Breathing also a gateway to a programming career! Yes I also started fiddling with computers and playing video games at an early age, but so did all the other boys my age. We all had C64s, Amigas and later on PCs. But most didn't end up in IT, let alone software development or programming.
I'm sure today you'll have a harder time finding a 12 yr old kid without a game console, tablet or computer than with.
That's if you have a good PM. Nowadays PMs, especially in bigger companies tend to be office managers that set up meetings, don't participate in them or at least don't lead the discussions, keep minutes and have no clue at all about the what the software engineers are talking about. Their job is to go person to person and ask "how long will it take for you to do this task" and fill given data into his spreadsheet.
I came up with the answer by reading books and online content about common questions asked at interviews. Do you want to know my Strengths and Weaknesses next, or just how many basketballs fit in this room?
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Go into Sales and Marketing. I really wonder how sexism compares in STEM, Academia (a recent study already concluded that you have twice as much chance to get tenure being a woman) and IT to 'regular jobs' like your local supermarket and bar/restaurant. I'm pretty sure you can expect crude sexist remarks there as a woman all day long.
Yes, for a non-profit 50 million $ just laying around seems like a lot. The WMF page says there are 230 employees for a revenue of 38 million $ (mostly from donations). You can hardly claim they are being secret about it. Also, paying 230 ppl an avg of 50,000$ a year is already 11 million$ ( so it's not a trivial amount, and if the avg is higher that goes up by a margin as well).
However, when you look at the presence of WikiPedia on the internet, it's basically first hit on google in every search on every possible subject. It's probably the number one source for people to find information about a subject. They have a HUGE presence. If someone had to put a value on that, it would be worth billions. Look at other internet companies. Google (365 billion $), facebook (200 billion $), etc... Sure, they are not Google or Facebook, but would definitely be valued in the billions. The 50 million $ is just change compared to their net worth.
Indeed. In Europe it's a scandal that some CEOs make 2 million a year, and I'm talking banks. In the US that number is laughed at. Hell, our CEO got tens of millions in stocks a year and nothing to show for it (US based software company).
I think we are both right in the sense that Woz indeed wrote the first Basic which was actually called Integer Basic for the Apple 1 and early Apple 2s. It had no floating point support (hence the Integer Basic), because Woz was mostly interested in writing games which did not need floating points. Since it was one of the most cited critiques by users/developers, they licensed Basic from Microsoft which they called AppleSoft and subsequently used as their primary Basic, however Integer Basic was still available. Both Wikis about AppleSoft BASIC and Integer BASIC contain this information.
Commodore licensed BASIC from Microsoft as well, adapted it for their 64, but did not print a MS copyright notice, which they did on the 128. There is actually a MS easter egg, if you type some obscure command, it will display MicroSoft! Again, this can be find on the Commodore BASIC wiki entry.
What you're saying about MS-DOS is not true though. I remember loading MS-DOS 3.0 from big floppies in school, and that came out in 1984. It's true that at that time the IBM-PC was mostly a business machine, as most kids had C64 and Amigas to play with. It's only once the 386 came around that gaming took off on the PC.
A lot of operating systems of early "affordable" Personal Computers (Apple 2, Commodore 64,...), mostly running Basic were actually licensed by Microsoft as well. So really, although the industry in general would have come around eventually, it's still Microsoft that understood early on that Software was were it's at. It's actually IBM that fueled the convergence to the PC with their open standards.
This is highly dependent on what your degree is and what PhD you are going for. I'm pretty sure some liberal arts grads would be happy to pursue a PhD on a grant instead of serving people happy meals. At least here (Belgium and maybe Europe in general), going for a PhD the regular way (meaning you had a good grade during your Master and got the grant/scolarship to pursue the PhD) ensures you a good starters income for 4 years. It's actually hard as a starting professional (even with a Master in Engineering or CS) to find a better paying job at the beginning of your career. This of course changes if you are an engineer and get some years of experience professionally.
