While I would probably think this is a "bad thing" in it's current form, I think there is a value to identifying people who struggle with urges to rape, assault, kill, etc and getting them the help they need pro-actively. If they haven't committed any crime that we know of, they should be considered innocent and treated as such, but they might be receptive to programs that would help them to work through their issues without violence.
I keep hearing how hard it is to find good people but then the recruiters tell me that the potential employer can't meet my price point and that is the end of the discussion.
Looks like it would be pretty easy to tape an LED with a little battery to your Poppy and I bet they could be talked into creating a version with either a visible or IR LED, if you asked really nice.
OK. Alice is in the Tesla that plays vroom-vroom sounds on the Blaupunkt stereo. Bob is in the Chevy. They both turn their keys but neither car starts. Carl turns the key in his Civic and all three cars start.
I think.
Agreed! The article implies that his "awesome" hack gives him infinite control of the skies. It really only gives him control of one kind of toy drone and then only until they release an update that blocks his hack.
In the entertainment industry, it has produced an editor for Pawn Stars and an Emmy winner, among others. I don't have any information on how many successful software developers it has produced.
I don't think the original poster's numbers are that odd. I think he just doesn't understand the big picture. More goes into creating a product than just engineering and if no one buys it, the engineering is entirely pointless.
In his article The Development Abstraction Layer, Joel Spolsky said "...support and administrative functions which, in a typical company, add up to about 80% of the payroll."
I highly recommend that article as there is a lot of great information in that article that can help with developing perspective on what really needs to happen to make a great product.
You're just not grasping it. It isn't about whether I use best practice, worst practice, or really stupid practice. It is about an unexpected change to my expectations.
I don't think it is the end of the world, I think it is more about expectations. I haven't seen the screen in question but I would probably be fine with it as long as it had a warning that the password would be displayed.
Suppose I am installing a virtual machine while sitting in a shared space or while sharing my screen on a projector. I go type that password in with the expectation it would be hidden and next thing you know, everyone knows my password.
I suppose you could say I'm a bad person for using my login password on my virtual machine's install, but I want something easy to remember. It could very easily be something else but the point is, I didn't expect to be showing that password to anyone, even with others viewing my screen.
Very said.
I met him once at an ArsDigita event when he was around 14. I was surprised to find that the posts I had been reading came from someone so young. He was a very smart guy and he made a lot of waves. I am sad to see him go.
If we improve, the author can put us near the bottom of the top 5. Or maybe even near the bottom of the top 2. Perhaps we could even be the last of the first place finishers.
I agree with Johnny Chung Lee, who pointed out in his blog, http://procrastineering.blogspot.com/2011/11/technology-as-story.html that everything is a story. In the case of movies, you consume the stories but in other cases you are actually a part of the story. I believe this applies to business software, games of all types, hardware and software.
The trick is understanding the story and what to do with it. The games I enjoy are escapist first person action where I am the center of the story. As such, I don't really care about cut scenes or any of what I consider fluff.
Two "professional" drivers were very responsible for the deaths in this situation. Any driver, and especially a professional one, should be able to respond to things that happen in front of them in a way that avoids contact, and if that is impossible, in a way that minimizes damages to people or property.
It is even possible the 19-year-old that caused the initial crash would still be alive if not crushed by a school bus driven by a professional driver.
I don't understand why they keep sticking those damn intermediate layers in there. Real programmers write write in assembly language. If you want real performance that is what you need to be doing instead of using foofy object-oriented programming tools and junk like that.
In my experience those other things just add more bugs and no real value. If you want information an old-fashioned text-only display can provide it. Remove all the layers please.
I don't see how Dick's estate can claim anything here. The word "android" was created in the 1700s. The word "nexus" was created in the 1600s. Although the referenced story creates an interesting nexus between the two words, I don't see how that connection can be significant enough to create some type of claim on the combination of the two words, even if they were used together.
Perhaps LG should have to pay Patrick Skene Catling for using his intellectual property when they named their product "Chocolate Touch".
This post presumes that fact that "creation scientists" have nothing to add to the debate. This is exactly the type of thing I am talking about.
To discount an entire argument because the person have been pre-labeled as not agreeing with you is to defy the entire scientific process.
It is rare that two opposing viewpoints are actually completely opposite. A true creation scientist will be open-minded enough to debate and discuss various thoughts and viewpoints and a rational discussion/debate may lead to some enlightenment on both sides.
A close-minded creation scientist is just as dangerous as any other close-minded other scientist. "Closed-minded" and "scientist" are not words that belong together.
I am not suggesting scientists just sit around and debate all day. But they owe it to the scientific community and the populace in general to be scientific about how they approach things (duh).
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While I would probably think this is a "bad thing" in it's current form, I think there is a value to identifying people who struggle with urges to rape, assault, kill, etc and getting them the help they need pro-actively. If they haven't committed any crime that we know of, they should be considered innocent and treated as such, but they might be receptive to programs that would help them to work through their issues without violence.
I keep hearing how hard it is to find good people but then the recruiters tell me that the potential employer can't meet my price point and that is the end of the discussion.
