How is a pension supposed to turn a bad web developer into a good one?
It won't. Nothing can turn a bad developer into a good one. Ignorant to knowledgeable, sure. Bad to good, never.
But that is not the point the parent post was making. The point is:
A pension is evidence that the company might give a damn about you wanting to work for them.
shortage of companies willing to take the effort and risk to train
DING DING DING! Give the man a prize! He gets it. Good programmers, especially those who have survived a few down-cycles, know how to pickup new languages and programming techniques. Perhaps it is just that my resume looks more impressive than it used to, but it seems to me that employers in some parts of the country (definitely, not MA) are coming around to the understanding that you don't need specific domain experience if you have enough experience in related domains.
You can run away or you might do what I do. I so hate not having access to my tool set that I bring my own hardware in. I use an external HD that stays at work. It has my virtual machines on it setup just like how they would have setup my workstation. I come in, plug in my laptop, fire up Parallels, and get to work. All my unix and mac goodness is just a cmd-tab away. If you can afford it and they let you do it, its really the best way to go. They setup the VM, on their HD, which never leaves the premises. You have instant access to your tools, on your hardware, that you control and are responsible for. If they won't do that for you, then fsck them.
I run a dual-router setup on my home network. I've got a Linksys WRT54Gv4 running Tomato alongside an Apple Airport Extreme.
I use a WRT54GL running Tomato (love that QoS for VOIP while torrenting) and an Apple Time Capsule in basically the same setup (802.11b is on for old powerbook). Also works great.
Firewire ZFS
Put them in firewire boxes and RAID them together with ZFS. IIRC firewire supports 64 devices per bus. I'm not sure if a dual connector card would have two busses or one.
Where in the constitution is the right to file share? Constitutional law isn't my field Neither am I, but I do know that the constitution does not grant rights to the people. It defines the structure, duties, and powers of government. This idea, that if it's not in the constitution it's not a right, has got to go.
Slightly different sense, yes? Sorry, not even wrong, unrelated. That quote goes something like:
"Democracy is the worst form of government..."
and then the bit you quoted. Your quote is, I think, from Churchill; I'm now certain my quote is a few centuries too old for him.
There simply is NOT enough terrorist activity or threat to warrant this kind of constitutional stomping authority. I really don't care if that sounds unpatriotic. unpatriotic? Since when is supporting the constitution unpatriotic! it's the definition of patriotic.
war is peace
slavery is freedom
etc.
Congress has any power they give themselves not explicitly denounced as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in review Good Lord! Is that what they're teaching you kids in civics class these days?
Cheer up emo kid, no branch of government has the ability to simply grant itself powers; all such self-granted powers would be, by definition, unconstitutional.
Code written for Windows 95/NT (back in 1996) still works today on the Windows platform. 12 years later.
Try that with System 7 code on OS X. I have a G4 Powerbook running 10.5; I have an old game, Hellcats Over the Pacific that was published in 1991 (that's like 17 years later), that runs just fine full screen in OS X. That is System 7 code running on OS X. I once fired up LoadRunner on it; that's System 5 or 6 code. I think you do not know of that which you speak.
Apple did just this with Mac OS X. When I run an old 68k app, it starts Classic and runs the 68k emulator there. I have Hellcats Over the Pacific; it runs full screen and smooth even under Mac OS X, smoother than it ran on my Powerbook 140.
Wow, life must really suck for the record labels. In addition to hating their customers, they hate their biggest retailer.
In other news(which I am surprised hasn't been submitted yet), Apple is suing NYC over the use of an apple in a marketing campaign. I was expecting to see a thousand posts about litiganous Apple being at it again, and another thousand posts about the need to defend one's trademarks. Apple must have half a dozen people whose job it is to find and fight these kinds of things. Win or lose, it doesn't matter. It's the fighting that counts. And what would be the consequences if they didn't?
don't even know if the vulnerability allowed for privilege escalation Indeed.
He managed to start a telnet server and log into it. If he had executed whoami(1) would it have replied "root" or some other username? We don't know.
"wow how retro, you use that for the nostalgia?" If some poser said this to me about my aluminum PowerBook, I'd tell him to pull up his pants and get me some coffee-flavored coffee. Right after I ripped off his little raisons and shoved them down his throat.
Nah, I'd probably just tell him to go fuck himself.
I'm not sure this article qualifies as prior art, but doesn't its existence some quarter of a century prior to the patent, in a popular magazine, suggest that the idea was, at the very least, obvious?
When all you've got are extremists, it's best thing to keep them busy fighting each other. It felt good that the country seemed to have known what it was doing. I didn't like it when Bush got elected, but I thought he was too addled to do much harm in four years, then 9/11 happened and I knew the country had make a mistake with him. When he was re-elected, I lost a great deal of faith in my fellow citizens. (I'm ~2 parts liberal, ~4 parts libertarian)
Unfortunately for them, should they ever try it, we'll likely pounce on them, be tremendously skeptical, and accuse them of attempting They are known to be untrustworthy.
