When you are young your brain specialise in the specific subset of sound and grammar that you can hear around you. If you get raised in an environment with a good mix of language that use different sound and different grammar structure you will be better at picking up new languages. For example if you are in an environment where people speak Chinese, English, Spanish, German you are pretty much ready for anything thrown at you. Especially at conversational level where you only need a limited vocabulary and concept.
The flip side is that your maximal proficiency potential in a single language is limited. However, the vast majority of people don't even come close to it so that's a moot point. But it does affect children. In countries like Luxembourg where you are expected to speak 4 languages, less gifted youth can end up into a point where they are average in all 4 languages and do not (yet) master any single language. They also develop the same mental issues than people suffering from stuttering, being unable to fully express themselves.
There is a good part of innate ability though. Shyness, introversion are killers for learning languages.
This is what I noticed about people buying Apple products. Unlike the common stereotype here on slashdot (fanboy changing their stuff every time Apple makes a keynote) they are mostly people that will keep their hardware for a few years. The only people I have seen changing more often are iPhone contract users, but the replacements are pushed by mobile networks.
On the last page of surface details, there is a guy that is talking, and if you have read the other books before you are able to say - "yeah I know that name". And that's basically it, it's not even something that put the story in a new perspective.
Professional ? I have not really seen any discussion about low level styling issue like this one in at least a decade. In practice, nowadays, you have to actively fight against your editor to have a mismatch between indentation and blocks, professional developers have moved on to nitpick about other stuff.
The fact that there are people that feel strongly about something that even the shittiest editor on the market will handle flawlessly instead of, I don't know, the difference in basically everything between java and python, is what makes feel slashdot readership has turned in a bunch of script kiddies arguing with a bunch of older developers turned project manager a decade ago.
You can vote, do you remember ? Unlike companies you do not need to either be a shareholder or a client to be listened. "not voting" is a direct message, unlike "not buying" or "not investing" in you.
They did it by agreeing the level of production each OPEC member was allowed to produce. Most visible they caused the oil crisis, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis and others later.
Over the time, after the various oil crisis, western governments started to find other OPEC free source of oil, so OPEC influence started to decrease somewhat. Since 2004-ish, the influence of OPEC is greatly reduced. We are at peak capacity and not producing enough oil, so the relationship between controlling the oil taps and price / influence is a lot more subtle than before.
I think you set the bar a bit low there. What is your reaction to this [palwatch.org]?
Israel is a first world nation. Would you reaction be the same if you learned that one of your friend beat his wife and kids rather than some unemployed uneducated alcoholic from the shitty part of town ?
Unlike all the other nations involved in this mess, Israel is part of the first world. As such, that kind of re-enactment is of especially bad taste. Israel must also know quite clearly that this will be perceived as provocation by their neighbours and after 60 years of continuous conflict, that's not the kind of thing they would let slip by error. Just a plain dick move.
You have a enormous amount of contractors from all nationalities interacting on those projects. My bet is that "hacker" in this context, means "background check hacker" or in other word you vanilla spy with a PR spin to justify some budget reallocation somewhere.
Agile methodologies are just iterative methodologies, like RUP and the others. The smaller the iteration, the more "agile" you are - that's where the name comes from. It just means that by using small iteration you get more feedback and can change/adapt faster. It is accepted that a methodology is agile when the iteration are less than a month.
Obviously in order to have small iteration and not be swamped by the overhead required from methodologies like RUP, you need to break a few project management rules. That's where the different flavours of agile tries to do: SCRUM, Kanban,...
I have not yet seen a project failing because of a weakness in its methodology. It is mostly weakness in following their own methodology where it breaks down. Agile in those cases can be a solution, not because the methodology is better, just because it gives a shake to the established structure and maybe something good can come out of it.
Actually Agile would probably handle mediocrity quite well, at least making it apparent.
What agile really sucks at is handling the political aspect of the project, because simply agile requires complete honesty and honesty does not scale very well above a small team. In a very large project involving loads of teams, management is a lot closer to a poker game and you don't win at poker by showing your cards to all the players.
College is not trade school. You learn theory, not practice. And theory stay useful for a very very long time. And when it starts getting useless, it is because there is a new theory, but generally the new theory build on top of the old one, so you get a significant headstart.
When you start working, you start learning skills and little time building in-depth knowledge. Understanding the theory being the skills can help keeping up with technology better or adapt better.
