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  1. Re:Wow! The school actually has skin in the game. on As Student-Loan Debt Soars, Alternatives, Like Income-Share Agreements, Are On the Rise (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is some students with no job experience or less than stellar resumes will be denied. The joke is on the top coding acadamies that all their students land jobs 97% of the time!!! ... because they only select the best with no gaps on their resumes and who already have some coding experience.

    In other words those who don't need them and have some extra cash stashed get in.

    The problem is low end jobs have a high turnover rate and most are very insecure as another dweeb can come in tomorrow to bag groceries if you are not fast enough at the cash register for example. Walmart sends your butt home.

    Big corporate HR ladies do not know this and will throw our your resume as you're a loser who can't hold onto a job for more than 2 years. These won't help as HR will still filter you out anyway even after you can code because they will see you as a risk.

  2. Re: What about it? on Economists Worry We Aren't Prepared For the Fallout From Automation (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Inflation includes food, and housing, in the terms of rent. Food spending, as a proportion of income has fallen over the last 40 years (roughly 1/3 to 1/4). The proportion going to rent has increased.

    Inflation includes food, and housing, in the terms of rent. Food spending, as a proportion of income has fallen over the last 40 years (roughly 1/3 to 1/4). The proportion going to rent has increased.

    Look up definition? Services are not counted only non food consumables? We are not getting the whole picture and part of me feels this is on purpose

  3. Re:What about it? on Economists Worry We Aren't Prepared For the Fallout From Automation (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Dude. I am am American.

    People here would rather die than to give up their guns, expensive and worthless health premiums and their paychecks than to fund fellow free loaders in their minds even if it's against their own self interests.

    We were founded with a great distrust of authority. The south hates any government because it took their rights to own slaves away. Reagan taught Americans to fear any government as evil. McCarthy as well. Australian and Canadians genetically are cousins but it stops there. We are different and not similar at all. The majority hate here think just how I described and view Marxism as the enemy since we were children during the cold war.

  4. Re:That kind of cyclical economy on Economists Worry We Aren't Prepared For the Fallout From Automation (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It wasn't like this. If you provide a better service and more of that service than others than logically you will become wealthier than others.

    Something isn't right here and may theory is debt is the cause. Poor people end up owing more. Rich get wealthy as their assets in stocks are funded and bubbled by extra liquid cash that banks use to pump up the stocks which cause the companies to want to keep increasing revenue. When too much is made and not enough cash is available then it goes on sale etc.

    Things are getting so screwed up right now in this point of time in terms of economics.

  5. Tell that to the Trump voters in Michigan, Indiana, and Wisconsin who all lost their jobs or still work for 1/3 they used to 30 years ago?

    Automation helps the factory owners and rich investors. Reality is you don't count.

  6. Re:Income per capita is meaningless on Economists Worry We Aren't Prepared For the Fallout From Automation (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    As long as you work for someone else, you're a slave to their whims. I know plenty of guys here in Texas who make tons of coin doing their own thing. My lawn care/painting buddy from El Salvador makes over $100k a year painting two house a week in the Woodlands/Conroe/Spring area. He also employs three full time lawn care guys who cut lawns for the wealthier white guys at 75-100 a lawn, and they do 10-15 lawns a day. The lawn guys are making $60k a year, no nights, no weekends, no on-call BS. I'm half tempted to go into the trades myself because IT is a shell of its former self.

    I started off as a Unix admin, moved to Linux, can program, admin about anything, but everything in Houston has been either outsourced or went to the "cloud". All of the wealthiest people I associate with are self-made: plumbers, electricians, and welders. All are $100k men and they all work for themselves. I've come to the conclusion this summer that I might make the break into the trades because they cannot be outsourced or automated. You cannot automate plumbing needs, welding in the specialty my buddy does, or running and installing electrical lines. Hell, my barber buddy made $80k last year in a two man shop. I'm fully convinced that a man is only his own man if he works and generates his own income and calls the shots.

    Hold on there! .... first things first. That guy with 100K? He is a business owner. Not a guy hanging out at home depot with a lawn mower looking for work. Second 10 to 15 lawns a day is alot of work that requires multiple people. He might pull 100K off the other guys before expenses.

    Second, Housing is booming in Houston. 10 years ago you couldn't find a job! Many immigrants went back to latin America after finding no work. Today IT is big ... 10 years ago or 17 years ago after the .com crash you had Indians flying and are all jumping for $45,000 a year jobs out of desperation.

