We have perverse incentives, where even the real estate agent and health insurance company that should be working for you have a vested interest in maximizing what you pay someone else because it raises the dollar amount of their fixed percentage profit. And never mind that it might be tens of thousands of dollars out of your pocket to get them a couple extra hundred. We can also count un-serviceable consumer electronics and really any product where "planned obsolescence" is a factor.
Moral hazards, where folks who know that someone else will bear the cost of a loss do nothing to mitigate the loss (know anyone who's diabetic that doesn't eat right because they've got insurance that'll cover treating the resulting problems?)â" or even act to cause a covered loss because they've got an angle where they can profit from it. See also any company that knows it's "too big to fail" and any company that's managed to protect it's financials, HR records, and trade secrets while having their customers' data liberated.
And finally, the tragedy of the commons, where common resources are monopolized, damaged, or destroyed for the profit of a select few. Here we have oil spills fracking, water pollution, industrial air pollution, etc.
The problem isn't capitalism. It's that we live in such a hyper-competitive world that old niches are disappearing and it's a struggle to find new ones where we can add value to earn an honest buck and get a decent standard of living. For some it's easier to find and exploit flaws in the system to make a great profit while fob off the actual costs on "the other guy."
If you replace "tv" with "couch", and add "lick your face with the same tongue that just slobbered over a rotting bird wing she found in the bushes" you'll have perfectly described my dog.
Probability doesn't figure into success nearly as much as determination and hard work.
The bit about the NBA is a straw man argument; to paraphrase a thing I heard once, you can't teach yourself to be 7ft tall.
In technology, if you're reasonably bright and determined and work your ass off over years or decades to build a resume that checks all the boxes of your dream job... you'll get it. Degree or not.
I'm sorry, but the days of becoming a rock star overnight were either entirely mythical to begin with or they are simply long gone.
You can do your time in the trenches to get where you want to go or you can argue for self-imposed limitations based on "what's realistic" and rail about what's unfair and spend your time wishing it were different.
A friend's dad growing up used to say: "Do you know what you get if you wish in one hand and shit in the other? A handful of shit."
He was an angry jackass who excelled at crushing dreams. But in this one statement... he wasn't wrong.
Finally, it's not "anecdotally possible." It's my reality.
No one is going to hand a coding bootcamp graduate a six figure salary when there's other folks in line for the same job â"people who've done their time in the trenches for a decade or moreâ" that are willing to bring considerable, deep, and hard-won expertise to bear on an employer's challenges.
Don't mistake meâ" I commend folks for doing a bootcamp. But much like in the military, no one goes directly from bootcamp to three star general.
The world we live in is hypercompetitive. The easy niches are filled. You want to get to the top, start working for it. But you'll be competing, every day and in myriad ways, with folks who've already been working for it for years or decades.
Don't sell yourself (or anyone else) on a narrative where you can't do anything significant without a degree.
With a solid professional background, proven technical skills, and a couple of hardcore. certifications, a college dropout applied for a high end IT job at Apple some years ago.
Interviewed, received offer with healthy six figure salary, paid relocation, and various other (pretty impressive) perks. Specifics of offer were under NDA and might still be afaik.
Do your time in grunt roles building stuff and supporting it at all hours. Earn some no-bullshit certifications along the way. It can take a dozen or more years of real effort to get near the top of the heap, but so does anything worthwhile in this world.
Separation of duties. Principle of least privilege.
These are security concepts which are inherently incompatible with some of the more common ideas of what DevOps means.
For example, if the same guy (or team) is writing the code and the jobs that deploy it to prod and triggering that job, you might have "a devops" but you don't have a sane security model.
I was hoping that someone would take my least favorite aspects of the newer macbook pros (a picture of an escape key (vi much?) and pictures of other buttons that take zero force to activate, littering my typing with garbage when a finger strays past the top row) and extend that frustration to every key on the keyboard.
Hey, Apple- while you're at it, why don't you give me a nice papercut and pour lemon juice in it?
Slashdot Mirror
Yes.
https://www.ghacks.net/2016/03...
tl; dr: about:config, disable service workers
Until it starts to fade, you mean?
64k ought to be enough for anyone.
I get a lot out of it, especially when those pics are shrunk down to fit in the middle of a web page displayed on 4k or 1080p devices.
It really conveys a lot of information about how superior the new ones are.
But what I really like about the advent of 8k crap is that 1080p projectors are going to get even cheaper.
Nah.
Global warming is a proxy for geopolitics in general and post-WW2 US foreign policy in particular.
We have perverse incentives, where even the real estate agent and health insurance company that should be working for you have a vested interest in maximizing what you pay someone else because it raises the dollar amount of their fixed percentage profit. And never mind that it might be tens of thousands of dollars out of your pocket to get them a couple extra hundred. We can also count un-serviceable consumer electronics and really any product where "planned obsolescence" is a factor.
