Up here around Portland we've got Nike, Adidas, Columbia Sportswear, and maybe a few more. They mostly only hire from each other. If you are not in the apparel business, not much chance to get hired there.
The IT market is so glutted with workers that all the employers want industry-specific experience in whatever industry they are in.
There is no such thing as anti-spam, thank goodness. If there were, and if the spammers sent it spam, the spam would be gone, but copious gamma rays and neutrinos would result, and the bystanders would all die from the radiation.
Consider what the IEEE does with standards like POSIX. Lots of the GNU tools allegedly follow the POSIX standard (eg sort). Want to report a bug? Show how it doesn't follow the standard. Where do you find the standard? Go to the bank and make a loan, then send the money to IEEE. What good is a secret standard?
The support forum agreement could turn into a moneymaker for the lawyers if it was ever battled out in court. They can protect trade secrets. But how can information about how to make software work be a trade secret when every detail of the software's operation is already published in source form under an open source license? That won't walk. They can copyright their presentation of the information, but they can't prevent you from telling others how to make the software work. If they could, you would bet that, for example, MS would have a similar clause in their license that made the whole Windows for Bozos book industry illegal.
We are building for the future. Prisons, not castles, but there is some similarity.
Too much focusing on the future is almost as bad as too much focusing on the past. The focus should be on the story. We are writing our own stories now. If a vivid hypothetical look back on the never was helps us to realize that we should be doing something now worth looking back upon someday, that's good.
Last week or so, WA passed OR as the state of greatest unemployment rate. So OR has to try to keep its claim to fame. It sort of balances out. WA sends its recently laid off workers to OR. OR sends its long-term unemployed to WA. WA sends its toxic waste to OR. OR sends its hazardous waste to WA.
If you want to retire young and rich, be young and go short in houses on the Northwest Housing Exchange for the next 6 months.
You just slashdotted kavi. I do this, too. Whenever some mononeuronic bozon refuses to hire me, about twice a month, I let everyone know that said fool is looking for someone who can really make Flash spit wooden nickels to promote sophisticated websites, or something else that a typical loser would jump on. Then the guy gets buried in email that he would probably like if he didn't get so much of it.
Try U-Haul, Ryder, or whoever rents out those trailers. One of my friends decided to move out of town and found that there was a shortage of trailers for rent, as they have all been rented 1-way outbound. You might get a job retrieving them or building more.
The number 1 columnists at both Byte My Magazine and PC Techniques for Virgin Geeks both gave favorable reviews to products where a business relationship with the vendor was subsequently revealed.
Is this G. Cooke a real person? Sony had a movie reviewer it was quoting in its movie ads who was 100% bogus. Nowadays, being bogus is a key to integrity. Bogus reviewers are incorruptible.
In 1903, the development of the airplane was widely anticipated by scientific literature and scientific conferences. Several inventors were close to flight. Toy planes powered by rubber bands had been flying for years, and birds and bats somewhat longer. Much of the public didn't like it, but the demonstrations told the story.
NIAC (NASA Institute of Advanced Concepts) contracted with the Mechanical Engineering Department at Rowan University in Atlanta, to test the idea. Well, they just issued the final report for the 6-month Phase I study. They "successfully test fired" the thruster. "However, due to time and cost constraints successful measurements of the exhaust. velocity have not been completed." Not to worry. "These concepts will be proposed for an ongoing Phase II study."
Park seems to be a freethinker. He's very conservative on some things, but he mocks a makery of idiocy like the SDI.
OK. It's wonderful. Where's the list of success stories -- big projects that have used Eiffel with these new tools and are big successes? There were a few claimed successes in years past, a pension fund here and there, embedded software for printers. But the list was short and didn't seem to be getting many new entries.
Better yet, where are the jobs? This language is around since 1985, and I just ran a search on www.dice.com for Eiffel jobs, and I turned up 1 job that might or might not really be an Eiffel job. Considering PL1 turned up 21 and awk 38, Eiffel's not a smash hit.
Read OOSC. IDK if it's good or bad, technically,
but it's a very entertaining read for a software book. Meyer is a human electron, going through the sage, zealot, and crackpot slits all at once in a fairly convincing style, mixing in witty asides that make you think that the average sermon would be a lot better if he had become a preacher.
He derives all the properties of Eiffel from first principles, convincing you that everything has to be this way or it would be a big mess. But then, you find out that Eiffel has this problem of CATcalls, ie changing availability of typos or something, and thus Eiffel also has serious skeletons in the closet down where it smells bad. Is he the Goedel of software? You be the judge.
If no one sends spam, then no one will filter spam. Spam volume must eventually reach some equilibrium, but that will probably be at the point at which the spammers are earning around the minimum or subsistence wage.
I'm a little over 100 per day. This is with my correct email all over hundreds of postings to newsgroups over many years and my name on a web site as the contact address, with the website in several popular directories. The 10% annual growth is a wild guess and can't be anywhere near correct. Mine has doubled in the last 3 months.
it's the number of items in the array that's the only other member of the TagList, and defining a constant for this would be pretty senseless.
