Why doesn't anyone ever notice that the greater the energy density, the greater the energy that can be released all at once? You'd think people getting their houses or private parts burned with energy dense devices would be a lesson learnt...
My dad had one (green 1961). It was mechanical, and it did change to red at 65. Google Safety Spectrum Speedometer for pix and vid.
I had a 1991 BMW 750 with a built-in analogue phone. When I commuted over the Coronado bridge while talking on the phone (around Y2K), sometimes it would switch me to an Ensenada tower, breaking into random conversations en Español.
I've been saying it since Howard Jarvis and Ronald Reagan implemented their "tax revolt" at the end of the '70s: any benefit from tax cuts and less regulation is temporary, short-term, and soon overridden by the increased size of the crash after the greedy rich people abuse various economic sectors. That's why there was an S&L crises in the '80s, a housing crash in the '90s, bank and housing crises in the oughts, California schools run out of money. Shoot, does anyone think to check the top tax rates under Eisenhower? Even Greenspan was shocked... shocked! that rich people were greedy, that Objectivism is... oh well, why bother, people just filter it through their biases. Brown and Clinton have the best budget surpluses of their eras, then conservatives have to go and mess it up with voodoo economics.
Will some psycho please reenact an episode of Criminal Minds with George Will and Arthur Laffer as victims?
Are you fucking kidding me? No one mentions the strike price for all these employees with bad morale. I'll speculate: $1 for employees, $.1 for the investors.
Oh wait, I'm totally wrong. They're fucking RSU's! Your free money is only worth 40% of $38. Boo-fucking-hoo.
I didn't say the jobs didn't exist. My point was the field is FAIRLY new, and as such is still defining itself. I think its hard to argue that software engineering was anywhere near as popular a career in the 70s as it is today.
This is true. When I was in 8th grade, my best friend's dad, a programmer for an aerospace company, had to take a job 100 miles away when that industry crashed. He was quite happy commuting in his 356C Porsche, but the wife saw that was ridiculous and made them move. There was blatant age discrimination then, and I also saw it when my dad had to politic for his Willy Loman job.
One of my train buddies is on his second cell-phone programming jobs just since I've known him on the train. His wife is also a cell-phone engineer, she drives a delivery truck.
Yep. Most companies seem to turn-over their management ranks every 3-4 years (programming isn't the only "up-or-out" job), and there is always some inevitable merger/downsizing/reorg/etc. Good gigs quickly can change into bad ones.
Anyone whose managed to hold in the same place for 15 years has either been promoted up, or they've got their teeth sunk deep into some legacy system (which everyone else can't wait to get rid of).
Actually, I'm over 11 years, partly because of the inevitable merger etc. requiring some technical person to keep doing new things to the same old, and same old to the new versions (including upgrades to web enabled versions and the latest db technology). Yes, I'm deep into legacy, and have told them in so many words I'd be happy to convert to whatever they decide is better. So I'm doubly protected - either they keep the same ol', which means a small conversion project and more new programming, or I do a huge conversion project and get the new skills. This should keep me going until I retire. Wife and two kids and two cats and giant house in subruralia (nicer than suburbia), why would I want to turn over? People denigrate the idea of doing the same thing over and over, without evaluating how same is same. I worked on the grandparent of this software, when relational technology was some newfangled idea.
Don't cast too many aspersions upon the legacies in the world, they have their place, and the more obscure they become, the more lucrative. And they still have to deal with the new stuff, one way or another. (The odd place still using punch cards notwithstanding.)
Software engineers have ridiculously high starting salaries compared to normal people--why do you need it to keep going up?
Because all the cool toys get more and more expensive.
And, if you like to keep banging younger chicks....it doesn't hurt to have a bit more disposable income than the next guy....
Remember, he who dies with the most stuff....wins.
:)
Funny, that was a carved wooden sign (with "toys" instead of "stuff") in my stepfathers toy store. We sold the building to a chopper motorcycle dealer, and they kept the sign up:)
I had to laugh when I saw one of the people who bullied me, in the newspaper as a success story. The Flying Spaghetti Monster does indeed have a sick sense of humor.
I liked the 10 and 20 year reunions, even though I hated high school. wft, did I miss 30? Anyways, 37 years on, the facebook groups of my high school and neighborhood are actually quite interesting, for a few minutes. Facebook interface sucks though, try following a thread with 150 entries and you just want to toss the monitor (I was going to make a Second City reference, but all these young'uns...). Rather than robbing nostaligia, it seems to to have inflamed it.
