Somebody else's servers require maintenance too, and when their cloud servers go down you're SOL until they decide your stuff is next in line to get fixed--once they figure out what happened of course.
Why use some one else cloud when you could make your own?
Have you ever tried to roll your own industrial strength, production quality cloud infrastructure? That shit gets expensive, and it requires you to do significant investment up front. At this point we are dealing with issues of capital flow, acquisition (or rental) of equipment, depreciation of said equipment, etc.
Renting cloud services, on the other hand, it changes the equation. What used to be a capital expense, it becomes an operational expense. It might sound more expensive down the line, but it stills reduces the strain in your capital flow. This is particularly true when your business is not the business of building a cloud, but to do something else that can be done with or without the cloud.
This is very similar to other industries where they lease equipment rather than buying because a) even though total cost of ownership might be cheaper down the road, b) the up-front price of purchase is prohibitively high.
The important thing is business is not so much to reduce expense in absolute terms, but to manage expenses in a predictable, periodic manner over time. For many companies (not all, though), going into the cloud as opposed to rolling their own cloud solution, it helps them achieve that kind of balance.
Does this mean that I'll finally be able to download my files as a.zip archive? I have some directories in Dropbox with a lot of files in them, and I get some bullshit message about the folder being too large to download, or something like that, when I try to use the functionality that exports the directory a.zip archive. It's not even that much data. Maybe like 5 GB in total. But I always get that fucking message, and it never lets me download these directories as an archive. I even bought the pro subscription, and it still won't let me easily download an archive of my directories! I don't want to install the goddamn desktop client just to copy a few directories of files from Dropbox! Isn't that the whole goddamn point of the cloud? I can just use my goddamn web browser to interact with it, instead of a custom native app?! Holy fuck, all I want to do is download an archive of a directory in Dropbox. Why the fuck do they make it impossible to do that easily?! Does this move to their own infrastructure finally make it possible for them to let me download my directories as.zip archives?!
Standard Zip compression/file format limits archive sizes to 4GB.
No joke, I just googled the exact same thing. Apparently prime numbers are prime in all bases, which I really didn't think was the case.
Surely you jest. Numerical bases are just a convenient way to represent numbers. Numbers, and their properties, including primality, exist independently of the base in which we represent them. A number does not stop being prime or odd or even just by changing the way we encode them.
It is not a cheap shot to say that the Left has hated the US military since the days of Vietnam if not before. Let's not cry crocodile tears and pretend we care about them, eh? Remember: cowards who hide behind drones and murder civilians. And laugh about it. Shall we do a Google search, or can you do that yourself?
Reading comprehension. I never said this is not true. And it is still a cheap shot because it doesn't address the bipartisan issues that have created the situation we are in. I'm interested in changing the state of our military for the better and take the left and the right to task. You are just interested in harking back to slogans and talking points.
Technology doesn't make your job easier, it makes it harder. What it does is takes those mind-numbing jobs, away. And replace them with harder jobs, that requires creative thought, and out of the box problem solving.
So it makes life harder. Rather than a tedious but relatively secure 9-5 job with nights and weekends free to do whatever you want you have a tenuous, short-term contracted 9-5 job that leaves you feeling too drained to do anything at night or on weekends... if you're not doing (probably unpaid) overtime (and I include thinking about work problems in that) then because of fear you might lose your job or your skill-set might become outdated.
And this is a good thing... how, exactly?
It is still good because it is a change 5 billion people will be born, live and die without. This reality has been with us for 15-20 years. Why do we keep acting as if it is something new? We have no choice, we have to adapt. I would actually say we got a glimpse of what was to come with Japan's ascendancy (and to a lower degree, Taiwan) in the 70's and 80's.
Whether we work in IT or not, wether we have college degrees or not, we need to become nimble, being willing to work long hours (or procure a secondary source of income.) This is an inevitable outcome of two things:
Technology, and
Half of the world no longer living in the stone age.
Protectionism would never had worked to prevent this, though we can collectively make a good argument that our political and business classes never quite gave a fuck about consequences and externalities of opening up our markets.
Yes, it sucks not being able to work in a cushy Monday-through-Friday 9-5 job for live, where you can just pull a lever in a conveyor belt for 30 years and then retire with a nice house (or spend 30 years doing the same type of software development work.)
The world is not fair, and it doesn't operate according to our notion of fairness (which in reality is just an argument of convenience, not logic.)
