Everything I knew about Google when I worked at Google came from the tech press. Although working in the data center gave me more hands on experience with the actual hardware, especially the $50K optical switch that in a box with two feet of foam cushion on all sides.
I'm pretty sure many companies' employees are privy to said companies trade secrets, don't you think?
The only trade secrets at Google is how much duct tape and baling wire these systems are held together with.
Android is an open platform subject to cost decisions by third-party providers. Google motherboards are a closed platform with specific design goals that make it more cost effective than using generic motherboards.
Google has been designing and manufacturing their own data center motherboards for years. If a motherboard died in the rack, it was cheaper to leave it there. I knew that when I worked at the Google IT help desk in 2008 and built out a Google data center testbed in 2011.
If you re-read my comment, Brown did something that no Republican governor has ever done was to balance the budget for the last four years.
Brown got the budget balance, but only after seeing pretty large bumps in taxes, not cutting spending, now that is slipping away from him.
Brown went to voters for those tax increases. If the Republicans repeal Obamacare without a replacement (not that they have one), it's going to blow a big hole in state and federal budgets.
We don't need another 4-8 years of Obama/Bush incompetence.
The Trump administration is going to rival the Reagan and Nixon administrations for controversies, scandals and prison terms. No wonder the Washington Post is hiring 60+ reporters in the New Year.
One of the strongest features of Java was the fact you didn't have to "port" it to different environments. "Write once" was a feature.
That's misleading. The language is write once. But unless someone ports the JVM, you can't run the language on a different system.
So after five years at a community college, you finally graduated.
Because I was working 60 hours as a video game tester and teaching Sunday school. Some people would find it impossible to take two or three classes on top of a schedule like that and still get straight A's for five years in a row.
But you don't actually work as a programmer.
These days I write PowerShell scripts to automate InfoSec tasks. I would prefer to use Python but the three-letter government agency I work for is a Windows shop.
I guess this explains why you don't understand basic concepts of programming.
As a lead video game tester for three years, I worked closely with developers around the world. Because I was taking classes in computer programming, I was able to narrow the scope of the bug reports to the actual problem. On one occasion I was allowed to look at the code and found a bug that way.
IT support for Fortune 500 companies was no different. I get tickets, look at problems, talk to users and developers, and find solutions that no one else can. I even walked a CS graduate on how to turn on his workstation over the phone since cubicle farms don't have people standing around to turn on workstations like university computer labs do.
Wow. So much wrong in that understanding.
I'll provide the link for the Swift-Windows releases below. Please read through the instructions carefully. Note that you will need to download swift-cygwin-20160913-bin.tar.gz for Cygwin or swift-mingw-20160815-bin.7z for Windows. You won't be able to run Swift the programming language without those binaries.
Once you have the binaries installed, you can use swift for immediate mode and swiftc for compiling. If this look familiar, it's similar to java and javac for Java programs.
You live in California and voted for Hillary and voted for Jerry Brown and claim to be a conservative........................best troll ever.
Voters like me used to be called "Reagan Democrats" (i.e., fiscally conservative, socially liberal). I vote for the best candidate in each election. Hillary would have kicked Putin's balls then lick them. Jerry Brown did something that no Republican governor in California had ever done: he balanced the state budget.
Seriously I don't think there is a medical condition that could reach those levels of mental defect, though the Liberal world has been applying all their resources in attempt to discover it.
The Republican Party nominated a candidate who is neither a conservative nor a Republican, and, until a few short years ago, was a Clinton Democrat. Psychologists call that "cognitive dissonance": "the state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change."
Yes, there is government, but try that in the private sector.
The US is aging rapidly. Healthcare will become the number one industry by 2030. The IT industry is expected to have 1.5M+ openings that it can't fill with U.S. or foreign workers. This shortage was predicted in a 2001 study and I went back to school after the dot com bust to get into IT. Everyone told me I was nuts back then. I'm looking forward to making serious bucks in the next 30 years.
All the same, it's fine for you personally now and until someone decides to downsize the government.
My coworkers and I aren't worried about the Trump administration downsizing the government. Republican presidential candidates always talk about eliminating the departments of Labor, Interior and Opps (Energy), but no Republican president has ever bothered and they typically increase the federal payroll despite the small government rhetoric.
Agreed, the retirement age may need to rise, but someone better tell that to employers as well. You may be 60 with 20 more good years in you but it doesn't matter if HR starts round filing resumes at 49.
I currently work in government IT. Some of my coworkers are in their 60's and 70's. Until Microsoft renders them obsolete (a good possibility with the new 2016 server platform), they're not planning on retiring. Most work from home. One of them is still working despite the weekly chemo treatments.
