I haven't explored their site. I get your point, but don't undermine and undervalue the work of software professionals. It devalues the line of work, debases earning demands while distorting expectations regarding quality, duration and cost of software products.
I challenge you to recreate their homepage in about a day in whatever! There is much planning, thought and work that went into it I'm sure. Even the templates you buy for X amount schlep together in a day took more than a day to build.
As to your dumb investors comment. You are most likely right, there is plenty of eager money out there looking for investment. There are also astute investors. One potential scenario I could see is pumping/hyping Ello with intention of shorting FB.
This is wrong. Yes, people have a natural greater affinity toward their own kind. However, to systematically and blatantly discriminate is illegal. The favored being a minority doesn't exempt one from discrimination based on national origin.
Supply serves a demand. I would like to see further investigation into the demand (specific corporations) this corruption meets the needs of. There is clear abuse of H1-B at the expense of the employee (the product):
The qualified American worker who can't get a job or whose market value is being diluted by unqualified foreign workers who'll take much less to subsidize non-American oversea lifestyles.
The qualified South Asian worker not getting a fair salary or being stereotyped as one who doesn't deserve his/her merit as an exceptional talent.
There is no one nor entity backing up the currency like there is FDIC on the $. It's a big risk with my most liquid asset. Finance is all about mitigating risk and quite frankly bitcoin is too much of a gamble.
There is no one nor entity backing up the currency like there is FDIC on the $. It's a big risk with my most liquid asset. Finance is all about mitigating risk and quite frankly bitcoin is too much of a gamble.
Where is my ever lasting car? Why am I paying all this money to mechanics over and over again. Only if I had gotten a brick wall to get me to and from work.
Also hit the idiot back with the same logic.
"So if the company makes a loss and/or we don't get a pay raise/bonus to keep up with inflation or worse get lower salaries, you should dig into your personal assets to make up for it as you've failed in your role as a manager."
Brick layer factors that into his cost. Furthermore, building a wall is something that can be mastered, whereas, writing bug-free code when working on something new and uncharted everyday can't. You are often pushing the boundaries of human capacity to maintain that logic flawlessly.
If he wants bug-free code, he needs to put up the cash, shut his mouth and pay for the additional hours required to produce bug free code as they do in missing critical software. You want a new bug-free widget? Okay, give me 6 months and well-defined specs.
The truth of the matter is that your boss has never programmed and is clueless about what it is. He looks down at you purely as an expense nothing more. The truth is that he is too dumb to be a programmer as if he was a smart guy/gal in the first place, he'd educate himself on what/whom he is managing. Good news for you is when there is economic hardship, he will be begging for jobs whereas you, with your concrete skill set, will have opportunities.
Where has the option to disable advertising gone?
Here's the funny thing. Out of appreciation of being given a choice, I chose to not disable. However, now that it's gone, I feel as if it's forced down my throat.
I haven't tried Beta, but I'm gonna go ahead and join the revolt simply because "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". I'm satisfied with Slashdot Classic.
I'm going to catch the wrath of my fellow flag-wrapped, self-professed "patriotic" American countrymen, but I'm fucking fed up and feel the need to speak up.
This sick propaganda starts with the media. Fuck reading a story's contents, you give me the color/race, ethnicity, religion, sexual-orientation, wealth/affluence, partisanship of the story (domestic and international), I'll tell you exactly what the reactions of my countrymen will be regardless of the facts. This post-colonial imperialism is sickening and runs through the veins of our society from top to bottom. It creates double standards, domestically and internationally.
China and its Ministry of Agriculture rejects unapproved goods just like our FDA would. How dare they expect the same as us? Let the smear campaign begin! China executes Uyghur Muslims, all of a sudden China is the best. Why? Because in our hierarchical caste system, China seems ranks higher than Muslims. This is the reality, a single stamp on your forehead of an identity defines one entirely and groups you with a stereotype irrelevant of the facts. And if you think that people are willingly going to accept second-class treatment, you are tripping, keep investing in the military as this is the only way.
This is exactly why:
we are bending over and taking it as our gov't sells out its citizen's right to privacy
some rich white kid gets off with "affluenza"
Zimmerman, had irrational support cult-like following
Snowden, a true patriot, is on the run from his own gov't
we have murdered, YES MURDERED, hundreds of thousands of people in many wars
Discriminatory anti-Muslim rhetoric is flowing openly. Sikhs are targeted as Muslims, we condemn the acts afterwards because "they aren't even Muslims"
...
