Recently Google has come under fire for changing the result of searches for specific countries. Since the release of GoogleAds, Google changes the results for searches in order to support their advertising business model. Google has also "punished" organizations that try to take advantage of this model in a manner that is not "traditional searching", for cases where GoogleAds were used, and even where they were not.
Given this context, with a recent slashdot article describing how various politicians have had their constituents edit their respective wiki topics, do you see a model for the wiki to inhibit this kind of abuse, without removing the means of the wiki which allows for open editing?
As usual, I am the idiot who judges all of the possible responses, and then puts them into a single response, in order to make myself feel good.
But seriously, there was a time when I worked MINIMUM 18 hours a day (occasionally working 2 days at a time...) and often times half of each session was a bright LCD and a tube monitor in the dark.
That is basically the worse case of all the scenarios I read in the previous posts.
Recently I have found my eye sight to be deteriorating as well. I do not wear glasses, and I have 20/20 vision (last time I was tested). It has been about a year since I was really grinding the stone 18 hours a day, but most recently it is not so much that I have noticed my eye sight getting worse, but that if I squint - things are NOTICEABLY clearer. I have also noticed that my concentration is less than optimal.
About 4 months ago, I gave up coffee ( on occasion it still happens ) and it has been about a year since I gave up serious caffeine beverages (Coke, Jolt, most of the brown sodas really, and Tea).
I do not know how this all relates, but reading the head post and give my most recent experiences, I could not help but throw another data point (that is useful) on this thread and hope it helps others. I have not looked into any of the eye exercises, but if anyone has any suggestions or similiar experiences, it would be much appreciated.
My overall suggestion would definitely be to forget what anyone is saying about getting more sleep. DO WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO. MAKE A GOAL AND GET IT DONE - AND THEN REFLECT. Read some of Paul Graham's essays on doing your best work all at once. Eventually you will NEED to get some rest, but first I would make the extra effort to do whatever it is you need to do, and then use it as an extreme reference point for when you get the most done versus how it affects you physically. You don't know what you can do until you push yourself to the edge! All of the surveys and suggestions out there are for "optimal" health, but trust me - if you can make it worth your while - the lesser stress level of having extra dollars in your bank account may just be worth it!
I would suggest getting outside though, some genuine fresh air and blue sky always helps me. That is why I suggest pushing yourself. Use the winter as a cave of productivity - and wait for the summer to relax and take 5 hour days.
Finally as far as the actually headaches and vision go, I don't know because I am trying to figure out my own situation. I agree with those that note the light in the background, as well as getting a desktop, AND especially if you are going to use dual monitors, make sure they are the same, and on the same refresh rate - opposing refresh rates will definitely give you headaches and blurry vision. Make sure there are no reflective things bothering you as well. In highschool I used get tears in my eyes due to the damn overhead projector, which is a shame because I am only 24 and there were better resources available, but my one Physics professor loved to have the overhead on the softmarker board. He was a good teach tho.
That is all!
Perhaps/. should open a section regarding nerd health?
He nailed it. I am constantly concerned that blanket statements do not even help the opinion, but really take slashdot down a notch in reputation. Why do we have to squabble when a good question such as this is posed?
The entire aspect of J2EE is ruined by someone saying that for a "web app" developer, Swing has no relevence. I ACTUALLY just built a J2EE web application. We already have numerous Swing tools, and a thick client that you can access via webstart is on the way. Consider the scalable implications of your system if you choose Ruby for an application? It will be that much harder to build thick application upon it. Of course it can be done - but for anyone who has written COM to integrate a PERL application with a VBS app, my experience tells me that it might have been easier if they had chosen J2EE from the start?
I think there should be 2 categories of questions. One for simple questions that people would like to read, and the second for questions regarding myths. Examples follow:
1. Can you guys illustrate why blowing into the back of old school nintendo cartridges almost always worked?
2. Can you guys find data to support that myth that if you cross your eyes too much, they will stay that way?
In addition to that, I was wondering how much of you the experiments come straight from the two of you? How often do you need to get an expert's help?
It pleases me to see that the good intentions of open source standards are taking a more aggressive approach to defending the open source development method of software.
As all of us/.-ers know, programming is much more of an art than its hard outer shell lets on. It is a shame when the work of an artist is hidden from another for profit, and at the loss of innovation!
