Pro-tip: learn at least one new language each year
Why would I do that? I have problems to solve, I can't learn a new language every year and be more than a tyro at it. There are those that love the new thing, however, when there are $tens-of-thousands of servers involved, running $i-don't-know-how-many virtual guests, well, proven and solid are more highly valued than simple "new" without any sort of benefit to be had going into it.
It seems to me that the stewardship of Java in the past few years, particularly it's security aspects, have rendered it useless and undesirable.
I must use java in my employment with well - let's just say "a lot" - and all over the world. It is not simply my own conclusion, but the conclusion of many people I consider more facile and accomplished than myself that Java is undesirable. My employer has gone to the point of shutting down a planned services introduction. That product, instead of launching, was shut down and the teams re-assigned to other tasks.
The workarounds to use Java in the current environment are such that we commonly create VM images to spin up and destroy for tasks requiring Java.
Going forward, I will carefully review employment offers - if it deals with Java, they're going to have to work very hard for me to accept it. I don't need the pain and heartache dealing with it causes if there are alternatives.
I am being intentionally careful not to give out details, and I'm sure there are many that will start off a reply "You stupid idiot, you can do X!" - again, these are not solely my own conclusions, but shared with many people I consider to be very, very good. I assure you, anything you may think of has surely been considered if not by myself, then by others in the same situation. Please do suggest if you wish, but also consider that a lot of other, very smart people, have looked at this same situation for more than a few years.
Like all opinions, this may or may not fit your situation and exact needs. It can even be quite wrong.
In a small town in Texas, AT&T removed the copper network. Those with POTS lines (nearly everyone as cell coverage is bad at best) were deprived of telephone service. AT&T's response: Here's a free cell phone. Oh, you want it to -work-? That'll cost you - double what your copper line did. More if you didn't sign a 2 year contract.
AT&T also removed the copper network and sold the scrap.
When I say "Feel the AT&T Love" - I'm not talking about the good kind of love.
"Global warming is just somebody's religion." said with a heavy sneer.
And PeOTUS Trump wants to defund NASA, since "it engages in bad science", and will very likely get his way through the rubber-stamp Congress he'll enjoy.
Sort of makes me glad that I won't be here for four years. I don't think four years of this sort of attitude and thinking will be very enjoyable to me. Still, for those that voted for Mr. Trump, I'm glad you got your guy. I hope you stay glad and that I'm wrong about him. I wasn't wrong about POTUS Obama or George W, though.
There's a difference between saying something that's not true when you know it's not true(telling a lie) and making a false statement when you are "genuinely" uninformed.
Statements PeOTUS made proven to be lies:
There was "serious voter fraud" in Virginia.
There was "serious voter fraud" in New Hampshire.
There was "serious voter fraud" in California.
Says he "won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally."
Says that at a campaign rally President Barack Obama "spent so much time screaming at a protester, and frankly it was a disgrace."
Says Hillary Clinton "wants to let people just pour in. You could have 650 million people pour in and we do nothing about it. Think of it. Thatâ(TM)s what could happen. You triple the size of our country in one week."
"Wikileaks also shows how John Podesta rigged the polls by oversampling Democrats, a voter suppression technique."
When Hillary Clinton "ran the State Department, $6 billion was missing. How do you miss $6 billion? You ran the State Department, $6 billion was either stolen â" they don't know."
"We don't have any" chess grandmasters in the United States.
Says he won the second debate with Hillary Clinton "in a landslide" in "every poll."
I don't really care though. It's a moot point for the next 4 to 8 years anyway.
The researchers cite the example of President-elect Donald Trump who used swear words in some of his speeches while campaigning in last year's U.S. election and was considered, by some, to be more genuine than his rivals.
Donald John Trump, PeOTUS, has told more verified lies in his short political career than many with 30 or 40 years in the pubic eye.
If you voted for him, I'm glad you got your choice. But, hey, really? DJT? Wow.
I haven't been in some time, but the buffet at the Rio was pretty good IMO.
I ate there in Sept. 2005. I did not find it very good. The Bordelaise on my steak tasted more like brown gravy from a dry mix. I cook, and while people don't pay me millions, I have a full table when I have a dinner party. And a lot of questions as to when the next one is.