These double standards and injustices go on BECAUSE you permit it to happen. I'm the fucking patriot here, you are just a mindless sheep falling in line, fuck you!
Had you any business acumen, you'd realize that your short-sighted vision will bite you in the bum long-term.
"Yes, we suck, but the other guys suck worse"
Eventually, someone will come along/transform to provide a better solution and eat your lunch.
Quoting Bob Marley, economy is the bloodline of any society. It's where the buck stops. I hope that our "patriotic"(nationalist) Orwellian ways can play a second fiddle to our economy. If not, we are paving our path to our own demise.
USA's authoritarian, Orwellian stance is hurting American companies' ability to compete in the global market, domestic and international. It hurts the American economy.
Shouldn't judge an iceberg by its tip.
Not to undermine the massive infrastructure twitter must maintain for its core service, Twitter has additional services such as Vine (short Video sharing) and TwitterTV (from the jobs posted). In addition, maintaining an API which multitude of businesses, academics and individuals rely has its own challenges. I'm sure I'm missing more info, but the point is there is much more going on at Twitter (as with most other companies) than the simple services the general public seems to be exposed to and these services are created and serviced by employees.
Software is a living thing with ongoing needs throughout its full life cycle, including BUG fixes. You need to understand and acknowledge this and communicate it to your clientele. Inform them that they will have "software needs" well beyond the duration of your contract. This is why maintenance support exists which might be another source of revenue for you.
Ignoring the nature of the product you are delivering will not do anyone any good.
This! You hit it the nail on the head dude. Software is a living thing. Given its dynamic habitat, it has ongoing efforts throughout it's full life cycle. Needs that include but not limited to BUG fixes. It's amazing how many people/companies seem to miss this point and fall into a rut.
Wealth and Power are compounding, always siphoning to the top. Unless you place restrictions, i.e. socialist policy, it's only a matter of time before serfdom ensues, It's no coincidence that 80% of the wealth created over the past two decades have gone to the top 1% of the population. Remember the dream of being millionaires in the 90s? Nowadays, billion is the dream. Yes, inflation over time is real, however it doesn't warrant an increase of 10^3 magnitude.
Civilization is an ongoing collective effort. Why do we whine about this? Next time you or a loved one who desperately needs the same bright minds to come up with remedy or a cure to a devastating disease, tell me why you don't whine.
What about the bright minds coming up with new ways to kill people (military)?
Moral codes, ethics and philosophies are for the classroom, cash is what rules in the real world. The massive efforts of society to abstract our ill-doings (work) from our morals shouldn't be overlooked either.
Although, massive grouping of all old programmers to a stereotype is unfair, my experience is that It's a matter of desire/passion. Technically, I think the old programmer has a good grasp of the underlying foundation of logic. It's a matter or putting in the time to learn the new recipe and syntax. Often, their experience will get them up and running far quicker than a young buck.
Can a old programmer learn new tricks? Absolutely. Does he/she want to? Well.
Is he/she burnt out
Can he/she sacrifice the time required without neglecting his/her established lifestyle and family
Is he/she still passionate or is he/she disenfranchised by his/her negative experience in the field?
Does he/she have the guts to be a noob and feel stupid again? I know many who take pride in their area of expertise and rightfully do not want to dilute their worth by becoming less good in other sometimes newer areas.
I drank from the fire-hose and voted this story up.
I work for a dot com older than LinkedIn which is crippled by a similar (worse) monolith legacy webapp. Innovation, efficiency, development cycles, new features and site/product-wide roll-outs are a pain or in some cases impossible. This story gives one perspective/solution to the problem.
Software is a fast moving space, you snooze you lose. As the web matures, I see many more once-prolific trendsetting companies slip into bureaucratic process-driven monoliths milking every bit of value the antiquated software still holds. The wise companies invest in technology and reap the benefits of the initially intangible results of a flexible, maintainable, truly agile technological stack, however, most companies eventually fall into the cycle of:
Start-up and innovate
Grow and profit
Implement n-layers of bureaucratic oversight and process to protect the value
stop their ongoing evaluation
Loose market-share to newcomers and mavericks in your segment
paralyzed with more market-share loss, copy the competition wherever you can and desperately hold onto your scraps
The prosecution is alleging that the document leak perpetrated by Bradley Manning directly aided the enemy (al-Qaeda) in their operations against the United States. So what's the problem with including testimony that documents leaked by Bradley Manning were present during the Bin-Laden raid? It's common sense.
