I have met exactly one excellent engineering manager. Of course he was a licensed professional civil and HVAC engineer, and he didn't know anything about software engineering, but it turned out that didn't matter, because he was awesome at project management, documentation, using the right amount of process, and he really "got" engineers and engineering in general, and trusted us on the technical stuff. Then he got unceremoniously shitcanned by a blowhard asshat VP who didn't want to hear what he was saying, who himself proceeded to jump ship a year later. *sigh*.
Of course if you're OT exempt salaried then you get to work as many hours as your boss says, or quit, or be fired. But market rules still apply in the big picture.
Most software projects are reasearch and development; buiding something new that's never been built before; hence there's a lot of risk. It's not like a wall that people have been building the same kind of wall for thousands of years. Risk costs money. The only question is who's going to pay for it. Hint: the boss, unless you're stupid, or you have some sort of equity you want to protect.
If you're an employee, the boss has two choices; pay you to fix it, or fire you. Construction and programming are the same in this regard. Maybe he can take it out of your salary, I dunno, might depend on emplyment terms or state law. But typically he cannot compel you to work for free; that's called slavery.
If you're on contract, you're only obligated to fix your mistakes to the extent that the warranty clause demands it. No warranty clause no fixie. The boss may be able to terminate the contract or just not contract with you again, his choice. Your choice if you want his buisness bad enough to fix it for free. Again, construction and programming are the same in this regard. If you do have a warranty clause you will typically bake your own cost of fixing your own bugs into your bid and or hourly rate so it's still not really free for the Boss, your bugs still cost him money.
Not as annoying as when your Bangkok cabbie rear ends somebody and makes you get out and walk the last five blocks to your destination (ask me how I know).
Maybe not so much Z80 specifically. But I think there's logic in starting out with a SIMPLE assembly language on a simple architecture before jumping into something as horrible as x86. That said assembly language is useless to 99% of the population anyway. But if the kid is seriously interested in computer technology then go for it.
Great, 43% of congresscritters are lawyers, so I guess some lawyers do make some laws. But what percentage of lawyers are in congress? Basically zero. I know it's fun to hate on lawyers but the reality is most of them are overworked and underpaid and the vast majority of them never write a letter of the law.
Ditto that. The whole story is increadibly compelling, and then the voyage of the James Caird blows your mind, and then the hike accross elephant island blows your mind again.
Charges should have been dropped. A pardon implies that he was actually guilty of something worthy of criminalization.
The poor bastard had to deal with the horseshit while he was alive. This pardoning and whatever long after he's dead accomplished nothing.
It's just PR for little political people that want to pander to the Gay and Lesbian community.
Of course it's accomplished something. It's sent two powerful signals. One, that the government admits it fucked up; nobody likes to admit they were wrong ESPECIALLY governments so lets give credit where credit is due. Second and more importantly, it signals that the government is serious about supporting LGBT rights. Thirdly it vindicates Turing's important legacy, his family, friends, supporters, and those like me who have always looked up to him. It would have been nice if it came 61 years ago, but better late than never.
I'd like to hear from anybody who's opted for S-corp tax status as a self employed IT contractor with no income beyond his/her labor rate. Because my understanding is that the IRS takes a pretty dim view of writing part of your labor rate as 'profit' because presumably whatever you are charging for your labor IS a reasonable salary. My understanding is that S-corp status only makes sense (IE isn't likely to result in an audit) if you operate a business that generates legitimate profits; IE you sell products/services at a markup, which pretty much excludes any one-man IT shop. Maybe if you contract in some crazy niche market where you can command $400/hr then you can get away with this but if you are charging normal market rates for your normal work then it seems like an invitation for an audit and penalties.
No but it is amazing what NEW science you can do with OLD data. I've worked with the Transportable Array project for example http://www.usarray.org/researchers/obs/transportable it's over a decade old and scientists are still discovering new ways to take advantage of the data and will likely be doing so for decades to come. On the other hand a lot of data is just junk due to poor quality metadata; when was that instrument calibrated? I dunno. Damn. At leat in geophysics we have the National Geophysical Data Center to curate this stuff http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/ at least until Congress cuts it's funding.
Thank you, Forrest! You are the best. I am a fanboi. I own all of your electronics mini-notebooks and your _Getting Started in Electronics_. Over the last 15 years they are usually the first place I turn to when I need to make a circuit in support of one of my hobbies. I don't have a question. I just want to say thanks and keep doing what you're doing! And keep those books in RadioShack!
I guess I have one question: How did you get so awesome?
I'd like to know if they controlled for the MOTHER's folate level. Afterall, if the mom and dad live together and eat a similar diet, and HE's deficient, it stands to reason that the mom is probably deficient also. None of TFA's seem to talk about it.
Given the state of Linux graphics drivers in general I think you're nuts to use anything BUT Intel graphics in a laptop. Intel is the only company that seems to take it serious and ship stable and reliable drives that don't shit their bits when you dock, undock, suspend, resume, or change res. I guess if you absolutely have to have the most bleeding edge graphics performance maybe Intel isn't an option but then maybe a Linux laptop isn't the best choice for you.
