they're not too big. they're washed up and void of innovation. amazon keeps coming up with crazy stuff. changing direction every few years to invent the next big thing. they started as selling books. then they became the largest online retailer, and now they sell infrastructure/cloud space?
push of binary files for a gentoo based system sounds like a hand grenade. one use flag change, or one package.keywords change and the whole system can need changed. each system is really best built and maintained on its own.
sure, and you're the exception, not the norm. i've seen at least one senior dev in each shop too w/o a degree. there are 20 senior developers and 40 junior developers in said shop.
that's a completely made up statement. i have worked in lots of IT shops and the only place to find folks w/o a college degree is in the help desk/desktop support. i've came across but a handful of developers who didn't have a degree.
i've been involved in the hiring process for my companies, and the candidate's college status is a major part of the package. we expect someone to come in with "bright" eyes and to know deeply what they're talking about, not someone who can bs here and there. college only gives part of that. in addition, they need to be a go getter. the should know about code management processes, and about enterprise architectures, n-tier, etc. development patterns, etc.
Maybe you missed this part of the heading (not even TFA): "Nearly half of the software developers in the United States do not have a college degree."
That isn't just saying not a "computer science, engineering, math, or physics" degree, it's saying any college degree at all. So, presumably a lot more have college degrees with other majors.
So how exactly is almost half plus every programmer with a non-STEM degree "The Exception"? It seems to me the STEM majors are the exception.
yep. we have an internal applet application that uses a self signed certificate. it's deployed to the local file system and launched from a remote page, thus we're stuck using java less than 1.6.24 due to a security change^^^bug oracle made.
this is one of the largest buzzwords in the industry lately in concert with virtualization. i'm surprised i don't see many "articles" on./ about agile.
i'm not sure i quite understand how or why a software development methodology has become the defacto standard for the project management community as a whole. literally, overnight, project managers have become scrum masters and every project from developing a new predictive pricing solution for sales to an os upgrade project becomes managed as an "agile" project. did manifesto group envision (design/declare) a new project management methodology or good practices for developing (building) software?
your timing belt, water pump, other belt replacement is 350$? i just spent 1200 for mine. that's not chump change. most shops end up at 350 for a standard brake pad replacement every couple of years.
i think it's ridiculous that it's expected to have to apply security updates. install the software, have a firewall protecting the inside, everything should be fine. most places have seemed to adopt this policy of auto applying patches every week or so regardless of weather the updates affect their usage. potential security issue found in the usb print drivers and puts it on the patches list. what's the probability of a security violation happening due to this potential risk? it's inside the corporate network! if some guy in data entry wants to be disgruntled and hack into the print server, you've really got bigger issues. management issues. maybe he's the same guy who turns on the bathroom faucet every night before leaving to let the water run and drip the company of some money.
ff's auto update really annoys and disrupts my personal workflow. i just learned to turn it off. i only use ff for some functions that don't see to work in chrome right now, citrix is one. it's really sucks to have your computer constantly remind you that it wants to disrupt your work so you have to close your browser and restart the browser to click through some authorize dialog boxes and finally be restored to the prior state.
my understanding is that the reason they don't take the patches is because there isn't a single point of license assignment for the patch source. if RH has a large patch, then RH doesn't take on the role of copyright assignment, but rather allows each single code creator to keep that duty. warm and fuzy of them, but not very practical at all i'm guessing
i'm with you on this. I had a jeep Cherokee that insisted on locking the doors when it got over 15 mph. some way to keep car jacking down i suppose. i got so tired of being locked out of my car and not being able to find the spare key that i ended up putting one underneath the car with a magnet holder. i lock the doors on purpose when i leave a laptop or other valuable in the car and go to the grocery.