Senseless? Preventing a serious bug in released code is senseless? Actually, you are probably right about 'senseless', but it is only senseless in the context, and the context that the programmers created is not propitious for rock-solid code
Any acerbic advocate of any favorite advanced programming language, no doubt even the programming language actually used to create this bug, could write a long and vitriolic article about how this bug should not and probably would not occur if the programmers had used the standards of good practice normally practiced with the favorite advanced language or enforced by its typical compiler.
It is something of a hint that the Mozilla code is not up to industrial strength when this occurs to showstop a release. Of course, I'm not saying that any of the competitors do any better, but if you want to do better, you have to do it better.
Why in the world is there a constant 8 or 9 in the code? We knew back in 1975 that this was evil. The only constants allowed in production code were zero, one, two, and one-half. All other constants were considered obscure by nature and had to be given explanatory names, eg NumberOfBitsPerByte, NumberOfPlayersInABaseballLineup. How can a big project not be fubarted with this kind of coding?
Is this project written by young guys with enormous mental capacity who rely on their ability to remember the arcana of code values without fail? If so, expect problems later.
Just drive your car around in a Faraday cage. If you shield your radio so that signals can't get out, you'll be safe, but, unfortunately, no signals could get in, so you'll have to record the traffic reports on 8-tracks at home and listen to them in the car.
The Constitution protects rights reserved by the people, but it unfortunately does not list them explicitly. For a while, say from 1940 to 1985, it would have been likely taken for granted by most that these must surely include some right of privacy, such an obvious right that it went without mentioning in the Constitution, except as unreasonable searches were outlawed. Nowadays, with the strict constructionist Republican appointees having a stranglehold on the Constitution, this interpretation is pretty much dead.
Most people don't realize that prior to the New Deal, the Court just about never ruled in favor of individual rights other than property rights and freedom for the wealthy and powerful to be unoppressed. Nowadays with the Court swinging back to that old way of thinking and with wealth and power more concentrated than ever, there could be big changes coming for America.
There is some small movement in the US to take away Constitutional rights from corporations. This is a bad idea in many ways, but it looks better and better every day with this kind of news. As recent discussions of the right of the government to monitor clickstream data without a warrant show, there is not always such a clear separation of content from addressing information for our modern data streams.
For example, if they can monitor whom I call, then it would be legal for them to call me back and ask me to repeat my pizza order because they fouled it up, then dispatch a pizza to my house to beat the pizza delivery service that I called. Same for plumbers, ambulances, electricians, any kind of home delivery or repair, flowers sent by 800 number to relatives across the country, etc. What fun!
"In an surgical operation to remove a cancerous kidney at St. Joseph's Hospital in St Petersburg, a three-armed da Vinci robot (made by Intuitive Surgical Inc.) was being controlled by an experienced doctor from a 3-dimensional computer screen, 10 feet away. The robot technology for cutting blood vessels is supposed to decrease bleeding, pain, and recovery time. Unfortunately, the patient's aorta and another blood vessel were cut, and this went unnoticed for an hour and one-half. Two days later, the patient died of complications. The developer found no mechanical problems, and absolved the robot, which had been used successfully in 10 similar operations."
There is the little problem about tabs and spaces being rendered identically by most software but meaning very different things to make. The authors of make figured out pretty early on that this was a big mistake, but they didn't change it because they didn't want to disrupt their installed user base. Their installed user base at that time was approximately eleven users. If they had taken the bull by the tail and faced the situation, we wouldn't be having this discussion today.
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The IT market is so glutted with workers that all the employers want industry-specific experience in whatever industry they are in.
There is no such thing as anti-spam, thank goodness. If there were, and if the spammers sent it spam, the spam would be gone, but copious gamma rays and neutrinos would result, and the bystanders would all die from the radiation.
Consider what the IEEE does with standards like POSIX. Lots of the GNU tools allegedly follow the POSIX standard (eg sort). Want to report a bug? Show how it doesn't follow the standard. Where do you find the standard? Go to the bank and make a loan, then send the money to IEEE. What good is a secret standard?
The support forum agreement could turn into a moneymaker for the lawyers if it was ever battled out in court. They can protect trade secrets. But how can information about how to make software work be a trade secret when every detail of the software's operation is already published in source form under an open source license? That won't walk. They can copyright their presentation of the information, but they can't prevent you from telling others how to make the software work. If they could, you would bet that, for example, MS would have a similar clause in their license that made the whole Windows for Bozos book industry illegal.
Too much focusing on the future is almost as bad as too much focusing on the past. The focus should be on the story. We are writing our own stories now. If a vivid hypothetical look back on the never was helps us to realize that we should be doing something now worth looking back upon someday, that's good.
... when his baggage arrives.
If you want to retire young and rich, be young and go short in houses on the Northwest Housing Exchange for the next 6 months.
You just slashdotted kavi. I do this, too. Whenever some mononeuronic bozon refuses to hire me, about twice a month, I let everyone know that said fool is looking for someone who can really make Flash spit wooden nickels to promote sophisticated websites, or something else that a typical loser would jump on. Then the guy gets buried in email that he would probably like if he didn't get so much of it.
