That ought to be easy to test, at least experimentally, using capsense...

I think you mean iCows.

Thanks for the info. I'm familiar with MP concepts but not openMP specifically. As for the AC being right or wrong, it doesn't matter. Neither of the AC comments in the tree were helpful in any real way and they were simply being snide, childish, dicks for no reason -- so 0/10 would not hire :-)

Note the weasel words "up to 16%". It means nothing. It could even be true if most certs have a negative impact on income. The lack of hard numbers says a lot.

You're been able to stuff data into the keyboard buffer and read it back for decades. Same as sticking executable code or data in an unused page of video ram that doesn't get reinitializes so it can survive a warm reboot. Ditto for a modem buffer (already an I/o device), as well as the buffer in a serial mouse. Even the old parallel printer ports.

EVERY cert test I've ever taken tests not knowledge of the subject

Because that's not their main value.

Hiring managers don't know enough to qualify candidates. So they hire people with certifications. That way, if the employee sucks they just say, "hey, he was properly certified - blame the certifier, not me."

It's CYA, blame-shifting, etc. The ability to deflect blame is quite valuable to people who are not qualified to be in their jobs, so they're willing to pay more to such employees, because such employees are valuable to them.

If the tests get too tough, the candidate pool will dry up, so that's never going to happen. For qualified interviewers, asking the questions isn't hard, so they don't have a use for the certifications.

Another factor is that such middle managers tend to be in the corporate world, as startups cannot afford either the inept middle managers or bad employees. Corporate jobs tend to pay more, so 16% does not seem unlikely at all, in aggregate of the two factors.

For that 16% you probably have to work at a dreary soul-crushing job, but if your interview doesn't consist of smart people asking you tough questions, you probably knew that already. Get busy with the 401(k) allocations so you can live out the end of your boring life in a median retirement community!

No, it means he wants shit for free and doesn't care if artists or their heirs get paid.

Your fallacy is strong with this one. Creator-endorsed is a much more civil system - copyright isn't the only way to get paid. It may be one way to get paid more, but that gets paid for with lives of innocents (and no, profit reduced from a hypothetical does not make one a victim).

The recent heroin overdose uptick seems to be caused by massive cutting with fentanyl and other adulterants, so people can't determine a safe dose.

Short of having generic heroin available at WalMart for five bucks, people are gonna keep dying. But, hey, why else is the US Army guarding the opium fields?

That is why you use Statistical Process Control.

I'm familiar with the system, but am still glad they do ultrasonic inspections of stress-critical airplane parts, not just a statistical sampling.

This has to do with costs vs. expenses. Settling all those wrongful death suits is expensive. Buying new rockets and payloads is expensive. Replacing dead cell phones is cheap.

If I were Musk, I'd hire some techs to do ultrasonic inspections of every strut on the way in. Or, even better, set a contract so that the failed vendor has to absorb the cost of the failed launch if the parts are not to spec.

The site operates from Canada. The law (Personal Information Privacy and Electronic Documents Act, aka PIPEDA) requires that all personal private information be deleted when the purpose for gathering it has passed. ALM web sites were not allowed to keep a copy and then charge money to permanently scrub data on closed accounts. Class action suit, anyone?

If I'm having a problem, then I ride the bleeding edge until the mainstream has a fix, then run that. Otherwise, boring is stable.

Who cares? Reality TV producers are pouring over the list right now to get the reactions of both the cheaters and their spouses. Popcorn shortages are imminent. Ditto divorce lawyers and body bags.

After a couple of decades of high profile data thefts (banks, govt, Microsoft, Apple, computer security firms) anyone who puts something on the internet and expects it to stay secret is a special kind of stupid.

Knowledge should be passed along, not hoarded. Everyone is at a different place on the learning curve. In practical terms, that means everyone is an idiot moron with respect to someone else - or, in your case, obviously many others.

I'm a Unix systems programmer and administrator and I routinely use both Emacs and Vi depending on the task. Vi is universally available out of the box and is really good for small, quick things while I prefer Emacs for larger, longer edits and development, especially on complex things with many files.

People get too cranked up over "this vs. that" when it really boils down to using the most appropriate tool for the task - that you're competent with. Emacs is a much more capable and sophisticated tool, but comes with a much higher learning curve. I've been using Emacs (and Vi) since the 1980s, and am more productive on most of my tasks using Emacs. That said, using it to edit a few lines in the hosts file is like trying to kill a mosquito with a sledgehammer.

Emacs and Vi both win when used appropriately.

It is possible to get muffins there or so it seems. I suspect you're more likely to get muffin tops though.