My thought is it might be culture thing, unless the new hire is coming on as a team lead or manager they're probably going to be working under someone in their 20s or 30s. I'm wondering if this is simply a case of people feeling weird having a subordinate 10-20 years younger than themselves or bringing a 45 year old onto a team with a bunch of twenty-somethings.
It's not about bringing age, but rather experience, or even wisdom. When I was working in video games, I frequently went to companies where, only by myself, I was doubling the experience of the whole team, because I had 15 years of experience in game programming (I started at 20).
In fact, it's a matter about what the company values. If the company values experience, you'll find a diversity of people. If the company values technology, you'll only find young male guys. Sadly, most tech companies are obsessed with technology, and don't hesitate to hire "assholes" because they don't care about the human factor.
More exactly, problems start to arise when money stagnates.
As long as money flows (even by avoiding taxes), the economy profits from it, since what is called "economy" is the amount of money that circulates.
When the money concentrates in the hands of a few people or when the money is not spent into local economy, that's when the economy starts to collapse.
I am wondering how soon the management will realize that they can replace most humans if not all, by robots and be done with the productivity loss, slacking on the job, etc. problems ?
That won't happen, because a psychological effect.
Let's suppose that the managers realize that a robot can do a man's work at a fraction of the price. They might believe that it's better to fire all their team and replace it with robots. But this endangers their own jobs, since they won't have to "manage" anymore.
Let's take the place of a manager: "If they replace all the people below me, I'll be the next one to be replaced".
In France, a group of english robbers stole around thirty expensive Range Rovers.
The technique is called "mouse jacking". http://www.europe1.fr/faits-di... And what's worse is that the insurance won't compensate the victims, since there is no trace of burglary.
In fact, it's pretty easy to figure what happened. If your IP has been blacklisted, check the DNSBL. For example, with this site: http://www.dnsbl.info/
Then go to the sites that block your IP and ask to be whitelisted.
You can be blacklisted for a lot of reasons, like sending too much mails in a short amount of time on the same site (in France, we have an ISP that considers a mail is spam if you send to 10 people of their domain in a single mail), or somebody tagged your mail as spam, or it uses patterns that are considered as spam, or you send an email to a fake user.
Emailing can't be trusted, so you have to accept that and stop fighting companies that block your emails.
I use different sleeping cycles. During the workdays, from monday to friday, I sleep between 3 and 4 hours, but I meditate during 2 hours and I don't nap. During the weekends, I sleep from 5 to 7 hours with some napping, because I meditate a lot less (probably 15 minutes).
Several years ago, I was sleeping 6-7 hours every night, but I was always tired. I started meditation 4 years ago, and everything changed from this moment: I'm never tired, I listen to my body (no abuse), and I have a deep sense of joy.
My appendix was removed 35 years ago;D I believe that my gluten tolerance was reduced because of a combination of gluten consumption (I was a heavy bread eater) and antibiotics. But who knows really ? Since I inherited from all the bad genes from my parents.
I agree that the "gluten-free" fad is ridiculous. But I have discovered that I was gluten-intolerant completely randomly, since even my doctor said that I was suffering from IBS, and provided me drugs which never solved my problems.
They conclude that common sense must prevail to "prevent a gluten preoccupation from evolving into the conviction that gluten is toxic for most of the population."
You make it sound as if Di Sabatino and Corazza were debunking gluten, while they are doctors specialized in celiac diseases.
The conclusions of the above sentence are: 1) if you have problems with gluten, it doesn't mean that people around you will also have them. It's a belief. 2) gluten may be toxic, but not everybody suffers from it.
We are all both polychronic and monochronic at various degree in our lives. Pehraps you mother values relationships, so abstract interfaces go against her interests. To simplify her life, you should try to use large icons with people on them, doing various actions. It'll be probably less abstract for her, since she memorizes what she can, so she's limited to her knowledge, while you are limited by your curiosity.
Oh, and the young designers are so proud of their level of abstraction, that it goes against basic usability.