I know in Belgium if you have skilled foreign employees you actually need to pay them at least a certain amount according to their degree.
Which is sometimes annoying for these employees because it makes them harder to get hired (because of the lower-bound) if they lose their job as well.
We had a PhD (this is at least 10 yrs ago, so laws may have changed) who got fired because of restructuring in the company (not his fault), and he was complaining about this.
This is a class about Strategic Management, not People Management. The higher you get in the hierarchy of a company, the more important your strategic/vision management skills become and the less your people leadership skills.
I do agree he's partly responsible though for not taking action sooner. If you are really being cursed at and need protection in the class-room, I'm sure there are many disciplinary sanctions the University can take against individuals, ranging from an official warning to expulsion.
If I upgrade, will all the "phone home" processes to Canonical that I've disabled still stay disabled? 'cause my packet sniffer caught at least a couple of pings a minute before the purge. Same goes for all the Amazon / Cloud stuff. I hope that crap stays off my machine.
Except the Apps can't be installed if you refuse and it's basically too late already since they have already harvested all the phone numbers of people with a facebook app on their smartphone.
This is already the case in many smaller and traffic offences (In Belgium these are handled in Police Court, I'm sure there's a type of court like this in the US as well). It's basically your word against theirs and there is no way the judge will take yours. Same with slander or resisting arrest. Often the judge won't even hear your defence if you don't have a lawyer. You start talking and they just go: "listen, this is the offence, that's the fine. next!". They basically don't have time to treat proper attention to all cases. It's only when there's been a murder or something more serious that the actual court system with proper defence and serious proceedings will take place.
Andrew Ng's "Machine Learning" on Coursera is also very well presented. Maybe a bit light on the hardcore Math side (which he acknowledges several times), but he gives a very good overview of what's available, how and when to use different ML techniques. He never loses track of the big picture, which really is one of the most important aspects of tackling any problem space, because in the end you're not going to re-implement a neural network, you'll just use an existing package.
I did the PGM course (successfully) and Daphne Koller warns us in the introduction that it is a hard course (even by Stanford CS standards) and Stanford students do spend a significant amount of time to it weekly ( I think it was 15-20 hrs avg). I did indeed often get lost in some of the ramblings where I was thinking "why is this necessary and what are we trying to do here?". It was not always clear to me how some of the techniques connected to reality, and why it was better than others. But still a very useful course going deep into Bayesian networks, Markov fields, etc...
So, your mileage may definitely vary, and some courses really do require you to be on top of your game and have some serious prior background knowledge. But I love MOOCS and how can one not be thankful to get access to courses given by the most prominent researchers and profs in their field?
Except for maybe hardcore nerds, I've noticed most people in STEM actually are very interested in Liberal Arts ( Literature, Music, Anthropology, History, Graphical Arts,...) and enjoy experiencing and learning about it on their own time. Of those people who were into STEM in high-school, most achieved higher grades in the Liberal Arts courses given in high school than the so called liberal arts students.
Indeed. I know a 40 yr old woman who's Director in a technology company (a real director, not a startup 10 man company 'director', meaning big payout, big BMW company car) and she's also complaining about the glass ceiling because all collegues she works with at about the same level are VP. She doesn't seem to get that in the last 7 yrs she got promoted from Software Engineer to Project Management to Director. That's a pretty steep promotion curve, and she still has a long career in front of her to make it even bigger. I'm sure of the former software engineers she worked with most are still just that.
Also, WTF has this to do with the Tech World and gender discrimination in Silicon Valley? This just sounds like a regular vanilla company discrimination issue. Well, maybe not Vanilla, but Big Money Big Business company.
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Breathing also a gateway to a programming career! Yes I also started fiddling with computers and playing video games at an early age, but so did all the other boys my age. We all had C64s, Amigas and later on PCs. But most didn't end up in IT, let alone software development or programming.
