This, exactly this. This guy seems to elevate programming to some sort of sacred art, an art where "doing x" is the only important consideration, not how much will it cost to allow anyone in the world to do x, not how much of a pain it is to make sure everyone updates to the newest version when you want to do x and y etc.
Basically he seems to be lamenting the fact that we aren't programming solely for the sake of programming. From TFA: Modern code monkeys donâ(TM)t even recognize mastery; mastery is measured in dollars or number of users, which is a poor substitute for distinguishing between what is good and what is dumb.
You do also realize that China started that war, correct? UN forces did not enter Chinese territory, the Chinese decided that they were getting too close to the Yalu river and attacked. China waged war agains the US, not the other way around(also the US saved their asses during WWII, a fact that many Chinese history books tend to "overlook")
One word: Republicans. Seriously, I have never seen a group of people so dedicated to bringing down the US, and they are doing a knock-up job of it too. Stone-age laws re: sex, undermining any attempt to increase the education level, opposing universal health care despite the fact that has been empirically shown again and again to deliver better health care cheaper etc.
I am SOOOOOOOO glad I left the land of the Republicans. Which is a shame, the US has a lot going for it, they just need to jettison the Republican party(though time may be doing that for them, the Republican base is quite literally dying)
Probably the most impressive thing about the report was that mac sales were flat...which doesn't seem impressive until you realize how much the rest of the industry is shrinking.
Actually bumping up the lower end iphone from the 3gs to the 4(s) was probably a bigger margin eater. While the 5 does cost more than the 4s, the difference is probably relatively small when comparing the 3gs to the 4(s), I wouldn't be surprised if the margin for those phones is less than half what it was on the 3gs
Actually it's probably the exact opposite. Even during the darkest days in Iraq the air force(unlike all other branches of the military) was turning away otherwise qualified people largely because it had too many applicants.... And a potential reason for the air force pilot shortage may very well be a lack of action, anyone who wants to make a career in the military pretty much knows that you really cannot get that far without seeing any action. With almost no need for certain classes of pilots(for instance fighter pilots), career-minded soldiers/airmen are simply moving to other fields where they are more likely to be deployed and see action.
Obviously they are going to need help from the outside, I suggest going to nearby West Virginia where there are plenty of people well versed in how to impregnate relatives.
That's why I take my Flintstones Vitamins in suppository form....the only problem is getting over the reluctance to stick a purpose dinosaur up your bum.....
Not to mention they failed business 101, when entering a (nearly) saturated market you sure as hell better be cheaper than your already established competitor, especially when people's biggest complaint about the ipad isn't the multi-tasking, it isn't the lack of external storage, it's the price. Pricing your tablet that has an obviously relatively under-developed eco-system the same as your biggest competitor who already has an established user and dev base was beyond stupid. Had Microsoft priced the entry level at $399 or even $449 right from the start they might not have had such a spectacular failure on their hands. As it stands, most people willing to drop $500 on a tablet go with an ipad, those looking for something cheaper and/or more flexible go with Android.... Leaving Windows with the very small market share of people willing to shell out for an ipad, but not wanting one for some reason.
Yes, and before I get flamed about said reasons, most people aren't geeks, and the ipad customer satisfaction surveys tend to show that the vast majority of people who are willing to shell out for an ipad are happy with it, leaving MS with an incredibly tiny potential market.
Depends on what level you are working at I guess. If you want to directly write the code that does science, then yeah analysis languages like R are quite useful. However, you can still support science and be involved in scientific programming without writing a line of code that applies only to science.
My advisor in grad school's biggest contribution to scientific computing was designing and implementing(with some outside help) a distributed, POSIX-compatible file system specifically optimized for the sorts of access patterns that are common in science. It's written entirely in C and you don't need to know a single principle about nuclear fission to help out. To the OP, if you have a solid background in science, then maybe going to grad school for a science may be useful, but if not catching up is going to be a bitch....I would recommend going to grad school for CS in a field such as distributed file systems/computing, parallel computing, gpgpu etc that can be used by science, but for which you don't have a to have a background in science in order to make a meaningful contribution.
You do realize that there have been many successful planned cities, including the capital of Brazil.
Oh, I'm sorry, did I try to use "facts" with a Republican, my mistake. You are right, "herp a derp, Liberals Bad! Republicans good! Tax bad! Guns good! Government bad! Unless that government is giving me money, in which case good!"
From a more economics-based standpoint(specifically, what happens when there are no real "jobs" left), I would have to say "Player Piano" by Kurt Vonnegut. Now of course there is the obviously dated references to computers with so many vacuum tubes that they fill a cave, and alas engineers ARENT the richest people on the planet but there is some great social commentary in there re: what to do when technology and society has rendered most people useless.
