> The real problem is that the interviewer thought that if you surveyed 11% of the area one day and saw 4 swimming bears, and surveyed another 11% of the area a week later and saw 3 drowned bears, that you should add the two numbers together to get 11% of the total population of bears.
Technically it does not matter, because whether you add those or not, it brings the number of defective bears above 3.4 per million, meaning that by using Six Sigma highly scientific calculations there is a global warming problem. Just send a bunch of Black Belts consultants out there and they'll fix it.
I'd rather chew glass than work every day with Eclipse. I'd rather chew glass and nails than work with Eclipse and Git every day. I'd rather chew glass, nails and barbwire than work with Eclipse, Git and Bugzilla everyday.
> the end user installs a client, BY CHOICE, on their computer and then allows whatever to be run on the spare cycles
The problem is that for most commercial projects, it's the storage that hurts, not the processing, and this is where the money is. Projects with huge processing needs usually are poorly funded (like weather stuff or seti) and could not really afford to pay much.
What would be awesome would be a technology like MAID but distributed over independant nodes, with enough redundancy to allow persistent storage (for archives or stuff like that); owner of the nodes could get paid by the stability and availability of their machine.
> You would get paid for every "data block" processed
And maybe this processing could generate virtual currency, and let people buy stuff like video cards!
Remove all youtube videos that contain any of the following: -rick -a cat -a black person talking about rapists -a crossdresser -lipdubs with fat chicks wearing clothes that are too tight or too sexy for them -hot chicks talking about their emotions/hope/career/fashion tips, thinking that because they have a lot of subscribers people care about what they say, while actually most subscribers are just sick old pervs doing the ol' nasty while watching these videos in their basement
Then use all the processing power suddenly available on youtube servers, and give us a break with screensaver processing a la seti.
thinking of that, scratch the whole list above and just remove videos with hot chicks that have a lot of subscribers but that are seldomly watched completely because viewers are "done" before the hot chick... and there you go, plenty of cpu available, and probably a few more bucks will find their way to those single moms working the pole to pay their student loan.
This is textbook Clinton. Take position for something that seems to solve a lot of problems but that does not seem likely to happen - so you get the good PR without risking a backlash if the thing is actually done and it fails miserably.
Obama is not my hero but at least he did more than talk about health care.
Audiobooks are great, except when the narrator tries to change his voice depending on who's talking. It's extremely creepy when a male is doing a female voice.
She used to market her services on Craigslist and Kijiji but for some reason the category where she advertised has been removed from both sites a while ago. Unfortunately her online presence is now limited to specialized websites that are commonly associated with the NSFW tag.
Outside of insanely expensive areas (such as SF or NYC), this is the going rate for contractors, not employees. Contractors don't have paid vacation, insurance, etc, so there is a lot of overhead. When you make 60$/hr, you lose 480$ every day the office is closed (Thanksgiving, etc) or every day you are sick or on vacation. You also need general liability insurance, which is not cheap.
As a contractor you usually can also be fired almost anytime and there is not much you can do. It's a different way of making a living and requires more planning.
To have the same benefits as an employee, a contractor must make about twice the salary. However being a contractor can be more interesting if you don't need insurance or stuff like that, or if you decide to work a lot for a few years to bank some good money.
This article has two sentences. One of these sentences is redundant, and the other one is uninteresting. Merging them would make the whole thing uninteresting, so this is a textbook example of self-preservation through redundancy.
I know this girl, Melody, she makes 4x that amount per hour, however she only works 10-15 minutes stints, about 8-10 times a day. She also could just throw a dart on the map and find a job in her area of expertise there (unless it's in San Francisco or in Utah, but for different reasons).
The saddest thing is that they don't mess with your career because they are evil, they just don't care. I received so many calls for opportunities at the company I was already working, it convinced me to get out of the resume websites and apply on gigs only via my existing network. Which anyways usually is enough after a few years in IT.
> 70% of graduates in IT (don't think it's called CS here) don't even know what DNS is
Might be a different problem but what I often see is a CS graduate who does not know what DNS is but that will talk for hours on end about the theory of distributed systems.
> Personally, I would take a dropout any day if he knows his stuff.
My former employer was always trying to hire people with masters or phds, and those would not only suck at the technical interview (all they knew was Prolog), they would also want to design operating systems or create search algorithms while what we needed was testers or ajax web developers. So for a while I proposed to bring in dropouts, but it did not turned out much better; a lot of them were basement-know-it-all with a lot of personal issues.
We ended up hiring a lot from technical schools, those public or private schools were older people go to get a new career after being laid off in their previous 10- or 20-year jobs. Not all people from those schools are stars, but the programs are usually okay and the best students are pretty good.
