The diamond age will be here soon, and mined diamonds will be worthless. And that's great.
The amount of misery that has been caused by our want of shiny rocks is deplorable.
I want to see those that have profited on this misery to languish.
I've sullied diamonds to a dozen women, who decided to go a different way. This makes me happy.
That may cause some people to object, when your car mows down a bunch of grade schoolers, rather than hit the back of a schoolbus at a very survivable speed.
Though I suspect that the problem will be self correcting, As the settings you choose will change your insurance premiums. That having a SUV with a save occupant from minor injury at any price setting, could prove to be crazy expensive.
I gave up on that front.
I carry a cell phone.
I suspect that the govt tracks cell phone positions (gps and/or tower triangulated), and logs the data.
That is a really small amount of data to collect, and if done in bulk is amazing.
While some might think this is paranoid, I feel that our intelligence community would be incompetent if they didn't.
I also suspect that they have a data stream on most retail purchases. (also a small amount of data)
If I had that kind of data, I could mine the living hell out of it.
You could track the positions of burner phones, and know where the criminal elements live.
You then track their inter-actors, and see where they are going.
Then you can see where they are dead-dropping goods
It becomes criminal Sudoku
Best of Luck fighting the privacy war. Sadly I took an arrow to the knee.
The Hundred Dollar Bill is used all over the world.. Keeping it around is a huge boon for America.
I can trade American currency for service in most parts of the world.
A good usable currency that works across the globe is good for trade, which in turn is good for peace.
While easy to use money is a good thing for smugglers and terrorists,
I suspect that making currency harder to deal with will help them grow far more.
It's a sad band aid to a problem that is caused by impinging on the workers freedom to leave.
And I'm pretty sure that truly free trade would be a damn nightmare.
But a good chunk of the free trade is a damn fine answer.
It's a big ass dam dude, it's 5 times the size of the Hoover dam and stretches for over 600 kilometers.
The Three Gorges Dam generates about 10GW and displaced upwards of 1.5 million people. Total world energy generation from fossil fuels is about 10TW. So, if you accept the displacement of at least 1.5 million people for the Three Gorges Dam, you should be willing to accept the displacement of at least 1.5 billion people for fossil fuel consumption, right?
Oh, and the figure I read was 1.6 million displaced, but the article was a bit old.
Hence my statement of more than 1.5 million. In fact, it's probably several million, but Chinese propaganda likes to play it down.
For 10 TW of clean power I think that displacing 1.5 billion people is a damn bargain.
They can't just move into running guns, as there are already criminals that do that, but their main buyers (drug pushers) are not buying, so it doesn't work.
So then there is human trafficking, black markets, illegal gambling, theft, counterfeiting, and extortion.
I don't think there is much growth potential in most of these fields.
And with police relieved from most of the interdiction work, there are more resources left enforce the other problems.
It's loans at 1970's college tuition rates. And the man made an agreement to pay them back.
Even today there are affordable college options. He chose to take on debt.
I've seen shrewd students get through their PhD's without a loan or family help. They weren't destitute, just disciplined.
(I'm not remotely that disciplined, I had a good deal of fun with loaned money, and I'm fine with paying back my loans.)
And even with all that said..
I think the nation needs to provide 4 more years of free public education. An uneducated populace is not a good future for our economy.
I've sat through an upsetting number of tech interviews. Getting someone at the high end is a really horrible experience. People come in with very impressive resume's only to show no real skillset.
I don't think having some lack of understanding of encryption is a non-starter.
But I do want to see that someone has a good breadth of experience, and can talk about a good number of things at some base understanding:
How a file system works, how a network works, how memory works, how a repository works, how a software build works, how to use editor functions far beyond what can be done by microsoft notepad, how to use a regex, how to make a presentation from data, how to make a lamp webpage, how to merge tables from multiple databases, how to do statistical tests on data, how to set up proper controls for experiments, how to write.
The other part is that bad applicants pervade the pool. Good hires get hired, and held onto -- Bad hires don't get hired, or get released back in the pool. If you want a good hire, there is a bunch of crap applicants to wade through, or you pay the cash to lure talent away from a lucrative job.
Oh the subject.. Eventually gave up on hiring a senior, and posted for a junior position, and got far better applicants than we ever saw for the senior position.
Any episode with Q was horrible. (John Delancy was great)
Holodeck centered episodes -- lame (Barkley's stuff was passable)
Any episode focused on Troi, Data,or Wesley, were really bad.
Worf or Geordi episodes were more palatable.
