I totally second the idea of learning SQL. Virtually all business systems run on a database that uses SQL. It is also a VERY different type of language. 20 years of experience doing C++, VB, Fortran doesn't mean squat when it comes to pulling data from a table. As an SQL guru I find that I can be of value in almost any organization and will never have to go long to look for a decent job.
You misunderstand the concept of insurance. It is not about pre-paying... it is about deferred risk. The idea got started in shipping. If you were shipping goods from the far east there was about a 1 in 10 chance of the boat sinking and you loosing the cargo. So instead of taking that chance, you pay a fee of about 11% of the cargo, so it does not matter if the boat sinks, you still make the money (minus the 11%).
The same is true for healthcare. Health is very random. The chance one parent having a sick kid is about the same as another. If everyone pays a fee then, at least financially, it does not matter if your kid gets sick or not. Government Healthcare is about spreading the risk across the entire population. A private Healthcare plan is about spreading the risk across all of the subscribers.
The article also mentions that she passed another special exam from Microsoft. In other words, MS Pakistan heard about her, thought she probably just memorized braindumps, came up with a new unique test and she passed it. Therefore she probably does know what she is doing.
In other news Toyota and Honda have managed to sell tons of hybrid-electric cars and are now licensing the technology to North-American Producers. 'There is just such a huge market for people who want energy efficient cars that we knew that we were going to be successful. Once we proved the naysayers wrong and ramped up production profits have been fantastic' -unamed Toyota representative.
I can't imagine what
Roughly a dozen germans were killed by allied bombing for each bomber that was shot down with crew lost. However the effect on the psycology was enourmous.
Oddly enough I was at a speach that Bill Gates was giving last August. A question was asked on the topic of Mono and he seemed to have never heard of the project. It was strange since he did seem surprisingly knowledgable about a lot of other technical issues with.NET.
That was the war of 1812.
Us decided to invade Canada.
Although not entirely disarmed, the US did get their asses creamed.
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A similar thing happened to Mobey Dick. In the 30's (or 20's I forget) Hollywood was wanted to do a movie on the whale hunting age. So they called it Mobey Dick keeping almost nothing from the book except the white whale. At the time Mobey Dick, which had been largely ignored when it was released was mostly forgotten. However when the movie came out a few people read the book and discovered it to be the gem that it is. Mobey Dick (the book) went on to become a classic read by million and the movie was forgotten.
The problem that Joel talks about is not really a problem with abstraction, it is a problem with teamwork. When I program I simply can not do all of it myself for all but trivial projects. By everything I mean write the compilers, write the OS etc. Instead I must rely on other programmers to write large portions of the code that I run. Whether it is the guy across the hall who wrote the search contact Stored Procedure in SQL or a programmer at microsoft writing a windows Disk IO function, I am relient on their code working as I think it should. This is the problem with teamwork but there is no other solution to programming modern applications.
Martin
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I think one of the main problems with Intels puch into the 64 bit world is that they are doing it at the same time that the software industry is moving in the direction of compiling code at run time, not ahead of time. Especially.NET will be affected by this. Since the IA-64 requires much longer to compile in an optimized way it will not work well with.NET and many other modern systems.
Martin
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If you want to understand this game... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxBnf-wk6tU&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fuser%2Fccpgames%23p%2Fc%2F29BA4E251AA2A6F8%2F1%2FAxBnf-wk6tU&feature=player_profilepage/ this is the match to watch (second match from day 1). I know more then most about what happened and even I am going WTF!
EXACTLY. It is different. It is not a different syntax but a completely different way of programming.
I totally second the idea of learning SQL. Virtually all business systems run on a database that uses SQL. It is also a VERY different type of language. 20 years of experience doing C++, VB, Fortran doesn't mean squat when it comes to pulling data from a table. As an SQL guru I find that I can be of value in almost any organization and will never have to go long to look for a decent job.
You misunderstand the concept of insurance. It is not about pre-paying... it is about deferred risk. The idea got started in shipping. If you were shipping goods from the far east there was about a 1 in 10 chance of the boat sinking and you loosing the cargo. So instead of taking that chance, you pay a fee of about 11% of the cargo, so it does not matter if the boat sinks, you still make the money (minus the 11%).
The same is true for healthcare. Health is very random. The chance one parent having a sick kid is about the same as another. If everyone pays a fee then, at least financially, it does not matter if your kid gets sick or not. Government Healthcare is about spreading the risk across the entire population. A private Healthcare plan is about spreading the risk across all of the subscribers.
The article also mentions that she passed another special exam from Microsoft. In other words, MS Pakistan heard about her, thought she probably just memorized braindumps, came up with a new unique test and she passed it. Therefore she probably does know what she is doing.
In other news Toyota and Honda have managed to sell tons of hybrid-electric cars and are now licensing the technology to North-American Producers. 'There is just such a huge market for people who want energy efficient cars that we knew that we were going to be successful. Once we proved the naysayers wrong and ramped up production profits have been fantastic' -unamed Toyota representative. I can't imagine what
Roughly a dozen germans were killed by allied bombing for each bomber that was shot down with crew lost. However the effect on the psycology was enourmous.
Oddly enough I was at a speach that Bill Gates was giving last August. A question was asked on the topic of Mono and he seemed to have never heard of the project. It was strange since he did seem surprisingly knowledgable about a lot of other technical issues with .NET.
That was the war of 1812. Us decided to invade Canada. Although not entirely disarmed, the US did get their asses creamed.
A similar thing happened to Mobey Dick. In the 30's (or 20's I forget) Hollywood was wanted to do a movie on the whale hunting age. So they called it Mobey Dick keeping almost nothing from the book except the white whale. At the time Mobey Dick, which had been largely ignored when it was released was mostly forgotten. However when the movie came out a few people read the book and discovered it to be the gem that it is. Mobey Dick (the book) went on to become a classic read by million and the movie was forgotten.
The problem that Joel talks about is not really a problem with abstraction, it is a problem with teamwork. When I program I simply can not do all of it myself for all but trivial projects. By everything I mean write the compilers, write the OS etc. Instead I must rely on other programmers to write large portions of the code that I run. Whether it is the guy across the hall who wrote the search contact Stored Procedure in SQL or a programmer at microsoft writing a windows Disk IO function, I am relient on their code working as I think it should. This is the problem with teamwork but there is no other solution to programming modern applications. Martin
I think one of the main problems with Intels puch into the 64 bit world is that they are doing it at the same time that the software industry is moving in the direction of compiling code at run time, not ahead of time. Especially .NET will be affected by this. Since the IA-64 requires much longer to compile in an optimized way it will not work well with .NET and many other modern systems.
Martin