I'm also 26, have a profession, and a Bachelor's degree. I still don't know how to: 1. Tie a bow tie 2. Ride a horse 3. Drive a stick (although I want to learn) 4. Use a telegraph or send Morse code
Except for 3, I don't think I've ever been denied an opportunity I wanted because I didn't know those things. Oh add cursive to that list too. Last time I tried was when I was in a meeting and was very, very bored.
We really have to give credit to NASA and the other space agencies for making manned space flight relatively safe. Compared to the early days such as the lead up to Mercury and landing on the moon, recent space flights have been safe and thus mundane. We did lose two shuttles but averaged over the total number of flights, it's a positive trend. I guess NASA is not failing spectacularly enough for some people. Toilet failure? That's just news for nerds and only nerds.
"ESA astronaut Frank De Winne is the guy tasked with putting his plumbing skills to work on short notice. 'We don't yet know the extent of the problem,' says flight director Brian Smith, adding that the toilet troubles were 'not going to be an issue' for now."
So you've just blasted into space on top of a giant stick of explosives. You're in one of the most unique places in the world with an awesome windows view but you have to spend your time fixing the toilet. That would really ruin his day.
It's easy to criticize when none of us here are experts. Criticize, offer an alternative, and do it all in front of experts then it's worth something. Your statement can easily be changed to be directed at computers and IT. From my past life in IT, I still remember how annoyed users were when the email server went down or there was some networking issue. They couldn't understand why they were restricted from doing certain things or why we had a password policy. One could ask where are our 3D displays? Where are the computers that can understand human voice? Speaking? That's so easy even a 3 year old can do it. Computer vision? What's so hard about that? Again, any child can do it.
It was the combination of the two that made it worse for him. The government was afraid that his homosexuality can be used to blackmail him into revealing the secret of his work done at Bletchley. He was forced to take estrogen as a result. Had he not worked at Bletchley, it probably might not have happened since the British government would not have been as interested in his private life.
Let's start with an apology to Alan Turing and a public recognition for the grave injustice dealt to him for being homosexual, despite his enormous service to his country, the allies, philosophy, and, of course, computer science.
But John R. Bolton, who was ambassador to the United Nations under President George W. Bush, said Mr. Obama was going too far. "The number they are proposing for delivery vehicles is shockingly low," he said.
Really? They're aiming for 500 launch vehicles. Are there even that many targets to nuke or does Bolton just want us to do it a few times over for the refried beans effect? Also, this is 500 launch vehicles and 1,500 warheads so I assume there are some MIRVs in there. I was under the impression that the whole defense aspect of nukes was to make retaliation too expensive for the other side to shoot first. If that's the case, 500 launch vehicles and 1,500 warheads would be enough to make anyone regret it. France, China, and the UK seem to be pretty secure with even less.
If PETA finds out about this, we will all have a third eye and no mouth! You might think that's a good thing because most of what comes out of our mouths is garbage anyways. Then you realize people can still Twitter with no mouth!
They're abandoning TradElect and the platform it happened to be on. The OS is really a background to all of this. The primary cause of the switch has more to do with TradElect sucking than anything else. Having worked on the tech side of the finance industry, I am not at all surprised. They have some of the worst programmers in the world. Standard software methodology is rarely embraced. Unit tests? Code review? What's that? At the hedge fund where I worked, basically any time a developer left someone either had to pick up the pieces of crap he wrote or start over. Almost everyone choose the latter. I remember one morning one of the applications stopped working and we realized it's because we retired an old DB server and moved it to a new host. I asked the developer to just point it to the new host. They couldn't because the dumbasses had hard coded the hostname! They couldn't change it without a recompile! This was at one of the biggest hedge funds in the world, at the time at least. The problem was that none of the partners knew anything about software development so they didn't know if the CTO they hired was any good. They went by stupid things like names of the school he was from and names of his previous employers. His previous employers probably did the same. Software development in finance is a giant circle jerk.
