They really really struggled during The Great Recession. Come on people have a heart. Take pity on these poor souls, just look at their stock performance over the past 10 years:
You found out about this horrible feature before you clicked through the EULA without reading it.
You don't need to read a EULA to understand that social networking is a huge risk to privacy. LinkedIn, in particular, wants your details as transparent as possible because of who pays their bills. That's precisely what they want. They want to know if you're too smart to figure them out or just smart enough to work for them without asking too many questions and to be a good, little subservient drone.
We didn't have stability like our parents before us or expect a wage hike without moving to another company.
Correct. It's a venture capitalist world. They just incubate companies until they can cash out and then it's "See you l8r!" and off to do it again and again and again. There is no such thing as a long term engagement anymore. The venture capitalists made that a thing of the past. You reap what you sow bitches!
The reason why millenials are demonized and discriminated against is because it's a lot easier to find a convenient scapegoat than to solve real problems. It's just classic dysfunctional behavior. In fact, I would say millenials are more brave about engaging in conflict about legitimate issues in our society and workplaces that are truly wrong and need to be fixed. They're armed with more knowledge and can't just be bullied into submission with a bunch of pseudo-intellectualist talk.
Would it surprise you to know that I, myself, am not a millenial? Here's what I have to say about typical "older people". If the music is too loud, you're too old. It's time for the old, obsolete ways of doing things that don't work in modern society to be put out to pasture. If that means old people need to go into nursing homes, don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way in. You either embrace evolution and progress or you get left behind. Your choice. Choose wisely.
Marketing genius! Is it tough on crashes? Does it stamp the crashes out? Does it get the crashes before they get you? I could keep doing this all day. If you'd like I can hire my marketing skills out on a very affordable rate.
Wow, I bow down to you oh wise and mystical prophet who is so elevated in enlightenment that us below you can't even comprehend it. Why are you even talking to me then? I'm so stupid I can't comprehend what you're saying because it's just so far above everyone else's intellectual capability. You just like talking to yourself? Because if you believe that, that's precisely what you're doing. The joke's on you bud.
Waterfall is desirable for infrastructure where requirements should not change. Agile infrastructure is an oxymoron.
You'll need something to back up your claim otherwise it's just an opinion.
Dunning–Kruger effect is a symptom of people with low abstract reasoning. Guess what the number one skill for a programmer is. Abstract reasoning.
This is partially correct. Abstract reasoning as I'm sure you're aware typically denotes highly theoretical reasoning typically using mental simulation. I think it would be more correct to say that the skill that the people that suffer from the Dunning Kruger effect lack is one whereby they formulate a theory about what would work in practice, then they test it and evaluate the results and refine the theory and their understanding and competence to continually improve the results. That's not purely abstract reasoning. In fact, the PDCA methodology is really just common sense in any discipline. It's just more formalized because people who have specialization in STEM fields for example well tend to lack common sense. Trust me, I know from personal experience and I bet you do too whether you care to admit it or not.
There are no known ways to enhance abstract reasoning.
I know this not to be true. You should get a more up-to-date education in cognitive science. There is a lot of new research in this area that is yielding new discoveries all the time. It's hard to keep up with.
It requires meta-cognition, which is heavily linked to abstract reasoning, and introspection, allowing one to self-teach in their own personal way. In other words, people with strong abstract reasoning can further enhance their abstract reasoning, but people with weak abstract reasoning are basically stuck with what they have. Welcome to the power-curve with a very very long tail.
It does requires meta-cognition, no doubt. But abstract reasoning alone as I mentioned above doesn't get you all the way there. Theory and practice are two different things that complement each other. If you only have strength in one you're missing out on a lot of potential
Interesting note. Abstract reasoning peaks in teenage years, then starts to slowly decline before falling off a cliff around 30. The theory for this is as a person gains more experience, they use their memory instead of reasoning, causing their abstract reasoning to atrophy. For people with strong abstract reasoning, they peak beyond 30 and continue to grow. This create a huge gap in abilities and why experience is a bull sh*t metric.
There is empirical evidence to suggest otherwise. It really depends on whether you continue to train your mind beyond formal education in the same way that you did when you were in a formal education system. It doesn't really have a strong correlation with abstract reasoning. It's really more of a use it or lose it type of thing.
