Antivaxers are not very bright. The flu is a deadly virus. It doesn't always kill but since it is constantly mutating it can become a lot more deadly all of the sudden and by the time the world realizes this is that flu, you won't be able to vaccinate the mobs quick enough. So get a flu shot every year (they are free if you have any kind of insurance and fairly low cost otherwise). It is true that even if you've been vaccinated it might not protect you from the one that kills but at least it is what you can do right now. You buy lottery tickets with a 1 in 200,000,000 shot of winning. I'd say most flu vaccines have a better chance than that at providing protection. So, get with the program!
So, if we are going to use computers in our voting process (I'm against that but I'll go with the idea for a moment) then I think everyone who wants to be President buys a "Lottery" ticket. A winner is picked at random. They hold the office for one term. At the end of that term, the electorate votes on how they did. If the did well they get one more term. Period. If they did OK then they are done and another drawing is held. If they did quite poorly, they are locked up in prison for the rest of their lives. It would cut down on the number of people entering the lottery and we would be voting on results, not broken promises. Also, holding office would have as indelible effect on the office holder as it does on the electorate.
So, I'm getting up there and wish I had your problem. Retirement isn't really in sight. But if I were leaving a job, and my employer had been very good to me, and they weren't the over-reactive type, I'd work on easing myself out of the job. Start handing over some of the knowledge and responsibilities you have. Don't want them to know you are planning on making a grand exit? Then do it all in the name of healthy redundancy just in case you were to get hit by that proverbial truck.
If those conditions don't all exist then you probably should just treat your planned retirement in the same manner as if you were switching employers -- give them two weeks notice once you booked that great stay in St. Lucia... or whatever.
I've been at it for 43 years but ageism is a definite factor, especially in startup culture. I started early (Fortran and Algol on a UNIVAC 1100) and have been learning ever since. Presently I do a lot of CI/CD and use Python, Ruby and Modern Javascript to build at cloud scale. I sometimes think getting back into Cobol might an avenue if I need to find another job. Cobol programmers never seem to die. But keeping my skill set up to date and working for mature supervisors seem to have worked for me thus far.
I'd love to meet Satoshi Nakamoto. He/she/they must be brilliant. But if the NSA can positively identify them it is probable that no one is truly anonymous unless you simply don't ever post email, forum posts, or anything else online. I keep a low profile but it sounds like only cave dwellers and hermits can escape big brother!
Unless my grade school teacher was wrong, we already have seven continents
1) North America
2) South America
3) Europe
4) Africa
5)Asia
6) Australia
7) Antarctica
So, Zealandia would be the 8th if so determined to be a continent, right????
We've really hit rock bottom in an Orwellian sort of way. I agree with the original poster that actual crimes should be prosecuted by due process. But when the government can't seem to gather the requisite evidence, it uses broad charges like "Obstruction of Justice." The only thing that Dennis Hastert is **currently** guilty of (and that could and hopefully will change) is not having a lawyer present when he was questioned by the FBI goons. Never talk to law enforcement without one present.
It's really simple. If you sign the front of the check, then you probably own your labor. If you sign the back of the check, someone else owns it. Be glad you get a paycheck and save up so that when you get your brilliant idea, you can create your own company and then your idea might be yours (or your investor's -- again, which side of the check do you sign?)
I am in my mid 50's, have been near-sighted since the 3rd grade, and work at the computer about 14 hours a day. I have the exact setup mentioned -- 2 x 19 inch monitors. I usually have about 20 - 30 apps/windows open at a time so just making the fonts bigger isn't really an option. I've been using progressives for about 20 years now. I have 3 separate pairs of glasses for different distance options (desktop/work, laptop/home, and mobile device/driving). I took precise measurements and worked with my optometrist for about 3 years before getting the right combination of distances for most applications. Unfortunately I'm also an avid amateur astronomer with significant astigmatism and I haven't found a good solution for that application. It's taken a lot of time to get used to progressives and optimize for my rather repetitive applications. I think like most anything else you get out of it what you put into it. There isn't a magic bullet when your eyesight is as bad as mine. The original poster doesn't fit that description so I would say they should give both traditional bifocals and progressives a 3 - 6 month try out. Buy cheap frames and put the money into the lenses including and especially into good AR coatings. That's made a huge difference for me, probably bigger than my choice of progressives vs. bifocals.
