Sigh, no it's not. They want you home so that they can force you to hand over the valuables. And it's not one or two people kicking down the door, it's usually 4 or more. Also the legalities and issues around having a firearm in South Africa (legally that is) means most home owners are not armed. These are desperate people. One of the things they raid is the groceries in the fridge / deepfreeze. They want cellphones, tablets, laptops, TV's, bank cards. I have a guitar, worth a lot of money, didn't even touch it, admittedly they probably didn't realise how much it was worth.
Yeah, but there is a shortage of programmers who would know them. The cost to retrain an entire IT division to another language, rewrite what has already been written into the new language, AND then do a full testing cycle to make sure it all still does what it's supposed to would be HUGE! Unless of course your "team" is three people and all you have written is a porn website.
It's not always that easy. Unlike a gf / bf dumping a job that is putting food on the table without having another job lined up is not a very good idea. Nowadays most people don't save, so taking a month or two to find another job without a steady pay check would mean oodles of debt. Or you take the first one that is offered, only to find it's worse. The grass isn't always greener on the other side. Then there are also days when everything goes to shit, you're irritated, your team is under pressure, upper management are grumpy (probably because they just got dumped by their gf/bf) so days like that you would probably REALLY want to say YES. But then most other days work is fine. If it was all fun and games at work they would not have to pay you (or pay you as much at least).
200 licenses per employee is not a false accusation. Why are you being so defensive? You wouldn't happen to work for the UK government would you? Perhaps you handle the Oracle licensing?
The don't get that technical here in South Africa. They just broadcast ANY other signal as you walk away from your car and hit the lock button on your remote. It interferes with your lock signal and the car remains unlocked. If you are not paying attention you don't notice that your car fails to lock and they are in. And no, they are not trying to steal the car, they just steal whatever you left behind in the car, most of them don't even bother trying to steal the radio. Unemployment is high, they steal what they can. It's gotten so bad they kick down your front door, alarms blazing, steal whatever they can grab and make a runner in the 5 minutes it takes armed response to get there (and yes, that's happened to me).
Someone doesn't have to actually die for this to be regarded as retarded. A lot of companies would be financially fucked if they lost their connection to the net for too long, or lost enough data that they would have to take days to rebuild it from logs, backups etc. Loss of reputation etc etc all could sink a company rather rapidly meaning that no one died as a direct result, but a lot of people could end up jobless all because some "security expert" thunk that jew were haxoring me!
This is a fucking retarded idea. I mean Bush hired him, that fucken says it all.
Agreed, I reboot about every two weeks or so at work, at home it was longer - but since we now have load shedding our lovely power utility reboots my home PC's a lot more often. The fact that their devs are using IntelliJ and Eclipse screams "we don't like Microsoft" so they probably reboot out of reflex. For the.Net devs the only time I had to reboot that many times was when I was writing drivers in test mode. WTF are you doing? (Or doing badly in this case)
Anyone with another computer on the outside of your firewall who has any computer knowledge (or a friend with any) will tunnel straight through your stupid firewall. I rent a cheap ass server to do just that. Firewalls are there for morons, so block what you want the to stop the morons from seeing, everyone else does not give a shit.
I agree, I use different browsers to separate accounts/cookies. I don't want one google portal for all my google accounts, fuck that. I use different browsers to keep my shit apart. Browsers are largely all the same - sure there are some that do x better and some that do y better. I prefer debugging javascript code in IE because of the better integration it has with Visual Studio, general browsing in Chrome because of the process isolation, Firefox for certain plugins that either don't exist in other browsers or simply work better. I had not heard of Iron before though, will be installing that tonight, tx.
Sounds to me like you work for SAP? We are not programmers, we are System Architects and expect to be paid accordingly.
Meanwhile you are writing code like every other programmer.
I am getting tired of all the nano that nano this, it's going to change the world. Been reading about it for fucking years and nothing has come of it. I AM sure it will change things if all the pie in the sky promises come true, but I am still waiting to see it actually hit the market or actually change the world I live in.