Let's say I retire at 70 and live another 50 years in retirement, I'll be 120. With today's medical advancement, I can't rule out the possibility of living a long life. I don't smoke or drink. It would be foolish not to plan to live that long. If die before then, my heirs — the few that I haven't outlived yet — will be very rich.
You'll also be somewhat exceptional if you're still employed at 77.
If you're self-employed, no one is going to fire you.
The mandatory retirement age (and the de-facto retirement age) hasn't been going up as fast as lifespans.
When Social Security started in the 1930's, there were 19 workers paying into the system for every retiree. Social Security in 2030 will have two workers paying into the system for every retiree. Without drastic changes like hiking the retirement age to, say, 77, Social Security will go broke with the Baby Boom generation. As GenXer I'm not planning for Social Security to be around when I retire.
Your example is just ridiculous (and thus dishonest) since it conflates your complaint about not honoring a "minimize shipments" option on the original order with you having things delivered to an insecure location and they were stolen.
That's because you are deliberately misrepresenting what I wrote. Stolen packages from doorstep were two years ago, which was when I got my post office box and had packages delivered there. I had two RECENT ORDERS shipped in eight boxes. I went to the post office this morning to break down eight boxes and put 11 items into a canvas grocery bag. PITA!
That most people are living 30, 40 or 50 years in retirement isn't unrealistic with today's medical advancements. The retirement age was set in the 1930's when the average American retired at 60 and dropped dead at 65. When my father drew retirement benefits at 59.5-years-old, he expected to be dead by 60 because all his older brothers dropped dead at 60. He continued working until he dropped dead at 75. Running out of money in retirement is going to be the number one problem for future retirees.
No wonder you want to take the "what, me worry?" approach to society and the economy.
That's because I plan out things ahead of time. If you don't plan ahead, you're planning for failure.
Most of Silicon Valley voted for Hillary, including a lot of IT guys and gals.
I weep for what ever company you provide IT support for.
That would be just about every Fortune 500 company in Silicon Valley over a 20+ year career. I'm currently doing InfoSec for government IT.
Do you work for the DNC?
Nope. But I did turn down an opportunity to do IT at the Meg Whitman for Governor campaign headquarters in 2010. I told the recruiter that not everyone who previously worked at eBay loves Meg Whitman, her radio ads were annoying as hell to listen to while driving, and I voted for the moderate conservative in the Republican primary. Yes, I voted for Jerry Brown in the general election.
Sun wrote a VM for Java. That's it. Java never was "ported". I don't think you know what "ported" means.
You can't have Java without the VM. No VM, no Java. Hence, Sun "ported" Java to Windows, Mac and Linux.
I think your understanding of computer programs is sorely lacking.
I made the president's list for maintaining a 4.0 GPA in computer programming after I graduated from community college. That took me five years because I was taking two classes per semester, working 60+ hours per week as a video game tester and teaching Sunday school. I'm not a professional software developer. I went into IT support to use my programming background to help users solve difficult problems made difficult by professional software developers.
Running something in Cygwin in Windows is not a "port" of that program.
Swift for Cygwin and Windows is called a "port" on the swift-dev list. The Cygwin port requires a hack to compile the binary for distribution. The Windows port requires more effort for a native binary.
Stupid comes in a lot of different forms, but show me an InfoSec worker that scores under 100 IQ.
A 100 IQ is average intelligence. It's possible to have InfoSec workers that are brilliant or dumb.
And unless we truly live in a dytopian hellscape, they'll soon not be working in those jobs or those business will soon go bust.
Then you aren't familiar with corporate dysfunction. I had a Cisco manger who told me that he could train me but I would take my training, get certified and worked for a competitor. Therefore, it wasn't worth his time to train me. Never mind that many employees were training themselves, getting certified and working for competitors. That was in 2013. Last time I checked, Cisco was still in business.
Slashdot Mirror
Translation: I'm just talking out of my ass.
This is Slashdot. You must be new around here.
EE: Google Ramps Up Chip Design
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1320981
And yet you fail to side even a single link or book.
If you can't use Google, that's not my problem.
So then provide links to where this exact information was published previously.
https://blog.codinghorror.com/building-a-computer-the-google-way/
creimer: life-pro-tip -- it's not all about you and what you know.
You're wrong. If I wasn't an asshole, I wouldn't be working in IT.
This just in: Company employees will know things people outside the company don't.
My knowledge of Google while working at Google came from the tech press and some books.
I didn't. Know. Or work at Google.
Everything I knew about Google when I worked at Google came from the tech press. Although working in the data center gave me more hands on experience with the actual hardware, especially the $50K optical switch that in a box with two feet of foam cushion on all sides.
