You guys make it sound like making millions in the stock market is dead simple. All your posts are missing is a link to an ebook that tell you all the secrets.
Maybe downplaying his gains makes you feel better about yourselves? But making that kind of scratch doesn't happen by change. Even best advisors from open hedge and mutual funds average around 25%.
Count the hits, ignore the misses. Maybe he was just lucky. And yes, someone can be that lucky. People win lotteries (not me!). And slashdot wouldn't have an article along the lines of "Several normal people played the stockmarket and on average did so-so".
Totally agree. But it's akin to a pub/saloon/nightclub having a 'beer pong' game or some other drinking game set up. You 'have fun' and they sell booze.
Nothing wrong with that if you want to drink like a fish. Likewise, if the Central Americans want to learn to program, sign up...
My brother-in-law is a Apollo hoax believer. He challenged me once to debate the arguments for and against. I replied (quoted someone) 'You can't have a rational argument with an irrational person".
By the way, he's also into water divining... but that doesn't always work, for some reason. Now, there's a thing...
(Americans - the moon landings were among your finest achievements. In my opinion, history and the human race in general owes you a debt).
When Fitzgerald died in 1940 in Hollywood, his last royalty check was for $13.13. Remaindered copies of the second printing of The Great Gatsby were moldering away in [publisher] Scribner's warehouse.
World War II starts, and a group of publishers, paper manufacturers, editors [and] librarians get together in New York. And they decide that men serving in the Army and Navy need something to read.... They printed over 1,000 titles of different books, and they sent over a million copies of these books to sailors and soldiers serving overseas and also to [prisoners of war] in prison camps in Japan and Germany through an arrangement with the Red Cross.
The greatest distribution of the Armed Services Editions was on the eve of D-Day. Eisenhower's staff made sure that every guy stepping onto a landing craft in the south of England right on the eve of D-Day would have an Armed Services Edition in his pocket. They were sized as long rectangles meant to fit in the servicemen's pockets. (Her assertion was it was this service which reintroduced American's to Gatsby)
--Maureen Corrigan talking about her book, So We Read On: How the Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures
I remember once that someone carried a bullet from d-day around with him, and kept it in his pocket for luck. Once he tripped, landed on his back in the street. At the same time, someone in the building dropped a book from a window accidentally. The book was a hardback, fell - but bounced harmlessly off the bullet in the guy's pocket.
The guy always said that if it hadn't been for that bullet, the book would have killed him.
The Germans also had the Winter Charity (Winterhilfswerk), which printed millions of books for German soldiers, both propaganda and stories, humor, songbooks, etc.
I wouldn't be too surprised if the Brits and the Russians did something similar.
Brits did. My dad was in WW2, I remember seeing some Army issue paperbacks in the family bookshelves back in Surrey.
Brits also did free concerts (anyone else read 'The Cruel Sea'?) and suchlike. ENSA was the organization (can't remember what the acronym was for). I guess the UK equivalent of whatever organization sent Bob Hope around the world, entertaining the troops for the US.
..., they actually rolled out something., Didn't a huge replacement project runs for years and years, soak up bazillions and then get cancelled? But maybe that's the 'clinical' side of things. Yes, here it us.. http://www.theguardian.com/soc...
Vote how? Do you really think if I didn't HAVE TO fly because it is an unfortunate necessity for my job I would even go NEAR an airport? Do you think I consider it a great pastime to be the star in my personal pervert peep show for some TNA mouthbreather? Or that the butt-groping of that greasy single-digit IQ expert turns me on? Getting your kneecaps shoved into your thighs is just the icing on the turd cake.
Yes, that would be a knee-jerk reaction... if there was enough room for a knee to jerk, dammit!
I'd rather get some cryptic information about stop codes or an error message than a condescending sad face accompanied by a reboot request. At least I can look up the code and get a ballpark idea what the issue is without firing up windbg.
I like 'An unexpected error occurred..."
We need more expected errors. These unexpected ones are clouding the issue...
Anyway, take a look at the kind of books that are *taught* in schools:
...
So lets see... underage sex, murder of your relatives, regicide, racism, lynchings, rape, adultery, organised crime, a mentally-ill killer and of course - lawless schoolboys killing each other! What's not to love about the American school system, yeehaw!
Tut now... I suspect your tongue is firmly in your cheek here, but just in case... I'd suggest that these books/plays are excellent examples of how some people solved difficult problems, and the consequences of doing so. Example - when someone's father dies, and the mother remarries, the protagonist can compare themselves to Hamlet., But that's just one example of how to handle that situation, and look how that ended up. And there are differences to the prince of Denmark, and Joe Soap in his mother's basement.
