I'm just as baffled by this. I wasn't aware that recursion went out of style. Just another tool in the algorithm and design pattern toolbox. Did I miss the memo that it was taboo as GOTO?
In middle and high school, I kind of self taught myself electronics by reading a lot of Radio Shack books and doing project kits, so in high school I wanted to learn how to program. Outside of some basic LOGO and BASIC stuff, I never really had exposure to programming. I took my Pascal text book from the first day of CS in high school, and read it cover to cover in about 2 days, doing all the exercises in Turbo Pascal. Next weekend I picked up a book on C/C++, took a few months to get through since it was more than a syntax difference between the two, but read that cover to cover as well. That pretty much solidified my basic understanding of modular and procedural development, and introduced me to OO. A few times in between I would code in the examples from Debug that were in PC Magazine, and that sparked an interest in Assembly that I would later go back to. Spent the next few years reading books on algorithms, program logic and design, and OO design patterns. I was pretty far ahead of the curve by the time I stepped foot into college level CS course. I spent those years honing in C++ and Java, and learned assembly and circuit design as part of engineering courses. The rest was being in the right place at the right time.
Truth be told, it took a lot of interest. I had to really want to do it. It is a passion that I pursue, and it takes more than just learning "syntax" that are taught in schools. Not everybody can do it, just like not everyone can solve complex math programs, paint a masterpiece, or break through a defensive line and run a 50 yard touchdown. But introducing it to populations of kids that wouldn't normally have access to it through schools is a good idea. But that kicks up a whole other discussion about education that is outside the scope of one post.
Me too. Saw one at the San Antonio Airport, parked in the EV charging station next to a Volt. It kept me from plugging in my Leaf, but I was so excited to see a Tesla that I didn't care =D. If there are some in San Antonio, which is about 20 years behind the rest of the world in technology adoption, then I'd be surprised that there are only 1000 in the rest of the state.
I have to agree with this. I was a consultant for several years. I've had to go over this same exercise numerous times. Be professional, use standard terminology, and make sure your code is documented and commented. If the new guy doesn't understand basic things like design patterns or standard algorithms it isn't your job to teach them, but point them in the right direction to learn. Point them to a good program logic and design, OO, book on the platform (Spring, Struts,.Net MVC or whatever), or design patterns book. When they realize that is what it will take to understand the platform, they will usually take it on themselves to learn. 9 times out of 10, the company will pick you up again in the future. You will be surprised that despite the snarky comments about the young guys failing and the company having to bring you back, the new guy will probably still be on board, they will work beside you in future engagements, and if you do the above you will be pleasantly surprised to find out that the "new guys" were your biggest cheer leaders for re-engagements. Don't let an inflated ego and hurt feelings get in the way of providing exceptional customer service.
I am definitely more of a BIRT fan for reporting, but thats not to say that the Pentaho suite doesn't have its advantages too. I personally like their ETL tool and prefer it over tools like TalonD. But that is a personal preference.
Where is BIRT in this list? BIRT is open source and a top level Eclipse project. It is fully featured out of the box, is extensible, and is implemented and backed by several large companies. It is supported by every major Open Source reporting server (Pentaho, SpagoBI), and for enterprise conscious folks there is a commercial option. And it does away with that god awful banded report design model that is a hold over from the ancient Crystal Reports in favor of a more flexible report design paradigm. My guess is that Pentaho and Jasper paid SlashBI more money for a front page slashvertisement.
1) Separate your family/friends from your work life. People tend to think that if your at home, you're available to talk/hang out. Family is especially hard to convince otherwise. 2) Make sure you get voice time with your co-workers. Don't just leave it to IM. 3) Follow a productive methodology. In my case, I used Scrum. I have a full Product Backlog, and a Sprint Board in my office. Don't try to replace these with electronic organizers. And make sure if you do Scrum from a work at home job that you participate in a Daily Scrum either through Skype or conference call. This goes into #2. The reason, if you're out of sight, you're out of mind of your co-workers. That plays big when its time to make cuts. 4) Take breaks. Walk around the neighborhood, go running/jogging. Go out to lunch. Anything to force yourself out of your house for a little while to keep you from going stir crazy, and to force you to interact with people other than family and co-workers. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy after all.
Simple solutions... shes either a crazy old lady talking to herself with her hand up for whatever reason, shes chewing gum, or this is "B" roll that the DVD authors used for the extra feature, and this particular footage just happened to have some women on her phone.
It would make a good aspect of a Sci-Fi story, cell phones function on their time of origin, regardless of what time the physical handset is in.
