As someone who works in upstate NY where housing is cheaper. There is a trade off. The jobs available are not the exciting technology where you working on the next breakthrough. But the normal job using existing technology to solve problems that others have solved except it is cheaper for you to build it than buy it from someone else. There is no wow status for making a website for a government agency. Or getting two hospitals talk to each other. But that is the nature of tech jobs in the location.
Unless you can find an analog copier. The digital ones will put the watermark of the copier on it. And the analog copier often has defects due to analog technology that could allow it to be traced back.
Back in the day typewriters were traced back because of manufacturing defects so the e may be typed 1/24th of an inch higher and 1/12th inch to the left. A dot matrix printer could have pins that are in tolerance but have defects that could allow it to traced. The same with line impact printers.
So you prirate information that you feel is worthless. Why do wast your time on such an endeavor. The thing is such things are not free to make, it may be free to distribute and the fact that you do want it means there is actually some value to it. If it has value then you should pay for it in one way or an other.
The problem isn't with the device it is with the carriers. We have the ability to surpass home broadband speed over wireless but the carriers just charge us too much. These faster chips is like getting a high end sports car, while only driving it in city traffic.
Oh boo hoo those stupid millennials are no longer judging a quality of a TV show based on the past success of the companies that had aired them.
This isn't the bad millennials but the snowflake boomers who were handed these mega corporations and were too lazy to see the trends and adapt fast enough.
From the article and the post, it seems better idea to get a Night job for IT Guys working helpdesk from 5-1 sleep from 2-10 your business from 11-4, and work on your business during the day. You won't have free time, but 5 hours a week to get your company going can be good until you can justify yourself working full time.
I am not sure what is with this Millennial hate? Is it only because Generation X was just a boring name. I mean Generation X for a short time was the slacker generation, but that stopped fairly quickly. The Baby Boomers in my book are still the worse. Living off the benefits of winning WWII, where they grew up in housing funded by state government, and with state of the art infrastructure, parents who with the GI Bill had college education. All this stuff allowed them to get drugged up during their late teens and early 20's and still get into Dads business as a professional to pick up his business, learning the ropes and having dad retire at an early age. Then to call yourself a success if you didn't drive the company to the ground, and keeping your job well past the age you should retire, not training the newer generation the ropes. Living in a time period of long term economic growth. Now they are retiring, and the kids are trying to fill the void, however Boomers will not let them get a foot hold, cutting their salary so they cannot make a living, and then when they say it is unfair, they will just say you kids don't know about hard work.
For the most part Millennials are very hard workers, they found a way to survive in a period of economic stress, with a hostile to them work force.
Off-hours is the best time to implement new technologies. Also there is the online store, processing inventory...
With increase risk of computer security problems, off sourcing is increasingly a dangerous idea. Hiring an IT worker in India who is half as good but time times cheaper, back in the old days would seem like a good decision. However today, half as good, means you could be leaving yourself vulnerable
Other than just saying it was worse. How is was america worse during the Obama Administration? The Economy improved after a bad recession. Gas prices became low Improved rights for discriminated groups A larger portion of the population now has health insurance.
Yes they are trade-offs for these decisions, but for the most part from 2008-2016 increasingly got better.
No they are not. We have abandoned centrists, what ever party we most align to seems the most centrist. But the odd dicominary is while most people wants to seem like they are a centrist they normally reject voting for the more centrist person. Why because you can be a polar opposite of a centrist. You may be pro choice but wants less gun owner restrictions. While the centrist who is running would be pro life and wants more gun restrictions. The parties to survive need to be non centrist. Because then the people can choose from their grab bag on their beliefs and pick what they feel is more important and go with that.
Vs the right who just makes crap up and puts in a few sound bites to confirm it.
Does that sound unfair too? Well it should. Comment like your use to be funny however we now live in a world where the president will troll news anchors in real time on twitter. And seems to be having a tendency of trusting tv news over the CIA and FBI.
