Well most larger companies that have salespeople who will just blatantly lie about their skills and resources. When they try to interview someone who is honest, they look like a bumbling idiot.
So let me grill you on industry buzzword x. I haven't heard of x before. after you look into it, you realize it is the same thing as other industry buzzword y, which you had decades experience in.
Yes, that is very common. It is chapter 1-3 then jump to the end of the book. I once had to work with some code where they guy purchased a database engine for some software he was working with. Then he skipped using Database SQL Commands to manage the data, and went straight into direct library calls to the low level engine. Creating tables without table definitions, and the data was in essence unreadable across systems. Any change and reporting required coding the system to parse the data. While reading the instructions Chapter 1-3 were about setting it up. End chapters were about using the low level stuff for last resort. He thought he was mr. bigman for writing such low level library calls. But it was pure crap, that made the product tough to manage, and any chance requires hours of code analysis, to make sure it got the right data.
Complain Complain.... Before flash we had Java Applets, or Active X, after that and before HTML 5 there was an attempt to make silverlight useful.
Flash had all the GUI elements we wanted, easy to code, and loaded relatively quickly and used a lot less bandwidth than other methods. Adobe went out of its way to make sure it ran on major OS's and browsers.
Until HTML 5 HTML didn't have too many way to handle Vector graphics, or animations. Not blaming early versions of HTML because with average speed being a 9600bps modem. Its early design were good for document delivery. However by the late 1990's HTML became an Application Interface protocol, you can complain about that, but it happened and it won't go back. Flash was the only decent choice for richer set of data.
Now there were cases where Flash was used where it shouldn't be. A lot of stuff you can do in HTML 4 was done in flash. But that doesn't make flash a bad product it was the best tool for the time.
Today not so much, and it should be time to sunset it. But to say it stunk is giving it a gross disservice.
Dropping support doesn't mean it won't work. It just means if it doesn't Google will not help you to try to get it to work.
If you want to compile it, and adjust the dependencies so it works with 32bit. More power to you. Google just won't bend over backwards to make sure all the plugins work with you or crash after you fill up a bit too much ram.
That is probably more like it. The real down side I see it being connected to such a thing is if some techy guy who isn't awair of the protocol standard port sniffs the code and he thinks that he is being targeted by the NSA.
I have learned the degree does matter. Not that it is the only criteria or an absolute but I have found people with degrees especially with undergrad have a bit more roundness to their personality.
When we are teens and early 20s all we want to do is focus on one thing going to college forces us to diversify. I found people without degrees or took extreamly specialized classes tend to be good in a small area, then be grossly inadequate in others. A programmer needs to know how to administer a mid sized system, do general DBA tasks, look up what they don't know, treat customers well, explain things so a non-programmer can understand, know about the business that they work for.
Those liberal art classes we need to take are useful and key to success. It is just a shame that liberal arts majors are not required to take 200+ level math and science so they get diversity in their education
Are you looking in the right place? They are jobs but if you want to be freelance you need to on the watch all the time and that extra cash you make needs to go into that time between jobs.
The key reason why I don't freelance is because I suck at selling myself to new people. Once I am in they tend to love me, but before that I am just like any other smo.
After it gets released we realize that we are older and the new shows just don't seem the same anymore. Ahh nostalgia blinders the reason why crap we loved when we were young and stupid still has a place in our heart. It is the same reason why the Tea Party has some sort of love affair with the 1950's sure we're a sneeze away from mutual destruction but the propaganda made us feel at ease.
Ethics are a complex set of issues. The higher execs tend to work with big picture ideas. This often means ignoring the needs of the little guy. They may go we need to cut costs 25% otherwise the company cannot compete and will be out of business within a few years. The middle manager will need to figure out how to cut cost 25% meaning they will decide if they need to lay off workers or cut benefits or find other ways to save money without affecting profit. The normal workers can focus on performance their jobs to the best and make their customers happy.
Having the normal worker next to the exec would cause him to try to save 25% himself although that isn't his job. So he may try to do things such as aggressive marketing (aka lie to customers) push for short cut solutions etc... Just so he can prove that he is effective.
The distance means the idea will be vetted across many layers each one adding a degree of humanity so the hard big picture idea can be broken down by each person to get a full solution without having to violate ethics.
Apple has the problem of being highly visable with any problem with there devices. Apple users are picky and there are a bunch of haters who are willing to exploit any issue. A scam company makes a charger that is essentially plugging the wires to the wall and people who used it had there phones catch on fire will blame apple for their phones catching on fire. iPhone catches fire spreads across the Internet. Not stupid person bought a cheap ripoff charger that feed the phone direct ac current from the wall.
