>> Friends vs contacts? Why put up such a stupidly worded title?
The article assumes that you are acting as a consumer on a personal PC, that many of your contacts are friends (as opposed to work colleagues), and that your personal browser history contains a lot of naughty stuff. Unfortunately, it also assumes that any of your contacts would do more than delete a lengthy message like this on sight; you probably don't have hundreds of "friends" who care THAT much about you. (e.g., Even if Hillary Clinton herself emailed me a list of her classified emails, my short attention span would still compel me to delete the message before reading it and go on to something shorter and more interesting in my inbox.)
I'll bite. If Republicans did get a chance to develop education for the masses, it would probably look a lot like this. No wasted overhead (teachers unions and administrators), optimized for home schoolers (so they can build their choice of religious education into the day), and no socially-motivated mandates on curriculum (e.g., no health class, no gym class, etc.),
If you doubt me, check out the demographics of who is enrolling in "open enrollment" online course at the K-12 level today...
The "Floor" with its slow water-based life forms making noises and moving their appendages was always a kludge. If stock trading could have arrived on earth fully formed, it would have been with frictionless trading and marketing pricing instantly available to everyone to act upon immediately. We're finally getting there.
Do #2. I worked for years with a "primary" desktop with a beefy configuration doing all my compiles; I maybe sat at my desk and used the monitor once a week. Most of the time I just RPC'ed into it from whatever building I was in or from home. Connectivity was an issue on maybe 0.5% of the days, and then it was only temporary (after all, if the company's Internet is down, it won't stay that way for long). After doing that for a while I couldn't imagine being tied to a chair in front of a specific machine for development (shudder).
In related news, someone had to shovel the shit out of the barns for some farm research at a university in Iowa last night.
In other words, yeah there's maintenance and cleaning work associated with almost any non-trivial research project; just ask a grad student if you need more examples. Swapping out 9000 cables sounds probably like a day at the beach in some lines of work.
Remember the government's "four food groups" with X servings of 4 groups (meats, dairy, bread, fruits and vegetables)? (http://www.rootedcook.com/visuals/foodguides/ - 1956-1992) It worked (it was even used on game shows) because people could understand and remember four things and whole numbers without units.
Today's government food pyramid? It's 6 different items measured in a mix of "cups" and "ounces" (http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/05/82105-004-3C485EB5.jpg) - not exactly how food is packaged and remembering 6 different figures with units is beyond what people can easily recollect.
If you want the masses to "get" any nutritional advise, I can't see how blowing up a common denominator like the calorie would help.
...then they wouldn't be managers. Even if you have a great one, managers are there to get you to do some stuff that you don't want to do that's good for the company anyway.
I know I'll get modded down for this, but usually only take web development projects that let me write in Visual Studio. Why? 1) People who are looking for C#-based projects have MONEY (they have to to afford non-Express SQL Server) and often pay their bills on time 2) Unit testing is easy to do...and my clients usually happily pay for a full test suite as a self-documenting quality check on my code 3) Expectations of bleeding-edge look-and-feel are often lower, which means I spend more time on the app and less time on browser-specific rendering and Javascript BS
For my own use (my marketing sites) I tend to build on frequently-updated web portal tools (often in PHP/JS/TS) and only do a few tweaks around the edges in a text editor like Sublime because just about all of what I need to interact with the rest of the world has already been written by somebody else.
>> companies and government exploring blockchain to maintain secure records which cannot be altered
Why bother? The most important information and most important decisions usually have no paper trail. After all, it just takes a phone call to make a hard drive disappear, and once people reach a particular level they seem to be completely immune to restrictions on handling classified information.
>> The release is part of a series of old documents dredged up as a nod to the return of The X-Files to TV this weekend.
Nice to know tax dollars are at work flogging TV programs. Is this the same crew that built a whole fucking Enterprise bridge because, hey, it's not our money? (http://www.dailytech.com/NSA+Chief+Built+Starship+Enterprise+Bridge+Sat+in+Captains+Chair+/article33383.htm)
>> Of course, Netflix would love to be able offer a consistent library of content around the world.
Attribution needed.
