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The skills you need to do IT aren't something you can really learn in school in any way shape or form. These include customer service skills, understanding the needs of a business intimately and learning how real business are run. The people that are passionate about doing IT in that context are far and few between. Since it's seen as a service job, it forces a lot of people into other disciplines after a couple of years behind the helldesk.

Many IT shops also fail at communication. There is a lot that we do behind the scenes and no IT shop i've been at is doing a decent job constantly reminding everyone why they are there. Organisations need to know what improvements IT is working on and how it will better serve their needs, and they need to get excited by it. People get excited when Apple introduces new technology, but they get less excited when suddenly they can log in everywhere with the same password. Market that better.

IT, Operations, DB and Co. will resent you for asking for things when they are already busy putting out fires, fulfilling all your other requests and being the whipping boys and girls of your organisation. Google is a notable exception because their IT department is far better managed than most. Make sure all your technical service departments are tightly aligned with the mission critical things in your org and make sure management is shielding them from requests that get in the way. The more focus the techs have on core things, the faster they get done and suddenly the more spare time they have to help you get your project done on time too. Time management and business planning is key here.

Finally quit this 'for the CEO' or 'for Alan' mentality. If someone's computer fails, it should be replaceable within a couple of hours. This special person who's making a larger salary than you should understand better than any one else, never be dependent on a single point of failure to run a business. This doesn't mean a CEO has to be a tech genius or your star programmer an IT genius. They should just be smart enough to ask their IT department ahead of time 'what do i do when my computer fails?'.
It's possible to split up the euro the same way it was put together: peg the national currencies to a pseudo-Euro for a transitional period. There might not be enough time for that to work in a crisis, though.
It's not forbidden. It's just rarely considered worth the space. I hate to say "lurk more", but you are new here, and you don't yet understand the complexities.
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That's actually very similar to my situation, and I sympathize.

I was told verbally that I could use IIS, Access, and Perl (I didn't know it at the time) to whip up my project. And then inexplicably a number of Perl tutorials were flagged by the agency firewall at the time. Also, I tend to read sites like this one in case something useful comes up - and of course, these kinds of sites are blocked.

I illicitly installed IIS, Access, and Perl while waiting for approval and the day the guy came in to install I faked some meeting so he'd come back in 20 minutes, uninstalled everything, and then let him install things.

But that's not as funny to me as the original telling.
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It was also very common in the past that Germany could not sell all bonds offerd.
The rate of return for German Bonds is very low now, no wonder that the demand is also low. It is just how markets work.
The fact that this makes it to the headlines is alarming not the fact itself.
The point is that Germany IS going to pay for the crisis anyway, because if Greece, Spain and Italy defaulted, the German banks would lose hundreds of billions of euros of German money. The European economy would enter a crisis that would last years (decades?), and most of German exports are to other European countries - thinking that they could have a great economy amid a European depression is just stupid. And I'm not even thinking about the possibility of wars should become "everyone for himself" in Europe again.

So, it isn't a matter of self interest vs. generosity: it is a matter of understanding that it would be MUCH less costly to make the ECB lender of last resort now than to wait and just hope that things will fix themselves. Moreover, in Italy the only real risk is that of interest rates on its massive debt going too high: Italy already has a primary budget surplus, with "normal" rates the debt would already be shrinking.
It seems to me that people that don't read self-help books lump a lot more books into the genre and that causes them to miss a number of books they should read.

Earlier this year I recommended Bargaining for Advantage to someone and they responded that they don't really read self-help books. There are a number of books like this that deal with particular topics inside of the broader self-help genre, many of them going to a much more useful level of depth.

In bookstores I regularly find very good books on particular areas of business mixed in with self-help in the more populist style.

Reading a number of these expert titles is very valuable. From the popular group often only one book is enough to cover the common sense side of things, for instance I recommend that all my friends read "how to Win friends and influence people".
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It's a profit driven industry like any other. I find it disgusting, but I don't find it surprising.
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> Also, litigation is a problem for health care. We all pay for outrageous punitive damage awards.

I'm not an expert, but I think it's very important for us (normal citizens) to be skeptical of these kinds of claims:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tort_reform#Healthcare_industry

Large corporations have created a mythology of an epidemic of frivolous lawsuits that Americans have completely internalized: those women weren't sexually harassed they just wanted to be bought off, or: she probably spilled coffee on herself on purpose.

Also, you mention government bureaucracy and efficiency: I think it's worth pointing out that you can have a large amount of inefficient private sector bureaucracy, where the government could step in and create a more efficient system. The highway system is one obvious example. I think healthcare is also in this category.
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Its not that self-help books are bullshit, its that most people don't have the willpower to actually change their lifestyles. They're afraid of stepping outside of their comfort zone, because they're afraid of failing, being criticized, working hard, etc. The excuses vary. Self-help books possess a lot of great knowledge, but if people actually followed the advice they read, every self-help writer would be out of a job. I once read through a few books but never took initiative to change anything in my life. Then I stumbled upon "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill, and it was so effective at changing my attitude that I've never bothered to read any more self-help books or blogs afterwards.
I've been seeing Wadwha's pieces all over the place, they are, as far as I can tell, completely rehashes of each other.

