I think that the ability to succeed in a hybridized programmer-businessanalyst role depends on how complex the business and its processes are, as well as how complex its IT platforms are. If you're a more simpler company with simpler business processes and simpler platforms, then it's doable. But if you're in a complicated business environment with complex IT infrastructure, then creating these hybridized roles is asking for trouble.
"It's crazy that slashdot and other people have some notion of western free speech that is universal and ingrained in human nature. Why is it so strange that other people in other places might have a different idea than you about censorship? Really, if you are not Indian, it doesn't concern you. Stay out of other people's internal affairs."
I'm Indian - who the hell are you to speak for all of us, and tell others not to comment? Anyone can comment on anything they like. It's called Freedom, and you seem to be ignorant of the concept. You wouldn't happen to be a Supreme Court Justice, would you? Why don't you post under your real name, instead of as an Anonymous Coward?
In police states like Pakistan and China, the courts are used to harass and suppress political opponents. Now you'd like that to happen in India, too. And you're defending this by manufacturing some kind of pretext based on cultural differences?
Since when is Silicon Valley the heart of engineering?? Maybe if you're an electrical or computer engineer. Engineering has been around a lot longer than Silicon Valley or the 1980s. Why not also pretend San Francisco is the heart of engineering?
Libertarians are more likely to be self-starters and doers, which is more consistent with the engineering mentality.
Scientists, on the other hand, are more likely to be welfare-staters, because their science funding and grantsmanship culture is ever more dependent on the state.
Train in the latest and greatest technologies offering the newest advantages, where the labor/skills pool has not fully developed yet, and you will find yourself in greater demand. People won't care so much about how old you are, as long as you can show you can do the job. In IT, the old guy is the one with the old obsolete skills - which sometimes correlates with him being an older person, but not necessarily. Conversely, if they find your skills have gone obsolete and are no longer useful, they will throw you away like old trash, regardless of how old or young you are.
The bottom line is that birds of a feather flock together - that old line about "opposites attract" is nonsense.
The problem is that dumber, lazier people tend to go in for conspiracy theories that claim all their problems are due to the rich, privileged elite, and little else is responsible for their lower quality of life.
I'd say that you can't argue with a paranoid, and that freedom of association/dissociation must prevail. If the smart people separate out to form their own society and the dumb people form theirs, then each will have to live in the bed they make.
I thought UCAV drones like the X-47B are supposed to be the planned defense or response to anti-carrier missiles, since such drones could be launched by carriers much beyond the range of anti-carrier missiles like the DongFeng21.
But as you say, perhaps the next successor to the US Navy's Aegis defense system will use megawatt lasers to immediately neutralize inbound threats like DongFeng21, etc.
I remember that much past interest over muons and hydrogen has been around muon-catalyzed fusion. As you say, the muons are quite short-lived, which prevents them from catalyzing enough H-H fusions to get to breakeven. And then there was the alpha-sticking problem, whereby helium nuclei products then grab the muons, thus stealing them away from the process.
Check out ultra-dense deuterium, though. It's some kind of exotic form of matter, and there have recently been some tantalizing glimpses of it in nano-sized clumps.
"There is no known material worth the expense of mining it on the moon"
Helium-3 could be worth it, if mankind is able to harness fusion for power production. At least it's aneutronic and the Coulomb barrier isn't as high as with Boron.
You mean like China, which has totally risen up to the point where it will soon pass the USA in all vital indicators of power, all while the US was too busy staring at Moscow to notice?
That's like somebody bragging how they feed homeless people, just so that they can get dates. It's one thing not to be any kind of social crusader whatsoever, but the guy who does social crusading for self-serving superficial self-promotional reasons is a particularly noxious type of person. That's a demagogue.
Bah, the US has always been willing to hold its nose and do business with the likes of Pinochet, Samosa, Baby Doc, Marcos, Zia-ul-Haq, the Shah, Saddam, Mubarak, and assorted Sheikdom police states. Why continue to harangue the Russians?
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I think that the ability to succeed in a hybridized programmer-businessanalyst role depends on how complex the business and its processes are, as well as how complex its IT platforms are. If you're a more simpler company with simpler business processes and simpler platforms, then it's doable. But if you're in a complicated business environment with complex IT infrastructure, then creating these hybridized roles is asking for trouble.
Hey, is this the same Sascha Segan who was a little know-it-all brat on the 80s TV gameshow Child's Play?
http://www.game-show-utopia.net/SSInterview.htm
My how you've grown!
Anonymous Coward wrote:
"It's crazy that slashdot and other people have some notion of western free speech that is universal and ingrained in human nature. Why is it so strange that other people in other places might have a different idea than you about censorship? Really, if you are not Indian, it doesn't concern you. Stay out of other people's internal affairs."
I'm Indian - who the hell are you to speak for all of us, and tell others not to comment? Anyone can comment on anything they like. It's called Freedom, and you seem to be ignorant of the concept. You wouldn't happen to be a Supreme Court Justice, would you? Why don't you post under your real name, instead of as an Anonymous Coward?