I'm pretty sure many companies' employees are privy to said companies trade secrets, don't you think?
The only trade secrets at Google is how much duct tape and baling wire these systems are held together with.
Android is an open platform subject to cost decisions by third-party providers. Google motherboards are a closed platform with specific design goals that make it more cost effective than using generic motherboards.
Google has been designing and manufacturing their own data center motherboards for years. If a motherboard died in the rack, it was cheaper to leave it there. I knew that when I worked at the Google IT help desk in 2008 and built out a Google data center testbed in 2011.
This still doesn't explain your lack of understanding of programming.
I understand programming quite well. It's your argument that's lacking.
Want to revise your statement?
If you re-read my comment, Brown did something that no Republican governor has ever done was to balance the budget for the last four years.
Brown got the budget balance, but only after seeing pretty large bumps in taxes, not cutting spending, now that is slipping away from him.
Brown went to voters for those tax increases. If the Republicans repeal Obamacare without a replacement (not that they have one), it's going to blow a big hole in state and federal budgets.
We don't need another 4-8 years of Obama/Bush incompetence.
The Trump administration is going to rival the Reagan and Nixon administrations for controversies, scandals and prison terms. No wonder the Washington Post is hiring 60+ reporters in the New Year.
Or Cygwin.
One of the strongest features of Java was the fact you didn't have to "port" it to different environments. "Write once" was a feature.
That's misleading. The language is write once. But unless someone ports the JVM, you can't run the language on a different system.
So after five years at a community college, you finally graduated.
Because I was working 60 hours as a video game tester and teaching Sunday school. Some people would find it impossible to take two or three classes on top of a schedule like that and still get straight A's for five years in a row.
But you don't actually work as a programmer.
These days I write PowerShell scripts to automate InfoSec tasks. I would prefer to use Python but the three-letter government agency I work for is a Windows shop.
I guess this explains why you don't understand basic concepts of programming.
As a lead video game tester for three years, I worked closely with developers around the world. Because I was taking classes in computer programming, I was able to narrow the scope of the bug reports to the actual problem. On one occasion I was allowed to look at the code and found a bug that way.
IT support for Fortune 500 companies was no different. I get tickets, look at problems, talk to users and developers, and find solutions that no one else can. I even walked a CS graduate on how to turn on his workstation over the phone since cubicle farms don't have people standing around to turn on workstations like university computer labs do.
Wow. So much wrong in that understanding.
I'll provide the link for the Swift-Windows releases below. Please read through the instructions carefully. Note that you will need to download swift-cygwin-20160913-bin.tar.gz for Cygwin or swift-mingw-20160815-bin.7z for Windows. You won't be able to run Swift the programming language without those binaries.
https://github.com/tinysun212/swift-windows/releases
Once you have the binaries installed, you can use swift for immediate mode and swiftc for compiling. If this look familiar, it's similar to java and javac for Java programs.
You live in California and voted for Hillary and voted for Jerry Brown and claim to be a conservative........................best troll ever.
Voters like me used to be called "Reagan Democrats" (i.e., fiscally conservative, socially liberal). I vote for the best candidate in each election. Hillary would have kicked Putin's balls then lick them. Jerry Brown did something that no Republican governor in California had ever done: he balanced the state budget.
Seriously I don't think there is a medical condition that could reach those levels of mental defect, though the Liberal world has been applying all their resources in attempt to discover it.
The Republican Party nominated a candidate who is neither a conservative nor a Republican, and, until a few short years ago, was a Clinton Democrat. Psychologists call that "cognitive dissonance": "the state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change."
Yes, there is government, but try that in the private sector.
The US is aging rapidly. Healthcare will become the number one industry by 2030. The IT industry is expected to have 1.5M+ openings that it can't fill with U.S. or foreign workers. This shortage was predicted in a 2001 study and I went back to school after the dot com bust to get into IT. Everyone told me I was nuts back then. I'm looking forward to making serious bucks in the next 30 years.
All the same, it's fine for you personally now and until someone decides to downsize the government.
My coworkers and I aren't worried about the Trump administration downsizing the government. Republican presidential candidates always talk about eliminating the departments of Labor, Interior and Opps (Energy), but no Republican president has ever bothered and they typically increase the federal payroll despite the small government rhetoric.
Agreed, the retirement age may need to rise, but someone better tell that to employers as well. You may be 60 with 20 more good years in you but it doesn't matter if HR starts round filing resumes at 49.