In the book, 99% of young men are basically given 2 options: join the army or join a meaningless public works organization....this is eerily similar to today's economy. Having spent time on a military base as a contractor, I can say that most of these guys would have been working at a factory if they had been born 50 years ago, but as most of those jobs have dried up they ended up in the Army. I know people in the US like to go all hero worship on these people, but lets face facts: For most of them, it's their only ticket to anything that even closely resembles a middle class lifestyle. They either aren't cut out for post-secondary education or cannot afford it, and since we don't have any other place for them(much like in the story), we stick them in the army...... The "reeks and wrecks" are the public works people, not quite as big in the US as they are elsewhere(for instance, Japan), but they are still there.
If you have time, definitely check it out, I've just scratched the surface of how correct Vonnegut was in predicting what happens when people stop being "useful" to society.
I think the bigger issue here is the usefulness of niche products, no matter if they are Amazon Vine or whatever. The size of target audience for this book is MAYBE in the 10s of thousands, and there are probably what, only 1 or 2 other books that would really even be considered "competitors" to this book. With those parameters, are any Amazon reviews going to be all that useful?
You are almost certain to get a review from someone not in the target audience or who got over-ambitious and ended up not understanding the source material, a review from the author's brother in law just so it looks like people are buying etc. Any sort of useful review is going to probably come in the form of a long blog post/magazine article, and thus isn't likely to be present on Amazon....So what you are left with is someone commenting on how flexible the book's spine is.
Um, isn't the very definition of a spammer someone who doesn't do their homework, i.e. spams mails out to as many addresses as they can find? I somehow doubt that mail was typed into a mail client and sent specifically to Google. Some spambot harvested a bunch of info and then sent emails to everyone it could find. In other news, water is wet.
I *suppose* you could add a filter to the spambot, but really why? There are only a handful of search engines, and I'm sure the admins have really good spam filters, so you don't gain a whole lot by excluding them.
By 2014 they will be caught up to where other browsers were in 2011, for Microsoft that's pretty impressive. Usually IE is about half a decade behind real browsers.
Ok so maybe his past couple albums weren't the best, but he is still as "weird" as ever... What's that, oh weak "AI(as in artificial intelligence"), sorry/. Mobile's shitty font got me confused there for a second.
I was actually curious about the power consumption so I went poking around and found this(Sorry I couldn't find the original article. The power consumption is markedly different....not sure it's enough to COMPLETELY offset the cost, but certainly makes it easier to swallow.
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This, exactly this. This guy seems to elevate programming to some sort of sacred art, an art where "doing x" is the only important consideration, not how much will it cost to allow anyone in the world to do x, not how much of a pain it is to make sure everyone updates to the newest version when you want to do x and y etc.
Basically he seems to be lamenting the fact that we aren't programming solely for the sake of programming. From TFA:
Modern code monkeys donâ(TM)t even recognize mastery; mastery is measured in dollars or number of users, which is a poor substitute for distinguishing between what is good and what is dumb.
You do also realize that China started that war, correct? UN forces did not enter Chinese territory, the Chinese decided that they were getting too close to the Yalu river and attacked. China waged war agains the US, not the other way around(also the US saved their asses during WWII, a fact that many Chinese history books tend to "overlook")
Provided the opinion is reasonable, show me one single Republican platform that is reasonable, go ahead, I can wait.
One word: Republicans. Seriously, I have never seen a group of people so dedicated to bringing down the US, and they are doing a knock-up job of it too. Stone-age laws re: sex, undermining any attempt to increase the education level, opposing universal health care despite the fact that has been empirically shown again and again to deliver better health care cheaper etc.
I am SOOOOOOOO glad I left the land of the Republicans. Which is a shame, the US has a lot going for it, they just need to jettison the Republican party(though time may be doing that for them, the Republican base is quite literally dying)
Probably the most impressive thing about the report was that mac sales were flat...which doesn't seem impressive until you realize how much the rest of the industry is shrinking.
Actually bumping up the lower end iphone from the 3gs to the 4(s) was probably a bigger margin eater. While the 5 does cost more than the 4s, the difference is probably relatively small when comparing the 3gs to the 4(s), I wouldn't be surprised if the margin for those phones is less than half what it was on the 3gs
Actually it's probably the exact opposite. Even during the darkest days in Iraq the air force(unlike all other branches of the military) was turning away otherwise qualified people largely because it had too many applicants.... And a potential reason for the air force pilot shortage may very well be a lack of action, anyone who wants to make a career in the military pretty much knows that you really cannot get that far without seeing any action. With almost no need for certain classes of pilots(for instance fighter pilots), career-minded soldiers/airmen are simply moving to other fields where they are more likely to be deployed and see action.
Depends on your regionalisms, I'm from PA so WV is my go to incest joke subject.
Obviously they are going to need help from the outside, I suggest going to nearby West Virginia where there are plenty of people well versed in how to impregnate relatives.
That's why I take my Flintstones Vitamins in suppository form....the only problem is getting over the reluctance to stick a purpose dinosaur up your bum.....
Come on Friedmann, key parties aren't new, they've been around since the 70s!
