface around for less than 5 years is not worth considering for productive use. Unless it is justified by the yield/effort ratio.
Disclaimer: i am an experimental physicist from another field (with experience in precision measurements).
looking at the arxiv preprint:
Why would one allow a +-3% variation in *absolute* temperature (figure 6). 6% of 300K are 18K (this is huge. My experiment needed to be recalibrated when the temperature changed by 1 degree). This explains also the *huge* fluctuation of the biasing voltage "lead accumulator" completely propotional to the temperature. which brings me to the next point: the paper makes is sound like this voltage was used *without further stabilization* for biasing the electronics. Why any sane experimentalist would accept such fluctuations when cheap and reliable means (controlled heater, 50cent voltage controller) is beyond my comprehension.
That being said, we talk about some difference on the order of 500 counts (per day, see the paper and multiply the numbers...), respectively 25 per hour or 1 per 2 minutes. I am no expert on it, but at such low count rates an exclusion of the influence of cosmic rays would be needed. Sasly the paper also does not show any dark count rate experiment. If they let the same detector run without anything inside and show the data, then we could make some conclusions.
Ideally they shoud have run an identical detector without a sample in close vincinity at the same time and correlate the fluctuations.
>A customer wants Exactly what they what, not a a car dealer's or Apple's switcheroo.
Wrong. Maybe you. Maybe me. Maybe we like to go to a shop and say what we want. I realized that i am in a dying minority when i asked for a mobile phone with a minimum feature set, but long battery life, 6 years ago and was explained in the shop (in the middle of ~40 different phone models which all looked the same) that "it is really impossible to build a phone for *every customer*".
Most consumers happily swallow whatever you give them, as long as blinks, has icons, sounds cool and is hyped by the media.
Disclaimer: I am a former researcher in the field, left to some other job.
What you can see at UCSB is what happens when a team of scientists which ae skilled in engineering, working as a team, and collaborating with everybody happens to have the right guy as the leader (with the right policy about co-authors on publications).
Everybody whom i met from this team was open, honest, and friendly; they have worked hard and long on it and they accumulated some of the best people.
They deserve the success they have now! I think there may be a small break now in their publications, since i have the ffeling they now may work on overcoming the next big roadblocks (but now they they have all the backing they could need for it).
I also have to state it will be a long long way to the first QC. While i believe that every step like this will be more than just replicated at the NSA, i believ that they wont be more than 10 years ahead, and i estimate 20y-30y until qc works better than classical qc (although I also hope and believe that breaktroughs are possible).
in the EU/US: get a lawyer. Sign over the account to my significant other. Go to the Police. Give a credible, but wrong confession of a crime, in the presence of my lawyer. While waiting for the trial: collect more infromation.
Yes. That is about it. The most safe place may be inside a prison.
How can you go into bed with the south american bunch of opressors (opressing press, society, opposition) instead of trusting the countries which have been proven to have independent courts, time after time. Maybe Mr. Assange likes to speak freely in Equador. Oh, but be careful; insulting the president can give 2 years of jails there.
So from somebody who popularized the idea of free speech (other leaking websites predate wikileaks significantly), he becomes to a mascot of oppression. His speech reminded me of the speeches which we heard from eastern Europe during the cold war, includign the significant reveresal of roles.
The ironic part is, that after all he has said now, the worst thing the US and Sweden could do to him would be to let the transport to Sweden happen, and release him there direcltly after questioning him one time. This would annihilate his credibility completely; after that he could never state again that he was oppressed. The last two years of using Money which was given to him for another purpos, his clinging to the leadership of WL, going to bed and interviewing dictators (solely based on the fact that they also dont like the US) would appear in a strange moral light.
And so what WL criticised (very rightfully in my opinion), namely the fact that the US foreign policy has an neverending "The end justify the means" way of handling international affairs, could not be critizised any more. Once you saluted to Equador as an example of freedom it may get a little difficult to critizise the US for not condeming all of their "friends" of a similar kind.