I do not understand why there seems to be so much complaining in the discussion?
Is this not what we want? Just getting such a thing in the spotlight for a week in the US should be considered a milestone!
It has to start somewhere.
I would rather see people complain about the politics when their own state switches to OO standards. I live in Boston, and I pay more in rent than most people pay for their mortgage! There is certainly a lot to complain about, but perhaps this would be an opportunity to appreciate the efforts of a lot of socially conscious people (probably not Ted Kennedy).
Hi Ron,
I am going to reply to you directly simply because this is far too late of a post to get modded anywhere!
I think you are correct saying that we/.ers are partially to blame. In general we have a kind of nerd-chip on our shoulder that encourages us to be overly cynical, especially regarding our employers. It is as if we feel that everyone owes us something for being able to do what we do?
In any case, it is just a general feeling, I would also say it seems that it has calmed down a bit as many of us have gotten a little older. Which brings me to my real point - I used to suffer horribly from this nerd-chip. UNTIL I owned and ran my own business... I certainly feel for all managers, and I cannot agree more with your assertion that so many managers are taught: "you don't need to understand technology to manage it". Perhaps it is possible, but the BEST managers are by far those that understand it. BY FAR. I take your post seriously because I could definitely be making WAY more money - but I have been hesitant to do so because I am very lucky to have one of the best management teams I have ever seen.
I think the spelling and grammar errors are symptoms of this nerd-chip and I think if we can clean it up the entire community would take a step towards gaining a bit more respect as well as adding some more forethought to posts before cluttering up an otherwise excellent discussion group.
Finally, as if anyone else did read this post...
I have seen the same kinds of things out of managers that simply do not know what is going on. The best thing I can suggest is to be infinitely patient, and do your best to tactfully illustrate problems and solutions to managers in such a way that they gain insight into the complexity of the details. In the long run - you cannot imagine what it is like to have a manager that is always batting for you - no matter what.
I don't know if anybody posted this, but depending on how much you want to formalize the content-push process, then perhaps Tidy is what you are looking for.
If you are considering any kind of scripting solution, I would look into it. I would also include the DreamWeaver option as well in your thinking, if you are not considering a scripted solution.
I wonder if they took the entire idea of brain damaged people trying to understand sarcasm and replayed it as a scene for a large portion of brain damaged people, if they would find it funny? As horrible as it is, it just points out that some things are obviously not funny to people, when the sarcasm has to do with them!
I think i would be mostly curious to hear about the details of what was considered the scenes for measuring sarcasm comprehension, and then redistributing it to different cultures, as well as to different professions in particular!
2 cents
~tim
It is far too late in this post for anyone to read this, but if they do i hope it encourages some thought...
I am on the same plain as many bloggers and bloggees, in that i see it primarily as an electronic diary of sorts, but often time published with the sense that an unknown audience may read it.
The case in point is that in many cases there are private blogs, where more than likely just your friends and family will take a gander, and other cases where we have professional blogs of sorts. When people actually go to get your opinion or references to other information sources. Kind of like an expert opinion being referenced as "factual" in a court. Anyways - i am wondering how long it will be until there are blogs that are not even written by people, but written by their secretaries (excuse me - administrators) or subordinates - assistant content managers - whatever! For example, in many cases, i know people that do not have enough time to get out all of their emails. This is pretty common, things like meetings and logistical stuff are handled by someone else.
At some point blogs are going to be written by someone else, and then signed off by owner of the the blog as if it were their own, just b/c of the way in which blogs are becoming as necessary as a company having their own.com.
I am not pundit, but i predict this!
Hope someone reads this, and perhaps knows of an example or can see some simliarities in the trend?
I know plenty of people that might benefit from an IE book, so i see no reason why a FF wouldn't be helpful.
My main point for resonding however, is that O'Reilly is obviously a very important point of tech media - AKA - marketing! Just a book being created about FF gives it a lot of "populace" credit. It is almost like a marketing milestone. This is a huge benefit to the idea in general, just like all the New York Times articles on FF we have been seen.
I am sure we will see an "Idiots guide to FF" soon enough!
Noticed that this post was hovering around 30 posts, and so i thought i would toss in some relevent tidbits that are pretty interesting.
