I agree with this whole heartedly. I left university back in 2008 just when the job market started heading south. I stuck at my first job for 3 years, and while the workload increased significantly over that period but the company refused to promote me. I left in early 2011 as the economy started picking up, for a job that paid me 60% more.
Moral of the story, employers do not value loyalty. They see that as a weakness to be exploited. The best way to look after yourself and ensure you're earning what you're worth is to move jobs.
What you lose in zoom range on the LX5, you gain in aperture. The TZ20's aperture at the wide end is f/3.3 while the LX5's aperture is f/2.0. This is 1.5 stops, which is nothing to sneeze at. A wider aperture allows more light to hit the sensor and gives you a shallower depth of field which leads to better subject isolation. You also get a flash hotshoe, which is useful if you ever want to experiment with off-camera flash photography.
If you're interested in photography, the TZ20 is a very poor choice compared to the LX5.
We don't understand the occupy movement because the occupy movement don't even understand themselves. It's got nothing to do with being smug about how recession proof IT is, because anybody with two functioning brain cells will tell you that it's not.
That's an apples to orangutans comparison. A better one would be, the company needs to hire someone who has built hinges using a lathe, why would they hire someone who's only experience is in designing and building lathes and teaching others to do so?
The correct answer would be, they'd be fools not to hire that person.
They'd be fools to hire that person.
Let's think about this for a minute. Do you see any downside to hiring somebody who is clearly overqualified for the job?
How soon before this person finds the work uninteresting, gets bored, and then starts looking for a job elsewhere? If this person is over-qualified, that implies that they can (easily?) get a job that is more intellectually stimulating and better paying elsewhere. It's in everyone's interest that this over-qualified individual doesn't get hired.
I remember seeing ads for jobs where 5+ years of C# experience was essential. This was back in 2003, and I don't think that even Anders Helsberg the creator of C# would have qualified.
The US needs a nuclear weapons program. We need border patrol. We need specialized regulatory and enforcement agencies like FCC. Pretending that all these programs are optional to anybody, even the most retrograde conservative, is just empty posturing and shameless pandering to ideologically driven morons.
As a reformed libertarian, I whole heartedly concur.
You could say, he (God/Jesus) were elected to their currently held positions in A.D. 325 at the First Council of Nicaea, where Jesus got promoted from just being a human to exclusive God privileges by a, albeit tight, vote by those present at the council. By extension, his now official Father (sorry, Joseph!) got simultaneously a vote of confidence (of existence and supreme rule).
You need to stop reading the Da Vinci code (and maybe Holy Blood, Holy Grail) and get a proper understanding of history.
Jesus was not deified as a result of the council's vote. The whole reason for the council was because the church needed a coherent response to the rise of Arianism, which claimed that Jesus was a specially created being, who while being separate from creation was still a created being and thus lower than God. This was controversial because it went against what the majority of Christians at the time believed.
As for the result of the vote, I find it hilarious that people mindlessly parrot the line that the results were "tight" and yet never provide solid numbers. Do you know why? Out of the approximate 300 attendees to the conference, 2 voted for the Arian position. 2 out of 300. That's less than 1%. If that is a tight vote, I'd be curious to know what you consider an overwhelming victory.
Django advocates loose coupling between it's modules. You can easily use Django's ORM in a non-Django app, or use a different ORM (e.g. SQLAlchemy) in a Django app. Having said that, I've found that the Django ORM is nice and intuitive if you're a programmer (like me!) and really want to avoid working with SQL directly while SQLAlchemy caters to people who are more comfortable with SQL.
If you understand your comment and know how to write perl, you don't really need to understand how a cryptic line does something - it's faster to rewrite it from scratch to do what you want.
That assumes that the comment correctly describes what the code intends to do. This is a very big assumption to make and I've worked on numerous projects where the comments were significantly different from what the code did. Looking through the change logs, this situation always arises because someone updated the code but didn't bother to update the comments.
This brings me to my point: The code doesn't lie.
