Exactly. If it takes me two hours per week to sort through every bit of my data and decide what to pitch, that cost has to be compared to the archival cost to decide whether it is a worthwhile endeavor.
Of course, at my office, we just bought a server and a controller with 16 SATA ports, filled the sucker up with off-the-shelf 500GB disks, and built a 7TB RAID6 using Linux software RAID. The whole job only cost about $2k, and we no longer waste any time deciding what to delete and what to keep.
I do not get the impression that society "looks down on" tech workers. Quite the opposite.
When I meet people from high school and tell them I'm now an engineer at a software company, they act impressed. I doubt I would get the same response if I said I was a plumber.
I was reasoned out of my beliefs, partly by discussing religion on the Internet at places like slashdot during my teens. I started by defending religion (using things like pascal's wager) but I eventually couldn't escape the logic and evidence contradicting my belief of the supernatural.
So... thanks, internet for freeing me from superstition and mysticism... and from the painful cognitive dissonance required to be religious in the modern age.
No, you certainly are not. Packaging is all the stuff around the silicon. It's not the wrapping paper and the big red bow on the gifts under the christmas tree.
Seriously, your statement is a bit like saying "I'm no computer programmer but java is a coffee bean so it makes no sense to run java on a computer!"
Thanks to the miracles of DNA testing, scientists have already found the closest living relative. This skeleton is from the great-great-great-grandfather of John McCain.
IT unions would turn Silicon Valley into the next Detroit.
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Total bullshit. Perhaps all web you want is 1996-era "homepages" with animated gifs of flaming skulls. As a consumer, I WANT rich web apps. Video and music, dynamic interfaces like google maos--all these things are driven by the consumer. If you don't think the consumer wants this, go back to coding your static web pages in ed, and tell us if you take marketshare away from the big boys.
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Firefox is not "lean." It is slow when rendering multiple webapps. I am baffled that FF doesn't to one process per tab by this point. That makes it no less lean, but makes it perform better.
Don't forget credit card interest, aka The Stupid Tax. As a shareholder of a credit card company, I would like to thank all of those who finance their unnecessary consumption with a 30% interest rate.
It's amazing how many people voluntarily accept a permanent decrease in their income because they absolutely had to buy lots of crap years back, but never made more than the minimum payments.
So it is just automatically assumed universities with good research programs also teach undergrads well? I would think there is very little connection between the two.
Well I assumed a company large enough to have an IT security department would know to either deploy wifi detection equipment, or get some of the free wifi scanning software, and stroll through campus carrying a laptop every once in a while (which is cheap and low-cost). A company too small for an IT security department probably can't afford to hire security policy writers in the first place (and is probably totally owned by some botnet operator, anyway).
I work in security. I want to do away with password expiration, and I want to minimize the complexity requirements. Unfortunately, we signed contracts and were audited against standards which were written by bureaucratic paper-pushers who arbitrarily picked a "best practice" which mandated these things.
So even if your IT security department wants to make things a little more sane, the auditors and lawyers already adopted "it is written, so it must be so" mindsets about some aspects of security. No level of rationalizing can change that.
But one employee can circumvent it ALL with a $50 wireless access point concealed someplace in a drop ceiling
You either don't work in IT security, or you work with hacks. A good IT security department monitors the 2.4GHz spectrum for rogue wifi, and hunts down and punishes those who use them.
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Exactly. If it takes me two hours per week to sort through every bit of my data and decide what to pitch, that cost has to be compared to the archival cost to decide whether it is a worthwhile endeavor.
Of course, at my office, we just bought a server and a controller with 16 SATA ports, filled the sucker up with off-the-shelf 500GB disks, and built a 7TB RAID6 using Linux software RAID. The whole job only cost about $2k, and we no longer waste any time deciding what to delete and what to keep.
How well does vi do autocomplete?
It sounds like somebody has never used SQLite. MySQL is WAY too complex for the majority of applications.
It actually IS getting much easier to do the stuff we did in the past.
It's the job that's changing. We are now expected to do more of the old stuff and plenty new stuff in the same timespan.
I do not get the impression that society "looks down on" tech workers. Quite the opposite.
When I meet people from high school and tell them I'm now an engineer at a software company, they act impressed. I doubt I would get the same response if I said I was a plumber.
Verifying that a hack did no harm requires digital forensics, which is extremely expensive. There was harm, and that harm can be quantified.
I was reasoned out of my beliefs, partly by discussing religion on the Internet at places like slashdot during my teens. I started by defending religion (using things like pascal's wager) but I eventually couldn't escape the logic and evidence contradicting my belief of the supernatural.
So... thanks, internet for freeing me from superstition and mysticism... and from the painful cognitive dissonance required to be religious in the modern age.
This post needs more acronyms.
No, you certainly are not. Packaging is all the stuff around the silicon. It's not the wrapping paper and the big red bow on the gifts under the christmas tree.
Seriously, your statement is a bit like saying "I'm no computer programmer but java is a coffee bean so it makes no sense to run java on a computer!"
How much less could you care?
So was Sim City a toy or a game? And did it matter?
Thanks to the miracles of DNA testing, scientists have already found the closest living relative. This skeleton is from the great-great-great-grandfather of John McCain.
IT unions would turn Silicon Valley into the next Detroit.
Total bullshit. Perhaps all web you want is 1996-era "homepages" with animated gifs of flaming skulls. As a consumer, I WANT rich web apps. Video and music, dynamic interfaces like google maos--all these things are driven by the consumer. If you don't think the consumer wants this, go back to coding your static web pages in ed, and tell us if you take marketshare away from the big boys.
Firefox is not "lean." It is slow when rendering multiple webapps. I am baffled that FF doesn't to one process per tab by this point. That makes it no less lean, but makes it perform better.
So you think your friend knows something about the future default rate that the rest of the market doesn't know? Is he a psychic or an insider?
I bought after the "credit crunch" was underway, and I'm enjoying my dividend regardless of the fluctuations in share price.
Don't forget credit card interest, aka The Stupid Tax. As a shareholder of a credit card company, I would like to thank all of those who finance their unnecessary consumption with a 30% interest rate.
It's amazing how many people voluntarily accept a permanent decrease in their income because they absolutely had to buy lots of crap years back, but never made more than the minimum payments.
I have never been offered a pension. I have no sympathy for those who do have them.
So it is just automatically assumed universities with good research programs also teach undergrads well? I would think there is very little connection between the two.
I was not aware US colleges had some sort of official tier. Who defines these tiers? What are the criteria?
Well I assumed a company large enough to have an IT security department would know to either deploy wifi detection equipment, or get some of the free wifi scanning software, and stroll through campus carrying a laptop every once in a while (which is cheap and low-cost). A company too small for an IT security department probably can't afford to hire security policy writers in the first place (and is probably totally owned by some botnet operator, anyway).
I work in security. I want to do away with password expiration, and I want to minimize the complexity requirements. Unfortunately, we signed contracts and were audited against standards which were written by bureaucratic paper-pushers who arbitrarily picked a "best practice" which mandated these things.
So even if your IT security department wants to make things a little more sane, the auditors and lawyers already adopted "it is written, so it must be so" mindsets about some aspects of security. No level of rationalizing can change that.
You either don't work in IT security, or you work with hacks. A good IT security department monitors the 2.4GHz spectrum for rogue wifi, and hunts down and punishes those who use them.
A false sense of security is worse than a known insecurity.