It is not too late to seek treatment, even if your pancreatic cancer is stage 4.
There has been a lot of success using viruses to target and kill cancer.
I encourage you to watch the new documentary that recently aired on HBO, called "Killing Cancer": https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
If you can't get into a clinical trial, I would encourage you to find a reason, any excuse possible, to get a vaccine (measles, smallpox, rabies, etc).
Regarding your your daughter, I would teach her to avoid the "land mines" in life: financial (debt), health (smoking, drinking excessively, drugs), and emotional (avoiding toxic people).
Good luck.
I think it's pretty cool myself.
There are a lot worse things you could do with your time than creating your own OS.
At least he's learning something and doing what he loves.
The choice between Democrat and Republican is not freedom, but a box to contain you.
Both support these measures.
Both support more spending on the War Department (I refuse to call it by its doublethink name.)
Both oppose ending marijuana prohibition.
Both endorsed and passed the NDAA.
Both support the TSA's existence.
So which one will you choose? It is no different than our ridiculous telecom oligopoly. Sure you can choose, between three equivalently shitty, abusive options.
Choosing between provided options is not freedom, it's multiple choice where no answer is freedom.
Since my father had his stroke, he can't stand the loud TV commercials. He now watches TV with the remote in his hand, and hits mute as soon as it goes to commercial.
I'm one of those people who is naturally good at english, but had difficulty with math. The problem I had when I went to college was that even if I did all the homework, and seemed to understand it, I would still do poorly on the tests. Finally I found a method that worked for me. What I would do to prepare for a test (in addition to completing the homework) is to take a problem from each section of the homework, alter it slightly, and prepare my own practice test. Then I would close my book and try to take my test without any notes. If I did poorly, I would open my book and notes and see what concepts I needed to work on. Then I would draft up another practice test and start over. After a few iterations of this I would be able to complete a practice test and then would do pretty well on the real test when the time came. This technique got me through four semesters of calculus and a semester of differential equations.
After all the problems NASA has had during reentry with foam and tiles on the shuttle, I don't understand why they haven't built a new craft with a better design; something like Burt Rutan's 'feather' reentry system used on SpaceShipOne would be good. It would reduce the risk from these blazing hot reentries.
Every new programmer must learn to program in some language, but we certainly don't need a large variety of books that cater to people at that stage of proficiency - just one or two good ones.
So what are one or two good ones that you would recommend?
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"I didn't fancy the thought of being handed over to the Inquisition like Galileo."
The whole "Galileo vs The Vatican" thing has been kind of exaggerated; the hierarchy in Rome didn't get upset with Galileo because of what he was saying, but rather the way that he said it. Galileo started off with a very good reception in Rome, but by the time he was done he had alienated almost everyone with his aggressive nature. He basically demanded that everyone in the Church either accept Copernicanism (which was unproven at the time) or else deny it, and he didn't want to allow Church authorities the third option of simply accepting it as a valid hypothesis until further proof could be found.
Once you've learned vim, it becomes probably the fastest editor to use. Never having to use the mouse. Being able to quickly move around a document.
Agreed. If you ever want to see a thing of beauty, look over the shoulder of a very experienced Vim user and watch how they unconsciously use the key combinations and edit files at near light speed; it will inspire you to learn Vim in earnest.
My ego? Get a grip - most professors' salaries are pathetic compared to what they could make in industry. You don't go into academia because of ego, you either do it because you love research for the sake of knowledge, or you love teaching.
My aunt once told me that teachers have the biggest egos in the world; I found it rather interesting that she would say this, because she was an English teacher for more than 20 years. However my recent personal experience has supported this. I got a new boss not too long ago and couldn't seem to get along with him no matter how hard I tried, which was something I'd never experienced before. Every time I disagreed with him on a technical issue, he would get so mad you could practically see steam shooting out of his ears. I explained the situation to a friend of mine who worked as a project manager for another company and he asked me to tell him about my new boss. I said, "Well, he's done some programming, some management, and he teaches programming part time at the local university."
"Hold it right there", my friend said. "Every time I've had to work with someone who came out of a university teaching environment, it was very difficult. The reason why is because they come from an environment where they're always right."
He had hit the nail right on the head.
