Without any market incentive, they would have to have vision, is that what you're saying? It sounds like you're advocating for some sense of social responsibility outside the market.
That's basically a non-starter in today's capitalism. I agree that they SHOULD have a sense of responsibility outside what gets them money, but they won't.
IF these corporations were actually people, they'd get the shit beat out of them every day on the streets.
Why would the ISPs do this? They have no incentive. The correlation with customer service is a good thing to note, too. The American people are being bent over a barrel on this.
I haven't worked with C++ much for about 3 years, but when I did, manually editing Makefiles and the like caused more than a little indigestion. After having worked with Python, JavaScript with Grunt, several IDEs, and even crap like Maven for Java/Scala projects, I don't want to go back to the early steps of getting C++ projects just to execute. There seems to be no doubt that I've missed some developments in that area in the last few years, though.
Fuck that. I'll pay Netflix for Netflix, the ISP should be providing the brandwidth that you're paying for to all sites. Would you pay more to Verizon if they ACTUALLY provided what they say they're giving you?
I'd pay more for Netflix just to see more content.
If I had more mod points, I'd give them all to this post. The false dichotomy is a hobgoblin of little minds, and if it weren't for the fact that some of those little minds are now managers, like this guy, I wouldn't worry about it for a millisecond.
Just out of curiosity, since your employer is apparently paying a lot with relatively easy to manage goals, do you feel like your job is imminently offshorable? Have you noticed any corporate glances in that direction?
They can give you some direction, and, in some cases, help you navigate the framework hellscape. Pick a topic, and see if you can find an online class for it, either with a University or a MOOC. You may also notice that with your experience, you can run circles around some of the other students. Incidentally, having worked with a few self-taught duct tape coders - who tried to build the whole system out of duct tape, not that you are one, I'm just saying - a generic, high-level "Software Development" course where they teach design patterns, software architectures and practical development, may be in order.
There's more to life than gladiatorial combat, but you think the world has to revolve around you carrying a notebook and a few things? Do you people even listen to yourselves? Get your head out of your posteriors.
It's about 8 Saturdays per year. He could've said they shot academics on site when they tried to park, and his and your arguments are still really stupid. It's not clear whether they were actively turning those with academically-purposed parking passes away, or making them pay, or if they were just opening his lot to those dirty football hooligans and he forgot it was a football Saturday a few times and found his space taken, but it doesn't matter. Go watch the game on TV.
Besides all that, my University lets a good number of academics park for free in their lots on game day, which is actually a plus. After the act of parking, they're encouraged to cheer on the team, enjoy some novel food, make new acquaintances that they wouldn't normally meet (i.e., networking), see old friends, and generally enjoy being alive; just a few of the advantages of having a sports team around.
You have this completely bass akwards. The reason NFL players are worshiped and not the owners is because it's the players who go out there and put their bodies and livelihoods on the line, and actually make the form of entertainment worthwhile, while owners treat it like nothing but a business. The most successful owners don't interfere with football at all, they hire a good GM to do that. Then you see them strong-arming their local and state governments for money for their stadiums, threatening to move (that's why LA has no team, the owners want that constant threat), jacking up ticket costs and merchandise costs, and taking massive tax write-offs. They treat their players like commodities. One of them was quoted as saying, "it's time to take back OUR league," during the last players association negotiations. They have it bass akwards, too.
Hopefully the individuals who went to a 4 year institution became well-rounded enough to know that most of what you just said is pure BS, though. You seem pretty set in your delusions, but I'll try to speak to just one. CS majors want everything taught to them? Who makes it in this industry without being able to teach themselves something? Plus, this may come as a surprise to you, but your typical class requires some self-teaching. *Especially* Master's classes. If you want an A, which exhibits mastery of a subject, you have most likely gone beyond what the professor asked of you.
A lot of the rest of what you talked about is addressed in part by a Psychology 101 class that speaks about motivation and ability. You won't have to worry about having your seemingly useless criteria for why people do things challenged in such a course, though, because you've already got your $150k house, and they let you hire and fire people already.
When did your daughter graduate? Based on the fact that you tried to use yourself and your wife as an example, I have to ask, because those times have changed (see the part where $253 billion turned into $1.08 trillion).
State schools are slowly being defunded and tuitions for their students are rising, too.
The court said the FCC DOES have the authority to enforce network neutrality, just not under its (the FCC's) current classification of ISPs. That is, the FCC has ISPs classified as "information services," rather than "common carriers." The court ruling says the FCC does have the power to enforce net neutrality against "common carriers," but does not against "information services." The court, but all reasonable interpretations I've see, is right.
What needs to happen is ISPs need to be reclassified as "common carriers," or something very similar, but right now all of our politicians and the FCC head in particular are bought up by those same ISPs.
There is a reason net neutrality did not last very long after the Citizen's United ruling.
...reason. Deny the damn thing because it's only being built to export gasoline from southern states to China, not help get the US get off foreign oil:
http://thinkprogress.org/clima...
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Without any market incentive, they would have to have vision, is that what you're saying? It sounds like you're advocating for some sense of social responsibility outside the market.
That's basically a non-starter in today's capitalism. I agree that they SHOULD have a sense of responsibility outside what gets them money, but they won't.
IF these corporations were actually people, they'd get the shit beat out of them every day on the streets.
