Access culture is dangerous. But it is an nigh inevitabel consequence of a highly optimised society. That in itself is dangerous, because it introduces single points of failure. Imagine everyone using Google for everything in everyday computer work. That's not entirely unlikely. Then imagine Chrome OS and Android getting a coordinated hack and Googles entire cloud going down. Not pretty.
If you let the big-wigs control everything all the time, this is what happens. We are the last line of defense, because none of us uses any proprietary OS entirely on its own.
Curiously enough, ACS isn't all that great, there are way better and cheaper solutions out there. It's mostly about brand presence and size.
And Elastic Search is a neat concept but implemented in Java. I'm pretty sure a good team would need only a few weeks to redo ES in some binary PL and some project that does all ES does but better, faster, cheaper and with less setup hassle.
... to be successful with is a large part, among with avoiding people who waste your time being a code second.
I've spent 20 years working for countless projects and 10 years meeting a variety of women and only now, in my late 40ies am I finally bearing the fruits of my lessons. I see idiots, timewasters and opportunists coming from miles away and see my sexual interests plummet in seconds when I come across a latently schizophrenic chika, no matter how hot she may look.
On the plus side my relationship now is not only fun but actually productive and my career is starting to pick up simply because I've learned not to waste a single second on opportunites that aren't any or don't advance my own development. Out on people that talk bullshit and only claim to know more than I do but really don't.
Knowing to see through the fake is something people like me have to learn the harder way. I presume that accounts for many differences in the way things go for people.
I'm currently playing Elite dangerous and taking part in the Distant Worlds 2 expedition community event. 8 months across the Galaxy and back. 8 months.
And while I have an unrealistic space ship with a fictional "Frame Shift Drive" that can jump approx. 41 light years at a time after "collecting fuel" by flying around a sun at speeds faster than light for half a minute (just as unrealistic) I *still* need thousands of jumps and days to cover the radius of our Galaxy without stopping for vistas.
Frontier, the developers of Elite Dangerous, did some neat things in trying to be sort of scientifically correct with the representation of space and solar systems. And it has shown me one thing I wasn't fully aware of until now: the scales we're taking about when we talk about our solar system, our '''neighbor''' systems or let alone our Galaxy are so absolutely unbelievably big the words "large" or "huge" don't even fit in the faintest way.
Bottom line: I'm pretty sure somewhere out there civilizations exist, have existed and will exist. However, that we ever get to meet them or they us is, to be realistic, very very very unlikely. Like, I'd say, even orders of magnitude more unlikely that life and then intelligent life comes to exist in the first place. Life happens in extremely narrow margins at our scale as it is. That we get to change the laws of physics and get to travel around the system, Galaxy or even universe like we get to ride a bike is nice daydreaming, but it won't happen.
Not for us and not for others. It's pure physics and a game attempting to show the scale of our Galaxy can drive home the issue of scale and distances we're taking about.
We're alone and they are too. And it will stay that way until we fade.
I do WordPress development and Consulting for a living. Quite a good living. This piece of software is utterly amazing. Built by people who obviously didn't have the faintest idea about how to build a proper web application it's become the perpetual source of things to fix and work to do.
Absolutely amazing.
Just this week a huge installation running WP and WooCommerce, bloated by idiots who added 40+ plugins to this mission critical (!!) setup finally exploded into the face of my employer who wouldn't listen for over a year I've been warning him.
You can do amazing stuff with WordPress, but only if you know how to work around it's pitfalls and do most of the things not using WordPress utilities or the abysmally broken WP DB model. I will continue to do so because there's simply no end to jobs right now but you need good humor to deal with the daily crazy.
US icy league is big business, not much more. Lots of marketing and wing flapping. Yeah, they've got innovations and their cool in the hardcore sciences - for super-nerds that get asked on.
Anyone else I'd recommend to see steer clear. Germany tried aping US ivy league some years back. It was/is bullshit. We've got 300+ perfect universities all for free. That's where I would go if I were in the US right now. Abroad, to some country where college is free for all and I get to learn a new language and a new culture.
... like someone got his fundamentals mixed up. I'm sure mass in motion (sound) is hampered/influenced by gravity as it should, but that doesn't mean it itself has mass. I expect this guy's findings to be dismissed any time soon
I am more productive if I take deliberate frequent breaks and choose not to feel guilty about it. Measurably so. I also see huge benefits in completely seperating fun and work, such as *not* listening to music when I'm coding but simply leaving the headphones on for some silence.
