I work for an open source company and we make our money by fixing the problem your boss is so scared of.
You can download a release that we have built and get a support contract with guaranteed 72h fixes, indemnification and what not from us.
Since our source is open you don't have to wait for us to find the problem, but you can do it yourself. I have worked with closed source companies and it is so annoying to deal with their support organizations that you'll have to start decompiling the source yourself. You can save yourself that without getting in DIY trouble.
And yes, your boss looks like a moron for not knowing this. He must have been hiding in a cave for the last 10+ years;)
I tried to get optimal efficiency in a Fiat punto (turbo diesel).
I noticed that at sane angular velocity there is a peek in efficiency when the turbo kicks in. However, if you go all the way down and let the engine run stationary in fifth gear you can get to a much higher efficiency. I managed to get twice the specified efficiency. The car will be running around 12.5 m/s then (which is about 25 knots)
What happens is that because of the low drag at that speed, the momentum of the car is enough to keep the engine turning above the fuel injection threshold without help. Then the computer decides to stop fuel injection. The result is that the cylinders fire only once in four roughly. Almost any diesel car should be able to do this, as they put way to heavy engines in them.
It won't surprise you to read, that you shouldn't tell your dealer, nor try this on the highway (they have a lower speed limit too).
Please don't ask for help converting this to nautical miles per pint.
If it's your code and they offer a reasonable price, you can take it. You built this code to see it used and get better from it in the process right? If you want you can start another open source project later on.
If you want to be an idealist and donate the code to the good cause, that is fine too.
By working hard on the project you've earned the right to do with it as you decide. Don't forget that you call the shots on this one.
I would try to see if that company is really going to make it and then try to get some stock in return.
Or, maybe better, explain to them the value of open source and let them pay you to maintain the code in such a way that they can build their product on top of it.
Open source is nice, but if it would be unprofitable by definition it wouldn't be very successful...
True, and that is most of the dissipation in a fanless setup. My comment about conductivity wasn't very relevant.
The point is that a heatpipe to the outside of the block will do much more good than the convection will do if you leave the hardware in the open.
If you take some mobile processors, underclock them and use heat-pipes to dissipate the heat you should be ok I expect. Anything that survives without a fan should survive better in a pot with a heat pipe. Air is one of the worst conductors anyway.
"I think the initial investment is less than one month of internet at those prices."
... plus a healthy profit.
ok so I should have said significantly less. My point is that these prices are nowhere near a healthy profit margin. This is just a ripoff. I can imagine it being a little more expensive, but they are a factor of 10 above any defendable price at least.
Yes, you are missing some part of it. I talked about the value of the company. I'll be a bit more thorough in my explanation.
The first thing that you have to understand is that with your share you own a part of the company. A share is an abstraction to be able to trade partial ownership of a company.
The value of a company is made up of solid things like the hardware they own and somewhat less solid things like the money they have in the bank and even more imaginary things like the profit they expect to make next year.
If you think about it carefully it makes a lot of sense to buy a business that is making good profit and shows no signs of decline for a little more than the value of the stuff they own now. Shares allow you to do just this with small parts of businesses that are to big to buy as a whole.
Of course there is a lot of uncertainty in this, and there is the possibility of being scammed. The basic idea however is sound and that is the foundation for the fact that shares are worth more than the paper they are printed on (figuratively speaking)... sometimes. I don't know about baseball cards though, but I have the feeling that they have no intrinsic value other than the paper they are printed on (literally speaking).
No, but there are a lot of suckers. Also some companies actually increase in value, so you wouldn't be that much of a sucker to pay for the shares. That sums it up really.
I've been on a project using GWT in 2007, been quite successful. If you want to see an example that is public run over to Parlays.com, they have a Flex and a GWT version.
If you want to write clean code check out my blog on TDD with GWT: http://is.gd/1156.
With the 1.5 release they did some very promising improvements.
So you're right if you say it is not mainstream, but to say nobody is using it is exaggerating. Just be patient, GWT will continue to grow.
You're right. Leaving a voicemail is actually very impolite. It shows that you won't even take the time to write down what you're saying and you are happy to leave the other party to do all the filtering and parsing. I regularly delete voicemails without listening to them and refuse to apologize for it.
If something is important enough to interrupt me, call, chat, knock on my door (synchronous communication). If something isn't urgent an email will do fine. Voicemail has all the disadvantages of verbal communication, but none of the positives. It's a lazy boss' tool.
Actually the Dutch public transportation was supposed to have the same system nation wide, but they researched it first, and postponed the implementation when they found the security leaks. It's called "OV chipkaart" and it is annoying Dutch travelers since 2006. Here is the (dutch) link: http://www.ov-chipkaart.nl/nieuws/nieuwsoverzicht/34971111.
