I'm going with Coolidge on this one.
"Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence...
This is not true, to quote Kurt von Hammerstein:
I divide my officers into four groups. There are clever, diligent, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and diligent -- their place is the General Staff. The next lot are stupid and lazy -- they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the intellectual clarity and the composure necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is stupid and diligent -- he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always cause only mischief.
I seen plenty of programmers that are persistent but their code is flawed on so many levels that if I wrote that code myself it would save me time over convincing managers that their code needs fixing and fixing it.
How much would someone have benefited from having a car that cost 1/10th of what you paid but without many of those safety features? Someone then able to get to a job, who could then earn more, save more, and eventually afford a nice, safe car like yours. But now he can't, because the price of a car is too much.
find your gratuitous slur against "academic types" unwarranted and unfair. Academia has produced much innovation in programming. Do you forget the proof that Structured Programming is sufficient, and GOTOs are not necessary?
Nice now I can write
l1: foo(); l2: bar(); l3: if (baz()) goto l1; ...
as
line=1; while (1) { if (line==1) { foo(); line=2; } else if (line==2) { bar(); line=3; } else if (line==3) { if (baz()) line=1; else line=4; } ...
This is how this works at microsoft:
Janitor to junior programmer: On windows these two buttons are close together and I frequently misclick. It should take day to fix.
junior programmer to senior programmer: I got idea how improve windows, it should only take three days.
senior programmer to manager: Could our team work on this? It will take only nine days. ...
VP to Ballmer: I received project proposal to improve core windows functionality. It will take 165 years to complete.
Ballmer: 165 years? (Throws a chair.)
I don't get your point, so you agree with me is that what your're saying? It's super expensive to write a journal article. If it costs a little bit to publish it in a good place then so what? A small fraction of the total cost and better than free posting on a website.
I agree that writing article is expensive.
However this makes second part contrary to what you say. Direct cost are small and payed by university so this is not big factor. However if you add editing and administrative costs they easily sum up to quarter of total cost. And because you did not negotiate you will pay that from your pocket.
You have good to sell(article) and can move to investment banker for example. You should determine terms of contract not other way around.
I also find misleading title where they by cost mean publishing cost.
I find the argument over pay-for-placement journals kind of silly. I estimate it costs me $50,000 to write a journal article. This includes research, grad students, overhead, etc. Based on that, no big deal if it's an extra $3k to get it published!
Also grad students heavily subsidy your journal article. Add extra $25,000 per student if they found job instead.
What concerns me most is that proofreading/editing/typography is burden of researcher.
My optimistic estimate of proofreading/editing s about $5000 including revisions. Here you again subsidy journal/university as you ineffectively do what professional editor could do better with half of time and budget.
Well it is movie plot plan.
Hacker A: gets access to evernote
Hacker B: Look these passwords are hashed and salted
Hacker A: Never mind. We issue password reset and send passwords to evil.com
n a forum not flooded by RMS shills, the above would have been modded 'insightful'. On one hand, the FSF crowd, particularly RMS himself, love sermonizing about how the world would be better if everybody had the source code and was free to do whatever they liked w/ it. But since the majority of people out there are not experts in C/C++/Java/Perl/Python/CGI/Bison/Guile/Lisp/what have you, they can't do squat w/ the source code. It's like opening up my car trunk and expecting me to know everything about the engine and how it's connected, so that I can replace a 4 cylinder engine w/ a V6 if I so desire.
But since the majority of people out there are not experts in Tort Law/Contract Law/Louisiana law/what laws have you, they can't do squat with politics. It''s like voting for one canditate out of two and expecting me to know everything about him to get reform if I so desire
He didn't master the tool called "C++", so he got himself a toy called "C#". Now he bitches about the tool when in reality his own conceptual and practical incompetence is to blame.
Basic advice on trolling: Follow hyperlinks to get superficially correct posts and avoid mistakes like writing about embedded guy that he exclusively uses C#
His plan was simple:
1. Make crappy game.no Windows RT
2. Write blog how bad Windows RT is
3. Get $1000000 from microsoft and write how awasome Windows RT is
4. Profit
Which is theoretically correct but completely different in practice.
When you do not care about sorting performance using library function is best.
When you care about performance then optimized radixsort almost always wins by huge margin.(Using radixsort on floats is typical exercise.)
Exception is when you require wild sorting order which does not happen often.
Unless your data does not fit into memory where variant of quicksort is best.
> Free market monopolies" are a misnomer, as the company that has provided such a high quality, low cost product that no-one can compete with them must continue to provide such quality, or risk new competition arising.
Like quality and cost of U.S. Steel and Standard Oil products in 19. century?
Slashdot Mirror
I'm going with Coolidge on this one. "Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence...
This is not true, to quote Kurt von Hammerstein:
I divide my officers into four groups. There are clever, diligent, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and diligent -- their place is the General Staff. The next lot are stupid and lazy -- they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the intellectual clarity and the composure necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is stupid and diligent -- he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always cause only mischief.
I seen plenty of programmers that are persistent but their code is flawed on so many levels that if I wrote that code myself it would save me time over convincing managers that their code needs fixing and fixing it.
