You are NOT a Software Engineer! - Chris Aitchison. You are not a Software Engineer.
You do not build skyscrapers. You do not build bridges. You grow gardens. You are a Software Gardener. Do you try to plan your gardens in such detail that you know where each leaf will be positioned before you plant a single seed? You probably have a good idea of what your garden should look like a week into the future. If you were building a bridge or a skyscraper and you told me, before you began, that you knew exactly how it would look when it was finished – I would believe you. So why do so many gardens fail, yet so many skyscrapers succeed? Remember that time when someone in your company unsuccessfully used an Agile gardening methodology, and then went around saying that it was horse shit that doesn’t work? Unlike a skyscraper, your garden will grow weeds. In most countries, Engineers need a license to build a bridge. I am a Software Gardener. Marijuana: Much More Than You Wanted To Know. This month I work on my hospital’s Substance Abuse Team, which means we treat people who have been hospitalized for alcohol or drug-related problems and then gingerly suggest that maybe they should use drugs a little less.
The two doctors leading the team are both very experienced and have kind of seen it all, so it’s interesting to get a perspective on drug issues from people on the front line. In particular, one of my attendings is an Obama-loving long-haired hippie who nevertheless vehemently opposes medical marijuana or any relaxation on marijuana’s status at all. He says that “just because I’m a Democrat doesn’t mean I have to support stupid policies I know are wrong” and he’s able to back up his opinion with an impressive variety of studies. To be honest, I had kind of forgotten that the Universe was allowed to contain negative consequences for legalizing drugs. So I’ve been doing the research. I. Starting in the 1990s, several states legalized medical marijuana. II. How To Be A F%#king Man… Steve Kelly. Building your own supercomputer using Ubuntu and Kerrighed: Introduction: The following page describes how to build your very own supercomputer using household-type easily available parts and tying them all together using Kerrighed, a Single System Image operating system for clusters.
This guide is mainly based on the install guide located at www.kerrighed.org, but includes many extra details! Hardware Requirements: There are few hardware requirements when it comes to choosing parts for building your own supercomputer, but there are a few options that will make the install significantly easier. 1) Your motherboards must support PXE booting 2) Your motherboards should have VGA ports on the back. 3) Your motherboards should have onboard Gigabit Ethernet, if not you will have to buy extra network cards in order to connect them all together. 4) It's also handy if your motherboards support multicore CPU's so you can squeeze in more processing power into less space. Open up a terminal and run.