My farts implement an abstract flower class. You can use any number of decorator "Petal" classes to configure to taste. I work well with people who like roses, tulips, chrysanthemums and many more.
Not everybody does, but I use higher math skills pretty frequently (calc, diffeq, linear algebra, statistical analysis, etc) These things are tools, and you can only use them if you have them. To insert the mandatory car analogy, if you only have a small hatchback, you'll probably do just fine. You can generally get where you need to go, and you probably won't miss the things you can't really do. You'll just avoid the stuff that requires something else, like trips to the hardware store, or whatever else. But imagine you also had a truck. Sure, maybe you use the hatch most of the time, but when you really need it you have a tool that take on some heavier jobs.
These other skills are just like that. You'll get by without them. But if you have them in your back pocket, you can do a lot better than just get by. You won't ever see "Must be able to solve second order differential equations" on a job opening. You won't ever have your performance measured in # of integrals / day. What will happen is that you will be the person who can solve problems that other people can't.
Some examples from my workplace over the years: Replaced unreliable/unstable linear fit noise filtering algorithm with one based on FFT and low-pass filter Multi-variable curve fitting of empirical data to assist designers 3-d field solver to model silicon failure Detailed statistical analyses for yield prediction
Nobody came and asked us to do these things. They came to us with problems they couldn't figure out and we did.
You'll get a whole bunch of opinions one way or the other, but I choose to take my inspiration from Moneyball. Most important factor when ranking note taking methods? OPP -- On Page Percentage
Some people are sluggers, rocking a computer with fancy note taking programs, audio/video recording, etc. But sluggers strike out a lot. They're expensive, run out of energy quickly, and tend to be heavy. Others are good at small ball. They have a good eye. They may not be as flashy, but they get the job done, and are very reliable. It can be slow and messy, but also very flexible--performing well under a wide range of circumstances. Everyone else will think it's boring, but that only matters if your goal is to entertain others.
What method is best? The one that gets on page. Note that this is also a function of classroom appearances. To maximize total notes, go to class. The best note-taking method is useless if you're not actually there to take them. Cribbed notes are next to useless.
HBO Go and ESPN3 need to be made available to those of us who want their programming, but have no desire to pay for cable. If anybody from those companies is listening, hurry up and make it happen. You have a customer waiting who's desperate to give you money, but can't without giving 10x that amount to Cox/Comcast/DirectTV/etc.
I'm an electrical engineer in Phoenix who is actively trying to leave. You pretty much have Intel, Honeywell, and Freescale (ha!) on a large scale, a bunch of other companies with satellite offices locally, and some smaller startup types. From the inside, it certainly doesn't feel special relative to any other large city, and there still is nowhere near the density of tech companies that Silicon Valley has. Could it get there? I suppose. But so could Austin, or Seattle, or Irvine, and so on.
They did. What do you think "complex curvatures" and "waist is narrower relative to the chest" means? Were you expecting them to say "chicks have big tits so we put some camo paint on a Xena costume?"
I'm going to start a company called Hackerburton and position myself to pick up all those juicy post-cyberwar reconstruction contracts. I'll hire another contractor called Blackhatter to be in charge of my team members' security.
Ditto. I had a G2 for a couple years then recently got the One X. At first I was put off by the larger screen, but then I used it. While bigger in the X & Y dimensions, it's quite a bit thinner and lighter than the G2. For my gargantuan man-hands, the One X is easier to hold and use. The touch screen keyboard has bigger keys due to the screen, so my fingers can hit the intended key much more easily. Because it's thinner, it actually fits better in my pocket in spite of the other larger dimensions. Battery life is longer too.
Except for the AT&T crapware built into the phone, my experience with this phone has been phenomenal. One of these days I'll take the time to root and install cyanogenmod and then that problem will be resolved too.
We have friendly people, interesting discussions and huge orgy
Minor correction, "you *had* friendly people, interesting discussions, and huge orgy." Now that you've invited Slashdot, you'll have grumpy people, awkward silence, and a whole bunch of sweaty fat men staring at pictures of Natalie Portman and hot grits.
I think more to the point, those Big 4 weren't successful because they dropped out of college. They are/were hard working, driven individuals with good instincts on how to run a business. They would have been successful regardless of whether they finished college or not. In their cases, the opportunities they made their money on came up before they finished their degrees. In at least Zuckerberg's case, and possibly others, the opportunities arose because they were in college.
If this is your career plan: 1. Drop out of college 2. ??? 3. Profit You're fucked.
