Unfortunately for a company that is trying to push out new Ideas. There is a a tight line of power, with very little room at the final decision making for debate. This usually means the Boss is a Power Mad Dick. Because he is completely focused on his vision, and needs people to help complete it, but doesn't want their vision to pollute his. This pollution or consensus building that employees tend to like because it gives them the feel of having more power, often will make too many compromises and make products fail.
The irony of this is the fact that these companies who are trying to do big things, need to higher the best and brightest and most creative and needs to make sure they don't cross a narrow line which these people are trained to cross.
Get off the my Lawn you new age Hippy! Back in my day, I had CGA on one of these fancy RGB displays, This gave me 16 colors in Text mode, and 4 Colors in Graphics mode. These 4 colors wern't even good 4 colors. Default Pallet: Cyan Magenta White Black* Secondary Pallet: Green Red Brown Black* *Well black can be swapped with 1 of 16 background colors We can have brighter versions where the Magenta became a light red. and Brown become Yellow. But you rarely ever had any good color combinations.
And I was the lucky one, as most of my peers only had monochrome displays (which I actually liked because it gave you 16 shades of gray (amber, green) ) That actually made the graphs look better.
Our Tech isn't degrading. Windows 95, Crashed on the slightest off glance, memory thrashing, memory leaks or buffer overflow can take control of your system, but you didn't even need to do that level of attack because in order to operate it properly you needed to run Windows 95 as Admin otherwise most applications and external hardware will not work. That is why Microsoft had 2 versions of Windows going on at the same time Windows 95 and Windows NT 4. NT was much larger and better designed to handle many of the stability problems, but it was expensive and took a lot of space and needed more advanced computers.
There is a lot of internal fixes beyond Multi-tasking + GUI Shell, which Windows 95 was essentially was at the time. Enhanced memory, protection, better networking stacks, driver modules that can offer hardware support under tighter restrictions.
Plus hardware has changed a lot from the 386/486 days. GPU (even cheap ones) are very powerful. RAM use to be a scarce commodity now we have it in excess, CPU are rarely ever single core. This means design priorities have shifted, this may make some bloat but also to allow things that required a lot of custom low level programming during the Windows 95 days.
I am not saying there hasn't been any useless bloat because they could get away with it. But there is a lot of internal stuff that is needed to make things better.
Heck MSDOS 3 would be installed on a double density 360kb floppy. With room for a custom autoexec.bat and perhaps a custom executable. But DOS was in essence a very simple OS, which took the.COM files and just replaced the binary and wrote it on top of the memory to be executed. or a little extra work with the.EXE files.
We can make tiny OS's today. The problem is we cannot use them on today's networked environment
Well any language will speak CGI, Back in college I did a FORTRAN 77 Web App to prove that.
PHP, ASP, JSP were languages designed mostly to embed your HTML with Server Side processing. Because the bulk of the web output is just static HTML code, with a few server-side replacements.
CGI and WSGI are often very heavy handed approaches to Server Side processing, as it normally requires additional forked processes to be executed.
In general anyone who wants to Run For President or actively help someone to run for president, means a degree of stupidity on your part. The smart people are the ones way down in the food chain, who are the analysts and specialists who do the actual work.
Well you should had insisted on some sort of support contract. Software is never done, and if they didn't pay for support, and the prereqs become volnerable. Then it is up to the customer who cheeped out.
Well it least it some guy named Bob, and not the Bosses nephew who knows HTML and PHP (unless the bosses nephew is named Bob)
But the problem with development has always been the fact making software is complex, long and expensive. If you are going to try to save money with your development it will become a problem a future, often being much more expensive then the money you saves initially.
I can get you a proof of concept program for nearly any type of requirement under a few weeks, but for heaven sake don't deploy it! It was coded to follow the broad specification, but when given to the general user base they will not use it as specified, and the next 6 months of coding will be sure the proof of concept follows the spec, prevent misuse of the products, and add all those exceptions that will come up, and allow the details to be managed.
