Older diesel cars are a big part of the problem I guess. Newer ones not so much. There have been previous attempts to ban cars built before 1997 but apparently there was a huge backlash because the ban affected poor people more than the rich. This ban is seen as more fair.
If the hula hoop thing were the only incident then I would agree with you. However, you have to look at it from her perspective having experienced everything else that she says went on prior to that. She seemed to endure a great deal of harassment over things that had to do with who she was dating and who she didn't want to date. Would this have happened to a guy? I don't think so.
As far as the party goes, I think if you go to a bar with a bunch of coworkers and the bar turns out to be a meat market, well... don't go there again if that kind of behavior bothers you. If on the other hand, it's a company event, -that's a little tougher.
Doesn't matter if she's good or bad. If her code is removed, she should be given an explanation. She said that the guy she rejected began to routinely pull her code without any giving any reason at all, or even telling her it was removed.
Someone else said it, but I'll repeat it. Individually you could write the things she experienced off as bad behavior on the part of particular people. Collectively it must have made working there a nightmare. Lots of people here have identified the hula hoop incident as nothing more than men and women acting like men and women sometimes do at parties. That doesn't mean it doesn't make some of the people there uncomfortable. I've seen it. It's one thing to go to bar with some co-workers knowing it's a meat market. It's different when it's a company event.
And again, while that incident alone might not be a particular concern, lump it in with all the other stuff that happened to her and you've got a problem with culture of the organization.
The key question is would any of this stuff have happened if she were a guy?
Inflation devalues your money in a predictable way. While that may not be optimal, it is much better than not knowing how much your currency can buy you from one minute to the next.
Having people be their own bank is fraught with problems and is not a realistic approach to storing currency. How many people do you know that even have adequate backups for their personal data? Why do you think banks exist in the first place?
... and the ledger is public, everyone can check for possible corruption schemes. And the cost per transaction is much lower.
I thought that verifying the transactions took a lot longer and that currently there's a cap on the number of transactions that the Bitcoin network can handle. So while the fees charged today might be lower, the real costs of handling Bitcoin transactions is high and it may not be scalable enough.
A bigger problem in my mind than government controlling money, is money controlling governments.
Anyway it seems that you are far more at risk of not being able to access your wallet with Bitcoin than you are to having your assets frozen with traditional currencies, - assuming that you aren't actively engaged in some illegal activity. And it would also seem that Bitcoin has found a number of very effective ways of getting devalued in spite of the fact that you can't print more of it.
There are a lot more things that a currency needs to be protected from than just the government.
I don't think TCP/IP is really a good comparison. The world is very used to dealing with a multitude of currencies and not so good at bridging the gap between competing technologies. There is a lot more pressure to adopt and use "standards" in the technology world. But if you still want to compare Bitcoin to TCP/IP it's worth remembering that there were other protocols and tools in use before TCP/IP came around. So is Bitcoin like TCP/IP or more like UUCP?
As far as Napster goes, the government hastened its death but I'm not sure it would have survived in the long run anyway. The quality of the recordings was uneven and the peer to peer networking was unreliable. It was at times frustrating to use, and there was no guarantee that you weren't downloading some trojan horse. Somebody would have come along with something better. Just because you're first out of the gate doesn't mean you'll become that standard. Look at myspace.
I think part of the interest in bitcoin has been mining but that's become more and more impractical and other competing currencies have already cropped up.
It does have value for some limited number of people but a significant amount of that value has been speculative. If successful attacks continue, both its speculative value and its value as a medium of exchange go down. The more it goes down, the fewer people will want them for either purpose, - prompting the people that own them to divest themselves of them, - which only drives the value down further.
Until there worth as much as those beenie babies people still think they can get money for on ebay.
Agreed. I was in a Micro Center a few weeks ago and was impressed with the number of Arduino/Pi/BeagleBone accessories they have. I do think there's room for a brick and mortar store in the Hobbyist space. I don't mind paying a bit more for the right component if I can get it today.
Lots of computation is being moved to the front end to provide a more dynamic experience for the user. Engineers and statisticians will expect that you know how to read a series of equations and be able to implement their equivalent in code.