I know every place can have a bad night. But a place like Las Vegas, one night is all you have to make an impression. They made one.
I don't know why you say you enjoy Las Vegas. The hotels I've seen are not luxurious, nor are they cheap. The food in the buffet is inedible - I wouldn't feed it to hogs.I did not find the shows enjoyable, and as a former wagering services IT guy, I don't waste money on wagering. I know the odds. Sometimes I was programming them.
As for the person doing the wagering - yeah, security folks have a saying - "JDLR" - just doesn't look right. Alarm bells should have been sounding at the oddly specific requests made, and gently refused.
I won't defend their business model because I agree with you, the game is rigged against you. If you can win, and you won't break even, why play?
I'm not sure why you doubt that PeOTUS will help. It's pretty clear from his public history that he is part of the problem. That isn't unusual. All of the candidates were part of the problem one way or another. We simply choose the least best one.
Not as big a mistake as may seem at first glance. Think printer ink. That is what Apple Et. Al. are trying to do with cell phones - turn them into walled gardens where they are the gate-keepers and every toll exacted goes to their own pockets.
Go look up who the lobbyists are trying to influence. They are trying to remove any possibility of competition they can, by whatever means they can bring to bear. Telecoms have largely eliminated competition in the transport sector. The barriers to entry keep what limited competition there is to an absolute minimum by simply writing the laws they want and giving it to their paid for legislators to sign & pass.
You aren't paranoid if they really are out to get you.
Why, I did a Micro$oft upgrade and I'm very pleased with the results and speed of my system, and the ease of updates.
sudo apt-get update
does it all!
Seriously, the times I've had to reboot a Micro$oft server and wait for updates to load before I could start fixing infrastructure issues is enough to make my eyeballs bleed. I had a 7 hour outage because the bastion was a misconfigured Windows server that "had to load updates" before it would present the bastion services. Once it was up, it took 2 minutes to fix things. Honestly, a OS that requires action to keep from updating is something you do not want in your infrastructure at all, for any reason.
Unfortunately, most users seem to have the "fuck it" mentality in terms of good security practices.
My workplace has many security "features". I am a long time IT worker above level III.
From cold boot to being productive takes longer than 10 minutes due to the security feature of being able to use the 2FA token exactly once, then having to wait for the next one (90 seconds on average). This is really a "nice" feature when your infrastructure is completely down and you have C level execs screaming to get it back up. (Yes, it's load balanced and it has HA pairs all over the joint, but while rare, the whole thing can pack it in sometimes. Budget constraints.)
If your users are taking a "fuck it" attitude, that can at times be put down to them. Other times, put it down to security for the sake of security and becoming an obstacle, rather than meaningful procedure.
As for thanking a user, I find a simple "Wow. Holy cow. Thanks, we need to fix that!" and keeping them in the loop if they want is best.
1. Like any good drug dealer, the first taste is free. EG: Uber gave it away this time, but wait until the hook is set and then they will charge for it. I wouldn't mind if Uber either gave me a discount or let me opt out. Yeah, that's not gonna happen. 2. Anonymous today, meta-data tomorrow if not yesterday. Big data is just another way to say Big Brother.
How about we put em both in the Thunderdome and let nature take it's course.
That would put the leaders on the same playing field as the pawns, which the boss class is loathe to do. A former Marine I know said it best: "If someone wants a war, then only those that have children or are going to fight should be able to vote to approve it." That would tend to cut off stupid, useless wars like - well, pretty much all of them since WWII.
I'm pretty tired of our solders dying for the profit of the military-industrial complex, not to mention the "collateral damage" of non-combatants.
What gives me pause - is it really such an inconvenience to open a browser and, like, click a single button? I'm no technophobe, but I am against the misapplication of technology. I guess Alexia and Siri and the like are OK if one is a paraplegic or otherwise unable to use their hands.
Other than my grand nieces shouting cute things at Siri to see what happens... it simply strikes me as flash and little substance.
You know, Trump says a lot of things, and some of them are even true.
