In the upcoming virtualized, cloud world, SysAdmins could be based anywhere, and DevOps is going to reduce the number of admins per server.
What do you mean upcoming? This is already reality.
We used to have an admin per 50-100 servers, now 1 can do 1000+. But the nature of apps these days is we now need tons of devs, so we have far more bums on seats than the old days.
Nothing riles up a senator than knowing that their most powerful political job pays significantly less than the most powerful corporate job.
Really? How many Senators have you met?
Anyone who has the skills of a senior public official cold easily walk into a corporate gig without blinking. If it bothered them that much they wouldn't stick around.
In fact I recall one discussing this topic and saying salaries of public office need to modest to ensure regular people have a chance at being elected (too high salaries would simply attract the elites and therefore become undemocratic)
India/Malaysia
1. BS grad with avg or better GPA (American influenced standard)
I worked on a project opening a Malaysian development centre (ie to hire local devs for 1/10th the salary). In theory it sounded great, but you do take a massive hit on quality. Even thought they claim all these qualifications, degrees and certs, most people I met were monkeys that were struggled to do anything as soon as it went off the menu.
You can get stuff done, but it requires a shit load more micromanagement because they are so useless at everything.
After a couple of years we started shifting stuff back on shore, only using the Malaysians for monkey work, and anything that required thinking was done back at home. My current experience of dealing with Indian outsourcers is much the same.
Disney is not hiring H1-B's to replace their existing IT people; they are outsourcing the jobs that used to be handled by their in-house IT department to another company.
And it's time we called those companies out.
Infosys and Wipro are two of the largest Indian outsourcers. They bring over teams of useless fucking curry munchers out of some cert factory in India so they can win contracts that local companies can't compete with. I got a call once from these guys and they were all Indians that I could barely understand. A friend of mine took a job there and said he got treated like a slave.
Stop giving them work and they will go away.
I've noticed a pattern lately, AC's with provocative trolling getting modded up and drowning out the rational discussion.
New owners take note, this needs addressing.
I think it is illegitimate for you to criticize any migrants. BOOM. I just destroyed your free speech.
There's no such thing as "legitimate" or "illegitimate" free speech because such terms are completely subjective. There's free speech or there isn't. Pick one.
Only if you are pretending to be a robot from the 1950's. Most of us humans can figure out the difference.
Meanwhile it's okay with Zuckerberg and Merkel (and others of their ilk) that the immigrants can hate Europeans as much as they want. Both of them are too damned stupid to see what is actually happening. Either that or they're evil.
Or, Zuckerberg and Merkel know far more about all the issues involved than some guy who made his judgement based on a headline he read on the Internet one time...
Eg 'homophobe' is used to describe people who, rather than fearing homosexuals, disapprove of it on moral grounds. These people do not fear homosexuals.
They do if they feel the need to act on their opinion. If you didn't feel threatened you wouldn't care either way. The fact some people get so uppity about it reveals that deep down, they are scared of something.
Nuclear armed India, India who fights over Kashmir? Apparently not.
You know that 'India' is not a person right? And the entire Indian race don't all share the exact same philosophical views yeah? Or are you really that ignorant?
Hitler, Stalin -- Are you seriously saying their philosophies are not being followed? Both were role models to various strong-men dictators of recent times.
Yes because their "philosophies" is their pen. Their tanks and bombs were their swords (see how it works now?)
Mao -- Tiananmen Square protests/massacre of 1989. Can the Pen in China even mention the actual events?
If you've ever been to China you would see that since the 80's China's rule has become more benign. This didn't happen with guns or swords.
The only reason females of our species haven't done away with us already, is that we were the only route for children. If we lose that, there is no way they'll put up with us any longer. We're doomed, I tell you, doomed !
That and the fact we can smash them if they step out of line.
...because the one thing this planet needs is even more humans?
In the developed world, birth rates are fairly stable (ie every 2 people have less than 2 babies each on average). So the only over-population problem is people in poor countries breeding like rabbits.
