I didn't say relocate for a job. I said choose a place that is a convenient commute to where the jobs are. For instance, I wouldn't live anywhere that I have to spend 30 minutes just to get to the interstate or on the opposite side of town than the tech center.
So if you have chosen to be a developer, why wouldn't you live somewhere within an acceptable (to you) commuting distance to where the jobs are? You might end up with less square footage for your money but you aren't wasting hours of your day in traffic. I know of a few metropolitan areas where there are plenty of jobs and reasonable home prices.
That's easy - leave off irrelevant work history. If I'm applying for a job as a "full stack.Net developer", I leave off early jobs where I did C++ in DOS. I keep my resume to one page. In the interview I only discuss modern relevant technology. I don't discuss I started programming in 1986 in 65C02 assembly language on an Apple//e.
I'm in my early 40s and in my last set of interviews, I would work into the conversation that I'm married, have kids, and believe in a work/family balance. I wanted to be "discriminated" against. I didn't want to work for a company that expected me to work consistently more than 45 hours a week. The market is way too good for qualified, experienced developers to just accept anything. I am sure I was declined one job offer because of "discrimination". I was offered another job that was a much better fit the next week.
I don't see any reason that a qualified person in IT should have trouble finding a job or at least go into consulting. There are so many openings right now, I would classify the unemployment rate to be negative in tech.
This might bet the point at which Apple without Jobs falters.
Well a few responses....
1. If you look at Apple's stock price, revenue, and profit since Cook took over, Apple clearly hasn't "faltered".
2. Even before the iPhone came out, the phone market was clearly the largest consumer tech category. In other words, there is no conceivable electronic market that is going to be larger than the phone market in the foreseeable future. The watch couldn't hope to be as larger as the iPhone market.
3. The watch doesn't need third party apps to be useful. For instance, I am thinking about buying one just to replace my old Garmin GPS watch when I'm running -- yes I know it doesn't have GPS built in. When I run I have my phone on an armband anyway and my watch. I tried using the Nike+ GPS and it works well enough, but trying to look at the phone screen on an armband is not nearly as convenient as looking on my arm.
Apple had their old creaky OS, had just failed doing a deal with another OS company and then just jumped into BSD.
Huh?
Around '96 Apple was internally working on a new OS that was a failure and bought NeXT started by this guy you may have heard of named Steve Jobs. They then ported NeXT to PPC, replaced Display Postscript with Quartz, added a few classic MacOS technologies and the Carbon API to make developing apps compatible with OS X and classic Mac OS.
OS X. Is based on the internally written NuKernal with a BSD user level and the Next API's.
Of course it is a slower process to achieve interoperability between vendors, that doesn't mean we should abandon open standards except as a baseline to create your own proprietary extensions otherwise we end up back in the IE6/Netscape days.
Yes because it's much better to wait 10 years for a standard to finalize like in the case of HTML5 and web designers still have to go to a site like caniuseit to see what features they can use with which browsers.
Because anytime that you have an "open standard" that you don't control its always a slower process and not optimized for your needs. It's the same reason that Google forked WebKit.
If you want to use an open graphic standard on iOS/MacOS, you're free to use OpenGL.
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Not necessarily. Apple provided a security patch for IOS 6 for the 3GS after iOS 7 came out to fix the goth fail bug.
AFAIK, you can still release software that supports iOS 4.1.2 or at least iOS 5
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Imagine that, a phone introduced in September 2011, still getting updates....
Metal: Not a new Graphics Engine. It's been on iOS for two years.
iPad:"Android" hasn't had split screen. "for a while" Samsung has had split screen for a while but with little third party support. The iPad split screen implementation should work for all apps that were updated to support iOS 8's screen size classes.
CarPlay: You have to buy a new radio if you don't already have a car that supports it. It's been out for a year.
"Being that this cost more than Netflix or Hulu and you get less data traffic, it doesn't make sense."