Dell Latitude e6430 with Intel graphics. Ubuntu certified. I run Linux Mint that works perfectly too. Everything "just works". Highly configurable. Excellent service manual and easily serviceable without voiding your warranty. Standard parts. Docking station that, again, "just works" with Linux. Built like a tank. Available on refurb from Dell outlet. It's not the smallest or lightest or prettiest cheapest but those are not priorities for me. It's the corporate fleet laptop. I've yet to find something to complain about it.
1. The license and copyright. 2. The legacy. 3. The userland. 4. The overall quality. 5. Not so many prima donna devels (Theo excluded).
Although the userlands have diverged, there's still a great deal of commonality.
1. I'll give you the license but they obviously no longer share much copyright as they have all been largly rewriten since the 386bsd days. If that were not true then they would all be the same.
2. That's like saying nothing differentiates us from monkeys because we share a common ancestor. I call BS. A common origin implies very little of practical value especially considering how much of the code has been rewritten.
3. So first you say they share a user land then you say the userlands have diverged. Which is it?
4. Overall LACK of quality due to not having a critical mass of developers, you mean?
5. I think they're ALL prima donna devs otherwise why are there so many forks? It's because everybody in the BSD camp wants to take their ball and go home instead of working together on a common goal.
I don't hate BSD or wish anybody ill. These are just my perceptions based on what I've seen.
You know, I hear a lot of folks complain about Linux fragmentation, tyrany of choice, etc. But at least we can say that, for the most part, there is one true canonical Linux kernel (Linus' tree) and all the other kernels are for the most part shallow forks tweaking a few things.
Now in BSD land we have NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and DragonflyBSD, each with their own true kernel.
Why?
If the project goals have diverged so widely as to take the kernel off in a completely different direction from all the other BSD's why even call it BSD anymore?
What do the four big BSD distros have in commmon besides the name and a kernel they used to use years (decades?) ago?
I am admitedly ignorant and perhaps I am underestimating the degree of cooperation between these projects.
What interference? Why would any engineer add cost and complexity to a design by adding (previously considered) unecessary filtering circuitry? We talking analog filters or digital filters? Passive or active? Skirt shapes? It's not as simple as "add filters. problem solved." Really, if you are security paranoid and you don't need them, remove the speakers and mic. Now the problem really is solved. You can alway plug in a headset.
Am I the only one here who's had the same phone number for almost 10 years and is NOT innundated with spam and scam callers? (I've probably jinxed it now)
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I have met exactly one excellent engineering manager. Of course he was a licensed professional civil and HVAC engineer, and he didn't know anything about software engineering, but it turned out that didn't matter, because he was awesome at project management, documentation, using the right amount of process, and he really "got" engineers and engineering in general, and trusted us on the technical stuff. Then he got unceremoniously shitcanned by a blowhard asshat VP who didn't want to hear what he was saying, who himself proceeded to jump ship a year later. *sigh*.
Of course if you're OT exempt salaried then you get to work as many hours as your boss says, or quit, or be fired. But market rules still apply in the big picture.
Not as annoying as when your Bangkok cabbie rear ends somebody and makes you get out and walk the last five blocks to your destination (ask me how I know).
It's not a dupe, it's new information, as in the whole fucking powerpoint deck.
Maybe not so much Z80 specifically. But I think there's logic in starting out with a SIMPLE assembly language on a simple architecture before jumping into something as horrible as x86. That said assembly language is useless to 99% of the population anyway. But if the kid is seriously interested in computer technology then go for it.
Telegraph operators even had their own equivalent to cell-phone text message abbreviations.
QSL
Great, 43% of congresscritters are lawyers, so I guess some lawyers do make some laws. But what percentage of lawyers are in congress? Basically zero. I know it's fun to hate on lawyers but the reality is most of them are overworked and underpaid and the vast majority of them never write a letter of the law.
Since when do lawyers make the law?
Ditto that. The whole story is increadibly compelling, and then the voyage of the James Caird blows your mind, and then the hike accross elephant island blows your mind again.
I also suggest gCaptain as a site for martime news http://gcaptain.com/social-media-erupts-as-chinese-icebreaker-now-stuck-in-ice-in-antarctica/
Charges should have been dropped. A pardon implies that he was actually guilty of something worthy of criminalization .
The poor bastard had to deal with the horseshit while he was alive. This pardoning and whatever long after he's dead accomplished nothing.
It's just PR for little political people that want to pander to the Gay and Lesbian community.
Of course it's accomplished something. It's sent two powerful signals. One, that the government admits it fucked up; nobody likes to admit they were wrong ESPECIALLY governments so lets give credit where credit is due. Second and more importantly, it signals that the government is serious about supporting LGBT rights. Thirdly it vindicates Turing's important legacy, his family, friends, supporters, and those like me who have always looked up to him. It would have been nice if it came 61 years ago, but better late than never.