airport security is a total joke. its a facade to give the wall marts shopin' (i resemble that sometimes), suv wheeling country a warm fuzzy that the govt is doing their job of protecting the borders. i can't take a 20 oz bottle of water past the security checkpoint, but can get a metal knife when seated in first class. i'm sure there's countless examples of folks who take small razor or personal knives in their bathroom bag past security all the time... detonate a bomb on a plane? light speed is too slow. prepare for ludacris speed. i don't have numbers, but my gut tells me that 5 planes could go down per year and it'd still be safer than driving on the public highway system. would less people fly? some initially perhaps. every day on the freeway someone falls asleep and causes fatal accidents all over the country and we're not leaving our cars in the garage. still we get on the freeway and take the risk. schools all over the country are having people killed each year. i just read today one where a teacher's estranged spouse came in and attacked the teacher. the school went into lock down, the attacker ended up getting home and committing suicide in the garage later. we should all go under ground where it's REALLY save and secure.
it's not a fad in the same way that the j2ee servlet container isn't / wasn't a fad.
but... the current tools for ajax lack the common patterns of solid software development systems. mvc for one. with a traditional mvc framework (struts, turbine, whatever) it's very easy to tie an html data item to a back end data store. it's even fairly simple to tie an entire page of data (view/model) to a backend object store (also known as rdbms) and have the "business logic" or controler handle the flow of the application. with ajax, afaik, the entire process of tieing a page of data to the backend store isn't standardized and there aren't good frameworks for handling this common pattern.
and the more successfull ones were built around other businesses as an additional attraction. a local pizza/sub shope would have a game room where i could throw away a roll of quarters from the paper route income. the laundry houses also had a few video game machines. i don't recall standalone game rooms (the malls had 'um but i never frequented these places) that were successfull.
today, places are starting to incorporate wifi access as part of their extended business plan. most panera bread stores have free wifi access. so, i go to panera bread for coffee. i hear the starbucks has wifi, but you have to be part of some expensive plan to use them. i've never gone that route.
so, to answer your quetsions, no, there are no gaming houses that are successfull around here, and more creative business establishments would use something like that as an attraction to compliment their other business.
they have their own fork of a jvm. the big boys with their own jvm all have licensed sun's jvm and then tweaked it to their platform. bea purchased that blazing fast, jrockit, x86 jvm. what were the origins of that one? http://weblogic.sys-con.com/read/43022.htm that's right, it's ripped from sun's jvm.
lots of folks have considered creating a full fledged java environment. they end up taking sun's and tweaking it. a full blown jvm is just plain hard to do. the gnu folks have been trying it for eons now, and found it was just plain hard to do. all those gui classes really make things challenging.
from what i hear the certification tests are laughable.
DVDs are REALLY lousy for enterprise backup
care to elaborate? most enterprises tend to be reluctant to give out plenty of disk space. a linux machine's os would easily fit onto a dvd. if you're running postgresql or some other rdbms, it's probably on it's own partition, and backing that up would depend on the amount of data you're using.
for me, they're not good any longer for home backups. i have 200gb and a 160gb ide drives, and a 250gb sata drive. i have a separate 200gb usb drive that i backup really important stuff to (digital photos/mp3). these things don't even fit onto a dvd any longer. writeable hd-dvd's would help.
i have a dodge grand caravan that runs on E85. unfortunately, the only place around to get it is 1/2 hr away, and iirc, the fuel costs more than regular do-it-yourself, and it gets a bit less gas mileage. if i could get it on my way home or to work, maybe, but not a 1/2 hr drive. there's actually only a handfull of stations here in the entire state of ohio.
care to share a link on that one? maybe the brand? i picked up a dlink wireless combo at best buy on black friday for around 15$ iirc. the 80211.g router took a bit to setup like my old 802.11b belkin router. i have to assign static ip's to all the internal machines before they'll route outside the network. i also now have a dwl-g122 usb 802.11g card that i haven't gotten to work at all under linux.
i have a laptop with an internal card, broadcom iirc. it works fine with ndiswrapper. i have another laptop that has an external usb card made by Hawking that works nicely under the zd1211 open source drivers. prior to getting the hawking usb to work, i went through 3 pcmcia 80211.b cards that didn't work at all under linux. ndiswrapper or native.
it's all a perception of intent. maybe it's not our socialistic way, but i believe that intent has no place in law. i believe it can be considered in the punishment, but not in the law. laws should not be grey, but black and white. the slashdot effect is certainly a ddos, and one could argue that by posting this story on/. that it was intentionally denying the services of the government server. certainly a reasonable person would assume that a small government server would not survive the/. effect. i'd be surprised if any of the commercial business sites i've worked on would survive the/. effect.
