No wonder you are anonymous now. Sure there are troves of blackmailers in trenchcoats pulling moolah off you ever since the Oxford Boat Race night affair with the policeman's helmet. In touch with Tuppy and Chuffy?
You got to see it from Yelp point of view. It spends tons of money on the servers, SEO tricks etc etc and some random user who did nothing more than give a fake name like Eustace H Plimsoll, West Dulwich get an account and gets to freeload like pigs in the trough at all these restaurants?
The right thing to do is to post intentionally bad reviews and let Yelp shakedown the restaurant to take those reviews off. Yelp got a good set up going, and these selfish users are spoiling the set up and are helping themselves to water from the well dug by someone else, as the old Yiddish saying goes.
(If there is no such Yiddish saying, there is one now. Google will point to this posting to any one trying to search "old yiddish saying" and "help themselves to water from well dug by someone else". Google bombing a language is so easy!)
Almost no interviewer asked me about my other skills (or past experiences) that could be helpful in the developer position.
Did they ask you why you are applying for that position, what makes you think you are qualified? Did you bring up your other skills and past experiences in your response? Did you put your lack of formal training in a positive light without insulting people who have formal training? Do you have a well practiced sales pitch tailored for 30, 60 and 120 seconds?
If it is not addictive yet, they will make it addictive. All it takes is one vendor to introduce a strain that makes his/her product addictive by adding something else, may be some inhibitors or enhancers or plain old nictotine itself. All other vendors will follow suit or go bankrupt.
Legalize pot, and they will somehow include these addictive agents into it. Either breed them in or lace them in later. The invisible hand of the free market will punish anyone who does not play along. It is not going to be long before they include MAO inhibitors in e-cigs too.
If you are manufacturer of some product, and there is a way to make your customers crave for your product, would you do it or not? If you don't, would your competitor do it or not?
The Standard Operating Procedure in Microsoft is to try to buy marketshare. Pay to use Bing!, selling Xbox at a loss for decades, complex illegal bundling and pricing to keep Netscape and other office suites out etc etc. Unless it had a de-facto monopoly in the platform and OS, it rarely succeeded. Even when it succeeded it only delayed the inevitable. Out of the ashes of Netscape came the phoenix (was Firefox called phoenix at some earlier time? Or am I confusing it with the email client that became thunderbird). Even in the Office Suite market, google docs is making big inroads. MsOffice does not seem to be in a position to call the shots anymore.
It has not been able to dislodge Apache from the web-server market. Linux is firmly established in the server marketplace.
It is still sitting on a huge stream of license revenue even from linux/android players. FAT partition, some of the basic interoperability patents are producing more revenue. Microsoft makes more per android device than does Google!
So it is still collecting money by the firehose, and tries to buy its way into market dominance. It did not work well even when it had the monoply, adoring wall street anlysts, and had the ability to destroy the funding of emerging competition by just a press release. "Microsoft is planning to enter the xyz segment..." says spokesman to Investor Business Daily and the venture capital vanishes in xyz segment. It did not work even those days. Will it work now? No way.
Yeah, how many grad from top 10 Engg schools are employed by the "established" pot industry? How many of them are experimenting with additives to increase addictiveness, scientifically?
All those small pox infected blankets! Tobacco is the revenge from their graves.
I had a colleague who had tried everything from pot, cocaine, etc. The only thing he was not able to kick off was tobacco, he and wife were trying to use the nicotine patches. What really scares me is that, tobacco was not this addictive when it was originally introduced. Tobacco was a rich source of tax revenue and profits. Government and free market funded so much of research dollars into agricultural R&D that kept increasing the nicotine content of tobacco to such an extend it made it a lot more addictive than the plain old tobacco.