There is news then there is commentary. We need to teach the people the difference as it is often blurred. News: person x and y did this. Commatary: person x was unjustified while person y wasn't for doing this.
TV news channels make money by keeping viewers engaged as long as they can. That means for every minute of news there is 10 minutes of commentary.
News papers historically made money from paper sales. So the news was predominant because the big headline got the sale. The content and commintary would be put a few pages in.
Yes in general their political bias will come across however if they are focusing on the truth someone with a different bias can still get useful info from it.
You forgot to add Microsoft in the mix. Anti-Virus software in order to work, needs to be rather invasive to the system it is running on. So the OS Maker doesn't want to have anyone making an "Anti-Virus" program to be installed with that level of rights. As we have a mountain of scams coming from the disguise of anti-virus and security software.
Now Kaspersky could be making a solid and safe product... However their country of origin has been a bad player in the world community, so there is also general fear on how much control will the Russian government have on their product? One Anti-Virus update to back doors to our PC.
Finally we have Microsoft who has dominance on the desktop market. And unfortunately the United States is closing its door to the world and being that scary grumpy old man who doesn't trust anyone. And Microsoft has been part of these problems before, meaning we would want a 3rd party security tools to monitor stuff that we don't trust from Microsoft.
It needs to be a substitution of the product. Not a copy. Lets say that autoinjector is the best on the market. However an other one can be made, that may not be as good, but good enough. And if by that it costs 5 times less then it is more valuable, then its more expensive counterpart.
The top selling cars are the Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Hyundai, Ford and Chevy not because they are the best cars on the market. But good cars for the money that pay for them. I could give up a home mortgage to get myself a Rolls Royce, however I would be giving up too much to get a better (arguably the best) car.
If the president is doing something wrong, then I would like him to make mistakes so we know about it so we can take actionable corrective actions against it.
I want a president who will work for my country and handle the big picture problems, even if I disagree with the answer. With Trump, he is just trying to appease his ego. Ignoring the big picture and putting us in risk.
This type of personally in my experience will tend to screw up at some point, and either we let him get away from it, or confront it. A real leak with useful information will make sure we have enough info to do something about it.
The epipen isn't the only player in the market, its popularity is due to schools support for it, as an easy way to administer the drug. If it is too expensive the schools should consider a replacement. And have this guy just blame critics in the poor house with a stack of epipens that he will sell at a loss.
Probably neither. How many people will hit the pirate website for an unverified released of a show? It is a case where it is more work then a gain. Just because if you wait a bit it will be broadcast and you can get the real bit. With the ability to do the water cooler talk without FBI knocking at your door.
I personally think too much stuff is marked as classified which really shouldn't be. Because it is mostly common knowledge, we just don't have the details. However if you are going to leak classified info. Please leak in quality not quantity. I much rather see a report about a leak every few years about something really actionable. About some injustice that is only classified because it makes the ruling people look bad, and is something truly affecting ones conscious.
These little leaks in a state where we are ruled by a 12 year old in a 70 year old body. We are much better putting him in a state of false security where his overconfidence will lead to real mistakes and the leak can hit like a dagger. Vs a constant irritant .
New York has a law preventing male daycare workers from changing diapers.
However in my work environment and my department it is nearly 50/50 male vs female in IT. The difference is the following. 1. I am on the east coast. There seems to be less gender discrimination there. 2. I work in IT but not in a tech company. I have found for the most part woman seem to gravitate towards IT jobs with the focus on supporting the greater good vs trying to be the greater good. 3. I work with an older workforce. This has a few differences.
A. Less horny young men trying to hit on woman.
B. Woman who get hired have already had and raised their kids to a point they are self reliant and they feel comfortable on maintaining their career.
C. Experience is the driving force not looks. 4. A work culture that takes diversity and sensitivity seriously. Harassment just isn't tolerated
While they were some exceptions. Apple normally only added features once they get it right. Linux desktop systems are packed full of features however they are normally fully cooked, while fun to play with but often takes practice to figure out and be useful. Apple had usually made they new feature natural to use.