Technically any language flaw and hack is a result of bad securityops. That doesn't mean they should just let it slide. Because everyone will at some point have a bad day, and miss something. If your security review just forgot to account for a particular method, the built in defaults should be a secondary defense.
I really havn't heard of any good replacements to PHP? All the popular languages seems to want you to code your WebServer in its language vs. Using a tried and true one.
I think the jump to reduced energy consumption to laziness is kinda a big step.
Warmblooded and larger brains, take a lot of energy. Energy uses resources, used resources become scarce. scarce resources = starvation.
However being warmblooded we can adapt to different climates which allow us to move away from areas of scarce resources. A larger brain power allows us to better utilize the resources we have.
However I think we as humans seemed to be crossing a point where we are using too much energy to survive, then the world can manage. The Lazy person with little is less of an impact then someone with a lot of resources, who may be using more then they need. Lets just say your job requires you to travel around the world just for a 2 hour conversation with someone that you could had just as easily done via Skype. You have used resources which could had fed hundreds of people for days, just to give a 5% better chance on getting that deal, for you to raise you salary even further above what is needed to live.
Jobs should be available without college degrees that pay well. Free college or not, not all people are fit for college, or at least fit for it when they are 17-19 years of age. Colleges should be allowed to have high standards, so when you have a college degree it really means something.
The problem is the degree has been watered down. Even the degrees I have, I have maintained a well above average GPA. But I wouldn't consider myself College Material, because I got by Doing the work, being on time and passing the test. Not from a real love of all the material I have learned.
I did work for a publishing company. Paper, Ink, binding are a huge part of the costs of book production. A 500 page textbook, with color images, hard cover binding, and made with good paper stock will cost $75 just for materials alone. They will then sell that book for $200 and give the author $3.00
Trying to remain "pure" translate to not wanted to learn new stuff.
For scientific papers, Vector graphics and animation is a useful aid in expressing and showing off data. People tend to favor a particular sense for learning. Some people are audio and when they hear it they under stand it better. Other are visual, and some are tactile. I am sure some people may be olfactory and taste based learning, but those would make structured learning difficult and often unpleasant.
But HTML as term as a paper with links to resources while the original intention, was never expected to stay there, as Modems baselines at 14.4k became common fast enough to download a bitmap image, svga displays that can show them, and CPU fast enough to render somewhat advanced vector graphics. This would be like someone releasing a text editor and say it is a word processor.
Back in the 1990's and early 2000's HTML didn't have too many (popular) vector graphics options, the options that were available were trenched in the Browser Wars between Netscape and Internet Explorer. Flash worked for different browsers, across different platforms including Windows, Macs and a young Linux. Later iterations played nice with DRM which extended its usefulness beyond Home Star Runner. It really took HTML5 standard to start to take down Flash. With early Apple iPhone Safari browser being an early adopter of HTML5, and Firefox and Chrome browsers getting a lot of interests as well. Especially with all the delays in getting windows 7 out and IE 6 staying the standard for way too long.
Flash itself wasn't bad, just it wasn't a standard, and for the web we should follow standards.
Well for a lot of businesses we need more Programmers and Less Developers and Architects.
Having too many skilled people in a room will just make a lot of arguments.
With new programmers fresh out of college with their shiny BS in CS degrees, eager to impress with their knowledge, only to have them spend hours arguing over every decision I make as an architect, because that isn't what they taught them in school. I have taken the same classes, that covered the same topics just with older technologies. But with decades of experience I know when trying to make an OO model is worth it or not, and I know the type of changes the program will need without the detail what they are. So I need to you code it that way, so when these changes are in place we don't need to recode from start again.
For some jobs we need people to do what needs to be done just because there isn't enough man power for someone to do it themselves. And when working in a group people will need to do their jobs wither or not the final location is clear.
