I've seen a few expert programmers to realize I'm not good enough to hold a candle to them.. Open source does that to a student... Sadly, humility and modesty don't get you a good job in the current market.
I told the guys who interviewed me that I was about 7/10 in C programming. I was promptly rejected.. afterwards I learnt that they wanted a guy who "knew pointers" (*GAH*). Me.. who has been playing around with compilers , JITs and code portable to 10 or more CPUs.....
Time to go back to my 300 $/month job, I guess... self pity's not that valuable. --
It would be amazing to be able to print out PCBs rather than sending your diagrams to a shop. Even if this doesn't work for a production system, it would be great for hobbyists to create throwaway prototypes of circuits before sending those designs in.
Also this brings a new way of "compiling" your circuit boards.. I wonder if raw postscript could be used to run these printers ?.
Finally, those kids in college can really see their circuits in action rather than as blinking circles in some circuit simulator !. It's a real good feeling.... of EUPHORIA . I still remember my first bistable vibrator done on a breadboard , and seeing those leds go blink... blink.. blink...
<old_voice> "Those days we didn't have zeros and ones either - all we had was Vcc , ground and everything in between... and we liked it":) </old_voice>
> has found that the USA Patriot Act threatens the private data of citizens even if they don't live in the USA (repeat: non-Americans are at risk).
Citizens of USA ?.... then they are Americans right ?. A citizen of Canada's patriotism shouldn't affect US of A's well being ?. (exceptions will be citizens of Vietnam, Laos and Iraq).
Hmmm.. what does mine include (if I was a non-US government).
Being a government I want to be socially responsible and spend taxes as locally as possible (or outsource your OS needs to Redmond ?.)
I don't want FBI to put backdoors in my apps
So I need a good security audit to be done by my technical people
I don't want to depend on a single country/company for all my software
So I need to pick and choose who can modify it
And change it after I've bought the software
So what all fits this cloth is only Free Software. The same amount paid to Alan Cox's hardware might be a LOT better for Britain than paying that to Microsoft's (or SCO Unixware's) learjet budget.
Hear all those who clamour about outsourcing, why don't you see that Britain can do local spending of taxes this way . The only viable OS right now for that task is GNU/Linux.
The sad part "my address bus is bigger than you" is going the "I have more MHz than you" way soon as parallel CPUs (mulit-core or otherwise) become cheaper.. 90% of our tasks are better done parallel than using a single fast chip . Hell , half of the tasks really don't need anything beyond a 300/400 mhz clocks.
For one simple reason... It's the simplest equation I've ever seen for such a complicated concept (ie implications on speed of light, absolute time , nuclear bombs and gravity). For simplicity of equation vs the complexity of concept , it wins hands down.
I've read quite a few books on relativity , still the equation remains the first thing that comes to my mind . Hopefully the grand unified field theory will have such a simple equation behind everything in the world.
> Thank you. Now I know never to hire you. That's not called "Research" that's called stealing. Taking someone else's copyrighted code and passing it off as your own is stealing.
I guess you invented all your crypto and wrote your own libc ?. Reading a reference implementation is MANDATORY for doing most of the things I do . I've read a lot of os-specific code and often there are no two ways to do it either.
(yeah , like reading pySerial and redoing it in C is copyright violation).
What all this gave me in college is a skill at understanding code I never wrote and debugging it. It turns out that I do the SAME THING AT WORK - DEBUG SOMEONE ELSE's BUGGY CODE !!!
Take a program done by 3-4 people , pick the best parts, integrate
Macros from one, sortings from another, recursion from yet-another...
It's a lot less hard than writing it yourself and the result is often better than the originals.. Most of all, you actually learn from other people's mistakes .
Even after getting a job, I find that this is a much more stable way of programming newish things - "find a lot of similar things, pick the best strategies & adapt".
If Microsoft enforces a patent on Mono, I'm sure Novell will pay the license fee though. A RAND license from Microsoft might involve a per-copy royalty or a distribution restriction agreement for the source - effectively killing off Open Source part of Mono. But Novell would still be able to consider Mono a revenue stream (so the paying customers might still be not left out in the cold).