Realizing what type of person I was dealing with, I backed off and quietly tried to just do my job. However after about a month of him constantly looking over my shoulder, rushing me, and criticizing my work, he got what he wanted: I made a mistake on a project. He then pulled me into the VP's office and wrote me up for "poor performance". I then told the VP that I wanted to go back to my old department (a demotion which I gladly accepted), and have since been working happily for a nice boss who has a strong technical background and, more importantly, a laid back personality.
Lesson learned.
Don't go into debt. You need to decide what your priorities are- enjoying your job, or that new house and new car.
I agree that staying out of debt (except for a mortgage maybe) is important. Otherwise if you are carrying a lot of debt and living paycheck to paycheck you're going to be trapped in a bad situation when the pointy-haired boss starts giving you crap. It's nice to be financially secure enough to be able to fire your boss (by quitting) if he starts acting like a jerk. I wish someone had told me that when I was younger.
MySQL is great for some things, but we use PostgreSQL at my job because it supports CIDR: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1519.html
If you have a table in your database full of IP addresses, this is invaluable because you can query blocks of IP addresses using CIDR notation.
...how about some insiteful self-criticism about the role the media (including the tech media) played in building up all the hype that helped produce the atmosphere that allowed these excesses to take place, esp. in light of how they profited from the era (eg. advertising)?
Exactly. I can remember the tech stock analysts on one of the major financial channels (*cough* CNBC *cough*)...they were basically cheerleaders more than they were analysts. They would stand there on the trading floor and gush about the latest IPO from some worthless company and about how people should get in right away before the train left the station. In hindsight it was blatant snake-oil-salesmanship by people we were supposed to trust, but we were all so blinded by the potential for profits that we actually listened.
I am thankful that I only lost some disposable income in the stock market during that time, but many people risked, and lost, far more. Don't get me wrong, I believe that it was our (the investor's) own fault for believing the hype, but damn it when the media (and therefore most of the public) is behind it full force it's that much harder to step back and think critically and independently.
I guess the main lesson I learned from the dot-com fiasco was that the media is basically the equivalent of a chatty, gossipy teenager, who will talk endlessly about the latest bit of dirt regardless of its truth, and then suddenly drop it and shift into a new topic at the drop of a hat; whether it's dot-com-era tech stocks or O.J. or Michael Jackson or whatever, it's time to turn off the TV and think critically after you've heard the media repeat itself for the hundredth time on any given subject.
No, Intel started with the 4004 and later Intel designed the 8008, followed by 8080.
Yes, but Datapoint's 8008 preceded BOTH Intel's 4004 and their 8080, and therefore was the first general purpose eight-bit microprocessor on a single chip. As I stated previously, Datapoint invented the microprocessor, NOT Intel.
What do you suppose Burt Rutan could have done with that kind of funding? This is a disgrace.
Agreed. I still don't understand why NASA has stuck with the Shuttle idea for so long, despite the Challenger and Columbia tragedies. Challenger showed the dangers of riding a fountain of fire on liftoff, and Columbia showed the dangers of the shuttle's super-hot re-entry. Rutan's design for SpaceshipOne eliminated both of these problems: he droplaunched his ship from an aircraft for a safer launch than the shuttle does, and he designed the ingenious "feather" system to slow down re-entry, eliminating the heat problem.
Why doesn't NASA hire him as a consultant, or at least incorporate some of his ideas?
Previous developments of Intel Israel are the 8088 processor...
For historical purposes it is worth noting here that the microprocessor was actually invented in San Antonio, Texas by a company called Datapoint (formerly Computer Terminal Corporation). The architecture of Intel's 8080 processor was virtually identical to Datapoint's 8008 which preceded it by a couple of years.
If you follow cold fusion research, the list of countries that participate in the annual International Conference on Cold Fusion includes France, Japan, and other countries that don't have a lot of natural resources such as coal and oil. Since the US has coal and oil, we don't have as strong a motivation to look into fusion.
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The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason
On how to beat addiction:
Rational Recovery by Jack Trimpey (or just visit rational.org)
There has been a lot of success using viruses to target and kill cancer.