Now, that does not mean I do not agree with you. It is difficult to find a benefit that would offset 4 years of experience and 75K in debt in the IT sector. That said, the deal is not the same everywhere in the world. In Europe, you can get college for free or something like $500 a year.
You didn't listen to what he said, just what he told you to do.
What he said is that he thinks the "IP" type work that require higher education are following manufacturing job outside the country and they are not coming back.
Unlike the crowd on/. they have the mean to shape the world to their vision, so it is definitively worth listening to the guy and his friends.
Contest coding is quite different than coding for a business. It is all about speed, knowing best of kind algorithm for a variety of problem. That is a fun activity that is related to coding.
Plenty of people, even with families, have hobbies. As with other hobbies, it tells you that this guy is using up his free time and is not available for work anymore than the guy that go fishing with his kid.
Now, because his hobby is related to coding, it may be relevant to some jobs, but most of the time it is as relevant as being a gamer is interesting for QA testing games (i.e. not relevant at all)
Maybe also 1 MLOC means popular in both OSS and Proprietary world. In proprietary, popular is slowly becoming legacy, the stuff you cannot change. On the other hand, in the OSS world, popular means load more contribution from people, the time they chose to keep quality on the core feature and the community go wild with the rest of the codebase.
Also, that thing costed a fortune and had more drawback that benefit. There are plenty of better transportation mechanism that are just better suited for real life.
That is the thing about this article. It disregards real life constraint to create a self-made nerdiness problem. Bluetooth handset are practical for voice communication. The problem is that most of the time that you have your phone with you, you are not phoning (and even less with smartphone). People don't carry a bluetooth headset on their ear for the same reason they don't keep their umbrella open all day in case it rains. The thing is, if you keep your headset in your bag/pocket, that removes a lot of the interest of having a headset in the first place.
Google Glass won't work if you need to carry them with you the whole day but they are only useful exceptionally. We will have to see if there is a killer application, and no a live stock ticker or real time meteo widget is not interesting the masses.
Just wondering what is there to protect you from ? You both disagree on what Jefferson thought ? If anything the constitution is actually preventing you to be safe, by making sure the government will not shut up either of you.
You probably also suffer from an unfortunate tendency to view markets with blinders and therefore see large players dominating various fields at any given snapshot in time as a bad thing, but without the ability to see that such domination is still better than the alternative of unskilled bureaucratic control that is necessarily comprised of similarly flawed human beings with no real accountability to speak of in the same examined period.
By living in a democratic country you have a guaranteed slice of control on the government and therefore there is some accountability. With private entities, the accountability is only to the shareholders, which exclude most of the masses. That's in the best of cases, with a privately owned company, you don't even have access to that.
The only difference at this stage is market pressure which address the "unskilled" bit of your rant. That should allow you to get a better service in theory. Of course there is the drawback that you need unskilled bureaucratic control to make sure the market is fair.
TLDR: You make a very weak attempt at justifying the personal insult against GP in your second paragraph and trick slashdot moderators to mod you up.
Exactly. There is a huge tinkerer community. I have colleague that build custom part of various stuff from their bike to home furniture and jewellery. Then there is the DIY crowd, the ones that build cars and models, other that build custom electronic,...
Of all of those, only the one building electronic stuff may have a remote interest. All the other either need bigger size, or metal, or both. Personally, I do jewellery. Although 3D printing is interesting, the tricky bit is the casting. If I need to use a professional caster, I can directly send them the 3D file rather than bothering printing a poor resolution plastic version.
For the same money you spend on a 3D printer, you can buy a lathe, or CNC router, which will cover most of adult's needs. The only use case for 3D printer seems to be printing toys. Like an expensive painting kit for kids.
Right, but the alternative are either user education or local solution on the user machine (keychain tool). The first one will not happen, that much should be clear by now. The second one is a matter of opinion - you need to believe the users can be collectively better at fighting malware creators than website developers at fighting dedicated cracker. It seems that recently both the botnets and general website cracking have been going well, so the jury is still out.
Egoistically, I would rather have the website invest in good security. No matter how good is my password management skills are, when a website is cracked it affects me anyway. Giving up and letting the user sort it out on their end is already business as usual for me (and most/. users).
An single individual making 4 times the average family income is not rich in the US ? TIL indeed, to put that in perspective, that would be a family where a single member take a summer job (3 months) and makes more than the majority of the families in the country make in a year.
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Yep, that's one of those points where the US is leading. Monetizing every single bit that travel through the network.
