Everyone should at least read Franciscos speech on money, from Atlas Shrugged. I remember it being an eye-opener, even though I must agree that much of the rest of the book is far fetched.
I googled it and found this one (no affiliation): http://www.working-minds.com/money.htm
People with an all-consuming interest in something - and strong ideals - could also read the prequel, The Fountainhead. If nothing else you will gain knowing nods and instant respect from the cultural elite for answering Howard Roark when asked about your favourite architect. Works for me.
This statement is right on.
I am an employer. We are a small consulting company doing software development for our customers.
Our first question to anyone looking for a job is: what have you done that was not a compulsory excercise at school?
You would not believe how many we reject on this question alone.
We are indeed the techsupport generation, but it doesn't have to be that way. We recently got "No I will not fix your computer" T-shirts ( http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/frustrations/388b/ ) at work as a fun gift. It has proved really useful. You don't have to say no, pople just stops asking you. Works great.
The only tech support I've had to do after getting (and wearing) this T-shirt, was for a really desperate aquaintaince with a wifi setup problem. I got two full-size fresh lobsters for fixing that, and I didn't even ask for anything.
I do make an exception for my own folks though, but now they are the only ones.
For years I have waited for the United Nations to send official election observers to the US. I mean, they would do that to any other country where several independent inquiries concluded that the other guy was the real winner?
If you RTFA he says: When you go to your department store and you buy 10 Cognac glasses and two weeks later you break two of them, the store doesn't give you two backup copies. Where did this backup copy thing come from? A digital thing lasts forever.
The last sentence is key here. If he really means this, then a backup copy is quite natural as the DVD is merely an imperfect way (easy to scratch) to hold what is actually bought, the digital content which is meant to last forever.
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This is actually one of the many properties of being a professional: being able top perform at near your maximum performance regardless of task, i.e. being able to perform well regardless of wether you like the task or not.
This problem is easy to solve. If the guy isn't interested or dedicated enough to have done even ONE small project for fun in his spare time, then we're simply not interested in hiring him.
We require geeks. Geeks invariably have some opensource contributions, a half-done MP3 player, some cool IRC bot or similar to show.
This is so because they think coding is, you know, fun.
I have also experienced this problem and consequently I must have my email visible without obfuscation.
I am currently in three figures a day of spam mail and looking for willing people to gang up and lynch the spammers.
Pulp Fiction: "For guys like this, there should be no judge, no jury, just straight to execution."
Blatand means blue tooth (bla = blue, tand = tooth). BTW the first a should be an a with a ring on top: a. The scandinavians have three extra letters at the end if the alphabeth: ae o a. In this way, we can have moch mure "fun" with codepages, file exchange, database sorting orders and such.
I've had the P800 for a few weeks now and it is ugly and clunky, but no doubt still the best phone/PDA ever.
A few things: 1) why can't I have the time on screen at all times in the statusbar or something? Flipping up/down to see what time it is is annoying. 2) How about an MP3-player that does not stop when the flip closes?
If you are as lucky as me to own one then you absolutely must have SIDplay v0.16 (search for n-player.SIS) as it plays MODs and SIDs. Takes far less space compared to MP3, is far geekier and plays nicely with the flip closed.
I don't see how few fans are an advantage. We are always trying to give Linux more fans, in fact I think Linux has more fans here than the iMac ever will have.
From the post: "Electrons usually travel at two-thirds of light speed in wires".
Now that would be truly remarkable and fairly dangerous, what would happen if you cut the cable and pointed the end at someone?
In reality, electrons move abysmally slow, something along 2cm/hour if I remember my high-school physics classes correctly. What moves at 2/3 the speed of light in wires is the signal.
Think of it this way: when you turn your kitchen hotwater tap, water starts flowing from your tap immediatly and water starts flowing within the pipes very quickly as the sudden _change in water pressure_ (signal) propagates through your pipes.
The water itself however, is not really moving this fast. It is not the same water going in that is coming out.
Someone please sign Hemos up for physics 101? I would do it but I live in Norway and I doubt he would be able to concentrate on anything else than our fjords if he bothered coming here.
Asking candidates to bring code they have writte for another employer is unethical, instead we ask them to bring code from a recent small project done outside of work. This is a great way of weeding out the ones who have not written any code except for work. These are generally the same who didn't write anything except that demanded by compulsory excercises as students.
Who would want to hire a mechanic who never fiddled with his own car? Or a carpenter who never used a hammer except at work?
You don't have to wait 750ms for each, just issue a skip rom command followed by a start conversion. They will all convert simultaneously and you then get the data from each one at a time (which is very quick).
This kind of comment makes me frustrated. Had it actually been 5% of the world GDP for 10 years I _might_ consider waiting but $20 billion is nothing compared to the money we spend on the olympics, footbal championships and other major sporting events in this timeframe. A movie will earn it's cost from the box offices, but the olympics is 99% advertising.
To dip into this pool of money we should do as one poster suggested: get Pepsi, Britney, Hollywood and even countries to sponsor and get their logo on the side (yep, the US will have to pay big time to have their flag on the side this time:).
It will totally rule to have your logo in every history book for the foreseeable future and it will be a great way to show our grandchildren our ridiculous way of organizing the world's wealth:)
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Everyone should at least read Franciscos speech on money, from Atlas Shrugged. I remember it being an eye-opener, even though I must agree that much of the rest of the book is far fetched. I googled it and found this one (no affiliation): http://www.working-minds.com/money.htm
People with an all-consuming interest in something - and strong ideals - could also read the prequel, The Fountainhead. If nothing else you will gain knowing nods and instant respect from the cultural elite for answering Howard Roark when asked about your favourite architect. Works for me.