The alternative is seeing your friends at funerals. I skipped the one last weekend, haven't even wanted to see what was posted on fb about it. It's hard to be the same age as a parent when they died. But now I know all my online meanderings will spin anti-chaotically forever.
I'm not sure how long it ran after that before they brought someone in to update it.
One time I was brought in to fix a hiccupping db. Poking about, discovered they had been diligently taking backups every night. Took me a while to figure out how they fit all that stuff onto one tape. Or rather, it hadn't fit onto the tape for at least 18 months. In fact, all the tapes were going bad, so I couldn't even get a good backup. Most of the disk space was taken up by overflow pointers. Fixing this somehow reminded me of a snail crawling on the edge of a razor blade. They can do that, you know. As long as you don't push down on them.
This was a casting department in a very large TV/Movie studio, db was for contracting actors for shows we've all heard of. The IT department was competent enough, they just didn't know much or care about this odd old technology, they had more important things to worry about. They wound up contracting me to migrate it to newer hardware.
The article was a good demonstration on how much crap can be in an article. He makes up statistics, links to himself as an authority, and generally ignores a decent academic style of thought and reference. Did I mention he generally just makes up shit? Jeez, it's worse than TV commercials, at least there you expect fluff. In an article, you expect better.
There have been discussions in the Oracle space about why there aren't any good Oracle blogs. Well, there are a few. They generally have useful examples of how to actually do stuff, rather than blowhard opinions. (google Jonathan Lewis blog for an example of how to do a technical blog right).
Personally, I think there are uses for usenet, BBS style fora, blogs, wikis, in-depth articles, and the traditional modes of communication. Stupidity ensues when people try to inappropriately enforce the rules for one communication medium in another. (And sometimes the converse, http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messag eID=1842567� being a classic example).
I have my own domain too. I also get more spam to my main address that is "out there" than to the specialized ones I use to sign up to places. I also do a bit of honey-baiting, putting certain addresses out on spidered pages to see if any get picked up using tricks like the html code instead of the at sign to fool crawlers (amazingly, that mostly works - in fact, the one big time it didn't work was a doc I had in word format, and google scraped it up and converted it to html, including converting the code to an actual at sign. I immediately got major spam there. Thanks a lot, google!).
Funnily enough, years ago I had cox cable modems when they had a deal with some company that owned the home.com domain. They dumped that, which at the time pissed me off because I was using my name with the @home for posting on usenet. So through dejanews I just kept using it. Then when google bought that, it became a major anti-spam weapon - some company in Japan had to deal with my spam, I never saw it. More recently, google has improved the google interface so you can change the email address - but I have no motivation to do so - in fact, with the about statistics on google, I continue to be a "top poster" on certain groups if I don't change it. One of the groups I post to a lot has some fairly harsh definition of spam (even announcements of free, on-topic tools are frowed upon as spam), and I've noticed google is less that helpful getting rid of spam from gmail there. In fact, not useful at all. In fact, some people consider anyone posting about anything commercial from a gmail account as prima facea fraudulent.
Google does evil, why doesn't everyone see that? Their entire financial model is based on unsolicited commercial advertisement!
Not to mention, they charged $12000+ over a couple of days during the Xmas shopping season to my Amex account, and I'm not even a customer. No explanation from them or the Amex fraud department was ever able to be pried from them.
An older friend of mine couldn't find any more Oracle DBA work, so he became a substitute teacher. Biggest benefit: You can say no on any particular day to any particular job.
If I can wear it on my wrist and look at it to see what time it is, and the sound is as good as my JBL studio monitors, and it can keep a call going over my entire commute past mysterious giant golf balls and a VOR, and it's free with unlimited minutes and no roaming charges. I might want it.
Well, with no virtual memory, I'd have a heck of a time running Oracle. Why would anyone bother even looking at an OS that can't run modern applications? From my vantage point, minix hasn't even caught up to 1980 vintage operating systems.
An OS without applications is like an engine without a car. An OS without virtual memory is like a tiny little model engine. Won't get the kids to Gramma's house.
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Why doesn't anyone ever notice that the greater the energy density, the greater the energy that can be released all at once? You'd think people getting their houses or private parts burned with energy dense devices would be a lesson learnt...
Touch controls in a car bouncing around on crappy roads are stupid.
I'd be happy if I didn't have to turn my HTC upside down to plug in the USB charger in all three of my cars.