I've been surviving several layoffs in the last 16 years. And you just have to learn to ride that shit, even if it means changing careers or taking a lesser payment and climb your way up.
I have a friend of mine (to be remained anonymous) that worked as EE for several defense contractors in the Florida space coast area. When things unfolded, many engineers lost their jobs and could not move for a variety of reasons (owning a home, kids in school, wife has a perm job.)
Whatever, my friend simply stopped being an engineer and works in a family-own landscaping business (specifically for rich houses and communities). He works longer hours, sees his kids less, but he was able to retain a comparable income (and thus spare his family from financial hardship.)
Thousands and thousands of people have migrated to the Dakotas and Texas, sometimes leaving their families behind to make ends meet (pretty much what illegal Mexicans do, legally obviously.) And it sucks, but they solved the issue. They stopped the moolah hemorrhage.
For as long as you are in this country, you are blessed with options. Options that might not be your favorite ones, but options nonetheless. Better than a kid looking for breakfast in a garbage can in a third world (I've seen this.)
Yes, it sucks, but all of you need to re-calibrate your views on life and get some perspective. Otherwise, life is going to chew you and your loved ones up and shit you into little compressed pellets. Nothing is over until the fat lady stops singing.
Anyone in this country has options. You don't have a guarantee of success or even to eventually go back to the way things were. Welcome to humanity.
The alternative is to do nothing and wait for the worms to eat you, implement basic income (which no one in this country is going do to cuz zocializm!), or to move to Zhengzhou or Bangalore and try your hand there.
Prestigious to join the military! In the USA of 2016!!! WTF, where have you been for the last 50 years? Elites stopped joining the military a long, long time ago and indeed today spit on those who do. The entire Left considers the US military nothing more than cowardly baby-killers. Prestigious...wow there's a screamer. Thanks for that, I needed a laugh today.
Broad generalizations are the staple of the weak minded. You are partially right that joining the military is not as prestigious as it used to be, but that has nothin g to do with external lefty chupacabras and boogeymen. People in the service no longer recommend others to join. People in the service had ask their relatives to buy and ship body armor when our overthrew the Hussein regime. Undermanned, and underequiped, on the Republican watch.
Do you have an idea how many veterans are at risk (or become) homeless? How many commit suicide? How many suffer PSTD? That shit has been going on for years under Democrat and Republican leadership.
We have serious problem with how we treat our military. It is a serious problem that requires serious questions, and demands serious answers. What you provided is nothing, just a political cheap-shot. Like all lies, it might contain a kernel of truth, but the rest is just partisan bs that doesn't acknowledge the root causes of it, which lie in every one of us.
Japan has had a long history with China, and generally not a good one.
True - Most notably, Japan conducted an extremely brutal war of conquest in China in the beginning of the 20th century. The atrocities of the Nazis in Gernmany are well known - Japan was no less bestial in China, IMO. This is still one of the main reasons for the bad blood between Japan and China; as far as I know (but I haven't particularly tried to find out), China has not attacked Japan at any point throughout its entire history.
As for Taiwan and Tibet: a brief look in Wikipedia shows that Taiwan was annexed by China in 1683. Tibet's relation to China has been more checkered, but it isn't correct to say that China doesn't have a historical claim on that territory. As for whether the annexation by the PRC counts as liberation or not is a matter of taste, I think; as far as I know, it was medieval, feudalistic society, where a majority were serfs who lived in poverty. Punishments like maiming were not uncommon. I know that I would have preferred Communist rule, personally, if that was the alternative.
The Yuan invasion of the Japanese islands. 1274 and 1281. I'm not posting in an attempt of starting a 1st-grader "who started it?" game. I am simply pointing to a well known, extremely important point in the history of warfare.
China's growing nation status has Japan reconsidering its 70-year old ban on military research projects, as Japanese defense circles actively seek to take advantage of the country's vanguard position in robotic technology.
It is not just China, it is also the lunatics in NK launching missiles over Japanese airspace and making not-so-subtle threats to turn the archipelago into glowing glass. I am sure the US would retaliate and vaporize NK should they carry a devastating attack in Japan, but that is an after-the-fact conclusion. It is one that would not bring comfort to the Japanese who have to face the real threat.
The US position when it comes to a confrontation with China is less clear. Will they help Japan? I doubt it.