If you are a Java guy - would you start anew with Java today or pick something else? (Scala, Kotlin,... Go, Python, whatever). Que opinions below, and thanks for that.
Jim Sterling - an independent game critic - has been harping on this issue for a few years and it's only gotten worse. The revenue expectations of game publishers are totally bizarre and outlandish. Which is one of the reasons asshole execs are bleeding the AAA industry dry of anything resembling artistic integrity or innovation. ActiBlizz is a husk of former glory days of Blizzard, famous studios get bought up, squeezed for the next open-world-live-service shite and then closed down. Even as revenues are through the roof and higher than ever before people get laid off and/or are still expected to risk their health on some death-march to some large release. At the same time shady tactics for squeezing even more money out of people move AAA publishers towards gambling companies and their shady business. (Star Wars Battlefield anyone?)
Game publishers are just about the worst right now and Nintendo whining that they "only" make 40 billion as opposed to 50 billion (give me an effing break) doesn't make them look to good either IMHO.
For all I care AAA publisher execs can go die in a fire, preferably one fired by all the obscene amounts of cash they can't get enough of. F*ck this bullsh*t! I'm sticking to well-aged titles, last-gen systems and indie studios.
... Oh, wait, you're probably in the US. Errrm... Nevermind.
Seriously you guys across the pond should probably just copy the new EU GDPR verbatim and be done with it. That would save you a lot of hassle. It's a great law and although it forces me to do muy job more diligently that actually by and large is a good thing.
No viable affordable low end models anymore. MS style hoops to jump through to get xcode. Flaky OS lately. Obscenely priced mobile hardware - although I have to admit that people lap that shit up like it's no tomorrow.
This is why Apple is making such obscene amounts of money. Apple its first and foremost a fashion brand these days. They really don't need to care what experts think.
Hence I'm back to Linux as my main OS. I miss the hard and software integration, but that's the smaller price to pay right now. AFAIAC they need to really get back to 2003 form again if they want me interested again. 13 inch iBook g4 was their high point for me. MB air a close second.
... that Kevin Rose has this problem. He's a fairly successful silicon valley founder and investor and as such is used to solving problems by taking action. The problem he describes however was being unable to chill the f*ck out. Strong measures such as ditching your smartphone are a good way to get closer to that goal.
One of his buddies is the author Tim Ferriss (4-hour Workweek, etc.). Just the other week I listened to the Tim Ferriss Show Podcast were he interviews Greg McKeown and listen in to a roughly 2 hour podcast that turns into something of a coaching/therapy session for Ferriss. Very interesting. These types have a psychological condition that most of us nerds have but only roughly 10 times as much.
Since I'm trying to advance my career I'm treading slightly in similar territory and find that one of the big problems with doing everything at once, all the time, has to do with overinflating ones own importance. A trap a founder like Kevin Rose or a super-successful author and self-marketeer as Tim Ferriss probably fall into on a daily basis.
Conclusion: I totally get decomissioning a smartphone. Whenever an update is due, I always also consider going back to a robust and cheap feature phone that - on the plus side - doesn't need recharging all the time - and a Filofax and be done with it. The critical communication I need done can be done once or twice a day from whatever computing device is at hand, I really don't need a smartphone to survive. Maps and directions, work-related chat and zero-fuss linked calender and todolists do keep me with the smartphone camp though, as the convenience is a huge difference. And I feel that I can handle my addiction. To an extent that it's not an overwhelming problem that is.
... and some bad. The GDPR is really good and gives authorities leverage over the large internet Megacorps that couldn't give a f*ck and now face bazillion Euro fines if they don't play ball and follow the law. Very nice.
This new copyright law however is total bullshit and something like Europe equivalent of the DMCA. It doesn't impact private people as much as it does impact corps and I expect a lot of anonymous forum activity to move overseas but it still is established by institutions that don't seem to have a clue how the internet works and stick with their old structures come hell or high water. I don't really like this new bill and the smell that cove with it and hope the European Parliament takes it down again or fixed it soon.
The browser and the operation system it runs on are smaller than a single average pagecall of an average contemporary website. It probably runs on today's feature phones and loads those websites from yesteryear in 300 milliseconds over 3G.
Feel through an assessment task because I couldn't come up with a viable Fibonacci generator and some services built around it fast enough and the one I finally managed to tape together was too clunky - which I was perfectly aware of. Having programmed for 34 years I felt quite silly and discovered that these questions are just as stupid as they were 20 years ago.