If it looks like this: 1. Go to college 2a. Start business based on awesome thing OR 2b. Finish college 3a. Become fabulously wealthy (with or without graduating) OR 3b. Get a job or start a business like everybody else does and live a comfortable, if unremarkable existence. You might be okay. You can't mix up spurious correlation with causation.
So they're going to pre-filter all offensive content? At least they're willing to turn that off when the user requests it, but I wonder if they could provide something a little more tailored to my needs. Can I pre-filter to see ONLY the offensive content? It would get me what I'm looking for much more quickly. It would be like Rule 34 for the entire internet!
It's not that caffeine prevents Alzheimer's, caffeine dilates time itself. We live a lifetime of productive bliss in only a few moments. Why else do non-coffee drinkers never appear to age? In what feels like 60 years for us, only a short time passes for them. They look younger because they are younger. But, they also live long enough to get Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, cancer. In a twist of irony our lives are shorter but our years are longer. We looked to the internet for the Singularity, but we should have looked inside. The Singularity is us.
Of course it is. Though technically, tree rings aren't perfectly circular. There tends to be a fair amount of variation, primarily due to environmental factors. Perhaps we should compromise and just call it 'oblong evidence'.
Exactly. In 773, the world had write and execute permissions--clearly a mistake. Mankind tried to correct this error in 774 by making it read-only for the world, but it was too late. By then the world had already installed its payload--a virus for the ages, unlike any that had ever been seen before. There was nothing to be done once the execution bit was enabled in 775 except to mourn for the dead. The cycle is set to repeat itself every 777 years.
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My farts implement an abstract flower class. You can use any number of decorator "Petal" classes to configure to taste. I work well with people who like roses, tulips, chrysanthemums and many more.
Then why don't people quote Werner von Braun as a moral authority?
It's a bit harder for '(' as you can't just remap that to '99'.
Actually, that's a great idea. What better way to discourage the use of 'magic' numbers in your code than by turning them into syntax errors? :)
What Would Assange Do?
How rich are their executives?
Find that answer, and you'll discover why business leaders in the US are not pushing for a Scandinavian lifestyle.
Surely that's more likely 1700 m/s (meters per second), not miles per second. Though if the latter, sign me up for a test ride!
Yes, the Sherlock/Watson dynamic. You see, the problem here is that Zuckerberg isn't Sherlock Holmes. He's Professor Moriarty.
This really gets at the crux of his argument. You can divide just about any discipline into two camps.
1) Those who do things the way I do
2) Those who don't
#1 is always right.
#1 and #2 are given labels that try to leverage emotional baggage to convince you of that.
Surprise and Fear.
So, PHP?
Not everybody does, but I use higher math skills pretty frequently (calc, diffeq, linear algebra, statistical analysis, etc)
These things are tools, and you can only use them if you have them.
To insert the mandatory car analogy, if you only have a small hatchback, you'll probably do just fine. You can generally get where you need to go, and you probably won't miss the things you can't really do. You'll just avoid the stuff that requires something else, like trips to the hardware store, or whatever else.
But imagine you also had a truck. Sure, maybe you use the hatch most of the time, but when you really need it you have a tool that take on some heavier jobs.
These other skills are just like that. You'll get by without them. But if you have them in your back pocket, you can do a lot better than just get by. You won't ever see "Must be able to solve second order differential equations" on a job opening. You won't ever have your performance measured in # of integrals / day.
What will happen is that you will be the person who can solve problems that other people can't.
Some examples from my workplace over the years:
Replaced unreliable/unstable linear fit noise filtering algorithm with one based on FFT and low-pass filter
Multi-variable curve fitting of empirical data to assist designers
3-d field solver to model silicon failure
Detailed statistical analyses for yield prediction
Nobody came and asked us to do these things. They came to us with problems they couldn't figure out and we did.
You'll get a whole bunch of opinions one way or the other, but I choose to take my inspiration from Moneyball.
Most important factor when ranking note taking methods? OPP -- On Page Percentage
Roughly, OPP can be calculated thusly:
Some people are sluggers, rocking a computer with fancy note taking programs, audio/video recording, etc. But sluggers strike out a lot. They're expensive, run out of energy quickly, and tend to be heavy.
Others are good at small ball. They have a good eye. They may not be as flashy, but they get the job done, and are very reliable. It can be slow and messy, but also very flexible--performing well under a wide range of circumstances. Everyone else will think it's boring, but that only matters if your goal is to entertain others.