Also, massive, unconstitutional emoluments clause violations. This will be his downfall.
The rest of the stuff is just because he's an ignorant moron.
We're already in a downfall, you know why right? We have an economic system whereby every citizen is required to pay for obligatory things like taxes and the only way to accumulate money is to exchange labor for it. The left (really the US Chamber of Commerce) sold us a pack of lies that stated that Globalization would not only bring about cheaper goods but it would also bring about better jobs. I think the theory was we give all the shit jobs to the other countries like China and India. Well guess what actually happened? You're still a wage slave and there is less opportunity for good paying labor to meet your financial obligations. The only people that actually benefited from this change are the rich people mostly sitting at the top of mega corporations and large investment firms. You do know which president actually championed these ideas right? His name is William Jefferson Clinton. If you're going to express concern for downfalls and a general concern of the welfare of the country, direct your concern appropriately to the things that have REALLY hurt this country.
You have a really low standard for "great" apparently. I would define "great" as leading the world in peaceful conflict resolution, technological advancement, social advancement, education, art and overall happiness and equality of a nation's citizenry. Trump is working towards, well, none of those.
You apparently don't remember school. When the school is full of bullies and you're the nice, pacifist kid, what happens? You get the shit bit out of you and you don't get lunch because your lunch money was stolen. Don't berate the United States, berate the rest of the world was forcing us into an adversarial position. We tried it your way and globalization just about damned near wrecked this economy. You want to solve that problem, get off your butt from the comfort of your keyboard and chair and you go out and change the world into your utopian fantasy.
This is the best part of the Dunning Kruger effect. You don't even realize how many people probably laughed at your post. In fact you probably won't get why this comment is even more funny and will still call me stupid.:D It's ok, you're superior to everyone else. Just keep telling yourself that. We peons can only dream of aspiring to your level of intellect, oh wise one.
Some of that. But I made quite a good living for several decades back in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s integrating large systems. Did some development also, and have some sympathy for developers. Good unit tests help. and so would automated testing. But let's get real. Few actual deployed systems have meaningful specs, and even those that started with specs probably didn't maintain the specs and have bugs in the original specs -- omissions
Hey I'm an old timer too but you apparently never caught up-to-date. Waterfall doesn't work. Never did. By the time a specification is written, it's already out of date and doesn't reflect what the customer actually wants. Other timers by the names of Ward Cunningham, Kent Beck, Martin Fowler and many others figured this out. Now we have Agile and Xtreme Programming and all of the variants.
Here let's get real with you. First of all, the software projects of the 60's, 70's and 80's were comparatively minuscule to the projects we're trying to tackle today. Waterfall might have worked partially with much smaller less complex projects but it definitely doesn't hack it today. This is a fact. To dispute this, would be to dispute the large-scale empirical research done by the industry veterans I mentioned above. If you think they're wrong, you should be able to school them and make them look like idiots. Betcha can't.
When people are worried about changes in "many layers of the stack", it's usually a good time to re-architect the system and build microservices. Basically, you get the entire stack in every microservice and you stop worrying about ripple effects; you upgrade or troubleshoot things at a much smaller scale.
It explains how to achieve this, including how to deal with the tough parts like the database layer.
Just watch the Spotify Engineering Culture videos. What you refer to as "ripple effects" they refer to as "blast radius" which I like much better. The benefit of micro services is that if one micro service blows up, the rest continue to run at least enabling partial functionality as opposed to taking the whole system down or putting the entire system into a funky state.
There is no substitute to a really good (professional.... and paid) software tester that and reliably reproduce bugs that need to be removed. If anything, they are far more valuable than even code monkeys writing thousands of lines of code per month (something also largely irrelevant for quality software). If anything, I would pay the software testing team before the coders if you need to use some volunteer labor like in an open source project.
This works a lot but it's not a panacea. I've seen several large software efforts where manual testing and test plans start becoming ineffective because the complexity gets to a level where no amount of highly talented testers can deal with it. The execution of manual test plans starts taking inordinate amounts of time. The cataloging of test plans and keeping them up-to-date becomes counter-productive. The only way to move beyond this point is to develop an automated testing strategy. I'm not referring to unit tests specifically. Look up the four Agile Testing Quadrants. Read the book How Google Tests Software and you'll understand why they created an entirely new position called "Software Engineer in Test". There are products like Zephyr and Test Rail to name a few that can help glue it all together.
