You learn more about your dev environment by actually installing and configuring the tools. If you have it done for you, you've missed out on some potentially useful knowledge. I'd rather take a very slight hit in productivity by maintaining my own system and not having to worry that the machines we're timesharing on are going to end up overloaded and lag like crazy (which they do). It's even worse if the VMs aren't hosted in the same facility. The WAN has a hiccup and next thing you know, productivity turns to crap.
They only have the hardware if the drive is encrypted and the user is using a decent password. You'd want the drive encrypted anyway since there's likely to be sensitive material stored locally by the user in addition to what IT knows about. This isn't a valid reason to force developers to use VMs, IMO.
If they want to pick their own tools, let them. I don't understand this fear of giving developers admin access to their machines. What do you think is going to happen if they get this supremely powerful level of access? If some are happy with VMs, let them use VMs. If some want to install, configure, and update their tools manually, let them. If it becomes a problem for a specific developer, steer them towards a VM instead. If you can't trust developers to maintain their system then you probably shouldn't be trusting them to write your company's code either.
It seems like our uber powerful dev machines are turning into expensive terminals and the ESX cloud is our new time sharing mainframe. Everything old is new again.
That might be an age thing. I tend to stick with "he" because that's how I was taught and that's what the style guides said at the time. I still remember a pair of professors that would call this out specifically. They were both women too, strange that they didn't think it was improper.
This is nonsense. "He" has always been the default in English when the gender is unknown or not relevant.
French using "on" is no different than referring to an unknown person as "one" in English. We don't use "one" that way very often because it doesn't sound right because we're used to using "he" instead. Of course it sounds impersonal, it's not using "he" or "she". It's meant to be impersonal!
And men are under representing in nursing and child care.. so what? People are going to choose career paths that interest them. Not being 50/50 is not evidence of a problem.
They refer people to other facilities that provide gyno services. For the most part, abortion is their business. Yes, they do some STD scans and hand out condoms, but like I said elsewhere, they're far from the sole provider of those services. If abortion wasn't so much of their purpose, they would have walked away from it.
In your perfect world, the government might serve we the people. I have less faith in the government than I do in the average corporation. Sad, but true.
I think Trump is more likely to do something about it than Hillary would have been. We'll have to wait and see. Considering all the leaks that have been happening, I do think something will be done in this administration. Whether it helps, I don't know.
Yes, I'm not keen on this repeal as a consumer. But there is a business opportunity there. An ISP should rise up and announce they won't sell or collect this data. If that were to happen, the government wouldn't have to do anything. I think that's a better solution. I don't make much of a distinction between the government or business snooping. Whether it's for money or for political purposes or supposed security, it's wrong. But at the same time, this information can be collected on the net itself, it doesn't have to be done by the ISP. To truly protect privacy, we'd need something far more comprehensive. Targeting just one piece doesn't do much good.
A is against B because they don't support C, which I equate with B, but A does not. God you're so fucking smart. It must seem so simple to you. So little nuance.
Charter schools provide education. Democrats are against charter schools. Seems pretty simple. Why would democrats be so against them if the public schools were doing a good job? They don't want to risk losing votes from the unions, and public schools are unionized. You can't see that? They're putting votes ahead of school choice, having nothing to do with the quality of education. It's not complicated.
My premium did go up... Though my benefits did not... But you know what? my premium has gone up every fucking year for as long as I can remember. What was your point again? The ACA did almost fucking nothing to healthcare premiums as far as the trend is concerned... and that's too bad. But it did put a whole fuckton of people on insurance who previously were not.
Insurance premiums in some areas went up by multiples of the original premium. That wasn't happening before. People have plans, but a lot of people on those plans can't use them because none of the doctors are seeing new patients, the specialists they need aren't covered by the plans, or no one takes the coverage. Many insurers are pulling out. AHA failed. The average family was supposed to save money. That never happened (except those subsidized). The quality of the plans were not supposed to decrease. That didn't happen either.
No, nobody remembers that, because it didn't fucking happen. Thanks for the Brand New Information, Kellyanne.
