I remember the good old days (1980s) when universities would place ads for faculty positions in something along the lines of the Dubuque Iowa Telegraph Herald. Of course, the candidates who would be visiting campus to give lectures, etc. were already lined up, but you have to follow the rules...
Bummer! You need a physical, easy to hit, ESC key for vi / vim.
It kinda makes you wonder how many engineers were consulted about the new design. I'm guessing Steve Jobs would have taken input from them into consideration.
I guess I'll be mapping the backquote key to ESC if I buy a new MacBook Pro.
Let's say you pay everyone $10,000/year. We'll figure a conservative 200% overhead on an employee for office space, equipment, paper, insurance, etc., so $30,000/employee/year. For 500 employees, that's $15 million/year.
"Analysts and investors have favored disposing of the business, which they said didn't add much to the chip sales and was too dependent on the shrinking PC market."
In shared computing environments (the cloud) and in small-form-factor networked computing (IoT), creating new security mechanisms which may require hardware/software co-design is the future. The statement above pretty much ignores this, hence my comment.
The sort of thing I am referring to is already present in hardware acceleration for encryption and Intel's trusted platform module (TPM), the latter causing some controversy for being a closed system which might be doing evil things.:-/
Breaking these two apart is a short-sighted business decision. It is not the sort of thing a far-sighted, research-driven company would/should do.
Thinking the security future is PC-based is short-sighted at best. Security in the future is going to be about hand-held devices, moving data (between devices, cloud, etc.), and the small, connected devices we like to call the Internet-of-Things.
These markets will make the PC security market looks small.
I didn't realize it worked as well as Google's. I compared them back when I used Google Desktop, and it was not as good (~2008). Maybe it is better now--I'll try it again.
This would make a good (affordable) Silicon Valley apartment. The 610 sq. ft. place I rented back in 2005 for $700/month now goes for $2100/month. If I were a recent college graduate starting out in Silicon Valley, a very small apartment similar to these hotel rooms would be a great way to start saving to get into something I could own.
For those wanting to add "passed DoD background check" to their resume, this might be an opportunity to do it for free (as in no up-front monetary cost).
A good software engineer should be able to learn a new language in a week or so. If there is something inherent in the language which makes this not possible, e.g. pointers, generics, functional v. procedural, etc., then the software engineer has a gaping hole in his/her knowledge and may need some additional training.
That point aside, I think the discussion here makes the decision C, mostly because of unknown future support for Rust--it is too new to know.
Unless C has an easily describable deficiency which will be covered by a different language, there is no argument here.
An engineer not being willing/able to learn C does not count as a deficiency in C. The same is true for Rust.
Also, if one particular engineer has a strong preference for Rust, for the preference to be an informed decision, the engineer must already be familiar with C, so there should be no problem for that engineer to work in C if the decision goes that way.
PSA: Right now I'm not getting any kind of funding for working on bcachefs; I'm working on it full time for now but that's only going to last as long as my interest and my savings account hold out. So - this would be a wonderful time both for other developers to jump in and get involved, and for potential users to pony up some funding. If you think this is interesting and worthwhile and you want to see it completed and upstream - especially if you're at a company that might make use of it - talk to your $manager or whoever and nag them until they send me a check:)
Robo cars will be able to maintain more constant engine speeds, minimize braking, etc., so they are likely to be more fuel efficient and put less wear on brakes, tires, and the engine.
Having the OS and all of the tools packaged up as a bootable VMware image is a great idea. It removes all of the issues about how to resurrect it later.
I can't image VMware removing backward compatibility (or failing to have tools to provide the ability to move things forward). Just in case, I see two solutions:
1. Fire up your VM once a year with whatever you are using to run VMware VMs and do a forward-compatibility upgrade if available to be sure you don't fall too far behind.
2. There are cloud providers who want to provide space for your VM. They are likely to have a forward-compatibility plan for their customers, even if those customers are so "lightweight" they are essentially non-paying.
When someone becomes President, they become privy to information very few people in the world know. I'll guess some of this information guides your decisions, perhaps not to where you would have been before you learned the information.
I'm not saying I agree with any decision which have been made. I'm simply remembering some people know a lot more about these decisions than I (or most members of the press) ever will.
I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. I also don't know if the folks who wrote out Constitution had any idea either.
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And these are the people who are making decisions about the future of the Internet?
Finally, a good (helpful/positive) use for fracking technology.
I remember the good old days (1980s) when universities would place ads for faculty positions in something along the lines of the Dubuque Iowa Telegraph Herald. Of course, the candidates who would be visiting campus to give lectures, etc. were already lined up, but you have to follow the rules...
Bummer! You need a physical, easy to hit, ESC key for vi / vim.
It kinda makes you wonder how many engineers were consulted about the new design. I'm guessing Steve Jobs would have taken input from them into consideration.
