It came back with just about every piece of free open source software you can imagine. The data entry screens were Java running on Apache, the reporting screens were Python, the admin screens were running Perl scripts. The data entry stuff used Oracle, the reporting used postgres. The whole thing was tied together with some other bits of glue and tape. Thank God the morons who wrote it were horrible architects and the thing couldn't scale, otherwise this piece of unmaintable crap might have ended up in production.
Does "piece of unmaintainable crap" refer to Java, Perl, Apache, PostGreSQL, Oracle, Python or all of them? Because each of those has a reputation far better than yours.
Or is it supposedly a "piece of unmaintainable crap" because of the architects' design?
Before you post again, try to determine exactly _where_ the problem lies. Here you attempt to besmirch, to no effect, the very pillars of Open Source (Java, Perl, Apache, PostGreSQL, Oracle, Python) yet, when distilled down, your only possible criticisms are that
Open Source has multiple languages and
the architects built something that did not scale.
Point 1 is obvious and silly. Point 2 is questionable at best, because you're making the claim by yourself with no supporting evidence.
Maybe you weren't willing to examine the system to see what was wrong and fix it? So you left. Should we trust the word of a man who quits a company and then criticises it's new systems? I think not.
Isn't it sad that people can somehow rationalize that a weapon that was built specifically for killing humans should not be classified as an assault rifle.
No, because the only one you can buy today is a semiautomatic rifle, just like any other semiautomatic hunting rifle. One trigger pull = 1 bullet.
You can't buy the fully automatic (machine gun) military model unless you pay the BATF a fee, pass federal and state background checks and get the state's permission.
So you're confusing two different guns, one a machine gun and the other a standard semiautomatic rifle.
BTW _all_ guns are designed to kill and there's little difference in the design of one for killing deer and one for killing humans. If you want a gun that won't kill humans, I recommend a Nerf ball gun. But don't expect a lot of respect when you confront a burglar with it.
Agreed. And web programmers who can't or don't write web apps w/o cookies are incompetent. Unfortunately, that seems to be a majority of web app developers.
But, if everyone is free to jump in with his own gun, how does the improvised sniper tell the improvised tactical ops from the real mad gunman? Real tactical ops have a really tight communication channel to minimize the probability of errors. I sure would not feel safe if my life was protected by a trigger happy random snipper. The world is much better without vigilantes. Didn't we learn since the lynchings?
Nice try, but bogus.
The bad guy is the one indiscriminately shooting people. The good guys are the ones payng attention to where their handgun barrels are pointing and who are carefully stalking and shooting at the bad guy.
As for "real tactical ops", the SWAT team usually won't arrive until after action is over. Again in this situation, the good guys are the ones who welcome the arrival of police and do as the police request (e.g., put their hands up and their handguns down).
Would guns on campus have prevented more people from getting shot? Who the hell knows? Maybe it would have meant several people trying to play hero and causing even more casualties by shooting wildly in the direction of the gunman. It's just idle speculation.
We tried it your way (no guns on campus) and the result so far is a slaughter with 32 dead. Now let's try it my way (allow persons to obtain a license to carry a concealed handgun on campus) and see how it puts a stop to such madness.
How foolish to expect police to save you from a nutball. Cops are good for investigating crimes after the fact. If you want protection, do it yourself. Liberals have the silliest ideas about what government can do for you.
The real question here is how a 911 call about shots fired gets to police at 7:15am and the same gunman (apparently) is allowed to come in and shoot up another building on the same campus TWO HOURS LATER with no police presence.
No proof then and even now, that it was the same gunman.
Even if it proves to be the same gunman, the cops aren't gods looking down and following everyone, although GWB and Hilary think they should.
Police are very good at finding out afterwards what happened and then prosecuting the guilty, but they rarely prevent a criminal action. Police are primarily investigative, not interventional.
The police WERE present in adequate levels to examine the first incident (2 people shot) and to chase down any suspect.
Quit trying to point a finger at everyone except the psychopath who did the shooting.
Everyone should consider that, if they ever find themselves in a similar situation and think they will die, it is better to die fighting.
HTML 3.2 and no JavaScript if possible. That's my Lowest Common Denominator.
JavaScript, CSS, and the various HTMLs have forked significantly, largely thanks to IE's lack of adherence to standards.
And as the availability of high bandwidth increases, rich clients become less and less important. Today you can deliver fast, effective systems over dialup _and_ cable or dsl with HTML 3.2.
I would have called the entire school body into session and told them of the site. I would then announce the following:
The guilty parties would have 3 days to come forward and acknowledge both in public and in writing what they did. They would then subsequently be required to remove the site(s) under supervision.