Just show him what you know and show him that whatever you don't know is really easy to learn. He'll probably ask you things that you haven't got any experience in and then you'll figure it out together. He might even teach you something in a few years.
I'm too lazy too look for the source, but I read an article suggesting that the commandline is the best place to start learning. But who cares? The most important thing is that you don't discourage him by forcing him to take a certain path or hide complexity. Peer instruction works the best so if you have the time just sit with him and do something that is new to you too.
Coding standards may have a formatting template with them. I will press ctrl-shift-F before checking in my code and get used to whatever template you give me. Being anal about formatting is a sign of being a bad developer. Nesting if statements to a point where this is going to have impact is a sign of being a moron.
I've done research to prove that someone was naughty once. And I can tell you that we had to deliver the same results from 25 different research groups that didn't match the faked results by a factor 10 before it finally got published and the guy was fired. This is not something that is done lightly.
If dozens of researchers have reproducible results of bubbles that don't get anywhere near fusion temperatures, but converge nicely around 1/100'th of that you're better off putting your money on them. Give the researchers that do actual scientific work some credit for it instead of defending the sales guy that copied the data.
Looking at Scientific American articles from even fifty years ago, let alone a century, shows how sadly dumbed down the magazine has become. It used to target a readership of average citizens who were keen on the nitty-gritty of scientific developments. Now it all flash and no substance, little different from Popular Science. The lesson American media teaches us: nothing good is every ultimately profitable as is.
Looking at/. from even 5 years ago, let alone 10, shows you how lame it has become. It used to be about news for nerds and stuff that matters, now it is just about wannabe nerds whining about Popular Science. The lesson: making useful comments ultimately ever informative as if.
I've been trying Wua.la (alpha) they enable P2P disk sharing, so you can actually share and access normal files over a P2P network. It's encrypted, so you shouldn't be exposed to peers reading your data.
I love the theory, and I think it makes much more sense than the online alternatives.
(I'm not related to Wuala other than being an enthusiastic user)
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You can download a release that we have built and get a support contract with guaranteed 72h fixes, indemnification and what not from us.
Since our source is open you don't have to wait for us to find the problem, but you can do it yourself. I have worked with closed source companies and it is so annoying to deal with their support organizations that you'll have to start decompiling the source yourself. You can save yourself that without getting in DIY trouble.
And yes, your boss looks like a moron for not knowing this. He must have been hiding in a cave for the last 10+ years ;)
I noticed that at sane angular velocity there is a peek in efficiency when the turbo kicks in. However, if you go all the way down and let the engine run stationary in fifth gear you can get to a much higher efficiency. I managed to get twice the specified efficiency. The car will be running around 12.5 m/s then (which is about 25 knots)
What happens is that because of the low drag at that speed, the momentum of the car is enough to keep the engine turning above the fuel injection threshold without help. Then the computer decides to stop fuel injection. The result is that the cylinders fire only once in four roughly. Almost any diesel car should be able to do this, as they put way to heavy engines in them.
It won't surprise you to read, that you shouldn't tell your dealer, nor try this on the highway (they have a lower speed limit too).
Please don't ask for help converting this to nautical miles per pint.
If you want to be an idealist and donate the code to the good cause, that is fine too.
By working hard on the project you've earned the right to do with it as you decide. Don't forget that you call the shots on this one.
I would try to see if that company is really going to make it and then try to get some stock in return.
Or, maybe better, explain to them the value of open source and let them pay you to maintain the code in such a way that they can build their product on top of it.
Open source is nice, but if it would be unprofitable by definition it wouldn't be very successful...
That would cause some other hairy problems, spelling being the least of them.
Don't worry, there is a a 'cosmic censor' (that's probably that guy that doesn't mod you up if you talk evolution theory).
True, and that is most of the dissipation in a fanless setup. My comment about conductivity wasn't very relevant. The point is that a heatpipe to the outside of the block will do much more good than the convection will do if you leave the hardware in the open.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pipe
The trust in this instance was clearly misplaced.
It's getting the air into the balloon that requires the compressor. Or do you have a solution that blows even more?
"I think the initial investment is less than one month of internet at those prices."
... plus a healthy profit.
ok so I should have said significantly less. My point is that these prices are nowhere near a healthy profit margin. This is just a ripoff. I can imagine it being a little more expensive, but they are a factor of 10 above any defendable price at least.
I think the initial investment is less than one month of internet at those prices. You could get your own satalite for that amount.
Yes, you are missing some part of it. I talked about the value of the company. I'll be a bit more thorough in my explanation.
