Something is fishy. Most non competes have a time limit, like a year or two after you leave the employ. A never contract is extremely stupid to sign. What you might say never to today you may need to do in 10 or 20 years. You just don't know.
Also make sure you get some type of compensation as well for signing an agreement. If it is no work for 2 years after employment then they have to compensate you for that. If it was no work ever, they'd have to pay you for the rest of your life....
OH get real. The majority of the CS education is the same as it has been 10 years ago. Theory of Operating Systems, a programming language (C/C++/Java), Data Structures and Algorithms, Networking, Discrete Math, etc....
IF you went to a university then you would k now that it doesn't really teach you that much about programming from a practical standpoint. It is mostly math and theory and it is up to you to learn the rest on your own. This using your degree is bullshit too. In a typical company a bunch of if statements and VB/C#/Java are enough. Unless you are in the cutting edge (games, etc.) there isn't that much that you will even use your degree...
The college I went to still doesn't have an AJAX or web app course. Although they do teach Java instead of C++ now. The rest of the curriculum is about the same. The only problem is some classes expect knowledge of C. Now that intro to CS is in Java I'm not sure how they expect normal CS students to learn C......
Don't discourage the poor guy. With this fearmongering you must be a clueless PHB or something....
Then carefully only talk up the parts that'll appeal to those with a genuine love. Tell them about how they will get the latest IDEs and graphics suites paid for. Tell them how they'll get the satisfaction of seeing their own name in the back of a game manual. Tell them how their embedded code could end up, admittedly unheralded, saving lives in some critical application.
The unfortunate reality is that these pluses are not true for everybody (in fact I'd say the game manual is not true for most people). Especially in these penny pinching times.
In my current job, I can't even get the latest software required to do my job by corporate mandate (.NET development but due to corporate policy we can't install IIS, SQL Server 2005 development but because we're too cheap to pay for licenses you are stuck with the express version (and expected to do SSIS packages), what is that "Open Source" software, uninstall it because it is not part of our corporate policy).
Even at my first job (a start up), I couldn't even get them to spring $50 for UltraEdit. My second job had more money then they knew what to do with and would get you anything you wanted. Unfortunately their IT department got funding slashed big time when the corporate accounting drones audited (and rightfully so). Now, the company I work for is actually doing quite well. But they do not get those results from pouring money into anything. They want everything done on the cheap and with their policy.
The other reality is that a manager buys a completely useless product for $10,000 dollars and the company can't buy it fast enough. Even if the product is scrapped later the manager will still be able to get another one and the company will listen. If the IT guy wants even a $20 investment to save himself some work the answer is no. Even if you can prove the business case, due to there being huge financial incentives now for cutting budgets the manager is not obliged to wait the 6 months or so to see savings from buying the product....
Even as someone with a passion for software development, it is very hard in the work place. A passion for software development does not mean that the same IDE connected to a database does not get boring after a few years....
Well yes and no. Some congressman do do an okay job (not mine). As far as I can tell Ron Paul votes no to almost everything. Unfortunately with the shitty laws they pass it is probably mostly the right way. I'm sure there are those 5 or 10 congressmen who do their job right. We need to find/promote them and then vote everyone else out. If we vote out the few good ones too, we'll probably get bad ones in their place...I would bet that if we keep doing that maybe we get 5 or 10 more good congressmen each vote. In a few hundred years we could have a good congress....now if only we could mix that with a good president.....
Of course a better way would be to get more third party candidates in congress to destroy the powerbase of both democrats and republicans. It is much harder to have to pay 10 or 11 political parties than to just have to bribe 2.
In some of the stuff it should be within their rights. The idea of copyright was you lease your product for a small period from the public to make money, then it goes to the public. The period was originally small 25 years or so. Now it is like 75 or 100 years.... Some of the copyright holders are stealing public property which shouldn't even belong to them.
On the new stuff sure there should be some enforcement. Still when the penalty for copyright infringement is more harsh than murder or rape, there is a problem with government priorities.
Then how do you buy an election from diebold? All these papers with the bar code and print outs would be countable. When the machine vote and the ballots don't match, uh oh the jig is up.