If President Elect Trump said water was wet, fire burns, and the sun rises in the East, I wouldn't take his word for it. It's nothing unusual, I don't take any politicians word for anything but Mr. Trump does seem to me to be more factually challenged than the normal run of fat cat, self serving, self aggrandizing politicians.
Therefore, the IRS argues, Berns is not a party to proceedings and his request to block the data grab should be thrown out of court
Saw that one coming. I believe that it's not the IRS that really wants this data, it's the NSA/CIA, but they can't ask for it. One can always tell when the government is up to no good by how fast they drop someone, or how fast they start with the "no standing" thing.
35 years in IT. I've never seen anyone outside a large business or an ISV that truly needed 24x7x365, and when they did, they simply staffed appropriately. It's only cheap skates that want a free ride that work people to death.
The government office of News Verification and Purity has determined that your publication, The Washington Post, is responsible for the fake news article entitled "5 Held in Plot to Bug Democrats' Office Here" is false to fact and an irresponsible use of the public trust. You are herein DIRECTED and ORDERED to remove said post and issue a retraction within 24 hours or face fines and criminal penalties.
Your immediate compliance is required as a matter of law.
Regards,
Richard M. Nixon
All sarcasm and flights of fancy aside, some cures are indeed worse than the disease, or at least carry risks of their own. This isn't to say that I wouldn't have liked to see some consequence for Mr. Trump for the constant use of the phrase "Crooked Hillery" (How many times was she investigated and never even charged with a crime?) and his characterizations of many, many others. The proper response to my mind would have been for voters to see through his waiving of the bloody shirt and throwing of dead cats on the table and simply voted for a worthy candidate. Unfortunately, 2016 saw a year where there was no worthy candidates, only those less evil, and a perfect storm of voters too stupid, too lazy, too full of hate, too misinformed, or too hypnotized to see through it.
During world war II, the English (indeed, most of the rest of the world) had a saying: "You can count on the Americans to do the right thing; after they have tried everything else first."
I'm not saying fake news isn't a problem because it is. To my mind the best fix for that is a voter that is less inclined to hear what he wants to hear while disregarding any thing they don't want to hear.
That, and a billion dollars. I'm as like to get one as the other.
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Pro-tip: learn at least one new language each year
Why would I do that? I have problems to solve, I can't learn a new language every year and be more than a tyro at it. There are those that love the new thing, however, when there are $tens-of-thousands of servers involved, running $i-don't-know-how-many virtual guests, well, proven and solid are more highly valued than simple "new" without any sort of benefit to be had going into it.
It seems to me that the stewardship of Java in the past few years, particularly it's security aspects, have rendered it useless and undesirable.
I must use java in my employment with well - let's just say "a lot" - and all over the world. It is not simply my own conclusion, but the conclusion of many people I consider more facile and accomplished than myself that Java is undesirable. My employer has gone to the point of shutting down a planned services introduction. That product, instead of launching, was shut down and the teams re-assigned to other tasks.
The workarounds to use Java in the current environment are such that we commonly create VM images to spin up and destroy for tasks requiring Java.
Going forward, I will carefully review employment offers - if it deals with Java, they're going to have to work very hard for me to accept it. I don't need the pain and heartache dealing with it causes if there are alternatives.
I am being intentionally careful not to give out details, and I'm sure there are many that will start off a reply "You stupid idiot, you can do X!" - again, these are not solely my own conclusions, but shared with many people I consider to be very, very good. I assure you, anything you may think of has surely been considered if not by myself, then by others in the same situation. Please do suggest if you wish, but also consider that a lot of other, very smart people, have looked at this same situation for more than a few years.
Like all opinions, this may or may not fit your situation and exact needs. It can even be quite wrong.
In a small town in Texas, AT&T removed the copper network. Those with POTS lines (nearly everyone as cell coverage is bad at best) were deprived of telephone service. AT&T's response: Here's a free cell phone. Oh, you want it to -work-? That'll cost you - double what your copper line did. More if you didn't sign a 2 year contract.
AT&T also removed the copper network and sold the scrap.
When I say "Feel the AT&T Love" - I'm not talking about the good kind of love.
And PeOTUS Trump wants to defund NASA, since "it engages in bad science", and will very likely get his way through the rubber-stamp Congress he'll enjoy.