the link i posted originally showed that the group in alaska had intentions to financially harm a merchant by causing extra hardship on them. certainly this would be a crime according to the intent standards? but if one person is shopping around the store and notices they left their wallet at home, and does not want to use a lay-a-way service, they just leave their cart and walk away. that causes the same hardship on the merchant,on a smaller scale, but still the same proportionally. should that be a crime? of course not, the merchant takes a risk by allowing people to freely wander the premises. i've seen many gas stations that allow only two people at a time in the store.
along that same premise, if someone runs a stop sign and hits another vehicle, killing another person, they are guilty of murder. their intent should only come into play when sentencing arrives. it's a risk you take for driving, and for missing a stop sign.
if they're not advocating breaking the law, and are not breaking the law, then they're merely protesting in a civil manner. nothing there to go to jail over. if i can organize a bunch of people to start driving the speed limit during rush hour, it's going to annoy a lot of people, and maybe if they hear the reason we're driving that way, they'll take notice. but there's nothing illegal about that.
having a group of people refresh a web page (slashdotting) not obstruction of the government. if they advocated for the people to break into the servers, that's a different story. (though while many courts would probably find them guilty for breaking into the computers, some might argue that they were merely taking advantage of the public api that was made freely available).
it's quite a shame that after 200 years we still need to fight daily for our civil liberties, and protect ourselves against the injustices caused by arrogant officers and prosecuters.
Slashdot Mirror
they're not too big. they're washed up and void of innovation. amazon keeps coming up with crazy stuff. changing direction every few years to invent the next big thing. they started as selling books. then they became the largest online retailer, and now they sell infrastructure/cloud space?
push of binary files for a gentoo based system sounds like a hand grenade. one use flag change, or one package.keywords change and the whole system can need changed. each system is really best built and maintained on its own.
"great games shipping for linux ..." where? i'd love to install some.
doesn't work. sorry.
interesting.
sure, and you're the exception, not the norm. i've seen at least one senior dev in each shop too w/o a degree. there are 20 senior developers and 40 junior developers in said shop.
that's a completely made up statement. i have worked in lots of IT shops and the only place to find folks w/o a college degree is in the help desk/desktop support. i've came across but a handful of developers who didn't have a degree.
i've been involved in the hiring process for my companies, and the candidate's college status is a major part of the package. we expect someone to come in with "bright" eyes and to know deeply what they're talking about, not someone who can bs here and there. college only gives part of that. in addition, they need to be a go getter. the should know about code management processes, and about enterprise architectures, n-tier, etc. development patterns, etc.
Maybe you missed this part of the heading (not even TFA):
"Nearly half of the software developers in the United States do not have a college degree."
That isn't just saying not a "computer science, engineering, math, or physics" degree, it's saying any college degree at all. So, presumably a lot more have college degrees with other majors.
So how exactly is almost half plus every programmer with a non-STEM degree "The Exception"? It seems to me the STEM majors are the exception.
yep. we have an internal applet application that uses a self signed certificate. it's deployed to the local file system and launched from a remote page, thus we're stuck using java less than 1.6.24 due to a security change^^^bug oracle made.
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7020285
True, same as getting a salad at McDonald's -- it's got more fat and sugar than the Big Mac.
i doubt the veracity of those statements.
the big mac has: 28g fat, 46g carbs, and 9 g sugars.
the "worst" salad has 22g fat, 24g carbs, and 7g sugars.
http://nutrition.mcdonalds.com/getnutrition/nutritionfacts.pdf
this is one of the largest buzzwords in the industry lately in concert with virtualization. i'm surprised i don't see many "articles" on ./ about agile.
i'm not sure i quite understand how or why a software development methodology has become the defacto standard for the project management community as a whole. literally, overnight, project managers have become scrum masters and every project from developing a new predictive pricing solution for sales to an os upgrade project becomes managed as an "agile" project. did manifesto group envision (design/declare) a new project management methodology or good practices for developing (building) software?