This is the trajectory pot might take. Marijuana is mostly illegal, and so it does not produce taxes either. So most of the pot you get are natural, and experimental cultivars are hit and miss affairs done by ordinary farmers. Make it legal, give it regular legal source of funding, you will let lose all the genetic engineering agricultural scientists know. If the Government gets its cut, it will look other way. Monsanto and other big agricultural firms will lobby the government and push the R&D. What took tobacco centuries to achieve, pot will do in decades.
It will do well for "legalize pot" to make sure it is not taxed and to make sure modern science is not used to increase addictive elements in it. It will be big disaster if pot follows the commercial success trajectory of tobacco.
The automotive electronics is in terrible shape. The auto engineers do not understand security, their computers have existed without network connections in isolation for a long time. Now data connections are making their way deep into the cars and recently BMW had a security update affecting some 2 million cars. It was apparently communicating to the servers nearly in clear text.
Further the bean counters think the dash space to be some sort of profit center. "They bought our car right? Let us make them pay 200$ for map DVD upgrade, 1800$ for navigational package, ha ha haa, you negotiated 800$ using edmunds.com and truecar.com? Well buddy, I will get that money back, 900$ for mp3 player! ".
Further they are used to product cycles running into decade or more and taking 9 months to admit the ignition switch has a problem and six years to hide it from NTSB. They are not used to software release cycle speeds of once in 8 months or once a year.
They used to do this with car radios and make it impossible to install after market radios. Then SAE defined standard connectors and that market got some real competition. It is high time SAE define user interface API for the common things and allow third parties to come in with custom made tablets to be integrated into the cars. With the 3D printing advances, we could get clean molded plastic brackets that fit almost as good as factory made dash with custom tablets. The market is ripe. Hope two really big companies with good customer base enter and do a serious fight for market share.
Hire a few Indian H1-Bs supplied by Wipro or Infosys or Cogniscent. The code they write is impossible for anyone to decode even if you discolose the the source code and the design specs.
Venkat!!! Why on God's good name are you passing the reference to a pointer to a function as a construction argument?!?!?! aarggghhhh!
8 million metric tons of sea water would be a cubes 200 meters per side, or about 600 feet. A shallow pond of average depth of 10 feet and two thirds of a mile across has 8 million metric tons of water. This volume is enough fill hardly 3200 olympic swimming pools. I am surprised the estimate is this low. I thought we are throwing a lot more garbage into the seas.
There are thousands of senior software developers who would know these concepts even when it is outside their main expertise. But majority of them are wells settled in good secure positions and are not in the market. Take me, for example. (no, you can't really take me, I am not applying). I work in computational geometry but I have done public/private key encryption and have written scripts to watermark the executable in a post-build operation with a public key. I have been a general purpose troubleshooter who can pitch in fixing stuff like re-architecting a matrix solver to reduce disk usage or fingerprinting executables and dynamic libraries with build configurations to detect incorrect packaging of installations. Yeah, I know such varied stuff, but I am happy with my pay, benefits, location, work atmosphere and colleagues and am not even looking for a job. You need to move heaven and earth find people like me.
Traditional posting a job opening and grepping and awking through the resumes will do you no good.
Why shouldn't we require them to unlock it at the preset time, on preset conditions. 2 year contract, paid up, unlock the phone.
Did you guys know that Samsung's EULA actually allows it to push ads at odd times of the night, ring you and make you look at the ads? In fact it has the right to put you call on hold and make you listen to an ad for 15 seconds once in 3 minutes. And finally the government wheels have started moving against locking the phone. By the time they understand Samsung's smart-tv/smart-phone pushed ad model, we all would by dead...
If you check present day code you won't see much use of GOTO. That is because the programmers have found an even more nefarious and orders of magnitude worse construct, COMEFROM statement.
The fine article is quite skimpy on the details about who is vulnerable. Throw in a little "If attacked" at the beginning of the sentence and then tack on all sorts of scary things. Sort of like, "If zombies were real." then write a whole host of scary things.
