I have to hire more new staff every year, and I never make a shopping list of facts, languages or applications that they need to know. If I wanted a Cold Fusion reference, I'd buy a book.
What I really need are clever, hard-working people who don't believe that they are the center of the universe because of their new degree. They need great communications skills, and the ability to cope with overwhelming projects and concepts.
You shouldn't have a shopping list of facts to learn or applications to master. You should be looking for a place that will put you through hell and, in the process, teach you:
-that you can learn way more than you ever thought -how to learn for yourself when there is no teacher (and get paid while doing it!)
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One way that Mozilla is attempting to salvage credibility is by pushing back Milestones slightly, if the code is not ready. I'd rather have something that doesn't crash, than something that I can get *now*.
I'd say that Mozilla represents Netscape's recent development efforts. It is rapidly becoming much more stable, configurable, and small.
If you want a better browser, the tools are there. Work on Mozilla. If you can't or won't, you can test Mozilla, and submit bug reports to the people who are willing to work.
Anyone who won't do any of these things shouldn't be so quick to complain about lack of progress.
Wouldn't the griping body be the FTC, instead of the SEC? I thought the SEC just policed insider trading and similar securities-related stuff. Isn't the FTC's mandate to prevent companies from getting too big for their britches?
According to what I've heard about the Andover.net prospectus, Rob is a bigger "aire" than a thousandaire, but a smaller "aire" than a billionaire. I think he'd buy Bill Gates for a nickel, but would make him sleep in the shed in the backyard.
Re:alt.linux, MCC release, other old-timer memorie
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Anyone else remember alt.linux?
I remember being surprised that there was another linux user in the world to create it!
How about the MCC release (the first distro ever)?
I thought that distros were for wimps. I managed to resist them for (literally) years, until I had some hard drive randomness that sent me running to Slackware.
I'd love to find some of the other early users (pre-1992) and swap memories...
I started with version.12
I downloaded it from Compuserve with the standard (of the day) 2400 baud modem. It took hours. I could not believe that I had a multitasking Unix for free.
The IMac took a gamble with USB, no floppy, "fashionable" colours and design. It may or may not have been technically innovative, but it found a market that was so large that it pretty much saved Apple's bacon.
Groundbreaking may be more appropriate in a marketing sense, but I think it definitely applies.
"It's encouraging to see the strides that Canada and other third world countries have been making recently. "
Canada is the only country to ever invade the US and burn its capitol to the ground. Look up in your history books and you will find that's why your white house was hastily painted white.
Now if you want to call the country that did that "third world", go ahead.
"So far they've only managed to make their solution very fragile"
What's to stop them from optimizing across a wide range of (previously destabilizing) ambient conditions?
"Besides, it's not like you couldn't simulate analog conditions in software. "
You can, but not well enough to get anything remotely as interesting as what this researcher got. The models used in simulating analog circuitry work "well enough" to design certain types of analog circuitry in the traditional manner. There are other possible methods of circuit design that approach the solution from other directions, and don't require that the designer put on their "traditional analog design methodology blinders".
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He was in my class for undergraduate Electrical/Computer engineering. He was definitely odd. I'm not sure whether "fitting in" ever occurred to him.
He was the guy who would wait until the professor finished a great long explanation of a topic, and then ask a question that showed total lack of insight into the material being covered. There would be a huge group cringe, and everyone would turn around and silently wonder how he could have missed the point so soundly. I wondered if he'd ever graduate.
Now he's a prof and a pundit.
He may be a freak, but he sure knows how to market what he's got.
I can't imagine a precious resource like free beer lasting long against a gigantic horde of slashdotters.
It's funny that we expect to trash a web server by pointing slashdotters at it, but can pretend that a stash of free beer has a chance in hell of lasting...
"You say Townshend is good? a good blues guitarist such as BB King or Stevie Ray Vaughn could knock him on his ass without thinking. "
BB is too old to knock anything on its ass and Stevie is just dead (he is eternally resting on his ass). Townshend wins this round.
"Point to the best rock drummer and you can point to fifteen jazz drummers that can be immediately precieved as being entire orders of magnitude better without ever showing their entire skill set. "
Who is doing the perceiving? The people who can enjoy various forms of music, or those who have to find the superior form and champion it against all comers?
"The rock form is simplistic. Never has there really been a rock artist that stretched the boundaries of the art after the parameters were set, such as Miles Davis and Dave Brubeck did for jazz."
Is simple bad?
I'd say about 5% of all music is good, with this rule applicable across all genres.
You can prove the superiority of your favourite music until you're blue in the face, and in the end nobody will care. Everyone will go on listening to their favourite tunes. The more suggestible among us might feel a bit guilty. But I'm pretty sure that those old Knack albums and Ramones CD's aren't going to be chucked into the garbage, just because they are "inferior" to Miles Davis or Dave Brubeck.