Then, and this is something typically missing in these discussion, there is the precedent in the Ukraine. Ukraine gave its nuclear arsenal away on the promise that its sovereign would be respected. And we all know what happened. This is not about what is right or wrong, but about how such a serious treaty ended up meaning nothing.
The immediate message from this, as observed from Iran to Pakistan, is that, a nuclear power can invade you and no one will lift a finger.
It's also profoundly unhealthy. Maybe that's what we should be doing, but there's still every reason to object to it.
Why unhealthy? It is unhealthy only if you let it be. We can always opt for the alternative, which is to do nothing and expect karma to benevolently fall from the sky as Nadela suggested.
What I see here in this country is a complete lack of perspective. You have no knowledge of what true poverty is like, what it is like to be born, live and die in a world that will never give you a chance to do anything other than scrape a living of malnourished and illiteracy. What you call unhealthy is a dream for 5 billion people in this world. 3 million alone live with less than $2.50 a day. Can you imagine that?
When you get some perspective like that, you realize what we have is not that unhealthy at all. We are recipient of undeserving wealth and opportunity regardless of whether we have a cushioned 9-5 job till retirement.
This is only feasible for well socialised extroverts who know how to schmooze well, and whose 'networking' attempts result in people being interested in them rather than alienated. The few remaining jobs will go to them. The other 80% of workers in the industry will have to rely on minimum wage slave jobs or cybercrime.
That might be true, but then, what do you opt for yourself? And, what you call schmoozing, I call it being a normal human being in a social setting.
What features do stored procedures provide that can't be handled with postgresql functions?
For me database independence is important. Stored procedures let me do that. I can move from MS SQL to MYSQL or even something like HSQLDB if I wanted. All I need to do is write a procedure for said database and point my application to that database. No change in application code.
Hardcoding the SQL in your application marries you to the database you choose. I see stored procedures as a prenup agreement for databases. We get married but if you become a pain in the ass I can easily move on without losing half my stuff.
You do not need store procedures to decouple SQL statements off your application source code.
Sorry what? You couldn't find a DBA who knew anything about postgres? The 2nd most used relational database in the world?
Did you try asking 'DBAs' who didn't have microsoft or oracle credentials?
It is not as uncommon as you think. There are a lot of code monkeys who can program against Postgres or MySQL that can do a basic install. Good luck finding someone that can actually tune and maintain the thing. It is one of those paradoxes that curse the IT world.
Well, they pay me a decent wage and are located where I want to live.
If (realistically, when) they get around to cutting my job, I'll find something else. But I could lose my job anywhere I go. Why should I lose sleep over it?
Exactly. I've always found that people that loose sleep over things like this aren't worth a damn in this industry.
Why do your friends stay at IBM? This is an honest question. It seems crazy to me to sit around and wait to get laid off. I couldn't imagine getting up every day and wondering if you'd still have a job at the end of the day for years on end.
If you play your cards right, and you have enough network connections/have mad skills/are very adaptable and resilient, you can simply work there, earn a reputation via the company's name and get a nice severance package. Those people who are paying attention at the right details, they already have their plans A, B and C all lined up.
In this time and age, you, the generic you, got to have your plan A, B, and C ready to go, with your bug-out bag and all. Then getting laid off becomes simply a financial transaction to your benefit. You time it right and you might even start working somewhere else within weeks (and still enjoy the severance package.)
Actually, if you remove the workers, there's no corporation either. The workers should be paid the most, followed by the janitors and cleaning staff.
There might not be workers, but there are assets. For the shareholders that are "in it" for maximizing profit in the shortest time possible, the later is what matters, not the former. I'm not being sarcastic, I'm being (sadly) realistic. If the C-suit can make a killing on the shareholders' behalf by hitting worker to death with his/her own babies, they'd go for it.
Still doubtful? Let me remind you how Bayer sold HIV-tainted medicines to children in 3rd world countries not long ago. Google it. It's very mind opening.
You don't think that China putting a railgun on the moon won't reinvigorate space exploration?
That, or we will buy one from them. If China can pull that off, it means we didn't do squat to either prevent it or do it first. And that will be the moment when we jump the shark as a nation... but we will be too busy fucking and drinking electrolytes as we cheer for President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.
China, Europe or India have to put people on the moon to relight US population's push to get back to the head of the race.
