Ha ha only serious. What ungodly combination of medical treatment, promiscuity, infertility, and serendipity did it take to discover that ultrasound halts impregnation? What kind of sick doctors are these?
Here's an application whose time will come: real time multi-track audio editing with multiple collaborators.
I know it sounds totally crazy, but I think this could be way cool with the right robot maintaining the song and branches for you.
He's a well-known actor/comedian that happens to have studied electrical engineering.
No true engineer could be famous. Therefore, anyone who is famous is not a true engineer, no matter how much engineering they did.
So you've heard of this engineer before? You must be one of those engineering types, not "just folks". Anybody who knows about an engineer doesn't count...
On the spectrum of languages, C# and Java are really pretty close together...
Don't think of this question like "I want to learn the uber-development platform again, only on Unix instead of Windows this time." For one thing, it doesn't exist (except in Eclipse-land maybe). Unix is all about combining tools and using what is to hand. There's more than one way to do it. In fact, your choices are basically combinatorial as far as what pieces you put together. Don't think of that as a paralyzing decision point, just pick something and start ripping.
For another thing, you will get a lot more out of programming even in the C# environment if you broaden your perspective. Learn some dynamic languages like Scheme or Ruby, learn some new programming philosophies like functional or declarative programming. Learn vim or emacs (I'm an Emacs person, but to each his own), typing text into files, programming without a net.
Just like you can see the von Neumann architecture poking out through C, you can see the Unix way poking out through Perl. You might consider starting with Perl on Unix. You will be able to write powerful programs quickly, you'll have an excuse to get started learning regular expressions (Mastering Regular Expressions is a classic), and the Unix system calls are practically written into the language and docs. Learning Perl, from O'Reilly, would be a good place to start.
I would also strongly recommend learning the command line and bash scripting, not necessarily for the syntax, but for pipes and the core utilities. Classic Shell Scripting, again from O'Reilly, is a terrific introduction.
It's not offbase to ask the person who sneers at "do no evil" to think about their own standards. Are your principles just PR because you've had to make difficult moral decisions, or even evil decisions? Does being a corporation imply that Google must be full of it, while you should be forgiven?
"Do no evil" is an impossibly high bar that Google has chosen to be accountable to. When they screw up, they get to hear about it from cynics like you, who pretend to see the world through black-and-white glasses, and pretend that the moral sense is absolute and good and evil are obvious. As five seconds reading the two brains thing should convince you, there's no pony in seeing the world this way (here's a link, by the way).
I don't work for Google. The nerve you hit, I guess, is the one that can't bear to see idealism being trashed for no reason. In the world we do have, hope for something better is all we've got. If corporate accountability is it, so be it.
"Do no evil", if it was ever anything other than clever PR, went away the moment they caved to China. It actually probably went away, again if it ever was even a real credo, long before that.
Don't get your "so-called credo" up in Google's "lesser of two evils". You weren't there, buddy. And forgive me if I snort at the prospect that you have gone through life with a better principle than "do no evil" and have performed up to said maxim. Consider this paragraph my sardonic rejoinder to such a claim of moral superiority. Read Camus' The Fall while you're at it.
Up next in depressingly naive Manichaeism on Slashdot: cats not dogs, Muslims want to kill us all but George Bush wants to save us, there is a ticking timebomb do you torture the terrorist, and health care is for communists.
Finally, the brain in a vat. Keep in mind that your answer or non-answer will influence countless Slashdot readers for days to come, and thus that the effects of your decision will be amplified:
The brain in a vat, via the supercomputer, is at the wheel of a runaway trolley. There are only two options that the brain can take: the right side of the fork in the track or the left side of the fork. There is no way in sight of derailing or stopping the trolley and the brain is aware of this, for the brain knows trolleys. The brain is causally hooked up to the trolley such that the brain can determine the course which the trolley will take.
On the right side of the track there is a single railroad worker, Jones,who will definitely be killed if the brain steers the trolley to the right. If the railman on the right lives, he will go on to kill five men for the sake of killing them, but in doing so will inadvertently save the lives of thirty orphans (one of the five men he will kill is planning to destroy a bridge that the orphan's bus will be crossing later that night). One of the orphans that will be killed would have grown up to become a tyrant who would make good utilitarian men do bad things. Another of the orphans would grow up to become a great moral philosopher, while a third would invent the pop-top can.