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I'm going to disable SMS for now just to be safe so just call it and tell me. If my hot blonde, high libido girlfriend picks up, say some obscene things to her. Just act out your fantasy right over the phone. She loves that.
Well, I hope you removed the air conditioner and the stereo from your car because A/C is for cooling and stereo is for listening. They have no purpose in the car. While we're at it, let's take out the headlights too. Oh that starter motor is just a total dead weight. Talk about feature creep! Wheel, brakes, and an engine should be all you have in your car.
The Chinese government is not a government that takes well to public protests (Tiananmen Square massacre or the June 4th incident as the Chinese call it). I'm not saying these people should back down but I wonder if a better approach might yield better result. You have to take culture into consideration when dealing with politics. Culturally, the Chinese react very, very poorly to public confrontations, especially if one party will be humiliated by backing down. (Before anyone asks, I come from a Chinese family. This is experience from dealing with other Chinese, especially parents.) There's this concept of "face" and the Chinese will practically do anything to save it. Generally, to get compromises or change someone's declared public position you have to do it in a subtle way that doesn't threaten anyone's public image if he changes his position. Best of luck to him because he might actually succeed in changing the government's mind by showing them public anger, but the government will punish him simply for his public confrontation. This is actually quite heroic of him. He might be surprised by how many Chinese would care, despite his own blog post to the contrary, because of the very practical impact the Internet has on their day to day lives. The Chinese tend to be practical rather than idealistic.
I was going to advocate the same position in my own reply until I realized that taken to the extreme, this position has some problems. If we say that the tool makers are always guilt free, then companies should be able to sell nuclear weapons or parts for one to anyone they like. Fine. Then what happens when those weapons are used? We can argue that the companies are blameless still and ultimately the guilty part is the country that chose to use the weapons. At that point, who cares about moralistic arguments? If millions of people died because a company sold the tools necessary to do that, the company is going to ripped to pieces. Furthermore, is it right for a company to sell the tools to someone if it knew the tools would be used for something bad? I don't think it is. I guess my point is that whether a company is guilty or not depends a lot on whether it knew or could have know that its actions will lead to bad consequences. It's not fair to blame someone for something that couldn't have been foreseen. However, purposely enabling an evil deed is another story.
I'm willing to bet if you poll the Iranian population, you will find that the majority of them would support censorship. The same thing would happen in China. Censorship has been with us for as long as there as been communications. I'm not saying it's alright or that censorship is a good thing. Freedom of speech is actually a pretty radical ideal and one that isn't universal outside of the western societies. Even in the US that right is constantly under threat from different sources. At the end of the day it is our believe in the value of freedom of speech that keeps it alive. Look at how often this issue comes up on Slashdot and how people are all up in arms about it. The EFF is constantly busy fighting for it. Didn't some very wise man once said, "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance."? If Iran or China is to have freedom of speech, their people must be convinced of its value and necessity. Until that happens, denying them the technology would lead to them either developing their own or just not connecting to the Internet. I am not sure the latter is actually better.
Know what's better than treating a disease? Avoiding it in the first place. Canada, from what I've read, doesn't have as good of specialist care. On the other hand, they are pretty good at basic and preventative medicine.
Just had an idea, you should communicate with each other in the open via botnets and spammers. Chances are that someone you want to communicate with will get the email. Use stenography and spam them across the Internet. Or if you just want to spread the word, spam in plaintext. Either you get your message through or the spam problem gets solved permanently. Either way you come out ahead.
Don't avoid the cellular networks just because the government controls them. If you go on your own frequency, they will just jam it. What you want to do is to piggy back on something else that would be too expensive for them to shut down. This might be too contrarian but I say use the cellular network but disguise your traffic so they can't sniff it out. In the end that leaves them with only the option of shutting down the entire cellular network, which they wouldn't be able to function without as well. Remember when Blackberry lost the patent lawsuit and how businesses and the government started freaking out? Use their tools against them. Hop on their frequencies. Guerrilla tactics! Blend in.