I suppose the solution is never to work with millions of lines of code. But "This sucker is way to big and too complicated" is not an easy sell.
What you're talking about is technical debt. You're talking about code that is such a complicated mess that code reviews can't effectively determine what the side effects might possibly be to simple changes. I would bet this code you are referring to has zero automated tests which might catch some of these side effects. There is no solution to that problem. It's a sinking ship held together by duct tape and rubber bands. It's a ticking time bomb.
Actually, bad management usually beats itself. I've seen plenty of companies go out of business because of bad management not learning from its mistakes. The problem is, when the ship sinks, everyone goes down with it including the narcissistic self-righteous douche bag that thought they were the ultimate shizzle.
Stop using Silverlight, or better yet, stop using anything Microsoft releases to try and accomplish what ActiveX and Silverlight try to?
At the moment, options are limited. Adobe Flash player with RTMP, HTML5 with RTP, or HLS? The problem is largely that web based video streaming doesn't have a whole lot of options unless you commit to writing your own cross-browser plugin. That is precisely what Flash Player did. We need better standards for video streaming. HTML5 (or perhaps browser adoption of it) didn't really step up to the plate very well.
It's funny to me that a lot of developers seem to think that because you're in the context of a web browser that one needs to use HTTP for everything. That's just simply not true.
Here is a last chance to prevent it from become totally obscure.... EMBRACE USER CONTROL. Differentiate yourself based on that. It is something Chrome sorely lacks.
Have fun storming the castle! It'll take a miracle...
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I could use this to beg for a job from thought-leaders who happen to be nearby.
Thought leader = bullshit artist. They usually have no clue how to do anything useful in practice.
Because increasing the complexity of the software requires additional support which you, the suggester, are not going to provide. Software isn't free.
They really really struggled during The Great Recession. Come on people have a heart. Take pity on these poor souls, just look at their stock performance over the past 10 years:
Comcast
AT&T
We really should have a social safety net for these little guys. Whaddya say folks? Have a heart!
You found out about this horrible feature before you clicked through the EULA without reading it.
You don't need to read a EULA to understand that social networking is a huge risk to privacy. LinkedIn, in particular, wants your details as transparent as possible because of who pays their bills. That's precisely what they want. They want to know if you're too smart to figure them out or just smart enough to work for them without asking too many questions and to be a good, little subservient drone.
the soy protein is probably healthier food than chicken meat.
It depends on where the chicken came from. Obligatory Portlandia.
I wish all Millennials luck in their struggle.
I share your sentiment. :)
We didn't have stability like our parents before us or expect a wage hike without moving to another company.
Correct. It's a venture capitalist world. They just incubate companies until they can cash out and then it's "See you l8r!" and off to do it again and again and again. There is no such thing as a long term engagement anymore. The venture capitalists made that a thing of the past. You reap what you sow bitches!
The reason why millenials are demonized and discriminated against is because it's a lot easier to find a convenient scapegoat than to solve real problems. It's just classic dysfunctional behavior. In fact, I would say millenials are more brave about engaging in conflict about legitimate issues in our society and workplaces that are truly wrong and need to be fixed. They're armed with more knowledge and can't just be bullied into submission with a bunch of pseudo-intellectualist talk.
Would it surprise you to know that I, myself, am not a millenial? Here's what I have to say about typical "older people". If the music is too loud, you're too old. It's time for the old, obsolete ways of doing things that don't work in modern society to be put out to pasture. If that means old people need to go into nursing homes, don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way in. You either embrace evolution and progress or you get left behind. Your choice. Choose wisely.
...the cake is a lie
TED you do realize the amount of money you have is practically non-existent to what the US Chamber of Commerce has in its collective coffers right?
Marketing genius! Is it tough on crashes? Does it stamp the crashes out? Does it get the crashes before they get you? I could keep doing this all day. If you'd like I can hire my marketing skills out on a very affordable rate.
I think that pretty much sums up the technology. Is this going to be in a new episode of Silicon Valley? Will it fit in a cool rack mount appliance?
that my comment was a universal truth.
