>> Obama administration's push to make community college free top the list of headwinds
I lean conservative, but I call BS here. Obama's push was dead on arrival and largely forgotten.
>> And non-profit universities have entered the online education space, where for-profit schools once held center stage.
I'm not even sure I believe this. To save money and graduate faster, I picked up many of my 100's and 200's via "telecourses" I purchased through my local community college...and that was in the early 1990s.
On second thought, it looks like the AV company is staffed with idiots.
>> keys is that they may collide with a legitimate key just by the sheer numbers...when you think you’re building a product for just a few people you don’t hash out these details...
C'mon guys. Your wrote your own clue in the summary. (Starts with "h" rhymes with "trash"...)
>> some reference that shows the Spanish government was fiscally irresponsible prior to the global financial crisis in 2008
I'll bite. TLDR: they spent too much money and allowed their banks to behave irresponsibly.
"...ballooning tax revenues (from the artificially high GDP growth rate) concealed the Spanish government's expenditures, which were unsustainably high, until 2007. The Spanish government supported the critical development by relaxing supervision of the financial sector and thereby allowing the banks to violate International Accounting Standards Board standards. So the banks in Spain were able to hide losses and earnings volatility, mislead regulators, analysts, and investors, and thereby finance the Spanish real estate bubble. The results of the crisis were devastating for Spain, including a strong economic downturn, a severe increase in unemployment, and bankruptcies of major companies." ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... )
>>>> system finds that piece of code and automatically puts it together with whatever pieces of code you need to make your program work >> sounds like complete fiction I think we already do with with libraries and dependencies...just not at the executable level.
>> he rich and the smart money left Greek a few months ago, and it is Joe Sixpack that is trapped and going to get shafted
Pretty much this, and there's been plenty of coverage for anyone who would listen, but I'll bet it wasn't on the evening TV news (or whatever "Joe Sixpack" consumes in Greece).
>> *One-man* government program writes his own audit to ask for more money.
You laugh, but in ten years, if this went through as a US Government program I'd fully expect to see:
* Undersecretary of NEO Defense * 2 Directors of NEO Defense (Homeland and Foreign) * 5 staff assistants for Undersecretary and Directors * 5 NEO Program Managers and a $20M technology budget * 2 NEO Project Managers to handle the implementation (and expected missed deadlines) * Full salaries, benefits and pensions for everyone, plus the original guy who has now retired *...and still only one man actually doing any work.
>> alternative currencies like Bitcoin suddenly look much more attractive
The problem most Greeks suddenly face is that their money is now locked up as electronic balances in banks that have shut down for a week and won't let them have more than 60 euros at a time. After crises like this (even America's own "great recession"), people tend to prefer forms of money are more than just bits or fiat paper, such as gold and silver.
>>>> travel from San Francisco to Los Angeles in less than an hour >> I am exceedingly skeptical this would be survivable by humans.
Turn in your geek card. Here's an easy back-of-the-envelope calculation for you.
Let's start with a gentle rate of acceleration and deceleration at 1mph/sec (e.g., "zero to sixty in 2 minutes"). That means that the vehicle is at a maximum speed of 420mph in 7 minutes, during which time it travelled about 24 miles. The distance between SF and LA is about 400 miles, so assume we have 350 miles to cover at top speed. That happens in 50 minutes, which when added to 7 times two is about 64 minutes. In other words, we can achieve this trip with less-than-elevator acceleration in about an hour.
...that most "brick and mortar" banks have been outsourcing their "back end" account management (i.e., your money) to "the cloud" for decades? (OK, back in the day, no one called it "the cloud," but it was the same damn concept.)
What else do you think EDS, FIS, Fiserv, Jack Henry, etc. have been doing all these years?
>> So a job listing website has a "Chief Economist" on staff? What the fuck for?
I'll bite. Back in the back I was an intern for an economist at a huge phone company. We were part of the marketing division, and our job was to parse economic trends to figure out things like which regions were growing fastest (so we could reallocate resources there to capture market share), which seasonal trends were emerging (e.g., non-Christian holidays) and which corporate markets were healthiest based on indicators like sector stock performance. It was never double-digit percentage revenue stuff, but at a very large company it made sense to spend a million on economists to capture a few extra dozen million or so in revenue.