Which brings me to the point: why would he do that? Sweden may not extradite anybody into a country where they may be punished by the death penalty. On the other hand, it is highly rational that inside the EU where you can travel freely, also extrations inside the EU must be possible. If this thing with Equadorian embassy personal works, then a new route of bussiness for failed states would be to offer this. So i could commit any crime, if i am getting caught, i go to London, pay a few thousand Euro to Equador, and get diplomat status.
The obvious abuse of the diplomat status makes the request for transparency, clarity, and honety, which WL was originally about, a farce.
So the only reason he may do what he does is: He wants to escape a fair trial/legal process in Sweden. The less evil assumption about him would be that he does that because he is paranoid (even if giving away the key to the encrypted data in a hand-waving way to prove the size of his balls, and thus losing control over the publicaiton process would indicate otherwise).
e.g. by putting out reader applicaitons for all platforms and making money on sellign the books, as they already do now. I would never buy the kindle (since dont like to pay somebody money for playing the gatekeeper to what i can watch on *my* device), but since Amazon makes my purchases available on my android via the kindle app, my xp machine, and (even for offline reading) in the web browser, i am not exacltly sure *why* amazon should be worried about the 7 inch ipad. I spend more for ebooks in the last year (since i use the kindle app) than for books in the 5 years before.
The ipad 7 inch is an device which apple hestitated to produce and enters the market as one of the last big players (the same for the surface thing). Pocket-compatible ebook reader have been arund a long time, and the load of android devices in all different shapes, formats and price ranges makes the 7 inch ipad appear like a drop of water in the sea.
The more relevant question is: Is apple navigating itself in a position of "we against the rest" with a high fence around the garden? Again? A little lesson in the History of Apple should teach that they made this mistake one time before. In the 90s they were had the monopoly in the DTP and creative market. Until they managed to annoy their customers a few years too long by keeping the same feature set and relying on the market monopoly. At that time the logics was: If you do DTP, you need an Apple, sicne the print shops only guarantee the result if you deliver your product as a mac format. If you open a print shop, you need a Apple because the customer has Apple. Bot have an Apple, so the colour calibration chain (which indeed worked better in the beginning on the Apples than on Windows) will guarantee that you know what you print. Nowadays the logics is: Apple controls a significant share of mp3 sales, media sales, so if you want to read a digital newspaper, you need an ipad. Since people reading digital newspapers own ipads, if you make a newspaper you need to publish for the ipad.
What happened in the 90s: Windows go better and betetr and chraper and cheaper and a so big overall market share that it put apple under pressure
What happens now: Android gets better and betetr and cheaper and cheaper and Apple has no monoply on the ebook, mp3 market or anything close. So the customers are essentially people who baought an ipod, upgraded to iphone and asrrive at the ipad now. I dont know many people who bought ipad which did not own iphones before.
So that leaves the question: Will Apple show an innovation (besides putting out an ipod in another size) which attract new cistomers or did they corner themself already?
Its not 200k Lines, more on the order of 10-20kLines (depending onf the count; its written in a highly compact language). It is not my main task to restructure it, as a matter of fact i have rediculously little time budget for it, give the current state of the code. My task is to integrate new features into the code. However when i looked at it an rewrite seemed inevitable.
Let me break dow how i try it:
a) Analyze why the problem is there. There are two aspects of it: Is there a fundamental problem with the qulification of the team members (in my case, there is - they are not programmers, but experts on other topics). The other question: Is there something inherently wrong with the processes (there was. Two parts of the teams uses the Version control system based on the assumption that its only purpose is to snapshot their "working" state - which contributed hugley to commits mingling all kinds of feature updates).
b) If you look at the feature which you should implement, what is the ration of the work it *should* take (in my case: not more than 2h) to the ratio it *would* take in the current structure (in my case: 20h). Analyze what is the worst point for this feature (in my case: not separating certain layers of reading/converting/validating input and not having any explicit delcaration of a certain data structure).
