Facebook provides a service. The price of that service is information about users' online behavior and social networks. Paying that price is painless, and most people would contend that it's not even a payment. Loss of privacy? Nonsense. Privacy is what people expect in the bathroom, when they're changing their clothes, when they're on the phone. Facebook is effectively free for them - they are not giving up anything of value to use the service.
In other words, most people don't care if their public activities are recorded (as evidenced by the hunderds of millions of Facebook users). Credit card numbers, social security numbers, weight...that's what people want kept private.
I'm stunned you can buy an entire decommissioned 747 for $50K -- that's a lot of material.
I'm sure the cost of moving the plane far exceeded the price of the plane itself. If you have a 747 sitting around you no longer need it's probably expensive to dismantle and recycle, and after a while "$50k and you haul" sounds like a deal.
You're absolutely right. There's a difference between management and leadership, and the skills are generally mutually exclusive. Force a leader to take on management tasks and he will likely be unhappy and not do well. Force a manager to be a leader and you'll end up with a lot of unhappy subordinates.
Charities spend a lot of time and effort contacting donors and persuading them to support the charity. Has he contacted MS and asked them for cash or hardware? Or does he just expect them to write checks out of the blue? I'm sure the person who wrote the code using OSM output is not the person with the checkbook.
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Another example showing the smartest tech guys aren't the smartest business guys. Or to look at it another way, the most successful tech business guys aren't the best or brightest engineers.
When your business model is the same as a street musician's, i.e. do something nice and hope people drop money in the cup, then you can't complain when you're not paid. In other words, the Blanche DuBois model ("I have always depended upon the kindness of strangers") is no way to earn a living.
Was Bill Gates the smartest engineer at MS? Is Steve Jobs the smartest engineer at Apple? Larry Ellison? Sergey Brin? If you want to make money from your technical skills either work for someone else or get a partner with business savvy. Don't give away your product and cry over an empty tip jar. If you're "as hard-core a free software developer as you can be without being named Richard Stallman" the surely you can't be surprised at your empty refrigerator.
Complain about poor manners all you want, but "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" doesn't work. The internet ain't no commune.
Meds aren't always the answer. There are strategies to compensate as well, which clearly you've discovered.
Being on the right meds is important too...we switched our son from one to another when the first didn't work out for a number of reasons (not just effectiveness).
As a responsible, seasoned parent I call b.s. on your assertion that the issue is a combination of lack of discipline and energetic kids.
The diagnosis is not made on energy levels. We have 3 kids, all equally energetic. Two were diagnosed with ADHD (I fought the diagnosis...see a reply I made elsewhere in this thread for details). The difference? Ability to focus and to control impulses.
Medicine has made a huge difference in their school lives. On non-school days they don't get meds...that level of focus and control is generally not needed outside of school.
Last year my non-ADHD son's teacher requested a conference about my son's behavior...during the first week of school. ADHD was never considered for him, however. In his case he needed an outlet for his creativity and energy. Keeping him busy is the best strategy for him...that and parental threats. It's different with my other two. We tried everything, over years, with my daughter to no avail. She loves school, isn't bored, but couldn't focus. I'm not talking about being somewhat distracted. She took distracted to a new level. The right meds flipped a switch and there have been no issues since.
It's likely I've carried ADHD into adulthood so I'm very sympathetic to their plight. I know what it's like for them...more than once I've been tempted to "sample" their meds to help me focus at work. It would be nice to be able to pay attention to the task at hand for more than 10-15 minutes at a time.
Thank you for that. Two of my 3 kids were diagnosed and are on medication. It was a huge decision to put them on meds and almost caused a split between my wife and I. I told her if she tried to put our daughter on meds that I'd take her and leave. I loved my daughter just as she was and didn't want to change her a bit. After much discussion with teachers, doctors, counselors, I finally agreed to a trial run.
Amazingly, the drugs worked wonders. She was still the same silly, sweet, loving girl but now was able to focus at school and we could get through homework time without fighting and tears. She just finished 6th grade...straight A's across the board taking all GT (gifted and talented) classes. My youngest son was also diagnosed and he's done great as well.
Our middle child is not ADHD. He gets in trouble, acts up, occasionally bounces off the walls, but his behavior is different than his sibs. When he needs to he can pay attention, do his homework, and maintain a level of self control that the other can't.
When there's no school (weekends, holidays, summer break) we don't give our kids the meds. We just roll with the chaos and when it gets out of hand we divide and conquer...they all have their own rooms and splitting them up for a while brings the energy level down. Now I know what my mom went through with me...she used to say, "I hope you have kids just like you!"
The uninformed think ADHD is about lazy parents and teachers. It's not. Discipline is strict in our house. Our kids are in an amazing school in a great school district. I was against the diagnosis, against the drugs, but accepting the diagnosis has turned things around in a huge way.