I've never trusted MS, but I did once appreciate some of their products. In the later 90's, NT and their developer tools and documentation were pretty good, but when the July 99 MSDN came out and the searches were all pushing the latest marketing bullshit in what was supposed to be developer documentation, I knew it was over.
So what you are saying is that amongst the people who don't give a shit about the subject at hand there is a great deal of not-giving-a-shit about MS? I believe that would be true by definition. Its not much a point.
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How is a pension supposed to turn a bad web developer into a good one?
It won't. Nothing can turn a bad developer into a good one. Ignorant to knowledgeable, sure. Bad to good, never.
But that is not the point the parent post was making. The point is:
A pension is evidence that the company might give a damn about you wanting to work for them.
It about keeping the good ones.
shortage of companies willing to take the effort and risk to train
DING DING DING! Give the man a prize! He gets it. Good programmers, especially those who have survived a few down-cycles, know how to pickup new languages and programming techniques. Perhaps it is just that my resume looks more impressive than it used to, but it seems to me that employers in some parts of the country (definitely, not MA) are coming around to the understanding that you don't need specific domain experience if you have enough experience in related domains.
You can run away or you might do what I do. I so hate not having access to my tool set that I bring my own hardware in. I use an external HD that stays at work. It has my virtual machines on it setup just like how they would have setup my workstation. I come in, plug in my laptop, fire up Parallels, and get to work. All my unix and mac goodness is just a cmd-tab away.
If you can afford it and they let you do it, its really the best way to go. They setup the VM, on their HD, which never leaves the premises. You have instant access to your tools, on your hardware, that you control and are responsible for.
If they won't do that for you, then fsck them.
I run a dual-router setup on my home network. I've got a Linksys WRT54Gv4 running Tomato alongside an Apple Airport Extreme.
I use a WRT54GL running Tomato (love that QoS for VOIP while torrenting) and an Apple Time Capsule in basically the same setup (802.11b is on for old powerbook). Also works great.
You left out the one key factor in your analogy. There is a BIG FLASHING NEON SIGN AND A LOUDSPEAKER that say "OPEN FOR BUSINESS".
Firewire ZFS Put them in firewire boxes and RAID them together with ZFS. IIRC firewire supports 64 devices per bus. I'm not sure if a dual connector card would have two busses or one.
Damn, sorry dude. I see now that you were responding to someone else.
"Democracy is the worst form of government..."
and then the bit you quoted. Your quote is, I think, from Churchill; I'm now certain my quote is a few centuries too old for him.
war is peace
slavery is freedom
etc.
Scary shit, I tell you.
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions." Churchill?
I use a Speedstream 5100 too but no bloody a b or c.
Hey! That's my sig!
Apple did just this with Mac OS X. When I run an old 68k app, it starts Classic and runs the 68k emulator there. I have Hellcats Over the Pacific; it runs full screen and smooth even under Mac OS X, smoother than it ran on my Powerbook 140.
Wow, life must really suck for the record labels. In addition to hating their customers, they hate their biggest retailer.
In other news(which I am surprised hasn't been submitted yet), Apple is suing NYC over the use of an apple in a marketing campaign. I was expecting to see a thousand posts about litiganous Apple being at it again, and another thousand posts about the need to defend one's trademarks. Apple must have half a dozen people whose job it is to find and fight these kinds of things. Win or lose, it doesn't matter. It's the fighting that counts. And what would be the consequences if they didn't?
He managed to start a telnet server and log into it. If he had executed whoami(1) would it have replied "root" or some other username? We don't know.
Nah, I'd probably just tell him to go fuck himself.
I'm not sure this article qualifies as prior art, but doesn't its existence some quarter of a century prior to the patent, in a popular magazine, suggest that the idea was, at the very least, obvious?
When all you've got are extremists, it's best thing to keep them busy fighting each other. It felt good that the country seemed to have known what it was doing. I didn't like it when Bush got elected, but I thought he was too addled to do much harm in four years, then 9/11 happened and I knew the country had make a mistake with him. When he was re-elected, I lost a great deal of faith in my fellow citizens. (I'm ~2 parts liberal, ~4 parts libertarian)
I've never trusted MS, but I did once appreciate some of their products. In the later 90's, NT and their developer tools and documentation were pretty good, but when the July 99 MSDN came out and the searches were all pushing the latest marketing bullshit in what was supposed to be developer documentation, I knew it was over.
So what you are saying is that amongst the people who don't give a shit about the subject at hand there is a great deal of not-giving-a-shit about MS? I believe that would be true by definition. Its not much a point.