Wall Street Journal is great at making dumb little observations and not explaining them.
Speed is proportional to square of the energy you expend. After we learned to exploit fossil fuels, energy became cheap and we learned to go faster and faster. Now energy prices are going. Could we design a machine to even faster? Yeah. But we'd rather just send an email that goes anywhere in the world in under a second.
Perhaps not coincidentally, our tech obsession has shifted from engines which get faster from utilizing more energy to computers which get faster from utilizing less energy.
A friend of mine told me about this amazing computer news site. It posted a new story like every 10 minutes. But when I looked I found a very large percent where nonsensical blog posts that no one would ever really care about.
My I'm just being a nit-picky coder here, but I don't get why they call it noSQL, when they are really referring moving away from relational databases?
When I first heard of "NoSQL", I thought, "Great! SQL is a terrible syntax with all it's six letter words and easy dangerous mistakes. I would love to have a superior syntax for interacting with the relational databases that are central to my work!" But "NoSQL" should be called "NoRelational." It is kind of strange that you are changing the whole paradigm of the database around and you are describing it as changing a superficial feature. It would be like calling emails "no pen" writing.
It's kind of neat that you can involve a little math in something like web design. Granted this isn't calculus, but it's still a fun little way to make neat patterns.
It doesn't matter if cicadas are important to birds or any other predator. Predators are important to cicadas.
In any case, he's talking about making things look random enough for casual observation. He's not talking about some sort of advanced encryption algorithm. We know we can appeal to advance math and chaos theory for truly random. But this is just web design. If someone actually cracks the pattern, it isn't the end of the world.
Well the Catholic Church is a large organization and it is good to remember that there is a plurality of opinions in it, even among it's leaders. It isn't just a cabal of child molesters. The Catholic Church has in the past condemned both capitalism and communism in their extreme forms.
Like I said above, the people selling to the client understand little, so nothing complex is sold to them. Besides, you can't really use an algorithm your boss doesn't understand, can you? Knuth is the enticement into the world of programming, but the reality is usually grinding out crap for businesses.
Yup. If you're boss doesn't understand it, you can't use it. Or at least not make it central to your architecture. Trying to put in anything advanced is met with condescension at best.
Besides all that, most of what the work in the real world is just MVC, DAO, with an occasional webservice, or AJAX thing thrown in. If our clients can benefit from more, the people selling our service can't explain it anyway.
Okay, so the FTC is mad about them violating privacy. So what do they have to do? Agree to an "independent" privacy review? And how picks this organization? Google? Why doesn't the FTC put our tax dollars to work and investigate Google themselves?
My prediction (which is only slightly less speculative) is that Microsoft will buy RIM (maker of Blackberry) to keep themselves in the mobile phone game.
We are predicting four years out on a category of product that scarcely existed four years ago? And we say a product that has been out for six months should be in second place in four years? I am confident that the predictions are right, after all that website gives us three significant digits saying Windows 7 will have 20.9% of the market-share.
Okay, so if P2P is at an all time low and actual record sales are also at an all time low, doesn't that imply that people just don't want new music? Is it hard to replace Limewire? No. But the users need some motivation to go to a new site. It looks like people are less able to justify either their time or money to get new music than ever before.
But when you think about this development process and naming convention that Chrome uses and FF is going to use, are we eventually going to be comparing Chrome 65 to Firefox 48? And eventually Chrome 138 and Firefox 172? Putting aside software engineering and release cycle concerns, it would seem incrementing the number on each release might be a bad idea.
It says that in both the case of a human and a robot, the patient prefers the touching to be for a practical purpose such as cleaning and not to provide comfort.
Okay, he recorded his child. Has he made a theoretical breakthrough? Not much of one mentioned in the article. All it says is.. surprise, surprise... this guy is starting a new company he wants to promote. And it is based on this incredible software that this article doesn't really explain to us.
True, but in that case, being not-for-profit is little more than a status that exists for tax purposes.
The people running the institution are making a lot of money. They want more money. Therefore, the leadership of the institution makes it a goal to have a high income relative to its expenses so that they can pay themselves well. This is the case for many schools and hospitals
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Wall Street Journal is great at making dumb little observations and not explaining them.
Speed is proportional to square of the energy you expend. After we learned to exploit fossil fuels, energy became cheap and we learned to go faster and faster. Now energy prices are going. Could we design a machine to even faster? Yeah. But we'd rather just send an email that goes anywhere in the world in under a second.
