Get ready for a long line of comments saying "who cares?" It's been vetted pretty well by many experts in many fields. The only issue I would have if it was created by the US government with a very subtle backdoor to monitor transactions.
I use them to show bare metal (no OS) programming. It's very difficult to demo on a modern x86 based system with no OS. However, if you can get them to squint and ignore the linker script setup, demonstrating on a pi is amazing. I'm actually very surprised there are no educational books for this topic using the pi. The AVR used to be my go-to, but it uses registers for I/O instead of memory mapped I/O.
As a general computing platform for teaching its almost useless. When's the last time you met someone that has a monitor, keyboard, mouse, and network connection, and the only thing they were missing was a computer?
Chrome is a big complex browser with a lot of code. This was probably a true bug and nothing nefarious or devious intended. I would also think the QA for such a feature is probably not a priority and didn't get much testing.
While I generally support him, the media has been TERRIBLE at reporting this story. The LA Times had a very popular article that kept comparing him to Steve Jobs. JOBS!??! Don't they mean Woz?! The police also release misleading photos making it look like it was the size of a suitcase (it was waaaay smaller than that). I guess once the mass media gets their hands on something their only concern is ad clicks...
Where's the gofundme? After being punished so badly for doing everything right, I think the wealthier geeks in the world could have 4 years of college paid for in a few days.
Only a small handful of technologies help. Having a recorded lecture that you can replay helps A LOT. Posted pdf's are way better than paper handouts (much more difficult to lose). However, almost everything else is an inferior tool. Smartboards write terribly and illegibly. Powerpoint has removed instructor/student back-and-forth and becomes a one-way broadcast. The list goes on. Oddly enough, the useful technologies have been around for 20-30 years and still aren't being effectively used.
Netflix should make use of dormant DVDs. Keep track of how many DVDs are in the warehouse and allow those to be "rented" via streaming. No more content deals. Just buy the movie, keep track who's streaming it at any given time (being very careful to not go over), and profit. I'm sure it will piss off Hollywood, but at this point I think the tech industry could beat Hollywood in a large court case like this. No more turnaround time. DVDs rented for literally 90 minutes.
For many laptops, all the hardware is basically from Intel. Intel writes amazing open source drivers. There are exceptions I'm sure. My first working WiFi adapter that didn't require external configuration was the on-board Intel one.
I've spoken with reddit users and have heard accusations that shadow bans are being abused. What's involved in shadow banning someone? Are people being shadow banned for being involved in unpopular sub-reddits?
Circles was a great idea. Google should have made plus a very lightweight site with circles and a couple of other features and an amazing API. Let the developers do the work for you. At that point, everything is sorta opt-in. No privacy issues. If I don't want my plus profile to have pictures, I just never download a picture app.
Google's name is too tarnished with regards to privacy and will never be able to launch a social media site again. It's like McDonald's trying to launch a health food line. About all they can do at this point is a spin-off type company that is far far away from the Google name.
In early 2013 I had an idea to make interacting between social media sites a little bit more seamless. So I started hunting down the google plus API (in addition to all the other popular social media sites at the time). The google plus API was by far the most anemic. To say it was even a serious API is misleading.
I was able to hunt down a Google engineer and speak with him in a slightly non-corporate exchange. Basically, they seemed to have no interest in apps or extending the site. The site is the site, no more no less. A few publicist type conglomerates could have access to a private API that let them manage their celebrity and corporate profiles from a single piece of custom software, but mere mortals only had the extremely basic API. I just did a quick search and it looks like nothing has changed since then.
Ever since that exchange I realized Google had no grand plan for Google plus and even in early 2013 was already on life support.
This isn't really true anymore. I think a lot of companies used this technique to decide when to roll out Windows versions, so Microsoft started putting out SP1 sooner to increase sales. There doesn't really seem to be an industry metric for determining stability either. I guess the best option is really "when all your friends say it seems stable."
If the Federal government tried the things local government can get away with, there would be mass revolution. In many places you can have a lien put against your property because your lawn was too high and you didn't pay the fines. Imagine if the Federal government tried that.
Local government can pretty much shut any event down based on zoning, noise ordinances, permits, incorrect paperwork, or any other number of technicalities. There's really no such thing as free speech when it comes to the city level of government. Maybe in principle, but in practice they have so many tools to shut you up it's sheer luck if you ever get your message out.