Gandhi's struggle would have turned out very, very differently had he been dealing with Hitler or Stalin or Mao instead of the British Empire. His methods only work against an adversary who has at least SOME heart or nobility you can leverage and exploit.
I don't think you fully grasp the concept. ie Gandhi's philosphy is still be taught, supported, and followed. Hitler, Stalin, and Mao not so much. So yeah I think his pen still beats their swords.
Ab-so-fucking-lutely!
The biggest weapon against these clowns is humour. They simply cannot handle it.
A bunch of dudes all dressing the same with matching beards, it's like some sort of homo-erotica act.
That would make sense, except when you send a packet, you must first assemble it. Don't include the data you don't have to scrub............
Hey I'm no apps guy, but I would have thought that the app will already have 'user_data' as a blob, and all the OS has to do is send that. Anything else would require some local intelligent process to filter types of data. Centralising that makes more sense to me (assuming data sizes are not impacting on the network).
So, you are changing the definition of secure. You can have it your way, but now we are comparing apples and oranges (that's apples without the capital "A".)
That's the thing with security, you can't create boundaries. If by creating extreme security for your personal information, you then prevent one of the key pillars of the justice system from functioning (court approved access to information), are you really more secure overall?
Are you sure? http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi...
I couldn't find any reliable figures, but appears to be similar both ways (around 200k). Perhaps more interesting is that there are 1.2million!!! Brits in Australia.
Well, "better working conditions" also means less likely to be killed in a conflict when it comes to service members,
I should've said 'perception' of better working conditions. Since the actual working conditions are much worse (eg being signed up for a war that shouldn't have been started in the first place)
But they are not the ultimate.... not by a long shot. Environmentalists are. They are the 3rd largest murdering philosophy in the history of the world (after Communism and Fascism) if you go purely by body count.
Oh jesus here we go. I've got to hear this, so go on explain it...
My take on it is that quantum proof crypto exists, but it's not necessarily the same ciphers being used right now.
Also worth noting that while the cipher maybe unbreakable, there are still many other ways to gain access to the information (eg key interception as with Heartbleed). So I suspect a lot of effort will be put into these areas as well.
You see THIS is how it worked in retail back then, and I should know as I was buds with the owner of one of the larger retailers in my area and he and everyone around him all took a bath. The distributors had this "You can't lose!" scheme set up where it went like this..
I worked for a big software distributor in the 90's. Their sales model was to offer refunds to retailers for anything they couldn't sell. But here's the catch, the sales people still got their commission even on returned items. So come Christmas millions in stock went out the door, and come January millions came back again minus all the commission.
I was only there 2 years before they went bankrupt.
They're being asked to build software that doesn't exist to subvert a security feature in iOS.
"Build" might be an exaggeration. The FBI only need the OS to have the max_number_of_retries=10 line commented out and sign the new version to this device. The right person could probably knock it over in an hour.
Let's not pretend this is more complicated than it is.
Perhaps Apple doesn't want to divert their resources off of the products and product lines that are important to them as a company.
So out of 100,000+ employees, they can't spare a couple for one week to comment out the number_of_retries=10 code?
Perhaps Apple doesn't want the liability if they mistakenly delete all the data the FBI wants.
Er what? Unless they plan on giving this to the intern, how would that even happen?
Perhaps Apple doesn't want to set a legal precedent that companies will result in ever increasing demands to break their products in the way the government desires.
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In the upcoming virtualized, cloud world, SysAdmins could be based anywhere, and DevOps is going to reduce the number of admins per server.
What do you mean upcoming? This is already reality.
We used to have an admin per 50-100 servers, now 1 can do 1000+. But the nature of apps these days is we now need tons of devs, so we have far more bums on seats than the old days.
Nothing riles up a senator than knowing that their most powerful political job pays significantly less than the most powerful corporate job.
