In order to be like a "Real Job", then it needs to be done with no planning and result in wasted effort with no results.

social and cloud?

...in the meantime, they're throwing ads on the site unless you want to pay $50/year (current, well former, cost for Pro with unlimited storage is $25/year), and if you want twice as much space, then that will be $500. Personally, I was fine with the way that flickr was. Now I need a plan to rescue all my photos on there while I wait and see if I want to stick around the new ad-based site.

They aren't trying to "solve" the traffic jam. They do that for a few reasons:
1. The stopping distance of a fully loaded semi is far greater than any car. They need a buffer so that they don't plow into the car in front of them and an extra buffer on top of that because somebody is going to jump into the space they just created.
2. stop/go is really costly for a semi...not sure if you've noticed how long it takes for a semi to get up to speed when fully stopped.
3. They have cargo that can't be sent flying all about. It should be secured properly, but there's no reason to upset it further with a lot of starts/stops.

Why should they? Engineers are on the application side of things....they use the existing tools (equations) to build other things. They don't need to know exactly how the tools work as long as they can be trusted to work. The only courses I had that were proof intensive were on the more pure math side of things, linear algebra and number theory, that I took because they sounded interesting and useful. There were some proofs mentioned during lecture for the calc -> diff. eq. and a couple of numerical courses, but we were never tested on them.

Hmmm...how about something www.capistranoswallows.com running on a raspberry pi to present a webpage like http://www.abevigoda.com/

The ars article is light on details, but it looks like the author is leaning towards training a neural net to do the pattern matching since he mentions http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA320924

I probably wouldn't go the FFT route since a neural net or wavelets probably work better...but I also haven't done anything of the sort in the past 5-10 years, so maybe things got better. You're looking at the audio signature to determine lean fuel?

What question were you asking? The last time I opened a ticket with Red Hat was shortly after RHEL6 came out. It was answered accurately within about 8 hours, and it wasn't a priority 1 kind of issue.

That is exactly what my last 3 English teachers did. They would mark improper grammar and spelling errors, but generally did not care as long as the content was effectively presented. These courses were all generally above the required university-level writing courses though, so it wasn't like we were turning in a bunch of youtube comments. At that point, our teachers let us into the secret of English writing...grammar really doesn't exist as long as your writing is understandable.

My theatre teacher took a different approach though and would make us re-write a paper that had grammatical errors. He also did not point out what they were. In those instances, we had to rely on our classmates to check our work.

For the haters:
SaaS = Web 2.0
IaaS = VM
PaaS = Don't have a single dismissive equivalency for this one, but I'm thinking one of those point and click things where you move blocks around to make a "program".

For the parent, thanks for the concise descriptions that I can point to...and I do consider all the *aaS buzzwords since they generally describe things that have existed for years. The *aaS trick is mostly automation. I'm thinking "click button and get a VM" vs "poke admin and get a VM".

zsh isn't too obscure for the enterprise...it comes with RHEL. zsh tricks are better left after learning sh, bash, and ksh though.

That is a bizarre world indeed. Since when does VMWare own SuSE? Last a heard they were bought from Novell by Attachmate, and I don't see where anything has changed there.

Since they're all pretty much the same these days, what is it that you're striking out and changing?

Or send him to the upside-down-ternet

Programmers can continuously get things wrong until they get it right, testing and refining along the way. While "simpler", an electrician needs to get it right the first time.