In addition to all those things in the article, I'm always afraid when I go to fix a bug at the end (or after the end) of a project, I'll keep following the bug until I find out that I've written something very important in entirely the wrong way. This happened once in a while when I was starting out, and it hasn't happened in many years, but that fear is still always there. It might keep me on my toes a bit more, and has helped me slow down at certain points and think things through more thoroughly, but it's also wearying when things need to be done quickly.
Printers have been on google for ages. They come and go, but this article might just change that. I first stumbled upon them in 2004 when browsing results for "site:nd.edu". Notre Dame wasn't too careful then. Anyways, I not get 13 results for the search in the original blog post. Down a little from 86k, I think.
In a court of law, certainly not. I'm conflicted about the topic, actually, because I don't think this man's words should have gotten him arrested. But in the realm of social consequences, it's debatable what is an acceptable response. So, I happen to disagree with your first statement. If you so something so grossly callous and heartless, you deserve a pretty harsh response.
Interesting example I picked, but you're reply is besides the point. My example assumes he is not considered to be so by Muslims, and that it is a huge offense to say such a thing. Substitute Muhammad with Jesus and Muslims with Christians and the point is just the same.
Telling a Muslim that Mohammed was not a prophet could very easily incite him to terrible actions of violence. Should that be forbidden?
Except, this isn't really about expressing a view like "I don't believe what you believe," or even in a forceful or colorful way saying "you're wrong about this." This is more like telling a Muslim that Muhammad is a child molester. Anyone who would say that to a Muslim likely deserves whatever punishment they get, and as much as I dislike laws that limit free speech, I could never, in clear conscience, say that this man isn't getting what he deserves... or at least, part of it... because the real punishment, imho, should be for him to face the parents of that little girl, and let the father get in a good shot to the nose.
Do you ask the same about your electricity or water meters?
Don't know about him, but I do. My electricity bill was insanely high this last winter, and for no reason that I could detect... we're talking more than 4 times what it was this month. No matter what I changed in my electricity-related routines, I could not get the bill down over the winter, then it suddenly dropped to about 1/3 of what it was all on it's own, even though the weather hadn't warmed up all that much.
When I started researching electric company charges online, I found that electric companies around here have some convoluted billing scheme that actually makes the the whole process entirely suspect in my mind. They estimate usage ahead of time, evidently, and charge based on that... then they send some nothing-amount check in the mail for over charges. How the hell could I possibly tell whether or not I'm being billed fairly for what I actually use when they do that shit? I know, lots of math, but would the average consumer have the time or know-how to figure something like that out? I doubt it, so this is a shady practice, imho.
So, what's to stop cable companies from metering and then making estimated charges for usage based on peak weekends, and insane shit like that? This is corporate America we're talking about... how often does true fairness actually come into play?
I read that Forbes article about 80% of the way through... I tried to stop at "We will never have Web 3.0, because the Web’s dead," but for some reason, just had to keep going until I couldn't bear it anymore.
Holy hell... I'm on the internet 8+ hours a day on a desktop, and might average 15 minutes a day via mobile... I'm not sure what web he's been using, but the one I'm on is pretty spry. Everyone in my company is pretty much the same with the desktops/laptops, but I'm sure there are a number who spend more time with their mobile devices than I do.
How could ANYONE state that Google doesn't get mobile when they made the frickin' droid?!
And Amazon? It's not as mobile friendly, I'll admit, but they've added a lot of social aspects to their system over the years... so his argument about them not getting "web 2.0" isn't really that well founded, either.... and hell, they made MTurk back in what, '03 or '04? Isn't that a kin to what we now call crowd-sourcing?
And who cares how long Facebook is around? How can you even compare them to Google or Amazon? They don't do anything!
First question that came to mind when I read the article was, "will the update be pushed, or will the driver have to initiate it?" Second question was, "updates can't be done while the engine's running..... can it?" I assume this mbrace2 system is tied into the car' main OS based on what the "secrets" linked article says.
and awed when I saw this the other day, although I didn't think much about it after the novelty wore off... which happened pretty quickly.
"Kaayak admitted that he didn't expect the media attention his project would generate, with over 8.9 million views across the world."
Yeah, right. I'd dismiss this if it didn't insult everyone's intelligence. You don't put up the video, a web site, fake a press release, and push it out into the public through the media channels if you don't expect it to get attention. F*** 'em.
FTA1: "... organizations are more likely to outsource a task or hire someone new than invest in training an existing staff."
FTA2: "As it stands, 57 percent of respondents said training or retraining staff would be their strategy to closing the skills gap. 38 percents said they would go with outsourcing or contractors; 28 percent said they would hire new employees."
