i write some pretty complicated fast and tight code in SQL and keep it as clear and comments where necessary to explain nuances not apparently obvious to others... and I always appreciate my mentor looking at it and saying *not bad*.. *you can do better*.. *let me add a little this and that and voila* there you go... of course he is 10 years ahead of me, and I am 10 years ahead of everyone else.. so I don't feel bad.. I just am glad to be invited to the party and table of doing some great programming.. I do have a hard time taking harsh feedback but then again.. so does iron sharpen iron, so does man.
don't need a startup to know about deep learning and neural networks. 30 years ago we knew if was about classification. just a lot of comparison crunching...
just think about how we learned as humans what a rock was, a ball, a tree... how one tree was like another tree, and so on... whereas a bush was brush or was it a tree? hmmmm.. now the plot thickens...
the FPGA solution is classic as well.. use assembly on hardware to get things done. *** really fast.. ***
as a kid, we had barbaric skateboards with real steel wheels and ball bearings, wood plank.. played in the streets all the time... got out of the way of cars, trucks, tractors and cows... if a kid did not yield, they got honked at or worse... run over by a cow.... let the kids play in the streets.. i dare them..
exactly. i see those for WF too, and I have to throw it away just because... i would digress and it would do no good.. just walk away and burn the bridge on the way out.. when i can and will...
agreed. not pain, just forced negotiations, or else.. that's how it works. if i can't hurt you, you won't pay attention. if I can hurt you, you might pay attention.
he did both.
realizing like most young and old who are enlightened that with absoluteness, the question "I am" who "I am".. "it's me. that's me"..
if created in the image of God, we are God, I am God. If he wants us to be "like" him, or "him".. we are all that and more..
this little experiment called Life on this mouse maze called Earth with other mice scurrying around.. interesting if we step off this planet and look back... when will children be born in space and never had stepped foot on Earth..
interestingly put -- i add.... i do believe there is something greater...i can sense it. i always ask myself and others.. when did one/you become self aware of yourself.. your existence of being.. if you can remember back your first thoughts.. then ask yourself, why you get deja vous alot, and then comment to yourself... i have been here before.. i just know it.. so when this mortal body is not longer useful.. where do I go next? hmmm... project that thought and wish.. repeat repeat repeat..;-)
thanks - i did - what i like is that a few realtor friends said zillow is usually 6 months behind either going up or down on a good z-estimate. a BPO showed my home about $50k higher than zillow, yet WF said.. a full appraisal would verify it, yet again, the WF original appraisal back in 2004 i found out was bogus and inflated to meet the sellers and lenders gains. oh well. karma is interesting. WF could do the right thing and make amends if they would only swallow their pride and quietly do it...
amen.. i like that.. just unplug.. of course no pay for that day of travel some mucky mucky will say.. there a lots of low fidelity activities that are work related..
it would be nice if somehow this Zillow thing would encourage Wells Fargo to do the right thing and at least offer more reasonably lower interest rates for those of us who needed to refinance and could not.. just do an interest rate adjustment and stop all the refi-road block games they play.. seriously.. the upper management does not notice or listen unless you sue them, and that is just bad karma...
i can't tell you how many times Wells Fargo in Nevada by using Zillow as a gauging instrument to say to me... refinance probably not a good idea. they were right when we in Washoe county was hit the hardest...and even 10 years later, just barely getting back to break-even... and i didn't even buy low.. i was on the up swing in 2004... so i did not buy high.. just about 50% up the bubble..
it will work out.. zillow is fun to try --- use the Make Me Move feature to help stimulate interest and market interest... it works.
so true. duh. a decade ago I said to my colleagues, well, most of the antivirus tools are made out of the US with some US sales offices.
it's okay.
we need to authorize a certain degree of wiretapping by our telecoms to sniff our phones for a scammer script / calls and disconnect the call immediately for us much like we authorize anti-virus tools to block incoming malware.
i wonder how long that novel idea will take.
as in my days (daze), to get a better SEO reputation, getting listed by DMOZ was on the checklist.
i liked DMOZ just like WINGNUT and GOPHER stuff... ahhhh how the days have passed when CUTEFTP and WINZIP were really needed.
alas, i concede... gzip and other open source solutions at least still live on...
I agree - if you don't like where you live then move out. Their business model needs a serious change. Bill turned the Microsoft ship hard right rudder 90 degrees back in 1993 when the Internet became public. Steve needs to find his compass on this one. Leave the US and let the chips fall where they must.
ps. I'm sure some of Microsoft marketing and sales analysts are sifting through this blog and commentary for pearls of wisdom. While Steve may have been the genesis of a sales verbal turbine when he started at Microsoft, the reality his style is Salesmanship not CEO. Let's leave some good crumbs and chit-chat that is helpful.
These days, I'm sure Microsoft is interested in the public good at its center philosophy and also survival and continuity of shareholder profits.
That is business 101, but I believe providing a solid product, lean mean, quality and priced right. The US market is a closed and manipulated market.
