The number of CS undergraduates closely mirrors the demand for workers. Hiring H1-Bs just reduces the number of young Americans who study CS. In the end, it doesn't really effect people already working in the field.
It'll do something. It's not like there will be zero switches. Especially when you consider Linux only has to compete with 10 year old software to win over those users.
Of course it is quantum. The whole universe, including the reactions in the D-Wave are based on the laws of quantum mechanics. Regular computer chips have to take quantum effects into account too, although they try to defeat quantum effects rather than utilize them. Nevertheless, at a basic level the transistors work because of the laws of quantum mechanics.
So how do you want to describe the D-Wave? Do you want to describe it using the laws of Quantum Mechanics? Or do you want to approximate it using a classical model that is carefully chosen to not get the quantum effects wrong?
In either case, as the article says, it's still fast.
Oh, because the business representing them asserts that that is the case. I think an agent for freelancers is an interesting idea. but others are saying that's not new.
A relative of caffeine that is in chocolate that is so powerful to dogs that chocolate can kill dogs or at least make them very sick. Bees are invertebrates. Compared to bees dogs are just like us. So its pretty hard to correlate any effect of caffeine on bees to an effect on humans.
Because they will not have a justification for not covering your pre-existing condition. When you take them to court, they will simply have to cough up.
The web is mostly just textual information. There's dressing and markup. There's an isolated video embedded in the text, but mostly it's text. And text is 2D. What is everyone going to create complicated 3D interfaces for?
Well, you don't have to take a college course to know economics.
Which is greater the number of unemployed or the number of people with two full time jobs? The unemployed, so my statement checks out. It is quite beyond reproach, really.
Eighteen year olds aren't great writers, they never have been. Maybe at Harvard or an advanced English class, you'd have to write really well. But this is a Blogging class at State school. This is clearly writing for engineers, I'm not surprised the writing is bad.
Welcome to the real world. Universities are neither miracle factories that turn out great thinkers, nor are they particularly strong filters of the caliber of people. They take in average 18 year olds and turn out average 22 year olds.
What is the point of college? Well, it's kind of arbitrary. We have more people than jobs, so we need some sort of filter to select the people for the jobs. On the other hand, the professors know Blogging 301 is just a ticket to clerical work, so they don't act harshly on tuition-paying students who just want to move on to average jobs. They can't write well, but do they really need to? Does the world really need that from them?
The degree might have a different name. However, CIS degrees are like CS but they emphasize business or whatever rather than theoretical computer science. I believe they are usually easier degrees. I would try CIS doubled with design for a web developer.
For example, some people say physicist Ed Witten is greater than Einstein or Newton. In any case, there are probably more super geniuses working on science than ever. Maybe there are fewer breakthroughs from genius, precisely because science has become professionalized and there are already many geniuses working on the big problems. In such an environment, the huge breakthroughs and paradigm shifts just aren't left waiting around to be found.
I'm sure there will be breakthroughs and paradigm shifts in the future, it would be silly to argue otherwise. However, maybe science has become so advanced that even the great geniuses only make incremental advances.
In physics for example, the breakthrough wanting to happen is String Theory. Who is the man behind String Theory? Well, there isn't one man. String theory is hard. If it takes shape and takes hold, it won't be a "breakthrough." It will have been a long, hard slog with a tough problem that no single genius could solve.
I know that that is called a Mersenne prime. Why do they always look for primes of that form? Are these numbers more likely to be prime? Why don't they start looking for primes of the form 2^n+1?
Since the 1960s until the present day, missile defense has been a hot topic
TRANSLATION: We've been trying to get it to work for 50 fucking years but we can't seem to get two object moving faster than bullets to collide.
That's the real problem. They can barely even shoot down those first cheap missiles. They can't compensate for evasive action at all. It's been nonsense for the last fifty years and will be for the next fifty years.
What you are describing is a work place that does not follow modern software engineering practices. Management does not see the value in it. It will not devote the resources to cleaning up the code or refactoring. It will not develop training for new employees.
Of course, two or three of you want to change it. I think "you" are two young people who don't understand that management doesn't care you have an older friend who agrees it could be better (although he understands nothing will change).
I think it's pretty hopeless but it might be worthwhile to make some effort. You and your friends can put together a pitch to management. Emphasize that what you are suggesting is the orthodox way of developing software these days. Try to keep the things you want simple and practical. You might want to show management this Slashdot article so they can understand the perspective of the software engineering community on this issue. But don't come across too angry and or too radical in your suggestions. Be agreeable, and watch for changes with a cynical eye. Remember management might say they agree with you, but talk is cheap.
Other than that, I think you need to serve your time where you are at, and then leave for some place better. Listen to lots of podcasts and read lots of articles. Keep abreast with the latest technologies and practices. This will help when it is time to leave.
You will eventually learn that you can't fix management. You are not in the position to fix everything about your place of work.
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The number of CS undergraduates closely mirrors the demand for workers. Hiring H1-Bs just reduces the number of young Americans who study CS. In the end, it doesn't really effect people already working in the field.
In humanities, you parrot the professor and get a good grade. In tech courses, you objectively prove what you know is right and get a good grade.
It'll do something. It's not like there will be zero switches. Especially when you consider Linux only has to compete with 10 year old software to win over those users.
