There is a truth in what you're saying. When it comes to self, I have seen many developers unable to be objective oriented or have a self-corrective mechanism when it comes to relating to the "real" world. From my observations, their social mechanisms were solidified prematurely. What was once their escapism became their trade; in some ways they never had a chance to grow.
I believe in this industry we need more humility. I think teaching developers the defensive modes of business (e.g. writing proposals, presentations, methodologies in teamwork) can at least offer them a code of ethics to follow while they mature their issues of self/ego in "real" world scenarios.
I still hold that developers are objective; since their trade requires them to be. I agree they are not so good at applying the objectivity to their own behavior; or it could even be said that those tools and thought processes aren't applicable to self-growth.
Men much smarter than you have devoted their entire careers
When you say this, you sound dismissive and stupid. From your former posts, I know you are not stupid but simply dismissive. From that, I can only derive that you have psychological and esteem issues.
Just saying.... this comes from someone who has an IQ over 200.
Now, a better of way of phrasing the same sentiment would be, "smart men have invested more time and work into [this topic] than you have."
I'm a developer too. I agree the young developers have ego issues. But there's an ocean's difference between ego and racism. The resentment I addressed is not racially influence; it's also compounded by the current state of corporate affairs. When someone is not valued for their work, something internally happens. Ego is one thing, it can easily be put into check; but when a developer is not valued nor capable of being assessed, then that egotistical pushback becomes something real and tangible. It becomes resentment.
This is true, but it's JavaScript we're talking about. Project requirements are rarely scoped and developed from the ground up. Most apps and sites are dependent upon bloated frameworks and libraries that are not tailored for mobile capabilities; said frameworks were developed for the desktop.
Not to mention very few JS developers know how to properly manage memory.
It's not racism. It's resentment and entirely justified. From my experience, here's how it grows:
1) Bids and proposals are submitted to American client
2) Middle management of said American client decides to go with lowest bidder (typically from India)
3) Lowest bidder can't satisfy contract due to incompetence
4) 1 year later, project still can't satisfy requirements.
5) American client back peddles to find American developers to fix and complete project
6) American developers review the code... it's a steaming pile of shit.
7) If American developers have sense, they decline the project and quote the client for the whole project
Now, if you're working in-house, the same thing happens except that you can't politely decline the project and are forced to deliver on a steaming pile of shit and you have to have your name attached to garbage.
It's not racism. Developers are objective; if it were good, quality code there wouldn't be any pushback or resentment.
I'm a web developer and have taken JS & CSS for common for years and years now. Spent about 6y working at a small local web design shop and it just wasn't feasible to double contract amounts to make sites work without JS.
Sounds like a management problem, not yours. It is feasible to double contract to create JS-disabled fallbacks. Your company needs to address this in their proposals under accessibility.
This is not what Apple does. Safari has an option in the main preferences pane to enable "Show Develop menu in menu bar". For the past several years, Safari's developer tools have been the most advanced. Other browsers, especially Chrome, have mimicked their GUI and toolset albeit as a dumbed-down implementation.
I presume you are posting for affirmation because the answer is blatantly obvious. EE and military background is the best complimentary experiences you could have. You don't have to market it, let it speak for itself. Your experience is well sought after.
As others have suggested, looking for a defense contractor is an obvious start. Continue to add to your EE background and your options will grow exponentially.
You are in a position that no other civilian has the opportunity to be in. You could even find yourself working at NASA in a few years time if you applied yourself.
Best of luck, and thank you for your service. You won't have any trouble landing a job.
Recording, uploading, and using the video can be illegal without the individual's consent especially if they are identifiable. There are exceptions, like being among a large crowd, participating in a public forum.
What this kid did was illegal *and* on private property.
"The right of publicity is the right to control the commercial use of one's likeness. The most obvious example of this is advertising (whether or not the advertisement is for commercial purposes). This right concerns the subject of the photograph and is distinct from the photographer's copyright licence which may impost its own terms or grant freedoms regarding commercial reuse. All images hosted on Commons must allow free commercial reuse from a copyright point-of-view, but the subject of the photograph may still refuse permission or demand payment for such reuse. This right does not affect the hosting of an image on Commons; might rarely affect the use of an image on a Wikimedia project; and is most likely to affect commercial re-users. In some countries and states, the right of publicity may persist for some time after death."