I have to agree with parent. I've written an implementation of every method I use from libraries such as STL or Java at least once in my life, sometimes in such painful languages as assembly. I did it just for the sheer joy of it (yes, I love programming that much) and as a learning experience. In all those years, I learned a very important lesson, don't reinvent the wheel. I have yet to receive a set of requirements from a client that say "give me the least efficient/over engineered way to do X" that would compel me to ever again need to re-write a quick sort algorithm, container implementation, or string parser.
If your not willing to invest money into intrusion detection, vulnerability scanning, or moving to a more responsive provider, accept that your server is going to constantly be scanned by the droves of script kiddies out there throwing everything but the kitchen sink at any server that responds to a ping and keep monitoring those logs, which hopefully are stored on a separate server in case you are ever actually compromised. In the mean time, try installing Fail2Ban on your server. It will block an IP address after X number of failed authentication attempts, which will alleviate the noise of the brute force password guessing attempts.
I have to agree. Between her and the NerdKits guys, I get my fair share of electronic hobby kits to keep me entertained. Although the Replica-One is one kit that neither offers, and I can't wait to put together.
Last year I made the NerdKit Valentine Day card. I customized it so that it fit onto the top of a box of chocolates and put pictures of our pets on there. She loved that more than any other gift I've gotten her, and that includes jewelry. As an added bonus, her friends were completely jealous their significant others didnt do anything that "creative".
Play to your strengths. If she doesn't appreciate it, your with the wrong girl.
You read that article and think "Name calling? The police state is violating that persons Freedom of Speech, thats a problem". I read that, see that its from Somerset, Tx, and I think "thats probably gang related or some cracked out trailer trash and they threatened to rape and kill that girl. Thats a problem".
In both cases, none of us knows the specifics of the case, and are both talking out our asses. And even RTFA, given the PD cheifs in the San Antonio areas notoriety for spewing lines of BS, we won't in the immediate future.
I thought they were telling us how to throw an Orgy. All this talk of "activities" and "pictures" and "watching videos of activities" was a little vague, I swear this is an advertisement for an amateur porn site.
I use an Android device on Verizon now (HTC Touch/XV6900). Its fine for the built in Google apps, but the Android Marketplace has thousands of apps that were obviously designed for 1 device, the G1. with all the screen clipping issues and resolution issues, most of these apps are just plain junk. And if they ran it on Verizon, I'm sure Verizon would do all those great things they are know for, such as locking down the GPS functionality to only work with VZNavigator. Android has the feel of a cobbled together imitation iPhone. While its better than Windows Mobile, and iPhone killer it aint.
I informed my boss that my personal life involves me choking people and applying pressure to joints, and clarify that if my work life enters my personal life, then my personal life will enter my work life. Haven't had a problem since. You can't just let people walk all over you just because they have the title of "boss".
They are just shelving it, not putting it to sleep. We still need to convince them that that "educating" us is stupid. We need to put this issue to rest. Continue to send emails and sign petitions, and join a boycott.
I'm gonna piggy back on your post since your a fellow resident from SA.:)
I can't believe the paranoia based on a college kids report in the local flea rag? Come on. The SA Current is is local college rag, they advertise current events, gay clubs, have the worst food critics, and have the most left learning articles this side of San Francisco. The first paragraph in the article is total BS, there are either no NSA employees or a skeleton crew at that facility. Its still under construction, and I highly doubt the illegals working on the building give a crap about some college kid taking pictures. They might finally have employees starting to trickle in, but the place still looks under construction every time I pass it, and I live like 4 miles from it. Maybe thats part of the subterfuge, which I highly doubt. All I ever see out there is a single cop car, and that guy is usually asleep, tons of barbed wire fence, and tons of construction workers. I could go over there right now, take pictures to my hearts content, and not be bothered, or detained. I seriously doubt this guy was "detained" since the NSA is not a law enforcement agency, and one of the skeleton crew that would be there has about as much legal right to detain you as the desk clerk at the DMV. So unless this guy crossed that fence to take pictures, or is making a joke, I call shenanigans. The fear mongering about big brother is bullshit in this case.
The reason the NSA is opening a data center here in SA is no secret. Its dirt cheap land, period. They got the the cheap land on clearance from AMD who bought it and never did anything with it. The same reason Citi opened a call center here several years ago (still there, although they sold the land and lease from them due to their financial issues), same reason Toyota opened their plant here, same reason that Microsoft is planning a call center here. Same goes for USAA, Valero, and Tesoro. Its the same reason I can buy my house here for less than 200k where the same house is close to a million in other parts of the country. Its cheap real estate. Period. AT&T was stupid to leave for that very reason. They got some sort of kick-back from the city of Dallas and used the airport (which is under an expansion project currently) as an excuse. They may "save" in the short run, but their executives will be long gone and counting their money by the time the savings run out.
