No paranoia about it: failure to grow and conquer new markets means not only boredom, but the assurance that other platforms will put a big rock through Windows.
MicroSoft is kinda like Baldanders in Wolfe's Book of the New Sun; gotta keep growing, or die.
He's talking about trends across industry.
Barriers to entry => lower
More bright folks => starting companies
Big companies => consume startups, before Discredit Swedish Second Providence jacks their market cap into low-earth orbit
Companies now have selected bright talent 'on the cheap', ergo, Hiring is Obsolete.
While couched as a cheerleader pitch for a college, this was really a recruiting pitch, no?
Do I win, Bugbear?
If a permanent resident program was available, where a person could start working in 1 to 6 months after accepting an employment offer, and their status was confirmed in under a year, the H1B path will be abandoned in a second. This is the solution to H1B abuses, not the fairy tales that Matloff wants to tell...
Don't get me started on the USCIS; my German wife and I are 'enjoying' a Kafka-esque ordeal, at our own expense, through them.
Thank you for a revealing post, though.
While not having achieved the esteemed rank of Captain, I, Lieutenant Obvious, would like to, obviously, commend the obvious obviousness of the GGPP. Props.
Maybe so, and it's certainly a different technology, but I'm incredulous that RAM, hard drives, and CPUs are happening on a smaller scale, and costs continue to drop, while these nagging pixels are so intractible.
Certainly, costs have come down, but not enough for my cheapskate expectations.
Truly, it doesn't take much knowledge to beat my meagre store on the subject.
Well, if it can successfully drive down the ridiculous cost of flat panels, then I'm all for it. The 'low yield' argument of yore to explain the high cost for flat panels always struck me as a WMD argument, even before I knew what a crock a WMD argument was...
It's like reading assignments for a course. You can:
Blow them off entirely.
Put the book under your pillow for osmotic comfort.
Flip through the pages. Sometimes a used book will have a cool movie in the margin.
Give it a breezy, topic-sentence read.
Read it.
Study it, pondering the actual meaning.
--in congress--
Have your staff read, at one of the above levels, and tell you how to vote.
Have your staff wined, dined, and opined by lobbyists, and tell you how to vote.
I don't think the US Constitution really anticipates the modern complexity and bandwidth requirements of Congressional reading, and the mess we 'enjoy' is probably the least-worst way it could be done, though the Information Age might, eventually, improve the situation...
You forgot the stack of checks.
My wife will soon be going in for a third fingerprinting in her citizenship ordeal, and hers isn't as Kafka-esque as some.
I would express my real feelings about http://uscis.gov/graphics/index.htm, except that I genuinely fear bureaucratic retribution.
Congress, openly admitting that it was responding to industry campaign donations rather than the popular will, complied by increasing the H-1B cap in 1998 and 2000, the latter action coming at the time the mass layoffs began. This past December, despite a continuing abysmal tech labor market, Congress enacted another expansion of the program.
Welcome to Democracy. As long as no one is stepping up to the ticket with a "screw these retarded policies to the wall with a giant Black and Decker" platform, we shall continue to have more of same.
Will slashdot help to identify responsible, long-term thinking candidates/policies, or does the second word of this sentence inform its answer?
Which is really the point of this whole exercise.
When awareness is raised, and people support the 'right' thing, and shun the 'ronngg', then we can spend more time enjoying life, and less time feeding the sharks.
Thousands of little VoIP providers are impossible to coerce and shake down for bribes and political patronage. One or two regulated quasi-monopolies, on the otherhand, are certain to pay the liberals the necessary fees.
TFA seemed to point to the idea that, without motherhood, those one or two quasi-mofos would just cut prices to the point that your hyothetical thousands of little VoIPs would be abstract RIPs.
There is some justification to making sure that the competition isn't so darwinian that the consumer (that's you) doesn't end up with a cheap pile of nothing.
Phone services are especially touchy. Wouldn't want a loudmouth, spoiled kid to be out of contact with the forward-deployed mother. Oh, wait, that's down South, in the United States of Whatever...
There is no safe seat at the feast
Take your best stab at the beast.
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I used to be a believer, but now it seems Python is ready to take the yoke, at least with those of us who wonder how can you build a complex yet maintainable script without static typing.
Some kind of optional static typing is a recent Python design teapot-tempest,
but Python is most definitely not statically checked as of this writing.
Of course, how you edit really matters most...
Of course, real men don't actually use an editor, instead going for the minimal number of processes possible.
