Yes, the case went as it should have, once it was boiled down to the fundamentals there was only one way it could go.
But let's not forget that Google did do something inherently prick-ish, they took a language and a concept that was open for everyone and popular specifically because of it's interoperability and broke the interoperability of it in their own clone.
What I'm getting at is: when a multi-billion dollar company can take something you made available with the best of intentions (don't care if Sun's intentions were good or not, the open-sourcing of Java was) and shit all over you and the ecosystem that it aids, everyone loses.
It's possible that the next time something like Java is being considered as an open-source target that the owners will carefully plan and consider how they can make it available without the same thing happening. But it's far, far more likely that they just won't bother at all.
Google's win here is a hollow one; Oracle's win would have been outright horrible, but this is only the lesser of two evils.
1) They're better with security than most of the old folks you'll hire. Simple reason: They've been breaking security for fun (you know, the stuff the old guys set up)
You're quite right on that front, it even goes as deep (or shallow) as the degree.
Most places will "require" a CS degree, when what they actually want is a college diploma. CS doesn't teach you how to program, at least none of the CS grads I've met recently have any real idea how to (excepting the ones who have learned properly on their own).
Based on your comment I suspect your exact problem is age. Allow me to elaborate:
My father graduated as an electrical engineer, because at the time computer science/software engineering/the personal computer did not exist. He knew how shit worked and as a result aside form not being up to date with the latest tech he's still a very good programmer.
Many recent grads are absolutely fucking useless on all counts. They know nothing of memory management, nothing outside of Java and stupidly oversimplified helper functions, and worst of all don't even know the entirety of Java (if they did, they wouldn't be too far off).
Some colleges are actually teaching useful IT skills, but when companies ask for anything IT related they usually ask for a computer science degree. In return, they get people who don't know anything and thus don't deserve much money.
The people who are qualified are employed and making good money, those who aren't are the ones that metaphorically (hopefully) speaking can't tie their shoes.
Sorry but any mid-20 year old these days has those qualifications. Microsoft provides server software for free to university students, and anyone who hasn't managed LAMP you can only hope on something more useful than RedHat simply isn't interested in IT or programming.
Put simply: Yes, $50k is perfectly reasonable for that job
How many people do you know that are actually good at what they do, and are unemployed?
Because the situation you describe would only result (if they changed the wage) in your company now missing a person.
Unless there is a wealth of unemployed talented tech people around (hint: there isn't) then it isn't a wage issue. They aren't managing to poach employees from other companies due to lower wages, but that isn't why they can't find someone talented full stop.
This is something people don't understand. It's not just in the U.S.
There are lots of companies hiring on an ongoing basis with negotiable salaries and only one requirement: You have to not suck ass.
The problem is that a lot of the people you see coming in thinking they're hot stuff get stumped by the most basic questions in the interview process. I'm referring to programming "challenges" for programming positions, not the kind of bullshit Google is famous for.
Before anyone jumps down my throat I left out the word "unexpected"
Yes, I realize there are many things that you could expose yourself to (even for valid reasons!) that would top this thing out, I am referring to unexpected sources.
I'm curious about the failure mode at the top end...
I'm not saying it matters a lot, the likelihood of being exposed to an instant onset source of 10 or more is so close to 0 as to be effectively 0. It would however be extremely bad form if the sensor simply reports 0 (either due to software limit checking or the sensors failure mode alone) when the dosage is in fact 15microsieverts.
Don't be silly, commercial airflight and space flight have nothing in common.
Would I board a jet knowing that there was a 25% chance of death? fuck no.
Would I board a manned mission that was worthwhile (ie. moon base, mars base) knowing there was a 25% change of death? fuck yes, you'd have to have the odds upwards of 75% before I'd even bat an eye. The potential benefit to humanity as a whole is well worth the sacrifice.
FYI I'm 6"4, in excellent physical shape with no medical conditions that would preclude space flight and I'm lots smart enough to learn any skills needed as long as they're not flat out acrobatics or some such.