I expect people are usually around average intelligence... they'd enjoy those books.
PS I didn't realize 'Huck Finn' was still taught - that's excellent news. My compliments to your Educational system (this time),
Like, perhaps, English. So that he could - after all these years as a professional who types out strings of characters that very specific meaning - understand that when he says "could have cared less about my career," he means "could NOT have cared less about my career."
Maybe he's been working all these years in languages that don't incorporate the concept of "not" or " ! " in evaluating two values. Are there any? I couldn't care less. Grown-ups who communicate or code for a living should be able to handle that one correctly.
Mod parent up. Totally agree - everyone in the profession should learn to write a document explaining something first. Grammar, spelling, getting an idea across, simple language, pitch to the audience, clear expressions... if you can do it in English (or whatever your native language is) then you're ready to pick up a "Learn to write {programming language du jour} in 10 minutes of your money back".
And read. Read fiction, read essays, read the paper, read a magazine, read emails. Get better and expand your vocabulary.
Aren't you supposed to have the problem before you have the solution?
Nasa: Hey, we have this great launch system
Everyone: Cool! What are you going to do with it?
Nasa:.....
No slight to Nasa (who've done amazing things) or to the States (ditto), but shouldn't you set a goal, and then go towards it with the right tools? (something like....First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.)
This is an example of a good password at my company "m7Rx2NqU" -- that's an unrecognizable jumble of characters that only a computer could love, but never a human.
I'd prefer to use "correcthorsebatterystaple" (ala XKCD), but my company's password policies do not let me use a pass phrase, but a jumble of numbers, letters and uppercase.
Tut now. I have a couple of dozen passwords, and literally have no idea what they are. But I do know what the password to my Password storage file is. I don't think I've actually known what my bank websites password is for about 5 years. But I know I can use it and change it.
And BTW, my daughter's router password in "CorrectHorseBatteryStaple" in her student flat. I'd wager that's a common one these days, along with MonkeySlut.
I have two questions for my fellow Slashdoters: "Is this a common concern with new CS grads?" and, if so, "What can I do to supplement my Java-oriented studies?"
I'm a hiring manager. Not knowing low level absolutely counts against you in terms of breadth of knowledge. It generally isn't a deal breaker but it would be treated the same way as not knowing OS theory, not knowing database theory, not understanding algorithms design, or machine learning. Its a hole, you lose a few points and we move on with the interview. As far as it being common CS grads differ a great deal from school to school, the curriculum is not remotely uniform. A recent CS grad can vary tremendously in what they know and what areas the degree doesn't mean anything than they've had some classes in some computer stuff.
In terms of what you can do to supplement. Learn things unlike Java. Definitely at least one functional language and one procedural language so you have something other than OO programming. Learn a low level language and a very high level language. Languages can do double duty so for example Mathematica is very high level and functional while C or Assembler (better choice BTW) is low level and procedural.
I've been a hiring manager (well, a manager who's hired). In general I don't care about the amount of low-level a candidate knows, I'm more concerned about how he writes the program (if that is what I'm hiring him to do) and how he'll fit into the project. Does he know the language syntax. What sort of stuff has he written. What sort of problems has he had, how did he get around them. In real big-boy operating systems, memory management is left to the OS: I just need someone who knows to be careful of the resources. And writes good, clean, maintainable code
A car analogy. I don't care if you're able to tune the engine to get that last fluid ounce of petrol. Just keep an eye on the MPG and most importantly, don't crash.
1: Various US government departments may be doing something dodgy
2: Someone is leaking classified data to the wider population
Now, I've no opinion on the first one - I'm not a US citizen (though I class myself as a US sympathizer). If true, it's a thing for the citizens and the justice department. I hope the issue gets resolved, right prevails etc
But the second one is a security breach: the guy (whatever his intentions) has broken his contract with the company, and also the law. What documents get released to the wider public is not a matter for the individual - it's a matter for the owners of the data, according to the law.
And as someone who's hired staff in the past, I'd be less than impressed if someone admitted that he'd leaked data to the public because he thought it was the right thing to do. That's my call, not his. Or more likely my boss's. Or his boss's.
Slashdot Mirror
privacy... concerns... facebook...
Swap these words around for a well-worn Slashdot article (bonus if you score two hits in a day)
You guys make it sound like making millions in the stock market is dead simple. All your posts are missing is a link to an ebook that tell you all the secrets.
Maybe downplaying his gains makes you feel better about yourselves? But making that kind of scratch doesn't happen by change. Even best advisors from open hedge and mutual funds average around 25%.
Count the hits, ignore the misses. Maybe he was just lucky. And yes, someone can be that lucky. People win lotteries (not me!). And slashdot wouldn't have an article along the lines of "Several normal people played the stockmarket and on average did so-so".
