Is this some kind of click bait? Maybe a joke?
If you can Google how to do your job, then your job must be very easy that anyway who knows how to Google and knows basic math can do it. It sounds like the next job to be automated.:)
Anyway, I wouldn't hire anyone to work for me as a programmer than has a 4th grade level math understanding or hates math. Anyway, programming and algorithms are math, or at least a sub branch of math...at least up unitl the 50-60s or so when Computer Science was its own thing.....sigh...
Thanks for the reminder of only taking programming jobs that can't (likely) be done by a person like this, or someone who went to a coding boot camp of some kind.
I guess my question is more, along the lines of why not be pragmatic about it? Some people use that term. It has a specific meaning for them. Why not leave it at that? Being dogmatic doesn't help the cause of free software adoption.
Start contributing to GPLed open-source projects;)
Working on GPL'ed source code can be a major problem. It can cause taint to the closed source software especially if the projects are similar.
Companies that work on both, like say Intel, normally firewall employees from open source and closed source projects for this reason.
I am a software developer for a large software company working on a large proprietary (read: not free) OS.
How can I achieve forgiveness for my sins in this life?
"No longer are there different kernels for Windows 8, Windows Phone or Windows RT it's now all just One Windows. As goes the Windows kernel, so goes the entire company."
Seriously what is he talking about? The kernels were already the same on Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, Xbox One, and Windows RT. This already has been happening for many years now. This is public knowledge that anyone could know if they just bothered to look. By the way, they announced at the//Build conference a few weeks ago that even the app model an WinRT APIs are going to be converged now between Windows, Phone, and Xbox so you can write one app for all of all platforms once.
I assume you didn't run the Windows 8 or 8.1 previews then. I did and don't recall it having this level of fail. In fact the software ran almost completely reliably. I am speaking of software quality and reliability and not personal preference in the UI design.
"Almost Awesome"
I think that must have been meant as a joke. Constantly crashing and crap battery life on release software is probably the opposite of awesome...at least for me. Maybe he meant that it would have been completely awesome if it managed to electrocute him or kick him in the nuts some how.
FORTAN used to be it back in the day, but now days Matlab is the stuff that many engineers use for scientific computing. Many of the math libraries are very good in Matlab and don't require you to be a computer scientist to make them run fast. I used to work with scientists in my old lab to port their Matlab code to run on HPC clusters porting them to FORTAN or C. Often the matlab libraries smoked the BLAS/Atlas packages that you find on Linux/UNIX machines for instance. The same would hold true for Octave since they just build on the standard GNU math pacakges like BLAS.
Is Windows done on ARM? Two words: Windows Phone. So obviously not. Windows on ARM will continue for the foreseeable future.
Are Windows RT tablets dead? Well not yet. Who cares about running 7 year old productivity apps. That didn't seem to hamper iPad adoption not being able to run Mac apps. Once you have all of the consumption apps you need from the store, I think ARM RT or x86, it doesn't really matter.
How far can you take this? You have already gone too far!
The only exception I can think of is if your are a dev working on DOSBox or QEMU and want to dogfood or stress test.
If you want to do research and work internationally, you will need to be able to speak and write English. Oh wait, you already do. English is more or less the lingua franca for international communication and research.
This sounds like a complete about face from a few years ago. I stopped completely using ATI products a few years ago when the fire drivers did funny things with the frame buffer object, and the official line was that there was no plan to have it ever fixed in the Linux drivers. I will have to reconsider my position now.
You can download the source and compile it for free if you want. You would be better off looking at CentOS or Vector linux. That is basically what they do.
I wonder when CentOS will release their clone of RHEL5.
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Is this some kind of click bait? Maybe a joke? If you can Google how to do your job, then your job must be very easy that anyway who knows how to Google and knows basic math can do it. It sounds like the next job to be automated. :)
Anyway, I wouldn't hire anyone to work for me as a programmer than has a 4th grade level math understanding or hates math. Anyway, programming and algorithms are math, or at least a sub branch of math...at least up unitl the 50-60s or so when Computer Science was its own thing. ....sigh...