What method is best? The one that gets on page.
Note that this is also a function of classroom appearances. To maximize total notes, go to class. The best note-taking method is useless if you're not actually there to take them. Cribbed notes are next to useless.
HBO Go and ESPN3 need to be made available to those of us who want their programming, but have no desire to pay for cable.
If anybody from those companies is listening, hurry up and make it happen. You have a customer waiting who's desperate to give you money, but can't without giving 10x that amount to Cox/Comcast/DirectTV/etc.
I'm an electrical engineer in Phoenix who is actively trying to leave. You pretty much have Intel, Honeywell, and Freescale (ha!) on a large scale, a bunch of other companies with satellite offices locally, and some smaller startup types. From the inside, it certainly doesn't feel special relative to any other large city, and there still is nowhere near the density of tech companies that Silicon Valley has. Could it get there? I suppose. But so could Austin, or Seattle, or Irvine, and so on.
They did. What do you think "complex curvatures" and "waist is narrower relative to the chest" means?
Were you expecting them to say "chicks have big tits so we put some camo paint on a Xena costume?"
I'm going to start a company called Hackerburton and position myself to pick up all those juicy post-cyberwar reconstruction contracts. I'll hire another contractor called Blackhatter to be in charge of my team members' security.
Ditto. I had a G2 for a couple years then recently got the One X. At first I was put off by the larger screen, but then I used it. While bigger in the X & Y dimensions, it's quite a bit thinner and lighter than the G2. For my gargantuan man-hands, the One X is easier to hold and use. The touch screen keyboard has bigger keys due to the screen, so my fingers can hit the intended key much more easily. Because it's thinner, it actually fits better in my pocket in spite of the other larger dimensions. Battery life is longer too.
Except for the AT&T crapware built into the phone, my experience with this phone has been phenomenal. One of these days I'll take the time to root and install cyanogenmod and then that problem will be resolved too.
We have friendly people, interesting discussions and huge orgy
Minor correction, "you *had* friendly people, interesting discussions, and huge orgy."
Now that you've invited Slashdot, you'll have grumpy people, awkward silence, and a whole bunch of sweaty fat men staring at pictures of Natalie Portman and hot grits.
There IS a strong correlation between fear of RF and brain damage. Just a disagreement on which way the causation arrow points ;)
I think more to the point, those Big 4 weren't successful because they dropped out of college. They are/were hard working, driven individuals with good instincts on how to run a business. They would have been successful regardless of whether they finished college or not. In their cases, the opportunities they made their money on came up before they finished their degrees. In at least Zuckerberg's case, and possibly others, the opportunities arose because they were in college.
If this is your career plan:
1. Drop out of college
2. ???
3. Profit
You're fucked.
If it looks like this:
1. Go to college
2a. Start business based on awesome thing OR 2b. Finish college
3a. Become fabulously wealthy (with or without graduating) OR 3b. Get a job or start a business like everybody else does and live a comfortable, if unremarkable existence.
You might be okay. You can't mix up spurious correlation with causation.
I wish there was a "+1, Oh Snap!" moderation option...
So they're going to pre-filter all offensive content?
At least they're willing to turn that off when the user requests it, but I wonder if they could provide something a little more tailored to my needs.
Can I pre-filter to see ONLY the offensive content? It would get me what I'm looking for much more quickly. It would be like Rule 34 for the entire internet!
I thought his problems came about specifically because of his distaste for fannies...
... SMBC ;)
Had you for a second there, didn't I?
It's not that caffeine prevents Alzheimer's, caffeine dilates time itself. We live a lifetime of productive bliss in only a few moments. Why else do non-coffee drinkers never appear to age? In what feels like 60 years for us, only a short time passes for them. They look younger because they are younger. But, they also live long enough to get Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, cancer. In a twist of irony our lives are shorter but our years are longer. We looked to the internet for the Singularity, but we should have looked inside. The Singularity is us.
Circular evidence is still evidence right?
Of course it is. Though technically, tree rings aren't perfectly circular. There tends to be a fair amount of variation, primarily due to environmental factors. Perhaps we should compromise and just call it 'oblong evidence'.
Exactly. In 773, the world had write and execute permissions--clearly a mistake. Mankind tried to correct this error in 774 by making it read-only for the world, but it was too late. By then the world had already installed its payload--a virus for the ages, unlike any that had ever been seen before. There was nothing to be done once the execution bit was enabled in 775 except to mourn for the dead. The cycle is set to repeat itself every 777 years.
Mind blown.