Something.... something's not right here. How the hell anyone could draw the conclusion that companies are less likely to train when the percentage that would train is 57%? oic 57+38+28=123% 38+28=66% 66% > 57% therefore... more
I interviewed online with Google in 2007. No puzzles, etc. -- they went right into watching me code. Another large company, local to my hometown, actually had a good-sized math and problem-solving test I had to take before I was interviewed. Again, though, no puzzles. It was straight math, followed by a face-to-face interview/conversation that focused primarily on programming. All seemed very well organized to me. The smaller companies are the only ones I've had ask strange questions, but the "in 5 years" questions was the strangeness threshold there. That was my first time being asked a question like that. Of course, my answer was, "I have no idea. Texas, maybe, herding cattle..." Yes, I got the job.
“A lot of people consider the styling of the DeLorean timeless,” said Toby Peterson, who operates a DMC franchise in Seattle, Wa. and has personally owned a DeLorean for 20 years. “It was state of the art 30 years ago, and it looks state of the art now. It’s a style that has transcended the decades.”
State of the art 30 years ago? 80's Ferrari, yes. 80's Corvette, yes. 80's hatch-box with alien ejector doors, no. I never did get the appeal of this car.
For the vast majority of users, I think pushing updates without confirmation is a good thing. Most people really don't care about having maximum control over exactly what gets installed on their machine. They just want something that works well and stays secure. Trouble is they don't appreciate that means regular updates. Much better to do it for them in my opinion.
Except that's totally giving the middle finger to the core group of Firefox users, isn't it? That's exactly what I feel Moz has done. I loved the browser because of the control. It's been an invaluable tool for me, professionally (as a web developer) and otherwise, but since v4 I've been dealing with glitchy behaviour, multiple frequent crashes, and a bunch of updates that are mucking with my development cycle because I can't trust that the newest version won't be worse than the last one.
If they had just moved to rapid release and changed their version numbers, it would have been fine. Keep the program, make some changes, make them work, push them out. That's what they were doing, but that's not what they do now. They've made a new beast and killed the old one, and the new one's not as furry and friendly as the old one.
They're screwing themselves. Personally, I'm waiting to see whether or not this will calm down by the time they get to v10. If it doesn't, I'll probably ditch it, so that I can at least go with something stable and then enjoy FF once again in nostalgia.
I say the world should focus on capturing those elusive alien spacecraft first. Once we've got our hands on their technology, we can worry about space economics.
Maybe I'll get lucky and there'll be some strong aftershocks. That would rock!
I'm 30 miles from the epicenter... and that was my first earthquake. I'd prefer it if there were no further activity, thank you. I thought the friggin building was going to collapse.
The village idiot maxes out his Peter Principle at doing about one thing at a time. The short order cook from the article apparently maxes out around two dozen or whatever. Everyone else bell curves in the middle.
All right! I made it up to village idiot!... seriously, though... I want to a see a study done on a test course with a wide range of drivers that makes them do various other things while they drive, see just how good people can be at multitasking while some critical task is supposed to be getting done.
... but it is broken... w/5, I've got a "stop loading" x button in the toolbar that disappears when I move it.... but at least it lets me move it in customize mode, right? and then there's the "X" in the add-ons bar that I can't get rid of... and I'm in such a habit of clicking the edges of a window to bring it forward that I end up closing the frickin thing... and could rearraning the icons on the add-on bar maybe actually work at some point? and who picked the ugly green "loading" icon for the tabs? why isn't is orange... or blue? something in the icon maybe? or close to it? and wtf is an awesome bar?
... seems to for me. Any time I pick up a pair of pliers or a screwdriver, open a pocket knife, take out my ATM card, see a rotary phone, open a PC, hear certain songs, use an internet protocol, talk to my parents (who were both big Bell employees most of their adult lives,) see a floppy, see green and black together.. or that ugly orange-ish color and black...