Moral hazards, where folks who know that someone else will bear the cost of a loss do nothing to mitigate the loss (know anyone who's diabetic that doesn't eat right because they've got insurance that'll cover treating the resulting problems?)â" or even act to cause a covered loss because they've got an angle where they can profit from it. See also any company that knows it's "too big to fail" and any company that's managed to protect it's financials, HR records, and trade secrets while having their customers' data liberated.
And finally, the tragedy of the commons, where common resources are monopolized, damaged, or destroyed for the profit of a select few. Here we have oil spills fracking, water pollution, industrial air pollution, etc.
The problem isn't capitalism. It's that we live in such a hyper-competitive world that old niches are disappearing and it's a struggle to find new ones where we can add value to earn an honest buck and get a decent standard of living. For some it's easier to find and exploit flaws in the system to make a great profit while fob off the actual costs on "the other guy."
Well, you can toggle it to show function keys by default.
Then you'll just have your whole screen slide over when you accidentally hit the picture of a key over delete.
WTF ever happened to Apple's human interface guidelines? Consistency and sanity in a user interface (ie, don't steal focus from the user) was genius.
If you replace "tv" with "couch", and add "lick your face with the same tongue that just slobbered over a rotting bird wing she found in the bushes" you'll have perfectly described my dog.
Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours.
Probability doesn't figure into success nearly as much as determination and hard work.
The bit about the NBA is a straw man argument; to paraphrase a thing I heard once, you can't teach yourself to be 7ft tall.
In technology, if you're reasonably bright and determined and work your ass off over years or decades to build a resume that checks all the boxes of your dream job... you'll get it. Degree or not.
I'm sorry, but the days of becoming a rock star overnight were either entirely mythical to begin with or they are simply long gone.
You can do your time in the trenches to get where you want to go or you can argue for self-imposed limitations based on "what's realistic" and rail about what's unfair and spend your time wishing it were different.
A friend's dad growing up used to say: "Do you know what you get if you wish in one hand and shit in the other? A handful of shit."
He was an angry jackass who excelled at crushing dreams. But in this one statement... he wasn't wrong.
Finally, it's not "anecdotally possible." It's my reality.
Well played, sir. Well played.
You win at the internet today. I'm impressed.
No one is going to hand a coding bootcamp graduate a six figure salary when there's other folks in line for the same job â"people who've done their time in the trenches for a decade or moreâ" that are willing to bring considerable, deep, and hard-won expertise to bear on an employer's challenges.
Don't mistake meâ" I commend folks for doing a bootcamp. But much like in the military, no one goes directly from bootcamp to three star general.
The world we live in is hypercompetitive. The easy niches are filled. You want to get to the top, start working for it. But you'll be competing, every day and in myriad ways, with folks who've already been working for it for years or decades.
Now, what's his email address?
And does anyone know a good goatse mirror?
Don't sell yourself (or anyone else) on a narrative where you can't do anything significant without a degree.
With a solid professional background, proven technical skills, and a couple of hardcore. certifications, a college dropout applied for a high end IT job at Apple some years ago.
Interviewed, received offer with healthy six figure salary, paid relocation, and various other (pretty impressive) perks. Specifics of offer were under NDA and might still be afaik.
Do your time in grunt roles building stuff and supporting it at all hours. Earn some no-bullshit certifications along the way. It can take a dozen or more years of real effort to get near the top of the heap, but so does anything worthwhile in this world.
s/better/truer/
It is more limited. Right now in the app it lists a bunch of movies that are unselectable (greyed out).
Lame.
Step 1: Instead of storing carbon in trees, we'll store it in large animals.
Step 2: Kill them all and let the passage of time bury their bodies and turn them into goo.
Step 3: Find a way to turn the goo into something useful????
Step 4: Profit
and more engineers.
Nah, the backdoors were already there.
They just added another account (uncle_sam) to go alongside chairman_mao.
why can't we see you nekkid?
why would you trust a cloud storage provider to keep a copy of it?
Separation of duties.
Principle of least privilege.
These are security concepts which are inherently incompatible with some of the more common ideas of what DevOps means.
For example, if the same guy (or team) is writing the code and the jobs that deploy it to prod and triggering that job, you might have "a devops" but you don't have a sane security model.
I was hoping that someone would take my least favorite aspects of the newer macbook pros (a picture of an escape key (vi much?) and pictures of other buttons that take zero force to activate, littering my typing with garbage when a finger strays past the top row) and extend that frustration to every key on the keyboard.
Hey, Apple- while you're at it, why don't you give me a nice papercut and pour lemon juice in it?
"Prime Day" is played out.
"Megatron Day" or gtfo.
I seem to recall that floppy disks used to have write protect capabilities.
As did USB flash drives.
And a bunch of work has been done on the idea about OSes running read-only. Search the web for "immutable infrastructure."