They got Colin Moriarty a couple of weeks ago at Kinda Funny Games too. Trump's election has produced a SJW hysteria where even conventional conservative views are no longer tolerated anywhere in the tech/entertainment industry in particular (or Silicon Valley/Southern California in general). Everyone not fully embracing the SJW agenda is being purged from their jobs. This poor guy got fired just for participating in sex roleplay that the SJW's don't like.
I honestly wish people would stop all the "SJW" crap when anyone who isn't an obvious Bible-thumper does something stupid.
Our developers receive an ultrabook that is rather powerful but not really adapted for development (no admin rights, small storage capacity, restrictive security rules, etc.).
What's the Best Working Environment For a Developer? Clearly not where you're working now.
I called to get set up with Comcast and they quoted me outrageous rates for basic internet, which were nearly the same as if I bundled other crap on top of it.
I said, I want the rate I see here on your website, just the basic service. The person on the phone refused to admit the rate existed, then acknowledged that it did but said that she wasn't allowed to offer it over the phone. I said, give me the plan or it's false advertising.
For $40/month, gods be with me, I got an internet connection so fast it maxes out my local network. I get nearly 12MB/second sustained, even over hours, and I don't even know how much faster it really is because I haven't bothered upgrading everything to gigabit.
Was it because I was firm but polite? Maybe a mistake? I may never know.
So yeah. I hate Comcast too, but I'm pretty happy with them right now.
"As horrible as each of these stories is, there is nothing that shows that Mr. Cadden did something that the government can link to the death of that person."
There are many example of cases where a corporation kills people, but, magically, no one person is found guilty of murder, when it was clearly murder.
Oh, I guess it's nobody, because it was done in the context of a business!
We have to solve that problem first. And the question doesn't change just because you add "with robots" or "with technology".
Java has a robust and widely used and robust frameworks for applications so in many cases the developer can focus on the business code; several mature development environments which hook into the reflection capabilities of the language to make coding quite pleasant; a rich set of tools useful for program qa and developer support; a massive developer pool. As a language it's OK, but language wars are so 90s.
The worst misuse and overuse of design patterns I have ever seen have all come from people who write, or learned to code writing Java.
Those "robust frameworks" you talk about are a scourge. At best they're cargo-cult engineering, and at worst, deliberate overiengineering make-work to craete job security.
Java can make mediocre programmers productive
I'm guessing you and I have very different ideas about what productivity is.
Awesome guy for the employees, horrible for the corp.
There's dysfunction all over the industry, and usually you get the combination of very little getting done, but everyone working their asses off and being miserable.
If you got anything useful done at all I wouldn't judge him so poorly from a corporate perspective.
Unfortunately decentralizing almost never aligns with business models.
We have government to do things that businesses can't or shouldn't do, but there are so many people screaming about how government is bad and shouldn't do anything at all.
I am not sure where yo get that multiplier, it seems a bit high. I've seen 50% to maybe 75% as the additional overhead. How did you come to 2.5? At any rate, once you tacked on the overhead cost my contracting company charged they were at about 2x.
Well that was for engineers, but that was a while ago. Maybe it's quite a bit lower now because everyone's cutting cost - like benefits, healthcare, and pensions.
That's fine if you have standard problems. Not so much when you don't.
We don't have standard problems. For the standard problems, there are standard solutions. And I don't need people for that, libraries will do just fine.
What I need is problem solvers. So actually, I DO test what they don't know. I don't want to know what they know. I want to know how they find solutions to problems they didn't already solve.
You got some ass-backwards reasoning, there. I never said I didn't also test problem-solving.
The point of testing what they know and not what they don't, is that you don't filter out good people just because they don't know whatever predefined things you think they should know. It's keeping an open mind.
You gotta love it when HR decides who you can hire. I once was asked to apply for a job at a company I was currently doing work for as a consultant. They had to post the job and HR decided I wasn't qualified enough, even though I was currently doing it, to forward my resume so the hiring manager couldn't offer me the job. As a result, I stayed on as a contractor at 1.5x the pay and they didn't hire anyone.