Know what else is good for terrorists? Oxygen and water. Fighting terrorism isn't the end-all-be-all of our priorities. In fact, the flu and cars kill more American annually than terrorists.
It's not irony. That's just being open minded. If MA's plan worked in MA, then why not try it out on a bigger scale? Who cares about who started it or came up with the idea? Ego getting in the way of results is a problem in business, politics, or any project worth doing. In fact, I respect politicians more when they are willing to compromise and go beyond ideology and party line.
This difference seems to escape most people since evolution only "screens" out the unfit individual. Overtime, it looks like it's been designed. My point is that you can design by screening. Just ask the Bonsai gardeners about their pruning.
Assuming what you say is correct, we still have to wonder why did they start the project in the first place if there was no market for it? Perhaps that's why Sun is in such big trouble? A lot of my fellow engineers are amazed by Sun's technology but can't figure out why they're in such bad financial state. This could explain it.
For a project that's more than one or two people, code reviews are vital. They enforce consistency in style and methodology. They also spread knowledge. They mitigate the "bus factor" (how negatively impacted your project will be if someone is hit by a bus). I've worked professionally at two companies. One of them did not have code reviews. Every time someone left the company, the project either grinds to a halt or they have to rewrite that person's work because no one else can understand it. There were a ton of rewrites. At my current company, we use Review Board (open source, built on Django) to do code reviews. People don't leave often but they do transfer around the team to work on different sections. That's rarely ever an issue because the code is understandable by all of us. I work in both the UI and the middle layer with business logic and occasionally DB related code. I can move between the three because the consistency that exists. When I move into a new section, I do make mistakes but those mistakes are caught during code review and I learn.
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I'm also 26, have a profession, and a Bachelor's degree. I still don't know how to:
1. Tie a bow tie
2. Ride a horse
3. Drive a stick (although I want to learn)
4. Use a telegraph or send Morse code
Except for 3, I don't think I've ever been denied an opportunity I wanted because I didn't know those things. Oh add cursive to that list too. Last time I tried was when I was in a meeting and was very, very bored.
We really have to give credit to NASA and the other space agencies for making manned space flight relatively safe. Compared to the early days such as the lead up to Mercury and landing on the moon, recent space flights have been safe and thus mundane. We did lose two shuttles but averaged over the total number of flights, it's a positive trend. I guess NASA is not failing spectacularly enough for some people. Toilet failure? That's just news for nerds and only nerds.
"ESA astronaut Frank De Winne is the guy tasked with putting his plumbing skills to work on short notice. 'We don't yet know the extent of the problem,' says flight director Brian Smith, adding that the toilet troubles were 'not going to be an issue' for now."
So you've just blasted into space on top of a giant stick of explosives. You're in one of the most unique places in the world with an awesome windows view but you have to spend your time fixing the toilet. That would really ruin his day.
It's easy to criticize when none of us here are experts. Criticize, offer an alternative, and do it all in front of experts then it's worth something. Your statement can easily be changed to be directed at computers and IT. From my past life in IT, I still remember how annoyed users were when the email server went down or there was some networking issue. They couldn't understand why they were restricted from doing certain things or why we had a password policy. One could ask where are our 3D displays? Where are the computers that can understand human voice? Speaking? That's so easy even a 3 year old can do it. Computer vision? What's so hard about that? Again, any child can do it.
Even if you could settle for pennies on the dollar, you'll still be more indebted than Uncle Sam.
It was the combination of the two that made it worse for him. The government was afraid that his homosexuality can be used to blackmail him into revealing the secret of his work done at Bletchley. He was forced to take estrogen as a result. Had he not worked at Bletchley, it probably might not have happened since the British government would not have been as interested in his private life.
