We really have to blame ourselves for making the possibility of outsourcing attractive. I'd admit that I'd rather tackle interesting problems in development room than take on a more client centric role, but there really is a reasonable argument in outsourcing when this is the prevalent attitude of developers.
Luckily for the developers of the future, outsourcing does increase wages internationally. But it is a slow process. And there is plenty of work for me in my development room anyway.
As for USA losing skilled people because of heightened security and immigration laws, well of course it has.
It appears that Ken is holding a seminar at UW on March 29 2007 (http://math.uwyo.edu/DEPTCOLLOQ.asp#Mar%2029). We will probably have to wait until then for any details.
I thought that you were getting at the fact that most of the neurons control muscles, so you could use these nuerons contolling muscles to work a video game control...
I have done specific personality tests as part of the recruitment process for a couple of jobs... usually these are part of a large recruitment campaign - such as graduate recruitment campaigns.
I have been informed that they can and do uncover psychopaths. But not to worry, not every psychopath is a practising serial killer. And I do not believe anything is done about it if they discover a psychopath. Though, if you are a psychopath, you will be very unlikely to get the job... and if you were dating the bosses daughter/son, well you probably won't be for long.
I don't care what my grandchildern think... but if they start raving about anything made form a home appliance beaf maker, I'll give them little electric shocks when they eat the brave new meat.
well in proving that i am thick, and in doing so hopefully becoming not quite so thick.. i was imagining x being the number of hits and y being the number of queries returning this number of hits...
so i'd presume very few queries return 0-2 results, and likewise very few return more than 100 million results... though lots would return around 500,000 results.
Agreed, you can question the claims that yahoo has double the indexing of google. If you assume that the returned result set returned from any two keywords is always linear.
Statistically it seems like this is hardly ever the case. One would expect some sort of bell shaped curve is more likely.
It is my experience, that very few queries return less than 1000 results, especially when 2 word combinations are used. It is also my experience that Yahoo consistently returns larger result sets than google. However I suspect that google returns more specific results.
I think that the study is flawed. The study only analyses results to queries that return less than 1000 results for both engines.
But the query itself only uses two words, hence it seems likely to me that a very small percentage of the query sample is actually useable and therefor the results of the study can not accurately be correlated to represent the entire engine index.
It seems to me that the only way to check the index size is to allow all random queries and use the number of results returned from the engine.
Obviously this assumes that the engine does not falsify the size of the result set. But all testing assumes that the results actually relate to what you are looking for.
The troubling part is, if genetic testing was commonplace, then people may not be able to get jobs simply because having such a job 'may' not be beneficial to the organisation.
As it is probably not always obvious if degrading performance (or health) of the individual is the fault of organisational practises or because of some pre-existing genetic condition, or simply being genetically more likely to develop such conditions.
The problem isn't that employers are always bad, the problem is that utilising such tools give employers greater opportunity to be bad. It will be bad enough when insurance agencies start genetic testing...
Soon it will be much more sensible to start your own business (and never employee anyone) and use savings instead of relying on insurance.
but would a good programmer create a better version of hello world than a bad programmer? and if so, then is a bad programmer still a programmer?
How could a good programmer make a better hello world application? Isn't it bad programming to create a more complex solution where a simple solution exists and is well known? Therefor wouldn't a good and bad programmer produce a similar application in a similar amount of time?
In conclusion, surely it doesn't apply to hello world.
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We really have to blame ourselves for making the possibility of outsourcing attractive. I'd admit that I'd rather tackle interesting problems in development room than take on a more client centric role, but there really is a reasonable argument in outsourcing when this is the prevalent attitude of developers.
Luckily for the developers of the future, outsourcing does increase wages internationally. But it is a slow process. And there is plenty of work for me in my development room anyway.
As for USA losing skilled people because of heightened security and immigration laws, well of course it has.
This is more amusing than inflammatory... AlQuaida.com is the name of a satirical german website. But I suppose not amusing in a '5' sort of way.
