I remember the very first SQL stuff in the Oracle 4 manuals. First instruction was how to list out tables. The next one was how to drop them. So the first thing you do is drop the training tables you're supposed to use in the next step of the tutorial.
Most mechanics have "backups" of all the tools junior mechanics will use. In a normal environment, deleting the production database isn't really that big a deal. About the same as ordering the wrong part for a repair or having the electricity shut down.
Backups are supposed to work. Shit happens. All the time.
The CTO should have had the junior devs working off backups so 1) nothing goes wrong and 2) even better, you know those backups work. Load a new one each day.
I'm sorry but even the random dungeons of Diablo 1 (1996) are a more impressive feat than this marketing stunt.
If all you focus on is looks, then you miss the big picture. They just registered 7 million more trademark looks. They are the only company that will get to do this from now on. they can sue everyone else for copying them now. Brilliant marketing strategy.
When we first built-up our it department, we were all developers but one of us was also sysadmin and I was the dba. And I had other folks back me up as dba and a different developer backed up the sys admin. Then a few years go by and people leave and no one new gets hired and suddenly the sysdamin is the backup dba and I'm the backup sysadmin.
And now my buddy just quit. So now I'm sysdamin, dba, developer, tester, etc.
Be very careful when you tell me I need to train my H1-B replacement.
The only real money in the cloud is the stuff the cloud vendors are raking in. Cloud is the over-hyped tech flavor of today, regardless of how it actually fits your business.
Build a mobile app in the cloud today for your customers and see our profits soar.
A massive number of unprofitable startups have been funneling VC money into cloud services to support their doomed software and once that dries up, cloud grown will stall and the whole thing will come crashing down.
We heard the same thing about building out fiber. There was going to be too much fiber in the ground and prices would fall and companies would lose revenue and need to cut back and overcharge consumers in other areas to make payments on their loans and that didn't happen.
They claim to have 2 billion active users per month, so about 30% of people. But considering only around 40% of people have an internet connection, that's most of the possible people.
On the face of it, it seems true. But I wonder how many of those accounts are unused and how many are merely professional ones--since every bar and every band needs a facbook page just like they used to need a myspace page.
I'm not sure what the actual count of actual facebook users is, but I know in my circle of meatspace friends, half the people I know have never, ever signed up for a facebook page and of the other half, half of them rarely go on.
Ronald McDonald is not a real person. And if you're using facebook to promote your business, then you're actually violating the rules of Zuckerberg. Better safe than sorry.
The jobs that were sent to India and China weren't stolen by other countries; they were sold and the money put in the pockets of the CEOs.
Theoretically, if America still had the top 90% tax rate of the 1950s (that allowed us to invest in America and rebuild the rest of the world) the CEOs would not have sold those jobs because they woudln't have received any more money in their own pockets. In the 1950s, money rained down to the lower classes because execs could only get perks such as country club memberships (jobs for caddys) and company cars (jobs for drivers) and you might as well pay your employees better and they can afford to buy houses and cars and hire maids and gardeners.
All we have are anecdotes such as the developer I know who was actually recruited by Google (probably because he does a good job of hiding his age on LinkedIn). Once they got his resume, he was no longer recruited for google but did get the same job with a contractor for google. Well, the job duties are the same but the job offer is a year-to-year contract.
Actual evidence of age discrimination would have to come from google:
How many people have they hired in the past 10 years?
What is the percentage by age decade: 20s, 30s, 40s etc.
Those would be the factual starting points. The next "logical" step is actually opinion: What is the expected rate of hiring per age-decade? Should we really expect a company to hire equal amounts of 20 year olds versus 50 year olds?
Answer that question and you have the beginnings of actual evidence.
That's my take on it. The top 10% (who do 90% of the accomplishments) tend to stay in the top 10% their entire careers.
The rest tend to coast, not learning anything, not even OJT (On the Job Training)
Hiring managers say there is a difference between 20 years of experience and one year of experience done 20 times in a row. But hiring managers also look at age first in the computing industry. They believe the vendor buzzword bullshit too.
I read someplace that 40% (or maybe it was 60%) of college graduates never opened another book in their lives. (Book is the term we used to use for "informational media.")