My favorites:
Arsenal of Freedom
Inner light
Thine Own Self
Peak Performance
Who Watches the Watchers
The Defector
The Hunted
Best of Both Worlds
If he's reaching the interview phase, it isn't the job market.
Almost nobody want's to interview more candidates than necessary. It's a huge hassle and the cost is pretty damn high.
Baseline is that in an interview I try to determine a few things:
1. Ability to perform work. Can you be in consistently, and perform work that is of an adequate quality/quantity to be worthwhile?
2. Ability to work with the team. Are you going to damage morale, will you communicate in a manner that doesn't cause excess problems.
3. Ability to not upset the exterior of the team, will a person dress/speak appropriately around customers/ bosses/ HR
For likability go for candor.
Some people feel uncomfortable with that, if so go with a mistake that could have been averted by another party -but- take full ownership of it. Leave enough of the story in there so that the interviewee can see that it was another party mistake, but not enough that it appears blatant. An instance might be making a bad commit to the code base, realizing it too late, then finding out that the svn repository died horribly AFTER everyone had pulled out YOUR broken update. Then have some canned speech about how you stopped mixing the debug and production directories from that point on.
Lot's of developers are intolerably arrogant, and there are a bunch of queue's that the interviewers are looking for, show that you can hide these signs. Talk yourself up in a way that doesn't show arrogance.
I've come in to work with some gross frickin coffee makers.
Or finding the grinder lid is no where to be found on Monday morning.
If you stash your next grinder you're considered some kind of pretentious schmuck. So you get some cheap POS grinder, just to find that the coffee filter is gone the next Monday. You grab some paper filters, and find that someone tried to brew stronger coffee by using five filters at once, making an ever loving mess of the coffee pot/kitchen area
I like that it is really inconvenient for someone else to make the brewing part go nasty/break on a K cup system.
Knowing that I just grab a pod and have fresh brewed caffeine in 20 seconds is comforting.
I've been interviewing people for higher end stuff, and keep getting applicants that don't know jack.
Are lost at the Ax=b
Haven't heard of Valgrind
All this from interviewees that are conditioned to believe that all these requirements are just HR flak to be ignored.
Those HR people have stolen hours from me indirectly.
Honestly, most managers would be clueless as how to deal with a passionate programmer.
The meetings, conference calls, the coding conventions, the documentation, making hard choices that hurt the deeper beauty of the finished product. This is poison to the passionate programmer. Other people doing substandard things to her code. This isn't ok to do to someones passions. It would be like letting a person bring a pet to work, and the staff kicks it at a whim.
They want people who pretend to be passionate. But really their looking for employees that want a paycheck, and a good portfolio when they leave.
The dark matter theory has always felt a bit contrived to me. But I don't have the background to make an cogent argument against it, nor have standing for my words to carry weight.
The All clears an ambiguity.
This means the poster means that all the print drivers have most of their stuff in userspace. Rather than most of the print drivers are in userspace.
I don't follow printer drivers closely enough to know if the poster was right. I try and follow the nuance language, it is abused often.
Why own the car at all? Might as well be a service, no point in having "your" car a couple miles away doing nothing.
You could summon a car, based on all sorts of criteria. Mostly I see the big use case as a taxi-van, where a ride sharing system could be in place. Sure a person could request a private car, but I suspect that many people would be happy to share a ride with people who have been matched by computer as good ride matches.
They're sysadmins, They'll have the same sentiments as other federal employees that get downsized. Some will transfer to other USG jobs, Then they'll check the big iron jobs, fortune 500 companies, top500.org (some quasi governmental work there). University, State and Municipal IT positions.
The last stack of resume's I looked at was deeply disappointing.
They have a freakload of data. Where the access to the data must be secured, compartmentalized, logged, verified, and audited. Keys must be managed in a much more robust way. Ensuring that no data can leak between running jobs on a cluster.
There are going to be a freakish amounts of sysadmins/systemprogrammers/cybersecurity type all trying to meet the needed requirements. Then hoping that none of them get so rushed that they cut a corner, and leave a vulnerability open.
I'm sure that doing 10x work will result in full diligence.
The Oxygen isn't going to just "strip off" Venus has a huge amount of Oxygen in the atmosphere. With little hydrogen the earth would have an incredibly thick atmosphere. Without life the O2 wouldn't be replenished and it would be an atmospheric compound.
Slashdot Mirror
The diamond age will be here soon, and mined diamonds will be worthless. And that's great.
The amount of misery that has been caused by our want of shiny rocks is deplorable.
I want to see those that have profited on this misery to languish.
I've sullied diamonds to a dozen women, who decided to go a different way. This makes me happy.