- spontaneous RNA coding achieved in a lab from a chemical sludge - Manual DNA sequencing to produce custom encodings - Evolution demonstrated both historically and ongoing
Anyone that still thinks that life could not have spontaneously evolved on Earth is simply denying the evidence. There are a few gaps, and they'll be filled in years to come; no one with any critical thinking skills actually believes it to be outright false though.
There will be religion as long as there is stupid, and there's just too great a supply of it for me to imagine an end.
God (with a capital G) is a being who maintains an ongoing presence and manipulation without any evidence of it in the universe. That is fundamentally at odds with science.
Spiritualism is not at odds with science, that someone wants to believe that the invisible spaghetti monster created the universe according to a set of rules for fun is no different than a belief that "something" caused the big bang and based on electron diffraction and the blackout effect we can never know what it was.
People who believe in God are a problem, people who believe in god(s) are not.
Actually what he says is exactly true, the sensor is not triggered except by a gunshot (or presumably an equally loud and abrupt noise).
He didn't say that no audio is being recorded or listened for what-so-ever until a gunshot goes off (since that would be a self-invalidating statement)
Yeah, if you're right and they get the carriers on board it could be a pretty big boon for facebook.
I guess after the... what was that microsoft phone called... the Kin? I don't really see that sort of phone as a viable strategy; I do recall though that most of it's death was due to terrible plans more than the phone itself.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and put two possible scenarios out there:
1) Facebook makes a phone, and millions of Facebook drones buy it for no reason other than the fact that it's "the Facebook phone"
2) Facebook makes a phone, and millions of Facebook drones buy it because it's the Facebook phone, another few thousand buy it because it's legitimately better hardware.
Now sure, I'm oversimplifying here... but I really feel like they would be just as far ahead to have Samsung rebrand an S III with their logo on it and call it a day. So to that end, I have my doubts about them working on it.
(also, what the hell is with the autocorrection of facebook to Facebook...)
You need about 2 million dollars in the bank to retire in reasonable comfort forevermore (ie. live off the interest).
I've been working since I was 18 (actually working, not paper route bullshit). I'll be working for another 10 to retire mid-30s
1.6/10 is 160,000 banked each year if you assume current savings don't grow. In reality I need to put away less than "another" million to meet the target which shouldn't be any issue at all.
Aside from the fact that almost everything you said is wrong and silly, sure!
1) I work the same hours and do effectively the same thing I did 5 years ago, but get paid triple. This is almost entirely due to my being able to move into companies that are better run and more profitable.
2) I like my job, I work 35 hours a week and I look forward to each one of them. When I do put in extra time (which is actively discouraged as it leads to burn out) it's on a problem that I find interesting and want to work on.
3) Just because you think that retiring by 55 is "success" doesn't mean I think that's a lousy target. I plan to be in a soft-retirement (i.e. absolutely no need to work, probably will for fun) by mid-late thirties. So far I'm on track.
They have been rolling it out for 5 years. As I said, the rollout is happening now and it is going quite smoothly.
What you're saying is that because a replacement server has a few setup hiccups before ever going into service as a production machine, that the transition went badly. There's always glitches in any transition behind the scenes, the simple fact is that the rollout is going quite nicely.
LG is, has been, and likely will be for the foreseeable future, making the iPhone 4 display.
During the bidding process, Samsung beat them to the table with a display that met the quality requirements but don't for a minute think that means LG can't meet them.
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Yes, the case went as it should have, once it was boiled down to the fundamentals there was only one way it could go.
But let's not forget that Google did do something inherently prick-ish, they took a language and a concept that was open for everyone and popular specifically because of it's interoperability and broke the interoperability of it in their own clone.
What I'm getting at is: when a multi-billion dollar company can take something you made available with the best of intentions (don't care if Sun's intentions were good or not, the open-sourcing of Java was) and shit all over you and the ecosystem that it aids, everyone loses.
