Yeah, the programming needed to calculate how much money to extract from a 'customers' bank account for 'using' AdWords can be quite challenging indeed.
Are you saying that's what's used to steer those self-driving cars rather than some sort of proportional integral derivative algorithm?
I'm of two minds on this; obviously, if an engineer can solve an ege-type, logical puzzle you'll only encounter in a text book I think there's value in that. But those aren't the problems you'll encounter in the real world. I really pride myself in being ale to wrangle the technology; getting memcached to work the way I need it to on a particular issue, configuring named zone files so they're tuned to give us the highest throughput on lookups, and applying THE RIGHT design pattern to a particular coding problem. That's what I do, and I try to do it to my best ability. So when I'm confronted with the Bus Gold Ball Problem and answer with "calculate the volume of the bus, which would be easy, and start throwing gold balls in a pool until I get the same amount of water displaced" and I get back "well we wanted to see your math" I get discouraged. Archimedes was a genius. You're telling me Archimedes wouldn't have gotten the job? (If Archimedes had invented Ruby on Rails it would fit in an embedded application with no problems.)
Did iAppel decide Objective C was lacking? Not that its a gem of a language, but isn't all their shit written in it? And what's this fucking trend toward VM's and "just-in-time" languages? Its as if the whole software world suddenly went mad and decided EVERYTHING is easier by use of virtual machines and interpreted script-like languages. Madness. Want to squirt out an entire website with one command? Plop, their your RoR app. Want it on an embedded device? Woops... problem.
Hey, I kind of like Perl. I kind of get it for some reason. Its like BASH on steroids with even MORE goofier syntax thrown in. You can't beat it if you like regular expressions. You just use 'em, no "regex compiler" api.
The whole point of this is to avoid that sort of thing. You can say a lot about the US but the one thing we've got going here are legions of researchers looking for ways to make people healthier, and not go the euthanasia route. No matter what it costs.
Test driven development is good, but its no cure-all. But it makes more sense to me than agile, which was supposed to fix everything, and is not "agile".
London is a software powerhouse, I know from the people I work with and the ads I see begging for engineers. But Tons of software is produced in places like Croatia, Czech Republic, places like that. I've dealt with a group of devs in Sofia, Bulgaria.
I mean, literally! I'm currently implementing an API which is a Rube Goldberg machine to work around a piece of shitty proprietary software, and I know it will never be used.
Preach brother. I did the same thing, a crazy mishmash of code that was impossible to maintain. I'd suggest ways of updating the code and removing redundant methods (one code section was concerned with converting decimal to hex, something that today could be accomplished with 3 lines of code) but I was told the code worked, and "we don't want to invest the money in updating it."
I agree. Every reaction to terrorism by all governments is to simply shrink the freedom of their own citizens. Ineffective, but at least they con come back to their people and say "We did this for you."
Agreed, judging by past actions I wouldn't look to America to be the "last bastion" of digital freedom either. The thing I find interesting is every time these clowns call for back doors into digital encryption the call isn't really based on an solid evidence the terrorists used encryption to communicate. As if "If only we could read your personal data the terrorists would be stopped."
dissatisfaction? I'll say. Windoiws 10 (or 10.1, or something) brings NO must-have features as far as I can tell. Still, I wanted to try it, so I bought a windows tablet, a cheap British-made "Jumpstreet" (something like that) that came with windows 8. Knowing I would get an icon at some point for the upgrade from 8 to 10, I played with 8 and bided my time. Quick impression of 8: its windiws with a touch screen interface. Completely inappropriate for a touch screen. Besides the small screen the objects on the interface are tiny; my huge hamfist fingers had a hard time navigating the interface. I suppose there's a way to increase the size of the buttons and doodads but then the icon for the upgrade appeared a few days later so I pushed the button,
Same thing in my mind, its windows with a touch interface chunked on top, with a few more utilities. I don't use that tablet much, and I won't be upgrading to 10 until something forces me to. Much like Ubuntu's switch to unity; when that happened I switched to Mint.
...I was talking to an ex Yahoo insider JUST TODAY. I was in Mt. View CA for a meeting. 7 Years from 2000 to 2007 he worked on search. His wrords: "Google killed us.", his opinions on Meyer's efforts: "DOA."
Seriously, time to dump that Yahoo position if you have one.
Strange when Seattle is a high-tech hub. I dream about moving there myself if the right job ever came along. I used to have Speakeasy for my ISP when I lived there in the late 90's they were awesome.
This brings us to the Gattica Premise: Do we want to live in a world where our tools could report us to the Government because our DNA doesn't fit a certain profile? It might be a safer world if our things tell authorities its user is a serial killer. But go from that to the fact that we carry the polio gene, or cancer genes, or who knows what else. These questions are rapidly approaching.
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Yeah, the programming needed to calculate how much money to extract from a 'customers' bank account for 'using' AdWords can be quite challenging indeed.
Are you saying that's what's used to steer those self-driving cars rather than some sort of proportional integral derivative algorithm?
