My thoughts exactly. Let the simple things be simple and let the advanced things be as complicated as they need to be.
That said, here are my thoughts on stomping on the learning curve... on Windows, it is a rare day indeed when I need to fire up cmd.exe to do something I can't do simply via a visual interface. I have to have a console handy at all times on Linux, even in Ubuntu. Also, if I end up having to edit a configuration file, don't have some bastard mechanism that overwrites it. On the same foot, if I want to open HOSTS on windows, I search, find it, double click, and choose open with notepad. A new linux user, trying to do the same thing, at best, usually pick from hundreds of installed packages trying to figure out which one is a simple text editor... then OH CRAP, CAN'T SAVE, IT IS READ ONLY! I need to launch the app as root, or modify the file permissions!
If you ever had to developed for a PDA, it is immediately obvious, but maybe not for everyone else. Once a program runs wild, eats all the memory, crashes a service, you need to reboot, but there is no such thing. Ultimately, you end up having to yank the battery if you want anything like a reboot
You don't want this, the same as you really don't want a "never reboot" PC.
Saving to disk is an explicit action of "This is at a state I want it to be in". If it is persistent, for instance, and my kids/cat/whatever edit it beyond repair, I don't want that existing instead of my work. You could argue about rolling back, based on your logging suggestion, but you just made a simple paradigm into an over-engineered tedium. Also, think about having to play back that log every time you opened it, multitudes of keystrokes and menu commands could be needed before it is ready.
It's not a case of put one of these magical DIMMs in, and you're fine for power cuts
No, you aren't. The CPU state, Video Card, Sound Card, etc states will all be wiped out. The only use I can see is to salvage the word document you spent the last two hours not saving
Build a man a fire, he will be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life --Terry Pratchett
The anecdote is warn and generally an inappropriate point of view. You ignore the cost (time/resources) of teaching a man to fish, over just giving him one and walking away.
In my opinion, everyone on welfare SHOULD have to do something
That sounds like a good ideology, but I fear you are too far detached from the system to make such an assertion. Everywhere I know of institutes cash assistance as a loan. Once you get a paying job, there are courts and liens that take that money back. If they want to squander a loan on doing nothing, I say, let them. The problem is inherently that people try to stay on assistance forever, so that they don't have to pay back said loan. The focus should be on terminating welfare (or prosecute fraud) under abused conditions, not making people take jobs because "that is what they should be doing"
Really? I got a nice combo bundle (case, PSU, AMD "APU", ram, motherboard) for $120, shipped. It runs Diablo 3 and all of my steam games with no trouble. What can you get me with Intel offerings that can do the same, at that price?
The difference is, pot is illegal, alcohol and caffeine aren't. People have this strange problem of thinking illegal->immoral->hence bad. Wait until Sudafed becomes a controlled substance. The person who has a stash for the winter because of horrible sinus/cold issues will be seen as a demon
Having taken into account other factors such as alcohol or tobacco dependency or other drug use, as well the number of years spent in education...
So there was manipulation of the data to exclude the effect of these "other factors", which completely throws out any correlation that these could/would/should have. It would be akin to testing if teen pregnancy lowered IQ, but they threw out data belonging to private school girls.
they found that those who persistently used cannabis - smoking it at least four times a week year after year through their teens, 20s and, in some cases, their 30s - suffered a decline in their IQ.
This is plain bad science. These people they are studying are CHRONIC users. They are likely using right up to the morning of their "interview". It is like the kid who started smoking cigarettes at 8 years old vs. someone starting at, say 23. The former is most likely to smoke 2+ packs a day. The latter usually smokes less than one pack. Also, nothing has been done to show what happens when they would stop.
I get my data through observation of people throughout my life from all sorts of geography. I absolutely believe that my retort has as much of a proper sampling as 1000 people from New Zealand
Seriously, has anyone actually looked at these so called "dumps"? Most of them are a single field from a table, with no relational data to associate the bits. I see email addresses with nothing else. I see [email] addresses with nothing else. I see First and Last names, but nothing else. Phone numbers... the same. Then there are loads of obvious blog style records that is used to populate their "news" and such sections (which are obviously on their front page anyway). Where is the damage?