My big concern about the Macs in general, isn't the quality of the upgrade, but the lack of them in the past few years.
The 2002-2012 Macs where really the premium system you can get. But after that they just kinda lagged and updated some of the specs to make sure they are not obsolete. I was a Mac user, then I switched over to Lenovo Think Pads. Because if I am going to get a boring old laptop. I might as well get one that is solid. For me to switch back, Apple will need to show evidence of a long term commitment to their mac lines.
The main rule for looking for a job and hiring. Is to make sure there is a fit. Your horror company could be someones dream job. Granted normal unprofessional aspects tend to make sure the company doesn't last for too long. But if you get bad feelings about the place, you don't need to take the job.
Changing Regulations are worse for innovation, than the number of existing ones. The problem is we got ACA, we can deal with this, then the Republicans want to dump it and replace it. So all the systems that have been made, tested and optimized for the old way, will need to be rethought, remade, and retested... As a Health Care IT Worker, I have a bunch of nice of haves that will actually lower cost and improve care that I have just started, if they are going to take such regulations away or change them. Then I will need to stop them and go back and fix what has been finally set for working.
As for this article. Silicon Valley doesn't like to work on boring technology. Health Care technology is decades old, and it just needs some boring old redesign to more modern processes... What is needed will not look new and innovative to investors. It will be tough to get staff excited in doing this work. Especially in the west coast. In the East Coast is where the boring IT work is done.
It isn't about easy path, but there are many 900 lbs guerrillas that needs to addressed, and not with a shiny new software, but by sitting down and doing the drudge work, or changing configurations, creating additional interfaces to other systems, cleaning up old data. Connecting relationships between data. And analysis of existing data.
Giving Doctors a mobile app, will just give a shiny tool without fixing the fundamental problems.
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As someone who works in upstate NY where housing is cheaper. There is a trade off. The jobs available are not the exciting technology where you working on the next breakthrough. But the normal job using existing technology to solve problems that others have solved except it is cheaper for you to build it than buy it from someone else.
There is no wow status for making a website for a government agency. Or getting two hospitals talk to each other. But that is the nature of tech jobs in the location.
Unless you can find an analog copier. The digital ones will put the watermark of the copier on it. And the analog copier often has defects due to analog technology that could allow it to be traced back.
Back in the day typewriters were traced back because of manufacturing defects so the e may be typed 1/24th of an inch higher and 1/12th inch to the left.
A dot matrix printer could have pins that are in tolerance but have defects that could allow it to traced. The same with line impact printers.
Well the gen-x are just the slacker generation. Sitting back and watching what is going on is what they are good at.
For the low end positions yes. For the higher end jobs where they make the big money then it wants the old rich guy.
So you prirate information that you feel is worthless. Why do wast your time on such an endeavor.
The thing is such things are not free to make, it may be free to distribute and the fact that you do want it means there is actually some value to it. If it has value then you should pay for it in one way or an other.
The problem isn't with the device it is with the carriers. We have the ability to surpass home broadband speed over wireless but the carriers just charge us too much.
These faster chips is like getting a high end sports car, while only driving it in city traffic.
Oh boo hoo those stupid millennials are no longer judging a quality of a TV show based on the past success of the companies that had aired them.
This isn't the bad millennials but the snowflake boomers who were handed these mega corporations and were too lazy to see the trends and adapt fast enough.
From the article and the post, it seems better idea to get a Night job for IT Guys working helpdesk from 5-1 sleep from 2-10 your business from 11-4, and work on your business during the day. You won't have free time, but 5 hours a week to get your company going can be good until you can justify yourself working full time.
