It takes a lot of developer hours, and those developers are top-rung, very highly paid, because this stuff is very hard.
I've worked in that industry for over 20 years and I assure you that the developers are the same run-of-the-mill klutzes as are found in any shop in the USA. Most are definitely not Google material.
OTOH the software libraries are thoroughly picked over, having been developed over the last 50 years and scrutinized by many eyes. So it's pretty good code, but nothing like NASA's.
You'll learn more, get laid more, and be more relaxed at the liberal arts school. Take some difficult courses: logic, rhetoric, psychology, biology. Study evolutionary biology: it explains how people work better than any other framework.
P.S. If you want a job after you graduate then study business.
I work for a large governmental entity that has policing powers and I assure you, such people are worthy of dismissal only. Once you give them an inch, they'll take a mile. As the article states
He or she will do whatever it takes to get the job done without waiting for IT to sign off.
They stop only when they're escorted out the door (or to jail) and then sometimes that's not enough.
People who persist in breaking IT rules after multiple warnings are usually "control freaks". If you give them responsibility, they will end up assuming more than they were granted, arguing with administration, causing chaos and personnel problems.
And you cannot overestimate the possible malice of fellow employees. They will sabotage your workplace, you or your car. They will leave incriminating traces on your machine for others to find. They will steal your wallet, purse, driver's license, or money, or worse. And you will have no idea why they do these things (e.g., wanted your job, hated your sister, you didn't speak to them one day, etc.).
The problem is that you cannot anticipate what others will do even in an office situation. If there is a way to assert control then you should use it. If you lock up your goods then it becomes obvious when they've been pilfered and you thereby gain the peace of mind that comes from setting a high barrier.
I worked for years in a high-security government department, behind secure entrances. Everybody had background checks (not merely online, but where they also _interview_ your friends, neighbors, former girlfriends and family in depth). Stolen items included purses, computers, motherboards, memory chips and cards, printers. Computers were used to gain illicit access. IP (and other types of) addresses were spoofed/stolen to gain illicit access to data. IDs and passwords were stolen, etc. In short, everything that happened in a high-school classroom happened there. And that's the part that _I_ know about!
Do you understand the job security you have as an employee of a company?
Yes, none.
It's my job to work ridiculous hours and be on call for things you can't even imagine. I have to be multi-talented, multi-disciplined, multi-tasking, and multi-personality. I have to understand the nuances of industries that aren't even related to my field.
Hours/$$ spent grooming customers at the local titty bars doesn't impress me as "work". You might also consider that you could save your money, your liver and your marriage by drinking less. And by understanding unrelated industries you must mean the whores you hire for customers, not to mention your mistress who is paid more than the best developers.
I spend massive amounts of money and personal time making sure that YOU are able to produce for me without being sidetracked by unrelated issues.
Tell ya what. Next time let me do the spending at the local fleshpot bar and grill: you stay at work and update the servers.
I pay what I can. In fact, I go without pay to make sure you get paid.
Your fiscal policies are as questionable as your judgement. You're out of control: the last sentence should read "I go without pay to make sure I get laid."
If I am directly responsible for procuring 100% of the business, and you are responsible for creating a product that retains that business, then I trump you anyday.
Without me you can do nothing: you are smoke and mirrors, you are hype, FUD, bullshit, merde, you are nothing! Without me you are a mad salesman, strutting his stuff on the stage, full of the sound and fury, signifying nothing.
This is what people don't understand: sales *is* hard.
No, it is easy for those who have a good product that is worth selling. It is hard to sell hype, hard to sell crap, hard to sell something you cannot deliver.
Those are worth their weight in gold literally and are usually removed before burial (whether legal or not in your state). There's lots of money in this.
This is a good thing really. After death the state should take possession of the body and recycle anything that is economically viable. Why should we put good gold and titanium into the ground, along with stainless steel coffins!
Years ago I struck up a conversation with a well-dressed gentleman who described this work.