Saying you "can not just use google" is like saying you don't have to buy your produce at a grocery store. Sure, it could be done, but in the cost/benefit analysis of is all, you are going to live a better life shopping at walmart
It isn't really a large step for MS in terms of development. Since NT4 (and even better since 2k), they componentized everything so that you can use Windows for an embedded headless system, or a whole desktop OS. I believe they saw this as another way to encompass everything, but made a wrong turn at Albuquerque
A similar fate may await the inner planets in our solar system, when the Sun becomes a red giant and expands all the way out to Earth's orbit some five-billion years from now
I see this a lot, and it isn't unreasonable to believe, except for the fact that we will collide with the Andromeda in four-billion years. We will likely be torn away from our sun and consumed by other masses before we have to worry about being swallowed
It is smart. Don't be up in arms because you couldn't exploit such an "obvious" marketing decision
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Working on a lot of code throughout my career, especially over a decade ago, storage was small and expensive, so you did all sorts of things to trim down your dataset and essentially dumb down your data mining. Now we have the mentality of "Keep everything, sort it out later". One of my most recent jobs involved doing statistical analysis on a ridiculous amount of data (think walmart sales data + all known competitors data for the past two years). Being able to even TOUCH all of the data, let alone do something with it is a real and complicated problem
a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
Those are bad. They tend to end up in jail or a mental institution... for good reason.
As the perspective from one of those senior level software engineers, for a job worth taking, I almost certainly have to move. My kids go to yet another school, my wife has a pile of friends that become facebook aquaintences, and I am chin deep in new work for however long. If you want me to deal with that, you are going to pay me. Not only pay me what I am worth, but also for the hassle of having to deal with all of the drama that goes with it. I find most places are simply not willing to accommodate.
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You people that cry "shill" at these are a really sad bunch. It is a good, old, classic troll. You got sucked in. They won.
My thoughts exactly. Let the simple things be simple and let the advanced things be as complicated as they need to be.
That said, here are my thoughts on stomping on the learning curve... on Windows, it is a rare day indeed when I need to fire up cmd.exe to do something I can't do simply via a visual interface. I have to have a console handy at all times on Linux, even in Ubuntu. Also, if I end up having to edit a configuration file, don't have some bastard mechanism that overwrites it. On the same foot, if I want to open HOSTS on windows, I search, find it, double click, and choose open with notepad. A new linux user, trying to do the same thing, at best, usually pick from hundreds of installed packages trying to figure out which one is a simple text editor... then OH CRAP, CAN'T SAVE, IT IS READ ONLY! I need to launch the app as root, or modify the file permissions!
If you ever had to developed for a PDA, it is immediately obvious, but maybe not for everyone else. Once a program runs wild, eats all the memory, crashes a service, you need to reboot, but there is no such thing. Ultimately, you end up having to yank the battery if you want anything like a reboot
You don't want this, the same as you really don't want a "never reboot" PC.
Saving to disk is an explicit action of "This is at a state I want it to be in". If it is persistent, for instance, and my kids/cat/whatever edit it beyond repair, I don't want that existing instead of my work. You could argue about rolling back, based on your logging suggestion, but you just made a simple paradigm into an over-engineered tedium. Also, think about having to play back that log every time you opened it, multitudes of keystrokes and menu commands could be needed before it is ready.
It's not a case of put one of these magical DIMMs in, and you're fine for power cuts
No, you aren't. The CPU state, Video Card, Sound Card, etc states will all be wiped out. The only use I can see is to salvage the word document you spent the last two hours not saving
You can choose an arbitrary direction, and for each direction you'll find that it is either up or down, and nothing else
Except for when it is both
Forget should. They DON'T have their own frame of reference. It is all consistent (based upon what we know, as per the arcticle)
Build a man a fire, he will be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life --Terry Pratchett
The anecdote is warn and generally an inappropriate point of view. You ignore the cost (time/resources) of teaching a man to fish, over just giving him one and walking away.