Really? How many Senators have you met? Anyone who has the skills of a senior public official cold easily walk into a corporate gig without blinking. If it bothered them that much they wouldn't stick around.
In fact I recall one discussing this topic and saying salaries of public office need to modest to ensure regular people have a chance at being elected (too high salaries would simply attract the elites and therefore become undemocratic)
India/Malaysia 1. BS grad with avg or better GPA (American influenced standard)
I worked on a project opening a Malaysian development centre (ie to hire local devs for 1/10th the salary). In theory it sounded great, but you do take a massive hit on quality. Even thought they claim all these qualifications, degrees and certs, most people I met were monkeys that were struggled to do anything as soon as it went off the menu.
You can get stuff done, but it requires a shit load more micromanagement because they are so useless at everything.
After a couple of years we started shifting stuff back on shore, only using the Malaysians for monkey work, and anything that required thinking was done back at home. My current experience of dealing with Indian outsourcers is much the same.
Disney is not hiring H1-B's to replace their existing IT people; they are outsourcing the jobs that used to be handled by their in-house IT department to another company.
And it's time we called those companies out. Infosys and Wipro are two of the largest Indian outsourcers. They bring over teams of useless fucking curry munchers out of some cert factory in India so they can win contracts that local companies can't compete with. I got a call once from these guys and they were all Indians that I could barely understand. A friend of mine took a job there and said he got treated like a slave.
Stop giving them work and they will go away.
If that isn't enough to frighten you
Be afraid! What are you, Fox News?
I've noticed a pattern lately, AC's with provocative trolling getting modded up and drowning out the rational discussion.
New owners take note, this needs addressing.
WTF is "legitimate" free speech?
I think it is illegitimate for you to criticize any migrants. BOOM. I just destroyed your free speech.
There's no such thing as "legitimate" or "illegitimate" free speech because such terms are completely subjective. There's free speech or there isn't. Pick one.
Only if you are pretending to be a robot from the 1950's. Most of us humans can figure out the difference.
Meanwhile it's okay with Zuckerberg and Merkel (and others of their ilk) that the immigrants can hate Europeans as much as they want. Both of them are too damned stupid to see what is actually happening. Either that or they're evil.
Or, Zuckerberg and Merkel know far more about all the issues involved than some guy who made his judgement based on a headline he read on the Internet one time...
Great. Now please post the design specs so that a coder can put in place logic enforcing such well-defined German laws and case precedents.
Er, why? Any legal issues can be resolved by people, who are still far better at judging the nuances of human behaviour than any computer.
And calling molecules "hydrophobic" is similarly wrong. They don't hate water, there is simply "an absence of attraction".
Phobia doesn't mean hate, it means fear of. Hydrophobes exhibit a repulsion towards water hence the term.
Eg 'homophobe' is used to describe people who, rather than fearing homosexuals, disapprove of it on moral grounds. These people do not fear homosexuals.
They do if they feel the need to act on their opinion. If you didn't feel threatened you wouldn't care either way. The fact some people get so uppity about it reveals that deep down, they are scared of something.
Swords rule in China.
Yet they stole your entire manufacturing industry without a single shot being fired...
Over and over and over, the pen is secondary to the sword.
Only if you are incapable of understanding the concept.
Gandhi's philosophy is being followed by who?
Seriously?
Nuclear armed India, India who fights over Kashmir? Apparently not.
You know that 'India' is not a person right? And the entire Indian race don't all share the exact same philosophical views yeah? Or are you really that ignorant?
Hitler, Stalin -- Are you seriously saying their philosophies are not being followed? Both were role models to various strong-men dictators of recent times.
Yes because their "philosophies" is their pen. Their tanks and bombs were their swords (see how it works now?)
Mao -- Tiananmen Square protests/massacre of 1989. Can the Pen in China even mention the actual events?
If you've ever been to China you would see that since the 80's China's rule has become more benign. This didn't happen with guns or swords.