Although seriously you could probably stuff the ballot just like in the old days.....
In my grade school/junior high science and high school biology evolution was a tiny few pages in a much more general textbook. It certainly did not get more than a week or so of lectures. Basically compared to the entire science class evolution is a tiny footnote (in high school/grade school you don't get much done in a week).
So the question is why is there a textbook on evolution or creationism? It does not merit an entire science class. Evolution is just a single theory. It's not like you sit in class for a year learning just evolution. It's a few days at the most, maybe even one or two. A textbook for this is overkill. Maybe a creationist or evolution 2 or 3 page worksheet would be appropriate but a whole book is way out of hand.
My worry is that creationists will dedicate half a year to studying their creationist textbook and then ooops what about all that other stuff that actually matters that you learn if we assume biology then how the body/cells are structured, how heredity works with the various genes, etc....
And furthermore I don't see what the big deal is. We also learn that people thought the entire universe revolved around the earth. The theory is wrong but we learn it for historical reasons. If evolution is proven wrong, I would expect that we still learn it, why it is wrong, and why the new theory better explains life's origins. Maybe another hour or so of discussion on evolution. It's no big deal. Until creationism is proven it belongs in a religion class. And if it ever is scientifically proven then it has a place in science. Good luck with that though.
And the funny thing is that most businesses are not on the latest version of Java/ASP.NET/Ruby on Rails so it is irrelevant.
My current employer still mostly uses SQL Server 2000. My last one upgraded to 2005 in 2007. Both are still using.NET 1.1. My first employer is still using.NET 1.0 and SQL Server and will until the company is sold.
Also most people don't use all the latest skills of a technology. They want SQL Server 2005 to do database management. Do they need some of the new XML functions or ranking functions, usually not. Mostly it is the same as the last version.
After all, none of the companies I worked for nor the companies my family work for are using Vista yet......And Vista is the latest.
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I'm not a doomsayer. But I think you can't say HA you were wrong until after we actually collide particles at high energy. It is my understanding that today some particles went around a tube at nowhere near full power. Once they start colliding then you can brush off the doomsayers completely.
Also most of the arguments I see against doomsayers are rebukes saying "don't be silly", etc. Not scientific arguments saying why scientifically it cannot happen. In fact what I gather is that though the probability is remote, there is a possibility of creating a bunch of black holes. And though the probability is remote that it is theoretically possible to destroy the earth. And as my probability professor used to say "low probability events happen, just not often". So it seems to me the probability is remote but it may be there. And it only takes one time to destroy the earth. Even if it is one in a hundred billion. So I mean unless I see a scientific argument saying exactly why the probability is 0 (not near zero or 10^(large negative number) but 0, I wouldn't totally dismiss the doomsayers anyway. If the probability of total destruction is low enough, the collider could run billions of years (in reality it won't last that long, but anyway...) without an issue and then one day BOOOOOOOM.
But anyway we don't get interesting results until the particles start colliding either. I'm more excited to see what happens once the collisions, experiments and data collecting start.
Heck even I remember seeing these things in the Weekly Reader magazine when I was in grammar school and that was during the 80's. The article seemed to be predicting in the next few years (I think around 10). And here we are almost 20 years later and the flying car is like Duke Forever.
From TFA: "Only 12 people have flown the jetpack, and no one has gained more than three hours of experience in the air. Mr. Martin plans to take it up to 500 feet within six months. This time, he said with a smile, he will be the first."
In the article it said that the height was limited to allow people to practice at lower altitude. And I think I recall the limit being at 6 feet so far. This statement appears to be about learning to control it at 3 feet before trying to take it 3000 or in the case of the test 500 feet.
There's a good chance soon we'll have a more sensational article about a 500 ft flight soon. Hopefully it won't be part of an obituary.
When a musician releases a hit, they make more money (mostly through touring/performing) than a normal person makes for completing a project at a company. If they want more money they should complain to the studios to release a better cut. Why should they continue to receive money their whole life from one project (which actually mostly goes to the studio anyway).
Plus, a lot of musicians sample other music in making theirs. By having these long copyrights you have to pay royalties to use other music in your music. For someone just starting out this may preclude them from release material that they could otherwise do.