Sort of makes me glad that I won't be here for four years. I don't think four years of this sort of attitude and thinking will be very enjoyable to me. Still, for those that voted for Mr. Trump, I'm glad you got your guy. I hope you stay glad and that I'm wrong about him. I wasn't wrong about POTUS Obama or George W, though.
Statements PeOTUS made proven to be lies:
There was "serious voter fraud" in Virginia.
There was "serious voter fraud" in New Hampshire.
There was "serious voter fraud" in California.
Says he "won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally."
Says that at a campaign rally President Barack Obama "spent so much time screaming at a protester, and frankly it was a disgrace."
Says Hillary Clinton "wants to let people just pour in. You could have 650 million people pour in and we do nothing about it. Think of it. Thatâ(TM)s what could happen. You triple the size of our country in one week."
"Wikileaks also shows how John Podesta rigged the polls by oversampling Democrats, a voter suppression technique."
When Hillary Clinton "ran the State Department, $6 billion was missing. How do you miss $6 billion? You ran the State Department, $6 billion was either stolen â" they don't know."
"We don't have any" chess grandmasters in the United States.
Says he won the second debate with Hillary Clinton "in a landslide" in "every poll."
I don't really care though. It's a moot point for the next 4 to 8 years anyway.
Donald John Trump, PeOTUS, has told more verified lies in his short political career than many with 30 or 40 years in the pubic eye.
If you voted for him, I'm glad you got your choice. But, hey, really? DJT? Wow.
I haven't been in some time, but the buffet at the Rio was pretty good IMO.
I ate there in Sept. 2005. I did not find it very good. The Bordelaise on my steak tasted more like brown gravy from a dry mix. I cook, and while people don't pay me millions, I have a full table when I have a dinner party. And a lot of questions as to when the next one is.
I know every place can have a bad night. But a place like Las Vegas, one night is all you have to make an impression. They made one.
I don't know why you say you enjoy Las Vegas. The hotels I've seen are not luxurious, nor are they cheap. The food in the buffet is inedible - I wouldn't feed it to hogs.I did not find the shows enjoyable, and as a former wagering services IT guy, I don't waste money on wagering. I know the odds. Sometimes I was programming them.
As for the person doing the wagering - yeah, security folks have a saying - "JDLR" - just doesn't look right. Alarm bells should have been sounding at the oddly specific requests made, and gently refused.
I won't defend their business model because I agree with you, the game is rigged against you. If you can win, and you won't break even, why play?
They need to do something. Last time I was in Lost Wages I had to wait four hours for a cab. I walked back to the hotel which took another two hours.
Yeah, I don't go there anymore.
He's got the right and the left to pee on each other now. Much more entertaining and he doesn't have to pay for it.
He still wasn't elected by the majority. Neither was George W Bush. I see a pattern here.
Neither was Mr. Trump being elected.
I'm not sure why you doubt that PeOTUS will help. It's pretty clear from his public history that he is part of the problem. That isn't unusual. All of the candidates were part of the problem one way or another. We simply choose the least best one.
Not as big a mistake as may seem at first glance. Think printer ink. That is what Apple Et. Al. are trying to do with cell phones - turn them into walled gardens where they are the gate-keepers and every toll exacted goes to their own pockets.
Go look up who the lobbyists are trying to influence. They are trying to remove any possibility of competition they can, by whatever means they can bring to bear. Telecoms have largely eliminated competition in the transport sector. The barriers to entry keep what limited competition there is to an absolute minimum by simply writing the laws they want and giving it to their paid for legislators to sign & pass.
You aren't paranoid if they really are out to get you.
Why, I did a Micro$oft upgrade and I'm very pleased with the results and speed of my system, and the ease of updates.
sudo apt-get update
does it all!
Seriously, the times I've had to reboot a Micro$oft server and wait for updates to load before I could start fixing infrastructure issues is enough to make my eyeballs bleed. I had a 7 hour outage because the bastion was a misconfigured Windows server that "had to load updates" before it would present the bastion services. Once it was up, it took 2 minutes to fix things. Honestly, a OS that requires action to keep from updating is something you do not want in your infrastructure at all, for any reason.