    I had a friend hire a CISCO network engineer/System Admin for $10/hr and I was offended. HE laughed at me as he had a stack of 75 applicants all with 10 years experience in 2009 all begging to work for $10/hr!

    Things are cyclical.

    Third 85% of all businesses fail after 2 years. SOmething to think about.

  7. Re:What about it? on Economists Worry We Aren't Prepared For the Fallout From Automation (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Keep in mind inflation does not count food, housing, or fuel for their numbers!

    WHat has gone up since the 1970s? Housing, gas, and food. CA as you cited you could easily afford a house if you worked in LA in the mid 1970s. Even near the beach. Today? RIverside 60 miles away way way west have shitty homes that start $400,000 for 1200 square feet. But hey not counted so wages are fine right?

  8. Re:What about it? on Economists Worry We Aren't Prepared For the Fallout From Automation (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Americans LOVE Capitalism and HATE government!

    Instead of being so angry and frustrated and voting for Bernie it meant supporting Trump and blaming their problems on Mexicans and China etc.

    It will be very hard if not impossible in my country to vote for socialism. We have been brainwashed by 1950s RedScar McCarthyism, Ronald Reagan, Cold War with the USSR, and FoxNews to change. It is ingrained in our thinking to always fear government and view any handout as theft.

    So your solution won't work.

  9. Re:So its System Restore then? on Linux Mint 19 'Tara' Released (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    Hairy you're back

  10. Comes with SystemD on Linux Mint 19 'Tara' Released (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I will stick with FreeBSD. I don't want no log files or daemons that shut off without errors or logs and want things like modern NFS support that Linux can no longer do besides Duuvan

  11. Re: commercial support == subscription on Oracle Plans To Switch Businesses to Subscriptions for Java SE (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Crack addiction == drug dealer subscription. If you do not need it you do not have to buy it!

    Same thing. Oracle starts cheap and locks data to their shitty apps where business can't function without them as they loose all data. Then they raise prices to the Moon and force the CIO to outsource your job to keep paying the fees as business has a set budget

  12. They are killing It jobs by increasing costs. Businesses will respond by outsourcing to India their infrastructure to pay Oracle more money

    They now only rent Oracle cloud, they refuse VMware motioning for PeopleSoft unless we pay 400% more plus additional core licensing.
    When will this madness end? We need a erp competitor BAD

  13. Re:JavaScript is there anything it can't do? on Microsoft Program Manager Mistakenly Tweets Office 365 Will Be Rewritten in JavaScript (thurrott.com) · · Score: 1
  14. Re:JavaScript is there anything it can't do? on Microsoft Program Manager Mistakenly Tweets Office 365 Will Be Rewritten in JavaScript (thurrott.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually Microsoft uses Typescript which is converted to JavaScript with a compiler and converted again with a JIT compiler to native code. So the pitfalls of JavaScript are not encountered. I mean what could possibly go wrong?

  15. Re:No one cares on Systemd-Free Devuan 2.0 'ASCII' Officially Released (devuan.org) · · Score: 2

    Let me ask you this?

    Do you use Linux professionally as a programmer/user or as a system administrator?

    It seems the later who switched to FreeBSD and Duvuan for good reason have a complex environment with hundreds of racks and virtual machines where a reboot means things like your array or SAN don't get mounted and daemons randomly get shut down with no logs on why seem common. I could be wrong but systemD is great on a laptop for faster boots but professionally sounds like a nightmare when the CIO is breathing down your neck for uptime and your servers are being stupid

  16. Has anyone got SystemD usable? on Systemd-Free Devuan 2.0 'ASCII' Officially Released (devuan.org) · · Score: 1

    It's great that those of you have the power to choose to run Duuvan or FreeBSD at work. I don't! I use what they use or get fired and replaced by someone else who can get the job done.

    I maybe up for a promotion using Redhat/CentOS in a few months and will be judged on uptime and ability to recover from reboots. I am nervous after reading all the hate here.

    If everyone is using system D it can't be that bad right? Amazon uses it and so does every fortune 1,000 company. Is there a tutorial on how to use it reliably or is using FreeBSD or Duuvan the only non Windows option?

  17. Even then it is doubtful it can run at 5 ghz. It also is skylake technology and a 2 year old server chip. My citation is here.

  18. Re: Why are unprofitable companies worth so much? on Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The cost model is you will see github called VIsual Studio Github 365 online. Sure you can use the web interface for free like Office 365 but the real goodies requires Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code if you are poor or on Linux.