Yes, it did.
The EPA is doing its job balancing the interests of people who don't want to choke down poisonous fumes and liquids against the interests of the ultracapitalists. You may think that hurts the livelihood of the nation, but I don't.
Try choking on the air in China. That's where industry went because of those laws. I don't want pollution here either, but can you at least acknowledge that there's a balancing act? Letting China pollute without restriction doesn't help save the planet. That's what EPA regulations have done. Kill industry here, and create an even dirtier industry elsewhere.
Frankly, I don't give a fuck if we lose the twinkie manufacturing business if China can do it cheaper. I don't care if we lose steel either. If they don't act like a faithful supplier, the value of steel will go up, and we'll start producing our own again. Quit trying to save jobs for the sake of jobs. We shouldn't be racing the third world to the bottom of the barrel in terms of standard of living and per capita economic worth. You're concerned about the country, remember? Start worrying more about the 99% and less about the 1%. My former HS computer class teacher was a logger that lost his job due to NAFTA, was sent to school on the government dime, and became... a fucking teacher. That counts as a job lost due to NAFTA. But what is it really? A person who's had their life improved, because we exported a shit ass job out of our first world country.
It's clear that you don't care. Let people in China die of the effects of air pollution. That's horrible. Your type whines about the water in Flint but doesn't care about what we're sending to other nations that's many orders of magnitude worse. How are you any better than the multinationals? You're just as willing to exploit the 3rd world.
This is complete bullshit, and you know it. We care not about whether or not El Salvador makes more money logging because they don't have our restrictions, we only care that we're fleecing people as much as we can possibly fucking fleece them. Regulations are a barrier to the maximum monetization of your consumer base, and that is their ONLY beef with them. And I say fuck them.
You don't care about the planet? Or people in other countries?
You're citing a website for progressives that suggests that charter schools aren't good? Imagine my lack of surprise given the source of the information. I know that in my town, our charter schools graduate a higher percentage than the public schools, and more go on to college than the public schools. I hear the same being said in a lot of places. Either way, it'd be nice if parents had options. Wouldn't it?
Health insurance.. the AHA messed it up far worse than it was. I'm not sure what the R plan looks like today. Personally, I'd prefer to just go back to what we had before the AHA and let the states deal with it if they want. It's not a federal matter. I'm for repeal-and-don't-replace.
Contraceptives aren't healthcare. You can go to Walmart and get them cheap. STDs can be prevented by an inexpensive condom which many school systems make available for free. If that's the only reason other than abortions why PP exists, we should cut off whatever funds they still get. They don't provide a useful service that isn't available elsewhere for little to no cost.
I don't want pollution here, but you miss the point. Forcing US industry to be squeaky clean means the jobs go to China or other countries where there are no environmental laws. You're killing industry here and killing people there. That's horrifying. The thermostat thing was brought up by Obama around the time he took office.
Yes, everyone other than liberals are morons. Morons that managed to take over the legislature in a bunch of states, the governorship in a bunch of states, the US house of reps, the US senate, and the Presidency. Stupid morons indeed. All while the MSM and the left thought they'd win easily. Ignorant comments like that solve nothing, unless you want the right to keep winning.
1. For mega corporations and monopolies from tech companies who are anti opensource
We don't vote for companies.
2. Believe climate change doesn't exist and is an invention of these elite socialists
Global cooling. Peak oil. Global warming. Global climate change. Pick a crisis and stick to it if you want people to believe it.
3. Support Trump and his competency as shown on any news site
Versus the previous President whose qualification was serving in politics long enough to vote "present" a few times?
4. Hate highspeed internet and do not believe in infrastructure improvements
Not the role of the federal government, and you should be against it too. We'll give the telecoms a ton of our money (again) and get nothing for it. Fool me once.
5. Believe more H1B1 visa immigrants are needed
Trump certainly does not believe that.
6. Believe the bible should be taught in biology classes (it is in Texas!!)
Regional issue. Religion is nearly dead in this country regardless of party.
