CyberFonic

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by CyberFonic 6y ago
The clue in your description is that you are a software engineer in management. I would guess that most if not all the other managers are from non-technical backgrounds. Thus they are directly or indirectly indoctrinated into MBA and&#x2F
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by CyberFonic 6y ago
Which room? Why do you ask?
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by CyberFonic 6y ago
Sadly that is a very common situation. Thus even more fitting to celebrate those who are still working, learning and enjoying their programming careers.
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by CyberFonic 6y ago
The only Power based supercomputers I can think of are all from IBM. Does any other vendor use them? Power CPUs tend to power either iSeries (latest iteration of AS/400 - System38 etc) systems or AIX based. The large AIX systems use
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by CyberFonic 6y ago
I have worked for companies that used both. Based on those experiences: Use Power RISC with AIX in established IBM user organisation that wanted to run Unix software so we ported existing software to AIX. Use existing s390 system running s
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by CyberFonic 6y ago
It's many years since I last saw or worked on a PDP-11. The only operational ones I know of are as embedded systems, that includes LSI-11 variants. That is, industrial and niche scientific applications. I have worked extensively in fi
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by CyberFonic 6y ago
I'm struggling with your question, yet intrigued by the problem. When you are new in an organisation, it is very common to feel awkward in making smalltalk and being remote would make it even more so. What technology are you conductin
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by CyberFonic 6y ago
They should be paying you more, because they are saving on office space rental when you work remotely. So they are not only saving on salaries, but on rents as well. Cheeky bastards.
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by CyberFonic 6y ago
Yet another example of how clueless managements are. They are incapable of actually assessing value of the actual work performed. So they use proxy metrics like LoC, hours worked, in-person presence in the office. If you want to paid very
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by CyberFonic 6y ago
Selling the vision is both an in-house as well as marketing aspect. When you have hundreds of people working on the product design and realisation, the CEO has to figure out how to make payroll, keep investors happy, get suppliers to extend
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by CyberFonic 6y ago
I did some work with SWI-Prolog. It is useful when the problem can be effectively translated into Prolog's preferred form of terms and rules. But the solver mechanism only solves a subset of logical inference needs. Prolog's use o
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by CyberFonic 6y ago
Your questions are well answered by Paul Graham in http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html . There are many Common Lisp and Scheme environments. Many have excellent JIT compilers. They all have their relative strengths and weakn
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by CyberFonic 6y ago
United Nations has 193 member countries. Of those only a handful can lay claim to having one or more big open-source projects/libraries/languages. So the question does not relate solely to India. Looking at what factors lead to
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by CyberFonic 6y ago
In financial capitals, actuaries are amongst the top earners on par with lawyers.
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by CyberFonic 6y ago
I know several very successful actuaries who also write a fair bit of advanced code. Insurance companies are always looking for quantitative improvements and it is far more expedient when the actuary doesn't have to explain (in excruci
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by CyberFonic 6y ago
One of my friends got his PhD in math a couple of years ago. He has since been working for various merchant banks and investment managers as a consultant. I have come across several other math majors in insurance industry as well.
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by CyberFonic 6y ago
Not exactly the answer you are looking, but in my view: Academic research is focused on extending / expanding the knowledge in a very specific and often narrow field. The papers are written for other scholars working in the same or rel
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by CyberFonic 6y ago
What? and deprive the managers of being able to lord over their domain? They get the fits if they don't see hundreds bent over in servitude.
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by CyberFonic 6y ago
It's far more than a nickel difference. Any useful private office is about 100 sq ft. In an open office you can do with about 20 sq ft per person. So you cram the workers into bull pens and the managers can have acres of offices with
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by CyberFonic 6y ago
My preference is to go to the pub to brainstorm over burgers and beer. I did work for a small biz where the owner would take us all out on Friday for that purpose. Most productive place I ever worked at. Eventually got bought out by a muc
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by CyberFonic 6y ago
I find the worst interrupters are not co-workers but impatient, micromanaging managers. Yup, the Dilbertian PHB's -- there just are too many of them out in the wild.
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by CyberFonic 6y ago
I think the term "open plan office" is too generic. The example @jlengrand provides is the form of torture that drives people who need to think and concentrate to distraction. The most productive environments I have known are a m
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by CyberFonic 6y ago
Congratulations! Perhaps you could share with us, how you brought about being promoted on the basis that even yourself recognise you were not ready for it. Surely your certifications impressed your management even though you are yet to gai
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by CyberFonic 6y ago
The definition of "good developer" depends greatly on the context and environment. Based on my experiences in many different teams, I would suggest two critical attributes: 1. Strong knowledge of all core principles: computer arc
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by CyberFonic 6y ago
That is the core difference between academia and business. Any engineer who sits back and stares out the window thinking is reprimanded or even fired by the managers for not working.
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by CyberFonic 6y ago
If you write it, they'll use it ... and contribute to it ... and fix your bugs.
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by CyberFonic 6y ago
I don't find it weird. It's basically the smoothing effect of very large numbers which is what statistical analyses depend upon. If you wrote two new very different apps, then you may find different "steady state numbers&quot
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by CyberFonic 6y ago
It really depends on your marketing. If you simply display your app on G-Suite Marketplace, then people will discover your app by searching for specific terms. In the absence of some specific event to cause an increase in searches for the
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by CyberFonic 6y ago
It isn't a 56kHz channel. It is a 56k bps channel encoded as complex tones onto a 4kHz voice connection. The telephone system wiring does not have the bandwidth to carry a signal that is 2-3x the range of human hearing.
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by CyberFonic 6y ago
The technology problem is at the fax machine end. Fax machines have embedded modems which decode and respond with a complex set of tones to transmit and receive data that makes up the facsimile image (yup, it's all images to the fax an

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