when I was 20. I'd never programmed before, either, and had had only one college-level class in programming. So I ended up managing support (hiring, firing, scheduling, etc.), doing tier-2 support, writing software, and working to come up with ways to improve the company -- its offerings to customers, and internally. I was originally doing well with 40-50 hour weeks and paid overtime. Then the boss put me on salary so that he didn't have to pay me overtime. I had a small amount of stock options that vested slowly (which remained worthless even after I left), but no other compensation. The salary wasn't terrible for someone with my lack of experience. But, then he said I needed to work 50+ hours every week without additional compensation. That took its toll on me physically, mentally and emotionally. There were no perks. It was me and a desk almost every waking hour of the week, not including the work I was taking home. Relationships in and outside of work started to suffer. Looking back, I was treated like a pack mule, and for no apparent reason. I was scrambling to keep up with the workload all day, every day. And there was no clear ambition I'd been informed of. No overall "goal" I was working toward. No end in sight to the overworking. Had there been a clear goal... a plan to achieve it... an end... I think it would've been somewhat easier. But it still would've taken significantly more compensation to make it even close to worthwhile. I should've quit and continued my education when he starting his routine of overworking me. Having that as my first experience working in an office did not make my life easier, either. I think I was actually so busy I never had time to fully consider the toll it was taking on me (though I certainly was aware of it), and whether or not it was really worth it.
My point is, tread carefully. I don't think there's an easy answer here, and no matter what happens, each of you will need to decide whether or not the kind of change the boss is offering is really the right change for you at the present time.
Good luck. Hope your boss is easier to negotiate with than mine was.
the code gets better. The code I've seen come from foreign conglomorates, thus far, has been... Not just bad. Not just horrible. Downright... unacceptable. It's honestly a miracle that some of it does what it's supposed to do at all... and some of it looks like it does, but doesn't. Hopefully that's not every foreign coding conglomorate...
Either way, I agree 100% with everyone on here who said, "be rooly good at what you do, there will always be a market," and anyone who may have said, "always keep in mind this option: BE YOUR OWN BOSS!" BYOB is always good.
It would be nice, if they do this and get away with it for even a short period of time, if every other ISP out there decided to charge BS, and just BS, for allowing their subscribes to access their corporate web sites and marketing content. That could even be a nice campaign for the afflicted and otherwise outraged. Flood all the ISP's with requests to support the protest.
I don't know, I think it's news. I create very similar sites, so hearing about things like this is extremely helpful to my practices. And it could serve as a wake-up call to others who might be slacking.
And, if their web site is that insecure, what makes you think their other systems (electronic and other) aren't similarly flawed?
Regardless, what I would really like to hear is the behind the scenes stories from all companies involved.
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In addition to all those things in the article, I'm always afraid when I go to fix a bug at the end (or after the end) of a project, I'll keep following the bug until I find out that I've written something very important in entirely the wrong way. This happened once in a while when I was starting out, and it hasn't happened in many years, but that fear is still always there. It might keep me on my toes a bit more, and has helped me slow down at certain points and think things through more thoroughly, but it's also wearying when things need to be done quickly.
Printers have been on google for ages. They come and go, but this article might just change that. I first stumbled upon them in 2004 when browsing results for "site:nd.edu". Notre Dame wasn't too careful then. Anyways, I not get 13 results for the search in the original blog post. Down a little from 86k, I think.
puh... I was so busy being bludgeoned with "get-out-the-vote" that I never got to hear "razor-tight!" :(
In a court of law, certainly not. I'm conflicted about the topic, actually, because I don't think this man's words should have gotten him arrested. But in the realm of social consequences, it's debatable what is an acceptable response. So, I happen to disagree with your first statement. If you so something so grossly callous and heartless, you deserve a pretty harsh response.
Interesting example I picked, but you're reply is besides the point. My example assumes he is not considered to be so by Muslims, and that it is a huge offense to say such a thing. Substitute Muhammad with Jesus and Muslims with Christians and the point is just the same.
Telling a Muslim that Mohammed was not a prophet could very easily incite him to terrible actions of violence. Should that be forbidden?
Except, this isn't really about expressing a view like "I don't believe what you believe," or even in a forceful or colorful way saying "you're wrong about this." This is more like telling a Muslim that Muhammad is a child molester. Anyone who would say that to a Muslim likely deserves whatever punishment they get, and as much as I dislike laws that limit free speech, I could never, in clear conscience, say that this man isn't getting what he deserves... or at least, part of it... because the real punishment, imho, should be for him to face the parents of that little girl, and let the father get in a good shot to the nose.
Do you ask the same about your electricity or water meters?
Don't know about him, but I do. My electricity bill was insanely high this last winter, and for no reason that I could detect... we're talking more than 4 times what it was this month. No matter what I changed in my electricity-related routines, I could not get the bill down over the winter, then it suddenly dropped to about 1/3 of what it was all on it's own, even though the weather hadn't warmed up all that much.
When I started researching electric company charges online, I found that electric companies around here have some convoluted billing scheme that actually makes the the whole process entirely suspect in my mind. They estimate usage ahead of time, evidently, and charge based on that... then they send some nothing-amount check in the mail for over charges. How the hell could I possibly tell whether or not I'm being billed fairly for what I actually use when they do that shit? I know, lots of math, but would the average consumer have the time or know-how to figure something like that out? I doubt it, so this is a shady practice, imho.
