You could always work on an OSS project of your choosing, get paid by a company to do so, and work from home. Considering myself luckier than I did 5 minutes before reading this response.
I would recommend looking for solutions with two key pieces, and an overarching theme.
The stuff he is doing must relate to daily life in some way. This can be difficult depending on what he spends his day doing - but if he plays fantasy sports, he should be working up to a program that helps him manage his team / gives him an edge. If he collects rocks, he should be working towards something that helps manage his collection, pictures, etc. If it doesn't apply beyond the keyboard, good luck.
Part 2 is similar - it should be something that can be shared easily with others. You put that much time into learning how to create stuff, and your going to want to share it. Impress people, help people, scare people...whatever.
Those are the two big inducers though - its got to be stuff that can apply to your life or things that can easily be shared with other people. Thats the bit of heroin high you give him after he gets by the crossfire on the street and the giant rottweiler in the yard - if hes going to get good at programming, he'll be back. This points to web app type stuff usually - from my point of view, you'll get no where fast on the command line - he will find that stuff if hes interested, but the teenage social call will pull any reasonable adjusted kid away from anything so solitary pretty quickly. You have to sneak in some of this creation heroin before your car is out of the driveway for 6 hours every night - if your lucky, for every night he's shotgunning beers and chasing girls, there might be an hour of programming as he beats the hangover.
Lucene compares great in terms of basic text search. Lucene is extremely fast and robust. Where it falls short is in support for failsafe distributed indexes and things like document classification etc. Those are pretty much roll your own, though it has been done. Solr is a nice step in that direction. Some large sites do use Lucene, see Netflix, Monster.com, Linked-In, Wikipedia. But in general, Lucene does not come close to matching FAST's feature set. Of course you cant beat the cost of the license:) And with less work than you think, you can get pretty close (of course depending on your needs)
Do you work in the real world? Who the hell have you met with a *right* mind? Everything I see is backwards and upside down...and people seem happy to have it that way. Plenty of places run mission critical systems on Windows. Nobody said it's smart or recommended. When I see something done smart around the businesses I work with, I do a handstand. Its an amazing moment indeed.
Its half baked because they are coming after VMWare. Not supporting the most used Operating System at a reasonable speed yet is just half baked. Many tech centers we install at are just windows only. I can't dictate anything different to them.
They mention that the windows performance is garbage and that they are working on paravirtualized drivers. Obviously this thing is half baked until they get there.
I have seen a lot of computers infected with a lot of crap...here is some news...I have never seen any that are distributing child porn. I have watched Dateline NBC though...perv's into underage kids are everywhere...it's even less surprising to find underage kids into underage kids. What would you do if you where caught with porn? When I was at University and got caught using bit-torrent less than morally 3 times, what do you think I did? Fess up and get sued? Loose my internet access? Blame ignorance and a Kazza install and get away scot free? What would you do? Perhaps the kid was innocent...ever visited yahoo user made chat rooms...doesn't look like too many innocent kids chilling there (I think and hope they have finally been shut down or cleaned up)...
Saul Zaentz, the producer that the Hobbit rights return to very soon, has already publicly announced that he could give a crap what New Line does, (he sued them for dough back in 2004...around the same time the cast sued them for dough) Peter Jackson will be directing the Hobbit when the rights return to him whether New Line tries to make a version on their own or not. Obviously this can't be guaranteed, but I don't think it would surprise anyone.
The average intellegent person uses the work of others to build on when attacking a task. If I where presented with a ton of songs to download it would take quite an investment to download and listen to them all to find out whats good. I would use the songs number of downloads in an attempt to lighten the load. Of course I would prefer to sort by ratings...like I would at amazon or newegg...but if ratings are unavailable I would go with downloads. This has nothing to do with being affected "socially". I am using others time to lighten my work load. Unless there are a very limited number of songs I don't see any other way to go...who is going to base there pick on artist or song name? That correlation sucks compared to downloads. Not that I think downloads is perfect...but it makes a nice razor.
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You could always work on an OSS project of your choosing, get paid by a company to do so, and work from home. Considering myself luckier than I did 5 minutes before reading this response.