c) what can you do? In my case: rewrite just this part in a better way (not perfect), with the following criteria: use the same or less time for the feature you should implement, includign the conversion. Demonstrate the power of the approach to you co-workers by integrating them in the process. In my case i used roughly 12h for rewriting the procedure, 6h to test it against ther old code, 2 h for sitting down with my boss/project manager and explainign it. After this he could include the changes he wanted himself easily in a negliglible time. (yep, i made myself obsolete for this task, and that was highly appreciated because i am not very cheap to hire)
d) discuss a clear strategy how to upgrae the code, piece by piece to a decent level, and make some showcase where infrastructure improvement would help, in parallel to what you did up to know. That is very important, since the willingness to support the conversion a new structure depends on progressively showing advantages and clearly demontrating progress. Real artists ship (i work as a consultant). If we miss a deadline in this project that would be *bad*.
e) explain what you are doing in a manager-compliant way. A lesson in communication traning you get as a consultant is *never ever* speak negativly about any product or service in general. It could be well that the head of department would ask me why i see certain steps necessary. My answer would be quite general, like: separate expert knowledge from implementation. Or: make it easier to maintain and *save* work in the long term. Be careful in that context with comments about the code quality. There is no *bad* working code. While you wish to say: this code in incredibly incoherent, taped together work of twenty different trainees supervised by sombody who did not know about the system himself, say the following: I think we can imporve the code by intrioducing a database backend. I believe that a more unified way of describing the inputs to the code will save the time of [increbly good technical expert who no spend 25% his time huntig obscure bugs]. If you go down the other road and mock the code, the following things can happen: a) the project gets cancelled, because management believes its beyond repair b) the mangemer does not hire you because he was the one who started the project 10 years ago in an obcure form which you know about c) you will loose the support of co-workers for mocking them and face a harsh review should you rewrite no be the flying pig which you promised.
Ask the IT deparment for their Opinion on it, ask you boss for his opinion on it, clearly state *where* you keep what should be kept.
The last time i left a job, i made sure all work-relevant information is on the server (where it anyway was), made an additional backup disk with the system data (to enable an emergency reinstall, should they need to set up my development environment). Then i showed and explained the file hierachy to my co-worker, infromed my boss and got his permission/instruction to bring the PCs to a clean state, ready for reinstall.
Well apple out-innovated the industry exactly once in the last 10 years: The ipod touch was brilliant as a total concept. After that it was just variations of the ipod touch, with innovative state ranging from hopelessly outdated (the first iphone) to more or less up to date (the iphone 3g).
What Apple however has is a brilliant marketing department. The Microsoft/Nokia way: annoucne your products forever, so that there is an incredible release pressure. Tell all the features they will have, including the ones you dont manage to get out of the door in time.
Apple: Show a device, where everything works and all the features which dont work are turned off.
Well. I am 37. Formally I am not really an IT guy (PhD in physics). I am not the youngest and there are a lot of people who are younger than me and are less open to learning something new (on IT or otherwise). My priorities changed a little since i was 22.
1) You have to accept that you are doing things which must be maintained by your coworkers. The number of skills involved in maintainign somthing decreases the chance that it will be maintained exponentially.
2) There is a reason for sending back a batch of PCs which dont perform as specified (If i order machines which run XP from a computer store, i expect that they solve the problem). Otherwise I leave it to the 22year old in the group. i am not interested in learning about the incpomatibilities of XP and they (22j olds) seem to be good in remembering senseless shit, probably obsolete with the next SP of windows (or the next version).
3) I know a lot of programming languages, however i can tell you that focusing one one or twowill be a good thing for you. it is not up to me to judge if its good or bad (i dont like it), but you can earn a lot of reputation by having something where you are better than anybody else around. There are two reasons for this: a) a lot of people will exchnage their ideas with you, since your skill may touch their topic b) combine your skill with other experts and your team will easily outperform the team of generalists. (a am in such a situation. I am a matlab expert and work together with a database expert on a joint project and we are doing things and demonstrations in timescales and quality unimaginable for generalists).
4) Being the girl or boy for everything will get you recognition in a good team, but in a bad team it maybe does not pay off. Be careful.
would have been better if they stayed with symbian. The number of real show-stopper bugs in symbian was quite low, and most things worked as well under it as under other os. But to first deprecate it (and continue to sell it for over three years after that), then throw away meego/linux, for which experiences on real hw are already available in the company, collected on early adopter phones, and switch to windows....