No, it won't. Not only is the Space Race long over, the political conditions that lead to it no longer exist, and the general public of the US never supported the race that much in the first place.
You are mostly likely a self-loathing millienial sitting in yer' mommies basement without a clue, without even a single clue in this world. Or you are LIAR. Most likely both.
I was there and the US population did indeed fully support, and was in fact enthralled by the activities of NASA in that time. It actually brought a lot of people together that would not normally be together.
Until then, it seems simply too hard to get enough political support.
Apollo only had political support because JFK took a bullet to the head in Dallas. And even then that support barely lasted two years before the budgets started getting slashed - by the time we actually landed, the program was already running on vapors.
Take your morbid revisionist bullshit and peddle it to your acquaintance in the trailer park. You are seriously full of shit. And I now see you are just a liar / Bernie lover.
You were mostly right till you started with the infantile name-calling. Bernie lover? Really? What the fuck does the OP's political allegiances (which you know nothing off) has anything to do with anything. What type of personal demons are you projecting? Chill the hell out.
You said a lot of things that are right and accurate, but they seem to be the only thing right about you. Stop acting like a deranged lunatic.
I still wonder how it is possible that the republicans can't come up with a single decent candidate. And this is not the first time that happened.
They had one in 2012, Jon Huntsman. He is not batshit crazy enough, and he committed the offense of being multilingual (he speaks Mandarin Chinese and Taiwanese Hokkien) and the cardinal sin of having adopted a child from India and another one from China. How offensive to American values!
The GOP cannot find a decent candidate anymore because of its current constituency, one whose lunacy was cultivated by the GOP itself since the bad black man stole the White House for the express purpose of killing Baby Jesus and bald eagles with chemtrails because UN Agenda 21, Sharia and the illuminati.
Let's emphasize that Yelp is PAYING this insultingly low wage in such an expensive city. And keeping people in that bracket at least a full year.
No one is keeping anyone. I don't understand why people would stay San Francisco for such a low wage. There are a lot of other places in this country (even in California) where you will not get choked with a minimum wage. Living on a minimum wage is not pretty (I know, I did that), but some places make the situation worse than others. San Francisco is on the top of that list.
Bulleit is pretty pedestrian. If she was getting fucking Pappy Van Winkle delivered to her at work, her claims of poverty would be harder to take.
And did she actually drink it at work, or just have it delivered there? After all, it's bourbon, a legal product. It's not like she was getting an eightball of coke or a bunch of smack stamps form Silk Road delivered to the office.
It does kinda put into question her claims of poverty. Because when you are as poor as she claimed to be, you cannot afford this, let alone brag about it.
Source? Me (because I used to be poor, and I know how that shit is/was.)
And those same poor people have money for a smart phone how exactly?
You do realise that not every smartphone costs $800 and comes with a Designed in the USA logo on it right?
People in China who feed a family of 3 for dinner with less than $2 typically have 2 smartphones between them.
Word.
People are ignorant, horribly ignorant, when it comes to things like this. I remember I asked a friend of mine from grad school to get me a copy of Knuth's books in India. I paid like a fifth of what I would have paid if I had bought them in the US. Pricing is "zonified" (if there is such a word.) The same shit that we have to pay $100 we can pay a fraction of it in another country without any loss in quality.
Your job maybe. This is the thing. If your job can be commoditized, you are a commodity, and you will be outsourced. So the key is to always be on top of that shit and not let yourself be commoditized. Offshoring is not a new thing. It is just an extension of outsourcing.
And guess what? Outsourcing is not a new thing either. I've seen it in action for the last 25 years. So I don't get why people keep sounding the alarm as if that shit was new. It's like people that complain their jobs went to China... 15-20 years ago. I'm like, well, wtf have you been doing since then to adapt?
Adaptation sucks. I know. I've lost my jobs several times, a lot of times because of outsourcing, directly or indirectly. Being unemployed sucks. But you adapt your game, your skills, even yourself and move to something else.
To say our jobs are going to be outsourced is like saying 2+2=4. So what? This is not news. People worth a damn in this field will find a way to find a way out of it.
And those same poor people have money for a smart phone how exactly? Me thinks you are confusing "cash" with credit cards and tech gadgets. Sorry, but it's not safer than a credit card. It's the same as a credit card, while having dependency on some type of connectivity for the Cell.
Me thinks traveling to a couple of countries will help you understand the answer to that question.