I believe in skilled immigration to the USA, and that the current system is badly b0rked (and in fact somewhat "geared" towards illegal immigration) but these articles, with their leaps of logic and poor reasoning strike me as a setback for any sort of immigration reform.

At least he's advocating, which is good, and given the low IQ of Congress, it probably doesn't matter that his articles leave much unanswered and generally fall short of being cogent arguments. But noise probably works better than cogency in this regard.
Yeah, I tend to agree with you. I can code when not in The Zone, but there's NOTHING like the productivity you get when you're cranking out code.

He claims you'll be revisiting that code. So what? Maybe HIS code, written in The Zone, comes out as crap, but mine is as solid as my "normal" code. It's certainly better than my "stay up all night until the bug is fixed" code; THAT is something that I've stopped doing, thankfully, because when that happens I typically have to clean up a mess no matter how much of a slog the code was to write.

In fact, his comment that you'll come back to code written in The Zone more often is tautological if you end up writing most of your code that way, since bugs typically correlate to lines of code. You could have half as many bugs per line in your Zone code as the rest, and if 80% of your code is written in the Zone, it will still seem like you spend most of your time debugging it.

To be fair, I've also managed a Zen coding state that's not quite Zone, but not as painful as the state you describe. Code gets written at a relatively calm pace, and I keep going until I either fall out of the state or achieve The Zone. The advantage is that I can transition in and out of the Zen state more quickly, so I can manage interruptions.
"Regulation" causes investment strategies to be more homogeneous, which often means one large bubble instead of lots of small ones. It is far from obvious that this is a better situation to be in.
Yes exactly! I've been telling anyone who would listen that most of the high-speed rail projects going in now will be seen as gigantic white elephants in 30 years. They'll be unable to service their debt due to low ridership and will become another nail in the coffin of government solvency.

It's not going to be just robo-cars, but efficient electrically powered robo-cars that make the difference. Even though they won't be quite as efficient as rail on a per-kilometer basis they will be able to take you point-to-point rather than having to transfer to a bus or rental car once you reach LA.

The other factor — which many of you seem to ignore — is that train travel kind of sucks with small children. You have to drive to the train station, then drag kids, strollers, diaper bags, etc onto the train, then repeat the process at your destination. Obviously it's doable to take the train but I would still prefer to have my own personal vehicle even if it costs a little more and takes a little longer.

The future of transportation is personalized and distributed. Not some huge, inflexible, government-controlled monolith that's incapable of adapting to changes in travel patterns.
Probably not, as then you have to play around with blending two images and (un?)distorting them to match each other's shape. That's the hard part - people tend to take pictures in order rather than randomly.
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Oh, the immune system's function is to sequester and kill pathogens, so it's no surprise that it has the right tools to attack the body if it gets confused (e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_storm). I just don't see any demonstrated or plausible way to distinguish a 12C (1:10^24) dilution of anything from a plain water placebo.
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This is correct. A modern bankrun is not by ordinary savers, but by institutions moving millions or billions from one instition to another, by the click of a mouse. This is what nearly got out of hand in 2008.
WTF? My house is pretty far from being a sterile environment.
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A directional antenna or two with some kind of actuator might help. A couple of cantennas that could aim themselves could solve a lot of problems. But there's still a lot of problems left. Ultimately, you either get really poor bandwidth, or can only have static assets (like movie files, which don't need to change over time and can be cached by someone nearby with a few big hard drives).
Consider before github's neato fork network view..... Oss projects still had branches and forks and experiments all over the world privately and publicly.... Github just makes it easier, and keeps improving.
the simplest reason that everybody hates the IT department is because there's such a huge competency disparity. during the average workday, the people you interact with during the course of your duties will be roughly at the same competency level as you, and you can talk to each other as roughly equals even across vastly different fields. The IT guy, however, could be at the complete opposite end of the spectrum (either way). if you're some low-level cubicle drone and you're calling the IT guy in charge of the ~100 computer network covering your floor, chances are he'll be the smartest person you talk to all week. he resents you (for good reason) when you call him up to ask how to save a file, the sentiment comes through and creates bad feelings. if the smart guy running the network has managed to scrape together a bit of budget and hire somebody to handle his front line support stuff so he can get some real work done, it's also possible that the guy who answers your support call will be the dumbest person you meet all week. either way, it makes for a bad experience.
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I'd like to note that every single item listed in this is a technical barrier. There are no political barriers, there are no wealth or resource barriers. RF is free to use on the spectrum we need it to work on (ok, until that's illegal). It's that it's a hard, hard problem to solve and it hasn't been solved yet. Do not let that stop anyone from continuing to do work on this: maybe it will get solved.
NwHIN Direct is specifically trying to become the SMTP of medical communications. Which is fine as far as it goes, but covers only a few limited use cases.

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Sounds like a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_defined_antenna would be perfect here.