The reason sounds stupid but the overhead multiplier for a full-time employee is about 2.5 for skilled/tech work.
I went through a phase where I tried to really reduce animal protein form my diet, and one of the most foul things I ever tasted in the attempt was "Chick'n", some plant-based product that was supposed to look and taste like chicken. I couldn't even stomach a single bite. I spit it strait out and insulted several deities.
If Subway really is serving a product that's 50% soy (or whatever), and people eat it without thinking it's not 100% chicken - wow. Not bad. Not bad at all.
They already had this. It's called citing your sources and peer review. We also used to have open discussions but those got shut down in favor of safe spaces. Now you can't say shit without some snowflake getting their feelings hurt because, you know, feelings are more important than the truth and stuff.
Hurt feelings causes citations and peer review to go away? What the fuck is wrong with you?
And this got modded as +5 insightful? Really, Slashdot?
Sure it used to just mean "personal computer" but for the last, oh, 30 years or so, it has meant "IBM PC-compatible."
PC always means computer so there's no point in saying "computer" after it, unless you're talking to people so technically illiterate that they need to be told.
Do I need to explain why that might be a faux pas here?
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That one's my favorite, and I run into it all the time.
already knows brainstorming is BS anyway, especially when you try to death-march everyone into it.
Quality takes time and effort, and the best ideas happen when you're doing other things. Like walking or taking a shower.
Yes, the theatres, museums and restaurants in your shithole of city are better than those in New York, Chicago and Washington combined.
Meh. I'd take a short commute any day of the week over those things.
Going out to the really nice places, you keep that for a treat anyway otherwise they get boring. No need to live next to them.
They got Colin Moriarty a couple of weeks ago at Kinda Funny Games too. Trump's election has produced a SJW hysteria where even conventional conservative views are no longer tolerated anywhere in the tech/entertainment industry in particular (or Silicon Valley/Southern California in general). Everyone not fully embracing the SJW agenda is being purged from their jobs. This poor guy got fired just for participating in sex roleplay that the SJW's don't like.
I honestly wish people would stop all the "SJW" crap when anyone who isn't an obvious Bible-thumper does something stupid.
Our developers receive an ultrabook that is rather powerful but not really adapted for development (no admin rights, small storage capacity, restrictive security rules, etc.).
What's the Best Working Environment For a Developer? Clearly not where you're working now.
I called to get set up with Comcast and they quoted me outrageous rates for basic internet, which were nearly the same as if I bundled other crap on top of it. I said, I want the rate I see here on your website, just the basic service. The person on the phone refused to admit the rate existed, then acknowledged that it did but said that she wasn't allowed to offer it over the phone. I said, give me the plan or it's false advertising.
For $40/month, gods be with me, I got an internet connection so fast it maxes out my local network. I get nearly 12MB/second sustained, even over hours, and I don't even know how much faster it really is because I haven't bothered upgrading everything to gigabit.
Was it because I was firm but polite? Maybe a mistake? I may never know.
So yeah. I hate Comcast too, but I'm pretty happy with them right now.
I saw a fully patched, up-to-date machine get rooted via Chrome from a malicious website not two months ago.
Run it in a sandbox.
Run all browsers in a sandbox, even if they say they already have one built in.
could someone please explain to me why we're not putting a permanent base on the moon first?
"As horrible as each of these stories is, there is nothing that shows that Mr. Cadden did something that the government can link to the death of that person."
There are many example of cases where a corporation kills people, but, magically, no one person is found guilty of murder, when it was clearly murder.
Oh, I guess it's nobody, because it was done in the context of a business!
We have to solve that problem first. And the question doesn't change just because you add "with robots" or "with technology".
Java has a robust and widely used and robust frameworks for applications so in many cases the developer can focus on the business code; several mature development environments which hook into the reflection capabilities of the language to make coding quite pleasant; a rich set of tools useful for program qa and developer support; a massive developer pool. As a language it's OK, but language wars are so 90s.
"Robust", huh?
The worst misuse and overuse of design patterns I have ever seen have all come from people who write, or learned to code writing Java.