The problem with opening high tech facilities here is finding qualified labor. So for all the guys wearing a tin foil hat about this, keep in mind, this is in a city where the high school drop out rate is outrageously high, the teen pregnancy rate is the highest in the country, education is piss poor with high schools putting more focus on and the only state college, UTSA, has in the past lost its accreditation in core subjects like Math and English for failing to meet standards. I've worked with several of the graduates of their security program before, and they had no clue what a packet capture was, and had never heard of TCPDump or Wireshark/Ethereal before. It might be like any other curriculum in any school, and there are the bright kids, and the dull ones, but the ones I've encountered have definitely been on the lower end of that spectrum. The other colleges in the area are either community colleges (which, mind you, the kids out of one of the local community college security programs knew a hell of a lot more than the state schools), or are outrageously expensive private schools. So unless they are willing to lower their hiring criteria to associates degrees, or get their candidates from elsewhere (either from one of the remaining air force bases here or from other cities or states), qualified candidates might be hard to come by.
I'm 30, and I still love my 300 in 1 Electronics Kit I bought from Radio shack like 10 years ago. Bought it because it had a breadboard with basic power inputs so I could use it on other prototypes and easy to assemble external pieces like switches. Been using it again recently to build schematics I find off of various sites online. They have more basic kits that have snap in components. Don't know about these kids, but I would have loved one of those at 13 since I was already soldering and wire wrapping basic circuits.
Maybe its just me, but it looks like changing lanes must be a bitch in this thing. The foldable wings are huge obstructions to both the driver and the teeny tiny side mirrors. Of course, I haven't sat in one, so I don't exactly have first hand experience.
Slashdot Mirror
I use JMP's if I'm messing around on some old micros, does that count?
I'm just as baffled by this. I wasn't aware that recursion went out of style. Just another tool in the algorithm and design pattern toolbox. Did I miss the memo that it was taboo as GOTO?
In middle and high school, I kind of self taught myself electronics by reading a lot of Radio Shack books and doing project kits, so in high school I wanted to learn how to program. Outside of some basic LOGO and BASIC stuff, I never really had exposure to programming. I took my Pascal text book from the first day of CS in high school, and read it cover to cover in about 2 days, doing all the exercises in Turbo Pascal. Next weekend I picked up a book on C/C++, took a few months to get through since it was more than a syntax difference between the two, but read that cover to cover as well. That pretty much solidified my basic understanding of modular and procedural development, and introduced me to OO. A few times in between I would code in the examples from Debug that were in PC Magazine, and that sparked an interest in Assembly that I would later go back to. Spent the next few years reading books on algorithms, program logic and design, and OO design patterns. I was pretty far ahead of the curve by the time I stepped foot into college level CS course. I spent those years honing in C++ and Java, and learned assembly and circuit design as part of engineering courses. The rest was being in the right place at the right time.
Truth be told, it took a lot of interest. I had to really want to do it. It is a passion that I pursue, and it takes more than just learning "syntax" that are taught in schools. Not everybody can do it, just like not everyone can solve complex math programs, paint a masterpiece, or break through a defensive line and run a 50 yard touchdown. But introducing it to populations of kids that wouldn't normally have access to it through schools is a good idea. But that kicks up a whole other discussion about education that is outside the scope of one post.
Me too. Saw one at the San Antonio Airport, parked in the EV charging station next to a Volt. It kept me from plugging in my Leaf, but I was so excited to see a Tesla that I didn't care =D. If there are some in San Antonio, which is about 20 years behind the rest of the world in technology adoption, then I'd be surprised that there are only 1000 in the rest of the state.
I have to agree with this. I was a consultant for several years. I've had to go over this same exercise numerous times. Be professional, use standard terminology, and make sure your code is documented and commented. If the new guy doesn't understand basic things like design patterns or standard algorithms it isn't your job to teach them, but point them in the right direction to learn. Point them to a good program logic and design, OO, book on the platform (Spring, Struts, .Net MVC or whatever), or design patterns book. When they realize that is what it will take to understand the platform, they will usually take it on themselves to learn. 9 times out of 10, the company will pick you up again in the future. You will be surprised that despite the snarky comments about the young guys failing and the company having to bring you back, the new guy will probably still be on board, they will work beside you in future engagements, and if you do the above you will be pleasantly surprised to find out that the "new guys" were your biggest cheer leaders for re-engagements. Don't let an inflated ego and hurt feelings get in the way of providing exceptional customer service.
