I'm a developer in silicon valley working on semantic web applications here at moffet field. I did an MS in CS and engineering from a top school and a math/cs double from a normal state uni. I've been promoted up through my jobs over my few years in industry, moving from the midwest out to here with significant pay jumps each time. First, you need to decide what you want to do: do you want to be a developer or something else? If you want to be a developer, forget about all this low level nonsense about assembly code and C. It's totally useless in today's market. Computer programming is all about adding abstraction layers so that you don't have to worry about low level details. You need to build a coding portfolio so that you can prove that you know your stuff. Write a basic web2 app in ruby or java or whatever you are most familiar with, and try to make it as scalable as possible. Deploy it somewhere and let people poke at it. Check out dice.com and craigslist for silicon valley, and if you aren't in a major city get there as fast as possible - you want to be doing development, not maintenance on old legacy code. That means you need to go where the money is at. Of course, you could always be a sell out and just go work for google... If you are worried about knowing what to do? Study mathematics and algorithms extensively, particularly the Cormen textbook. Udi Manber's book is also very good. This will teach you the computational aspects of CS. Then, read up on RDF and the semantic web to get a background in data management. Then practice, practice, practice.
Not sure if the poster is talking about trying to code all the functionality from scratch, no libraries. If so, this is an absolutely awful idea for any but the smallest, most trivial projects. If you try to code your own, say, ORM solution you are duplicating the effort of hundreds of smart people over long periods of time. You'll never get a chance to do your actual project. If you are using GPL stuff, you are restricted to leave your stuff open. What a great opportunity to write something useful somebody else can clone and make a profit out of! If you use lesser GPL or BSD license stuff, you have no such problems. Regarding people pressuring you to do something? This isn't a bad 11th grade date, they can get a lawyer if they think you breached a license like GPL. Don't even bother responding.
Better be careful about bloating your page by 10s to 100s of KB. Oh God, why haven't you provided unto us some sort of fast, readily available internet access !?!?!?! Perhaps through the same system that delivers our cable television content? What an idea, venture capital here I come!
Frameworks are good. Don't use the crappy ones and you'll be fine. Dojo, for example, you can feed and parse JSON from and just pick and choose the bits you like. I use it with Struts2.
This whole idea is sort of irritating. I play a lot of online poker, and yes it is possible to write a poker bot to do some basic strategy. In limit hold 'em this may be particularly true, but in no limit? You have to deal with a real valued scale of bets every time... this is by no means an easy problem to deal with. Writing a player that irritates people heads up is relatively easy - lots of aggression. However, writing a full featured poker bot to play no limit hold em and fleece tables? I don't think so.
However, putting aside all the computational problems with this - they act like this will KILL ONLINE POKER. It won't.
Consider this scenario. Your poker playing program only needs to 1) show your hole cards 2) show the board. Encrypt the transfer to and from the application. If you change the keys enough, this will will force the user to type in his hole cards and the board cards as they come out.
Also encrypt the traffic such that the only commands accepted by the server are those that come from their downloaded applications only. This may require more sophisticated authentication in the program but it makes sure that if anyone wants to use a bot they have to
1) type in hole cards and board cards manually
2) click the buttons in the actual application, or emulate a mouse enough to do the clicking for you.
This forces a human to be involved, and would make it pretty obvious which players are bots. You can also monitor suspicious play and send a human observer around to interact with players in chat and see what they have to say, this is an annoying solution but still it would solve the problem.
Anyway, these are simple off the top of my head solutions to the bot problem. I am sure there are more. This is just a hyped up story, and nothing to be worried about.
That is why we need to have
A) couples astronauts
B) a large enough spaceship
After all think of the average person's life. Get up. Go To work. Come home, watch TV. If young, go out try to get laid. The hub in the wheel is sex, and if you get enough people on the flight with relaxed sexual ideas and nice looking bodies... I bet it wouldn't be so boring at all
as other people have pointed out they do definitely interfere
however, beware the 5.8ghz phones too - some of them are dual spectrum, they receive at 5.8 and transmit to the base at 2.4.
The uniden true 5.8 series is good but expensive, I have a cheap AT&T 5.8 that works great, and had many problems with the panasonic 2.4. Linksys WRT54g router.
