The down side is that you may wind up in a mediocre soul-sucking job in a giant corporation. Both companies have a few glitzy positions, but unless you come in as a rock star, those positions aren't for you - they're for people with seniority who got in 5-10 years ago. You might get lucky and play office politics and hitch a ride on someone's rising star. You might get unlucky and get backwater projects that nobody cares about but nobody has the cajones to properly cancel. </bitter>
I do Python web development on MacOS X, coding in XCode, deploying to Linux. I also do Java in Eclipse on both Mac and Linux. I also hack in C/C++/ObjC in XCode and emacs depending on which platform I'm on. They're all fine, really. I like my MacBook Pro, and my homebrew Linux desktop, and my Linux VM serving my stuff out of someone's cloud. The original story is lame. No story. Move along.
And the biggest thing it was lacking was another million manhours (from something like the Linux Swarm or the Microsoft Horde) to just put in all the zillion features that the major OSes have. Aside from that it could compete on performance (and exceed in a few specially marketable ways that made the whole thing worth buying) and also have a few extra features that microkernels do better.
Ending Comcast the right answer. Leave, don't use their crappy service. Tell them why. If you're stuck in a monopoly zone under them, complain to them, complain to whatever city,county,state or federal government has any regulatory influence over that monopoly. They can either provide good service, or go rot.
I think I've gotten pretty good results for CA, TX, IL, FL and PA
It tries to create impartial districts that keep people on average close to the center of their districts. It works pretty well, but is kinda computationally intense. It could almost become Redistricting@Home if there was interest in the approach.
Duh! Dennis Kucinich is obviously the biggest nerd up there on the debate platform. Ok, so he's a policy nerd perhaps more than a tech nerd, but I still think that counts for a lot.
Ok, I got excited too early. Actually, ballot scanning is a specialized task and general purpose OCR probably doesn't play much of a part in that, but if any part of it does apply, then this is still awesome.
But there just aren't good places to park all those cubic meters of helium each of our blimp-cars would need.
So, engine noise and laminar flow ducted fans? However you do it, flight needs a lot of power and it's going to get all that power to be smooth and quiet.
I mean, we have an excellent working fusion reactor that outputs all the energy we need and has a five billion year perfect record of safety and reliability.
What if you could hire up all the smart programmers, or at least enough so that there weren't enough left over for your competition? It doesn't matter so much if they're doing a great deal of work for you, they're not doing work for your competition. That's at least half a win.
it's annoying to write, it's annoying to parse. Python serialization was designed better. I'll probably never design a format under XML, but it looks like I'm sure gonna have to use some. Oh, well. If everyone goes along and it brings us some interoperability utopia, then screw optimality and go for it. Yay XML!
This would be Sun getting-around-to optimising the 2nd rate web server package they offer. Customers demand it, so Sun offers it, but they'd rather sell you a Java Servlet based web server. (Dunno if Sun has a preferred SQL DB to go on the far side of those JDBC connections, but I prefer PostgreSQL to MySQL.)
to start using Macs and then my company will port our software to Mac. Or is it the other way around, where we port and then our customers can switch to Macs?
I'm not exactly sure what confluence of compiler, instruction set and silicon technology is going on, but on one test I found that compiling a float-intensive compute problem I run the EM64T (x86-64) version was faster. This is on my new MacBook Pro, Core 2 Duo with GCC 4.
is it even possible that science can remain apolitical?
The question should be: Can Politics remain Scientific?
Shouldn't our elected officials look at the available data and make the best decision possible? Oh, or maybe the problem is best for whom?.
Too bad it isn't better integrated into things
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Once upon a time I generated a key, and discovered there was no one around to swap keys with. My best guess is that it has never been common enough or easy enough to get started. It needs to be as easy as hitting send on an email, automatically sign it, and if the recipient is known to have a key then encrypt it to them. I could be bothered to go through some hassle to get this going, but I think most people don't care enough and probably most of their email doesn't matter enough to bother with encrypting or signing. I still wish it was more common though.
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The down side is that you may wind up in a mediocre soul-sucking job in a giant corporation. Both companies have a few glitzy positions, but unless you come in as a rock star, those positions aren't for you - they're for people with seniority who got in 5-10 years ago. You might get lucky and play office politics and hitch a ride on someone's rising star. You might get unlucky and get backwater projects that nobody cares about but nobody has the cajones to properly cancel.