Yes because Hulu and Netflix both have licenses for all of the most popular movies and tv shows. Like Apple Music will probably have licenses for the most popular music.
There are two types of location aware apps for iOS. One type just asks the OS to notify it when the location changes. The other is constantly running and tracking location. For instance, something like Nike+ GPS is constantly running and tracking your location. You can actually tell which is which by the icon on the status bar - it will be either solid or outlined.
As far as sound, how could the stream just be "passed off to the OS" in the case of something like the OverCast that is constantly processing the sound to remove silence and doing other processing? Audio processing apps that support AudioBus also wouldn't be possible.
Another example is the WireCast app that can act as a remote camera even in the background.
Because every printer mfgr has a complex driver system that doesn't work the same as normal driver installation.
You can't simply install the driver at all. You can't choose "Have Disk" and install from INF at all. The only way to add a printer is during the "plug the printer in now" step of a massive installation program.
This is why I love AirPrint on MacOS/iOS. I have two printers that were originally bought for my Windows PCs (a $40 Epson inkjet and a $200 HP color laser), but I did make sure they supported AirPrint for my iOS devices. I had to download and install drivers for all five of our Windows PCs.
I brought a MacBook Pro home from work and it automatically found and worked with both of my printers with no drivers needed.
In my experience, the reason for this is that conservatives push out a lot of hate in their postings and liberals don't. No one wants to read a lot of nasty name-calling.
I keep one right wing nutjob in my feed just for a laugh. He is one of those that believe Chuck Norris and Rick Perry along with the national guard are going to protect Texas from a Federal government takeover from the Isis-loving-Obama.
You made the car analogy. It took a programmer or group of programmers time to write the program. Are you willing to use your time for free and come over to cut my grass?
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I didn't say relocate for a job. I said choose a place that is a convenient commute to where the jobs are. For instance, I wouldn't live anywhere that I have to spend 30 minutes just to get to the interstate or on the opposite side of town than the tech center.
So if you have chosen to be a developer, why wouldn't you live somewhere within an acceptable (to you) commuting distance to where the jobs are? You might end up with less square footage for your money but you aren't wasting hours of your day in traffic. I know of a few metropolitan areas where there are plenty of jobs and reasonable home prices.
That's easy - leave off irrelevant work history. If I'm applying for a job as a "full stack .Net developer", I leave off early jobs where I did C++ in DOS. I keep my resume to one page. In the interview I only discuss modern relevant technology. I don't discuss I started programming in 1986 in 65C02 assembly language on an Apple //e.
I'm in my early 40s and in my last set of interviews, I would work into the conversation that I'm married, have kids, and believe in a work/family balance. I wanted to be "discriminated" against. I didn't want to work for a company that expected me to work consistently more than 45 hours a week. The market is way too good for qualified, experienced developers to just accept anything. I am sure I was declined one job offer because of "discrimination". I was offered another job that was a much better fit the next week.
I don't see any reason that a qualified person in IT should have trouble finding a job or at least go into consulting. There are so many openings right now, I would classify the unemployment rate to be negative in tech.
Well a few responses....
1. If you look at Apple's stock price, revenue, and profit since Cook took over, Apple clearly hasn't "faltered".
2. Even before the iPhone came out, the phone market was clearly the largest consumer tech category. In other words, there is no conceivable electronic market that is going to be larger than the phone market in the foreseeable future. The watch couldn't hope to be as larger as the iPhone market.
3. The watch doesn't need third party apps to be useful. For instance, I am thinking about buying one just to replace my old Garmin GPS watch when I'm running -- yes I know it doesn't have GPS built in. When I run I have my phone on an armband anyway and my watch. I tried using the Nike+ GPS and it works well enough, but trying to look at the phone screen on an armband is not nearly as convenient as looking on my arm.
For another take:
http://sixcolors.com/link/2015...
Yes if only the guy who was in charge of logistics and procuring hardware when Jobs died hadn't disappeared. I wonder what happen to that guy.....