I encourage you to watch the new documentary that recently aired on HBO, called "Killing Cancer":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
If you can't get into a clinical trial, I would encourage you to find a reason, any excuse possible, to get a vaccine (measles, smallpox, rabies, etc).
Regarding your your daughter, I would teach her to avoid the "land mines" in life: financial (debt), health (smoking, drinking excessively, drugs), and emotional (avoiding toxic people).
Good luck.
I think it's pretty cool myself.
There are a lot worse things you could do with your time than creating your own OS.
At least he's learning something and doing what he loves.
Satoshi Nakamoto is the tech world's J.D. Salinger.
The choice between Democrat and Republican is not freedom, but a box to contain you.
Both support these measures.
Both support more spending on the War Department (I refuse to call it by its doublethink name.)
Both oppose ending marijuana prohibition.
Both endorsed and passed the NDAA.
Both support the TSA's existence.
So which one will you choose? It is no different than our ridiculous telecom oligopoly. Sure you can choose, between three equivalently shitty, abusive options.
Choosing between provided options is not freedom, it's multiple choice where no answer is freedom.
+1, well said.
They're batshit crazy in Austin; I know, I used to live there.
Since my father had his stroke, he can't stand the loud TV commercials. He now watches TV with the remote in his hand, and hits mute as soon as it goes to commercial.
Yep, here's a story that illustrates that point pretty well: Gas line explosion rocks neighborhood, sparks fire
I'm one of those people who is naturally good at english, but had difficulty with math. The problem I had when I went to college was that even if I did all the homework, and seemed to understand it, I would still do poorly on the tests. Finally I found a method that worked for me. What I would do to prepare for a test (in addition to completing the homework) is to take a problem from each section of the homework, alter it slightly, and prepare my own practice test. Then I would close my book and try to take my test without any notes. If I did poorly, I would open my book and notes and see what concepts I needed to work on. Then I would draft up another practice test and start over. After a few iterations of this I would be able to complete a practice test and then would do pretty well on the real test when the time came. This technique got me through four semesters of calculus and a semester of differential equations.
After all the problems NASA has had during reentry with foam and tiles on the shuttle, I don't understand why they haven't built a new craft with a better design; something like Burt Rutan's 'feather' reentry system used on SpaceShipOne would be good. It would reduce the risk from these blazing hot reentries.
From a fortune cookie: "A schedule defends from chaos and whim."
So what are one or two good ones that you would recommend?
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/
"I didn't fancy the thought of being handed over to the Inquisition like Galileo."
The whole "Galileo vs The Vatican" thing has been kind of exaggerated; the hierarchy in Rome didn't get upset with Galileo because of what he was saying, but rather the way that he said it. Galileo started off with a very good reception in Rome, but by the time he was done he had alienated almost everyone with his aggressive nature. He basically demanded that everyone in the Church either accept Copernicanism (which was unproven at the time) or else deny it, and he didn't want to allow Church authorities the third option of simply accepting it as a valid hypothesis until further proof could be found.
Once you've learned vim, it becomes probably the fastest editor to use. Never having to use the mouse. Being able to quickly move around a document.
Agreed. If you ever want to see a thing of beauty, look over the shoulder of a very experienced Vim user and watch how they unconsciously use the key combinations and edit files at near light speed; it will inspire you to learn Vim in earnest.
You can sell nuclear energy to me when you can answer the question "What do we do with 48 tons of nuclear waste generated per year per plant?"
I have a truly marvelous solution to this nuclear waste problem, which this margin is too narrow to contain.
My ego? Get a grip - most professors' salaries are pathetic compared to what they could make in industry. You don't go into academia because of ego, you either do it because you love research for the sake of knowledge, or you love teaching.
My aunt once told me that teachers have the biggest egos in the world; I found it rather interesting that she would say this, because she was an English teacher for more than 20 years. However my recent personal experience has supported this. I got a new boss not too long ago and couldn't seem to get along with him no matter how hard I tried, which was something I'd never experienced before. Every time I disagreed with him on a technical issue, he would get so mad you could practically see steam shooting out of his ears. I explained the situation to a friend of mine who worked as a project manager for another company and he asked me to tell him about my new boss. I said, "Well, he's done some programming, some management, and he teaches programming part time at the local university."