I'm not saying everyone needs to be a math wiz but I was replying to a post that implied that nobody does. At minimum you need to understand binary arithmetic or you will be pretty limited in what you can accomplish. Octal and hexadecimal come in real handy at times too.
Nobody in real life uses higher math in front-end web development. They might use multiplication and division to do layouts. It's debatable whether anyone actually uses algorithms. Data structures would be handy, but it's also arguable whether web developers actually understand them or not - especially if you talk to any DBA about how website A uses the RDBMS.
Depends on what the web front-end is for. If you work for an engineering firm or one that does research and/or deals with statistics, solid math skills will definitely open some doors.
Just to add, one of the most valuable aspects of my comp csi degree is that by the time I'd gotten through it I was comfortable programming in a few different languages and had done a limited amount of work with a bunch more. We all got good at learning how to tackle a project while at the same time becoming proficient at a language we had little to no experience with. This has served me well time and time again since the industry changes so often.
I realize that 2 years doesn't give you the same amount of time to do that, but to the extent that you can, your students will benefit.
I agree that Node.js is worth spending significant time on given that it's more than likely going to see greater and greater use, but I guess I'm not sure I'd focus on that at the expense of all the others. Even in two years, a lot of companies will be using something else.
Well, one problem is that many of these games are targeted at kids. Free should really mean "free", and not "mostly useless until you spend money".
Computer game makers now have brought on people from the gaming industry (as in gambling) to get better insight on how to hook people. And casinos will target people who've historically spent wads of cash with free rooms, meals, shows, and other perks to get them to come back. They do this knowing in many cases that those people they're targeting have a serious gambling problem.
Thought I should mention that I've followed this procedure on two different Macs with good results. My first attempt was a straight upgrade from the App store which "worked" but my Mac Mini ran incredibly slowly afterwards. There were a number of people who had similar issues and the recommendation was to do a clean install. It solved the problem.
Use "SuperDuper" or Time Machine to do a complete backup first then after installing Mavericks use Migration Assistant to get your apps, files, and settings restored.
Actually, I would have been about the last guy to make fun of a dude for taking a home economics because I honestly wouldn't have given a crap.
I'm not talking about being afraid of working with women. My ideal workplace would have members of both sexes.
I've had plenty of female coworkers and a few women supervisors for that matter. My first real job after college was in a team that was entirely composed of women (aside from myself), but there were other men around. For the most part I really enjoyed working in that group and they seemed to enjoy their token male but at the same time I knew that position was temporary and wasn't a situation that was going to last throughout my career.
I'll also be honest. If I was a college student trying to decide amongst careers and one of the options was a field that was made up of 90% women, it would be a factor in my decision. Would it stop me if it was something I really wanted to do? Probably not. Then again I also think it can be easier to be the lone guy in a group of women than the other way around.
I agree that there are enough women in the armed forces today that it's not as much of a barrier as it used to be, but don't you think it was much more difficult when there were fewer of them?
Assuming you're a male, wouldn't you perhaps think twice about a career choice where you might be the only male out of 10 people in your group and you were one of only a few men in any class you took or conference you attended?
I don't think that's it. I'm almost 50. When I was growing up very few people had computers in their homes but we had them available in high school. Maybe there weren't computer nerds but there were technology nerds. Programmable calculators were all the rage.
Anyway, there were plenty of women in my college CS classes, and most of them got jobs very quickly. But far more of them left the field than men. It was not at all unusual for me work with women programmers in the late 80's to the mid 90's. But it was very rare for me to work with one after that, even though I was in my 30's and still in my prime as far as software development goes. What happened to them?
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Older diesel cars are a big part of the problem I guess. Newer ones not so much. There have been previous attempts to ban cars built before 1997 but apparently there was a huge backlash because the ban affected poor people more than the rich. This ban is seen as more fair.
So she should shut up about what she considers harassment even if it continues after she leaves?
Ever think that she might be doing the other employees who may have or would have experienced the same things a favor?
You don't think that it never occurred to her that blowing the whistle might limit her own future employment opportunities?