You need to get into power user mode, using only the shell operators like > and >>, plus the occasional cat and sed, to effect editing.
If no one is looking, you can use less for an actual glance at what you're editing.
That little burning sensation you feel if you stoop to using less? That's pride. Fsck pride. Wuss.
BC: Yes, I'm extremely bad at working on things which seem pointless (uninteresting I can mostly deal with). It's caused problems for me at some workplaces, particularly when the whole job was to maintain a garbage legacy codebase.
Steer very, very wide of all government work. No, make that a little wider.
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MicroSoft is kinda like Baldanders in Wolfe's Book of the New Sun; gotta keep growing, or die.
He's talking about trends across industry.
Barriers to entry => lower
More bright folks => starting companies
Big companies => consume startups, before Discredit Swedish Second Providence jacks their market cap into low-earth orbit
Companies now have selected bright talent 'on the cheap', ergo, Hiring is Obsolete.
While couched as a cheerleader pitch for a college, this was really a recruiting pitch, no?
Do I win, Bugbear?
I tried on 04Apr.
Thanks, gentlemen.
Thank you for a revealing post, though.
While not having achieved the esteemed rank of Captain, I, Lieutenant Obvious, would like to, obviously, commend the obvious obviousness of the GGPP. Props.
Maybe so, and it's certainly a different technology, but I'm incredulous that RAM, hard drives, and CPUs are happening on a smaller scale, and costs continue to drop, while these nagging pixels are so intractible.
Certainly, costs have come down, but not enough for my cheapskate expectations.
Truly, it doesn't take much knowledge to beat my meagre store on the subject.
Well, if it can successfully drive down the ridiculous cost of flat panels, then I'm all for it.
The 'low yield' argument of yore to explain the high cost for flat panels always struck me as a WMD argument, even before I knew what a crock a WMD argument was...
Blow them off entirely.
Put the book under your pillow for osmotic comfort.
Flip through the pages. Sometimes a used book will have a cool movie in the margin.
Give it a breezy, topic-sentence read.
Read it.
Study it, pondering the actual meaning.
--in congress--
Have your staff read, at one of the above levels, and tell you how to vote.
Have your staff wined, dined, and opined by lobbyists, and tell you how to vote.
I don't think the US Constitution really anticipates the modern complexity and bandwidth requirements of Congressional reading, and the mess we 'enjoy' is probably the least-worst way it could be done, though the Information Age might, eventually, improve the situation...
No, but Fox is certainly symptomatic.
Yeah, yeah, Federalist Republic, but you have said nothing towards the real point, boss.
You forgot the stack of checks.
My wife will soon be going in for a third fingerprinting in her citizenship ordeal, and hers isn't as Kafka-esque as some.
I would express my real feelings about http://uscis.gov/graphics/index.htm, except that I genuinely fear bureaucratic retribution.
Will slashdot help to identify responsible, long-term thinking candidates/policies, or does the second word of this sentence inform its answer?
Fidel, you're such a tease; how are they going to convict you in a Cuban court, much less extract you from the Buena Vista Social Club?
Which is really the point of this whole exercise.
When awareness is raised, and people support the 'right' thing, and shun the 'ronngg', then we can spend more time enjoying life, and less time feeding the sharks.
There is some justification to making sure that the competition isn't so darwinian that the consumer (that's you) doesn't end up with a cheap pile of nothing.
Phone services are especially touchy. Wouldn't want a loudmouth, spoiled kid to be out of contact with the forward-deployed mother. Oh, wait, that's down South, in the United States of Whatever...
There is no safe seat at the feast
Take your best stab at the beast.
Of course, how you edit really matters most...
Verity Stob, now there's a healthy specimen.
They jerked the helmet off Magneto to reveal...
Bob.
"D00dz!" said Bob, but it was no use: Bob was crushed like the useless crapsack that he was.
Ja, er hat "nein" gesagt.
Aber, für übergenug geld...
Yes, but we must admit that Fidel's Cubist period has been very important to his body of work in particular, and art in general.
Of course, real men don't actually use an editor, instead going for the minimal number of processes possible.
You need to get into power user mode, using only the shell operators like > and >>, plus the occasional cat and sed, to effect editing.
If no one is looking, you can use less for an actual glance at what you're editing.
That little burning sensation you feel if you stoop to using less? That's pride. Fsck pride. Wuss.
Offtopic is offtopic is offtopic.
I knew there was something to that whole super-string theory business...