Ted Cruz used to be the Republican candidate who I considered the most arrogant, and most annoying to listen to (he started running for president years ago!).
Sometimes things change.
That doesn't actually seem to be what's happening here, though. Maybe eventually.
Look at their website, and you won't see a place to sign up as a freelance developer. All their marketing is aimed at getting projects. It seems like they have a bunch of developers internally who are normal employees, building up apps and stuff.
From the article: " A sales engineer discusses proposals with clients, and using the AI engine, comes back with a price quote and production schedule in about 10 minutes. Then Gigster manages the entire development process through delivery of the fully-functional app." This implies to me that they are coming up with this fee and the full schedule at the start,
You can see a price list here (scroll down). From the looks of it, the way they manage risk is by vastly overcharging for the work, and then in most cases they'll be able to make a profit.
You're trying to say nothing. Knowing modern design patterns *is* good skill
Not really. A lot of people smash their code into design patterns, and then spend 30% of their time refactoring because they've divided their code up incorrectly; they don't understand the underlying structure of what they are trying to build. Eric Evans approaches this idea in Domain Driven Design (although his problem is brevity....if his code looks anything like his English writing, then he has 30 lines of glue code for every line of fundamental code).
Design patterns will not save you. (and can often make your code worse for example, if you start using them reflexively without thinking about whether they are appropriate. In bad cases, you might find a constructor with 10 or 12 dependencies getting injected, or MVC in a server application with no GUI!)
Overall I like the "gig economy" idea, where you can do jobs more freely when you choose to, without being tied down. It's like good parts of being a contractor, but without some of the negatives (of needing to find customers, difficult paperwork, etc). Of course, not all places like Uber reach that ideal.
The major negative is that you need to be paid enough extra to cover normal expenses, like healthcare and 401k matching that you would normally get in a job. If they aren't paying extra, it's not worth it.
Even if they (somehow) get the requirements exactly right, when was the last time you made a software product that didn't need constant maintenance and improvement? Giving up ownership of the code is going to seriously hamper you.
This raises an interesting point. If longevity correlates with happiness but is not caused by happiness, then it follows that psychological techniques to increase happiness have no effect - else there would be a measure of causation. People who have successfully become happier using the techniques actually got happier due to other lifestyle changes, which increase both happiness and longevity.
Maybe it means that physical pain is the #1 cause of unhappiness in life.
There is no dark matter; all the missing mass has been swallowed up by black holes.
If you think that, I suggest reading this recent book, which suggests that not only does dark matter exist, but also there's a large disk of it in one sector of our galaxy, which the earth passes through every 30-60million years. The gravitational force causes some asteroids/comets to be knocked out of the Oort cloud, which sometimes hit earth, causing a mass extinction.
I have not the knowledge to evaluate the hypothesis, but the author is a well-respected physicist, and the hypothesis is intriguing.
Science is certainly practical. Philosophy rarely is
In fairness, many fields of science started out as philosophy.
As an easy example of the practical results of philosophy, we can point to our democratic systems (Utopia by Sir Thomas More is my favorite example of political philosophy).
The 'new' tests for measuring the quality of a hypothesis are quoted here from the article, and I think they certainly have value:
This method is used during the development of a theory and is based on collecting indications which increase the physicists’ confidence that a theory describes nature. These indications are, for example, the amount (or absence of) alternative solutions to a problem, the degree by which a theory is connected to already confirmed theories, and the amount of unexpected insights that the theories give rise to.
Now, the interesting question would be, as a trademark, can Mickey Mouse be used under fair use?
I would think it'd depend on the precise way the cartoon is used. I would expect that if you posted the early MM movies on your website, under a disclaimer saying that these were produced by Disney and are now out of copyright, that you would be ok. However, if you posted them in a way that made users think your website was Disney approved, then you would be in trouble.
if the mark is being used by another party in such a manner that potential consumers are likely to believe that such use is endorsed by or is otherwise associated with the mark’s owner, then the mark’s owner may have rights to prevent such use and to seek damages and other remedies for the same.
That page makes clear that trademark rights are not as strong as copyright rights, and they are harder to get. You don't get a trademark just by creating a character.
In a twist to the case, the Association for Childhood Education International, a nonprofit group that was co-founded by Patty Hill [the sister of the composer of the song] and has collected a large portion of the song’s royalties, filed a motion last month arguing that if Warner did not control the copyright to “Happy Birthday,” then it did.
Good skill will make a 9-million line code base readable and flexible. Jamming your code into pre-made design patterns will not.
The purpose of design patterns is to easily communicate what you've done to another person. If I say "factory" you immediately have a rough idea of the structure of my code.
A 9-million line code base should be divided up along lines that reflex the underlying reality that the code is modeling. Thus in a kernel, you have a section for scheduling, a section for drivers, a special driver section for file-systems, etc......because those are the sections of reality that the code is trying to represent.
Although, if you have a particular set of design patterns that somehow make it easy to organize 9-million lines of code, I'd love to see it:) Maybe it's something I haven't seen before.
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Ted Cruz used to be the Republican candidate who I considered the most arrogant, and most annoying to listen to (he started running for president years ago!).
Sometimes things change.
I don't know anything about the International Electric Code, sorry.
That doesn't actually seem to be what's happening here, though. Maybe eventually.
Look at their website, and you won't see a place to sign up as a freelance developer. All their marketing is aimed at getting projects. It seems like they have a bunch of developers internally who are normal employees, building up apps and stuff.
