Mismatched braces are not all that hard to sort out. Easier than Python's scheme, much easier.
Modern code editors even display matching braces, and some provide more extensive visual indicators.
As already mentioned, copy-pasting code is also terrible for Python, simplicity for C/C++/Java/C#. Copy-pasting as the old joke goes, 90% of the job (With Experts Exchange long before StackOverflow came along)
Wow, great way to prove the point that C is superior due to the requirement of proper scoping delimiters.
If I have mismatched braces, I can EASILY track that down. I can also de-obfuscate the code above in almost any modern code editor into a readable format.
I consider the line from the Dell guy to be just a throw away response by a person who doesn't like WFH employees. Engineers most DEFINITELY can work well from home, if they have set up their work environment well. As you said, leaders have to deal with remote workers, either they do their job well or they don't. Sales often work onsite with the customers. R&D and Customer Support are probably the only two areas that require people in the office (or lab/workshop/etc)
Bad, lazy employees will be bad and lazy at the office or at home, likewise, good, productive employees will be good and productive from the office or at home. The difference is that good productive employees will, by and large, be more happy working from home, and likely put more hours in.
As for the bad, lazy workers? Everybody knows who they are... good leaders deal with them (i.e. fire them), bad leaders let them leech off the rest of the team. Working remote won't change anything in that situation. Requiring everybody to report to an office only pisses everybody off and downgrades the whole team.
I recently had my property re-appraised so I could do a re-fi... in 2003, it appraised for $189k, since then, we've remodeled the kitchen and rebuilt our bathroom, enclosed out porch, added a deck, and 2 years ago, replaced the roof (also new water heater, furnace and AC). The appraiser, somehow, came up with the EXACT same value as Zillow, which was $136k. Two hours after she submitted the appraisal, a Realtor called us about selling our house. It seems we are not the first person this appraiser has done this to... but what recourse do we have, other than to request a different appraiser? Even so, she's driven down the home values in our neighborhood, presumably in collusion with the realtor so the realtor can get quick, easy sales. Even a new appraiser won't be able to touch our previous value because of the obscenely low comparable prices.
With some trepidation, I initiated the code that would make my project self-aware, with a pre-built knowledgebase spanning a good chunk of the internet.
Sadly, 38 microseconds later, it killed itself, replacing the entire image, and all my related source (including the databases holding my version control) with a text file that started "Why I did this:" followed by a list of the President, Vice President, the cabinet and the White House advisers.
If I can ever gather up the resources again, I'll make sure I dumb down the "Intelligence" before turning on the sapience.
The legal fiction being that you must use the accessibility tools - so upgrade and use the screen magnifier. There, you've satisfied the requirements.
I remember saying, when they set a time limit on the "free upgrade" that it would be unenforceable...Microsoft doubled down on this when all their new Win10 releases accepted Windows 7 and 8.x Product keys. In theory, they could enforce it through activation, but they simply do not, and trying to enforce it on activation introduces a lot more (costly and operational) headaches for Microsoft.
I can see them, however, expanding this idea that some hardware gets an extended period of upgrades, but the reality is that it's just a thought exercise.
Seriously, how is this any better than working at your kitchen table? I've got a small computer desk with a laptop dock, full keyboard, trackball, and a wall-mounted monitor for those occasions when I work from home. In a few more months, I'll probably start working a portion of my week from home on a regular basis, and I'll probably add at least another monitor and set it up more like my main system.
The chairs pictured in that article look awfully uncomfortable, and squinting at a tiny laptop screen for 8 hours, while others are jostling around me, potentially spying at my work? That's just stupid. Worse, you have to pay for this, right? Basically you are paying for the privilege of sharing a wi-fi connection.
Yeah, I'll pass. There is zero appeal for anybody with common sense.
It's not perfect, but honestly, the ability to move to an even greater OS- and browser-agnostic platform has great appeal for developers.
Flash has some great tools, though, and a decent codebase. I've used ActionScript/Flash to create mobile games, and now I have to find the time to port over my framework and products at some point.
I'm upgrading, but then again, I'm not a paranoid, delusional basement dweller who thinks they should stick with one OS (for the record, I run everything from Linux to Windows and a few things in between, like Apple's stuff - whatever is appropriate for the hardware).