In my opinion, everyone on welfare SHOULD have to do something
That sounds like a good ideology, but I fear you are too far detached from the system to make such an assertion. Everywhere I know of institutes cash assistance as a loan. Once you get a paying job, there are courts and liens that take that money back. If they want to squander a loan on doing nothing, I say, let them. The problem is inherently that people try to stay on assistance forever, so that they don't have to pay back said loan. The focus should be on terminating welfare (or prosecute fraud) under abused conditions, not making people take jobs because "that is what they should be doing"
Really? I got a nice combo bundle (case, PSU, AMD "APU", ram, motherboard) for $120, shipped. It runs Diablo 3 and all of my steam games with no trouble. What can you get me with Intel offerings that can do the same, at that price?
The difference is, pot is illegal, alcohol and caffeine aren't. People have this strange problem of thinking illegal->immoral->hence bad. Wait until Sudafed becomes a controlled substance. The person who has a stash for the winter because of horrible sinus/cold issues will be seen as a demon
No. First, let us look at this little tidbit:
Having taken into account other factors such as alcohol or tobacco dependency or other drug use, as well the number of years spent in education...
So there was manipulation of the data to exclude the effect of these "other factors", which completely throws out any correlation that these could/would/should have. It would be akin to testing if teen pregnancy lowered IQ, but they threw out data belonging to private school girls.
they found that those who persistently used cannabis - smoking it at least four times a week year after year through their teens, 20s and, in some cases, their 30s - suffered a decline in their IQ.
This is plain bad science. These people they are studying are CHRONIC users. They are likely using right up to the morning of their "interview". It is like the kid who started smoking cigarettes at 8 years old vs. someone starting at, say 23. The former is most likely to smoke 2+ packs a day. The latter usually smokes less than one pack. Also, nothing has been done to show what happens when they would stop.
I get my data through observation of people throughout my life from all sorts of geography. I absolutely believe that my retort has as much of a proper sampling as 1000 people from New Zealand
For someone in such a position, you should know that such a work is covered by "Reproduction of Copyrighted Works by Educators and Librarians"
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ21.pdf
Seriously, has anyone actually looked at these so called "dumps"? Most of them are a single field from a table, with no relational data to associate the bits. I see email addresses with nothing else. I see [email] addresses with nothing else. I see First and Last names, but nothing else. Phone numbers... the same. Then there are loads of obvious blog style records that is used to populate their "news" and such sections (which are obviously on their front page anyway). Where is the damage?
Saying you "can not just use google" is like saying you don't have to buy your produce at a grocery store. Sure, it could be done, but in the cost/benefit analysis of is all, you are going to live a better life shopping at walmart
People care about privacy as much as they care about their wallet. They just have no idea how valuable their privacy is
It isn't really a large step for MS in terms of development. Since NT4 (and even better since 2k), they componentized everything so that you can use Windows for an embedded headless system, or a whole desktop OS. I believe they saw this as another way to encompass everything, but made a wrong turn at Albuquerque
I would truly be willing to do this job. I currently can't work because of my... issues. Having a job that expects these would be a dream come true
A similar fate may await the inner planets in our solar system, when the Sun becomes a red giant and expands all the way out to Earth's orbit some five-billion years from now
I see this a lot, and it isn't unreasonable to believe, except for the fact that we will collide with the Andromeda in four-billion years. We will likely be torn away from our sun and consumed by other masses before we have to worry about being swallowed
Haters be hatin.
It is smart. Don't be up in arms because you couldn't exploit such an "obvious" marketing decision
Working on a lot of code throughout my career, especially over a decade ago, storage was small and expensive, so you did all sorts of things to trim down your dataset and essentially dumb down your data mining. Now we have the mentality of "Keep everything, sort it out later". One of my most recent jobs involved doing statistical analysis on a ridiculous amount of data (think walmart sales data + all known competitors data for the past two years). Being able to even TOUCH all of the data, let alone do something with it is a real and complicated problem
Sounds suspiciously like a sociopath
a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
Those are bad. They tend to end up in jail or a mental institution... for good reason.
I go the other route. I have so much debt in medical bills that only a fool would try to steal my identity
Your argument is a bug from YEARS ago, patched by a firmware YEARS ago?
As the perspective from one of those senior level software engineers, for a job worth taking, I almost certainly have to move. My kids go to yet another school, my wife has a pile of friends that become facebook aquaintences, and I am chin deep in new work for however long. If you want me to deal with that, you are going to pay me. Not only pay me what I am worth, but also for the hassle of having to deal with all of the drama that goes with it. I find most places are simply not willing to accommodate.