How much would someone have benefited from having a car that cost 1/10th of what you paid but without many of those safety features? Someone then able to get to a job, who could then earn more, save more, and eventually afford a nice, safe car like yours. But now he can't, because the price of a car is too much.
That type of car is called motorcycle.
Either way, the younger generation isn't stupider than yours; it's just younger.
Badger jizz. I can do calculus, kinematics and statistics. My kids can barely count to twenty.
And how good you could do calculus when you were five?
why not
Am I missing something?
You missed ... Actually it continues with:
With generic proof you can just append
without resorting to ad-hoc constructs.
find your gratuitous slur against "academic types" unwarranted and unfair. Academia has produced much innovation in programming. Do you forget the proof that Structured Programming is sufficient, and GOTOs are not necessary?
Nice now I can write
as
My passwords all come in the following variations
yyyyyy
xxxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx1
Xxxxxxxxxx_1
You missed one of variations. I tried them all but I cannot login
This is how this works at microsoft:
...
Janitor to junior programmer: On windows these two buttons are close together and I frequently misclick. It should take day to fix.
junior programmer to senior programmer: I got idea how improve windows, it should only take three days.
senior programmer to manager: Could our team work on this? It will take only nine days.
VP to Ballmer: I received project proposal to improve core windows functionality. It will take 165 years to complete.
Ballmer: 165 years? (Throws a chair.)
I remember that same post was at slashdot few months ago. I do not remember exact wording, google just shows links to ths article.
I don't get your point, so you agree with me is that what your're saying? It's super expensive to write a journal article. If it costs a little bit to publish it in a good place then so what? A small fraction of the total cost and better than free posting on a website.
I agree that writing article is expensive.
However this makes second part contrary to what you say. Direct cost are small and payed by university so this is not big factor. However if you add editing and administrative costs they easily sum up to quarter of total cost.
And because you did not negotiate you will pay that from your pocket.
You have good to sell(article) and can move to investment banker for example. You should determine terms of contract not other way around.
I find the argument over pay-for-placement journals kind of silly. I estimate it costs me $50,000 to write a journal article. This includes research, grad students, overhead, etc. Based on that, no big deal if it's an extra $3k to get it published!
Also grad students heavily subsidy your journal article. Add extra $25,000 per student if they found job instead.
What concerns me most is that proofreading/editing/typography is burden of researcher.
My optimistic estimate of proofreading/editing s about $5000 including revisions. Here you again subsidy journal/university as you ineffectively do what professional editor could do better with half of time and budget.
Well it is movie plot plan. Hacker A: gets access to evernote Hacker B: Look these passwords are hashed and salted Hacker A: Never mind. We issue password reset and send passwords to evil.com
Yes according to this article http://games.slashdot.org/story/02/10/24/2251234/
n a forum not flooded by RMS shills, the above would have been modded 'insightful'. On one hand, the FSF crowd, particularly RMS himself, love sermonizing about how the world would be better if everybody had the source code and was free to do whatever they liked w/ it. But since the majority of people out there are not experts in C/C++/Java/Perl/Python/CGI/Bison/Guile/Lisp/what have you, they can't do squat w/ the source code. It's like opening up my car trunk and expecting me to know everything about the engine and how it's connected, so that I can replace a 4 cylinder engine w/ a V6 if I so desire.
But since the majority of people out there are not experts in Tort Law/Contract Law/Louisiana law/what laws have you, they can't do squat with politics. It''s like voting for one canditate out of two and expecting me to know everything about him to get reform if I so desire
If internet goes down then we can use RFC 1149.
He didn't master the tool called "C++", so he got himself a toy called "C#". Now he bitches about the tool when in reality his own conceptual and practical incompetence is to blame.
Basic advice on trolling: Follow hyperlinks to get superficially correct posts and avoid mistakes like writing about embedded guy that he exclusively uses C#
There exists a conspiracy theory that phones were forbidden to monetize in-plane calls for 10$ per minute.
His plan was simple:
1. Make crappy game.no Windows RT
2. Write blog how bad Windows RT is
3. Get $1000000 from microsoft and write how awasome Windows RT is
4. Profit
Which is theoretically correct but completely different in practice.
When you do not care about sorting performance using library function is best.
When you care about performance then optimized radixsort almost always wins by huge margin.(Using radixsort on floats is typical exercise.)
Exception is when you require wild sorting order which does not happen often.
Unless your data does not fit into memory where variant of quicksort is best.
Even the best of C or C++ compilers are terrible at vectorization of code.
The 1990s just called. Seymour Cray is on the phone laughing at you.
Really? Even simple examples like this:
Results in 765 byte monstrosity by latest icc and 1095 bytes with gcc
should be What Internet Nobody Tells You About Being A Game Dev
> Free market monopolies" are a misnomer, as the company that has provided such a high quality, low cost product that no-one can compete with them must continue to provide such quality, or risk new competition arising. Like quality and cost of U.S. Steel and Standard Oil products in 19. century?
I dated a robot
They do not support HURD
Obligatory encyclopedia dramatica reference http://encyclopediadramatica.se/Bucket
We go applying genetic programing to music as homework assignment at GP class