Silicon Valley was nowhere in the 60s. Everything has it's rise and fall
Consider what happened around Boston, look at the wreckage of the computer industry there:
Symbolics, Lisp Machine, Prime, Data General, Wang, ComputerVision, and (of course) Digital Equipment Corporation.
For a while, route 128 was the epicenter of the American computer industry. Now, those companies are all dead.
It's coming for you, California! Silicon Graphics, Sun... Gone... HP is already circling the drain. Apple's remarkable boutique computer business can only last so long. The web companies are largely one-trick ponies, just waiting to lame up. (We saw what happened to Twitter's valuation last week...)
what could possibly go wrong with this plan? would a laser that powerful represent a destabilizing weapon? If you can de-orbit "space junk" what else can you de-orbit? How could you regain control over a ISS taken by person(s) intent on using it as a weapon?
The apple watch is a toy for geeks and arm candy for insecure rich extroverts.
How practical is a watch that needs to visit the (highly proprietary) charger after no more than 18 hours of "typical" use? If you are traveling and you forget the charge cable your watch turns into an expensive but useless bracelet. Your Swatch, Timex, Casio, Rolex, Patak, Seiko, etc. will still tell time.
2017 cannot come fast enough. The current administration in the white house does not even know what party it represents, what it stands for.
This is lunacy. There are not 545,000 IT job openings in this country. Look at dice.com, indeed, monster, etc. TRY TO GET A JOB.
I bet there are less than 100,000 real positions available.
This is just a red herring to let them open up the H1-B faucet and drive wages down. This would have been unsurprising coming from the republicans, but from the obama administration? Just more incompetence. Disappointing, but not unexpected.
I'm running Chrome 41 on CentOS 6 -- that has kernel 2.6.32. I followed the link and one of the complaints was that Chrome remote desktop could not be installed. So I installed it. Works fine. No problems here.
Linux 3.17 clearly is not the minimum requirement.
(yes, it takes a shim to get Chrome to work on CentOS. It is a pain. see chrome.richardlloyd.org.uk -- he figured out how to make it work, and it works well.)
It's not the kernel that the source of the problem. It's the desktop. Changing the kernel away from Linux is not going to do diddly squat if we are still saddled with KDE or Mate or Cinnamon or Gnome or Xfce or blasted Unity.
Linux has not won the desktop because the the Linux desktops all blow. I use Xfce, I like it the best because it stays out of my way more than the rest.
Why do so many hackers prefer Mac? It's not for the overpriced hardware. Is it because the suspend works so well? It cannot be for the GUI because the OS X GUI really blows.
Then there's Windows 8, an utterly unusable abomination...
It seems Intuit is now in damage control mode; apparently if you call them and bitch enough they will upgrade you to "Premier" for free.
I've been a quickbooks customer for a long time, so I'm kind of used to the fleecing. I have never had a high opinion of Intuit the company; Quickbooks works well enough for the money, but if there was a reasonable alternative I would be gone in seconds.
Eben Upton gets my nod. The Raspberry Pi is a huge success; his goals were noble; they were to make an inexpensive computer that **anybody** could afford and use to learn about computing. Delivered.
As far as Snowden goes -- I award him some used toilet paper. If he was a patriot, then he would have kept his disclosures to what was patently illegal, that is, the NSA's warrantless collection of data from American citizens in America. But Eddy went way past that; he had an agenda, and his agenda was not to surface the NSA's illegal activities in the US, his agenda was to burn down the NSA completely. He's not a patriot, he is a criminal, a traitor, and I pray the next time he sees his homeland it is is from the inside of a cell. Meanwhile, I hope he is freezing his ass off in Russia.
My advice would be not to go into management unless there is a way to keep your technical skills up. You won't find the headhunters as eager to place managers, except the highly technically adept ones. If you let your technical skills rot, it may become more difficult to stay employed.
I've worked as a developer, architect, project leader and "director of development" (whoa) and I prefer the technical contributor roles -- but that's just me.
As far as the companies that appear to be "age-ist" -- run away! A lot of that is done because the younger developers can be had for less money, they can and will work longer hours (usually because they don't have a family or really any life outside work) and they just don't know better. I can tell you from the times I have done "leadership" that I would rather have two skilled old-timers than four fresh-outs working on my team. The two old timers will almost always out-produce the four fresh-uts in terms of actual delivery and quality. So you get what you pay for.
$5,231 is the taxpayer's contribution. The individual would pay another $2,877/year (if they are, for instance, a single 30 year old making $35,000 a year, that is outside of the range where the government subsidy kicks in.)
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There was a 4.2 near Portage, Michigan, where people are not used to earthquakes.
There were THREE earthquakes in New Hampshire in the last couple weeks, where people are also not used to earthquakes.
How is this news?
Another slow news day at Slashdot?
Get a grip, Timothy. NOT NEWS.
Silicon Valley was nowhere in the 60s. Everything has it's rise and fall
Consider what happened around Boston, look at the wreckage of the computer industry there:
Symbolics, Lisp Machine, Prime, Data General, Wang, ComputerVision, and (of course) Digital Equipment Corporation.
For a while, route 128 was the epicenter of the American computer industry. Now, those companies are all dead.
It's coming for you, California! Silicon Graphics, Sun... Gone... HP is already circling the drain. Apple's remarkable boutique computer business can only last so long. The web companies are largely one-trick ponies, just waiting to lame up. (We saw what happened to Twitter's valuation last week...)
I call bullshit on this article.
You don't need to sign a non-compete in California, your employer already has signed one for you!
They've all secretly agreed not to poach! Who needs a non-compete agreement when your employer's competitors have all agreed not to hire you!
