Like a medical doctor would explain a disease to you in layman's terms, you would describe what you do in layman's terms. Since they aren't professional, they wouldn't know anything about visualizing branched undo/redo histories. Use common words in contexts they understand. They won't understand the depth of what you do, but as long as the get the gist, that's all you can hope for.
I live near Seattle - about 20 miles out. On clear nights you can see the stars relatively well. I must have gotten used to what I see because I didn't think the light pollution was all that bad.
Then I went to see the eclipse earlier this year. I specifically chose a spot that was "in the middle of nowhere" (which as it turns out, about 10,000 other people had the same idea, but no matter). I set up camp and settled in for the evening.
My GOD the stars were brilliant! I laid awake most of the night mesmerized and amazed at what I was seeing.
Seriously, companies do this all the time and it doesn't cause any news at all. Just because it's Tesla (an interesting company from a nerd's point of view) does this make a splash. And really the firings weren't that big of a percentage of the work force
Here in the USA there seems to be a huge emphasis on the "preservation of the body". I remember when some of my family has died and the funeral directors actually used these words. And they use cement lined burial plots with sealed coffins. I simply don't get it.
The person that died is done with their body, so they don't need it preserved. Us living people will never see the body ever again, so we don't need it preserved. We should just bore a 3 foot wide hole about 12 feet deep, drop the body in head-first, and cover it back up.
Cremation seems a bit overkill too, and uses an enormous amount of energy. We should probably do communal cremation (100 at a time?) to save energy and space.
There's nothing about what I'm saying that is disrespectful to the persons who have passed. Tell me where I'm wrong.
How does this work? If "you" somehow allow access to the ransom-ware by clicking something you shouldn't, and the folder is owned by "you" - does this help? And if you are being asked for access to something "you" own on a regular basis, does this actually work?
Indeed, Hillary was (obviously) the worst candidate the DNC could have picked to run for POTUS, that even DT could win. I'm not really sure why Sanders was railroaded like he was, but that's why we are in the sad state we are in now. I don't blame the loss on foreign interference - unless that was what made the DNC decision to put Hillary in the running.
No, no, no... Don't you know DT is a friend to Christians? And that disasters only happen to sinners? Therefore the earthquake was caused by all the sinners in Mexico!
Well, if you're not a pilot, then you probably are mistaken about procedures then. I hold a private license. I was on a commercial flight one time where our plane rolled straight from taxiway, onto the runway and immediate takeoff without even slowing down. A guy in front of me freaked out and told the guy next to him that it was illegal. Sheesh... The controllers know what they are doing (though the pilot is the primary safety - fly the plane first, otherwise follow instructions and procedures). You can be on a taxiway when the controller tells you "clear for takeoff". When that happens, you just go - and sometimes they need you to go in a reasonably short time because somebody else is coming in for a landing on your runway. The controllers and pilots understand these procedures. If you're not a pilot, then you probably don't know this. If you see something obvious (fire coming out of the engine, perhaps) then speak up, otherwise take some pilot training and chill out. I had to tell the guy in front of me the same thing.
Why do we pay for Amtrak? Why do we pay for corn farms for ethanol? The list is a mile long... I don't have the answers, but I'm sure smarter people than me can chime in.
I'm almost 53, and the company I currently work for, while it has its young'ns, most of the developers in my group are at least in their '40s. We get paid well, and get "unlimited vacation" which all of us use with good discretion. I suppose I have it good - I have yet to encounter ageism as described by many of these/. stories.
This new file counted the amount of times a machine had been booted; when the machine reached a count of 90, all of the filenames on the C drive were encrypted.
"There has never been another audio format as widely supported as MP3"
I think WAV might have the lock on this one.
I think you are partly right. MP3 is most widely supported as a distribution medium for sure. WAV is used mostly locally where size/transmission speed isn't as much of a factor.
Replying to comments: Yep, I said "very, very well". And I mean it. All of the owners (3 of them) were easily millionaires by the time they got to jumping ship. They didn't need, nor necessarily want to sell, but were pressured - probably by their families - to sell out and make like a lottery win. Before this, they happily shared the wealth/profits of the company with the employees. Some of us got as much as $10k Christmas bonuses (depending on how long you worked there). We always had plenty of money to do the things we needed to do. And then some. They would take the entire company to ball games and lakeside parties. This made the employees happy to work there and put in extra effort when needed. There was simply no need to go public.
Somebody needs to explain to me why a company always feels the need to be publicly traded. It is never good for the consumer. It shackles the company to be profitable regardless of quality.
I worked for a private company that did very, very well. Then the owners jumped ship and through a series of events finally went public. Everything went to shit after that.