Totally agree. But it's akin to a pub/saloon/nightclub having a 'beer pong' game or some other drinking game set up. You 'have fun' and they sell booze.
...
Nothing wrong with that if you want to drink like a fish. Likewise, if the Central Americans want to learn to program, sign up
And my respects to the team in India. Nice work!
My brother-in-law is a Apollo hoax believer. He challenged me once to debate the arguments for and against. I replied (quoted someone) 'You can't have a rational argument with an irrational person".
By the way, he's also into water divining... but that doesn't always work, for some reason. Now, there's a thing...
(Americans - the moon landings were among your finest achievements. In my opinion, history and the human race in general owes you a debt).
whats a good way to try to make an intellectual snub at someone without adding to the conversation? I know, check spelling and grammar.
Missing apostrophe in "whats" - should be "what's".
Just getting into the swing of it.
Interesting: I knew this story as "Bollum's Ass". I did a quick google on that, and you'd be amazed at what I got back.
Well, maybe not.
When Fitzgerald died in 1940 in Hollywood, his last royalty check was for $13.13. Remaindered copies of the second printing of The Great Gatsby were moldering away in [publisher] Scribner's warehouse.
World War II starts, and a group of publishers, paper manufacturers, editors [and] librarians get together in New York. And they decide that men serving in the Army and Navy need something to read. ... They printed over 1,000 titles of different books, and they sent over a million copies of these books to sailors and soldiers serving overseas and also to [prisoners of war] in prison camps in Japan and Germany through an arrangement with the Red Cross.
The greatest distribution of the Armed Services Editions was on the eve of D-Day. Eisenhower's staff made sure that every guy stepping onto a landing craft in the south of England right on the eve of D-Day would have an Armed Services Edition in his pocket. They were sized as long rectangles meant to fit in the servicemen's pockets. (Her assertion was it was this service which reintroduced American's to Gatsby)
--Maureen Corrigan talking about her book, So We Read On: How the Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures
I remember once that someone carried a bullet from d-day around with him, and kept it in his pocket for luck. Once he tripped, landed on his back in the street. At the same time, someone in the building dropped a book from a window accidentally. The book was a hardback, fell - but bounced harmlessly off the bullet in the guy's pocket.
The guy always said that if it hadn't been for that bullet, the book would have killed him.
The Germans also had the Winter Charity (Winterhilfswerk), which printed millions of books for German soldiers, both propaganda and stories, humor, songbooks, etc.
I wouldn't be too surprised if the Brits and the Russians did something similar.
Brits did. My dad was in WW2, I remember seeing some Army issue paperbacks in the family bookshelves back in Surrey.
Brits also did free concerts (anyone else read 'The Cruel Sea'?) and suchlike. ENSA was the organization (can't remember what the acronym was for). I guess the UK equivalent of whatever organization sent Bob Hope around the world, entertaining the troops for the US.
..., they actually rolled out something., Didn't a huge replacement project runs for years and years, soak up bazillions and then get cancelled? But maybe that's the 'clinical' side of things. Yes, here it us .. http://www.theguardian.com/soc...
Paid my rent for many a year. I dabble in it less now (some work in Powershell to do) but still my first love.
Nuff said. I hope.
Vote how? Do you really think if I didn't HAVE TO fly because it is an unfortunate necessity for my job I would even go NEAR an airport? Do you think I consider it a great pastime to be the star in my personal pervert peep show for some TNA mouthbreather? Or that the butt-groping of that greasy single-digit IQ expert turns me on? Getting your kneecaps shoved into your thighs is just the icing on the turd cake.
Yes, that would be a knee-jerk reaction... if there was enough room for a knee to jerk, dammit!
Nicely put.
I'd rather get some cryptic information about stop codes or an error message than a condescending sad face accompanied by a reboot request. At least I can look up the code and get a ballpark idea what the issue is without firing up windbg.
I like 'An unexpected error occurred..."
We need more expected errors. These unexpected ones are clouding the issue...
Let's skip the occupation of the US capital, and burning of Washington's public buildings, then... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
That certainly happened during the war, rather than after.
America.... home of the fr... yeah right.
Anyway, take a look at the kind of books that are *taught* in schools:
So lets see... underage sex, murder of your relatives, regicide, racism, lynchings, rape, adultery, organised crime, a mentally-ill killer and of course - lawless schoolboys killing each other! What's not to love about the American school system, yeehaw!