Oh look, someone broke into your house, and stole all your valuables and personal belongings. Well you were stupid enough not to use bank vault doors, and you gave the spare key to a close friend who didn't lock his door that day.
The problem with Information security is that to be safe you need professional level of security on your consumer devices, and constant vigilance to keep it up. This is a lot of work for a person, especially if they don't find security patches fun, or barely get by using the internet.
So we should be all nice and fuzzy with a group intent of harassing people. Oh they are making peoples lives miserable, but let them just go on their marry way, because if we mess with them they will mess with us too.
Yea it is OK the Nazi were capturing Jews, because we weren't Jews, if we did try to stop them, then they would just go after us. Yep that mentality is looked soooo fondly in the view of history.
No I am saying different genders will gravitate towards different jobs. Towing more women at a job to meet a quota even if that isn't what they want to do, will just cause a higher level of turn over. However as I stated before this is a trend, not a rule. Like any trend there are exceptions... A lot of one, a Trend can mean 51% of a population will fall in such a category (assuming I have a low margin of error) meaning 49% will fall in the minority. 49% is a big minority.
There are a lot of talented women who are just as good if not better then men at the building and creating of technology, if that is what they want to do, we shouldn't say they can't because of their gender. However if there is a balance in the stereotypes and you find your organization isn't having the gender equity, then there is a problem with the organization which will need to be corrected, such as fostering values that will attract women stereotype tech workers to your field, as they will bring something the organization needs anyways.
I work in a division where the gender population across the tech folks is 50/50 There is still an open position so depending who we fill in that roll will make the determining factor. However I work in health care, that industry will naturally attract a higher female group. However in terms of looking at rolls to fill and the people who apply I find the following trends. Male Tech workers: Focus a lot on the technology, they like to build and create, when there is a problem they will jump in and tackle it. When there is a development job they will be the first to volunteer. Female Tech workers: Focus on the people, they are more likely to dig into a problem and find where it went wrong, offer suggestions on how to make a product better, and work with others to find what the ideal solution would be.
Working in a hospital we need a good mix of both, however if you are working in a place that builds software far more men will be attracted to that type of work.
I need to agree. Getting presidential press, being called a wiz-kid on a national scale... Really does really compensate for an unfair arrest. 15 million dollars is way too much to ask for an unfair arrest. I could see a million dollars a high end compensation but 15 million. That is just greed.
1. The big one: Most insurances wont pay for it. Lets face it, behind the marketing BS, a major driving factor is making a lot of money. Doctors get paid a lot of money, Big wigs at a large healthcare institution get paid a lot too. Money is a big driving factor. A few insurances are willing to pay for it. But not enough for wide distribution.
2. Health Care Technology is behind the time. There are a lot of reasons for this, Usually due to most of it being very expensive, having to buy a new multi-million dollar MRI just to allow for better transmission of data, or the millions spent on a new EHR system. After the investment they want to keep it for a while to pay off the investment. The bad part is they keep them for far too long and technology bypasses them. This aged infrastructure make telepresence hard because we need it integrated as part of the health record, otherwise it could come down to a point where the doctor said he saw the patient and the patient said no he didn't.
3. The ones who need it the most don't have the resources to use it. If you are in very rural locations, chances are you may not have the internet speed to take advantage of it. Or you are too poor to access transportation, that means you will be on the slowest internet connection (if you have one at all) with a slow hand me down computer.
4. IT Skills. For both Doctors and the Patients. Many of the older doctors are reluctant to learn technology, their Ego gets in the way of them learning something new, as they may look stupid in front of those normal people who didn't study for 8+ years in a particular field. Still even today most Doctors will make paper charts and hand them off to someone else to put in those damn expensive EHR that the government told them to use. As well for patients, many of the people needing health care are the older folks who are not so technology aware, where you suffer from watching them trying to move the mouse, and confused that scrolling down makes the text go up. Also how many times do you see someone struggling to start a web-ex session. Imagine how hard it would be for two people who don't use it regularly?
5. Image quality. It is getting better, however there are some odd things about telepresence... People look at the eyes of the people on the screen... So they look like they are looking down, giving a false non-verbal communication. Resolution at slower speed, or cheaper web-cams may not be good enough to see particular issues, a Rash may be a red blur or may not be picked up at all. Details such as sweating for flushness of face or swelling may not be picked up.
6. Security. Most health care systems have this approach to security. Go with a vendor who will take the blame if there is a problem. This means they will pick a big company with an army of lawyers who will find a way to differ the problem. This isn't security or choosing the best secure system. Just saving your butt. This is newer technology and trying to find a vendor who is willing to take the blame if some how that Dr. visit was captured and transferred to a scrupulous source due to a virus or some sort of malware on the home users PC.
