Pretty much no construction project, public or private, is done with fixed price bidding. Its done with costs+ bidding. No construction company in the world would touch a contract where they're on the hook for the overruns. And no insurance company would ever issue such insurance, for any cost.
I mean really- would you accept a software project where you're told when it has to be done, all the features in it with no changes, a fixed budget, and if it goes over you have to pay everything? Nobody would agree to that.
Now add in 90 minutes at the airport before and after which don't exist on trains. Now add in the extra pollution and carbon usage of the planes. Now add in lower prices because rail is cheaper to run and uses less gas. Now add in the lower congestion at airports because some percentage is now using rail. You end up with a trip that's cheaper, barely if at all longer, more comfortable, less polluting, and improves things for everyone else too. I'm very glad to have voted for it.
YOu need to get out of the US. Throughout Europe they use trains. They go 200 miles per hour. They're more comfortable than a plane (more leg room, dining cars, etc), cheaper to operate, and when you count the time it takes to get through security faster. Also far more likely to be on time. The only way planes win is if the trip is at least 800 miles so the speed difference beats the amount of time wasted at an airport. Anything else, take a train. Literally nobody in Europe or Asia prefers planes for medium distance travel.
Except in America of course where we're decades behind on rail technology and have trains limited to 50-60 mph. Its about time we catch up with the rest of the world.
It has to do with barriers to entry. In the old days, the most ignorant were the BASIC programmers. Because the compiler was cheap/free, it was the easiest one to start on. So you had more half trained people using that than anywhere else.
In the web days, Javascript became even easier than BASIC- no tools needed but notepad and the browser. No need to compile your app, just hit refresh. And immediately you had a complicated GUI output, not just a console app. So that's where everyone started learning. So the percentage of JS programmers who are bad is several times that for other languages.
More than that- this is a state university. Not a private one like Harvard. Its basically owned by the government. So its the government outsourcing these jobs.
I'm already carrying it, and there's absolutely nothing of value that a watch will do that it doesn't. Bonus- no wearing something uncomfortable on your wrist that's just prone to hit things and pull out your arm hair. I threw mine out the day I bought my first dumbphone, and I wouldn't wear a new one if you bought it and paid me.
Its a pretty bad idea, but its not uncommon for a startup to write something, realize it isn't quite what they need to do, and throw most/all of it away and rewrite it. You don't plan to do that, but you accept that it may happen.
You wouldn't normally plan to do it in another language, but you may switch frameworks or even languages if the original choices end up being a bottleneck as you scale (or a hiring bottleneck if you can't find enough programmers).
Wow, you're so wrong it hurts. There were wars in Ireland as late as the 1980s between groups of Christians. And through most of the last millenium Jews in the Muslim world had more freedom there than they did in Christian Europe, where they were forced to only a handful of professions and made to live in walled ghettos (all the easier to occassionally murder them).
ANyone who says Christianity is any better either has their head up their ass, no knowledge of history, or is purposely trying to tar another religion out of their own sense of hatred. Seems like you're a mix of 1 and 3.
I'm on the job market now, haven't seen more remote jobs than I did previously. If anything the pendulum is moving away from full time remote. And I don't blame them for it- I've done the remote thing, I was nowhere near as effective. I've seen other go remote, they always lost efficiency. Those hallway meeting, brainstorming sessions, co-working sessions, easy quick meetings where you can scribble on paper/whiteboards and read body language- they're all important. So is the chit chat and socialization- people are social animals. Teams work better together if they know and like one another. Remote just does not work as well. For someone to be worth it at 100% remote they really need to be a genius in their field.
The thing with the "hey you got a minute" is that your productivity is not all that matters. Its the group productivity that does, and the group productivity almost always increases from those, even if yours suffers. Someone coming over to you means they were blocked, and are going form near 0 to near 100 by interrupting you.
WHy are you wearing uncomfortable clothes? Wear a tshirt, just like every other developer I've ever known does. They don't like it? Let them fire you- the market is hot right now, you'll probably make 40% more. Also, who the hell plays music over the speakers at an office?
Sure they would. They'd just get things done slightly slower. But the big, well known dependencies aren't the problem- they may find an occasional security bug, but they'll be quickly patched. The problem is when you use some random library that doesn't have a large user base and contributor base. If you find something on github and use it without reading and understanding every line of it, you're incompetent.