There is a classical problem here. R is great for getting trained and productive VERY quickly. It has 4,600 packages that will do almost anything you need to and it does some very sophisticated statistical methods right out of the box. What can't be done out of the box (or from the core download since it's not really a boxed product) has likely been coded in a package -- even very complex biostatistical and bioinformatics methods. Also R has a lot of graphical data visualization functionality built in and extended by some awesome packages like ggplot2. Additionally, R does a great job with documentation as it can inject data, visualizations and code into markdown documents, which makes publication a whole lot easier. R's functional/imperative/quasi-object oriented approaches have their quirks (but then what language doesn't?). One thing to note however is that R is not in itself multithreaded and it requires that all the data it is working on reside in memory. For very large, very complex data sets that could be a bit of problem.
So where R is great from a quick ramp up perspective, Python will probably scale better to huge datasets in the tera- and peta- byte range. It has come along way especially with scipy, numpy and other packages listed above. So if you anticipate having to scale in this way, then Python maybe a better long term toolset.
I like them both and use them both. I choose which one I am going to use for a project (and stick with the toolset for the whole project) based on dataset size, statistical/visualization complexity and documentation requirements. R tends to win out a bit more often for me.
R is made for cleaning and analyzing mounds of data (though R requires all that data to reside in memory so there are limits). Its interpreted, RStudio is an AWESOME free GUI, and there are libraries (AKA packages) for just about any data task you'd like to do. You can do sophisticated things quickly in the REPL and writing short analysis scripts is pretty easy. It is a functional language (mostly) and sort of OOP (not really) but it'll get the job done for data tasks.
Brenden invented Javascript and has remained very active in that community. He has DEMONSTRATED the ability to engender an active ecosystem which is what Mozilla requires. To weigh that against a political contribution 6 years ago is insanity and nonsense. The strident call for his resignation bodes very poorly for the validity of LGBT concerns and suggests an underlying coercion that is coming to the surface now that they consider themselves in the ascendant.
I've been a programmer/aka software engineer/aka web developer/aka IT Director for 39 years and the hardest thing that programmers have to deal with are changing expectations which manifest themselves in scope creep and scope creeps (i.e. users who don't really know what they want or need but they need it like yesterday). I think Agile techniques have helped to channel this quite a bit but that requires the right corporate culture to be successful. The truth is that computational tools are still "magic boxes" to users and it's a rare project manager/agile team that can bridge the gap between the effort required in implementation and the user's perception of what they really need.
If you're going to regenerate Doctor Who to the female variety, how about keeping some nice female companions around? Now that WOULD be interesting, and politically correct to the vilest degree.
Just a meme from a game? I think not. Aside from the vendor lock-in that you are imposing on your own body, you will be exponentially widening the gap between the have's and the havenot's. That always becomes pot that boils over and leads to blood shed. Purity First:-)
I applaud the annoucement and access to so many scopes, but it's not a first. SLOOH is a service (i.e. you have to pay for it) that has access to some robotic scopes to do very short observing runs and capture some crude astrophotography. I'm sure that GLORIA will probably be much better but the question is, how are targets going to be prioritized. That's the problem with professionals getting time on scopes. Just imagine what a nightmare that will be for all us Amateurs.
You can give developers slow, old computers with a single monitor, but they won't be nearly as productive. I actively develop in about 10 languages (computer, not human). Have you ever tried to keep straight all the different ways that an if statement can be coded? I look all that stuff up and/or test things on my secondary and tertiary monitors (the third monitor is hooked up to a second computer) and do my coding, compiling, scripting, administrating, email checking, etc on my primary monitor. I could do all that on a single monitor but then that's a lot of task window switching and when cutting and pasting example code, looking up the parameters of a function, etc. that will kill my productivity by 25% minimum. So a couple hundred bucks for a second monitor is paid for in a couple of days. Really, that's a no brainer. BTW, I'm writing this email on the third monitor/second computer, +50 Geek.
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Antivaxers are not very bright. The flu is a deadly virus. It doesn't always kill but since it is constantly mutating it can become a lot more deadly all of the sudden and by the time the world realizes this is that flu, you won't be able to vaccinate the mobs quick enough. So get a flu shot every year (they are free if you have any kind of insurance and fairly low cost otherwise). It is true that even if you've been vaccinated it might not protect you from the one that kills but at least it is what you can do right now. You buy lottery tickets with a 1 in 200,000,000 shot of winning. I'd say most flu vaccines have a better chance than that at providing protection. So, get with the program!
