I went to college in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and I can testify that about 30-40% of the CS students were female. And even then some people were expressing concern about how male-dominated the field was becoming.
>Furthermore, the stock market isn’t influenced by value today like it was thirty years ago. This simply isn't true. It was nearly 30 years ago that Warren Buffett published his article "The Superinvestors of…
This. And related to risk: When a website fails, it doesn't hurt anyone; if this tube were built, and then found to have a fatal design flaw, the liability would be enormous.
>Sure, if you have skills that are needed in Africa or Bangladesh, it's best to go there. But not everyone has such skills. That's the key. It sounds like Trigg has found a way to combine his skills with his values…
So, email corydoras@ridculousfish.com and he'll reply with a hint about his identity?
Red Hat is making pretty good money supporting GPL'd software, over $700 million in FY 2010.
The cartoon notes that the comparison was taken from Neil Postman's book "Amusing Ourselves to Death". Postman wrote this 25 years ago. If anything, his observation is even more true today.
When I decided I was ready to move on from my last job, I went over to the library (2 blocks away) to update my resume during my lunch hour. I saw that the library had an opening for a programmer, so I applied. I was…
I'm not convinced corporations would necessarily hire more people due to lower tax rates. If sales forecasts don't look promising, the additional workers' net contribution may be negative even with a 0% tax rate.
The copywriting is a little over the top, but my suggestion is for the book itself. I'd like to see more details. Your sample chapter on Lexers, for example, would be much stronger if you went into more details (maybe…
That's exactly the situation we had at the place I used to work. Management believed it was better to deal with the limitations of legacy software than with the expense of modernizing it. As of 2006, when I left, they…
Good point. I wonder how much of that is due to the long period of peace and prosperity that the U.S. has experienced; in the absence of any serious external threats, it becomes easier for partisans to squeeze their…
True; the larger problem here is with the medium itself: Twitter does not provide room for context or nuance.
Bytecode instructions?
Agreed about 40. That answer only works in English.
I doubt Sun planned for this. If it hadn't been for the financial downturn, Sun's acquisition of MySQL (with its 12 million customer base) could have been Sun's path to new profitability. Maybe not a guarantee, but I…
"you'll quickly see that only one, Peter Eisentraut, works for Sun" True, but Josh Berkus also worked for Sun until last summer. So maybe it's correct to say Sun has been a major backer.
I'd say OSX's (and Red Hat's) success bears testimony to the fact that good marketing, not good technology, is the deciding factor in market success.
No surprise. Someone using Firefox is not going to switch back to IE, just like someone who has a favorite text editor is not going to switch to the next version of Microsoft Notepad.
Who doesn't know? Well, my five-year-old is fascinated by these commercials. Of course, he doesn't have any gold to sell, but still... Actually, I've used it as a good learning experience for him. "Don't believe…
A degree will help you get your foot in the door if you're looking for your first programming job. Once you've got some real world experience, that's going to be much more valuable than what you might have studied in…
Kansas City area, USA.
I went to college in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and I can testify that about 30-40% of the CS students were female. And even then some people were expressing concern about how male-dominated the field was becoming.
>Furthermore, the stock market isn’t influenced by value today like it was thirty years ago. This simply isn't true. It was nearly 30 years ago that Warren Buffett published his article "The Superinvestors of…
This. And related to risk: When a website fails, it doesn't hurt anyone; if this tube were built, and then found to have a fatal design flaw, the liability would be enormous.
>Sure, if you have skills that are needed in Africa or Bangladesh, it's best to go there. But not everyone has such skills. That's the key. It sounds like Trigg has found a way to combine his skills with his values…
So, email corydoras@ridculousfish.com and he'll reply with a hint about his identity?
Red Hat is making pretty good money supporting GPL'd software, over $700 million in FY 2010.
The cartoon notes that the comparison was taken from Neil Postman's book "Amusing Ourselves to Death". Postman wrote this 25 years ago. If anything, his observation is even more true today.
When I decided I was ready to move on from my last job, I went over to the library (2 blocks away) to update my resume during my lunch hour. I saw that the library had an opening for a programmer, so I applied. I was…
I'm not convinced corporations would necessarily hire more people due to lower tax rates. If sales forecasts don't look promising, the additional workers' net contribution may be negative even with a 0% tax rate.
The copywriting is a little over the top, but my suggestion is for the book itself. I'd like to see more details. Your sample chapter on Lexers, for example, would be much stronger if you went into more details (maybe…
That's exactly the situation we had at the place I used to work. Management believed it was better to deal with the limitations of legacy software than with the expense of modernizing it. As of 2006, when I left, they…
Good point. I wonder how much of that is due to the long period of peace and prosperity that the U.S. has experienced; in the absence of any serious external threats, it becomes easier for partisans to squeeze their…
True; the larger problem here is with the medium itself: Twitter does not provide room for context or nuance.
Bytecode instructions?
Agreed about 40. That answer only works in English.
I doubt Sun planned for this. If it hadn't been for the financial downturn, Sun's acquisition of MySQL (with its 12 million customer base) could have been Sun's path to new profitability. Maybe not a guarantee, but I…
"you'll quickly see that only one, Peter Eisentraut, works for Sun" True, but Josh Berkus also worked for Sun until last summer. So maybe it's correct to say Sun has been a major backer.
I'd say OSX's (and Red Hat's) success bears testimony to the fact that good marketing, not good technology, is the deciding factor in market success.
No surprise. Someone using Firefox is not going to switch back to IE, just like someone who has a favorite text editor is not going to switch to the next version of Microsoft Notepad.
Who doesn't know? Well, my five-year-old is fascinated by these commercials. Of course, he doesn't have any gold to sell, but still... Actually, I've used it as a good learning experience for him. "Don't believe…
A degree will help you get your foot in the door if you're looking for your first programming job. Once you've got some real world experience, that's going to be much more valuable than what you might have studied in…
Kansas City area, USA.