My experience is it would be better to provision a cluster of EC2 boxes to run the task than build a purpose-built super computer (with some exception). One disadvantage of clustered machines is longer communication latency, so tasks that require lots of process to process communication will run slower. Many problems can be tweaked with search spaces sliced so that this latency is not a big deal.
A governor who thinks that spending $20m on this will bring more businesses to his state in the world of the internet just built his super-computer to nowhere.
I don't think that was the implication he was making. State schools are the most likely to accept community college credits. This is a perfectly valid and acceptable path for an education, even if you're not at the #1 school.
And they are cheaper then private universities (before you factor in need-based financial aid, which is a wildcard).
You have a point, but I will say that 2 weeks is a nice way to do it if you don't want to burn the bridge. Call it professional curtousy if the experience up to that point wasn't negative (remember, many of us leave not because we hate our current employer but because we seek something new or bigger).
But yes, if your employer has been horrible and the bridge is on fire already then yes there is no true obligation.
What if we skipped trying to create permanent infrastructure and instead used a large inflatable similar to the recent sky-dive? Takes the ship to high altitude where the engines take over? It might be difficult to re-use the inflated piece since it needs to support the vehicle until other propulsion takes over (making retracting difficult).
The interstate highway system is paid for by the federal government. $425 billion. Apparently the largest public works system since the pyramids. Why exactly Americans think of this as "a brilliant economic success" and state funded medicine as "socialist" the FSM only knows.
Well actually we do know. Because that's how lobbyists chose to frame them.
I bet some of the same people going out and making a stink about the evils of the health care reform bill or teachers unions still call up to complain when there is a pothole on their street.
the actually proposed return to Clinton's restrictions on magazine capacity and some other features of those guns would have made NO DIFFERENCE. He could have changed the mag slightly more often, or he could have used a handgun.
I disagree with this part of your post. The magazine restrictions would probably have meant one or two less kids would have died or that he could have been ambushed during a swap with a much lower body count. I think their parents would consider that a difference.
He had no assault rifles. Assault rifles are defined as being select fire full auto or burst mode. Those kinds of guns are illegal for new production in the USA.
If you focus on the narrow, military history of "assault rifle" you are correct. But the modern lexicon includes semi-automatic military-style rifles (partially due to legislation that puts restrictions on these types of weapons that label them assault rifles).
A Master sees it done differently or done very wrong
This has been my experience working with a wide range of experience levels (although the transition isn't quite linear). There are many ways to do things that are still good, but sometimes that code should never have existed.
What probably helps too is that we take more care of the "crackpots" here. Free (ish, depending) medical care, including mental health care.
This is what we are missing in the US, more than any rule about ownership.
With all this comparison to Europe, I wonder how the US compares to Mexico or other Central/South American countries with strong drug gangs (which is part of the problem, although not the cause today).
Gun laws do nothing in making it harder for "fucking lunatics" to posess. There in lies the logical fallacy. It makes it for "fucking normal people" harder to posess, which is incidentily the root of the problem. It would have taken one normal individual to stop this idiot.
Yes they do, actually. There was a case out by me where some guy had his guns taken away because he was clinically something or other. He went to court and got it back. Then one day he was off his meds, went ape shit and 1,000 rounds later it ended with SWAT killing him (he might have been the only fatality).
Take it out of their hands entirely? No. Harder, yes. Now for criminals... your argument holds in that law breakers will break laws.
That is totally irrelevant here. Only a few nations are on the list of "rogue states" that you can't export cryptography tools to, and China is obviously not one of them
Which isn't exactly true. While the iPhone is classified 5A992 and OK to export to CN, 5A00* items are restricted from export to CN without a license or exception.
What if China were to, I don't know, just not export the 5A00* to the US in the first place? It was built there.
No offense, but read up on what Lincoln did during the Civil War.
Suspended Habeus Corpus. Declared martial law in several US cities.
Considering the number of people who died in the Civil War, I would say that his actions were justified by the threat. The Civil War makes Iraq, Afghanistan, and 9/11 look like a day in the park.
True, but theoretically management is either smart and wants to keep me or not smart and I can go find smart management elsewhere (since my skills are marketable). Only if businesses collude would I be in trouble.