your timing belt, water pump, other belt replacement is 350$? i just spent 1200 for mine. that's not chump change. most shops end up at 350 for a standard brake pad replacement every couple of years.
what are the odds.
i think it's ridiculous that it's expected to have to apply security updates. install the software, have a firewall protecting the inside, everything should be fine. most places have seemed to adopt this policy of auto applying patches every week or so regardless of weather the updates affect their usage. potential security issue found in the usb print drivers and puts it on the patches list. what's the probability of a security violation happening due to this potential risk? it's inside the corporate network! if some guy in data entry wants to be disgruntled and hack into the print server, you've really got bigger issues. management issues. maybe he's the same guy who turns on the bathroom faucet every night before leaving to let the water run and drip the company of some money.
ff's auto update really annoys and disrupts my personal workflow. i just learned to turn it off. i only use ff for some functions that don't see to work in chrome right now, citrix is one. it's really sucks to have your computer constantly remind you that it wants to disrupt your work so you have to close your browser and restart the browser to click through some authorize dialog boxes and finally be restored to the prior state.
my understanding is that the reason they don't take the patches is because there isn't a single point of license assignment for the patch source. if RH has a large patch, then RH doesn't take on the role of copyright assignment, but rather allows each single code creator to keep that duty. warm and fuzy of them, but not very practical at all i'm guessing
http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgNo=208463
i'm with you on this. I had a jeep Cherokee that insisted on locking the doors when it got over 15 mph. some way to keep car jacking down i suppose. i got so tired of being locked out of my car and not being able to find the spare key that i ended up putting one underneath the car with a magnet holder. i lock the doors on purpose when i leave a laptop or other valuable in the car and go to the grocery.
airport security is a total joke. its a facade to give the wall marts shopin' (i resemble that sometimes), suv wheeling country a warm fuzzy that the govt is doing their job of protecting the borders. i can't take a 20 oz bottle of water past the security checkpoint, but can get a metal knife when seated in first class. i'm sure there's countless examples of folks who take small razor or personal knives in their bathroom bag past security all the time... detonate a bomb on a plane? light speed is too slow. prepare for ludacris speed. i don't have numbers, but my gut tells me that 5 planes could go down per year and it'd still be safer than driving on the public highway system. would less people fly? some initially perhaps. every day on the freeway someone falls asleep and causes fatal accidents all over the country and we're not leaving our cars in the garage. still we get on the freeway and take the risk. schools all over the country are having people killed each year. i just read today one where a teacher's estranged spouse came in and attacked the teacher. the school went into lock down, the attacker ended up getting home and committing suicide in the garage later. we should all go under ground where it's REALLY save and secure.
it's not a fad in the same way that the j2ee servlet container isn't / wasn't a fad.
but... the current tools for ajax lack the common patterns of solid software development systems. mvc for one. with a traditional mvc framework (struts, turbine, whatever) it's very easy to tie an html data item to a back end data store. it's even fairly simple to tie an entire page of data (view/model) to a backend object store (also known as rdbms) and have the "business logic" or controler handle the flow of the application. with ajax, afaik, the entire process of tieing a page of data to the backend store isn't standardized and there aren't good frameworks for handling this common pattern.
and the more successfull ones were built around other businesses as an additional attraction. a local pizza/sub shope would have a game room where i could throw away a roll of quarters from the paper route income. the laundry houses also had a few video game machines. i don't recall standalone game rooms (the malls had 'um but i never frequented these places) that were successfull.
today, places are starting to incorporate wifi access as part of their extended business plan. most panera bread stores have free wifi access. so, i go to panera bread for coffee. i hear the starbucks has wifi, but you have to be part of some expensive plan to use them. i've never gone that route.
so, to answer your quetsions, no, there are no gaming houses that are successfull around here, and more creative business establishments would use something like that as an attraction to compliment their other business.
they have their own fork of a jvm. the big boys with their own jvm all have licensed sun's jvm and then tweaked it to their platform. bea purchased that blazing fast, jrockit, x86 jvm. what were the origins of that one? http://weblogic.sys-con.com/read/43022.htm that's right, it's ripped from sun's jvm.
lots of folks have considered creating a full fledged java environment. they end up taking sun's and tweaking it. a full blown jvm is just plain hard to do. the gnu folks have been trying it for eons now, and found it was just plain hard to do. all those gui classes really make things challenging.
from what i hear the certification tests are laughable.