The idea of copyright is you lease your work from the public domain for a set period of time to use it in order to profit. After that it belongs to the public domain. If you can't make enough money on it, maybe your work just isn't good enough.
That's not entirely true. Many languages have their specialties and some things are harder then others. From Basic to C is irrelevant for the basic structures, however learning points is nontrivial.
Going from PHP to multi-threated C#/Java apps is also not trivial since you have to pick up locking/etc...
It's true that a lot of stuff is irrelevant, but some stuff matters. I know C/Java/etc.. However J2EE has enough libraries/new stuff that I would probably take a non trivial amount of time to wrap my head around it, maybe months.
My experience has been you only get hired for what you have done in the past. I did SQL Server first so I am stuck. Sybase shops want Sybase, Oracle shops want hundreds of years of Oracle, etc......with the exception of DB2, people seem desperate enough to allow you to switch to that.....It is even more difficult to go from SQL Server to web or application development...
As for throwing stuff out, it depends. Some people have done really hairy things where it is less to rebuild then to try to maintain. There are some pieces of code that you stare at for hours figuring out how it works to fix a bug. And it is so complicated that the next time you need to fix a bug, you have to stare for just as many hours because it is so complex you can't comprehend it all, let alone remember how it all works.
MS didn't lose. Sure the version of OOXML that was standardized was never implemented. But that doesn't mean that they can't say OOXML was ratified with ISO. And Microsoft Office Implements OOXML. They will conveniently forget that the two versions of OOXML are not the same. And for a typical end user, they will not think that critically. They will just say MS implements OOXML which is an ISO standard and that is that. This is a win for MS.
Except that the government does not need these tools. Aside from turning them against drug users and other stuff, what actual terrorism has the government actually prevented with their illegal spying?
And that my friend is exactly why the current administration gets away with everything. It puts out all sorts of scary facts and has people like you cowering under the covers giving them whatever they want.
The reality is that you are a lot more likely to die of a car accident than a terrorist attack. Maybe anyone who crashes a car for any reason whether they were at fault or not should be jailed as a terrorist. Add to that people caught speeding, running red lights, and running stop signs.
In order to protect you we need to install RFID tags in your car to track everywhere you go. What, you went to the flee market, do you have proof that all those CD's you purchased are legal copies? No? We'll have to take your computer, in fact we'll have to take all the computers in the house.
That is an inhumane attitude. All humans deserve a certain amount of dignity. Probably a lot of the people being held were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Totally innocent people who are losing 6+ years of their lives for nothing.
If I wasn't a terrorist or enemy of a country before, after pissing away 6 years of my life for doing nothing I sure as heck would hold a grudge. If the opportunity ever arose to do something that might hurt that country, i sure would. For some people it may be choosing to take your business to different countries. For others it may mean forming a terrorist group and commiting acts of terrorism. It is unfortunate but bad blood makes more bad blood. Not to mention the families of these people who have been jailed. Even the totally innocent ones will be pissed off and very anti US.
I have to agree about this. In two of the last 3 companies I worked UltraEdit was everywhere in the development staff. It is actually a good lightweight editor. I liked that it was fast, supported editing files over ftp, had syntax highlighting, and could convert the unix file formats.
I highly agree. To me this is worse than watergate and yet both houses in congress sit by and do nothing. Really every representative in congress who does nothing should not be voted back. They are as much to blame as the president, maybe even more so because they gave him most of his power.
But if G.W. got a blowjob by Condolezza (SIC) Rice there he would suddenly be impeached like crazy.
I think you misunderstand the article. The attack injects javascript code into the text fields of the database. The attack is done by someone exploiting SQL injection on the website. Nothing to do with a web surfing account on the database computer. The attack inserts Javascript into every text field. If it was a message forum, this might be the from fields of an e-mail, the message text of posts, the subject fields of posts, etc.... Regular users using the forum are suddenly exposed to the javascript.
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Something is fishy. Most non competes have a time limit, like a year or two after you leave the employ. A never contract is extremely stupid to sign. What you might say never to today you may need to do in 10 or 20 years. You just don't know.