The only reason females of our species haven't done away with us already, is that we were the only route for children. If we lose that, there is no way they'll put up with us any longer. We're doomed, I tell you, doomed !
That and the fact we can smash them if they step out of line.
In the developed world, birth rates are fairly stable (ie every 2 people have less than 2 babies each on average). So the only over-population problem is people in poor countries breeding like rabbits.
Gandhi's struggle would have turned out very, very differently had he been dealing with Hitler or Stalin or Mao instead of the British Empire. His methods only work against an adversary who has at least SOME heart or nobility you can leverage and exploit.
I don't think you fully grasp the concept. ie Gandhi's philosphy is still be taught, supported, and followed. Hitler, Stalin, and Mao not so much. So yeah I think his pen still beats their swords.
Ab-so-fucking-lutely!
The biggest weapon against these clowns is humour. They simply cannot handle it.
A bunch of dudes all dressing the same with matching beards, it's like some sort of homo-erotica act.
That would make sense, except when you send a packet, you must first assemble it. Don't include the data you don't have to scrub............
Hey I'm no apps guy, but I would have thought that the app will already have 'user_data' as a blob, and all the OS has to do is send that. Anything else would require some local intelligent process to filter types of data. Centralising that makes more sense to me (assuming data sizes are not impacting on the network).
So, you are changing the definition of secure. You can have it your way, but now we are comparing apples and oranges (that's apples without the capital "A".)
That's the thing with security, you can't create boundaries. If by creating extreme security for your personal information, you then prevent one of the key pillars of the justice system from functioning (court approved access to information), are you really more secure overall?
Are you sure?
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi...
I couldn't find any reliable figures, but appears to be similar both ways (around 200k). Perhaps more interesting is that there are 1.2million!!! Brits in Australia.
Well, "better working conditions" also means less likely to be killed in a conflict when it comes to service members,
I should've said 'perception' of better working conditions. Since the actual working conditions are much worse (eg being signed up for a war that shouldn't have been started in the first place)
But they are not the ultimate.... not by a long shot. Environmentalists are. They are the 3rd largest murdering philosophy in the history of the world (after Communism and Fascism) if you go purely by body count.
Oh jesus here we go. I've got to hear this, so go on explain it...
My take on it is that quantum proof crypto exists, but it's not necessarily the same ciphers being used right now.
Also worth noting that while the cipher maybe unbreakable, there are still many other ways to gain access to the information (eg key interception as with Heartbleed). So I suspect a lot of effort will be put into these areas as well.
You see THIS is how it worked in retail back then, and I should know as I was buds with the owner of one of the larger retailers in my area and he and everyone around him all took a bath. The distributors had this "You can't lose!" scheme set up where it went like this..
I worked for a big software distributor in the 90's. Their sales model was to offer refunds to retailers for anything they couldn't sell. But here's the catch, the sales people still got their commission even on returned items. So come Christmas millions in stock went out the door, and come January millions came back again minus all the commission.
I was only there 2 years before they went bankrupt.
They're being asked to build software that doesn't exist to subvert a security feature in iOS.
"Build" might be an exaggeration. The FBI only need the OS to have the max_number_of_retries=10 line commented out and sign the new version to this device. The right person could probably knock it over in an hour.
Let's not pretend this is more complicated than it is.
Perhaps Apple doesn't want to divert their resources off of the products and product lines that are important to them as a company.
So out of 100,000+ employees, they can't spare a couple for one week to comment out the number_of_retries=10 code?
Perhaps Apple doesn't want the liability if they mistakenly delete all the data the FBI wants.
Er what? Unless they plan on giving this to the intern, how would that even happen?
Perhaps Apple doesn't want to set a legal precedent that companies will result in ever increasing demands to break their products in the way the government desires.
Tough titty, the Justice system takes precedence
Perhaps Apple is taking a principled stand.
Hahahahahahaha.... yeah good one....