Agree, I'm degree qualified as a "computer scientist", my job title is "senior software engineer", my job is "code management" which is basically a battle hardened code monkey gaurding the CVS repository. Also to be fair I think CS (and the closely related field of Operations Research) are about discovering, generalising, and refining abstracted algrothims, the latter being the only activity where big O notation is applicable, and even then only as a convinient measuring tool to compare ideas. Compared to most people I meet outside of work I'm a computer/maths 'genius', one major advantage of a formal CS/OR education is that I know that I'm not even close to the bottom rung on that ladder.
In other words, the difference between my job and Alan Turing's job is that given time he could learn to do my job.
As for Russian coders I work with quite a few on a daily basis, they are fast, acurate, defensive coders, they also have a culture where pragmatisim and the ability to improvise are valued traits.
Sheesh, what a self-righteous douche. If you're ever inside I predict you will get the kind of isolation treatment you wish on others, for your own protection.
Probably more to do with labour/insurance laws, I noticed a distinct lack of home delivery in the UK. Here is Australia home delivery is common, the job pays a pitance for the privalege of wearing out your own car, I assume it's the same in the US.
Yes, we all agree it's bullshit to be prosecuted for owning a nude Bart Simpson, but I'm guessing not a lot of people jack off to cartoons, even less are arrested for it, and one or two may have actually been convicted for it. I for one seriously doubt the voracity of some of these stories simply because a more rational explaination is sensationalisim by a journalist eager to attract eyeballs, for example I tried to find court details for the Bart Simpson case when it was reported here in Oz but came up empty handed? Was he really prosecuted for the nude Bart, or was it just one image in a vast collection?
A common tactic used by pedophiles is to trivialise the offense by broadening the definition until it becomes meaningless, for example the congressman who was caught sending sexually explicit texts to 14yo boys engaged in work experience was also instrumental in broadening the scope of sexual offenders list to include things like public urniation and nudity. The tactic is not new or confined to peopdophiles, the Bard wrote about "protesting too much", now I'm not claiming that this is what the journalist is doing but if you assume for a moment that the story is sensationalisim then it certainly becomes a possibility.
Bottom line is I think the nude Bart Simpson case is tabloid bullshit that belongs on snopes, but if you (or anyone else) have a link to some primary sources for it I would be both gratefull and humbled.
Personally I used to think that the right to free speech trumped the victims right to privacy. However that was when I was younger, since that time I have learned ideologies are supposed to be guidelines for wise choices, not a rule book for a dogmatic life. Having 'flip flopped' on the issue over several decades I now firmly believe it should be a offence to knowingly posses what the GP described (images of pre-pubecent child rape, or for that matter any rape). Yes that opinion puts a limit on free speech but it does not have to limit the visual and theatrical arts. Yes it's debatable if jacking off to CP is harmful/helpful to society, but contrary to popular opinion around here we do in fact live in a democracy and the vast majority of the population (including me) think prosecuting these people who jack off to rape videos is The RightThingToDo(TM), like me they are not going to change their minds just because someone, somewhere, (allegedly) abuses the justice system once in a blue moon*.
* - Unlike the (alleged) abusive prosecution above, I know "blue moons" exist because I've seen them first hand on several occasions. Prosecuting the prosecuters who knowingly abuse the justice system is also The RightThingToDo(TM).
Could also be a developer or a tester. Most of our dev and testing images are VM's, as a senior developer I'm only intersed in the ability to create/manage my images within the system, I don't give a flying fuck as to where it is pysically located, how it's set up and maintained, or what phone company we use to connect to it. The sysadmins in our department are paid to worry about that. It's called 'division of labour' and means I also don't have to worry about office furniture, someone else in some other department provided me with a chair, desk, and trash can. The trash can is cool, it somehow empties itself every night.
Don't know the details of the experiment. I agree the surface of Mars is most likely sterile, but there are some strong hints that microbial life may be just below the surface. I'd also love to find out exactly what those red stains are on Europa's surface?
I grew up with the Stones, the last line in that song is "You make a dead man come". It was naughty back then, now they play it in the supermarket while I'm shopping.
AKA Malware, which has to scale a high wall to get into Apple's garden. I also find it difficult to belive a so called geek has to keep reinstalling windows these days, that shit went away almost a decade ago. Besides, isn't this what the market gods are supposed to provide? - Different strokes for different folks and all that...
while gates apparently did it because it was 'expected' for the billionaires club
I remeber BG running around in the 80's telling everyone he was going to give most of his fortune away when he turned 50, I was surpised he kept his word. Gates and Buffet actually founded what you call the billionaires club, Bono is not a member but I also admire his generosity. This doesn't mean these people are saints (read the list, they're definitely not), but it does indicate they recognise where the money came from and are giving back the best way they know how. For that they should be immortalised (ala: Mr. Nobel)
From observation and experimentation with myself - There are two main "cores" in the human mind that operate independently and in parrallel - visual and auditory. There's a Feynman clip (that I can't find) where he talks about using this in a party trick. You need a bit of practice but the idea is you visualise the seconds passing as a digital display or whatever visual works for you, at the same time use your inner voice to read out loud from a book, practice until you can read out loud and time a minute with reasonable accuracy. Depending on which 'core' you naturally use for which task the trick may appear 'simple' to some and 'impossible' to others.