Apparently it's a very good living and a possible upward career move for former ASP.NET programmers.
Win98SE runs fine on the internet. I've done it for the last six years. My Win98SE system runs faster than XP regardless of memory available.
I use the ZoneAlarm firewall, AVG AntiVirus, SpyBot Search & Destroy and until recently Ad-Aware Plus (which now no longer supports Win98). I browse with FireFox, SeaMonkey or with Opera; I use IE only when absolutely necessary and on trusted sites. I've had two incoming virus detections over the six years but that's all. I have reinstalled, but only due to motherboard problems.
For those of us who power down at night I can't imagine how XP is an improvement over Win98. And on XP you simply don't know what's happening under the covers; with Win98 you've got a chance.
You try working full-time for $20k/year, lifting heavy bags all day and dealing with smug assholes that think they are better than you.
TSA screeners average salaries are ~$30K/year. They are hourly employees and average about 6 hours overtime per week. That averages out to about $36K/year.
They have to be healthy enough to work and have clean backgrounds (no DUI, no time in jail, etc.). There aren't many healthy people like that in the US, thanks to our propensity to toss most anyone into the slammer for the slightest suspicion of a legal infraction.
How else are scientists' genes to be preserved in the population? If scientists didn't fuck ditzes, then in two generations we'd all be hair stylists, systems analysts and astrologers. So just turn off your conscience and do it!
Of course it would be best if _both_ halves of any offspring's genes were from scientists but female scientists are so rare anyway and most are ugly enough to make the stiffest woodie wilt (consider TRG = "Typical Rice Girl").
So one-night stands are OK but don't get in a long-term relationship. Best to carry fake ID and drugs (including Viagra) for above-mentioned problems.
If you want good developers, be ready to offer money for them, because everyone else wants them too.
P.S. I'm kinda tired of reading about how, of the IT firms whose employees post here, 90% want to hire the top 5% of developers. How about an article about the truth: how to hire so-so developers and _still_ get some work done? Now that's an accomplishment!
... so the debris will re-enter sooner rather than later.
Sadly, no.
The missile explosion will blow parts of the satellite into higher orbit. If hit amidships, we can estimate that approximately 50% of the satellite will have a higher velocity and that half of that will also have a higher orbit as a result of the explosion.
Parents are the single greatest influence on their children, not all this outside stuff.
Absolutely wrong.
Judith Rich Harris has proven that parents account for 50% of their children's personality and that all of that effect is genetic. The remainder of the children's personality is developed from factors outside the home. Problem is, no one knows what those outside factors are.
In The Nurture Assumption and No Two AlikeHarris provides the evidence supporting the above, demolishes competing theories and hypothesizes that the child's peer group is the most substantial source of non-genetic behavior.
Pretty astonishing really. According to Harris, most studies and research about techniques of good parenting are, in the end, total utter garbage.
Harris is talking about children in normal homes, i.e., no psychotic fathers or mothers, no traumatic beatings or abuse, of course. But, short of that, it doesn't make much difference how you treat your kids as long as you're a normal loving parent: they'll grow up with personalities determined by their peer group, not by you.
especially on Everest. You needn't bother carrying anything up except perhaps a fresh battery pack - it's all there already: food, drink, tents, sleeping bags, PCs et al all left along with the bodies of their owners.
With the exception of the discarded bodies by the wayside, Everest's trails look like the road to the local dumping grounds. Why anyone would want to climb to the top of that trash heap is beyond me.
One that immediately comes to mind is Being There: Putting Brain, Body and World Together Again by Andy Clark (Amazon link). Clark underscores how much our cognitive apparatus relies upon the external world we have created and how the tools we use are part of our intelligence.
But everybody's experienced this: from art to videogames we extend our bodies and our minds with tools.
VBScript is the core language of VBA and was the only extant language omitted with the release of.NET. Microsoft's language development groups didn't want to support the language - classic VB and VBA were held to be hacks. So it was proposed that VB/VBA be killed.