It's possible that the next time something like Java is being considered as an open-source target that the owners will carefully plan and consider how they can make it available without the same thing happening. But it's far, far more likely that they just won't bother at all.
Google's win here is a hollow one; Oracle's win would have been outright horrible, but this is only the lesser of two evils.
I've been running 4 world-facing servers (that's separate VMs/machines, not services) for about 8 years now and I'm 26.
Get your head out of your ass, and realize that the new generation grew up with this stuff.
You'll find two things:
1) They're better with security than most of the old folks you'll hire. Simple reason: They've been breaking security for fun (you know, the stuff the old guys set up)
2) You can oddly enough train them!
You're quite right on that front, it even goes as deep (or shallow) as the degree.
Most places will "require" a CS degree, when what they actually want is a college diploma. CS doesn't teach you how to program, at least none of the CS grads I've met recently have any real idea how to (excepting the ones who have learned properly on their own).
Based on your comment I suspect your exact problem is age. Allow me to elaborate:
My father graduated as an electrical engineer, because at the time computer science/software engineering/the personal computer did not exist. He knew how shit worked and as a result aside form not being up to date with the latest tech he's still a very good programmer.
Many recent grads are absolutely fucking useless on all counts. They know nothing of memory management, nothing outside of Java and stupidly oversimplified helper functions, and worst of all don't even know the entirety of Java (if they did, they wouldn't be too far off).
Some colleges are actually teaching useful IT skills, but when companies ask for anything IT related they usually ask for a computer science degree. In return, they get people who don't know anything and thus don't deserve much money.
The people who are qualified are employed and making good money, those who aren't are the ones that metaphorically (hopefully) speaking can't tie their shoes.
Sorry but any mid-20 year old these days has those qualifications. Microsoft provides server software for free to university students, and anyone who hasn't managed LAMP you can only hope on something more useful than RedHat simply isn't interested in IT or programming.
Put simply: Yes, $50k is perfectly reasonable for that job
How many people do you know that are actually good at what they do, and are unemployed?
Because the situation you describe would only result (if they changed the wage) in your company now missing a person.
Unless there is a wealth of unemployed talented tech people around (hint: there isn't) then it isn't a wage issue. They aren't managing to poach employees from other companies due to lower wages, but that isn't why they can't find someone talented full stop.
This is something people don't understand. It's not just in the U.S.
There are lots of companies hiring on an ongoing basis with negotiable salaries and only one requirement: You have to not suck ass.
The problem is that a lot of the people you see coming in thinking they're hot stuff get stumped by the most basic questions in the interview process. I'm referring to programming "challenges" for programming positions, not the kind of bullshit Google is famous for.
Before anyone jumps down my throat I left out the word "unexpected"
Yes, I realize there are many things that you could expose yourself to (even for valid reasons!) that would top this thing out, I am referring to unexpected sources.
I'm curious about the failure mode at the top end...
I'm not saying it matters a lot, the likelihood of being exposed to an instant onset source of 10 or more is so close to 0 as to be effectively 0. It would however be extremely bad form if the sensor simply reports 0 (either due to software limit checking or the sensors failure mode alone) when the dosage is in fact 15microsieverts.
Don't forget those of us who don't have, and don't plan to have kids.
Don't be silly, commercial airflight and space flight have nothing in common.
Would I board a jet knowing that there was a 25% chance of death? fuck no.
Would I board a manned mission that was worthwhile (ie. moon base, mars base) knowing there was a 25% change of death? fuck yes, you'd have to have the odds upwards of 75% before I'd even bat an eye. The potential benefit to humanity as a whole is well worth the sacrifice.
FYI I'm 6"4, in excellent physical shape with no medical conditions that would preclude space flight and I'm lots smart enough to learn any skills needed as long as they're not flat out acrobatics or some such.
In case you didn't already know, destroy is also used in America in the exact same way. There was no excuse for them being so stupid.
Yes, I also now believe you're an idiot.
