Yea, reminds me of the time a co-worker wrote a little utility in C++. It was only a few dozen lines and took him less than an hour to get it working; I did the same thing in one line of awk in less than a minute.
That was kind of the problem. They designed it to shutdown the engine if something appeared drastically wrong. Normally a single engine shutdown wouldn't be a problem, but three engines all detected the same problem at the same instant and all shut themselves off.
Laptop with an SSD instead of a hard disk is basically silent. The fan is almost always on low speed and can't be heard at working distance; the video is fine for development and browsing, a gamer might not find it fast enough though.
Replaced the HDD with a 120GB SSD and the DVD with a 240GB SSD - both drives are encrypted
Two external monitors (don't use the built-in display except when traveling)
I don't need any more power than that because all the heavy lifting is done on database servers over a VPN. And (thankfully) not doing any more Java development so no heavyweight IDE:^)
I completely agree with you. A big part of the problem is that the best and brightest students in any particular subject area aren't allowed to advance faster than students with "special needs", because that means someone's little snowflake was left behind.
Developers have generally been among the most highly compensated individual contributors in many companies. The reason for that is because the product they produce was highly valuable (hence why they were paid so much in the first place).
I can't agree with that statement. If you want to be well compensated go into sales. It's soul-sucking work, but the pay is hard to beat.
Producing a valuable product has nothing to do with compensation. Auto workers get the same pay whether they make a luxury car or an economy model; and workers in diamond mines aren't especially well paid. There are plenty of people who claim to be "coders", good developers are well paid because there's a demand for what they produce and productive developers are fairly rare.
She was named CEO primarily because the board thought it would be nice to have a woman in that job. Of course, why wouldn't someone who majored in medieval history be perfect to lead a tech company?
Degrees in fields like economics and philosophy are usually intended as a path to law school. It sounds like this guy is bitter because he didn't get in.
He knew that presenting it in a certain way would enable him to sell the idea.
That doesn't make it a crime any more than selling lottery tickets is a crime. Except the chance of losing your money is higher when you play the lottery.
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Just curious here. Does voting a submission up or down have any effect on whether it's accepted? It seems some stories appear on the front page as soon as they're submitted, others languish for days. Gives the impression the editors are selecting stories based on some agenda other than what slashdot readers want to see.
Land it on Mars and use the mylar sail to cover a cave entrance. A great habitat would be waiting for the colonists. Sure, there are a couple of techincal challanges with either idea - but that can be worked out in the software.
those affected throw their sabot into the gears when treated in a way they perceive is incorrect,
That only works once. You get yours (maybe), nobody else will have the opportunity to get anything. In this case it appears the terminated employees will get less than they would have if they had compromised rather than taking down the company.
You think running a successful business takes some kind of extra special skill set?...But it seems more and more that the most important things successful businesspeople have are connections, and the skills and willingness to finesse the legal system to bribe the powerful and cheat the most vulnerable.
No sir, I did not ridicule anyone....
To say such a thing in our current climate is turning a blind eye to recent history. Who got bailed out in 2008? Not the homeowners.
Sure looks like ridicule to me. And people who took out mortgages they had no chance of repaying did indeed get bailed out.
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There are roughly 93 million people in China named Wang. Imagine how many credit cards you could get with that many Wangs...
Yea, reminds me of the time a co-worker wrote a little utility in C++. It was only a few dozen lines and took him less than an hour to get it working; I did the same thing in one line of awk in less than a minute.
That was kind of the problem. They designed it to shutdown the engine if something appeared drastically wrong. Normally a single engine shutdown wouldn't be a problem, but three engines all detected the same problem at the same instant and all shut themselves off.
They're verifying everything works as it should. If the valves have a problem it's good that the problem is identified and fixed.
Laptop with an SSD instead of a hard disk is basically silent. The fan is almost always on low speed and can't be heard at working distance; the video is fine for development and browsing, a gamer might not find it fast enough though.