Disclaimer: I don't own any Knack or Dave Brubeck, but I do own a huge pile of Ramones. I did buy "Kind of Blue" by Miles Davis this week. I thought it was OK, but I didn't throw out my other 1,300 CD's.
Be careful not to misinterpret what he's saying. He's saying that it's not feasible for them to make their own messy code public. He is not saying that it's not feasible to write a program like that.
I can relate to him. I do design work on a great program that has an ugly build interface. You must spend a lot of time getting to know it before you can be productive.
I've re-read this comment several times, and still have no idea what it means. Try using correctly formed sentences, with the first word capitalized. Include one idea per sentence, and spell all of the words correctly. Use correct punctuation. Then all will understand what you are trying to get across.
Not only does The Bat support PGP in its latest version, but it is an all-around cool email program. It's very configurable and new enhancements are being added frequently. It's at www.ritlabs.com.
It's very easy to play the backseat driver role and tell others that they should hold out so they can be rich. The days of net startups making zillions are fading fast.
The cool thing that gets everybody all charged up about Perl (at least the people I've shown it to) is regular expressions. The ability to say "hey, give me every line that has 5 entries, separated by spaces, with the 2nd entry containing either 3 letters or starting with a letter that isn't in this list" seems impressive to people who've only coded in C. It's like showing a hammer to people who've lived their lives driving nails with a pair of vice grips. A cool tool for a particular set of problems, and a decent one for lots of others. One big problem with Perl is that you may return to your code and find it utterly unreadable.
Family Circus was washed up long ago. Hopefully the Slashdot crowd was spared the agony of enduring that oh-so-tame attempt at humour. Some of us poor bastards who still bear the psychic scars. That strip deserved to be soundly skewered. And it was.
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I have to hire more new staff every year, and I never make a shopping list of facts, languages or applications that they need to know. If I wanted a Cold Fusion reference, I'd buy a book.
What I really need are clever, hard-working people who don't believe that they are the center of the universe because of their new degree. They need great communications skills, and the ability to cope with overwhelming projects and concepts.
You shouldn't have a shopping list of facts to learn or applications to master. You should be looking for a place that will put you through hell and, in the process, teach you:
-that you can learn way more than you ever thought
-how to learn for yourself when there is no teacher (and get paid while doing it!)
One way that Mozilla is attempting to salvage credibility is by pushing back Milestones slightly, if the code is not ready. I'd rather have something that doesn't crash, than something that I can get *now*.
I'd say that Mozilla represents Netscape's recent development efforts. It is rapidly becoming much more stable, configurable, and small.
If you want a better browser, the tools are there. Work on Mozilla. If you can't or won't, you can test Mozilla, and submit bug reports to the people who are willing to work.
Anyone who won't do any of these things shouldn't be so quick to complain about lack of progress.
I thought we already got Alan Cox a while back...
Wouldn't the griping body be the FTC, instead of the SEC? I thought the SEC just policed insider trading and similar securities-related stuff. Isn't the FTC's mandate to prevent companies from getting too big for their britches?
According to what I've heard about the Andover.net prospectus, Rob is a bigger "aire" than a thousandaire, but a smaller "aire" than a billionaire. I think he'd buy Bill Gates for a nickel, but would make him sleep in the shed in the backyard.
Anyone else remember alt.linux?
.12
I remember being surprised that there was another linux user in the world to create it!
How about the MCC release (the first distro ever)?
I thought that distros were for wimps. I managed to resist them for (literally) years, until I had some hard drive randomness that sent me running to Slackware.
I'd love to find some of the other early users (pre-1992) and swap memories...
I started with version
I downloaded it from Compuserve with the standard (of the day) 2400 baud modem. It took hours. I could not believe that I had a multitasking Unix for free.
Is there some remotely constructive way of getting this off your chest?
I have no idea what you are complaining about, and the tone of your post makes you look a lot worse than the guy you're flaming.
Try counting to 10 before posting.
Apple was on its last legs a year ago.
The IMac took a gamble with USB, no floppy, "fashionable" colours and design. It may or may not have been technically innovative, but it found a market that was so large that it pretty much saved Apple's bacon.
Groundbreaking may be more appropriate in a marketing sense, but I think it definitely applies.
Can you really get a K7 motherboard? I thought they weren't on sale to the public yet (despite the availability of the processors).
It was retribution for an invasion by those itchy-trigger-fingered Americans.
Canada doesn't really go for beating up on other countries.
We try pretty hard to stay with the peacekeeper role. America seems to go with the enforcer role.
Canada just likes to remind the US that it doesn't win all of its fights. (And that winning a fight isn't that important, anyway).
