Except for when you need to move 1TB of data into said environment. Goes pretty quick on a laptop via Thunderbolt / USB3. Pretty shitty pushing that over a congested cable modem or DSL via WiFi.
I'm not sure you're getting the concept. The Datacentre has the highest spec of everything, CPU, RAM, IOPS, Network. If your prod, test, and user machines are all in the data centre, then moving shit around is quicker and easier than any possible alternative.
Remember, we're talking about a laptop here, so you won't always be sitting on your company's metro ethernet connection to the Internet. And you're totally fucked if you happen to be on an airplane - somewhere that laptops absolutely never get used.
Not sure why you would want to. This seems more a process issue than a technical one.
Oh, and if that data holds sensitive information, is your favorite cloud service a good place to be keeping that? How many violations of security policy / PCI audit failures would that entail? Sure, you might be able to scrub it first, but that just adds to the time it takes to get that data there, and you still have to have local assets to do the scrubbing.
I've worked in banks and federal government projects with classified information and they are more secure and robust than you carrying sensitive info around on a portable device that could be lost or stolen or dropped.
What do you do when you fly to your destination and your laptop is doesn't power up? That doesn't seem to be a very reliable method of doing business
1. Internet is not always available, so "the cloud" is a bad solution for some problems.
I agree, but it is for most.
2. There are things that "the cloud" are not ideal for, like optimized I/O to storage sitting right next to you.
Server based I/O will always be faster than any laptop. The only exception is video (rendering/editing etc), which I mentioned and is a low use case scenario.
3. For various definitions of "pro" there are many different toolsets and workflows. Ever test a python / django app that needs to talk to a massive database in the cloud? Like having reports that run for 25 minutes just to be wrong, and have to tweak your query and run it again for 25 minutes, when it would be done massively faster against a local install of the database, even if that database is running in a container service?
Agree. That's why you put your app in the same cloud as your DB. Put everything in the cloud, on high spec hardware, and only send keyboard video and mouse to your terminal. Your app will run much faster, plus you can kick it off and leave it and come back later on a different terminal if required and it's still there running. It's not for everyone sure, but for most people it's a solution that works.
then why do my gf's kids ask me to fix configuration problems with their phones?
Because your gf's kids do not represent the entire population. People on average are getting smarter and learning more at earlier ages. There are always exceptions, but the average is going up. That can only happen if younger people are doing more than their parents.
What do you expect when the other guy's argument is a bunch of "you and people like you are stupid and tricked" crap? Give a stupid reply get a stupid reply.
I posted a link to research that shows an usually strong correlation between education level and candidate support. Romney, McCain, Bush etc never had this pattern, why do you think that might be?
You insinuated that they were going up because of the disaster, not simple inflation. There's a difference.
But the figures rise faster than inflation. The increased costs are merely drip fed to enure the frog stays in the pot.
If premiums didn't rise to cover disasters, then a disaster would bankrupt every insurance compnay. Since this is not happening, we know that they must be covering the costs adequately.
That has less to do with age than it has to do with immersion. The Chinese child is getting comprehensible Chinese input constantly during their waking hours. He's only getting 30 minutes per day, and undoubtedly in a far less rich learning environment.
I have some friends from Poland who immigrated 30 years ago. None of them could speak English on arrival, the father is still barely comprehensible 30 year son, the oldest son who was 15 at the time still has an accent, and the younger son who was 11 at the time speaks like a local.
Age also plays a part.
The average teen is using Snapchat or whatever this year's trendy messaging app is. The old person is using the phone as a phone to talk to people. Neither has any technical knowledge.
We're not talking about them. We're talking about old programmers and young programmers.
But both groups picked up whatever tech was around at a certain point in their lives, because the brain picks up things more easily at that time. Programming or riding horses is no different. Learning new things is easier when you are young.
The F-35 program has been a disaster, for mostly predictable, and predicted, reasons.
Funny isn't it, I distinctly remember a *lot* of respected opinions coming out pre-program saying this would be a lemon, and they have been proven to be right. Where are they now? Can we give them a go in charge instead?
But not this. Not ultrasound. Perhaps they use "signature sounds", but not in the ultrasound range:
Audio equipment is designed for human use. We hear up to about 20 kHz - ultrasound is above that.