My dad had one (green 1961). It was mechanical, and it did change to red at 65. Google Safety Spectrum Speedometer for pix and vid.
I had a 1991 BMW 750 with a built-in analogue phone. When I commuted over the Coronado bridge while talking on the phone (around Y2K), sometimes it would switch me to an Ensenada tower, breaking into random conversations en Español.
I've been saying it since Howard Jarvis and Ronald Reagan implemented their "tax revolt" at the end of the '70s: any benefit from tax cuts and less regulation is temporary, short-term, and soon overridden by the increased size of the crash after the greedy rich people abuse various economic sectors. That's why there was an S&L crises in the '80s, a housing crash in the '90s, bank and housing crises in the oughts, California schools run out of money. Shoot, does anyone think to check the top tax rates under Eisenhower? Even Greenspan was shocked... shocked! that rich people were greedy, that Objectivism is... oh well, why bother, people just filter it through their biases. Brown and Clinton have the best budget surpluses of their eras, then conservatives have to go and mess it up with voodoo economics.
Will some psycho please reenact an episode of Criminal Minds with George Will and Arthur Laffer as victims?
Takes a Real Manly-Man Programmer to wear one of those.
Are you fucking kidding me? No one mentions the strike price for all these employees with bad morale. I'll speculate: $1 for employees, $.1 for the investors.
Oh wait, I'm totally wrong. They're fucking RSU's! Your free money is only worth 40% of $38. Boo-fucking-hoo.
I didn't say the jobs didn't exist. My point was the field is FAIRLY new, and as such is still defining itself. I think its hard to argue that software engineering was anywhere near as popular a career in the 70s as it is today.
This is true. When I was in 8th grade, my best friend's dad, a programmer for an aerospace company, had to take a job 100 miles away when that industry crashed. He was quite happy commuting in his 356C Porsche, but the wife saw that was ridiculous and made them move. There was blatant age discrimination then, and I also saw it when my dad had to politic for his Willy Loman job.
One of my train buddies is on his second cell-phone programming jobs just since I've known him on the train. His wife is also a cell-phone engineer, she drives a delivery truck.
I've been balding since...
Yep. Most companies seem to turn-over their management ranks every 3-4 years (programming isn't the only "up-or-out" job), and there is always some inevitable merger/downsizing/reorg/etc. Good gigs quickly can change into bad ones.
Anyone whose managed to hold in the same place for 15 years has either been promoted up, or they've got their teeth sunk deep into some legacy system (which everyone else can't wait to get rid of).
Actually, I'm over 11 years, partly because of the inevitable merger etc. requiring some technical person to keep doing new things to the same old, and same old to the new versions (including upgrades to web enabled versions and the latest db technology). Yes, I'm deep into legacy, and have told them in so many words I'd be happy to convert to whatever they decide is better. So I'm doubly protected - either they keep the same ol', which means a small conversion project and more new programming, or I do a huge conversion project and get the new skills. This should keep me going until I retire. Wife and two kids and two cats and giant house in subruralia (nicer than suburbia), why would I want to turn over? People denigrate the idea of doing the same thing over and over, without evaluating how same is same. I worked on the grandparent of this software, when relational technology was some newfangled idea.
Don't cast too many aspersions upon the legacies in the world, they have their place, and the more obscure they become, the more lucrative. And they still have to deal with the new stuff, one way or another. (The odd place still using punch cards notwithstanding.)
Because all the cool toys get more and more expensive.
And, if you like to keep banging younger chicks....it doesn't hurt to have a bit more disposable income than the next guy....
Remember, he who dies with the most stuff....wins.
Funny, that was a carved wooden sign (with "toys" instead of "stuff") in my stepfathers toy store. We sold the building to a chopper motorcycle dealer, and they kept the sign up :)
http://tkyte.blogspot.com/2005/10/young-persons-game.html
I note that almost all the people commenting there are still working in the field, many are now respected Oracle Aces and Bloggers.
I had to laugh when I saw one of the people who bullied me, in the newspaper as a success story. The Flying Spaghetti Monster does indeed have a sick sense of humor.
I liked the 10 and 20 year reunions, even though I hated high school. wft, did I miss 30? Anyways, 37 years on, the facebook groups of my high school and neighborhood are actually quite interesting, for a few minutes. Facebook interface sucks though, try following a thread with 150 entries and you just want to toss the monitor (I was going to make a Second City reference, but all these young'uns...). Rather than robbing nostaligia, it seems to to have inflamed it.