I am not sure what is with this Millennial hate? Is it only because Generation X was just a boring name. I mean Generation X for a short time was the slacker generation, but that stopped fairly quickly. The Baby Boomers in my book are still the worse. Living off the benefits of winning WWII, where they grew up in housing funded by state government, and with state of the art infrastructure, parents who with the GI Bill had college education. All this stuff allowed them to get drugged up during their late teens and early 20's and still get into Dads business as a professional to pick up his business, learning the ropes and having dad retire at an early age. Then to call yourself a success if you didn't drive the company to the ground, and keeping your job well past the age you should retire, not training the newer generation the ropes. Living in a time period of long term economic growth.
Now they are retiring, and the kids are trying to fill the void, however Boomers will not let them get a foot hold, cutting their salary so they cannot make a living, and then when they say it is unfair, they will just say you kids don't know about hard work.
For the most part Millennials are very hard workers, they found a way to survive in a period of economic stress, with a hostile to them work force.
Off-hours is the best time to implement new technologies.
Also there is the online store, processing inventory...
With increase risk of computer security problems, off sourcing is increasingly a dangerous idea.
Hiring an IT worker in India who is half as good but time times cheaper, back in the old days would seem like a good decision. However today, half as good, means you could be leaving yourself vulnerable
Other than just saying it was worse. How is was america worse during the Obama Administration?
The Economy improved after a bad recession.
Gas prices became low
Improved rights for discriminated groups
A larger portion of the population now has health insurance.
Yes they are trade-offs for these decisions, but for the most part from 2008-2016 increasingly got better.
No they are not. We have abandoned centrists, what ever party we most align to seems the most centrist. But the odd dicominary is while most people wants to seem like they are a centrist they normally reject voting for the more centrist person. Why because you can be a polar opposite of a centrist. You may be pro choice but wants less gun owner restrictions. While the centrist who is running would be pro life and wants more gun restrictions.
The parties to survive need to be non centrist. Because then the people can choose from their grab bag on their beliefs and pick what they feel is more important and go with that.
Vs the right who just makes crap up and puts in a few sound bites to confirm it.
Does that sound unfair too? Well it should. Comment like your use to be funny however we now live in a world where the president will troll news anchors in real time on twitter. And seems to be having a tendency of trusting tv news over the CIA and FBI.
There is news then there is commentary. We need to teach the people the difference as it is often blurred.
News: person x and y did this.
Commatary: person x was unjustified while person y wasn't for doing this.
TV news channels make money by keeping viewers engaged as long as they can. That means for every minute of news there is 10 minutes of commentary.
News papers historically made money from paper sales. So the news was predominant because the big headline got the sale. The content and commintary would be put a few pages in.
Yes in general their political bias will come across however if they are focusing on the truth someone with a different bias can still get useful info from it.
You forgot to add Microsoft in the mix.
Anti-Virus software in order to work, needs to be rather invasive to the system it is running on. So the OS Maker doesn't want to have anyone making an "Anti-Virus" program to be installed with that level of rights. As we have a mountain of scams coming from the disguise of anti-virus and security software.
Now Kaspersky could be making a solid and safe product... However their country of origin has been a bad player in the world community, so there is also general fear on how much control will the Russian government have on their product? One Anti-Virus update to back doors to our PC.
Finally we have Microsoft who has dominance on the desktop market. And unfortunately the United States is closing its door to the world and being that scary grumpy old man who doesn't trust anyone. And Microsoft has been part of these problems before, meaning we would want a 3rd party security tools to monitor stuff that we don't trust from Microsoft.
It needs to be a substitution of the product. Not a copy. Lets say that autoinjector is the best on the market. However an other one can be made, that may not be as good, but good enough. And if by that it costs 5 times less then it is more valuable, then its more expensive counterpart.
The top selling cars are the Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Hyundai, Ford and Chevy not because they are the best cars on the market. But good cars for the money that pay for them. I could give up a home mortgage to get myself a Rolls Royce, however I would be giving up too much to get a better (arguably the best) car.
If the president is doing something wrong, then I would like him to make mistakes so we know about it so we can take actionable corrective actions against it.