DVDs are REALLY lousy for enterprise backup care to elaborate? most enterprises tend to be reluctant to give out plenty of disk space. a linux machine's os would easily fit onto a dvd. if you're running postgresql or some other rdbms, it's probably on it's own partition, and backing that up would depend on the amount of data you're using. for me, they're not good any longer for home backups. i have 200gb and a 160gb ide drives, and a 250gb sata drive. i have a separate 200gb usb drive that i backup really important stuff to (digital photos/mp3). these things don't even fit onto a dvd any longer. writeable hd-dvd's would help.
just be extremely thankfull your target audience isn't "ie only".
i have a dodge grand caravan that runs on E85. unfortunately, the only place around to get it is 1/2 hr away, and iirc, the fuel costs more than regular do-it-yourself, and it gets a bit less gas mileage. if i could get it on my way home or to work, maybe, but not a 1/2 hr drive. there's actually only a handfull of stations here in the entire state of ohio.
care to share a link on that one? maybe the brand? i picked up a dlink wireless combo at best buy on black friday for around 15$ iirc. the 80211.g router took a bit to setup like my old 802.11b belkin router. i have to assign static ip's to all the internal machines before they'll route outside the network. i also now have a dwl-g122 usb 802.11g card that i haven't gotten to work at all under linux.
i have a laptop with an internal card, broadcom iirc. it works fine with ndiswrapper. i have another laptop that has an external usb card made by Hawking that works nicely under the zd1211 open source drivers. prior to getting the hawking usb to work, i went through 3 pcmcia 80211.b cards that didn't work at all under linux. ndiswrapper or native.
i'm just curious which law it does violate?
/. that it was intentionally denying the services of the government server. certainly a reasonable person would assume that a small government server would not survive the /. effect. i'd be surprised if any of the commercial business sites i've worked on would survive the /. effect.
it's all a perception of intent. maybe it's not our socialistic way, but i believe that intent has no place in law. i believe it can be considered in the punishment, but not in the law. laws should not be grey, but black and white. the slashdot effect is certainly a ddos, and one could argue that by posting this story on
the link i posted originally showed that the group in alaska had intentions to financially harm a merchant by causing extra hardship on them. certainly this would be a crime according to the intent standards? but if one person is shopping around the store and notices they left their wallet at home, and does not want to use a lay-a-way service, they just leave their cart and walk away. that causes the same hardship on the merchant,on a smaller scale, but still the same proportionally. should that be a crime? of course not, the merchant takes a risk by allowing people to freely wander the premises. i've seen many gas stations that allow only two people at a time in the store.
along that same premise, if someone runs a stop sign and hits another vehicle, killing another person, they are guilty of murder. their intent should only come into play when sentencing arrives. it's a risk you take for driving, and for missing a stop sign.
anyway...
kinda like organizing a group of people who will be filling up their cart at walmart and then abandoning it in the isle?
http://www.organicconsumers.org/btc/walmart11.cfm
if they're not advocating breaking the law, and are not breaking the law, then they're merely protesting in a civil manner. nothing there to go to jail over. if i can organize a bunch of people to start driving the speed limit during rush hour, it's going to annoy a lot of people, and maybe if they hear the reason we're driving that way, they'll take notice. but there's nothing illegal about that.
having a group of people refresh a web page (slashdotting) not obstruction of the government. if they advocated for the people to break into the servers, that's a different story. (though while many courts would probably find them guilty for breaking into the computers, some might argue that they were merely taking advantage of the public api that was made freely available).
it's quite a shame that after 200 years we still need to fight daily for our civil liberties, and protect ourselves against the injustices caused by arrogant officers and prosecuters.
kinda a minor point, but coke contains no sugar afair. it's 100% pure corn syrup these days. getting the fine sugar in soda these days is unheard of.