I'm sure today you'll have a harder time finding a 12 yr old kid without a game console, tablet or computer than with.
That's if you have a good PM. Nowadays PMs, especially in bigger companies tend to be office managers that set up meetings, don't participate in them or at least don't lead the discussions, keep minutes and have no clue at all about the what the software engineers are talking about. Their job is to go person to person and ask "how long will it take for you to do this task" and fill given data into his spreadsheet.
I came up with the answer by reading books and online content about common questions asked at interviews. Do you want to know my Strengths and Weaknesses next, or just how many basketballs fit in this room?
Mod Parent Up :) I wanted to Mod +1 Insightful but apparently slipped and modded Redundant. So I'm posting for no good reason to undo all modding here :)
Go into Sales and Marketing. I really wonder how sexism compares in STEM, Academia (a recent study already concluded that you have twice as much chance to get tenure being a woman) and IT to 'regular jobs' like your local supermarket and bar/restaurant. I'm pretty sure you can expect crude sexist remarks there as a woman all day long.
Yes, for a non-profit 50 million $ just laying around seems like a lot. The WMF page says there are 230 employees for a revenue of 38 million $ (mostly from donations). You can hardly claim they are being secret about it. Also, paying 230 ppl an avg of 50,000$ a year is already 11 million$ ( so it's not a trivial amount, and if the avg is higher that goes up by a margin as well).
However, when you look at the presence of WikiPedia on the internet, it's basically first hit on google in every search on every possible subject. It's probably the number one source for people to find information about a subject. They have a HUGE presence. If someone had to put a value on that, it would be worth billions. Look at other internet companies. Google (365 billion $), facebook (200 billion $), etc... Sure, they are not Google or Facebook, but would definitely be valued in the billions. The 50 million $ is just change compared to their net worth.
Indeed. In Europe it's a scandal that some CEOs make 2 million a year, and I'm talking banks. In the US that number is laughed at. Hell, our CEO got tens of millions in stocks a year and nothing to show for it (US based software company).
I think we are both right in the sense that Woz indeed wrote the first Basic which was actually called Integer Basic for the Apple 1 and early Apple 2s. It had no floating point support (hence the Integer Basic), because Woz was mostly interested in writing games which did not need floating points. Since it was one of the most cited critiques by users/developers, they licensed Basic from Microsoft which they called AppleSoft and subsequently used as their primary Basic, however Integer Basic was still available. Both Wikis about AppleSoft BASIC and Integer BASIC contain this information.
Commodore licensed BASIC from Microsoft as well, adapted it for their 64, but did not print a MS copyright notice, which they did on the 128. There is actually a MS easter egg, if you type some obscure command, it will display MicroSoft! Again, this can be find on the Commodore BASIC wiki entry.
What you're saying about MS-DOS is not true though. I remember loading MS-DOS 3.0 from big floppies in school, and that came out in 1984. It's true that at that time the IBM-PC was mostly a business machine, as most kids had C64 and Amigas to play with. It's only once the 386 came around that gaming took off on the PC.
A lot of operating systems of early "affordable" Personal Computers (Apple 2, Commodore 64, ...), mostly running Basic were actually licensed by Microsoft as well. So really, although the industry in general would have come around eventually, it's still Microsoft that understood early on that Software was were it's at. It's actually IBM that fueled the convergence to the PC with their open standards.
This is highly dependent on what your degree is and what PhD you are going for. I'm pretty sure some liberal arts grads would be happy to pursue a PhD on a grant instead of serving people happy meals. At least here (Belgium and maybe Europe in general), going for a PhD the regular way (meaning you had a good grade during your Master and got the grant/scolarship to pursue the PhD) ensures you a good starters income for 4 years. It's actually hard as a starting professional (even with a Master in Engineering or CS) to find a better paying job at the beginning of your career. This of course changes if you are an engineer and get some years of experience professionally.
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I know in Belgium if you have skilled foreign employees you actually need to pay them at least a certain amount according to their degree.
