Where do you go to learn about this kind of stuff about Apollo? I'm fascinated with it, but need an initiation into the nitty gritties of the technical history...
And it offers pretty much certain 6-8 years of more normal hours rock solid job security (based on talking to other friends at other companies who've already been through this).
Are you certain your company will be around for another 6 to 8 years? Companies that require 12 hour days of people for that long periods of time rarely have sanity as an innate quality, and non-sane management usually means the company's not in great hands business wise...
Yeah, that's the level that we're talking about. A complete re-write of the front-end, and large swaths of the backend, too. Check out the new front end, and give us feedback.
For the record, we've got a relatively new crop of devs at sourceforge, and we're starting to go through the process of revamping the site so it doesn't take gazillions of clicks to download a file. There's nearly 10 years of cruft in there that we've been sorting through, but things like trackers and forums are on the short term to-do list, and you should hopefully have already seen some improvements in the way things are working on the site. We'll eventually hopefully re-pass all of it and bring it up to date.
-Paul Huff, sf.net dev
Doesn't the fact that IE's codebase has been stagnant for 5+ years now mean that naturally it will have less vulnerabilites compared to Firefox's constantly changing codebase?
Except that part of paying their fine included them donating lots of software to schools. As we all know, that didn't cost them one red cent (except maybe a few cents for the CDs/DVDs the software was printed on), and it increased their monopoly by ensuring that the school kids would be brought up using only MS products... If that's not buying your way out of the results of an anti-trust suit, I don't know what is....
Well, we do close to a million page views a day in an all PHP/MySQL shop, and we haven't had many complaints. We've home grown a lot of our infrastructure, but it seems to be working pretty well. On top of that, we use php for a lot more hard-core networking stuff too... I wonder if it's not one of those "right tool for the right person at the right time things."
I write web apps for a small media conglomerate in the united states. I'd say that java is a pretty poor choice. I have yet to see a java app that wasn't as clunky and slow as all get out. On the backend, these days, you might as well use php/perl/anything but java, because, well, it's still slow as butt, and really where the real cutting-edge stuff is being done is in javascript/client-side stuff anyway. for example: gmail, google maps, etc.
Call me a troll, but I took the original java for a test drive back in 96, and have yet to be impressed by it.
In some of the fan films like Trekkies, I think I remember him recounting a story about a fan who told him she was going to commit suicide. So, he told her, "I want to see you at the next convention on such and such a date."
And so she went. At that convention he said, "I want to see you at the next convention on such and such a date."
And so she went to that one, too. Eventually, by going to Star Trek conventions, as uber-nerdy as it sounds, she was able to make it through her depression and recover.
We need more people like James Doohan in the world.
I distinctly remember when the first Netscape Beta came out... If I recall correctly, I believe it was NCSA Mosaic that really dazzled us with the first streaming video, and really got the web moving, although we'd been using lynx for sometime before that...
*sniff* People can't even conceive of a non-netscape world! Sad!
I gave Microsoft my resume as an advanced undergrad. Never heard anything back from them, even though I was a senior level computer science student my second year of college. I basically had 4 more classes to take to be a graduate level CS student. I wanted a summer internship.
3 years and many more than 4 classes later, I got an e-mail from a Microsoft recruiter: We'd like to interview you for a testing position up here in Redmond. We see that you gave us a resume a while back and now are graduating. Would you be interested? My response: If you'd offered me a testing job 2 years ago, I would've jumped. I've got too much research to think about to consider things like that now.
I'm sorry you don't think so. I don't know how I'd rank him numercially, if I had to, as any list of "best authors" is by necessity going to be subjective... I'm pretty sure he'd be up there. I do know for sure that the voice in his novels is incredible and ranks decently among all authors, not just sci-fi, and his vision is just as good.
I will say this though... I don't know too many sci-fi authors, even great ones, that get published on the Ed-Op page of the NYT...
