Comment Re:LOL at the touchscreen in the article... (Score 1) 160
Yep. It's not much different that texting. You have to look away, read, and then touch a UI.
Yep. It's not much different that texting. You have to look away, read, and then touch a UI.
When you have Glassdoor, PayScale and others out there sharing reviews and salaries. A spreadsheet is the state of the art at Google? They just lost their cred with me.
Or anyone with huge medical bills.
Old joke: Q: have you heard of the British version of Breaking Bad? A man finds out he has cancer and gets 5 years of free excellent health care.
Or how's this grab you "Facebook Boffins Solve Education Problem!"
In which case it would've been "colourfully".
"What does this Facebook solotion do that couldn't be done on a piece of paper? "
Just a guess, spy ware.
At one charter school? How did they measure the impact on teachers' time? What impact did it have on students? Was there a controlled study which compensated for Socio-economic status, age, regional differences, etc.? Was there a longitude study which tracked student performance over time? Or is this just wishful thinking and huckstering?
How about "Facebook Engineers Have Solved Education's Worst Problem" as an alternative, or "One of Educations Worst Problems Solved at Facebook", or more colorfully "Facebook Engineers Slay Education Dragon!"
If you do not understand what is wrong with mixing singular with plural then there is no hope for you.
I have been on the receiving end of CA, CSC, IBM, and a host of smaller companies. They come in with promises spouting mumbo jumbo like "new economy", "webified", "whole new paradigm", "cloudified", "localized private cloud in a box", "XML", "webscale", "secret sauce", "Object Oriented", etc. and end up causing at least as many problems as they solve and then charge you for the privilege of fixing it.
They wear ceremonial garb (suits and ties in some cases, black t-shirts in others), often wave shine things around ("smart" phone, tablets, iWatches etc.) to show their geek cred. Ceremonial drugs are sometimes involved in the form of beer and martinis as well as ceremonial meals ("let's do lunch!").
So yeah, I see some parallels there.
How is this different from any other tech consultant? Seriously, if you sold Real Estate the same way software is sold you would go to prison. If you sold used cars the same way software is sold you would go to prison.
If accept the mainstream Bible there is no Hell.
You haven't said anything about your application. Do you run it continuously? Sporadically? Will the machine be sitting idle much of the time? Do you have the staff to support it? What about networking and storage? Do you have the ability to rapidly move and store data as the actual computing is only part of the story.
It may make sense to rent the time due to lower storage and maint. costs than to actually buy and maintain the infrastructure.
As in the modern as in approximately this century. I assumed when I said "NoSQL" you knew what I meant as opposed to "no sql".
May be he doesn't care about the money
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