You are partly true, since it's a national sport to avoid taxes. I read that in one of the greek islands, a lot of taxi drivers were "officially" blind.
The real problem is that Greece has to spend 13% of its GDP to pay for its retirees. It almost twice as much as other european countries, and it will gets worse because the population is older than most other countries, with a lot of unemployment for young ones (probably whose who are leaving the country).
Since everybody wants to profit from the current system, I very much doubt that the problem will solve without cries. The IMF lost 1.6 billions of euros, so I also doubt that Europe will continue subsidizing the current system.
Personally, my back hurts when I'm standing for 10 minutes, when doing my dish-washing. Of course, the position is not really comfortable, but I have other problems:
1) I have flat feet, so the standing position is painful because it puts strains on my knees. I use insoles. 2) I have circulatory problems in my legs. My mother has the same problems, it became varices for her. I use compression socks 3) I have several herniated discs, so it puts pressure on the sciatic nerve when standing still.
This in turn could lead to more taxi journeys, or more jobs in other service sectors, as people spend that saved money elsewhere
Yes, there is this theory about redistributing money, but I call that bullshit.
People who take a taxi are not the poorest ones. When you take a taxi, it means that you can afford it (there is an amusing story about an INA director who spent 40,000 euros on taxis each year). When you have no money, you use the public transportation (it's reasonably cheap in France).
It's easy to criticize the taxi drivers, because they are too expensive. If you were in the shoes of a taxi driver, don't you believe that this system is killing your job ?
Right now, programmers and system admins are very expensive. Let's imagine an Uber for our jobs in a near future. I'm sure that you'll enjoy this service. After all, this is called "progress" and "free market" !
In France, it has been shown that Uber's drivers are mostly children from immigrants (in french, the politically correct term is "enfants issus de l'immigration"). Since most of them are jobless, it's a way for them to make money legally.
The problem is that it destroys the jobs of taxi drivers, but does not create new jobs. A journalist calls this "the 'sharing of remains' economy", where the real jobs disappear, and only some small cheap tasks remain. The two providers for this kind of economy are Amazon and Uber
If you haven't done any experiments to prove how much damage WiFi can cause, then how do you know that your APs are safe?
It's easy: their routers are assembled by children. Since they have no health problems, it's obvious that the routers are also safe for pregnant women.
At my company, we had a very good coder. Everybody recognized his competence, and thus he was tasked to write an email tracking system. 2 or 3 years later, he quit the company since he found a better job elsewhere, so we inherited his code. Sure, it was written clearly, but his system was heavy on resources. At a given moment, the system stopped working, and I had to check what happened. As I said, it's not that the code was not clean, but the database design was quite poor, and it was unable to keep the load. Since the company doesn't want to pay for rewriting the system, the system has now a lot of external procedures to remove the old entries.
This is to show you that however perfect your code is today, it'll be probably ugly in a near future, even if you believe you are a good coder.
Also, about "career enhancement", I believe you have a lot of illusions. 20 years ago, I experienced a massive burn-out (I was programming games at that time), which removed all my illusions about work (I did some psychoanalysis to understand what was happening). What is important is not your "career", or even "usable code", but what motivates you, and how much fun you have from your work. You can put the "I am a winner" attitude in front of me, but I really don't care, since I know that you are just faking who you are.
In all my jobs, all the people around me were faking what they were. They want to appear competent, skilled and good at listening to others (this is what their company expects), but they are never themselves, and this requires much less effort than faking it.
It's not that my code sucks, it's just that my understanding improved. I also started coding in 6502, and was seeking perfection at that time. It was not as easy as you may believe.
Recently, I took a look at my old code, and realized how much I was obsessed on performance (it's natural when you have 1 Mhz and 48Kb of RAM), but I was still able to find some tony improvements. At that time, I was so sure it was perfect !
I have 30 years of coding experience. Even though I believe I'm quite a good coder, when I read code from 5 years ago, I'm always surprised to realize that I can do better and simpler.
Whatever the state of your code is today, it will be a mess in a few years.
While I agree with your point of view, but I will give you an example where it fails.