This guy's point is that the old movies had "geek" sequences that told the story, but he claims the movies have no story, just "veg out" sequences. But he's wrong. Someone with at least rudimentary reading comprehension skills would have figured it out.
Seeing as 'this guy' is an alias for NEAL STEPHENSON you might want to think twice about ciriticizing his critical thinking skills about sci-fi writing. I mean, really, a fair swath of folk tend to think Neal Stephenson is among the best sci-fi writers ever. He's hands down a better writer than George Lucas, so you might want to re-read the article with that in mind.
Seeing as he's a writer commenting on another writer's choice for presenting his story, it's pretty obvious that he's not:
in a long line of people who must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the new Star Wars movies are not as good as the original trilogy.
Perhaps you meant: MS Outlook is broken for millions of users? It's easy to not click on things that are executable when your e-mail client doesn't run things upon double-click. If you have a sane e-mail client, you also wouldn't have to worry about similar problems...
Obligatory Pine Plug: I use pine. I don't get viruses : )
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A high correlation between things that were on the del.icio.us/popular list in the past week showing up on slashdot a week later? I'm starting to think about ditching slashdot altogether...
One of the radio stations I work for (see http://ksl.com/) is still the only real radio station I know of that makes large portions of its own daily programming available in podcast format.
If my windows mobile phone didn't continually crash.
Every couple of days the Windows Mobile OS crashes and it won't recognize any button presses. This is particularly annoying as it usually happens when answering calls, and requires pulling the battery out to hard resetting the phone.
I originally got the phone because everybody in my office was getting them, and so I didn't have much of a choice. I was skeptical about running Microsoft anything, but I thought, "Hey: Different OS, Different Codebase, maybe it won't be filled with bugs!" Boy, was I wrong!
From my experience having done major portions of a CS major at two different universities on opposite sides of the country, I'd say that any program that does EE (i.e. hardware) stuff or CS (i.e. software stuff) should include a healthy portion of EE and CS. That being said, I don't really feel like either of the universities I attended had a completely good mixture. If your program excludes EE, that doesn't mean you have to. If you're a CS major, take a couple of elective credits and do the first couple of classes of EE. If your an EE major, take a couple of elective credits and spend them on CS. The difference in thinking between fields isn't as big as you might think, and learning a bit of both is never a bad thing.
Based on my experience in "the real world" if you ever want to do any real software programming, you'll eventually have to worry about low-level stuff someday (even if you program mostly in PHP like I currently do). If you ever design hardware, you're going to have to think about how to accomodate nice APIs to interface with software developers at some point.
Just my.02, which is probably now lost in the oblivion that is the slashdot moderation system.
Yeah, I didn't see "the worst," or if I did, I took as "it's routine." I have a few gay Mormon friends, none of whom have been treated in the way most of the Affirmation folks have, and I just wanted to get it on the record that excommunication is not the standard way of dealing with homosexuality in the Mormon Church.
Actually, you can be homosexual and be a member of the Mormon church, no problems. It's if you practice sex outside of marriage that gets you excommunicated. I suppose you could argue that this means that you can't be homosexual without being excommunicated, but I know a fair number of homosexual people who are happy with the Church and active members.
The appeal to most readers (if I can generalize my own reactions to the book) is the deeper psychological impact that the circumstances surrounding the "zero G training tactics" have on Ender, and those around him. The psychological destruction of a young boy in order to save humankind, the deconstruction of the brutalities of military life combined with a "Lord of the Flies" environment, the mental games Ender plays with his enemy in order to love them and destroy them at the same time. I think those are the overarching themes of the book, not the "zero G training tactics." But, I guess that goes to show you that writing a novel is a two party process, which involves both the writer (encoder of the story) and the reader (decoder of the story) in order to create the intended effect, and that's why there's really more than one interpretation of any given text...
How do they enforce the TV license? Do you buy it with the tv (i.e. it's an add on?) or do they just ask you to fill it out on your taxes or what? What happens if you get caught with a radio and no license?