The other interview was a sweepingly broad question about how I would build a Microservice architecture Webshop by some 28 year old nerdy IT lead douche. Of course my reply didn't satisfy him.
These questions get asked by three types of people:
1) frustrated nerds in lead positions trying to prove to their own camp how smart they are and how dumb all potential replacements are
2) people who are seeking a performant and obedient fall-guy for a project about to blow up
3) interviewers who have no idea what they are doing and probably have a general governance problem either already in place or slowly brewing
The truth is this: Anyone who thinks they can assess a senior or even medium position with a few questions or a two hour progging assessment is on crack. I might be able to do that after 4 weeks. And I know a thing or two about tech team management.
I'd walk out of an assessment should someone ask one of me again without warning.
Full quotes. Chronological mess. 98% noise, repetition and footers with bullshit disclaimers. Basically unreadable. If you're not a paying customer, those go straight to the waste-bin. If you are a paying customer I'll reply tersely in the hopes that you will learn how email is written. It's not my fault that Mickeysuck fubared email with default fullquotes and people who were to dumb and/or lazy to change their settings in Outlook back in 1998 when this degrading of email etiquette started.
He had a solid career as a German speaking actor with one of his famous parts actually being the angel coming to earth in Women's Wenders "The Heaven over Berlin" which was ripped off and redone as "City of Angels" with Nicholas Cage playing his part. However, his impression of Hitler actually was pretty good and authentic. He prepped himself thoroughly for the part also utilising a famous secret recording of Hitler having a regular conversation. Downfall is a pretty impressive movie and a good display of the insanity of the Nazi ideology.
Dating is a social activity with the end goal being to get some. Software is the thing running on a computer that makes it useful (more or less). Whatever weed you were smoking when writing this meta-article, please don't offer any of that to me.
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EOM
Access culture is dangerous. But it is an nigh inevitabel consequence of a highly optimised society. That in itself is dangerous, because it introduces single points of failure. Imagine everyone using Google for everything in everyday computer work. That's not entirely unlikely. Then imagine Chrome OS and Android getting a coordinated hack and Googles entire cloud going down. Not pretty.
If you let the big-wigs control everything all the time, this is what happens. We are the last line of defense, because none of us uses any proprietary OS entirely on its own.
Curiously enough, ACS isn't all that great, there are way better and cheaper solutions out there.
It's mostly about brand presence and size.
And Elastic Search is a neat concept but implemented in Java. I'm pretty sure a good team would need only a few weeks to redo ES in some binary PL and some project that does all ES does but better, faster, cheaper and with less setup hassle.
My 2 cents.
... to be successful with is a large part, among with avoiding people who waste your time being a code second.
I've spent 20 years working for countless projects and 10 years meeting a variety of women and only now, in my late 40ies am I finally bearing the fruits of my lessons. I see idiots, timewasters and opportunists coming from miles away and see my sexual interests plummet in seconds when I come across a latently schizophrenic chika, no matter how hot she may look.
On the plus side my relationship now is not only fun but actually productive and my career is starting to pick up simply because I've learned not to waste a single second on opportunites that aren't any or don't advance my own development. Out on people that talk bullshit and only claim to know more than I do but really don't.
Knowing to see through the fake is something people like me have to learn the harder way. I presume that accounts for many differences in the way things go for people.
I'm currently playing Elite dangerous and taking part in the Distant Worlds 2 expedition community event. 8 months across the Galaxy and back. 8 months.
And while I have an unrealistic space ship with a fictional "Frame Shift Drive" that can jump approx. 41 light years at a time after "collecting fuel" by flying around a sun at speeds faster than light for half a minute (just as unrealistic) I *still* need thousands of jumps and days to cover the radius of our Galaxy without stopping for vistas.
Frontier, the developers of Elite Dangerous, did some neat things in trying to be sort of scientifically correct with the representation of space and solar systems. And it has shown me one thing I wasn't fully aware of until now: the scales we're taking about when we talk about our solar system, our '''neighbor''' systems or let alone our Galaxy are so absolutely unbelievably big the words "large" or "huge" don't even fit in the faintest way.