Why would the ISPs do this? They have no incentive. The correlation with customer service is a good thing to note, too. The American people are being bent over a barrel on this.
I would LOVE 2 choices. I only have 1. All the more reason these companies should be busted the hell up instead of merged,.
I haven't worked with C++ much for about 3 years, but when I did, manually editing Makefiles and the like caused more than a little indigestion. After having worked with Python, JavaScript with Grunt, several IDEs, and even crap like Maven for Java/Scala projects, I don't want to go back to the early steps of getting C++ projects just to execute. There seems to be no doubt that I've missed some developments in that area in the last few years, though.
Fuck that. I'll pay Netflix for Netflix, the ISP should be providing the brandwidth that you're paying for to all sites. Would you pay more to Verizon if they ACTUALLY provided what they say they're giving you?
I'd pay more for Netflix just to see more content.
Either buy a house, or a BYTE magazine, I guess.
If I had more mod points, I'd give them all to this post. The false dichotomy is a hobgoblin of little minds, and if it weren't for the fact that some of those little minds are now managers, like this guy, I wouldn't worry about it for a millisecond.
Surely you realize you're an exception. In fact, your story seems so absurd by today's standards that it almost comes off as parody.
...anyway, back to work.
Just out of curiosity, since your employer is apparently paying a lot with relatively easy to manage goals, do you feel like your job is imminently offshorable? Have you noticed any corporate glances in that direction?
Ignorance is bliss, and you're talking about the opposite.
Subversion is really a joke. Gotcha!
It's truly unreal that they didn't do this.
They can give you some direction, and, in some cases, help you navigate the framework hellscape. Pick a topic, and see if you can find an online class for it, either with a University or a MOOC. You may also notice that with your experience, you can run circles around some of the other students. Incidentally, having worked with a few self-taught duct tape coders - who tried to build the whole system out of duct tape, not that you are one, I'm just saying - a generic, high-level "Software Development" course where they teach design patterns, software architectures and practical development, may be in order.
There's more to life than gladiatorial combat, but you think the world has to revolve around you carrying a notebook and a few things? Do you people even listen to yourselves? Get your head out of your posteriors.
In what respect, Charlie?
It's about 8 Saturdays per year. He could've said they shot academics on site when they tried to park, and his and your arguments are still really stupid. It's not clear whether they were actively turning those with academically-purposed parking passes away, or making them pay, or if they were just opening his lot to those dirty football hooligans and he forgot it was a football Saturday a few times and found his space taken, but it doesn't matter. Go watch the game on TV.
Besides all that, my University lets a good number of academics park for free in their lots on game day, which is actually a plus. After the act of parking, they're encouraged to cheer on the team, enjoy some novel food, make new acquaintances that they wouldn't normally meet (i.e., networking), see old friends, and generally enjoy being alive; just a few of the advantages of having a sports team around.
You have this completely bass akwards. The reason NFL players are worshiped and not the owners is because it's the players who go out there and put their bodies and livelihoods on the line, and actually make the form of entertainment worthwhile, while owners treat it like nothing but a business. The most successful owners don't interfere with football at all, they hire a good GM to do that. Then you see them strong-arming their local and state governments for money for their stadiums, threatening to move (that's why LA has no team, the owners want that constant threat), jacking up ticket costs and merchandise costs, and taking massive tax write-offs. They treat their players like commodities. One of them was quoted as saying, "it's time to take back OUR league," during the last players association negotiations. They have it bass akwards, too.
OH the horror! They closed your parking lot to just the academics? You owe somebody some lunch money for this straw man.
Hopefully the individuals who went to a 4 year institution became well-rounded enough to know that most of what you just said is pure BS, though. You seem pretty set in your delusions, but I'll try to speak to just one. CS majors want everything taught to them? Who makes it in this industry without being able to teach themselves something? Plus, this may come as a surprise to you, but your typical class requires some self-teaching. *Especially* Master's classes. If you want an A, which exhibits mastery of a subject, you have most likely gone beyond what the professor asked of you. A lot of the rest of what you talked about is addressed in part by a Psychology 101 class that speaks about motivation and ability. You won't have to worry about having your seemingly useless criteria for why people do things challenged in such a course, though, because you've already got your $150k house, and they let you hire and fire people already.
When did your daughter graduate? Based on the fact that you tried to use yourself and your wife as an example, I have to ask, because those times have changed (see the part where $253 billion turned into $1.08 trillion). State schools are slowly being defunded and tuitions for their students are rising, too.
The court said the FCC DOES have the authority to enforce network neutrality, just not under its (the FCC's) current classification of ISPs. That is, the FCC has ISPs classified as "information services," rather than "common carriers." The court ruling says the FCC does have the power to enforce net neutrality against "common carriers," but does not against "information services." The court, but all reasonable interpretations I've see, is right. What needs to happen is ISPs need to be reclassified as "common carriers," or something very similar, but right now all of our politicians and the FCC head in particular are bought up by those same ISPs. There is a reason net neutrality did not last very long after the Citizen's United ruling.
...reason. Deny the damn thing because it's only being built to export gasoline from southern states to China, not help get the US get off foreign oil: http://thinkprogress.org/clima...
Do you make more than ~$65k? Did you ever have aspirations to do so? If not, you may, in fact, avoid ageism.
I'm 40 --
Thank you, we've heard enough. Next applicant please.
You mean you're not hiring Perl or PHP developers?