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Somebody else's servers require maintenance too, and when their cloud servers go down you're SOL until they decide your stuff is next in line to get fixed--once they figure out what happened of course.
That's what SLAs are for.
Why use some one else cloud when you could make your own?
Have you ever tried to roll your own industrial strength, production quality cloud infrastructure? That shit gets expensive, and it requires you to do significant investment up front. At this point we are dealing with issues of capital flow, acquisition (or rental) of equipment, depreciation of said equipment, etc.
Renting cloud services, on the other hand, it changes the equation. What used to be a capital expense, it becomes an operational expense. It might sound more expensive down the line, but it stills reduces the strain in your capital flow. This is particularly true when your business is not the business of building a cloud, but to do something else that can be done with or without the cloud.
This is very similar to other industries where they lease equipment rather than buying because a) even though total cost of ownership might be cheaper down the road, b) the up-front price of purchase is prohibitively high.
The important thing is business is not so much to reduce expense in absolute terms, but to manage expenses in a predictable, periodic manner over time. For many companies (not all, though), going into the cloud as opposed to rolling their own cloud solution, it helps them achieve that kind of balance.
Does this mean that I'll finally be able to download my files as a .zip archive? I have some directories in Dropbox with a lot of files in them, and I get some bullshit message about the folder being too large to download, or something like that, when I try to use the functionality that exports the directory a .zip archive. It's not even that much data. Maybe like 5 GB in total. But I always get that fucking message, and it never lets me download these directories as an archive. I even bought the pro subscription, and it still won't let me easily download an archive of my directories! I don't want to install the goddamn desktop client just to copy a few directories of files from Dropbox! Isn't that the whole goddamn point of the cloud? I can just use my goddamn web browser to interact with it, instead of a custom native app?! Holy fuck, all I want to do is download an archive of a directory in Dropbox. Why the fuck do they make it impossible to do that easily?! Does this move to their own infrastructure finally make it possible for them to let me download my directories as .zip archives?!
Standard Zip compression/file format limits archive sizes to 4GB.
No joke, I just googled the exact same thing. Apparently prime numbers are prime in all bases, which I really didn't think was the case.
Surely you jest. Numerical bases are just a convenient way to represent numbers. Numbers, and their properties, including primality, exist independently of the base in which we represent them. A number does not stop being prime or odd or even just by changing the way we encode them.
It is not a cheap shot to say that the Left has hated the US military since the days of Vietnam if not before. Let's not cry crocodile tears and pretend we care about them, eh? Remember: cowards who hide behind drones and murder civilians. And laugh about it. Shall we do a Google search, or can you do that yourself?
Reading comprehension. I never said this is not true. And it is still a cheap shot because it doesn't address the bipartisan issues that have created the situation we are in. I'm interested in changing the state of our military for the better and take the left and the right to task. You are just interested in harking back to slogans and talking points.
Feel free to have the last word. You win.
Technology doesn't make your job easier, it makes it harder. What it does is takes those mind-numbing jobs, away. And replace them with harder jobs, that requires creative thought, and out of the box problem solving.
So it makes life harder. Rather than a tedious but relatively secure 9-5 job with nights and weekends free to do whatever you want you have a tenuous, short-term contracted 9-5 job that leaves you feeling too drained to do anything at night or on weekends... if you're not doing (probably unpaid) overtime (and I include thinking about work problems in that) then because of fear you might lose your job or your skill-set might become outdated.
And this is a good thing... how, exactly?
It is still good because it is a change 5 billion people will be born, live and die without. This reality has been with us for 15-20 years. Why do we keep acting as if it is something new? We have no choice, we have to adapt. I would actually say we got a glimpse of what was to come with Japan's ascendancy (and to a lower degree, Taiwan) in the 70's and 80's.
Whether we work in IT or not, wether we have college degrees or not, we need to become nimble, being willing to work long hours (or procure a secondary source of income.) This is an inevitable outcome of two things:
Protectionism would never had worked to prevent this, though we can collectively make a good argument that our political and business classes never quite gave a fuck about consequences and externalities of opening up our markets.
Yes, it sucks not being able to work in a cushy Monday-through-Friday 9-5 job for live, where you can just pull a lever in a conveyor belt for 30 years and then retire with a nice house (or spend 30 years doing the same type of software development work.)
The world is not fair, and it doesn't operate according to our notion of fairness (which in reality is just an argument of convenience, not logic.)