The biggest problems in the school system can't be solved with technology. Technology won't make parents care about their kids. Technology won't stop politicians from playing games with school system tax money. Technology won't stop the textbook publishers from price gouging schools. Schools aren't screwed up because of lack of good algorithms. Remove all technology from schools and revert to pen and paper. The good schools will still be good and the bad schools will still be bad.
Because solving this problem needed 8 core powerhouses running on solid state drives with 32 gigs of ram. Any education problem that couldn't be solved on an Apple IIe is not going to be magically solved by modern computers and programs. This isn't a queuing algorithm that can be optimized with enough thought and manpower. We've known how to run well oiled classrooms for hundreds of years. Problem is too many greased palms and politicians playing games with tax money.
It's amazing we are still paying for algebra and physics books. These subjects haven't changed up to the undergrad level in many decades. Textbooks should be getting simpler and more streamlined, but they're actually getting way more complicated. The books are crazy thick with thousands of practice problems that contain errors and most don't look anything like real world problems. Let's slim down and create a small set of GOOD problems that are error free. Won't happen though. The book industry is too big.
Is this across all industries? I wouldn't want to work for Facebook, Google, or Amazon at any age. Are things better in other industries, such as industrial software or perhaps banking?
Old people in general are more susceptible to scams. I remember a story awhile back that a university professor fell for a dating scam where someone pretended to be a model. He was an accomplished physicist. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03...
I'm not sure what to do with that information, but this lady wasn't an isolated incident. The entire population of old people as a whole are more susceptible.
I've noticed that at least 95% of my searches can be answered within like 5 or 10 popular sites. I've set all my defaults to duckduckgo and in the rare case I need to find answers that aren't on wikipedia or stackexchange (which duckduckgo finds well), I'll use Google. It's not so much Google is vastly superior, you just have to decide your privacy is valuable and be willing to make small tweaks such as exhausting a less complete search engine before moving to Google.
I just checked wikipedia, and it looks like Microfocus owns Novell now as well. In retrospect, I think Novell's acquisition did more to hurt suse than it did help. It just helped slow the death of Novell.
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Get ready for a long line of comments saying "who cares?" It's been vetted pretty well by many experts in many fields. The only issue I would have if it was created by the US government with a very subtle backdoor to monitor transactions.
I use them to show bare metal (no OS) programming. It's very difficult to demo on a modern x86 based system with no OS. However, if you can get them to squint and ignore the linker script setup, demonstrating on a pi is amazing. I'm actually very surprised there are no educational books for this topic using the pi. The AVR used to be my go-to, but it uses registers for I/O instead of memory mapped I/O.
As a general computing platform for teaching its almost useless. When's the last time you met someone that has a monitor, keyboard, mouse, and network connection, and the only thing they were missing was a computer?
Chrome is a big complex browser with a lot of code. This was probably a true bug and nothing nefarious or devious intended. I would also think the QA for such a feature is probably not a priority and didn't get much testing.
While I generally support him, the media has been TERRIBLE at reporting this story. The LA Times had a very popular article that kept comparing him to Steve Jobs. JOBS!??! Don't they mean Woz?! The police also release misleading photos making it look like it was the size of a suitcase (it was waaaay smaller than that). I guess once the mass media gets their hands on something their only concern is ad clicks...
So let me get this straight, this kid is being arrested and Trump is leading the polls?
Where's the gofundme? After being punished so badly for doing everything right, I think the wealthier geeks in the world could have 4 years of college paid for in a few days.
Only a small handful of technologies help. Having a recorded lecture that you can replay helps A LOT. Posted pdf's are way better than paper handouts (much more difficult to lose). However, almost everything else is an inferior tool. Smartboards write terribly and illegibly. Powerpoint has removed instructor/student back-and-forth and becomes a one-way broadcast. The list goes on. Oddly enough, the useful technologies have been around for 20-30 years and still aren't being effectively used.
Netflix should make use of dormant DVDs. Keep track of how many DVDs are in the warehouse and allow those to be "rented" via streaming. No more content deals. Just buy the movie, keep track who's streaming it at any given time (being very careful to not go over), and profit. I'm sure it will piss off Hollywood, but at this point I think the tech industry could beat Hollywood in a large court case like this. No more turnaround time. DVDs rented for literally 90 minutes.
For many laptops, all the hardware is basically from Intel. Intel writes amazing open source drivers. There are exceptions I'm sure. My first working WiFi adapter that didn't require external configuration was the on-board Intel one.