"It's encouraging to see the strides that Canada and other third world countries have been making recently. "
Canada is the only country to ever invade the US and burn its capitol to the ground. Look up in your history books and you will find that's why your white house was hastily painted white.
Now if you want to call the country that did that "third world", go ahead.
"So far they've only managed to make their solution very fragile"
What's to stop them from optimizing across a wide range of (previously destabilizing) ambient conditions?
"Besides, it's not like you couldn't simulate analog conditions in software. "
You can, but not well enough to get anything remotely as interesting as what this researcher got. The models used in simulating analog circuitry work "well enough" to design certain types of analog circuitry in the traditional manner. There are other possible methods of circuit design that approach the solution from other directions, and don't require that the designer put on their "traditional analog design methodology blinders".
He was in my class for undergraduate Electrical/Computer engineering. He was definitely odd. I'm not sure whether "fitting in" ever occurred to him.
He was the guy who would wait until the professor finished a great long explanation of a topic, and then ask a question that showed total lack of insight into the material being covered. There would be a huge group cringe, and everyone would turn around and silently wonder how he could have missed the point so soundly. I wondered if he'd ever graduate.
Now he's a prof and a pundit.
He may be a freak, but he sure knows how to market what he's got.
I can't imagine a precious resource like free beer lasting long against a gigantic horde of slashdotters.
It's funny that we expect to trash a web server by pointing slashdotters at it, but can pretend that a stash of free beer has a chance in hell of lasting...
It's hanging around at www.bricklin.com
It's about 25k in size! Heh!
"You say Townshend is good? a good blues guitarist such as BB King or Stevie Ray Vaughn could knock him on his ass without thinking. "
BB is too old to knock anything on its ass and Stevie is just dead (he is eternally resting on his ass). Townshend wins this round.
"Point to the best rock drummer and you can point to fifteen jazz drummers that can be immediately precieved as being entire orders of magnitude better without ever showing their entire skill set. "
Who is doing the perceiving? The people who can enjoy various forms of music, or those who have to find the superior form and champion it against all comers?
"The rock form is simplistic. Never has there really been a rock artist that stretched the boundaries of the art after the parameters were set, such as Miles Davis and Dave Brubeck did for jazz."
Is simple bad?
I'd say about 5% of all music is good, with this rule applicable across all genres.
You can prove the superiority of your favourite music until you're blue in the face, and in the end nobody will care. Everyone will go on listening to their favourite tunes. The more suggestible among us might feel a bit guilty. But I'm pretty sure that those old Knack albums and Ramones CD's aren't going to be chucked into the garbage, just because they are "inferior" to Miles Davis or Dave Brubeck.
Disclaimer: I don't own any Knack or Dave Brubeck, but I do own a huge pile of Ramones. I did buy "Kind of Blue" by Miles Davis this week. I thought it was OK, but I didn't throw out my other 1,300 CD's.
Be careful not to misinterpret what he's saying. He's saying that it's not feasible for them to make their own messy code public. He is not saying that it's not feasible to write a program like that.
I can relate to him. I do design work on a great program that has an ugly build interface. You must spend a lot of time getting to know it before you can be productive.
I've re-read this comment several times, and still have no idea what it means. Try using correctly formed sentences, with the first word capitalized. Include one idea per sentence, and spell all of the words correctly. Use correct punctuation. Then all will understand what you are trying to get across.
P.S. Typos are fine (we all make those!)
Not only does The Bat support PGP in its latest version, but it is an all-around cool email program. It's very configurable and new enhancements are being added frequently. It's at www.ritlabs.com.
Xitami rocks.
It includes all source, and does some very interesting things. It also runs very quickly on ancient hardware.
It's kinda like the Mozilla of servers. You can get the source. A download is about 1/10th the size of the competitors. It runs quickly.
Why aren't you rich?
It's very easy to play the backseat driver role and tell others that they should hold out so they can be rich. The days of net startups making zillions are fading fast.
Do you want to feed Rob until he's rich?
I didn't think so.
The cool thing that gets everybody all charged up about Perl (at least the people I've shown it to) is regular expressions. The ability to say "hey, give me every line that has 5 entries, separated by spaces, with the 2nd entry containing either 3 letters or starting with a letter that isn't in this list" seems impressive to people who've only coded in C. It's like showing a hammer to people who've lived their lives driving nails with a pair of vice grips. A cool tool for a particular set of problems, and a decent one for lots of others. One big problem with Perl is that you may return to your code and find it utterly unreadable.
I just can't wait until the phone company and the bank that holds my mortgage cares about my code and not my checks...
Family Circus was washed up long ago. Hopefully the Slashdot crowd was spared the agony of enduring that oh-so-tame attempt at humour. Some of us poor bastards who still bear the psychic scars. That strip deserved to be soundly skewered. And it was.