Of course it is quantum. The whole universe, including the reactions in the D-Wave are based on the laws of quantum mechanics. Regular computer chips have to take quantum effects into account too, although they try to defeat quantum effects rather than utilize them. Nevertheless, at a basic level the transistors work because of the laws of quantum mechanics.
So how do you want to describe the D-Wave? Do you want to describe it using the laws of Quantum Mechanics? Or do you want to approximate it using a classical model that is carefully chosen to not get the quantum effects wrong?
In either case, as the article says, it's still fast.
Do we have good reasons to think it's true? Or do we just see lots of twin primes and figure they never run out?
Oh, because the business representing them asserts that that is the case. I think an agent for freelancers is an interesting idea. but others are saying that's not new.
To bad I have student loans that don't shrink if I move to a cheaper country!
A relative of caffeine that is in chocolate that is so powerful to dogs that chocolate can kill dogs or at least make them very sick. Bees are invertebrates. Compared to bees dogs are just like us. So its pretty hard to correlate any effect of caffeine on bees to an effect on humans.
Because they will not have a justification for not covering your pre-existing condition. When you take them to court, they will simply have to cough up.
Insurance companies can't look at pre-existing conditions in the US anymore. Remember?
The web is mostly just textual information. There's dressing and markup. There's an isolated video embedded in the text, but mostly it's text. And text is 2D. What is everyone going to create complicated 3D interfaces for?
There have always been BS classes.
That's not what I said, I said they aren't great writers. And they don't write as well as thirty and forty year olds. That's almost a given.
I hope that is meant as a joke. In any case, you are arguing my point for me.
Well, you don't have to take a college course to know economics.
Which is greater the number of unemployed or the number of people with two full time jobs? The unemployed, so my statement checks out. It is quite beyond reproach, really.
Presidents? Are we talking about Presidents or average people. You seem to be arguing by anecdote.
Back in the day they had high standards...
Wait, did they? Do you have metrics to show it?
Eighteen year olds aren't great writers, they never have been. Maybe at Harvard or an advanced English class, you'd have to write really well. But this is a Blogging class at State school. This is clearly writing for engineers, I'm not surprised the writing is bad.
Welcome to the real world. Universities are neither miracle factories that turn out great thinkers, nor are they particularly strong filters of the caliber of people. They take in average 18 year olds and turn out average 22 year olds.
What is the point of college? Well, it's kind of arbitrary. We have more people than jobs, so we need some sort of filter to select the people for the jobs. On the other hand, the professors know Blogging 301 is just a ticket to clerical work, so they don't act harshly on tuition-paying students who just want to move on to average jobs. They can't write well, but do they really need to? Does the world really need that from them?
The degree might have a different name. However, CIS degrees are like CS but they emphasize business or whatever rather than theoretical computer science. I believe they are usually easier degrees. I would try CIS doubled with design for a web developer.
For example, some people say physicist Ed Witten is greater than Einstein or Newton. In any case, there are probably more super geniuses working on science than ever. Maybe there are fewer breakthroughs from genius, precisely because science has become professionalized and there are already many geniuses working on the big problems. In such an environment, the huge breakthroughs and paradigm shifts just aren't left waiting around to be found.
I'm sure there will be breakthroughs and paradigm shifts in the future, it would be silly to argue otherwise. However, maybe science has become so advanced that even the great geniuses only make incremental advances.
In physics for example, the breakthrough wanting to happen is String Theory. Who is the man behind String Theory? Well, there isn't one man. String theory is hard. If it takes shape and takes hold, it won't be a "breakthrough." It will have been a long, hard slog with a tough problem that no single genius could solve.
2^100+1 is not divisible by 3.
17 is prime. It's 2^4+1.
I know that that is called a Mersenne prime. Why do they always look for primes of that form? Are these numbers more likely to be prime? Why don't they start looking for primes of the form 2^n+1?
No. The Iraqi missiles just didn't work well to begin with. They didn't even need to be shot down, they just fell.
If the point is to bankrupt the Soviets, does that mean we can stop missile defense programs now?
Since the 1960s until the present day, missile defense has been a hot topic
TRANSLATION: We've been trying to get it to work for 50 fucking years but we can't seem to get two object moving faster than bullets to collide.
That's the real problem. They can barely even shoot down those first cheap missiles. They can't compensate for evasive action at all. It's been nonsense for the last fifty years and will be for the next fifty years.
What you are describing is a work place that does not follow modern software engineering practices. Management does not see the value in it. It will not devote the resources to cleaning up the code or refactoring. It will not develop training for new employees.
Of course, two or three of you want to change it. I think "you" are two young people who don't understand that management doesn't care you have an older friend who agrees it could be better (although he understands nothing will change).
I think it's pretty hopeless but it might be worthwhile to make some effort. You and your friends can put together a pitch to management. Emphasize that what you are suggesting is the orthodox way of developing software these days. Try to keep the things you want simple and practical. You might want to show management this Slashdot article so they can understand the perspective of the software engineering community on this issue. But don't come across too angry and or too radical in your suggestions. Be agreeable, and watch for changes with a cynical eye. Remember management might say they agree with you, but talk is cheap.
Other than that, I think you need to serve your time where you are at, and then leave for some place better. Listen to lots of podcasts and read lots of articles. Keep abreast with the latest technologies and practices. This will help when it is time to leave.
You will eventually learn that you can't fix management. You are not in the position to fix everything about your place of work.