She did leave quietly. It was only after someone trashed her on the secret social network that she decided to come forward with her side of the story.
If the hula hoop thing were the only incident then I would agree with you. However, you have to look at it from her perspective having experienced everything else that she says went on prior to that. She seemed to endure a great deal of harassment over things that had to do with who she was dating and who she didn't want to date. Would this have happened to a guy? I don't think so.
As far as the party goes, I think if you go to a bar with a bunch of coworkers and the bar turns out to be a meat market, well... don't go there again if that kind of behavior bothers you. If on the other hand, it's a company event, -that's a little tougher.
Doesn't matter if she's good or bad. If her code is removed, she should be given an explanation. She said that the guy she rejected began to routinely pull her code without any giving any reason at all, or even telling her it was removed.
Someone else said it, but I'll repeat it. Individually you could write the things she experienced off as bad behavior on the part of particular people. Collectively it must have made working there a nightmare. Lots of people here have identified the hula hoop incident as nothing more than men and women acting like men and women sometimes do at parties. That doesn't mean it doesn't make some of the people there uncomfortable. I've seen it. It's one thing to go to bar with some co-workers knowing it's a meat market. It's different when it's a company event.
And again, while that incident alone might not be a particular concern, lump it in with all the other stuff that happened to her and you've got a problem with culture of the organization.
The key question is would any of this stuff have happened if she were a guy?
Inflation devalues your money in a predictable way. While that may not be optimal, it is much better than not knowing how much your currency can buy you from one minute to the next.
Having people be their own bank is fraught with problems and is not a realistic approach to storing currency. How many people do you know that even have adequate backups for their personal data? Why do you think banks exist in the first place?
... and the ledger is public, everyone can check for possible corruption schemes. And the cost per transaction is much lower.
I thought that verifying the transactions took a lot longer and that currently there's a cap on the number of transactions that the Bitcoin network can handle. So while the fees charged today might be lower, the real costs of handling Bitcoin transactions is high and it may not be scalable enough.
A bigger problem in my mind than government controlling money, is money controlling governments.
Anyway it seems that you are far more at risk of not being able to access your wallet with Bitcoin than you are to having your assets frozen with traditional currencies, - assuming that you aren't actively engaged in some illegal activity. And it would also seem that Bitcoin has found a number of very effective ways of getting devalued in spite of the fact that you can't print more of it.
There are a lot more things that a currency needs to be protected from than just the government.
I don't think TCP/IP is really a good comparison. The world is very used to dealing with a multitude of currencies and not so good at bridging the gap between competing technologies. There is a lot more pressure to adopt and use "standards" in the technology world. But if you still want to compare Bitcoin to TCP/IP it's worth remembering that there were other protocols and tools in use before TCP/IP came around. So is Bitcoin like TCP/IP or more like UUCP?
As far as Napster goes, the government hastened its death but I'm not sure it would have survived in the long run anyway. The quality of the recordings was uneven and the peer to peer networking was unreliable. It was at times frustrating to use, and there was no guarantee that you weren't downloading some trojan horse. Somebody would have come along with something better. Just because you're first out of the gate doesn't mean you'll become that standard. Look at myspace.
I think part of the interest in bitcoin has been mining but that's become more and more impractical and other competing currencies have already cropped up.
It does have value for some limited number of people but a significant amount of that value has been speculative. If successful attacks continue, both its speculative value and its value as a medium of exchange go down. The more it goes down, the fewer people will want them for either purpose, - prompting the people that own them to divest themselves of them, - which only drives the value down further.
Until there worth as much as those beenie babies people still think they can get money for on ebay.
So somebody is in charge of Bitcoin? What do they do?
No recourse?
Elect somebody else.
Agreed. I was in a Micro Center a few weeks ago and was impressed with the number of Arduino/Pi/BeagleBone accessories they have. I do think there's room for a brick and mortar store in the Hobbyist space. I don't mind paying a bit more for the right component if I can get it today.
Lots of computation is being moved to the front end to provide a more dynamic experience for the user. Engineers and statisticians will expect that you know how to read a series of equations and be able to implement their equivalent in code.