Every major switch of the SW environment will introduce bugs; dont try such a thing on your mainstream device. (and if you try it, test it fairly before release).
they should turn to the SEO monkeys. Not that i approve of all business methods they use.....
Honestly. If the toilet needs to be cleaned, will it be done by the employees taking turns? If the office needs to be painted, will everybody get an brush?
The contaminated area has a radius of less than 100km and Japan has enough habitable areas - actually all of Japan is habitable. the mountain ranges are - even in the low altitude valleys - nearly empty. There are huge areas covered by rice fields.
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Somehow nearly every topic seems to be magically connected to his plans for tax lowering and the Obama government spending money to stabilize the economy.
It seems his answers were generated by dadadodo from the party program.
Moreover, not taking a unique standpoint on climate change is cowardish. Blaming that to a "lack of consensus" in the scientific community is ridiculous. In the scientific community always some people may disagree. However, the scientific community pretty much knows what thet know and what they dont know. To let oil-indudtry financed thinka tanks shuffle up singluar scientists "opinions" doe not sound like one would be interested in making science a base for sound decisions.
And yes, the calculation *that* emissions from Humans will severly affect Climate *severly* can be done on a single A4 (or letter) page using only a pencil and the knowledge about the suns surface temperature, the infrared absorbtion rate of CO2 and the Oil//Coal/Gas usage, and the current CO2 content in the atmosphere.
he learns it as soon as he learns writing his name
Yes. i have coded against other things than documented apis. However when i did so i made sure i have a plan b and isolated these parts very strongly in the code (usually creating a layer of abstraction i want to see).
I also only do so as a desperate last-resort measure. Not because i can get some service without thinking or paying. And i only do so on products which have a history of being workaround-friendly.
so after all, in the last 10 years i guess it maybe happened three or four times i used something undocumented (typically in matlab). And i have the policy that any software environment or interface around for less than 5 years is not worth considering for productive use. Unless it is justified by the yield/effort ratio.
why would anybody use these?
another possible point for correlations is that the desoption rate of the minerals they use to generate the radon from depends on temperature.
Disclaimer: i am an experimental physicist from another field (with experience in precision measurements).
looking at the arxiv preprint:
Why would one allow a +-3% variation in *absolute* temperature (figure 6). 6% of 300K are 18K (this is huge. My experiment needed to be recalibrated when the temperature changed by 1 degree). This explains also the *huge* fluctuation of the biasing voltage "lead accumulator" completely propotional to the temperature. which brings me to the next point: the paper makes is sound like this voltage was used *without further stabilization* for biasing the electronics. Why any sane experimentalist would accept such fluctuations when cheap and reliable means (controlled heater, 50cent voltage controller) is beyond my comprehension.
That being said, we talk about some difference on the order of 500 counts (per day, see the paper and multiply the numbers...), respectively 25 per hour or 1 per 2 minutes. I am no expert on it, but at such low count rates an exclusion of the influence of cosmic rays would be needed. Sasly the paper also does not show any dark count rate experiment. If they let the same detector run without anything inside and show the data, then we could make some conclusions.
Ideally they shoud have run an identical detector without a sample in close vincinity at the same time and correlate the fluctuations.
>A customer wants Exactly what they what, not a a car dealer's or Apple's switcheroo.
Wrong. Maybe you. Maybe me. Maybe we like to go to a shop and say what we want. I realized that i am in a dying minority when i asked for a mobile phone with a minimum feature set, but long battery life, 6 years ago and was explained in the shop (in the middle of ~40 different phone models which all looked the same) that "it is really impossible to build a phone for *every customer*".
Most consumers happily swallow whatever you give them, as long as blinks, has icons, sounds cool and is hyped by the media.
He also calls himself a 'fan'. I am not exacltly sure what the means.
I appreciate some properties of Linux, i appreciate some properties of windows and i appreciate(ted) some properties of solaris.