So, what if it does? Where do you draw the line? Who gets to decide what is acceptable and what is not acceptable. You could go to a pub and chat to someone who will explain how to make an explosive from fertilizer and diesel. Are we going to ban pubs as well now? In fact if we ever meet in a pub I can tell you exactly how to make an explosive, down to the detonator and timers, as well as ensuring you get maximum shrapnel. Doesn't mean I'm going to do it, doesn't mean you are going to do it, we're just having a fucken conversation. When you start limiting what people can or cannot even talk about it's a very slippery slope. If you are worried about your kids "accidently" finding porn on the internet then they should not be on the internet in the first place. Don't start blocking everyone because of parents who can't raise their fucken kids properly.
Exactly, they are just waiting for the green card or indefinite leave to remain etc. Then they are out the door. What I love is management who think that a warm ass in a seat is all that is required to do the job. Same as the management who think throwing more people at a project that is behind schedule will fix things. Software development is not the same as digging a friggin ditch!
Maybe for the smaller operations. I have family who work for a large retailer, every year the pickers go on strike for higher wages/bonus/whatever and the DC's ground to a halt. They are starting a pilot DC which is fully automated. DC is already built, all that's left is the integration into the current system. I would also like to point out that I currently live in a third world country.
It's a COM issue, and has existed since there was a registry. If you write a COM dll you will still have to deal with DLL hell. The problem hasn't gone away, it's just been replaced with.Net and the global assembly cache. In.Net you can still specify that you want your DLL to register for COM interop - rarely needed to do it, but sometimes you are working on ancient code and it's the only way for it to talk to a.Net dll.
In my country summers get damn hot, tar melts and the trucks start wearing grooves into it, so they replaced it with concrete. Admittedly it requires more maintenance IMHO, but it does work as a viable substitute.
Erm, firstly that's racist, and second wtf does it have to do with anything?
If a company cant trust it's IT department it's screwed. I've worked in environments with billions, I had to get a security clearance to work there.
Most financial institutions will not hire someone who is black listed, too much temptation for them.
Yeah, a friend of mine read the entire series and uses it to drop spoilers as punishment when someone insults him. Having read the series myself I am naturally immune.
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Sigh, no it's not. They want you home so that they can force you to hand over the valuables. And it's not one or two people kicking down the door, it's usually 4 or more. Also the legalities and issues around having a firearm in South Africa (legally that is) means most home owners are not armed. These are desperate people. One of the things they raid is the groceries in the fridge / deepfreeze. They want cellphones, tablets, laptops, TV's, bank cards. I have a guitar, worth a lot of money, didn't even touch it, admittedly they probably didn't realise how much it was worth.
Yeah, but there is a shortage of programmers who would know them. The cost to retrain an entire IT division to another language, rewrite what has already been written into the new language, AND then do a full testing cycle to make sure it all still does what it's supposed to would be HUGE! Unless of course your "team" is three people and all you have written is a porn website.
It's not always that easy. Unlike a gf / bf dumping a job that is putting food on the table without having another job lined up is not a very good idea. Nowadays most people don't save, so taking a month or two to find another job without a steady pay check would mean oodles of debt. Or you take the first one that is offered, only to find it's worse. The grass isn't always greener on the other side. Then there are also days when everything goes to shit, you're irritated, your team is under pressure, upper management are grumpy (probably because they just got dumped by their gf /bf) so days like that you would probably REALLY want to say YES. But then most other days work is fine. If it was all fun and games at work they would not have to pay you (or pay you as much at least).
200 licenses per employee is not a false accusation. Why are you being so defensive? You wouldn't happen to work for the UK government would you? Perhaps you handle the Oracle licensing?
The don't get that technical here in South Africa. They just broadcast ANY other signal as you walk away from your car and hit the lock button on your remote. It interferes with your lock signal and the car remains unlocked. If you are not paying attention you don't notice that your car fails to lock and they are in. And no, they are not trying to steal the car, they just steal whatever you left behind in the car, most of them don't even bother trying to steal the radio. Unemployment is high, they steal what they can. It's gotten so bad they kick down your front door, alarms blazing, steal whatever they can grab and make a runner in the 5 minutes it takes armed response to get there (and yes, that's happened to me).
Someone doesn't have to actually die for this to be regarded as retarded. A lot of companies would be financially fucked if they lost their connection to the net for too long, or lost enough data that they would have to take days to rebuild it from logs, backups etc. Loss of reputation etc etc all could sink a company rather rapidly meaning that no one died as a direct result, but a lot of people could end up jobless all because some "security expert" thunk that jew were haxoring me!
