Hmm. Immutable docker images are a beautiful way of assuring consistency through dev/test/prod, across different on and off premise hosting locations, at client sites and when scaling horizontally.
They have downsides, but they're pretty much fuck all to do with partitioning physical hardware.
I can probably remember or guess the precedence for the weirder operators, such as bitwise XOR, but I wouldn't trust my memory
I can mostly remember precedence operators for the main languages I've used, but when you've created production code in 7 languages and played around in half a dozen more, it's pointless trying to remember them all.
So add the brackets. Make precedence explicit in the code and it's easier to read, easier to edit and easier to validate. Even if it's someone else's code.
I wouldn't hire you as a contractor without the ability to fully use, deploy, update and if necessary sell the code you write for me.
If you want IP ownership over it then we can negotiate on that, but I'm not paying you a licence fee unless you're providing me with a working solution out of the box, warrantied and with 24/7 support over the lifetime of the software. Good luck meeting my needs on that.
I've never taken code from a previous job into a job interview. If I have access to that code, I'd be betraying trust by copying it and giving it to someone else. If I don't have access to that code, I can't anyway.
I have had a job application where a programming challenge was emailed to me with a three day deadline for completion, and sent back well structured working code, compilation instructions, a build script and working unit tests. I got called straight in for interview.
That seems reasonable to me; the programming challenge was a specific scenario so you couldn't search stack overflow for code examples (although this was in the days before stack overflow anyway), it let me demonstrate that I could program to a professional level, and it didn't require to me share any code that may belong to someone else.
Indeed. I hire people, and I am looking for way more than 50 lines. At least 500 lines. It should be a non-trivial complete program that does something interesting
I couldn't have done that. My professional work was in a team environment, where my code was part of a greater whole and a 500-1000 line excerpt might do an awful lot but certainly didn't compile and run standalone.
Shit, even my hobby code has that characteristic. Ask Linus for 500 line of his code and see if you get a complete fucking program back.
Guess which gets better paid in the long run. Meritocracy works until you have coded yourself out of a job, at which point you are too specialized, too old, too expensive to be a credible wage slave for the next job.
The person that develops themselves, improves their skills and demonstrates the value the company is paying for gets paid better in the long run.
I'd get paid less if I was held back by a union, and have union fees on top. Fuck that.
I once left a company after falling foul of their forced stack ranking system. Worked out well for me, due to UK employment law and their inability to defend the rating they assigned, but after I left two colleagues demanded a demotion, one of their senior managers quit in disgust and the company had to change its system.
I feel great that I helped fix the company, but it was shitty at the time.
I'm not sure I trust any commentary on design from a website that's so utterly fucking shit in its presentation of its content.
That's a horrific web page!
Anyway, the original Google.com was beautifully designed - "All the while, they've stubbornly kept the Google homepage concise and pristine." --https://www.wired.com/2003/01/google-10/
I'm bemused by the "Don't track me!" posts, as other powered aircraft are indeed tracked to a very comprehensive level.
I'd guess though that ADS-B requires higher power transmissions than you'd want from a small device with minimal onboard power. Not to mention that ADS-B transponders cost more than many DJI drones.
Something that automagically translates from the DJI protocol into ADS-B updates that can be sent to aircraft is however a great idea.
At least DJI recognise the challenge and are seeking to do something constructive about it, rather than bury their heads in the sand and wait for their market to be regulated out of existence.
He's got to be pretty new at this or I surely would have heard of him (I have tapered off on my book buying in the last few years). If he isn't new then he certainly isn't as popular or influential as some folks would like to believe.
Six Hugo nominations (including a win), eight Nebula nominations (including a win) and multiple other awards suggest he's not entirely new or unknown. But don't feel ashamed, there are other authors also inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame that I've never heard of, it's a big wide world out there.
I haven't read Fitzgerald for 30 years, Orwell is easily near the top of the list, Joyce is a pretentious shit, I've never read Steinbeck, Hemingway is tedious and I've never read Keruoac.
But your list is full of writers of "The Great American Novel" which is something I've never found engaging or enjoyed. I don't tend to do "meaningful" novels or "literature", I read books that are good to read.
Interesting that you listed no female authors. A strong influence as I entered my teens was Andre Norton, Anne Rice has astonishing sales and entire generations of Brits were brought up on Enid Blyton.
What's wrong with young adult literature? I'm currently re-reading Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' trilogy and it's excellent. It may be suitable for younger audiences but that doesn't stop it exploring complex themes or being extremely well written.
But Orwell was mentioned in the context of influence, and another of his books double plus qualifies.
Their API doesn't allow access to remotely close to all of the data they hold on you. For instance, it doesn't let me retrieve anything about myself, but they clearly hold data on me.
It also doesn't let me understand the processing they do of my data, which is what GDPR (and the DPA) both require them to reveal. There are no exclusions for trade secrets.
Why not? It pays well, it's possible to work around other commitments (e.g. university), it can be done as self-employment and you can stop whenever you choose.
I'm sure that it can be physically demanding at times, occasionally boring and involves some working relationships that people would prefer to avoid but that goes for all jobs.