I want a president who will work for my country and handle the big picture problems, even if I disagree with the answer. With Trump, he is just trying to appease his ego. Ignoring the big picture and putting us in risk.
This type of personally in my experience will tend to screw up at some point, and either we let him get away from it, or confront it. A real leak with useful information will make sure we have enough info to do something about it.
The epipen isn't the only player in the market, its popularity is due to schools support for it, as an easy way to administer the drug. If it is too expensive the schools should consider a replacement. And have this guy just blame critics in the poor house with a stack of epipens that he will sell at a loss.
Probably neither.
How many people will hit the pirate website for an unverified released of a show? It is a case where it is more work then a gain. Just because if you wait a bit it will be broadcast and you can get the real bit. With the ability to do the water cooler talk without FBI knocking at your door.
I personally think too much stuff is marked as classified which really shouldn't be. Because it is mostly common knowledge, we just don't have the details. However if you are going to leak classified info. Please leak in quality not quantity. I much rather see a report about a leak every few years about something really actionable. About some injustice that is only classified because it makes the ruling people look bad, and is something truly affecting ones conscious.
These little leaks in a state where we are ruled by a 12 year old in a 70 year old body. We are much better putting him in a state of false security where his overconfidence will lead to real mistakes and the leak can hit like a dagger. Vs a constant irritant .
New York has a law preventing male daycare workers from changing diapers.
However in my work environment and my department it is nearly 50/50 male vs female in IT. The difference is the following.
1. I am on the east coast. There seems to be less gender discrimination there.
2. I work in IT but not in a tech company. I have found for the most part woman seem to gravitate towards IT jobs with the focus on supporting the greater good vs trying to be the greater good.
3. I work with an older workforce. This has a few differences.
A. Less horny young men trying to hit on woman.
B. Woman who get hired have already had and raised their kids to a point they are self reliant and they feel comfortable on maintaining their career.
C. Experience is the driving force not looks.
4. A work culture that takes diversity and sensitivity seriously. Harassment just isn't tolerated
While they were some exceptions. Apple normally only added features once they get it right. Linux desktop systems are packed full of features however they are normally fully cooked, while fun to play with but often takes practice to figure out and be useful. Apple had usually made they new feature natural to use.
My big concern about the Macs in general, isn't the quality of the upgrade, but the lack of them in the past few years.
The 2002-2012 Macs where really the premium system you can get. But after that they just kinda lagged and updated some of the specs to make sure they are not obsolete.
I was a Mac user, then I switched over to Lenovo Think Pads. Because if I am going to get a boring old laptop. I might as well get one that is solid. For me to switch back, Apple will need to show evidence of a long term commitment to their mac lines.
The main rule for looking for a job and hiring. Is to make sure there is a fit. Your horror company could be someones dream job. Granted normal unprofessional aspects tend to make sure the company doesn't last for too long.
But if you get bad feelings about the place, you don't need to take the job.
Changing Regulations are worse for innovation, than the number of existing ones. The problem is we got ACA, we can deal with this, then the Republicans want to dump it and replace it. So all the systems that have been made, tested and optimized for the old way, will need to be rethought, remade, and retested...
As a Health Care IT Worker, I have a bunch of nice of haves that will actually lower cost and improve care that I have just started, if they are going to take such regulations away or change them. Then I will need to stop them and go back and fix what has been finally set for working.
As for this article. Silicon Valley doesn't like to work on boring technology. Health Care technology is decades old, and it just needs some boring old redesign to more modern processes... What is needed will not look new and innovative to investors. It will be tough to get staff excited in doing this work. Especially in the west coast. In the East Coast is where the boring IT work is done.
It isn't about easy path, but there are many 900 lbs guerrillas that needs to addressed, and not with a shiny new software, but by sitting down and doing the drudge work, or changing configurations, creating additional interfaces to other systems, cleaning up old data. Connecting relationships between data. And analysis of existing data.
Giving Doctors a mobile app, will just give a shiny tool without fixing the fundamental problems.