The important part is never to forget which properties of which OS which you do not appreciate are conflicting with the task at hand.
I suggest to ask them about the stragtegy of decisions and see if that is compatible with the way the rest of the shop is being run.
Disclaimer: I am a former researcher in the field, left to some other job.
What you can see at UCSB is what happens when a team of scientists which ae skilled in engineering, working as a team, and collaborating with everybody happens to have the right guy as the leader (with the right policy about co-authors on publications).
Everybody whom i met from this team was open, honest, and friendly; they have worked hard and long on it and they accumulated some of the best people.
They deserve the success they have now! I think there may be a small break now in their publications, since i have the ffeling they now may work on overcoming the next big roadblocks (but now they they have all the backing they could need for it).
I also have to state it will be a long long way to the first QC. While i believe that every step like this will be more than just replicated at the NSA, i believ that they wont be more than 10 years ahead, and i estimate 20y-30y until qc works better than classical qc (although I also hope and believe that breaktroughs are possible).
Would somebody have asked in 1910 what the biggest invention/development of the century might have been, he may have gotten funny answers.
The same for political developments. Soemthing like 2 World wars, the cold war, 2-5 big revolutions would have been missing.
So, while the trial is *big* any conclusion would be a little early.
6 Megasamples @ 8 bit take more than 500GB per day.
So that would be a pretty low-end AD converter.
Dont explain it. EIther your s.o is tolerant enough or not. Thats it.
in the EU/US: get a lawyer. Sign over the account to my significant other. Go to the Police. Give a credible, but wrong confession of a crime, in the presence of my lawyer. While waiting for the trial: collect more infromation.
Yes. That is about it. The most safe place may be inside a prison.
How can you go into bed with the south american bunch of opressors (opressing press, society, opposition) instead of trusting the countries which have been proven to have independent courts, time after time. Maybe Mr. Assange likes to speak freely in Equador. Oh, but be careful; insulting the president can give 2 years of jails there.
So from somebody who popularized the idea of free speech (other leaking websites predate wikileaks significantly), he becomes to a mascot of oppression. His speech reminded me of the speeches which we heard from eastern Europe during the cold war, includign the significant reveresal of roles.
The ironic part is, that after all he has said now, the worst thing the US and Sweden could do to him would be to let the transport to Sweden happen, and release him there direcltly after questioning him one time. This would annihilate his credibility completely; after that he could never state again that he was oppressed. The last two years of using Money which was given to him for another purpos, his clinging to the leadership of WL, going to bed and interviewing dictators (solely based on the fact that they also dont like the US) would appear in a strange moral light.
And so what WL criticised (very rightfully in my opinion), namely the fact that the US foreign policy has an neverending "The end justify the means" way of handling international affairs, could not be critizised any more. Once you saluted to Equador as an example of freedom it may get a little difficult to critizise the US for not condeming all of their "friends" of a similar kind.
Which brings me to the point: why would he do that? Sweden may not extradite anybody into a country where they may be punished by the death penalty. On the other hand, it is highly rational that inside the EU where you can travel freely, also extrations inside the EU must be possible. If this thing with Equadorian embassy personal works, then a new route of bussiness for failed states would be to offer this. So i could commit any crime, if i am getting caught, i go to London, pay a few thousand Euro to Equador, and get diplomat status.
The obvious abuse of the diplomat status makes the request for transparency, clarity, and honety, which WL was originally about, a farce.
So the only reason he may do what he does is: He wants to escape a fair trial/legal process in Sweden. The less evil assumption about him would be that he does that because he is paranoid (even if giving away the key to the encrypted data in a hand-waving way to prove the size of his balls, and thus losing control over the publicaiton process would indicate otherwise).
e.g. by putting out reader applicaitons for all platforms and making money on sellign the books, as they already do now. I would never buy the kindle (since dont like to pay somebody money for playing the gatekeeper to what i can watch on *my* device), but since Amazon makes my purchases available on my android via the kindle app, my xp machine, and (even for offline reading) in the web browser, i am not exacltly sure *why* amazon should be worried about the 7 inch ipad. I spend more for ebooks in the last year (since i use the kindle app) than for books in the 5 years before.