The sad part of this is that all the public code of Mono will also become useless for everyone concerned (except for academic purposes , but there are much better research VMs). This is the concern expressed by the various Gnome devels recently...
From what google is today , I would like to throw your collective memories back into the early eighties.
I was a toddler with drool down my face... but I've done my homework . Remember when Microsoft was the underdog fighting the "Not Invented Here" IBM's stranglehold on the computer industry (I don't see any DEC clones here).
We're back to another underdog fighting a monopoly... at least this time , make sure we don't end up with *another* monopoly on the internet.
For a company whose motto is "do no evil", this move doesn't fit into the picture. But for a potential juggernaut ready to steamroll the Redmond Giant, this looks like the IDEAL move. Makes perfect business sense too - but google was never about Money - or that's the submlinal message that makes the geek community google fans.
Mars is an average of 48 million miles from Earth, though the distance can vary greatly depending on where the two planets are in their orbits around the sun. At that distance, a spacecraft traveling 625,000 miles a day would take more than 76 days to get to the red planet. But Winglee is working on ways to devise even greater speeds so the round trip could be accomplished in three months
WTF am I missing?
Round trip is both ways - so make that
bc 1.06 Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. For details type `warranty'. ((76*2)/30) 5.06666666666666666666
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That's grammar ... you fool :)
.. but two keys off ... that's BAD !.
... it's been 1 year since I opened up this box ...
I can understand a left hand - left error , or a right hand - right error in typing (ie 'r' for 'e')
That reminds me
ICC really sucks for compatibility ....
...
:)
For example, my code performs 5 times faster when compiled with gcc than when compiled with ICC
Ok, maybe I'm a special case (I use computed GOTO). But you can't compile the kernel either
I've seen a few expert programmers to realize I'm not good enough to hold a candle to them .. Open source does that to a student ... Sadly, humility and modesty don't get you a good job in the current market .
.. afterwards I learnt that they wanted a guy who "knew pointers" (*GAH*). Me .. who has been playing around with compilers , JITs and code portable to 10 or more CPUs .....
... self pity's not that valuable.
I told the guys who interviewed me that I was about 7/10 in C programming. I was promptly rejected
Time to go back to my 300 $/month job, I guess
--
Seems to be a good match :)
.. I wonder if raw postscript could be used to run these printers ?.
.... of EUPHORIA . I still remember my first bistable vibrator done on a breadboard , and seeing those leds go blink ... blink .. blink ...
:)
Inkjets + Epson == PCB printers
It would be amazing to be able to print out PCBs rather than sending your diagrams to a shop. Even if this doesn't work for a production system, it would be great for hobbyists to create throwaway prototypes of circuits before sending those designs in.
Also this brings a new way of "compiling" your circuit boards
Finally, those kids in college can really see their circuits in action rather than as blinking circles in some circuit simulator !. It's a real good feeling
<old_voice>
"Those days we didn't have zeros and ones either - all we had was Vcc , ground and everything in between... and we liked it"
</old_voice>
For a really BSD licensed Linux, I'd ask for a contract with Dell to ship Linux by default ... ...
...
:)
And AOL to add Firefox on their CDs
And BSD a Linux 2.0 kernel
After all I'm not in this for the money
> has found that the USA Patriot Act threatens the private data of citizens even if they don't live in the USA (repeat: non-Americans are at risk).
Citizens of USA ?. ... then they are Americans right ?. A citizen of Canada's patriotism shouldn't affect US of A's well being ?.
(exceptions will be citizens of Vietnam, Laos and Iraq).
> *somebody* take a sane stand on the issue of Shared Knowledge, which has been that way for a few thousand years in human history now.
Ogg says , "My tribe not share fire with your tribe"...
Imagine... (wish I had mod points to spare).
> From now on, we will only install software on the servers that is at version 2.0 and above
Hmm.. let this guy install Windows 3.1 on the servers (apparently that *is* > 2.0)
Hmm.. maybe I wonder if Knuth did a good thing by freezing TeX at 3.14 (or was it 3.14.15...)
Often 1.3.34 follows 1.3.32 for GNU style namings ...
Think how 2.4 follows 2.2 kernels ?.