If the guilty did as specified then I would give each a week's suspension and require that they pass the remainder of the term without sports or other extracurricular activities.
If they did not do as I specified, then I would call in the police and prosecute and expel the guilty parties, not necessarily in that order.
I would NOT announce the following, but for those who did NOT confess:
I would personally do my best to ensure that they repeat the year in school. Thus they would fall behind their classmates and their mental development would undoubtedly be permanently stunted (guaranteeing that they later become criminals, to be locked up by the state for their future malfeasances).
IOW unless they confessed they would likely be AFU'd for the rest of their life, whether the ACLU or any number of lawyers was involved or not. Which only seems fair to me. Life is too short for this kind of crap and these "children" are far too late in learning that lesson. It's time to permanently stamp an "A" ("AssHat") on their foreheads, if only to warn others.
BTW logging is far more useful than filtering, especially when presented in court coordinated with videos of the computer room.
Sorry, bad news. At that age, you're in the crosshairs if you're in the private economy.
If you can afford to retire then start taking evening courses in something you're interested in and that is a growth industry, say, bioinformatics.
If you can't afford to retire, then start taking evening courses in paramedicine or nursing, so that when you're fired you can quickly get a job.
Consider working for the local city, county or state government. Those jobs are very steady, hours are good, they discriminate less against older workers and they usually have good benefits and retirement plans. Don't expect the salary to match private industry.
Start networking. And talk to others who have retired/left before you and see what they're experiencing in the local job market.
They should determine other vessels that could possibly have been nearby during the window of time of Gray's disappearance. Chase down the details of those vessels' journey, especially any that changed course unexpectedly. That search may lead them to Gray.
The Gartner industry research group made an interesting prediction the other day that went largely unnoticed: The demand for information technology specialists, it said, could fall by 40 percent in the next five years.
A 40 percent drop in demand for IT is hardly encouraging.
He set neural network research back 20 years for starters.
One scientist said that no significant paradigm change can occur in a science until the previous generation of researchers die off. It certainly appears that little progress will be made in AI until Minsky retires.
Is there any IT career that I should consider more than the others?
Yes. Plumbing.
Which are the emerging fields?
Unemployment is the major emerging specialization in IT.
Is there any industry I should focus on in particular?
Your next career after IT.
Which careers on IT are actually more in demand and which ones not?
There are no IT careers in demand in the USA. However, death is a growth industry, and working as an undertaker or working for such companies as SCI are increasing lucrative careers.
Is it a better path to focus on moving into management?
If you want to stay in IT, focus on "moving to Bangalore" rather than "moving to management".
For those who might question my pessimism, note that IT careers in the USA continue to decline to this day.
IT payscales are tanking and, along with them, respect for the profession and whatever remains of a skilled workforce. The almost-daily outcry from Bill G et al asking for "cheaper engineers and programmers" and the rush to outsource IT abroad hardly helps.
long after anyone figures out whether or not global warming is caused by man.
So I suggest everyone quiet down, sit back and enjoy another latte' and find something to do other than spewing venom on/.. Here's a quote to think about and put you into the proper frame of mind:
"Apres moi, le Deluge!"
- Louis Quatorze, second-to-last King of France
Hawkins' solutions likely overlap with Dr. Stephen Thaler's patents for neural networks(NN). In particular, Thaler's algorithms inject noise into a proprietary NN system (actually 2 or more NNs conjoined) to generate novel patterns (that is, to _discover_ new patterns). For example, Thaler trained and used such a NN system to generate thousands of possible musical riffs which he has now copyrighted. Thaler is in business and making money.
and guide them to enemy targets, among other things.
Through their history the Chinese have done this with pigeons: you let loose homing pigeons with burning rope attached in the neighborhood of a town. They land in the barns and rooftops and burn the city to the ground.
Only your imagination limits you: surveillance, following, selective weapons delivery. In short, anything an airplane can do except heavy delivery.
So imagine you're a Chinese saboteur: import a bunch of cyber pigeons, and, when the Chinese start war with Taiwan, release these pigeons in Taiwan, Honolulu, the Philippines, South Korea, LA, San Francisco, DC, etc. to cause damage and confusion. There's probably little chance of being detected beforehand.
Woman. Part Amerind. State universities. IQ so high a psych professor had to roll a special test to estimate it.... She left the field.
So you're saying she finally got smart!8-))
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from Douglas Adams Restaurant at the End of the Universe (also part of the TV series"Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". That ship included people with the most useless jobs such as telephone sanitizers, hair dressers and realtors.
Of course, your description also fits the planet Earth.