Wow, I bow down to you oh wise and mystical prophet who is so elevated in enlightenment that us below you can't even comprehend it. Why are you even talking to me then? I'm so stupid I can't comprehend what you're saying because it's just so far above everyone else's intellectual capability. You just like talking to yourself? Because if you believe that, that's precisely what you're doing. The joke's on you bud.
Waterfall is desirable for infrastructure where requirements should not change. Agile infrastructure is an oxymoron.
You'll need something to back up your claim otherwise it's just an opinion.
Dunning–Kruger effect is a symptom of people with low abstract reasoning. Guess what the number one skill for a programmer is. Abstract reasoning.
This is partially correct. Abstract reasoning as I'm sure you're aware typically denotes highly theoretical reasoning typically using mental simulation. I think it would be more correct to say that the skill that the people that suffer from the Dunning Kruger effect lack is one whereby they formulate a theory about what would work in practice, then they test it and evaluate the results and refine the theory and their understanding and competence to continually improve the results. That's not purely abstract reasoning. In fact, the PDCA methodology is really just common sense in any discipline. It's just more formalized because people who have specialization in STEM fields for example well tend to lack common sense. Trust me, I know from personal experience and I bet you do too whether you care to admit it or not.
There are no known ways to enhance abstract reasoning.
I know this not to be true. You should get a more up-to-date education in cognitive science. There is a lot of new research in this area that is yielding new discoveries all the time. It's hard to keep up with.
It requires meta-cognition, which is heavily linked to abstract reasoning, and introspection, allowing one to self-teach in their own personal way. In other words, people with strong abstract reasoning can further enhance their abstract reasoning, but people with weak abstract reasoning are basically stuck with what they have. Welcome to the power-curve with a very very long tail.
It does requires meta-cognition, no doubt. But abstract reasoning alone as I mentioned above doesn't get you all the way there. Theory and practice are two different things that complement each other. If you only have strength in one you're missing out on a lot of potential
Interesting note. Abstract reasoning peaks in teenage years, then starts to slowly decline before falling off a cliff around 30. The theory for this is as a person gains more experience, they use their memory instead of reasoning, causing their abstract reasoning to atrophy. For people with strong abstract reasoning, they peak beyond 30 and continue to grow. This create a huge gap in abilities and why experience is a bull sh*t metric.
There is empirical evidence to suggest otherwise. It really depends on whether you continue to train your mind beyond formal education in the same way that you did when you were in a formal education system. It doesn't really have a strong correlation with abstract reasoning. It's really more of a use it or lose it type of thing.
Also, massive, unconstitutional emoluments clause violations. This will be his downfall.
The rest of the stuff is just because he's an ignorant moron.
We're already in a downfall, you know why right? We have an economic system whereby every citizen is required to pay for obligatory things like taxes and the only way to accumulate money is to exchange labor for it. The left (really the US Chamber of Commerce) sold us a pack of lies that stated that Globalization would not only bring about cheaper goods but it would also bring about better jobs. I think the theory was we give all the shit jobs to the other countries like China and India. Well guess what actually happened? You're still a wage slave and there is less opportunity for good paying labor to meet your financial obligations. The only people that actually benefited from this change are the rich people mostly sitting at the top of mega corporations and large investment firms. You do know which president actually championed these ideas right? His name is William Jefferson Clinton. If you're going to express concern for downfalls and a general concern of the welfare of the country, direct your concern appropriately to the things that have REALLY hurt this country.
You have a really low standard for "great" apparently. I would define "great" as leading the world in peaceful conflict resolution, technological advancement, social advancement, education, art and overall happiness and equality of a nation's citizenry. Trump is working towards, well, none of those.
You apparently don't remember school. When the school is full of bullies and you're the nice, pacifist kid, what happens? You get the shit bit out of you and you don't get lunch because your lunch money was stolen. Don't berate the United States, berate the rest of the world was forcing us into an adversarial position. We tried it your way and globalization just about damned near wrecked this economy. You want to solve that problem, get off your butt from the comfort of your keyboard and chair and you go out and change the world into your utopian fantasy.
Waterfall always worked
This is the best part of the Dunning Kruger effect. You don't even realize how many people probably laughed at your post. In fact you probably won't get why this comment is even more funny and will still call me stupid. :D It's ok, you're superior to everyone else. Just keep telling yourself that. We peons can only dream of aspiring to your level of intellect, oh wise one.