Or the community website at http://www.birt-exchange.com/
I am definitely more of a BIRT fan for reporting, but thats not to say that the Pentaho suite doesn't have its advantages too. I personally like their ETL tool and prefer it over tools like TalonD. But that is a personal preference.
Where is BIRT in this list? BIRT is open source and a top level Eclipse project. It is fully featured out of the box, is extensible, and is implemented and backed by several large companies. It is supported by every major Open Source reporting server (Pentaho, SpagoBI), and for enterprise conscious folks there is a commercial option. And it does away with that god awful banded report design model that is a hold over from the ancient Crystal Reports in favor of a more flexible report design paradigm. My guess is that Pentaho and Jasper paid SlashBI more money for a front page slashvertisement.
1) Separate your family/friends from your work life. People tend to think that if your at home, you're available to talk/hang out. Family is especially hard to convince otherwise.
2) Make sure you get voice time with your co-workers. Don't just leave it to IM.
3) Follow a productive methodology. In my case, I used Scrum. I have a full Product Backlog, and a Sprint Board in my office. Don't try to replace these with electronic organizers. And make sure if you do Scrum from a work at home job that you participate in a Daily Scrum either through Skype or conference call. This goes into #2. The reason, if you're out of sight, you're out of mind of your co-workers. That plays big when its time to make cuts.
4) Take breaks. Walk around the neighborhood, go running/jogging. Go out to lunch. Anything to force yourself out of your house for a little while to keep you from going stir crazy, and to force you to interact with people other than family and co-workers. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy after all.
Simple solutions... shes either a crazy old lady talking to herself with her hand up for whatever reason, shes chewing gum, or this is "B" roll that the DVD authors used for the extra feature, and this particular footage just happened to have some women on her phone.
It would make a good aspect of a Sci-Fi story, cell phones function on their time of origin, regardless of what time the physical handset is in.
I have to agree with parent. I've written an implementation of every method I use from libraries such as STL or Java at least once in my life, sometimes in such painful languages as assembly. I did it just for the sheer joy of it (yes, I love programming that much) and as a learning experience. In all those years, I learned a very important lesson, don't reinvent the wheel. I have yet to receive a set of requirements from a client that say "give me the least efficient/over engineered way to do X" that would compel me to ever again need to re-write a quick sort algorithm, container implementation, or string parser.
If your not willing to invest money into intrusion detection, vulnerability scanning, or moving to a more responsive provider, accept that your server is going to constantly be scanned by the droves of script kiddies out there throwing everything but the kitchen sink at any server that responds to a ping and keep monitoring those logs, which hopefully are stored on a separate server in case you are ever actually compromised. In the mean time, try installing Fail2Ban on your server. It will block an IP address after X number of failed authentication attempts, which will alleviate the noise of the brute force password guessing attempts.
I have to agree. Between her and the NerdKits guys, I get my fair share of electronic hobby kits to keep me entertained. Although the Replica-One is one kit that neither offers, and I can't wait to put together.
Last year I made the NerdKit Valentine Day card. I customized it so that it fit onto the top of a box of chocolates and put pictures of our pets on there. She loved that more than any other gift I've gotten her, and that includes jewelry. As an added bonus, her friends were completely jealous their significant others didnt do anything that "creative".
Play to your strengths. If she doesn't appreciate it, your with the wrong girl.
"You said whizbang."
Chairs, Lamps, Globe, and Laurence Fishburne: "AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"
You read that article and think "Name calling? The police state is violating that persons Freedom of Speech, thats a problem". I read that, see that its from Somerset, Tx, and I think "thats probably gang related or some cracked out trailer trash and they threatened to rape and kill that girl. Thats a problem".
In both cases, none of us knows the specifics of the case, and are both talking out our asses. And even RTFA, given the PD cheifs in the San Antonio areas notoriety for spewing lines of BS, we won't in the immediate future.
I thought they were telling us how to throw an Orgy. All this talk of "activities" and "pictures" and "watching videos of activities" was a little vague, I swear this is an advertisement for an amateur porn site.
I use an Android device on Verizon now (HTC Touch/XV6900). Its fine for the built in Google apps, but the Android Marketplace has thousands of apps that were obviously designed for 1 device, the G1. with all the screen clipping issues and resolution issues, most of these apps are just plain junk. And if they ran it on Verizon, I'm sure Verizon would do all those great things they are know for, such as locking down the GPS functionality to only work with VZNavigator. Android has the feel of a cobbled together imitation iPhone. While its better than Windows Mobile, and iPhone killer it aint.