It is common sense that information in the PUBLIC DOMAIN is available to well everyone, including "the enemy". Calling the witness to state that Bin Laden seeeked public domain knowledge is just tugging on strings of nationalist emotions. The goal is to smear Manning to Al-Qaeda/Bin Laden (evil, bad, them, enemy) and
This is far-fetched and paranoia until it happens to you.:)
Truth is that we live under a totalitarian regime with some privileges. Our ongoing maltreatment of foreign people should have been a warning, now they are coming for us. No conspiracy here, man's self-perpetuating thirst for power has brought us here. My advice is to never grab the attention of your government and it's long-reaching arms. Stick to the masses and stay low.
Slashdot Mirror
I haven't explored their site. I get your point, but don't undermine and undervalue the work of software professionals. It devalues the line of work, debases earning demands while distorting expectations regarding quality, duration and cost of software products.
I challenge you to recreate their homepage in about a day in whatever! There is much planning, thought and work that went into it I'm sure. Even the templates you buy for X amount schlep together in a day took more than a day to build.
As to your dumb investors comment. You are most likely right, there is plenty of eager money out there looking for investment. There are also astute investors. One potential scenario I could see is pumping/hyping Ello with intention of shorting FB.
Supply serves a demand. I would like to see further investigation into the demand (specific corporations) this corruption meets the needs of. There is clear abuse of H1-B at the expense of the employee (the product):
There is no one nor entity backing up the currency like there is FDIC on the $. It's a big risk with my most liquid asset. Finance is all about mitigating risk and quite frankly bitcoin is too much of a gamble.
There is no one nor entity backing up the currency like there is FDIC on the $. It's a big risk with my most liquid asset. Finance is all about mitigating risk and quite frankly bitcoin is too much of a gamble.
Where is my ever lasting car? Why am I paying all this money to mechanics over and over again. Only if I had gotten a brick wall to get me to and from work.
Also hit the idiot back with the same logic. "So if the company makes a loss and/or we don't get a pay raise/bonus to keep up with inflation or worse get lower salaries, you should dig into your personal assets to make up for it as you've failed in your role as a manager."
Tell your boss to go into brick laying.
Brick layer factors that into his cost. Furthermore, building a wall is something that can be mastered, whereas, writing bug-free code when working on something new and uncharted everyday can't. You are often pushing the boundaries of human capacity to maintain that logic flawlessly.
If he wants bug-free code, he needs to put up the cash, shut his mouth and pay for the additional hours required to produce bug free code as they do in missing critical software. You want a new bug-free widget? Okay, give me 6 months and well-defined specs.
The truth of the matter is that your boss has never programmed and is clueless about what it is. He looks down at you purely as an expense nothing more. The truth is that he is too dumb to be a programmer as if he was a smart guy/gal in the first place, he'd educate himself on what/whom he is managing. Good news for you is when there is economic hardship, he will be begging for jobs whereas you, with your concrete skill set, will have opportunities.
Where has the option to disable advertising gone?
Here's the funny thing. Out of appreciation of being given a choice, I chose to not disable. However, now that it's gone, I feel as if it's forced down my throat.
I haven't tried Beta, but I'm gonna go ahead and join the revolt simply because "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". I'm satisfied with Slashdot Classic.
This sick propaganda starts with the media. Fuck reading a story's contents, you give me the color/race, ethnicity, religion, sexual-orientation, wealth/affluence, partisanship of the story (domestic and international), I'll tell you exactly what the reactions of my countrymen will be regardless of the facts. This post-colonial imperialism is sickening and runs through the veins of our society from top to bottom. It creates double standards, domestically and internationally.
China and its Ministry of Agriculture rejects unapproved goods just like our FDA would. How dare they expect the same as us? Let the smear campaign begin! China executes Uyghur Muslims, all of a sudden China is the best. Why? Because in our hierarchical caste system, China seems ranks higher than Muslims. This is the reality, a single stamp on your forehead of an identity defines one entirely and groups you with a stereotype irrelevant of the facts. And if you think that people are willingly going to accept second-class treatment, you are tripping, keep investing in the military as this is the only way.