If you can't understand a piece of code, you're going to be working off assumptions. Refactoring code based on assumptions is dangerous unless you have very rigorous unit tests. I've found that the level of code obfuscation is negatively correlated with the quality (or even presence!) of unit tests. YMMV.
*mutes his bullshit detector*
Sorry I couldn't hear you above the din. Can you point me to a coherent mission statement/objective of these protesters? Can you also point me to viable solutions / steps that will help achieve these objectives?
Thanks.
Your anecdote perfectly illustrates why we need to run AV scanners on our machines. It doesn't matter how careful we are, we are not immune to drive by attacks.
At this point, the typical slashdot response is "Run AdBlock/NoScript". This doesn't always guarantee that you'll be safe because what happens if the "safe" site you regularly visit has been compromised and the script you're about to allow is no longer safe?
AV packages add another layer of defense, and this is a good thing.
While my political views lean towards the right, I think you're taking the "Government should not fund private enterprises" thing a tad too far.
Capitalism is only interested in maximising short term profits. You can argue whether that's the "correct" interpretation of the tenets of capitalism, but that's how it works out in reality. Private investors are keen on ROI and the quicker and larger the ROI, the more interested they will be. In my experience, the majority of these investors are only interested in products that are on the cusp of being market viable. They basically want to come in, pump some money into marketing, tweak the product a bit and then reap a windfall.
A project like ReactOS that has been underway for years, which will still require significant time and capital investment before being commercially viable will not get the interest of any private investor. However, it's pretty hard to deny that an alternative operating system that's fully compatible with Windows applications will not be commercially viable. Additionally, if it challenges Microsoft's monopoly on PC operating systems and eventually provides a cheaper computing experience for all, you could argue that the government has a moral obligation to invest.
The big issue with failures like Solyndra is that there was no transparency and no accountability. That says a lot more about the Obama administration than it does about government involvement in backing startups.
You are deluded if you think an ARM processor is going to come remotely close to touching a Core i7 in performance.
Does it have to? How many applications actually need top of the line Core i7 performance? The majority of applications will be able to get by with significantly less.
However, I agree that the GP is deluded to think that Apple will replace the Intel processors in the product line up with ARM chips any time soon.
I agree that it's just too much hassle to go through to secure a standard laptop. It's still an interesting experiment and it neatly lays out the attack vectors and potential counters.
You're obviously not a developer, or you're working in a place that's so dull it might be time to change jobs.
As a developer, I absolutely dig this (and there's a 1/3 chance of me breaking the build in my team)!
If you are free to use social media to organise riots, I am just as free to use the same social media to identify the idiots who rampaged through my neighbourhood.
Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences.
This keeps getting brought up, but I've written commercial C++ code for years and I've not had memory management issues. There have been problems with legacy 3rd party libraries, but if you religiously apply the RAII ( https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/RAII ) idiom you will usually be fine.
I can't remember the last time I worked with a raw pointer and had to new/delete my own memory.
[snip] Imagine trying to write something like Gimp, or Open Office [snip]
For the majority of users out there, Picnik and Google Docs work just fine. I personally prefer Google Docs over MS Office or Open Office, and if it weren't for the fact that I am a serious amateur photographer I'd be perfectly happy with Picnik. As it is, I need Lightroom.
I think the trend will be that native apps will be relegated to niche applications that cater to power users. The average user will be easily served by web apps.
I'm not blaming them (well ok , a bit , you'd think they'd be curious about what went before in their chosen profession) , its generally the fault of the courses they've been on.
If they're not interested in pushing the boundaries of their knowledge and abilities, they're going to get left behind by their peers who do. The only problem I have is that these are the type of developers who seem to get fast tracked into management...
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I agree with this whole heartedly. I left university back in 2008 just when the job market started heading south. I stuck at my first job for 3 years, and while the workload increased significantly over that period but the company refused to promote me. I left in early 2011 as the economy started picking up, for a job that paid me 60% more. Moral of the story, employers do not value loyalty. They see that as a weakness to be exploited. The best way to look after yourself and ensure you're earning what you're worth is to move jobs.
Meetings, reviews, more meetings, and then you wonder where the time for coding went.