7. Believe science should not be funded as it is only opinion oriented and not based on facts like you get from Church or Foxnews
What?
8. Want more mega monopolies that limit internet and support throttling
Both parties. They play lip-service to these issues but neither act on it.
9. Support snooping by corporations
Both parties. Regardless of this repeal, you are tracked everywhere you go on the Internet already. This repeal doesn't really change that much.
10. Believe in unlimited funding by companies to elected officials to vote against your own self interests
Replace companies with labor unions and you have Democrats.
11. Believes in old school coal and oil and does not want alternative sources of energy
Let me know when Democrats are in favor of nuclear. Dubya was the last President to try and revive that industry.
Democrats are absolutely against education, they kill every attempt at charter schools they can. The only exception is the labor union run schools which are the same schools failing our children. It's all about pandering to a block of votes. Pandering to the unions that take money from members to support political candidates that those members may not themselves support.
Health insurance? Are you kidding? If you like your plan you can keep it, period. Unless you're poor enough to be subsidized or you're a 25 year old child on your parent's plan, your plan premium likely went way up and your plan benefits likely went down.
Yes, Republicans don't want to fund abortions. No, Planned Parenthood does not provide healthcare.
The EPA needs to be curbed. Remember Obama wanting our thermostats to be centrally controlled? To hell with that. The EPA is out of control and it's hurting US based businesses which in turn hurts jobs, which hurts the livelihood of the nation. The US can't compete in some industries because there is no way to meet the EPA's restrictions and compete with foreign countries that don't have to. It's not about wanting to dump toxic waste in rivers, it's about not wanting to let the US bear the brunt of pollution concerns while other nations profit handsomely while polluting like maniacs. China, for example. Our EPA policies is making the air there unbreathable. Congrats forward thinkers.
I don't like this repeal either, but at the same time.. I'm not sure it's a concern of the federal government. Seems like an ISP could make a killing by promising not the resell or collect this kind of information. Instead of dick waving over politics, maybe we should think about why no company is taking advantage of this obvious opportunity?
They wanted a wall when it was advantageous to them, then they wanted open borders when that was more popular. They'll say whatever they think will get them more votes and then do little to nothing once in office. Trump's campaign was about restoring us to a nation with laws. It has nothing to do with race or gender or any of that. It has everything to do with enforcing the laws we already have.
There is nothing ill considered about Trump's order. Protecting the homeland comes first. Guests of the country don't have guaranteed entry to this country. The executive branch absolutely has the power under law to withhold entry if national security is at stake, If you don't believe national security is at stake, you need only look at France, Germany, or Sweden.
The Iran situation was a joke. The previous administration did everything short of handing them nuclear weapons. They also broke the law by paying off a ransom in the dark of night. But that was how that administration operated, without transparency, in flagrant violation of US law. And the left still wonders how Trump won.
I'm really tired of seeing this same racist/misogynist bullshit repeated time and time again. Even Obama and Clinton were calling for securing the borders previously, including fence/wall building. It's on youtube if you don't believe me. Obama also put a hold on people entering from the same countries that Trump is trying to temporarily ban. Your reply is all echo-chamber.
If the sore losers somehow manage to knock Trump out of power before the next Presidential election, prepare for all hell to break loose. That will be a call to arms that I believe will lead to the end of the United States. We're already heading that direction with the judicial branch shitting all over the executive branch.
Your mention of race riots is humorous given that Obama started that, not anyone in the GOP. Nuclear fallout? Thank Hillary for her uranium deal and Obama for letting Iran do whatever it wants.
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You learn more about your dev environment by actually installing and configuring the tools. If you have it done for you, you've missed out on some potentially useful knowledge. I'd rather take a very slight hit in productivity by maintaining my own system and not having to worry that the machines we're timesharing on are going to end up overloaded and lag like crazy (which they do). It's even worse if the VMs aren't hosted in the same facility. The WAN has a hiccup and next thing you know, productivity turns to crap.