This is exactly why:
These double standards and injustices go on BECAUSE you permit it to happen. I'm the fucking patriot here, you are just a mindless sheep falling in line, fuck you!
Exactly, that's the part these self-professed "patriots" don't get. Ideology and nationalism doesn't put food on the table.
Had you any business acumen, you'd realize that your short-sighted vision will bite you in the bum long-term. "Yes, we suck, but the other guys suck worse" Eventually, someone will come along/transform to provide a better solution and eat your lunch.
Quoting Bob Marley, economy is the bloodline of any society. It's where the buck stops. I hope that our "patriotic"(nationalist) Orwellian ways can play a second fiddle to our economy. If not, we are paving our path to our own demise.
USA's authoritarian, Orwellian stance is hurting American companies' ability to compete in the global market, domestic and international. It hurts the American economy.
Shouldn't judge an iceberg by its tip.
Not to undermine the massive infrastructure twitter must maintain for its core service, Twitter has additional services such as Vine (short Video sharing) and TwitterTV (from the jobs posted). In addition, maintaining an API which multitude of businesses, academics and individuals rely has its own challenges. I'm sure I'm missing more info, but the point is there is much more going on at Twitter (as with most other companies) than the simple services the general public seems to be exposed to and these services are created and serviced by employees.
Software is a living thing with ongoing needs throughout its full life cycle, including BUG fixes. You need to understand and acknowledge this and communicate it to your clientele. Inform them that they will have "software needs" well beyond the duration of your contract. This is why maintenance support exists which might be another source of revenue for you.
Ignoring the nature of the product you are delivering will not do anyone any good.
This! You hit it the nail on the head dude. Software is a living thing. Given its dynamic habitat, it has ongoing efforts throughout it's full life cycle. Needs that include but not limited to BUG fixes. It's amazing how many people/companies seem to miss this point and fall into a rut.
Relax, I never expressed my desire to give your money to a third-party, simply stating an observation.
Wealth and Power are compounding, always siphoning to the top. Unless you place restrictions, i.e. socialist policy, it's only a matter of time before serfdom ensues, It's no coincidence that 80% of the wealth created over the past two decades have gone to the top 1% of the population. Remember the dream of being millionaires in the 90s? Nowadays, billion is the dream. Yes, inflation over time is real, however it doesn't warrant an increase of 10^3 magnitude.
Civilization is an ongoing collective effort. Why do we whine about this? Next time you or a loved one who desperately needs the same bright minds to come up with remedy or a cure to a devastating disease, tell me why you don't whine.
What about the bright minds coming up with new ways to kill people (military)?
Moral codes, ethics and philosophies are for the classroom, cash is what rules in the real world. The massive efforts of society to abstract our ill-doings (work) from our morals shouldn't be overlooked either.
Can a old programmer learn new tricks? Absolutely. Does he/she want to? Well.
I work for a dot com older than LinkedIn which is crippled by a similar (worse) monolith legacy webapp. Innovation, efficiency, development cycles, new features and site/product-wide roll-outs are a pain or in some cases impossible. This story gives one perspective/solution to the problem.
Software is a fast moving space, you snooze you lose. As the web matures, I see many more once-prolific trendsetting companies slip into bureaucratic process-driven monoliths milking every bit of value the antiquated software still holds. The wise companies invest in technology and reap the benefits of the initially intangible results of a flexible, maintainable, truly agile technological stack, however, most companies eventually fall into the cycle of:
Separation of Church/Religion & State, be it whatever religion
The prosecution is alleging that the document leak perpetrated by Bradley Manning directly aided the enemy (al-Qaeda) in their operations against the United States. So what's the problem with including testimony that documents leaked by Bradley Manning were present during the Bin-Laden raid? It's common sense.
It is common sense that information in the PUBLIC DOMAIN is available to well everyone, including "the enemy". Calling the witness to state that Bin Laden seeeked public domain knowledge is just tugging on strings of nationalist emotions. The goal is to smear Manning to Al-Qaeda/Bin Laden (evil, bad, them, enemy) and
This is far-fetched and paranoia until it happens to you. :)
Truth is that we live under a totalitarian regime with some privileges. Our ongoing maltreatment of foreign people should have been a warning, now they are coming for us. No conspiracy here, man's self-perpetuating thirst for power has brought us here. My advice is to never grab the attention of your government and it's long-reaching arms. Stick to the masses and stay low.