Of course there are other cores for critical system services such as chewing gum, walking, ect, as you say they don't require much (if any) help from the two main consious cores.
Man can't read (and understand) a book and write a software program at the same time without timeslicing between them.
Yes, both activities normally make heavy use of the inner voice core.
The UN doesn't "prop up" dictators anymore than it "props up" Canada. The MAD doctrine works in part by keeping the various mad men talking to each other, even if it's through gritted teeth. The last time a mad man spat the dummy and stormed out of the security council we got the Iraq war.
There's a reason why Canada is turning it's back on the UN and pulling out of groups and organizations.
Yes, but my gut says that corporate merger won't be called the United States of Canada.
Obigatory car analogy; I've been driving on public roads for 35yrs, I backed a freinds car out of the driveway the other day and then sat there for a good five minutes trying to work out why the car wouldn't let go of the key after I turned it off.
Cars, like computers, used to have a very simple interface and it was common for non-mechanics to do their own repairs because you could open any bonnet and point to the caby, the distributor, the coil, etc, under the bonnet of my current car there is a large black plastic cover with holes where you put the oil and water, taking the cover off doesn't help much. Sure old cars/computers make me go all misty eyed with nostalgia for their 'simplicity', but lets face it, they were unreliable crap compared to what is available today.
That's about as practical as training all your programers how to negotiate a contract and forcing them to read those bussiness books with titles like "How to win friends and influence people". Specialists exist because it's impossible for one person to know it all, let alone do it all. In evolutionary terms humans are still learning how to cope with the social invention of divided labour when it's applied to another social invention that arose from agriculture - extremely large human tribes, such as the 175,000 strong corporate tribe I belong to.
You can't cure willful ignorance..[snip]..if you don't keep up... you lose your job to someone who can.
Was that first sentence a fraudian slip? Have you not heard of commissions? Too few sales and you won't just lose your job, another sales guy in the same office will TAKE it because he's IS a better salesman and he wants the commisions you're failing to pick up. There's nothing a sales head likes better than handing out bonuses and commissions, it's not only indisputable proof that his crew are doing their job, it's also his wheelbarrow full of cash at the end of the year.
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"Scientist" - may be. "Engineer" - hell no.
Agree, I'm degree qualified as a "computer scientist", my job title is "senior software engineer", my job is "code management" which is basically a battle hardened code monkey gaurding the CVS repository. Also to be fair I think CS (and the closely related field of Operations Research) are about discovering, generalising, and refining abstracted algrothims, the latter being the only activity where big O notation is applicable, and even then only as a convinient measuring tool to compare ideas. Compared to most people I meet outside of work I'm a computer/maths 'genius', one major advantage of a formal CS/OR education is that I know that I'm not even close to the bottom rung on that ladder.
In other words, the difference between my job and Alan Turing's job is that given time he could learn to do my job.
As for Russian coders I work with quite a few on a daily basis, they are fast, acurate, defensive coders, they also have a culture where pragmatisim and the ability to improvise are valued traits.
Sheesh, what a self-righteous douche. If you're ever inside I predict you will get the kind of isolation treatment you wish on others, for your own protection.
Probably more to do with labour/insurance laws, I noticed a distinct lack of home delivery in the UK. Here is Australia home delivery is common, the job pays a pitance for the privalege of wearing out your own car, I assume it's the same in the US.
Yes, we all agree it's bullshit to be prosecuted for owning a nude Bart Simpson, but I'm guessing not a lot of people jack off to cartoons, even less are arrested for it, and one or two may have actually been convicted for it. I for one seriously doubt the voracity of some of these stories simply because a more rational explaination is sensationalisim by a journalist eager to attract eyeballs, for example I tried to find court details for the Bart Simpson case when it was reported here in Oz but came up empty handed? Was he really prosecuted for the nude Bart, or was it just one image in a vast collection?
A common tactic used by pedophiles is to trivialise the offense by broadening the definition until it becomes meaningless, for example the congressman who was caught sending sexually explicit texts to 14yo boys engaged in work experience was also instrumental in broadening the scope of sexual offenders list to include things like public urniation and nudity. The tactic is not new or confined to peopdophiles, the Bard wrote about "protesting too much", now I'm not claiming that this is what the journalist is doing but if you assume for a moment that the story is sensationalisim then it certainly becomes a possibility.
Bottom line is I think the nude Bart Simpson case is tabloid bullshit that belongs on snopes, but if you (or anyone else) have a link to some primary sources for it I would be both gratefull and humbled.
Personally I used to think that the right to free speech trumped the victims right to privacy. However that was when I was younger, since that time I have learned ideologies are supposed to be guidelines for wise choices, not a rule book for a dogmatic life. Having 'flip flopped' on the issue over several decades I now firmly believe it should be a offence to knowingly posses what the GP described (images of pre-pubecent child rape, or for that matter any rape). Yes that opinion puts a limit on free speech but it does not have to limit the visual and theatrical arts. Yes it's debatable if jacking off to CP is harmful/helpful to society, but contrary to popular opinion around here we do in fact live in a democracy and the vast majority of the population (including me) think prosecuting these people who jack off to rape videos is The RightThingToDo(TM), like me they are not going to change their minds just because someone, somewhere, (allegedly) abuses the justice system once in a blue moon*.