What you lose in zoom range on the LX5, you gain in aperture. The TZ20's aperture at the wide end is f/3.3 while the LX5's aperture is f/2.0. This is 1.5 stops, which is nothing to sneeze at. A wider aperture allows more light to hit the sensor and gives you a shallower depth of field which leads to better subject isolation. You also get a flash hotshoe, which is useful if you ever want to experiment with off-camera flash photography. If you're interested in photography, the TZ20 is a very poor choice compared to the LX5.
We don't understand the occupy movement because the occupy movement don't even understand themselves. It's got nothing to do with being smug about how recession proof IT is, because anybody with two functioning brain cells will tell you that it's not.
That's an apples to orangutans comparison. A better one would be, the company needs to hire someone who has built hinges using a lathe, why would they hire someone who's only experience is in designing and building lathes and teaching others to do so?
The correct answer would be, they'd be fools not to hire that person.
They'd be fools to hire that person.
Let's think about this for a minute. Do you see any downside to hiring somebody who is clearly overqualified for the job?
How soon before this person finds the work uninteresting, gets bored, and then starts looking for a job elsewhere? If this person is over-qualified, that implies that they can (easily?) get a job that is more intellectually stimulating and better paying elsewhere. It's in everyone's interest that this over-qualified individual doesn't get hired.
You'd be amazed how lazy corporate entities can be. Even "security companies"...
Having worked at a security company, this is oh so true and I'd mod you up if I could.
I remember seeing ads for jobs where 5+ years of C# experience was essential. This was back in 2003, and I don't think that even Anders Helsberg the creator of C# would have qualified.
The US needs a nuclear weapons program. We need border patrol. We need specialized regulatory and enforcement agencies like FCC. Pretending that all these programs are optional to anybody, even the most retrograde conservative, is just empty posturing and shameless pandering to ideologically driven morons.
As a reformed libertarian, I whole heartedly concur.
> When was the last time God ran for election?
You could say, he (God/Jesus) were elected to their currently held positions in A.D. 325 at the First Council of Nicaea, where Jesus got promoted from just being a human to exclusive God privileges by a, albeit tight, vote by those present at the council. By extension, his now official Father (sorry, Joseph!) got simultaneously a vote of confidence (of existence and supreme rule).
You need to stop reading the Da Vinci code (and maybe Holy Blood, Holy Grail) and get a proper understanding of history.
Jesus was not deified as a result of the council's vote. The whole reason for the council was because the church needed a coherent response to the rise of Arianism, which claimed that Jesus was a specially created being, who while being separate from creation was still a created being and thus lower than God. This was controversial because it went against what the majority of Christians at the time believed.
As for the result of the vote, I find it hilarious that people mindlessly parrot the line that the results were "tight" and yet never provide solid numbers. Do you know why? Out of the approximate 300 attendees to the conference, 2 voted for the Arian position. 2 out of 300. That's less than 1%. If that is a tight vote, I'd be curious to know what you consider an overwhelming victory.
What happened to modularity?
Django advocates loose coupling between it's modules. You can easily use Django's ORM in a non-Django app, or use a different ORM (e.g. SQLAlchemy) in a Django app. Having said that, I've found that the Django ORM is nice and intuitive if you're a programmer (like me!) and really want to avoid working with SQL directly while SQLAlchemy caters to people who are more comfortable with SQL.
Ruby has been in decline. Interestingly, so have PHP and Python. At it's peak in 2009, Ruby barely exceed's Python's current usage.
Ruby: http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/Ruby.html
Python: http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/PHP.html
PHP: http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/Python.html .
If you understand your comment and know how to write perl, you don't really need to understand how a cryptic line does something - it's faster to rewrite it from scratch to do what you want.
That assumes that the comment correctly describes what the code intends to do. This is a very big assumption to make and I've worked on numerous projects where the comments were significantly different from what the code did. Looking through the change logs, this situation always arises because someone updated the code but didn't bother to update the comments.
This brings me to my point: The code doesn't lie.
