When the work is something like sales or marketing, long hours may be effective, since you can reach more clients or brainstorm ideas. The work isn't necessarily mentally exhausting. I can see how a VC would want long hours because getting to market first is a great way to edge out competition. But for engineering work, where correctness or deep comprehension of a problem is key, long hours will slow you down. I've seen it happen. A team will pull an all nighter, desperately rushing to solve a difficult problem or a mysterious bug only to still be stuck with it in the morning. Programming is in the realm of the mind and a good solution is rarely large quantities of code. If you need to write verbose and lengthy functions, you might be doing it wrong. Sure, you can type faster or copy and paste, but you will miss something that will take you hours to find. I find that I can solve difficult problems by relaxing and keeping the idea in my mind. Take a walk, a nap or daydream. The answer will pop into your head. It's number 37 in the 97 things. http://programmer.97things.ore... However, the exceptions given are valid. If you fully understand the problem and know exactly what you want (and it's your personal project) stay in the groove while it lasts.
Exactly. A couple of years ago payload growth was due to asset storage. As more and more resolutions were released, games would store multiple copies of each image (sprite or texture) so they would match the resolution of each device they supported. This avoids resampling artifacts at the cost of payload size. Many options were invented to reduce payload bloat such as: - Apple Introduced app thinning; where the bundle contains all assets but the device only downloads its resolution - Download resources after installation - popular with freemium games - SVG, Core Graphics, OpenGL, and Metal rendering to textures - Using unicode glyphs for icons Using some combination of these techniques allow me to reduce the size of my app package over the years while adding features. If you take a look at the facebook ipa and open er' up, you will see they got the asset size real small, but their frameworks weigh in at 295 MB. The only way around that is to stop using react or bring it into iOS as a shared library. But that would add even more bloat to an already bloated operating system.
...The accident was a result of engineers saying no, but management overriding the decision. With this introduction, Bob makes it quite clear that when we choose not to stand up for that which we believe, it can have dire consequences.
There are some things that bother me here. (And they should bug you too)
1. The engineers did indeed stand up by saying no, but authority didn't give a fuck. In the end the engineers did not have control of the project. 2. The engineers didn't merely believe, they knew. I'm sure there were test results and rigorous math involved. Yes, I understand the terms are too often used interchangeably but it's important to know the distinction. When some yahoo stands up for his belief in, I don't know, let's say, god, there is big difference. Belief does not require proof.
When you stand up for something you can't prove, that can have dire consequences as well.
Granted, this writer is a former preacher, and it shows.
I believe the OP was making the common mistake of personifying the system instead of the people. That is common these days. However, the classic maya vanished before that, around 800 C.E. While the people didn't actually 'vanish', their way of life did. While it is possible that the maya became victims of their own overgrowth like the romans, subject to the law of diminishing returns, it seems more plausible they just abandoned it when it no longer served them. Perhaps the city was more a project or experiment than an exercise in domination and superiority like it was with the romans. The experiment served its purpose and then the people dispersed back into the jungle. It's unfortunate that most of what they learned and recorded during this time was destroyed by those invading peoples you mentioned.
I'm not going to bother to look it up, but I bet it is more than 40 times, a LOT more.
Let's see, eh.
Ballmer's 2009 Total Compensation:
$1,276,627 [src: forbes.com]
Microsoft factory worker in China:
65 cents x 15 hours x 24 days (people work 6 days a week there) = US$234/mo [from below post]
$2,808/yr
Ballmer makes about 454.6X a factor worker. Not really a thousand times, but getting there. Not to mention these workers have to buy their own bedding so they essentially have no benefits. None.
It certainly qualifies as "hacking". See, it's the quotes that modify the meaning. For example, If you were to buy something with inkjet prints or photographs of dollar bills you could say: I tried to buy this candy bar with "money", and they turned me away. Or "sex" in place of masturbating in front of your monitor. Or Nickelback as "music". I could go on.
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Such a beautiful thing. Show me a Windows system that can do that.
Explain then, how OTR http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/ makes a man in the middle attack possible, assuming I've authenticated the person at the other end. Besides, all the other IM protocols (AIM, ICQ, MSN, YAHOO) have been using ssl/tls for years, right?
Yeah, so? Now you can use OTR (off the record encryption) which provides all the privacy you couldn't get before. No need for protocol encryption. All with the comfort of your familiar IM client.
A drive by remote code execution for IE that replaces mshtml.dll with a compatible wrapper for the gecko engine. Problem solved! Now all those IE6 users are using firefox without even knowing it.
"The problem is that doctors are rather incented to declare people sick, so insurers will pay them."
And This.