The ipad 7 inch is an device which apple hestitated to produce and enters the market as one of the last big players (the same for the surface thing). Pocket-compatible ebook reader have been arund a long time, and the load of android devices in all different shapes, formats and price ranges makes the 7 inch ipad appear like a drop of water in the sea.
The more relevant question is: Is apple navigating itself in a position of "we against the rest" with a high fence around the garden? Again? A little lesson in the History of Apple should teach that they made this mistake one time before. In the 90s they were had the monopoly in the DTP and creative market. Until they managed to annoy their customers a few years too long by keeping the same feature set and relying on the market monopoly. At that time the logics was: If you do DTP, you need an Apple, sicne the print shops only guarantee the result if you deliver your product as a mac format. If you open a print shop, you need a Apple because the customer has Apple. Bot have an Apple, so the colour calibration chain (which indeed worked better in the beginning on the Apples than on Windows) will guarantee that you know what you print. Nowadays the logics is: Apple controls a significant share of mp3 sales, media sales, so if you want to read a digital newspaper, you need an ipad. Since people reading digital newspapers own ipads, if you make a newspaper you need to publish for the ipad.
What happened in the 90s: Windows go better and betetr and chraper and cheaper and a so big overall market share that it put apple under pressure
What happens now: Android gets better and betetr and cheaper and cheaper and Apple has no monoply on the ebook, mp3 market or anything close. So the customers are essentially people who baought an ipod, upgraded to iphone and asrrive at the ipad now. I dont know many people who bought ipad which did not own iphones before.
So that leaves the question: Will Apple show an innovation (besides putting out an ipod in another size) which attract new cistomers or did they corner themself already?
Its not 200k Lines, more on the order of 10-20kLines (depending onf the count; its written in a highly compact language). It is not my main task to restructure it, as a matter of fact i have rediculously little time budget for it, give the current state of the code. My task is to integrate new features into the code. However when i looked at it an rewrite seemed inevitable.
Let me break dow how i try it:
a) Analyze why the problem is there. There are two aspects of it: Is there a fundamental problem with the qulification of the team members (in my case, there is - they are not programmers, but experts on other topics). The other question: Is there something inherently wrong with the processes (there was. Two parts of the teams uses the Version control system based on the assumption that its only purpose is to snapshot their "working" state - which contributed hugley to commits mingling all kinds of feature updates).
b) If you look at the feature which you should implement, what is the ration of the work it *should* take (in my case: not more than 2h) to the ratio it *would* take in the current structure (in my case: 20h). Analyze what is the worst point for this feature (in my case: not separating certain layers of reading/converting/validating input and not having any explicit delcaration of a certain data structure).
c) what can you do? In my case: rewrite just this part in a better way (not perfect), with the following criteria: use the same or less time for the feature you should implement, includign the conversion. Demonstrate the power of the approach to you co-workers by integrating them in the process. In my case i used roughly 12h for rewriting the procedure, 6h to test it against ther old code, 2 h for sitting down with my boss/project manager and explainign it. After this he could include the changes he wanted himself easily in a negliglible time. (yep, i made myself obsolete for this task, and that was highly appreciated because i am not very cheap to hire)
d) discuss a clear strategy how to upgrae the code, piece by piece to a decent level, and make some showcase where infrastructure improvement would help, in parallel to what you did up to know. That is very important, since the willingness to support the conversion a new structure depends on progressively showing advantages and clearly demontrating progress. Real artists ship (i work as a consultant). If we miss a deadline in this project that would be *bad*.
e) explain what you are doing in a manager-compliant way. A lesson in communication traning you get as a consultant is *never ever* speak negativly about any product or service in general. It could be well that the head of department would ask me why i see certain steps necessary. My answer would be quite general, like: separate expert knowledge from implementation. Or: make it easier to maintain and *save* work in the long term. Be careful in that context with comments about the code quality. There is no *bad* working code. While you wish to say: this code in incredibly incoherent, taped together work of twenty different trainees supervised by sombody who did not know about the system himself, say the following: I think we can imporve the code by intrioducing a database backend. I believe that a more unified way of describing the inputs to the code will save the time of [increbly good technical expert who no spend 25% his time huntig obscure bugs]. If you go down the other road and mock the code, the following things can happen: a) the project gets cancelled, because management believes its beyond repair b) the mangemer does not hire you because he was the one who started the project 10 years ago in an obcure form which you know about c) you will loose the support of co-workers for mocking them and face a harsh review should you rewrite no be the flying pig which you promised.
ok thats my 2 cents.