In a most unusual display of synchronicity, Microsoft's marketing group also wanted VBScript killed because:
it was a "free language" - VBScript & ASP enabled web development in Notepad - selling Visual Studio development tools was next to impossible with a free and simple alternative available.
a belief that millions of VBScript/ASP developers using Notepad would buy into the new.NET development environment tools. That is, greed.
What instead happened is that the millions of VB and ASP developers, seeing their toolkits and production code abandoned and marginalized by Microsoft, abandoned IIS, ASP and VB en masse.
Today.NET is on life-support: half a decade after the release of.NET there remain more.ASP pages on the WWW than.ASPX. Microsoft's latest release of.NET development tools presents the enterprise buyer with a more confounding variety of labels, choices and courses than has been available since the height of IBM's enterprise supremacy, none of them any better than their earlier products Notepad and VB.
Guess we'll finally find out now.
The Semantic Web remains Tim Berners-Lee's vanity project: well-intended but poorly thought out and unfortunately unwanted.
Most FOSS attempts don't make any money whatsoever. Why should a recession stop them?
There are rare exceptions but you can list them on a single sheet of paper. That is hardly enough to encourage people to venture into FOSS to make a living.
Do FOSS because you _want_ to, because you love developing software or because you know that you can fix a problem that few others can. But don't chance your family's interests on FOSS.
We badly need some innovation. Attempting to sterilize an area is not always the solution. The current technique of sterilizing and tracking and destroying bugs has the unintended consequence of creating increasingly harmful bacteria.
Instead, we should develop and breed innocuous (not harmful to humans) forms of bacteria that feed off the same food sources as does MRSA and inject these into the hospital environment. These innocuous bacteria would be designed to out-compete MRSA, reducing the risk of lethal infection in hospitals.
Such a craft will consist of a semi-rigid compartmented inflatable bladder of light but strong material with a separate passenger/engine compartment attached. The bladder would be either hydrogen- or helium-filled. To ascend, helium would be pumped into the bladder; to descend helium would be pumped out of the bladder, compressed and stored for reuse.
The only economic problem is the cost of materials.
The steering characteristics of such a vehicle is more like a boat (but less responsive) than a fixed-wing plane. Also it's much less responsive than a helicopter.
Early versions of such a craft will be slow, but as technology improves (and in particular the ability to "rigidify" the bladder into a wing shape) speeds comparable to fixed-wing craft will be possible.
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because he's a genetic dumbass?
P.S. I think his mom's OK. Must be something on that Y chromosome.
The corrupt bastards are going to "shoot the programmer" on this one?
I want a federal investigation.
dbm files are available in several languages, e.g., Perl and Python.
Or use the Prolog language, which allows easy storage and retrieval of records (Prolog calls them "facts").
I've worked in that industry for over 20 years and I assure you that the developers are the same run-of-the-mill klutzes as are found in any shop in the USA. Most are definitely not Google material.
OTOH the software libraries are thoroughly picked over, having been developed over the last 50 years and scrutinized by many eyes. So it's pretty good code, but nothing like NASA's.
You'll learn more, get laid more, and be more relaxed at the liberal arts school. Take some difficult courses: logic, rhetoric, psychology, biology. Study evolutionary biology: it explains how people work better than any other framework.
P.S. If you want a job after you graduate then study business.
They stop only when they're escorted out the door (or to jail) and then sometimes that's not enough.
People who persist in breaking IT rules after multiple warnings are usually "control freaks". If you give them responsibility, they will end up assuming more than they were granted, arguing with administration, causing chaos and personnel problems.
Best to nip this problem in the bud.
- Been there, done that.
And you cannot overestimate the possible malice of fellow employees. They will sabotage your workplace, you or your car. They will leave incriminating traces on your machine for others to find. They will steal your wallet, purse, driver's license, or money, or worse. And you will have no idea why they do these things (e.g., wanted your job, hated your sister, you didn't speak to them one day, etc.).