Which is sometimes annoying for these employees because it makes them harder to get hired (because of the lower-bound) if they lose their job as well.
We had a PhD (this is at least 10 yrs ago, so laws may have changed) who got fired because of restructuring in the company (not his fault), and he was complaining about this.
That and the access to affordable contraception.
This is a class about Strategic Management, not People Management. The higher you get in the hierarchy of a company, the more important your strategic/vision management skills become and the less your people leadership skills.
I do agree he's partly responsible though for not taking action sooner. If you are really being cursed at and need protection in the class-room, I'm sure there are many disciplinary sanctions the University can take against individuals, ranging from an official warning to expulsion.
If I upgrade, will all the "phone home" processes to Canonical that I've disabled still stay disabled? 'cause my packet sniffer caught at least a couple of pings a minute before the purge. Same goes for all the Amazon / Cloud stuff. I hope that crap stays off my machine.
If you have a facebook app on your smartphone they already have access to your call history, I'm guessing.
Except the Apps can't be installed if you refuse and it's basically too late already since they have already harvested all the phone numbers of people with a facebook app on their smartphone.
public void executeRemoteBackdoor( byte[] payload, String magic_DARPA_key);
This is already the case in many smaller and traffic offences (In Belgium these are handled in Police Court, I'm sure there's a type of court like this in the US as well). It's basically your word against theirs and there is no way the judge will take yours. Same with slander or resisting arrest. Often the judge won't even hear your defence if you don't have a lawyer. You start talking and they just go: "listen, this is the offence, that's the fine. next!". They basically don't have time to treat proper attention to all cases. It's only when there's been a murder or something more serious that the actual court system with proper defence and serious proceedings will take place.
Next to working well, maybe the assurance that not all your search queries were logged and sold to third parties or used for advertisement?
> just "being intelligent" simply is not enough.
... or mandatory.
Andrew Ng's "Machine Learning" on Coursera is also very well presented. Maybe a bit light on the hardcore Math side (which he acknowledges several times), but he gives a very good overview of what's available, how and when to use different ML techniques. He never loses track of the big picture, which really is one of the most important aspects of tackling any problem space, because in the end you're not going to re-implement a neural network, you'll just use an existing package.
I did the PGM course (successfully) and Daphne Koller warns us in the introduction that it is a hard course (even by Stanford CS standards) and Stanford students do spend a significant amount of time to it weekly ( I think it was 15-20 hrs avg). I did indeed often get lost in some of the ramblings where I was thinking "why is this necessary and what are we trying to do here?". It was not always clear to me how some of the techniques connected to reality, and why it was better than others. But still a very useful course going deep into Bayesian networks, Markov fields, etc...
So, your mileage may definitely vary, and some courses really do require you to be on top of your game and have some serious prior background knowledge. But I love MOOCS and how can one not be thankful to get access to courses given by the most prominent researchers and profs in their field?
Except for maybe hardcore nerds, I've noticed most people in STEM actually are very interested in Liberal Arts ( Literature, Music, Anthropology, History, Graphical Arts, ...) and enjoy experiencing and learning about it on their own time. Of those people who were into STEM in high-school, most achieved higher grades in the Liberal Arts courses given in high school than the so called liberal arts students.
Indeed. I know a 40 yr old woman who's Director in a technology company (a real director, not a startup 10 man company 'director', meaning big payout, big BMW company car) and she's also complaining about the glass ceiling because all collegues she works with at about the same level are VP. She doesn't seem to get that in the last 7 yrs she got promoted from Software Engineer to Project Management to Director. That's a pretty steep promotion curve, and she still has a long career in front of her to make it even bigger. I'm sure of the former software engineers she worked with most are still just that.
Also, WTF has this to do with the Tech World and gender discrimination in Silicon Valley? This just sounds like a regular vanilla company discrimination issue. Well, maybe not Vanilla, but Big Money Big Business company.