The alternative is seeing your friends at funerals. I skipped the one last weekend, haven't even wanted to see what was posted on fb about it. It's hard to be the same age as a parent when they died. But now I know all my online meanderings will spin anti-chaotically forever.
Willie did blog about why he does this
I'm not sure how long it ran after that before they brought someone in to update it.
One time I was brought in to fix a hiccupping db. Poking about, discovered they had been diligently taking backups every night. Took me a while to figure out how they fit all that stuff onto one tape. Or rather, it hadn't fit onto the tape for at least 18 months. In fact, all the tapes were going bad, so I couldn't even get a good backup. Most of the disk space was taken up by overflow pointers. Fixing this somehow reminded me of a snail crawling on the edge of a razor blade. They can do that, you know. As long as you don't push down on them.
This was a casting department in a very large TV/Movie studio, db was for contracting actors for shows we've all heard of. The IT department was competent enough, they just didn't know much or care about this odd old technology, they had more important things to worry about. They wound up contracting me to migrate it to newer hardware.
You are right, and they see it:2 0070618-9999-mz1e18goodhu.html
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/op-ed/goodhue/
The article was a good demonstration on how much crap can be in an article. He makes up statistics, links to himself as an authority, and generally ignores a decent academic style of thought and reference. Did I mention he generally just makes up shit? Jeez, it's worse than TV commercials, at least there you expect fluff. In an article, you expect better.
g eID=1842567� being a classic example).
There have been discussions in the Oracle space about why there aren't any good Oracle blogs. Well, there are a few. They generally have useful examples of how to actually do stuff, rather than blowhard opinions. (google Jonathan Lewis blog for an example of how to do a technical blog right).
Personally, I think there are uses for usenet, BBS style fora, blogs, wikis, in-depth articles, and the traditional modes of communication. Stupidity ensues when people try to inappropriately enforce the rules for one communication medium in another. (And sometimes the converse, http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messa
I have my own domain too. I also get more spam to my main address that is "out there" than to the specialized ones I use to sign up to places. I also do a bit of honey-baiting, putting certain addresses out on spidered pages to see if any get picked up using tricks like the html code instead of the at sign to fool crawlers (amazingly, that mostly works - in fact, the one big time it didn't work was a doc I had in word format, and google scraped it up and converted it to html, including converting the code to an actual at sign. I immediately got major spam there. Thanks a lot, google!).
Funnily enough, years ago I had cox cable modems when they had a deal with some company that owned the home.com domain. They dumped that, which at the time pissed me off because I was using my name with the @home for posting on usenet. So through dejanews I just kept using it. Then when google bought that, it became a major anti-spam weapon - some company in Japan had to deal with my spam, I never saw it. More recently, google has improved the google interface so you can change the email address - but I have no motivation to do so - in fact, with the about statistics on google, I continue to be a "top poster" on certain groups if I don't change it. One of the groups I post to a lot has some fairly harsh definition of spam (even announcements of free, on-topic tools are frowed upon as spam), and I've noticed google is less that helpful getting rid of spam from gmail there. In fact, not useful at all. In fact, some people consider anyone posting about anything commercial from a gmail account as prima facea fraudulent.
Google does evil, why doesn't everyone see that? Their entire financial model is based on unsolicited commercial advertisement!
Not to mention, they charged $12000+ over a couple of days during the Xmas shopping season to my Amex account, and I'm not even a customer. No explanation from them or the Amex fraud department was ever able to be pried from them.
An older friend of mine couldn't find any more Oracle DBA work, so he became a substitute teacher. Biggest benefit: You can say no on any particular day to any particular job.
I recall one fellow who was head of an engineering department at an electronics manufacturer, his business card read "Grand Wizard" circa 1981.
If I can wear it on my wrist and look at it to see what time it is, and the sound is as good as my JBL studio monitors, and it can keep a call going over my entire commute past mysterious giant golf balls and a VOR, and it's free with unlimited minutes and no roaming charges. I might want it.
Well, with no virtual memory, I'd have a heck of a time running Oracle. Why would anyone bother even looking at an OS that can't run modern applications? From my vantage point, minix hasn't even caught up to 1980 vintage operating systems. An OS without applications is like an engine without a car. An OS without virtual memory is like a tiny little model engine. Won't get the kids to Gramma's house.
I saw on south park San Francisco was totally wiped out.
What the hell? This just shows you really don't know what you were doing.
>And how will they prove that anything was erased?
They logged the number of emails periodically. The number went from 8K to 0 the day after he left...