> I get job offers weekly that offer to pay me ~$60/hr throughout the U.S
No you don't. What you get is calls from headhunters, like everybody in IT. These are not "job offers" but merely opportunities for you to submit your resume. And the 60$/hr is the going rate for those opportunities, not what you personnally are being offered.
> Beyond pressing a button to activate a task, they are lost.
I agree. In the late 90s, everybody was talking about how kids were introduced to computers at an early age and how this would make IT a natural field for them. But it turned out that most of those kids are little more than power users, very good at finding a way around parental control or downloading music, but lacking the skills and the interest of going further than that. I blame the GUIs, which are killing the magic.
Even young CS graduates often have shallow skills. They are mostly web services and class libraries power users.
Well maybe that does not matter, since a lot of "app development" nowadays mostly requires converting websites to Objective-C...
You would love Quebec where there is a no-fault rule for car accidents. You cannot sue people because nobody is to blame - the insurance companies deal between themselves without involving the drivers. This keeps the insurance premiums low, and the government is picking up the tab if you got hurt or worse. (That would explain the 300$ annual price tag for car license and 100$ for driver license).
Yep, that's right, you could rear-end a bus full of blind children and run over an old lady driving her scooter to church, and none of those people would be allowed to sue you. And if by any chance you got hurt in the "accident" you will get government payouts, even if you face criminal charges for reckless driving.
The only thing that can happen to you is that if you are deemed "responsible" by your insurance company your premium will increase (or they might decline to insure you).
In Quebec there is a law that says that if you drive something like 50km/h over the speed limit, your fine is much higher than for a usual ticket. A guy I know got that kind of ticket for driving 160km/h in a 100km/h zone. But he went to court to contest that because, according to him, everybody was driving around 120km/h on that same highway, so he should be blamed for driving 40km/h above the "average", not 60km/h above the limit (which would bring his fees way down). Surprisingly he lost.
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> the steady progress the military is making toward fully autonomous networks of targeting and killing machines.
There are automated sentries (with weapons) on the Korean DMZ, it has been like that for years. IIRC those robots have been designed by Samsung.
> The real problem is that the interviewer thought that if you surveyed 11% of the area one day and saw 4 swimming bears, and surveyed another 11% of the area a week later and saw 3 drowned bears, that you should add the two numbers together to get 11% of the total population of bears.
Technically it does not matter, because whether you add those or not, it brings the number of defective bears above 3.4 per million, meaning that by using Six Sigma highly scientific calculations there is a global warming problem. Just send a bunch of Black Belts consultants out there and they'll fix it.
I'd rather chew glass than work every day with Eclipse. I'd rather chew glass and nails than work with Eclipse and Git every day. I'd rather chew glass, nails and barbwire than work with Eclipse, Git and Bugzilla everyday.
And what about those anonymous ftp users, there are thousands of them based on some logs I saw.
> the end user installs a client, BY CHOICE, on their computer and then allows whatever to be run on the spare cycles
The problem is that for most commercial projects, it's the storage that hurts, not the processing, and this is where the money is. Projects with huge processing needs usually are poorly funded (like weather stuff or seti) and could not really afford to pay much.
What would be awesome would be a technology like MAID but distributed over independant nodes, with enough redundancy to allow persistent storage (for archives or stuff like that); owner of the nodes could get paid by the stability and availability of their machine.
> You would get paid for every "data block" processed
And maybe this processing could generate virtual currency, and let people buy stuff like video cards!
Remove all youtube videos that contain any of the following:
-rick
-a cat
-a black person talking about rapists
-a crossdresser
-lipdubs with fat chicks wearing clothes that are too tight or too sexy for them
-hot chicks talking about their emotions/hope/career/fashion tips, thinking that because they have a lot of subscribers people care about what they say, while actually most subscribers are just sick old pervs doing the ol' nasty while watching these videos in their basement
Then use all the processing power suddenly available on youtube servers, and give us a break with screensaver processing a la seti.
thinking of that, scratch the whole list above and just remove videos with hot chicks that have a lot of subscribers but that are seldomly watched completely because viewers are "done" before the hot chick... and there you go, plenty of cpu available, and probably a few more bucks will find their way to those single moms working the pole to pay their student loan.
> Clinton balanced the god damn budget
In the big picture, it does not matter much, as Obama's budget has such a big deficit that it makes bush's wars look cheap.
This is textbook Clinton. Take position for something that seems to solve a lot of problems but that does not seem likely to happen - so you get the good PR without risking a backlash if the thing is actually done and it fails miserably.
Obama is not my hero but at least he did more than talk about health care.
As a matter of fact, I am, but I find it equally disturbing when a female narrator is doing a male voice, so that is beyond the point
Audiobooks are great, except when the narrator tries to change his voice depending on who's talking. It's extremely creepy when a male is doing a female voice.
She used to market her services on Craigslist and Kijiji but for some reason the category where she advertised has been removed from both sites a while ago. Unfortunately her online presence is now limited to specialized websites that are commonly associated with the NSFW tag.