The problem isn't methodology. It's people.
Obligatory Dilbert. However, that still doesn't make Waterfall viable. ;)
Some of that. But I made quite a good living for several decades back in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s integrating large systems. Did some development also, and have some sympathy for developers. Good unit tests help. and so would automated testing. But let's get real. Few actual deployed systems have meaningful specs, and even those that started with specs probably didn't maintain the specs and have bugs in the original specs -- omissions
Hey I'm an old timer too but you apparently never caught up-to-date. Waterfall doesn't work. Never did. By the time a specification is written, it's already out of date and doesn't reflect what the customer actually wants. Other timers by the names of Ward Cunningham, Kent Beck, Martin Fowler and many others figured this out. Now we have Agile and Xtreme Programming and all of the variants.
Here let's get real with you. First of all, the software projects of the 60's, 70's and 80's were comparatively minuscule to the projects we're trying to tackle today. Waterfall might have worked partially with much smaller less complex projects but it definitely doesn't hack it today. This is a fact. To dispute this, would be to dispute the large-scale empirical research done by the industry veterans I mentioned above. If you think they're wrong, you should be able to school them and make them look like idiots. Betcha can't.
When people are worried about changes in "many layers of the stack", it's usually a good time to re-architect the system and build microservices. Basically, you get the entire stack in every microservice and you stop worrying about ripple effects; you upgrade or troubleshoot things at a much smaller scale.
I highly recommend this book: https://www.amazon.com/Buildin...
It explains how to achieve this, including how to deal with the tough parts like the database layer.
Just watch the Spotify Engineering Culture videos. What you refer to as "ripple effects" they refer to as "blast radius" which I like much better. The benefit of micro services is that if one micro service blows up, the rest continue to run at least enabling partial functionality as opposed to taking the whole system down or putting the entire system into a funky state.
There is no substitute to a really good (professional.... and paid) software tester that and reliably reproduce bugs that need to be removed. If anything, they are far more valuable than even code monkeys writing thousands of lines of code per month (something also largely irrelevant for quality software). If anything, I would pay the software testing team before the coders if you need to use some volunteer labor like in an open source project.
This works a lot but it's not a panacea. I've seen several large software efforts where manual testing and test plans start becoming ineffective because the complexity gets to a level where no amount of highly talented testers can deal with it. The execution of manual test plans starts taking inordinate amounts of time. The cataloging of test plans and keeping them up-to-date becomes counter-productive. The only way to move beyond this point is to develop an automated testing strategy. I'm not referring to unit tests specifically. Look up the four Agile Testing Quadrants. Read the book How Google Tests Software and you'll understand why they created an entirely new position called "Software Engineer in Test". There are products like Zephyr and Test Rail to name a few that can help glue it all together.
I suppose the solution is never to work with millions of lines of code. But "This sucker is way to big and too complicated" is not an easy sell.
What you're talking about is technical debt. You're talking about code that is such a complicated mess that code reviews can't effectively determine what the side effects might possibly be to simple changes. I would bet this code you are referring to has zero automated tests which might catch some of these side effects. There is no solution to that problem. It's a sinking ship held together by duct tape and rubber bands. It's a ticking time bomb.
There is no way to beat bad management.
Actually, bad management usually beats itself. I've seen plenty of companies go out of business because of bad management not learning from its mistakes. The problem is, when the ship sinks, everyone goes down with it including the narcissistic self-righteous douche bag that thought they were the ultimate shizzle.
"only applies to streams still using Silverlight"
Stop using Silverlight, or better yet, stop using anything Microsoft releases to try and accomplish what ActiveX and Silverlight try to?
At the moment, options are limited. Adobe Flash player with RTMP, HTML5 with RTP, or HLS? The problem is largely that web based video streaming doesn't have a whole lot of options unless you commit to writing your own cross-browser plugin. That is precisely what Flash Player did. We need better standards for video streaming. HTML5 (or perhaps browser adoption of it) didn't really step up to the plate very well.
It's funny to me that a lot of developers seem to think that because you're in the context of a web browser that one needs to use HTTP for everything. That's just simply not true.
Here is a last chance to prevent it from become totally obscure.... EMBRACE USER CONTROL. Differentiate yourself based on that. It is something Chrome sorely lacks.
Have fun storming the castle! It'll take a miracle...