Let's start with an apology to Alan Turing and a public recognition for the grave injustice dealt to him for being homosexual, despite his enormous service to his country, the allies, philosophy, and, of course, computer science.
But John R. Bolton, who was ambassador to the United Nations under President George W. Bush, said Mr. Obama was going too far. "The number they are proposing for delivery vehicles is shockingly low," he said.
Really? They're aiming for 500 launch vehicles. Are there even that many targets to nuke or does Bolton just want us to do it a few times over for the refried beans effect? Also, this is 500 launch vehicles and 1,500 warheads so I assume there are some MIRVs in there. I was under the impression that the whole defense aspect of nukes was to make retaliation too expensive for the other side to shoot first. If that's the case, 500 launch vehicles and 1,500 warheads would be enough to make anyone regret it. France, China, and the UK seem to be pretty secure with even less.
If PETA finds out about this, we will all have a third eye and no mouth! You might think that's a good thing because most of what comes out of our mouths is garbage anyways. Then you realize people can still Twitter with no mouth!
They're abandoning TradElect and the platform it happened to be on. The OS is really a background to all of this. The primary cause of the switch has more to do with TradElect sucking than anything else. Having worked on the tech side of the finance industry, I am not at all surprised. They have some of the worst programmers in the world. Standard software methodology is rarely embraced. Unit tests? Code review? What's that? At the hedge fund where I worked, basically any time a developer left someone either had to pick up the pieces of crap he wrote or start over. Almost everyone choose the latter. I remember one morning one of the applications stopped working and we realized it's because we retired an old DB server and moved it to a new host. I asked the developer to just point it to the new host. They couldn't because the dumbasses had hard coded the hostname! They couldn't change it without a recompile! This was at one of the biggest hedge funds in the world, at the time at least. The problem was that none of the partners knew anything about software development so they didn't know if the CTO they hired was any good. They went by stupid things like names of the school he was from and names of his previous employers. His previous employers probably did the same. Software development in finance is a giant circle jerk.
9-1-1 I'm going to disable SMS for now just to be safe so just call it and tell me. If my hot blonde, high libido girlfriend picks up, say some obscene things to her. Just act out your fantasy right over the phone. She loves that.
Well, I hope you removed the air conditioner and the stereo from your car because A/C is for cooling and stereo is for listening. They have no purpose in the car. While we're at it, let's take out the headlights too. Oh that starter motor is just a total dead weight. Talk about feature creep! Wheel, brakes, and an engine should be all you have in your car.
Oh no! Not the dreaded double secret probation!
Microsoft can't call IBM anti-competitive; I'm sure IBM already has patents on technologies related to "methods by which a pot calls a kettle black".
The Chinese government is not a government that takes well to public protests (Tiananmen Square massacre or the June 4th incident as the Chinese call it). I'm not saying these people should back down but I wonder if a better approach might yield better result. You have to take culture into consideration when dealing with politics. Culturally, the Chinese react very, very poorly to public confrontations, especially if one party will be humiliated by backing down. (Before anyone asks, I come from a Chinese family. This is experience from dealing with other Chinese, especially parents.) There's this concept of "face" and the Chinese will practically do anything to save it. Generally, to get compromises or change someone's declared public position you have to do it in a subtle way that doesn't threaten anyone's public image if he changes his position. Best of luck to him because he might actually succeed in changing the government's mind by showing them public anger, but the government will punish him simply for his public confrontation. This is actually quite heroic of him. He might be surprised by how many Chinese would care, despite his own blog post to the contrary, because of the very practical impact the Internet has on their day to day lives. The Chinese tend to be practical rather than idealistic.