Memory randomization has been around a very very very long time. It's not going to help with logical programming errors.
I've spoken with reddit users and have heard accusations that shadow bans are being abused. What's involved in shadow banning someone? Are people being shadow banned for being involved in unpopular sub-reddits?
Circles was a great idea. Google should have made plus a very lightweight site with circles and a couple of other features and an amazing API. Let the developers do the work for you. At that point, everything is sorta opt-in. No privacy issues. If I don't want my plus profile to have pictures, I just never download a picture app.
Google's name is too tarnished with regards to privacy and will never be able to launch a social media site again. It's like McDonald's trying to launch a health food line. About all they can do at this point is a spin-off type company that is far far away from the Google name.
In early 2013 I had an idea to make interacting between social media sites a little bit more seamless. So I started hunting down the google plus API (in addition to all the other popular social media sites at the time). The google plus API was by far the most anemic. To say it was even a serious API is misleading.
I was able to hunt down a Google engineer and speak with him in a slightly non-corporate exchange. Basically, they seemed to have no interest in apps or extending the site. The site is the site, no more no less. A few publicist type conglomerates could have access to a private API that let them manage their celebrity and corporate profiles from a single piece of custom software, but mere mortals only had the extremely basic API. I just did a quick search and it looks like nothing has changed since then.
Ever since that exchange I realized Google had no grand plan for Google plus and even in early 2013 was already on life support.
It has to be. Think about all the how-to docs will be broken that explain how to set JAVA_HOME.
This isn't really true anymore. I think a lot of companies used this technique to decide when to roll out Windows versions, so Microsoft started putting out SP1 sooner to increase sales. There doesn't really seem to be an industry metric for determining stability either. I guess the best option is really "when all your friends say it seems stable."
If the Federal government tried the things local government can get away with, there would be mass revolution. In many places you can have a lien put against your property because your lawn was too high and you didn't pay the fines. Imagine if the Federal government tried that.
Local government can pretty much shut any event down based on zoning, noise ordinances, permits, incorrect paperwork, or any other number of technicalities. There's really no such thing as free speech when it comes to the city level of government. Maybe in principle, but in practice they have so many tools to shut you up it's sheer luck if you ever get your message out.
My high school physics was the most inspirational teacher I ever had. First year of college I was plopped right into remedial physics.
The biggest problems in the school system can't be solved with technology. Technology won't make parents care about their kids. Technology won't stop politicians from playing games with school system tax money. Technology won't stop the textbook publishers from price gouging schools. Schools aren't screwed up because of lack of good algorithms. Remove all technology from schools and revert to pen and paper. The good schools will still be good and the bad schools will still be bad.
Because solving this problem needed 8 core powerhouses running on solid state drives with 32 gigs of ram. Any education problem that couldn't be solved on an Apple IIe is not going to be magically solved by modern computers and programs. This isn't a queuing algorithm that can be optimized with enough thought and manpower. We've known how to run well oiled classrooms for hundreds of years. Problem is too many greased palms and politicians playing games with tax money.
It's amazing we are still paying for algebra and physics books. These subjects haven't changed up to the undergrad level in many decades. Textbooks should be getting simpler and more streamlined, but they're actually getting way more complicated. The books are crazy thick with thousands of practice problems that contain errors and most don't look anything like real world problems. Let's slim down and create a small set of GOOD problems that are error free. Won't happen though. The book industry is too big.
Let's pool our money and buy slashdot so it can return to its former glory.
Is this across all industries? I wouldn't want to work for Facebook, Google, or Amazon at any age. Are things better in other industries, such as industrial software or perhaps banking?
Old people in general are more susceptible to scams. I remember a story awhile back that a university professor fell for a dating scam where someone pretended to be a model. He was an accomplished physicist. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03...
I'm not sure what to do with that information, but this lady wasn't an isolated incident. The entire population of old people as a whole are more susceptible.
I've noticed that at least 95% of my searches can be answered within like 5 or 10 popular sites. I've set all my defaults to duckduckgo and in the rare case I need to find answers that aren't on wikipedia or stackexchange (which duckduckgo finds well), I'll use Google. It's not so much Google is vastly superior, you just have to decide your privacy is valuable and be willing to make small tweaks such as exhausting a less complete search engine before moving to Google.
I just checked wikipedia, and it looks like Microfocus owns Novell now as well. In retrospect, I think Novell's acquisition did more to hurt suse than it did help. It just helped slow the death of Novell.