Of course, learning new languages isn't that important.
Keeping up on new tech and the latest vendor buzzwords is important
However, the most learning that got done for me occurred during two events.
1. after delivering the first software and realizing that some of what the users said wasn't true or specific or something and
2. After having to debug some code I myself had written 2 years earlier. Working on your own code gives you a whole different perspective on the phrase: software is an opinion.
That's my take on it. With a new reorganization in order to prep for moving to the cloud, we were forced to move our simple lamp system to the web-server system which didn't have any development tools built-in. And security paranoia prevents me from installing anything (for now) on my work pc. Therefore, after working in KDE and Eclipse, I am now back to programming in vi over a telnet terminal. And doing Oracle dba and sysdamin work that way.
It sux. I can see I am wasting a lot of time. But at least I now have no desire to try refactoring anything.
It's a kewl new technology that may or may not work (and will definitely not work at whatever economic bs price points they've calculated now).
If you want "fast" battery changing/charging operations to supplement, not replace, home/work charging units, design the vehicle for easy battery replacement by professionals with forklifts. Return to the old-style filling stations where we take care of your car in under 5 minutes, wash the windshield, etc while you order a latte and rid yourself of the last one.
You can trust your car to the man who wears the star, the great big Teslaco star.
Apple doesn't have to innovate currently, they have the most loyal customers.
That's the reason they won't come up with the next big thing. Same reason the telcos couldn't take over cloud computing. all they looked at was how to best server their existing locked-in customer base. Cable Television was in prime position to take over the internet, but they couldn't forgo the massive profits of over-charging for useless content and they didn't push back against ESPN's usurious rates.
That's not observer bias. Bias is saying lots and lots or most people or everybody. Go down to your local math/comp sci department and ask what the opinions are about working for NSA. I suspect the majority of folks will have no opinion and there will be two significant minorites that love/hate the NSA. You are correct tho, that is all based purely on my observations.
All the policemen were paid. Whining about protestors being paid seems un-Republican and non-Libertarian to me. But of course, logic has no standing against fear and hatred.
Actually, I know quite a few mathematicians who refuse to work for NSA just because of its policies, irregardless of the President's policies. And now that you'd be helping Comrade President Trump implement his policies (whatever they are--imo a policy is something that stands solid for at least a year or two), I suspect the number of refuseniks just grew larger.
Same old same old. There were a bunch of kewl video games written in the 1980s Busing basic. And there were a shitload of piss-poor games written in Basic in the 1980s but no one remembers those.
I've heard folks complain about the current writing skills of Americans saying Thomas Jefferson was a good writer but folks today aren't. Well TJ was one of the best writers of his generation. Most any luser here on slashdot can write better than the average human of 1760.
The backup didn't work. Wow. Who woulda thunk? I suspect some IT person complained about the backup procedures being inadequate and he was probably fired. Someone else asked if they could actually test the backup and they were given a demotion.
And now that the backup failed to actually be a backup, we're all shocked and surprised (and it's definitiley not management's fault).
I tested my backups daily by importing the data into a different database. (Of couse, I'm an Oracle admin and am used to having failed backups).
Which monthly terror attacks are you talking about? We've had several in the past years here in America all perpetrated by angry home-grown Republican types--planned parenthood shootings, Orlando night club shooting and as far as I'm concerned, the worst was the occupation of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge.
And you don't need much of buy-thru rate. Actual physical spam mailing companies buy live addresses of real people and fill their physical mailboxes with junk mail that costs money to print, package and mail. And apparently it is profitable at a 1-3% "click" rate.
So email and e-ads are far more profitable since there is no physical costs. You might want to look up buying a direct mail list that conains your address if you're worried about security. It's rather appalling.
If the money and time is too much for Google to come up with, then perhaps they could ask their own employees to volunteer the vaunted 5% free time of their own to get the data. Perhaps all 17 women who work there will vounteer;-)
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I remember the very first SQL stuff in the Oracle 4 manuals. First instruction was how to list out tables. The next one was how to drop them. So the first thing you do is drop the training tables you're supposed to use in the next step of the tutorial.