Education is great, I recommend it. However for a lot of jobs even ones that needs smart people, it is overkill and in general harmful at some levels.
Get a job as a programmer out of High School. If you want to get promoted take night classes and get a degree.
There is a difference between formal education and intellectualism.
The problems is having College degrees being a prerequisite for a good job, means more people will get a college degree, and being that the paper to say you have a degree is a major factor in your life. Colleges will need to lower/adjust its standards to accommodate. The hard working but dumb as a box of rocks student will often still pass and get the degree, because they are a hard worker, and the college and professors see the person as a general asset to the community and can probably do the work assigned to him. But he isn't really college material.
College should have the best of the best, and people who are in college to study the topics they are interested in, not for people who need the paper to get a job outside of education.
Back 40 years ago. An Employee with a college degree was actually someone special to employ and wasn't given entry level work. Today a college degree is the requirement for entry level work, because they are handed off so easily.
Growing up, Expectations from my parents were the following. Graduate from high school: a Must Then. Go to college (preferred path) Join the Military or the Seminary (Secondary path) Go to a trade school (if all other options are out of the picture)
Going to full time work out of high school would be just bad parenting.
However for some people they just want a job not a career. And they are skilled at a job and should be able to do it without extra education to delay their earning potential.
The problem on the server side. If you are a company you need to be sure you can find staff to support your project. And not recode it every few years.
Java Has been around for over 20 years now. There are a lot of Java Programmers out there. Go may be a better Language. But Google has a history of dropping technologies. And it may sometime be tricky to find a Go programmer in all areas.
Except for the fact you really don't have alternatives if you need a Web Based Application of any complexity. JavaScript has its issues. But dealing with Javascript is better then trying to figure out how to deploy an application to hundreds of people. With different systems and security levels.
Being that most applications are a form that you fill out, check to make sure the data is required is filled in correctly and then saved on a database somewhere else. Web Based Applications makes sense.
Now JavaScript is the only common language that works across browsers.
Being Facebook and Twitter when a message is successful it is often very brief. This is a good way to gloss over the complexities of the issues at hand. And just say group X is 100 in the right while Group Y is 100 wrong. To the other side Progressives are portrait as inexperienced lazy kids, who just want freebee without any work. Conservative are older uneducated hicks, who blame everyone else for the problem they caused themselves.
Neither is actually true, and neither is completely false as well. But with Facebook and twitter you have less then 1 second to get your point out. Otherwise you are being scrolled into non-existence.
A thoughtful balanced argument will not get attention and ignored away. Perhaps a couple of people who read the first sentence will make an assumption of the rest of it, and just tare you apart for having such a view that doesn't fit their world view. Their seems to be less separation from understanding with someone view point to agreeing with it. I can understand why people do bad things, I don't agree with it. But to correct this you need to understand that people do bad things for a reason and it isn't just to be a bad person.
History has shown radicals on any side are capable of equal amount of evil. And are often hypocritical of their own view points.
There is a general problem of simultaneously people who trust computers too much and not enough. The same person who would expel a student for cheating from an AI Algorithm report would be the same person who manually counts the number of rows in a database to make sure the computer has it right.
AI tool are not fool proof, but they are good at reducing the workflow. Other then manually checking 1000 papers for cheaters, you will only have a dozen to review. Then you will need to use human judgement to see if the AI is correct or not.
The goal of AI isn't to be perfect but good enough. Just as a school shouldn't rely on one person to determine if a student gets expelled it shouldn't rely on an AI.
That is the problem with Gig economy. Is that everyone is working for themselves. So their risk = their reward. This is good, except for the fact that cost of the risks exceed the reward.
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Unfortunately for a company that is trying to push out new Ideas. There is a a tight line of power, with very little room at the final decision making for debate.
This usually means the Boss is a Power Mad Dick. Because he is completely focused on his vision, and needs people to help complete it, but doesn't want their vision to pollute his.