I have a frequency generator app I use to annoy teenagers. I can only hear up to about 11kHz, and my kids say about 16kHz is their limit. There's a lot of room between 16Khz and 20Khz to add some signal if you wanted to.
Oddly enough, the anti-establishment candidates here in the US (Bernie and Trump) are also hugely popular,
Trump is not Anti-establishment at all. He might say that to win over stupid people too dumb to actually think about it, but what he really is for more extreme establishment than even the current system.
Anti-establishment means transferring more power from the elite establishment to the people. Trump is about transferring more power from the elite establishment to himself. He's taking it even further away from the people, which is why the comparisons to Hitler. He is extreme authoritarian which mean the power shifts from the 1% to simply 1 man, that is the very worst kind of establishment model there is.
Do not compare Trump with Bernie, they are polar opposites of the spectrum.
When Twitter, Facebook or "Project Include" embark on a mission to quiet Trump supporters, when they collude to create an anti-Trump narrative, when they support the sabotage of Trump conferences, they're not liberal heroes working for the greater good of America. They're the vanguard of an intolerant movement that threatens democracy. Those people are far more dangerous than Trump.
A tip for you, Twitter and FB are not state run media. Just like Fox News and Breibart they are entitled to run whatever bullshit they like, and you equally have the choice to switch off.
Trump doesn't want you to have that choice, he even says this and retards still support him. That is more dangerous to democracy than any western leader in the last 70 years.
Twitter is a cesspool of corporate and political propaganda, self-righteous indignation, and minor celebrities trying to make a name for themselves. Why does anybody listen to the crap these people post?
Most people don't. If you're in that echo chamber it might seem like everyone is doing it, but Twitter only has 300 million active users/month. The developed world number at least a billion people, so at least 70% of them also think it's stupid.
The simple fact is that as we age we become less able to pick up new things easily. This is a biological limitation that no amount wishing is wasn't so will fix.
But what older people are better at is considered thought, strategy and leadership, so your best strategy is to be fresh and dynamic when you're young, and as you age, play to those strengths.
Apart from the operators bragging about it on social media you mean? And the cellular metadata putting them all in the right place at the right time, and wire tapped calls of their connections with Moscow?
You refer to John Kerry's statement from july 2014, right?
Well, you can multiply that $30k by a couple hundred homes in my neighborhood alone.
You know how insurance works right? All costs are covered by the premiums. In the event of a disaster, premiums go up, and when there is no disaster they stay up. The insurance industry feeds on disasters as a source of regular income.
Not possible. If Hillary gets in she grants amnesty...
Yeah it doesn't work like that. Do you what Congress is?
Plus she ramps up the importation of millions of more semi-retarded 3rd worlders.
Trump currently has the retard vote by a landslide. So yeah, wrong again...
This is a war of the top against the middle using poor people from authoritarian cultures with high corruption tolerance as pawns to stuff the ballot boxes, starting with the Immigration Act of 1965. This is the last stand. It's Trump or slavery. Your choice.
Trump is the 1% you goose. The very thing you despise has tricked you into thinking he will save your sorry ass.
This is why Trump polls well with stupid people, they haven't developed the critical thinking skills necessary to see past the bullshit catchphrases.
My primary use-case is getting real-time status updates from my local public transit agency (that I commute on daily). I wouldn't like to see that go away.
Where I live we have an app for that. Real-time timetable and routing information using vehicle tracking on all public trains/buses/ferries etc, with built-in notifications.
Even if we get confidence about what shot down MH17, that still does not tells us who operated it.
Apart from the operators bragging about it on social media you mean? And the cellular metadata putting them all in the right place at the right time, and wire tapped calls of their connections with Moscow? Apart from that we have no idea...
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Except for when you need to move 1TB of data into said environment. Goes pretty quick on a laptop via Thunderbolt / USB3. Pretty shitty pushing that over a congested cable modem or DSL via WiFi.
I'm not sure you're getting the concept. The Datacentre has the highest spec of everything, CPU, RAM, IOPS, Network. If your prod, test, and user machines are all in the data centre, then moving shit around is quicker and easier than any possible alternative.
Remember, we're talking about a laptop here, so you won't always be sitting on your company's metro ethernet connection to the Internet. And you're totally fucked if you happen to be on an airplane - somewhere that laptops absolutely never get used.
Not sure why you would want to. This seems more a process issue than a technical one.