"Hold it right there", my friend said. "Every time I've had to work with someone who came out of a university teaching environment, it was very difficult. The reason why is because they come from an environment where they're always right."
He had hit the nail right on the head.
Realizing what type of person I was dealing with, I backed off and quietly tried to just do my job. However after about a month of him constantly looking over my shoulder, rushing me, and criticizing my work, he got what he wanted: I made a mistake on a project. He then pulled me into the VP's office and wrote me up for "poor performance". I then told the VP that I wanted to go back to my old department (a demotion which I gladly accepted), and have since been working happily for a nice boss who has a strong technical background and, more importantly, a laid back personality.
Lesson learned.
Don't go into debt. You need to decide what your priorities are- enjoying your job, or that new house and new car.
I agree that staying out of debt (except for a mortgage maybe) is important. Otherwise if you are carrying a lot of debt and living paycheck to paycheck you're going to be trapped in a bad situation when the pointy-haired boss starts giving you crap. It's nice to be financially secure enough to be able to fire your boss (by quitting) if he starts acting like a jerk. I wish someone had told me that when I was younger.
MySQL is great for some things, but we use PostgreSQL at my job because it supports CIDR:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1519.html
If you have a table in your database full of IP addresses, this is invaluable because you can query blocks of IP addresses using CIDR notation.
...how about some insiteful self-criticism about the role the media (including the tech media) played in building up all the hype that helped produce the atmosphere that allowed these excesses to take place, esp. in light of how they profited from the era (eg. advertising)?
Exactly. I can remember the tech stock analysts on one of the major financial channels (*cough* CNBC *cough*)...they were basically cheerleaders more than they were analysts. They would stand there on the trading floor and gush about the latest IPO from some worthless company and about how people should get in right away before the train left the station. In hindsight it was blatant snake-oil-salesmanship by people we were supposed to trust, but we were all so blinded by the potential for profits that we actually listened.
I am thankful that I only lost some disposable income in the stock market during that time, but many people risked, and lost, far more. Don't get me wrong, I believe that it was our (the investor's) own fault for believing the hype, but damn it when the media (and therefore most of the public) is behind it full force it's that much harder to step back and think critically and independently.
I guess the main lesson I learned from the dot-com fiasco was that the media is basically the equivalent of a chatty, gossipy teenager, who will talk endlessly about the latest bit of dirt regardless of its truth, and then suddenly drop it and shift into a new topic at the drop of a hat; whether it's dot-com-era tech stocks or O.J. or Michael Jackson or whatever, it's time to turn off the TV and think critically after you've heard the media repeat itself for the hundredth time on any given subject.
...produce great whopping crops of blackberries. I picked about three gallons last year, enough to make three pies and twelve jars of jam.
Sweet!
No, Intel started with the 4004 and later Intel designed the 8008, followed by 8080.
Yes, but Datapoint's 8008 preceded BOTH Intel's 4004 and their 8080, and therefore was the first general purpose eight-bit microprocessor on a single chip. As I stated previously, Datapoint invented the microprocessor, NOT Intel.
What do you suppose Burt Rutan could have done with that kind of funding? This is a disgrace.
Agreed. I still don't understand why NASA has stuck with the Shuttle idea for so long, despite the Challenger and Columbia tragedies. Challenger showed the dangers of riding a fountain of fire on liftoff, and Columbia showed the dangers of the shuttle's super-hot re-entry. Rutan's design for SpaceshipOne eliminated both of these problems: he droplaunched his ship from an aircraft for a safer launch than the shuttle does, and he designed the ingenious "feather" system to slow down re-entry, eliminating the heat problem.
Why doesn't NASA hire him as a consultant, or at least incorporate some of his ideas?
Previous developments of Intel Israel are the 8088 processor...
For historical purposes it is worth noting here that the microprocessor was actually invented in San Antonio, Texas by a company called Datapoint (formerly Computer Terminal Corporation).
The architecture of Intel's 8080 processor was virtually identical to Datapoint's 8008 which preceded it by a couple of years.
If you follow cold fusion research, the list of countries that participate in the annual International Conference on Cold Fusion includes France, Japan, and other countries that don't have a lot of natural resources such as coal and oil.
Since the US has coal and oil, we don't have as strong a motivation to look into fusion.