That may cause some people to object, when your car mows down a bunch of grade schoolers, rather than hit the back of a schoolbus at a very survivable speed. Though I suspect that the problem will be self correcting, As the settings you choose will change your insurance premiums. That having a SUV with a save occupant from minor injury at any price setting, could prove to be crazy expensive.
I gave up on that front.
I carry a cell phone.
I suspect that the govt tracks cell phone positions (gps and/or tower triangulated), and logs the data.
That is a really small amount of data to collect, and if done in bulk is amazing.
While some might think this is paranoid, I feel that our intelligence community would be incompetent if they didn't.
I also suspect that they have a data stream on most retail purchases. (also a small amount of data)
If I had that kind of data, I could mine the living hell out of it.
You could track the positions of burner phones, and know where the criminal elements live.
You then track their inter-actors, and see where they are going.
Then you can see where they are dead-dropping goods
It becomes criminal Sudoku
Best of Luck fighting the privacy war. Sadly I took an arrow to the knee.
The Hundred Dollar Bill is used all over the world.. Keeping it around is a huge boon for America.
I can trade American currency for service in most parts of the world.
A good usable currency that works across the globe is good for trade, which in turn is good for peace.
While easy to use money is a good thing for smugglers and terrorists,
I suspect that making currency harder to deal with will help them grow far more.
Limiting the currency is probably a bad thing.
It's a sad band aid to a problem that is caused by impinging on the workers freedom to leave.
And I'm pretty sure that truly free trade would be a damn nightmare.
But a good chunk of the free trade is a damn fine answer.
The Three Gorges Dam generates about 10GW and displaced upwards of 1.5 million people. Total world energy generation from fossil fuels is about 10TW. So, if you accept the displacement of at least 1.5 million people for the Three Gorges Dam, you should be willing to accept the displacement of at least 1.5 billion people for fossil fuel consumption, right?
Hence my statement of more than 1.5 million. In fact, it's probably several million, but Chinese propaganda likes to play it down.
For 10 TW of clean power I think that displacing 1.5 billion people is a damn bargain.
They can't just move into running guns, as there are already criminals that do that, but their main buyers (drug pushers) are not buying, so it doesn't work.
So then there is human trafficking, black markets, illegal gambling, theft, counterfeiting, and extortion.
I don't think there is much growth potential in most of these fields.
And with police relieved from most of the interdiction work, there are more resources left enforce the other problems.
It's loans at 1970's college tuition rates. And the man made an agreement to pay them back. Even today there are affordable college options. He chose to take on debt. I've seen shrewd students get through their PhD's without a loan or family help. They weren't destitute, just disciplined. (I'm not remotely that disciplined, I had a good deal of fun with loaned money, and I'm fine with paying back my loans.)
And even with all that said..
I think the nation needs to provide 4 more years of free public education. An uneducated populace is not a good future for our economy.
I've sat through an upsetting number of tech interviews. Getting someone at the high end is a really horrible experience. People come in with very impressive resume's only to show no real skillset.
I don't think having some lack of understanding of encryption is a non-starter.
But I do want to see that someone has a good breadth of experience, and can talk about a good number of things at some base understanding:
How a file system works,
how a network works,
how memory works,
how a repository works,
how a software build works,
how to use editor functions far beyond what can be done by microsoft notepad,
how to use a regex,
how to make a presentation from data,
how to make a lamp webpage,
how to merge tables from multiple databases,
how to do statistical tests on data,
how to set up proper controls for experiments,
how to write. The other part is that bad applicants pervade the pool. Good hires get hired, and held onto -- Bad hires don't get hired, or get released back in the pool. If you want a good hire, there is a bunch of crap applicants to wade through, or you pay the cash to lure talent away from a lucrative job.
Oh the subject.. Eventually gave up on hiring a senior, and posted for a junior position, and got far better applicants than we ever saw for the senior position.
Throw in:
Battlezone
Stargate (defender upgrade)
Joust
Doom
T-Mek
Descent
Mortal Combat
Virtua Fighter
Space Lords
Police 911
Crazy Tax
Nethack
Rtype
BattleTech (mech pods version)
Always go in with a well considered plan, and be there when it happens.
Even if your planning is awesome, you'll look unprofessional not being in a position to fix a problem when it is most likely to occur.
If something does happen, and your not there.. There will be crankiness.
Any episode with Q was horrible. (John Delancy was great)
Holodeck centered episodes -- lame (Barkley's stuff was passable)
Any episode focused on Troi, Data,or Wesley, were really bad.
Worf or Geordi episodes were more palatable.
