This is banking IT security at its finest. Nothing like being overly secure with our Accounts and Personal Data.

If you are working with something that naturally is in landscape mode, say, a powerpoint presentation, then landscape is the best choice. For me, having as much of the document on screen to minimize scrolling is a bigger plus. I do a lot more scrolling that I do panning, so minimizing that is better.

If I want to compare code, side-by-side in landscape mode is better. I use the the diff tool and it helps having the extra horizontal space.

When I can writing code (maybe it is just me) but I like to see as many lines of code as possible on the screen as possible. That is why most coders reduce their type size to just above micro print. It sure would be nice to have some more vertical lines. I find that too much scrolling just breaks up being in the zone.

Our brains are aligned horizontally too. That is why when we lay down in bed and turn our brains vertically, we go to sleep.

For viewing images or watching movies or playing games landscape view works best. For most all other cases, reading documents, coding, surfing the web, portrait view is better. Think about the flow when you are reading, isn't it natural that you want to see more rather than scrolling up and down?

First sharks, and now this....

The CS graduates at my college have required courses in discrete math, data structures, algorithms, compiler theory, operating systems theory, assembler language, graphics, database theory, microprocessor systems with electives in parallel programming, functional languages, machine learning, information theory, complexity theory, computer architecture and artificial intelligence. Are you telling me that all those courses can be crammed into a 19 week boot camp? We don't have courses like JavaScript, web design, html, css, agile and ruby. If you couldn't pick them up on your own, you weren't smart enough to be in the program.

That is the point, you DO need to know what is going on underneath.

There is functional requirements and non-functional requirements, both are important for the projects to be successful. I was on a team creating a moderately complex system. One of the programmers checked in a perfectly correct functional code but did not meet the performance requirement. The conversation went something like this.

Me: Your code works fine but I need it to be 5 times faster.
Coder: [Looking at me like I just turned green and grew horns] Can't we just up the hardware requirement.
Me: Sure, if you want our customers carrying around laptops the size of suitcases.
Coder: All I do, in the code, is call the library functions.
Me: The library function is totally inefficient for the algorithm you are trying to implement. You need to recode the function manually.
Coder: But how do I do that.
Me: You need to write it in OpenCL and use the GPU.
Coder: [Turns white as a ghost]

If you want your skills to be more than sorting a list or changing the color of the font, you have to know what is going on underneath.

The test for speed is not 16Pflops of raw computation but 16Pflop on the Linpack test suite. And no the cloud cannot do 16Pflops as they measure it on a supercomputer. You may be able to spin up more nodes to get more cpu power but I cannot spin up 100 new network connects and get 100x the bandwidth. Or get the sub microsecond latency of a supercomputer no matter how many connections you have.

Supercomputer are in a class by themselves.

There is a reason that organizations by supercomputers. There is no cloud in the world that can do what this computer does. None. Nada.

Cloud computing can run multiple copies of Office and host a website but when you need real horsepower, you get a supercomputer.

That is like making a crime website but not reporting on murders and robberies.

Guys, do we really need 273 Gbit/s to the home that fiber provides. Isn't this just a bandwidth pissing match. My neighborhood has more bandwidth than yours.

I, for one, would be happy with 1GigE connection. Extra bandwidth would just bring diminishing returns. What education, what healthcare and social good needs that kind of bandwidth? So now you get your Youtube videos a millisecond faster.

Think of all the children that grew up using 28.8k modems. Oh, the humanity.

I think the Klingons have been taking all the lithium from the galaxy in the form of dilithium crystals.

I agree, the space shuttle had backup and redundancy for all the safety critical systems.
'We have trusted the computer to do math perfectly.' and then along can the Pentium Bug.

We know there will be errors with the neural nets. There will be edge cases (like the one described with the cat), corner cases, bizarre combination of inputs that result in misclassifications, wrong answers and bad results. This happens in the real world too. People misclassify things, get things wrong, screw up answers.

The lesson is not to trust the computer to be infallible. We have trusted the computer to do math perfectly. 1 + 1 = 2, always, but is not so for neural nets. It is one thing if the neural net will not tag the photo of your cat on Facebook even if there are 100 other pictures of your cat on your account. It is another if your photo get misidentified as being a terrorist on the "kill on sight" list.

The question is what do we do with the errors?