Replaced the HDD with a 120GB SSD and the DVD with a 240GB SSD - both drives are encrypted
Two external monitors (don't use the built-in display except when traveling)
I don't need any more power than that because all the heavy lifting is done on database servers over a VPN. And (thankfully) not doing any more Java development so no heavyweight IDE :^)
I completely agree with you. A big part of the problem is that the best and brightest students in any particular subject area aren't allowed to advance faster than students with "special needs", because that means someone's little snowflake was left behind.
Developers have generally been among the most highly compensated individual contributors in many companies. The reason for that is because the product they produce was highly valuable (hence why they were paid so much in the first place).
I can't agree with that statement. If you want to be well compensated go into sales. It's soul-sucking work, but the pay is hard to beat.
Producing a valuable product has nothing to do with compensation. Auto workers get the same pay whether they make a luxury car or an economy model; and workers in diamond mines aren't especially well paid. There are plenty of people who claim to be "coders", good developers are well paid because there's a demand for what they produce and productive developers are fairly rare.
She didn't "run a telco", although she did chair Lucent's consumer communications joint venture with Philips consumer communications - which failed.
After that she led a sales and marketing group until HP hired her.
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HP was already dysfunctional when she arrived.
She was named CEO primarily because the board thought it would be nice to have a woman in that job. Of course, why wouldn't someone who majored in medieval history be perfect to lead a tech company?
She had been gone for years before HP bought Autonomy.
Kiniku
Read your body's muscle electrical signals, and control things with it
"Got jerked around by co-founders who tried to do more than one startup at once"
Sounds like they didn't control things very well.
so why not just make it free and stop squeezing students?
So after high school. every kid gets a free ride for four years to party and "study" philosophy? How would that provide any benefit to society?
Instead, how about offering some kind of tuition assistance in return for serving the country first; call it something like "the GI Bill"
Degrees in fields like economics and philosophy are usually intended as a path to law school. It sounds like this guy is bitter because he didn't get in.
Do the authors get fictitious awards?
Not so much "if" they were trading, but "when" it all started. These findings push back the known start of trade by a couple of centuries.
A manager's job is not to make anyone do anything
That's true, but it's also not what he said. The work "make" goes with "productive", not "people".
His point is that the manager's job is to improve the productivity of the team. That's also a true statement, albeit pretty obvious.
He knew that presenting it in a certain way would enable him to sell the idea.
That doesn't make it a crime any more than selling lottery tickets is a crime. Except the chance of losing your money is higher when you play the lottery.
Why does everything have to be Politically Correct these days? Just make the game fun to play.
(And for future reference, user submissions are easily found in the firehose, listed in the order they appear, newest first.)
Just curious here. Does voting a submission up or down have any effect on whether it's accepted? It seems some stories appear on the front page as soon as they're submitted, others languish for days. Gives the impression the editors are selecting stories based on some agenda other than what slashdot readers want to see.
Land it on Mars and use the mylar sail to cover a cave entrance. A great habitat would be waiting for the colonists. Sure, there are a couple of techincal challanges with either idea - but that can be worked out in the software.
Suicide is the third leading cause of death among teenagers. It's appropriate for high schools and colleges to be addressing this problem.
those affected throw their sabot into the gears when treated in a way they perceive is incorrect,
That only works once. You get yours (maybe), nobody else will have the opportunity to get anything. In this case it appears the terminated employees will get less than they would have if they had compromised rather than taking down the company.
You think running a successful business takes some kind of extra special skill set?...But it seems more and more that the most important things successful businesspeople have are connections, and the skills and willingness to finesse the legal system to bribe the powerful and cheat the most vulnerable.
No sir, I did not ridicule anyone....
To say such a thing in our current climate is turning a blind eye to recent history. Who got bailed out in 2008? Not the homeowners.
Sure looks like ridicule to me. And people who took out mortgages they had no chance of repaying did indeed get bailed out.
Actually, NASA had a "file system full" problem on one of the Mars rovers, almost exactly the same problem that Lightsail has. Fortunately they were able to fix it remotely.