I graduated with a CS degree, and now i run a data warehouse, and architect an enterprise java application. Things are going well, but as many of us are aware, it may not be going so well for everyone that just graduated...
case in point - a buddy of mine got a good job out of school, but it isn't great, not like what we all pictured when we signed up in the midst of the boom 5 years ago! About a month ago, an old friend of ours called up and said he had positions available for Forsenic Scientists (paid bank). I kept asking what portion was related to CS or technology, and he kept replying - NONE! The only part is the ability to methodically research details and clues! Can anyone say.... debugging?!
Anyways... i started to think about it, and compared with some of the criminal justice majors i know, CS grads really are more capable to handle that kind of stuff. Just like abstract puzzles, RPGs, and even some of the "lock-picking" articles i have been seeing. Anyone have a simliar tale? Anyone know of a school that has a curriculum that tailors to that kind of profession?
I definitely agree that it is extremely difficult for most people to ACTUALLY multitask.
In school we did some reading upon some experiments that related to such concepts. I am sure many of you have heard of the ideas, but the basic conclusion was that human beings CANNOT keep track of more than 7 things at a time, and most (90%) people really cannot keep track of more than 3 things at a time.
The point i would like to make here is that it is specific to 3 or 4 conscious items. Basically... if you can do something so well, that you do not have to think about it, then you are more likely to multitask better. Like whe you first tried to walk, now you don't have to think about it, but it is still a task. Many of us are pros at writing code off the top of our head, and doing reviews and replying to emails without thought.... HOWEVER - DO NOT PRACTICE DRIVING, TALKING ON THE PHONE, EATING A BAGLE, AND READING THE STREET WHEN YOU ARE DOING 90 ON THE HIGHWAY!!!!!
TOP PRIORITY IS CO-OP
Even a great school can only teach you so much,
and to an employer, with the exception of those top 10 schools, they are all the same.
I had 2 years of good hard experience when i got my bachelors in CS. I had a job waiting for me, and it was a tougher market then, than it is now.
Most of the time if your school does not have co-op, you can kind of rig it yourself, by convincing an employer, and then switching up your classes appropriately, but DEFINITELY DEFINITELY DEFINITELY DEFINITELY get as much co-op as you can.
I posted at the top level a whole menagerie supporting the idea. If you note the link at the bottom of the post, i worked for cst. I think network inference was one of their partners? Oh well, anyways, just out there trying to make products to the same standard every day!
Hi there,
Kind of a late reply here, but i had to take care of some emails.
Anyways, I used RDF in a proprietary OWL-like software company for the purpose of organizing content repositories in a formal language that would span the domain of the company i was working for.
14erCleaner noted that the web is popular b/c it is so easy to create web pages. I would have to agree with this, and also add that the reason why the RDF and OWL spec are important is along the lines of what nizo posted about the web being all about porn! There is SO much content, and yet to derive any kind of automated meaning from all of it, would be a task that is almost out of the scope of realisticly ever completing. There is no standard to the structure of documents, nor how one document may relate to another.
The RDF and OWL specs provide a framework that do exactly that. Berniers-Lee and the RDF working group essentially lay down what is infact (sorry 14erCleaner, but a 20 yr old intern got it pretty easily) a simple (yet ambiguous) way of describing something. It is like this. Something-RelatesTo-Something. Read the spec and keep that in mind, and that is the basis of what they have described. The OWL i am not as familiar with (too busy building a proprietary one!!)
anyways, enuf rant, i would encourage everyone to read what he has to say, and most of all, if you are a web author, use the RDF spec! imagine if instead of using google to do a text search for whatever was on your mind, you could write a sql statement that actually represented the structure of resource web pages on the internet and brought you to a list of documents relating EXACTLY to the Something-RelatesTo-Something sentence you had entered as your query! That is the true possibility of this "redesign"!
~not there any longer, but a good plug for this technology - they are making ontologies for health care purposes, basically all the info surrounding the care of a premature baby! Can't get a more noble cause than that!
http://www.cstlink.com/
I read in a previous post a statement that was summarized to: "machines do not cause stress, people cause stress", and another lovely one by jem i think: "correlation does not imply causation".
I read A LOT of posts, but only reply to some. And i think those two quotes hit on what i think. I work for a semi-conductor company and run my own software company when i get home. Essentially i have no one else to be responsible for, other than employees and peers at work. Just based on this, i would strip your comparison to those that ARE married and ARE NOT, and of course HAVE children and DO NOT HAVE children. Even the most patient and stressless (word??) person might find need to worry when there is a new little mouth to feed. I say this because i have no extra mouths to feed, and therefore cannot speak intelligently on the subject.