When you are young your brain specialise in the specific subset of sound and grammar that you can hear around you. If you get raised in an environment with a good mix of language that use different sound and different grammar structure you will be better at picking up new languages. For example if you are in an environment where people speak Chinese, English, Spanish, German you are pretty much ready for anything thrown at you. Especially at conversational level where you only need a limited vocabulary and concept.
The flip side is that your maximal proficiency potential in a single language is limited. However, the vast majority of people don't even come close to it so that's a moot point. But it does affect children. In countries like Luxembourg where you are expected to speak 4 languages, less gifted youth can end up into a point where they are average in all 4 languages and do not (yet) master any single language. They also develop the same mental issues than people suffering from stuttering, being unable to fully express themselves.
There is a good part of innate ability though. Shyness, introversion are killers for learning languages.
This, I think summarize it.
Well if he revealed secret he is a traitor. If he lied he is a terrorist.
This is what I noticed about people buying Apple products. Unlike the common stereotype here on slashdot (fanboy changing their stuff every time Apple makes a keynote) they are mostly people that will keep their hardware for a few years. The only people I have seen changing more often are iPhone contract users, but the replacements are pushed by mobile networks.
On the last page of surface details, there is a guy that is talking, and if you have read the other books before you are able to say - "yeah I know that name". And that's basically it, it's not even something that put the story in a new perspective.
Professional ? I have not really seen any discussion about low level styling issue like this one in at least a decade. In practice, nowadays, you have to actively fight against your editor to have a mismatch between indentation and blocks, professional developers have moved on to nitpick about other stuff.
The fact that there are people that feel strongly about something that even the shittiest editor on the market will handle flawlessly instead of, I don't know, the difference in basically everything between java and python, is what makes feel slashdot readership has turned in a bunch of script kiddies arguing with a bunch of older developers turned project manager a decade ago.
You can vote, do you remember ? Unlike companies you do not need to either be a shareholder or a client to be listened. "not voting" is a direct message, unlike "not buying" or "not investing" in you.
They did it by agreeing the level of production each OPEC member was allowed to produce. Most visible they caused the oil crisis, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis and others later.
Over the time, after the various oil crisis, western governments started to find other OPEC free source of oil, so OPEC influence started to decrease somewhat. Since 2004-ish, the influence of OPEC is greatly reduced. We are at peak capacity and not producing enough oil, so the relationship between controlling the oil taps and price / influence is a lot more subtle than before.
I think you set the bar a bit low there. What is your reaction to this [palwatch.org]?
Israel is a first world nation. Would you reaction be the same if you learned that one of your friend beat his wife and kids rather than some unemployed uneducated alcoholic from the shitty part of town ?
Unlike all the other nations involved in this mess, Israel is part of the first world. As such, that kind of re-enactment is of especially bad taste. Israel must also know quite clearly that this will be perceived as provocation by their neighbours and after 60 years of continuous conflict, that's not the kind of thing they would let slip by error. Just a plain dick move.
You have a enormous amount of contractors from all nationalities interacting on those projects. My bet is that "hacker" in this context, means "background check hacker" or in other word you vanilla spy with a PR spin to justify some budget reallocation somewhere.
Agile methodologies are just iterative methodologies, like RUP and the others. The smaller the iteration, the more "agile" you are - that's where the name comes from. It just means that by using small iteration you get more feedback and can change/adapt faster. It is accepted that a methodology is agile when the iteration are less than a month.
Obviously in order to have small iteration and not be swamped by the overhead required from methodologies like RUP, you need to break a few project management rules. That's where the different flavours of agile tries to do: SCRUM, Kanban, ...
I have not yet seen a project failing because of a weakness in its methodology. It is mostly weakness in following their own methodology where it breaks down. Agile in those cases can be a solution, not because the methodology is better, just because it gives a shake to the established structure and maybe something good can come out of it.
Actually Agile would probably handle mediocrity quite well, at least making it apparent.
What agile really sucks at is handling the political aspect of the project, because simply agile requires complete honesty and honesty does not scale very well above a small team. In a very large project involving loads of teams, management is a lot closer to a poker game and you don't win at poker by showing your cards to all the players.
College is not trade school. You learn theory, not practice. And theory stay useful for a very very long time. And when it starts getting useless, it is because there is a new theory, but generally the new theory build on top of the old one, so you get a significant headstart.
When you start working, you start learning skills and little time building in-depth knowledge. Understanding the theory being the skills can help keeping up with technology better or adapt better.