The fact that you can't command me to believe something reinforces the ability to choose beliefs.
Nope, let's take stock:
- spontaneous RNA coding achieved in a lab from a chemical sludge
- Manual DNA sequencing to produce custom encodings
- Evolution demonstrated both historically and ongoing
Anyone that still thinks that life could not have spontaneously evolved on Earth is simply denying the evidence. There are a few gaps, and they'll be filled in years to come; no one with any critical thinking skills actually believes it to be outright false though.
There will be religion as long as there is stupid, and there's just too great a supply of it for me to imagine an end.
They do, in fact, have to be mortal enemies.
God (with a capital G) is a being who maintains an ongoing presence and manipulation without any evidence of it in the universe. That is fundamentally at odds with science.
Spiritualism is not at odds with science, that someone wants to believe that the invisible spaghetti monster created the universe according to a set of rules for fun is no different than a belief that "something" caused the big bang and based on electron diffraction and the blackout effect we can never know what it was.
People who believe in God are a problem, people who believe in god(s) are not.
I assure you that beliefs are entirely opt-in.
Look no further than the studies that show exercising critical thinking skills reduces the belief in ridiculous things like god.
Actually what he says is exactly true, the sensor is not triggered except by a gunshot (or presumably an equally loud and abrupt noise).
He didn't say that no audio is being recorded or listened for what-so-ever until a gunshot goes off (since that would be a self-invalidating statement)
Yeah, if you're right and they get the carriers on board it could be a pretty big boon for facebook.
I guess after the... what was that microsoft phone called... the Kin? I don't really see that sort of phone as a viable strategy; I do recall though that most of it's death was due to terrible plans more than the phone itself.
Do they need to work on it at all?
I'm going to go out on a limb here and put two possible scenarios out there:
1) Facebook makes a phone, and millions of Facebook drones buy it for no reason other than the fact that it's "the Facebook phone"
2) Facebook makes a phone, and millions of Facebook drones buy it because it's the Facebook phone, another few thousand buy it because it's legitimately better hardware.
Now sure, I'm oversimplifying here... but I really feel like they would be just as far ahead to have Samsung rebrand an S III with their logo on it and call it a day. So to that end, I have my doubts about them working on it.
(also, what the hell is with the autocorrection of facebook to Facebook...)
Well first of all you're way off.
You need about 2 million dollars in the bank to retire in reasonable comfort forevermore (ie. live off the interest).
I've been working since I was 18 (actually working, not paper route bullshit). I'll be working for another 10 to retire mid-30s
1.6/10 is 160,000 banked each year if you assume current savings don't grow. In reality I need to put away less than "another" million to meet the target which shouldn't be any issue at all.
So glad I'm not the only one that recognized this. I read the entire thing as "woman wants more women in industry so they can collude on prices"
Aside from the fact that almost everything you said is wrong and silly, sure!
1)
I work the same hours and do effectively the same thing I did 5 years ago, but get paid triple. This is almost entirely due to my being able to move into companies that are better run and more profitable.
2)
I like my job, I work 35 hours a week and I look forward to each one of them. When I do put in extra time (which is actively discouraged as it leads to burn out) it's on a problem that I find interesting and want to work on.
3)
Just because you think that retiring by 55 is "success" doesn't mean I think that's a lousy target. I plan to be in a soft-retirement (i.e. absolutely no need to work, probably will for fun) by mid-late thirties. So far I'm on track.
But you're contradicting yourself.
They have been rolling it out for 5 years. As I said, the rollout is happening now and it is going quite smoothly.
What you're saying is that because a replacement server has a few setup hiccups before ever going into service as a production machine, that the transition went badly. There's always glitches in any transition behind the scenes, the simple fact is that the rollout is going quite nicely.
LG is, has been, and likely will be for the foreseeable future, making the iPhone 4 display.
During the bidding process, Samsung beat them to the table with a display that met the quality requirements but don't for a minute think that means LG can't meet them.