Insurance companies are incented to deny claims. So the doctor declares you sick and assigns expensive treatment. You go along with it thinking your insurance will take care of it. A few months later you get a bill from the doctor with either a part or none of the bill paid for by the insurer. Both the doctor and the insurance company win, and you get stuck with the bill. The system works great as long you pay.:)
Google Earth, skype, acroread, etc.. are in the medibuntu repository all with the disclaimer that they are not free. Not the latest versions, but that isn't what repos are about. You want bleeding edge, install it yourself.
Corporations are merely a symptom of the problem, not the cause. Civilization at its very core has a flawed world-view. It perceives the environment as a collection of resources. The resources are to be extracted, used up, and wasted. (Don't give me that BS about recycling. We are still way off. But granted, it is a start.) There is nothing in the perception about balance with nature/environment. The environment is not something 'out there' to be saved. It is everything. The air you breathe, the water you drink. Even sitting at your desk you are still in the environment. You've just be separated from the living environment by the dead environment. (Concrete, metal and glass.) Living things were killed and remade into a buffer called the city. The goal of civilization is to make you fear wild, living nature so that you accept the comforts of the city and work hard to amass wealth for the masters. Resources are extracted from the country into the city and cause them to grow beyond the carrying capacity of the land. This is where the 'profit' comes from. A society living in balance with the land will fluctuate in population and enjoy good healthy food (when available). The Native Americans enjoyed a life like this, each tribe adapted to the many climates on the continent. Sure, they were no match for the well-armed civilized, but that doesn't make them wrong. One can hardly turn a profit if one is a circular reciprocity with the land, giving and taking equally. Profit only comes from theft. Lands are conquered (taken), and materials are extracted for (nearly) free. Don't believe me? Check out some of our laws on mining and forestry. You may be surprised to discover how much go-ahead the companies have on our public lands.
Of course all this taking has given us so much wonderful stuff, right? I am a total hypocrite for speaking like this on a global interactive network of computers.
Well, the problem comes when you've taken so much you can take no more. Have we forgotten the laws of thermal dynamics? I can't wait to work in the garbage mines of the future.
You have an interesting point, although your post is borderline flamebait. Western society is at its very core violent. The culture is obsessed with violence, tormenting others, and winning. Western culture is sustained by conquest abroad and repression at home. Your friend was a victim of this conquest as are many 'others' in colonized countries. But as I said, at home, there is repression. This repression causes much of the violence to internalized. Fear and mistrust run rampant. Bullying in schools is the norm. Some people are unable to cope with all that psychological trauma and either shoot up schools or commit suicide.
Often I see studies blaming the media or video games on $age_group violence and I laugh my ass off. (How long have we have been at war?) The various media violence in question is an expression of that violence that is already in us, and has always been there. Look at the history of civilization. It's ridiculous. Indigenous (outside) people get their lands and bodies raped while those inside the culture get their minds raped.
I'm sure this girl who committed suicide already had many things wrong with her before she went through with it. She was likely bipolar and this simulated heartbreaking relationship pushed her over the edge. Love and sex are very powerful feelings at that age. I'm sure you remember.
Of course, bullying and lying are not against the law in the culture. Or if they are (harassment?), no expects anyone to do anything about it - or for it to stop. It's just the way things are. And thats why they had to prosecute on the basis of violating the terms of service.
Although I'd easily agree Western Society is spoiled with material goods, I'd say that it also psychologically tormented, morally bankrupt, and cause of pain for millions worldwide.
I'd argue that Linux already has a killer app: Amarok. Have you used it? I think it is the best music player ever created in the history of the world. My windows using friends agree. Of course, KDE 4 will be ported to windows and the windows people will be able to use it.
Which brings me to my central argument. The time of the 'killer app' is dead. I'm sorry, the ubiquitous desktop OS of today won that battle years ago.
Windows NT has grown in code size so big it is nearly unmaintainable. You'd think they would have done what Apple did for OS X. What we can hope for is that Windows code gets to big to maintain and they scrap it.
Today, in a bold move, Symantec Inc. has re-branded their renowned Internet Security software package. "Our research shows that customers relate better with hybrid names and acronyms." Said a Symantec representative. "We feel that our new product, Symantec InSecurity captures the uneasiness customers have with our product and the internet in general."
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Yes yes yes. Think of all the poor coworkers who slaved away FOR those guys and will never reap the same benefits.