If the brain in the vat chooses the left side of the track, the trolley will definitely hit and kill a railman on the left side of the track, "Leftie" and will hit and destroy ten beating hearts on the track that could (and would) have been transplanted into ten patients in the local hospital that will die without donor hearts. These are the only hearts available, and the brain is aware of this, for the brain knows hearts. If the railman on the left side of the track lives, he too will kill five men, in fact the same five that the railman on the right would kill. However, "Leftie" will kill the five as an unintended consequence of saving ten men : he will inadvertently kill the five men rushing the ten hearts to the local hospital for transplantation. A further result of "Leftie's" act would be that the busload of orphans will be spared. Among the five men killed by "Leftie" are both the man responsible for putting the brain at the controls of the trolley, and someone (a person of your choice,it could be yourself, someone close to you or even the author of this example). If the ten hearts and "Leftie" are killed by the trolley, the ten prospective heart-transplant patients will die and their kidneys will be used to save the lives of twenty kidney-transplant patients, one of whom will grow up to cure cancer, and one of whom will grow up to be a nasty/twisted dictator. There are other kidneys and dialysis machines available, however the brain does not know kidneys, and this is not a factor.
Assume that the brain's choice, whatever it turns out to be, will serve as an example to other brains-in-vats and so the effects of his decision will be amplified. Also assume that if the brain chooses the right side of the fork, an unjust war free of war crimes will ensue, while if the brain chooses the left fork, a just war fraught with war crimes will result. Furthermore, there is an intermittently active Cartesian demon deceiving the brain in such a manner that the brain is never sure if it is being deceived.
They already did this better than anyone else. Poor Butters gets a throwing star to the eye, then you cringe for a half hour. It is so fricking heartbreaking. I will never watch that one again, even though the anime drawings of the boys are delightful.
I've seen a lot of "everyone is stupid but us" episodes of South Park, but Matt and Trey put a mighty skewer through the sexual/violent content double standard with that one.
The summary has not been watching the news. The Republicans just tried to filibuster the federal minimum wage hike. They said they were holding out for tax breaks for the small businesses who would have to pay the wages.
Harry Reid told them they could forget the Congressional pay increase until they did the minimum wage. Magically, the cloture vote (to end the filibuster) was suddenly 85 to 10.
With a fragmented caucus trying to avoid being seen as Bush's lapdog, with an eye to the 2008 elections for President, with an eye on the Republican millstone that is the failure to withdraw from Iraq... the Republicans are going to stand firm with the President and showdown with the Democrats on issues that 70% of the country agrees on? Bullcrap.
The Democrats have immense bargaining power right now. They own all the committees. They get to complete the Phase II investigation into the political misuse of pre-war intelligence, and myriad other investigations into the illegal wiretap program, war profiteering, torture... the list goes on and on, and there's subpoenas waiting at the end of it. The corruption at the top is being exposed in the Libby trial as we speak. No one trusts the President. Everyone but the dead-enders agrees the Democrats should be in charge of the country.
The only thing that will stop net neutrality from passing is if it gets bumped down the agenda by larger issues like withdrawing from Iraq.
Don't look now, but this story on AdWords has Google AdWords on it! And the top ad is for Google's ad competitor, but THE SECOND ONE is an advertisement for GOOGLE ADWORDS! And if you click on it, it'll TAKE YOU TO GOOGLE'S ADWORDS PORTAL!
Won't someone please think of the children?! I can't bear to look, but I can't tear my eyes away! Ah Bartleby! Ah humanity! For the love of God, Montresor! Noooooooo!
http://minimsft.blogspot.com/ It's an insider blog by an anonymous MS employee. It draws a lot of comments from other MS employees (and trolls from Slashdot) and provides a unique window into the company.
Maybe I'm naive, but my impression from the blog is that things seem pretty Machiavellian in MS. For instance, in performance reviews, you are pooled with your co-workers and ranked against each other. This determines compensation levels, future advancement opportunities, etc. Even meeting your personal goals for the year may not help you escape a poor review.
Corporate culture can be infuriating and heartbreaking. Read Mini-Microsoft carefully for context, then get more information from people who work there.
Here, Peter Norvig (director of research) explains how they keep workforce quality high. It refers to Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon, "where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average." The Google hiring strategy is to hire children that are above average.
Even if you found and fixed every bug (haha), feature requests will continue to come in as people use the software. As soon as bugs/feature request quit coming in most software is essientially dead b/c that means people have quit using it.
Yeah, because no one uses TeX anymore. "If you do succeed in finding a previously undiscovered bug in the programs for either TeX or METAFONT, I shall gladly pay you a reward of $327.68. Corrections to errors in The TeXbook or The METAFONTbook are worth $2.56, as in all my other books." http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/abcde.html #texbk
If you watch the Princeton video, you'll see them unscrewing the case without disturbing the lock. So a nice lock would be no more than a gold ring in a pig's snout.
Right, and that's why dafz1 (a sibling to your post) is all wet too. If the IBM contributions to Linux from AIX/Dynix don't derive from System V code, they're not derivative works. At least, that's how AT&T interpreted its Unix licenses to Sequent and IBM in the 80s, as in the 2004 Frasure deposition.