Let's suppose that the program you are working on leads to the death of a person. After analysis, you discover that the bug is due to your carelessness ("it happens"). Your self-esteem of "I'm doing the best job I can do" is shattered. Will you hide the fact that the bug comes from your incompetence ? Or will you take responsibility, even though you'll probably be fired ?
If you can't be replaced, then you can't be promoted.
It depends on the kind of promotion. Not everybody dreams to become a project manager.
Do you really want to be maintaining the same program for the rest of your life?
Not really, but if the pay is good and the job is nice, why not ? Personally, I have a life outside of my work, so I don't really mind.
And do you want to have a reference that says 'no one can understand this guy's code' when you leave for the next job?
That's the least of my worries ! Do you think that the guy who will take your place won't hate you, even if your code is beautiful ? Do you believe that your company will not fire you if there are problems ? If the company doesn't care about me, why should I be faithful ?
Finally, I have a personal question: why do you work ? Is it to receive aknowledgment, money, fame, self-esteem, or something else ?
You are thinking like a manager. As a programmer, I don't want to be replaced easily, and I don't care about my work when I'll die, or even when I quit my company. I have no problem to share my knowledge with my co-workers, but why should I write code for somebody who'll replace me ?
Also, unless you write frameworks, I doubt very much that your code will be reused. It will probably be rewritten.
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Any theories on why this is happening?
My thought is it might be culture thing, unless the new hire is coming on as a team lead or manager they're probably going to be working under someone in their 20s or 30s. I'm wondering if this is simply a case of people feeling weird having a subordinate 10-20 years younger than themselves or bringing a 45 year old onto a team with a bunch of twenty-somethings.
It's not about bringing age, but rather experience, or even wisdom.
When I was working in video games, I frequently went to companies where, only by myself, I was doubling the experience of the whole team, because I had 15 years of experience in game programming (I started at 20).
In fact, it's a matter about what the company values.
If the company values experience, you'll find a diversity of people.
If the company values technology, you'll only find young male guys.
Sadly, most tech companies are obsessed with technology, and don't hesitate to hire "assholes" because they don't care about the human factor.
More exactly, problems start to arise when money stagnates.
As long as money flows (even by avoiding taxes), the economy profits from it, since what is called "economy" is the amount of money that circulates.
When the money concentrates in the hands of a few people or when the money is not spent into local economy, that's when the economy starts to collapse.
I am wondering how soon the management will realize that they can replace most humans if not all, by robots and be done with the productivity loss, slacking on the job, etc. problems ?
That won't happen, because a psychological effect.
Let's suppose that the managers realize that a robot can do a man's work at a fraction of the price.
They might believe that it's better to fire all their team and replace it with robots.
But this endangers their own jobs, since they won't have to "manage" anymore.
Let's take the place of a manager:
"If they replace all the people below me, I'll be the next one to be replaced".
In France, a group of english robbers stole around thirty expensive Range Rovers.
The technique is called "mouse jacking".
http://www.europe1.fr/faits-di...
And what's worse is that the insurance won't compensate the victims, since there is no trace of burglary.
In fact, it's pretty easy to figure what happened.
If your IP has been blacklisted, check the DNSBL.
For example, with this site: http://www.dnsbl.info/
Then go to the sites that block your IP and ask to be whitelisted.
You can be blacklisted for a lot of reasons, like sending too much mails in a short amount of time on the same site (in France, we have an ISP that considers a mail is spam if you send to 10 people of their domain in a single mail), or somebody tagged your mail as spam, or it uses patterns that are considered as spam, or you send an email to a fake user.
Emailing can't be trusted, so you have to accept that and stop fighting companies that block your emails.
I use different sleeping cycles.
During the workdays, from monday to friday, I sleep between 3 and 4 hours, but I meditate during 2 hours and I don't nap.
During the weekends, I sleep from 5 to 7 hours with some napping, because I meditate a lot less (probably 15 minutes).
Several years ago, I was sleeping 6-7 hours every night, but I was always tired.