Now we know where to find the good stuff in your home
Outside of insanely expensive areas (such as SF or NYC), this is the going rate for contractors, not employees. Contractors don't have paid vacation, insurance, etc, so there is a lot of overhead. When you make 60$/hr, you lose 480$ every day the office is closed (Thanksgiving, etc) or every day you are sick or on vacation. You also need general liability insurance, which is not cheap.
As a contractor you usually can also be fired almost anytime and there is not much you can do. It's a different way of making a living and requires more planning.
To have the same benefits as an employee, a contractor must make about twice the salary. However being a contractor can be more interesting if you don't need insurance or stuff like that, or if you decide to work a lot for a few years to bank some good money.
This article has two sentences. One of these sentences is redundant, and the other one is uninteresting. Merging them would make the whole thing uninteresting, so this is a textbook example of self-preservation through redundancy.
> Proud because possessing a vagina limits scientific prowess?
Proud because a team of female researchers is half the price, so it is not only a scientific achievement, but also an economical one.
> It could have been done by nazi pedophile devil beasts and I would still have been proud of the research.
But what if it was female nazis? (I'm pretty sure nazis had females too, someone had to sew all those swastikas.)
> Anyone who is truly concerned about our environment must admit that there is no cleaner energy source then nuclear
Great statement, a nice way to open the door to discussion. Reminds me of GWB: "You're either with us, or against us".
I know this girl, Melody, she makes 4x that amount per hour, however she only works 10-15 minutes stints, about 8-10 times a day. She also could just throw a dart on the map and find a job in her area of expertise there (unless it's in San Francisco or in Utah, but for different reasons).
The saddest thing is that they don't mess with your career because they are evil, they just don't care. I received so many calls for opportunities at the company I was already working, it convinced me to get out of the resume websites and apply on gigs only via my existing network. Which anyways usually is enough after a few years in IT.
> 70% of graduates in IT (don't think it's called CS here) don't even know what DNS is
Might be a different problem but what I often see is a CS graduate who does not know what DNS is but that will talk for hours on end about the theory of distributed systems.
> Personally, I would take a dropout any day if he knows his stuff.
My former employer was always trying to hire people with masters or phds, and those would not only suck at the technical interview (all they knew was Prolog), they would also want to design operating systems or create search algorithms while what we needed was testers or ajax web developers. So for a while I proposed to bring in dropouts, but it did not turned out much better; a lot of them were basement-know-it-all with a lot of personal issues.
We ended up hiring a lot from technical schools, those public or private schools were older people go to get a new career after being laid off in their previous 10- or 20-year jobs. Not all people from those schools are stars, but the programs are usually okay and the best students are pretty good.
> I get job offers weekly that offer to pay me ~$60/hr throughout the U.S
No you don't. What you get is calls from headhunters, like everybody in IT. These are not "job offers" but merely opportunities for you to submit your resume. And the 60$/hr is the going rate for those opportunities, not what you personnally are being offered.
> The service then uses your geolocation data to make sure that the resource you’ve requested is delivered by a local cache
This will make censorship much easier. No more corrupt foreign data in [your favorite oppressive country].
> Beyond pressing a button to activate a task, they are lost.
I agree. In the late 90s, everybody was talking about how kids were introduced to computers at an early age and how this would make IT a natural field for them. But it turned out that most of those kids are little more than power users, very good at finding a way around parental control or downloading music, but lacking the skills and the interest of going further than that. I blame the GUIs, which are killing the magic.
Even young CS graduates often have shallow skills. They are mostly web services and class libraries power users.
Well maybe that does not matter, since a lot of "app development" nowadays mostly requires converting websites to Objective-C...
You would love Quebec where there is a no-fault rule for car accidents. You cannot sue people because nobody is to blame - the insurance companies deal between themselves without involving the drivers. This keeps the insurance premiums low, and the government is picking up the tab if you got hurt or worse. (That would explain the 300$ annual price tag for car license and 100$ for driver license).
Yep, that's right, you could rear-end a bus full of blind children and run over an old lady driving her scooter to church, and none of those people would be allowed to sue you. And if by any chance you got hurt in the "accident" you will get government payouts, even if you face criminal charges for reckless driving.
The only thing that can happen to you is that if you are deemed "responsible" by your insurance company your premium will increase (or they might decline to insure you).
Some people are never to blame.
In Quebec there is a law that says that if you drive something like 50km/h over the speed limit, your fine is much higher than for a usual ticket. A guy I know got that kind of ticket for driving 160km/h in a 100km/h zone. But he went to court to contest that because, according to him, everybody was driving around 120km/h on that same highway, so he should be blamed for driving 40km/h above the "average", not 60km/h above the limit (which would bring his fees way down). Surprisingly he lost.