Bill Gates and Paul Allen had an idea when it all started to provide something IBM needed for their hardware, an operating system. OS/2 or Windows? The Big Machine of Microsoft should relocate to a tax friendly country and let digital downloads prevail. No need for retail boxed full packaged products anymore. Make Bit Torrent a legalized serialized big time Digital River conversion.
Move out - maybe the Moon? --- or the country where they source their H1B1 Visa employees. Take them back to their home country too. Working abroad is fine for a while, but the US is not India, yet.
Microsoft can move anywhere they like. If Steve Ballmer moves out of country that's fine with me as long as they pass along the savings to loyal consumer in the US without import taxation. Mr. Ballmer can also relocate and relinquish his US citizenship among others of his staff and leadership, and MSFT can remove itself from the DOW and become listed on a foreign exchange. Why not?
If that is how Microsoft must survive, then so be it.
Looking back over a decade ago, In 1997, Microsoft moved OEM licensing from Washington State King County USA on a 4 billion dollar per year business to avoid 35% corporate tax per year. With just the move to Nevada where there is no corporate tax, they saved over 600 million with just an address change.
Microsoft Puerto Rico manufacturing also had benefits to perform manufacturing in a US territory rather than on US soil in order to achieve tax breaks and cash back and a moratorium for a decade or so. Johnson and Johnson were among other Puerto Rico based US companies doing business there until the moratorium ended or was re-negotiated.
Globalization does not mean US based companies must remain loyal to the US just like California based companies need to stay in California, but relocate to Nevada.
Personally, I would love to see Microsoft give it a try and relocate from the US and give it a try in a foreign country; Ireland is nice. India is nice. The Philippines is nice. I would feel bad from Redmond and Bellevue and other areas, but I'm sure other companies would scoop up the buildings and land for 10Â on the dollar.
I supported and developed under Word for Windows 1.10a and though the design was good (going a long ways in that statement), there was a big picture. I know at MS the Macintosh dev group had the best of both worlds, Word, Excel and a strong dev and test team. Porting products to Windows was hard with the wrong dev and test members, but hey, we're here now, and functionality has changed with the advent of the Internet and not just client/server applications.
ps. Less is More, Keep is Simple Stupid, and Backups are a good thing, several versions of them to separate destinations.
Thanks,
Andy,
MS '91-97.. ps. I just got married.. and God is Great!.. http://www.andyf.com/wedding
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i write some pretty complicated fast and tight code in SQL and keep it as clear and comments where necessary to explain nuances not apparently obvious to others... and I always appreciate my mentor looking at it and saying *not bad*.. *you can do better*.. *let me add a little this and that and voila* there you go... of course he is 10 years ahead of me, and I am 10 years ahead of everyone else.. so I don't feel bad.. I just am glad to be invited to the party and table of doing some great programming.. I do have a hard time taking harsh feedback but then again.. so does iron sharpen iron, so does man.
I love that movie - Spy Game // Brad Pitt & Robert Redford. good stuff for a Friday. might have to pull out the VHS and watch it again on my VCR.
don't need a startup to know about deep learning and neural networks. 30 years ago we knew if was about classification. just a lot of comparison crunching... just think about how we learned as humans what a rock was, a ball, a tree... how one tree was like another tree, and so on... whereas a bush was brush or was it a tree? hmmmm.. now the plot thickens... the FPGA solution is classic as well.. use assembly on hardware to get things done. *** really fast.. ***
as a kid, we had barbaric skateboards with real steel wheels and ball bearings, wood plank.. played in the streets all the time... got out of the way of cars, trucks, tractors and cows... if a kid did not yield, they got honked at or worse... run over by a cow.... let the kids play in the streets.. i dare them..
exactly. i see those for WF too, and I have to throw it away just because... i would digress and it would do no good.. just walk away and burn the bridge on the way out.. when i can and will...
that's hilarious. reminds me of IE 3 to download NN 4.5 /// Mosaic stand back. ;-) haha ... poor Pegasus no more.. i miss the ole days...
i like #6.. funny.
agreed. not pain, just forced negotiations, or else.. that's how it works. if i can't hurt you, you won't pay attention. if I can hurt you, you might pay attention.
he did both. realizing like most young and old who are enlightened that with absoluteness, the question "I am" who "I am" .. "it's me. that's me"..
if created in the image of God, we are God, I am God. If he wants us to be "like" him, or "him".. we are all that and more..
this little experiment called Life on this mouse maze called Earth with other mice scurrying around.. interesting if we step off this planet and look back... when will children be born in space and never had stepped foot on Earth..
interestingly put -- i add.... i do believe there is something greater...i can sense it. i always ask myself and others.. when did one/you become self aware of yourself.. your existence of being.. if you can remember back your first thoughts.. then ask yourself, why you get deja vous alot, and then comment to yourself... i have been here before.. i just know it.. so when this mortal body is not longer useful.. where do I go next? hmmm... project that thought and wish.. repeat repeat repeat.. ;-)
so, someone leaked the internal memo -- probably someone from Sen. Feinstein's office. dam.... isn't anything marked internal stay internal?