This is a fucking retarded idea. I mean Bush hired him, that fucken says it all.
Well they are taking a bloody long enough to come out with it. It should be called IceOS not SteamOS.
Agreed, I reboot about every two weeks or so at work, at home it was longer - but since we now have load shedding our lovely power utility reboots my home PC's a lot more often. The fact that their devs are using IntelliJ and Eclipse screams "we don't like Microsoft" so they probably reboot out of reflex. For the .Net devs the only time I had to reboot that many times was when I was writing drivers in test mode. WTF are you doing? (Or doing badly in this case)
But I bet it was a nice bong, that brought joy to many.
Anyone with another computer on the outside of your firewall who has any computer knowledge (or a friend with any) will tunnel straight through your stupid firewall. I rent a cheap ass server to do just that. Firewalls are there for morons, so block what you want the to stop the morons from seeing, everyone else does not give a shit.
I agree, I use different browsers to separate accounts/cookies. I don't want one google portal for all my google accounts, fuck that. I use different browsers to keep my shit apart. Browsers are largely all the same - sure there are some that do x better and some that do y better. I prefer debugging javascript code in IE because of the better integration it has with Visual Studio, general browsing in Chrome because of the process isolation, Firefox for certain plugins that either don't exist in other browsers or simply work better. I had not heard of Iron before though, will be installing that tonight, tx.
Sounds to me like you work for SAP?
We are not programmers, we are System Architects and expect to be paid accordingly.
Meanwhile you are writing code like every other programmer.
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goatse!
I am getting tired of all the nano that nano this, it's going to change the world. Been reading about it for fucking years and nothing has come of it. I AM sure it will change things if all the pie in the sky promises come true, but I am still waiting to see it actually hit the market or actually change the world I live in.
So, what if it does? Where do you draw the line? Who gets to decide what is acceptable and what is not acceptable. You could go to a pub and chat to someone who will explain how to make an explosive from fertilizer and diesel. Are we going to ban pubs as well now? In fact if we ever meet in a pub I can tell you exactly how to make an explosive, down to the detonator and timers, as well as ensuring you get maximum shrapnel. Doesn't mean I'm going to do it, doesn't mean you are going to do it, we're just having a fucken conversation. When you start limiting what people can or cannot even talk about it's a very slippery slope. If you are worried about your kids "accidently" finding porn on the internet then they should not be on the internet in the first place. Don't start blocking everyone because of parents who can't raise their fucken kids properly.
Exactly, they are just waiting for the green card or indefinite leave to remain etc. Then they are out the door. What I love is management who think that a warm ass in a seat is all that is required to do the job. Same as the management who think throwing more people at a project that is behind schedule will fix things. Software development is not the same as digging a friggin ditch!
Aaaand, they have no internets or other entertainment. Fucking IS the entertainment. Basically what you said.
They will find a fresh McDonalds bun next to the fossilized remains of a human.
Maybe for the smaller operations. I have family who work for a large retailer, every year the pickers go on strike for higher wages/bonus/whatever and the DC's ground to a halt. They are starting a pilot DC which is fully automated. DC is already built, all that's left is the integration into the current system. I would also like to point out that I currently live in a third world country.
Telemarketers.
It's a COM issue, and has existed since there was a registry. If you write a COM dll you will still have to deal with DLL hell. The problem hasn't gone away, it's just been replaced with .Net and the global assembly cache. In .Net you can still specify that you want your DLL to register for COM interop - rarely needed to do it, but sometimes you are working on ancient code and it's the only way for it to talk to a .Net dll.
In my country summers get damn hot, tar melts and the trucks start wearing grooves into it, so they replaced it with concrete. Admittedly it requires more maintenance IMHO, but it does work as a viable substitute.
Erm, firstly that's racist, and second wtf does it have to do with anything?
If a company cant trust it's IT department it's screwed. I've worked in environments with billions, I had to get a security clearance to work there.
Most financial institutions will not hire someone who is black listed, too much temptation for them.
Because it's a feature!
Yeah, a friend of mine read the entire series and uses it to drop spoilers as punishment when someone insults him. Having read the series myself I am naturally immune.