Comment Re:A lot of bits (Score 1) 323
He said possible, not likely or known...
He said possible, not likely or known...
I currently interview for engeering positions. We get *very* few older applicants. I'm not sure i believe all of these
older engineers who are out of work
exist. At the very least, I haven't seen their resumes.
In my experience, competent engineers tend to have jobs.
The excuse for the H1-B visa is that you can't find anyone to do that work.
This is not entirely untrue -- Where I live, it's really hard to find competent engineers. Many people graduating college are simply not qualified to do many of these jobs that foreigners are imported for.
OK, then they should invalidate ALL certificates, test customers for the patch, give patched customers new certs, and refuse to give new certs to unpatched customers. It's their business to maintain a 'web of trust'.
Yes.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/ap...
There is an x server for the ipad...
It's not laziness. It's to fit each line of code in an 80 column display.
It's not about helping valve out, it's about the market forcing prices to be low. it's capitalism working. The games will cost what they have to, and not more (this is the idea anyway)
The fear is that the presence of free games will cause an overall drop in quality; mobile gaming is used as evidence of this.
I know...
Everything is coming up Millhouse!
how much worse could your boss/team lead/manager screw things up if they thought they could code?
Maybe they would be better at their jobs if they knew a little more about software, and that it is not black magic, but an art that takes time and care to get good results.
In any university-track school curriculum, calculus is a requirement, not an elective.
Yea, but the problems are the following:
1) except for engineering and math students, very few students will *take* higher math classes in college
2) the first two weeks of college calculus covered more then the entire year of high-school calculus. It's slowed down so people who want to go to college, but don't want to take math, can keep up.
3) learning abstract logic through programming in an expressive language like python or ruby (or perhaps some domain-specific language) is much more applicable to day-to-day life then calculus, which is only really used by engineers and scientists. Even math-heavy jobs like those in the accounting and finance fields don't use much calculus, do they?
I'm sorry. My responses are limited. You must ask the right questions.
Does it bother any of my fellow pedantic Slashdot that the software depicted in the movie "Her" isn't really an OS, and doesn't perform the functionality of an OS (such as scheduling and memory management), but rather a novel user-interface layer, and would likely be implemented as some user space package?
i guess what i'm trying to ask is...is Siri an OS now? is sphynx?
yes, but in C you can use it as both. if you type-pun a pointer-to-struct-pixel to a pointer-to-struct-coord, the addresses work out the same. add a few function-pointers, and you can get some pretty good polymorphism going.
All great discoveries are made by mistake. -- Young