But back to the point, i have A LOT going on, and i am successful and all ( deadlines sometimes exceptions;) ) my projects are working out. This means that i do not stress about these things, if they fail, i pick up and start again. Stress is like subconscious complaining. It does not do any good, and most of the time it is harmful to physical and mental health, and can even defeat progress in general. Some people work well with stress, i work well because i will succeed.
I am a recent addition to the list of MA residents, coming from a nearby another New England state.
MA is interesting in that i saw a statistic which noted that 40% of the taxed dollars in MA, go to the logistics of maintaining the taxes themselves. MA is known for high taxes in many respects, but any system that could possibly cut down on this percentage, and also encourage the tech market seems a plus to me.
Given the "Big Brother"-ness of the credit and tax system to begin with, i would rather have it at least organized to begin with.
I agree with the previous poster that said, it would be more encouraged to know that the DB and technology included companies as well.
sadly, i agree that this is the most important aspect of generating revenue in any company
i am in the situation where i see my NEW company making it with very little funding, simply b/c we have the right contacts, entry points, and of course determination (code)
I was lucky enuf to get there before the usual/. traffic turned it into gridlock so...
Yeah, that sounds pretty consistent with most companies. Take a silly task, have a outside company take care of it, and it just so happens that they do everything in India. A friend of mine works for Sapient, and he says all he does is have conference calls with the other side of world! I guess if he got hired tho, the MIT grads have a good chance too!
Another interesting spin was what a fella Rahul was saying about the demon of capitalism. Those that can do it cheaper and better will always get the money. Whether it is trully better or not is up for debate, but for those that are in industry know that most of the time, it is in the very least a very viable option. The thing that i want to put up to the flame is what people think of the "capitalistic" approach to the forum posting. I have heard all kinds of politicians speak on this: encouraging companies to stay here, global diversity increases the welfare for everyone, and i was curious what kind of experience or sources people might have to support either idea.
Slashdot Mirror
Recently Google has come under fire for changing the result of searches for specific countries. Since the release of GoogleAds, Google changes the results for searches in order to support their advertising business model. Google has also "punished" organizations that try to take advantage of this model in a manner that is not "traditional searching", for cases where GoogleAds were used, and even where they were not.
Given this context, with a recent slashdot article describing how various politicians have had their constituents edit their respective wiki topics, do you see a model for the wiki to inhibit this kind of abuse, without removing the means of the wiki which allows for open editing?
Thanks! ~tim
As usual, I am the idiot who judges all of the possible responses, and then puts them into a single response, in order to make myself feel good.
But seriously, there was a time when I worked MINIMUM 18 hours a day (occasionally working 2 days at a time...) and often times half of each session was a bright LCD and a tube monitor in the dark.
That is basically the worse case of all the scenarios I read in the previous posts.
Recently I have found my eye sight to be deteriorating as well. I do not wear glasses, and I have 20/20 vision (last time I was tested). It has been about a year since I was really grinding the stone 18 hours a day, but most recently it is not so much that I have noticed my eye sight getting worse, but that if I squint - things are NOTICEABLY clearer. I have also noticed that my concentration is less than optimal.
About 4 months ago, I gave up coffee ( on occasion it still happens ) and it has been about a year since I gave up serious caffeine beverages (Coke, Jolt, most of the brown sodas really, and Tea).
I do not know how this all relates, but reading the head post and give my most recent experiences, I could not help but throw another data point (that is useful) on this thread and hope it helps others. I have not looked into any of the eye exercises, but if anyone has any suggestions or similiar experiences, it would be much appreciated.
My overall suggestion would definitely be to forget what anyone is saying about getting more sleep. DO WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO. MAKE A GOAL AND GET IT DONE - AND THEN REFLECT. Read some of Paul Graham's essays on doing your best work all at once. Eventually you will NEED to get some rest, but first I would make the extra effort to do whatever it is you need to do, and then use it as an extreme reference point for when you get the most done versus how it affects you physically. You don't know what you can do until you push yourself to the edge! All of the surveys and suggestions out there are for "optimal" health, but trust me - if you can make it worth your while - the lesser stress level of having extra dollars in your bank account may just be worth it!