When Roberts came to Stanford in 1990, CS106A was still taught in Pascal, a programming language he described as not "clean."
Now he's thinking Javascript is a good first language to teach CS? Is he on meth?
While Pascal had its foibles, I always considered it to be a good strong language - comparable to C in that what you programmed went to the machine pretty much the same way C does.
My Subaru has an electric parking brake (my wife wanted it). I can't figure out what's wrong with a mechanical parking brake. Simple, and not reliant on other systems (electrical, and who knows what else) to work. If the battery discharges, you're stuck. I know, the risk is low, but still....
Yeah, 'cause I want not only the Samsung bloatware on my phone, I want Microsoft crapware on my phone as well. *rolls eyes*. This phone will sell well.
If the ultrabook is sufficient, then why not have a configuration that is more setup to a developer's line of work? In our company (we have about 100 devs) we have a different setup than the rest of the company. All of our source code and build tools are on central servers that we must interact with, but we pretty much get to do whatever we want with our machines. Some choose Eclipse, some choose IntelliJ, some others use Perl or the language of their choice. Most are using Macs, but some of us (me included) use Linux exclusively - so long as we can get our work done. We all have root/admin access to our machines to put whatever tools we want in whatever configuration we need, and if we screw it up, it's (more-or-less) on us to fix it. Several good screw-ups and you are dinged for it.
I partially agree. But I have a situation where I need to make a moderately simple app that reads/writes local files and calls out to utility command-line tools, and I need it to be cross-platform.
I've researched high and low for a system that doesn't require me to learn a friggin huge framework (QT?), in a language I don't care to use (C/C++)** or an unreliable end-user setup (Python UI or Java Swing)
I just need simple and I need it to work. Yes, Electron is bloated, but it's simple (to build apps with), it works on all platforms, and it allows me to build an app in a few days rather than a few weeks. And the performance for what I'm doing is perfectly acceptable.
** I don't dislike those languages, they are just overkill to get something simple done
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Like a medical doctor would explain a disease to you in layman's terms, you would describe what you do in layman's terms. Since they aren't professional, they wouldn't know anything about visualizing branched undo/redo histories. Use common words in contexts they understand. They won't understand the depth of what you do, but as long as the get the gist, that's all you can hope for.
You have composed what may be the world's most incomprehensible headline!
Actually, he just copied the headline straight from the article (yes, I read it).
I live near Seattle - about 20 miles out. On clear nights you can see the stars relatively well. I must have gotten used to what I see because I didn't think the light pollution was all that bad.
Then I went to see the eclipse earlier this year. I specifically chose a spot that was "in the middle of nowhere" (which as it turns out, about 10,000 other people had the same idea, but no matter). I set up camp and settled in for the evening.
My GOD the stars were brilliant! I laid awake most of the night mesmerized and amazed at what I was seeing.
Yeah - people don't know what they are missing.
Seriously, companies do this all the time and it doesn't cause any news at all. Just because it's Tesla (an interesting company from a nerd's point of view) does this make a splash. And really the firings weren't that big of a percentage of the work force
This is just business as usual.
Here in the USA there seems to be a huge emphasis on the "preservation of the body". I remember when some of my family has died and the funeral directors actually used these words. And they use cement lined burial plots with sealed coffins. I simply don't get it.
The person that died is done with their body, so they don't need it preserved. Us living people will never see the body ever again, so we don't need it preserved. We should just bore a 3 foot wide hole about 12 feet deep, drop the body in head-first, and cover it back up.
Cremation seems a bit overkill too, and uses an enormous amount of energy. We should probably do communal cremation (100 at a time?) to save energy and space.
There's nothing about what I'm saying that is disrespectful to the persons who have passed. Tell me where I'm wrong.
How does this work? If "you" somehow allow access to the ransom-ware by clicking something you shouldn't, and the folder is owned by "you" - does this help? And if you are being asked for access to something "you" own on a regular basis, does this actually work?
Indeed, Hillary was (obviously) the worst candidate the DNC could have picked to run for POTUS, that even DT could win. I'm not really sure why Sanders was railroaded like he was, but that's why we are in the sad state we are in now. I don't blame the loss on foreign interference - unless that was what made the DNC decision to put Hillary in the running.
No, no, no... Don't you know DT is a friend to Christians? And that disasters only happen to sinners? Therefore the earthquake was caused by all the sinners in Mexico!
He clicks "discard" and it deletes the files. This seems a reasonable outcome. Did he not have any backups? I'm pretty sure that is the *real* WTF.
