... I, and I suppose a lot of Europeans with me, saw Canadians as less nonsense-and-hype-prone than US Americans; this goes especially for Canadian politicians as opposed to US politicians. I sincerely wish the Candadians to keep this reputation.
One might be astounded at the amount of credit the USA has lost in the western world. Both the tone of the OP and many of the comments here seem to underscore this.
That is what I am going to do, too - along with the umich.edu paper. I recently "found" a power law in some load- and performance testing data; I am suddenly growing suspicious of my own interpretation, which is always a Good Thing.
Buddy, listen. Moving from OLTP to OLAP should be a minor, if not a micro move for anyone acquainted with database design. Don't waste our time and bytes with it.
As for becoming an "architect", this is how I became one: I took all the ( little ) experience I had, I designed some stuff, made sure the code monkeys could and would actually code it ( me knowing their life as I had always been one ), got some $$$ incentives for them so they would build what I had thought up. I defended it in hard fighting with the management. Then the stuff went into production. It took balls, hard work and some luck - and, yes, some politics. "The rest is ashes and dust", as Russell Crowe has it in "Gladiator".
at the level of most of the comments here. Had I known this teenager ( I only learned of her existence through this post ), I would have seriously thought of how to make a full-blown engineer or computer scientist out of her.
I know that, in the face of the appallingly low level of most of the comments here, it is easy to take the moral high ground. I know. But still - this is tremendously sad. We ( with "we" I mean both "humanity" and "we, the engineering community" ) lost something valuable here: a promising life.
... I am not surprised. Why not ? Because very large entities like Google lack, by definition, the internal social control to "do no evil". What can go wrong must and shall somewhere, somehow, go wrong.
"Waterproof" or not always depends on the pressure you apply, or not. "Up to 50 bar", for example ( see on the back of watches ). I mean: even a Dutch submarine will let water leak inside, if brought to a depth of 30000 feet. Although it is perfectly waterproof at 900 feet....
From the incentives and the carrot to the stick. Yet - as soon as I had my back turned, were I a team leader or a consultant or whatever, they went on developing - without documenting. It seems a near-impossible task.
That is what I thought. Underpinning the whole of it by an easy-to-grasp and agreed-upon formalism ( the 3D equivalent of UML ? ) would be a next step, I presume.
....will we have to deal with corporations trying to make a buck out of the combination Internet + TV ? This is getting annoying. Back in 1999 / 2000, during the Great Internet Bubble, the buzzzalk already was about set-top boxes and what the hell ever. C'mon, people, move on, nothing to see here !
The Chilterns are bumps in an otherwise pancake-flat landnonscape. "Officially designated" or not, they are as ugly as a badly paved sidewalk. I like to designate "beauty" for myself, and not leave that to the government.
There is no such thing as "gravitons". Gravity is the deformation of space-time caused by the presence of matter, as per Einsteins general relativity theory. Gravitons are a fairy tale, sir.
I am working on something exactly like that, based on Apache ZooKeeper. If anybody wants to contribute ( Java / Open Source ), feel free to email me. I would love to put Facebook out of its disgusting business and build a "freedom box". Interested, anyone ?
...I forecast for the magnificent Hadoop project, if and when they "partner" with Oracle. Nothing will come of it but bigger yachts for Larry E., mark my sad words.
Considering your thoughtlessness: you seem to forget that Netflix is a largely US-American endeavour. Here in Europe, just to name an example, it is largely meaningless. I suppose this also holds for China and India. Your "consumes the most bandwidth" should be reduced to the more correct "consumes the most bandwidth within the USA". You seem to suffer of Americanocentrism, a well-known disease on/.
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... I, and I suppose a lot of Europeans with me, saw Canadians as less nonsense-and-hype-prone than US Americans; this goes especially for Canadian politicians as opposed to US politicians. I sincerely wish the Candadians to keep this reputation.