They only have the hardware if the drive is encrypted and the user is using a decent password. You'd want the drive encrypted anyway since there's likely to be sensitive material stored locally by the user in addition to what IT knows about. This isn't a valid reason to force developers to use VMs, IMO.
If they want to pick their own tools, let them. I don't understand this fear of giving developers admin access to their machines. What do you think is going to happen if they get this supremely powerful level of access? If some are happy with VMs, let them use VMs. If some want to install, configure, and update their tools manually, let them. If it becomes a problem for a specific developer, steer them towards a VM instead. If you can't trust developers to maintain their system then you probably shouldn't be trusting them to write your company's code either.
It seems like our uber powerful dev machines are turning into expensive terminals and the ESX cloud is our new time sharing mainframe. Everything old is new again.
Yea, can you imagine if these political correctness types find out that some languages have gendered nouns?
That might be an age thing. I tend to stick with "he" because that's how I was taught and that's what the style guides said at the time. I still remember a pair of professors that would call this out specifically. They were both women too, strange that they didn't think it was improper.
This is nonsense. "He" has always been the default in English when the gender is unknown or not relevant.
French using "on" is no different than referring to an unknown person as "one" in English. We don't use "one" that way very often because it doesn't sound right because we're used to using "he" instead. Of course it sounds impersonal, it's not using "he" or "she". It's meant to be impersonal!
And men are under representing in nursing and child care.. so what? People are going to choose career paths that interest them. Not being 50/50 is not evidence of a problem.
Opting in to the echo chamber, eh?
They refer people to other facilities that provide gyno services. For the most part, abortion is their business. Yes, they do some STD scans and hand out condoms, but like I said elsewhere, they're far from the sole provider of those services. If abortion wasn't so much of their purpose, they would have walked away from it.
In your perfect world, the government might serve we the people. I have less faith in the government than I do in the average corporation. Sad, but true.
Morons that won the Presidency, the US house of reps, the US senate, many governorships, many state legislatures..
Maybe you want to rethink that statement?
This is why Trump won.
Five words. :)
I think Trump is more likely to do something about it than Hillary would have been. We'll have to wait and see. Considering all the leaks that have been happening, I do think something will be done in this administration. Whether it helps, I don't know.
Yes, I'm not keen on this repeal as a consumer. But there is a business opportunity there. An ISP should rise up and announce they won't sell or collect this data. If that were to happen, the government wouldn't have to do anything. I think that's a better solution. I don't make much of a distinction between the government or business snooping. Whether it's for money or for political purposes or supposed security, it's wrong. But at the same time, this information can be collected on the net itself, it doesn't have to be done by the ISP. To truly protect privacy, we'd need something far more comprehensive. Targeting just one piece doesn't do much good.
A is against B because they don't support C, which I equate with B, but A does not. God you're so fucking smart. It must seem so simple to you. So little nuance.
Charter schools provide education. Democrats are against charter schools. Seems pretty simple. Why would democrats be so against them if the public schools were doing a good job? They don't want to risk losing votes from the unions, and public schools are unionized. You can't see that? They're putting votes ahead of school choice, having nothing to do with the quality of education. It's not complicated.
My premium did go up... Though my benefits did not... But you know what? my premium has gone up every fucking year for as long as I can remember. What was your point again? The ACA did almost fucking nothing to healthcare premiums as far as the trend is concerned... and that's too bad. But it did put a whole fuckton of people on insurance who previously were not.
Insurance premiums in some areas went up by multiples of the original premium. That wasn't happening before. People have plans, but a lot of people on those plans can't use them because none of the doctors are seeing new patients, the specialists they need aren't covered by the plans, or no one takes the coverage. Many insurers are pulling out. AHA failed. The average family was supposed to save money. That never happened (except those subsidized). The quality of the plans were not supposed to decrease. That didn't happen either.
No, nobody remembers that, because it didn't fucking happen. Thanks for the Brand New Information, Kellyanne.
Yes, it did.