Oh, and if that data holds sensitive information, is your favorite cloud service a good place to be keeping that? How many violations of security policy / PCI audit failures would that entail? Sure, you might be able to scrub it first, but that just adds to the time it takes to get that data there, and you still have to have local assets to do the scrubbing.
I've worked in banks and federal government projects with classified information and they are more secure and robust than you carrying sensitive info around on a portable device that could be lost or stolen or dropped.
What do you do when you fly to your destination and your laptop is doesn't power up? That doesn't seem to be a very reliable method of doing business
"IT dev is just code"
I guess you don't believe in testing then? With real data? Using an actual database engine?
Hint: databases need memory.
AWS currently has instances available with 1952GB RAM. Let me know when you laptop gets close to that.
1. Internet is not always available, so "the cloud" is a bad solution for some problems.
I agree, but it is for most.
2. There are things that "the cloud" are not ideal for, like optimized I/O to storage sitting right next to you.
Server based I/O will always be faster than any laptop. The only exception is video (rendering/editing etc), which I mentioned and is a low use case scenario.
3. For various definitions of "pro" there are many different toolsets and workflows. Ever test a python / django app that needs to talk to a massive database in the cloud? Like having reports that run for 25 minutes just to be wrong, and have to tweak your query and run it again for 25 minutes, when it would be done massively faster against a local install of the database, even if that database is running in a container service?
Database engines and container services require what, predominantly? Oh, that's right. RAM.
Agree. That's why you put your app in the same cloud as your DB. Put everything in the cloud, on high spec hardware, and only send keyboard video and mouse to your terminal. Your app will run much faster, plus you can kick it off and leave it and come back later on a different terminal if required and it's still there running. It's not for everyone sure, but for most people it's a solution that works.
then why do my gf's kids ask me to fix configuration problems with their phones?
Because your gf's kids do not represent the entire population. People on average are getting smarter and learning more at earlier ages. There are always exceptions, but the average is going up. That can only happen if younger people are doing more than their parents.
What do you expect when the other guy's argument is a bunch of "you and people like you are stupid and tricked" crap? Give a stupid reply get a stupid reply.
I posted a link to research that shows an usually strong correlation between education level and candidate support. Romney, McCain, Bush etc never had this pattern, why do you think that might be?
no because of a lack of security.
So don't install apps that ask for unusual privileges. The security is there, but you have to participate if you want to benefit.
You insinuated that they were going up because of the disaster, not simple inflation. There's a difference.
But the figures rise faster than inflation. The increased costs are merely drip fed to enure the frog stays in the pot.
If premiums didn't rise to cover disasters, then a disaster would bankrupt every insurance compnay. Since this is not happening, we know that they must be covering the costs adequately.
Body and mind degeneration starts a few years before you die ... and plenty of people are in perfect health till their last days.
So why are 99% of professional athletes under 40?
That has less to do with age than it has to do with immersion. The Chinese child is getting comprehensible Chinese input constantly during their waking hours. He's only getting 30 minutes per day, and undoubtedly in a far less rich learning environment.
I have some friends from Poland who immigrated 30 years ago. None of them could speak English on arrival, the father is still barely comprehensible 30 year son, the oldest son who was 15 at the time still has an accent, and the younger son who was 11 at the time speaks like a local.
Age also plays a part.
The average teen is using Snapchat or whatever this year's trendy messaging app is. The old person is using the phone as a phone to talk to people. Neither has any technical knowledge.
We're not talking about them. We're talking about old programmers and young programmers.
But both groups picked up whatever tech was around at a certain point in their lives, because the brain picks up things more easily at that time. Programming or riding horses is no different. Learning new things is easier when you are young.
I just turned 55, yet in the last 2 years or so I've managed to learn to read and write a couple thousand Chinese characters.
It's amazing the things you can do with 30 minutes a day and a brain that's been properly schooled in how to learn things.
Question is, how does that compare to a Chinese school child?
Um, no. My premiums didn't go up after either incident.
I have my insurance statements for the last 20 years. They go up every year regardless of what happens, so your case seems highly unusual.
The simple fact is that as we age we become less able to pick up new things easily.
I've yet to see much evidence of that.
You've never seen an old person on a computer or smartphone? Compare that with your average teenager, there is an obvious pattern there.
The F-35 program has been a disaster, for mostly predictable, and predicted, reasons.