Ask the IT deparment for their Opinion on it, ask you boss for his opinion on it, clearly state *where* you keep what should be kept.
The last time i left a job, i made sure all work-relevant information is on the server (where it anyway was), made an additional backup disk with the system data (to enable an emergency reinstall, should they need to set up my development environment). Then i showed and explained the file hierachy to my co-worker, infromed my boss and got his permission/instruction to bring the PCs to a clean state, ready for reinstall.
Well apple out-innovated the industry exactly once in the last 10 years: The ipod touch was brilliant as a total concept. After that it was just variations of the ipod touch, with innovative state ranging from hopelessly outdated (the first iphone) to more or less up to date (the iphone 3g).
What Apple however has is a brilliant marketing department. The Microsoft/Nokia way: annoucne your products forever, so that there is an incredible release pressure. Tell all the features they will have, including the ones you dont manage to get out of the door in time.
Apple: Show a device, where everything works and all the features which dont work are turned off.
Well. I am 37. Formally I am not really an IT guy (PhD in physics). I am not the youngest and there are a lot of people who are younger than me and are less open to learning something new (on IT or otherwise). My priorities changed a little since i was 22.
1) You have to accept that you are doing things which must be maintained by your coworkers. The number of skills involved in maintainign somthing decreases the chance that it will be maintained exponentially.
2) There is a reason for sending back a batch of PCs which dont perform as specified (If i order machines which run XP from a computer store, i expect that they solve the problem). Otherwise I leave it to the 22year old in the group. i am not interested in learning about the incpomatibilities of XP and they (22j olds) seem to be good in remembering senseless shit, probably obsolete with the next SP of windows (or the next version).
3) I know a lot of programming languages, however i can tell you that focusing one one or twowill be a good thing for you. it is not up to me to judge if its good or bad (i dont like it), but you can earn a lot of reputation by having something where you are better than anybody else around. There are two reasons for this: a) a lot of people will exchnage their ideas with you, since your skill may touch their topic b) combine your skill with other experts and your team will easily outperform the team of generalists. (a am in such a situation. I am a matlab expert and work together with a database expert on a joint project and we are doing things and demonstrations in timescales and quality unimaginable for generalists).
4) Being the girl or boy for everything will get you recognition in a good team, but in a bad team it maybe does not pay off. Be careful.
iff you document what a function *should* do, you *can* compare its projected behaviour to that.
would have been better if they stayed with symbian. The number of real show-stopper bugs in symbian was quite low, and most things worked as well under it as under other os. But to first deprecate it (and continue to sell it for over three years after that), then throw away meego/linux, for which experiences on real hw are already available in the company, collected on early adopter phones, and switch to windows....
Every major switch of the SW environment will introduce bugs; dont try such a thing on your mainstream device. (and if you try it, test it fairly before release).
they should turn to the SEO monkeys. Not that i approve of all business methods they use.....
Honestly. If the toilet needs to be cleaned, will it be done by the employees taking turns? If the office needs to be painted, will everybody get an brush?
Well maybe the fact that Amazon are taking great care to make clear who is responsible for which content and react in an appropriate manner?
No what they said is: do with the space what you want, we dont need the documents any more.
If megaupload did not take precautionary measures, its megauploads problem.
if you are interested in backup, how about using Amazon S3 or any other service which will definitely not be shut down?
The contaminated area has a radius of less than 100km and Japan has enough habitable areas - actually all of Japan is habitable. the mountain ranges are - even in the low altitude valleys - nearly empty. There are huge areas covered by rice fields.