So, what's to stop cable companies from metering and then making estimated charges for usage based on peak weekends, and insane shit like that? This is corporate America we're talking about... how often does true fairness actually come into play?
I read that Forbes article about 80% of the way through... I tried to stop at "We will never have Web 3.0, because the Web’s dead," but for some reason, just had to keep going until I couldn't bear it anymore.
Holy hell... I'm on the internet 8+ hours a day on a desktop, and might average 15 minutes a day via mobile... I'm not sure what web he's been using, but the one I'm on is pretty spry. Everyone in my company is pretty much the same with the desktops/laptops, but I'm sure there are a number who spend more time with their mobile devices than I do.
How could ANYONE state that Google doesn't get mobile when they made the frickin' droid?!
And Amazon? It's not as mobile friendly, I'll admit, but they've added a lot of social aspects to their system over the years... so his argument about them not getting "web 2.0" isn't really that well founded, either.... and hell, they made MTurk back in what, '03 or '04? Isn't that a kin to what we now call crowd-sourcing?
And who cares how long Facebook is around? How can you even compare them to Google or Amazon? They don't do anything!
That guy... bsi. /rant
First question that came to mind when I read the article was, "will the update be pushed, or will the driver have to initiate it?" Second question was, "updates can't be done while the engine's running..... can it?" I assume this mbrace2 system is tied into the car' main OS based on what the "secrets" linked article says.
Can't find many details atm, but evidently you get to pay a yearly subscription fee for the updates... sounds nice.
and awed when I saw this the other day, although I didn't think much about it after the novelty wore off... which happened pretty quickly.
"Kaayak admitted that he didn't expect the media attention his project would generate, with over 8.9 million views across the world."
Yeah, right. I'd dismiss this if it didn't insult everyone's intelligence. You don't put up the video, a web site, fake a press release, and push it out into the public through the media channels if you don't expect it to get attention. F*** 'em.
FTA1: "... organizations are more likely to outsource a task or hire someone new than invest in training an existing staff." FTA2: "As it stands, 57 percent of respondents said training or retraining staff would be their strategy to closing the skills gap. 38 percents said they would go with outsourcing or contractors; 28 percent said they would hire new employees." Something.... something's not right here. How the hell anyone could draw the conclusion that companies are less likely to train when the percentage that would train is 57%? oic 57+38+28=123% 38+28=66% 66% > 57% therefore... more
I interviewed online with Google in 2007. No puzzles, etc. -- they went right into watching me code. Another large company, local to my hometown, actually had a good-sized math and problem-solving test I had to take before I was interviewed. Again, though, no puzzles. It was straight math, followed by a face-to-face interview/conversation that focused primarily on programming. All seemed very well organized to me. The smaller companies are the only ones I've had ask strange questions, but the "in 5 years" questions was the strangeness threshold there. That was my first time being asked a question like that. Of course, my answer was, "I have no idea. Texas, maybe, herding cattle..." Yes, I got the job.
“A lot of people consider the styling of the DeLorean timeless,” said Toby Peterson, who operates a DMC franchise in Seattle, Wa. and has personally owned a DeLorean for 20 years. “It was state of the art 30 years ago, and it looks state of the art now. It’s a style that has transcended the decades.”
State of the art 30 years ago? 80's Ferrari, yes. 80's Corvette, yes. 80's hatch-box with alien ejector doors, no. I never did get the appeal of this car.
For the vast majority of users, I think pushing updates without confirmation is a good thing. Most people really don't care about having maximum control over exactly what gets installed on their machine. They just want something that works well and stays secure. Trouble is they don't appreciate that means regular updates. Much better to do it for them in my opinion.
Except that's totally giving the middle finger to the core group of Firefox users, isn't it? That's exactly what I feel Moz has done. I loved the browser because of the control. It's been an invaluable tool for me, professionally (as a web developer) and otherwise, but since v4 I've been dealing with glitchy behaviour, multiple frequent crashes, and a bunch of updates that are mucking with my development cycle because I can't trust that the newest version won't be worse than the last one.
If they had just moved to rapid release and changed their version numbers, it would have been fine. Keep the program, make some changes, make them work, push them out. That's what they were doing, but that's not what they do now. They've made a new beast and killed the old one, and the new one's not as furry and friendly as the old one.
They're screwing themselves. Personally, I'm waiting to see whether or not this will calm down by the time they get to v10. If it doesn't, I'll probably ditch it, so that I can at least go with something stable and then enjoy FF once again in nostalgia.
