Sometimes it's hard to maintain encryption in your organization. Especially when the only guy holding the private key blew himself up.
Seriously, though, if you knew that if the US got their hands on your data, you'd either already be dead, or dead very soon, and that even if it was encrypted, they'd have the NSA crack it, why would you bother?
If you can get to the top ranks of a tech company without a CS degree, it's almost like a big FU to all of us that do hold CS degrees. I've always was kind of awed by people I work with that understand everything I do about technology and even CS concepts but don't have a degree. It's humbling and enlightening. Despite being 10x harder, a BSCS is kind of treated like a liberal arts degree these days. It's something to be personally proud of, but it seems to hold no real weight on ones resume. At least, that's how it seems.
So, IMO that makes it an even bigger red flag when someone claims to have such a degree when they don't. It speaks to me of true cluelessness.
It's called, "Please take us seriously as a search company! Oh BTW, we're shopping our search engine around. Any takers? Anyone? We're gonna beat Google! Seriously, though, guys, how about $1.5B? I'll go as low as $1.2. Cmon. Hello?"
Here's what happens: A startup hires a bunch of 20-somethings who are all hacks with big ideas. They scramble for a few years, slapping together the most awful code, all the while thinking their code is awesome. You end up with 1000-line do-it-all functions, god classes, and lots of horrible anti-patterns, leading to code only they know how to maintain. And then they quit to join other startups. Meanwhile, the startup decides to hire some older 35-45 year old pros. "Pros" go in, and spend many months trying to decipher how their code works without breaking anything. Some of them get fired or quit because they a) have lives and b) can't deal with the awful mess that they themselves would never have created.
It's of course not so black and white, usually, but the dynamic is there.
Why not just put the code onto high speed flash that goes on the SoC? Seems a whole lot easier, and I'm not clear why their solution is better. Really, I must be missing something, I'm curious.
I've never seen this in any of the teams I worked in. Hell, we welcome women. If I told the team we were hiring a woman, they'd be like "f*ck yea! is she hot?? bring it !" And I'd be all like, "dudes, you can't bang a coworker, man!" But then I'd be like thinking, "actually she's hot braah I'm all over that yo." But other programmers might make the move first, so I be like, "yo why you be playin?".
And then we'd drag race to settle it. In my mind.
Actually, we all sit in our respective corners and rarely talk.
I don't subscribe to the notion that retail is dead. Best Buy's problem is that their stores haven't changed much since the 90's, and has crossed into severely dated territory. When I see a Best Buy sign, I don't think "future." I think bulky, crappy HP laptops for $399. I think of peripherals sections that don't actually carry the latest peripherals, and horrible washed out LCD monitors from 6 years ago still on display. And huge swathes of space still dedicated to GPS units, boxed software, and DVD's. Stereos and TV's all blaring at me, giving me a headache after 30 minutes.
I used to love going there. Now I hate it. I almost prefer the electronics section at Target.
It was for me. The dedicated camera button is actually very useful. As I'm taking my phone out of my pocket, it's easy to hold the camera button down and have it ready to take pictures by the time it comes out. That's actually a fair bit faster than turning on and pressing a button on the lock screen. I've used both, and the camera button is simply better.
First off, I like Windows Phone 7.5. I have an HTC Titan, and it works quite well. I would definitely say it's almost competitive in most aspects, and does exceed in a few important areas. That said, Microsoft's really not doing Nokia many favors. Lumia 900 really needed an updated WP OS. This was a perfect opportunity for Microsoft to release, say, WP7.6, with support for a higher resolution screen, and maybe some much needed UI tweaks and facelifts. Instead, consumers may well walk into AT&T and realize that phones like the Focus Flash run exactly the same OS and are free. Fine for MS, but not so good for Nokia.
Microsoft really needs to have Apollo ready, like, yesterday. There is already a good amount of mystique about it, but that mystique will dissipate quickly once iOS 6 and Android 5.0 hits the market.
I think that's an oversimplification. When the local manager at Home Depot is only hiring whites, the performance of the business probably won't suffer noticeably. As a whole, Home Depot isn't a bigoted entity, but the bad stuff often happens at the edges. The discrimination, though, has a profound effect on the minorities.
More Not OK's: - Sup bro. - Hey, can you catch flies with chopsticks? - The mens restroom is over there, and the womens restroom is over there. - If loving the Lord is wrong, what would you do, and why? - I love the view from this office.You can see lots of OLD buildings in this area. OVER THE HILL, you can see the Washington Monument!
Really? Any reason? How about being black. Or being buddhist. Those are reasons. Can you go ahead and just state right here that firing someone for such reasons should be legal?