So, if we are going to use computers in our voting process (I'm against that but I'll go with the idea for a moment) then I think everyone who wants to be President buys a "Lottery" ticket. A winner is picked at random. They hold the office for one term. At the end of that term, the electorate votes on how they did. If the did well they get one more term. Period. If they did OK then they are done and another drawing is held. If they did quite poorly, they are locked up in prison for the rest of their lives. It would cut down on the number of people entering the lottery and we would be voting on results, not broken promises. Also, holding office would have as indelible effect on the office holder as it does on the electorate.
So, I'm getting up there and wish I had your problem. Retirement isn't really in sight. But if I were leaving a job, and my employer had been very good to me, and they weren't the over-reactive type, I'd work on easing myself out of the job. Start handing over some of the knowledge and responsibilities you have. Don't want them to know you are planning on making a grand exit? Then do it all in the name of healthy redundancy just in case you were to get hit by that proverbial truck. If those conditions don't all exist then you probably should just treat your planned retirement in the same manner as if you were switching employers -- give them two weeks notice once you booked that great stay in St. Lucia... or whatever.
I've been at it for 43 years but ageism is a definite factor, especially in startup culture. I started early (Fortran and Algol on a UNIVAC 1100) and have been learning ever since. Presently I do a lot of CI/CD and use Python, Ruby and Modern Javascript to build at cloud scale. I sometimes think getting back into Cobol might an avenue if I need to find another job. Cobol programmers never seem to die. But keeping my skill set up to date and working for mature supervisors seem to have worked for me thus far.
I'd love to meet Satoshi Nakamoto. He/she/they must be brilliant. But if the NSA can positively identify them it is probable that no one is truly anonymous unless you simply don't ever post email, forum posts, or anything else online. I keep a low profile but it sounds like only cave dwellers and hermits can escape big brother!
Unless my grade school teacher was wrong, we already have seven continents 1) North America 2) South America 3) Europe 4) Africa 5)Asia 6) Australia 7) Antarctica So, Zealandia would be the 8th if so determined to be a continent, right????
Is he also against telephones, radios, computer and the Internet? What if I send an encrypted smoke signal?
Clinton = Scandal; All 3 Clintons; All the time. Do we really want her running for President?
I really enjoy Zach's games. I believe they are published under the name "Zachtronics" vice "ZachOtronics". Great games, especially SpaceChem!!
Thanks Minitrue, you always come through! Still waiting on the 10th edition of the Newspeak Dictionary. That would be doublegood!
We've really hit rock bottom in an Orwellian sort of way. I agree with the original poster that actual crimes should be prosecuted by due process. But when the government can't seem to gather the requisite evidence, it uses broad charges like "Obstruction of Justice." The only thing that Dennis Hastert is **currently** guilty of (and that could and hopefully will change) is not having a lawyer present when he was questioned by the FBI goons. Never talk to law enforcement without one present.
It's really simple. If you sign the front of the check, then you probably own your labor. If you sign the back of the check, someone else owns it. Be glad you get a paycheck and save up so that when you get your brilliant idea, you can create your own company and then your idea might be yours (or your investor's -- again, which side of the check do you sign?)
I am in my mid 50's, have been near-sighted since the 3rd grade, and work at the computer about 14 hours a day. I have the exact setup mentioned -- 2 x 19 inch monitors. I usually have about 20 - 30 apps/windows open at a time so just making the fonts bigger isn't really an option. I've been using progressives for about 20 years now. I have 3 separate pairs of glasses for different distance options (desktop/work, laptop/home, and mobile device/driving). I took precise measurements and worked with my optometrist for about 3 years before getting the right combination of distances for most applications. Unfortunately I'm also an avid amateur astronomer with significant astigmatism and I haven't found a good solution for that application. It's taken a lot of time to get used to progressives and optimize for my rather repetitive applications. I think like most anything else you get out of it what you put into it. There isn't a magic bullet when your eyesight is as bad as mine. The original poster doesn't fit that description so I would say they should give both traditional bifocals and progressives a 3 - 6 month try out. Buy cheap frames and put the money into the lenses including and especially into good AR coatings. That's made a huge difference for me, probably bigger than my choice of progressives vs. bifocals.