I recommend Windows Home Server. Of course, it integrates perfectly with your Windows machines (since you're running Outlook you have at least one) and is the best backup and recovery solution I've been able to find for home use (you can roll back individual files). You can have folders mirrored on different drives, and you can control who has access to what folders.
Additionally, through the magic of dynamic DNS you can access your files through the Internet. You get a subdomain off homeserver.com which allows you to check the status of the server, upload or download photos, and if you have expensive enough versions of Windows on your machines at home you can control them via Remote Access.
I've used other NAS solutions for years at home, and I don't regret switching to WHS at all. FYI, I built my own server and installed WHS myself - I didn't buy one off the shelf, though you certainly could if you're not into building computers.
It's not all about price. I still buy books at my local B&N even though I can find the same titles cheaper at amazon.com. If price is your only criteria for where you shop then yes, B&N is not for you. I make enough where I don't mind paying more for a book at B&N. Shopping there I'm not just paying for a book but for the extras that go with it.
Others have mentioned the joys of browsing, something that's not as easy or as satisfying when you do it online. Running the store costs money...utilities, staff, upkeep. That's reflected in the price of the book. Browse at B&N's website and you can find out if your local store has the book in stock. If it is in stock, you can have the title pulled and waiting for you at the front counter. Or I can just drive there and have it in 10 minutes. Yes, sometimes it's nice to have a book in 10 minutes. I'm a programmer and still like to have books on different topics.
For my kids it's a treat to go book shopping. Sure, we patronize our local library often but for some series they like to own the books and re-read them. And sometimes my wife and I will drop our son off at scouts and go across the street to B&N. We'll have dessert, walk the aisles, and maybe pick up a book or two. It's a nice time for us, sort of a mini-date.
Sure, they charge more but I get value for what I pay, and that's what its all about, value. I'm willing to help cover the cost of their overhead just so I have a store I can go to. It's worth it to me...it's sometimes about the whole experience, not just the book. And for the times when it is about the book, I'll usually go to amazon.com. Amazon prime rocks.
Exactly. At work I've been pushing the other programmers to return JSON from the server...it drives me crazy hearing, "I have to parse the data..." when they were working in JavaScript...they were writing their own data formats.
I like getting things for free. Free parsing? Sign me up!
How many words are in english? A lot. (According to the OED folks, "The Second Edition of the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary contains full entries for 171,476 words in current use, and 47,156 obsolete words. To this may be added around 9,500 derivative words included as subentries.") How many words does the average native english speaker know? According to this random website, 12,000-20,000 words. So English is complex, yet just 10% of the language meets a native speakers needs (less than that as we don't use all the words we know in normal conversation...except my wife when she's mad at me, then I hear every word she knows, many repeatedly)
So Java is complex. C++ is complex. I program in Java for my daily bread and I certainly don't use the entire language. It's only as complex as I need it to be. The complexity of my code is driven by what I'm trying to do, not by the language itself. And for code maintainability, I try to keep things as simple as possible.
I don't know if 8 kW is a lot or a little less than a normal rack would draw. The article doesn't say...how much power would a "normal" rack consume? Isn't there a measure of computing power vs power used?
I installed Scratch (http://scratch.mit.edu/) for him. He loved it. It teaches how to program without worrying about learning a programming language. It's got a built-in graphics editor and sound recorder too. He can upload his creations to the Scratch site or download any he wants to see how it works. It's a great way to get started.
I agree...I'm impressed with the cleverness. Clearly all the advancements in browser security and user safety are forcing the bad guys to be smarter, sort of an Internet version of antibiotic resistant staph.
...or so she thought. She was convinced she had a brain aneurysm. She'd had an MRI that maybe showed something and the doctor called telling her to get a higher-res MRI that day. She started searching on-line and became certain she had an aneurysm and she could die at any moment. She thought about writing notes to the kids, making a video, all sorts of "I will be dead in 48 hours" things.
The subsequent MRI and follow-up with the neurologist showed no aneurysm, no cancer, no abnormalities. Or as I helpfully pointed out, "see honey, I told you they wouldn't find anything in there."
My preferred term for "google-itis" is cyberchondria...I've long called her a cyberchondriac. I'm hoping her "brush with death" will help cure her of that.
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I always wondered what happened to Bill Gates!
Wait, the article doesn't say anything about him but "duh". Nice bit of journalism, guys.
Facebook provides a service. The price of that service is information about users' online behavior and social networks. Paying that price is painless, and most people would contend that it's not even a payment. Loss of privacy? Nonsense. Privacy is what people expect in the bathroom, when they're changing their clothes, when they're on the phone. Facebook is effectively free for them - they are not giving up anything of value to use the service.
In other words, most people don't care if their public activities are recorded (as evidenced by the hunderds of millions of Facebook users). Credit card numbers, social security numbers, weight...that's what people want kept private.