The primary issue is intent. The people being videotaped without their consent can file a lawsuit. It is arguable the video is being used for commercial purposes (i.e. he is publishing under a perceived trademark). Under most jurisdictions, that requires a permit and proof of insurance. There is very little difference with what he is doing and what portrait photographs do.
Thank you. I really appreciate your response. I know you won't receive any karma since this thread is already dated, but what are your thoughts about cases like Chernobyl and Fukushima?
You are lacking a lot of information. We cannot tell you anything until you provide at least your focus in "techie". What's your niche??
It probably has nothing to do with your age or your lack of education. The best software and developers don't have a collage degree; even the billionaires.
Experience *always* wins over education, so I really don't know what your problem is. Maybe you don't have enough practical, proven experience in delivering real solutions. The agism is hyped here on/.; the real issue is change and knowing how to market yourself. Neck beards get bitter; old people get bitter. Many of them are talented but don't know how to deliver or present themselves.
Among your abilities, I would cite demonstrated experiences that you have had that have contributed to your character: management, yada-yada. Showing management in past experiences in irrelevant jobs says a lot. You know, the stuff that you get with age. Don't get hung up on it, truncate it.
About recruiters.... They need to be treated as they are. It's okay to be condescending to them. If you're networking, none of it matters. They harass me every day. Sometimes I just respond with "LOL". If you're a boss, act like a boss. That's not to say you become egotistical, but understand most of these recruiters are the young folk too. They're early-to-mid 20 somethings who are vain, no skills, barely passed college, whatever. A lot of them are girls with a moderately pretty face; real psycho bitches if you dated them. The guys are flunky frat boys.
Oh, yeah, you might want to set up a LinkedIn account. Recruiters there are basically having an orgy. Job propositions will just jizz all over you.
My advice is to be clear about your working experience and your depth of knowledge; honest, so to speak. All "audiophiles", music engineers, and even famous producers that I have known never went to college.
Maybe you are in the wrong location? It sounds like you need to hustle and network.
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There is a truth in what you're saying. When it comes to self, I have seen many developers unable to be objective oriented or have a self-corrective mechanism when it comes to relating to the "real" world. From my observations, their social mechanisms were solidified prematurely. What was once their escapism became their trade; in some ways they never had a chance to grow.
I believe in this industry we need more humility. I think teaching developers the defensive modes of business (e.g. writing proposals, presentations, methodologies in teamwork) can at least offer them a code of ethics to follow while they mature their issues of self/ego in "real" world scenarios.
I still hold that developers are objective; since their trade requires them to be. I agree they are not so good at applying the objectivity to their own behavior; or it could even be said that those tools and thought processes aren't applicable to self-growth.
It's funny seeing how people are rediscovering the importance of programming as a result of these phones Very, very well said, sir.
And the most fun!
Science articulates what millennia of body builders could only say "duh" to.
When you say this, you sound dismissive and stupid. From your former posts, I know you are not stupid but simply dismissive. From that, I can only derive that you have psychological and esteem issues.
Just saying.... this comes from someone who has an IQ over 200.
Now, a better of way of phrasing the same sentiment would be, "smart men have invested more time and work into [this topic] than you have."
I'm a developer too. I agree the young developers have ego issues. But there's an ocean's difference between ego and racism. The resentment I addressed is not racially influence; it's also compounded by the current state of corporate affairs. When someone is not valued for their work, something internally happens. Ego is one thing, it can easily be put into check; but when a developer is not valued nor capable of being assessed, then that egotistical pushback becomes something real and tangible. It becomes resentment.
This is true, but it's JavaScript we're talking about. Project requirements are rarely scoped and developed from the ground up. Most apps and sites are dependent upon bloated frameworks and libraries that are not tailored for mobile capabilities; said frameworks were developed for the desktop.
Not to mention very few JS developers know how to properly manage memory.
It's not racism. It's resentment and entirely justified. From my experience, here's how it grows:
1) Bids and proposals are submitted to American client 2) Middle management of said American client decides to go with lowest bidder (typically from India) 3) Lowest bidder can't satisfy contract due to incompetence 4) 1 year later, project still can't satisfy requirements. 5) American client back peddles to find American developers to fix and complete project 6) American developers review the code... it's a steaming pile of shit. 7) If American developers have sense, they decline the project and quote the client for the whole project
Now, if you're working in-house, the same thing happens except that you can't politely decline the project and are forced to deliver on a steaming pile of shit and you have to have your name attached to garbage.
It's not racism. Developers are objective; if it were good, quality code there wouldn't be any pushback or resentment.
Torture. Amiright?
