Reminds me of that story about the retired englishmen doing his crosswords and then looking up on google '*non-domesticated* Asian *donkey*' (you can do the math replacing the ** words by equivalents)
I disagree. Is a program too complicated if it has 1. input, 2. output, and 3. logging? Is a program to prepare images for an online store too complicated if it reads 1. raw source images and 2. an overlay image and writes 3. finished images?
Logging is write-only for the program. But yes, the definition is debatable (not the 'spirit' so much).
If Linux can do it, you shouldn't.
That'd be fine if we all ran Linux. But in an organization that already has to run Microsoft Access for other reasons, we have to take Windows into consideration. And I don't think Ted Dziuba was talking about just using Windows as a shell to run Linux in VirtualBox OSE either.
But windows and libraries does a lot as well. The problem here is reinventing the wheel.
Don't do image processing work with PIL unless you have proven that command-line ImageMagick won't do the job.
Our programmer is far more experienced in Python than in bash, and if I felt like it, I could benchmark PIL against subprocess.Popen(['convert',...]).
Yeah, debatable. But it's sometimes easier to do in ImageMagick, if you need only file->file ops.
In a previous job I once got change control approval to clad my entire building in two foot thick lead to prevent ram parity errors.The fools were too dumb to know what they were approving. When I told them they just brushed their ignorance under the carpet and carried on with the same ignorant change control process.
Well I guess you shouldn't have told them and let them go ahead with it!!!
And on mobile phones, data isn't so cheap -- isn't SMS the world's most expensive data transfer? -- so ideographs are massively more efficient to the consumer.
No, srsly
That's like 3 chinese unicode characters
Efficiency goes both ways.
And the true efficiency of Arabic writing versus Chinese characters (in the computer): font size (not size of text, but size of the font file)
Yeah, but that's a rather clumsy way to send messages.
They could have written it on the spy's facebook wall, I mean. And they don't even need to write, just 'like' a specific post.
I'm being funny here, but the idea stays. In the era of internet, cell phones and encryption, maintaining a very low bandwidth comm channel is almost useless.Not to mention syncing the transmission.
Just kidding... if they are looking for linguists they are probably going to base their skill assessment on actual research published by the candidate.
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And he's ex-Juniper
Besides, I hope Nokia did their homework
Reminds me of that story about the retired englishmen doing his crosswords and then looking up on google '*non-domesticated* Asian *donkey*' (you can do the math replacing the ** words by equivalents)
Yes, he was really scared
I disagree. Is a program too complicated if it has 1. input, 2. output, and 3. logging? Is a program to prepare images for an online store too complicated if it reads 1. raw source images and 2. an overlay image and writes 3. finished images?
Logging is write-only for the program. But yes, the definition is debatable (not the 'spirit' so much).
If Linux can do it, you shouldn't.
That'd be fine if we all ran Linux. But in an organization that already has to run Microsoft Access for other reasons, we have to take Windows into consideration. And I don't think Ted Dziuba was talking about just using Windows as a shell to run Linux in VirtualBox OSE either.
But windows and libraries does a lot as well. The problem here is reinventing the wheel.
Don't do image processing work with PIL unless you have proven that command-line ImageMagick won't do the job.
Our programmer is far more experienced in Python than in bash, and if I felt like it, I could benchmark PIL against subprocess.Popen(['convert', ...]).
Yeah, debatable. But it's sometimes easier to do in ImageMagick, if you need only file->file ops.
Well, for me a solid-state physicist is a computer that thinks about physics.
So yeah, you're probably right. Next on /. it will be "brain in a jar makes new discovery about cold-fusion"
Well too bad, they like acid places, it's basic environments that's bad for them :P
From Wikipedia each multi chip module takes as much as 1800W (six processors)
No figures for 1 chip though
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_z196_(microprocessor)
You actually can go faster without x86 hogging you down
I'm not sure they took ATI manufacturing "inside"
When it was only ATI it was fabless, all was done in those foundries in taiwan (TSMC, etc), etc
Which manufacturing workers exactly?!
ATI does not have a plant. It's all TMSC and the other one I forgot how's it called.
Pro-tip: buy a Mac for the designers
Problem solved
They should just go for Lionel Ritchie then.
I think you're right
How much money did they spend screening and pre-screening candidates?! Are all THAT bad?!
Go ahead and hire someone already. It's not going to suck, unless they are really stupid at finding people (probably not)
And still, you can always fire the guy.
In a previous job I once got change control approval to clad my entire building in two foot thick lead to prevent ram parity errors.The fools were too dumb to know what they were approving. When I told them they just brushed their ignorance under the carpet and carried on with the same ignorant change control process.
Well I guess you shouldn't have told them and let them go ahead with it!!!
Java's death means .NET and Windows in the server arena. Do you really want that?
BS
Still, less servers? Less people using Java?! TOUGH for Oracle.
Which portals?! Which apps?!
This is truly horrible and no php or perl can not just replace it for mission critical servers
True. But a mix of tech can. I just hope we don't have to go back to C++
If you can't even trust personal recommendations recruiting anyone will be a very hard process.
Well, there you go, you can't. Or better, who trust personal recommendations?!
I know for example if person X recommends me someone I would trust much more than person Y
Obligatory:
http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/2010/08/a-long-time-ago-before-death-by-powerpoint.html
And on mobile phones, data isn't so cheap -- isn't SMS the world's most expensive data transfer? -- so ideographs are massively more efficient to the consumer.
No, srsly
That's like 3 chinese unicode characters
Efficiency goes both ways.
And the true efficiency of Arabic writing versus Chinese characters (in the computer): font size (not size of text, but size of the font file)
Hi, Foobar, can I sit at your terminal, you know, just to check my Foobar account, is that OK? (check & mate).
Let me guess, it's Alice and Bob again.
Darn those two!
They should have gone with AIX or Solaris on PPC / Sparc
That's why I joined the "Induction to the absurd" club at my school...
because Hypothetical syllogism was much too hypothetical to me.
Wow, you're right, great post. I guess 10W was a bit too much.
Mind you, I based my post on personal experiences with tiny transmitters built at home.
I would pick up the transmission from an FM transmitter from about 150ft/50m away
But with a similar powered AM transmitter, it would barely barely pick up anything just outside of the room.
10W
10Watts
sorry for this, but ARE YOU FSCKING INSANE?!? (ok, you were 10, still)
I'd say for FM range 1W is already "suicidal" I wouldn't go over 100mW unless I was looking for trouble
For AM range it's different, you can pump around 10W and it won't go anywhere further than your house (I guess)
Yeah, but that's a rather clumsy way to send messages.
They could have written it on the spy's facebook wall, I mean. And they don't even need to write, just 'like' a specific post.
I'm being funny here, but the idea stays. In the era of internet, cell phones and encryption, maintaining a very low bandwidth comm channel is almost useless.Not to mention syncing the transmission.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_escape
See the first item. You're right that it floats, but it would 'stick around' like oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, etc
Shoe size?!
Just kidding... if they are looking for linguists they are probably going to base their skill assessment on actual research published by the candidate.