And if firing on those bases is legal, why not other things? You know, like education, and housing.
Look, the man just wants to avoid the homos and funny accent people. You gotta let him have the right to do whatever the hell he wants when it comes to hiring people. History has shown that no abuses ever took place. If you let people do whatever they want, we all do the right thing, at least those of us who are straight American men.
(it's sad that some people probably saw no implicit/s)
The law is the law. And I happen to agree with it. How would it feel if you had kids and a silicon valley startup wouldn't hire you because they think you'd go home at 5 every day? And would you make such a discrimination? Ever work with someone brilliant or extremely productive, only to find out much later they are gay? Did it matter?
Sure, you want your rights as a business owner, but I think every American deserves the right to be treated fairly when it comes to employment, housing, and anything else so basic.
I think the whole guardian thing was a mistake. I would have rather seen a less otherworldly foe wreaking havoc on Britannia in more subtle ways. It seems the more the story focused on the guardian, the more downhill the gameplay went.
Blackthorne was kind of a cool character. I would have liked to see his rivalry with LB continue.
I loved this game, too. It was kind of like future Ultima, but with lighter and shorter gameplay. I liked that I didn't have to involve myself as deeply, yet found it thoroughly entertaining.
I don't work for Unity 3D, so this is not a shill. Unity 3D is an awesome tool, well worth the $400 investment. I've never seen a game development tool flatten the learning curve better.
Isn't this just the halting problem? A game is a program whose inputs are discrete inputs from the player. So, before you can write a program that determines the winning solution to a game, the program has to be able to detect if there is any solution at all. Otherwise, the program will run forever. Isn't that just the halting problem, which is NP-hard?
I think C++ 11 may be falling into the trap of trying to be all things to all programmers. Certainly developments in C# and Java had something to do with some of these improvements. But, at what point can one say that a system has become too complicated to quickly reason with? Has C++ reached that point?
That said, certainly these changes are welcome improvements for existing C++ developers who want easier ways to reduce complexity of their code.
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Sometimes it's hard to maintain encryption in your organization. Especially when the only guy holding the private key blew himself up.
Seriously, though, if you knew that if the US got their hands on your data, you'd either already be dead, or dead very soon, and that even if it was encrypted, they'd have the NSA crack it, why would you bother?
If you can get to the top ranks of a tech company without a CS degree, it's almost like a big FU to all of us that do hold CS degrees. I've always was kind of awed by people I work with that understand everything I do about technology and even CS concepts but don't have a degree. It's humbling and enlightening. Despite being 10x harder, a BSCS is kind of treated like a liberal arts degree these days. It's something to be personally proud of, but it seems to hold no real weight on ones resume. At least, that's how it seems.
So, IMO that makes it an even bigger red flag when someone claims to have such a degree when they don't. It speaks to me of true cluelessness.
It's called, "Please take us seriously as a search company! Oh BTW, we're shopping our search engine around. Any takers? Anyone? We're gonna beat Google! Seriously, though, guys, how about $1.5B? I'll go as low as $1.2. Cmon. Hello?"
Here's what happens: A startup hires a bunch of 20-somethings who are all hacks with big ideas. They scramble for a few years, slapping together the most awful code, all the while thinking their code is awesome. You end up with 1000-line do-it-all functions, god classes, and lots of horrible anti-patterns, leading to code only they know how to maintain. And then they quit to join other startups. Meanwhile, the startup decides to hire some older 35-45 year old pros. "Pros" go in, and spend many months trying to decipher how their code works without breaking anything. Some of them get fired or quit because they a) have lives and b) can't deal with the awful mess that they themselves would never have created.
It's of course not so black and white, usually, but the dynamic is there.
Why not just put the code onto high speed flash that goes on the SoC? Seems a whole lot easier, and I'm not clear why their solution is better. Really, I must be missing something, I'm curious.
I've never seen this in any of the teams I worked in. Hell, we welcome women. If I told the team we were hiring a woman, they'd be like "f*ck yea! is she hot?? bring it
!" And I'd be all like, "dudes, you can't bang a coworker, man!" But then I'd be like thinking, "actually she's hot braah I'm all over that yo." But other programmers might make the move first, so I be like, "yo why you be playin?".
And then we'd drag race to settle it. In my mind.
Actually, we all sit in our respective corners and rarely talk.