In police states like Pakistan and China, the courts are used to harass and suppress political opponents. Now you'd like that to happen in India, too. And you're defending this by manufacturing some kind of pretext based on cultural differences?
Get stuffed and get lost.
Since when is Silicon Valley the heart of engineering?? Maybe if you're an electrical or computer engineer. Engineering has been around a lot longer than Silicon Valley or the 1980s. Why not also pretend San Francisco is the heart of engineering?
Libertarians are more likely to be self-starters and doers, which is more consistent with the engineering mentality.
Scientists, on the other hand, are more likely to be welfare-staters, because their science funding and grantsmanship culture is ever more dependent on the state.
Gasp! You mean the Obama-messiah is less than divinely perfect? Whoa... gonna have to sit down... re-evaluate my religious beliefs...
Train in the latest and greatest technologies offering the newest advantages, where the labor/skills pool has not fully developed yet, and you will find yourself in greater demand. People won't care so much about how old you are, as long as you can show you can do the job.
In IT, the old guy is the one with the old obsolete skills - which sometimes correlates with him being an older person, but not necessarily. Conversely, if they find your skills have gone obsolete and are no longer useful, they will throw you away like old trash, regardless of how old or young you are.
The bottom line is that birds of a feather flock together - that old line about "opposites attract" is nonsense.
The problem is that dumber, lazier people tend to go in for conspiracy theories that claim all their problems are due to the rich, privileged elite, and little else is responsible for their lower quality of life.
I'd say that you can't argue with a paranoid, and that freedom of association/dissociation must prevail. If the smart people separate out to form their own society and the dumb people form theirs, then each will have to live in the bed they make.
Yes, but it will turn your pants Brown, like Dan
You say this now - but when they shoot down your orbital space-elevator, you won't be laughing.
Don't forget to throw in the requisite bongo drums to set the mood.
But more importantly - will it impress the chicks?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMhMscIxLt8
But who will supply patients with the requisite large moustache capability?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w4yd3aPnC4
So I don't think we're fully there yet.
China hasn't figured out how to make the big-big-rockets yet, but as soon as they can scale up they'll be able to competed on $/lb to orbit.
I think their current leader Long March 5 is slated to be able to deliver 25 tons to LEO, which is half of what Falcon Heavy promises to do.
But if the Chinese can scale up to something bigger, they should be able to win the price war, given all their other cost advantages.
It's WinkelVII people - Winklevii
Get your social networking terminology straight
Big deal, AMD and Apple support OpenCL, so NVIDIA's CUDA isn't the only game in town.
I thought UCAV drones like the X-47B are supposed to be the planned defense or response to anti-carrier missiles, since such drones could be launched by carriers much beyond the range of anti-carrier missiles like the DongFeng21.
But as you say, perhaps the next successor to the US Navy's Aegis defense system will use megawatt lasers to immediately neutralize inbound threats like DongFeng21, etc.
I thought lasers attenuate very quickly in the atmosphere.
Maybe this will be more useful for zapping enemy space cruisers.
In Stealth We Trust
http://www.impawards.com/2005/posters/stealth.jpg
I remember that much past interest over muons and hydrogen has been around muon-catalyzed fusion. As you say, the muons are quite short-lived, which prevents them from catalyzing enough H-H fusions to get to breakeven. And then there was the alpha-sticking problem, whereby helium nuclei products then grab the muons, thus stealing them away from the process.
Check out ultra-dense deuterium, though. It's some kind of exotic form of matter, and there have recently been some tantalizing glimpses of it in nano-sized clumps.
The Chinese govt gets nervous anytime any dictatorship is under attack.
Guilty conscience pricks the mind.
"There is no known material worth the expense of mining it on the moon"
Helium-3 could be worth it, if mankind is able to harness fusion for power production. At least it's aneutronic and the Coulomb barrier isn't as high as with Boron.
When the frickin hell are they going to really modernize?
You mean like China, which has totally risen up to the point where it will soon pass the USA in all vital indicators of power, all while the US was too busy staring at Moscow to notice?
What caused Finland to no longer be part of Imperial Russia? Was it the replacement of Imperial Russia by the USSR?
Why would a genuine social crusader boast about his derring-do on a dating site?
http://articles.cnn.com/2010-12-16/us/assange.dating.profile_1_julian-assange-wikileaks-okcupid?_s=PM:US
That's like somebody bragging how they feed homeless people, just so that they can get dates. It's one thing not to be any kind of social crusader whatsoever, but the guy who does social crusading for self-serving superficial self-promotional reasons is a particularly noxious type of person. That's a demagogue.
Bah, the US has always been willing to hold its nose and do business with the likes of Pinochet, Samosa, Baby Doc, Marcos, Zia-ul-Haq, the Shah, Saddam, Mubarak, and assorted Sheikdom police states. Why continue to harangue the Russians?