I guess I'll be mapping the backquote key to ESC if I buy a new MacBook Pro.
Maybe Dan declined.
For those not familiar with Dan: semiwiki.com
These phones are absolutely safe if the battery is removed and they are powered by a wired supply.
Give them to researchers to create a cell-phone supercomputer or other possible projects.
...on a budget of $15 million?
Let's say you pay everyone $10,000/year. We'll figure a conservative 200% overhead on an employee for office space, equipment, paper, insurance, etc., so $30,000/employee/year. For 500 employees, that's $15 million/year.
Apple's a pretty smart company.
From the article:
"Analysts and investors have favored disposing of the business, which they said didn't add much to the chip sales and was too dependent on the shrinking PC market."
In shared computing environments (the cloud) and in small-form-factor networked computing (IoT), creating new security mechanisms which may require hardware/software co-design is the future. The statement above pretty much ignores this, hence my comment.
The sort of thing I am referring to is already present in hardware acceleration for encryption and Intel's trusted platform module (TPM), the latter causing some controversy for being a closed system which might be doing evil things. :-/
Breaking these two apart is a short-sighted business decision. It is not the sort of thing a far-sighted, research-driven company would/should do.
Thinking the security future is PC-based is short-sighted at best. Security in the future is going to be about hand-held devices, moving data (between devices, cloud, etc.), and the small, connected devices we like to call the Internet-of-Things.
These markets will make the PC security market looks small.
I didn't realize it worked as well as Google's. I compared them back when I used Google Desktop, and it was not as good (~2008). Maybe it is better now--I'll try it again.
Now if Google will bring back Google Desktop, which did this sort of deep-dive local searching for Windows (was it Linux also?) machines.
This would make a good (affordable) Silicon Valley apartment. The 610 sq. ft. place I rented back in 2005 for $700/month now goes for $2100/month. If I were a recent college graduate starting out in Silicon Valley, a very small apartment similar to these hotel rooms would be a great way to start saving to get into something I could own.
For those wanting to add "passed DoD background check" to their resume, this might be an opportunity to do it for free (as in no up-front monetary cost).
A good software engineer should be able to learn a new language in a week or so. If there is something inherent in the language which makes this not possible, e.g. pointers, generics, functional v. procedural, etc., then the software engineer has a gaping hole in his/her knowledge and may need some additional training.
That point aside, I think the discussion here makes the decision C, mostly because of unknown future support for Rust--it is too new to know.
Unless C has an easily describable deficiency which will be covered by a different language, there is no argument here.
An engineer not being willing/able to learn C does not count as a deficiency in C. The same is true for Rust.
Also, if one particular engineer has a strong preference for Rust, for the preference to be an informed decision, the engineer must already be familiar with C, so there should be no problem for that engineer to work in C if the decision goes that way.
Who is APK?
From Mr. Overstreet's announcement:
PSA: Right now I'm not getting any kind of funding for working on bcachefs; I'm :)
working on it full time for now but that's only going to last as long as my
interest and my savings account hold out. So - this would be a wonderful time
both for other developers to jump in and get involved, and for potential users
to pony up some funding. If you think this is interesting and worthwhile and you
want to see it completed and upstream - especially if you're at a company that
might make use of it - talk to your $manager or whoever and nag them until they
send me a check
Robo cars will be able to maintain more constant engine speeds, minimize braking, etc., so they are likely to be more fuel efficient and put less wear on brakes, tires, and the engine.
...no need to say more.
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Having the OS and all of the tools packaged up as a bootable VMware image is a great idea. It removes all of the issues about how to resurrect it later.
I can't image VMware removing backward compatibility (or failing to have tools to provide the ability to move things forward). Just in case, I see two solutions:
1. Fire up your VM once a year with whatever you are using to run VMware VMs and do a forward-compatibility upgrade if available to be sure you don't fall too far behind.
2. There are cloud providers who want to provide space for your VM. They are likely to have a forward-compatibility plan for their customers, even if those customers are so "lightweight" they are essentially non-paying.
I guess I'm not the first person to come up with this title. :)
It's kind of a spooky name. I don't know if Mr. Nimoy would have liked it or not.
In most cases, software engineers do not need to be licensed. Maybe this is another item for the general licensing debate.
I assume detecting the RF signature of the transmitter controlling the drone is the best way.
Of course there are these problems:
1. There are many signals on the bands used for RC.
2. It is possible to build an autonomous drone.
3. In these days of software defined radio, people can spin up non-off-the-shelf, non-standard radio control systems.
When someone becomes President, they become privy to information very few people in the world know. I'll guess some of this information guides your decisions, perhaps not to where you would have been before you learned the information.
I'm not saying I agree with any decision which have been made. I'm simply remembering some people know a lot more about these decisions than I (or most members of the press) ever will.
I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. I also don't know if the folks who wrote out Constitution had any idea either.