Looks like it would be pretty easy to tape an LED with a little battery to your Poppy and I bet they could be talked into creating a version with either a visible or IR LED, if you asked really nice.
OK. Alice is in the Tesla that plays vroom-vroom sounds on the Blaupunkt stereo. Bob is in the Chevy. They both turn their keys but neither car starts. Carl turns the key in his Civic and all three cars start. I think.
Even then it would be longer than many many lifetimes. If that were truly a measure of security, I think it would be adequate.
This was my first computer. I tried booting in CPM mode about twice, the rest of the time I was happy in C64 mode or C128 mode.
Agreed! The article implies that his "awesome" hack gives him infinite control of the skies. It really only gives him control of one kind of toy drone and then only until they release an update that blocks his hack.
Lincoln Nebraska has a technology focus program http://itfp.lps.org/
In the entertainment industry, it has produced an editor for Pawn Stars and an Emmy winner, among others. I don't have any information on how many successful software developers it has produced.
http://itfp.lps.org/alumni.html http://itfp.lps.org/graphics/Kelly.htm
Here's a nickel. I'll take six. Does that include shipping?
I don't think the original poster's numbers are that odd. I think he just doesn't understand the big picture. More goes into creating a product than just engineering and if no one buys it, the engineering is entirely pointless.
In his article The Development Abstraction Layer, Joel Spolsky said "...support and administrative functions which, in a typical company, add up to about 80% of the payroll."
I highly recommend that article as there is a lot of great information in that article that can help with developing perspective on what really needs to happen to make a great product.
You're just not grasping it. It isn't about whether I use best practice, worst practice, or really stupid practice. It is about an unexpected change to my expectations.
I don't think it is the end of the world, I think it is more about expectations. I haven't seen the screen in question but I would probably be fine with it as long as it had a warning that the password would be displayed. Suppose I am installing a virtual machine while sitting in a shared space or while sharing my screen on a projector. I go type that password in with the expectation it would be hidden and next thing you know, everyone knows my password. I suppose you could say I'm a bad person for using my login password on my virtual machine's install, but I want something easy to remember. It could very easily be something else but the point is, I didn't expect to be showing that password to anyone, even with others viewing my screen.
Very said. I met him once at an ArsDigita event when he was around 14. I was surprised to find that the posts I had been reading came from someone so young. He was a very smart guy and he made a lot of waves. I am sad to see him go.
If we improve, the author can put us near the bottom of the top 5. Or maybe even near the bottom of the top 2. Perhaps we could even be the last of the first place finishers.
Yes. Thank goodness the corporate giants are there to protect with their giant wads of cash.
If that many people are pirates, shouldn't we just use our voting power to deem the BSA as an illegal racket trying to hit us up for protection money?
Change is bad. Stop changing things.
There is nothing clever about the term "brogrammer"
Why get married if you aren't planning to combine anything?
I agree with Johnny Chung Lee, who pointed out in his blog, http://procrastineering.blogspot.com/2011/11/technology-as-story.html that everything is a story. In the case of movies, you consume the stories but in other cases you are actually a part of the story. I believe this applies to business software, games of all types, hardware and software.
The trick is understanding the story and what to do with it. The games I enjoy are escapist first person action where I am the center of the story. As such, I don't really care about cut scenes or any of what I consider fluff.
Two "professional" drivers were very responsible for the deaths in this situation. Any driver, and especially a professional one, should be able to respond to things that happen in front of them in a way that avoids contact, and if that is impossible, in a way that minimizes damages to people or property. It is even possible the 19-year-old that caused the initial crash would still be alive if not crushed by a school bus driven by a professional driver.
Butterfly++? Butterfly#? or straight Butterfly?
I don't understand why they keep sticking those damn intermediate layers in there. Real programmers write write in assembly language. If you want real performance that is what you need to be doing instead of using foofy object-oriented programming tools and junk like that. In my experience those other things just add more bugs and no real value. If you want information an old-fashioned text-only display can provide it. Remove all the layers please.
I don't see how Dick's estate can claim anything here. The word "android" was created in the 1700s. The word "nexus" was created in the 1600s. Although the referenced story creates an interesting nexus between the two words, I don't see how that connection can be significant enough to create some type of claim on the combination of the two words, even if they were used together. Perhaps LG should have to pay Patrick Skene Catling for using his intellectual property when they named their product "Chocolate Touch".
This post presumes that fact that "creation scientists" have nothing to add to the debate. This is exactly the type of thing I am talking about.
To discount an entire argument because the person have been pre-labeled as not agreeing with you is to defy the entire scientific process.
It is rare that two opposing viewpoints are actually completely opposite. A true creation scientist will be open-minded enough to debate and discuss various thoughts and viewpoints and a rational discussion/debate may lead to some enlightenment on both sides.
A close-minded creation scientist is just as dangerous as any other close-minded other scientist. "Closed-minded" and "scientist" are not words that belong together.
I am not suggesting scientists just sit around and debate all day. But they owe it to the scientific community and the populace in general to be scientific about how they approach things (duh).