My first kid will be entering college in about 4 years and I plan on giving each of my kids about $20K (total) to help with their undergraduate education. (Each also went through 9 years of private school before high school at about $3K per kid per year, so I'll be about $45K into each kid's education total.) I'm already harping on the importance of getting through college without picking up debt. That means they will (hopefully) be shopping for ugrad creds from cheap alternatives (e.g., community colleges), and then transferring into a university only when they absolutely have to to get their 300/400-level credits. They'll also need to work through college and/or pick up some scholarships and/or live a home a bit to escape with little or no debt (and hopefully be completely out of college and the house in four years). I'm also looking at some trade options for one of my sons (good grades and great personality but dislikes reading and scores only the 70-80th percentile on standardized tests).
With a lot of other gen-X "middle class" parents like me (single IT earner, wife works part time) doing the same thing, I see the market for on-premise college and university undergraduate degrees starting to dry up. After watching the collective fail of an overeducated millennial generation so far, we just want our kids to get out there and succeed. Whether or not they have the same diploma on the wall that dad, grandma or the neighbors do...not so much.
>> Why is it always "learn to code"? Why not learn to wire a house or install plumbing?
Because this whole thing is about deep-pocketed companies that employ a lot of mostly male coders avoiding class action lawsuits. Attorneys aren't particularly interested in chasing down all-male but independent electrician or plumbing crews when Google or Apple are ripe for the picking.
>> Google's $50 million girls-only Made With Code initiative
Somewhere inside Google someone made the decision that a near-future class action targeting Google about its lack of women (whatever the number is, someone will be annoyed until it's at least 50%) would cost a lot more than $50M, so there's the budget.
Slashdot Mirror
You would have thought the market for this kind of thing would have dried up long ago.
>> Obama administration's push to make community college free top the list of headwinds
I lean conservative, but I call BS here. Obama's push was dead on arrival and largely forgotten.
>> And non-profit universities have entered the online education space, where for-profit schools once held center stage.
I'm not even sure I believe this. To save money and graduate faster, I picked up many of my 100's and 200's via "telecourses" I purchased through my local community college...and that was in the early 1990s.
>> sick of seeing these 'one simple|weird trick' spams
Ditto. Five years ago, I'd say this one slipped through SlashDot's filter. However I'm afraid this is the new normal.
On second thought, it looks like the AV company is staffed with idiots.
>> keys is that they may collide with a legitimate key just by the sheer numbers...when you think you’re building a product for just a few people you don’t hash out these details...
C'mon guys. Your wrote your own clue in the summary. (Starts with "h" rhymes with "trash"...)
>> cracked or pirated version of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
Really? Could anyone on SlashDot really be this dumb?
>> some reference that shows the Spanish government was fiscally irresponsible prior to the global financial crisis in 2008
I'll bite. TLDR: they spent too much money and allowed their banks to behave irresponsibly.
"...ballooning tax revenues (from the artificially high GDP growth rate) concealed the Spanish government's expenditures, which were unsustainably high, until 2007. The Spanish government supported the critical development by relaxing supervision of the financial sector and thereby allowing the banks to violate International Accounting Standards Board standards. So the banks in Spain were able to hide losses and earnings volatility, mislead regulators, analysts, and investors, and thereby finance the Spanish real estate bubble. The results of the crisis were devastating for Spain, including a strong economic downturn, a severe increase in unemployment, and bankruptcies of major companies." ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... )
* A clear sky is blue
* The sun will rise tomorrow
* A bear...
>>>> system finds that piece of code and automatically puts it together with whatever pieces of code you need to make your program work
>> sounds like complete fiction
I think we already do with with libraries and dependencies...just not at the executable level.
Yesterday, I found myself saying, "if you know someone who still has cable..."
>> he rich and the smart money left Greek a few months ago, and it is Joe Sixpack that is trapped and going to get shafted
Pretty much this, and there's been plenty of coverage for anyone who would listen, but I'll bet it wasn't on the evening TV news (or whatever "Joe Sixpack" consumes in Greece).
"New Greek bank run begins" (Feb 25)
http://www.naturalnews.com/048...
"'Slow motion' bank run continues" (June 17)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ti...
"Banks impose a 3,000 Euro withdrawal cap" (June 22)
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...
>> *One-man* government program writes his own audit to ask for more money.
You laugh, but in ten years, if this went through as a US Government program I'd fully expect to see:
* Undersecretary of NEO Defense ...and still only one man actually doing any work.