As I understood it, and as I believe AT&T Technologies intended it at the time, Section 2.01 did not in any way expand the scope of the software agreement to restrict our licensees' use, export, disclosure or transfer of their own original code, even if such code was contained in a modification or derivative work of UNIX System V. The purpose of the software agreement was to protect AT&T Technologies' UNIX System V source code, and was never meant to encumber our licensees' own work.
17. Some of our licensees sought further clarification that they, not AT&T Technologies, owned and controlled the modifications and derivative works prepared by or for them. We invariably provided this requested clarification (both orally and in writing) when asked, because it was in keeping with our original intent with respect to all of our licensees under the standard software agreement.
18. For example, Paragraph A.2 of the IBM Side Letter, with which I am familiar because I negotiated it, clarifies the standard provision as follows:
Regarding Section 2.01, we agree that modifications and derivative works prepared by or for [IBM] are owned by [IBM]. However, ownership of any portion or portions of SOFTWARE PRODUCTS included in any such modifications or derivative work remains with [AT&T Technologies].
This clarification (and those like it that we provided to other licensees) did not represent a change to the standard software agreement. It merely spelled out what AT&T Technologies had always intended -- that AT&T Technologies did not assert any right to control the use and disclosure of modifications and derivative works prepared by its licensees, except to the extent of the licensed UNIX System V source code included in such modifications and derivative works.
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Ha ha only serious. What ungodly combination of medical treatment, promiscuity, infertility, and serendipity did it take to discover that ultrasound halts impregnation? What kind of sick doctors are these?
Enquiring minds want to know.
There... are... 4chan... LIGHTS!
Here's an application whose time will come: real time multi-track audio editing with multiple collaborators. I know it sounds totally crazy, but I think this could be way cool with the right robot maintaining the song and branches for you.
He's not a well-known engineer.
He's a well-known actor/comedian that happens to have studied electrical engineering.
No true engineer could be famous. Therefore, anyone who is famous is not a true engineer, no matter how much engineering they did.
So you've heard of this engineer before? You must be one of those engineering types, not "just folks". Anybody who knows about an engineer doesn't count...
It's a clever argument but it doesn't say much.
This is a great collection of software management thought, very practical stuff with jokes. (just read the ones tagged "tech life" and "management")
http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives.html
I just got this book from the library for the first time two weeks ago. I'm pleased that I will only have to have checked it out once.
Kudos and thanks, mjd.
On the spectrum of languages, C# and Java are really pretty close together...
Don't think of this question like "I want to learn the uber-development platform again, only on Unix instead of Windows this time." For one thing, it doesn't exist (except in Eclipse-land maybe). Unix is all about combining tools and using what is to hand. There's more than one way to do it. In fact, your choices are basically combinatorial as far as what pieces you put together. Don't think of that as a paralyzing decision point, just pick something and start ripping.
For another thing, you will get a lot more out of programming even in the C# environment if you broaden your perspective. Learn some dynamic languages like Scheme or Ruby, learn some new programming philosophies like functional or declarative programming. Learn vim or emacs (I'm an Emacs person, but to each his own), typing text into files, programming without a net.
Just like you can see the von Neumann architecture poking out through C, you can see the Unix way poking out through Perl. You might consider starting with Perl on Unix. You will be able to write powerful programs quickly, you'll have an excuse to get started learning regular expressions (Mastering Regular Expressions is a classic), and the Unix system calls are practically written into the language and docs. Learning Perl, from O'Reilly, would be a good place to start.
I would also strongly recommend learning the command line and bash scripting, not necessarily for the syntax, but for pipes and the core utilities. Classic Shell Scripting, again from O'Reilly, is a terrific introduction.
George Graham's album reviews include grades for dynamic compression. He reviews eclectic AAA music.
You could be wrong.
It's not offbase to ask the person who sneers at "do no evil" to think about their own standards. Are your principles just PR because you've had to make difficult moral decisions, or even evil decisions? Does being a corporation imply that Google must be full of it, while you should be forgiven?
"Do no evil" is an impossibly high bar that Google has chosen to be accountable to. When they screw up, they get to hear about it from cynics like you, who pretend to see the world through black-and-white glasses, and pretend that the moral sense is absolute and good and evil are obvious. As five seconds reading the two brains thing should convince you, there's no pony in seeing the world this way (here's a link, by the way).
I don't work for Google. The nerve you hit, I guess, is the one that can't bear to see idealism being trashed for no reason. In the world we do have, hope for something better is all we've got. If corporate accountability is it, so be it.