A decade ago Facebook sent me an email, suggesting that I create an account (as I didn't have one) and also telling me that I probably knew three different people - one that I worked with, one that I socialised with and one family member.
None of those people had the same email address for me.
I wonder if the UK DPA or upcoming GDPR legislation will let me force Facebook to reveal their matching algorithm - see Article 15 paragraph 1(h) of the regulation (PDF at http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal... )
Well, he's not exactly Orwell or Solzhenitsyn and a lot of people haven't read him because "ugh, science fiction" but the development of the Internet and pop culture since Neuromancer has drawn heavily on his writing.
where do you place it on the most influential list and why?
Good question. I suspect I'm not widely enough read to create a sensible looking list - and sadly I fear I'm rather better read than many.
. I was already more familiar than he was with all the tech he name-dropped. I suspect a LOT of us nerds on Slashdot who are old enough would agree.
Which tech did he name-drop that you were familiar with?
I mean, he's never been deeply into technology anyway, he's far more interested in people and their environments. But still, since you're suggesting his work is derivative, I'm curious to hear how.
I am starting to think Gibson may be a coming-of-age fan phenomenon.
I disagree. The writing is still sublime, the books are interesting and fun to read and they continue to explore a coherent future world. The plot of Neuromancer remains fairly unique, albeit at times simplistic.
Shit, you may as well suggest that HMS Ulysses by Alistair MacLean is a coming-of-age fan phenomenon too, or Archangel by Gerald Seymour. These aren't crusty classics like Jane Eyre or Anna Karenina, these are beautifully written human stories.
But even if you're right and he's of an era, that doesn't detract from the tremendous influence he's had on science fiction, media and the Internet - even before he used it.
Yeah. There isn't a single wasted word, it's poetry in prose form, it still feel visionary three decades later and although his later work is excellent it can't quite match this.
Although if you include short stories, Johnny Mnemonic is at least as good.
Remembers this universe was created in the 60's after all. Back then there was no concept of perfect surveillance in western consumerism-driven societies.
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Hmm. Which Linus contributed to that?
Hmm. Immutable docker images are a beautiful way of assuring consistency through dev/test/prod, across different on and off premise hosting locations, at client sites and when scaling horizontally.
They have downsides, but they're pretty much fuck all to do with partitioning physical hardware.
I can probably remember or guess the precedence for the weirder operators, such as bitwise XOR, but I wouldn't trust my memory
I can mostly remember precedence operators for the main languages I've used, but when you've created production code in 7 languages and played around in half a dozen more, it's pointless trying to remember them all.
So add the brackets. Make precedence explicit in the code and it's easier to read, easier to edit and easier to validate. Even if it's someone else's code.
I wouldn't hire you as a contractor without the ability to fully use, deploy, update and if necessary sell the code you write for me.
If you want IP ownership over it then we can negotiate on that, but I'm not paying you a licence fee unless you're providing me with a working solution out of the box, warrantied and with 24/7 support over the lifetime of the software. Good luck meeting my needs on that.
I've never taken code from a previous job into a job interview. If I have access to that code, I'd be betraying trust by copying it and giving it to someone else. If I don't have access to that code, I can't anyway.
I have had a job application where a programming challenge was emailed to me with a three day deadline for completion, and sent back well structured working code, compilation instructions, a build script and working unit tests. I got called straight in for interview.
That seems reasonable to me; the programming challenge was a specific scenario so you couldn't search stack overflow for code examples (although this was in the days before stack overflow anyway), it let me demonstrate that I could program to a professional level, and it didn't require to me share any code that may belong to someone else.
Indeed. I hire people, and I am looking for way more than 50 lines. At least 500 lines. It should be a non-trivial complete program that does something interesting
I couldn't have done that. My professional work was in a team environment, where my code was part of a greater whole and a 500-1000 line excerpt might do an awful lot but certainly didn't compile and run standalone.
Shit, even my hobby code has that characteristic. Ask Linus for 500 line of his code and see if you get a complete fucking program back.
It's all people and politics; technology's the easy bit.
Took me a while to learn that, even longer to gain the skills to get good at it. Then management started loving me and made me management. Oh well..
Guess which gets better paid in the long run. Meritocracy works until you have coded yourself out of a job, at which point you are too specialized, too old, too expensive to be a credible wage slave for the next job.
The person that develops themselves, improves their skills and demonstrates the value the company is paying for gets paid better in the long run.
I'd get paid less if I was held back by a union, and have union fees on top. Fuck that.
I once left a company after falling foul of their forced stack ranking system. Worked out well for me, due to UK employment law and their inability to defend the rating they assigned, but after I left two colleagues demanded a demotion, one of their senior managers quit in disgust and the company had to change its system.
I feel great that I helped fix the company, but it was shitty at the time.
I'm not sure I trust any commentary on design from a website that's so utterly fucking shit in its presentation of its content.
That's a horrific web page!