This pollution or consensus building that employees tend to like because it gives them the feel of having more power, often will make too many compromises and make products fail.
The irony of this is the fact that these companies who are trying to do big things, need to higher the best and brightest and most creative and needs to make sure they don't cross a narrow line which these people are trained to cross.
Get off the my Lawn you new age Hippy!
Back in my day, I had CGA on one of these fancy RGB displays, This gave me 16 colors in Text mode, and 4 Colors in Graphics mode. These 4 colors wern't even good 4 colors.
Default Pallet:
Cyan Magenta White Black*
Secondary Pallet:
Green Red Brown Black*
*Well black can be swapped with 1 of 16 background colors
We can have brighter versions where the Magenta became a light red. and Brown become Yellow.
But you rarely ever had any good color combinations.
And I was the lucky one, as most of my peers only had monochrome displays (which I actually liked because it gave you 16 shades of gray (amber, green) ) That actually made the graphs look better.
Running fine is subjective. But to emulate there is overhead... A lot of overhead.
Our Tech isn't degrading.
Windows 95, Crashed on the slightest off glance, memory thrashing, memory leaks or buffer overflow can take control of your system, but you didn't even need to do that level of attack because in order to operate it properly you needed to run Windows 95 as Admin otherwise most applications and external hardware will not work. That is why Microsoft had 2 versions of Windows going on at the same time Windows 95 and Windows NT 4. NT was much larger and better designed to handle many of the stability problems, but it was expensive and took a lot of space and needed more advanced computers.
There is a lot of internal fixes beyond Multi-tasking + GUI Shell, which Windows 95 was essentially was at the time. Enhanced memory, protection, better networking stacks, driver modules that can offer hardware support under tighter restrictions.
Plus hardware has changed a lot from the 386/486 days. GPU (even cheap ones) are very powerful. RAM use to be a scarce commodity now we have it in excess, CPU are rarely ever single core. This means design priorities have shifted, this may make some bloat but also to allow things that required a lot of custom low level programming during the Windows 95 days.
I am not saying there hasn't been any useless bloat because they could get away with it. But there is a lot of internal stuff that is needed to make things better.
Heck MSDOS 3 would be installed on a double density 360kb floppy. With room for a custom autoexec.bat and perhaps a custom executable. But DOS was in essence a very simple OS, which took the .COM files and just replaced the binary and wrote it on top of the memory to be executed. or a little extra work with the .EXE files.
We can make tiny OS's today. The problem is we cannot use them on today's networked environment
Well any language will speak CGI, Back in college I did a FORTRAN 77 Web App to prove that.
PHP, ASP, JSP were languages designed mostly to embed your HTML with Server Side processing. Because the bulk of the web output is just static HTML code, with a few server-side replacements.
CGI and WSGI are often very heavy handed approaches to Server Side processing, as it normally requires additional forked processes to be executed.
In general anyone who wants to Run For President or actively help someone to run for president, means a degree of stupidity on your part.
The smart people are the ones way down in the food chain, who are the analysts and specialists who do the actual work.
The information was acquired via Search Warrants threw a rigorous legal pathway.
Chances are he kept all his passwords on his monitor.
Well you should had insisted on some sort of support contract. Software is never done, and if they didn't pay for support, and the prereqs become volnerable. Then it is up to the customer who cheeped out.
Sometimes if they just put up a warning flag, that is enough to keep the resident aware of the issue.
Sometimes code that is considered "just a matter of time" never reaches such time. Because there is so much effort around avoiding it.
Well it least it some guy named Bob, and not the Bosses nephew who knows HTML and PHP (unless the bosses nephew is named Bob)
But the problem with development has always been the fact making software is complex, long and expensive. If you are going to try to save money with your development it will become a problem a future, often being much more expensive then the money you saves initially.