I would suggest getting outside though, some genuine fresh air and blue sky always helps me. That is why I suggest pushing yourself. Use the winter as a cave of productivity - and wait for the summer to relax and take 5 hour days.
Finally as far as the actually headaches and vision go, I don't know because I am trying to figure out my own situation. I agree with those that note the light in the background, as well as getting a desktop, AND especially if you are going to use dual monitors, make sure they are the same, and on the same refresh rate - opposing refresh rates will definitely give you headaches and blurry vision. Make sure there are no reflective things bothering you as well. In highschool I used get tears in my eyes due to the damn overhead projector, which is a shame because I am only 24 and there were better resources available, but my one Physics professor loved to have the overhead on the softmarker board. He was a good teach tho.
That is all!
Perhaps
Thanks,
~tim
Boink
He nailed it. I am constantly concerned that blanket statements do not even help the opinion, but really take slashdot down a notch in reputation. Why do we have to squabble when a good question such as this is posed?
The entire aspect of J2EE is ruined by someone saying that for a "web app" developer, Swing has no relevence. I ACTUALLY just built a J2EE web application. We already have numerous Swing tools, and a thick client that you can access via webstart is on the way. Consider the scalable implications of your system if you choose Ruby for an application? It will be that much harder to build thick application upon it. Of course it can be done - but for anyone who has written COM to integrate a PERL application with a VBS app, my experience tells me that it might have been easier if they had chosen J2EE from the start?
Nothing Earth shattering - just my two cents!
Now get back to work!
~tim
I think there should be 2 categories of questions. One for simple questions that people would like to read, and the second for questions regarding myths. Examples follow:
1. Can you guys illustrate why blowing into the back of old school nintendo cartridges almost always worked?
2. Can you guys find data to support that myth that if you cross your eyes too much, they will stay that way?
In addition to that, I was wondering how much of you the experiments come straight from the two of you? How often do you need to get an expert's help?
Thanks! ~tim
It pleases me to see that the good intentions of open source standards are taking a more aggressive approach to defending the open source development method of software.
As all of us
~tim
I do not understand why there seems to be so much complaining in the discussion?
Is this not what we want? Just getting such a thing in the spotlight for a week in the US should be considered a milestone!
It has to start somewhere.
I would rather see people complain about the politics when their own state switches to OO standards. I live in Boston, and I pay more in rent than most people pay for their mortgage! There is certainly a lot to complain about, but perhaps this would be an opportunity to appreciate the efforts of a lot of socially conscious people (probably not Ted Kennedy).
*Just trying to look on the bright side*
~tim
Hi Ron, I am going to reply to you directly simply because this is far too late of a post to get modded anywhere!
/.ers are partially to blame. In general we have a kind of nerd-chip on our shoulder that encourages us to be overly cynical, especially regarding our employers. It is as if we feel that everyone owes us something for being able to do what we do?
I think you are correct saying that we
In any case, it is just a general feeling, I would also say it seems that it has calmed down a bit as many of us have gotten a little older. Which brings me to my real point - I used to suffer horribly from this nerd-chip. UNTIL I owned and ran my own business... I certainly feel for all managers, and I cannot agree more with your assertion that so many managers are taught: "you don't need to understand technology to manage it". Perhaps it is possible, but the BEST managers are by far those that understand it. BY FAR. I take your post seriously because I could definitely be making WAY more money - but I have been hesitant to do so because I am very lucky to have one of the best management teams I have ever seen.
I think the spelling and grammar errors are symptoms of this nerd-chip and I think if we can clean it up the entire community would take a step towards gaining a bit more respect as well as adding some more forethought to posts before cluttering up an otherwise excellent discussion group.
Finally, as if anyone else did read this post...
I have seen the same kinds of things out of managers that simply do not know what is going on. The best thing I can suggest is to be infinitely patient, and do your best to tactfully illustrate problems and solutions to managers in such a way that they gain insight into the complexity of the details. In the long run - you cannot imagine what it is like to have a manager that is always batting for you - no matter what.
My 2 cents.
Thanks, ~tim
I don't know if anybody posted this, but depending on how much you want to formalize the content-push process, then perhaps Tidy is what you are looking for.
http://tidy.sourceforge.net/
If you are considering any kind of scripting solution, I would look into it. I would also include the DreamWeaver option as well in your thinking, if you are not considering a scripted solution.