What's the age range of the developers in Silicon Valley these days? I suspect they aren't old enough to remember *why* we needed web standards.
Sounds like a management problem, not yours. It is feasible to double contract to create JS-disabled fallbacks. Your company needs to address this in their proposals under accessibility.
This is not what Apple does. Safari has an option in the main preferences pane to enable "Show Develop menu in menu bar". For the past several years, Safari's developer tools have been the most advanced. Other browsers, especially Chrome, have mimicked their GUI and toolset albeit as a dumbed-down implementation.
The following troll got mod points. No wonder all the intelligent contributers are fleeing /.
Great point.
... from a snarky invalid.
Idiot.
+1 Idiot meet idiot.
You write in broken English; best guess is that you haven't read a single book in your life. That's easy to dismiss if you weren't a troll.
I presume you are posting for affirmation because the answer is blatantly obvious. EE and military background is the best complimentary experiences you could have. You don't have to market it, let it speak for itself. Your experience is well sought after.
As others have suggested, looking for a defense contractor is an obvious start. Continue to add to your EE background and your options will grow exponentially.
You are in a position that no other civilian has the opportunity to be in. You could even find yourself working at NASA in a few years time if you applied yourself.
Best of luck, and thank you for your service. You won't have any trouble landing a job.
Recording, uploading, and using the video can be illegal without the individual's consent especially if they are identifiable. There are exceptions, like being among a large crowd, participating in a public forum.
What this kid did was illegal *and* on private property.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Photographs_of_identifiable_people
"The right of publicity is the right to control the commercial use of one's likeness. The most obvious example of this is advertising (whether or not the advertisement is for commercial purposes). This right concerns the subject of the photograph and is distinct from the photographer's copyright licence which may impost its own terms or grant freedoms regarding commercial reuse. All images hosted on Commons must allow free commercial reuse from a copyright point-of-view, but the subject of the photograph may still refuse permission or demand payment for such reuse. This right does not affect the hosting of an image on Commons; might rarely affect the use of an image on a Wikimedia project; and is most likely to affect commercial re-users. In some countries and states, the right of publicity may persist for some time after death."
The primary issue is intent. The people being videotaped without their consent can file a lawsuit. It is arguable the video is being used for commercial purposes (i.e. he is publishing under a perceived trademark). Under most jurisdictions, that requires a permit and proof of insurance. There is very little difference with what he is doing and what portrait photographs do.
People would second guess their impulses, both bad *and* good.
I will call it Solar Sail [input name of first girlfriend].
Solar Sail Titanic!
Thank you. I really appreciate your response. I know you won't receive any karma since this thread is already dated, but what are your thoughts about cases like Chernobyl and Fukushima?
Sorry, I misread that you were in an audiophile.
You are lacking a lot of information. We cannot tell you anything until you provide at least your focus in "techie". What's your niche??
It probably has nothing to do with your age or your lack of education. The best software and developers don't have a collage degree; even the billionaires.
Experience *always* wins over education, so I really don't know what your problem is. Maybe you don't have enough practical, proven experience in delivering real solutions. The agism is hyped here on /.; the real issue is change and knowing how to market yourself. Neck beards get bitter; old people get bitter. Many of them are talented but don't know how to deliver or present themselves.
Among your abilities, I would cite demonstrated experiences that you have had that have contributed to your character: management, yada-yada. Showing management in past experiences in irrelevant jobs says a lot. You know, the stuff that you get with age. Don't get hung up on it, truncate it.
About recruiters.... They need to be treated as they are. It's okay to be condescending to them. If you're networking, none of it matters. They harass me every day. Sometimes I just respond with "LOL". If you're a boss, act like a boss. That's not to say you become egotistical, but understand most of these recruiters are the young folk too. They're early-to-mid 20 somethings who are vain, no skills, barely passed college, whatever. A lot of them are girls with a moderately pretty face; real psycho bitches if you dated them. The guys are flunky frat boys.
Oh, yeah, you might want to set up a LinkedIn account. Recruiters there are basically having an orgy. Job propositions will just jizz all over you.
My advice is to be clear about your working experience and your depth of knowledge; honest, so to speak. All "audiophiles", music engineers, and even famous producers that I have known never went to college.
Maybe you are in the wrong location? It sounds like you need to hustle and network.
You're still thinking that we will be around to do so. This mentality is dangerous.
In any case the radiation emitted by such materials approaches that of the natural background
From your knowledge, can you explain how?