The life if full of hot air. Those that "do" usually don't brag about it. Those that wish they did make all the noise.
There is a classical problem here. R is great for getting trained and productive VERY quickly. It has 4,600 packages that will do almost anything you need to and it does some very sophisticated statistical methods right out of the box. What can't be done out of the box (or from the core download since it's not really a boxed product) has likely been coded in a package -- even very complex biostatistical and bioinformatics methods. Also R has a lot of graphical data visualization functionality built in and extended by some awesome packages like ggplot2. Additionally, R does a great job with documentation as it can inject data, visualizations and code into markdown documents, which makes publication a whole lot easier. R's functional/imperative/quasi-object oriented approaches have their quirks (but then what language doesn't?). One thing to note however is that R is not in itself multithreaded and it requires that all the data it is working on reside in memory. For very large, very complex data sets that could be a bit of problem. So where R is great from a quick ramp up perspective, Python will probably scale better to huge datasets in the tera- and peta- byte range. It has come along way especially with scipy, numpy and other packages listed above. So if you anticipate having to scale in this way, then Python maybe a better long term toolset. I like them both and use them both. I choose which one I am going to use for a project (and stick with the toolset for the whole project) based on dataset size, statistical/visualization complexity and documentation requirements. R tends to win out a bit more often for me.
R is made for cleaning and analyzing mounds of data (though R requires all that data to reside in memory so there are limits). Its interpreted, RStudio is an AWESOME free GUI, and there are libraries (AKA packages) for just about any data task you'd like to do. You can do sophisticated things quickly in the REPL and writing short analysis scripts is pretty easy. It is a functional language (mostly) and sort of OOP (not really) but it'll get the job done for data tasks.
Brenden invented Javascript and has remained very active in that community. He has DEMONSTRATED the ability to engender an active ecosystem which is what Mozilla requires. To weigh that against a political contribution 6 years ago is insanity and nonsense. The strident call for his resignation bodes very poorly for the validity of LGBT concerns and suggests an underlying coercion that is coming to the surface now that they consider themselves in the ascendant.
I've been a programmer/aka software engineer/aka web developer/aka IT Director for 39 years and the hardest thing that programmers have to deal with are changing expectations which manifest themselves in scope creep and scope creeps (i.e. users who don't really know what they want or need but they need it like yesterday). I think Agile techniques have helped to channel this quite a bit but that requires the right corporate culture to be successful. The truth is that computational tools are still "magic boxes" to users and it's a rare project manager/agile team that can bridge the gap between the effort required in implementation and the user's perception of what they really need.
If you're going to regenerate Doctor Who to the female variety, how about keeping some nice female companions around? Now that WOULD be interesting, and politically correct to the vilest degree.
Just a meme from a game? I think not. Aside from the vendor lock-in that you are imposing on your own body, you will be exponentially widening the gap between the have's and the havenot's. That always becomes pot that boils over and leads to blood shed. Purity First :-)
I applaud the annoucement and access to so many scopes, but it's not a first. SLOOH is a service (i.e. you have to pay for it) that has access to some robotic scopes to do very short observing runs and capture some crude astrophotography. I'm sure that GLORIA will probably be much better but the question is, how are targets going to be prioritized. That's the problem with professionals getting time on scopes. Just imagine what a nightmare that will be for all us Amateurs.
This kind of imperialistic attitude is just one of MANY reasons why I'm not on facebook. Hey Zuck, you suck!!!!
It's called Aliens vs Predators.
You can give developers slow, old computers with a single monitor, but they won't be nearly as productive. I actively develop in about 10 languages (computer, not human). Have you ever tried to keep straight all the different ways that an if statement can be coded? I look all that stuff up and/or test things on my secondary and tertiary monitors (the third monitor is hooked up to a second computer) and do my coding, compiling, scripting, administrating, email checking, etc on my primary monitor. I could do all that on a single monitor but then that's a lot of task window switching and when cutting and pasting example code, looking up the parameters of a function, etc. that will kill my productivity by 25% minimum. So a couple hundred bucks for a second monitor is paid for in a couple of days. Really, that's a no brainer. BTW, I'm writing this email on the third monitor/second computer, +50 Geek.
That was easy!