I've been surviving several layoffs in the last 16 years. And you just have to learn to ride that shit, even if it means changing careers or taking a lesser payment and climb your way up.
I have a friend of mine (to be remained anonymous) that worked as EE for several defense contractors in the Florida space coast area. When things unfolded, many engineers lost their jobs and could not move for a variety of reasons (owning a home, kids in school, wife has a perm job.)
Whatever, my friend simply stopped being an engineer and works in a family-own landscaping business (specifically for rich houses and communities). He works longer hours, sees his kids less, but he was able to retain a comparable income (and thus spare his family from financial hardship.)
Thousands and thousands of people have migrated to the Dakotas and Texas, sometimes leaving their families behind to make ends meet (pretty much what illegal Mexicans do, legally obviously.) And it sucks, but they solved the issue. They stopped the moolah hemorrhage.
For as long as you are in this country, you are blessed with options. Options that might not be your favorite ones, but options nonetheless. Better than a kid looking for breakfast in a garbage can in a third world (I've seen this.)
Yes, it sucks, but all of you need to re-calibrate your views on life and get some perspective. Otherwise, life is going to chew you and your loved ones up and shit you into little compressed pellets. Nothing is over until the fat lady stops singing.
Anyone in this country has options. You don't have a guarantee of success or even to eventually go back to the way things were. Welcome to humanity.
The alternative is to do nothing and wait for the worms to eat you, implement basic income (which no one in this country is going do to cuz zocializm!), or to move to Zhengzhou or Bangalore and try your hand there.
Prestigious to join the military! In the USA of 2016!!! WTF, where have you been for the last 50 years? Elites stopped joining the military a long, long time ago and indeed today spit on those who do. The entire Left considers the US military nothing more than cowardly baby-killers. Prestigious...wow there's a screamer. Thanks for that, I needed a laugh today.
Broad generalizations are the staple of the weak minded. You are partially right that joining the military is not as prestigious as it used to be, but that has nothin g to do with external lefty chupacabras and boogeymen. People in the service no longer recommend others to join. People in the service had ask their relatives to buy and ship body armor when our overthrew the Hussein regime. Undermanned, and underequiped, on the Republican watch.
Do you have an idea how many veterans are at risk (or become) homeless? How many commit suicide? How many suffer PSTD? That shit has been going on for years under Democrat and Republican leadership.
We have serious problem with how we treat our military. It is a serious problem that requires serious questions, and demands serious answers. What you provided is nothing, just a political cheap-shot. Like all lies, it might contain a kernel of truth, but the rest is just partisan bs that doesn't acknowledge the root causes of it, which lie in every one of us.
Japan has had a long history with China, and generally not a good one.
True - Most notably, Japan conducted an extremely brutal war of conquest in China in the beginning of the 20th century. The atrocities of the Nazis in Gernmany are well known - Japan was no less bestial in China, IMO. This is still one of the main reasons for the bad blood between Japan and China; as far as I know (but I haven't particularly tried to find out), China has not attacked Japan at any point throughout its entire history.
As for Taiwan and Tibet: a brief look in Wikipedia shows that Taiwan was annexed by China in 1683. Tibet's relation to China has been more checkered, but it isn't correct to say that China doesn't have a historical claim on that territory. As for whether the annexation by the PRC counts as liberation or not is a matter of taste, I think; as far as I know, it was medieval, feudalistic society, where a majority were serfs who lived in poverty. Punishments like maiming were not uncommon. I know that I would have preferred Communist rule, personally, if that was the alternative.
The Yuan invasion of the Japanese islands. 1274 and 1281. I'm not posting in an attempt of starting a 1st-grader "who started it?" game. I am simply pointing to a well known, extremely important point in the history of warfare.
China's growing nation status has Japan reconsidering its 70-year old ban on military research projects, as Japanese defense circles actively seek to take advantage of the country's vanguard position in robotic technology.
It is not just China, it is also the lunatics in NK launching missiles over Japanese airspace and making not-so-subtle threats to turn the archipelago into glowing glass. I am sure the US would retaliate and vaporize NK should they carry a devastating attack in Japan, but that is an after-the-fact conclusion. It is one that would not bring comfort to the Japanese who have to face the real threat.