One might be astounded at the amount of credit the USA has lost in the western world. Both the tone of the OP and many of the comments here seem to underscore this.
That is what I am going to do, too - along with the umich.edu paper. I recently "found" a power law in some load- and performance testing data; I am suddenly growing suspicious of my own interpretation, which is always a Good Thing.
As for becoming an "architect", this is how I became one: I took all the ( little ) experience I had, I designed some stuff, made sure the code monkeys could and would actually code it ( me knowing their life as I had always been one ), got some $$$ incentives for them so they would build what I had thought up. I defended it in hard fighting with the management. Then the stuff went into production. It took balls, hard work and some luck - and, yes, some politics. "The rest is ashes and dust", as Russell Crowe has it in "Gladiator".
I know that, in the face of the appallingly low level of most of the comments here, it is easy to take the moral high ground. I know. But still - this is tremendously sad. We ( with "we" I mean both "humanity" and "we, the engineering community" ) lost something valuable here: a promising life.
A natural person extradited to the US, through the indirect urging and lobbying of the "media" industry. 'tis sad, 'tis sad... what have we become ?
... I am not surprised. Why not ? Because very large entities like Google lack, by definition, the internal social control to "do no evil". What can go wrong must and shall somewhere, somehow, go wrong.
In the US, at least. Here in Europe you HAVE to take your days off. Period.
"Waterproof" or not always depends on the pressure you apply, or not. "Up to 50 bar", for example ( see on the back of watches ). I mean: even a Dutch submarine will let water leak inside, if brought to a depth of 30000 feet. Although it is perfectly waterproof at 900 feet....
From the incentives and the carrot to the stick. Yet - as soon as I had my back turned, were I a team leader or a consultant or whatever, they went on developing - without documenting. It seems a near-impossible task.
That is what I thought. Underpinning the whole of it by an easy-to-grasp and agreed-upon formalism ( the 3D equivalent of UML ? ) would be a next step, I presume.
....will we have to deal with corporations trying to make a buck out of the combination Internet + TV ? This is getting annoying. Back in 1999 / 2000, during the Great Internet Bubble, the buzzzalk already was about set-top boxes and what the hell ever. C'mon, people, move on, nothing to see here !
...banks are the place to work, for the next 2 years or so ( at least if you want to make big bucks ) ?
The Chilterns are bumps in an otherwise pancake-flat landnonscape. "Officially designated" or not, they are as ugly as a badly paved sidewalk. I like to designate "beauty" for myself, and not leave that to the government.
Sorry. Had to catch my breath, almost died with laughing on reading that one.
There is no such thing as "gravitons". Gravity is the deformation of space-time caused by the presence of matter, as per Einsteins general relativity theory. Gravitons are a fairy tale, sir.
The problem is that it takes a shitload of shit to generate power to throw shit at... oh, wait.
I am working on something exactly like that, based on Apache ZooKeeper. If anybody wants to contribute ( Java / Open Source ), feel free to email me. I would love to put Facebook out of its disgusting business and build a "freedom box". Interested, anyone ?
...with IBM tools, at my current client project. Can I then file a patent for not going to work ?
...I forecast for the magnificent Hadoop project, if and when they "partner" with Oracle. Nothing will come of it but bigger yachts for Larry E., mark my sad words.
...that nibbles at Facebook is A Good Thing. We need to destroy Facebook before it destroys too much of us, and our social interaction.
...copyright owns you !
Considering your thoughtlessness: you seem to forget that Netflix is a largely US-American endeavour. Here in Europe, just to name an example, it is largely meaningless. I suppose this also holds for China and India. Your "consumes the most bandwidth" should be reduced to the more correct "consumes the most bandwidth within the USA". You seem to suffer of Americanocentrism, a well-known disease on /.
Amen. That option is definitely for european health freaks and ethiopian athletes only.
....try for TV over the internet. One more of many that preceded. And as doomed to fail as the others ?
Who is "they" as implied by your "their" ? Please precise.