Tut now... I suspect your tongue is firmly in your cheek here, but just in case... I'd suggest that these books/plays are excellent examples of how some people solved difficult problems, and the consequences of doing so. Example - when someone's father dies, and the mother remarries, the protagonist can compare themselves to Hamlet., But that's just one example of how to handle that situation, and look how that ended up. And there are differences to the prince of Denmark, and Joe Soap in his mother's basement.
I expect people are usually around average intelligence... they'd enjoy those books.
PS I didn't realize 'Huck Finn' was still taught - that's excellent news. My compliments to your Educational system (this time),
- "Are you really sure you want to trash those two satellites?" <click> - "Did you get your boss's approval?" <click>
Or... the Russian version of Clippy,..
"Hi - it looks like you're trying to trash two satellites. Do you want a hand with that?"
<click>
Like, perhaps, English. So that he could - after all these years as a professional who types out strings of characters that very specific meaning - understand that when he says "could have cared less about my career," he means "could NOT have cared less about my career." Maybe he's been working all these years in languages that don't incorporate the concept of "not" or " ! " in evaluating two values. Are there any? I couldn't care less. Grown-ups who communicate or code for a living should be able to handle that one correctly.
Mod parent up. Totally agree - everyone in the profession should learn to write a document explaining something first. Grammar, spelling, getting an idea across, simple language, pitch to the audience, clear expressions... if you can do it in English (or whatever your native language is) then you're ready to pick up a "Learn to write {programming language du jour} in 10 minutes of your money back".
And read. Read fiction, read essays, read the paper, read a magazine, read emails. Get better and expand your vocabulary.
Aren't you supposed to have the problem before you have the solution?
.....
....First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.)
Nasa: Hey, we have this great launch system
Everyone: Cool! What are you going to do with it?
Nasa:
No slight to Nasa (who've done amazing things) or to the States (ditto), but shouldn't you set a goal, and then go towards it with the right tools? (something like
This is an example of a good password at my company "m7Rx2NqU" -- that's an unrecognizable jumble of characters that only a computer could love, but never a human.
I'd prefer to use "correcthorsebatterystaple" (ala XKCD), but my company's password policies do not let me use a pass phrase, but a jumble of numbers, letters and uppercase.
Tut now. I have a couple of dozen passwords, and literally have no idea what they are. But I do know what the password to my Password storage file is. I don't think I've actually known what my bank websites password is for about 5 years. But I know I can use it and change it.
And BTW, my daughter's router password in "CorrectHorseBatteryStaple" in her student flat. I'd wager that's a common one these days, along with MonkeySlut.
Spying on Americans is wrong.
In communist Russia, Americans spy on YOU.
... if not, so what)
(Think I got the meme right
Always have a back-up.
.. momentarily.
I'm a hiring manager. Not knowing low level absolutely counts against you in terms of breadth of knowledge. It generally isn't a deal breaker but it would be treated the same way as not knowing OS theory, not knowing database theory, not understanding algorithms design, or machine learning. Its a hole, you lose a few points and we move on with the interview. As far as it being common CS grads differ a great deal from school to school, the curriculum is not remotely uniform. A recent CS grad can vary tremendously in what they know and what areas the degree doesn't mean anything than they've had some classes in some computer stuff.
In terms of what you can do to supplement. Learn things unlike Java. Definitely at least one functional language and one procedural language so you have something other than OO programming. Learn a low level language and a very high level language. Languages can do double duty so for example Mathematica is very high level and functional while C or Assembler (better choice BTW) is low level and procedural.
I've been a hiring manager (well, a manager who's hired). In general I don't care about the amount of low-level a candidate knows, I'm more concerned about how he writes the program (if that is what I'm hiring him to do) and how he'll fit into the project. Does he know the language syntax. What sort of stuff has he written. What sort of problems has he had, how did he get around them. In real big-boy operating systems, memory management is left to the OS: I just need someone who knows to be careful of the resources. And writes good, clean, maintainable code
A car analogy. I don't care if you're able to tune the engine to get that last fluid ounce of petrol. Just keep an eye on the MPG and most importantly, don't crash.
There's two issues here;
1: Various US government departments may be doing something dodgy
2: Someone is leaking classified data to the wider population
Now, I've no opinion on the first one - I'm not a US citizen (though I class myself as a US sympathizer). If true, it's a thing for the citizens and the justice department. I hope the issue gets resolved, right prevails etc
But the second one is a security breach: the guy (whatever his intentions) has broken his contract with the company, and also the law. What documents get released to the wider public is not a matter for the individual - it's a matter for the owners of the data, according to the law.
And as someone who's hired staff in the past, I'd be less than impressed if someone admitted that he'd leaked data to the public because he thought it was the right thing to do. That's my call, not his. Or more likely my boss's. Or his boss's.