Most businesses would prefer to slice-and-dice their prospects so that each pays the absolute maximum that they would be willing to pay for a particular tier of service (e.g., India and US customers would have different rates since $8/mo means different things to them). Furthermore, Netflix "for India" should have different content than Netflix "fer 'Merica" (e.g., you have to be high to enjoy most Bollywood movies...unless you grew up on it...in which case Hollywood's sex-and-violence turns you off).
>> I've spent nine years working in teams which religiously follow pair programming
I've been in software development for 18 years and pair programming has always sounded like a myth to me - I've never actually met anyone doing it for anything other than learning a new technology.
>> required us to do code reviews to ensure the quality of the code we delivered
Hell, at half the places I've worked code reviews were considered an unnecessary luxury. These days I'm just happy to hold the line at TDD - the tests pass in a reasonable amount of time, everything gets checked in and you move on to the next item on the list.
>> Dwarf planets are not planets any more than dwarf people are people.
Dwarf planets are not planets any more than daddy long-legs spiders are not spiders. Dwarf planets are not planets any more than Komodo dragons are not dragons. Dwarf planets are not planets any more than Fool's Gold is not gold.
I think we can agree that English isn't the best language for science. Where are we going with this?
Again, from TFA, we could perform a narrow infrared scan of the possible path until we find it. (We just did one ruling out "Saturn-sized" objects nearby, but this planet is smaller.) The authors expect discovery and confirmation within about 5 years.
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>> Friends vs contacts? Why put up such a stupidly worded title?
The article assumes that you are acting as a consumer on a personal PC, that many of your contacts are friends (as opposed to work colleagues), and that your personal browser history contains a lot of naughty stuff. Unfortunately, it also assumes that any of your contacts would do more than delete a lengthy message like this on sight; you probably don't have hundreds of "friends" who care THAT much about you. (e.g., Even if Hillary Clinton herself emailed me a list of her classified emails, my short attention span would still compel me to delete the message before reading it and go on to something shorter and more interesting in my inbox.)
I'll bite. If Republicans did get a chance to develop education for the masses, it would probably look a lot like this. No wasted overhead (teachers unions and administrators), optimized for home schoolers (so they can build their choice of religious education into the day), and no socially-motivated mandates on curriculum (e.g., no health class, no gym class, etc.),
If you doubt me, check out the demographics of who is enrolling in "open enrollment" online course at the K-12 level today...
The "Floor" with its slow water-based life forms making noises and moving their appendages was always a kludge. If stock trading could have arrived on earth fully formed, it would have been with frictionless trading and marketing pricing instantly available to everyone to act upon immediately. We're finally getting there.
Do #2. I worked for years with a "primary" desktop with a beefy configuration doing all my compiles; I maybe sat at my desk and used the monitor once a week. Most of the time I just RPC'ed into it from whatever building I was in or from home. Connectivity was an issue on maybe 0.5% of the days, and then it was only temporary (after all, if the company's Internet is down, it won't stay that way for long). After doing that for a while I couldn't imagine being tied to a chair in front of a specific machine for development (shudder).
How do you pronounce "Stuxnet" in the Hebrew language?
In related news, someone had to shovel the shit out of the barns for some farm research at a university in Iowa last night.
In other words, yeah there's maintenance and cleaning work associated with almost any non-trivial research project; just ask a grad student if you need more examples. Swapping out 9000 cables sounds probably like a day at the beach in some lines of work.
Confirmed: http://moodybluesattitude.yuku...
Remember the government's "four food groups" with X servings of 4 groups (meats, dairy, bread, fruits and vegetables)? (http://www.rootedcook.com/visuals/foodguides/ - 1956-1992) It worked (it was even used on game shows) because people could understand and remember four things and whole numbers without units.
Today's government food pyramid? It's 6 different items measured in a mix of "cups" and "ounces" (http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/05/82105-004-3C485EB5.jpg) - not exactly how food is packaged and remembering 6 different figures with units is beyond what people can easily recollect.
If you want the masses to "get" any nutritional advise, I can't see how blowing up a common denominator like the calorie would help.