* - Unlike the (alleged) abusive prosecution above, I know "blue moons" exist because I've seen them first hand on several occasions. Prosecuting the prosecuters who knowingly abuse the justice system is also The RightThingToDo(TM).
Could also be a developer or a tester. Most of our dev and testing images are VM's, as a senior developer I'm only intersed in the ability to create/manage my images within the system, I don't give a flying fuck as to where it is pysically located, how it's set up and maintained, or what phone company we use to connect to it. The sysadmins in our department are paid to worry about that. It's called 'division of labour' and means I also don't have to worry about office furniture, someone else in some other department provided me with a chair, desk, and trash can. The trash can is cool, it somehow empties itself every night.
Don't know the details of the experiment. I agree the surface of Mars is most likely sterile, but there are some strong hints that microbial life may be just below the surface. I'd also love to find out exactly what those red stains are on Europa's surface?
I grew up with the Stones, the last line in that song is "You make a dead man come". It was naughty back then, now they play it in the supermarket while I'm shopping.
It still takes 3 days to clear a personal cheque too, but what does supply line lag have to do with trickle down economics?
Because if you do good merely for the sake elevating your popularity then it's questionable whether you're really doing something good
I think what you're trying to say is that self praise is worthless, which is true but irrelevant to the actual good deed.
They have done some experiments on the space station, some kind of lichen was able to survive outside the ship for over a year.
It's a rogue Windows internal process
AKA Malware, which has to scale a high wall to get into Apple's garden. I also find it difficult to belive a so called geek has to keep reinstalling windows these days, that shit went away almost a decade ago. Besides, isn't this what the market gods are supposed to provide? - Different strokes for different folks and all that...
Ever try to develop ambidexterity?
Yeah, but my stick is called a "pool cue", I try and avoid fighting with them. :)
Jobs did it privately as it should be done. Do good, and don't talk about it.
Why?
while gates apparently did it because it was 'expected' for the billionaires club
I remeber BG running around in the 80's telling everyone he was going to give most of his fortune away when he turned 50, I was surpised he kept his word. Gates and Buffet actually founded what you call the billionaires club, Bono is not a member but I also admire his generosity. This doesn't mean these people are saints (read the list, they're definitely not), but it does indicate they recognise where the money came from and are giving back the best way they know how. For that they should be immortalised (ala: Mr. Nobel)
Of course there are other cores for critical system services such as chewing gum, walking, ect, as you say they don't require much (if any) help from the two main consious cores.
Man can't read (and understand) a book and write a software program at the same time without timeslicing between them.
Yes, both activities normally make heavy use of the inner voice core.
Too busy propping up dictators
The UN doesn't "prop up" dictators anymore than it "props up" Canada. The MAD doctrine works in part by keeping the various mad men talking to each other, even if it's through gritted teeth. The last time a mad man spat the dummy and stormed out of the security council we got the Iraq war.
There's a reason why Canada is turning it's back on the UN and pulling out of groups and organizations.
Yes, but my gut says that corporate merger won't be called the United States of Canada.
It's easier to control a herd of stupid cattle than it is to try and wrangle up cats.
Yes, but cats rarely stampead.
Obigatory car analogy; I've been driving on public roads for 35yrs, I backed a freinds car out of the driveway the other day and then sat there for a good five minutes trying to work out why the car wouldn't let go of the key after I turned it off.
Cars, like computers, used to have a very simple interface and it was common for non-mechanics to do their own repairs because you could open any bonnet and point to the caby, the distributor, the coil, etc, under the bonnet of my current car there is a large black plastic cover with holes where you put the oil and water, taking the cover off doesn't help much. Sure old cars/computers make me go all misty eyed with nostalgia for their 'simplicity', but lets face it, they were unreliable crap compared to what is available today.
but they've been irrelevant in mainstream tech for a long time now.
Stop masterbating on my lawn and I'll think about giving you a job.
Nah, the problem is slashdotters can't accept that they are in fact part of the general public, it makes us feel ordinary.
NEWSFLASH - Man walks and chews gum!
Yeah, why don't they do something useful like eradicating smallpox?
You can't cure willful ignorance..[snip]..if you don't keep up... you lose your job to someone who can.
Was that first sentence a fraudian slip? Have you not heard of commissions? Too few sales and you won't just lose your job, another sales guy in the same office will TAKE it because he's IS a better salesman and he wants the commisions you're failing to pick up. There's nothing a sales head likes better than handing out bonuses and commissions, it's not only indisputable proof that his crew are doing their job, it's also his wheelbarrow full of cash at the end of the year.
"presales engineer" - I've done that job, the sales people won't tell you where they keep the cocaine and hookers.
Trashing the whole disk is mindless vandalisim, botnet authours may be pricks but they don't normally vandalise their own bots.