My favorites:
Arsenal of Freedom
Inner light
Thine Own Self
Peak Performance
Who Watches the Watchers
The Defector
The Hunted
Best of Both Worlds
If he's reaching the interview phase, it isn't the job market.
Almost nobody want's to interview more candidates than necessary. It's a huge hassle and the cost is pretty damn high.
Baseline is that in an interview I try to determine a few things:
1. Ability to perform work. Can you be in consistently, and perform work that is of an adequate quality/quantity to be worthwhile?
2. Ability to work with the team. Are you going to damage morale, will you communicate in a manner that doesn't cause excess problems.
3. Ability to not upset the exterior of the team, will a person dress/speak appropriately around customers/ bosses/ HR
For likability go for candor.
Some people feel uncomfortable with that, if so go with a mistake that could have been averted by another party -but- take full ownership of it. Leave enough of the story in there so that the interviewee can see that it was another party mistake, but not enough that it appears blatant. An instance might be making a bad commit to the code base, realizing it too late, then finding out that the svn repository died horribly AFTER everyone had pulled out YOUR broken update. Then have some canned speech about how you stopped mixing the debug and production directories from that point on.
Lot's of developers are intolerably arrogant, and there are a bunch of queue's that the interviewers are looking for, show that you can hide these signs. Talk yourself up in a way that doesn't show arrogance.
I've come in to work with some gross frickin coffee makers.
Or finding the grinder lid is no where to be found on Monday morning.
If you stash your next grinder you're considered some kind of pretentious schmuck. So you get some cheap POS grinder, just to find that the coffee filter is gone the next Monday. You grab some paper filters, and find that someone tried to brew stronger coffee by using five filters at once, making an ever loving mess of the coffee pot/kitchen area
I like that it is really inconvenient for someone else to make the brewing part go nasty/break on a K cup system.
Knowing that I just grab a pod and have fresh brewed caffeine in 20 seconds is comforting.
I've been interviewing people for higher end stuff, and keep getting applicants that don't know jack.
Are lost at the Ax=b
Haven't heard of Valgrind
All this from interviewees that are conditioned to believe that all these requirements are just HR flak to be ignored.
Those HR people have stolen hours from me indirectly.
A Passionate Programmer != Good Developer
A good developer cares about their craft, a passionate programmer cares about their code.
Honestly, most managers would be clueless as how to deal with a passionate programmer.
The meetings, conference calls, the coding conventions, the documentation, making hard choices that hurt the deeper beauty of the finished product. This is poison to the passionate programmer. Other people doing substandard things to her code. This isn't ok to do to someones passions. It would be like letting a person bring a pet to work, and the staff kicks it at a whim.
They want people who pretend to be passionate. But really their looking for employees that want a paycheck, and a good portfolio when they leave.
Fedora 21 (Black Jack)
I'm calling it that, and I dont care if Fedora leaves it nameless.
Bitcoins can be broken down to very small values. Allowing a bitcoin to inflate to a crazy value without impacting spend-ability..
The dark matter theory has always felt a bit contrived to me. But I don't have the background to make an cogent argument against it, nor have standing for my words to carry weight.
The All clears an ambiguity. This means the poster means that all the print drivers have most of their stuff in userspace. Rather than most of the print drivers are in userspace.
I don't follow printer drivers closely enough to know if the poster was right. I try and follow the nuance language, it is abused often.
Why own the car at all? Might as well be a service, no point in having "your" car a couple miles away doing nothing.
You could summon a car, based on all sorts of criteria. Mostly I see the big use case as a taxi-van, where a ride sharing system could be in place. Sure a person could request a private car, but I suspect that many people would be happy to share a ride with people who have been matched by computer as good ride matches.
They're sysadmins, They'll have the same sentiments as other federal employees that get downsized. Some will transfer to other USG jobs, Then they'll check the big iron jobs, fortune 500 companies, top500.org (some quasi governmental work there). University, State and Municipal IT positions.
The last stack of resume's I looked at was deeply disappointing.
They have a freakload of data. Where the access to the data must be secured, compartmentalized, logged, verified, and audited. Keys must be managed in a much more robust way. Ensuring that no data can leak between running jobs on a cluster.
There are going to be a freakish amounts of sysadmins/systemprogrammers/cybersecurity type all trying to meet the needed requirements. Then hoping that none of them get so rushed that they cut a corner, and leave a vulnerability open.
I'm sure that doing 10x work will result in full diligence.
The Oxygen isn't going to just "strip off" Venus has a huge amount of Oxygen in the atmosphere. With little hydrogen the earth would have an incredibly thick atmosphere. Without life the O2 wouldn't be replenished and it would be an atmospheric compound.