>> AMD: It's Time To Open Up the GPU
Translation: quit optimizing for proprietary Intel technology, start developing and optimizing for AMD's proprietary technology, particularly LiquidVR, instead
call me when Intel signs up otherwise meh
...then they wouldn't be managers. Even if you have a great one, managers are there to get you to do some stuff that you don't want to do that's good for the company anyway.
I know I'll get modded down for this, but usually only take web development projects that let me write in Visual Studio. Why?
1) People who are looking for C#-based projects have MONEY (they have to to afford non-Express SQL Server) and often pay their bills on time
2) Unit testing is easy to do...and my clients usually happily pay for a full test suite as a self-documenting quality check on my code
3) Expectations of bleeding-edge look-and-feel are often lower, which means I spend more time on the app and less time on browser-specific rendering and Javascript BS
For my own use (my marketing sites) I tend to build on frequently-updated web portal tools (often in PHP/JS/TS) and only do a few tweaks around the edges in a text editor like Sublime because just about all of what I need to interact with the rest of the world has already been written by somebody else.
Where I worked, they required a mushroom stamp. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
>> companies and government exploring blockchain to maintain secure records which cannot be altered
Why bother? The most important information and most important decisions usually have no paper trail. After all, it just takes a phone call to make a hard drive disappear, and once people reach a particular level they seem to be completely immune to restrictions on handling classified information.
Can I try a save against illusions? This guy looks like he's sitting in his mom's kitchen. He owns a company? Droid, please.
>> The release is part of a series of old documents dredged up as a nod to the return of The X-Files to TV this weekend.
Nice to know tax dollars are at work flogging TV programs. Is this the same crew that built a whole fucking Enterprise bridge because, hey, it's not our money? (http://www.dailytech.com/NSA+Chief+Built+Starship+Enterprise+Bridge+Sat+in+Captains+Chair+/article33383.htm)
>> Of course, Netflix would love to be able offer a consistent library of content around the world.
Attribution needed.
Most businesses would prefer to slice-and-dice their prospects so that each pays the absolute maximum that they would be willing to pay for a particular tier of service (e.g., India and US customers would have different rates since $8/mo means different things to them). Furthermore, Netflix "for India" should have different content than Netflix "fer 'Merica" (e.g., you have to be high to enjoy most Bollywood movies...unless you grew up on it...in which case Hollywood's sex-and-violence turns you off).
>> I've spent nine years working in teams which religiously follow pair programming
I've been in software development for 18 years and pair programming has always sounded like a myth to me - I've never actually met anyone doing it for anything other than learning a new technology.
>> required us to do code reviews to ensure the quality of the code we delivered
Hell, at half the places I've worked code reviews were considered an unnecessary luxury. These days I'm just happy to hold the line at TDD - the tests pass in a reasonable amount of time, everything gets checked in and you move on to the next item on the list.
>> Intel uses unencrypted HTTP connections to check for driver updates.
What a bunch of dumbasses! It's a good thing no one buys security from Intel!
>> http://www.intelsecurity.com/
>> http://www.intel.com/content/w...
(quits laughing, starts crying)
>> Do you mean harvestmen (opiliones) or cellar spiders (pholcidae)?
Opiliones, for sure. Even my three-year-old daughter knew it was OK to pick up the former and squish the latter.
>> Dwarf planets are not planets any more than dwarf people are people.
Dwarf planets are not planets any more than daddy long-legs spiders are not spiders.
Dwarf planets are not planets any more than Komodo dragons are not dragons.
Dwarf planets are not planets any more than Fool's Gold is not gold.
I think we can agree that English isn't the best language for science. Where are we going with this?
Finally. It's posted now: http://science.slashdot.org/st...
Again, from TFA, we could perform a narrow infrared scan of the possible path until we find it. (We just did one ruling out "Saturn-sized" objects nearby, but this planet is smaller.) The authors expect discovery and confirmation within about 5 years.
Ninth. If you RTFA you'll see that the paths of many of the other semi-small dwarf planets were used to intuit the existence of a real ninth planet.
Why no article about the new planet yet?
http://www.sciencemag.org/news...
Christ, this is SlashDot. Someone cut through this shit and post the article of the year, please!
>> Overfishing Responsible For Declining Fish Population
What? You mean UNDERfishing didn't cause it? (File under "no shit, who gives a shit" next time, eh?)