The problem is that you cannot anticipate what others will do even in an office situation. If there is a way to assert control then you should use it. If you lock up your goods then it becomes obvious when they've been pilfered and you thereby gain the peace of mind that comes from setting a high barrier.
I worked for years in a high-security government department, behind secure entrances. Everybody had background checks (not merely online, but where they also _interview_ your friends, neighbors, former girlfriends and family in depth). Stolen items included purses, computers, motherboards, memory chips and cards, printers. Computers were used to gain illicit access. IP (and other types of) addresses were spoofed/stolen to gain illicit access to data. IDs and passwords were stolen, etc. In short, everything that happened in a high-school classroom happened there. And that's the part that _I_ know about!
Yes, none.
Hours/$$ spent grooming customers at the local titty bars doesn't impress me as "work". You might also consider that you could save your money, your liver and your marriage by drinking less. And by understanding unrelated industries you must mean the whores you hire for customers, not to mention your mistress who is paid more than the best developers.
Tell ya what. Next time let me do the spending at the local fleshpot bar and grill: you stay at work and update the servers.
Your fiscal policies are as questionable as your judgement. You're out of control: the last sentence should read "I go without pay to make sure I get laid."
Without me you can do nothing: you are smoke and mirrors, you are hype, FUD, bullshit, merde, you are nothing! Without me you are a mad salesman, strutting his stuff on the stage, full of the sound and fury, signifying nothing.
No, it is easy for those who have a good product that is worth selling. It is hard to sell hype, hard to sell crap, hard to sell something you cannot deliver.
Perhaps I could offer you a job in development?
your titanium hip socket, or pacemaker!
Those are worth their weight in gold literally and are usually removed before burial (whether legal or not in your state). There's lots of money in this.
This is a good thing really. After death the state should take possession of the body and recycle anything that is economically viable. Why should we put good gold and titanium into the ground, along with stainless steel coffins!
Years ago I struck up a conversation with a well-dressed gentleman who described this work.
Apparently it's a very good living and a possible upward career move for former ASP.NET programmers.
with my trusty 12-gauge shotgun anyday. The "light sabre" is funny: easy to cut off a leg (or worse) with that one!
Win98SE runs fine on the internet. I've done it for the last six years. My Win98SE system runs faster than XP regardless of memory available.
I use the ZoneAlarm firewall, AVG AntiVirus, SpyBot Search & Destroy and until recently Ad-Aware Plus (which now no longer supports Win98). I browse with FireFox, SeaMonkey or with Opera; I use IE only when absolutely necessary and on trusted sites. I've had two incoming virus detections over the six years but that's all. I have reinstalled, but only due to motherboard problems.
For those of us who power down at night I can't imagine how XP is an improvement over Win98. And on XP you simply don't know what's happening under the covers; with Win98 you've got a chance.
TSA screeners average salaries are ~$30K/year. They are hourly employees and average about 6 hours overtime per week. That averages out to about $36K/year.
They have to be healthy enough to work and have clean backgrounds (no DUI, no time in jail, etc.). There aren't many healthy people like that in the US, thanks to our propensity to toss most anyone into the slammer for the slightest suspicion of a legal infraction.
How else are scientists' genes to be preserved in the population? If scientists didn't fuck ditzes, then in two generations we'd all be hair stylists, systems analysts and astrologers. So just turn off your conscience and do it!
Of course it would be best if _both_ halves of any offspring's genes were from scientists but female scientists are so rare anyway and most are ugly enough to make the stiffest woodie wilt (consider TRG = "Typical Rice Girl").
So one-night stands are OK but don't get in a long-term relationship. Best to carry fake ID and drugs (including Viagra) for above-mentioned problems.
If you want good developers, be ready to offer money for them, because everyone else wants them too.