From what I could make out, the bug is in credential sharing across a network. If some computer configured to be part of remotely administered network "joins" the network controlled by the attacker, then the attacker can get admin privilege. Most home computers and small business computers are locally managed not remotely managed. So medium to large company computers which are typically administered by dedicated IT departments are at risk. To be at risk this computer must be persuaded to "join" another network controlled by the attacker. It involved editing the workgroup/network setting of the computer. So it would involve some social engineering to get the user to run a malware trojan, a script or an executable to change the settings. But, at that point, once they run a trojan, you can't help them.
Looks like the bug is in networked machines sharing credentials.
If you buy the same powerball ticket after the lottery has been drawn, your chances of winning will go down infinitesimally from 0.5e-06 to 0.0e-06. But the price of the ticket will go down from 1$ to 0$. So it would take mathematical sense to buy the ticket tomorrow. If you really know more calculus you would apply L'Hospital's Rule to resolve the zero by zero division issue.
One of the basic tenets of Hiunduism is that the universe has no beginning and it has no end. Lots of Indian/Bengali names being mentioned in the research. The fine article has no math and it talks philosophically. And this concept is not all that new. I remember reading a book (may be about the neutrino) by Asimov that talks about "cyclic" universe that oscillates between expansion and contraction, or something that goes from big-bang to big-crunch, or big-bang to death due to infinite expansion etc. He talked about whether we can tell based on our observations, whether we came from big-bang or are we hurtling towards it.
Till we see more math and more acceptance by people who can understand that math, we just pat this theory on its head, pinch the cheeks and say "cute!" and move on.
Looks like all this protocol does is to allow the server to send more data than requested by the browser. Since the server "knows" more about the page to be rendered than the browser, it can pack more info and minimize wait times. The browser rendering can still do its slowpoke rendering, but when it wants the next bit of data or a frame, it is already in.
Apparently this was already being done in a non-standard compliant manner but supported by all the browsers. The non-standard version, created and promoted by SPDY is going to be withdrawn and the standard-compliant version will be the only thing that will be supported in Chrome going forward. I would imagine it to be something like MsOffice has deciding to switch to ODF as the only supported format.
Definitely not evil and consistent with not trying to be evil.
Just interviewed four candidates for an engineering coding position. All Masters in Engineering from top American universities (CMU, MIT range). Three women (undergrad in China 2, India 1) vs one man (undergrad in India). [*] I am from India, there it is not unusual at all to see women do engineering or sciences. Almost half the IT code warriors in India are women.
I brought my daughter both dolls and trucks. Tried to bring her up in gender neutral way. She did well in math, 5 in AP Calc. 760 in SAT math. But 790 in English and she would not code no matter what carrot I dangled in front of her. Suddenly in the middle of linguistics major (real natural language linguistics not the comp-sci linguistics) she is girding up to learn the wisdom of Donald Knuth. Attending LaTeX workshops etc. (LaTeX bending counts as a form of code bending in my book, she is a big Avatar fan too.)
[*] I am sure there American educated undergrads with great coding skills, but they all end up Google, Amazon, Microsoft or tiny start ups in California. They don't seem to be applying to companies like ours in the middle of rust belt.
If enough people make the same mistake, then the language has to adopt and accept the usage. Remember the term "petitio principii" which meant circular argument that is translated into English as "begs the question"? (in the sense the answer is begging the question to be accepted as right) Well by consensus (or consensi ?) its meaning has changed. Now "begs the question" simply means "raises the question", no connection to circular arguments.
I have used boni to mean bonuses and it did not raise too many eyebrows either. If enough people do it boni would become the synonym of bonuses. Langauge is a democracy, we fools get to own it or pwn it.
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No wonder you are anonymous now. Sure there are troves of blackmailers in trenchcoats pulling moolah off you ever since the Oxford Boat Race night affair with the policeman's helmet. In touch with Tuppy and Chuffy?
The right thing to do is to post intentionally bad reviews and let Yelp shakedown the restaurant to take those reviews off. Yelp got a good set up going, and these selfish users are spoiling the set up and are helping themselves to water from the well dug by someone else, as the old Yiddish saying goes.