Whoopsie. That wasn't user error.
Most mechanics have "backups" of all the tools junior mechanics will use. In a normal environment, deleting the production database isn't really that big a deal. About the same as ordering the wrong part for a repair or having the electricity shut down.
Backups are supposed to work. Shit happens. All the time.
The CTO should have had the junior devs working off backups so 1) nothing goes wrong and 2) even better, you know those backups work. Load a new one each day.
I'm sorry but even the random dungeons of Diablo 1 (1996) are a more impressive feat than this marketing stunt.
If all you focus on is looks, then you miss the big picture. They just registered 7 million more trademark looks. They are the only company that will get to do this from now on. they can sue everyone else for copying them now. Brilliant marketing strategy.
When we first built-up our it department, we were all developers but one of us was also sysadmin and I was the dba. And I had other folks back me up as dba and a different developer backed up the sys admin. Then a few years go by and people leave and no one new gets hired and suddenly the sysdamin is the backup dba and I'm the backup sysadmin.
And now my buddy just quit. So now I'm sysdamin, dba, developer, tester, etc.
Be very careful when you tell me I need to train my H1-B replacement.
There will be absolutely no information whatsoever released to the public from her trial. We have secret courts here in America, too.
The only real money in the cloud is the stuff the cloud vendors are raking in. Cloud is the over-hyped tech flavor of today, regardless of how it actually fits your business.
Build a mobile app in the cloud today for your customers and see our profits soar.
Counterpoint:
A massive number of unprofitable startups have been funneling VC money into cloud services to support their doomed software and once that dries up, cloud grown will stall and the whole thing will come crashing down.
We heard the same thing about building out fiber. There was going to be too much fiber in the ground and prices would fall and companies would lose revenue and need to cut back and overcharge consumers in other areas to make payments on their loans and that didn't happen.
Oh wait.
They claim to have 2 billion active users per month, so about 30% of people. But considering only around 40% of people have an internet connection, that's most of the possible people.
On the face of it, it seems true. But I wonder how many of those accounts are unused and how many are merely professional ones--since every bar and every band needs a facbook page just like they used to need a myspace page.
I'm not sure what the actual count of actual facebook users is, but I know in my circle of meatspace friends, half the people I know have never, ever signed up for a facebook page and of the other half, half of them rarely go on.
Ronald McDonald is not a real person. And if you're using facebook to promote your business, then you're actually violating the rules of Zuckerberg. Better safe than sorry.
The jobs that were sent to India and China weren't stolen by other countries; they were sold and the money put in the pockets of the CEOs.
Theoretically, if America still had the top 90% tax rate of the 1950s (that allowed us to invest in America and rebuild the rest of the world) the CEOs would not have sold those jobs because they woudln't have received any more money in their own pockets. In the 1950s, money rained down to the lower classes because execs could only get perks such as country club memberships (jobs for caddys) and company cars (jobs for drivers) and you might as well pay your employees better and they can afford to buy houses and cars and hire maids and gardeners.
Read Advanced Economics by Sowell
All we have are anecdotes such as the developer I know who was actually recruited by Google (probably because he does a good job of hiding his age on LinkedIn). Once they got his resume, he was no longer recruited for google but did get the same job with a contractor for google. Well, the job duties are the same but the job offer is a year-to-year contract.
Actual evidence of age discrimination would have to come from google:
How many people have they hired in the past 10 years?
What is the percentage by age decade: 20s, 30s, 40s etc.
Those would be the factual starting points. The next "logical" step is actually opinion: What is the expected rate of hiring per age-decade? Should we really expect a company to hire equal amounts of 20 year olds versus 50 year olds?
Answer that question and you have the beginnings of actual evidence.
That's my take on it. The top 10% (who do 90% of the accomplishments) tend to stay in the top 10% their entire careers.
The rest tend to coast, not learning anything, not even OJT (On the Job Training)
Hiring managers say there is a difference between 20 years of experience and one year of experience done 20 times in a row. But hiring managers also look at age first in the computing industry. They believe the vendor buzzword bullshit too.