P.S. I'm kinda tired of reading about how, of the IT firms whose employees post here, 90% want to hire the top 5% of developers. How about an article about the truth: how to hire so-so developers and _still_ get some work done? Now that's an accomplishment!
See Most scientific papers are probably wrong for details.
The missile explosion will blow parts of the satellite into higher orbit. If hit amidships, we can estimate that approximately 50% of the satellite will have a higher velocity and that half of that will also have a higher orbit as a result of the explosion.
Judith Rich Harris has proven that parents account for 50% of their children's personality and that all of that effect is genetic. The remainder of the children's personality is developed from factors outside the home. Problem is, no one knows what those outside factors are.
In The Nurture Assumption and No Two AlikeHarris provides the evidence supporting the above, demolishes competing theories and hypothesizes that the child's peer group is the most substantial source of non-genetic behavior.
Pretty astonishing really. According to Harris, most studies and research about techniques of good parenting are, in the end, total utter garbage.
Harris is talking about children in normal homes, i.e., no psychotic fathers or mothers, no traumatic beatings or abuse, of course. But, short of that, it doesn't make much difference how you treat your kids as long as you're a normal loving parent: they'll grow up with personalities determined by their peer group, not by you.
With the exception of the discarded bodies by the wayside, Everest's trails look like the road to the local dumping grounds. Why anyone would want to climb to the top of that trash heap is beyond me.
But everybody's experienced this: from art to videogames we extend our bodies and our minds with tools.
VBScript is the core language of VBA and was the only extant language omitted with the release of .NET. Microsoft's language development groups didn't want to support the language - classic VB and VBA were held to be hacks. So it was proposed that VB/VBA be killed.
In a most unusual display of synchronicity, Microsoft's marketing group also wanted VBScript killed because:
What instead happened is that the millions of VB and ASP developers, seeing their toolkits and production code abandoned and marginalized by Microsoft, abandoned IIS, ASP and VB en masse.
Today .NET is on life-support: half a decade after the release of .NET there remain more .ASP pages on the WWW than .ASPX. Microsoft's latest release of .NET development tools presents the enterprise buyer with a more confounding variety of labels, choices and courses than has been available since the height of IBM's enterprise supremacy, none of them any better than their earlier products Notepad and VB.
Guess we'll finally find out now. The Semantic Web remains Tim Berners-Lee's vanity project: well-intended but poorly thought out and unfortunately unwanted.
There are rare exceptions but you can list them on a single sheet of paper. That is hardly enough to encourage people to venture into FOSS to make a living. Do FOSS because you _want_ to, because you love developing software or because you know that you can fix a problem that few others can. But don't chance your family's interests on FOSS.
We badly need some innovation. Attempting to sterilize an area is not always the solution. The current technique of sterilizing and tracking and destroying bugs has the unintended consequence of creating increasingly harmful bacteria.
Instead, we should develop and breed innocuous (not harmful to humans) forms of bacteria that feed off the same food sources as does MRSA and inject these into the hospital environment . These innocuous bacteria would be designed to out-compete MRSA, reducing the risk of lethal infection in hospitals.
May I ask what book on fuzzy logic that was?
P.S.
Thanks for the polite "south end of a northbound rat" euphemism!
of safety problems and energy requirements.
Such a craft will consist of a semi-rigid compartmented inflatable bladder of light but strong material with a separate passenger/engine compartment attached. The bladder would be either hydrogen- or helium-filled. To ascend, helium would be pumped into the bladder; to descend helium would be pumped out of the bladder, compressed and stored for reuse.
The only economic problem is the cost of materials.
The steering characteristics of such a vehicle is more like a boat (but less responsive) than a fixed-wing plane. Also it's much less responsive than a helicopter.
Early versions of such a craft will be slow, but as technology improves (and in particular the ability to "rigidify" the bladder into a wing shape) speeds comparable to fixed-wing craft will be possible.