7. Patient location may not be HIPAA safe or just safe for the patient to have a consult. Having that abusive other just outside the door or the child listening in and taking what is said out of context.
Even if you were to trust the gonernment having a back door means there is one more spot for a hacker to target. How long do you think it will take for it to be exposed than abused by the bad guys.
Firefox was suppose to be the fast and light browser. Then they kept on adding crap to it and made it one of the bulkier browsers out there. If you use more then 5 tabs open something is wrong and you should learn about bookmarks
Making a secure end-to-end encryption isn't rocket science... If the terrorist know or expect that consumer devices have a government back door, they will just make their own that doesn't have one. Sadly to say, many of these terrorists are educated engineers, they can do the work with a little amount capital.
All these laws do is make a back door so the terrorists/hackers can look at my personal data as well.
It does give additional recourse to the consumer if they get scammed. They Scum Scammers may have enough legal prescience to cover a lot of the parts of the scam, such as selling a low quality product as high quality, or just offering some sort of lame service for money. But if they are doing the illegal money transfer it gives them one more thing to get them on. You go to jail for breaking the law, you don't go to jail because you are a waste on human society.
Ohhhh scary genetically modified. Like how all those science fiction stories warned us about. You know those stories where something goes horably wrong and mutates into some monster or becomes poison as so to create conflict to make the plot interesting.
Stories where GMO Food offers bulk healthy food to the population to help feed the world using less resources, is kinda boring.
Universities are not corporations. They can do the same thing as corporations however they are not bound by minimum was laws because they can charge their work force tuition and have them work for free under the idea it would provide college credit.
Well don't you feel smug. Hey look at me, I can get by in life without a tool that other people need to live. My superiority is assured because I chose different life choices than other people!
Even though Volvo will be liable, however that doesn't really excuse them for taking the steering wheel away from the driver. There is legal liability. However that isn't much condolence if you are in the car about to get into an accident which you could avoid if you could.
Well I am going to lose my arm or die. However I will take comfort in the fact that I will get a big payout for this. Even though if I had access to a wheel and brake I could have saved myself.
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Well most larger companies that have salespeople who will just blatantly lie about their skills and resources. When they try to interview someone who is honest, they look like a bumbling idiot.
So let me grill you on industry buzzword x. I haven't heard of x before. after you look into it, you realize it is the same thing as other industry buzzword y, which you had decades experience in.
Yes, that is very common. It is chapter 1-3 then jump to the end of the book.
I once had to work with some code where they guy purchased a database engine for some software he was working with. Then he skipped using Database SQL Commands to manage the data, and went straight into direct library calls to the low level engine. Creating tables without table definitions, and the data was in essence unreadable across systems. Any change and reporting required coding the system to parse the data.
While reading the instructions Chapter 1-3 were about setting it up. End chapters were about using the low level stuff for last resort.
He thought he was mr. bigman for writing such low level library calls. But it was pure crap, that made the product tough to manage, and any chance requires hours of code analysis, to make sure it got the right data.
Complain Complain....
Before flash we had Java Applets, or Active X, after that and before HTML 5 there was an attempt to make silverlight useful.
Flash had all the GUI elements we wanted, easy to code, and loaded relatively quickly and used a lot less bandwidth than other methods. Adobe went out of its way to make sure it ran on major OS's and browsers.
Until HTML 5 HTML didn't have too many way to handle Vector graphics, or animations. Not blaming early versions of HTML because with average speed being a 9600bps modem. Its early design were good for document delivery. However by the late 1990's HTML became an Application Interface protocol, you can complain about that, but it happened and it won't go back. Flash was the only decent choice for richer set of data.
Now there were cases where Flash was used where it shouldn't be. A lot of stuff you can do in HTML 4 was done in flash. But that doesn't make flash a bad product it was the best tool for the time.
Today not so much, and it should be time to sunset it. But to say it stunk is giving it a gross disservice.
Dropping support doesn't mean it won't work. It just means if it doesn't Google will not help you to try to get it to work.
If you want to compile it, and adjust the dependencies so it works with 32bit. More power to you. Google just won't bend over backwards to make sure all the plugins work with you or crash after you fill up a bit too much ram.
That is probably more like it. The real down side I see it being connected to such a thing is if some techy guy who isn't awair of the protocol standard port sniffs the code and he thinks that he is being targeted by the NSA.
I have learned the degree does matter. Not that it is the only criteria or an absolute but I have found people with degrees especially with undergrad have a bit more roundness to their personality.