The US position when it comes to a confrontation with China is less clear. Will they help Japan? I doubt it. Then, and this is something typically missing in these discussion, there is the precedent in the Ukraine. Ukraine gave its nuclear arsenal away on the promise that its sovereign would be respected. And we all know what happened. This is not about what is right or wrong, but about how such a serious treaty ended up meaning nothing.
The immediate message from this, as observed from Iran to Pakistan, is that, a nuclear power can invade you and no one will lift a finger.
It's also profoundly unhealthy. Maybe that's what we should be doing, but there's still every reason to object to it.
Why unhealthy? It is unhealthy only if you let it be. We can always opt for the alternative, which is to do nothing and expect karma to benevolently fall from the sky as Nadela suggested.
What I see here in this country is a complete lack of perspective. You have no knowledge of what true poverty is like, what it is like to be born, live and die in a world that will never give you a chance to do anything other than scrape a living of malnourished and illiteracy. What you call unhealthy is a dream for 5 billion people in this world. 3 million alone live with less than $2.50 a day. Can you imagine that?
When you get some perspective like that, you realize what we have is not that unhealthy at all. We are recipient of undeserving wealth and opportunity regardless of whether we have a cushioned 9-5 job till retirement.
This is only feasible for well socialised extroverts who know how to schmooze well, and whose 'networking' attempts result in people being interested in them rather than alienated. The few remaining jobs will go to them. The other 80% of workers in the industry will have to rely on minimum wage slave jobs or cybercrime.
That might be true, but then, what do you opt for yourself? And, what you call schmoozing, I call it being a normal human being in a social setting.
What features do stored procedures provide that can't be handled with postgresql functions?
For me database independence is important. Stored procedures let me do that. I can move from MS SQL to MYSQL or even something like HSQLDB if I wanted. All I need to do is write a procedure for said database and point my application to that database. No change in application code.
Hardcoding the SQL in your application marries you to the database you choose. I see stored procedures as a prenup agreement for databases. We get married but if you become a pain in the ass I can easily move on without losing half my stuff.
You do not need store procedures to decouple SQL statements off your application source code.
Sorry what? You couldn't find a DBA who knew anything about postgres? The 2nd most used relational database in the world?
Did you try asking 'DBAs' who didn't have microsoft or oracle credentials?
It is not as uncommon as you think. There are a lot of code monkeys who can program against Postgres or MySQL that can do a basic install. Good luck finding someone that can actually tune and maintain the thing. It is one of those paradoxes that curse the IT world.
Why do your friends stay at IBM?
Well, they pay me a decent wage and are located where I want to live.
If (realistically, when) they get around to cutting my job, I'll find something else. But I could lose my job anywhere I go. Why should I lose sleep over it?
Exactly. I've always found that people that loose sleep over things like this aren't worth a damn in this industry.
Why do your friends stay at IBM? This is an honest question. It seems crazy to me to sit around and wait to get laid off. I couldn't imagine getting up every day and wondering if you'd still have a job at the end of the day for years on end.
If you play your cards right, and you have enough network connections/have mad skills/are very adaptable and resilient, you can simply work there, earn a reputation via the company's name and get a nice severance package. Those people who are paying attention at the right details, they already have their plans A, B and C all lined up.
In this time and age, you, the generic you, got to have your plan A, B, and C ready to go, with your bug-out bag and all. Then getting laid off becomes simply a financial transaction to your benefit. You time it right and you might even start working somewhere else within weeks (and still enjoy the severance package.)
Actually, if you remove the workers, there's no corporation either. The workers should be paid the most, followed by the janitors and cleaning staff.
There might not be workers, but there are assets. For the shareholders that are "in it" for maximizing profit in the shortest time possible, the later is what matters, not the former. I'm not being sarcastic, I'm being (sadly) realistic. If the C-suit can make a killing on the shareholders' behalf by hitting worker to death with his/her own babies, they'd go for it.
Still doubtful? Let me remind you how Bayer sold HIV-tainted medicines to children in 3rd world countries not long ago. Google it. It's very mind opening.
that problem started due to the outcome of the civil war when the republic was subverted on paper in 1864
What the fuck what??????
You don't think that China putting a railgun on the moon won't reinvigorate space exploration?
That, or we will buy one from them. If China can pull that off, it means we didn't do squat to either prevent it or do it first. And that will be the moment when we jump the shark as a nation... but we will be too busy fucking and drinking electrolytes as we cheer for President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.