</bitter>
I do Python web development on MacOS X, coding in XCode, deploying to Linux.
I also do Java in Eclipse on both Mac and Linux.
I also hack in C/C++/ObjC in XCode and emacs depending on which platform I'm on.
They're all fine, really. I like my MacBook Pro, and my homebrew Linux desktop, and my Linux VM serving my stuff out of someone's cloud.
The original story is lame. No story. Move along.
From Firefly, Mal "Capt. Tightpants" Reynolds, Nathan Fillion
And the biggest thing it was lacking was another million manhours (from something like the Linux Swarm or the Microsoft Horde) to just put in all the zillion features that the major OSes have. Aside from that it could compete on performance (and exceed in a few specially marketable ways that made the whole thing worth buying) and also have a few extra features that microkernels do better.
one for their own child and one for a child in the developing world
I hope buying one for my inner child counts.
Ending Comcast the right answer. Leave, don't use their crappy service. Tell them why. If you're stuck in a monopoly zone under them, complain to them, complain to whatever city,county,state or federal government has any regulatory influence over that monopoly. They can either provide good service, or go rot.
just sayin, that'd be awesome.
http://bolson.org/dist/
I think I've gotten pretty good results for CA, TX, IL, FL and PA
It tries to create impartial districts that keep people on average close to the center of their districts. It works pretty well, but is kinda computationally intense. It could almost become Redistricting@Home if there was interest in the approach.
Duh! Dennis Kucinich is obviously the biggest nerd up there on the debate platform. Ok, so he's a policy nerd perhaps more than a tech nerd, but I still think that counts for a lot.
and hope he gets a good job at a reputable publication.
Almost the same thing happened to my local news paper when many key people at the paper quit over bias which was being pushed down from above by the paper's owner. It's been a long messy trail since then.
Or, said another way:
<phonebooth>bobcat</jack></phonebooth>
"half way between n-sync and rsync"
Ok, I got excited too early. Actually, ballot scanning is a specialized task and general purpose OCR probably doesn't play much of a part in that, but if any part of it does apply, then this is still awesome.
But there just aren't good places to park all those cubic meters of helium each of our blimp-cars would need.
So, engine noise and laminar flow ducted fans? However you do it, flight needs a lot of power and it's going to get all that power to be smooth and quiet.
I mean, we have an excellent working fusion reactor that outputs all the energy we need and has a five billion year perfect record of safety and reliability.
What if you could hire up all the smart programmers, or at least enough so that there weren't enough left over for your competition? It doesn't matter so much if they're doing a great deal of work for you, they're not doing work for your competition. That's at least half a win.
it's annoying to write, it's annoying to parse. Python serialization was designed better. I'll probably never design a format under XML, but it looks like I'm sure gonna have to use some. Oh, well. If everyone goes along and it brings us some interoperability utopia, then screw optimality and go for it. Yay XML!
But, I want to drop the "MP", oh, and the L. I'll run my MacOS Apache PostgreSQL Servlet webapps, woo, go MAPS!
This would be Sun getting-around-to optimising the 2nd rate web server package they offer. Customers demand it, so Sun offers it, but they'd rather sell you a Java Servlet based web server. (Dunno if Sun has a preferred SQL DB to go on the far side of those JDBC connections, but I prefer PostgreSQL to MySQL.)
to start using Macs and then my company will port our software to Mac. Or is it the other way around, where we port and then our customers can switch to Macs?
I'm not exactly sure what confluence of compiler, instruction set and silicon technology is going on, but on one test I found that compiling a float-intensive compute problem I run the EM64T (x86-64) version was faster. This is on my new MacBook Pro, Core 2 Duo with GCC 4.
It's like we've reached the end of the internet. No more to listen to. Done.
Hand Counting is Cheaper than Voting Machines, even if you pay 3 people to redundantly count every ballot. No technology required beyond pen and paper.
The question should be:
Can Politics remain Scientific?
Shouldn't our elected officials look at the available data and make the best decision possible?
Oh, or maybe the problem is best for whom?.
Once upon a time I generated a key, and discovered there was no one around to swap keys with. My best guess is that it has never been common enough or easy enough to get started. It needs to be as easy as hitting send on an email, automatically sign it, and if the recipient is known to have a key then encrypt it to them. I could be bothered to go through some hassle to get this going, but I think most people don't care enough and probably most of their email doesn't matter enough to bother with encrypting or signing. I still wish it was more common though.