Compared to me, she is a child. And asking obvious questions about the product shows that my new boss knows NOTHING about the product. This was an internal hire, so not knowing that a windows driver won't work on Mac OSX has no excuse. This is a product manager with 5 years in the company. I get nervous when product managers overseeing the code base I am working on ask me such questions. Sorry if that's "sexist".
Yes. But as the same thing I've seen both. I've received preferential treatment and reverse discrimination. The girl they hired to be my boss was cute but annoying with all her questions about the product...
I think the basic ideas behind integral calculus are pretty much inevitable when you have mathematicians messing with geometry problems that can only be solved with successive approximations
I agree with this, and I suspect any adoption problems, if any, were with the notation. Until algebraic notation came along, I bet integration, like Greek geometry, was a serious pita for the Babylonians. I took a class that included a long division problem using Roman numerals for extra credit in one test. OMG... if the Babylonians were using cruciform numbers for their calculations, holy cow...
As some one whose worked in industrial automation (PLCs and their ancillary products) the infrastructure is most definitely at risk. The only thing keeping terrorism at bay is the technical knowledge necessary to mess with it. Engineers at power stations are old farts, and they like things a certain way, the old way. PLCs communicate to other machines in the field using ancient serial protocols, proprietary back planes, and discreet data points. As Rockwell and Siemens and etc decide they need to wake up to the real world however they are putting more of their data over ethernet, but security is an afterthought, and there's your problem.
They are designing security into newer protocols, I actually worked on something called DNP-3, and that specification does have an encryption layer in it. I come on to add AES-256 to an existing implementation. Again, afterthought. The effect out in the field of course is that new impl. will cause disruption, consuming devices will need to be upgraded, and etc. That costs money. And so on. Its rarely the case that one simply needs to add a password to an existing infrastructure. Even if that is all that's needed, it usually will still have a cascading effect.
whereas Google spent almost nothing on the core technologies...
No. Judging from the Android SDK, NDK, and Studio looks to me like they've spent plenty. The SDK is essentially its own, java-based, yes, language. All those APIs and software aren't found under a rock. Plus Studio is continually being updated. I think Google spent a pretty penny on the entire ecosystem. And we can all use it for free. For all you can say about Google, including free as in beer SDK equals more market share, its not like they killed Gosling and strong-armed Oracle into giving them Android.
The ownership of ideas has gotten way out of whack in the US.Here's an example of before copyright, and after: the blues has a long tradition of authors "using", "stealing", call it what you want, from earlier authors. Robert Plant penned the lyrics to Killing Floor from an older classic by Howling Wolf, who cribbed his lyrics from Son House. Eric Clapton blatantly "stole" from Robert Johnson, who also borrowed from House, and before that House borrowed from "Negro Spirituals", slaves working cotton and singing about redemption. Where would the rich history of the Blues be if everyone enforced copyrights on ev everything. I really don't have a problem with Gygax and his legacy, it wasn't until he introduced a game that I loved to play in the late 70's that I ever heard of it, and I'm richer for it. I don't know if he blatantly stole the game from Avalon Hill, Barney Rubble, or the tooth fairy. I'm indebted to him for giving a teenager a place to escape to from the difficulties of being a stupid teenager.
Um, I'm missing something; what exactly is a "sloppy pull request"? Leaving the pull open? If I want to look at a project I just download the zip, no need to open a pull. Are these users that want to contribute to projects?
I think that github has presence. A lot of employers ask you for your 1) Linkedin profile, and 2) your github url. I've been asked that on 90% of the apps I've sent in (recently landed a new perm gig, thanks), and there's certainly value in that.
I guess another argument is the popular OSS projects should get "some" kind of support as it only raises github's relevance and presence in the community. Some kind of minimal support seems like good propaganda to me, at the least. Just sayin'...
I loved my Palm V. I found graffiti very usable. I would love to have had the opportunity to try out the Palm smart phone OS they started shipping a few years ago with those two models, but by the time they started shipping, they cancelled the effort, or whatever. Wasn't able to get my hands on one.
Yeah, have to agree, to a point. The only consumer penetration they have appears to be windows, zune failed, their tablets aren't exactly on fire, their phones are on life support. But their business facing products are probably more or less indispensable. I mean, I know their market share is being eaten away a little, but I can't count the number of times I've heard managers say that they aren't looking to gut their digital infrastructure any time soon for any OSS options, and they usually laugh when you mention Apple, so, I dunno. Maybe they'll be able to get Surface or some variation of it to catch consumer fire.
Neptune-sized is a pretty decent size. Seems like confirmation is well within possibly, if not now like the article says, within 5 years. Will be interesting to find out.
"Interviewer lives in ivory tower exemplifying disdain for all the little people who don't see the world through his myopic little Rube Goldberg spyglass."
How can you be a "hardware guy" on not know that running multiple vm's might have incur a performance hit on your server? After you keep stackin' 'em on at certain point you're gonna hit a problem. As for my little story; it become obvious to me that the jokers who wrote that RoR app were one note ponies; if it couldn't be done using Ruby on Rails it wasn't worth doing. I re-wrote the app in C++ including a dandy little c++ web services lib I found and fix it easily.
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Compared to me, she is a child. And asking obvious questions about the product shows that my new boss knows NOTHING about the product. This was an internal hire, so not knowing that a windows driver won't work on Mac OSX has no excuse. This is a product manager with 5 years in the company. I get nervous when product managers overseeing the code base I am working on ask me such questions. Sorry if that's "sexist".