The one reason I think a lot of asimov's books don't go from the very good into the truly great category is that there is hardly ever a female lead in asimov's stories. Don't punish me if I Robot was an exception (there's alittle girl I recall, but it's been a while since I read it) but overall the main character in his stories almost never has any kind of love interest or sexual tension with anyone. I think this is a key part of our lives as people... and one that sells a lot of movies, and it's missing in a lot of his work. I can't recall one where a female main character was even vaguely interesting.
KR
Such a stupid post can only be sent up as AC.
A person who picks a PC based solution may just... be far better at dealing with computers than our AC poster here.
I have an HTPC, with a wired monitor and direct DVI connection to my HDTV. It took me approximately 2 hours to setup after ordering the parts. Anyone who thinks this is difficult needs to examine their skillset.
Provided that the democracy is... not corrupt. You need many 10s of thousands of dollars for every day in office to fund relection campaigns (don't recall the exact number but it's large) and that money is not coming from the people... it's coming from the corporations, and the small group of people who control those now mega-coporations. Don't delude yourself into thinking your vote matters. If they really want their puppet in, they'll just steal florida...
didn't see many posts about this but...
I play poker online, which is a blast for real money - but there are things to be afraid of. From a computer science point of view, they generally do a very poor job with their random number generators.
In pokerroom.com where I used to play, what I noticed was this: if you have a certain card, there is high probability (more than it should be, I had a few instances of this, did the math, and the odds were something like 0.6%, and the same scenario happened 3 times in 150 hands, also in those same 150 hands I had the same hand more than 4 times for 3 hands I noticed (33, QQ, and K5) and certainly more that I didn't. The odds of this happening in a real numerical system were very very low.)
They have some certification that I am highly skeptical of.
If you want to get into this a good site reviewing the different sites for online play is
http://www.pokertips.org
the way way over advertised ultimatebet.com actually seems like a good choice because of 1) good RNG with seeds based on physical measurements 2) 0.01-0.02 NL games, so you can get the hang of nl holdem and lose max $1 at a time.
Writing is not mathematics.
Good writing should not go along some artificial standard. Just because my paper is grammatically correct, has a topic sentence, 3 supporting paragraphs, and a conclusion doesn't mean it is good.
Good writing needs a flow of ideas from one paragraph to another. It needs finesse, style, grace.
This is like an IQ test for english writing. It would do very well in identifying poor writers - but could never identify a great one. I'm sorry ee cummings, your use of punctuation is poor 1/6.
There are examples like this in books on taking the various standardized tests - any truly excellent writer is likely going to do badly. Why? The rules of the english language are guidlines, which may be broken when appropriate. This is just the mechanization of another facet of society, and should be tossed out with the rest of the garbage.
Summary of the letter noting this:
Dear Wind Power People,
Please do not renew your permit. Your wind turbines are like, killing birds and starting a technology that might take over for oil... oops scratch that last part.
Signed,
Big Oil Guy
I mean
"Activist"
Someone has an overinflated sense of self importance. Planning on blowing up some buildings or nabbing some kids? No? Then the FBI, etc could care fuck all what you say on slashdot. Really now, get over yourself.
Family guy turned bad at the end, I can only take so much singing. I am a big fan of family guy, but that singing shit ruined lots of the episodes. And Richter was OK, but largely derivative. The thing about firefly was it was like a movie, and a pretty largely original premise.
I think defeating hitler does need to be included in the list of accomplishments. Destroying a major dictator shows that the culture has passed through a trial.
Beyond this I think that the entire study is flawed. First of all, it seems skewed towards white western accomplishments, which is something we expect from the bell curve.
Second we need to go much further into the past. It can be argued that we can trace a lot of the accomplishment back to particular schools of though : plato, aristotle, ceaser, confucius, lao tsu, pythagorus etc People like this created schools of though that many other ideas grew from.
The whole scoring system is also suspect but since I am so far down on the message tree I will stop here.