Well, if you're not a pilot, then you probably are mistaken about procedures then. I hold a private license. I was on a commercial flight one time where our plane rolled straight from taxiway, onto the runway and immediate takeoff without even slowing down. A guy in front of me freaked out and told the guy next to him that it was illegal. Sheesh... The controllers know what they are doing (though the pilot is the primary safety - fly the plane first, otherwise follow instructions and procedures). You can be on a taxiway when the controller tells you "clear for takeoff". When that happens, you just go - and sometimes they need you to go in a reasonably short time because somebody else is coming in for a landing on your runway. The controllers and pilots understand these procedures. If you're not a pilot, then you probably don't know this. If you see something obvious (fire coming out of the engine, perhaps) then speak up, otherwise take some pilot training and chill out. I had to tell the guy in front of me the same thing.
Why do we pay for Amtrak? Why do we pay for corn farms for ethanol? The list is a mile long... I don't have the answers, but I'm sure smarter people than me can chime in.
I'm almost 53, and the company I currently work for, while it has its young'ns, most of the developers in my group are at least in their '40s. We get paid well, and get "unlimited vacation" which all of us use with good discretion. I suppose I have it good - I have yet to encounter ageism as described by many of these /. stories.
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This new file counted the amount of times a machine had been booted; when the machine reached a count of 90, all of the filenames on the C drive were encrypted.
That should only take a few minutes, right?
"There has never been another audio format as widely supported as MP3" I think WAV might have the lock on this one.
I think you are partly right. MP3 is most widely supported as a distribution medium for sure. WAV is used mostly locally where size/transmission speed isn't as much of a factor.
Replying to comments: Yep, I said "very, very well". And I mean it. All of the owners (3 of them) were easily millionaires by the time they got to jumping ship. They didn't need, nor necessarily want to sell, but were pressured - probably by their families - to sell out and make like a lottery win. Before this, they happily shared the wealth/profits of the company with the employees. Some of us got as much as $10k Christmas bonuses (depending on how long you worked there). We always had plenty of money to do the things we needed to do. And then some. They would take the entire company to ball games and lakeside parties. This made the employees happy to work there and put in extra effort when needed. There was simply no need to go public.
Somebody needs to explain to me why a company always feels the need to be publicly traded. It is never good for the consumer. It shackles the company to be profitable regardless of quality.
I worked for a private company that did very, very well. Then the owners jumped ship and through a series of events finally went public. Everything went to shit after that.
The summary:
When Roberts came to Stanford in 1990, CS106A was still taught in Pascal, a programming language he described as not "clean."
Now he's thinking Javascript is a good first language to teach CS? Is he on meth?
While Pascal had its foibles, I always considered it to be a good strong language - comparable to C in that what you programmed went to the machine pretty much the same way C does.
...but the cost is negligible.
3 grand for 10 seats? That's negligible? PostgreSQL is $0 for unlimited seats.
My Subaru has an electric parking brake (my wife wanted it). I can't figure out what's wrong with a mechanical parking brake. Simple, and not reliant on other systems (electrical, and who knows what else) to work. If the battery discharges, you're stuck. I know, the risk is low, but still....
I learned to program using C about 20 years ago. I know about a dozen languages fluently now. C is my least favorite (next to PHP).
Yeah, 'cause I want not only the Samsung bloatware on my phone, I want Microsoft crapware on my phone as well. *rolls eyes*. This phone will sell well.
If the ultrabook is sufficient, then why not have a configuration that is more setup to a developer's line of work? In our company (we have about 100 devs) we have a different setup than the rest of the company. All of our source code and build tools are on central servers that we must interact with, but we pretty much get to do whatever we want with our machines. Some choose Eclipse, some choose IntelliJ, some others use Perl or the language of their choice. Most are using Macs, but some of us (me included) use Linux exclusively - so long as we can get our work done. We all have root/admin access to our machines to put whatever tools we want in whatever configuration we need, and if we screw it up, it's (more-or-less) on us to fix it. Several good screw-ups and you are dinged for it.
I partially agree. But I have a situation where I need to make a moderately simple app that reads/writes local files and calls out to utility command-line tools, and I need it to be cross-platform.
I've researched high and low for a system that doesn't require me to learn a friggin huge framework (QT?), in a language I don't care to use (C/C++)** or an unreliable end-user setup (Python UI or Java Swing)
I just need simple and I need it to work. Yes, Electron is bloated, but it's simple (to build apps with), it works on all platforms, and it allows me to build an app in a few days rather than a few weeks. And the performance for what I'm doing is perfectly acceptable.
** I don't dislike those languages, they are just overkill to get something simple done
Lesse... Pi is a unicode character that most computers can display.
It should appear here >>
Nope... Come on...