From the article: " A sales engineer discusses proposals with clients, and using the AI engine, comes back with a price quote and production schedule in about 10 minutes. Then Gigster manages the entire development process through delivery of the fully-functional app." This implies to me that they are coming up with this fee and the full schedule at the start,
You can see a price list here (scroll down). From the looks of it, the way they manage risk is by vastly overcharging for the work, and then in most cases they'll be able to make a profit.
You're trying to say nothing. Knowing modern design patterns *is* good skill
Not really. A lot of people smash their code into design patterns, and then spend 30% of their time refactoring because they've divided their code up incorrectly; they don't understand the underlying structure of what they are trying to build. Eric Evans approaches this idea in Domain Driven Design (although his problem is brevity....if his code looks anything like his English writing, then he has 30 lines of glue code for every line of fundamental code).
Design patterns will not save you. (and can often make your code worse for example, if you start using them reflexively without thinking about whether they are appropriate. In bad cases, you might find a constructor with 10 or 12 dependencies getting injected, or MVC in a server application with no GUI!)
Marketers are trained to find and spot gullible PHB's, like a leopard spotting wounded prey a mile away.
That's a quote worth posting somewhere.
Overall I like the "gig economy" idea, where you can do jobs more freely when you choose to, without being tied down. It's like good parts of being a contractor, but without some of the negatives (of needing to find customers, difficult paperwork, etc). Of course, not all places like Uber reach that ideal.
The major negative is that you need to be paid enough extra to cover normal expenses, like healthcare and 401k matching that you would normally get in a job. If they aren't paying extra, it's not worth it.
Even if they (somehow) get the requirements exactly right, when was the last time you made a software product that didn't need constant maintenance and improvement? Giving up ownership of the code is going to seriously hamper you.
Whatever - if Obama was to declare that Christmas falls in December, there would be a storm of protests from so-called freedom advocates.
Huh.....now I kind of want him to do that, just to see the fallout.
Now you're talking about investment skill, not negotiation skill. I have no idea how good his investment skill is.
This raises an interesting point. If longevity correlates with happiness but is not caused by happiness, then it follows that psychological techniques to increase happiness have no effect - else there would be a measure of causation. People who have successfully become happier using the techniques actually got happier due to other lifestyle changes, which increase both happiness and longevity.
Maybe it means that physical pain is the #1 cause of unhappiness in life.
1. Anything that breaks causality is false.
This is really an assumption though, we don't know that it's true.
There is no dark matter; all the missing mass has been swallowed up by black holes.
If you think that, I suggest reading this recent book, which suggests that not only does dark matter exist, but also there's a large disk of it in one sector of our galaxy, which the earth passes through every 30-60million years. The gravitational force causes some asteroids/comets to be knocked out of the Oort cloud, which sometimes hit earth, causing a mass extinction.
I have not the knowledge to evaluate the hypothesis, but the author is a well-respected physicist, and the hypothesis is intriguing.
Science is certainly practical. Philosophy rarely is
In fairness, many fields of science started out as philosophy.
As an easy example of the practical results of philosophy, we can point to our democratic systems (Utopia by Sir Thomas More is my favorite example of political philosophy).
"It may or it may not be, sir, but that is what we measured and recorded."
What temperature is it right there? Where? Too late.
"We measured it at 38 degrees, sir"
This method is used during the development of a theory and is based on collecting indications which increase the physicists’ confidence that a theory describes nature. These indications are, for example, the amount (or absence of) alternative solutions to a problem, the degree by which a theory is connected to already confirmed theories, and the amount of unexpected insights that the theories give rise to.
However, the reason you should read the article is because it manages to reasonably work this image into the discussion.
We have a name for this already, going back a long time: Metaphysics.
Of course, there is a place in the world for metaphysicists, but let's be honest: if something isn't testable, it isn't science.
Now, the interesting question would be, as a trademark, can Mickey Mouse be used under fair use?
I would think it'd depend on the precise way the cartoon is used. I would expect that if you posted the early MM movies on your website, under a disclaimer saying that these were produced by Disney and are now out of copyright, that you would be ok. However, if you posted them in a way that made users think your website was Disney approved, then you would be in trouble.
This site is really good IMHO, (and also check out the section on fair use of trademarks):
if the mark is being used by another party in such a manner that potential consumers are likely to believe that such use is endorsed by or is otherwise associated with the mark’s owner, then the mark’s owner may have rights to prevent such use and to seek damages and other remedies for the same.
That page makes clear that trademark rights are not as strong as copyright rights, and they are harder to get. You don't get a trademark just by creating a character.
In a twist to the case, the Association for Childhood Education International, a nonprofit group that was co-founded by Patty Hill [the sister of the composer of the song] and has collected a large portion of the song’s royalties, filed a motion last month arguing that if Warner did not control the copyright to “Happy Birthday,” then it did.
And parts of the Mach kernel......OSX is a real frankenstein.
The only thing that happened here is that Warner Music has been forced to release their unlawful claim to the music. It already is in public domain.
Good skill will make a 9-million line code base readable and flexible. Jamming your code into pre-made design patterns will not.
:) Maybe it's something I haven't seen before.
The purpose of design patterns is to easily communicate what you've done to another person. If I say "factory" you immediately have a rough idea of the structure of my code.
A 9-million line code base should be divided up along lines that reflex the underlying reality that the code is modeling. Thus in a kernel, you have a section for scheduling, a section for drivers, a special driver section for file-systems, etc......because those are the sections of reality that the code is trying to represent.
Although, if you have a particular set of design patterns that somehow make it easy to organize 9-million lines of code, I'd love to see it
over-engineered lol
focus on readable and flexible, and the rest will fall into place.
Security isn't prioritized. That's basically the reason.