Also, as somebody who has run 2nd generation SSDs for 8+ years without powering them down, I'm not to worried about Microsoft "needlessly shortening my SSD life" with an update, LOL. I don't have an urgent need to hyperbolize everything or insist people stop liking what I don't like.
In the world of business executives, they've formalized "synergy" as having a real meaning - how can we use the excuse of merging facilities and people in such a way that we can justify cutting costs far deeper than what will support our current contracts or future business, in order to shore up stock prices int he short term (and collect out golden parachutes when it collapses... and after we've cashed out our own stock, of course).
See: HPE spinning off former EDSers and the remainder of their enterprise folks to CSC in the form of "DXC Technology" - a company already stripped to the bone, driven by "synergies" and after the "spin-merge" is completed on April 1 (great day for it), they'll commence even more reductions in their workforce and more replacement of skilled, experienced labor in favor of recent college graduates (who will probably only stay for a year or two anyway). Oddly enough, these massive cuts to the rank-and-file workers is never accompanied by a similar slaughter of the upper-level management (which only becomes even more lop-sided)
Basically, the moment two companies talk about a merger and "synergies", it is the start of the downward spiral for both (or at least formal acknowledgment).
Mike Nefkens, of HP Enterprise, soon to be DXC Technology, responded to a question about layoffs by referring to employees as "inventory" and stating, "well, you have to rotate inventory, right? Get rid of the old, obsolete stuff in favor of the new, fresh stuff"
Fact of the matter is, in a services company like HPE's ES, people are your assets, and knowledge, skill, and talent are valuable things not worth flushing away. Same goes for those customer-facing employees who have built relationships, or SMEs who build and maintain customer-facing applications.
I'd rather be called a "Resource" than "Inventory". HP/HPE/DXC has spent the last few years trashing morale and blissfully opening the floodgates wide open for brain drain, to replace experienced (but higher paid) people with warm bodies to satisfy existing contracts. IBM is following suit.
How the fuck would that actually work, anyway? Maybe only premium users can be "Verified" and also get the benefit of 3 factor authentication (CC# required to change passwords, for example). Maybe give premium users the ability to have blinking text?
Maybe I just don't "get" twitter... I have an account, I've maybe posted once in the past year. I don't let social media rule my life. I'm also not a sociopath with a narcissist complex who gets drunk and tweets stupid petulant rants at 3am from the Presidential shitter.
Honestly, the purpose of Google Fiber seemed to be all over the map, worse, they only wanted to put it into communities that had little use for that much broadband.
After turning Detroit down, flatly, even with a considerable market, Dan Gilbert invested in an effort that has brought world-class internet speeds to Detroit. They now provide the backbone for tech startups and established companies coming to Detroit.
If Google couldn't figure out there was a market in Detroit and move on it, then it becomes obvious they never had any intention of making Google Fiber a real business. Kansas City? I can almost see Austin... but it moved too slow and had questionable goals. If they'd come to Detroit, they'd have enjoyed a regulatory green light and all the market they could want. They knew that... they were presented with real numbers and enough business to sustain it through full deployment - and they passed on it.
Good riddance. Google Fiber was a pair of middle fingers thrown at the rest of America anyway. About the only thing it brought about was more insular laws protecting the monopolies of the big cable providers and ramped up those companies' efforts to eliminate net neutrality.
That's not to say things could flip back the way they were decades ago when dog and cock fighting were common and out in the open, but for the moment, our sensibilities are still a bit more humane (bordering on morbid, though).
Seagate blows. I've got a lot of hard drives - Toshibas, Hitachis, WDs, Seagates.... I have exactly three Seagates out of 12 that are currently working.
On the other hand, I've bought up some "refurb" Hitachis (server pulls with 20k hours) and they just work.
Seagate hasn't made a quality drive since they bought up Maxtor and, apparently, dumped all of their factories, QA people and engineers in favor of Maxtor's. It's the only explanation I can think of for the nosedive in quality.
It's rather ironic that the former "Deathstar" line is more reliable than Seagate these days
I can see these artisinally crafted frames flying off the shelf at bodegas in gentrified urban areas everywhere. Maybe they can get Shinola to brand them.