I can get you a proof of concept program for nearly any type of requirement under a few weeks, but for heaven sake don't deploy it! It was coded to follow the broad specification, but when given to the general user base they will not use it as specified, and the next 6 months of coding will be sure the proof of concept follows the spec, prevent misuse of the products, and add all those exceptions that will come up, and allow the details to be managed.
Technically any language flaw and hack is a result of bad securityops.
That doesn't mean they should just let it slide. Because everyone will at some point have a bad day, and miss something. If your security review just forgot to account for a particular method, the built in defaults should be a secondary defense.
I really havn't heard of any good replacements to PHP? All the popular languages seems to want you to code your WebServer in its language vs. Using a tried and true one.
I think the jump to reduced energy consumption to laziness is kinda a big step.
Warmblooded and larger brains, take a lot of energy. Energy uses resources, used resources become scarce. scarce resources = starvation.
However being warmblooded we can adapt to different climates which allow us to move away from areas of scarce resources. A larger brain power allows us to better utilize the resources we have.
However I think we as humans seemed to be crossing a point where we are using too much energy to survive, then the world can manage. The Lazy person with little is less of an impact then someone with a lot of resources, who may be using more then they need.
Lets just say your job requires you to travel around the world just for a 2 hour conversation with someone that you could had just as easily done via Skype. You have used resources which could had fed hundreds of people for days, just to give a 5% better chance on getting that deal, for you to raise you salary even further above what is needed to live.
You seem to have missed my point.
Jobs should be available without college degrees that pay well. Free college or not, not all people are fit for college, or at least fit for it when they are 17-19 years of age. Colleges should be allowed to have high standards, so when you have a college degree it really means something.
The problem is the degree has been watered down. Even the degrees I have, I have maintained a well above average GPA. But I wouldn't consider myself College Material, because I got by Doing the work, being on time and passing the test. Not from a real love of all the material I have learned.
I did work for a publishing company. Paper, Ink, binding are a huge part of the costs of book production. A 500 page textbook, with color images, hard cover binding, and made with good paper stock will cost $75 just for materials alone. They will then sell that book for $200 and give the author $3.00
From the sound of the article, it appears to be a targeted attack on the system, vs just a general blanket attack on all things computery.
Trying to remain "pure" translate to not wanted to learn new stuff.
For scientific papers, Vector graphics and animation is a useful aid in expressing and showing off data.
People tend to favor a particular sense for learning.
Some people are audio and when they hear it they under stand it better.
Other are visual, and some are tactile. I am sure some people may be olfactory and taste based learning, but those would make structured learning difficult and often unpleasant.
But HTML as term as a paper with links to resources while the original intention, was never expected to stay there, as Modems baselines at 14.4k became common fast enough to download a bitmap image, svga displays that can show them, and CPU fast enough to render somewhat advanced vector graphics.
This would be like someone releasing a text editor and say it is a word processor.
Back in the 1990's and early 2000's HTML didn't have too many (popular) vector graphics options, the options that were available were trenched in the Browser Wars between Netscape and Internet Explorer. Flash worked for different browsers, across different platforms including Windows, Macs and a young Linux. Later iterations played nice with DRM which extended its usefulness beyond Home Star Runner. It really took HTML5 standard to start to take down Flash. With early Apple iPhone Safari browser being an early adopter of HTML5, and Firefox and Chrome browsers getting a lot of interests as well. Especially with all the delays in getting windows 7 out and IE 6 staying the standard for way too long.
Flash itself wasn't bad, just it wasn't a standard, and for the web we should follow standards.
Well for a lot of businesses we need more Programmers and Less Developers and Architects.
Having too many skilled people in a room will just make a lot of arguments.
With new programmers fresh out of college with their shiny BS in CS degrees, eager to impress with their knowledge, only to have them spend hours arguing over every decision I make as an architect, because that isn't what they taught them in school.
I have taken the same classes, that covered the same topics just with older technologies. But with decades of experience I know when trying to make an OO model is worth it or not, and I know the type of changes the program will need without the detail what they are. So I need to you code it that way, so when these changes are in place we don't need to recode from start again.