Now, of course, if someone was to design and build a [$12,000] robot, completely for their own interest, that could build copies of itself, *and* do useful work like stocking shelves...
We've got an overstock of these in California, Texas, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico. We'll be glad to ship 'em either north _or_ south if y'all will pay the freight or, at the very least, provide a destination address.
There's no way to stop it now. The public wants nationalized healthcare and they will have it.
GWB has driven the last nail into the coffin with his nutball seniors prescription plan. Seniors are running all over the place madly trying to understand the plan until finally their meds run out and they croak. The Republican healthcare plan is to "drive 'em to death!": confound and confuse the elderly until they die.
Nobody cares what a good deal you're getting now because it will all be over in 10 years: no more employee health insurance, simpler OTJ benefits and a one-size-fits-all healthcare plan for all U.S. citizens.
The Constitution, the Bill of Rights and a variety of court decisions give various powers to the federal government while others are reserved to the states or to the individual.
There is neither specification in the Constitution nor in the Bill of Rights for anything like the Real ID. States have any rights of that nature. There also is no precedent to give the Federal government anything like a Real ID authority.
So a constitutional amendment would be required to enact Real ID. That won't happen. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court will throw out the federal government's attempts to enforce a Real ID and will affirm the various states' exclusive rights.
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Does "piece of unmaintainable crap" refer to Java, Perl, Apache, PostGreSQL, Oracle, Python or all of them? Because each of those has a reputation far better than yours.
Or is it supposedly a "piece of unmaintainable crap" because of the architects' design?
Before you post again, try to determine exactly _where_ the problem lies. Here you attempt to besmirch, to no effect, the very pillars of Open Source (Java, Perl, Apache, PostGreSQL, Oracle, Python) yet, when distilled down, your only possible criticisms are that
Point 1 is obvious and silly. Point 2 is questionable at best, because you're making the claim by yourself with no supporting evidence.
Maybe you weren't willing to examine the system to see what was wrong and fix it? So you left. Should we trust the word of a man who quits a company and then criticises it's new systems? I think not.
Will a jury made of mostly non-programmers be able to understand the subject matter?
Kudos to the lawyer who tutors the jury well enough to make a wise decision.
No, because the only one you can buy today is a semiautomatic rifle, just like any other semiautomatic hunting rifle. One trigger pull = 1 bullet.
You can't buy the fully automatic (machine gun) military model unless you pay the BATF a fee, pass federal and state background checks and get the state's permission.
So you're confusing two different guns, one a machine gun and the other a standard semiautomatic rifle.
BTW _all_ guns are designed to kill and there's little difference in the design of one for killing deer and one for killing humans. If you want a gun that won't kill humans, I recommend a Nerf ball gun. But don't expect a lot of respect when you confront a burglar with it.
Agreed. And web programmers who can't or don't write web apps w/o cookies are incompetent. Unfortunately, that seems to be a majority of web app developers.
Nice try, but bogus.
The bad guy is the one indiscriminately shooting people. The good guys are the ones payng attention to where their handgun barrels are pointing and who are carefully stalking and shooting at the bad guy.
As for "real tactical ops", the SWAT team usually won't arrive until after action is over. Again in this situation, the good guys are the ones who welcome the arrival of police and do as the police request (e.g., put their hands up and their handguns down).
We tried it your way (no guns on campus) and the result so far is a slaughter with 32 dead. Now let's try it my way (allow persons to obtain a license to carry a concealed handgun on campus) and see how it puts a stop to such madness.
How foolish to expect police to save you from a nutball. Cops are good for investigating crimes after the fact . If you want protection, do it yourself. Liberals have the silliest ideas about what government can do for you.
I'm the same.
HTML 3.2 and no JavaScript if possible. That's my Lowest Common Denominator.
JavaScript, CSS, and the various HTMLs have forked significantly, largely thanks to IE's lack of adherence to standards.
And as the availability of high bandwidth increases, rich clients become less and less important. Today you can deliver fast, effective systems over dialup _and_ cable or dsl with HTML 3.2.
I would have called the entire school body into session and told them of the site. I would then announce the following:
The guilty parties would have 3 days to come forward and acknowledge both in public and in writing what they did. They would then subsequently be required to remove the site(s) under supervision.
If the guilty did as specified then I would give each a week's suspension and require that they pass the remainder of the term without sports or other extracurricular activities.
If they did not do as I specified, then I would call in the police and prosecute and expel the guilty parties, not necessarily in that order.
I would NOT announce the following, but for those who did NOT confess:
I would personally do my best to ensure that they repeat the year in school. Thus they would fall behind their classmates and their mental development would undoubtedly be permanently stunted (guaranteeing that they later become criminals, to be locked up by the state for their future malfeasances).