I'd like to hear from anybody who's opted for S-corp tax status as a self employed IT contractor with no income beyond his/her labor rate. Because my understanding is that the IRS takes a pretty dim view of writing part of your labor rate as 'profit' because presumably whatever you are charging for your labor IS a reasonable salary. My understanding is that S-corp status only makes sense (IE isn't likely to result in an audit) if you operate a business that generates legitimate profits; IE you sell products/services at a markup, which pretty much excludes any one-man IT shop. Maybe if you contract in some crazy niche market where you can command $400/hr then you can get away with this but if you are charging normal market rates for your normal work then it seems like an invitation for an audit and penalties.
No but it is amazing what NEW science you can do with OLD data. I've worked with the Transportable Array project for example http://www.usarray.org/researchers/obs/transportable it's over a decade old and scientists are still discovering new ways to take advantage of the data and will likely be doing so for decades to come. On the other hand a lot of data is just junk due to poor quality metadata; when was that instrument calibrated? I dunno. Damn. At leat in geophysics we have the National Geophysical Data Center to curate this stuff http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/ at least until Congress cuts it's funding.
Thank you, Forrest! You are the best. I am a fanboi. I own all of your electronics mini-notebooks and your _Getting Started in Electronics_. Over the last 15 years they are usually the first place I turn to when I need to make a circuit in support of one of my hobbies. I don't have a question. I just want to say thanks and keep doing what you're doing! And keep those books in RadioShack!
I guess I have one question: How did you get so awesome?
SQUEEEE
I'd like to know if they controlled for the MOTHER's folate level. Afterall, if the mom and dad live together and eat a similar diet, and HE's deficient, it stands to reason that the mom is probably deficient also. None of TFA's seem to talk about it.
Religion can define marriage however it wants. Thankfully, so can the law.
Of course not everything is on prime and if you compare the prime vs. non-prime price you will find that, no, the shipping isn't really free.
Also who the heck uses Discover cards?
Given the state of Linux graphics drivers in general I think you're nuts to use anything BUT Intel graphics in a laptop. Intel is the only company that seems to take it serious and ship stable and reliable drives that don't shit their bits when you dock, undock, suspend, resume, or change res. I guess if you absolutely have to have the most bleeding edge graphics performance maybe Intel isn't an option but then maybe a Linux laptop isn't the best choice for you.
Dell Latitude e6430 with Intel graphics. Ubuntu certified. I run Linux Mint that works perfectly too. Everything "just works". Highly configurable. Excellent service manual and easily serviceable without voiding your warranty. Standard parts. Docking station that, again, "just works" with Linux. Built like a tank. Available on refurb from Dell outlet. It's not the smallest or lightest or prettiest cheapest but those are not priorities for me. It's the corporate fleet laptop. I've yet to find something to complain about it.
Well, let's think about it.
1. The license and copyright. 2. The legacy. 3. The userland. 4. The overall quality. 5. Not so many prima donna devels (Theo excluded).
Although the userlands have diverged, there's still a great deal of commonality.
1. I'll give you the license but they obviously no longer share much copyright as they have all been largly rewriten since the 386bsd days. If that were not true then they would all be the same.
2. That's like saying nothing differentiates us from monkeys because we share a common ancestor. I call BS. A common origin implies very little of practical value especially considering how much of the code has been rewritten.
3. So first you say they share a user land then you say the userlands have diverged. Which is it?
4. Overall LACK of quality due to not having a critical mass of developers, you mean?
5. I think they're ALL prima donna devs otherwise why are there so many forks? It's because everybody in the BSD camp wants to take their ball and go home instead of working together on a common goal.
I don't hate BSD or wish anybody ill. These are just my perceptions based on what I've seen.
You know, I hear a lot of folks complain about Linux fragmentation, tyrany of choice, etc. But at least we can say that, for the most part, there is one true canonical Linux kernel (Linus' tree) and all the other kernels are for the most part shallow forks tweaking a few things.
Now in BSD land we have NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and DragonflyBSD, each with their own true kernel.
Why?
If the project goals have diverged so widely as to take the kernel off in a completely different direction from all the other BSD's why even call it BSD anymore?
What do the four big BSD distros have in commmon besides the name and a kernel they used to use years (decades?) ago?
I am admitedly ignorant and perhaps I am underestimating the degree of cooperation between these projects.
What interference? Why would any engineer add cost and complexity to a design by adding (previously considered) unecessary filtering circuitry? We talking analog filters or digital filters? Passive or active? Skirt shapes? It's not as simple as "add filters. problem solved." Really, if you are security paranoid and you don't need them, remove the speakers and mic. Now the problem really is solved. You can alway plug in a headset.
Stuff that matters. 'Nuff said. Slashdot has never been ONLY about technology and crap.
Am I the only one here who's had the same phone number for almost 10 years and is NOT innundated with spam and scam callers? (I've probably jinxed it now)
There are some pretty distinct species capable of interbreeding. Tigers and lions come to mind.