Bottom line: I'm pretty sure somewhere out there civilizations exist, have existed and will exist. However, that we ever get to meet them or they us is, to be realistic, very very very unlikely. Like, I'd say, even orders of magnitude more unlikely that life and then intelligent life comes to exist in the first place. Life happens in extremely narrow margins at our scale as it is. That we get to change the laws of physics and get to travel around the system, Galaxy or even universe like we get to ride a bike is nice daydreaming, but it won't happen.
Not for us and not for others. It's pure physics and a game attempting to show the scale of our Galaxy can drive home the issue of scale and distances we're taking about.
We're alone and they are too. And it will stay that way until we fade.
My 2 cents.
I do WordPress development and Consulting for a living. Quite a good living. This piece of software is utterly amazing. Built by people who obviously didn't have the faintest idea about how to build a proper web application it's become the perpetual source of things to fix and work to do.
Absolutely amazing.
Just this week a huge installation running WP and WooCommerce, bloated by idiots who added 40+ plugins to this mission critical (!!) setup finally exploded into the face of my employer who wouldn't listen for over a year I've been warning him.
You can do amazing stuff with WordPress, but only if you know how to work around it's pitfalls and do most of the things not using WordPress utilities or the abysmally broken WP DB model. I will continue to do so because there's simply no end to jobs right now but you need good humor to deal with the daily crazy.
Truly amazing.
EOM
US icy league is big business, not much more. Lots of marketing and wing flapping. Yeah, they've got innovations and their cool in the hardcore sciences - for super-nerds that get asked on.
Anyone else I'd recommend to see steer clear. Germany tried aping US ivy league some years back. It was/is bullshit. We've got 300+ perfect universities all for free. That's where I would go if I were in the US right now. Abroad, to some country where college is free for all and I get to learn a new language and a new culture.
My 2 cents.
... like someone got his fundamentals mixed up. I'm sure mass in motion (sound) is hampered/influenced by gravity as it should, but that doesn't mean it itself has mass. I expect this guy's findings to be dismissed any time soon
I am more productive if I take deliberate frequent breaks and choose not to feel guilty about it. Measurably so. I also see huge benefits in completely seperating fun and work, such as *not* listening to music when I'm coding but simply leaving the headphones on for some silence.
Just a quick question, sorta on topic:
If you are a Java guy - would you start anew with Java today or pick something else? (Scala, Kotlin, ... Go, Python, whatever).
Que opinions below, and thanks for that.
Jim Sterling - an independent game critic - has been harping on this issue for a few years and it's only gotten worse. The revenue expectations of game publishers are totally bizarre and outlandish. Which is one of the reasons asshole execs are bleeding the AAA industry dry of anything resembling artistic integrity or innovation. ActiBlizz is a husk of former glory days of Blizzard, famous studios get bought up, squeezed for the next open-world-live-service shite and then closed down. Even as revenues are through the roof and higher than ever before people get laid off and/or are still expected to risk their health on some death-march to some large release. At the same time shady tactics for squeezing even more money out of people move AAA publishers towards gambling companies and their shady business. (Star Wars Battlefield anyone?)
Game publishers are just about the worst right now and Nintendo whining that they "only" make 40 billion as opposed to 50 billion (give me an effing break) doesn't make them look to good either IMHO.
For all I care AAA publisher execs can go die in a fire, preferably one fired by all the obscene amounts of cash they can't get enough of.
F*ck this bullsh*t!
I'm sticking to well-aged titles, last-gen systems and indie studios.
My 2 cents.
... the true scarce resource.
Same thing here in Germany. Prices are rising and there seems no end to it. I expect this to get worse with climate change.
... Oh, wait, you're probably in the US. Errrm ... Nevermind.
Seriously you guys across the pond should probably just copy the new EU GDPR verbatim and be done with it. That would save you a lot of hassle. It's a great law and although it forces me to do muy job more diligently that actually by and large is a good thing.
Just sayin'.
... to me.
No viable affordable low end models anymore. MS style hoops to jump through to get xcode. Flaky OS lately. Obscenely priced mobile hardware - although I have to admit that people lap that shit up like it's no tomorrow.
This is why Apple is making such obscene amounts of money. Apple its first and foremost a fashion brand these days. They really don't need to care what experts think.
Hence I'm back to Linux as my main OS. I miss the hard and software integration, but that's the smaller price to pay right now. AFAIAC they need to really get back to 2003 form again if they want me interested again. 13 inch iBook g4 was their high point for me. MB air a close second.
... and even I have pondered what it would be like to hear the same loop for months on end, for 8+hours every day.