Now, that does not mean I do not agree with you. It is difficult to find a benefit that would offset 4 years of experience and 75K in debt in the IT sector. That said, the deal is not the same everywhere in the world. In Europe, you can get college for free or something like $500 a year.
You didn't listen to what he said, just what he told you to do.
What he said is that he thinks the "IP" type work that require higher education are following manufacturing job outside the country and they are not coming back.
Unlike the crowd on /. they have the mean to shape the world to their vision, so it is definitively worth listening to the guy and his friends.
Contest coding is quite different than coding for a business. It is all about speed, knowing best of kind algorithm for a variety of problem. That is a fun activity that is related to coding.
Plenty of people, even with families, have hobbies. As with other hobbies, it tells you that this guy is using up his free time and is not available for work anymore than the guy that go fishing with his kid.
Now, because his hobby is related to coding, it may be relevant to some jobs, but most of the time it is as relevant as being a gamer is interesting for QA testing games (i.e. not relevant at all)
Maybe also 1 MLOC means popular in both OSS and Proprietary world. In proprietary, popular is slowly becoming legacy, the stuff you cannot change. On the other hand, in the OSS world, popular means load more contribution from people, the time they chose to keep quality on the core feature and the community go wild with the rest of the codebase.
Also, that thing costed a fortune and had more drawback that benefit. There are plenty of better transportation mechanism that are just better suited for real life.
That is the thing about this article. It disregards real life constraint to create a self-made nerdiness problem. Bluetooth handset are practical for voice communication. The problem is that most of the time that you have your phone with you, you are not phoning (and even less with smartphone). People don't carry a bluetooth headset on their ear for the same reason they don't keep their umbrella open all day in case it rains. The thing is, if you keep your headset in your bag/pocket, that removes a lot of the interest of having a headset in the first place.
Google Glass won't work if you need to carry them with you the whole day but they are only useful exceptionally. We will have to see if there is a killer application, and no a live stock ticker or real time meteo widget is not interesting the masses.
Just wondering what is there to protect you from ? You both disagree on what Jefferson thought ? If anything the constitution is actually preventing you to be safe, by making sure the government will not shut up either of you.
You probably also suffer from an unfortunate tendency to view markets with blinders and therefore see large players dominating various fields at any given snapshot in time as a bad thing, but without the ability to see that such domination is still better than the alternative of unskilled bureaucratic control that is necessarily comprised of similarly flawed human beings with no real accountability to speak of in the same examined period.
By living in a democratic country you have a guaranteed slice of control on the government and therefore there is some accountability. With private entities, the accountability is only to the shareholders, which exclude most of the masses. That's in the best of cases, with a privately owned company, you don't even have access to that.
The only difference at this stage is market pressure which address the "unskilled" bit of your rant. That should allow you to get a better service in theory. Of course there is the drawback that you need unskilled bureaucratic control to make sure the market is fair.
TLDR: You make a very weak attempt at justifying the personal insult against GP in your second paragraph and trick slashdot moderators to mod you up.
Exactly. There is a huge tinkerer community. I have colleague that build custom part of various stuff from their bike to home furniture and jewellery. Then there is the DIY crowd, the ones that build cars and models, other that build custom electronic, ...
Of all of those, only the one building electronic stuff may have a remote interest. All the other either need bigger size, or metal, or both. Personally, I do jewellery. Although 3D printing is interesting, the tricky bit is the casting. If I need to use a professional caster, I can directly send them the 3D file rather than bothering printing a poor resolution plastic version.
For the same money you spend on a 3D printer, you can buy a lathe, or CNC router, which will cover most of adult's needs. The only use case for 3D printer seems to be printing toys. Like an expensive painting kit for kids.
Right, but the alternative are either user education or local solution on the user machine (keychain tool). The first one will not happen, that much should be clear by now. The second one is a matter of opinion - you need to believe the users can be collectively better at fighting malware creators than website developers at fighting dedicated cracker. It seems that recently both the botnets and general website cracking have been going well, so the jury is still out.
Egoistically, I would rather have the website invest in good security. No matter how good is my password management skills are, when a website is cracked it affects me anyway. Giving up and letting the user sort it out on their end is already business as usual for me (and most /. users).
An single individual making 4 times the average family income is not rich in the US ? TIL indeed, to put that in perspective, that would be a family where a single member take a summer job (3 months) and makes more than the majority of the families in the country make in a year.
You are a lousy business man, you are destroying the market for the good, honest to God, snake oil vendors.