(If there is no such Yiddish saying, there is one now. Google will point to this posting to any one trying to search "old yiddish saying" and "help themselves to water from well dug by someone else". Google bombing a language is so easy!)
Almost no interviewer asked me about my other skills (or past experiences) that could be helpful in the developer position.
Did they ask you why you are applying for that position, what makes you think you are qualified? Did you bring up your other skills and past experiences in your response? Did you put your lack of formal training in a positive light without insulting people who have formal training? Do you have a well practiced sales pitch tailored for 30, 60 and 120 seconds?
Do the Developers developers developers chicken dance.
If it is not addictive yet, they will make it addictive. All it takes is one vendor to introduce a strain that makes his/her product addictive by adding something else, may be some inhibitors or enhancers or plain old nictotine itself. All other vendors will follow suit or go bankrupt.
If you are manufacturer of some product, and there is a way to make your customers crave for your product, would you do it or not? If you don't, would your competitor do it or not?
It has not been able to dislodge Apache from the web-server market. Linux is firmly established in the server marketplace.
It is still sitting on a huge stream of license revenue even from linux/android players. FAT partition, some of the basic interoperability patents are producing more revenue. Microsoft makes more per android device than does Google!
So it is still collecting money by the firehose, and tries to buy its way into market dominance. It did not work well even when it had the monoply, adoring wall street anlysts, and had the ability to destroy the funding of emerging competition by just a press release. "Microsoft is planning to enter the xyz segment..." says spokesman to Investor Business Daily and the venture capital vanishes in xyz segment. It did not work even those days. Will it work now? No way.
Yeah, how many grad from top 10 Engg schools are employed by the "established" pot industry? How many of them are experimenting with additives to increase addictiveness, scientifically?
I had a colleague who had tried everything from pot, cocaine, etc. The only thing he was not able to kick off was tobacco, he and wife were trying to use the nicotine patches. What really scares me is that, tobacco was not this addictive when it was originally introduced. Tobacco was a rich source of tax revenue and profits. Government and free market funded so much of research dollars into agricultural R&D that kept increasing the nicotine content of tobacco to such an extend it made it a lot more addictive than the plain old tobacco.
This is the trajectory pot might take. Marijuana is mostly illegal, and so it does not produce taxes either. So most of the pot you get are natural, and experimental cultivars are hit and miss affairs done by ordinary farmers. Make it legal, give it regular legal source of funding, you will let lose all the genetic engineering agricultural scientists know. If the Government gets its cut, it will look other way. Monsanto and other big agricultural firms will lobby the government and push the R&D. What took tobacco centuries to achieve, pot will do in decades.
It will do well for "legalize pot" to make sure it is not taxed and to make sure modern science is not used to increase addictive elements in it. It will be big disaster if pot follows the commercial success trajectory of tobacco.
Further the bean counters think the dash space to be some sort of profit center. "They bought our car right? Let us make them pay 200$ for map DVD upgrade, 1800$ for navigational package, ha ha haa, you negotiated 800$ using edmunds.com and truecar.com? Well buddy, I will get that money back, 900$ for mp3 player! ".
Further they are used to product cycles running into decade or more and taking 9 months to admit the ignition switch has a problem and six years to hide it from NTSB. They are not used to software release cycle speeds of once in 8 months or once a year.
They used to do this with car radios and make it impossible to install after market radios. Then SAE defined standard connectors and that market got some real competition. It is high time SAE define user interface API for the common things and allow third parties to come in with custom made tablets to be integrated into the cars. With the 3D printing advances, we could get clean molded plastic brackets that fit almost as good as factory made dash with custom tablets. The market is ripe. Hope two really big companies with good customer base enter and do a serious fight for market share.
Very informative. Wish some one will mod you informative.
Venkat!!! Why on God's good name are you passing the reference to a pointer to a function as a construction argument?!?!?! aarggghhhh!
