A careful read of the link will show that there was no time when you couldn't download and use it for free. There were a few periods where commercial users were supposed to pay for it on the honor system (shareware, basically).
If they want to get past HR, they lie. Many interviewers who are stuck behind moronic HR flunkies appreciate that they do since they would like to hire someone before the project is over.
It's a lie for a lie. If the requirement is impossible, then either the job posting or the requirement is necessarily a lie. Unfortunately, after a while, it's easy to just assume HR is lying and do the same.
More common though might be an exaggeration of experience. For example, 5 years of C and 1 of Java might become several years of Java if that is what is being called for. I'm not sure that's so much a lie as a translation from practicality to manager speak for managers that don't understand that the experience really does translate.
Funny you keep claiming that in spite of the evidence clearly showing that Canadians get higher quality care AND it costs less money (no, not just to the patient, but in total). So if socializing the market makes it more efficient, let's get the ball rolling.
Canada doesn't seem to be losing doctors to the U.S. Perhaps Canadian doctors enjoy providing quality care rather than ticking a box or two and bankrupting people.
The browser was always available as a free download. They made some money from larger ISPs that wanted to distribute a custom version and on the server.
It's probably a reaction to all the ads that demand X+2 years experience with x year old tech. And the ads that say must be proficient in X, also a,b,c,d,e,f,g only to have the interviewer say OH, we only use X here.
They had to lie just to get past the HR filter in order to be interviewed.
Funny thing about big data. It bears a remarkable resemblance to the old mainframe days when data processing was a matter of streaming through tape after tape outputting successively more processed and more condensed data to a scratch tape which would be the input for the next step. In it's day, that was big data because there was no way to make it all fit in core. 'Core' is orders of magnitude larger these days, and so is the data. Instead of mounting tapes, it tends to be other machines on the network connected to large storage arrays. The underlying tech matters less than the overall technique. But DP and mainframe don't sound hip and cool so it's 'Big Data' and we assume that anyone out of diapers is too old to 'get it'
And yeah, HTML 5 isn't some brand new alien technology, it's a stepwise improvement over HTML 4.
The cloud is a marketing term that covers a wide variety of things, some occasionally very useful, some nearly always a bad idea. You'll need to specify what you mean by cloud.
That is the real issue here. Some of us remember when management wanted everything including the potted plant in reception to be CORBA compliant. Anyone remember CORBA? When did it ever do anything for us that didn't already exist? Then it was XML. Everything had to be XML because XML would automagically make everything merge together and work in harmony.....or not.
OTOH, Ajax actually works as does LAMP. Ajax especially works well when you use it with JSON or HTML rather than XML.
IDE is a matter of preference. Personally, I find Eclipse useful for Java because there is so damn much boilerplate in Java that Eclipse can take care of. It's not so useful for Python, especially compared to vim with syntax highlighting.
When an older developer pushes back, it is important to determine if it is actually because he is a dinosaur or is it because he has seen the same thing twice before under another name and it failed both times at great expense. This industry sorely needs more of the latter.
Actually, most of the 1st world pities Americans who get sick now. There is no measurement out there that makes healthcare in the U.S. the best or less than the most expensive.
I'm not talking Mumbai vs. NYC here. More like comparing to London or Toronto.
If you mean biggest bills, longest wait in the ER, and most medical bankruptcies, then yes. If you mean quality of care, then no. The U.S. is well down in that ranking. Even if you have billions in the bank, the U.S. system is too busy running expensive tests to practice any real medicine anymore.
That would help. Eventually, either the massive costs of going to court must be curbed sharply or a scheme will have to come into play where a defendant with a half decent case is as likely to have a law firm pick it up speculatively as the plaintiff is (if you lose, pay nothing, blah blah blah).
It cuts the other way too. It's just insult to injury if a small defendant (such as the small businesses targeted by the scanner trolls) against a troll ends up on the hook for the troll's legal fees. It could be enough to make even more pay the extortion.
Loser pays works great as long as confidence in the courts coming to a just decision in spite of a huge disparity of resources between defendant and plaintiff is near 100% AND confidence in the just nature of the laws themselves is about the same. I don't think we're there, especially in the area of IP.
Sure, that gives the feds the right to handle the matter between states. That does not prevent the states from regulating behavior where one party is within their own borders.
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A careful read of the link will show that there was no time when you couldn't download and use it for free. There were a few periods where commercial users were supposed to pay for it on the honor system (shareware, basically).
If they want to get past HR, they lie. Many interviewers who are stuck behind moronic HR flunkies appreciate that they do since they would like to hire someone before the project is over.
It's a lie for a lie. If the requirement is impossible, then either the job posting or the requirement is necessarily a lie. Unfortunately, after a while, it's easy to just assume HR is lying and do the same.