Use omni to find nodes (low bandwidth, high noise), then make the antenna directional for the full communication (higher bandwidth, lower noise).
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Directional antennas don't help create a "mesh", since they (by definition) only connect stations in a direct line with each other -- a mesh is supposed to connect to multiple other stations, so that if one goes offline, a route can be found through another. A directional antenna will only (typically) connect to one other node.
Speaking as a photojournalist-turned-engineer, I think the idea of hacking photography is what got me into hacking software in the first place. I started collecting old cameras and fixing/modding them, making them do different things depending on what I liked, as opposed to what they were designed to do. Admittedly, being a gearhead doesn't help in the slightest, but playing around with cameras does lead to some interesting photography. Of course, all that hinges on having a somewhat relevant subject matter.

I had it explained to me once by one of my photoj professors that the photo consists of a message you're trying to convey about a subject. That can be done through technical proficiency or some strange artistic effects, so long as they all point towards the same message. Anything outside of that is just noise. Either technique for technique's sake or artistic effects for the effects' sake.
This is why I haven't yet read all of Peter Norvig's coding essays -- you can depend on him to publish code that's really hard to improve on (by the metrics he's writing for, like clarity). I like to write my own first before reading someone else's, because yes, it really does help you suck the juice out of a learning opportunity. Feynman and Turing both seem to have emphasized this too.

Really polished code is hard to find. I've been playing around off and on with Ken Thompson's regular expression search paper most recently.
IT is a cost centre. there's no way around that. telling IT not to be a cost centre is like telling building operations not to be a cost centre.
And only two of them are today considered humanities, which is what a lot of non-humanities people seem to be thinking when they say liberal arts.

As someone who briefly attended a liberal arts college, when I hear liberal arts I understand it to mean something that encourages dance majors to take materials science courses just as much as vice-versa.
I generally agree, but I tried to shed some light on the fundamental physics/math behind why building such a network is impractical. In any case, it might one day be possible, but I think a better use of resources (especially for non- and semi-technical people) is to contribute to the social movement around Internet free speech and to build real-world political networks.
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I'm dabbling in this a bit, currently designing a game as a hobby project. There's a number of frameworks available that can ease development though none are perfect.

LimeJs (http://www.limejs.com/) - seems the most mature. Its built upon Google's Closure library. I personally found it a bit cumbersome, though certainly powerful. Optimal performance is obtained by using the Closure compiler.

CraftyJs (http://craftyjs.com/) - was the easiest to get something up and running quickly. If you've ever played around with Unity3D, it basically follows the GameObject model wrapped in a jQuery like syntax; which feels very natural. Performance was decent but I've run into bugs as the project is fairly new.

Cocos2D Js (http://cocos2d-javascript.org/) and EaselJs (http://www.easeljs.com/) - are probably good options but I preferred the other two.

There's also a few vaporware projects that would be amazing if they would ever release, namely RocketPack (http://rocketpack.fi/) and GameClosure (http://gameclosure.com/)
Even an electronically steerable antenna would help, but then you start running up the cost of equipment. Interference is still an issue since one must always be listening from all directions for possible transmissions. Spectrum and time scheduling remain a (NP-)hard problem as well. You're up against fundamental laws of physics and computer science: pick your poison. :)
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The use of "reality distortion field" is out of place here. It used to highlight a difference in culture, but I see no "distortion field" here. It is also applied something that has no standard. How old is a company before its no longer considered a startup? Reality? What is reality in a startup anywhere in the world?
It's true that new companies create less jobs than they used to. Previously they used to create 7.5 jobs/company, today only 4.5[1]. that means 2.3 million jobs instead of 3 million.

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I think the failure is speculated to be caused by buggy reverse-engineered railway control systems --so not a problem with the system, but rather the implementation.
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It doesn't matter if he is. What matters is that employees can compete with employers. Not all employees must be ready to become employers for there to be competition for employees.
There's two different ways of looking at this sort of issue though.

One is from the perspective of a participant in the job market, from that point of view it isn't such a huge problem. Predicting where efficiency improvements will shift factor intensity from labour to capital is something that most people here are able to do for their own field. I'm sure, for instance, that every system administrator reading this has already taken into account the effect of cloud services on their career. Smart people will build their expertise in managing cloud systems, move into a tighter integration with developers (DevOps), or specialise in an area that is more resistant to being moved into the cloud for performance and security reasons.

That's great, but it's a little like developing an optimal musical chairs strategy, if there are 10 such jobs today and 9 tomorrow then one person isn't going to have a job. Even if he has also tried to adopt an optimal strategy.

That brings me to the second view, which is viewing the entire system from the outside. That can be in the role of an economist, a citizen, whatever. From that macro point of view, what is important is only the following: Will the net job losses in this particular job eventually be outweighed by countervailing job gains in other parts of the economy?

Historically, that has always been the case. Ever since this became a topic of discussion in the early industrial revolution it has happened time and time again that new jobs pop up that no-one could have imagined a generation ago. The question is though, is that inevitable? Will there come a point where job losses from efficiency will outpace the gain in new jobs? I have no idea what the answer to this is.

If it were to come to pass that huge swathes of the population simply don't have any valuable labour to exchange, then the basis of an economy and society based on the exchange of labour for resources would unravel.
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I do not hate my IT dept. They're very prompt.