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I'm a developer in silicon valley working on semantic web applications here at moffet field. I did an MS in CS and engineering from a top school and a math/cs double from a normal state uni. I've been promoted up through my jobs over my few years in industry, moving from the midwest out to here with significant pay jumps each time. First, you need to decide what you want to do: do you want to be a developer or something else? If you want to be a developer, forget about all this low level nonsense about assembly code and C. It's totally useless in today's market. Computer programming is all about adding abstraction layers so that you don't have to worry about low level details. You need to build a coding portfolio so that you can prove that you know your stuff. Write a basic web2 app in ruby or java or whatever you are most familiar with, and try to make it as scalable as possible. Deploy it somewhere and let people poke at it. Check out dice.com and craigslist for silicon valley, and if you aren't in a major city get there as fast as possible - you want to be doing development, not maintenance on old legacy code. That means you need to go where the money is at. Of course, you could always be a sell out and just go work for google... If you are worried about knowing what to do? Study mathematics and algorithms extensively, particularly the Cormen textbook. Udi Manber's book is also very good. This will teach you the computational aspects of CS. Then, read up on RDF and the semantic web to get a background in data management. Then practice, practice, practice.
Not sure if the poster is talking about trying to code all the functionality from scratch, no libraries. If so, this is an absolutely awful idea for any but the smallest, most trivial projects. If you try to code your own, say, ORM solution you are duplicating the effort of hundreds of smart people over long periods of time. You'll never get a chance to do your actual project. If you are using GPL stuff, you are restricted to leave your stuff open. What a great opportunity to write something useful somebody else can clone and make a profit out of! If you use lesser GPL or BSD license stuff, you have no such problems. Regarding people pressuring you to do something? This isn't a bad 11th grade date, they can get a lawyer if they think you breached a license like GPL. Don't even bother responding.
Better be careful about bloating your page by 10s to 100s of KB. Oh God, why haven't you provided unto us some sort of fast, readily available internet access !?!?!?! Perhaps through the same system that delivers our cable television content? What an idea, venture capital here I come! Frameworks are good. Don't use the crappy ones and you'll be fine. Dojo, for example, you can feed and parse JSON from and just pick and choose the bits you like. I use it with Struts2.
This whole idea is sort of irritating. I play a lot of online poker, and yes it is possible to write a poker bot to do some basic strategy. In limit hold 'em this may be particularly true, but in no limit? You have to deal with a real valued scale of bets every time... this is by no means an easy problem to deal with. Writing a player that irritates people heads up is relatively easy - lots of aggression. However, writing a full featured poker bot to play no limit hold em and fleece tables? I don't think so. However, putting aside all the computational problems with this - they act like this will KILL ONLINE POKER. It won't. Consider this scenario. Your poker playing program only needs to 1) show your hole cards 2) show the board. Encrypt the transfer to and from the application. If you change the keys enough, this will will force the user to type in his hole cards and the board cards as they come out. Also encrypt the traffic such that the only commands accepted by the server are those that come from their downloaded applications only. This may require more sophisticated authentication in the program but it makes sure that if anyone wants to use a bot they have to 1) type in hole cards and board cards manually 2) click the buttons in the actual application, or emulate a mouse enough to do the clicking for you. This forces a human to be involved, and would make it pretty obvious which players are bots. You can also monitor suspicious play and send a human observer around to interact with players in chat and see what they have to say, this is an annoying solution but still it would solve the problem. Anyway, these are simple off the top of my head solutions to the bot problem. I am sure there are more. This is just a hyped up story, and nothing to be worried about.
yeah but Valentine Michael Smith was like Jesus 2, and one hell of a tiger in the sack himself, so you know, win win!
That is why we need to have A) couples astronauts B) a large enough spaceship After all think of the average person's life. Get up. Go To work. Come home, watch TV. If young, go out try to get laid. The hub in the wheel is sex, and if you get enough people on the flight with relaxed sexual ideas and nice looking bodies... I bet it wouldn't be so boring at all
as other people have pointed out they do definitely interfere however, beware the 5.8ghz phones too - some of them are dual spectrum, they receive at 5.8 and transmit to the base at 2.4. The uniden true 5.8 series is good but expensive, I have a cheap AT&T 5.8 that works great, and had many problems with the panasonic 2.4. Linksys WRT54g router.