Infinite Jest was an amazing book. Foster Wallace was an incredible writer. Very interesting and depressing. Time to read the jest again - ..
Vote for this issue: http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-114 Not only is it slow as death on a bunch of chipsets, but it crashes constantly. Very annoying.
I would recommend looking for solutions with two key pieces, and an overarching theme. The stuff he is doing must relate to daily life in some way. This can be difficult depending on what he spends his day doing - but if he plays fantasy sports, he should be working up to a program that helps him manage his team / gives him an edge. If he collects rocks, he should be working towards something that helps manage his collection, pictures, etc. If it doesn't apply beyond the keyboard, good luck. Part 2 is similar - it should be something that can be shared easily with others. You put that much time into learning how to create stuff, and your going to want to share it. Impress people, help people, scare people...whatever. Those are the two big inducers though - its got to be stuff that can apply to your life or things that can easily be shared with other people. Thats the bit of heroin high you give him after he gets by the crossfire on the street and the giant rottweiler in the yard - if hes going to get good at programming, he'll be back. This points to web app type stuff usually - from my point of view, you'll get no where fast on the command line - he will find that stuff if hes interested, but the teenage social call will pull any reasonable adjusted kid away from anything so solitary pretty quickly. You have to sneak in some of this creation heroin before your car is out of the driveway for 6 hours every night - if your lucky, for every night he's shotgunning beers and chasing girls, there might be an hour of programming as he beats the hangover.
Lucene compares great in terms of basic text search. Lucene is extremely fast and robust. Where it falls short is in support for failsafe distributed indexes and things like document classification etc. Those are pretty much roll your own, though it has been done. Solr is a nice step in that direction. Some large sites do use Lucene, see Netflix, Monster.com, Linked-In, Wikipedia. But in general, Lucene does not come close to matching FAST's feature set. Of course you cant beat the cost of the license :) And with less work than you think, you can get pretty close (of course depending on your needs)
You can skip of a lot of that crap if you just learn Java and use GWT. I mean *really*...is there any other option?
Do you work in the real world? Who the hell have you met with a *right* mind? Everything I see is backwards and upside down...and people seem happy to have it that way. Plenty of places run mission critical systems on Windows. Nobody said it's smart or recommended. When I see something done smart around the businesses I work with, I do a handstand. Its an amazing moment indeed. Its half baked because they are coming after VMWare. Not supporting the most used Operating System at a reasonable speed yet is just half baked. Many tech centers we install at are just windows only. I can't dictate anything different to them.
They mention that the windows performance is garbage and that they are working on paravirtualized drivers. Obviously this thing is half baked until they get there.
I have seen a lot of computers infected with a lot of crap...here is some news...I have never seen any that are distributing child porn. I have watched Dateline NBC though...perv's into underage kids are everywhere...it's even less surprising to find underage kids into underage kids. What would you do if you where caught with porn? When I was at University and got caught using bit-torrent less than morally 3 times, what do you think I did? Fess up and get sued? Loose my internet access? Blame ignorance and a Kazza install and get away scot free? What would you do? Perhaps the kid was innocent...ever visited yahoo user made chat rooms...doesn't look like too many innocent kids chilling there (I think and hope they have finally been shut down or cleaned up)...
Saul Zaentz, the producer that the Hobbit rights return to very soon, has already publicly announced that he could give a crap what New Line does, (he sued them for dough back in 2004...around the same time the cast sued them for dough) Peter Jackson will be directing the Hobbit when the rights return to him whether New Line tries to make a version on their own or not. Obviously this can't be guaranteed, but I don't think it would surprise anyone.
The average intellegent person uses the work of others to build on when attacking a task. If I where presented with a ton of songs to download it would take quite an investment to download and listen to them all to find out whats good. I would use the songs number of downloads in an attempt to lighten the load. Of course I would prefer to sort by ratings...like I would at amazon or newegg...but if ratings are unavailable I would go with downloads. This has nothing to do with being affected "socially". I am using others time to lighten my work load. Unless there are a very limited number of songs I don't see any other way to go...who is going to base there pick on artist or song name? That correlation sucks compared to downloads. Not that I think downloads is perfect...but it makes a nice razor.