Not to mention they failed business 101, when entering a (nearly) saturated market you sure as hell better be cheaper than your already established competitor, especially when people's biggest complaint about the ipad isn't the multi-tasking, it isn't the lack of external storage, it's the price. Pricing your tablet that has an obviously relatively under-developed eco-system the same as your biggest competitor who already has an established user and dev base was beyond stupid. Had Microsoft priced the entry level at $399 or even $449 right from the start they might not have had such a spectacular failure on their hands. As it stands, most people willing to drop $500 on a tablet go with an ipad, those looking for something cheaper and/or more flexible go with Android.... Leaving Windows with the very small market share of people willing to shell out for an ipad, but not wanting one for some reason.
Yes, and before I get flamed about said reasons, most people aren't geeks, and the ipad customer satisfaction surveys tend to show that the vast majority of people who are willing to shell out for an ipad are happy with it, leaving MS with an incredibly tiny potential market.
Depends on what level you are working at I guess. If you want to directly write the code that does science, then yeah analysis languages like R are quite useful. However, you can still support science and be involved in scientific programming without writing a line of code that applies only to science.
My advisor in grad school's biggest contribution to scientific computing was designing and implementing(with some outside help) a distributed, POSIX-compatible file system specifically optimized for the sorts of access patterns that are common in science. It's written entirely in C and you don't need to know a single principle about nuclear fission to help out. To the OP, if you have a solid background in science, then maybe going to grad school for a science may be useful, but if not catching up is going to be a bitch....I would recommend going to grad school for CS in a field such as distributed file systems/computing, parallel computing, gpgpu etc that can be used by science, but for which you don't have a to have a background in science in order to make a meaningful contribution.
You do realize that there have been many successful planned cities, including the capital of Brazil.
Oh, I'm sorry, did I try to use "facts" with a Republican, my mistake. You are right, "herp a derp, Liberals Bad! Republicans good! Tax bad! Guns good! Government bad! Unless that government is giving me money, in which case good!"
From a more economics-based standpoint(specifically, what happens when there are no real "jobs" left), I would have to say "Player Piano" by Kurt Vonnegut. Now of course there is the obviously dated references to computers with so many vacuum tubes that they fill a cave, and alas engineers ARENT the richest people on the planet but there is some great social commentary in there re: what to do when technology and society has rendered most people useless.
In the book, 99% of young men are basically given 2 options: join the army or join a meaningless public works organization....this is eerily similar to today's economy. Having spent time on a military base as a contractor, I can say that most of these guys would have been working at a factory if they had been born 50 years ago, but as most of those jobs have dried up they ended up in the Army. I know people in the US like to go all hero worship on these people, but lets face facts: For most of them, it's their only ticket to anything that even closely resembles a middle class lifestyle. They either aren't cut out for post-secondary education or cannot afford it, and since we don't have any other place for them(much like in the story), we stick them in the army...... The "reeks and wrecks" are the public works people, not quite as big in the US as they are elsewhere(for instance, Japan), but they are still there.
If you have time, definitely check it out, I've just scratched the surface of how correct Vonnegut was in predicting what happens when people stop being "useful" to society.
But how else am I supposed to use the force to lava-surf?
I knew Dr. Spock was the one that killed the dinosaurs, "Captain, these giant bird-lizards are highly illogical and must be disposed of."
I think the bigger issue here is the usefulness of niche products, no matter if they are Amazon Vine or whatever. The size of target audience for this book is MAYBE in the 10s of thousands, and there are probably what, only 1 or 2 other books that would really even be considered "competitors" to this book. With those parameters, are any Amazon reviews going to be all that useful?
You are almost certain to get a review from someone not in the target audience or who got over-ambitious and ended up not understanding the source material, a review from the author's brother in law just so it looks like people are buying etc. Any sort of useful review is going to probably come in the form of a long blog post/magazine article, and thus isn't likely to be present on Amazon....So what you are left with is someone commenting on how flexible the book's spine is.
But Mrs. Garrison needs to know, can they be used to grow penises?
Obligatory modified Simpsons:
There's the right way, the wrong way, and the Wikipedia way!
Isn't that just the wrong way?
Yes, but faster!
So they sequenced a 700,000 year old horse? In other words, a Tesco hamburger?*rimshot*
Um, isn't the very definition of a spammer someone who doesn't do their homework, i.e. spams mails out to as many addresses as they can find? I somehow doubt that mail was typed into a mail client and sent specifically to Google. Some spambot harvested a bunch of info and then sent emails to everyone it could find. In other news, water is wet.
I *suppose* you could add a filter to the spambot, but really why? There are only a handful of search engines, and I'm sure the admins have really good spam filters, so you don't gain a whole lot by excluding them.
By 2014 they will be caught up to where other browsers were in 2011, for Microsoft that's pretty impressive. Usually IE is about half a decade behind real browsers.
Ok so maybe his past couple albums weren't the best, but he is still as "weird" as ever... What's that, oh weak "AI(as in artificial intelligence"), sorry /. Mobile's shitty font got me confused there for a second.
I was actually curious about the power consumption so I went poking around and found this(Sorry I couldn't find the original article. The power consumption is markedly different....not sure it's enough to COMPLETELY offset the cost, but certainly makes it easier to swallow.