Comment Re:The problem for UK IT graduates (Score 1) 349
Are you actually looking for a new job? Doing what?
Are you actually looking for a new job? Doing what?
Drat, too much haste.
s/do different people/two different people/
s/The latter cares most about the privacy angle/The former cares most about the privacy angle/
If by "scares" you mean manufactured, misleading hyperbole, you're wrong. There are tens of thousands of adverse drug interactions annually in the UK (and more in the USA). Many of these are avoidable (they're not just drug-drug interactions, adverse drug-condition or drug-{age,procedure} interactions occur too) and key to avoiding this is delivering timely, accurate information to your healthcare providers.
Keeping yourself off the relevant clinical databases is a choice and a compromise of risks; on the one hand the risk that your data will be leaked and on the other hand that your choice to equip your clinicians with less information will cause you to get less effective treatment in the future.
In some senses this is a balancing of benefits to do different people; first, your healthy, vigorous, young self. Second, your elderly, sick, incapacitated self. The latter cares most about the privacy angle but I'm pretty sure the latter cares most about the quality of care. But it would too late for the elderly you to benefit their treatment by reversing the decision made by their younger self.
~/source/GNU/coreutils/coreutils$ git log | grep -c '^Author: Jim Meyering'
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~/source/GNU/coreutils/coreutils$ git log | egrep '^(Date:|Author: Jim Meyering)' | tail -n 2
Author: Jim Meyering
Date: Sat Oct 31 20:42:48 1992 +0000
That's a false dichotomy.
Google's infrastructure is too large to hire system administrators that do anything manually. This means even the "system administrators" are software developers.
The alternative to doing the research to identify which job opening appeals to you most is that they interview you for a job _they_ think might suit you, which isn't a good match for your skills, and so you don't get the job. Which one is it you prefer again?
Indeed, Google already published a paper describing their approach:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CA8QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcode.google.com%2Fspeed%2Farticles%2Ftcp_initcwnd_paper.pdf&ei=xUciTKhpmOiUB_HL8bAP&usg=AFQjCNET-zahhIxtRlXe28xn_8QSXXLx6A&sig2=0mlyaOW1btaj7hUjlL1Opw
Writing an allegedly Windows-compatible OS to resolve cyber-security concerns? Are they also developing lead aircraft?
If a major hospital is letting people roll up and connect personal (i.e. uncontrolled) laptops to their internal networks, the information security team/officer there is either incompetent or being ignored. They should take responsibility for making sure neither of those things is happening.
As for the OP, they seem to me to be recklessly endangering the security of patient data. People's personal laptops have all kinds of scary cruft on them. Seventeen different kinds of malware, if they run Windows, probably.
The Altos 586 I used to own also had a QIC tape drive in it (it's in the front of the unit). It also had an Ethernet connector - blanked off in the case of my machine, the Ethernet controller wasn't installed. But check yours.
The filesystem format is UFS and is intelligible by Linux (I verified this in the case of the 5.25" floppies, but the hard disk should be the same).
My list:
- complexity theory (and some 'concrete' mathematics)
- functional programming
- lisp
- domain specific language design
- concurrent systems design and implementation
- graph algorithms
- large-scale OO design (i.e. how to design a framework rather than a program)
- DFAs
That's after I eliminated the things I already knew I didn't understand when I graduated in 1993 (language parsing, compiler design and implementation, database theory, unit testing,
Goodness, how did that person get hired as a programmer if they weren't already fully familiar with arrays? I wouldn't hire anybody as a programmer unless they were able to select an appropriate data structure for a problem, and explain why they selected that particular one. (Well, at my current employer, the bar is much higher than that, but I'm speaking in general).
When on the first day out, look at other people and then dress like them for the rest of the journey
Hmm. Best not go to Horseguards on the first day, then.
"I am traveling to London from Washington state for two weeks in December for pleasure (use-it-or-lose-it vacation scenario) and was wondering if I should bother bringing my laptop. I know that I would have to change the region code on my wireless amongst other things and the power cord would have to be changed for a UK outlet.
Why bother? Just get a travel adaptor, like everyone else does. They're cheap, even if you buy them in the most expensive place possible - the airport. Most laptops do not require voltage conversion (and have power supplies that explicitly state that they accept 230V). Check.
Would I be better off not bringing my laptop and just using Internet kiosks (do they exist in London?) or would having my laptop be a better choice to keep in touch, off-load my digital images etc?
London is no different to (say) New York in this way. You can use Internet kiosks, but you'd be crazy to do so for banking transactions, just as for internet cafes anywhere in the world. As for how you work with digital images, it depends on the value of the images and the volume of data, doesn't it? When on vacation myself I generally produce more image data than it's convenient to burn to DVD, so I don't really have that option. Hence I take a laptop + an external drive, so that I can keep two copies of the data. One goes in the checked luggage, the other is carry-on.
I plan on hitting the British Museum but was wondering what geeky things to do that are in London that might be worth going to and any tips hints on overseas travel for geeks? I travel quite a bit in the states but this will be my first trip overseas and want to make the best of my stay in merry old England. What words of advice do you travel seasoned geeks have for me?"
You won't see much "Merrie Olde England" in London. It's a city. As for stuff to do there, you haven't indicated what you enjoy doing. People could recommend you landmarks etc., but that would make your stay awfully generic. Here's a list of non-generic things you'll probably hate because they don't suit your (unstated) tastes:
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.