If it had not been a GE machine at Dartmouth, it would have been something else that Kemeny and Kurtz wrote BASIC on.
What utter claptrap. Ridiculous.
what could possibly go wrong with this plan? would a laser that powerful represent a destabilizing weapon? If you can de-orbit "space junk" what else can you de-orbit? How could you regain control over a ISS taken by person(s) intent on using it as a weapon?
same as the old boss
We Americans will get the government we deserve, once again. I'm too jaded to be disappointed.
I did. really. tiny robots that eat all the crud off your teeth then die when no more crud.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/...
Ummm. The median age at Google is 29. You can do the math. There are not many 50+ people there. There are a shitload of 25s.
How did this get promoted up to the point where it makes the slashdot front page?
Slow news day, Timothy?
The question is utterly ridiculous. What a waste of time.
The apple watch is a toy for geeks and arm candy for insecure rich extroverts.
How practical is a watch that needs to visit the (highly proprietary) charger after no more than 18 hours of "typical" use? If you are traveling and you forget the charge cable your watch turns into an expensive but useless bracelet. Your Swatch, Timex, Casio, Rolex, Patak, Seiko, etc. will still tell time.
Utterly ridiculous.
2017 cannot come fast enough. The current administration in the white house does not even know what party it represents, what it stands for.
This is lunacy. There are not 545,000 IT job openings in this country. Look at dice.com, indeed, monster, etc. TRY TO GET A JOB.
I bet there are less than 100,000 real positions available.
This is just a red herring to let them open up the H1-B faucet and drive wages down. This would have been unsurprising coming from the republicans, but from the obama administration? Just more incompetence. Disappointing, but not unexpected.
slashdot needs peer review, or something.
I'm running Chrome 41 on CentOS 6 -- that has kernel 2.6.32. I followed the link and one of the complaints was that Chrome remote desktop could not be installed. So I installed it. Works fine. No problems here.
Linux 3.17 clearly is not the minimum requirement.
(yes, it takes a shim to get Chrome to work on CentOS. It is a pain. see chrome.richardlloyd.org.uk -- he figured out how to make it work, and it works well.)
It's not the kernel that the source of the problem. It's the desktop. Changing the kernel away from Linux is not going to do diddly squat if we are still saddled with KDE or Mate or Cinnamon or Gnome or Xfce or blasted Unity.
Linux has not won the desktop because the the Linux desktops all blow. I use Xfce, I like it the best because it stays out of my way more than the rest.
Why do so many hackers prefer Mac? It's not for the overpriced hardware. Is it because the suspend works so well? It cannot be for the GUI because the OS X GUI really blows.
Then there's Windows 8, an utterly unusable abomination...
a storm surge comes with the eye or wind wall of a cyclone coinciding with the high tide. It causes extreme high tides.
temperature does not have anything to do with it, at least above 0F, the typical freezing point of seawater.
That plant is not known for being run well.
More likely, they wanted to shut it down to cover their asses in case something bad happened, e.g. storm surge. Not a bad idea, considering.
Nobody is posting public content. That's exactly right. That is by design.
This is why G+ is better than facebook. You can post content to specifically who you want to. This is a lot harder to do on Facebook.
I /never/ post public content on either network. Never. But I do post a lot to my circles on G+, and the granularity of control is why I prefer it.
The study is flawed, because the researcher does not understand what he is studying.
I wish it were true. I've seen $30MM companies running on QuickBooks. Really. Not that mine is anything like that. Maybe I will look at GnuCash again.
It seems Intuit is now in damage control mode; apparently if you call them and bitch enough they will upgrade you to "Premier" for free.
I've been a quickbooks customer for a long time, so I'm kind of used to the fleecing. I have never had a high opinion of Intuit the company; Quickbooks works well enough for the money, but if there was a reasonable alternative I would be gone in seconds.
Intuit sucks.
"Death By Ecstasy" by Larry Niven is the story, perhaps. Niven writes about "current addicts".
Eben Upton gets my nod. The Raspberry Pi is a huge success; his goals were noble; they were to make an inexpensive computer that **anybody** could afford and use to learn about computing. Delivered.
As far as Snowden goes -- I award him some used toilet paper. If he was a patriot, then he would have kept his disclosures to what was patently illegal, that is, the NSA's warrantless collection of data from American citizens in America. But Eddy went way past that; he had an agenda, and his agenda was not to surface the NSA's illegal activities in the US, his agenda was to burn down the NSA completely. He's not a patriot, he is a criminal, a traitor, and I pray the next time he sees his homeland it is is from the inside of a cell. Meanwhile, I hope he is freezing his ass off in Russia.
My advice would be not to go into management unless there is a way to keep your technical skills up. You won't find the headhunters as eager to place managers, except the highly technically adept ones. If you let your technical skills rot, it may become more difficult to stay employed.
I've worked as a developer, architect, project leader and "director of development" (whoa) and I prefer the technical contributor roles -- but that's just me.
As far as the companies that appear to be "age-ist" -- run away! A lot of that is done because the younger developers can be had for less money, they can and will work longer hours (usually because they don't have a family or really any life outside work) and they just don't know better. I can tell you from the times I have done "leadership" that I would rather have two skilled old-timers than four fresh-outs working on my team. The two old timers will almost always out-produce the four fresh-uts in terms of actual delivery and quality. So you get what you pay for.
The Art of Computer Programming. Two volumes ought to be enough.
$5,231 is the taxpayer's contribution. The individual would pay another $2,877/year (if they are, for instance, a single 30 year old making $35,000 a year, that is outside of the range where the government subsidy kicks in.)
So... $8,000/person/year. Hardly affordable.
Uhh. Yeah. And it's worse than that -- remember where the feds get their money from.