I started meditation 4 years ago, and everything changed from this moment: I'm never tired, I listen to my body (no abuse), and I have a deep sense of joy.
Deep meditation is equivalent to sleep.
Monochrony/polychrony is very useful if you work with different cultures at your work.
If you want some other concepts useful at work, read this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
and search for its counterpart "Köhler effect"
My appendix was removed 35 years ago ;D
I believe that my gluten tolerance was reduced because of a combination of gluten consumption (I was a heavy bread eater) and antibiotics.
But who knows really ? Since I inherited from all the bad genes from my parents.
Unknowingly, you are following an old diet:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Though I would recommend to reduce the amount of meat and fish. Eating meat once or twice a week should be enough.
I agree that the "gluten-free" fad is ridiculous.
But I have discovered that I was gluten-intolerant completely randomly, since even my doctor said that I was suffering from IBS, and provided me drugs which never solved my problems.
They conclude that common sense must prevail to "prevent a gluten preoccupation from evolving into the conviction that gluten is toxic for most of the population."
You make it sound as if Di Sabatino and Corazza were debunking gluten, while they are doctors specialized in celiac diseases.
The conclusions of the above sentence are:
1) if you have problems with gluten, it doesn't mean that people around you will also have them. It's a belief.
2) gluten may be toxic, but not everybody suffers from it.
What you wrote reminds me of the difference between monochronic and polychronic cultures:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
We are all both polychronic and monochronic at various degree in our lives.
Pehraps you mother values relationships, so abstract interfaces go against her interests.
To simplify her life, you should try to use large icons with people on them, doing various actions.
It'll be probably less abstract for her, since she memorizes what she can, so she's limited to her knowledge, while you are limited by your curiosity.
Oh, and the young designers are so proud of their level of abstraction, that it goes against basic usability.
In other words, it sounds like the Greek government is living in a fantasy where everybody else pays for their society.
This sounds like the USA, where all the world economy is sustaining the dollar's value.
You are partly true, since it's a national sport to avoid taxes.
I read that in one of the greek islands, a lot of taxi drivers were "officially" blind.
The real problem is that Greece has to spend 13% of its GDP to pay for its retirees.
It almost twice as much as other european countries, and it will gets worse because the population is older than most other countries, with a lot of unemployment for young ones (probably whose who are leaving the country).
Since everybody wants to profit from the current system, I very much doubt that the problem will solve without cries.
The IMF lost 1.6 billions of euros, so I also doubt that Europe will continue subsidizing the current system.
Not necessarily.
Personally, my back hurts when I'm standing for 10 minutes, when doing my dish-washing.
Of course, the position is not really comfortable, but I have other problems:
1) I have flat feet, so the standing position is painful because it puts strains on my knees. I use insoles.
2) I have circulatory problems in my legs. My mother has the same problems, it became varices for her. I use compression socks
3) I have several herniated discs, so it puts pressure on the sciatic nerve when standing still.
I walk a lot and am weighing around 100kg.
They bought the medallion as it was a diploma, in order to get a job.
You cannot tell them: sorry, your medallion (=diploma) is worth nothing right now.
but that your argument relies on an assumed, and unjustified, premise.
It's not my argument. Here is the original article in french:
http://www.slate.fr/story/1034...
This in turn could lead to more taxi journeys, or more jobs in other service sectors, as people spend that saved money elsewhere
Yes, there is this theory about redistributing money, but I call that bullshit.
People who take a taxi are not the poorest ones.
When you take a taxi, it means that you can afford it (there is an amusing story about an INA director who spent 40,000 euros on taxis each year).
When you have no money, you use the public transportation (it's reasonably cheap in France).
It's easy to criticize the taxi drivers, because they are too expensive.
If you were in the shoes of a taxi driver, don't you believe that this system is killing your job ?
Right now, programmers and system admins are very expensive.
Let's imagine an Uber for our jobs in a near future.
I'm sure that you'll enjoy this service.
After all, this is called "progress" and "free market" !
In France, it has been shown that Uber's drivers are mostly children from immigrants (in french, the politically correct term is "enfants issus de l'immigration").