The first thing that you have to understand is that with your share you own a part of the company. A share is an abstraction to be able to trade partial ownership of a company.
The value of a company is made up of solid things like the hardware they own and somewhat less solid things like the money they have in the bank and even more imaginary things like the profit they expect to make next year.
If you think about it carefully it makes a lot of sense to buy a business that is making good profit and shows no signs of decline for a little more than the value of the stuff they own now. Shares allow you to do just this with small parts of businesses that are to big to buy as a whole.
Of course there is a lot of uncertainty in this, and there is the possibility of being scammed. The basic idea however is sound and that is the foundation for the fact that shares are worth more than the paper they are printed on (figuratively speaking) ... sometimes. I don't know about baseball cards though, but I have the feeling that they have no intrinsic value other than the paper they are printed on (literally speaking).
Isn't that a bit expensive? My goodwill can be bought for 0.01 per ad. But those schemes never worked somehow.
Google has a minimum bid because that is the cost of production for that ad.
You think? Would that be mostly raw materials or labor according to your estimation?
No, but there are a lot of suckers. Also some companies actually increase in value, so you wouldn't be that much of a sucker to pay for the shares. That sums it up really.
I've been on a project using GWT in 2007, been quite successful. If you want to see an example that is public run over to Parlays.com, they have a Flex and a GWT version.
If you want to write clean code check out my blog on TDD with GWT: http://is.gd/1156.
With the 1.5 release they did some very promising improvements.
So you're right if you say it is not mainstream, but to say nobody is using it is exaggerating. Just be patient, GWT will continue to grow.
You're right. Leaving a voicemail is actually very impolite. It shows that you won't even take the time to write down what you're saying and you are happy to leave the other party to do all the filtering and parsing. I regularly delete voicemails without listening to them and refuse to apologize for it.
If something is important enough to interrupt me, call, chat, knock on my door (synchronous communication). If something isn't urgent an email will do fine. Voicemail has all the disadvantages of verbal communication, but none of the positives. It's a lazy boss' tool.
Actually the Dutch public transportation was supposed to have the same system nation wide, but they researched it first, and postponed the implementation when they found the security leaks. It's called "OV chipkaart" and it is annoying Dutch travelers since 2006. Here is the (dutch) link: http://www.ov-chipkaart.nl/nieuws/nieuwsoverzicht/34971111.
Just show him what you know and show him that whatever you don't know is really easy to learn. He'll probably ask you things that you haven't got any experience in and then you'll figure it out together. He might even teach you something in a few years.
I'm too lazy too look for the source, but I read an article suggesting that the commandline is the best place to start learning. But who cares? The most important thing is that you don't discourage him by forcing him to take a certain path or hide complexity. Peer instruction works the best so if you have the time just sit with him and do something that is new to you too.
Coding standards may have a formatting template with them. I will press ctrl-shift-F before checking in my code and get used to whatever template you give me. Being anal about formatting is a sign of being a bad developer. Nesting if statements to a point where this is going to have impact is a sign of being a moron.
I've done research to prove that someone was naughty once. And I can tell you that we had to deliver the same results from 25 different research groups that didn't match the faked results by a factor 10 before it finally got published and the guy was fired. This is not something that is done lightly.
If dozens of researchers have reproducible results of bubbles that don't get anywhere near fusion temperatures, but converge nicely around 1/100'th of that you're better off putting your money on them. Give the researchers that do actual scientific work some credit for it instead of defending the sales guy that copied the data.
You have a good point sir. I wrote that when I didn't think yet that my comment would be rated +5 Insightful at some point... now the joke is on me.
At least the parent only missed a comma and misspelled one word, instead of being an insult to language in general like the quoted sentence.
Anyway, I think it was moderately funny at best, but the moderation system is mysterious at times.
Looking at Scientific American articles from even fifty years ago, let alone a century, shows how sadly dumbed down the magazine has become. It used to target a readership of average citizens who were keen on the nitty-gritty of scientific developments. Now it all flash and no substance, little different from Popular Science. The lesson American media teaches us: nothing good is every ultimately profitable as is.
Looking at /. from even 5 years ago, let alone 10, shows you how lame it has become. It used to be about news for nerds and stuff that matters, now it is just about wannabe nerds whining about Popular Science. The lesson: making useful comments ultimately ever informative as if.
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/29644?page=2&ts=
I've been trying Wua.la (alpha) they enable P2P disk sharing, so you can actually share and access normal files over a P2P network. It's encrypted, so you shouldn't be exposed to peers reading your data.
I love the theory, and I think it makes much more sense than the online alternatives.
(I'm not related to Wuala other than being an enthusiastic user)