8 million metric tons of sea water would be a cubes 200 meters per side, or about 600 feet. A shallow pond of average depth of 10 feet and two thirds of a mile across has 8 million metric tons of water. This volume is enough fill hardly 3200 olympic swimming pools. I am surprised the estimate is this low. I thought we are throwing a lot more garbage into the seas.
There are thousands of senior software developers who would know these concepts even when it is outside their main expertise. But majority of them are wells settled in good secure positions and are not in the market. Take me, for example. (no, you can't really take me, I am not applying). I work in computational geometry but I have done public/private key encryption and have written scripts to watermark the executable in a post-build operation with a public key. I have been a general purpose troubleshooter who can pitch in fixing stuff like re-architecting a matrix solver to reduce disk usage or fingerprinting executables and dynamic libraries with build configurations to detect incorrect packaging of installations. Yeah, I know such varied stuff, but I am happy with my pay, benefits, location, work atmosphere and colleagues and am not even looking for a job. You need to move heaven and earth find people like me.
Traditional posting a job opening and grepping and awking through the resumes will do you no good.
Did you guys know that Samsung's EULA actually allows it to push ads at odd times of the night, ring you and make you look at the ads? In fact it has the right to put you call on hold and make you listen to an ad for 15 seconds once in 3 minutes. And finally the government wheels have started moving against locking the phone. By the time they understand Samsung's smart-tv/smart-phone pushed ad model, we all would by dead ...
Really this is a COMEFROM statement, no?
bool OnRightButtonClickCallBack(void *a, void *b, void *c){
int xx=int(a);
int yy=int(b);
global_window *gw=(global_window *) c;
}
From what I could make out, the bug is in credential sharing across a network. If some computer configured to be part of remotely administered network "joins" the network controlled by the attacker, then the attacker can get admin privilege. Most home computers and small business computers are locally managed not remotely managed. So medium to large company computers which are typically administered by dedicated IT departments are at risk. To be at risk this computer must be persuaded to "join" another network controlled by the attacker. It involved editing the workgroup/network setting of the computer. So it would involve some social engineering to get the user to run a malware trojan, a script or an executable to change the settings. But, at that point, once they run a trojan, you can't help them.
Looks like the bug is in networked machines sharing credentials.
Idea stolen from here
I got carpel tunnel syndrome and repetitive motion injury hitting the refresh button so many times.
Looks like no one is able to reach slashdot and the site admins are either unaware or they are not talking.
... to do the "developers developers developers ..." dance. Or is he going to get creative and do "start ups ... start ups... start ups..."
Till we see more math and more acceptance by people who can understand that math, we just pat this theory on its head, pinch the cheeks and say "cute!" and move on.
Apparently this was already being done in a non-standard compliant manner but supported by all the browsers. The non-standard version, created and promoted by SPDY is going to be withdrawn and the standard-compliant version will be the only thing that will be supported in Chrome going forward. I would imagine it to be something like MsOffice has deciding to switch to ODF as the only supported format.
Definitely not evil and consistent with not trying to be evil.
I brought my daughter both dolls and trucks. Tried to bring her up in gender neutral way. She did well in math, 5 in AP Calc. 760 in SAT math. But 790 in English and she would not code no matter what carrot I dangled in front of her. Suddenly in the middle of linguistics major (real natural language linguistics not the comp-sci linguistics) she is girding up to learn the wisdom of Donald Knuth. Attending LaTeX workshops etc. (LaTeX bending counts as a form of code bending in my book, she is a big Avatar fan too.)
[*] I am sure there American educated undergrads with great coding skills, but they all end up Google, Amazon, Microsoft or tiny start ups in California. They don't seem to be applying to companies like ours in the middle of rust belt.
I have used boni to mean bonuses and it did not raise too many eyebrows either. If enough people do it boni would become the synonym of bonuses. Langauge is a democracy, we fools get to own it or pwn it.