When the work is something like sales or marketing, long hours may be effective, since you can reach more clients or brainstorm ideas. The work isn't necessarily mentally exhausting. I can see how a VC would want long hours because getting to market first is a great way to edge out competition. But for engineering work, where correctness or deep comprehension of a problem is key, long hours will slow you down. I've seen it happen. A team will pull an all nighter, desperately rushing to solve a difficult problem or a mysterious bug only to still be stuck with it in the morning. Programming is in the realm of the mind and a good solution is rarely large quantities of code. If you need to write verbose and lengthy functions, you might be doing it wrong. Sure, you can type faster or copy and paste, but you will miss something that will take you hours to find. I find that I can solve difficult problems by relaxing and keeping the idea in my mind. Take a walk, a nap or daydream. The answer will pop into your head. It's number 37 in the 97 things. http://programmer.97things.ore...
However, the exceptions given are valid. If you fully understand the problem and know exactly what you want (and it's your personal project) stay in the groove while it lasts.
Exactly. A couple of years ago payload growth was due to asset storage. As more and more resolutions were released, games would store multiple copies of each image (sprite or texture) so they would match the resolution of each device they supported. This avoids resampling artifacts at the cost of payload size. Many options were invented to reduce payload bloat such as:
- Apple Introduced app thinning; where the bundle contains all assets but the device only downloads its resolution
- Download resources after installation - popular with freemium games
- SVG, Core Graphics, OpenGL, and Metal rendering to textures
- Using unicode glyphs for icons
Using some combination of these techniques allow me to reduce the size of my app package over the years while adding features. If you take a look at the facebook ipa and open er' up, you will see they got the asset size real small, but their frameworks weigh in at 295 MB. The only way around that is to stop using react or bring it into iOS as a shared library. But that would add even more bloat to an already bloated operating system.
There are some things that bother me here. (And they should bug you too)
1. The engineers did indeed stand up by saying no, but authority didn't give a fuck. In the end the engineers did not have control of the project.
2. The engineers didn't merely believe, they knew. I'm sure there were test results and rigorous math involved. Yes, I understand the terms are too often used interchangeably but it's important to know the distinction. When some yahoo stands up for his belief in, I don't know, let's say, god, there is big difference. Belief does not require proof.
When you stand up for something you can't prove, that can have dire consequences as well.
Granted, this writer is a former preacher, and it shows.
Australia needs Rowdy Roddy Piper!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwJJ3yBsvAw
I believe the OP was making the common mistake of personifying the system instead of the people. That is common these days. However, the classic maya vanished before that, around 800 C.E. While the people didn't actually 'vanish', their way of life did. While it is possible that the maya became victims of their own overgrowth like the romans, subject to the law of diminishing returns, it seems more plausible they just abandoned it when it no longer served them. Perhaps the city was more a project or experiment than an exercise in domination and superiority like it was with the romans. The experiment served its purpose and then the people dispersed back into the jungle. It's unfortunate that most of what they learned and recorded during this time was destroyed by those invading peoples you mentioned.
Let's see, eh.
Ballmer's 2009 Total Compensation:
$1,276,627 [src: forbes.com]
Microsoft factory worker in China:
65 cents x 15 hours x 24 days (people work 6 days a week there) = US$234/mo [from below post]
$2,808/yr
Ballmer makes about 454.6X a factor worker. Not really a thousand times, but getting there. Not to mention these workers have to buy their own bedding so they essentially have no benefits. None.
It certainly qualifies as "hacking". See, it's the quotes that modify the meaning. For example, If you were to buy something with inkjet prints or photographs of dollar bills you could say: I tried to buy this candy bar with "money", and they turned me away. Or "sex" in place of masturbating in front of your monitor. Or Nickelback as "music". I could go on.
181 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
Need to get 275MB of archives.
After this operation, 8,425kB disk space will be freed.
Such a beautiful thing. Show me a Windows system that can do that.
Explain then, how OTR http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/ makes a man in the middle attack possible, assuming I've authenticated the person at the other end.
Besides, all the other IM protocols (AIM, ICQ, MSN, YAHOO) have been using ssl/tls for years, right?
Yeah, so? Now you can use OTR (off the record encryption) which provides all the privacy you couldn't get before. No need for protocol encryption. All with the comfort of your familiar IM client.
I didn't believe this statement so I looked it up.
According to their student guide at http://www.turnitin.com/resources/documentation/turnitin/training/en_us/qs_student_en_us.pdf
At the top of page 2:
" We accept submissions in these formats: MS Word, WordPerfect, RTF, PDF, PostScript, HTML, and plain text (.txt)"
So while I think plagiarism checkers are kind of a waste of resources, your statement is still false.
A drive by remote code execution for IE that replaces mshtml.dll with a compatible wrapper for the gecko engine. Problem solved! Now all those IE6 users are using firefox without even knowing it.
but it looks like they are going to find your bodies again.
"The problem is that doctors are rather incented to declare people sick, so insurers will pay them."
And This.