Since most of them are jobless, it's a way for them to make money legally.
The problem is that it destroys the jobs of taxi drivers, but does not create new jobs.
A journalist calls this "the 'sharing of remains' economy", where the real jobs disappear, and only some small cheap tasks remain.
The two providers for this kind of economy are Amazon and Uber
If you haven't done any experiments to prove how much damage WiFi can cause, then how do you know that your APs are safe?
It's easy: their routers are assembled by children.
Since they have no health problems, it's obvious that the routers are also safe for pregnant women.
You cannot be perfect all the time.
I'll give you an example from my own experience.
At my company, we had a very good coder. Everybody recognized his competence, and thus he was tasked to write an email tracking system.
2 or 3 years later, he quit the company since he found a better job elsewhere, so we inherited his code.
Sure, it was written clearly, but his system was heavy on resources.
At a given moment, the system stopped working, and I had to check what happened.
As I said, it's not that the code was not clean, but the database design was quite poor, and it was unable to keep the load.
Since the company doesn't want to pay for rewriting the system, the system has now a lot of external procedures to remove the old entries.
This is to show you that however perfect your code is today, it'll be probably ugly in a near future, even if you believe you are a good coder.
Also, about "career enhancement", I believe you have a lot of illusions.
20 years ago, I experienced a massive burn-out (I was programming games at that time), which removed all my illusions about work (I did some psychoanalysis to understand what was happening).
What is important is not your "career", or even "usable code", but what motivates you, and how much fun you have from your work.
You can put the "I am a winner" attitude in front of me, but I really don't care, since I know that you are just faking who you are.
In all my jobs, all the people around me were faking what they were. They want to appear competent, skilled and good at listening to others (this is what their company expects), but they are never themselves, and this requires much less effort than faking it.
It's not that my code sucks, it's just that my understanding improved.
I also started coding in 6502, and was seeking perfection at that time. It was not as easy as you may believe.
Recently, I took a look at my old code, and realized how much I was obsessed on performance (it's natural when you have 1 Mhz and 48Kb of RAM), but I was still able to find some tony improvements. At that time, I was so sure it was perfect !
I have 30 years of coding experience.
Even though I believe I'm quite a good coder, when I read code from 5 years ago, I'm always surprised to realize that I can do better and simpler.
Whatever the state of your code is today, it will be a mess in a few years.
While I agree with your point of view, but I will give you an example where it fails.
Let's suppose that the program you are working on leads to the death of a person.
After analysis, you discover that the bug is due to your carelessness ("it happens").
Your self-esteem of "I'm doing the best job I can do" is shattered.
Will you hide the fact that the bug comes from your incompetence ?
Or will you take responsibility, even though you'll probably be fired ?
If you can't be replaced, then you can't be promoted.
It depends on the kind of promotion.
Not everybody dreams to become a project manager.
Do you really want to be maintaining the same program for the rest of your life?
Not really, but if the pay is good and the job is nice, why not ?
Personally, I have a life outside of my work, so I don't really mind.
And do you want to have a reference that says 'no one can understand this guy's code' when you leave for the next job?
That's the least of my worries !
Do you think that the guy who will take your place won't hate you, even if your code is beautiful ?
Do you believe that your company will not fire you if there are problems ?
If the company doesn't care about me, why should I be faithful ?
Finally, I have a personal question: why do you work ?
Is it to receive aknowledgment, money, fame, self-esteem, or something else ?
You are thinking like a manager.
As a programmer, I don't want to be replaced easily, and I don't care about my work when I'll die, or even when I quit my company.
I have no problem to share my knowledge with my co-workers, but why should I write code for somebody who'll replace me ?
Also, unless you write frameworks, I doubt very much that your code will be reused.
It will probably be rewritten.
No, this is not called "Freedom", this is called "Money".
The people who buy these kinds of things want to show that they can buy anything, that is the "power" of money.
Funnily, in China, the guys with money avoid buying gaudy objects.
It's not because they are modest, it's because they want to avoid IRS.