A well known, maintained library such as OpenSSL? You're far more secure using the open source library. Not only do you need to be an expert to correctly and securely implement that level of cryptography, but it can contain all sort of subtle bugs you're unlikely to catch.
Now if you're talking about some random library you found on github because some guy on stackoverflow said to use it? That makes you less secure. Don't put random things you found on the internet into your program without reading the code, understanding what it does, and doing a full audit on it first.
And there's a special place in hell for anyone who uses gradle, nvm, or anything else that automatically downloads the library for them without specifying an exact version. You're just asking to be screwed by a trojan horse. Leftpad was about the best case scenario, imagine if leftpad had changed their code to be a backdoor instead?
THis is actively worse coming from the CEO. If a low level admin did this, he'd be fired, the CEO would appologize and they'd think of procedures to prevent it from happening again, and it would blow over failrly quickly. Nobody would mistake it for something the company thought was ok.
The face that the CEO thought this was a good idea means that their entire company culture is one that accepts this. That destroys trust. We have no reason to believe he won't do it again in the future, or perform other more subtle forms of censorship.
Or I make enough money that the 1-200 in profit I'd get after taxes over buying it myself is worth it for the convenience to me. If you're making 6 figures, as even an entry level programmer comes close to if not achieves these days, the money doesn't mean much.
I'd pick free sodas over 1K per year. I drink a lot of diet coke, and I don't want to have to remember to buy a 6 pack ever morning. Even if I come up slightly behind in dollars the convenience factor is more than worth it.
Meh, I'd rather have beer and pretzels. If I have to dress up, you couldn't pay me enough to go. And quite a lot of people feel like me. The beer and pretzels are probably enjoyed more than the formal parties were.
Actually I don't want a gift. I want cash. You give me a non-negligible gift, then I have to pay tax on it. I'd rather get nothing and not have to pay tax on it then get something I may or may not want.
ANd its 30 million retail. THey wholesale it for about half that. And they build it for half that. Most likely their actual cost was near 0, with a small possibility of negative.
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Pretty much no construction project, public or private, is done with fixed price bidding. Its done with costs+ bidding. No construction company in the world would touch a contract where they're on the hook for the overruns. And no insurance company would ever issue such insurance, for any cost.
I mean really- would you accept a software project where you're told when it has to be done, all the features in it with no changes, a fixed budget, and if it goes over you have to pay everything? Nobody would agree to that.
Now add in 90 minutes at the airport before and after which don't exist on trains. Now add in the extra pollution and carbon usage of the planes. Now add in lower prices because rail is cheaper to run and uses less gas. Now add in the lower congestion at airports because some percentage is now using rail. You end up with a trip that's cheaper, barely if at all longer, more comfortable, less polluting, and improves things for everyone else too. I'm very glad to have voted for it.
YOu need to get out of the US. Throughout Europe they use trains. They go 200 miles per hour. They're more comfortable than a plane (more leg room, dining cars, etc), cheaper to operate, and when you count the time it takes to get through security faster. Also far more likely to be on time. The only way planes win is if the trip is at least 800 miles so the speed difference beats the amount of time wasted at an airport. Anything else, take a train. Literally nobody in Europe or Asia prefers planes for medium distance travel.
Except in America of course where we're decades behind on rail technology and have trains limited to 50-60 mph. Its about time we catch up with the rest of the world.
It has to do with barriers to entry. In the old days, the most ignorant were the BASIC programmers. Because the compiler was cheap/free, it was the easiest one to start on. So you had more half trained people using that than anywhere else.
In the web days, Javascript became even easier than BASIC- no tools needed but notepad and the browser. No need to compile your app, just hit refresh. And immediately you had a complicated GUI output, not just a console app. So that's where everyone started learning. So the percentage of JS programmers who are bad is several times that for other languages.
But there's no need to make a phone to do that. Make an app that runs on each platform.
More than that- this is a state university. Not a private one like Harvard. Its basically owned by the government. So its the government outsourcing these jobs.
I'm already carrying it, and there's absolutely nothing of value that a watch will do that it doesn't. Bonus- no wearing something uncomfortable on your wrist that's just prone to hit things and pull out your arm hair. I threw mine out the day I bought my first dumbphone, and I wouldn't wear a new one if you bought it and paid me.
My pc laptop has 64. It's a year old now, so you can probably find 128.
They don't have the legal right to do that. They don't own the copyright on most games
Games, all the time. I'd love if a turn of Civ6 took less time. I'd pay more for that then I would a network or disk speedup.