Also make sure you get some type of compensation as well for signing an agreement. If it is no work for 2 years after employment then they have to compensate you for that. If it was no work ever, they'd have to pay you for the rest of your life....
OH get real. The majority of the CS education is the same as it has been 10 years ago. Theory of Operating Systems, a programming language (C/C++/Java), Data Structures and Algorithms, Networking, Discrete Math, etc....
IF you went to a university then you would k now that it doesn't really teach you that much about programming from a practical standpoint. It is mostly math and theory and it is up to you to learn the rest on your own. This using your degree is bullshit too. In a typical company a bunch of if statements and VB/C#/Java are enough. Unless you are in the cutting edge (games, etc.) there isn't that much that you will even use your degree...
The college I went to still doesn't have an AJAX or web app course. Although they do teach Java instead of C++ now. The rest of the curriculum is about the same. The only problem is some classes expect knowledge of C. Now that intro to CS is in Java I'm not sure how they expect normal CS students to learn C......
Don't discourage the poor guy. With this fearmongering you must be a clueless PHB or something....
Then carefully only talk up the parts that'll appeal to those with a genuine love. Tell them about how they will get the latest IDEs and graphics suites paid for. Tell them how they'll get the satisfaction of seeing their own name in the back of a game manual. Tell them how their embedded code could end up, admittedly unheralded, saving lives in some critical application.
The unfortunate reality is that these pluses are not true for everybody (in fact I'd say the game manual is not true for most people). Especially in these penny pinching times.
In my current job, I can't even get the latest software required to do my job by corporate mandate (.NET development but due to corporate policy we can't install IIS, SQL Server 2005 development but because we're too cheap to pay for licenses you are stuck with the express version (and expected to do SSIS packages), what is that "Open Source" software, uninstall it because it is not part of our corporate policy).
Even at my first job (a start up), I couldn't even get them to spring $50 for UltraEdit. My second job had more money then they knew what to do with and would get you anything you wanted. Unfortunately their IT department got funding slashed big time when the corporate accounting drones audited (and rightfully so). Now, the company I work for is actually doing quite well. But they do not get those results from pouring money into anything. They want everything done on the cheap and with their policy.
The other reality is that a manager buys a completely useless product for $10,000 dollars and the company can't buy it fast enough. Even if the product is scrapped later the manager will still be able to get another one and the company will listen. If the IT guy wants even a $20 investment to save himself some work the answer is no. Even if you can prove the business case, due to there being huge financial incentives now for cutting budgets the manager is not obliged to wait the 6 months or so to see savings from buying the product....
Even as someone with a passion for software development, it is very hard in the work place. A passion for software development does not mean that the same IDE connected to a database does not get boring after a few years....
Well yes and no. Some congressman do do an okay job (not mine). As far as I can tell Ron Paul votes no to almost everything. Unfortunately with the shitty laws they pass it is probably mostly the right way. I'm sure there are those 5 or 10 congressmen who do their job right. We need to find/promote them and then vote everyone else out. If we vote out the few good ones too, we'll probably get bad ones in their place...I would bet that if we keep doing that maybe we get 5 or 10 more good congressmen each vote. In a few hundred years we could have a good congress....now if only we could mix that with a good president.....
Of course a better way would be to get more third party candidates in congress to destroy the powerbase of both democrats and republicans. It is much harder to have to pay 10 or 11 political parties than to just have to bribe 2.
In some of the stuff it should be within their rights. The idea of copyright was you lease your product for a small period from the public to make money, then it goes to the public. The period was originally small 25 years or so. Now it is like 75 or 100 years.... Some of the copyright holders are stealing public property which shouldn't even belong to them.
On the new stuff sure there should be some enforcement. Still when the penalty for copyright infringement is more harsh than murder or rape, there is a problem with government priorities.
Then how do you buy an election from diebold? All these papers with the bar code and print outs would be countable. When the machine vote and the ballots don't match, uh oh the jig is up.
Although seriously you could probably stuff the ballot just like in the old days.....
In my grade school/junior high science and high school biology evolution was a tiny few pages in a much more general textbook. It certainly did not get more than a week or so of lectures. Basically compared to the entire science class evolution is a tiny footnote (in high school/grade school you don't get much done in a week).