So what all fits this cloth is only Free Software. The same amount paid to Alan Cox's hardware might be a LOT better for Britain than paying that to Microsoft's (or SCO Unixware's) learjet budget.
Hear all those who clamour about outsourcing, why don't you see that Britain can do local spending of taxes this way . The only viable OS right now for that task is GNU/Linux.
> know how to properly frame the QUESTION of how to predict the weather
...
We'll process all the data for 7 million years to get something like 42 , and we'll have to build a BIGGER computer to get the QUESTION
And it'll be like "Think of a number. any number ?" (which I believe to be the QUESTION).
Linux and Pr0n on one CD !! .. I now realize why this has become wildly popular ...
... :)
Well, couldn't resist that
The notable exception is the Arm's thumb instruction set (it's cool).
The sad part "my address bus is bigger than you" is going the "I have more MHz than you" way soon as parallel CPUs (mulit-core or otherwise) become cheaper.. 90% of our tasks are better done parallel than using a single fast chip . Hell , half of the tasks really don't need anything beyond a 300/400 mhz clocks.E = MC^2
For one simple reasonI've read quite a few books on relativity , still the equation remains the first thing that comes to my mind . Hopefully the grand unified field theory will have such a simple equation behind everything in the world.
> Running untrusted code can result in system compromise.
:)
Even if you have the CODE !!.
So much for "Open Source" trojans
I guess you invented all your crypto and wrote your own libc ?. Reading a reference implementation is MANDATORY for doing most of the things I do . I've read a lot of os-specific code and often there are no two ways to do it either. (yeah , like reading pySerial and redoing it in C is copyright violation).
What all this gave me in college is a skill at understanding code I never wrote and debugging it. It turns out that I do the SAME THING AT WORK - DEBUG SOMEONE ELSE's BUGGY CODE !!!
No. Xerox started it - with Apple following (with a mouse) , Microsoft just followed Apple (windows !) , and the rest of world (VB !!) with them ...
Take a program done by 3-4 people , pick the best parts, integrate
Macros from one, sortings from another, recursion from yet-another...
It's a lot less hard than writing it yourself and the result is often better than the originals .. Most of all, you actually learn from other people's mistakes .
Even after getting a job, I find that this is a much more stable way of programming newish things -"find a lot of similar things, pick the best strategies & adapt".
Btw, these days - that's called "Research" :)
> That would be Mono then.
I wouldn't be too sure (read the first comment , LOL !!) .
If Microsoft enforces a patent on Mono, I'm sure Novell will pay the license fee though. A RAND license from Microsoft might involve a per-copy royalty or a distribution restriction agreement for the source - effectively killing off Open Source part of Mono. But Novell would still be able to consider Mono a revenue stream (so the paying customers might still be not left out in the cold).
The sad part of this is that all the public code of Mono will also become useless for everyone concerned (except for academic purposes , but there are much better research VMs). This is the concern expressed by the various Gnome devels recently ...
Support ParrotThere can be more than one ... only they control ...
... ... but a Monopoly none the less )
different things
Like Intel and Microsoft in the mid-nineties
(sure, there were other CPUs and there were other
OSes
From what google is today , I would like to throw your collective memories back into the early eighties.
... at least this time , make sure we don't end up with *another* monopoly on the internet.
..
I was a toddler with drool down my face... but I've done my homework . Remember when Microsoft was the underdog fighting the "Not Invented Here" IBM's stranglehold on the computer industry (I don't see any DEC clones here).
We're back to another underdog fighting a monopoly
For a company whose motto is "do no evil", this move doesn't fit into the picture. But for a potential juggernaut ready to steamroll the Redmond Giant, this looks like the IDEAL move. Makes perfect business sense too - but google was never about Money - or that's the submlinal message that makes the geek community google fans.
Be afraid, be very very afraid
An email to treasure ... :)
The ISP is calling another 5% to shut off their netconnection and stop sending spam ....
It's a dinosaur of a language .... Sadly NetRexx is just not the same thing.
..:(
..
Sad that it's still not GPL'd
After all it's only used on Mainframes these days
WTF am I missing?
Round trip is both ways - so make that