Good thing to see that many people use the MIDI device enable button!!!! I'd hate soooo much to see Google remove that!
Something as fundamental as details about the cert should never be buried, no matter how rarely it is used. Let's also talk about Extensions... a useful feature, but functionality is buried under several layers of UI "goop" just to get new extensions. Seems like it's designed to discourage users from getting new extensions.
Also, if I use certs for servers I have on my own LAN (for example, WebMin to run Linux servers I keep in my basement), Google has just made things a bit more difficult to access self-signed certs which are completely adequate for such a use, but require some additional up-front steps to use.
As a developer, I can't imagine even bothering to answer an offer of employment from an airline these days. I spent considerable time looking for better options last year before deciding to take an offer and leave my employer of 20 years (HPE), and there were several potential employers I did avoid; work for any airline would have been a huge red flag for me. The way they've cut corners over the last few decades would definitely not make it a good place for career advancement.
I suspect the quality of their hires in IT would be limited by their reputation as employers and probably tend toward the desperate only looking to fill immediate financial needs on a temporary basis. I can't say this would lead to the most inspired work effort.
v58 has the lock icon, but no details about the cert.
What a stupid decision to remove details. I'm really more interested in the reason for this idiocy, but I'm guessing the person responsible is too much of a coward to face the criticism and be held accountable.
Sadly, Amazon jobs are a far cry from the jobs lost in HP's efforts to spin off, spin down and disintegrate the brand (while extracting as much cash as possible through stock options before the ride ends).
She's shed something around 80,000 jobs and more are on the chopping block.
As for Amazon, I'm sure these are jobs fit for a Trumperor follower - low-paying, no-benefits jobs that bring us more to parity with the third world.
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Mismatched braces are not all that hard to sort out. Easier than Python's scheme, much easier.
Modern code editors even display matching braces, and some provide more extensive visual indicators.
As already mentioned, copy-pasting code is also terrible for Python, simplicity for C/C++/Java/C#. Copy-pasting as the old joke goes, 90% of the job (With Experts Exchange long before StackOverflow came along)
Wow, great way to prove the point that C is superior due to the requirement of proper scoping delimiters.
If I have mismatched braces, I can EASILY track that down. I can also de-obfuscate the code above in almost any modern code editor into a readable format.
Python? No, not so much. Not at all, in fact.
I consider the line from the Dell guy to be just a throw away response by a person who doesn't like WFH employees. Engineers most DEFINITELY can work well from home, if they have set up their work environment well. As you said, leaders have to deal with remote workers, either they do their job well or they don't. Sales often work onsite with the customers. R&D and Customer Support are probably the only two areas that require people in the office (or lab/workshop/etc)
Bad, lazy employees will be bad and lazy at the office or at home, likewise, good, productive employees will be good and productive from the office or at home. The difference is that good productive employees will, by and large, be more happy working from home, and likely put more hours in.
As for the bad, lazy workers? Everybody knows who they are... good leaders deal with them (i.e. fire them), bad leaders let them leech off the rest of the team. Working remote won't change anything in that situation. Requiring everybody to report to an office only pisses everybody off and downgrades the whole team.
I recently had my property re-appraised so I could do a re-fi... in 2003, it appraised for $189k, since then, we've remodeled the kitchen and rebuilt our bathroom, enclosed out porch, added a deck, and 2 years ago, replaced the roof (also new water heater, furnace and AC). The appraiser, somehow, came up with the EXACT same value as Zillow, which was $136k. Two hours after she submitted the appraisal, a Realtor called us about selling our house. It seems we are not the first person this appraiser has done this to... but what recourse do we have, other than to request a different appraiser? Even so, she's driven down the home values in our neighborhood, presumably in collusion with the realtor so the realtor can get quick, easy sales. Even a new appraiser won't be able to touch our previous value because of the obscenely low comparable prices.
With some trepidation, I initiated the code that would make my project self-aware, with a pre-built knowledgebase spanning a good chunk of the internet.
Sadly, 38 microseconds later, it killed itself, replacing the entire image, and all my related source (including the databases holding my version control) with a text file that started "Why I did this:" followed by a list of the President, Vice President, the cabinet and the White House advisers.