I'd probably sabotage either the system or its playlist after a few weeks.
... that Kevin Rose has this problem. He's a fairly successful silicon valley founder and investor and as such is used to solving problems by taking action. The problem he describes however was being unable to chill the f*ck out. Strong measures such as ditching your smartphone are a good way to get closer to that goal.
One of his buddies is the author Tim Ferriss (4-hour Workweek, etc.). Just the other week I listened to the Tim Ferriss Show Podcast were he interviews Greg McKeown and listen in to a roughly 2 hour podcast that turns into something of a coaching/therapy session for Ferriss. Very interesting. These types have a psychological condition that most of us nerds have but only roughly 10 times as much.
Since I'm trying to advance my career I'm treading slightly in similar territory and find that one of the big problems with doing everything at once, all the time, has to do with overinflating ones own importance. A trap a founder like Kevin Rose or a super-successful author and self-marketeer as Tim Ferriss probably fall into on a daily basis.
Conclusion:
I totally get decomissioning a smartphone. Whenever an update is due, I always also consider going back to a robust and cheap feature phone that - on the plus side - doesn't need recharging all the time - and a Filofax and be done with it. The critical communication I need done can be done once or twice a day from whatever computing device is at hand, I really don't need a smartphone to survive. Maps and directions, work-related chat and zero-fuss linked calender and todolists do keep me with the smartphone camp though, as the convenience is a huge difference. And I feel that I can handle my addiction. To an extent that it's not an overwhelming problem that is.
My 2 cents.
Does anyone know any neat Redis alternatives/forks?
... and some bad.
The GDPR is really good and gives authorities leverage over the large internet Megacorps that couldn't give a f*ck and now face bazillion Euro fines if they don't play ball and follow the law. Very nice.
This new copyright law however is total bullshit and something like Europe equivalent of the DMCA. It doesn't impact private people as much as it does impact corps and I expect a lot of anonymous forum activity to move overseas but it still is established by institutions that don't seem to have a clue how the internet works and stick with their old structures come hell or high water. I don't really like this new bill and the smell that cove with it and hope the European Parliament takes it down again or fixed it soon.
EOM
The browser and the operation system it runs on are smaller than a single average pagecall of an average contemporary website. It probably runs on today's feature phones and loads those websites from yesteryear in 300 milliseconds over 3G.
Feel through an assessment task because I couldn't come up with a viable Fibonacci generator and some services built around it fast enough and the one I finally managed to tape together was too clunky - which I was perfectly aware of. Having programmed for 34 years I felt quite silly and discovered that these questions are just as stupid as they were 20 years ago.
The other interview was a sweepingly broad question about how I would build a Microservice architecture Webshop by some 28 year old nerdy IT lead douche. Of course my reply didn't satisfy him.
These questions get asked by three types of people:
1) frustrated nerds in lead positions trying to prove to their own camp how smart they are and how dumb all potential replacements are
2) people who are seeking a performant and obedient fall-guy for a project about to blow up
3) interviewers who have no idea what they are doing and probably have a general governance problem either already in place or slowly brewing
The truth is this: Anyone who thinks they can assess a senior or even medium position with a few questions or a two hour progging assessment is on crack. I might be able to do that after 4 weeks. And I know a thing or two about tech team management.
I'd walk out of an assessment should someone ask one of me again without warning.
That's definitely what we need. A new programming language.
Full quotes. Chronological mess. 98% noise, repetition and footers with bullshit disclaimers. Basically unreadable. If you're not a paying customer, those go straight to the waste-bin. If you are a paying customer I'll reply tersely in the hopes that you will learn how email is written. It's not my fault that Mickeysuck fubared email with default fullquotes and people who were to dumb and/or lazy to change their settings in Outlook back in 1998 when this degrading of email etiquette started.
He had a solid career as a German speaking actor with one of his famous parts actually being the angel coming to earth in Women's Wenders "The Heaven over Berlin" which was ripped off and redone as "City of Angels" with Nicholas Cage playing his part.
However, his impression of Hitler actually was pretty good and authentic. He prepped himself thoroughly for the part also utilising a famous secret recording of Hitler having a regular conversation. Downfall is a pretty impressive movie and a good display of the insanity of the Nazi ideology.
Dating is a social activity with the end goal being to get some.
Software is the thing running on a computer that makes it useful (more or less).
Whatever weed you were smoking when writing this meta-article, please don't offer any of that to me.