No, it won't. Not only is the Space Race long over, the political conditions that lead to it no longer exist, and the general public of the US never supported the race that much in the first place.
You are mostly likely a self-loathing millienial sitting in yer' mommies basement without a clue, without even a single clue in this world. Or you are LIAR. Most likely both.
I was there and the US population did indeed fully support, and was in fact enthralled by the activities of NASA in that time. It actually brought a lot of people together that would not normally be together.
Apollo only had political support because JFK took a bullet to the head in Dallas. And even then that support barely lasted two years before the budgets started getting slashed - by the time we actually landed, the program was already running on vapors.
Take your morbid revisionist bullshit and peddle it to your acquaintance in the trailer park. You are seriously full of shit. And I now see you are just a liar / Bernie lover.
You were mostly right till you started with the infantile name-calling. Bernie lover? Really? What the fuck does the OP's political allegiances (which you know nothing off) has anything to do with anything. What type of personal demons are you projecting? Chill the hell out.
You said a lot of things that are right and accurate, but they seem to be the only thing right about you. Stop acting like a deranged lunatic.
I still wonder how it is possible that the republicans can't come up with a single decent candidate. And this is not the first time that happened.
They had one in 2012, Jon Huntsman. He is not batshit crazy enough, and he committed the offense of being multilingual (he speaks Mandarin Chinese and Taiwanese Hokkien) and the cardinal sin of having adopted a child from India and another one from China. How offensive to American values!
The GOP cannot find a decent candidate anymore because of its current constituency, one whose lunacy was cultivated by the GOP itself since the bad black man stole the White House for the express purpose of killing Baby Jesus and bald eagles with chemtrails because UN Agenda 21, Sharia and the illuminati.
Let's emphasize that Yelp is PAYING this insultingly low wage in such an expensive city. And keeping people in that bracket at least a full year.
No one is keeping anyone. I don't understand why people would stay San Francisco for such a low wage. There are a lot of other places in this country (even in California) where you will not get choked with a minimum wage. Living on a minimum wage is not pretty (I know, I did that), but some places make the situation worse than others. San Francisco is on the top of that list.
Bulleit is pretty pedestrian. If she was getting fucking Pappy Van Winkle delivered to her at work, her claims of poverty would be harder to take.
And did she actually drink it at work, or just have it delivered there? After all, it's bourbon, a legal product. It's not like she was getting an eightball of coke or a bunch of smack stamps form Silk Road delivered to the office.
It does kinda put into question her claims of poverty. Because when you are as poor as she claimed to be, you cannot afford this, let alone brag about it.
Source? Me (because I used to be poor, and I know how that shit is/was.)
And those same poor people have money for a smart phone how exactly?
You do realise that not every smartphone costs $800 and comes with a Designed in the USA logo on it right? People in China who feed a family of 3 for dinner with less than $2 typically have 2 smartphones between them.
Word.
People are ignorant, horribly ignorant, when it comes to things like this. I remember I asked a friend of mine from grad school to get me a copy of Knuth's books in India. I paid like a fifth of what I would have paid if I had bought them in the US. Pricing is "zonified" (if there is such a word.) The same shit that we have to pay $100 we can pay a fraction of it in another country without any loss in quality.
And your job is being outsourced to them.
Your job maybe. This is the thing. If your job can be commoditized, you are a commodity, and you will be outsourced. So the key is to always be on top of that shit and not let yourself be commoditized. Offshoring is not a new thing. It is just an extension of outsourcing.
And guess what? Outsourcing is not a new thing either. I've seen it in action for the last 25 years. So I don't get why people keep sounding the alarm as if that shit was new. It's like people that complain their jobs went to China... 15-20 years ago. I'm like, well, wtf have you been doing since then to adapt?
Adaptation sucks. I know. I've lost my jobs several times, a lot of times because of outsourcing, directly or indirectly. Being unemployed sucks. But you adapt your game, your skills, even yourself and move to something else.
To say our jobs are going to be outsourced is like saying 2+2=4. So what? This is not news. People worth a damn in this field will find a way to find a way out of it.
And those same poor people have money for a smart phone how exactly? Me thinks you are confusing "cash" with credit cards and tech gadgets. Sorry, but it's not safer than a credit card. It's the same as a credit card, while having dependency on some type of connectivity for the Cell.
Me thinks traveling to a couple of countries will help you understand the answer to that question.