My workplace has many security "features". I am a long time IT worker above level III.
From cold boot to being productive takes longer than 10 minutes due to the security feature of being able to use the 2FA token exactly once, then having to wait for the next one (90 seconds on average). This is really a "nice" feature when your infrastructure is completely down and you have C level execs screaming to get it back up. (Yes, it's load balanced and it has HA pairs all over the joint, but while rare, the whole thing can pack it in sometimes. Budget constraints.)
If your users are taking a "fuck it" attitude, that can at times be put down to them. Other times, put it down to security for the sake of security and becoming an obstacle, rather than meaningful procedure.
As for thanking a user, I find a simple "Wow. Holy cow. Thanks, we need to fix that!" and keeping them in the loop if they want is best.
It's why we invented the TV remote control.
We've had television remote control for a very long time, and in fact could bring beer and cigarettes as well as change channels.
They were called "children".
1. Like any good drug dealer, the first taste is free. EG: Uber gave it away this time, but wait until the hook is set and then they will charge for it. I wouldn't mind if Uber either gave me a discount or let me opt out. Yeah, that's not gonna happen.
2. Anonymous today, meta-data tomorrow if not yesterday. Big data is just another way to say Big Brother.
That would put the leaders on the same playing field as the pawns, which the boss class is loathe to do. A former Marine I know said it best: "If someone wants a war, then only those that have children or are going to fight should be able to vote to approve it." That would tend to cut off stupid, useless wars like - well, pretty much all of them since WWII.
I'm pretty tired of our solders dying for the profit of the military-industrial complex, not to mention the "collateral damage" of non-combatants.
What gives me pause - is it really such an inconvenience to open a browser and, like, click a single button? I'm no technophobe, but I am against the misapplication of technology. I guess Alexia and Siri and the like are OK if one is a paraplegic or otherwise unable to use their hands.
Other than my grand nieces shouting cute things at Siri to see what happens... it simply strikes me as flash and little substance.
Your statement appears to assume that Russian elections are fair and honest.
If President Elect Trump said water was wet, fire burns, and the sun rises in the East, I wouldn't take his word for it. It's nothing unusual, I don't take any politicians word for anything but Mr. Trump does seem to me to be more factually challenged than the normal run of fat cat, self serving, self aggrandizing politicians.
Saw that one coming. I believe that it's not the IRS that really wants this data, it's the NSA/CIA, but they can't ask for it. One can always tell when the government is up to no good by how fast they drop someone, or how fast they start with the "no standing" thing.
Good. Please do that. Thank you.
35 years in IT. I've never seen anyone outside a large business or an ISV that truly needed 24x7x365, and when they did, they simply staffed appropriately. It's only cheap skates that want a free ride that work people to death.
The government office of News Verification and Purity has determined that your publication, The Washington Post, is responsible for the fake news article entitled "5 Held in Plot to Bug Democrats' Office Here" is false to fact and an irresponsible use of the public trust. You are herein DIRECTED and ORDERED to remove said post and issue a retraction within 24 hours or face fines and criminal penalties.
Your immediate compliance is required as a matter of law.
Regards,
Richard M. Nixon
All sarcasm and flights of fancy aside, some cures are indeed worse than the disease, or at least carry risks of their own. This isn't to say that I wouldn't have liked to see some consequence for Mr. Trump for the constant use of the phrase "Crooked Hillery" (How many times was she investigated and never even charged with a crime?) and his characterizations of many, many others. The proper response to my mind would have been for voters to see through his waiving of the bloody shirt and throwing of dead cats on the table and simply voted for a worthy candidate. Unfortunately, 2016 saw a year where there was no worthy candidates, only those less evil, and a perfect storm of voters too stupid, too lazy, too full of hate, too misinformed, or too hypnotized to see through it. During world war II, the English (indeed, most of the rest of the world) had a saying: "You can count on the Americans to do the right thing; after they have tried everything else first."
I'm not saying fake news isn't a problem because it is. To my mind the best fix for that is a voter that is less inclined to hear what he wants to hear while disregarding any thing they don't want to hear.
That, and a billion dollars. I'm as like to get one as the other.