So the question is why is there a textbook on evolution or creationism? It does not merit an entire science class. Evolution is just a single theory. It's not like you sit in class for a year learning just evolution. It's a few days at the most, maybe even one or two. A textbook for this is overkill. Maybe a creationist or evolution 2 or 3 page worksheet would be appropriate but a whole book is way out of hand.
My worry is that creationists will dedicate half a year to studying their creationist textbook and then ooops what about all that other stuff that actually matters that you learn if we assume biology then how the body/cells are structured, how heredity works with the various genes, etc....
And furthermore I don't see what the big deal is. We also learn that people thought the entire universe revolved around the earth. The theory is wrong but we learn it for historical reasons. If evolution is proven wrong, I would expect that we still learn it, why it is wrong, and why the new theory better explains life's origins. Maybe another hour or so of discussion on evolution. It's no big deal. Until creationism is proven it belongs in a religion class. And if it ever is scientifically proven then it has a place in science. Good luck with that though.
And the funny thing is that most businesses are not on the latest version of Java/ASP.NET/Ruby on Rails so it is irrelevant.
.NET 1.1. My first employer is still using .NET 1.0 and SQL Server and will until the company is sold.
My current employer still mostly uses SQL Server 2000. My last one upgraded to 2005 in 2007. Both are still using
Also most people don't use all the latest skills of a technology. They want SQL Server 2005 to do database management. Do they need some of the new XML functions or ranking functions, usually not. Mostly it is the same as the last version.
After all, none of the companies I worked for nor the companies my family work for are using Vista yet......And Vista is the latest.
I'm not a doomsayer. But I think you can't say HA you were wrong until after we actually collide particles at high energy. It is my understanding that today some particles went around a tube at nowhere near full power. Once they start colliding then you can brush off the doomsayers completely.
Also most of the arguments I see against doomsayers are rebukes saying "don't be silly", etc. Not scientific arguments saying why scientifically it cannot happen. In fact what I gather is that though the probability is remote, there is a possibility of creating a bunch of black holes. And though the probability is remote that it is theoretically possible to destroy the earth. And as my probability professor used to say "low probability events happen, just not often". So it seems to me the probability is remote but it may be there. And it only takes one time to destroy the earth. Even if it is one in a hundred billion. So I mean unless I see a scientific argument saying exactly why the probability is 0 (not near zero or 10^(large negative number) but 0, I wouldn't totally dismiss the doomsayers anyway. If the probability of total destruction is low enough, the collider could run billions of years (in reality it won't last that long, but anyway...) without an issue and then one day BOOOOOOOM.
But anyway we don't get interesting results until the particles start colliding either. I'm more excited to see what happens once the collisions, experiments and data collecting start.
As further evidence of the egos, remember when Linus attempted to contribute the patches to Gnome as part of the Linus versus Gnome war?
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8745257437.html
Anyway he didn't start small at all. Go Ego
Heck even I remember seeing these things in the Weekly Reader magazine when I was in grammar school and that was during the 80's. The article seemed to be predicting in the next few years (I think around 10). And here we are almost 20 years later and the flying car is like Duke Forever.
From TFA: "Only 12 people have flown the jetpack, and no one has gained more than three hours of experience in the air. Mr. Martin plans to take it up to 500 feet within six months. This time, he said with a smile, he will be the first."
In the article it said that the height was limited to allow people to practice at lower altitude. And I think I recall the limit being at 6 feet so far. This statement appears to be about learning to control it at 3 feet before trying to take it 3000 or in the case of the test 500 feet.
There's a good chance soon we'll have a more sensational article about a 500 ft flight soon. Hopefully it won't be part of an obituary.
When a musician releases a hit, they make more money (mostly through touring/performing) than a normal person makes for completing a project at a company. If they want more money they should complain to the studios to release a better cut. Why should they continue to receive money their whole life from one project (which actually mostly goes to the studio anyway).
Plus, a lot of musicians sample other music in making theirs. By having these long copyrights you have to pay royalties to use other music in your music. For someone just starting out this may preclude them from release material that they could otherwise do.