...I've shot hundreds of pictures of the Loch Ness monster. Freeeedommmm!
I'm stunned you can buy an entire decommissioned 747 for $50K -- that's a lot of material.
I'm sure the cost of moving the plane far exceeded the price of the plane itself. If you have a 747 sitting around you no longer need it's probably expensive to dismantle and recycle, and after a while "$50k and you haul" sounds like a deal.
You're absolutely right. There's a difference between management and leadership, and the skills are generally mutually exclusive. Force a leader to take on management tasks and he will likely be unhappy and not do well. Force a manager to be a leader and you'll end up with a lot of unhappy subordinates.
I usually don't respond to or even read ac posts but I have to say...nicely done. You've made an excellent point.
Charities spend a lot of time and effort contacting donors and persuading them to support the charity. Has he contacted MS and asked them for cash or hardware? Or does he just expect them to write checks out of the blue? I'm sure the person who wrote the code using OSM output is not the person with the checkbook.
Whose secure coding practices do you follow? Or if they're your own, please share them. Thanks.
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Another example showing the smartest tech guys aren't the smartest business guys. Or to look at it another way, the most successful tech business guys aren't the best or brightest engineers.
When your business model is the same as a street musician's, i.e. do something nice and hope people drop money in the cup, then you can't complain when you're not paid. In other words, the Blanche DuBois model ("I have always depended upon the kindness of strangers") is no way to earn a living.
Was Bill Gates the smartest engineer at MS? Is Steve Jobs the smartest engineer at Apple? Larry Ellison? Sergey Brin? If you want to make money from your technical skills either work for someone else or get a partner with business savvy. Don't give away your product and cry over an empty tip jar. If you're "as hard-core a free software developer as you can be without being named Richard Stallman" the surely you can't be surprised at your empty refrigerator.
Complain about poor manners all you want, but "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" doesn't work. The internet ain't no commune.
Meds aren't always the answer. There are strategies to compensate as well, which clearly you've discovered.
Being on the right meds is important too...we switched our son from one to another when the first didn't work out for a number of reasons (not just effectiveness).
As a responsible, seasoned parent I call b.s. on your assertion that the issue is a combination of lack of discipline and energetic kids.
The diagnosis is not made on energy levels. We have 3 kids, all equally energetic. Two were diagnosed with ADHD (I fought the diagnosis...see a reply I made elsewhere in this thread for details). The difference? Ability to focus and to control impulses.
Medicine has made a huge difference in their school lives. On non-school days they don't get meds...that level of focus and control is generally not needed outside of school.
Last year my non-ADHD son's teacher requested a conference about my son's behavior...during the first week of school. ADHD was never considered for him, however. In his case he needed an outlet for his creativity and energy. Keeping him busy is the best strategy for him...that and parental threats. It's different with my other two. We tried everything, over years, with my daughter to no avail. She loves school, isn't bored, but couldn't focus. I'm not talking about being somewhat distracted. She took distracted to a new level. The right meds flipped a switch and there have been no issues since.
It's likely I've carried ADHD into adulthood so I'm very sympathetic to their plight. I know what it's like for them...more than once I've been tempted to "sample" their meds to help me focus at work. It would be nice to be able to pay attention to the task at hand for more than 10-15 minutes at a time.
Thank you for that. Two of my 3 kids were diagnosed and are on medication. It was a huge decision to put them on meds and almost caused a split between my wife and I. I told her if she tried to put our daughter on meds that I'd take her and leave. I loved my daughter just as she was and didn't want to change her a bit. After much discussion with teachers, doctors, counselors, I finally agreed to a trial run.
Amazingly, the drugs worked wonders. She was still the same silly, sweet, loving girl but now was able to focus at school and we could get through homework time without fighting and tears. She just finished 6th grade...straight A's across the board taking all GT (gifted and talented) classes. My youngest son was also diagnosed and he's done great as well.
Our middle child is not ADHD. He gets in trouble, acts up, occasionally bounces off the walls, but his behavior is different than his sibs. When he needs to he can pay attention, do his homework, and maintain a level of self control that the other can't.
When there's no school (weekends, holidays, summer break) we don't give our kids the meds. We just roll with the chaos and when it gets out of hand we divide and conquer...they all have their own rooms and splitting them up for a while brings the energy level down. Now I know what my mom went through with me...she used to say, "I hope you have kids just like you!"
The uninformed think ADHD is about lazy parents and teachers. It's not. Discipline is strict in our house. Our kids are in an amazing school in a great school district. I was against the diagnosis, against the drugs, but accepting the diagnosis has turned things around in a huge way.
Ah, I was wondering what FW meant. Thanks.