This statement is right on.
I am an employer. We are a small consulting company doing software development for our customers.
Our first question to anyone looking for a job is: what have you done that was not a compulsory excercise at school?
You would not believe how many we reject on this question alone.
We are indeed the techsupport generation, but it doesn't have to be that way. We recently got "No I will not fix your computer" T-shirts ( http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/frustrations/388b / ) at work as a fun gift. It has proved really useful. You don't have to say no, pople just stops asking you. Works great.
The only tech support I've had to do after getting (and wearing) this T-shirt, was for a really desperate aquaintaince with a wifi setup problem. I got two full-size fresh lobsters for fixing that, and I didn't even ask for anything.
I do make an exception for my own folks though, but now they are the only ones.
For years I have waited for the United Nations to send official election observers to the US. I mean, they would do that to any other country where several independent inquiries concluded that the other guy was the real winner?
If you RTFA he says: When you go to your department store and you buy 10 Cognac glasses and two weeks later you break two of them, the store doesn't give you two backup copies. Where did this backup copy thing come from? A digital thing lasts forever. The last sentence is key here. If he really means this, then a backup copy is quite natural as the DVD is merely an imperfect way (easy to scratch) to hold what is actually bought, the digital content which is meant to last forever.
This is actually one of the many properties of being a professional: being able top perform at near your maximum performance regardless of task, i.e. being able to perform well regardless of wether you like the task or not.
This is not something that is all that common.
Yes, RAID 0 is just "AID", it's an AID to faster throughput :)
This problem is easy to solve. If the guy isn't interested or dedicated enough to have done even ONE small project for fun in his spare time, then we're simply not interested in hiring him. We require geeks. Geeks invariably have some opensource contributions, a half-done MP3 player, some cool IRC bot or similar to show. This is so because they think coding is, you know, fun.
Dud you know the highest speed limit in Norway is only 150 thousand furlongs/fortnight? Fascinating
If there ever is a .dc, will someone please call be so I can buy ac.dc before it is taken :)
Only fools & horses?
I have also experienced this problem and consequently I must have my email visible without obfuscation. I am currently in three figures a day of spam mail and looking for willing people to gang up and lynch the spammers. Pulp Fiction: "For guys like this, there should be no judge, no jury, just straight to execution."
But why, oh why, isn't Norway even represented? Where can we call and who can we write to get in?
Blatand means dark complexion
Blatand means blue tooth (bla = blue, tand = tooth). BTW the first a should be an a with a ring on top: a. The scandinavians have three extra letters at the end if the alphabeth: ae o a. In this way, we can have moch mure "fun" with codepages, file exchange, database sorting orders and such.
So it does run Linux? Dam then I can't ask for that and get first post. But what about a Beowulf cluster of these?
Modern chess engines represent the board as several 64bit bitboards, one for the white queen, one for the black queen, one for the white pawns etc.
This as opposed to the good old days with a 64 byte array containing 1 for the white queen, 2 for the white pawns etc.
Bitboards really benefit from 64bit registers and 64bit (integer) arithmetic.
Amen!
I've had the P800 for a few weeks now and it is ugly and clunky, but no doubt still the best phone/PDA ever. A few things: 1) why can't I have the time on screen at all times in the statusbar or something? Flipping up/down to see what time it is is annoying. 2) How about an MP3-player that does not stop when the flip closes? If you are as lucky as me to own one then you absolutely must have SIDplay v0.16 (search for n-player.SIS) as it plays MODs and SIDs. Takes far less space compared to MP3, is far geekier and plays nicely with the flip closed.
It is available from their archives. Not too bad actually.
I don't see how few fans are an advantage. We are always trying to give Linux more fans, in fact I think Linux has more fans here than the iMac ever will have.
From the post: "Electrons usually travel at two-thirds of light speed in wires".
Now that would be truly remarkable and fairly dangerous, what would happen if you cut the cable and pointed the end at someone?
In reality, electrons move abysmally slow, something along 2cm/hour if I remember my high-school physics classes correctly. What moves at 2/3 the speed of light in wires is the signal.
Think of it this way: when you turn your kitchen hotwater tap, water starts flowing from your tap immediatly and water starts flowing within the pipes very quickly as the sudden _change in water pressure_ (signal) propagates through your pipes.
The water itself however, is not really moving this fast. It is not the same water going in that is coming out.
Someone please sign Hemos up for physics 101? I would do it but I live in Norway and I doubt he would be able to concentrate on anything else than our fjords if he bothered coming here.
Asking candidates to bring code they have writte for another employer is unethical, instead we ask them to bring code from a recent small project done outside of work. This is a great way of weeding out the ones who have not written any code except for work. These are generally the same who didn't write anything except that demanded by compulsory excercises as students.
Who would want to hire a mechanic who never fiddled with his own car? Or a carpenter who never used a hammer except at work?
It is not possible to patent an idea. You can only patent an implementation of your idea.
You don't have to wait 750ms for each, just issue a skip rom command followed by a start conversion. They will all convert simultaneously and you then get the data from each one at a time (which is very quick).
This kind of comment makes me frustrated. Had it actually been 5% of the world GDP for 10 years I _might_ consider waiting but $20 billion is nothing compared to the money we spend on the olympics, footbal championships and other major sporting events in this timeframe. A movie will earn it's cost from the box offices, but the olympics is 99% advertising.
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To dip into this pool of money we should do as one poster suggested: get Pepsi, Britney, Hollywood and even countries to sponsor and get their logo on the side (yep, the US will have to pay big time to have their flag on the side this time
It will totally rule to have your logo in every history book for the foreseeable future and it will be a great way to show our grandchildren our ridiculous way of organizing the world's wealth