I informed my boss that my personal life involves me choking people and applying pressure to joints, and clarify that if my work life enters my personal life, then my personal life will enter my work life. Haven't had a problem since. You can't just let people walk all over you just because they have the title of "boss".
Doom
Turbo Pascal
Ethereal
Red Hat Linux 4
For one reason or another, those apps changed my entire computing landscape.
They are just shelving it, not putting it to sleep. We still need to convince them that that "educating" us is stupid. We need to put this issue to rest. Continue to send emails and sign petitions, and join a boycott.
Time Warner Petition/Boycott
Or better yet, a Space "Whale" like in Final Fantasy 4... oh wait, we saw how that would end on South Park. Poor Willzyx.
I'm gonna piggy back on your post since your a fellow resident from SA. :)
I can't believe the paranoia based on a college kids report in the local flea rag? Come on. The SA Current is is local college rag, they advertise current events, gay clubs, have the worst food critics, and have the most left learning articles this side of San Francisco. The first paragraph in the article is total BS, there are either no NSA employees or a skeleton crew at that facility. Its still under construction, and I highly doubt the illegals working on the building give a crap about some college kid taking pictures. They might finally have employees starting to trickle in, but the place still looks under construction every time I pass it, and I live like 4 miles from it. Maybe thats part of the subterfuge, which I highly doubt. All I ever see out there is a single cop car, and that guy is usually asleep, tons of barbed wire fence, and tons of construction workers. I could go over there right now, take pictures to my hearts content, and not be bothered, or detained. I seriously doubt this guy was "detained" since the NSA is not a law enforcement agency, and one of the skeleton crew that would be there has about as much legal right to detain you as the desk clerk at the DMV. So unless this guy crossed that fence to take pictures, or is making a joke, I call shenanigans. The fear mongering about big brother is bullshit in this case.
The reason the NSA is opening a data center here in SA is no secret. Its dirt cheap land, period. They got the the cheap land on clearance from AMD who bought it and never did anything with it. The same reason Citi opened a call center here several years ago (still there, although they sold the land and lease from them due to their financial issues), same reason Toyota opened their plant here, same reason that Microsoft is planning a call center here. Same goes for USAA, Valero, and Tesoro. Its the same reason I can buy my house here for less than 200k where the same house is close to a million in other parts of the country. Its cheap real estate. Period. AT&T was stupid to leave for that very reason. They got some sort of kick-back from the city of Dallas and used the airport (which is under an expansion project currently) as an excuse. They may "save" in the short run, but their executives will be long gone and counting their money by the time the savings run out.
The problem with opening high tech facilities here is finding qualified labor. So for all the guys wearing a tin foil hat about this, keep in mind, this is in a city where the high school drop out rate is outrageously high, the teen pregnancy rate is the highest in the country, education is piss poor with high schools putting more focus on and the only state college, UTSA, has in the past lost its accreditation in core subjects like Math and English for failing to meet standards. I've worked with several of the graduates of their security program before, and they had no clue what a packet capture was, and had never heard of TCPDump or Wireshark/Ethereal before. It might be like any other curriculum in any school, and there are the bright kids, and the dull ones, but the ones I've encountered have definitely been on the lower end of that spectrum. The other colleges in the area are either community colleges (which, mind you, the kids out of one of the local community college security programs knew a hell of a lot more than the state schools), or are outrageously expensive private schools. So unless they are willing to lower their hiring criteria to associates degrees, or get their candidates from elsewhere (either from one of the remaining air force bases here or from other cities or states), qualified candidates might be hard to come by.
I'm 30, and I still love my 300 in 1 Electronics Kit I bought from Radio shack like 10 years ago. Bought it because it had a breadboard with basic power inputs so I could use it on other prototypes and easy to assemble external pieces like switches. Been using it again recently to build schematics I find off of various sites online. They have more basic kits that have snap in components. Don't know about these kids, but I would have loved one of those at 13 since I was already soldering and wire wrapping basic circuits.
Maybe its just me, but it looks like changing lanes must be a bitch in this thing. The foldable wings are huge obstructions to both the driver and the teeny tiny side mirrors. Of course, I haven't sat in one, so I don't exactly have first hand experience.
Not sure about CC, but BB has been selling Macs for at least a few months. I have two withing 10 miles of me that have Apple sections.
Best Buy's MacBook Link