I read someplace that 40% (or maybe it was 60%) of college graduates never opened another book in their lives. (Book is the term we used to use for "informational media.")
Of course, learning new languages isn't that important.
Keeping up on new tech and the latest vendor buzzwords is important
However, the most learning that got done for me occurred during two events.
1. after delivering the first software and realizing that some of what the users said wasn't true or specific or something and
2. After having to debug some code I myself had written 2 years earlier. Working on your own code gives you a whole different perspective on the phrase: software is an opinion.
That's my take on it. With a new reorganization in order to prep for moving to the cloud, we were forced to move our simple lamp system to the web-server system which didn't have any development tools built-in. And security paranoia prevents me from installing anything (for now) on my work pc. Therefore, after working in KDE and Eclipse, I am now back to programming in vi over a telnet terminal. And doing Oracle dba and sysdamin work that way.
It sux.
I can see I am wasting a lot of time. But at least I now have no desire to try refactoring anything.
It's a kewl new technology that may or may not work (and will definitely not work at whatever economic bs price points they've calculated now).
If you want "fast" battery changing/charging operations to supplement, not replace, home/work charging units, design the vehicle for easy battery replacement by professionals with forklifts. Return to the old-style filling stations where we take care of your car in under 5 minutes, wash the windshield, etc while you order a latte and rid yourself of the last one.
You can trust your car to the man who wears the star, the great big Teslaco star.
Apple doesn't have to innovate currently, they have the most loyal customers.
That's the reason they won't come up with the next big thing. Same reason the telcos couldn't take over cloud computing. all they looked at was how to best server their existing locked-in customer base. Cable Television was in prime position to take over the internet, but they couldn't forgo the massive profits of over-charging for useless content and they didn't push back against ESPN's usurious rates.
That's not observer bias. Bias is saying lots and lots or most people or everybody. Go down to your local math/comp sci department and ask what the opinions are about working for NSA. I suspect the majority of folks will have no opinion and there will be two significant minorites that love/hate the NSA. You are correct tho, that is all based purely on my observations.
All the policemen were paid. Whining about protestors being paid seems un-Republican and non-Libertarian to me. But of course, logic has no standing against fear and hatred.
Actually, I know quite a few mathematicians who refuse to work for NSA just because of its policies, irregardless of the President's policies. And now that you'd be helping Comrade President Trump implement his policies (whatever they are--imo a policy is something that stands solid for at least a year or two), I suspect the number of refuseniks just grew larger.
Same old same old. There were a bunch of kewl video games written in the 1980s Busing basic. And there were a shitload of piss-poor games written in Basic in the 1980s but no one remembers those.
I've heard folks complain about the current writing skills of Americans saying Thomas Jefferson was a good writer but folks today aren't. Well TJ was one of the best writers of his generation. Most any luser here on slashdot can write better than the average human of 1760.
90% of everything is crap.
The backup didn't work. Wow. Who woulda thunk? I suspect some IT person complained about the backup procedures being inadequate and he was probably fired. Someone else asked if they could actually test the backup and they were given a demotion.
And now that the backup failed to actually be a backup, we're all shocked and surprised (and it's definitiley not management's fault).
I tested my backups daily by importing the data into a different database. (Of couse, I'm an Oracle admin and am used to having failed backups).
An Oregon jury let the Malheur terrorists off.
Which monthly terror attacks are you talking about? We've had several in the past years here in America all perpetrated by angry home-grown Republican types--planned parenthood shootings, Orlando night club shooting and as far as I'm concerned, the worst was the occupation of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge.
And you don't need much of buy-thru rate. Actual physical spam mailing companies buy live addresses of real people and fill their physical mailboxes with junk mail that costs money to print, package and mail. And apparently it is profitable at a 1-3% "click" rate.
So email and e-ads are far more profitable since there is no physical costs. You might want to look up buying a direct mail list that conains your address if you're worried about security. It's rather appalling.
He wasn't testing. He was winning at Angry Birds.
If the money and time is too much for Google to come up with, then perhaps they could ask their own employees to volunteer the vaunted 5% free time of their own to get the data. Perhaps all 17 women who work there will vounteer ;-)