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No, by "bigot" we mean the very dictionary definition of the word:
a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices;
Are you sure that's not under the entry for Slashdot Reader? ;)
Where do you go to learn about this kind of stuff about Apollo? I'm fascinated with it, but need an initiation into the nitty gritties of the technical history...
And it offers pretty much certain 6-8 years of more normal hours rock solid job security (based on talking to other friends at other companies who've already been through this).
Are you certain your company will be around for another 6 to 8 years? Companies that require 12 hour days of people for that long periods of time rarely have sanity as an innate quality, and non-sane management usually means the company's not in great hands business wise...
Yeah, that's the level that we're talking about. A complete re-write of the front-end, and large swaths of the backend, too. Check out the new front end, and give us feedback.
For the record, we've got a relatively new crop of devs at sourceforge, and we're starting to go through the process of revamping the site so it doesn't take gazillions of clicks to download a file. There's nearly 10 years of cruft in there that we've been sorting through, but things like trackers and forums are on the short term to-do list, and you should hopefully have already seen some improvements in the way things are working on the site. We'll eventually hopefully re-pass all of it and bring it up to date. -Paul Huff, sf.net dev
James Kim did that, they think. Turns out that's not always the best bet, for the record. That's older-school survival technique, I guess.
Doesn't the fact that IE's codebase has been stagnant for 5+ years now mean that naturally it will have less vulnerabilites compared to Firefox's constantly changing codebase?
Except that part of paying their fine included them donating lots of software to schools. As we all know, that didn't cost them one red cent (except maybe a few cents for the CDs/DVDs the software was printed on), and it increased their monopoly by ensuring that the school kids would be brought up using only MS products... If that's not buying your way out of the results of an anti-trust suit, I don't know what is....
Well, we do close to a million page views a day in an all PHP/MySQL shop, and we haven't had many complaints. We've home grown a lot of our infrastructure, but it seems to be working pretty well. On top of that, we use php for a lot more hard-core networking stuff too... I wonder if it's not one of those "right tool for the right person at the right time things."
I write web apps for a small media conglomerate in the united states. I'd say that java is a pretty poor choice. I have yet to see a java app that wasn't as clunky and slow as all get out. On the backend, these days, you might as well use php/perl/anything but java, because, well, it's still slow as butt, and really where the real cutting-edge stuff is being done is in javascript/client-side stuff anyway.
for example: gmail, google maps, etc.
Call me a troll, but I took the original java for a test drive back in 96, and have yet to be impressed by it.
In some of the fan films like Trekkies, I think I remember him recounting a story about a fan who told him she was going to commit suicide. So, he told her, "I want to see you at the next convention on such and such a date."
And so she went. At that convention he said, "I want to see you at the next convention on such and such a date."
And so she went to that one, too. Eventually, by going to Star Trek conventions, as uber-nerdy as it sounds, she was able to make it through her depression and recover.
We need more people like James Doohan in the world.
I distinctly remember when the first Netscape Beta came out... If I recall correctly, I believe it was NCSA Mosaic that really dazzled us with the first streaming video, and really got the web moving, although we'd been using lynx for sometime before that... *sniff* People can't even conceive of a non-netscape world! Sad!
Or not so anonymously. What an Idiot I am.
This may sound arrogant, so I post anonymously.
I gave Microsoft my resume as an advanced undergrad. Never heard anything back from them, even though I was a senior level computer science student my second year of college. I basically had 4 more classes to take to be a graduate level CS student. I wanted a summer internship.
3 years and many more than 4 classes later, I got an e-mail from a Microsoft recruiter: We'd like to interview you for a testing position up here in Redmond. We see that you gave us a resume a while back and now are graduating. Would you be interested? My response: If you'd offered me a testing job 2 years ago, I would've jumped. I've got too much research to think about to consider things like that now.
I'm sorry you don't think so. I don't know how I'd rank him numercially, if I had to, as any list of "best authors" is by necessity going to be subjective... I'm pretty sure he'd be up there. I do know for sure that the voice in his novels is incredible and ranks decently among all authors, not just sci-fi, and his vision is just as good.