Huh?
Around '96 Apple was internally working on a new OS that was a failure and bought NeXT started by this guy you may have heard of named Steve Jobs. They then ported NeXT to PPC, replaced Display Postscript with Quartz, added a few classic MacOS technologies and the Carbon API to make developing apps compatible with OS X and classic Mac OS.
OS X. Is based on the internally written NuKernal with a BSD user level and the Next API's.
So should Apple wait 10 years to make improvements to their OS while waiting on standards to catch up?
Yes because it's much better to wait 10 years for a standard to finalize like in the case of HTML5 and web designers still have to go to a site like caniuseit to see what features they can use with which browsers.
Because anytime that you have an "open standard" that you don't control its always a slower process and not optimized for your needs. It's the same reason that Google forked WebKit.
If you want to use an open graphic standard on iOS/MacOS, you're free to use OpenGL.
Not necessarily. Apple provided a security patch for IOS 6 for the 3GS after iOS 7 came out to fix the goth fail bug.
AFAIK, you can still release software that supports iOS 4.1.2 or at least iOS 5
Imagine that, a phone introduced in September 2011, still getting updates....
"legally? pandora, spotify and many many others. then there are torrents"
Neither Pandora nor the free tier of Spotify allow you to create your own playlist of songs.
Metal: Not a new Graphics Engine. It's been on iOS for two years.
iPad:"Android" hasn't had split screen. "for a while" Samsung has had split screen for a while but with little third party support. The iPad split screen implementation should work for all apps that were updated to support iOS 8's screen size classes.
CarPlay: You have to buy a new radio if you don't already have a car that supports it. It's been out for a year.
"Being that this cost more than Netflix or Hulu and you get less data traffic, it doesn't make sense."
Yes because Hulu and Netflix both have licenses for all of the most popular movies and tv shows. Like Apple Music will probably have licenses for the most popular music.
There are two types of location aware apps for iOS. One type just asks the OS to notify it when the location changes. The other is constantly running and tracking location. For instance, something like Nike+ GPS is constantly running and tracking your location. You can actually tell which is which by the icon on the status bar - it will be either solid or outlined.
As far as sound, how could the stream just be "passed off to the OS" in the case of something like the OverCast that is constantly processing the sound to remove silence and doing other processing? Audio processing apps that support AudioBus also wouldn't be possible.
Another example is the WireCast app that can act as a remote camera even in the background.
What is a "development server"?
He also said something that was patently untrue....
Hint: How would music, gps, VOiP, etc. apps work if they weren't constantly running in the background?
So explain which use case does iOS not allow with its multitasking abilities?
This is why I love AirPrint on MacOS/iOS. I have two printers that were originally bought for my Windows PCs (a $40 Epson inkjet and a $200 HP color laser), but I did make sure they supported AirPrint for my iOS devices. I had to download and install drivers for all five of our Windows PCs.
I brought a MacBook Pro home from work and it automatically found and worked with both of my printers with no drivers needed.
I keep one right wing nutjob in my feed just for a laugh. He is one of those that believe Chuck Norris and Rick Perry along with the national guard are going to protect Texas from a Federal government takeover from the Isis-loving-Obama.
No this is not a joke:
http://www.salon.com/2015/05/0...
And that Sandy Hook was a conspiracy for the government to take guns away....
http://21stcenturywire.com/201...
Thank you for sharing your anecdotal insight. The internet owes you a debt of gratitude.
You made the car analogy. It took a programmer or group of programmers time to write the program. Are you willing to use your time for free and come over to cut my grass?
Going back to your car analogy....
Can a person randomly decide how much they want to pay for a car and just walk out with the car based on the price they decide to pay?
Still didn't answer the question. How should an independent developer get paid and who decides?
Why not?
The Moto E is $120 without a contract and I'm sure it runs better than an iPod Touch that has the same internals as the 2011 iPhone 4s.