I'm not saying everyone needs to be a math wiz but I was replying to a post that implied that nobody does. At minimum you need to understand binary arithmetic or you will be pretty limited in what you can accomplish. Octal and hexadecimal come in real handy at times too.
Is Apple selling two or three?
Anyway, Apple has 36% of the market while selling only a few models.
I think they'll survive for awhile.
Nobody in real life uses higher math in front-end web development. They might use multiplication and division to do layouts. It's debatable whether anyone actually uses algorithms. Data structures would be handy, but it's also arguable whether web developers actually understand them or not - especially if you talk to any DBA about how website A uses the RDBMS.
Depends on what the web front-end is for. If you work for an engineering firm or one that does research and/or deals with statistics, solid math skills will definitely open some doors.
Just to add, one of the most valuable aspects of my comp csi degree is that by the time I'd gotten through it I was comfortable programming in a few different languages and had done a limited amount of work with a bunch more. We all got good at learning how to tackle a project while at the same time becoming proficient at a language we had little to no experience with. This has served me well time and time again since the industry changes so often.
I realize that 2 years doesn't give you the same amount of time to do that, but to the extent that you can, your students will benefit.
Sorry. Missed that.
I agree that Node.js is worth spending significant time on given that it's more than likely going to see greater and greater use, but I guess I'm not sure I'd focus on that at the expense of all the others. Even in two years, a lot of companies will be using something else.
Yeah, there needs to be some server side programming in there some place. Maybe that's covered in Programming Logic and/or MVC frameworks.
Well, one problem is that many of these games are targeted at kids. Free should really mean "free", and not "mostly useless until you spend money".
Computer game makers now have brought on people from the gaming industry (as in gambling) to get better insight on how to hook people. And casinos will target people who've historically spent wads of cash with free rooms, meals, shows, and other perks to get them to come back. They do this knowing in many cases that those people they're targeting have a serious gambling problem.
There are serious ethical issues involved here.
Thought I should mention that I've followed this procedure on two different Macs with good results. My first attempt was a straight upgrade from the App store which "worked" but my Mac Mini ran incredibly slowly afterwards. There were a number of people who had similar issues and the recommendation was to do a clean install. It solved the problem.
You can download Mavericks and do a "clean install" by following the instructions here: http://mashable.com/2013/10/23...
Use "SuperDuper" or Time Machine to do a complete backup first then after installing Mavericks use Migration Assistant to get your apps, files, and settings restored.
Actually, I would have been about the last guy to make fun of a dude for taking a home economics because I honestly wouldn't have given a crap.
I'm not talking about being afraid of working with women. My ideal workplace would have members of both sexes.
I've had plenty of female coworkers and a few women supervisors for that matter. My first real job after college was in a team that was entirely composed of women (aside from myself), but there were other men around. For the most part I really enjoyed working in that group and they seemed to enjoy their token male but at the same time I knew that position was temporary and wasn't a situation that was going to last throughout my career.
I'll also be honest. If I was a college student trying to decide amongst careers and one of the options was a field that was made up of 90% women, it would be a factor in my decision. Would it stop me if it was something I really wanted to do? Probably not. Then again I also think it can be easier to be the lone guy in a group of women than the other way around.
I agree that there are enough women in the armed forces today that it's not as much of a barrier as it used to be, but don't you think it was much more difficult when there were fewer of them?
Assuming you're a male, wouldn't you perhaps think twice about a career choice where you might be the only male out of 10 people in your group and you were one of only a few men in any class you took or conference you attended?
I don't think that's it. I'm almost 50. When I was growing up very few people had computers in their homes but we had them available in high school. Maybe there weren't computer nerds but there were technology nerds. Programmable calculators were all the rage.
Anyway, there were plenty of women in my college CS classes, and most of them got jobs very quickly. But far more of them left the field than men. It was not at all unusual for me work with women programmers in the late 80's to the mid 90's. But it was very rare for me to work with one after that, even though I was in my 30's and still in my prime as far as software development goes. What happened to them?