Net result -- You've got a better shot opening a falaffel stand on eBay.
Try U-Haul, Ryder, or whoever rents out those trailers. One of my friends decided to move out of town and found that there was a shortage of trailers for rent, as they have all been rented 1-way outbound. You might get a job retrieving them or building more.
The number 1 columnists at both Byte My Magazine and PC Techniques for Virgin Geeks both gave favorable reviews to products where a business relationship with the vendor was subsequently revealed.
Is this G. Cooke a real person? Sony had a movie reviewer it was quoting in its movie ads who was 100% bogus. Nowadays, being bogus is a key to integrity. Bogus reviewers are incorruptible.
In 1903, the development of the airplane was widely anticipated by scientific literature and scientific conferences. Several inventors were close to flight. Toy planes powered by rubber bands had been flying for years, and birds and bats somewhat longer. Much of the public didn't like it, but the demonstrations told the story.
Park seems to be a freethinker. He's very conservative on some things, but he mocks a makery of idiocy like the SDI.
Better yet, where are the jobs? This language is around since 1985, and I just ran a search on www.dice.com for Eiffel jobs, and I turned up 1 job that might or might not really be an Eiffel job. Considering PL1 turned up 21 and awk 38, Eiffel's not a smash hit.
He derives all the properties of Eiffel from first principles, convincing you that everything has to be this way or it would be a big mess. But then, you find out that Eiffel has this problem of CATcalls, ie changing availability of typos or something, and thus Eiffel also has serious skeletons in the closet down where it smells bad. Is he the Goedel of software? You be the judge.
If no one sends spam, then no one will filter spam. Spam volume must eventually reach some equilibrium, but that will probably be at the point at which the spammers are earning around the minimum or subsistence wage.
I'm a little over 100 per day. This is with my correct email all over hundreds of postings to newsgroups over many years and my name on a web site as the contact address, with the website in several popular directories. The 10% annual growth is a wild guess and can't be anywhere near correct. Mine has doubled in the last 3 months.
Senseless? Preventing a serious bug in released code is senseless? Actually, you are probably right about 'senseless', but it is only senseless in the context, and the context that the programmers created is not propitious for rock-solid code
Any acerbic advocate of any favorite advanced programming language, no doubt even the programming language actually used to create this bug, could write a long and vitriolic article about how this bug should not and probably would not occur if the programmers had used the standards of good practice normally practiced with the favorite advanced language or enforced by its typical compiler.
It is something of a hint that the Mozilla code is not up to industrial strength when this occurs to showstop a release. Of course, I'm not saying that any of the competitors do any better, but if you want to do better, you have to do it better.
Why in the world is there a constant 8 or 9 in the code? We knew back in 1975 that this was evil. The only constants allowed in production code were zero, one, two, and one-half. All other constants were considered obscure by nature and had to be given explanatory names, eg NumberOfBitsPerByte, NumberOfPlayersInABaseballLineup. How can a big project not be fubarted with this kind of coding? Is this project written by young guys with enormous mental capacity who rely on their ability to remember the arcana of code values without fail? If so, expect problems later.
Just drive your car around in a Faraday cage. If you shield your radio so that signals can't get out, you'll be safe, but, unfortunately, no signals could get in, so you'll have to record the traffic reports on 8-tracks at home and listen to them in the car.
Most people don't realize that prior to the New Deal, the Court just about never ruled in favor of individual rights other than property rights and freedom for the wealthy and powerful to be unoppressed. Nowadays with the Court swinging back to that old way of thinking and with wealth and power more concentrated than ever, there could be big changes coming for America.
For example, if they can monitor whom I call, then it would be legal for them to call me back and ask me to repeat my pizza order because they fouled it up, then dispatch a pizza to my house to beat the pizza delivery service that I called. Same for plumbers, ambulances, electricians, any kind of home delivery or repair, flowers sent by 800 number to relatives across the country, etc. What fun!
Isn't that Joe Bob Briggs' real name?
"In an surgical operation to remove a cancerous kidney at St. Joseph's Hospital in St Petersburg, a three-armed da Vinci robot (made by Intuitive Surgical Inc.) was being controlled by an experienced doctor from a 3-dimensional computer screen, 10 feet away. The robot technology for cutting blood vessels is supposed to decrease bleeding, pain, and recovery time. Unfortunately, the patient's aorta and another blood vessel were cut, and this went unnoticed for an hour and one-half. Two days later, the patient died of complications. The developer found no mechanical problems, and absolved the robot, which had been used successfully in 10 similar operations."
There is the little problem about tabs and spaces being rendered identically by most software but meaning very different things to make. The authors of make figured out pretty early on that this was a big mistake, but they didn't change it because they didn't want to disrupt their installed user base. Their installed user base at that time was approximately eleven users. If they had taken the bull by the tail and faced the situation, we wouldn't be having this discussion today.
I'm a wimp. Can't read what I can't see.