I currently work in government IT. Some of my coworkers are in their 60's and 70's. Until Microsoft renders them obsolete (a good possibility with the new 2016 server platform), they're not planning on retiring. Most work from home. One of them is still working despite the weekly chemo treatments.
I'm referring to thinking you'll make it to 120.
Let's say I retire at 70 and live another 50 years in retirement, I'll be 120. With today's medical advancement, I can't rule out the possibility of living a long life. I don't smoke or drink. It would be foolish not to plan to live that long. If die before then, my heirs — the few that I haven't outlived yet — will be very rich.
You'll also be somewhat exceptional if you're still employed at 77.
If you're self-employed, no one is going to fire you.
The mandatory retirement age (and the de-facto retirement age) hasn't been going up as fast as lifespans.
When Social Security started in the 1930's, there were 19 workers paying into the system for every retiree. Social Security in 2030 will have two workers paying into the system for every retiree. Without drastic changes like hiking the retirement age to, say, 77, Social Security will go broke with the Baby Boom generation. As GenXer I'm not planning for Social Security to be around when I retire.
Your example is just ridiculous (and thus dishonest) since it conflates your complaint about not honoring a "minimize shipments" option on the original order with you having things delivered to an insecure location and they were stolen.
That's because you are deliberately misrepresenting what I wrote. Stolen packages from doorstep were two years ago, which was when I got my post office box and had packages delivered there. I had two RECENT ORDERS shipped in eight boxes. I went to the post office this morning to break down eight boxes and put 11 items into a canvas grocery bag. PITA!
That's pretty unrealistic, I'm afraid.
That most people are living 30, 40 or 50 years in retirement isn't unrealistic with today's medical advancements. The retirement age was set in the 1930's when the average American retired at 60 and dropped dead at 65. When my father drew retirement benefits at 59.5-years-old, he expected to be dead by 60 because all his older brothers dropped dead at 60. He continued working until he dropped dead at 75. Running out of money in retirement is going to be the number one problem for future retirees.
No wonder you want to take the "what, me worry?" approach to society and the economy.
That's because I plan out things ahead of time. If you don't plan ahead, you're planning for failure.
Hope he will be impeached before his mandate is over.
Impeachment will happen long before his term expires. As for mandate, he has none since 54% of the voters voted against him.
You as an IT guy voted for Hillary.
Most of Silicon Valley voted for Hillary, including a lot of IT guys and gals.
I weep for what ever company you provide IT support for.
That would be just about every Fortune 500 company in Silicon Valley over a 20+ year career. I'm currently doing InfoSec for government IT.
Do you work for the DNC?
Nope. But I did turn down an opportunity to do IT at the Meg Whitman for Governor campaign headquarters in 2010. I told the recruiter that not everyone who previously worked at eBay loves Meg Whitman, her radio ads were annoying as hell to listen to while driving, and I voted for the moderate conservative in the Republican primary. Yes, I voted for Jerry Brown in the general election.
Sun wrote a VM for Java. That's it. Java never was "ported". I don't think you know what "ported" means.
You can't have Java without the VM. No VM, no Java. Hence, Sun "ported" Java to Windows, Mac and Linux.
I think your understanding of computer programs is sorely lacking.
I made the president's list for maintaining a 4.0 GPA in computer programming after I graduated from community college. That took me five years because I was taking two classes per semester, working 60+ hours per week as a video game tester and teaching Sunday school. I'm not a professional software developer. I went into IT support to use my programming background to help users solve difficult problems made difficult by professional software developers.
Running something in Cygwin in Windows is not a "port" of that program.
Swift for Cygwin and Windows is called a "port" on the swift-dev list. The Cygwin port requires a hack to compile the binary for distribution. The Windows port requires more effort for a native binary.
https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-dev/Week-of-Mon-20160418/001790.html
I guess you'll start planning for retirement when you hit 62 or so?
I'm planning to retire when I'm 77 and drop dead when I'm 120 (I'm 47 now). Not everything I plan for can fit in three to five year cycles.
The machinists can get jobs correcting people who don't know what 'decimate' means.
Don't forget adding fractions and making change.
Stupid comes in a lot of different forms, but show me an InfoSec worker that scores under 100 IQ.
A 100 IQ is average intelligence. It's possible to have InfoSec workers that are brilliant or dumb.
And unless we truly live in a dytopian hellscape, they'll soon not be working in those jobs or those business will soon go bust.
Then you aren't familiar with corporate dysfunction. I had a Cisco manger who told me that he could train me but I would take my training, get certified and worked for a competitor. Therefore, it wasn't worth his time to train me. Never mind that many employees were training themselves, getting certified and working for competitors. That was in 2013. Last time I checked, Cisco was still in business.