13GB is not bad. I made the mistake of getting a 40gb SSD for my Windows 7 partition. I recently upgraded it to a 120GB one, much better.
I know what you're getting at, but that's only a win if the user accepts the fact that MS clumsily ported their desktop OS. To compare with Apple, both take roughly the same amount of hard drive space (give or take 5 or 10 GB, but same order of magnitude). When Apple developed the iOS, they stripped out a ton of the bulk to make it around a gig or so. I can't imagine that Windows needs that much code; it's just being half-assed.
That's the main reason developers don't need a union. Unions are for supporting interchangeable employees. Devlopers have very specific skill sets. Generally speaking, most high end professions don't have unions: doctors, lawyers, engineers.
Don't each of those have a union of one sort or another?
Otherwise, you're spot on. My skills aren't interchangeable and I'd rather work with peers who are motivated to continually improve rather than content to get by doing the minimum. Let my skills and contribution speak for itself. If you look at places that have unionized (not specific to software engineers), they tend to suffer decades later. IMHO, it's the nuclear option for places that outright abuse their workers where the workers don't have the ability to move on to another job (only one factory in the small town).
Also, said computers can cost several thousand dollars to replace; almost as much as the engine or transmission. Who knows if this is in line with the actual manufacturing cost... it'd be debatable whether there should be an IP mark-up like with chips since you already paid for the car in the first place. They then use this as "well our computers often fail before 100k so you should get our extended warranty" crap.
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My experience is it would be better to provision a cluster of EC2 boxes to run the task than build a purpose-built super computer (with some exception). One disadvantage of clustered machines is longer communication latency, so tasks that require lots of process to process communication will run slower. Many problems can be tweaked with search spaces sliced so that this latency is not a big deal.
A governor who thinks that spending $20m on this will bring more businesses to his state in the world of the internet just built his super-computer to nowhere.
I don't think that was the implication he was making. State schools are the most likely to accept community college credits. This is a perfectly valid and acceptable path for an education, even if you're not at the #1 school.
And they are cheaper then private universities (before you factor in need-based financial aid, which is a wildcard).
You have a point, but I will say that 2 weeks is a nice way to do it if you don't want to burn the bridge. Call it professional curtousy if the experience up to that point wasn't negative (remember, many of us leave not because we hate our current employer but because we seek something new or bigger).
But yes, if your employer has been horrible and the bridge is on fire already then yes there is no true obligation.
What if we skipped trying to create permanent infrastructure and instead used a large inflatable similar to the recent sky-dive? Takes the ship to high altitude where the engines take over? It might be difficult to re-use the inflated piece since it needs to support the vehicle until other propulsion takes over (making retracting difficult).
The interstate highway system is paid for by the federal government. $425 billion. Apparently the largest public works system since the pyramids. Why exactly Americans think of this as "a brilliant economic success" and state funded medicine as "socialist" the FSM only knows.
Well actually we do know. Because that's how lobbyists chose to frame them.
I bet some of the same people going out and making a stink about the evils of the health care reform bill or teachers unions still call up to complain when there is a pothole on their street.
Everything is wasteful, unless it's for you.
Because the evidence, say, from Japan, is that an almost complete prohibition of firearms and a very low murder rate are not mutually exclusive.
FTFY.
Or did Japan used to have a high murder rate until they took away the guns?
In Japan, their "2nd Amendment" would be about swords. These were prohibited around 150 years ago.
the actually proposed return to Clinton's restrictions on magazine capacity and some other features of those guns would have made NO DIFFERENCE. He could have changed the mag slightly more often, or he could have used a handgun.
I disagree with this part of your post. The magazine restrictions would probably have meant one or two less kids would have died or that he could have been ambushed during a swap with a much lower body count. I think their parents would consider that a difference.
He had no assault rifles. Assault rifles are defined as being select fire full auto or burst mode. Those kinds of guns are illegal for new production in the USA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_rifle
If you focus on the narrow, military history of "assault rifle" you are correct. But the modern lexicon includes semi-automatic military-style rifles (partially due to legislation that puts restrictions on these types of weapons that label them assault rifles).
A Novice sees it done
A Master sees it done differently or done very wrong
This has been my experience working with a wide range of experience levels (although the transition isn't quite linear). There are many ways to do things that are still good, but sometimes that code should never have existed.