Thanks for the reminder of only taking programming jobs that can't (likely) be done by a person like this, or someone who went to a coding boot camp of some kind.
Congrats! TAILS accomplished what Knoppix first did 14 years ago! http://www.knopper.net/knoppix...
I guess my question is more, along the lines of why not be pragmatic about it? Some people use that term. It has a specific meaning for them. Why not leave it at that? Being dogmatic doesn't help the cause of free software adoption.
Start contributing to GPLed open-source projects ;)
Working on GPL'ed source code can be a major problem. It can cause taint to the closed source software especially if the projects are similar. Companies that work on both, like say Intel, normally firewall employees from open source and closed source projects for this reason.
I am a software developer for a large software company working on a large proprietary (read: not free) OS. How can I achieve forgiveness for my sins in this life?
Why don't you like the term open source?
"No longer are there different kernels for Windows 8, Windows Phone or Windows RT it's now all just One Windows. As goes the Windows kernel, so goes the entire company." Seriously what is he talking about? The kernels were already the same on Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, Xbox One, and Windows RT. This already has been happening for many years now. This is public knowledge that anyone could know if they just bothered to look. By the way, they announced at the //Build conference a few weeks ago that even the app model an WinRT APIs are going to be converged now between Windows, Phone, and Xbox so you can write one app for all of all platforms once.
I assume you didn't run the Windows 8 or 8.1 previews then. I did and don't recall it having this level of fail. In fact the software ran almost completely reliably. I am speaking of software quality and reliability and not personal preference in the UI design.
"Almost Awesome" I think that must have been meant as a joke. Constantly crashing and crap battery life on release software is probably the opposite of awesome...at least for me. Maybe he meant that it would have been completely awesome if it managed to electrocute him or kick him in the nuts some how.
FORTAN used to be it back in the day, but now days Matlab is the stuff that many engineers use for scientific computing. Many of the math libraries are very good in Matlab and don't require you to be a computer scientist to make them run fast. I used to work with scientists in my old lab to port their Matlab code to run on HPC clusters porting them to FORTAN or C. Often the matlab libraries smoked the BLAS/Atlas packages that you find on Linux/UNIX machines for instance. The same would hold true for Octave since they just build on the standard GNU math pacakges like BLAS.
Is Windows done on ARM? Two words: Windows Phone. So obviously not. Windows on ARM will continue for the foreseeable future. Are Windows RT tablets dead? Well not yet. Who cares about running 7 year old productivity apps. That didn't seem to hamper iPad adoption not being able to run Mac apps. Once you have all of the consumption apps you need from the store, I think ARM RT or x86, it doesn't really matter.
Yes, next question.
Next question.
How far can you take this? You have already gone too far! The only exception I can think of is if your are a dev working on DOSBox or QEMU and want to dogfood or stress test.
As a University of Texas - San Antonio graduate, this makes me sad we people try to tare down others beliefs.
post 1001?
I don't think posting this question on Slashdot was the best way to keep it low profile.
Server 2008 has the exact same kernel as Vista SP1, so it is running vista. Still, this seems to be a very dark day in HPC land.
If you want to do research and work internationally, you will need to be able to speak and write English. Oh wait, you already do. English is more or less the lingua franca for international communication and research.
This sounds like a complete about face from a few years ago. I stopped completely using ATI products a few years ago when the fire drivers did funny things with the frame buffer object, and the official line was that there was no plan to have it ever fixed in the Linux drivers. I will have to reconsider my position now.
what do you mean again?
That doesn't seem to jive with what I hear on the streets. ?
I guess it is time to get a new ISP
Thanks for another reason why not to buy ATI GPUs.
You can download the source and compile it for free if you want. You would be better off looking at CentOS or Vector linux. That is basically what they do. I wonder when CentOS will release their clone of RHEL5.