For some jobs we need people to do what needs to be done just because there isn't enough man power for someone to do it themselves. And when working in a group people will need to do their jobs wither or not the final location is clear.
Education is great, I recommend it. However for a lot of jobs even ones that needs smart people, it is overkill and in general harmful at some levels.
Get a job as a programmer out of High School. If you want to get promoted take night classes and get a degree.
There is a difference between formal education and intellectualism.
The problems is having College degrees being a prerequisite for a good job, means more people will get a college degree, and being that the paper to say you have a degree is a major factor in your life. Colleges will need to lower/adjust its standards to accommodate. The hard working but dumb as a box of rocks student will often still pass and get the degree, because they are a hard worker, and the college and professors see the person as a general asset to the community and can probably do the work assigned to him. But he isn't really college material.
College should have the best of the best, and people who are in college to study the topics they are interested in, not for people who need the paper to get a job outside of education.
Back 40 years ago. An Employee with a college degree was actually someone special to employ and wasn't given entry level work. Today a college degree is the requirement for entry level work, because they are handed off so easily.
Growing up, Expectations from my parents were the following.
Graduate from high school: a Must
Then.
Go to college (preferred path)
Join the Military or the Seminary (Secondary path)
Go to a trade school (if all other options are out of the picture)
Going to full time work out of high school would be just bad parenting.
However for some people they just want a job not a career. And they are skilled at a job and should be able to do it without extra education to delay their earning potential.
The problem on the server side. If you are a company you need to be sure you can find staff to support your project. And not recode it every few years.
Java Has been around for over 20 years now. There are a lot of Java Programmers out there.
Go may be a better Language. But Google has a history of dropping technologies. And it may sometime be tricky to find a Go programmer in all areas.
Except for the fact you really don't have alternatives if you need a Web Based Application of any complexity.
JavaScript has its issues. But dealing with Javascript is better then trying to figure out how to deploy an application to hundreds of people. With different systems and security levels.
Being that most applications are a form that you fill out, check to make sure the data is required is filled in correctly and then saved on a database somewhere else. Web Based Applications makes sense.
Now JavaScript is the only common language that works across browsers.
Being Facebook and Twitter when a message is successful it is often very brief. This is a good way to gloss over the complexities of the issues at hand. And just say group X is 100 in the right while Group Y is 100 wrong.
To the other side
Progressives are portrait as inexperienced lazy kids, who just want freebee without any work.
Conservative are older uneducated hicks, who blame everyone else for the problem they caused themselves.
Neither is actually true, and neither is completely false as well. But with Facebook and twitter you have less then 1 second to get your point out. Otherwise you are being scrolled into non-existence.
A thoughtful balanced argument will not get attention and ignored away. Perhaps a couple of people who read the first sentence will make an assumption of the rest of it, and just tare you apart for having such a view that doesn't fit their world view. Their seems to be less separation from understanding with someone view point to agreeing with it. I can understand why people do bad things, I don't agree with it. But to correct this you need to understand that people do bad things for a reason and it isn't just to be a bad person.
History has shown radicals on any side are capable of equal amount of evil. And are often hypocritical of their own view points.
There is a general problem of simultaneously people who trust computers too much and not enough.
The same person who would expel a student for cheating from an AI Algorithm report would be the same person who manually counts the number of rows in a database to make sure the computer has it right.
AI tool are not fool proof, but they are good at reducing the workflow. Other then manually checking 1000 papers for cheaters, you will only have a dozen to review. Then you will need to use human judgement to see if the AI is correct or not.
The goal of AI isn't to be perfect but good enough. Just as a school shouldn't rely on one person to determine if a student gets expelled it shouldn't rely on an AI.
That is the problem with Gig economy. Is that everyone is working for themselves. So their risk = their reward. This is good, except for the fact that cost of the risks exceed the reward.