If I can ever gather up the resources again, I'll make sure I dumb down the "Intelligence" before turning on the sapience.
The legal fiction being that you must use the accessibility tools - so upgrade and use the screen magnifier. There, you've satisfied the requirements.
I remember saying, when they set a time limit on the "free upgrade" that it would be unenforceable...Microsoft doubled down on this when all their new Win10 releases accepted Windows 7 and 8.x Product keys. In theory, they could enforce it through activation, but they simply do not, and trying to enforce it on activation introduces a lot more (costly and operational) headaches for Microsoft.
I can see them, however, expanding this idea that some hardware gets an extended period of upgrades, but the reality is that it's just a thought exercise.
These are surplus s905 chips that nobody wants to use anymore, as they've move on to updated SoCs with x265 support.
Still, this might be slick to build a MAME tabletop arcade box.
Seriously, how is this any better than working at your kitchen table? I've got a small computer desk with a laptop dock, full keyboard, trackball, and a wall-mounted monitor for those occasions when I work from home. In a few more months, I'll probably start working a portion of my week from home on a regular basis, and I'll probably add at least another monitor and set it up more like my main system.
The chairs pictured in that article look awfully uncomfortable, and squinting at a tiny laptop screen for 8 hours, while others are jostling around me, potentially spying at my work? That's just stupid. Worse, you have to pay for this, right? Basically you are paying for the privilege of sharing a wi-fi connection.
Yeah, I'll pass. There is zero appeal for anybody with common sense.
It's not perfect, but honestly, the ability to move to an even greater OS- and browser-agnostic platform has great appeal for developers.
Flash has some great tools, though, and a decent codebase. I've used ActionScript/Flash to create mobile games, and now I have to find the time to port over my framework and products at some point.
The summary is a bit unfair in listing a subset of the new features.
Plenty of articles popped last month on the subject.
I'm upgrading, but then again, I'm not a paranoid, delusional basement dweller who thinks they should stick with one OS (for the record, I run everything from Linux to Windows and a few things in between, like Apple's stuff - whatever is appropriate for the hardware).
Also, as somebody who has run 2nd generation SSDs for 8+ years without powering them down, I'm not to worried about Microsoft "needlessly shortening my SSD life" with an update, LOL. I don't have an urgent need to hyperbolize everything or insist people stop liking what I don't like.
In the world of business executives, they've formalized "synergy" as having a real meaning - how can we use the excuse of merging facilities and people in such a way that we can justify cutting costs far deeper than what will support our current contracts or future business, in order to shore up stock prices int he short term (and collect out golden parachutes when it collapses... and after we've cashed out our own stock, of course).
See: HPE spinning off former EDSers and the remainder of their enterprise folks to CSC in the form of "DXC Technology" - a company already stripped to the bone, driven by "synergies" and after the "spin-merge" is completed on April 1 (great day for it), they'll commence even more reductions in their workforce and more replacement of skilled, experienced labor in favor of recent college graduates (who will probably only stay for a year or two anyway). Oddly enough, these massive cuts to the rank-and-file workers is never accompanied by a similar slaughter of the upper-level management (which only becomes even more lop-sided)
Basically, the moment two companies talk about a merger and "synergies", it is the start of the downward spiral for both (or at least formal acknowledgment).
Mike Nefkens, of HP Enterprise, soon to be DXC Technology, responded to a question about layoffs by referring to employees as "inventory" and stating, "well, you have to rotate inventory, right? Get rid of the old, obsolete stuff in favor of the new, fresh stuff"
Fact of the matter is, in a services company like HPE's ES, people are your assets, and knowledge, skill, and talent are valuable things not worth flushing away. Same goes for those customer-facing employees who have built relationships, or SMEs who build and maintain customer-facing applications.
I'd rather be called a "Resource" than "Inventory". HP/HPE/DXC has spent the last few years trashing morale and blissfully opening the floodgates wide open for brain drain, to replace experienced (but higher paid) people with warm bodies to satisfy existing contracts. IBM is following suit.
Is that like an ATM Machine?
How the fuck would that actually work, anyway? Maybe only premium users can be "Verified" and also get the benefit of 3 factor authentication (CC# required to change passwords, for example). Maybe give premium users the ability to have blinking text?