If you can't understand a piece of code, you're going to be working off assumptions. Refactoring code based on assumptions is dangerous unless you have very rigorous unit tests. I've found that the level of code obfuscation is negatively correlated with the quality (or even presence!) of unit tests. YMMV.
*mutes his bullshit detector* Sorry I couldn't hear you above the din. Can you point me to a coherent mission statement/objective of these protesters? Can you also point me to viable solutions / steps that will help achieve these objectives? Thanks.
Notice all the negative comments? Rather a lot even for Slash Dot. This event must have the "powers that be" worried.
Do a Google search on Paid Posing. Rather scary.
I suppose that's one way of looking at it.
Or it could be that most Slashdot posters have highly attuned bullshit detectors and realise that these protestors:
and are thus deserving of the derision they're getting.
Your anecdote perfectly illustrates why we need to run AV scanners on our machines. It doesn't matter how careful we are, we are not immune to drive by attacks. At this point, the typical slashdot response is "Run AdBlock/NoScript". This doesn't always guarantee that you'll be safe because what happens if the "safe" site you regularly visit has been compromised and the script you're about to allow is no longer safe? AV packages add another layer of defense, and this is a good thing.
While my political views lean towards the right, I think you're taking the "Government should not fund private enterprises" thing a tad too far.
Capitalism is only interested in maximising short term profits. You can argue whether that's the "correct" interpretation of the tenets of capitalism, but that's how it works out in reality. Private investors are keen on ROI and the quicker and larger the ROI, the more interested they will be. In my experience, the majority of these investors are only interested in products that are on the cusp of being market viable. They basically want to come in, pump some money into marketing, tweak the product a bit and then reap a windfall.
A project like ReactOS that has been underway for years, which will still require significant time and capital investment before being commercially viable will not get the interest of any private investor. However, it's pretty hard to deny that an alternative operating system that's fully compatible with Windows applications will not be commercially viable. Additionally, if it challenges Microsoft's monopoly on PC operating systems and eventually provides a cheaper computing experience for all, you could argue that the government has a moral obligation to invest.
The big issue with failures like Solyndra is that there was no transparency and no accountability. That says a lot more about the Obama administration than it does about government involvement in backing startups.
You are deluded if you think an ARM processor is going to come remotely close to touching a Core i7 in performance.
Does it have to? How many applications actually need top of the line Core i7 performance? The majority of applications will be able to get by with significantly less. However, I agree that the GP is deluded to think that Apple will replace the Intel processors in the product line up with ARM chips any time soon.
This is what he said: hundred thousand milliseconds in a second. LOL.
As I have pointed out previously, genuine green energy investments by those with a record of success at that kind of thing is good.
I read that post. What do you consider "genuine green" energy?
I agree that it's just too much hassle to go through to secure a standard laptop. It's still an interesting experiment and it neatly lays out the attack vectors and potential counters.
You're obviously not a developer, or you're working in a place that's so dull it might be time to change jobs. As a developer, I absolutely dig this (and there's a 1/3 chance of me breaking the build in my team)!
If you are free to use social media to organise riots, I am just as free to use the same social media to identify the idiots who rampaged through my neighbourhood. Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences.
This keeps getting brought up, but I've written commercial C++ code for years and I've not had memory management issues. There have been problems with legacy 3rd party libraries, but if you religiously apply the RAII ( https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/RAII ) idiom you will usually be fine. I can't remember the last time I worked with a raw pointer and had to new/delete my own memory.
[snip] Imagine trying to write something like Gimp, or Open Office [snip]
For the majority of users out there, Picnik and Google Docs work just fine. I personally prefer Google Docs over MS Office or Open Office, and if it weren't for the fact that I am a serious amateur photographer I'd be perfectly happy with Picnik. As it is, I need Lightroom. I think the trend will be that native apps will be relegated to niche applications that cater to power users. The average user will be easily served by web apps.
I'm not blaming them (well ok , a bit , you'd think they'd be curious about what went before in their chosen profession) , its generally the fault of the courses they've been on.
If they're not interested in pushing the boundaries of their knowledge and abilities, they're going to get left behind by their peers who do. The only problem I have is that these are the type of developers who seem to get fast tracked into management ...