I don't subscribe to the notion that retail is dead. Best Buy's problem is that their stores haven't changed much since the 90's, and has crossed into severely dated territory. When I see a Best Buy sign, I don't think "future." I think bulky, crappy HP laptops for $399. I think of peripherals sections that don't actually carry the latest peripherals, and horrible washed out LCD monitors from 6 years ago still on display. And huge swathes of space still dedicated to GPS units, boxed software, and DVD's. Stereos and TV's all blaring at me, giving me a headache after 30 minutes.
I used to love going there. Now I hate it. I almost prefer the electronics section at Target.
It was for me. The dedicated camera button is actually very useful. As I'm taking my phone out of my pocket, it's easy to hold the camera button down and have it ready to take pictures by the time it comes out. That's actually a fair bit faster than turning on and pressing a button on the lock screen. I've used both, and the camera button is simply better.
First off, I like Windows Phone 7.5. I have an HTC Titan, and it works quite well. I would definitely say it's almost competitive in most aspects, and does exceed in a few important areas. That said, Microsoft's really not doing Nokia many favors. Lumia 900 really needed an updated WP OS. This was a perfect opportunity for Microsoft to release, say, WP7.6, with support for a higher resolution screen, and maybe some much needed UI tweaks and facelifts. Instead, consumers may well walk into AT&T and realize that phones like the Focus Flash run exactly the same OS and are free. Fine for MS, but not so good for Nokia.
Microsoft really needs to have Apollo ready, like, yesterday. There is already a good amount of mystique about it, but that mystique will dissipate quickly once iOS 6 and Android 5.0 hits the market.
Source please.
I think that's an oversimplification. When the local manager at Home Depot is only hiring whites, the performance of the business probably won't suffer noticeably. As a whole, Home Depot isn't a bigoted entity, but the bad stuff often happens at the edges. The discrimination, though, has a profound effect on the minorities.
More Not OK's:
- Sup bro.
- Hey, can you catch flies with chopsticks?
- The mens restroom is over there, and the womens restroom is over there.
- If loving the Lord is wrong, what would you do, and why?
- I love the view from this office.You can see lots of OLD buildings in this area. OVER THE HILL, you can see the Washington Monument!
Really? Any reason? How about being black. Or being buddhist. Those are reasons. Can you go ahead and just state right here that firing someone for such reasons should be legal?
And if firing on those bases is legal, why not other things? You know, like education, and housing.
Look, the man just wants to avoid the homos and funny accent people. You gotta let him have the right to do whatever the hell he wants when it comes to hiring people. History has shown that no abuses ever took place. If you let people do whatever they want, we all do the right thing, at least those of us who are straight American men.
(it's sad that some people probably saw no implicit /s)
The law is the law. And I happen to agree with it. How would it feel if you had kids and a silicon valley startup wouldn't hire you because they think you'd go home at 5 every day? And would you make such a discrimination? Ever work with someone brilliant or extremely productive, only to find out much later they are gay? Did it matter?
Sure, you want your rights as a business owner, but I think every American deserves the right to be treated fairly when it comes to employment, housing, and anything else so basic.
Give it 50/50 odds they get sued out of existence. They certainly won't build a big user base given a dare like that.
I think the whole guardian thing was a mistake. I would have rather seen a less otherworldly foe wreaking havoc on Britannia in more subtle ways. It seems the more the story focused on the guardian, the more downhill the gameplay went.
Blackthorne was kind of a cool character. I would have liked to see his rivalry with LB continue.
I loved this game, too. It was kind of like future Ultima, but with lighter and shorter gameplay. I liked that I didn't have to involve myself as deeply, yet found it thoroughly entertaining.
I don't work for Unity 3D, so this is not a shill. Unity 3D is an awesome tool, well worth the $400 investment. I've never seen a game development tool flatten the learning curve better.
Or look at it this way: write a program that proves that the game doesn't just reset and loop back to the beginning.
Isn't this just the halting problem? A game is a program whose inputs are discrete inputs from the player. So, before you can write a program that determines the winning solution to a game, the program has to be able to detect if there is any solution at all. Otherwise, the program will run forever. Isn't that just the halting problem, which is NP-hard?
130% of it is coming from the neighbor's outlets. Very sneaky, you cheapskates.
I'm an engineer, not a navigator!
I think C++ 11 may be falling into the trap of trying to be all things to all programmers. Certainly developments in C# and Java had something to do with some of these improvements. But, at what point can one say that a system has become too complicated to quickly reason with? Has C++ reached that point?
That said, certainly these changes are welcome improvements for existing C++ developers who want easier ways to reduce complexity of their code.
Boo hoo, the cuts won't save that much. Boo hoo lack of leadership. Boo hoo, so and so great leader wouldn't have done this.
Pretty much the same argument posed by every agency and project facing a cut.