Interestingly the dupe post promoting Softpedia got promoted over the post that directly linked the Oracle Blog post: http://slashdot.org/submission...
This is what Flightradar24 uses. A little more expensive box, but no big deal.
And any executive person should be aware of this and not attend major events like the World Economic Forum in their private aircraft but instead travel incognito. Use Business Class and make sure that the clothing is not standing out. If you have a security team - make them look like a mix of tourists, business men and airport service personnel. (Who actually cares about the person pushing the airport wheelchair around?)
As soon as you have a helicopter you are standing out as a VIP like a polar bear in a kindergarten.
And 99% of all source code out there uses standard algorithms, the key is that for some unique solutions it's the combination of the algorithms that's the unique thing.
The 1% are those top secret encryption algorithms and their encryption cracking algorithms that various military outfits works on, but they would hardly ask such a question at Slashdot. If the person asking the question works for such an agency then it's time to get a new job.
However the data processed by the code is another issue.
Reasons for why a company has a strict limit on their code access is usually because either they have stolen the code - even from a GPL project or they don't want to look like fools with huge security holes in their solution.
In either case you don't want to hire consultants to manage that, you want to have full-time employees that you have control over. The hiring of consultants on the conditions that the poster provides seems to me to be a warning flag.
Another reason for unusually strict rules on the code and use of consultants is that they want to have the job done free by having a clause stating breach of contract if anything happens - even if it's not the fault of the consultant.
It looks like an ordinary spam mail to me. Lot of links, blatant unnecessary highlighting of useless stuff to make it seem important. Rates high on my spam tagging.
Learning to code in Basic is a way to sift out the people willing to learn from people that can't learn.
In the beginning everyone is producing junk code, but then you will start to see that some coders starts to produce more structured code and then they start to look for other better languages to code in. Those are the programmers you want to employ. The other programmers should do something else or be held with a short leash.
This "Free Market" we have in Europe have to some extent changed the map so now the fixed costs are higher while the usage cost is lower than how it was some decades ago. Of course the change isn't consistent and may vary by country.
Maintaining the electrical grid and improving it is a continuous work. Customer satisfaction is important, and adaptation to new technology likewise to stay competitive.
Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.
Time is assumed to be one of the dimensions we live in, what if it's only visible from our perspective in our universe but not visible at all from an outside observer? To an outside observer our universe may be just an instant flash and impossible to measure in their notion of time.
No, it's just turning into one of these WTF threads that you see all to often when there's a major election coming up. A few months after the election it will be quiet again when it comes to political threads unless something major happens.
It seems to me that the relativity of time seems to decrease with age and experience. In School five minutes could be an eternity while when you were having fun it went in a flash.
But now when I'm older it seems to me that I have a reasonable time awareness most of the time, waking up when it's time to wake up, knowing that it's time to stop doing what I'm doing when it's time to do something else and so on.
Overall it seems to me that the brain has now linked tasks to time awareness even without really thinking of it. Only rarely when the task at hand requires a very high level of attention it's easy to lose track of time.
The Slashdot quote of the moment seems to fit this subject too: "Promptness is its own reward, if one lives by the clock instead of the sword."
Slashdot Mirror
Not sure where you live, but here we allow in general 64 tons max weight.
But they are talking of putting down power lines along the highways to allow trucks to get electricity for propulsion.
I'd prefer a Tesla Wagon over a truck. For family usage a wagon is a lot more useful than a sedan or a truck.
And I was studying Space Technology in Kiruna then.
It was like WTF am I doing... It was quite a downturn at that moment.
Most other first world countries actually solves the financing through taxes so your income won't matter.
Interestingly the dupe post promoting Softpedia got promoted over the post that directly linked the Oracle Blog post: http://slashdot.org/submission...
every plugin has a possible hole, no matter which one it is.
Compared to competition FireÃfox is lean today.
And in that case you stand out even more.
This is what Flightradar24 uses. A little more expensive box, but no big deal.
And any executive person should be aware of this and not attend major events like the World Economic Forum in their private aircraft but instead travel incognito. Use Business Class and make sure that the clothing is not standing out. If you have a security team - make them look like a mix of tourists, business men and airport service personnel. (Who actually cares about the person pushing the airport wheelchair around?)
As soon as you have a helicopter you are standing out as a VIP like a polar bear in a kindergarten.
And 99% of all source code out there uses standard algorithms, the key is that for some unique solutions it's the combination of the algorithms that's the unique thing.
The 1% are those top secret encryption algorithms and their encryption cracking algorithms that various military outfits works on, but they would hardly ask such a question at Slashdot. If the person asking the question works for such an agency then it's time to get a new job.
However the data processed by the code is another issue.
Reasons for why a company has a strict limit on their code access is usually because either they have stolen the code - even from a GPL project or they don't want to look like fools with huge security holes in their solution.
In either case you don't want to hire consultants to manage that, you want to have full-time employees that you have control over. The hiring of consultants on the conditions that the poster provides seems to me to be a warning flag.
Another reason for unusually strict rules on the code and use of consultants is that they want to have the job done free by having a clause stating breach of contract if anything happens - even if it's not the fault of the consultant.
That will only work if you have full control over the site of work. As soon as you say "remote" you have a security hole.
APK is just another spammer, not worth considering. It smells as fake as fake boobs.
It looks like an ordinary spam mail to me. Lot of links, blatant unnecessary highlighting of useless stuff to make it seem important. Rates high on my spam tagging.
Wait until you get the APK ads on Slashdot main page.
(Ducks and hides)
He's a proof that the stereotype isn't a stereotype but truth.
Anyone knows who that spamming APK guy is?
Nah - just lock them in a slowly tumbling room playing Viagra and Sanitary Pad ads at 90dB all days.
If I had mod points then I would mod parent up!
The difference is similar to the difference between jalapeno and habanero.
Learning to code in Basic is a way to sift out the people willing to learn from people that can't learn.
In the beginning everyone is producing junk code, but then you will start to see that some coders starts to produce more structured code and then they start to look for other better languages to code in. Those are the programmers you want to employ. The other programmers should do something else or be held with a short leash.
Be wary of that word Republican, it may not mean the same thing everywhere. Here it's an anti-monarchy movement.
This "Free Market" we have in Europe have to some extent changed the map so now the fixed costs are higher while the usage cost is lower than how it was some decades ago. Of course the change isn't consistent and may vary by country.
Maintaining the electrical grid and improving it is a continuous work. Customer satisfaction is important, and adaptation to new technology likewise to stay competitive.
Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.
Time is assumed to be one of the dimensions we live in, what if it's only visible from our perspective in our universe but not visible at all from an outside observer? To an outside observer our universe may be just an instant flash and impossible to measure in their notion of time.
No, it's just turning into one of these WTF threads that you see all to often when there's a major election coming up. A few months after the election it will be quiet again when it comes to political threads unless something major happens.
Deal with it.
It seems to me that the relativity of time seems to decrease with age and experience. In School five minutes could be an eternity while when you were having fun it went in a flash.
But now when I'm older it seems to me that I have a reasonable time awareness most of the time, waking up when it's time to wake up, knowing that it's time to stop doing what I'm doing when it's time to do something else and so on.
Overall it seems to me that the brain has now linked tasks to time awareness even without really thinking of it. Only rarely when the task at hand requires a very high level of attention it's easy to lose track of time.
The Slashdot quote of the moment seems to fit this subject too: "Promptness is its own reward, if one lives by the clock instead of the sword."