Insurance companies are incented to deny claims. :)
So the doctor declares you sick and assigns expensive treatment. You go along with it thinking your insurance will take care of it. A few months later you get a bill from the doctor with either a part or none of the bill paid for by the insurer.
Both the doctor and the insurance company win, and you get stuck with the bill. The system works great as long you pay.
The device or the trader?
Google Earth, skype, acroread, etc.. are in the medibuntu repository all with the disclaimer that they are not free. Not the latest versions, but that isn't what repos are about. You want bleeding edge, install it yourself.
Corporations are merely a symptom of the problem, not the cause. Civilization at its very core has a flawed world-view. It perceives the environment as a collection of resources. The resources are to be extracted, used up, and wasted. (Don't give me that BS about recycling. We are still way off. But granted, it is a start.) There is nothing in the perception about balance with nature/environment. The environment is not something 'out there' to be saved. It is everything. The air you breathe, the water you drink. Even sitting at your desk you are still in the environment. You've just be separated from the living environment by the dead environment. (Concrete, metal and glass.) Living things were killed and remade into a buffer called the city. The goal of civilization is to make you fear wild, living nature so that you accept the comforts of the city and work hard to amass wealth for the masters. Resources are extracted from the country into the city and cause them to grow beyond the carrying capacity of the land. This is where the 'profit' comes from. A society living in balance with the land will fluctuate in population and enjoy good healthy food (when available). The Native Americans enjoyed a life like this, each tribe adapted to the many climates on the continent. Sure, they were no match for the well-armed civilized, but that doesn't make them wrong. One can hardly turn a profit if one is a circular reciprocity with the land, giving and taking equally. Profit only comes from theft. Lands are conquered (taken), and materials are extracted for (nearly) free. Don't believe me? Check out some of our laws on mining and forestry. You may be surprised to discover how much go-ahead the companies have on our public lands.
Of course all this taking has given us so much wonderful stuff, right? I am a total hypocrite for speaking like this on a global interactive network of computers.
Well, the problem comes when you've taken so much you can take no more. Have we forgotten the laws of thermal dynamics? I can't wait to work in the garbage mines of the future.
2.6.29%
Oddly enough, this percentage of people use this kernel release.
You have an interesting point, although your post is borderline flamebait. Western society is at its very core violent. The culture is obsessed with violence, tormenting others, and winning. Western culture is sustained by conquest abroad and repression at home. Your friend was a victim of this conquest as are many 'others' in colonized countries. But as I said, at home, there is repression. This repression causes much of the violence to internalized. Fear and mistrust run rampant. Bullying in schools is the norm. Some people are unable to cope with all that psychological trauma and either shoot up schools or commit suicide.
Often I see studies blaming the media or video games on $age_group violence and I laugh my ass off. (How long have we have been at war?) The various media violence in question is an expression of that violence that is already in us, and has always been there. Look at the history of civilization. It's ridiculous. Indigenous (outside) people get their lands and bodies raped while those inside the culture get their minds raped.
I'm sure this girl who committed suicide already had many things wrong with her before she went through with it. She was likely bipolar and this simulated heartbreaking relationship pushed her over the edge. Love and sex are very powerful feelings at that age. I'm sure you remember.
Of course, bullying and lying are not against the law in the culture. Or if they are (harassment?), no expects anyone to do anything about it - or for it to stop. It's just the way things are. And thats why they had to prosecute on the basis of violating the terms of service.
Although I'd easily agree Western Society is spoiled with material goods, I'd say that it also psychologically tormented, morally bankrupt, and cause of pain for millions worldwide.
Ted Stevens plans on escaping prison through a series of underground tunnels, or "tubes".
That's because all the smart, skilled programmers are out working on the platforms and languages themselves. (Proprietary, Open Source or Otherwise).
You are right.
I'd argue that Linux already has a killer app: Amarok. Have you used it? I think it is the best music player ever created in the history of the world. My windows using friends agree.
Of course, KDE 4 will be ported to windows and the windows people will be able to use it.
Which brings me to my central argument. The time of the 'killer app' is dead. I'm sorry, the ubiquitous desktop OS of today won that battle years ago.
Windows NT has grown in code size so big it is nearly unmaintainable. You'd think they would have done what Apple did for OS X. What we can hope for is that Windows code gets to big to maintain and they scrap it.
It almost makes sense taken as a contraction:
Picture is for those that want to see the car!
Indeed, if I wanted to see the car, a picture certainly would help.
Today, in a bold move, Symantec Inc. has re-branded their renowned Internet Security software package. "Our research shows that customers relate better with hybrid names and acronyms." Said a Symantec representative. "We feel that our new product, Symantec InSecurity captures the uneasiness customers have with our product and the internet in general."