Those "robust frameworks" you talk about are a scourge. At best they're cargo-cult engineering, and at worst, deliberate overiengineering make-work to craete job security.
Java can make mediocre programmers productive
I'm guessing you and I have very different ideas about what productivity is.
Awesome guy for the employees, horrible for the corp.
There's dysfunction all over the industry, and usually you get the combination of very little getting done, but everyone working their asses off and being miserable.
If you got anything useful done at all I wouldn't judge him so poorly from a corporate perspective.
Unfortunately decentralizing almost never aligns with business models.
We have government to do things that businesses can't or shouldn't do, but there are so many people screaming about how government is bad and shouldn't do anything at all.
I am not sure where yo get that multiplier, it seems a bit high. I've seen 50% to maybe 75% as the additional overhead. How did you come to 2.5? At any rate, once you tacked on the overhead cost my contracting company charged they were at about 2x.
Well that was for engineers, but that was a while ago. Maybe it's quite a bit lower now because everyone's cutting cost - like benefits, healthcare, and pensions.
Yeah, I know... "pensions"... what are those.
That's fine if you have standard problems. Not so much when you don't.
We don't have standard problems. For the standard problems, there are standard solutions. And I don't need people for that, libraries will do just fine.
What I need is problem solvers. So actually, I DO test what they don't know. I don't want to know what they know. I want to know how they find solutions to problems they didn't already solve.
You got some ass-backwards reasoning, there. I never said I didn't also test problem-solving.
The point of testing what they know and not what they don't, is that you don't filter out good people just because they don't know whatever predefined things you think they should know. It's keeping an open mind.
And even then you can't tell if they'll be any good because a lack of common sense can trump any skill level.
You gotta love it when HR decides who you can hire. I once was asked to apply for a job at a company I was currently doing work for as a consultant. They had to post the job and HR decided I wasn't qualified enough, even though I was currently doing it, to forward my resume so the hiring manager couldn't offer me the job. As a result, I stayed on as a contractor at 1.5x the pay and they didn't hire anyone.
The reason sounds stupid but the overhead multiplier for a full-time employee is about 2.5 for skilled/tech work.
I went through a phase where I tried to really reduce animal protein form my diet, and one of the most foul things I ever tasted in the attempt was "Chick'n", some plant-based product that was supposed to look and taste like chicken. I couldn't even stomach a single bite. I spit it strait out and insulted several deities.
If Subway really is serving a product that's 50% soy (or whatever), and people eat it without thinking it's not 100% chicken - wow. Not bad. Not bad at all.
from your nightmares.
How about a pull request?
As in, pull my finger.
They already had this. It's called citing your sources and peer review. We also used to have open discussions but those got shut down in favor of safe spaces. Now you can't say shit without some snowflake getting their feelings hurt because, you know, feelings are more important than the truth and stuff.
Hurt feelings causes citations and peer review to go away? What the fuck is wrong with you?
And this got modded as +5 insightful? Really, Slashdot?
You think more curriculum and snobbery will solve this problem? Do tell!
Oh yeah, because learning all that "logic" and "critical thinking" nonsense is pure snobbery.
"PC" is also brand name, so there's nothing any more wrong with saying "PC computer" than with saying "Mac computer" or "Amiga computer."
No matter how many times you say otherwise, PC is not a brand name. It never was, and it never will be.
And nobody says "Mac computer" or "Amiga computer", either. It's "a Mac" or "an Amiga".
and being an good, experienced developer.
This is one of the great diseases of the industry - non-technical management, making technical evaluations and decisions.
If you have to ask, just stop. Stop right now and get someone competent to do it for you.
> "PC computer"? Seriously?
Yes, seriously. "PC" is a type/brand of computer.
Sure it used to just mean "personal computer" but for the last, oh, 30 years or so, it has meant "IBM PC-compatible."
PC always means computer so there's no point in saying "computer" after it, unless you're talking to people so technically illiterate that they need to be told.
Do I need to explain why that might be a faux pas here?
"PC computer"? Seriously?
Are you using these dumbass redundant terms ("cash money") just to be funny, or was the point of my comment lost here?