This is what I call "the Wikipedia effect", due to that community's emphasis on quantities such as edit count as an indicator of merit. The person with the greatest number of patents is not necessarily "the greatest inventor". There are plenty of people with few but very significant inventions. There are also people that don't patent everything they invent.
"Most prolific" is more accurate, but the article seems to use the two interchangably.
Bill Gates recently went touring a bunch of colleges near me talking about how we need to create more tech. jobs. Somehow, I doubt that the job shortage he was talking about is "forcing" him to outsource, so I have a feeling that he's just trying to play both sides.
Think about it. Engineers/Developers/whatever in most companies are not treated very well, despite being the people delivering the product. The Google-envy we're seeing now is very good for skilled workers in any business - it means that they'll start treating us better (and cramming us into cubicles like sardines - I disagree with that one policy; it was clearly written by a very extroverted manager with little understanding about how intorverts (and good engineers are very likely to be introverted, statistically) like to work).
Coders often become so wrapped up in coding they lose sight of what the end goal is - ship a product
I think that this perception of developers is what most companies use to justify letting the businesspeople run the show. In reality, most of the (good) developers I've run across have a clear view of what their finished product should look like - and know when it's done. How to meet deadlines, at least, should be clear to anyone, programmer or otherwise, who did not party and sleep his way through college.
A more accurate problem is that some developers do not know how to sell their products to customers. If a developer does, however, it is unlikely that anyone will be more passionate about the product than the person who designed it.
Lots of theoretical advances have the potential to become practical advances in a few years. The underlying theory has to be powerful enough to support new applications before those applications will be developed.
Unfortunately, by 3 AM, her problem has been fixed and she goes back to stigmatizing geeks, even as she benefits from our experience. This is true of society in general as well.
So, CO2 levels were at, lets say 260ppm. Now they're at 375ppm. That, is indeed, a rise of 44%. First, I'm surprised. If we've been pumping out so much CO2, why have we only raised the concentration by 44%? Wouldn't you figure it'd be a lot more?
There are negative feedback mechanisms (absorbtion of CO2 by photosynthetic plants, the oceans, etc.) that may reduce the amount of CO2 being absorbed by the atmosphere.
I have a similar issue: My workplace is going to close in the next few years, as it is slated for closure on the BRAC (base realignment and closure) list. All operations are moving to another state about 5 hours away. I'm not staying, but then, I'll also be spending the next few years with a decent stipend working on a Ph. D. I'd probably still look for another job if I had no other source of income, though.
This is yet another reason why abstaining from destructive habits in the first place is better than starting and breaking them (though the latter is obviously still better than starting and continuing them).
The software development triangle states that features (and, I suppose, the overhead of developing to whatever standards your managers happen to define as "correct") are balanced against resources and time. If you want to give a programmer less time, give him more resources (money, more developers, etc.) or accept a less sophisticated program.
It sounds like your managers aren't respecting this principle, and perhaps the only advice I can give you is to talk to them about it and/or start looking for a job elsewhere:)
They each pay $10 when the room is $30. The room's price drops to $25, so they're each given $1 back, bringing their total to $27. The bellhop keeps the other $2 that would have brought their total down to $25. The $5 is still there, as $1 each for 3 people + $2 for the bellhop = $5. The total amount does not need to equal $30 after the price changes; it needs to equal $25.
I've always used !? for that. I don't know if it's proper English (though it is used a lot colloquially), but if it's good enough for chess players, it's good enough for me:)
I'm working on creating a very similar (but less bureaucratic) service right now, actually. It probably won't be ready for another month or so, though, and even then, I'll probably run a free trial of the site for a month in order to garner users and fix any bugs that come up. I'm still debating whether I want to allow people from any country to sign up, at least initially. Most likely I'll begin with a US rollout, then go international once I've worked out the "balance" of the whole thing.
I have had some experiences as a coder (one of the first, actually) on RentACoder, and they've generally been quite good, but don't expect to make much, as offshoring has definitely taken its toll on RentACoder. Part of the reason I enjoyed it so much was because I cared little about the bid price. Buyers can give you clear specs if you ask them to clarify until they are clear; most of them are not adverse to clarifying until they're sure that both parties understand (after all, if both don't, you end up giving the buyer something he doesn't want).
I don't think that we can actually cure any of those diseases yet. That brings up an ethical issue: Should you bother testing for a disease that you cannot cure? The prognosis of cancer is generally much better in the early stages, whereas the prognosis for BSE/CJD/kuru/scrapie/whatever remains the same throughout all stages of the disease.
On the other hand, it may help prevent people from consuming BSE-positive beef. I doubt that any ethical issues involved in testing will apply to livestock.
They want low cost labor, but the fact that there is a shortage of it combined with an apparent tech. worker surplus is indicative of the marketplace dictating a higher salary for these people than the corporations wish to pay.
If they can find high tech. workers that want to work for peanuts, that's fine (realize that not all jobs can go to India; for example, mine will never be outsourced). Obviously, however, they're having a hard time doing that.
Labor costs to gas prices is a bad comparison, for a number of reasons. First, if you want to buy premium gas, you'd better be prepared to pay more. Second, if you treat people like a commodity, you probably won't have a very happy or productive workforce. Geeks know other geeks, and one of the first things we talk about is work. I have turned down jobs due to my friends poorly recommending the employers, and I imagine that others would do the same.
I guess what I'm trying to point out is that the corporations want the more expensive chair for the cheaper price.
BS and MS degrees are meant to lean more towards the vocational side, whereas a Ph. D is all about the scientific/research aspect of the subject.
