This sysadmin/scripter/system architect/DBA role exists in virtually every company that has a core business other than IT or software development. Even in a very large multinational, there's more utility in having one "Mr Wizard" in each business unit than there is in having a room full of software developers somewhere far away from the rest of the business.
It really is a support role and it's more an outgrowth of system administration than it is saddling your brightest software guy with managing the mail server. Of course, it's possible to get stuck in that role because there's nowhere to go from there, but it's a niche that suits some people. If it doesn't suit you, then move.
It's also a distinct role from the "do everything guy" at a startup, because at a startup everyone is multitasking and as the startup expands, new people are hired to take on some of these roles. DevOps is a role in itself.
Just physically unplug the hard drive before booting off a live CD?
I have to admit, though, that my first reaction was also "Anonymously produced live CD promises to protect your secrets? Sounds legit."
And this is the issue with every single "flying car" prototype. The efficiency of a rotorcraft is determined by its disc loading. All of the VTOL "flying car" designs have a comparatively tiny disc area, and thus a ridiculous disc loading. With enough power you can make something like that, but in terms of engineering complexity, cost, and reliability it'll be far closer to a Harrier Jump Jet than it will to the Jetsons' car.
That SkyTran thing seems pretty cool. Basically an autonomous pod transport system a la every sci-fi metropolis ever.
A friend of mine recently re-joined Facebook after a year or two of not using it. He found that despite our best efforts, he was still enough out of the loop that he was missing a heap of social events.
tl;dr Not playing only works if your friends don't use Facebook as a primary communication medium.
[...] if your new experimental thing isn't at *least* an order of magnitude better than current production, there's little point pursuing it in commercial directions [...]
You have to take into account the potential of the new technology as well. Consider the transition from DC to AC power - initially there wasn't much in it, because voltages were low and transmission distances were short. It was only after the whole electricity industry scaled up that AC really showed its strengths... but the potential was there and so it was a worthwhile investment even early on.
So don't you think that the telemetry shutting off BEFORE the plane dropped off radar is even MORE suspicious?
If they'd shut off at the same time, then kaboom. If they'd shut off after the plane dropped off radar, then maybe some electronics was battery backed or whatever and was still transmitting until it got waterlogged and sank. But shutting off 20 minutes before the plane dropped off radar would indicate deliberate sabotage.
Notice that you're still "giving" stuff, with conditions. Without the idea of private property, you can't give things because you can't own things. And you can't apply conditions, for the same reason. So no, I wouldn't breach that trust, because there would be no gift and nothing for the trust to apply to. It would not exist to be breached.
If something isn't your private property then you forfeit the right to dictate how it is used. So I could take stuff you've worked hard for, and break it, and you have no right to be upset because it isn't yours.
True, but if your company is already run by crappy HR (and good HR would be involving the existing technical team when evaluating new technical hires) then you probably want to get out as soon as possible. Eventually the company will be almost entirely composed of cheap but useless drones, true, but long before then they'll make the place so tech-hostile that anyone half competent will have left.
None of that is the IDE's fault. All of that is the fault of whoever hired the untrained incompetents. An IDE is not and never has been a replacement for understanding what you're doing.
The runners are programs like Sublime Text, BBedit, Text Wrangler, gedit, Jedit, notepad++, or even vim.
Yep. And consider that most (all?) of these offer a combination of syntax highlighting, auto indentation, potentially auto-complete and context sensitive help (if only through plugins). They provide a lot of the features traditionally associated with an IDE.
People arguing that "IDEs are bad" need to get their argument straight. Are they saying that learning a language requires separately compiling your code on the command-line? Because that's about the only thing that a good programming text editor doesn't do.
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Think of it as them letting us skip the first three generations of buggy crap that usually comes out before the first 'good' model. They got enough funding that they don't have to rush to market, and they're taking time to really get it right.
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It's the same people who say "we had electric cars 100 years ago so the Tesla Model S is neither new nor innovative."
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in 1998 I donned a VR headset of the time and walked on a tread mill. it was fun though a bit disorienting since the screens weren't lined up for my prescription properly.
You just listed one group of chemicals, and then called out mothers who exposed their unborn children to a different group of chemicals. Make your mind up.
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This one time this guy died in a car crash and he was driving a Volvo.
Therefore motorbikes are safer than Volvos.
This sysadmin/scripter/system architect/DBA role exists in virtually every company that has a core business other than IT or software development. Even in a very large multinational, there's more utility in having one "Mr Wizard" in each business unit than there is in having a room full of software developers somewhere far away from the rest of the business.