I was going to advocate the same position in my own reply until I realized that taken to the extreme, this position has some problems. If we say that the tool makers are always guilt free, then companies should be able to sell nuclear weapons or parts for one to anyone they like. Fine. Then what happens when those weapons are used? We can argue that the companies are blameless still and ultimately the guilty part is the country that chose to use the weapons. At that point, who cares about moralistic arguments? If millions of people died because a company sold the tools necessary to do that, the company is going to ripped to pieces. Furthermore, is it right for a company to sell the tools to someone if it knew the tools would be used for something bad? I don't think it is. I guess my point is that whether a company is guilty or not depends a lot on whether it knew or could have know that its actions will lead to bad consequences. It's not fair to blame someone for something that couldn't have been foreseen. However, purposely enabling an evil deed is another story.
I'm willing to bet if you poll the Iranian population, you will find that the majority of them would support censorship. The same thing would happen in China. Censorship has been with us for as long as there as been communications. I'm not saying it's alright or that censorship is a good thing. Freedom of speech is actually a pretty radical ideal and one that isn't universal outside of the western societies. Even in the US that right is constantly under threat from different sources. At the end of the day it is our believe in the value of freedom of speech that keeps it alive. Look at how often this issue comes up on Slashdot and how people are all up in arms about it. The EFF is constantly busy fighting for it. Didn't some very wise man once said, "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance."? If Iran or China is to have freedom of speech, their people must be convinced of its value and necessity. Until that happens, denying them the technology would lead to them either developing their own or just not connecting to the Internet. I am not sure the latter is actually better.
Know what's better than treating a disease? Avoiding it in the first place. Canada, from what I've read, doesn't have as good of specialist care. On the other hand, they are pretty good at basic and preventative medicine.
Just had an idea, you should communicate with each other in the open via botnets and spammers. Chances are that someone you want to communicate with will get the email. Use stenography and spam them across the Internet. Or if you just want to spread the word, spam in plaintext. Either you get your message through or the spam problem gets solved permanently. Either way you come out ahead.
Don't avoid the cellular networks just because the government controls them. If you go on your own frequency, they will just jam it. What you want to do is to piggy back on something else that would be too expensive for them to shut down. This might be too contrarian but I say use the cellular network but disguise your traffic so they can't sniff it out. In the end that leaves them with only the option of shutting down the entire cellular network, which they wouldn't be able to function without as well. Remember when Blackberry lost the patent lawsuit and how businesses and the government started freaking out? Use their tools against them. Hop on their frequencies. Guerrilla tactics! Blend in.
That's a risk I'm willing to take...
Know what else is good for terrorists? Oxygen and water. Fighting terrorism isn't the end-all-be-all of our priorities. In fact, the flu and cars kill more American annually than terrorists.
It's not irony. That's just being open minded. If MA's plan worked in MA, then why not try it out on a bigger scale? Who cares about who started it or came up with the idea? Ego getting in the way of results is a problem in business, politics, or any project worth doing. In fact, I respect politicians more when they are willing to compromise and go beyond ideology and party line.
This difference seems to escape most people since evolution only "screens" out the unfit individual. Overtime, it looks like it's been designed. My point is that you can design by screening. Just ask the Bonsai gardeners about their pruning.
Assuming what you say is correct, we still have to wonder why did they start the project in the first place if there was no market for it? Perhaps that's why Sun is in such big trouble? A lot of my fellow engineers are amazed by Sun's technology but can't figure out why they're in such bad financial state. This could explain it.
For a project that's more than one or two people, code reviews are vital. They enforce consistency in style and methodology. They also spread knowledge. They mitigate the "bus factor" (how negatively impacted your project will be if someone is hit by a bus). I've worked professionally at two companies. One of them did not have code reviews. Every time someone left the company, the project either grinds to a halt or they have to rewrite that person's work because no one else can understand it. There were a ton of rewrites. At my current company, we use Review Board (open source, built on Django) to do code reviews. People don't leave often but they do transfer around the team to work on different sections. That's rarely ever an issue because the code is understandable by all of us. I work in both the UI and the middle layer with business logic and occasionally DB related code. I can move between the three because the consistency that exists. When I move into a new section, I do make mistakes but those mistakes are caught during code review and I learn.