More common though might be an exaggeration of experience. For example, 5 years of C and 1 of Java might become several years of Java if that is what is being called for. I'm not sure that's so much a lie as a translation from practicality to manager speak for managers that don't understand that the experience really does translate.
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No it wasn't. Netscape Communicator was a commercial package that cost. The charged for both the browser and the server.
How silly of me to not realize you meant Microsoft Netscape IE 1.
IE != Netscape.
Funny you keep claiming that in spite of the evidence clearly showing that Canadians get higher quality care AND it costs less money (no, not just to the patient, but in total). So if socializing the market makes it more efficient, let's get the ball rolling.
Canada doesn't seem to be losing doctors to the U.S. Perhaps Canadian doctors enjoy providing quality care rather than ticking a box or two and bankrupting people.
The browser was always available as a free download. They made some money from larger ISPs that wanted to distribute a custom version and on the server.
It's probably a reaction to all the ads that demand X+2 years experience with x year old tech. And the ads that say must be proficient in X, also a,b,c,d,e,f,g only to have the interviewer say OH, we only use X here.
They had to lie just to get past the HR filter in order to be interviewed.
Funny thing about big data. It bears a remarkable resemblance to the old mainframe days when data processing was a matter of streaming through tape after tape outputting successively more processed and more condensed data to a scratch tape which would be the input for the next step. In it's day, that was big data because there was no way to make it all fit in core. 'Core' is orders of magnitude larger these days, and so is the data. Instead of mounting tapes, it tends to be other machines on the network connected to large storage arrays. The underlying tech matters less than the overall technique. But DP and mainframe don't sound hip and cool so it's 'Big Data' and we assume that anyone out of diapers is too old to 'get it'
And yeah, HTML 5 isn't some brand new alien technology, it's a stepwise improvement over HTML 4.
The cloud is a marketing term that covers a wide variety of things, some occasionally very useful, some nearly always a bad idea. You'll need to specify what you mean by cloud.
That is the real issue here. Some of us remember when management wanted everything including the potted plant in reception to be CORBA compliant. Anyone remember CORBA? When did it ever do anything for us that didn't already exist? Then it was XML. Everything had to be XML because XML would automagically make everything merge together and work in harmony.....or not.
OTOH, Ajax actually works as does LAMP. Ajax especially works well when you use it with JSON or HTML rather than XML.
IDE is a matter of preference. Personally, I find Eclipse useful for Java because there is so damn much boilerplate in Java that Eclipse can take care of. It's not so useful for Python, especially compared to vim with syntax highlighting.
When an older developer pushes back, it is important to determine if it is actually because he is a dinosaur or is it because he has seen the same thing twice before under another name and it failed both times at great expense. This industry sorely needs more of the latter.
I thought we were discussing healthcare. and Canada vs U.S. What do anecdotes about the old (and dead) Soviet Union have to do with anything?
Someone in need of healthcare is much better off being a Canadian.
As I understand it, it's mostly for faster service on elective procedures when money isn't an object.
Actually, most of the 1st world pities Americans who get sick now. There is no measurement out there that makes healthcare in the U.S. the best or less than the most expensive.
I'm not talking Mumbai vs. NYC here. More like comparing to London or Toronto.
The research itself was called 'simplistic' as well.
If you mean biggest bills, longest wait in the ER, and most medical bankruptcies, then yes. If you mean quality of care, then no. The U.S. is well down in that ranking. Even if you have billions in the bank, the U.S. system is too busy running expensive tests to practice any real medicine anymore.
That would help. Eventually, either the massive costs of going to court must be curbed sharply or a scheme will have to come into play where a defendant with a half decent case is as likely to have a law firm pick it up speculatively as the plaintiff is (if you lose, pay nothing, blah blah blah).
It cuts the other way too. It's just insult to injury if a small defendant (such as the small businesses targeted by the scanner trolls) against a troll ends up on the hook for the troll's legal fees. It could be enough to make even more pay the extortion.
Loser pays works great as long as confidence in the courts coming to a just decision in spite of a huge disparity of resources between defendant and plaintiff is near 100% AND confidence in the just nature of the laws themselves is about the same. I don't think we're there, especially in the area of IP.
Sure, that gives the feds the right to handle the matter between states. That does not prevent the states from regulating behavior where one party is within their own borders.
It's clouds all the way down!
Due to the nature of hydrogen, conversion of the fossil fuel infrastructure would require total replacement.
Actually, the first comment does convey the most important information. In the second, the variable should have been called RefCount, not x.
Buy Adobe, shit a brick!
So what we need is the ALL NEW Cloud Cloud! No need to worry about your cloud going down when you have the Cloud Cloud!
Do you really call a single alleged incident 'frequently'? Because that's what we're talking about.
What's nonsense is your bizarre belief that any entity could ever successfully negotiate 2 million rental agreements in order to build infrastructure.
You seem to have ignored that it's outrageously expensive...