It really is a support role and it's more an outgrowth of system administration than it is saddling your brightest software guy with managing the mail server. Of course, it's possible to get stuck in that role because there's nowhere to go from there, but it's a niche that suits some people. If it doesn't suit you, then move.
It's also a distinct role from the "do everything guy" at a startup, because at a startup everyone is multitasking and as the startup expands, new people are hired to take on some of these roles. DevOps is a role in itself.
Who are controlled in turn by an even more mysterious organisation: ROUS.
But I doubt they exist.
Sir! I think we've just identified the Babelfish Bandit!
Just physically unplug the hard drive before booting off a live CD? I have to admit, though, that my first reaction was also "Anonymously produced live CD promises to protect your secrets? Sounds legit."
And this is the issue with every single "flying car" prototype. The efficiency of a rotorcraft is determined by its disc loading. All of the VTOL "flying car" designs have a comparatively tiny disc area, and thus a ridiculous disc loading. With enough power you can make something like that, but in terms of engineering complexity, cost, and reliability it'll be far closer to a Harrier Jump Jet than it will to the Jetsons' car. That SkyTran thing seems pretty cool. Basically an autonomous pod transport system a la every sci-fi metropolis ever.
Some of them even go to 12.
A friend of mine recently re-joined Facebook after a year or two of not using it. He found that despite our best efforts, he was still enough out of the loop that he was missing a heap of social events.
tl;dr Not playing only works if your friends don't use Facebook as a primary communication medium.
Is this still as much the case given the trend towards increasingly parallel multi-core CPUs?
[...] if your new experimental thing isn't at *least* an order of magnitude better than current production, there's little point pursuing it in commercial directions [...]
You have to take into account the potential of the new technology as well. Consider the transition from DC to AC power - initially there wasn't much in it, because voltages were low and transmission distances were short. It was only after the whole electricity industry scaled up that AC really showed its strengths... but the potential was there and so it was a worthwhile investment even early on.
I prefer to use power-of-two values for my length measurements, too. At 2 cm = 1 inch, I'm way more inches than you.
Yeah, our first x86 computer (in 1993) originally had a 40mb hard drive, and that was mid-range.
So don't you think that the telemetry shutting off BEFORE the plane dropped off radar is even MORE suspicious?
If they'd shut off at the same time, then kaboom. If they'd shut off after the plane dropped off radar, then maybe some electronics was battery backed or whatever and was still transmitting until it got waterlogged and sank. But shutting off 20 minutes before the plane dropped off radar would indicate deliberate sabotage.
Notice that you're still "giving" stuff, with conditions. Without the idea of private property, you can't give things because you can't own things. And you can't apply conditions, for the same reason. So no, I wouldn't breach that trust, because there would be no gift and nothing for the trust to apply to. It would not exist to be breached.
What test was that?
If something isn't your private property then you forfeit the right to dictate how it is used. So I could take stuff you've worked hard for, and break it, and you have no right to be upset because it isn't yours.
True, but if your company is already run by crappy HR (and good HR would be involving the existing technical team when evaluating new technical hires) then you probably want to get out as soon as possible. Eventually the company will be almost entirely composed of cheap but useless drones, true, but long before then they'll make the place so tech-hostile that anyone half competent will have left.
None of that is the IDE's fault. All of that is the fault of whoever hired the untrained incompetents. An IDE is not and never has been a replacement for understanding what you're doing.
The runners are programs like Sublime Text, BBedit, Text Wrangler, gedit, Jedit, notepad++, or even vim.
Yep. And consider that most (all?) of these offer a combination of syntax highlighting, auto indentation, potentially auto-complete and context sensitive help (if only through plugins). They provide a lot of the features traditionally associated with an IDE.
People arguing that "IDEs are bad" need to get their argument straight. Are they saying that learning a language requires separately compiling your code on the command-line? Because that's about the only thing that a good programming text editor doesn't do.
"Your program has crashed."
Think of it as them letting us skip the first three generations of buggy crap that usually comes out before the first 'good' model. They got enough funding that they don't have to rush to market, and they're taking time to really get it right.
It's the same people who say "we had electric cars 100 years ago so the Tesla Model S is neither new nor innovative."
in 1998 I donned a VR headset of the time and walked on a tread mill. it was fun though a bit disorienting since the screens weren't lined up for my prescription properly.
Dactyl Nightmare? :)
You just listed one group of chemicals, and then called out mothers who exposed their unborn children to a different group of chemicals. Make your mind up.
Why not try to get more young men into scrapbooking? There are very few men at all in scrapbooking.