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This is what I call "the Wikipedia effect", due to that community's emphasis on quantities such as edit count as an indicator of merit. The person with the greatest number of patents is not necessarily "the greatest inventor". There are plenty of people with few but very significant inventions. There are also people that don't patent everything they invent.
"Most prolific" is more accurate, but the article seems to use the two interchangably.
Bill Gates recently went touring a bunch of colleges near me talking about how we need to create more tech. jobs. Somehow, I doubt that the job shortage he was talking about is "forcing" him to outsource, so I have a feeling that he's just trying to play both sides.
Way to go, Bill!
Think about it. Engineers/Developers/whatever in most companies are not treated very well, despite being the people delivering the product. The Google-envy we're seeing now is very good for skilled workers in any business - it means that they'll start treating us better (and cramming us into cubicles like sardines - I disagree with that one policy; it was clearly written by a very extroverted manager with little understanding about how intorverts (and good engineers are very likely to be introverted, statistically) like to work).
You also don't want to get too photorealistic unless you can manage to be completely photorealistic... otherwise you fall into Uncanny Valley.
I think that this perception of developers is what most companies use to justify letting the businesspeople run the show. In reality, most of the (good) developers I've run across have a clear view of what their finished product should look like - and know when it's done. How to meet deadlines, at least, should be clear to anyone, programmer or otherwise, who did not party and sleep his way through college.
A more accurate problem is that some developers do not know how to sell their products to customers. If a developer does, however, it is unlikely that anyone will be more passionate about the product than the person who designed it.
Lots of theoretical advances have the potential to become practical advances in a few years. The underlying theory has to be powerful enough to support new applications before those applications will be developed.
Sorry; that should be E = 1/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2) * m * c^2.
E = 1/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2) * m?
That's the Lorentz factor.
Unfortunately, by 3 AM, her problem has been fixed and she goes back to stigmatizing geeks, even as she benefits from our experience. This is true of society in general as well.
Don't buy a card with a broadcom chipset.
I have a similar issue: My workplace is going to close in the next few years, as it is slated for closure on the BRAC (base realignment and closure) list. All operations are moving to another state about 5 hours away. I'm not staying, but then, I'll also be spending the next few years with a decent stipend working on a Ph. D. I'd probably still look for another job if I had no other source of income, though.
This is yet another reason why abstaining from destructive habits in the first place is better than starting and breaking them (though the latter is obviously still better than starting and continuing them).
The software development triangle states that features (and, I suppose, the overhead of developing to whatever standards your managers happen to define as "correct") are balanced against resources and time. If you want to give a programmer less time, give him more resources (money, more developers, etc.) or accept a less sophisticated program.
:)
It sounds like your managers aren't respecting this principle, and perhaps the only advice I can give you is to talk to them about it and/or start looking for a job elsewhere
They each pay $10 when the room is $30. The room's price drops to $25, so they're each given $1 back, bringing their total to $27. The bellhop keeps the other $2 that would have brought their total down to $25. The $5 is still there, as $1 each for 3 people + $2 for the bellhop = $5. The total amount does not need to equal $30 after the price changes; it needs to equal $25.
I've always used !? for that. I don't know if it's proper English (though it is used a lot colloquially), but if it's good enough for chess players, it's good enough for me :)
Hardly pre-announced; it's nearly finished.
But do you really want to take that chance?
I'm working on creating a very similar (but less bureaucratic) service right now, actually. It probably won't be ready for another month or so, though, and even then, I'll probably run a free trial of the site for a month in order to garner users and fix any bugs that come up. I'm still debating whether I want to allow people from any country to sign up, at least initially. Most likely I'll begin with a US rollout, then go international once I've worked out the "balance" of the whole thing.
I have had some experiences as a coder (one of the first, actually) on RentACoder, and they've generally been quite good, but don't expect to make much, as offshoring has definitely taken its toll on RentACoder. Part of the reason I enjoyed it so much was because I cared little about the bid price. Buyers can give you clear specs if you ask them to clarify until they are clear; most of them are not adverse to clarifying until they're sure that both parties understand (after all, if both don't, you end up giving the buyer something he doesn't want).
I don't think that we can actually cure any of those diseases yet. That brings up an ethical issue: Should you bother testing for a disease that you cannot cure? The prognosis of cancer is generally much better in the early stages, whereas the prognosis for BSE/CJD/kuru/scrapie/whatever remains the same throughout all stages of the disease.
On the other hand, it may help prevent people from consuming BSE-positive beef. I doubt that any ethical issues involved in testing will apply to livestock.
They want low cost labor, but the fact that there is a shortage of it combined with an apparent tech. worker surplus is indicative of the marketplace dictating a higher salary for these people than the corporations wish to pay.
If they can find high tech. workers that want to work for peanuts, that's fine (realize that not all jobs can go to India; for example, mine will never be outsourced). Obviously, however, they're having a hard time doing that.
Labor costs to gas prices is a bad comparison, for a number of reasons. First, if you want to buy premium gas, you'd better be prepared to pay more. Second, if you treat people like a commodity, you probably won't have a very happy or productive workforce. Geeks know other geeks, and one of the first things we talk about is work. I have turned down jobs due to my friends poorly recommending the employers, and I imagine that others would do the same.
I guess what I'm trying to point out is that the corporations want the more expensive chair for the cheaper price.
They had no hope of competing with Firefox and IE, despite the merits of their browser, so long as they charged for it while the other two were free.
BS and MS degrees are meant to lean more towards the vocational side, whereas a Ph. D is all about the scientific/research aspect of the subject.
Publishers are talking about the next generation of consoles as if the Revolution does not exist. If Nintendo wants any third party games, they need to address this.