I fail to see how this was an "ass kicking". Mr. Runyon met someone who's a pioneer in his field and had an enjoyable time listening to him rant about the iWhatever devices. Did Runyon also "get his shit pushed in" by Mr. Kirsch?
"The database, he said, has recently been used to investigate civilian deaths in Afghanistan and to judge claims by Iraqi villagers that bombs containing depleted uranium contaminated their water supply."
Wait, how about we have a "hackathon" to figure out ways to stops those bombs from being dropped in the first place! That would be totes awesome!
Worth a read: Pitfalls of Prophecy:
Why Science Fiction So Often Fails to Predict the Future , http://www.locusmag.com/2009/Westfahl_Predictions.html.
Why do they think that the fact that they write science fiction makes it worth listening to their predictions anyways? Well, besides the genre inferiority complex, which requires its hacks to pretend they're prophets, so they can feel important.
It's a matter of tone. Write in a dry voice, sound as disspassionate as possible, try to sound academic, and middlebrow readers will assume you must be a fount of un-biased, rational analysis.
If any of this blather is an attempt to prevent me from giving my money to Google instead of Dropbox, mission failed. Pay 2 to 4 times as much for the same service? I don't think so. Google wins, T. K. O., pwned with a capital P.
If you think solar or nuclear power will bring nigh infinite energy, say "solar/nuclear power will bring us nigh infinite energy." Using the words "asymptote" and "singularitarian" adds nothing to your highly dubious argument. I'm guessing you regret not finding a way to use the word "orthogonal" to mean "unrelated", too.
LOL @ Jessia not "talking you out of doing something crazy." You didn't do anything crazy, you put up a web page that says "I think Hollywood is doomed!". And that says you possibly might be willing to bet a few grand on someone who agrees with you, maybe. Oh Paul, you daredevil you!
Graham's Randian techno triumphalism(teh haxxors shall inherit the earth!) is becoming increasingly asinine I see. Movie studios are in decline? I thought their profits and share prices were public record, once you get past any creative accounting, but what do I know: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/13/movie-executives-see-r.... If anything a switch to streaming would throw the ball back into their court. In fact someone already created what Graham is asking for, you can see it at www.youtube.com. What's that? Youtube was built on copyrighted content? You say creating footage and promoting it ain't cheap? That the advent of digital video didn't kill Hollywood with a flood of indie films about ugly looking people and their depressing lives (which don't involve vampires and werewolves)? Oh...
I have no beef with Google doing this, but "censor" is a fine and accurate word for any kind of voluntary suppresion, even if it's now as pejorative as Nazi. Network TV censors rarely stop an entire show from airing, for that matter. e.g. "The show was heavily censored before airing". Let me guess what's next: a fatuous civics lesson on how it's not really "censorship" since Goog isn't the US government.
Indeed, it actually is widely viewed as a genre for 'hacks', so much so that I assumed he was using the old, non-stupid connotation of the word. See: last Sunday's episode of the Simpsons, which mercilessly mocked Harry Potter and its imitators. That being said, I enjoyed McCaffrey back in the day.
And that is what happens when you throw static type checking and the other safety features of compiled languages out the window, 'cause all the cool kids are doing it.
Excuse me, but the company decides what the titles for positions are, not the applicants. And I'm sure no one with "Software Engineer" in their title ever got laid off.
"But the article is really telling you to pick a job where you'll be considered King Shit!". Thanks for that great advice.
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Just read the lecture notes for a CS course that covers this already. It will almost always be a course that also covers the sorting algorithms and basic data structures(what is a linked list, tree, graph, etc.) It won't take that long. As for coming up with the Big-O omplexity for a routine on the spot, most job interveiws will throw something at you where it should be intuitive if you know the canonical algorithms. I have yet to read about someone having to solve a recurrence relation on the spot(everyone's already forgotten the cook book approach they learned in school, if they ever learned it at all). It's not a lot to remember, so no big deal if the only thing you use if for is to impress someone.
If you want true "Who gives a shit?" material from academia, try Automata Theory, or whatever the course where you learn about the pumping lemma is called. Never read about that coming up in an interview.