    We will see gVFS Git Virtual File System and backup utilities for larger projects and online collobaration tools added ... but they require a Visual Studio subscription to turn these on etc. But for simple things it will remain free.

    This is what happened to LinkedIN. It is still free but if you want to post your resume or make networking connections with customers or talk to HR it costs $30 a month for the pro version etc.

    Since MS submitted GVFS to Linus he can fork it and offer the same service for free with another provider if this becomes a problem.

  19. Re:Just moved everything off and deleted my accoun on Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    This place is also loaded with people who feel that they must hate the thing that is currently cool to hate. Hipsterizing your every thought is an effective way to avoid actually thinking. Of course MS is not anywhere close to pure, but not pure evil either. They will tend to act in what they perceive their best interests to be. The key is to guess how they will perceive them. Satya seems to have a reasonably evolved view on such things, so I don't expect any truly stupid shit to happen. Of course, that's not always the case with any company, small or large.

    This is Slashdot too. My name suggests anti MS hatred which was certainly true back in 2000. Many of us fled from Windows and discovered Linux and Slashdot took the mantra of the unofficial community site. So yes this is why you see such things.

    I understand this makes people uncomfortable who are old enough to remember what MS did with COM/VB/Java/and Visual Studio 6.0 and below with VC++. MS is changing now as they are fighting tooth and nail to keep Visual Studio alive today with the onslaught of Xcode, Atom.IO, Android SDK, Python, and Jetbrain tools to win developer marketshare with the young millennials.

    My hunch is this is the purpose to integrate it more nicely into visual studio and make the github website like Office 365 online is compared to the desktop version. But VS code is available for Linux and Mac and there is a Mac version of Visual Studio.So we will wait and see.

  20. Re:Will they kill off Atom? on Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually Microsoft Visual Studio Code is a fork of Atom. They are both node.JS based editors. I do not think they will as VS code vs Atom.IO are the 2000s version of the 1980s Emacs vs Vi(m) wars.

    I hope not even if I prefer MS VS Code myself.

  21. Re:Go fuck yourself, SourceForge on Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Fuck em.

    I remember getting infected from Sourceforge from downloading Perl as they used to insert malware and ads into the apps. Also they allow scammers to do things like create a Gimp project with a version name not out yet with EyeCandy adware/malware requiring a re-image.

    This was fixed a few years ago but they lost my trust. I would trust MS before SourceForge again not to mention they were all hot shit in 2001. They lost for good reason alot like Myspace lost to Facebook.

    In the technology field there is no comebacks. IBM, Lotus, Apple (macs), Borland, Netware, Real Networks, and others never recover once they go down. I think something better should replace it or Microsoft will innovate it. Microsoft from the looks of it are terrified of losing developer marketshare as well as mobile marketshare (which they admit lost with WIndows Phone). This may not be a bad thing as MS has Linux and Mac tools now like .NET core (not mono), Visual Studio Code, and has contributed to Git with Git Virtual File System and making Android developer tools on Visual Studio and supporting clang, R, and Python as well in Visual Studio Community edition. As long as they do not proprietarize this but rather use it to compete it may not be that bad.

    Until then make something better than Github if you want a replacement. This is opensource after all.

  22. Re:GitHub is NOT an 'essential' tool for coders on Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It most certainly is if you want HR or a hiring IT manager see your work.

    I see Github links already in online job ads and applicant tracking systems. The clueless 22 year old chick in HR will look at your resume/application and not see a GitHub link and immediately delete your application if it's not there. DONE

    The wonderful joys of the job hunt.

  23. Crappy integrated graphics on Intel Wants PCs To Be More Than Just 'Personal Computers' (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe they should put their money where there mouth is when it comes to performance and stop making the PC the laughing stock of console peasants due to 80% of them with integrated 15 years behind consoles and save game developers a big headache

  24. Re:Pro vs Enterprise on Windows 10 Pro Is a Dead End For the Enterprise, Gartner Says (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    There is nothing wrong with using home if you're a contractor developer while Pro has virtualization with hyper-V which is nice. Silly headline as non Enterprise is fine

  25. Re: Pro vs Enterprise on Windows 10 Pro Is a Dead End For the Enterprise, Gartner Says (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Adobe is evil and incompetent. Microsoft still sells non cloud subscriptions.

    MS offers perks for subscriptions like MS teams, MS forms, extra Excel and Outlook features add one etc. They at least throw in extras.