Yes. But as the same thing I've seen both. I've received preferential treatment and reverse discrimination. The girl they hired to be my boss was cute but annoying with all her questions about the product...
I want to be the first on my block to own my block to own a Yahoo buggy whip.
I think the basic ideas behind integral calculus are pretty much inevitable when you have mathematicians messing with geometry problems that can only be solved with successive approximations
I agree with this, and I suspect any adoption problems, if any, were with the notation. Until algebraic notation came along, I bet integration, like Greek geometry, was a serious pita for the Babylonians. I took a class that included a long division problem using Roman numerals for extra credit in one test. OMG... if the Babylonians were using cruciform numbers for their calculations, holy cow...
Not always.
As some one whose worked in industrial automation (PLCs and their ancillary products) the infrastructure is most definitely at risk. The only thing keeping terrorism at bay is the technical knowledge necessary to mess with it. Engineers at power stations are old farts, and they like things a certain way, the old way. PLCs communicate to other machines in the field using ancient serial protocols, proprietary back planes, and discreet data points. As Rockwell and Siemens and etc decide they need to wake up to the real world however they are putting more of their data over ethernet, but security is an afterthought, and there's your problem. They are designing security into newer protocols, I actually worked on something called DNP-3, and that specification does have an encryption layer in it. I come on to add AES-256 to an existing implementation. Again, afterthought. The effect out in the field of course is that new impl. will cause disruption, consuming devices will need to be upgraded, and etc. That costs money. And so on. Its rarely the case that one simply needs to add a password to an existing infrastructure. Even if that is all that's needed, it usually will still have a cascading effect.
Ah. I think I agree with you.
Didn't Apple try to make their own search engine? I honestly don't remember. I remember their map effort, which went down like the Hindenburg.
whereas Google spent almost nothing on the core technologies...
No. Judging from the Android SDK, NDK, and Studio looks to me like they've spent plenty. The SDK is essentially its own, java-based, yes, language. All those APIs and software aren't found under a rock. Plus Studio is continually being updated. I think Google spent a pretty penny on the entire ecosystem. And we can all use it for free. For all you can say about Google, including free as in beer SDK equals more market share, its not like they killed Gosling and strong-armed Oracle into giving them Android.
The ownership of ideas has gotten way out of whack in the US.Here's an example of before copyright, and after: the blues has a long tradition of authors "using", "stealing", call it what you want, from earlier authors. Robert Plant penned the lyrics to Killing Floor from an older classic by Howling Wolf, who cribbed his lyrics from Son House. Eric Clapton blatantly "stole" from Robert Johnson, who also borrowed from House, and before that House borrowed from "Negro Spirituals", slaves working cotton and singing about redemption. Where would the rich history of the Blues be if everyone enforced copyrights on ev everything. I really don't have a problem with Gygax and his legacy, it wasn't until he introduced a game that I loved to play in the late 70's that I ever heard of it, and I'm richer for it. I don't know if he blatantly stole the game from Avalon Hill, Barney Rubble, or the tooth fairy. I'm indebted to him for giving a teenager a place to escape to from the difficulties of being a stupid teenager.
Again, the argument is there's nothing preventing you from setting up your (or the complainers) own git server.
Um, I'm missing something; what exactly is a "sloppy pull request"? Leaving the pull open? If I want to look at a project I just download the zip, no need to open a pull. Are these users that want to contribute to projects?
You can certainly wget github web pages, if that's your thing.
I think that github has presence. A lot of employers ask you for your 1) Linkedin profile, and 2) your github url. I've been asked that on 90% of the apps I've sent in (recently landed a new perm gig, thanks), and there's certainly value in that.
I guess another argument is the popular OSS projects should get "some" kind of support as it only raises github's relevance and presence in the community. Some kind of minimal support seems like good propaganda to me, at the least. Just sayin'...
I rather like google+, but of course I'm the minority. As usual.
I loved my Palm V. I found graffiti very usable. I would love to have had the opportunity to try out the Palm smart phone OS they started shipping a few years ago with those two models, but by the time they started shipping, they cancelled the effort, or whatever. Wasn't able to get my hands on one.
Yeah, have to agree, to a point. The only consumer penetration they have appears to be windows, zune failed, their tablets aren't exactly on fire, their phones are on life support. But their business facing products are probably more or less indispensable. I mean, I know their market share is being eaten away a little, but I can't count the number of times I've heard managers say that they aren't looking to gut their digital infrastructure any time soon for any OSS options, and they usually laugh when you mention Apple, so, I dunno. Maybe they'll be able to get Surface or some variation of it to catch consumer fire.
I wonder how much mass this planet contributes to the dark matter issue?
Neptune-sized is a pretty decent size. Seems like confirmation is well within possibly, if not now like the article says, within 5 years. Will be interesting to find out.
"Interviewer lives in ivory tower exemplifying disdain for all the little people who don't see the world through his myopic little Rube Goldberg spyglass."
Yeah, ok. Hope your golf ball bus filling business is a great success.
Sold my stash a years ago after the big plunge. Kind of glad I did.
c/gold/golf/ jeezuz.
How can you be a "hardware guy" on not know that running multiple vm's might have incur a performance hit on your server? After you keep stackin' 'em on at certain point you're gonna hit a problem. As for my little story; it become obvious to me that the jokers who wrote that RoR app were one note ponies; if it couldn't be done using Ruby on Rails it wasn't worth doing. I re-wrote the app in C++ including a dandy little c++ web services lib I found and fix it easily.