Perhaps not coincidentally, our tech obsession has shifted from engines which get faster from utilizing more energy to computers which get faster from utilizing less energy.
A friend of mine told me about this amazing computer news site. It posted a new story like every 10 minutes. But when I looked I found a very large percent where nonsensical blog posts that no one would ever really care about.
My I'm just being a nit-picky coder here, but I don't get why they call it noSQL, when they are really referring moving away from relational databases?
When I first heard of "NoSQL", I thought, "Great! SQL is a terrible syntax with all it's six letter words and easy dangerous mistakes. I would love to have a superior syntax for interacting with the relational databases that are central to my work!" But "NoSQL" should be called "NoRelational." It is kind of strange that you are changing the whole paradigm of the database around and you are describing it as changing a superficial feature. It would be like calling emails "no pen" writing.
Since when is "Comic Character" synonymous with hero?
It's kind of neat that you can involve a little math in something like web design. Granted this isn't calculus, but it's still a fun little way to make neat patterns.
It doesn't matter if cicadas are important to birds or any other predator. Predators are important to cicadas.
In any case, he's talking about making things look random enough for casual observation. He's not talking about some sort of advanced encryption algorithm. We know we can appeal to advance math and chaos theory for truly random. But this is just web design. If someone actually cracks the pattern, it isn't the end of the world.
Well the Catholic Church is a large organization and it is good to remember that there is a plurality of opinions in it, even among it's leaders. It isn't just a cabal of child molesters. The Catholic Church has in the past condemned both capitalism and communism in their extreme forms.
Like I said above, the people selling to the client understand little, so nothing complex is sold to them. Besides, you can't really use an algorithm your boss doesn't understand, can you? Knuth is the enticement into the world of programming, but the reality is usually grinding out crap for businesses.
Yup. If you're boss doesn't understand it, you can't use it. Or at least not make it central to your architecture. Trying to put in anything advanced is met with condescension at best.
Besides all that, most of what the work in the real world is just MVC, DAO, with an occasional webservice, or AJAX thing thrown in. If our clients can benefit from more, the people selling our service can't explain it anyway.
I spend all day writing Model-View-Controller, DAOs, debugging, and writing JavaScript. Reading rich algorithmic stuff really just makes me sad.
Okay, so the FTC is mad about them violating privacy. So what do they have to do? Agree to an "independent" privacy review? And how picks this organization? Google? Why doesn't the FTC put our tax dollars to work and investigate Google themselves?
My prediction (which is only slightly less speculative) is that Microsoft will buy RIM (maker of Blackberry) to keep themselves in the mobile phone game.
We are predicting four years out on a category of product that scarcely existed four years ago? And we say a product that has been out for six months should be in second place in four years? I am confident that the predictions are right, after all that website gives us three significant digits saying Windows 7 will have 20.9% of the market-share.
That's why no one described it as the "4th" phase of matter. Just a new phase.
Okay, so if P2P is at an all time low and actual record sales are also at an all time low, doesn't that imply that people just don't want new music? Is it hard to replace Limewire? No. But the users need some motivation to go to a new site. It looks like people are less able to justify either their time or money to get new music than ever before.
But when you think about this development process and naming convention that Chrome uses and FF is going to use, are we eventually going to be comparing Chrome 65 to Firefox 48? And eventually Chrome 138 and Firefox 172? Putting aside software engineering and release cycle concerns, it would seem incrementing the number on each release might be a bad idea.
If anything, it should be called the Wesley Willis Tower, afterthe great Chicagoan Wesley Willis.
It would be more interesting to compare the iPhone to high end Android phones that have their own tv commercials.
Okay, thanks!
That sounds interesting. Can you tell us where you went or how to find a program like that?
Of course! I actually think he should go further and say at no point will the team inject the critical bugs in the first place.
It says that in both the case of a human and a robot, the patient prefers the touching to be for a practical purpose such as cleaning and not to provide comfort.
It's only worth a quarter of a million dollars!? It's a freaking planet! It has to be worth over a million bucks, right?
Okay, he recorded his child. Has he made a theoretical breakthrough? Not much of one mentioned in the article. All it says is.. surprise, surprise... this guy is starting a new company he wants to promote. And it is based on this incredible software that this article doesn't really explain to us.
True, but in that case, being not-for-profit is little more than a status that exists for tax purposes.
The people running the institution are making a lot of money. They want more money. Therefore, the leadership of the institution makes it a goal to have a high income relative to its expenses so that they can pay themselves well. This is the case for many schools and hospitals