thanks - i did - what i like is that a few realtor friends said zillow is usually 6 months behind either going up or down on a good z-estimate. a BPO showed my home about $50k higher than zillow, yet WF said.. a full appraisal would verify it, yet again, the WF original appraisal back in 2004 i found out was bogus and inflated to meet the sellers and lenders gains. oh well. karma is interesting. WF could do the right thing and make amends if they would only swallow their pride and quietly do it...
amen.. i like that.. just unplug.. of course no pay for that day of travel some mucky mucky will say.. there a lots of low fidelity activities that are work related..
it would be nice if somehow this Zillow thing would encourage Wells Fargo to do the right thing and at least offer more reasonably lower interest rates for those of us who needed to refinance and could not.. just do an interest rate adjustment and stop all the refi-road block games they play.. seriously.. the upper management does not notice or listen unless you sue them, and that is just bad karma...
i can't tell you how many times Wells Fargo in Nevada by using Zillow as a gauging instrument to say to me... refinance probably not a good idea. they were right when we in Washoe county was hit the hardest...and even 10 years later, just barely getting back to break-even... and i didn't even buy low.. i was on the up swing in 2004... so i did not buy high.. just about 50% up the bubble.. it will work out.. zillow is fun to try --- use the Make Me Move feature to help stimulate interest and market interest... it works.
so true. duh. a decade ago I said to my colleagues, well, most of the antivirus tools are made out of the US with some US sales offices. it's okay. we need to authorize a certain degree of wiretapping by our telecoms to sniff our phones for a scammer script / calls and disconnect the call immediately for us much like we authorize anti-virus tools to block incoming malware. i wonder how long that novel idea will take.
true.
Not ready for Type-C? sounds Microsoft familiar. NIH syndrome.
as in my days (daze), to get a better SEO reputation, getting listed by DMOZ was on the checklist. i liked DMOZ just like WINGNUT and GOPHER stuff... ahhhh how the days have passed when CUTEFTP and WINZIP were really needed. alas, i concede... gzip and other open source solutions at least still live on...
I agree - if you don't like where you live then move out. Their business model needs a serious change. Bill turned the Microsoft ship hard right rudder 90 degrees back in 1993 when the Internet became public. Steve needs to find his compass on this one. Leave the US and let the chips fall where they must. ps. I'm sure some of Microsoft marketing and sales analysts are sifting through this blog and commentary for pearls of wisdom. While Steve may have been the genesis of a sales verbal turbine when he started at Microsoft, the reality his style is Salesmanship not CEO. Let's leave some good crumbs and chit-chat that is helpful.
These days, I'm sure Microsoft is interested in the public good at its center philosophy and also survival and continuity of shareholder profits. That is business 101, but I believe providing a solid product, lean mean, quality and priced right. The US market is a closed and manipulated market. Bill Gates and Paul Allen had an idea when it all started to provide something IBM needed for their hardware, an operating system. OS/2 or Windows? The Big Machine of Microsoft should relocate to a tax friendly country and let digital downloads prevail. No need for retail boxed full packaged products anymore. Make Bit Torrent a legalized serialized big time Digital River conversion. Move out - maybe the Moon? --- or the country where they source their H1B1 Visa employees. Take them back to their home country too. Working abroad is fine for a while, but the US is not India, yet.
Microsoft can move anywhere they like. If Steve Ballmer moves out of country that's fine with me as long as they pass along the savings to loyal consumer in the US without import taxation. Mr. Ballmer can also relocate and relinquish his US citizenship among others of his staff and leadership, and MSFT can remove itself from the DOW and become listed on a foreign exchange. Why not? If that is how Microsoft must survive, then so be it. Looking back over a decade ago, In 1997, Microsoft moved OEM licensing from Washington State King County USA on a 4 billion dollar per year business to avoid 35% corporate tax per year. With just the move to Nevada where there is no corporate tax, they saved over 600 million with just an address change. Microsoft Puerto Rico manufacturing also had benefits to perform manufacturing in a US territory rather than on US soil in order to achieve tax breaks and cash back and a moratorium for a decade or so. Johnson and Johnson were among other Puerto Rico based US companies doing business there until the moratorium ended or was re-negotiated. Globalization does not mean US based companies must remain loyal to the US just like California based companies need to stay in California, but relocate to Nevada. Personally, I would love to see Microsoft give it a try and relocate from the US and give it a try in a foreign country; Ireland is nice. India is nice. The Philippines is nice. I would feel bad from Redmond and Bellevue and other areas, but I'm sure other companies would scoop up the buildings and land for 10Â on the dollar.
I supported and developed under Word for Windows 1.10a and though the design was good (going a long ways in that statement), there was a big picture. I know at MS the Macintosh dev group had the best of both worlds, Word, Excel and a strong dev and test team. Porting products to Windows was hard with the wrong dev and test members, but hey, we're here now, and functionality has changed with the advent of the Internet and not just client/server applications. ps. Less is More, Keep is Simple Stupid, and Backups are a good thing, several versions of them to separate destinations. Thanks, Andy, MS '91-97 .. ps. I just got married.. and God is Great! .. http://www.andyf.com/wedding