aperture's comments

Most kids do have this issue, and I only find that they make one or two projects from school and that's about it. I already have a school project made up, but plan to also work on other projects (hopefully with other people). I'm fairly good with Java and Python, but I regularly try challenges on websites to improve my language design, readability, and uses to fix a specific problem.

:) Build my portfolio I will try to do!

Thank you for the comment, I will check into "Ask the Headhunter". At the moment I am actually job hunting for the summer, and at the very least the reading may help with this as well.

I see, I'll try to narrow myself down to a niche that I can do rather well, but I'll do so by trying a wide array of projects that I may find interesting. Communication is always key, and I will also go for the smaller companies as well as the tech giants we are all familiar with. I will definitely look into going to California (as well as New York) in order to get a feel for the environment that may best suit me. Thank you for the tips and locations!

Thanks, I appreciate the comment! I'm usually very good at presentation, and regularly try to practice coding for those dreaded puzzle questions, but is there any more prep work I should do for work in 2015? Should I give calls and look for a job before moving, and is silicon valley really the only place to look to?

I'm sorry, I didn't mention! I would like to do some application development, ideally I'd like to refactor some large business application, or deal with unix and linux system development. Which is why I don't really do much with the web. (side note: is this a bad path to take?)

Thank you for the thread link. Actually, the most respectable company in my area I met at the local tech meetup, and I managed to get an internship there (I had to leave, and wasn't paid, but that was what taught me about Sans, major networking, and esxi, which I previously never knew even existed).

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I think it was a good post overall, but what got to me was his lack of doing anything about his issues. When Mr. Pike wanted a revolutionary OS, plan9 was created. When Mr. Pike wanted a language fixing problems dealt with in C, Go was created. When it comes to a machine that's roll-able without persistent local storage, he merely wishes for it to be a reality? I can understand if, through working with Google, the only research in that area is tied to the Chromebook, but still. He certainly has the capability to cause influence (First link on hn), but he's not getting into the core of the problem. I love this guy just as much as the rest of the community, but I find it puzzling steps aren't already being taken to make this next dream of his a reality. I also agree that cloud is not the answer for everything, so it would be enlightening for a new tablet-esque roll able device to be made that swims against the general Mac-inspired cloud tablet trend. But if Rob Pike isn't going to make it a reality, I doubt someone else will release it in his vision or to his liking. Perhaps he has a few ideas or tricks to make things "just work". And that's what I'd look forward to.

Probably, but realize that at first this wasn't true. Go needs time to grow, just as C grew to different systems.

Looking at other systems such as Haiku shows that porting Go is encouraged, the only issues have to deal with assumptions in the build (in this case, I think /bin/env/bash is included everywhere, there's no global variable to change this definition from different OS types).

One day we may see a change in Go for different platforms, but I don't think it will prove to hinder that many people, only the niche groups. And for all intents and purposes, Go is built for practical application (!! Don't kill me !!), which systems programming on plan9 or haiku may not be considered "practical" at the moment.

EDIT: for clarity.

A great talk, but quite sad that it's on infoq.com , given the difficulty of getting pdf, registration, and that everything is run through .swf so those with flash are left without alternatives. Tidbit of viewing the source gives on lines 989 and 990 some insight on controlling slides, since they seem to load based on time delays. :P It's also quite the array that's created, but I suppose that's all part of making a website.

gokgs.com was a great place to hang out in to play some games, if you can make online friends. Rengo is also easier to get set up online. ^_^ But it certainly is crazy!

Respectfully, I believe you are wrong that the "golly gee shucks, I just didn't know" defense will be applied here. Under that statute, you see subsection a (parts i, ii, and iii). However, it goes on to explain in subsection b:

  (B) does not receive a financial benefit directly attributable to the infringing activity, in a case in which the service provider has the right and ability to control such activity; and 
  (C) upon notification of claimed infringement as described in paragraph (3), responds expeditiously to remove, or disable access to, the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity. 

Under this, the only debate is section B, which is that this individual profited explicitly off of copyright material. He can argue he profited off of the service, and it was not being serviced for the use of explicitly copyrighting material.

As for section C, obviously in the article he not only took measures himself to try to stop copyright material once reported, but he even ALLOWED companys to do it themselves.

The jury can find this more than reasonable. And it can be argued from a legal point of view, moral or immoral. The defense is based on the statues protection, not the kindness of the courts.