Best of luck! ~tim
I wonder if they took the entire idea of brain damaged people trying to understand sarcasm and replayed it as a scene for a large portion of brain damaged people, if they would find it funny? As horrible as it is, it just points out that some things are obviously not funny to people, when the sarcasm has to do with them! I think i would be mostly curious to hear about the details of what was considered the scenes for measuring sarcasm comprehension, and then redistributing it to different cultures, as well as to different professions in particular! 2 cents ~tim
It is far too late in this post for anyone to read this, but if they do i hope it encourages some thought...
I am on the same plain as many bloggers and bloggees, in that i see it primarily as an electronic diary of sorts, but often time published with the sense that an unknown audience may read it.
The case in point is that in many cases there are private blogs, where more than likely just your friends and family will take a gander, and other cases where we have professional blogs of sorts. When people actually go to get your opinion or references to other information sources. Kind of like an expert opinion being referenced as "factual" in a court. Anyways - i am wondering how long it will be until there are blogs that are not even written by people, but written by their secretaries (excuse me - administrators) or subordinates - assistant content managers - whatever! For example, in many cases, i know people that do not have enough time to get out all of their emails. This is pretty common, things like meetings and logistical stuff are handled by someone else.
At some point blogs are going to be written by someone else, and then signed off by owner of the the blog as if it were their own, just b/c of the way in which blogs are becoming as necessary as a company having their own
I am not pundit, but i predict this!
Hope someone reads this, and perhaps knows of an example or can see some simliarities in the trend?
Thanks!
i do not know if anyone *really* needs it.
I know plenty of people that might benefit from an IE book, so i see no reason why a FF wouldn't be helpful.
My main point for resonding however, is that O'Reilly is obviously a very important point of tech media - AKA - marketing! Just a book being created about FF gives it a lot of "populace" credit. It is almost like a marketing milestone. This is a huge benefit to the idea in general, just like all the New York Times articles on FF we have been seen.
I am sure we will see an "Idiots guide to FF" soon enough!
~tim
Hi all,
Noticed that this post was hovering around 30 posts, and so i thought i would toss in some relevent tidbits that are pretty interesting.
I graduated with a CS degree, and now i run a data warehouse, and architect an enterprise java application. Things are going well, but as many of us are aware, it may not be going so well for everyone that just graduated...
case in point - a buddy of mine got a good job out of school, but it isn't great, not like what we all pictured when we signed up in the midst of the boom 5 years ago! About a month ago, an old friend of ours called up and said he had positions available for Forsenic Scientists (paid bank). I kept asking what portion was related to CS or technology, and he kept replying - NONE! The only part is the ability to methodically research details and clues! Can anyone say.... debugging?!
Anyways... i started to think about it, and compared with some of the criminal justice majors i know, CS grads really are more capable to handle that kind of stuff. Just like abstract puzzles, RPGs, and even some of the "lock-picking" articles i have been seeing. Anyone have a simliar tale? Anyone know of a school that has a curriculum that tailors to that kind of profession?
Thanks! ~tim
I definitely agree that it is extremely difficult for most people to ACTUALLY multitask.
In school we did some reading upon some experiments that related to such concepts. I am sure many of you have heard of the ideas, but the basic conclusion was that human beings CANNOT keep track of more than 7 things at a time, and most (90%) people really cannot keep track of more than 3 things at a time.
The point i would like to make here is that it is specific to 3 or 4 conscious items. Basically... if you can do something so well, that you do not have to think about it, then you are more likely to multitask better. Like whe you first tried to walk, now you don't have to think about it, but it is still a task. Many of us are pros at writing code off the top of our head, and doing reviews and replying to emails without thought.... HOWEVER - DO NOT PRACTICE DRIVING, TALKING ON THE PHONE, EATING A BAGLE, AND READING THE STREET WHEN YOU ARE DOING 90 ON THE HIGHWAY!!!!!
thank you ~tim
TOP PRIORITY IS CO-OP
Even a great school can only teach you so much, and to an employer, with the exception of those top 10 schools, they are all the same.
I had 2 years of good hard experience when i got my bachelors in CS. I had a job waiting for me, and it was a tougher market then, than it is now.