I use a GNU GPL licensed modelling program created at Carnegie Mellon. http://www.ascend4.org/
I say the world should focus on capturing those elusive alien spacecraft first. Once we've got our hands on their technology, we can worry about space economics.
Maybe I'll get lucky and there'll be some strong aftershocks. That would rock!
I'm 30 miles from the epicenter... and that was my first earthquake. I'd prefer it if there were no further activity, thank you. I thought the friggin building was going to collapse.
and it reminds me of that freaky 80's Herbie Hancock video, "Rockit". Still gives me the shivers...
The village idiot maxes out his Peter Principle at doing about one thing at a time. The short order cook from the article apparently maxes out around two dozen or whatever. Everyone else bell curves in the middle.
All right! I made it up to village idiot! ... seriously, though... I want to a see a study done on a test course with a wide range of drivers that makes them do various other things while they drive, see just how good people can be at multitasking while some critical task is supposed to be getting done.
... but it is broken ... w/5, I've got a "stop loading" x button in the toolbar that disappears when I move it.... but at least it lets me move it in customize mode, right? and then there's the "X" in the add-ons bar that I can't get rid of... and I'm in such a habit of clicking the edges of a window to bring it forward that I end up closing the frickin thing... and could rearraning the icons on the add-on bar maybe actually work at some point? and who picked the ugly green "loading" icon for the tabs? why isn't is orange... or blue? something in the icon maybe? or close to it? and wtf is an awesome bar?
... seems to for me. Any time I pick up a pair of pliers or a screwdriver, open a pocket knife, take out my ATM card, see a rotary phone, open a PC, hear certain songs, use an internet protocol, talk to my parents (who were both big Bell employees most of their adult lives,) see a floppy, see green and black together.. or that ugly orange-ish color and black...
when I was 20. I'd never programmed before, either, and had had only one college-level class in programming. So I ended up managing support (hiring, firing, scheduling, etc.), doing tier-2 support, writing software, and working to come up with ways to improve the company -- its offerings to customers, and internally. I was originally doing well with 40-50 hour weeks and paid overtime. Then the boss put me on salary so that he didn't have to pay me overtime. I had a small amount of stock options that vested slowly (which remained worthless even after I left), but no other compensation. The salary wasn't terrible for someone with my lack of experience. But, then he said I needed to work 50+ hours every week without additional compensation. That took its toll on me physically, mentally and emotionally. There were no perks. It was me and a desk almost every waking hour of the week, not including the work I was taking home. Relationships in and outside of work started to suffer. Looking back, I was treated like a pack mule, and for no apparent reason. I was scrambling to keep up with the workload all day, every day. And there was no clear ambition I'd been informed of. No overall "goal" I was working toward. No end in sight to the overworking. Had there been a clear goal... a plan to achieve it... an end... I think it would've been somewhat easier. But it still would've taken significantly more compensation to make it even close to worthwhile. I should've quit and continued my education when he starting his routine of overworking me. Having that as my first experience working in an office did not make my life easier, either. I think I was actually so busy I never had time to fully consider the toll it was taking on me (though I certainly was aware of it), and whether or not it was really worth it.
My point is, tread carefully. I don't think there's an easy answer here, and no matter what happens, each of you will need to decide whether or not the kind of change the boss is offering is really the right change for you at the present time.
Good luck. Hope your boss is easier to negotiate with than mine was.
the code gets better. The code I've seen come from foreign conglomorates, thus far, has been... Not just bad. Not just horrible. Downright... unacceptable. It's honestly a miracle that some of it does what it's supposed to do at all... and some of it looks like it does, but doesn't. Hopefully that's not every foreign coding conglomorate...
Either way, I agree 100% with everyone on here who said, "be rooly good at what you do, there will always be a market," and anyone who may have said, "always keep in mind this option: BE YOUR OWN BOSS!" BYOB is always good.
and bad business strategy, without a doubt.
It would be nice, if they do this and get away with it for even a short period of time, if every other ISP out there decided to charge BS, and just BS, for allowing their subscribes to access their corporate web sites and marketing content. That could even be a nice campaign for the afflicted and otherwise outraged. Flood all the ISP's with requests to support the protest.
I don't know, I think it's news. I create very similar sites, so hearing about things like this is extremely helpful to my practices. And it could serve as a wake-up call to others who might be slacking.
And, if their web site is that insecure, what makes you think their other systems (electronic and other) aren't similarly flawed?
Regardless, what I would really like to hear is the behind the scenes stories from all companies involved.