IOW unless they confessed they would likely be AFU'd for the rest of their life, whether the ACLU or any number of lawyers was involved or not. Which only seems fair to me. Life is too short for this kind of crap and these "children" are far too late in learning that lesson. It's time to permanently stamp an "A" ("AssHat") on their foreheads, if only to warn others.
BTW logging is far more useful than filtering, especially when presented in court coordinated with videos of the computer room.
Sorry, bad news. At that age, you're in the crosshairs if you're in the private economy.
If you can afford to retire then start taking evening courses in something you're interested in and that is a growth industry, say, bioinformatics.
If you can't afford to retire, then start taking evening courses in paramedicine or nursing, so that when you're fired you can quickly get a job.
Consider working for the local city, county or state government. Those jobs are very steady, hours are good, they discriminate less against older workers and they usually have good benefits and retirement plans. Don't expect the salary to match private industry.
Start networking. And talk to others who have retired/left before you and see what they're experiencing in the local job market.
They should determine other vessels that could possibly have been nearby during the window of time of Gray's disappearance. Chase down the details of those vessels' journey, especially any that changed course unexpectedly. That search may lead them to Gray.
A 40 percent drop in demand for IT is hardly encouraging.
He set neural network research back 20 years for starters.
One scientist said that no significant paradigm change can occur in a science until the previous generation of researchers die off. It certainly appears that little progress will be made in AI until Minsky retires.
For those who might question my pessimism, note that IT careers in the USA continue to decline to this day.
While 100 million years seems like a long time, perhaps it is married and has a wife. That would explain everything.
IT payscales are tanking and, along with them, respect for the profession and whatever remains of a skilled workforce. The almost-daily outcry from Bill G et al asking for "cheaper engineers and programmers" and the rush to outsource IT abroad hardly helps.
Show me the money.
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It's the best C# introduction for both seasoned programmers and newbies.
long after anyone figures out whether or not global warming is caused by man.
/.. Here's a quote to think about and put you into the proper frame of mind:
So I suggest everyone quiet down, sit back and enjoy another latte' and find something to do other than spewing venom on
"Apres moi, le Deluge!"
- Louis Quatorze, second-to-last King of France
Hawkins' solutions likely overlap with Dr. Stephen Thaler's patents for neural networks(NN). In particular, Thaler's algorithms inject noise into a proprietary NN system (actually 2 or more NNs conjoined) to generate novel patterns (that is, to _discover_ new patterns). For example, Thaler trained and used such a NN system to generate thousands of possible musical riffs which he has now copyrighted. Thaler is in business and making money.
and guide them to enemy targets, among other things.
Through their history the Chinese have done this with pigeons: you let loose homing pigeons with burning rope attached in the neighborhood of a town. They land in the barns and rooftops and burn the city to the ground.
Only your imagination limits you: surveillance, following, selective weapons delivery. In short, anything an airplane can do except heavy delivery.
So imagine you're a Chinese saboteur: import a bunch of cyber pigeons, and, when the Chinese start war with Taiwan, release these pigeons in Taiwan, Honolulu, the Philippines, South Korea, LA, San Francisco, DC, etc. to cause damage and confusion. There's probably little chance of being detected beforehand.
So you're saying she finally got smart!8-))
from Douglas Adams Restaurant at the End of the Universe (also part of the TV series"Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". That ship included people with the most useless jobs such as telephone sanitizers, hair dressers and realtors.
Of course, your description also fits the planet Earth.
and they've increased in number since the early '90's.
We've got an overstock of these in California, Texas, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico. We'll be glad to ship 'em either north _or_ south if y'all will pay the freight or, at the very least, provide a destination address.
There's no way to stop it now. The public wants nationalized healthcare and they will have it.
GWB has driven the last nail into the coffin with his nutball seniors prescription plan. Seniors are running all over the place madly trying to understand the plan until finally their meds run out and they croak. The Republican healthcare plan is to "drive 'em to death!": confound and confuse the elderly until they die.
Nobody cares what a good deal you're getting now because it will all be over in 10 years: no more employee health insurance, simpler OTJ benefits and a one-size-fits-all healthcare plan for all U.S. citizens.
The Constitution, the Bill of Rights and a variety of court decisions give various powers to the federal government while others are reserved to the states or to the individual.
There is neither specification in the Constitution nor in the Bill of Rights for anything like the Real ID. States have any rights of that nature. There also is no precedent to give the Federal government anything like a Real ID authority.
So a constitutional amendment would be required to enact Real ID. That won't happen. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court will throw out the federal government's attempts to enforce a Real ID and will affirm the various states' exclusive rights.