Most of the time if your school does not have co-op, you can kind of rig it yourself, by convincing an employer, and then switching up your classes appropriately, but DEFINITELY DEFINITELY DEFINITELY DEFINITELY get as much co-op as you can.
Good luck bud!
I posted at the top level a whole menagerie supporting the idea. If you note the link at the bottom of the post, i worked for cst. I think network inference was one of their partners? Oh well, anyways, just out there trying to make products to the same standard every day!
Best of luck! lataz!
~tim
Hi there,
Kind of a late reply here, but i had to take care of some emails.
Anyways, I used RDF in a proprietary OWL-like software company for the purpose of organizing content repositories in a formal language that would span the domain of the company i was working for.
14erCleaner noted that the web is popular b/c it is so easy to create web pages. I would have to agree with this, and also add that the reason why the RDF and OWL spec are important is along the lines of what nizo posted about the web being all about porn! There is SO much content, and yet to derive any kind of automated meaning from all of it, would be a task that is almost out of the scope of realisticly ever completing. There is no standard to the structure of documents, nor how one document may relate to another.
The RDF and OWL specs provide a framework that do exactly that. Berniers-Lee and the RDF working group essentially lay down what is infact (sorry 14erCleaner, but a 20 yr old intern got it pretty easily) a simple (yet ambiguous) way of describing something. It is like this. Something-RelatesTo-Something. Read the spec and keep that in mind, and that is the basis of what they have described. The OWL i am not as familiar with (too busy building a proprietary one!!)
anyways, enuf rant, i would encourage everyone to read what he has to say, and most of all, if you are a web author, use the RDF spec! imagine if instead of using google to do a text search for whatever was on your mind, you could write a sql statement that actually represented the structure of resource web pages on the internet and brought you to a list of documents relating EXACTLY to the Something-RelatesTo-Something sentence you had entered as your query! That is the true possibility of this "redesign"!
~not there any longer, but a good plug for this technology - they are making ontologies for health care purposes, basically all the info surrounding the care of a premature baby! Can't get a more noble cause than that!
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I read in a previous post a statement that was summarized to: "machines do not cause stress, people cause stress", and another lovely one by jem i think: "correlation does not imply causation".
I read A LOT of posts, but only reply to some. And i think those two quotes hit on what i think. I work for a semi-conductor company and run my own software company when i get home. Essentially i have no one else to be responsible for, other than employees and peers at work. Just based on this, i would strip your comparison to those that ARE married and ARE NOT, and of course HAVE children and DO NOT HAVE children. Even the most patient and stressless (word??) person might find need to worry when there is a new little mouth to feed. I say this because i have no extra mouths to feed, and therefore cannot speak intelligently on the subject.
But back to the point, i have A LOT going on, and i am successful and all ( deadlines sometimes exceptions ;) ) my projects are working out. This means that i do not stress about these things, if they fail, i pick up and start again. Stress is like subconscious complaining. It does not do any good, and most of the time it is harmful to physical and mental health, and can even defeat progress in general. Some people work well with stress, i work well because i will succeed.
Hope that helps!
MA is interesting in that i saw a statistic which noted that 40% of the taxed dollars in MA, go to the logistics of maintaining the taxes themselves. MA is known for high taxes in many respects, but any system that could possibly cut down on this percentage, and also encourage the tech market seems a plus to me.
Given the "Big Brother"-ness of the credit and tax system to begin with, i would rather have it at least organized to begin with.
I agree with the previous poster that said, it would be more encouraged to know that the DB and technology included companies as well.
i am in the situation where i see my NEW company making it with very little funding, simply b/c we have the right contacts, entry points, and of course determination (code)
i will be sure to give the update in 1 year
Yeah, that sounds pretty consistent with most companies. Take a silly task, have a outside company take care of it, and it just so happens that they do everything in India. A friend of mine works for Sapient, and he says all he does is have conference calls with the other side of world! I guess if he got hired tho, the MIT grads have a good chance too!
Another interesting spin was what a fella Rahul was saying about the demon of capitalism. Those that can do it cheaper and better will always get the money. Whether it is trully better or not is up for debate, but for those that are in industry know that most of the time, it is in the very least a very viable option. The thing that i want to put up to the flame is what people think of the "capitalistic" approach to the forum posting. I have heard all kinds of politicians speak on this: encouraging companies to stay here, global diversity increases the welfare for everyone, and i was curious what kind of experience or sources people might have to support either idea.