I will say this though... I don't know too many sci-fi authors, even great ones, that get published on the Ed-Op page of the NYT...
Seeing as 'this guy' is an alias for NEAL STEPHENSON you might want to think twice about ciriticizing his critical thinking skills about sci-fi writing. I mean, really, a fair swath of folk tend to think Neal Stephenson is among the best sci-fi writers ever. He's hands down a better writer than George Lucas, so you might want to re-read the article with that in mind.
Seeing as he's a writer commenting on another writer's choice for presenting his story, it's pretty obvious that he's not:
Perhaps you meant: MS Outlook is broken for millions of users? It's easy to not click on things that are executable when your e-mail client doesn't run things upon double-click. If you have a sane e-mail client, you also wouldn't have to worry about similar problems... Obligatory Pine Plug: I use pine. I don't get viruses : )
A high correlation between things that were on the del.icio.us/popular list in the past week showing up on slashdot a week later? I'm starting to think about ditching slashdot altogether...
One of the radio stations I work for (see http://ksl.com/) is still the only real radio station I know of that makes large portions of its own daily programming available in podcast format.
If my windows mobile phone didn't continually crash. Every couple of days the Windows Mobile OS crashes and it won't recognize any button presses. This is particularly annoying as it usually happens when answering calls, and requires pulling the battery out to hard resetting the phone. I originally got the phone because everybody in my office was getting them, and so I didn't have much of a choice. I was skeptical about running Microsoft anything, but I thought, "Hey: Different OS, Different Codebase, maybe it won't be filled with bugs!" Boy, was I wrong!
From my experience having done major portions of a CS major at two different universities on opposite sides of the country, I'd say that any program that does EE (i.e. hardware) stuff or CS (i.e. software stuff) should include a healthy portion of EE and CS. That being said, I don't really feel like either of the universities I attended had a completely good mixture. If your program excludes EE, that doesn't mean you have to. If you're a CS major, take a couple of elective credits and do the first couple of classes of EE. If your an EE major, take a couple of elective credits and spend them on CS. The difference in thinking between fields isn't as big as you might think, and learning a bit of both is never a bad thing.
Based on my experience in "the real world" if you ever want to do any real software programming, you'll eventually have to worry about low-level stuff someday (even if you program mostly in PHP like I currently do). If you ever design hardware, you're going to have to think about how to accomodate nice APIs to interface with software developers at some point.
Just my .02, which is probably now lost in the oblivion that is the slashdot moderation system.
Yeah, I didn't see "the worst," or if I did, I took as "it's routine." I have a few gay Mormon friends, none of whom have been treated in the way most of the Affirmation folks have, and I just wanted to get it on the record that excommunication is not the standard way of dealing with homosexuality in the Mormon Church.
Actually, you can be homosexual and be a member of the Mormon church, no problems. It's if you practice sex outside of marriage that gets you excommunicated. I suppose you could argue that this means that you can't be homosexual without being excommunicated, but I know a fair number of homosexual people who are happy with the Church and active members.
The appeal to most readers (if I can generalize my own reactions to the book) is the deeper psychological impact that the circumstances surrounding the "zero G training tactics" have on Ender, and those around him. The psychological destruction of a young boy in order to save humankind, the deconstruction of the brutalities of military life combined with a "Lord of the Flies" environment, the mental games Ender plays with his enemy in order to love them and destroy them at the same time. I think those are the overarching themes of the book, not the "zero G training tactics." But, I guess that goes to show you that writing a novel is a two party process, which involves both the writer (encoder of the story) and the reader (decoder of the story) in order to create the intended effect, and that's why there's really more than one interpretation of any given text...
How do they enforce the TV license? Do you buy it with the tv (i.e. it's an add on?) or do they just ask you to fill it out on your taxes or what? What happens if you get caught with a radio and no license?