I recommend Windows Home Server. Of course, it integrates perfectly with your Windows machines (since you're running Outlook you have at least one) and is the best backup and recovery solution I've been able to find for home use (you can roll back individual files). You can have folders mirrored on different drives, and you can control who has access to what folders.
Additionally, through the magic of dynamic DNS you can access your files through the Internet. You get a subdomain off homeserver.com which allows you to check the status of the server, upload or download photos, and if you have expensive enough versions of Windows on your machines at home you can control them via Remote Access.
I've used other NAS solutions for years at home, and I don't regret switching to WHS at all. FYI, I built my own server and installed WHS myself - I didn't buy one off the shelf, though you certainly could if you're not into building computers.
It's not all about price. I still buy books at my local B&N even though I can find the same titles cheaper at amazon.com. If price is your only criteria for where you shop then yes, B&N is not for you. I make enough where I don't mind paying more for a book at B&N. Shopping there I'm not just paying for a book but for the extras that go with it.
Others have mentioned the joys of browsing, something that's not as easy or as satisfying when you do it online. Running the store costs money...utilities, staff, upkeep. That's reflected in the price of the book. Browse at B&N's website and you can find out if your local store has the book in stock. If it is in stock, you can have the title pulled and waiting for you at the front counter. Or I can just drive there and have it in 10 minutes. Yes, sometimes it's nice to have a book in 10 minutes. I'm a programmer and still like to have books on different topics.
For my kids it's a treat to go book shopping. Sure, we patronize our local library often but for some series they like to own the books and re-read them. And sometimes my wife and I will drop our son off at scouts and go across the street to B&N. We'll have dessert, walk the aisles, and maybe pick up a book or two. It's a nice time for us, sort of a mini-date.
Sure, they charge more but I get value for what I pay, and that's what its all about, value. I'm willing to help cover the cost of their overhead just so I have a store I can go to. It's worth it to me...it's sometimes about the whole experience, not just the book. And for the times when it is about the book, I'll usually go to amazon.com. Amazon prime rocks.
Exactly. At work I've been pushing the other programmers to return JSON from the server...it drives me crazy hearing, "I have to parse the data..." when they were working in JavaScript...they were writing their own data formats.
I like getting things for free. Free parsing? Sign me up!
How many words are in english? A lot. (According to the OED folks, "The Second Edition of the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary contains full entries for 171,476 words in current use, and 47,156 obsolete words. To this may be added around 9,500 derivative words included as subentries.") How many words does the average native english speaker know? According to this random website, 12,000-20,000 words. So English is complex, yet just 10% of the language meets a native speakers needs (less than that as we don't use all the words we know in normal conversation...except my wife when she's mad at me, then I hear every word she knows, many repeatedly)
So Java is complex. C++ is complex. I program in Java for my daily bread and I certainly don't use the entire language. It's only as complex as I need it to be. The complexity of my code is driven by what I'm trying to do, not by the language itself. And for code maintainability, I try to keep things as simple as possible.
Mmmmm....colby, swiss, and cheddar, blended all together.
I don't know if 8 kW is a lot or a little less than a normal rack would draw. The article doesn't say...how much power would a "normal" rack consume? Isn't there a measure of computing power vs power used?
I installed Scratch (http://scratch.mit.edu/) for him. He loved it. It teaches how to program without worrying about learning a programming language. It's got a built-in graphics editor and sound recorder too. He can upload his creations to the Scratch site or download any he wants to see how it works. It's a great way to get started.
Don't forget about cougar man.
I agree...I'm impressed with the cleverness. Clearly all the advancements in browser security and user safety are forcing the bad guys to be smarter, sort of an Internet version of antibiotic resistant staph.
I've been a programmer for a few years but within the last 8 months have been working on a project using Javascript.
I've been struggling with forms and trees and autocompletes and getting the css to look the same across all browsers and then I see that.
I'm amazed at what they were able to do in Javascript...if I had 1/10th of that skill I'd be done with my project by now.
Clearly it's time for me to put in an application at McDonald's...
...or so she thought. She was convinced she had a brain aneurysm. She'd had an MRI that maybe showed something and the doctor called telling her to get a higher-res MRI that day. She started searching on-line and became certain she had an aneurysm and she could die at any moment. She thought about writing notes to the kids, making a video, all sorts of "I will be dead in 48 hours" things.
The subsequent MRI and follow-up with the neurologist showed no aneurysm, no cancer, no abnormalities. Or as I helpfully pointed out, "see honey, I told you they wouldn't find anything in there."
My preferred term for "google-itis" is cyberchondria...I've long called her a cyberchondriac. I'm hoping her "brush with death" will help cure her of that.
1. Host TOR exit node
...
2. Eavesdrop on traffic
3. Post results
4. Profit!
I'm sure the traffic coming out of TOR is far more interesting than BitTorrent traffic (unless you're a media company).