The EPA is doing its job balancing the interests of people who don't want to choke down poisonous fumes and liquids against the interests of the ultracapitalists. You may think that hurts the livelihood of the nation, but I don't.
Try choking on the air in China. That's where industry went because of those laws. I don't want pollution here either, but can you at least acknowledge that there's a balancing act? Letting China pollute without restriction doesn't help save the planet. That's what EPA regulations have done. Kill industry here, and create an even dirtier industry elsewhere.
Frankly, I don't give a fuck if we lose the twinkie manufacturing business if China can do it cheaper. I don't care if we lose steel either. If they don't act like a faithful supplier, the value of steel will go up, and we'll start producing our own again. Quit trying to save jobs for the sake of jobs. We shouldn't be racing the third world to the bottom of the barrel in terms of standard of living and per capita economic worth. You're concerned about the country, remember? Start worrying more about the 99% and less about the 1%. My former HS computer class teacher was a logger that lost his job due to NAFTA, was sent to school on the government dime, and became... a fucking teacher. That counts as a job lost due to NAFTA. But what is it really? A person who's had their life improved, because we exported a shit ass job out of our first world country.
It's clear that you don't care. Let people in China die of the effects of air pollution. That's horrible. Your type whines about the water in Flint but doesn't care about what we're sending to other nations that's many orders of magnitude worse. How are you any better than the multinationals? You're just as willing to exploit the 3rd world.
This is complete bullshit, and you know it. We care not about whether or not El Salvador makes more money logging because they don't have our restrictions, we only care that we're fleecing people as much as we can possibly fucking fleece them. Regulations are a barrier to the maximum monetization of your consumer base, and that is their ONLY beef with them. And I say fuck them.
You don't care about the planet? Or people in other countries?
You're citing a website for progressives that suggests that charter schools aren't good? Imagine my lack of surprise given the source of the information. I know that in my town, our charter schools graduate a higher percentage than the public schools, and more go on to college than the public schools. I hear the same being said in a lot of places. Either way, it'd be nice if parents had options. Wouldn't it?
Health insurance.. the AHA messed it up far worse than it was. I'm not sure what the R plan looks like today. Personally, I'd prefer to just go back to what we had before the AHA and let the states deal with it if they want. It's not a federal matter. I'm for repeal-and-don't-replace.
Contraceptives aren't healthcare. You can go to Walmart and get them cheap. STDs can be prevented by an inexpensive condom which many school systems make available for free. If that's the only reason other than abortions why PP exists, we should cut off whatever funds they still get. They don't provide a useful service that isn't available elsewhere for little to no cost.
I don't want pollution here, but you miss the point. Forcing US industry to be squeaky clean means the jobs go to China or other countries where there are no environmental laws. You're killing industry here and killing people there. That's horrifying. The thermostat thing was brought up by Obama around the time he took office.
Yes, everyone other than liberals are morons. Morons that managed to take over the legislature in a bunch of states, the governorship in a bunch of states, the US house of reps, the US senate, and the Presidency. Stupid morons indeed. All while the MSM and the left thought they'd win easily. Ignorant comments like that solve nothing, unless you want the right to keep winning.
1. For mega corporations and monopolies from tech companies who are anti opensource
We don't vote for companies.
2. Believe climate change doesn't exist and is an invention of these elite socialists
Global cooling. Peak oil. Global warming. Global climate change. Pick a crisis and stick to it if you want people to believe it.
3. Support Trump and his competency as shown on any news site
Versus the previous President whose qualification was serving in politics long enough to vote "present" a few times?
4. Hate highspeed internet and do not believe in infrastructure improvements
Not the role of the federal government, and you should be against it too. We'll give the telecoms a ton of our money (again) and get nothing for it. Fool me once.
5. Believe more H1B1 visa immigrants are needed
Trump certainly does not believe that.
6. Believe the bible should be taught in biology classes (it is in Texas!!)
Regional issue. Religion is nearly dead in this country regardless of party.
7. Believe science should not be funded as it is only opinion oriented and not based on facts like you get from Church or Foxnews
What?