Funny isn't it, I distinctly remember a *lot* of respected opinions coming out pre-program saying this would be a lemon, and they have been proven to be right. Where are they now? Can we give them a go in charge instead?
And people wonder why I don't have a "smart"phone.
Because of non-permitted Ultrasound signals being sent between your TV and phone? Do you also have a hat made of tin foil?
But not this. Not ultrasound. Perhaps they use "signature sounds", but not in the ultrasound range:
Audio equipment is designed for human use. We hear up to about 20 kHz - ultrasound is above that.
I have a frequency generator app I use to annoy teenagers. I can only hear up to about 11kHz, and my kids say about 16kHz is their limit. There's a lot of room between 16Khz and 20Khz to add some signal if you wanted to.
Oddly enough, the anti-establishment candidates here in the US (Bernie and Trump) are also hugely popular,
Trump is not Anti-establishment at all. He might say that to win over stupid people too dumb to actually think about it, but what he really is for more extreme establishment than even the current system.
Anti-establishment means transferring more power from the elite establishment to the people. Trump is about transferring more power from the elite establishment to himself. He's taking it even further away from the people, which is why the comparisons to Hitler. He is extreme authoritarian which mean the power shifts from the 1% to simply 1 man, that is the very worst kind of establishment model there is.
Do not compare Trump with Bernie, they are polar opposites of the spectrum.
When Twitter, Facebook or "Project Include" embark on a mission to quiet Trump supporters, when they collude to create an anti-Trump narrative, when they support the sabotage of Trump conferences, they're not liberal heroes working for the greater good of America. They're the vanguard of an intolerant movement that threatens democracy. Those people are far more dangerous than Trump.
A tip for you, Twitter and FB are not state run media. Just like Fox News and Breibart they are entitled to run whatever bullshit they like, and you equally have the choice to switch off.
Trump doesn't want you to have that choice, he even says this and retards still support him. That is more dangerous to democracy than any western leader in the last 70 years.
Twitter is a cesspool of corporate and political propaganda, self-righteous indignation, and minor celebrities trying to make a name for themselves. Why does anybody listen to the crap these people post?
Most people don't. If you're in that echo chamber it might seem like everyone is doing it, but Twitter only has 300 million active users/month. The developed world number at least a billion people, so at least 70% of them also think it's stupid.
The simple fact is that as we age we become less able to pick up new things easily. This is a biological limitation that no amount wishing is wasn't so will fix.
But what older people are better at is considered thought, strategy and leadership, so your best strategy is to be fresh and dynamic when you're young, and as you age, play to those strengths.
Apart from the operators bragging about it on social media you mean? And the cellular metadata putting them all in the right place at the right time, and wire tapped calls of their connections with Moscow?
You refer to John Kerry's statement from july 2014, right?
Couldn't remember the original source, but there is plenty on the Internets...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
http://www.news.com.au/travel/...
Well, you can multiply that $30k by a couple hundred homes in my neighborhood alone.
You know how insurance works right? All costs are covered by the premiums. In the event of a disaster, premiums go up, and when there is no disaster they stay up. The insurance industry feeds on disasters as a source of regular income.
Not possible. If Hillary gets in she grants amnesty...
Yeah it doesn't work like that. Do you what Congress is?
Plus she ramps up the importation of millions of more semi-retarded 3rd worlders.
Trump currently has the retard vote by a landslide. So yeah, wrong again...
This is a war of the top against the middle using poor people from authoritarian cultures with high corruption tolerance as pawns to stuff the ballot boxes, starting with the Immigration Act of 1965. This is the last stand. It's Trump or slavery. Your choice.
Trump is the 1% you goose. The very thing you despise has tricked you into thinking he will save your sorry ass.
This is why Trump polls well with stupid people, they haven't developed the critical thinking skills necessary to see past the bullshit catchphrases.
My primary use-case is getting real-time status updates from my local public transit agency (that I commute on daily). I wouldn't like to see that go away.
Where I live we have an app for that. Real-time timetable and routing information using vehicle tracking on all public trains/buses/ferries etc, with built-in notifications.
Please note my point about the civil war area.
Even if we get confidence about what shot down MH17, that still does not tells us who operated it.
Apart from the operators bragging about it on social media you mean? And the cellular metadata putting them all in the right place at the right time, and wire tapped calls of their connections with Moscow? Apart from that we have no idea...