This system works and take out the crackpots.
What probably helps too is that we take more care of the "crackpots" here. Free (ish, depending) medical care, including mental health care.
This is what we are missing in the US, more than any rule about ownership.
With all this comparison to Europe, I wonder how the US compares to Mexico or other Central/South American countries with strong drug gangs (which is part of the problem, although not the cause today).
Gun laws do nothing in making it harder for "fucking lunatics" to posess. There in lies the logical fallacy. It makes it for "fucking normal people" harder to posess, which is incidentily the root of the problem. It would have taken one normal individual to stop this idiot.
Yes they do, actually. There was a case out by me where some guy had his guns taken away because he was clinically something or other. He went to court and got it back. Then one day he was off his meds, went ape shit and 1,000 rounds later it ended with SWAT killing him (he might have been the only fatality).
Take it out of their hands entirely? No. Harder, yes. Now for criminals... your argument holds in that law breakers will break laws.
where people on slashdot fail to understand the fine art of sarcasm
FIFY
That is totally irrelevant here. Only a few nations are on the list of "rogue states" that you can't export cryptography tools to, and China is obviously not one of them
Which isn't exactly true. While the iPhone is classified 5A992 and OK to export to CN, 5A00* items are restricted from export to CN without a license or exception.
What if China were to, I don't know, just not export the 5A00* to the US in the first place? It was built there.
Not really relevant. A store doesn't have to sell you multiple copies of something. You can't take the store hostage to force them to sell you more.
And the proper response to this is to taser her.
I started with the strange "turtle".
> ... voided support contracts...
Does this still scare anyone?
Not when their product is enabling easy break-ins.
No offense, but read up on what Lincoln did during the Civil War.
Suspended Habeus Corpus. Declared martial law in several US cities.
Considering the number of people who died in the Civil War, I would say that his actions were justified by the threat. The Civil War makes Iraq, Afghanistan, and 9/11 look like a day in the park.
There's been a load of blah on Slashdot recently about some election in the colonies; turnabout is fair play :-)
Well played.
Just because some news stations called the election doesn't make it true, romney is leading in ohio right now..lol
Some news stations such as... Fox News?
Is "performing noticeably worse on old, low-cost, small-form-factor, or battery-powered hardware than the previous version" precise enough?
Or... has lots of features that add to the application size or load that aren't valued by 99% of the user base.
True, but theoretically management is either smart and wants to keep me or not smart and I can go find smart management elsewhere (since my skills are marketable). Only if businesses collude would I be in trouble.
13GB is not bad. I made the mistake of getting a 40gb SSD for my Windows 7 partition. I recently upgraded it to a 120GB one, much better.
I know what you're getting at, but that's only a win if the user accepts the fact that MS clumsily ported their desktop OS. To compare with Apple, both take roughly the same amount of hard drive space (give or take 5 or 10 GB, but same order of magnitude). When Apple developed the iOS, they stripped out a ton of the bulk to make it around a gig or so. I can't imagine that Windows needs that much code; it's just being half-assed.
Why would you want a Union?
Because unionized workers make, on average, about 15% more than non-unionized workers in the same industry.
Hypothetically, what if I make more than 15% more than the average of a non-union worker?
That's the main reason developers don't need a union. Unions are for supporting interchangeable employees. Devlopers have very specific skill sets. Generally speaking, most high end professions don't have unions: doctors, lawyers, engineers.
Don't each of those have a union of one sort or another?
Otherwise, you're spot on. My skills aren't interchangeable and I'd rather work with peers who are motivated to continually improve rather than content to get by doing the minimum. Let my skills and contribution speak for itself. If you look at places that have unionized (not specific to software engineers), they tend to suffer decades later. IMHO, it's the nuclear option for places that outright abuse their workers where the workers don't have the ability to move on to another job (only one factory in the small town).
Also, said computers can cost several thousand dollars to replace; almost as much as the engine or transmission. Who knows if this is in line with the actual manufacturing cost... it'd be debatable whether there should be an IP mark-up like with chips since you already paid for the car in the first place. They then use this as "well our computers often fail before 100k so you should get our extended warranty" crap.