8. Want more mega monopolies that limit internet and support throttling
Both parties. They play lip-service to these issues but neither act on it.
9. Support snooping by corporations
Both parties. Regardless of this repeal, you are tracked everywhere you go on the Internet already. This repeal doesn't really change that much.
10. Believe in unlimited funding by companies to elected officials to vote against your own self interests
Replace companies with labor unions and you have Democrats.
11. Believes in old school coal and oil and does not want alternative sources of energy
Let me know when Democrats are in favor of nuclear. Dubya was the last President to try and revive that industry.
Democrats are absolutely against education, they kill every attempt at charter schools they can. The only exception is the labor union run schools which are the same schools failing our children. It's all about pandering to a block of votes. Pandering to the unions that take money from members to support political candidates that those members may not themselves support.
Health insurance? Are you kidding? If you like your plan you can keep it, period. Unless you're poor enough to be subsidized or you're a 25 year old child on your parent's plan, your plan premium likely went way up and your plan benefits likely went down.
Yes, Republicans don't want to fund abortions. No, Planned Parenthood does not provide healthcare.
The EPA needs to be curbed. Remember Obama wanting our thermostats to be centrally controlled? To hell with that. The EPA is out of control and it's hurting US based businesses which in turn hurts jobs, which hurts the livelihood of the nation. The US can't compete in some industries because there is no way to meet the EPA's restrictions and compete with foreign countries that don't have to. It's not about wanting to dump toxic waste in rivers, it's about not wanting to let the US bear the brunt of pollution concerns while other nations profit handsomely while polluting like maniacs. China, for example. Our EPA policies is making the air there unbreathable. Congrats forward thinkers.
I don't like this repeal either, but at the same time.. I'm not sure it's a concern of the federal government. Seems like an ISP could make a killing by promising not the resell or collect this kind of information. Instead of dick waving over politics, maybe we should think about why no company is taking advantage of this obvious opportunity?
Social security and the mandatory reporting of income were fairly significant invasions into our privacy.
What happened over the last eight years to stop the NSA and CIA from spying on each and everyone of us?
Absolutely nothing. That's (apparently) what you get with Dems in charge.
This game is stupid.
Don't sign it. If enough farmers refused, JD would be unable to sell their shit. Unless you're suggesting they were forced to sign at gun-point.
They wanted a wall when it was advantageous to them, then they wanted open borders when that was more popular. They'll say whatever they think will get them more votes and then do little to nothing once in office. Trump's campaign was about restoring us to a nation with laws. It has nothing to do with race or gender or any of that. It has everything to do with enforcing the laws we already have.
There is nothing ill considered about Trump's order. Protecting the homeland comes first. Guests of the country don't have guaranteed entry to this country. The executive branch absolutely has the power under law to withhold entry if national security is at stake, If you don't believe national security is at stake, you need only look at France, Germany, or Sweden.
The Iran situation was a joke. The previous administration did everything short of handing them nuclear weapons. They also broke the law by paying off a ransom in the dark of night. But that was how that administration operated, without transparency, in flagrant violation of US law. And the left still wonders how Trump won.
For you it is, for others it was the last eight years.
I'm really tired of seeing this same racist/misogynist bullshit repeated time and time again. Even Obama and Clinton were calling for securing the borders previously, including fence/wall building. It's on youtube if you don't believe me. Obama also put a hold on people entering from the same countries that Trump is trying to temporarily ban. Your reply is all echo-chamber.
If the sore losers somehow manage to knock Trump out of power before the next Presidential election, prepare for all hell to break loose. That will be a call to arms that I believe will lead to the end of the United States. We're already heading that direction with the judicial branch shitting all over the executive branch.
Your mention of race riots is humorous given that Obama started that, not anyone in the GOP. Nuclear fallout? Thank Hillary for her uranium deal and Obama for letting Iran do whatever it wants.
With our justice system the way it is right now, that would be an absolute shit-show.
After not pushing harder to prosecute Clinton. I don't think he was intending to interfere, I think he doesn't understand what his role is.