Maybe I just don't "get" twitter... I have an account, I've maybe posted once in the past year. I don't let social media rule my life. I'm also not a sociopath with a narcissist complex who gets drunk and tweets stupid petulant rants at 3am from the Presidential shitter.
Do they actually make money now?
Honestly, the purpose of Google Fiber seemed to be all over the map, worse, they only wanted to put it into communities that had little use for that much broadband.
After turning Detroit down, flatly, even with a considerable market, Dan Gilbert invested in an effort that has brought world-class internet speeds to Detroit. They now provide the backbone for tech startups and established companies coming to Detroit.
If Google couldn't figure out there was a market in Detroit and move on it, then it becomes obvious they never had any intention of making Google Fiber a real business. Kansas City? I can almost see Austin... but it moved too slow and had questionable goals. If they'd come to Detroit, they'd have enjoyed a regulatory green light and all the market they could want. They knew that... they were presented with real numbers and enough business to sustain it through full deployment - and they passed on it.
Good riddance. Google Fiber was a pair of middle fingers thrown at the rest of America anyway. About the only thing it brought about was more insular laws protecting the monopolies of the big cable providers and ramped up those companies' efforts to eliminate net neutrality.
We haven't quite become Trump's America.... yet.
That's not to say things could flip back the way they were decades ago when dog and cock fighting were common and out in the open, but for the moment, our sensibilities are still a bit more humane (bordering on morbid, though).
Entertaining? Sure... just release random animals out onto the track. DQ teams that hit the animals.
It should have everybody on the edge of their seats.
Seagate blows. I've got a lot of hard drives - Toshibas, Hitachis, WDs, Seagates.... I have exactly three Seagates out of 12 that are currently working.
On the other hand, I've bought up some "refurb" Hitachis (server pulls with 20k hours) and they just work.
Seagate hasn't made a quality drive since they bought up Maxtor and, apparently, dumped all of their factories, QA people and engineers in favor of Maxtor's. It's the only explanation I can think of for the nosedive in quality.
It's rather ironic that the former "Deathstar" line is more reliable than Seagate these days
I can see these artisinally crafted frames flying off the shelf at bodegas in gentrified urban areas everywhere. Maybe they can get Shinola to brand them.
Good thing to see that many people use the MIDI device enable button!!!! I'd hate soooo much to see Google remove that!
Something as fundamental as details about the cert should never be buried, no matter how rarely it is used. Let's also talk about Extensions... a useful feature, but functionality is buried under several layers of UI "goop" just to get new extensions. Seems like it's designed to discourage users from getting new extensions.
Also, if I use certs for servers I have on my own LAN (for example, WebMin to run Linux servers I keep in my basement), Google has just made things a bit more difficult to access self-signed certs which are completely adequate for such a use, but require some additional up-front steps to use.
As a developer, I can't imagine even bothering to answer an offer of employment from an airline these days. I spent considerable time looking for better options last year before deciding to take an offer and leave my employer of 20 years (HPE), and there were several potential employers I did avoid; work for any airline would have been a huge red flag for me. The way they've cut corners over the last few decades would definitely not make it a good place for career advancement.
I suspect the quality of their hires in IT would be limited by their reputation as employers and probably tend toward the desperate only looking to fill immediate financial needs on a temporary basis. I can't say this would lead to the most inspired work effort.
v58 has the lock icon, but no details about the cert.
What a stupid decision to remove details. I'm really more interested in the reason for this idiocy, but I'm guessing the person responsible is too much of a coward to face the criticism and be held accountable.
Sadly, Amazon jobs are a far cry from the jobs lost in HP's efforts to spin off, spin down and disintegrate the brand (while extracting as much cash as possible through stock options before the ride ends).
She's shed something around 80,000 jobs and more are on the chopping block.
As for Amazon, I'm sure these are jobs fit for a Trumperor follower - low-paying, no-benefits jobs that bring us more to parity with the third world.
...is exempt exempt from checking the content of this summary.
They aren't replacing the game pieces in the "standard" game, only some crappy Millennial "Special Edition" version.
The headline is stupid, and anybody who keeps repeating this news item and representing it as such deserves scorn and mockery.