Anyway, the original Google.com was beautifully designed - "All the while, they've stubbornly kept the Google homepage concise and pristine." --https://www.wired.com/2003/01/google-10/
I'm bemused by the "Don't track me!" posts, as other powered aircraft are indeed tracked to a very comprehensive level.
I'd guess though that ADS-B requires higher power transmissions than you'd want from a small device with minimal onboard power. Not to mention that ADS-B transponders cost more than many DJI drones.
Something that automagically translates from the DJI protocol into ADS-B updates that can be sent to aircraft is however a great idea.
At least DJI recognise the challenge and are seeking to do something constructive about it, rather than bury their heads in the sand and wait for their market to be regulated out of existence.
Equifax only made $3.1 billion last year
That's revenue, they made much much less in profit.
I'm not sure it matters how much they spend on security anyway, they're failing on the basics now.
He's got to be pretty new at this or I surely would have heard of him (I have tapered off on my book buying in the last few years). If he isn't new then he certainly isn't as popular or influential as some folks would like to believe.
Six Hugo nominations (including a win), eight Nebula nominations (including a win) and multiple other awards suggest he's not entirely new or unknown. But don't feel ashamed, there are other authors also inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame that I've never heard of, it's a big wide world out there.
I haven't read Fitzgerald for 30 years, Orwell is easily near the top of the list, Joyce is a pretentious shit, I've never read Steinbeck, Hemingway is tedious and I've never read Keruoac.
But your list is full of writers of "The Great American Novel" which is something I've never found engaging or enjoyed. I don't tend to do "meaningful" novels or "literature", I read books that are good to read.
Interesting that you listed no female authors. A strong influence as I entered my teens was Andre Norton, Anne Rice has astonishing sales and entire generations of Brits were brought up on Enid Blyton.
What's wrong with young adult literature? I'm currently re-reading Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' trilogy and it's excellent. It may be suitable for younger audiences but that doesn't stop it exploring complex themes or being extremely well written.
But Orwell was mentioned in the context of influence, and another of his books double plus qualifies.
Their API doesn't allow access to remotely close to all of the data they hold on you. For instance, it doesn't let me retrieve anything about myself, but they clearly hold data on me.
It also doesn't let me understand the processing they do of my data, which is what GDPR (and the DPA) both require them to reveal. There are no exclusions for trade secrets.
Why not? It pays well, it's possible to work around other commitments (e.g. university), it can be done as self-employment and you can stop whenever you choose.
I'm sure that it can be physically demanding at times, occasionally boring and involves some working relationships that people would prefer to avoid but that goes for all jobs.
A decade ago Facebook sent me an email, suggesting that I create an account (as I didn't have one) and also telling me that I probably knew three different people - one that I worked with, one that I socialised with and one family member.
None of those people had the same email address for me.
I wonder if the UK DPA or upcoming GDPR legislation will let me force Facebook to reveal their matching algorithm - see Article 15 paragraph 1(h) of the regulation (PDF at http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal... )
Well, he's not exactly Orwell or Solzhenitsyn and a lot of people haven't read him because "ugh, science fiction" but the development of the Internet and pop culture since Neuromancer has drawn heavily on his writing.
where do you place it on the most influential list and why?
Good question. I suspect I'm not widely enough read to create a sensible looking list - and sadly I fear I'm rather better read than many.
. I was already more familiar than he was with all the tech he name-dropped. I suspect a LOT of us nerds on Slashdot who are old enough would agree.
Which tech did he name-drop that you were familiar with?
I mean, he's never been deeply into technology anyway, he's far more interested in people and their environments. But still, since you're suggesting his work is derivative, I'm curious to hear how.
I am starting to think Gibson may be a coming-of-age fan phenomenon.
I disagree. The writing is still sublime, the books are interesting and fun to read and they continue to explore a coherent future world. The plot of Neuromancer remains fairly unique, albeit at times simplistic.
Shit, you may as well suggest that HMS Ulysses by Alistair MacLean is a coming-of-age fan phenomenon too, or Archangel by Gerald Seymour. These aren't crusty classics like Jane Eyre or Anna Karenina, these are beautifully written human stories.
https://moviepilot.com/posts/2... touches on a few of the things he's influenced, and links to https://www.theguardian.com/bo... which discusses others.
The Guardian to appear to have actual love for him though - see the opening paragraph of https://www.theguardian.com/bo...
But even if you're right and he's of an era, that doesn't detract from the tremendous influence he's had on science fiction, media and the Internet - even before he used it.
I know. I mean, it's not like even Wikipedia has an entire section devoted to his influence.
Oh, wait.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You're so cute. Which is your favourite Gibson book though?
He's a science fiction author that wrote one of the most influential books of the last century.
His material is available from all good bookstores and several bad ones, check him out.
Yeah. There isn't a single wasted word, it's poetry in prose form, it still feel visionary three decades later and although his later work is excellent it can't quite match this.
Although if you include short stories, Johnny Mnemonic is at least as good.
Not to mention the poor delivery driver having to come into my house when I'm.. well..
Remembers this universe was created in the 60's after all. Back then there was no concept of perfect surveillance in western consumerism-driven societies.
Really? Remind me, when was 1984 written?