I'm of two minds on this; obviously, if an engineer can solve an ege-type, logical puzzle you'll only encounter in a text book I think there's value in that. But those aren't the problems you'll encounter in the real world. I really pride myself in being ale to wrangle the technology; getting memcached to work the way I need it to on a particular issue, configuring named zone files so they're tuned to give us the highest throughput on lookups, and applying THE RIGHT design pattern to a particular coding problem. That's what I do, and I try to do it to my best ability. So when I'm confronted with the Bus Gold Ball Problem and answer with "calculate the volume of the bus, which would be easy, and start throwing gold balls in a pool until I get the same amount of water displaced" and I get back "well we wanted to see your math" I get discouraged. Archimedes was a genius. You're telling me Archimedes wouldn't have gotten the job? (If Archimedes had invented Ruby on Rails it would fit in an embedded application with no problems.)
Did iAppel decide Objective C was lacking? Not that its a gem of a language, but isn't all their shit written in it? And what's this fucking trend toward VM's and "just-in-time" languages? Its as if the whole software world suddenly went mad and decided EVERYTHING is easier by use of virtual machines and interpreted script-like languages. Madness. Want to squirt out an entire website with one command? Plop, their your RoR app. Want it on an embedded device? Woops... problem.
Hey, I kind of like Perl. I kind of get it for some reason. Its like BASH on steroids with even MORE goofier syntax thrown in. You can't beat it if you like regular expressions. You just use 'em, no "regex compiler" api.
I guess its been a huge problem for a while: http://www.seattlepi.com/local...
https://www.blackhat.com/us-14...
I like verilog, but like all languages its flawed.
The whole point of this is to avoid that sort of thing. You can say a lot about the US but the one thing we've got going here are legions of researchers looking for ways to make people healthier, and not go the euthanasia route. No matter what it costs.
I have to admit to keeping a bottle of scotch my my useless lower file drawer.
LOL!
Test driven development is good, but its no cure-all. But it makes more sense to me than agile, which was supposed to fix everything, and is not "agile".
Bingo. Agile. The bane of my existence.
London is a software powerhouse, I know from the people I work with and the ads I see begging for engineers. But Tons of software is produced in places like Croatia, Czech Republic, places like that. I've dealt with a group of devs in Sofia, Bulgaria.
I mean, literally! I'm currently implementing an API which is a Rube Goldberg machine to work around a piece of shitty proprietary software, and I know it will never be used.
Preach brother. I did the same thing, a crazy mishmash of code that was impossible to maintain. I'd suggest ways of updating the code and removing redundant methods (one code section was concerned with converting decimal to hex, something that today could be accomplished with 3 lines of code) but I was told the code worked, and "we don't want to invest the money in updating it."
Gumball machines should take smart cards. Do away with coins. They're useless.
Anybody can buy a gun anywhere.
So the reaction here in the states is to restrict guns in various ways. Watch for this and other countries to start restricting encryption.
I agree. Every reaction to terrorism by all governments is to simply shrink the freedom of their own citizens. Ineffective, but at least they con come back to their people and say "We did this for you."
Agreed, judging by past actions I wouldn't look to America to be the "last bastion" of digital freedom either. The thing I find interesting is every time these clowns call for back doors into digital encryption the call isn't really based on an solid evidence the terrorists used encryption to communicate. As if "If only we could read your personal data the terrorists would be stopped."
C++ isn't a toy language.
No. PHP is the last, python second to last.
There are native games for Linux, good ones too.
dissatisfaction? I'll say. Windoiws 10 (or 10.1, or something) brings NO must-have features as far as I can tell. Still, I wanted to try it, so I bought a windows tablet, a cheap British-made "Jumpstreet" (something like that) that came with windows 8. Knowing I would get an icon at some point for the upgrade from 8 to 10, I played with 8 and bided my time. Quick impression of 8: its windiws with a touch screen interface. Completely inappropriate for a touch screen. Besides the small screen the objects on the interface are tiny; my huge hamfist fingers had a hard time navigating the interface. I suppose there's a way to increase the size of the buttons and doodads but then the icon for the upgrade appeared a few days later so I pushed the button, Same thing in my mind, its windows with a touch interface chunked on top, with a few more utilities. I don't use that tablet much, and I won't be upgrading to 10 until something forces me to. Much like Ubuntu's switch to unity; when that happened I switched to Mint.
...I was talking to an ex Yahoo insider JUST TODAY. I was in Mt. View CA for a meeting. 7 Years from 2000 to 2007 he worked on search. His wrords: "Google killed us.", his opinions on Meyer's efforts: "DOA." Seriously, time to dump that Yahoo position if you have one.
Strange when Seattle is a high-tech hub. I dream about moving there myself if the right job ever came along. I used to have Speakeasy for my ISP when I lived there in the late 90's they were awesome.
This brings us to the Gattica Premise: Do we want to live in a world where our tools could report us to the Government because our DNA doesn't fit a certain profile? It might be a safer world if our things tell authorities its user is a serial killer. But go from that to the fact that we carry the polio gene, or cancer genes, or who knows what else. These questions are rapidly approaching.
So, you 2 major geeks, spending time configuring Linux bootloaders, partitioning and whatnot
Nope.
cannot spend 21 seconds to untick windows automatic updates?!
Last update chain took well over 40 minutes.