It appears that Ken is holding a seminar at UW on March 29 2007 (http://math.uwyo.edu/DEPTCOLLOQ.asp#Mar%2029). We will probably have to wait until then for any details.
I'd have thought the parent was flaimbait - but it is interesting? - that's interesting.
I imagine the grave robbers have better financial backers than that of the archaeologists.
Hanson have a mature album? They are no longer 10?
Is the internet as bad as television?
I thought the book was terrible. I would recommend not reading it, it will make you stupider.
You could hire a team at MIT to do it for you - that way you'd know that some good people have looked over the code first.
I thought that you were getting at the fact that most of the neurons control muscles, so you could use these nuerons contolling muscles to work a video game control...
I have done specific personality tests as part of the recruitment process for a couple of jobs... usually these are part of a large recruitment campaign - such as graduate recruitment campaigns.
I have been informed that they can and do uncover psychopaths. But not to worry, not every psychopath is a practising serial killer. And I do not believe anything is done about it if they discover a psychopath. Though, if you are a psychopath, you will be very unlikely to get the job... and if you were dating the bosses daughter/son, well you probably won't be for long.
new. not newest.
I don't care what my grandchildern think... but if they start raving about anything made form a home appliance beaf maker, I'll give them little electric shocks when they eat the brave new meat.
australian beer is terrible. rather drink canned water.
well in proving that i am thick, and in doing so hopefully becoming not quite so thick.. i was imagining x being the number of hits and y being the number of queries returning this number of hits...
so i'd presume very few queries return 0-2 results, and likewise very few return more than 100 million results... though lots would return around 500,000 results.
Agreed, you can question the claims that yahoo has double the indexing of google. If you assume that the returned result set returned from any two keywords is always linear.
Statistically it seems like this is hardly ever the case. One would expect some sort of bell shaped curve is more likely.
It is my experience, that very few queries return less than 1000 results, especially when 2 word combinations are used. It is also my experience that Yahoo consistently returns larger result sets than google. However I suspect that google returns more specific results.
I think that the study is flawed. The study only analyses results to queries that return less than 1000 results for both engines.
But the query itself only uses two words, hence it seems likely to me that a very small percentage of the query sample is actually useable and therefor the results of the study can not accurately be correlated to represent the entire engine index.
It seems to me that the only way to check the index size is to allow all random queries and use the number of results returned from the engine.
Obviously this assumes that the engine does not falsify the size of the result set. But all testing assumes that the results actually relate to what you are looking for.
The troubling part is, if genetic testing was commonplace, then people may not be able to get jobs simply because having such a job 'may' not be beneficial to the organisation.
As it is probably not always obvious if degrading performance (or health) of the individual is the fault of organisational practises or because of some pre-existing genetic condition, or simply being genetically more likely to develop such conditions.
The problem isn't that employers are always bad, the problem is that utilising such tools give employers greater opportunity to be bad. It will be bad enough when insurance agencies start genetic testing...
Soon it will be much more sensible to start your own business (and never employee anyone) and use savings instead of relying on insurance.
whatever. the UK is only a partial member of the EU...
but would a good programmer create a better version of hello world than a bad programmer? and if so, then is a bad programmer still a programmer?
How could a good programmer make a better hello world application? Isn't it bad programming to create a more complex solution where a simple solution exists and is well known? Therefor wouldn't a good and bad programmer produce a similar application in a similar amount of time?
In conclusion, surely it doesn't apply to hello world.
That is on the MSN Blog viewer..
And it is a nice clean website... lacking firefox support for the virtual earth functionality... but its cool. real cool.
it feels so bad to say that... but its a microsoft app (of sorts) that will run on linux... does that validate what i have said?
Actually, IE renders entities this way... see this article on cross browser development: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/ wa-ie2mozgd/#html_differences
But it looks like they have fixed it up now... spoil sports.
Perhaps he meant:
metronome Audio pronunciation of "metronome" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (mtr-nm)
n. Music
A device used to mark time by means of regularly recurring ticks or flashes at adjustable intervals.