* 2 Directors of NEO Defense (Homeland and Foreign)
* 5 staff assistants for Undersecretary and Directors
* 5 NEO Program Managers and a $20M technology budget
* 2 NEO Project Managers to handle the implementation (and expected missed deadlines)
* Full salaries, benefits and pensions for everyone, plus the original guy who has now retired
*
>> alternative currencies like Bitcoin suddenly look much more attractive
The problem most Greeks suddenly face is that their money is now locked up as electronic balances in banks that have shut down for a week and won't let them have more than 60 euros at a time. After crises like this (even America's own "great recession"), people tend to prefer forms of money are more than just bits or fiat paper, such as gold and silver.
This mash-up of digit-heavy tweets is a crappy SlashDot summary of a sort we haven't seen before.
Doesn't Dice pay editors for this kind of stuff?
TLDR: Government program commissions its own audit to ask for more money.
>>>> travel from San Francisco to Los Angeles in less than an hour
>> I am exceedingly skeptical this would be survivable by humans.
Turn in your geek card. Here's an easy back-of-the-envelope calculation for you.
Let's start with a gentle rate of acceleration and deceleration at 1mph/sec (e.g., "zero to sixty in 2 minutes"). That means that the vehicle is at a maximum speed of 420mph in 7 minutes, during which time it travelled about 24 miles. The distance between SF and LA is about 400 miles, so assume we have 350 miles to cover at top speed. That happens in 50 minutes, which when added to 7 times two is about 64 minutes. In other words, we can achieve this trip with less-than-elevator acceleration in about an hour.
Wait - different clothes have different colors? And people care about this?
>> 33 HD films in a second
How many LOC/sec (Library of Congresses per second) is that?
How about a car analogy?
>> Re:Highly more cable
Do NOT Google that.
...that most "brick and mortar" banks have been outsourcing their "back end" account management (i.e., your money) to "the cloud" for decades? (OK, back in the day, no one called it "the cloud," but it was the same damn concept.)
What else do you think EDS, FIS, Fiserv, Jack Henry, etc. have been doing all these years?
>> So a job listing website has a "Chief Economist" on staff? What the fuck for?
I'll bite. Back in the back I was an intern for an economist at a huge phone company. We were part of the marketing division, and our job was to parse economic trends to figure out things like which regions were growing fastest (so we could reallocate resources there to capture market share), which seasonal trends were emerging (e.g., non-Christian holidays) and which corporate markets were healthiest based on indicators like sector stock performance. It was never double-digit percentage revenue stuff, but at a very large company it made sense to spend a million on economists to capture a few extra dozen million or so in revenue.
>> tuition $48K (a year)
My first kid will be entering college in about 4 years and I plan on giving each of my kids about $20K (total) to help with their undergraduate education. (Each also went through 9 years of private school before high school at about $3K per kid per year, so I'll be about $45K into each kid's education total.) I'm already harping on the importance of getting through college without picking up debt. That means they will (hopefully) be shopping for ugrad creds from cheap alternatives (e.g., community colleges), and then transferring into a university only when they absolutely have to to get their 300/400-level credits. They'll also need to work through college and/or pick up some scholarships and/or live a home a bit to escape with little or no debt (and hopefully be completely out of college and the house in four years). I'm also looking at some trade options for one of my sons (good grades and great personality but dislikes reading and scores only the 70-80th percentile on standardized tests).
With a lot of other gen-X "middle class" parents like me (single IT earner, wife works part time) doing the same thing, I see the market for on-premise college and university undergraduate degrees starting to dry up. After watching the collective fail of an overeducated millennial generation so far, we just want our kids to get out there and succeed. Whether or not they have the same diploma on the wall that dad, grandma or the neighbors do...not so much.
>> Elon Musk Probably Won't Be the First Martian
Neither could anyone else on Earth if there once was (or still is) life on Mars.
>> Why is it always "learn to code"? Why not learn to wire a house or install plumbing?
Because this whole thing is about deep-pocketed companies that employ a lot of mostly male coders avoiding class action lawsuits. Attorneys aren't particularly interested in chasing down all-male but independent electrician or plumbing crews when Google or Apple are ripe for the picking.
>> Out of this 10,000 we got 1 programmer.
Not a problem. See comment about "avoiding the class action lawsuit" above.
>> Google's $50 million girls-only Made With Code initiative
Somewhere inside Google someone made the decision that a near-future class action targeting Google about its lack of women (whatever the number is, someone will be annoyed until it's at least 50%) would cost a lot more than $50M, so there's the budget.