The idea of copyright is you lease your work from the public domain for a set period of time to use it in order to profit. After that it belongs to the public domain. If you can't make enough money on it, maybe your work just isn't good enough.
That's not entirely true. Many languages have their specialties and some things are harder then others. From Basic to C is irrelevant for the basic structures, however learning points is nontrivial.
Going from PHP to multi-threated C#/Java apps is also not trivial since you have to pick up locking/etc...
It's true that a lot of stuff is irrelevant, but some stuff matters. I know C/Java/etc.. However J2EE has enough libraries/new stuff that I would probably take a non trivial amount of time to wrap my head around it, maybe months.
My experience has been you only get hired for what you have done in the past. I did SQL Server first so I am stuck. Sybase shops want Sybase, Oracle shops want hundreds of years of Oracle, etc......with the exception of DB2, people seem desperate enough to allow you to switch to that.....It is even more difficult to go from SQL Server to web or application development...
As for throwing stuff out, it depends. Some people have done really hairy things where it is less to rebuild then to try to maintain. There are some pieces of code that you stare at for hours figuring out how it works to fix a bug. And it is so complicated that the next time you need to fix a bug, you have to stare for just as many hours because it is so complex you can't comprehend it all, let alone remember how it all works.
MS didn't lose. Sure the version of OOXML that was standardized was never implemented. But that doesn't mean that they can't say OOXML was ratified with ISO. And Microsoft Office Implements OOXML. They will conveniently forget that the two versions of OOXML are not the same. And for a typical end user, they will not think that critically. They will just say MS implements OOXML which is an ISO standard and that is that. This is a win for MS.
Except that the government does not need these tools. Aside from turning them against drug users and other stuff, what actual terrorism has the government actually prevented with their illegal spying?
The only change he will bring to Washington is that now more lobby money has to go to the Democrats instead of the Republicans.
And that my friend is exactly why the current administration gets away with everything. It puts out all sorts of scary facts and has people like you cowering under the covers giving them whatever they want.
The reality is that you are a lot more likely to die of a car accident than a terrorist attack. Maybe anyone who crashes a car for any reason whether they were at fault or not should be jailed as a terrorist. Add to that people caught speeding, running red lights, and running stop signs.
In order to protect you we need to install RFID tags in your car to track everywhere you go. What, you went to the flee market, do you have proof that all those CD's you purchased are legal copies? No? We'll have to take your computer, in fact we'll have to take all the computers in the house.
Everyone in that minority opinion really does not deserve to be living in America. They should go over to Cuba/North Korea and live there.
But worse than being un-american they are inhuman. Maybe they need to spend a few years in a POW camp to get some perspective.
That is an inhumane attitude. All humans deserve a certain amount of dignity. Probably a lot of the people being held were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Totally innocent people who are losing 6+ years of their lives for nothing.
If I wasn't a terrorist or enemy of a country before, after pissing away 6 years of my life for doing nothing I sure as heck would hold a grudge. If the opportunity ever arose to do something that might hurt that country, i sure would. For some people it may be choosing to take your business to different countries. For others it may mean forming a terrorist group and commiting acts of terrorism. It is unfortunate but bad blood makes more bad blood. Not to mention the families of these people who have been jailed. Even the totally innocent ones will be pissed off and very anti US.
I have to agree about this. In two of the last 3 companies I worked UltraEdit was everywhere in the development staff. It is actually a good lightweight editor. I liked that it was fast, supported editing files over ftp, had syntax highlighting, and could convert the unix file formats.
I highly agree. To me this is worse than watergate and yet both houses in congress sit by and do nothing. Really every representative in congress who does nothing should not be voted back. They are as much to blame as the president, maybe even more so because they gave him most of his power. But if G.W. got a blowjob by Condolezza (SIC) Rice there he would suddenly be impeached like crazy.
I think you misunderstand the article. The attack injects javascript code into the text fields of the database. The attack is done by someone exploiting SQL injection on the website. Nothing to do with a web surfing account on the database computer. The attack inserts Javascript into every text field. If it was a message forum, this might be the from fields of an e-mail, the message text of posts, the subject fields of posts, etc.... Regular users using the forum are suddenly exposed to the javascript.