or a 57" hitachi... have a DVI cable ordered and hopefully showin up soon
The one reason I think a lot of asimov's books don't go from the very good into the truly great category is that there is hardly ever a female lead in asimov's stories. Don't punish me if I Robot was an exception (there's alittle girl I recall, but it's been a while since I read it) but overall the main character in his stories almost never has any kind of love interest or sexual tension with anyone. I think this is a key part of our lives as people... and one that sells a lot of movies, and it's missing in a lot of his work. I can't recall one where a female main character was even vaguely interesting. KR
Such a stupid post can only be sent up as AC. A person who picks a PC based solution may just... be far better at dealing with computers than our AC poster here. I have an HTPC, with a wired monitor and direct DVI connection to my HDTV. It took me approximately 2 hours to setup after ordering the parts. Anyone who thinks this is difficult needs to examine their skillset.
Provided that the democracy is... not corrupt. You need many 10s of thousands of dollars for every day in office to fund relection campaigns (don't recall the exact number but it's large) and that money is not coming from the people... it's coming from the corporations, and the small group of people who control those now mega-coporations. Don't delude yourself into thinking your vote matters. If they really want their puppet in, they'll just steal florida...
figments of your imagination get to look however you want them to...
didn't see many posts about this but... I play poker online, which is a blast for real money - but there are things to be afraid of. From a computer science point of view, they generally do a very poor job with their random number generators. In pokerroom.com where I used to play, what I noticed was this: if you have a certain card, there is high probability (more than it should be, I had a few instances of this, did the math, and the odds were something like 0.6%, and the same scenario happened 3 times in 150 hands, also in those same 150 hands I had the same hand more than 4 times for 3 hands I noticed (33, QQ, and K5) and certainly more that I didn't. The odds of this happening in a real numerical system were very very low.) They have some certification that I am highly skeptical of. If you want to get into this a good site reviewing the different sites for online play is http://www.pokertips.org the way way over advertised ultimatebet.com actually seems like a good choice because of 1) good RNG with seeds based on physical measurements 2) 0.01-0.02 NL games, so you can get the hang of nl holdem and lose max $1 at a time.
howard the duck ruled plus the chick was hot!
Writing is not mathematics. Good writing should not go along some artificial standard. Just because my paper is grammatically correct, has a topic sentence, 3 supporting paragraphs, and a conclusion doesn't mean it is good. Good writing needs a flow of ideas from one paragraph to another. It needs finesse, style, grace. This is like an IQ test for english writing. It would do very well in identifying poor writers - but could never identify a great one. I'm sorry ee cummings, your use of punctuation is poor 1/6. There are examples like this in books on taking the various standardized tests - any truly excellent writer is likely going to do badly. Why? The rules of the english language are guidlines, which may be broken when appropriate. This is just the mechanization of another facet of society, and should be tossed out with the rest of the garbage.
mmmmm opiate, though an OC does in a pinch
please please stop posting this stuff where it can be read during breakfast! snorting hot coffee through out your nose and still laughing is painful
Damnit, it's the year of the monkey! No stinking dirty penguin is stealing MY year.
Summary of the letter noting this: Dear Wind Power People, Please do not renew your permit. Your wind turbines are like, killing birds and starting a technology that might take over for oil... oops scratch that last part. Signed, Big Oil Guy I mean "Activist"
Someone has an overinflated sense of self importance. Planning on blowing up some buildings or nabbing some kids? No? Then the FBI, etc could care fuck all what you say on slashdot. Really now, get over yourself.
Family guy turned bad at the end, I can only take so much singing. I am a big fan of family guy, but that singing shit ruined lots of the episodes. And Richter was OK, but largely derivative. The thing about firefly was it was like a movie, and a pretty largely original premise.
I think defeating hitler does need to be included in the list of accomplishments. Destroying a major dictator shows that the culture has passed through a trial. Beyond this I think that the entire study is flawed. First of all, it seems skewed towards white western accomplishments, which is something we expect from the bell curve. Second we need to go much further into the past. It can be argued that we can trace a lot of the accomplishment back to particular schools of though : plato, aristotle, ceaser, confucius, lao tsu, pythagorus etc People like this created schools of though that many other ideas grew from. The whole scoring system is also suspect but since I am so far down on the message tree I will stop here.
You want to fight about it?
I did not smile. What do I get?
I was getting sick of walking the cat droppings all the way out to the yard... where do I sign up?