When we are teens and early 20s all we want to do is focus on one thing going to college forces us to diversify.
I found people without degrees or took extreamly specialized classes tend to be good in a small area, then be grossly inadequate in others.
A programmer needs to know how to administer a mid sized system, do general DBA tasks, look up what they don't know, treat customers well, explain things so a non-programmer can understand, know about the business that they work for.
Those liberal art classes we need to take are useful and key to success. It is just a shame that liberal arts majors are not required to take 200+ level math and science so they get diversity in their education
Are you looking in the right place?
They are jobs but if you want to be freelance you need to on the watch all the time and that extra cash you make needs to go into that time between jobs.
The key reason why I don't freelance is because I suck at selling myself to new people. Once I am in they tend to love me, but before that I am just like any other smo.
After it gets released we realize that we are older and the new shows just don't seem the same anymore.
Ahh nostalgia blinders the reason why crap we loved when we were young and stupid still has a place in our heart.
It is the same reason why the Tea Party has some sort of love affair with the 1950's sure we're a sneeze away from mutual destruction but the propaganda made us feel at ease.
Ethics are a complex set of issues. The higher execs tend to work with big picture ideas. This often means ignoring the needs of the little guy. They may go we need to cut costs 25% otherwise the company cannot compete and will be out of business within a few years.
The middle manager will need to figure out how to cut cost 25% meaning they will decide if they need to lay off workers or cut benefits or find other ways to save money without affecting profit.
The normal workers can focus on performance their jobs to the best and make their customers happy.
Having the normal worker next to the exec would cause him to try to save 25% himself although that isn't his job. So he may try to do things such as aggressive marketing (aka lie to customers) push for short cut solutions etc... Just so he can prove that he is effective.
The distance means the idea will be vetted across many layers each one adding a degree of humanity so the hard big picture idea can be broken down by each person to get a full solution without having to violate ethics.
Apple has the problem of being highly visable with any problem with there devices. Apple users are picky and there are a bunch of haters who are willing to exploit any issue. A scam company makes a charger that is essentially plugging the wires to the wall and people who used it had there phones catch on fire will blame apple for their phones catching on fire. iPhone catches fire spreads across the Internet. Not stupid person bought a cheap ripoff charger that feed the phone direct ac current from the wall.
Oh look, someone broke into your house, and stole all your valuables and personal belongings. Well you were stupid enough not to use bank vault doors, and you gave the spare key to a close friend who didn't lock his door that day.
The problem with Information security is that to be safe you need professional level of security on your consumer devices, and constant vigilance to keep it up. This is a lot of work for a person, especially if they don't find security patches fun, or barely get by using the internet.
So we should be all nice and fuzzy with a group intent of harassing people. Oh they are making peoples lives miserable, but let them just go on their marry way, because if we mess with them they will mess with us too.
Yea it is OK the Nazi were capturing Jews, because we weren't Jews, if we did try to stop them, then they would just go after us.
Yep that mentality is looked soooo fondly in the view of history.
No I am saying different genders will gravitate towards different jobs. Towing more women at a job to meet a quota even if that isn't what they want to do, will just cause a higher level of turn over. However as I stated before this is a trend, not a rule. Like any trend there are exceptions... A lot of one, a Trend can mean 51% of a population will fall in such a category (assuming I have a low margin of error) meaning 49% will fall in the minority. 49% is a big minority.
There are a lot of talented women who are just as good if not better then men at the building and creating of technology, if that is what they want to do, we shouldn't say they can't because of their gender. However if there is a balance in the stereotypes and you find your organization isn't having the gender equity, then there is a problem with the organization which will need to be corrected, such as fostering values that will attract women stereotype tech workers to your field, as they will bring something the organization needs anyways.
I work in a division where the gender population across the tech folks is 50/50 There is still an open position so depending who we fill in that roll will make the determining factor. However I work in health care, that industry will naturally attract a higher female group.
However in terms of looking at rolls to fill and the people who apply I find the following trends.
Male Tech workers: Focus a lot on the technology, they like to build and create, when there is a problem they will jump in and tackle it. When there is a development job they will be the first to volunteer.
Female Tech workers: Focus on the people, they are more likely to dig into a problem and find where it went wrong, offer suggestions on how to make a product better, and work with others to find what the ideal solution would be.
Working in a hospital we need a good mix of both, however if you are working in a place that builds software far more men will be attracted to that type of work.
I need to agree. Getting presidential press, being called a wiz-kid on a national scale... Really does really compensate for an unfair arrest. 15 million dollars is way too much to ask for an unfair arrest. I could see a million dollars a high end compensation but 15 million. That is just greed.