Don't get your "so-called credo" up in Google's "lesser of two evils". You weren't there, buddy. And forgive me if I snort at the prospect that you have gone through life with a better principle than "do no evil" and have performed up to said maxim. Consider this paragraph my sardonic rejoinder to such a claim of moral superiority. Read Camus' The Fall while you're at it.
Up next in depressingly naive Manichaeism on Slashdot: cats not dogs, Muslims want to kill us all but George Bush wants to save us, there is a ticking timebomb do you torture the terrorist, and health care is for communists.
Finally, the brain in a vat. Keep in mind that your answer or non-answer will influence countless Slashdot readers for days to come, and thus that the effects of your decision will be amplified:
It is, but it doesn't come close to the best selling console games of all time, sadly. (16mil vs 30mil and 40mil)
Same wiki article says that they deliberately didn't count expansion packs. If you consider them all one game, The Sims is probably tops.
They already did this better than anyone else. Poor Butters gets a throwing star to the eye, then you cringe for a half hour. It is so fricking heartbreaking. I will never watch that one again, even though the anime drawings of the boys are delightful.
I've seen a lot of "everyone is stupid but us" episodes of South Park, but Matt and Trey put a mighty skewer through the sexual/violent content double standard with that one.
The summary has not been watching the news. The Republicans just tried to filibuster the federal minimum wage hike. They said they were holding out for tax breaks for the small businesses who would have to pay the wages.
Harry Reid told them they could forget the Congressional pay increase until they did the minimum wage. Magically, the cloture vote (to end the filibuster) was suddenly 85 to 10.
With a fragmented caucus trying to avoid being seen as Bush's lapdog, with an eye to the 2008 elections for President, with an eye on the Republican millstone that is the failure to withdraw from Iraq... the Republicans are going to stand firm with the President and showdown with the Democrats on issues that 70% of the country agrees on? Bullcrap.
The Democrats have immense bargaining power right now. They own all the committees. They get to complete the Phase II investigation into the political misuse of pre-war intelligence, and myriad other investigations into the illegal wiretap program, war profiteering, torture... the list goes on and on, and there's subpoenas waiting at the end of it. The corruption at the top is being exposed in the Libby trial as we speak. No one trusts the President. Everyone but the dead-enders agrees the Democrats should be in charge of the country.
The only thing that will stop net neutrality from passing is if it gets bumped down the agenda by larger issues like withdrawing from Iraq.
Don't look now, but this story on AdWords has Google AdWords on it! And the top ad is for Google's ad competitor, but THE SECOND ONE is an advertisement for GOOGLE ADWORDS! And if you click on it, it'll TAKE YOU TO GOOGLE'S ADWORDS PORTAL!
Won't someone please think of the children?! I can't bear to look, but I can't tear my eyes away! Ah Bartleby! Ah humanity! For the love of God, Montresor! Noooooooo!
Posting does not imply reading comprehension.
Snap!
http://minimsft.blogspot.com/
It's an insider blog by an anonymous MS employee. It draws a lot of comments from other MS employees (and trolls from Slashdot) and provides a unique window into the company.
Maybe I'm naive, but my impression from the blog is that things seem pretty Machiavellian in MS. For instance, in performance reviews, you are pooled with your co-workers and ranked against each other. This determines compensation levels, future advancement opportunities, etc. Even meeting your personal goals for the year may not help you escape a poor review.
Corporate culture can be infuriating and heartbreaking. Read Mini-Microsoft carefully for context, then get more information from people who work there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole
Someone better hurry. This is a fast-developing situation, and no one knows what'll happen to the article when the MECO people get their hands on it.
Us quantum particles get no respect since Scott Bakula made his first trip through the magical world of time.
-- Muon #2876101789465197026590175892316895
And apparently all Iranians are terrorists now, too? I'm looking at you, racist article summarizer.
Here, Peter Norvig (director of research) explains how they keep workforce quality high. It refers to Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon, "where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average." The Google hiring strategy is to hire children that are above average.
- lake-wobegon-strategy.html
http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/03/hiring
Even if you found and fixed every bug (haha), feature requests will continue to come in as people use the software. As soon as bugs/feature request quit coming in most software is essientially dead b/c that means people have quit using it.
l #texbk
Yeah, because no one uses TeX anymore.
"If you do succeed in finding a previously undiscovered bug in the programs for either TeX or METAFONT, I shall gladly pay you a reward of $327.68. Corrections to errors in The TeXbook or The METAFONTbook are worth $2.56, as in all my other books."
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/abcde.htm
If you watch the Princeton video, you'll see them unscrewing the case without disturbing the lock. So a nice lock would be no more than a gold ring in a pig's snout.
Security is only as good as the weakest defense.
You managed to use "die-hard Star Trek fans" and "sex" in the same sentence.
Congratulations.
Stock of SuperCollaborative Lawnmower Fleets, Inc., fell sharply today...