Its a pretty bad idea, but its not uncommon for a startup to write something, realize it isn't quite what they need to do, and throw most/all of it away and rewrite it. You don't plan to do that, but you accept that it may happen.
You wouldn't normally plan to do it in another language, but you may switch frameworks or even languages if the original choices end up being a bottleneck as you scale (or a hiring bottleneck if you can't find enough programmers).
Wow, you're so wrong it hurts. There were wars in Ireland as late as the 1980s between groups of Christians. And through most of the last millenium Jews in the Muslim world had more freedom there than they did in Christian Europe, where they were forced to only a handful of professions and made to live in walled ghettos (all the easier to occassionally murder them).
ANyone who says Christianity is any better either has their head up their ass, no knowledge of history, or is purposely trying to tar another religion out of their own sense of hatred. Seems like you're a mix of 1 and 3.
I'm on the job market now, haven't seen more remote jobs than I did previously. If anything the pendulum is moving away from full time remote. And I don't blame them for it- I've done the remote thing, I was nowhere near as effective. I've seen other go remote, they always lost efficiency. Those hallway meeting, brainstorming sessions, co-working sessions, easy quick meetings where you can scribble on paper/whiteboards and read body language- they're all important. So is the chit chat and socialization- people are social animals. Teams work better together if they know and like one another. Remote just does not work as well. For someone to be worth it at 100% remote they really need to be a genius in their field.
The thing with the "hey you got a minute" is that your productivity is not all that matters. Its the group productivity that does, and the group productivity almost always increases from those, even if yours suffers. Someone coming over to you means they were blocked, and are going form near 0 to near 100 by interrupting you.
WHy are you wearing uncomfortable clothes? Wear a tshirt, just like every other developer I've ever known does. They don't like it? Let them fire you- the market is hot right now, you'll probably make 40% more. Also, who the hell plays music over the speakers at an office?
Sure they would. They'd just get things done slightly slower. But the big, well known dependencies aren't the problem- they may find an occasional security bug, but they'll be quickly patched. The problem is when you use some random library that doesn't have a large user base and contributor base. If you find something on github and use it without reading and understanding every line of it, you're incompetent.
A well known, maintained library such as OpenSSL? You're far more secure using the open source library. Not only do you need to be an expert to correctly and securely implement that level of cryptography, but it can contain all sort of subtle bugs you're unlikely to catch.
Now if you're talking about some random library you found on github because some guy on stackoverflow said to use it? That makes you less secure. Don't put random things you found on the internet into your program without reading the code, understanding what it does, and doing a full audit on it first.
And there's a special place in hell for anyone who uses gradle, nvm, or anything else that automatically downloads the library for them without specifying an exact version. You're just asking to be screwed by a trojan horse. Leftpad was about the best case scenario, imagine if leftpad had changed their code to be a backdoor instead?
Well if the summary is to be believed, they have 45x their yearly costs. That's a bit more than protection from swings in donations.
THis is actively worse coming from the CEO. If a low level admin did this, he'd be fired, the CEO would appologize and they'd think of procedures to prevent it from happening again, and it would blow over failrly quickly. Nobody would mistake it for something the company thought was ok.
The face that the CEO thought this was a good idea means that their entire company culture is one that accepts this. That destroys trust. We have no reason to believe he won't do it again in the future, or perform other more subtle forms of censorship.
Or I make enough money that the 1-200 in profit I'd get after taxes over buying it myself is worth it for the convenience to me. If you're making 6 figures, as even an entry level programmer comes close to if not achieves these days, the money doesn't mean much.
I'd pick free sodas over 1K per year. I drink a lot of diet coke, and I don't want to have to remember to buy a 6 pack ever morning. Even if I come up slightly behind in dollars the convenience factor is more than worth it.
Meh, I'd rather have beer and pretzels. If I have to dress up, you couldn't pay me enough to go. And quite a lot of people feel like me. The beer and pretzels are probably enjoyed more than the formal parties were.
Actually I don't want a gift. I want cash. You give me a non-negligible gift, then I have to pay tax on it. I'd rather get nothing and not have to pay tax on it then get something I may or may not want.
BEcause they actually paid. I donated money in honor of my deceased father, but I got the tax writeoff.
ANd its 30 million retail. THey wholesale it for about half that. And they build it for half that. Most likely their actual cost was near 0, with a small possibility of negative.