1. The big one: Most insurances wont pay for it. Lets face it, behind the marketing BS, a major driving factor is making a lot of money. Doctors get paid a lot of money, Big wigs at a large healthcare institution get paid a lot too. Money is a big driving factor. A few insurances are willing to pay for it. But not enough for wide distribution.
2. Health Care Technology is behind the time. There are a lot of reasons for this, Usually due to most of it being very expensive, having to buy a new multi-million dollar MRI just to allow for better transmission of data, or the millions spent on a new EHR system. After the investment they want to keep it for a while to pay off the investment. The bad part is they keep them for far too long and technology bypasses them. This aged infrastructure make telepresence hard because we need it integrated as part of the health record, otherwise it could come down to a point where the doctor said he saw the patient and the patient said no he didn't.
3. The ones who need it the most don't have the resources to use it. If you are in very rural locations, chances are you may not have the internet speed to take advantage of it. Or you are too poor to access transportation, that means you will be on the slowest internet connection (if you have one at all) with a slow hand me down computer.
4. IT Skills. For both Doctors and the Patients. Many of the older doctors are reluctant to learn technology, their Ego gets in the way of them learning something new, as they may look stupid in front of those normal people who didn't study for 8+ years in a particular field. Still even today most Doctors will make paper charts and hand them off to someone else to put in those damn expensive EHR that the government told them to use. As well for patients, many of the people needing health care are the older folks who are not so technology aware, where you suffer from watching them trying to move the mouse, and confused that scrolling down makes the text go up. Also how many times do you see someone struggling to start a web-ex session. Imagine how hard it would be for two people who don't use it regularly?
5. Image quality. It is getting better, however there are some odd things about telepresence... People look at the eyes of the people on the screen... So they look like they are looking down, giving a false non-verbal communication. Resolution at slower speed, or cheaper web-cams may not be good enough to see particular issues, a Rash may be a red blur or may not be picked up at all. Details such as sweating for flushness of face or swelling may not be picked up.
6. Security. Most health care systems have this approach to security. Go with a vendor who will take the blame if there is a problem. This means they will pick a big company with an army of lawyers who will find a way to differ the problem. This isn't security or choosing the best secure system. Just saving your butt. This is newer technology and trying to find a vendor who is willing to take the blame if some how that Dr. visit was captured and transferred to a scrupulous source due to a virus or some sort of malware on the home users PC.
7. Patient location may not be HIPAA safe or just safe for the patient to have a consult. Having that abusive other just outside the door or the child listening in and taking what is said out of context.
There are a lot of issues to be resolved
Even if you were to trust the gonernment having a back door means there is one more spot for a hacker to target. How long do you think it will take for it to be exposed than abused by the bad guys.
Firefox was suppose to be the fast and light browser. Then they kept on adding crap to it and made it one of the bulkier browsers out there. If you use more then 5 tabs open something is wrong and you should learn about bookmarks
Making a secure end-to-end encryption isn't rocket science... If the terrorist know or expect that consumer devices have a government back door, they will just make their own that doesn't have one. Sadly to say, many of these terrorists are educated engineers, they can do the work with a little amount capital.
All these laws do is make a back door so the terrorists/hackers can look at my personal data as well.
It does give additional recourse to the consumer if they get scammed. They Scum Scammers may have enough legal prescience to cover a lot of the parts of the scam, such as selling a low quality product as high quality, or just offering some sort of lame service for money. But if they are doing the illegal money transfer it gives them one more thing to get them on.
You go to jail for breaking the law, you don't go to jail because you are a waste on human society.
Ohhhh scary genetically modified. Like how all those science fiction stories warned us about.
You know those stories where something goes horably wrong and mutates into some monster or becomes poison as so to create conflict to make the plot interesting.
Stories where GMO Food offers bulk healthy food to the population to help feed the world using less resources, is kinda boring.
Universities are not corporations. They can do the same thing as corporations however they are not bound by minimum was laws because they can charge their work force tuition and have them work for free under the idea it would provide college credit.
Well don't you feel smug.
Hey look at me, I can get by in life without a tool that other people need to live. My superiority is assured because I chose different life choices than other people!
To expand further. It is like if you are driving and you can safely avoid someone rear ending you. But you don't because they are liable.
Even though Volvo will be liable, however that doesn't really excuse them for taking the steering wheel away from the driver.
There is legal liability. However that isn't much condolence if you are in the car about to get into an accident which you could avoid if you could.
Well I am going to lose my arm or die. However I will take comfort in the fact that I will get a big payout for this. Even though if I had access to a wheel and brake I could have saved myself.